I Remember Nudnik

"I Remember Nudnik" is the 12th episode of the series. Although it was common for the Nudnik episodes to reuse animation and poses, this episode exclusively reuses animation from earlier episode and unused promotional films, as this was around when Rembrandt was becoming tight on their budget when producing the final of the 12 Nudnik films, so they went with a common gimmick used in the animation industry where the final of the episodes looks back on the gags in the series.

In this episode, the narrator is a key part of it, as he occasionally comments on Nudnik's escapades during the episode.

## Summary

The episode begins as it pans into a city and the narrator (Gene Deitch) states "Yeah, I remember Nudnik, he's still around! Living in a real nutty hotel. Nothing fancy, but after all Nudnik is still on the way up". The shot pans into an old storage facility located in a tall apartment like building. It then cuts to what can be recognized as the beginning of "Here's Nudnik!", where Nudnik wakes up in the sofa.

The narrator states "Off to a great start, this is clean up paint up goof up day" As Nudnik puts on his bandana, and we then see Nudnik sweeping up and struggling to paint a room, ending up with him balancing on a paint roller as he rolls down the stairs and down the street, which was promotional animation that would be later used in "Nudnik Impossible".

As he rolls down the street, he gets flung through the trunk of a car and crawls out through the seat. As Nudnik looks around excited at the cars' interior, the narrator states "Man, what a dream! Automatic stick shift and all those buttons and knobs! Nudnik, the Monte Carlo maniac!" as Nudnik pretends to drive the car while making car noises and activating all sorts of the cars' features, which reuses animation from "Drive on, Nudnik!", however what's different this time is there's a man under the car working on it and he looks up to see the car taking off after Nudnik accidentally activates it, and Nudnik presses the automatic brake after he fell on the stick shift.

After some more reused animation from that episode plays, concluding with Nudnik crashing the car, he gets out and goes to pump up the tire but accidentally blows up his pants, which is also promotional material that would later be used in "Nudnik Impossible", but would later be changed to have his shoe blow up instead.

Turned out, his pants had flown off and landed on a lady's head, and she responds to this by walking up to him and hitting him with her suitcase, a bit of animation reused from "Welcome, Nudnik!", and he lands upside down with his pants floating down on him afterwards, another bit of animation from "Drive on, Nudnik!"

The reused animation from "Welcome, Nudnik!" Continues with the chase scene that occurs after the robber attempts to steal the woman's suitcase.

After it concludes with Nudnik sitting in the middle of the road, the narrator states "After a day like that, Nudnik happily returned to the comforts of home", thus begins a scene with reused animation from "Home sweet Nudnik" which plays out similarly to the original with some scenes in a different order, but interestingly enough adds a scene from the original storyboard where Nudnik is hanging by his scarf and he looks down at the ground below him, the shot being from his point of view. The episode ends as Nudnik knits his scarf back together but it untangles and he falls, as the narrator states "Yes, I remember Nudnik, today he's running for congress".