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[[File:Smeshariki.jpg|frame|Russian title screen]]

{{quote'''''Smeshariki''''' box|Russianis title screen}} Oneone of the more successful cartoon projects in [[The New Russia]], a series of 6-minute animated shorts about nine highly-stylized, ball-like anthropomorphic animals -- the show's Russian name can be approximately translated as "Funballs". It was the creators' choice [[No Antagonist|not to have any villains]] -- unusual even by the standards of the generally-humanist Soviet animation -- while also avoiding falling into the pit of [[Anvilicious]] "moral education" that many Russian children's shows displayed in the past. All conflict in the series is derived from clashes between personalities of the generally-friendly characters. The show was launched in July, 2004.

Was''Smeshariki'' was dubbed in the United States by [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment]] as '''''GoGoRiki'','''; which4Kids!, in its usual fashion, changed all character names and removed many of the Russian cultural references. In this version, all names end with -riki, which doesn't make sense by the rules of Russian grammar, since "smeshariki" is supposed to be the plural form of the type of [[Funny Animal]] that the characters are.

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