Cheburashka
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:
- Gena the Crocodile (1969)
- Cheburashka (1971)
- Shapoklyak (1974)
- Cheburashka Goes to School (1983)
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.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
- Cartoon Creature
- Credits Brand Products: in the first short
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Shapoklyak's voice actor is male in Gena the Crocodile.
- I Just Want to Have Friends
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shapoklyak, ultimately
- Lean and Mean: Shapoklyak
- Non-Human Sidekick: Lariska the rat, to Shapoklyak
- Plot Hole: in the first short Cheburashka comes to Gena's place because he read an ad about him looking for friends on the bulletin board. Later, he read a sign about scrap metal collection. And then the fourth short is all built around Cheburashka being unable to read.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter
- Ridiculously-Fast Construction: "house for friends" was built in ten days
- Road Sign Reversal: one of the Shapoklyak's pranks
- Villain Song: Shapoklyak