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"The Secret of Snow" is a holiday special episode of The Backyardigans from the second season. It is the final official episode of the US airing capacity to premiere in 2006. CharactersSummary"In this special set to Dixieland, Uniqua, Cowboy Pablo, and Tyrone of the Jungle travel north to discover the Secret of Snow from Ice Lady Tasha and her assistant, Austin." PlotA red hardcover book opens and Austin starts narrating. Inside the book is a picture of Uniqua jumping happily on a cold winter day. The picture becomes animated. Uniqua tells the viewer how she loves snow and wishes it would snow. She sings the song "I Love Snow." Austin tells Uniqua that he doesn't know the secret of snow but does know someone who might. Uniqua begs Austin to tell her who, and he does. He tells her that the Ice Lady might be able to make it snow. The backyard transforms into the frozen north as Uniqua makes her way to the Ice Lady's ice-making factory. Meanwhile, inside the factory, Tasha, the Ice Lady, orders her assistant, Austin, to make ice. The Ice Lady looks at her screen, which shows her every place in the world. She pulls a lever to cover the areas with ice. She has Austin turn a forest into solid ice, then a city park. She sings the song "Fill It Up With Ice." The doorbell rings. She looks at her security camera and sees Uniqua standing outside. She uses her ice twister to send Uniqua to the desert. Uniqua falls onto the sand and realizes she's in the desert. She sees a blue penguin cowboy running past her. She runs after him telling the penguin that her name is Uniqua. The cowboy introduces himself as Cowboy Pablo. He also shows her that he is running away from a huge twister! Uniqua looks behind herself and sees the large spiraling gust of wind. She starts to run faster. Austin sees the two on the screen located at the ice factory. He is alarmed and freezes the twister by pulling a lever. The sound of wind stops at the desert, and the two find the twister covered in ice. but icy twister fall down into ground, Pablo asks if what the twister is now encased in is snow; Uniqua tells him that it's not and snow is much better. Pablo says he always wanted to play in the snow and perhaps build a snowman. Pablo asks Uniqua where they can find snow. Uniqua says that if they find out the secret of snow from the Ice Lady in the frozen north, they will be able to make it snow. She and Pablo sing a duet of "I Love Snow" as they start out of the desert. They arrive at the ice factory and ring the doorbell. Ice Lady gets tired of the interruptions and sends the two to the jungle. After being covered in the ice twister, they arrive in a jungle. Pablo asks where they are. Uniqua tells him that they are in the middle of the jungle. Pablo and Uniqua walk further into the jungle and come across a large waterfall. Uniqua suggests that they swing across with a vine. When she tries to swing across, she doesn't quite make it to the other side; Pablo tries to help her but doesn't fare any better. They end up dangling over the waterfall on the vine. Luckily, Tyrone of the Jungle swings across on another vine and invites the two onto it. Tyrone asks what Pablo and Uniqua are doing in the jungle. Uniqua tells Tyrone that the Ice Lady from the north sent them there. Tyrone understands. The vine starts to rip because the three are too heavy and break in half. Then there was trouble: the trio starts falling toward the rushing water, but Austin sees them on the screen in the ice factory and turns the water to ice. The jungle dwellers fall onto a icy waterfall. The three funs and thuds into ground. Tyrone asks if the hard, cold ice is snow. Pablo tells him it is ice, and snow is much fluffier and softer. They sing a trio of "I Love Snow." The three head off to the north to find the Ice Lady again. They arrive at the door of the ice factory. The Ice Lady is not present, and Austin lets the three in. He tells them to try to escape when the Ice Lady spots them inside the factory. The quartet dashes away and tries to get out of the factory. But the Ice Lady spots them hiding and turns the next door to ice. They run left. She blocks the next exit with a block of ice. Then she blocks the entrance. The four are inside the work room. but the floor into ice, The four is slipped away. A icicle door is fall and shuts it down. She brings them inside and sends the three and Austin to the workroom, where employees create blocks of ice on conveyor belts. The four are bored and start to make the job fun by creating multiple shapes with the ice. They sing "Make the Ice." Tasha finds them having fun and sings a reprise of "Fill It Up With Ice." The Ice Lady tries to crank up the speed and quantity that the factory produces. She pulls a lever that controls them and pulls it so hard down that it breaks. Ice pours drops out, The pipe leaks out water, drowning the Ice Lady in ice cubes. The four try to save her. They run up to Tasha and pull her out of the ice. Tasha is thankful and asks the three newcomers why they are here. Uniqua tells her that she wants to discover the secret of snow. Tasha puts a sad look on her face and tells her that she doesn't know the secret, and she apologizes for her behavior. The five sing the song "The Secret of Snow." During the song, it starts to snow outside. Uniqua is amazed and they rushes as the Ice Factory transforms back into the snow-covered backyard. As they arrive in the backyard, they have their winter gear and begin to have fun in the snow. Pablo builds a snowman, Tyrone slides in snow, Uniqua makes snowballs, Austin joins her in a snowball fight, and Tasha admires the snow. Austin, as the narrator says that all the Uniqua finally got her to wish for snow, Cowboy Pablo and Tyrone of the Jungle finally got to see snow for the first time, and The Ice Lady (Tasha) stopped worrying about ice long enough to make some new friends. He even says that he likes snow too. The characters sing "We Love Snow" and the end song. Afterward, they all thank and wish happy holidays to the viewer. The episode ends with the characters transforming back into illustrations as the book closes and the screen irises out. Trivia
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