Nudnik on the roof

"Nudnik on the roof" is the 2nd episode of the series. In this episode, Nudnik helps a man set up a satellite on his house, but runs into all sorts of problems.

## Nudnik on the Roof

### Running time

6:36

The episode begins as it pans into a city. We see a car starting and backing up into a trash can and knocking it over before taking off. As it falls over, a familiar pair of shoes falls out of it and out crawls Nudnik from a good night's sleep. He gets up, puts on his bandana and is ready to start the day -- that is, until he accidentally ties his shoe to the trash can lid. In an attempt to get it unstuck he accidentally gets his other foot stuck in a nearby mailbox, and to try and resolve this he attempts to unscrew it, which unfortunately catches the attention of a police officer who isn't very happy at what he's doing and hits him on the head right out of it, sending him rolling down the street into a garbage disposal machine and back out again.

He dusts himself off and realizes he's hungry, and notices a hot coffee machine, so he looks to see if he has any change for a coffee only to discover he has none. A grumbling man walks over and tries to get himself some coffee, but gets frustrated that the machine isn't working and walks off. Nudnik is startled by this, but is instantly delighted as the machine dispenses a cup just after the man leaves. However, getting the coffee in the cup on time poses to be a challenge for Nudnik, as for most small challenges he faces, and though he does manage to fill the paper cup with coffee, it rips through the bottom, goes through his sleeve and creates a pool of coffee in his pants.

Nudnik eventually gets himself a hot cup of coffee and settles down on a curb to read a book. A book on success, but as he goes to turn the page, the contents of the book fall into the sewer below him, and Nudnik is left in disbelief. Suddenly, the man from earlier approaches with a TV and satellite and offers Nudnik a payment for some work, waving Nudnik a dollar bill and handing him the stuff to carry as he follows.

They get to the house and the man orders Nudnik to climb up the ladder and get the job done. To Nudnik this seems an easy task at first, until he climbs too high and the ladder tips over on the roof, sending him straight to the ground. The man, awaiting a picture on his television, isn't delighted with all the commotion Nudnik is making outside.

To prevent the ladder from tipping again, Nudnik sets a rock at the bottom of the ladder, but as Nudnik tries and set the satellite into the chimney, the rock proves to be not heavy enough, and this only leads to Nudnik attempting to get the ladder to balance on the roof with the rock rolling across it. He succeeds, and walks over with the satellite onto the chimney, but gets his foot caught in the chimney and falls in. Fortunately, he gets out with supposedly a different ladder, but instantly gets tangled up in the satellite wire. Suddenly, he notices something burning, that being the ladder sticking out of the chimney that slowly went down as it burned in the man's fireplace, leaving Nudnik stuck on the roof to get the job done.

The satellite cords Nudnik is stuck in get shaken around, and Nudnik gets spun around the house by the wire and tied to the chimney. Fortunately, the satellite is set up properly after this and Nudnik decides to connect the two remaining wires together, getting electrocuted in the process, but this ends up being successful as a clear TV picture shows up in not only the man's TV, but comically as well as Nudnik's eyes, and the episode ends with Nudnik spending the night on the roof.

## Characters

* Nudnik
* Garbage man
* Man angry at the coffee machine