Good Neighbor Nudnik

"Good Neighbor Nudnik" is the 11th episode of the series. In this episode, Nudnik visits a pleasant neighborhood -- pleasant, that is, until Nudnik eventually makes an unintentional disturbance to the whole block.

## Summary

The episode begins with a panning shot of what appears to be a lovely looking neighborhood, with everyone going about their business, like a couple movers moving a piano to someone's home. Every home is unique in it's own way, especially for Nudnik, as in this episode, his humble abode is an empty lot with a busted sidewalk, along with his own necessities set up around the lot. The shot pans in to what appears to be a snoring set of blinds on the ground with two feet sticking out from under it. The blinds open to Nudnik happily waking up. He rises the blinds and a bird happily tweets and lands next to him. Nudnik gets up, but not without accidentally breaking the glass which hadn't been visible before, and scaring away the bird.

He sighs, and goes to wind up the stopwatch his mama had given to him, but realizes there's something wrong with it. He opens it to see the insides of it are all busted, so he places on a block, crams the pieces back in, takes out a hammer and whacks everything back together, leaving it ticking soundly again despite it not looking in so good of shape. He puts it away and puts on his bandana and shoes, but as he goes to tie his shoes, he accidentally ties them to his bandana and wanders unable to see. Suddenly, the movers from earlier pull up to the empty lot to dispose of the box, and one of them puts a red cloth on his back for the other mover to put to box on for him to carry over. Nudnik waddles over and the mover with the box mistakes him for the other mover, giving Nudnik the box, and he waddles back to the empty lot with it. Confused and startled by this, the movers get away quickly.

Nudnik gets out from under the box and continues getting himself ready for the afternoon. He walks over to the medicine cabinet on a tree, looks at his teeth, makes some funny faces in the mirror and admires himself, but suddenly notices a hair coming in on his face. This to Nudnik of course is unacceptable and he instantly reaches for the shaving cream, squirting just a single drop on the single hair. He grabs his razor but accidentally knocks a bottle of formaldehyde onto it, and has he goes to shave, he leaves a big liquidy red mark on his face thinking he skinned himself. He grabs some bandages out of the cabinet, but it keeps getting stuck to his clothing until he gets tangled up and falls over onto the shaving cream covering the whole tree, and he walks out as a large mound of shaving cream with a nose.

A man walks by sweating from the hot weather, but takes him for a snowman and despite the giant beaming sun in the sky, puts on his coat and walks off cold. Nudniks walks away the shaving cream down the street and hears some beautiful piano playing coming from one of the houses. Delighted by this, he rings the doorbell of the house, but with the doorbell chime being the funeral theme, he realizes things are likely not to go so well. In the span of 2 frames, a man barges open the door along with his growling dog, both of which aren't very happy by Nudnik's presence at the door. Nudnik grins and pulls out a sign saying "NUDNIK FOR HIRE", with his name on the sign seemingly written by him with the N written backwards.

He demonstrates his grass trimming abilities to the man, but cuts a hole on the man's lawn, leaving him angrier than before. He then decides to demonstrate his house painting abilities and grabs from his pants some paint and an old brush, but when he goes to paint the house, the paint is sticky and gets stuck on the house, and after attempting to get it off, Nudnik accidentally gets his rear stuck in the can on paint, accidentally ripping the brush from its bristles. The man sics the dog onto Nudnik and it spins him around by the bucket through the window to the basement.

Nudnik falls from the bucket into the basement, but notices his pants are dirty from the paint. He spots a washing machine and decides to throw them in, and with the selectable options on the washing machine given, he selects the option he's the most sure of that his pants are: Filthy.

After the washing machine shrieks and sputters, it spits out the color of Nudniks' pants as a fine dust and leaves only the wire left of it, leaving Nudnik to set it all back together. As he's putting them on, he accidentally kicks a barrel of oil, which spins and knocks over a pole holding up the floor above the basement. Upstairs, the man is beginning to play on his piano, so heavily that the floor begins to break, so Nudnik rushes on top of the oil can to prop up the floor, but as the man continues to play, Nudnik begins to sink into the oil barrel and the oil starting to pool.

Suddenly the furnace turns on and sets flame to the oil pooling on the floor, shooting Nudnik in the barrel through the floorboards, through the roof, and round and round in the air while the man stands outside shaking his fist at Nudnik. Nudnik and the barrel land on the man and the man hops back toward his house while Nudnik sits on his head and the dog chases the barrel growling and glaring at Nudnik. The man in the barrel hops through the window, leaving a hole in the wall, and crashes through the floor, ending up destroying the whole house.

Nudnik runs out just before the house falls and runs down the street, the house falling causing a domino effect to happen and destroying the rest of the houses on the block. Nudnik makes it back to the empty lot and wipes the sweat from his brow, followed by a building falling onto him. He arises from the rubble of house pieces and items wearing a nice tuxedo. Nudnik walks over to the piano box, straightens his tie, fluffs the coattails of his tux, and settles down in the box and falls asleep for the rest of the night, and the episode ends.

## Characters

* Nudnik
* The Piano Player
* The Movers
* The Yellow Dog
* a random man

## Trivia

* A flipbook was made based off the animation from when Nudnik got tangled up in the bandage.
* A flash game was made based off the part where Nudnik flies around in a barrel.
* Nudnik is shown in this episode to write his name very hastily, with the second N in his name backwards, but in a previous episode is shown to be able to perfectly write the contents of a coin just fine, as well as his name in cursive.
* The song playing before Nudnik goes to sleep is Tchaikovsky's piano concerto 01.
* According to Gene, this episode had been narrated over as an agreement with Paramount to add some dialogue to the cartoons, along with "Nudnik on a Shoestring" and "I Remember Nudnik", though the narrated version is not included on the DVD, but rather the version without. It's also known for sure this episode was to have narration considering the writing alongside the storyboards for the episode.

### Storyboard changes

This episode went under a few changes from the storyboard to the final product, such as:

* Before putting the shaving cream on his face, Nudnik originally wore his bandana around his neck like at a barber shop.
* In the scene where Nudnik looks like a snowman, originally a little boy would walk up and put a hat and carrot on him.
* When Nudnik cut a hole in the grass, in the storyboard it actually looks a patch of grass is gone, but in the actual episode it's just a black hole.

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