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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/film_4932_00_6764.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:A crow... Or maybe a dog... Or maybe a hippo.]]
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4	A Soviet [[StopMotion claymation]] animated short made in 1981 by Aleksandr Tatarskiy. It's divided into three unrelated segments: "Picture", "Game" and "Or maybe, or maybe...".
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6	The last segment, that gave the name to the entire short, and the most remembered, is a parody on Aesop's fable ''The Fox and the Crow'' (more specifically Ivan Krylov's version). The narrators try to tell the fable, but keep confusing things. The visuals reflect the resulting story.
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8	!!This short provides examples of:
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10	* AudienceParticipation
11	* BrickJoke: The grandmother from one of the previous segments briefly shows up to hit the pillow
12	* CherubicChoir: Children are there as an audience, so they laugh, interrupt the narrators and even make their own changes to the story.
13	* [[RoyalWe Editorial We]]: Either there is a group of similar-sounding narrators voiced by the same actor, or the single narrator keeps using "we". Maybe he/she speaks on behalf of the group.
14	* [[InteractiveNarrator Interactive Narrators]]: The narrators apologize for forgetting details of the original fable and argue among themselves and with the audience
15	* LostAesop or possibly a SpoofAesop: original story is an actual [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop) Aesop's fable]]. Of course, since narrators completely forgot what it was about, and are making the whole thing up as they go, the final aesop has absolutely nothing to do with original whatsoever.
16	* ShoutOut: The wise cat and the mermaid in the tree are characters from Creator/AlexanderPushkin's stories.
17	* RuleOfThree: There are 3 versions of every misremembered detail: crow-dog-cow, fox-ostrich-janitor. Except that the mermaid and a hippo replace ostrich and cow in 1 scene each. Also the fox entices the crow with 3 prizes.
18	* [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narrators]]: Bordering on ThroughTheEyesOfMadness.
19	* VisualPun: Krylov's version of the fable deliberately didn't mention how did the crow get the cheese[[note]]other poets' versions that did, attracted ire of courtiers, who thought the fable implied their crimes[[/note]], it only said "God has sent". In the cartoon a narrator [[StealthPun doesn't mention God]], but 2 cherubs deliver an airmail envelope.
20	* WorldOfChaos: A crow keeps becoming a dog, then a cow, then a crow again. The setting keeps alternating between temperate forest, tropical forest, and a stadium. A pound of cheese fits in an airmail envelope. And a janitor hatches out of an ostrich egg.

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