* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Shapoklyak's theme as well as "In Podmoskovye, Fishies Here And There".
* AdaptationDisplacement:
** The animated adaptation is more well known (at least in the former USSR) than the books it is based on.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Animated shorts became very popular in Japan. To the point that Japan [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-03/russia-cheburashka-character-gets-japanese-tv-anime made a spin-off of its own]].
** Two hand puppets of Cheburashka and Gena presented cartoons and the like on Swedish TV back in the seventies, and most people growing up then will remember them fondly.
* MemeticMutation: Starting with numerous [[RussianHumour anecdotes]] (of both safe and not safe for kids variety), and probably culminating in [[http://www.hiero.ru/Akuaku/Cheburaki art-project]] the entire point of which is to spoof characters of the series.
** like Franchise/StarWars[[http://www.hiero.ru/2018725 -themed Cheburashka]]
** or Film/TheMatrix [[http://www.hiero.ru/2022528 Cheburashka]]
** or ''Film/TheFifthElement'' [[http://www.hiero.ru/2032391 Cheburashka]]
** or Film/ApocalypseNow [[http://www.hiero.ru/2034006 Cheburashka]]
** or Film/PulpFiction [[http://www.hiero.ru/2147440 Cheburashka]]
** or [[http://www.hiero.ru/2059244 Godzilla]], or [[http://www.hiero.ru/2056967 Dune]], [[http://www.hiero.ru/2048428 Godfather]], [[http://www.hiero.ru/2057672 Sherlock Holmes]], [[http://www.hiero.ru/2018149 Dali]]
*** or Film/Stalker1979 [[http://www.hiero.ru/2021598 Cheburashka]], or ''Series/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' [[http://www.hiero.ru/2020366 Cheburashka]], if we want something more Russian
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