Home Sweet Nudnik

"Home Sweet Nudnik" is the 7th episode of the series. In this episode, Nudnik wakes up in an abandoned apartment building in the process of being demolished and goes about his day while this is happening.

## Summary

The episode begins with a shot of a crane with a wrecking ball swinging at a decrepit building about to be demolished. The shot then pans to a dresser in a room of the building. The drawer opens, and reveals Nudnik sleeping in the drawer similar to that of a cat. He stretches, yawns, and as the wrecking ball hits the building again, the drawer falls out of the dresser and into the floor. Nudnik then decides to prop up a mirror from the bottom drawer and comb his hair, but gets the bristles stuck in his hair, giving him quite an odd looking orange hairdo. He disregards this and puts on his bandana, followed by a tin can flowerpot falling on his head to flatten it out after the wrecking ball hits the building once more.

Nudnik looks up at the calendar and as the wrecking ball hits the building again, the last paper on the calendar falls off and he realizes it's Friday the 13th, despite every day seeming like Friday the 13th in his case. He puts on his shoes and steps on one of his shoelaces on accident. He tries to tie them, but accidentally ties them to his scarf. He falls over, knocking over the fishbowl in the process, and It lands upside down on the rear of his pants and drains into them. Nudnik gets up, wrings out the water from his pants back into the fish bowl and slips his pants back on.

He looks out the window to see what the ruckus he's been hearing could possibly be, and the bricks around the window fall out as they get hit by the wrecking ball, leaving him only holding the frame of the window. He sees this as a perfect opportunity the frame the picture of his mama on the wall. He admires this photo, but develops a gooselump on his head remembering being dropped on the head as a baby.

Suddenly, he feels hungry, and decides to make some tea with the resources he has. With the building in the process of being demolished, this becomes a tedious task for Nudnik, as for the rest of the tasks in life he faces. After slowly filling a cup with dripping water, he tries to start a miniature gas stove going in hopes to warm it up for his tea. He gets out a match and attempts to start the gas stove with a match, but doesn't realize the tube for the stove fell out of the wall and the gas is going through his sleeve, until the end of his sleeve inevitably catches on fire. He puts it out, but unknowingly catches the rear of his pants on fire. He tries to get another match, but opens the box upside down spilling the matches on the floor, and as he backs up picking up the matches, he accidentally but successfully starts the stove.

He then grabs the tea bag he has hanging up to dip in his cup, accidentally grabbing a sock at first. But before he can put it over the stove, he unknowingly falls through the floor and is confused as to where the stove went. As he goes to turn off the gas, he doesn't realize the tube for the stove is near his pantleg, and as he looks up wondering how the hole in the ceiling got there, his pants inflate and have him floating up through the hole in the ceiling, inevitably next to the stove, causing an explosion and landing him in the bathtub.

The building at this point is nearly in ruins, and before he knows it, Nudnik is sent flying out a window by the wrecking ball and is just hanging by his scarf. Suddenly, his scarf begins to tear, and he quickly knits it back up, but to his demise he falls out of it, falling out of his other clothing items too. He ends up in a pile of rubble in nothing but his underwear, but puts on his clothing as it falls back down to him and walks out fine and dusts himself off. Finally, he goes to lock the door, but the door falls over, and as how episodes tend to end, he walks into the distance in defeat.

## Characters

* Nudnik
* Nudnik's mama (in a photograph)

## Trivia

* This episode is very similar to the pilot episode "Here's Nudnik" with the premise of Nudnik waking up in an abandoned apartment.
* The storyboard shows that the episode was originally titled "Casa de Nudnik"
* In the original storyboard, Nudnik's mama was shown to have a torn dress with a yellow skirt underneath, and instead of purple shorts, Nudnik as a baby wore a traditional white diaper.
* In the storyboard, it shows a deleted scene of Nudnik's point of view where he's looking down at the ground below him. However, this scene is featured in the episode "I remember Nudnik".