Line #14 WesternAnimation/WeirdYears


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weird_years.jpg]]
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3	->I am Donko Dorkovitch\
4	I am neither poor nor rich\
5	I bring my family to the land of peace\
6	\
7	My Zozo is the grandmama\
8	She looks like a short fat man\
9	She’s not very happy in the land of peace\
10	\
11	My Magda is the mama\
12	She’s a very special mama\
13	She give me the twins named Ivan and Nadia\
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15	And there’s the goat, heh, the very poofy goat\
16	His name is Rasputin\
17	He’s a real good guy\
18	\
19	We are a great big family!
20	--> --'''The show’s ExpositoryThemeTune'''
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22	''Weird Years'' was a Canadian animated sitcom that originally aired in 2006 on Creator/{{YTV}}. It was produced by Lenz Entertainment and Creator/MercuryFilmworks as the brainchild of Jason Hopley and Jamie Shannon
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24	The show follows the misadventures of the Dorkovitch family, who have immigrated from [[{{Ruritania}} the fictional country of Kryobia in Eastern Europe]] to North America (specifically Happy Valley in Labrador, Canada). The family includes Donko (Creator/CalDodd), the eccentric plumber and father; his wife Magda (Creator/KathleenLaskey), the deli butcher and mother of twins Ivan and Nadia (Phil [=McCordic=] and Creator/TajjaIsen); his ancient mother Zozo (Creator/SusanRoman); and finally, the pet goat Rasputin. Quirky but loving, the Dorkovitches do their best to adjust and transition to life in their new home, encountering the strange and often unfamiliar ways of North American suburban life with often humorous results.
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26	The series was cancelled shortly afterward in 2007, with [[ShortRunners a total of 26 episodes released over a single season]]. The series had never been released on home video, but every episode can be found on Youtube.
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29	!!Tropes that apply to this series:
30	* AllThereInTheManual: If Website/TheOtherWiki is believed, then the Dorkovitches moved to Happy Valley, Labrador.
31	* CampGay: Rasputin the goat. As revealed in "The Bears and the Bees".
32	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
33	** "Infoodelity", Donko was eating food from Danny Jeng's mother rather than Zozo's food. The whole thing was treated as an affair.
34	** "Requiem for a Screen" treated Ivan's addiction to a computer game as if it was drugs.
35	* FunnyForeigner: Donko, Magda and Zozo. Averted with Ivan and Nadia since they were born in the New World.
36	* HappilyMarried: Donko and Magda have a healthy relationship.
37	* LethalChef: Nadia once pointed out that while Magda is an excellent butcher, she is a terrible cook. Magda adds that none of the women in her family can cook and marry into other families for that reason.
38	* OnlySaneWoman: Nadia seems to be the most grounded in reality compared to the rest of her family.
39	* RevolvingDoorRevolution: Kryobia's tourist slogan is "Our people are always revolting". An actual example involved a revolution that involved Yuri the Yak Herder, whom brought Kryobia in the Dark Ages with his crazy ideas, like replacing all the blue hats with red hats. Donko's father led a rebellion and was thought of the be dead, where shortly afterward Yuri was overthrown.
40	* {{Ruritania}}: The fictional country of Kryobia, where the Dorkovitches hailed from.
41	* ShoutOut:
42	** "Requiem for a Screen" has several video game shout outs, from ''Franchise/TombRaider'' to ''Franchise/DonkeyKong''.
43	** "Wingnut 5000" has Magda fighting one of the robots ''Film/{{Aliens}}''-style
44	-->'''Magda:''' Get away from her you ''glitch''.
45	* StripPoker: Magda and Donko was shown playing this game in a flashback, but they were caught by the twins. Since then, they were taught the opposite, Dress Up Poker.
46	* SupremeChef: Zozo, which she had her own restaurant back in Kryobia in her younger days and became a celebrity chef in "Zozo Stewart".

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