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Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. The shorts were released during 1965 and 1967 with 12 shorts, and a new series was made in 1991.

On Gene Deitch's entry on the IMDb website (see External links below) there are listings of eight short animated films featuring the Nudnik character.

The shorts were featured on Cartoon Network's animated anthology series ToonHeads in 1996.^[1]

The "pilot" episode of the series Here's Nudnik, originally called Nudnik #2, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1965.

Shorts

Title	Release Date	Alternate Title
01 - Here's Nudnik	August 1, 1965	Nudnik #2
02 - Drive On, Nudnik	November 1965	None
03 - Home Sweet Nudnik	March 1966	None
04 - Nudnik on a Shoestring	March 12, 1966	None
05 - Welcome, Nudnik'	May 1966	None
06 - Nudnik on the Roof	July 1966	None
07 - From Nudnik with Love	September 1966	None
08 - Who Needs Nudnik??	May 1967	None
09 - Nudnik on the Beach	May 1967	None
10 - Good Neighbor Nudnik	June 1967	None
11 - Nudnik's Nudnickel	August 1967	None
12 - I Remember Nudnik	September 1967	None

Synopsis

Nudnik contains only one major character, simply named Nudnik (or, Yaramaz Nudnik, as the Turkish DVDs refer to him). He can't do anything right; when he does something, it usually ends with disastrous results, and usually gets him in trouble. At first the idea was for each short to be scored with melancholy jazz music, which was done for the first cartoon. However, the studio wasn't pleased with the musical choice, and they made Gene use more upbeat music. The song that was used most often was "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams", used both for the opening sequence and as a general theme of sorts for the character himself.

Though there were other characters, they were unnamed, such as the fat woman, the dog, the cop, and the thief. It was sort of a unspoken rule that everything in the world hates Nudnik, further adding to the mayhem.

Tv series

A 'new' animated series The Nudnik Show was created in 1991, which showed the 12 classic shorts in syndication, and it also had one brand new Nudnik short, "Nudnik Impossible", however it was mostly made using left over clips from old promotional material from when the shorts were original being produced in the 60s, bringing the number of Nudnik shorts from 12 to 13. It also had 11 bumpers with all new animation, each one being about 30 seconds long, according to the IMDb listing, Jules Feiffer was a writer for the series, so it is most likely that he wrote for the bumpers. The production companies were Paramount Pictures and of course Rembrandt Films.[1]

References

^ Mendoza, N.F. (January 7, 1996). "SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO : At last, 'Nudnik' emerges from storage onto the Cartoon Network". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2013-04-28.

External links

Gene Deitch at IMDb
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Translation of the name/word "Yaramaz"

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[1] Mendoza, N.F. (January 7, 1996). "SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO : At last, 'Nudnik' emerges from storage onto the Cartoon Network". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2013-04-28.

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 ==Synopsis==
-''Nudnik'' contains only one major character, simply named Nudnik (Or Yaramaz Nudnik as the Turkish DVDs refer to him). He can't do anything right; when he does something, it usually ends with disastrous results, and usually gets him in trouble. At first the idea was for each short to be scored with melon collie jazz music, and the first cartoon was, however the studio wasn't a fan of the musical choice, as such they made Gene use more upbeat music, and the song that was used most often was "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" used for the opening sequence and as a general theme of sorts for the character him self.
+''Nudnik'' contains only one major character, simply named Nudnik (or, Yaramaz Nudnik, as the Turkish DVDs refer to him). He can't do anything right; when he does something, it usually ends with disastrous results, and usually gets him in trouble. At first the idea was for each short to be scored with melancholy jazz music, which was done for the first cartoon. However, the studio wasn't pleased with the musical choice, and they made Gene use more upbeat music. The song that was used most often was "[[Wrap_Your_Troubles_in_Dreams_(song)|Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams]]", used both for the opening sequence and as a general theme of sorts for the character himself.
 Though there were other characters, they were unnamed, such as the fat woman, the dog, the cop, and the thief. It was sort of a unspoken rule that everything in the world hates Nudnik, further adding to the mayhem.