History Animation / KikoRiki

* MultiNationalTeam: It's subtle and requires you to know Russian culture, but the cast of the show is actually quite diverse. Only Rosa and Krash don't have any distinct nationality: Olga is definitely Russian, Pin (and, apparently, Carlin, if his "true" surname "von Carlin" is any indication) is German, Dokko is AmbiguouslyJewish (he even made a {{Golem}} in one episode), Chiko is stated at one point to be an [[AsianAndNerdy Indochinese hedgehog]] (and in another episode, poses as a Georgian - as in [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaCaucasus Georgia the Caucasian country]], not the US state), Barry's accent is Ukrainian, Wally's appearance and personality invoke the partially African Creator/AlexanderPushkin, while Barry's niece Pandy has a Russian full name but, being a panda bear, is implied to at least have Chinese ancestry.

** The Persian dub retains the visuals from the Russian intro, but dubs a lot of it over with an original Middle Eastern-sounding song with lyrics (the Russian version doesn't have lyrics).

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''New Season'''s episode "Okroshka", Krash wishes that others were more like him while Chiko catches a fish. The fish turns out to be a BenevolentGenie and grants Krash's wish for a day, making Chiko, Barry, Olga and Carlin as hyperactive and reckless as Krash is. He's overjoyed at first, but starts regretting it when picnic starts going wrong thanks to his friends newly found incompitency.

* InUniverseCamera: The original Russian intro features the characters building a nature environment. When Barry places a tree, it shakes the screen enough to where the camera goes lopsided for about a second before Krash moves it back into place.

* InUniverseCamera: The original Russian intro features the characters building a nature environment. When Barry places a tree, it shakes the screen enough to where the camera goes lopsided for a few seconds before Krash moves it back into place.

** Unsurprisingly, 4Kids dub of the show got itself a completely new intro - a ThemeTuneRollCall. Interestingly, the original intro was still used as a short segment between the second and third shorts.
** Italian and Chinese dubs featured similarly different intros, while German version played a different theme over the original intro.

* CamelCase: The series' name officially has the "K" at the beginning of ''[=KikoRiki=]'' and the "R" in the middle capitalized simultaneously in many places.

* CamelCase: The series' name officially has the "K" at the beginning of ''[=KikoRiki=]'' and the "R" in the middle capitalized simultaneously.

Was first dubbed in the United States by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment as ''[=GoGoRiki=]'', which, in its usual fashion, [[DubNameChange changed all character names]] and removed many of the Russian cultural references. This dub aired in 2008-2009 on [[Creator/{{Toonzai}} The CW4Kids]] and covered 104 episodes, airing them together as ThreeShorts to fill up a half-hour runtime. Another English dub (which also covered 104 episodes) was made by Studio 100 in 2009, under the new title of ''[=BalloonToons=]''. It would later be renamed into the show's German name, ''[=KikoRiki=]'' [[note]]Presumably named so after a [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations "Kika" channel]], which German dub was originally made for[[/note]], which has stuck since then and was used by other countries. Another 75 episodes were translated by them in 2011, but with different character names (Which were composite between original Russian names, the ones used in 4Kids translation and Studio 100's ones. They would also stick and be used by later adaptations) and voice actors. Third, and the most complete dub was produced by FUN Union and 3Beep in 2017, which covered all 215 original episodes and several spin-offs.

'''To avoid the confusion, please refer to characters and episodes by their names from the FUN Union dub, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/c/KikoRikiEN/ here]]. '''

* MultiNationalTeam: It's subtle and requires you to know Russian culture, but the cast of the show is actually quite diverse. Only Rosa and Krash don't have any distinct nationality: Olga is definitely Russian, Pin (and, apparently, Carlin, if his "true" surname "von Carlin" is any indication) is German, Dokko is AmbiguouslyJewish (he even made a {{Golem}} in one episode), Chiko is stated at one point to be an [[AsianAndNerdy Indochinese hedgehog]] (and in another episode, poses as a Georgian - as in Georgia the Caucasian country, not the US state), Barry's accent is Ukrainian, and Wally's appearance and personality invoke the partially African Creator/AlexanderPushkin.

** Implied when the real Ded Moroz (SantaClaus in the English dub) apparently shows up as a shadow after the characters pretend to be him.

Known in its native Russia as "''Смешарики''" (''Smeshariki'', a {{Portmanteau}} that can be roughly translated as "Funballs"), ''[=KikoRiki=]'' is one of the more successful cartoon projects in UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, a series of 6-minute animated shorts about nine highly-stylized, cute ball-like anthropomorphic animals living on the island of Chamomile Valley. [[note]]According to the current English translation, ''[=KikoRiki=]'' refers to both the island and characters as a whole.[[/note]] The show was launched in 2003 and ended in 2012, getting UnCanceled eight years later in 2020.

Was first dubbed in the United States by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment as ''[=GoGoRiki=]'', which, in its usual fashion, [[DubNameChange changed all character names]] and removed many of the Russian cultural references. This dub aired in 2008-2009 on [[Creator/{{Toonzai}} The CW4Kids]] and covered 104 episodes, airing them together as ThreeShorts to fill up a half-hour runtime. Another English dub (which also covered 104 episodes) was made by Studio 100 in 2009, under the new title of ''[=BalloonToons=]''. It would later be renamed into the show's German name, ''[=KikoRiki=]'' [[note]]Presumably named so after a [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations "Kika" channel]], which German dub was originally made for[[/note]], which has stuck since then and was used by other countries. Another 75 episodes were translated by them in 2011, but with different character names (Which were composite between original Russian names, the ones used in 4Kids translation and Studio 100's ones. They would also stick and be used by later adaptations) and voice actors. Third, and the most complete dub was produced by FUN Union in 2017, which covered all 215 original episodes and several spin-offs.

* CarryingACake: In "Time Machine", Dokko carries a cake and trips on the rock. The whole episode is about Krash and Chiko trying to use Pin's time machine to prevent anything disastrous from happening, though things go worse and worse as they move the stone in different places.

* EnergeticAndSoftSpokenDuo: Krash is an excitable {{Keet}} who often shouts, while the taciturn Chiko is much quieter and more reserved.

* FilmiMusic: The episode [[Recap/KikoRikiEp136IndianTea "Indian Tea"]], being a parody of Bollywood cinema, has the characters hold a tea party in which they sing and dance Filmi music pieces.

** The first season's episodes were produced by the Petersburg Animation Studio in association with the Master-Film company until 2008.

* PandaingToTheAudience: A new panda character was introduced in the 3D shorts: Barry's niece Stepanida, but everyone calls her Pandy. ''Panda and Krash'' spin-off features another panda named [=HoHo=] as one of the main characters.

** ''[=KikoRiki=]. New Season'' (2020-)

** It is also parodied in a (likely non-canon) "behind the scenes" type program which aired on Channel One's ''Big Difference'' as a means to promote ''Team Invincible''. There, Dokko is revealed to be married to Olga, Krash (who's real name is given as "Mazay Zaytsev-Zamorkovkin") wanted to make the movie BloodierAndGorier, and Barry refused to shoot a bed scene with Rosa (who's last name is given as "Kosher") because the shooting of the film didn't coincide with bears' mating period.

* CryingARiver: In the episode "If You're Going to Cry", Rosa's tears flood planet Earth. Rosa told her friends that she is crying because she climbed a tree and imagined how she would fall from it, making them cry

Was first dubbed in the United States by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment as ''[=GoGoRiki=]'', which, in its usual fashion, [[DubNameChange changed all character names]] and removed many of the Russian cultural references. This dub aired in 2008-2009 on [[Creator/{{Toonzai}} The CW4Kids]] and covered 104 episodes, though only 92 aired. The episodes aired together as ThreeShorts to fill up a half-hour runtime. Another English dub (which also covered 104 episodes) was made by Studio 100 in 2009, under the new title of ''[=BalloonToons=]''. It would later be renamed into the show's German name, ''[=KikoRiki=]'' [[note]]Presumably named so after a [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations German channel "Kika"]][[/note]], which has stuck since then and was used by other countries. Another 75 episodes were translated by them in 2011, but with different character names (Which were composite between original Russian names, the ones used in 4Kids translation and Studio 100's ones. They would also stick and be used by later adaptations) and voice actors. Third, and the most complete dub was produced by FUN Union in 2017, which covered all 215 original episodes and several spin-offs.

** Implied. In episodes produced for advertising milk products based on the show ("Clean Sport", "A Milky Bet", "A Six Letter Breakfast" and "Recipe for Happiness"), the characters eat and drink products with their likenesses and the show's logo on it, and in [=PinCode=]'s "My Dear Chiko" and "Insomnia", the characters read an existing magazine based on the spinoff, which implies that they're famous enough in-universe to make products based on them.
** It is also parodied in a (likely non-canon) "behind the scenes" type program which aired on Channel One's "Big Difference" as a means to promote ''Team Invincible''. There, Dokko is revealed to be married to Olga, Krash (who's real name is given as "Mazay Zaytsev-Zamorkovkin") wanted to make the movie BloodierAndGorier, and Barry refused to shoot a bed scene with Rosa (who's last name is given as "Kosher") because the shooting of the film didn't coincide with bears' mating period.

* ClipShow:
** The last episode of the series made in Flash animation, "The Way It Was", featured Krash and Chiko trying to remember who was their friend they saved in the first episode, "The Bench". Even when Wally (a friend in question) appears, they refuse to believe that it was him.
** ''[=PinCode=]'' also has "Logbook" episode trilogy, which focuses on Pin recapping the adventures the gang has been through while dealing with Umflier's AI.

* FantasticNamingConvention: In 4Kids version [[DubNameChange all main characters had their names changed]] to end with "-riki" [[note]]This was delivered from the show's original name, ''Smesha'''riki''''', which is a {{Portmanteau}} of Smeshnyye (funny) and Sha'''riki''' (balls). This is supposed to be the plural form of the type of FunnyAnimal that the characters are[[/note]]. Some of the minor characters also follow this theming (For example, Pin/Ottoriki's [[ArtificialFamilyMember robotic son]] Bibi was renamed into Roboriki, and Carlin/Bigoriki mentions a magician Houdini as Merloriki the Magnificent), but some others don't seem to (Lily from the titular episode and the Masked Mintrel/Shadow Prince Lovermore). However, the characters also shorten their own names, often prefering not to use "-riki" parts when talking to each other.
* FingerlessHands: Zig-zagged. Chiko, Dokko, Wally, Rosa and Pin paws, hooves and penguin wings, the type of arms the animals they were based on have, but Krash and Barry have fingers, and Carlin and Olga have FeatherFingers.

* InconvenientParachuteDeployment: This happens to Barry in "The Parachute" when he is falling quickly, as he finally opens his parachute, causing him to float in the air. Unfortunately, when he tries to land, gust of wind blows him away, and his friends finally rescue him when he lands in his house.

* BigStormEpisode: "Drips and Drabs Amid Nature" has Dokko, Rosa and Olga getting sucked inside a tornado that appeared on the island. Despite Dokko's claim that nobody was able to make it alive out of one before, they miraculously survive.

* FingerlessHands: Zigzag. Chiko, Dokko, Wally, Rosa and Pin are missing fingers, but Krash and Barry have fingers, and Carlin and Olga have FeatherFingers.

* ParentalBonus: ''Tons'' of it.
** In the episode "The Forgotten Tale", Dokko wires Carlin (who tries to remember something from his childhood in the episode) to a computer in order to see the insides of his mind. As the screen activates, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything two bedroom eyes appear on the screen, accompanied by waltz music, and]] [[DirtyOldMan Carlin starts jumping on his seat in excitement]], and while Dokko asks him suspiciously what is he thinking about, [[OnlySaneWoman Olga]] [[WhatTheHellHero freaks out]] and [[HarmfulToMinors promptly brings Krash and Chiko out of the house]].
** In one scene in the second movie as the plane is rocking back and forth, Olga holds on a pole does some type of dance while Dokko, Carlin and Barry make straight faces. "[[Music/TomJones Sex Bomb]]" as a background music doesn't help.
** Then there is one of the lines in "Her name was Rosa".
--->'''Chiko''' ''(to Krash):'' "Call me Boss and you won't go wrong".

* ScaryStingingSwarm: [[BeeAfraid Bees are often shown to be troublesome to the main cast]].
** This happens to Barry in "Barry's Hives", when he gets chased by a swarm of bees because the hives built by Krash and Chiko broke, and in "A Run of Bad Luck", this happens to both Barry and Carlin when former uses the latter to take some honey from them.
** And again to Carlin and Olga in "Elixir of Youth" when they steal honey from mountain bees for their elixir.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** "The Big Race" has several:
*** The race starts ''before'' Pin is able to finish the countdown because Olga and Carlin's cart powers up its engines, which also include a kettle. When said kettle goes off, all other racers (sans Rosa and Wally) take this as the horn and they all slam on the gas before Pin can stop them.
*** Shortly after the racers had started, Pin realizes he has no choice but start the race up properly since everyone has left the starting line by this point. He fires the gun in the air with a sigh - except because he did not check where ''exactly'' was he aiming at (and neither do the viewers at first), he ends up shooting straight through the hot air balloon he was spectating the game from and causing the aircraft to plummet down.
*** Krash and Chiko's cart is the fastest of the four, but in order to achieve such great speed capacity the engine must work at its limits - and it also generates a ''lot'' of noise. As result, Krash and Chiko [[PoorCommunicationKills fail to hear each other clearly when they need to turn left]] [[EpicFail and as result end up crashing into the very first obstacle on the track]].
*** Olga and Carlin's cart cannot be powered up without limits, which the two find out the hard way when the cart overheats so much it explodes, taking the car out of action.
*** With them having taken the lead following the above, Barry and Dokko start celebrating their victory too early, ''with their eyes closed''. Because they were no longer paying attention to the road, they end up swerving off the track, crashing their cart and then falling right into the field of cacti.
** "The Disco Dancer" has Wally take lessons from Barry who used to be a disco dancer before he retired. When after several days of training he finally comes to the dance floor and is ready to start dancing, he then learns that disco has fallen out of favor and been replaced by waltz. Turns out this was [[DiscoDan the exact reason Barry stopped liking disco in the first place]] ([[CassandraTruth and tried to warn Wally to not get into it]]). After all, the musical culture does not stagnate.

* ''Cinema'' (TBA) - a spinoff showcasing the [=KikoRiki=] trying to shoot a movie while trying out different genres, consisting of 7 episodes of extended length.

[[AC:Animation]]

* ''The [=ABC=]s of [=KikoRiki=]'' [[note]]''Азбуки Смешариков''[[/note]] (2006-2013; 2017-) - a series of educational shorts that teach about various safety regulations. As of 2022 its split into 15 different [=ABC=]s:
** ''[=ABC=] of Safety'' (2006-2007; 2020-2021) - Discusses safety in the city and in the nature. Has 38 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Health'' (2008-2012) - Discusses various health regulations and how to stay in shape. Has 8 shorts and 7 6-minute episodes that count as part of the main show due to their length.
** ''[=ABC=] of Child Rights'' (2008) - Discusses the rights that children have. Has 8 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Reading'' (2009-2010) - Discusses the importance of reading. Has 4 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Kindness/World Without Violence'' (2009-2013) - Discusses being kind and helpful to other people. Has 14 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Mobile Etiquette'' (Unreleased) - Discusses the proper use of mobile phones. Was produced as a part of a deal with "[=MegaFon=]", a Russian mobile service. Has 3 episodes with several short plots that were only released on the director Nikolay Kozhaev's [=YouTube=] channel in 2011.
** ''[=ABC=] of Internet'' (2017-2018) - Discusses the advantages of the internet. Has 5 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Finances'' (2018-2020) - Discusses the financial literacy. Has 29 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Forest Protection'' (2019-2020) - Discusses the importance of protecting the wildlife. Has 5 episodes.
** ''[=PinCode=]: Finances'' (2019-2020) - A continuation of ''[=PinCode=]'', combining it with ''[=ABC=] of Finances''. Has 14 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Internet Literacy'' (2019) - Discusses the proper use of the internet. Has 7 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Realty'' (2020) - Discusses the quirks and usage of realty. Has 5 episodes.
** ''[=ABC=] of Professions of The Future'' (2020) - Discusses the professions that kids can learn about. Has 7 episodes, the first two being shown on "Technograd" festival.
** ''[=ABC=] of Nation Friendship'' (2022) - Discusses the traditions of Russian nations. Has 7 episodes.

* ''Animation/PinCode'' (2012-2018) - Another educational spin-off, focused on inventing, programming and science. Features total of 105 episodes.

* ''[=Panda and Krash=]'' (2021) - a collaborative project between Riki Group, FUN Union and CCTV Animation Group, starring Krash and Panda Hoho, who also appeared in similar CCTV's collaborative projects, such as with [[Animation/TheLittleMole Krtek]] in '' Panda and The Little Mole''. Aside from that, the show is not related to the series, with two being joined by a new cast of LivingToys.
* ''[=Modnyusha=]'' (2021) - a spinoff aimed at girls aged 5-8, featuring Rosa in a modern city full of pigs, taking part in a dance contest with her friends. As with ''Panda and Krash'', the project is not related to the main series, with Rosa being the only main character from the franchise.

* ''Chameleons'' (Unreleased) - a spinoff focusing on chameleon natives from ''Legend of The Golden Gradon''. Despite being shown on numerous festivals, it ended up being unaired for unknown reasons.

[[AC:Films -- Animated]]
* ''[=KikoRiki=]. Team Invincible'' (2011) [[note]]''Смешарики. Начало'' (''[=KikoRiki=]. Beginning''), also advertised overseas as ''Kikoriki: The Movie''[[/note]] - A movie set before the original series.
* ''[=KikoRiki=]. Legend of the Golden Dragon'' (2016) [[note]]Also advertised in UK as ''Super Furry Animals''[[/note]]
* ''[=KikoRiki=]. Deja Vu'' (2018) [[note]]Also advertised in UK as ''The Time Team''[[/note]]

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''[=KikoRiki=]. In search for Bibi'' (2008) [[note]]''Смешарики. В поисках Биби''[[/note]] - A 2D CollectathonPlatformer[=/=]MinigameGame, featuring Pin going on the moon to visit Bibi. Also featured "Communications Museum" - An offline demo of ''[=RolyPolyLand=]''.
* ''[=KikoRiki=]. Parallel worlds'' (2008) [[note]]''Смешарики. Параллельные миры''[[/note]] - PointAndClickGame, where Krash and Chiko get transported into AnotherDimension made from [[StopMotion clay]].
* ''[=RolyPolyLand=]'' (2009) [[note]]''Шарарам в стране Смешариков'' (''Shararam in the land of [=KikoRiki=]'') usually abbreviated to just ''Шарарам''[[/note]] - An online game based on ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin''.
* ''KIKORIKI. Team Invincible'' (2013) - PlatformGame for mobile devices, very loosely based on the movie.
* ''Doeoriki'' - A version of ''VideoGame/{{Doeo}}'' that replaces the titular creaures with characters from the show and ues its' settings.

* AllJustADream: The endings to [[spoiler:"House of Mirrors" and "A Black and White Movie".]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** "The Right To Be Lonely": Wally wants to be left alone as everybody disturbs him from making a poetry. Sure enough, he ends up on another island. He [[GoMadFromTheIsolation regrets it]] [[AndThenWhat as soon as he finishes making his poets]] partially since there is no live audience.
** In ''New Season'''s episode "Okroshka", Krash wishes that others were more like him while Chiko catches a fish. The fish turns out to be a BenevolentGenie and grants Krash's wish for a day, making Chiko, Barry, Olga and Carlin as hyperactive and reckless as Krash is. He's overjoyed at first, but starts regretting it when picnic starts going wrong thanks to his friends newly found incompitency.

* CaughtUpInARobbery: In the ''Team Invincible'' film, after ending up alone in the city he's never been in before, Chiko finds himself a temporary home at the museum with the guard Pin until his friends can find him. Next night, he meets two robbers trying to steal valuable items and is lead to assume they work at the museum as cleaners, dim-wittingly assisting them in the robbery. After they drive away, the police arrives, [[MistakenForThief mistakes Chiko and Pin for thieves]], and arrests them. The rest of the movie revolves around the rest of the [=KikoRiki=] gang [[GreatEscape breaking the two out of jail]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not by much, but Animated Films are overall more serious than the shorts. Take ''Team Invincible'' for example - the Riki gang visits [[CrapsaccharineWorld a city filled with corruption]], Chiko and Pin get arrested after being mistaken for thieves (complete with being held at gunpoint with three shotgun-armed officers) and have to be rescued by their friends, and at the end of the day [[spoiler: a director of Barry's show turns out to be a crininal boss, using the show to distract unsuspecting viewers from his real plans]]. Definetely not something you'd expect to see in the regular episode of the original show.
* EdutainmentShow: The [=ABC=]'s teach kids various topics.

* GilliganCut: Many times, but the most blatant example is from "Admirers in the Sky", when Krash and Pin are taking pictures while flying on a plane:
-->'''Krash:''' I got 'em! Now let's land safely, my man!
-->''(cut to Krash and Pin with black eyes and bandages)''
* {{Golem}}: Although it's never referred to as such, Dokko's creation in "The Most Important Thing" is very clearly one; not only is it made of clay, it is even animated by a piece of paper placed in its mouth as in Jewish folklore (the paper has a photo of Dokko on it rather than any text, though, but it's relevant to the story). That being said, it also veers into Frankenstein territory as Dokko uses [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning to bring the golem to life]].
* InconvenientParachuteDeployment:
** This happens to Barry in "The Parachute" when he is falling quickly, as he finally opens his parachute, causing him to float in the air. Unfortunately, when he tries to land, gust of wind blows him away, and his friends finally rescue him when he lands in his house.
** A caterpillar ([[ItMakesSenseInContext In Wally's body]]) does this in ''Legend of the Golden Dragon''. This in turn, causes Barry to accidentally break the plane's door and makes even more mishap as other [=KikoRikis=] try to land safely.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: In the episode "The Lost Apology", Olga reflects how she fought with her friend (or boyfriend), and never made up because she was waiting for his apology. Turns out there were something like thirty letters which were placed between the pages of a magazine she was ordering by mail and had no time to read.

* NoAntagonist: A deliberate decision by the creators, and unusual for a children's show. None of the nine characters can be considered "bad guys", and while they have conflicts, they're always temporary and simply arise from their diverse personalities. This sometimes gets subverted, and occasional new characters appear as antagonists (like Dokko's clone from "The Savage Clone" or Mole Agent 3630 from ''Deja Vu''), but their appearances are limited to few episodes and/or movies.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Runaway Rocket", a two-part episode of the main series, is a pilot to the ''Animation/PinCode'' spinoff, which, however, the creators didn't really hide as it says so in the [[ReplacedTheThemeTune new theme song]] made specifically for this episode.

** The first ten episodes of Kikoriki: New Adventures were animated at Atria Animation before the production was fully moved to the Petersburg Animation Studio.

** In ''Team Invincible'', when the heroes arrive at the city's limits by water, they are confronted by the border patrol who start demanding their documents and boating license. Upon hearing that they don't have such and that they allegedly came "from the sea", the officers promptly arrest the whole party (sans Chiko) and then place them under the quarantine.

* ViciousVac: In the episode "Vacuum Cleaner", the titular invention Dokko and Pin built to lay off chores, goes haywire, starts thinking the [=KikoRiki=] are dust and starts chasing them.

** "The Disco Dancer" has Wally take lessons from Barry who used to be a disco dancer before he retired. When after several days of training he finally comes to the dance floor and is ready to start dancing, he then learns that disco has fallen out of favor and been replaced by waltz. Turns out this was [[DiscoDan the exact reason Barry stopped liking disco in the first place]] ([[CassandraTruth and tried to warn Wally to not get into it]]).