It's winter time at Peach Creek High!
Lamar Jackson: [After hitting Baker Mayfield with a snowball] Come join! It's the annual AFC North snowball fight! Don't worry, the division's not like it was in the old days.
Baker Mayfield: Okay you lovable f**king scamps, I'm in.
[Five minutes later, Mayfield is on the ground in Jarvis Landry's arms, clearly in pain as the snowball fight explodes into a full scale war]
Mayfield: MORPHINE! AND THEN PUT ME BACK F**KING OUT THERE!
Whenever one thinks of winter and snow, they automatically think of Christmas, yuletide, and the like. However, believe it or not, there are other things to consider during the coldest months of the year other than the build-up to (or aftermath of) what many consider to be the happiest time of the year.
Christmas, of course, is nice, but it barely encompasses winter itself, especially since the first day of winter is December 22nd in the Northern hemisphere (at least in the Western astronomical season
) and that snow on Christmas is exceptionally rare.
There's all sorts of fun to be held during this time, including skiing, sledding, snowboarding, ice skating, snowball fights, and everything in-between. On the flip-side, of course, winter can also be seen as pretty inconvenient, if not dangerous, and dealing with or griping about snowstorms, ice, freezing temperatures, being Snowed-In, and what have you can put a damper on everything.
Related to Braving the Blizzard, Snow Means Death, Snow Means Love, Ski-Resort Episode, and It's Always Spring. Can be connected to Winter Warfare if the plot of the work in question happens to war during wintertime. Slippy-Slidey Ice World is the video game exclusive equivalent. Not to be confused with Cold Snap, as that's when it's sudden extremely cold weather and a major plot point instead of activities (though a Wintertime Episode can cross over into a Big Storm Episode creating said cold snap). Also distinct from Christmas Episode and New Year Has Come, the (obvious) Christmas and New Year's Eve/Day episodes, respectively.
Examples:
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Animation
- KikoRiki:
- "The Frozen Surprise" takes place during a very cold winter as Rosa, Krash, and Chiko are invited by Dokko to see something special. Krash asks Rosa to wait for them out in the cold when Chiko takes too long, but when they come back, she's seemingly turned into a Human Popsicle and two try to figure out how to save her. When they go to Dokko for help, they find out that he made a bunch of ice sculptures of their friends, one of which was a statue of Rosa that they mistook for a real deal.
- In "The Chill", Dokko catches a cold. When Wally craves some attention like Dokko is getting, he decides to get sick as well, which he tries to do by swimming in an icy lake.
- In "Line of Fortune", Olga saves Dokko from being hit by a huge icicle by dragging him away from it. This gives him an idea to perform an experiment, which ends with Wally taking a "detour" and being accidentally knocked down by Rosa riding a sled.
- "Artistic Expression" has Krash compete against Rosa in figure skating.
- "Ice" takes place at a very late winter, but the rest of the season was way too warm to enjoy any regular winter activities. So when the artic blizzard finally arrives, the KikoRiki indulge in ice skating and sledding.
- "The Big Push" has Krash and Chiko bobsledding, eventually dragging everyone else to partake in the same activity.
- "Hockey" duology, as the name indicates, is all about a Hockey match. Downplayed in the second part, as it takes place during spring and Chiko, who just got invested in the sport, has to wait until next winter.
Anime & Manga
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End : There are a few winter episodes in the first season. In the first one, Frieren explains to Fern and Stark that winter cold killed more adventurers and mages than demons and war, combined. They hole up at a cabin Frieren remembered, where they meet Kraft, a monk and elf who saved the world once in an adventure so long ago, not even Frieren has heard of him. They spend months in the cabin, whiling away the time until thaw. The second winter episode sees them holed up in another cabin with Sein, with Fern and Stark employing Cold Touch Surprise on each other. When conditions allow them to travel again, Fern takes ill, and Stark has to employ Cold Touch Surprise to wake Frieren (who calls him a "monster" for it), as she's the only one who has a chance of treating Fern's ailment, though luckily it's only a cold, and rest and a warm cabin with a helpful woman living there are able to help, as well as a remedy Frieren makes.
- Pokémon the Series: "Snow Way Out!" has Ash and friends as well as Team Rocket dealing with snowy conditions on a mountain. Whereas the former end up getting separated from each other as Ash and his Pokemon ended up seeking shelter in a cave, Jessie enjoys the winter and snow to James and Meowth's chagrin.
Comic Books
- The Simpsons has a series of comics called "Winter Wingding", and while a few are Christmas-themed, not all of them are:
- Issue 1 has "Angry Dad (Shovels the Snow)" (in which Bart draws an "Angry Dad" comic of his father Homer shovelling snow) and "Snow Falling on Cheaters" (in which Wiggum tries to find out who stole some snow sculptures).
- Issue 2 has "For When You Need to Comp a Boarder's Lingo" (Otto explaining snowboarders' slang), "Bart Simpson in: Brave Bart" (in which Bart and Milhouse build a snow fort but are harangued by Nelson and his Gang of Bullies), "Ralph vs. the Wild" (in which Bart and Ralph get lost in the woods in the snow), and "VSI: Valentine Scene Investigators" (in which Lisa tries to find out who sent her a Valentine).
- Issue 3 has "Scared Straight... to Jail" (in which Homer gets fed up with Bart's winter pranks and sends him to jail to try to scare him into behaving).
- Issue 4 has "Off the Grid" (in which the Simpsons and various other townsfolk stop using electricity during the winter due to higher bills), "Itchy & Scratchy in: Are We There, Yeti?" (in which Scratchy gets abandoned in the Himalayas and has children with a Yeti), and "Oh, Plow, Where Art Thou?" (which shows what happened to the snowplow from "Mr. Plow").
- Issue 5 has "One Flu Over Springfield" (in which many citizens catch the flu), "Freezer Burns" (where people swarm the power plant to protest Mr. Burns scheduling outages despite a blizzard), "A Simpleton Plan" (where Homer gets addicted to poisonous burger sauce), and "The Sno-Bliterator" (where Skinner makes a high-tech snowplow, but the kids try to sabotage it so they'll have snow days).
- Issue 6 has "Guardian Snow Angel" (where Homer guards Moe's carpark to make money for a new sled), "It's Snow Game!" (where Bart makes a bunch of Skinner-shaped snowmen), "The Iceman Cometh" (where Bart, Milhouse, and Martin discover a mannequin of a caveman frozen and mistake it for a real frozen caveman), and "Billion Dollar Butt-Ski" (where Homer invents something he calls a butt-ski that's essentially a miniature sled).
- Issue 7 has "Hole Lotta Trouble", in which Bart, Milhouse, and Martin fall down a hole in the snow and struggle to get out.
- Issue 8 has "Pete Za Party", in which Burns hears his employees talking about pizza and thinks they're looking for a man named Pete Za.
- Issue 9 has "Snow Dad" (where Homer and Bart build snowmen of each other and use an invention of Frink's to bring them to life) and "A Cold Day in Springfield" (in which Springfield is hit with a blizzard and Bart and several other boys start a delivery service digging their way through the snow).
- Issue 10 has "The Mr. Plow Mysteries" (where Homer solves numerous mysteries on a snowy day) and "The Winter of Our Discount Tent" (where the Simpsons try to go camping, only to be hit by a freak snowstorm).
- Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): The Winter Jam special, with an interesting twist: though released in winter, it was actually set during summer, with Sonic and friends enjoying the sun on the beach until Orbot and Cubot kidnap them to participate in their "Winter Jam" reality show.
Comic Strips
- Calvin and Hobbes: Many strips involve winter that aren't Christmas-themed, and a lot of them involve him making gory or otherwise weird snowmen and other snow sculptures.
Fan Works
- Bitter Cold, Gentle Warmth: Jessie and Misty seek refuge from a blizzard together in an icy cave, where the have to engage in Teeth-Clenched Teamwork to survive until dawn.
- Duran and Kiyohime's Omake Theater: In one chapter, it is late winter and Natsuki is stepping out of the house she shares with Shizuru. She suddenly trips and lands face first in the snow, and Shizuru steps out on the porch, saying she'd meant to warn Natsuki that her pet hydra, Kiyohime, had been burrowing in the snow, so be careful. Natsuki doesn't even lift her face from the snow as she laments, "Now you tell me. In another chapter, Chie is about to snap a photo of Natsuki bundled up in heavy and unflattering winter wear, but Mai and Aoi stop her. However, Kiyohime pops out of the snow and snaps a shot, with the flash reflecting off of the snow causing Natsuki to land face first. She then requests that they just wake her when it's spring.
- The Great Snowball Battle Trilogy: As the original series is set against the backdrop of an eternal summer, the first half of the fanfic happens during the winter months and ofen involve snowball fights, snowmen and mugs of hot chocolate. The second half happens during the summer months.
- Inter Nos: A My-HiME fanfic given a pseudo-Roman Empire setting, several of the chapters are set during winter. In one chapter, at the city of Sosia, Shizuru has just concluded telling a corrupt governor that she is fully aware of him selling Himean citizenship, and is lingering in the garden with her bodyguard and Love Interest, Natsuki. She is giving Natsuki a bit of friendly advice, saying that if she wants to accomplish something, she should try something. To Shizuru's surprise, she finds herself hit from behind with a snowball, and ends up flat on her back, where Natsuki grins as she leans over her and says, "Shizuru, I tried something." Shizuru finds herself goaded into a snowball fight with her bodyguard at that point.
- Ma Fille:
- "Snowstorm", set in 2014, is set during a winter storm. Because of the snow, Joe offers for Viktor to stay with him and Katrina overnight to wait it out.
- "Sick Day", set in 2015, takes place during a snow day from school. Joe is in bed with a flu, and one scene has Viktor facing the snowstorm to get to a pharmacy for medicine.
- "Big Kids", set in 2016, shows Katrina at school during recess, where some older kids help her build a snowman.
- "Christmas Concert", set in 2017, is set in late December. Katrina doesn't want to participate in her school's Christmas concert because she's being forced to sing with her bully.
- "New Friend", set in 2018, takes place the January after the Christmas concert.
- Samson and the Snowplow: This fanfic based on Thomas & Friends takes place in the winter season. Samson and Bradford visit Sodor to help the engines out with the extra work, but Samson does not want to wear a snowplow, as he finds it heavy and uncomfortable. When his snowplow gets damaged, he tries to continue his work without one despite Bradford's insistence that he go back to get a new one. Samson gets stuck in a snowdrift and has to be rescued by Terence. The fanfic ends in spring, when Samson returns to Sodor to collect sweets for the annual Easter Egg hunt. Thomas finds him wearing a snowplow, and when he tries to tell him he won't need one today, Samson insists that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Films — Animation
- The Land Before Time: The eighth film, The Big Freeze, mostly takes place during the winter, and involves Littlefoot and his friends going in an adventure through an ice storm to find Spike after he ventures into the wild to find his family.
Films — Live-Action
- Johnny Tsunami: Young Hawai'ian teen Johnny Tsunami moves with his family to cold Vermont and has to adapt to a life with no surfing (a sport he loves). Fortunately, he adapts to snowboarding in the slopes of Vermont, and makes friends with the local kids, then takes part in a competition against skiers for use of the slopes by either group.
Literature
- Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Ice Skates takes place in the winter near New Year's Eve, whereas most books (other than Angelina's Christmas and Angelina's Halloween) take place in the nebulous warm spring or summer. The ballet dancers' skills transfer easily to the ice so they're putting on an ice show for the town before midnight.
- The first American Girl historical characters all the way through Kit had a Changes for [NAME] book which was set in the winter and about six months after their summer book (and a year or so after their Christmas book). While the books didn't focus fully on the enjoyment of the season, the associated collections focused on winter wear and activities, such as warm coats, sleds, and indoor activities.
- Bear & Hare by Emily Gravett: Bear & Hare Snow! sees Hare, a lover of snow, explain to his friend Bear just how much fun it can be with an action-packed whirlwind of winter activities. Bear actually doesn't like it that much at first. Eventually the two, dressed in scarves, do winter activities such as riding on a sledge.
- Froggy: The first book in the series, Froggy Gets Dressed takes place on a snowy day. Froggy wants to play in the snow despite his parents telling him that frogs are supposed to hibernate. Froggy spends most of the book trying to go out to play in the snow, only for his parents to remind him that he forgot to put important parts of his snow clothes on. The book ends with Froggy, having finally gotten dressed in all his snow clothes, feeling too tired to play, so he takes them off and goes back to bed.
- Little Princess: In "I Want Snow!", the Princess spends the start of winter sulking about how it isn't snowing, only to decide it's too cold when it does snow.
- The chapter "The Ring Goes South" in The Lord of the Rings, when the Fellowship departs Rivendell in December. Their journey through the wilderness is cold and miserable, and they encounter a blizzard in the mountain pass known as the Redhorn Gate.
- Several Warrior Cats books take place in the wintertime, and the season occasionally plays strongly into the plot:
- The first winter in the series spans from Fire and Ice to Forest of Secrets. It involves illness spreading through the Clan, a Forbidden Romance starting between Graystripe and Silverstream after she saves him from falling through the ice, and tensions between the Clans due to scarce prey. The flooding at the end of it also poses a danger to the cats as well.
- The one lasting from Moonrise to Dawn is the harshest the Clans have faced, due to the fact that on top of winter being a prey-poor time of year to begin with, the forest is also being destroyed by humans which exacerbates the problem; several cats starve to death.
- In Night Whispers, some young ShadowClan cats play a hockey-like game on the frozen lake, but it ends in tragedy when Flametail falls through the ice and drowns.
- The novella Goosefeather's Curse involves a very brutal winter where the Clan goes so hungry that they're forced to eat twigs and worms to stay alive, and several cats starve. It isn't helped by the fact that Goosefeather gets the idea to store prey in a frozen hole dug in the ground, but their stockpile gets ruined when it warms up enough to fill with water.
- Lost Stars is also a very plot-relevant winter: A relationship between two of the protagonists begins when one rescues the other from falling through the ice, and Bristlepaw's warrior promotion is delayed because there's no prey to be found during her final hunting assessment. The Clans have also not heard from the spirits of their ancestors, StarClan, in a few moons, which they suspect is due to the Moonpool (where they commune with StarClan) being completely frozen. At the end of the book, Shadowpaw tries to cure Bramblestar's illness by burying him in snow - a treatment that a mysterious voice told him to try - which results in Bramblestar losing a life; this kicks off the arc's main plot when a malevolent spirit (who was the real reason behind the Clans getting cut off from StarClan) possesses the leader's vacant body and impersonates him.
Live-Action TV
- Band of Brothers (2001): "Bastogne" and "The Breaking Point" take place in December 1944 and January 1945, respectively. Easy Company and the rest of the 101st Airborne are forced to endure Winter Warfare, supply shortages, the freezing cold, and the high casualty rate.
- Fraggle Rock: In "Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe", Mokey, to her horror, realizes she forgot her promise to knit a new tarpaulin for the Trash Heap before the first snowfall. She spends the rest of the episode trying to get the Trash Heap unfrozen.
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
- "Boyz in the Woods": Phil, Will and Carlton head out for a camping trip but their car runs out of gas in a snow storm and they're forced to camp out in a cave where they find a bag full of money. But, seeing as they have no dry wood, are forced to burn it to keep warm. Turns out the money was part of a contest for a radio program the three unwittingly stumbled onto. Also Will managed to hang onto half the money by hiding it in his pants.
- "Three's A Crowd": Will and Carlton go to a ski resort where they end up in an auto accident and stuck on the side of a cliff.
- Martin (1992) episode "Ain't Nuttin' Goin' on But the Rent" has the gang dealing with a brutal snowstorm and being trapped together in Martin and Gina's apartment with no heat or food due to the couple forgetting to buy groceries beforehand and Martin's selfish refusal to pay a five dollar rent increase.
- M*A*S*H: Several episodes are set during the winter in Korea. Rumors circulate that the writers loved to write these when the actors got a little too annoying, having them dress up in winter clothing in the hot California summers
- In one episode, winter is falling just as Col. Blake has to inform the unit that their supply lines have been cut. To conserve on supplies they have to take several measures, such as rationing food and having more people sleep in a tent than usual (with Hawkeye, Trapper, Blake, Frank, Radar, Klinger, and Father Mulcahy all crammed into The Swamp at one point. And as Col. Blake exposits to a supply sergeant when the lines are restored, they burned everything that would burn due to an aversion to freezing to death, including nearly all of the furniture in Blake's office.
- In one episode, Hawkeye gets a set of longjohns from home, which help him fend off the cold. However, due to a series of circumstances the longjohns end up being bartered all over the camp until they end up with Henry Blake. Then Blake has to have an appendectomy, and the voice over the P.A. system happily informs the camp after it's all over that the doctors managed to save the longjohns.
- In another episode, Col. Potter orders Radar to commandeer the heaters from the doctor's tents while they're working in OR so that they'll have them available for the patients in the recovery wing during a particularly brutal cold snap. Maj. Winchester was also sent a rather durable coat by his family, and is all too eager to show it off in front of the camp, earning no friends.
- Masters of the Air: The first half of Part 9 of the series takes place in the Winter of 1944-45. Egan, Cleven, and other captured members of the Bloody Hundredth are forced to partake in a Death March in subzero conditions, while short on food and warm clothing and under constant armed watch by their German captors. Rosenthal, meanwhile, ends up in the midst of the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive, witnessing the horrors of the Eastern Front firsthand.
- Sesame Street: In one episode, it's midwinter, and there's been an oat shortage, meaning the Bear family can't have porridge. Thus, they decide to hibernate, but find that it's too much bother, so they decide to just cope with not eating porridge instead.
Music
- Songdrops:
- "Don't Make a Snowman with Yellow Snow" is a song about how one shouldn't use Yellow Snow to make a snowman.
- In "The Sweeter the Dawn", it's a winter night, and a fawn is bothered by the cold, but his mother assures him that "the colder the night, the sweeter the dawn".
Video Games
- The Last of Us: The aptly named "Winter" chapter takes place during the season and has Ellie having to take care of Joel as he's recovering from landing on rebar in the Fall chapter (which takes a bit longer considering they're living in a Zombie Apocalypse and medical care is scarce). During which she runs afoul of a cannibal community whose leader tries to get Ellie to join them.
- The Last of Us II: The first chapter takes place during the winter season and is were we catch up with Ellie and Joel since the end of the previous game and the thriving community they joined since the last game. It's also where Joel dies after Abby arrives to exact her revenge for the death of her father.
Visual Novels
- Being a ΔΙΚ: "Paradigm Shift" is set immediately after Thanksgiving, and has the cast prepare for the festive season as snow begins to fall: Delta Iota Kappa have their Christmas party (with the added twist of it being an underwear party as well); Maya and Josy can be taken out to winter-themed dates (ice-skating or a walk by the frozen lake), and a MC who is dating Jill or Isabella is brought along to Bianca's ski cabin for a weekend, with Jill explicitly telling him that a reason she brought him along was to let him enjoy winter as much as she does.
Web Animation
- Gridiron Heights: One Season 6 episode involves the teams in the AFC North all having their annual snowball fight, which escalates into a full scale snowball war. During the fight, Ben Roethlisberger performs a Heroic Sacrifice taking multiple snowballs until he lays dying in TJ Watt's arms, only to be run over by Baker Mayfield in a snowplow.
- My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale: "Snow Pun Intended" revolves around the Mane Five trying to help Posey Bloom find something she likes about snow.
- Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City: "Snow-Aisis" features the girls getting sick of being cooped up in the Berryworks during a snow day, and deciding to build a hangout spot out of the snow instead.
Western Animation
- Alphablocks: In "Snowman", M, A, and N make a sentient snowman, and then they and a bunch of others start playing in the snow with him, but they need a way of preventing him from melting when the snow starts to melt.
- Around the World with Willy Fog has "Below Zero", in which Fog and his companions set out to cross the frozen Great Lakes in an ice boat, having learned (at the end of the previous episode) that heavy snow has blocked the train tracks from Chicago to Buffalo. Along the way, however, Tico begins to succumb to the cold, forcing them to take shelter in a log cabin since pressing on will almost certainly cost Tico's life. Once Tico has recovered, they continue their journey, but though they make it to Buffalo in time to catch the train to New York, the delay causes them to miss the ship to England.
- Arthur:
- "D.W. on Ice'' takes place during the winter and D.W agreeing to go ice skating with her friends. Problem is, she doesn't know the first thing about doing it and thinks sliding around on the floor in her stockings is a good way to practice. Until Arthur tells her they aren't the same thing and she needs to legitimately experience and practice on real ice skates.
- In "The Feud", Arthur and nearly all his friends are in a huge argument, which leads to them warring over their snow forts.
- Dennis the Menace (1986): In "Snow Wars", Dennis, Joey, and PeeBee build a snowman that looks like Mr. Wilson on a cold and snowy day. Mr. Wilson takes a liking to the snowman, but some kids in the neighborhood throw snowballs at it. Dennis soon gets into a Snowball Fight with them to protect the snowman, even going as far as building a snow fort with Joey and PeeBee. Mr. Wilson accidentally gets covered in snow during the battle, and due to his resemblance to the Abominable Snowman in this state, he scares the kids away. Although Dennis and his friends win the battle, the snowman melts anyway when Dennis tries to bring Mr. Wilson the hot cocoa that Mrs. Wilson made, but accidentally splashes the snowman with it.
- Dexter's Laboratory: "Snowdown" involves Dexter getting into a snowball fight with Dee Dee and his father training him to be able to match her.
- Doc McStuffins:
- In "Chilly Gets Chilly", Doc goes out to play with her Living Toys on a snowy day, but the toys get too cold. This surprises Chilly since he's a toy snowman and so didn't realise that could happen to him.
- In "Snowy Gablooey", Doc thaws out a toy named Ooey Gablooey after Donny accidentally leaves him out in the snow and Ooey freezes.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: The final two episodes in the shortened sixth season ("May I Have This Ed?" and "Look Before You Ed"), as well as the one-off special, all take place during winter, just as the previous seasons occurred during summer and autumn.
- Family Guy:
- "And the Wiener Is..." takes place in a colder month complete with snow on the ground and in their Winter gear, but has nothing to do with Christmas.
- "The Griffin Winter Games" has Meg as a contestant in the skiing competition of the Winter Olympics.
- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs: In "I'm Really Hot", it's a very hot day, so Harry and his dinosaurs go to Dino World to cool down. There, they find that a "frostosaurus" (dinosaur that can magically make ice) has heard their complaints and made it snow in Dino World. Eventually, however, they decide this is too cold.
- Hey Arnold!: The B-Side of the ninth episode, aptly named "Snow", takes place after a snowstorm ironically coming off a sweltering heat wave and involves the neighborhood kids having fun playing in the snow. Save Arnold whose Grandpa forces him to work during it until he realizes he's depriving Arnold some childhood fun and lets him enjoy some time with his friends.
- Kim Possible: In "Day of the Snowmen", a winter snowstorm artificially created with water from Camp Wannaweep creates hostile snow golems.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: "Slushy" has the titular duo run across an experiment that can generate snow and, since Hawaii rarely if ever gets snow, Lilo has it produce some snow to play around in. However, Slushy goes rouge and start overproducing that threatens to freeze the island. Forcing Lilo and Stitch to get the aid of a previous experiment, Splodyhead, to combat it and bring it back under control.
- Little Princess:
- In "I Want My Sledge", it's winter, and the Princess sees the Chef's fancy sledge and wants one of her own. However, when she gets one, she's too young to use one.
- In "I Want to Ice Skate", the Princess is ice skating, but lies to Algie that she's a better skater than she is, which backfires when everyone wants to see her do tricks.
- The Loud House:
- The show has a number of episodes set during winter without any involvement of Christmas. Most of these episodes have the word "snow" in their title (e.g. "Snow Bored", "Snow Way Down", "Snow Way Out", etc.).
- "Snow Bored", Lincoln tries to get Lisa to experience having a snow day. But she's too much of a workaholic to do so and teaches her siblings a "lesson" by secretly producing a snowstorm and prolonging the vacation that they eventually get sick of it.
- "Snow Way Down": Lincoln goes on a skiing trip with Clyde and his fathers where Clyde tries to prove his bravery by doing a dangerous sled jump.
- "Snow Way Out": Lana wants to win a sweepstakes at burger joint to meet a race car idol, but forces her sibling to go to the restaurant during a snow storm and the group get snowed in.
- "Snow Escape": Royal Woods experiences a "packing day" (basically the snow gets pretty thick and doesn't crumble easily when clumped together) which affects Lynn Jr.'s demeanor, making her act wild and hit anything she sees with snowballs. The Loud siblings try to avoid her wrath but end up getting picked off one by one.
- "Snow News Day": Lincoln and his friends try to find a yeti for their school's action news story, running into a lot of winter-themed mishaps as they try to do so.
- The show has a number of episodes set during winter without any involvement of Christmas. Most of these episodes have the word "snow" in their title (e.g. "Snow Bored", "Snow Way Down", "Snow Way Out", etc.).
- Martha Speaks:
- In "Brave Truman", Helen and her friends are about to sled down a hill, but Truman is too nervous, so he leaves, and ends up feeling ashamed of himself. His friends try to cheer him up by writing stories and basing the heroes on him, but it doesn't work, so he goes to sled down the mountain after all.
- "Skits on Ice" is a Whole Episode Flashback, explaining why Skits is afraid of hockey pucks - he once almost drowned when he went onto literal thin ice trying to retrieve one.
- "The Jakey Express" is another flashback episode, explaining that Mariella went into labour with Jake during a snowstorm, and it took a lot of struggle for Danny, Helen, and Martha to take her to the hospital.
- "Martha and the Thief of Hearts", it's a snowy Valentine's Day, but somebody steals the art supplies the kids were using to make Platonic Valentines, and they try to find out who.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped: While there are some Christmas themed shorts, some of the shorts likewise just revolve around winter in general with one about faking a snow day, another about a snowball fight, and another about trying to get into the school while it's closed for winter break.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- "Winter Wrap Up": Twilight and Spike experience Winter Wrap up for the first time in Ponyville note . Twilght tries to help but ends up making a mess of things. Though makes it up by organizing the town to help bring in Spring.
- "The Crystal Empire Part 1" takes place in a blizzard that's being controlled by the return of King Sombra. The Mane 6, Spike and Shining Armor have to make their way through and reach the Crystal Kingdom who's temporary shield, generated by Candence, keeps him out.
- "Tanks For the Memories": Rainbow Dash realizes Tank is set to hibernate with the coming winter and tries to prevent it from happening by stopping winter itself.
- "The Crystalling Part 2" has the Crystal Heart accidently destroyed by Shining and Cadence new foal which threatens to reproduce a snow storm over the kingdom. The Mane 6 and Starlight Glimmer have to scramble to fix it before everyone's frozen.
- "Frenemies": A Villain Episode where Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow have to venture to a snowy mountain to retrieve a powerful artifact.
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Quite a few episodes are set during winter. For example, "Magic Earmuffs" has the characters skating on a frozen pond and is implied to take place late in the season, as the ice starts melting by the end, which according to Eeyore is the spring thaw setting in.
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: In "The Snowiest Ride", it's snowing and Kai-Lan and her friends spend a day of doing winter sports, but Tolee is afraid of sledding down a big hill. So Kai-Lan helps him face his fear by going little by little.
- Nina Needs to Go!: In "Snow", the main family goes skiing, and Nina has to get down the hill fast so she can use the bathroom.
- Peppa Pig:
- "Snow" is about the Pigs having a snowball fight and building a snowman.
- In "Cold Winter Day", the Pigs play outside in the winter, and eventually Peppa has a toboggan race with a few of her friends.
- In "Sun, Sea, and Snow", Peppa's playgroup, plus Mummy and Daddy Pig, go to the beach in the winter and end up making "snow castles" instead of sandcastles.
- "Snowy Mountain" is about the Pigs going skiing and Mummy Pig accidentally skis all the way down the mountain.
- "Igloo" is about the Pigs building an igloo on a snowy day.
- Phineas and Ferb takes place largely during summer vacation, with a few exceptions (Christmas, Halloween, and even school days) in-between. Season Four has "For Your Ice Only" and its sister episode "Happy New Year!" take place during the winter season, complete with their own winter-oriented theme song.
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016): "Snow Month" involves a snowstorm blowing through town and the residents enjoying the snow day. However when Blossom gets a "Do You Like Me" letter from her crush Jared Shaprio, she panics at the thought of answering him once they have to go back to school and prolongs the snow vacation with her ice breath. Not only does this have negative effects, but ends up attracting Yetis who come to move in.
- Rugrats:
- Samurai Jack:
- "Jack and the Three Blind Archers" takes place on a island during the winter time where Jack tries to reach a well that can grant his wish to go back to the past. But has to get past the archer guardians to reach It. The snow plays a plot point as the archers are blind but react to sound and Jack crunching through the snow alerts them to his presence.
- ''The Four Seasons of Death": The "Winter" section has a Yeti tribe alerted to Jack in their territory and want to take him out. They go through a selection process of who to fight him and craft a magnificent sword to combat him. But when the time comes for the warrior to fight him, Jack defeats him easily.
- ''The Princess and the Bounty Hunters": Take place during the winter time and focus on a group of bounty hunters seeking shelter in a cabin during a snowstorm and trying to take down Jack. Each describe their methods but one hunter, the titular princess, points out the flaws of each of their plans and proposes a team up. Like the Winter section above though, Jack handily defeats all of them in the time it takes a melted snow drop to hit the ground.
- "Episode XCIV" has a recovered Jack having rematch with the Daughters of Aku in a forest in the middle of winter.
- The Simpsons:
- ''Bart Gets An F" uses this as a plot point with Bart on the verge of flunking and trying to concentrate on studying to pass a test. Praying for more time, it's answered when a snowstorm blows through Springfield. Though Lisa, who overheard his prayers, has to remind him to make good on his word to study. Though he can't help but peek outside and see the residents having a good time enjoying themselves.
- "Mr. Plow" is a winter-themed episode where Homer and Barney end being competing snowplow drivers.
- "Homer the Heretic", where Homer decides to stop attending church to avoid the frigid weather and after having "the best day of his life" while at home, also takes place in the wintertime.
- "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" starts with Homer waking up in the snow with no memory of the previous day; throughout the episode, there are several scenes and establising shots showing bare trees and snow still on the ground as Homer tries to find out what happened.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Due to an iceberg drifting over Bikini Bottom, it manages to snow in "Snowball Effect" as SpongeBob, Patrick, and a reluctant Squidward engage in an all-out snowball fight.
- Steven Universe:
- "Winter Forecast" takes place during a snowstorm and involves Steven and Greg trying to help Connie get home before the weather becomes too dangerous.
- "Three Gems and a Baby" takes place during another snowstorm and involves Greg and the Gems telling Steven about a time one happened when he was a baby.
- "Snow Day" from Steven Universe: Future involves Steven being stuck at home when there's too much snow for him to drive to Little Homeschool; the Gems try to get him to spend his unplanned day off having fun by starting a game of Steven Tag, which eventually takes them outside in the snow.
- Thomas & Friends:
- In "Thomas, Terence, and the Snow", winter comes to the Island of Sodor, and with it, heavy snowfalls. Thomas is not happy when he has to wear his snowplow, as he finds it heavy and uncomfortable, and he damages it so he doesn't have to wear it. This backfires immensely, as the next day, Thomas gets caught in a snowdrift and has to be rescued by Terence the Tractor.
- In "The Flying Kipper", Henry is tasked with pulling the titular train one winter evening, and at first, he finds himself doing it well thanks to the Welsh coal Sir Topham Hatt gave him. Unfortunately, a set of points are frozen and as a result, Henry is diverted onto a siding where a freight train is and ends up crashing into the train. Sir Topham Hatt assures Henry that the accident wasn't his fault and sends him to Crewe to be repaired. At Crewe, Henry is given a new shape with a larger firebox, allowing him to run on regular coal like the other steam engines.
- In "The Deputation", snow comes early to the Island of Sodor, and Donald and Douglas work together to clear it away. They soon find Henry trapped in a snowdrift and rescue him, but are worried about Sir Topham Hatt sending them back to Scotland to be scrapped following the former damaging a signal box and the latter crushing the Spiteful Brake Van. Following Edward's advice, Percy speaks up to Sir Topham Hatt on the twins' behalf, so he lets them both stay for a job well done in rescuing Henry.
- In "A Scarf For Percy", Percy wishes he could wear a scarf to keep himself warm on a cold winter's day. It doesn't help that everywhere he goes, he sees every person on Sodor wearing a scarf. Near the end of the episode, Percy accidentally crashes into a baggage trolley when he tries to sneak up on his coaches. He gets a pair of Sir Topham Hatt's trousers wrapped around his funnel, making it look like he's wearing a scarf. Being scolded by Sir Topham Hatt for ruining his trousers and teased by James on his way back to Tidmouth Sheds makes Percy realize that wanting a scarf is better than having one.
- In "Jack Frost", Percy is assigned to bring coal to the stations on a cold winter day. Thomas jokes to him about Jack Frost, and while this scares Percy, James isn't convinced. Percy ends up stranding himself when he gives the last of his coal to the last station, which needs that coal to last through the night. As he waits for Elizabeth to deliver him more coal, icicles form around his face, giving him the appearance of Jack Frost and frightening James when he passes by on his way home.
- Tom and Jerry: In "Snowbody Loves Me", Tom and Jerry get up to their usual shenanigans, involving chasing, Stuff Blowing Up, etc., on a snowy day. Eventually, Tom throws Jerry out of the house, but then brings him in anyway since he believes not even Jerry deserves to die of hypothermia.
- What's with Andy?: In "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", Andy pulls a prank wherein he pours lemonade through a leaky pipeline so that it will leak onto the snow, making it look like pee. Everyone else tries to figure out how the prank occurred, but nobody can.
