Kikoriki

Name: Kikoriki
Genre: Kids, Animation, Family
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Igor Dmitriev, Svetlana Pismichenko, Vladimir Postnikov, Vladimir Maslakov, Sergey Mardar

Смешарики (2004-2021)

Seasons: 3, episodes: 399

Episode runtime: 6 min

Average rating: 7.8/10 740 388

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Actors and characters

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Premiere

2004-05-17

Last episode

2021-03-25

Status

Ended

Country

Russia

Network

STS

Production

Riki Group, Animation Studio "Petersburg"

Genre

Kids, Animation, Family

Website

https://www.smeshariki.ru/

Creators

Salavat Shaykhinurov, Ilya Popov, Anatoly Prokhorov, Anna Malginova, Igor Shevchuk

Actors

Igor Dmitriev, Svetlana Pismichenko, Vladimir Postnikov, Vladimir Maslakov, Sergey Mardar, Mikhail Chernyak, Anton Vinogradov, Vadim Bochanov
All actors and roles (8)

Scenario

Aleksei Lebedev, Svetlana Murdagolimova

Producer

Olga Filipuk, Ilya Popov

Camera operator

Composer

Editing

Whole Team (21)

Short description

The Smeshariki are stylized rounded animals. Each of the nine characters has a unique personality and a range of interests with no negative characters among them. Plots are built not on the battle of opposing forces but on the unexpected situations the animated characters stumble upon in their interactions deemed similar to the ones that children may encounter in their everyday lives. Many of the topics foreground the guidance that friendship and community provide to the individual making his or her way in the world. Complex themes and specific cultural references place this cartoon firmly within the Russian tradition of animation. Much attention was devoted to the humor in the series, some of which has attracted adults as well.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	218	2004-05-17	6.8
Season 2	112	2008-06-01	—
New Season	88	2020-05-18	7.8

What's left behind the scenes

According to Anna Malginova, one of the creators of the original idea, the prototypes for all the KikoRiki characters were residents of Ufa; for example, the image of poet Aidar Khusainov was used to create Losyash the scientist. Nyusha was originally conceived as a smart and good girl like Pippi Longstocking; she was meant to balance out the boys and be a friend to them first and foremost.
A special New Year's intro appeared in the 2010 New Year's episodes. Later, this intro began to be used for all New Year's episodes.
In September 2008, 99 episodes of the cartoon were adapted for broadcast on the American TV channel The CW under the title "KikOriki."
In the episode "Mystery of the Ancient Treasures," Krosh and Hedgehog find a diagram for a simple crystal radio receiver for amplitude-modulated radio waves, but there is an error in the diagram—a diode is missing, which should have been placed in series with the parallel-connected capacitor and headphones. Such a receiver also doesn't require power sources, so Hedgehog risked himself for nothing by trying to plug it into an electrical outlet.
The episode "Marathoner" is an allusion to the film "Forrest Gump": the flower falling to the ground in the cartoon resembles the feather swirling in the air at the beginning of the movie, Barash's running resembles Forrest Gump's running, and furthermore, the phrase Hedgehog says in his sleep, "Run, Barash, run!" refers to the famous "Run, Forrest, run!"
In the episode "Sandwich," the shower scene is an allusion to Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho."
In episode 129, when Mulentiy runs up to Hedgehog, three apples are visible in his basket; then Mulentiy takes one, and another apple can be seen at the bottom of the basket. In the next shot, there are only two apples in the basket, when there should be three.