Plot Synopsis
On a bookshelf filled with summer vacation souvenirs, a snow globe from Nome, Alaska sits by itself. The snowman inside (named Knick, the cousin of Frosty the Snowman, according to the audio commentary) wants to reach a "Sunny Miami" knickknack that shows a pretty girl lounging in a bikini. Knick tries several methods to break out of the globe: ramming it with the igloo backdrop, using a hammer and his carrot nose to chisel through, attacking it with a jackhammer (which causes the coals that make up his face to fall off from the vibrations), burning it with a blowtorch (which blasts him back to the far wall), and detonating explosives. None of his attempts are successful, but the blast from the explosion causes the globe to tip over the edge of the shelf and fall; he then notices an emergency exit in the base and frees himself just before he and the globe fall into a fishbowl. Here Knick sees a pretty mermaid souvenir from "Sunny Atlantis" and runs toward her, but before he can reach her, the globe settles to the bottom and traps him for the second time, as the short ends with Knick's confusedly distraught expression.
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