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It started with this tweet from @DonSpeirs:<\/p>\n

“@wilw @dduane fan project for #Kimvention2012 – What do you think the 6 Tasks of Snowman Hank were? #kimpossible #snowmanhank”<\/p>\n

…All I can say is… it got me thinking. Too many people know that I love the Kim Possible series dearly, for a number of reasons including the relative smoothness with which the characters grow and change. And then the tweet reminded me of the Christmas episode, which is… quirky. (And which I particularly love for its meta qualities.)<\/p>\n

So I’ve posted over here<\/a> what an animation writer who was in a hurry (and possibly a few drinks gone in pre-Christmas cheer) might have turned in to a tolerant story editor at some 80’s network as the first-draft outline for “The Six Tasks of Snowman Hank.” (I more or less imagine the story editor as being Art Nadel,<\/a> that prince among producers, who gave many a new animation writer his or her leg-up into the industry in the Eighties.)<\/p>\n

(ETA:<\/b> sorry for the delay in this, folks: I wound up wrestling with a cold over the last few days, and it slowed things up.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the original Kim Possible episode, so that everyone has a referent for the peculiarities to follow.<\/p>\n

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