Nudnik on the Beach

"Nudnik on the Beach" is the 8th episode of the series. In this episode, Nudnik decides to spend a relaxing afternoon on the beach, but with most things in Nudnik's life, this doesn't come without complications.

## Summary

The episode begins with a shot of a bus driving packed full of people. The shot pans into the bus and this is where we see Nudnik waking up in the luggage compartment up top. He yawns and stretches, and tries to smooth his hair down, only to have it stick straight out again. He puts on his bandana and attempts to get out, but gets his leg stuck as someone uses it to hold onto while on the bus, then his arm stuck the same way, and once the bus stops, he gets his foot stuck on a lady's hat and gets flung out the door of the bus and his pants stuck on a sign. He inches his pants off the sign and notices it reads "BEACH 4 MILES", and is pleased to know he's close to the beach, as he's all prepared with his swim trunks and beach stuff, and makes his way to the beach past the traffic.

Nudnik looks for a spot to relax on the crowded beach and finds a pleasant spot on top of a sand pile. However, he notices a pair of legs sticking out from it, and they sure don't look to be his. Perplexed by this, Nudnik gives them a tickle, and out rises a man who isn't happy at all by this. He stands up and all the sand from the pile falls onto Nudnik. Nudnik crawls out from the pile and empties his bandana and pants from sand, and a sandcastle forms after Nudnik empties the sand from his pants.

Nudnik continues to look for a spot and manages to find a small one. He gets out his beach mat (Which isn't the shabbiest, considering it's been patched and moths fly out of it when Nudnik unravels it) and goes to lay it down, but it gets stuck on a beach umbrella, and after attempting to pull it off, it falls over and surrounding umbrellas fall over with it. He tries to crawl out but only manages to get out after being flung by a man propping his umbrella back up.

Nudnik lands in a beach toy with the same pattern as his swim trunk and gets stuck, and some of the air from the beach toy releases into his swim trunks. A woman walks over and grabs the beach toy unsuspecting of Nudnik being stuck in it, and jumps in the water and uses it to keep herself afloat. Nudnik kicks his legs in an attempt to get himself out of the water, but the rear of his swim trunks run into a sharp tool in the water, explode and send him flying out of the water.

He pulls off the remains of the beach toy and decides to order a tasty hotdog. He pulls out his bandana from the remains of the beach toy and pulls out his sock coin purse. Nudnik accidentally drops the coin on the ground, and as he goes to pick it up, a man walking past steps on his hand, which leads to Nudnik having to dig it out of the sand. After pulling out miscellaneous belongings, he gets a clam stuck on his finger and hears something rattling inside, and opens it to find it was his coin. He gives the main the coin from the clam and takes the hotdog, and sweeps and covers everything he pulled from the sand back where it came from.

Nudnik returns to his spot and goes to eat his hotdog, but it slips from the bun and lands on the stomach of a resting man nearby. Nudnik sneaks over and tries to grab it, but looks the other way and accidentally grabs the man's cigar and puts it in the hotdog bun, and doesn't realize what he did until after he takes a bite. He rushes to find a water fountain, and when he does, he struggles to simultaneously hold down the pedal for the water and drink it at the same time, as he's shorter than that of the water fountain. Because of this, he gets the idea to hold down the spout of the water fountain with his finger, but it sprays the other way, so he swings around to the other side but gets his finger stuck, and on top of his current struggles he accidentally breaks off the pedal with his foot. The water alternatively sprays out the fence, and through this Nudnik finally gets a well deserved drink, but now he needs to find a way to stop the water.

He covers the water coming out of the fence with his foot, but then it comes out the side of the water fountain, to which he stops with his other foot, so in an attempt to stop the water from running, and notices a handle to the water main under a cover and goes to turn it off, but the handle breaks, and with the water having nowhere to go to, it rumbles and explodes out the water main, shooting Nudnik up into the air, down a set of steps, and into the water. He gets caught in a tidal wave and attempts to paddle to shore, but the tides crash again and send him shooting through the sand.

Nudnik gets up and hits his head on the bottom of a trophy, which a man was holding for him as Nudnik had accidentally won the surfing competition. Nudnik sits with the trophy on his head proud of himself that he'd been actually rewarded for something, and as the rain comes in, everyone decides to go home, but even as the trophy on his head filled up with water, he remained there sitting proud in the rain, and the episode ends.

## Trivia

* Considering the height of an average water fountain is 3'5", this makes Nudnik canonly less than that in height, besides one storyboard of a water fountain gag with Nudnik featured in the book Nudnik Revealed, where Nudnik was taller than the water fountain, but not by much.
* It's possible the episode takes place in Santa Monica, as the beach in this episode looks similar to the location.