Cheburashka Goes to School

Cheburashka Goes to School (1983) — watch online on iFILM, a ten-minute Soviet cartoon from director Roman Kachanov, who made the entire Gena and Cheburashka series.

Crocodile Gena finds out his odd little friend can't read and decides to enroll him in school on September 1. The school is closed for repairs. Old Shapoklyak, of all characters, steps in: she sends her rat Lariska to rush the workers along. Klara Rumyanova voiced Cheburashka, Vasily Livanov voiced Gena. Short, warm, and exactly what this series always was. Stream it online on iFILM.