Cheburashka

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Soviet series of books by Eduard Uspensky and animated puppet stop-motion shorts about Cheburashka, a critter of ambiguous nature who is a friend of Gena The Crocodile who works in a zoo (as a crocodile).

All four of the shorts are available with English subtitles on Youtube:


The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Cheburashka franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.