Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode

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“Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode”
Clone High episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 11
Guest stars Mandy Moore as herself?
Written by Erica Rivinoja
Directed by Harold Harris and Ted Collyer
Production no. 111
Original airdate 26 January 2003
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Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode is an episode of Clone High.

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[edit] Plot

[edit] Synopsis

It’s Snowflake Day, but Joan has lost her Snowflake Day spirit. Abe needs money to buy a present for Cleo, so he and Gandhi invent and market the knork. Cleo plans her annual Snowflake Day party. Scudworth writes his annual Snowflake Day holiday update. JFK records his annual Snowflake Day album. And guest star Mandy Moore teaches everyone a valuable lesson.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Episode walkthrough

It's "a very special Clone High Snowflake Day special" episode. Snowflake Day is the new "non-offensive, all-inclusive" holiday created by the United Nations after they abolished all religious holidays. Throughout the episode, more and more is revealed about the traditions of Snowflake Day, most of which have something to do with pirates, meat, or spices.

Scudworth is busy writing his annual "impersonal, over-informative photocopied holiday update" letter to friends and family. The letter, in the tradition of real Christmas-time letters, spends a lot of time talking in unnecessary detail about health issues; such as Scudworth’s kidney stones, crippling bunion, corns, and plantar wart, who’s named Gary.

Joan hates the commercialism and falseness of the made-up holiday, but Abe and Cleo are really into the spirit of things. Cleo is planning a big Snowflake Day party, and is excited to receive a big, expensive Snowflake Day gift from Abe. Abe, however, is broke, and so he and Gandhi get jobs at a restaurant, working for Napoleon. After Napoleon makes Abe eat broken glass and Gandhi’s privates catches fire, the two of them quit to develop the knork, a half-knife half-fork.

Joan is working for the Snowflake Jake (the holiday's pirate mascot, who she describes as a "nasty, crap-eating monkey") at the mall. But when she goes to throw out Snowflake Jake's bucket of chum, she meets a hot homeless chick, who may or may not be an angel, and may or may not be pop sensation Mandy Moore. The homeless girl tries to teach Joan the meaning of the holiday, but Joan is too angry to listen, and decides to sabotage Cleo's party. She slashes people's tires; urinates in the punch; and puts itching powder in the eyepatches, laxatives in the lamb tacos, goat's blood on the door jam, and razor blades in the bite-sized wieners. She then runs off. Toots travels out into a blizzard in the middle of the night to find her. He finds a cougar, which he brings home, believing it to be Joan.

Abe and Gandhi trying to market the knork.
Abe and Gandhi trying to market the knork.

JFK is spending the holiday by making and marketing his annual traditional Snowflake Day album, which turns into a huge success. Gandhi and Abe's knork, however, is a flop, and they end up throwing away the prototype. Abe then stays up all night making Cleo a home-made present filled with love.

Meanwhile, Joan meets up again with the homeless girl, who wants to show her something. It turns out to be Joan's old burnt-out house, where a group of homeless people are now living and celebrating Snowflake Day. Even though they don't have money for presents (or houses or food) they are happy, because they have each other.

Cleo's party is going badly. The effects of Joan's sabotage are being felt. Toots is forced to kill the cougar for biting him so much. And Abe gives Cleo the "lovingly hand-crafted" coupon book he made her, which she hates, because it's not a bought present, even though her present to Abe turns out to be Abe's discarded knork, which she fished out of the trash. When all seems lost, Joan shows up, full of Snowflake Day spirit and accompanied by several homeless people, and tells everyone what she's learned about the true meaning of the holiday. Suddenly, they hear a boom, which they take to be Snowflake Jake's cannon, and everyone hurries down to the basement. JFK notices that the homeless girl is gone, and Joan concludes, "So she was an angel after all!" But, actually, the boom was a van belonging to one of the homeless people, which the homeless girl and her friends load with stuff they steal from Cleo's house.

[edit] Featured cast

  • Donald Faison – Wally, King Kwanzaa, Toots, Lance (in commercial)
  • Neil Flynn – Carl, Julius Caesar,
  • Judah Miller – Dreidelstein
  • Murray Miller – guy at the mall, Catherine the Great
  • Debra Wilson – woman in commercial

[edit] Featured clones

[edit] Snowflake Day traditions

  • A large snowflake instead of a Christmas tree, with smaller snowflakes for decorations.
  • A pirate mascot named Snowflake Jake, who brings spices instead of presents, using his “spice cannonball;” which is fired at a large target, instead of being placed under the tree.
  • The ceremonial lighting of the snowman.
  • Lamb tacos and a variety of sweet meats as traditional food.
  • Exchanging snowflake care satchels.
  • The "traditional snowflake sombrero dance," which involves dancing naked while wearing a flaming sombrero with an oversized snowflake on it.
  • The traditional "all-religions-are-equally-valid Snowflake Day celebratory" cabbage patch dance.
  • Many Snowflake Days songs, including:
  • A television special called "Snowflake Jake Saves Snowflake Day," whose animation style is reminiscent of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman.
    • The special features Snowflake Day forcing all the exclusive holiday mascots to walk the plank. These mascots include Santa Claus, Dreidelstein (apparently the Hanukkah mascot – a giant dreidel), and King Kwanzaa (apparently Kwanzaa’s mascot).
    • The lesson learned at the end of the special is, "Specificity be the enemy of unity."

[edit] References

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[edit] Trivia

  • This episode begins with a special title card, proclaiming "A Clone High Special Presentation," which is odd, considering the Announcer refers to every episode as a “very special episode.”
  • The 'Next time on a very special Clone High' section at the end is a parody of the opening of the film The Royal Tenenbaums.
  • The knork is a real invention; though it is not as famous as its cousin, the spork.
  • Teletoon did not air this episode during the original run as it has a policy of only airing holiday themed during the holiday time period, however an exception was made, and the episode show during the second cycle of episodes after fan requests.

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