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** A cockerel can be seen pursuing a hen in the background for the most of the cartoon... only for the last part it's the hen who's doing the pursuing, with a few chicks in tow.
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* NoNameGiven: The hero of the short, who is simply identified as "Dude" (Мужик).

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* NoNameGiven: The hero of the short, who is simply identified as "Dude" (Мужик).(Мужик, lit. "man" or "fellow").
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Can be watched on Website/YouTube with English subtitles ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xoNaRJO_uQ part 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xemOY5Ws0 another version]]).

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''Last Year's Snow Was Falling'' is a Soviet [[{{Claymation}} clay-animated]] film (with a few cel-animated parts) made in 1983 by AleksandrTatarskiy.

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''Last Year's Snow Was Falling'' is a Soviet [[{{Claymation}} clay-animated]] film (with a few cel-animated parts) made in 1983 by AleksandrTatarskiy.
Creator/AleksandrTatarskiy.



* Literature/BabaYaga: doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house


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** ''Literature/BabaYaga'': She doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house.
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Can be watched on YouTube with English subtitles ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xoNaRJO_uQ part 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xemOY5Ws0 another version]]).

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Can be watched on YouTube Website/YouTube with English subtitles ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xoNaRJO_uQ part 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xemOY5Ws0 another version]]).



* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Animals Are Cats]]: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. [[CatsAreMean It keeps pestering the protagonist]]. And then it sleeps on protagonist's lap.

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* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs AllAnimalsAreDogs: All Animals Are Cats]]: Cats: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. [[CatsAreMean It keeps pestering the protagonist]]. And then it sleeps on protagonist's lap.

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* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score[[note]]It was played on Tatarskiy's funeral, an that's saying something[[/note]].

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* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score[[note]]It score. Tatarskiy told the composer to write "music for our funeral".[[note]]It was played on Tatarskiy's funeral, an and that's saying something[[/note]].
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* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score.

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* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score.score[[note]]It was played on Tatarskiy's funeral, an that's saying something[[/note]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Some scenes could have only be filmed in the USSR in the 1970s or early 1980s.
** The scene where a watermelon enters a cannon before flying away (with a crow as a honor guard) parodies the departure of foreign guests by plane. They were very common in the news.
** The "Gypsy speculator" stereotype.
** The whole speech impediment thing might be a joke on Brezhnev.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Some scenes could have only be filmed in TooImportantToWalk: Parodied. The dude requests a palanquin, carried by the USSR in hare and the 1970s or early 1980s.
** The scene where a watermelon enters a cannon before flying away (with a crow as a honor guard) parodies
gypsy crow, gets into it, and his legs pop out the departure of foreign guests by plane. They were very common in the news.
** The "Gypsy speculator" stereotype.
** The whole speech impediment thing might be a joke on Brezhnev.
bottom, at which point all three walk off.
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* BabaYaga: doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house

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* BabaYaga: Literature/BabaYaga: doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house
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* UnintentionalPerionPiece: Some scenes could have only be filmed in the USSR in the 1970s or early 1980s.

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* UnintentionalPerionPiece: UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Some scenes could have only be filmed in the USSR in the 1970s or early 1980s.

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Can be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o watched on YouTube]] with English subtitles.

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Can be [[http://www.watched on YouTube with English subtitles ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o watched on YouTube]] with English subtitles.part 1]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xoNaRJO_uQ part 2]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xemOY5Ws0 another version]]).



* BrickJoke: "Where did the cup go?"

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* BrickJoke: AnachronismStew: Most clothes and household objects date back to the 19th century with occasional dip to the 17th or earlier, plus metric system, phones, fire extinguisher, 1970s CRT TV, sneakers.
* BiggerOnTheInside: The house on chicken legs, very much so.
* BrickJoke:
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"Where did the cup go?"



** The man who ate watermelons and spat chicken bones in the beginning. In the second half a pack of enthusiastic dogs are waiting for more under his window.



* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: The dude. Oh yes.
* FlyingCarpet: one of the magical items in the chicken-legged house

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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: ElmuhFuddSyndwome / FangThpeak: The dude. Oh yes.
yes. (Which one, depends on translation.)
* FlyingCarpet: one One of the magical items in the chicken-legged househouse.


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* NationalStereotypes: The crow with huge golden earrings on the marketplace is a caricature on a Gypsy merchant. Not remotely as smart, though.


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* UnintentionalPerionPiece: Some scenes could have only be filmed in the USSR in the 1970s or early 1980s.
** The scene where a watermelon enters a cannon before flying away (with a crow as a honor guard) parodies the departure of foreign guests by plane. They were very common in the news.
** The "Gypsy speculator" stereotype.
** The whole speech impediment thing might be a joke on Brezhnev.

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* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Animals Are Cats]]: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. [[CatsAreMean It keeps pestering the protagonist]]. Ant then it sleeps on protagonist's lap.

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* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Animals Are Cats]]: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. [[CatsAreMean It keeps pestering the protagonist]]. Ant And then it sleeps on protagonist's lap.



* TalkingToHimself: Stanislav Sadalsky voices both the narrator and the hero.

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* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Animals Are Cats]]: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. [[CatsAreMean It keeps pestering the protagonist]]. Ant then it sleeps on protagonist's lap.



* HammerSpace: The dude keeps any number of items inside his hat.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Too many to list. Even some of the dude's actions qualify, when he and narrator discuss something else.
* HammerSpace: The dude keeps any number of items inside his hat.hat and coat.



* InteractiveNarrator: The woodcutter argues with the narrator and makes demands that the story turn for the better for him
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: hero suffered through this because he messed with

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* InteractiveNarrator: The woodcutter argues with the narrator and makes demands that the story turn for the better for him
him.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: hero Hero suffered through this because he messed with

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* FalseEnding



* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: hero suffered through this because he messed with

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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: InvoluntaryShapeshifter: hero suffered through this because he messed with


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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle
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* IfIWereARichMan: The daydreaming sequence mentioned below.
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It tells a story of a dude whose stern wife sends him to the forest to get a Christmas tree. The guy is lazy, extremely greedy, even more air-headed and "can't spell some letters and digits right".

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It tells a story of a dude whose stern wife sends him to the forest to get a Christmas New Year tree. The guy is lazy, extremely greedy, even more air-headed and "can't spell some letters and digits right".

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* {{Decoy Protagonist}}s: The narrator first starts to tell the story about a magical pike, then two arguing women, then a miller, then about a metal cup chained to a can (!), and only then he finds the hero.

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* {{Decoy Protagonist}}s: The narrator first starts to tell the story about a magical pike, then two arguing women, then a miller, then a guy who really likes watermelons, then about a metal cup chained to a can (!), and only then he finds the hero.
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* TalkingToHimself: Oleg Sadalsky voices both the narrator and the hero.

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* TalkingToHimself: Oleg Stanislav Sadalsky voices both the narrator and the hero.
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* MemeticMutation
* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score. That same melody was [[HarsherInHindsight played at the director's funeral]].

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* MemeticMutation
* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score. That same melody was [[HarsherInHindsight played at the director's funeral]].



* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs
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''Last Year's Snow Was Falling'' is a Soviet [[{{Claymation}} clay-animated]] film (with a few cel-animated parts) made in 1983 by AleksandrTatarskiy.

It tells a story of a dude whose stern wife sends him to the forest to get a Christmas tree. The guy is lazy, extremely greedy, even more air-headed and "can't spell some letters and digits right".

Can be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2xU9o4o4o watched on YouTube]] with English subtitles.
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!!This short provides examples of:
* BrickJoke: "Where did the cup go?"
** The pike and those arguing women show up a lot.
* BabaYaga: doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house
* CatchPhrase: "Aint big enuph!"
* {{Decoy Protagonist}}s: The narrator first starts to tell the story about a magical pike, then two arguing women, then a miller, then about a metal cup chained to a can (!), and only then he finds the hero.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: The dude. Oh yes.
* FalseEnding
* FlyingCarpet: one of the magical items in the chicken-legged house
* HammerSpace: The dude keeps any number of items inside his hat.
* InteractiveNarrator: The woodcutter argues with the narrator and makes demands that the story turn for the better for him
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: hero suffered through this because he messed with
* MagicWand: that was there in chicken-legged house.
* MemeticMutation
* MoodWhiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score. That same melody was [[HarsherInHindsight played at the director's funeral]].
* MrImagination: Our hero spends most of the first segment daydreaming about what life he is gonna have after he catches the hare. All the while, the hare is just standing there, yet to be captured.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh. ''All the damn time.''
* NoNameGiven: The hero of the short, who is simply identified as "Dude" (Мужик).
* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:Tiger tail]]
* TalkingToHimself: Oleg Sadalsky voices both the narrator and the hero.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs
* WorldOfChaos
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