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1	A series of Soviet Russian puppet [[StopMotion stop-motion]] shorts created between 1976 and 1991. The series as a whole doesn't really have a name, so everyone calls them by the name of the [[FirstInstallmentWins first and most popular episode]]: ''38 Parrots''.
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3	Website/{{Youtube}} has all 10 of the shorts with subtitles:
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5	* 1. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEHyrNX4IR838 38 Parrots]]
6	* 2. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVH-EFEhWLU Where goes the Little Elephant?]]
7	* 3. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0b7TgVEJUc How to cure a Boa/Python?]]
8	* 4. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Scn_U7T_E Boa/Python’s Grandma]]
9	* 5. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1xx9UjjtAk What if it Works?]]
10	* 6. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvM8XWT5EOI A Hello for Monkey]]
11	* 7. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGv-TXvU81U Tomorrow will be Tomorrow]]
12	* 8. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPpqHi6Pqo Exercises for a Tail]]
13	* 9. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw1zfAeylps The Great Cover-Up]]
14	* 10.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWl7mJ6Xp_Y The Visual Aid]]
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16	Each short has a problem that main characters (a thoughtful python, hyperactive monkey, nerdy elephant, and eccentric parrot) try to solve using off-kilter logic and wordplay.
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19	!!This series provides examples of:
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21	%%* AcrophobicBird: The parrot
22	* AnimalStereotypes: A curious airhead monkey and thoughtful python.
23	* ApologisesALot: The elephant, being a parody of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia Russian Intelligentsia]], is extremely polite.
24	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny:
25	-->'''Monkey''': I don't know how to ponder the same thing twice.
26	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Monkey is sanguine; Parrot is choleric; Elephant is melancholic; Python is phlegmatic.
27	* InsaneTrollLogic: Since (according to folk wisdom) the law of gravity was invented when an apple fell on UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton's head, we can revert it if we throw a coconut on someone's tail! [[spoiler: It doesn't work]]
28	%%* JumpingToConclusionsDiagnosis: "How to Cure a Python" is this trope.
29	%%* LiteralMinded
30	%%* NerdGlasses: Elephant's.
31	* ScienceIsWrong: In Great Cover-Up, the protagonists want to cancel the law of gravity... because it's immoral to hit you on the head with a coconut.
32	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Python's grandmother is a python wearing a babushka.
33	* TheEnd: Each episode ends with a big red inscription "The end of the movie"

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