Knick Knack

I give you…Exhibit A! The so-called snow globe "Knick Knack”. Everyone’s favorite memento from vacation, holidays, road-trips, etc. Right? I think not!

As the evidence clearly points out, “Knick Knack” has an alternate meaning: prisoner.

See how the snowman desperately tries to escape his snow globe hell? Hammers, torches and TNT are nothing against the impenetrable glass wall of his cell. And all he’s trying to do is hang out with his “Sunny” friends. Not rob a bank. Not hijack the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons. Nothing that would require a lifetime sentence to an isolated glass dome. But alas! He is trapped.

The catchy music tries to mislead you. It makes you think this is all just for fun. Just a game. Does this look like a game for the snowman? Does it look like he’s laughing as his every attempt at escape is thwarted?

And, oh, the agony of the Emergency Exit! Our snowman protagonist has a brief glimpse of freedom, only to be imprisoned behind glass yet again (and underwater nonetheless). The snow globe is mocking the poor, friend-deficient snowman and he has no means of a comeback.

So you see, our snow globe prisoners must be set free! Free to socialize among the other smiling, sunny faces on the shelf. Free to come and go from their “Nome Sweet Nome”. Free to live (with liberty and justice for all, of course).