Drive on, Nudnik!

'Drive on, Nudnik!' is the 5th of the episodes produced. In this episode, Nudnik encounters a car and gets into all sorts of unintentional mischief with it.

## Summary

The episode begins with with Nudnik waking up in a hole under a bulldozer. After dusting himself off, he sets out a newspaper on a nearby table, preparing to eat a can of grits. Like many things Nudnik sets out to accomplish, it doesn't go as planned and the grits end up on the ground. A dog approaches Nudnik with a bone, and Nudnik tries to influence the dog to eat the grits on the ground in trade for the bone, but the dog ends up biting Nudnik's leg. After walking a bit as an attempt to get rid of the dog, he decides to take his pants off as a last resort. Unexpectedly, an angry police offer shows up and kicks Nudnik and his pants back to the other side of the road.

After his pants float back down onto him, Nudnik gets up, pulls up his pants and realizes his shoes need to be tied. Of course, however, Nudnik can't tie his shoes without some mishap, and as a result gets his thumbs tied in his shoelaces. Nudnik hops around towards the middle of the road, and a car stops in front of him before he falls over. A robber gets out thinking he hit Nudnik with his car and turns pale at the sight of Nudnik's body on the road, so he takes a suitcase full of money from the car and runs away. Nudnik gets up and notices the car parked behind him and is delighted. He makes a few attempts to get the car started from the outside and thinks of how cool it would be to own his own car, but gets his pants caught in the car door. He sees from inside the car that the keys are still in the car, so he tries to crawl over to unlock the door from the inside, but falls onto the shift-stick and the car takes off.

It parks on a 12,000 feet cliff which Nudnik falls out of getting out, but as for everything, he gets back up and hikes up the mountain back to the car. Nudnik parks the car on the side of the road, though how he did this is unseen, and pretends to be a racecar driver while the car is parked, pressing buttons and activating things in the car, but doing this ends up to Nudnik getting stuck in the seat and the car driving itself again. To stop the car, Nudnik reaches for the power brake, and the car stops, launching him through the grill of the car possibly a few miles down the road. After he returns by train, he gets back in the car, seatbelt fastened, and attempts to reasonably drive the car. However, Nudnik is not one to do things reasonably, as he ends up hitting a tree stump, sending the frame of the car flying overhead and falling back onto him before he can unfasten his seatbelt. Eventually, the police arrive on scene, identify the car, and arrest Nudnik, and the episode ends with Nudnik falling asleep in the back seat of the cop car.

## Characters

* Nudnik
* Police
* Robber

## Trivia

* There's an animation error in the beginning of the episode with the crane where it goes back a few frames, but this is fixed in the opening theme for The Nudnik Show.
* Scenes from this episode were reused and some even redrawn in the episode "I Remember Nudnik"
* This is the first episode the police and the robber make an appearance