Nu Pogadi

Frde Patten had a small DVD collection of these things! This was sort of the soviet "Tom & Jerry", "Coyote & Roadrunner", "Lucy & Desi" all rolled into one, and quite amusing, even if you don't speak russian.

There wasn't a heck of a lot of dialog - so little, in fact, that when the original voice actor portraying the wolf ("Vulk", I think) died, - and the event made the major ntwork news in the Russian Federation - the animation studio just kept 'recycling' his distinctive, gravelly-voiced lines into new cartoons, only adding a new vocal talent for odd exclamations not previously encountered or envisioned.

The Hare ("Zayet", I think) was drawn so its gender was never really firmly established, sort of like Herriman's Krazy Kat, and was typically drawn quite androgynous and so cute as to remind most furry fans of Chester Ringtail, it borders almost on the creepy. I think the hare is cute because it is a smaller animal, and hares or rabbits are just supposed to be cute - the character is actually supposed to be a grown-up adult hare, not a child.

And the relationship between the hare and wolf is not exclusively defined as predator/prey or enemies of any real consequence; in a couple of episodes, the hare remembers the wolf's birthday, with a bouquet of flowers, and vice versa, and one time the wolf appears at the hare's flat, decked out as if about to take the hare out on a date - but yeah, it's mostly slapstick pursuit of hare by wolf, who is a lower-class prol, _not_ a good example of proper soviet values, a bit of a bully, and who usually gets his comeuppance by the end.

Denmarkese? *giggle* You mean "Danish", right?

 
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