The season 2 finale of Smiling Friends is about a brought-to-life snowman who learns about the concept of death and can’t stop screaming. There’s also a yeti and the ghost of Bill Nye.
Even then, its infrared depictions clearly included two eyes, a nose, and a smiling mouth, especially at the 8-micron wavelength. The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS ...