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Studio "Ekran"

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Under Yesteryear's Snowfall

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(subtitles by AxmxZ)

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One can't say precisely when,

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but a good long time ago,

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back in the Plasticine era,

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in a rather clayey locality...

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Drat. I wanted to tell you about that pike.

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You know, it seems to me this story has a mind of its own:

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sometimes things gel,

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other times, they fall apart.

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Here we go: once upon a time

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two nice young things met each other...

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Dang, now they're gone too.

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Ok, fine. Let's take the miller.

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Once, this miller got it into his head to...

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Man, the things I could tell you about him!

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Or how about this:

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"Chained to the wall for all eternity, a mug..."

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You know what, let's not go into that.

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Uh... So, this one gentleman

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really, really liked watermelons.

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Remind me to tell you about him tomorrow,

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okay?

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Wait...

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Shh, quiet...

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That was all just a prologue.

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There!

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There's the guy I'll be telling you about.

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Well-drawn, well-modeled

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Spitting image of a young me, in fact.

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Hey, where's he going?

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I was going to tell a story about him.

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I'd have made him a czar!

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Way to ruin my mood, jerk.

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Nothing around but dogs, bones, these mugs…

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What, now the mug is gone?

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This fairy tale stinks...

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Ah, there he is!

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Anyway, as I was saying.

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A long long time ago,

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in a clayey place far away...

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Wait, just don't disappear on me again, okay?

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There once lived

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an eagle of a gent.

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I don't get it.

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Although he did have trouble pronouncing certain letters and numbers.

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And as for being a hard worker...

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...yeah, exactly.

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He was definitely way more into slacking!

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Luckily his wife was made of sterner stuff

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and kept a tight grip on things.

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One day close to New Year,

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she kicked him out of the house.

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Anyway, she sent him out to get a holiday tree.

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Yeah, she sent me pretty hard.

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'Cause, she says, who celebrates New Year's

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without a nice little tree? Hmm?

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What's with all the climbing?

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And the measuring, and the re-measuring?

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They sent you out for a tree - get chopping!

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Not enough, you know? Not big enough.

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Oh, well, that's a different matter.

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Here you go, then: a high-rise of a pine.

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Princess of the forest.

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Look at him creep...

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What are you up to now?

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Ssh... Shut it!

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Do you see the beast or no?

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Man, when I catch him...

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Keep dreaming.

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Heck of a beast!

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Fur!

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Meat!

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I'll fry him up into cracklings!

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No, on second thought I better take him to the fair.

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Lots of suckers at the fair,

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and not too many bunnies, I bet.

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Bunny for sale!

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A bunny!

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A runny-bunny!

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I said, who wants a bunny?

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Catch of the day!

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Say what you want, but that ain't enough.

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Still not enough.

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If I'm such a big-time merchant now,

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why should I stay with my beanpole wife?

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There's just not enough there!

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Allow me to present:

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my much better half!

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And with a queen like that

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you'll need a castle to match

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This okay?

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Maybe a bit bigger?

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No, even this big!

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I said, that's not enough!

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Not enough at all.

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What about this capital construction

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would that please you?

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Or this 'home sweet home'?

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Hold it, hold it, back up - no good.

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I'll bang out a something-else kind of house!

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Steady...

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Solid...

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Splendid.

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And so what if I *am* a bit greedy?

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At least I'm honest about it.

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Now that's a house!

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Big ol' house!

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You know what this fountain makes me think of?

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Peerage.

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Us lords are a hard-working folk.

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That's just our lordly lot in life.

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Not big enough!

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There, that's more my size.

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Listen, Oakefeller,

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you didn't forget about the holiday tree, did you?

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When an acorn is ripe,

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any pig will scarf it down.

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Pigs like that, they make a man feel like...

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I could even be a write-in candidate for czar!

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Yes!

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Hey! Hey, all of you!

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Who is last in line to be czar here?

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No one?

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Then I'll be First!

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Now I want a whatchamacallit -

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a carriage!

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What a palace!

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What a sight!

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With all the swans, and the trophies!

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Oh, how I love and esteem all these assets!

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As soon as I get into the czaring business,

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then first of all…

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First of all, what comes first of all?

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Oh yeah, a piana!

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'Cause what sort of a life is it

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without a piana?

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Also, feasts. I will hold feasts.

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Not enough.

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Pile the spread higher!

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Someone's about to lower your spirits.

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I hope you crash and burn!

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Well, this is dull.

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Yesterday I'm a czar, today I'm a czar…

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Every day, I'm just a czar.

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It's not enough.

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Come to think about it,

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I'm kind of not-enoughy myself.

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Not enough!

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NOT ENOU-

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Wait, stop, be sensible!

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Stop growing already, you'll burst!

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Not enough!

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It's not enough!

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NOT ENOUGH!

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What's the matter, bud?

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Knocked some sense into yourself?

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Bunny, wait!

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Don't leave!

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Come back!

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No tree, no rabbit - nothing.

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And no matches either - you lost them last spring, remember?

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Eh-heh-heh, dang ol' piana...

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I kind of feel sorry for him now.

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(FIN)

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Is this really the end?

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No fins here.

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Fins sleep with the fishes.

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So, his wife didn't let him back into the house.

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Sent him right back to the forest.

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'Git!' says she,

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'and don't come back without a tree!'

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'But when you do get one,' says she,

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'then come on back!'

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What a messed-up forest!

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Dang pine trees!

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Where'd you all go?

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You... you look startlingly familiar, lady.

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Don't recall seeing you 'round these parts before, though...

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No spitting!

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Remember what they say about spitting into wells?

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Well, no matter. You'll remember soon enough.

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The lights are on - is anybody home?

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Alrighty then.

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What a madhouse.

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Not enough!

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Listen, quit touching all the stuff!

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Did anyone invite you here?

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Geez, shut your whiny face already.

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Look at that now!

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Just look at all this junk.

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What a pile of crap.

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What fine craftsmanship!..

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Purty!

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Yummy!

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I don't get it. What's happening?

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Poor old girl, did you get chilled?

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Sitting in the snow will do that.

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Knowing the odds only gets you so far once the cards are in the air.

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What grabby hands you have, Grandma!

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Listen to them go! Clippety-cloppety...

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And what a pokey nose, too!

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Aw, what an adorable little rug!

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Sure was.

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And what insatiable eyes!

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What's this, now?

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Wood, I think.

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Your noggin is wood.

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And I say!..

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The wand's magic.

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Hey, watch it!

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A bit on the greedy side, aren't you...

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I don't get it.

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Oh, you'll get it all right.

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Hey, grow back in!

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Grow back in I'm telling you!

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And what kind of headgame is this now?

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Ow!

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Quit it!

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Help!

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Save me!

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I'm about to bite it, aren't I.

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Oh Lordy, I wanna live!

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Rerun. Seen it.

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Shave all you want, you still don't make a good pine tree.

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Lots of trees, lots of yous, and what are they good for?

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Not enough!

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Bet I can take whatever shape I want now, even without this stick.

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A pleasant new flexibility has come over me!

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Any shape except my own, that is.

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When were you ever in shape?

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That's it!

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That's it, I don't want to play anymore!

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Wait, how am I going to get home?

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I don't even have legs.

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And the wife's waiting at home. The wife!

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Wandy!

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Here wandy-wandy!

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Come 'ere!

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Nice lady, please let me go!

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I know the magic word:

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'please'!

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Me!

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People!

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It's me again!

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Now to get the hell out of here.

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Ow.

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Hey, where did she go?

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No, really, where'd she go?

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Didn't a house used to stand here?

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Well? Why aren't you saying anything?

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Gone all quiet on me.

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I'm sick of you, that's why!

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I tell you, these dang fairy tales!

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And their dang narrators!

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And that's the end of the fairy tale.

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From this point on, it's nothing but the truth.

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He did go out for the holiday tree a third time

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and finally managed to get one

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But by then it was already springtime

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so he took it back.

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Under Yesteryear's Snowfall

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Screenplay
Sergey Ivanov

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Director
Aleksandr Tatarskiy

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Camera - Iosif Golomb
Art director - Lyudmila Tanasenko

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Music - Grigoriy Gladkov
Arrangement - I. Kantyuk

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Animators - Aleksandr Fedulov, Boris Savin,
Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Vladlen Barbи

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Artists - V. Khosareva, I. Romanov, I. Cherenkova

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Artists - O. Pryanishnikova, O. Tkalenko, T. Kuzmina

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Editor - Lyubov Georgiyeva
Sound operator - Nelli Kudrina

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Script editor - Alisa Feodoridi
Production director - Z. Sarayeva

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The End

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The crew thanks actor Stanislav Sadalskiy

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for lending his voice to the production.

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"Ekran", Gosteleradio USSR, 1983