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[Dino and Coop singing]

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Breaking mirrors is never a great idea.

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Unless you happen to be a professional mirror breaker…but just so you know, there's very [Man with a sledgehammer breaks a mirror]

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little demand for that job. [Guy looks shocked that he is the only person at the mirror breakers convention]

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Anyway, in case you needed any proof of the problems that come smashing mirrors, look [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

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no further than Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Snow Queen."

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It all starts with a giant mirror that distorts everything it reflects, making anything good

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and beautiful seem ugly. [Mirror insults a guy stood in front of it]

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So…y'know, not the greatest bathroom mirror. [Girl looks in the mirror and there is a monster]

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This mirror ends up shattering, sending a crazy amount of tiny pieces all over the place. [The mirror falls off the wall and smashes]

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Unfortunately for a little boy named Kay, he ends up getting one shard in his eye and [Piece of mirror hits Kay in the eye]

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one in his heart.

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And unfortunately for his friend Gerda, these little shards of the evil mirror turn him [Kay looks insults Gerdo with the two pieces of mirror stuck in him]

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into a real jerk.

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Perhaps even more unfortunately, Kay ends up getting kidnapped by the Snow Queen.

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Man, that Hans Christian Andersen really liked to give his characters a hard time. [Kay is dragged away by the Snow Queen]

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Despite the fact that Kay was being a big ol' meanie, Gerda tries to find him.

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She gets a tip from a crow that Kay is the new prince in the princess's palace… [Gerda talking to a crow]

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…but when she gets there, it turns out the new prince just kinda looks like Kay. [Gerda looks upset]

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Shocking!

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Bad information from an animal that literally has a bird brain.

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The princess gives Gerda warm clothes and a carriage for her journey, but just when [The princess gives Gerda a winter jacket]

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things are looking up…

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…Gerda gets captured by robbers, who bring her to their castle.

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Well…at least she's getting to see plenty of good architecture on her trip. [Gerda admiring the castle]

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Another stroke of luck comes in the form of a little robber girl.

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She and Gerda become buds…

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…and the robber girl's doves pass along some info about Kay… [The robber girl with a dove on her head]

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We guess these birdbrains studied a little harder than the crows.

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The doves saw the Snow Queen carrying him off towards Lapland. [The Snow Queen carrying Kay away]

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It turns out this castle has no shortage of chatty animals: a reindeer captured by the

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robbers is from Lapland, so he shows them how to get there. [Reindeer giving directions]

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And with that, the robber girl frees Gerda and the reindeer, proving she's a great friend…

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…but maybe not a great robber.

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C'mon, who wouldn't claim the talking reindeer as their new best friend?

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When Gerda finally finds Kay in the Snow Queen's palace, he's almost frozen. [Kay trapped in ice]

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C'mon, did you think that the Snow Queen would be cranking up the heat in her pad? [The Snow Queen in front of lava]

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Gerda kisses Kay and cries, and her tears clear the splinter from Kay's heart… [Gerda crying]

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…which makes him cry, clearing the splinter out of his eye. [The splinter drops out his heart and then his eye]

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Man, all of this could've been solved with just a bottle of Visine… [Boy holding a bottle of eye drops]

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Anyway, the reindeer takes them home, thus ending one of the longest stories ever caused [Gerda and Kay sat on the reindeer]

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by a broken mirror.

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Seriously, most broken mirrors just require a few minutes with a broom and a dustpan… [Man sweeping up a broken mirror]

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…We guess that's not great material for a fairy tale.

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