Everyone from our generation remembers the cartoons they watched in their childhood. In our Soviet Ukrainian childhood there were many cute and kind cartoons, with heartily characters, didactic and at the same time so funny!
1. Zhyv Buv Pes
Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog. A melancholic cartoon based on a National Ukrainian fairy tale about an old dog, dismissed by the master. The Dog is told to piss off for being old and unable to work. On his way to the woods he chases the Wolf taking his master’s child, though being really old catches him only in the woods. There they agree a plan: the Wolf attacks in presence of the master, the Dog traces him, they fake a fight, the Dog is taken back home and thanks the Wolf in his own way. That’s exactly how it happens. The cartoon ends with the Dog inviting the Wolf under the table of the party in his master’s house. They have a great time, eat and drink well after that the Wolf as a true Ukrainian can’t keep from singing scaring away the whole party. Legendary Wolf’s phrase “Shchas spoyu” (I’ll sing now) is widely used in real life.
2. Kapitoshka
Kapitoshka is a literature character created by the writer Nataliya Guzeeva. In the cartoon we meet a wolf cub who’s trying to look scary and ferocious. Suddenly he meets a raindrop Kapitoshka who makes the wolf cub understand there’s no need to. Kapitoshka is famous by its main song “Kapitoshka ya malyy” (I’m a small Kapitoshka). They recently showed an item in the news with a woman who dubbed Kapitoshka and sang that happy song. Well, an old woman cried when singing that happy song…
3. Petryk Pyatochkin
This masterpiece of Ukrainian animation one is also of Natalia Guzeeva creation. A funny cartoon about a lively boy who somehow finds himself in Africa and becomes an elephant instructor. He counts his elephants in a funny way which is on the sources of the tradition to teach kids count elephants when they cannot fall asleep. And the catch of Petryk Pyatochkin is when somebody quotes him say “broom-broom-broom-broooo-room” it contaminates all the present the surge of contamination is spreading like a wood fire.
Couldn’t keep smiling to myself while writing this Ukrainian cartoon post and contaminated my hubs with “broom-broom-broom-broooo-room” %)
