The Cartoon

**The Cartoon** is an episode of the animated series The Fixies.

**Tom Thomas makes a flip book about Nolik banging his head, but Nolik doesn't find it funny at all.**

## Plot

The episode starts at Tom Thomas' house, where he is making a flipbook. Simka and Nolik interrupt him by asking him if the surprise is ready yet. Nolik tells him to make the surprise and stop drawing. Tom Thomas tells him that the drawing IS the surprise. Then he asks them to sit on the eraser and watch what he drew. His flipbook had a cartoon of a stick figure with spiky hair running and banging his head. Simka and Nolik laugh at it, and Nolik said that he should add a huge bump on the stick figure's head and that what Tom Thomas drew was just like a cartoon. Simka says that he did draw a cartoon, and Nolik says that cartoons are shown on TV, to which she says that they make them exactly the same way and explains what animation is (see below).

Nolik asks Tom Thomas who is the kooky guy he drew as the stick figure, to which he replies if he didn't recognize himself. Simka says that if he forgot about what happened the same morning. The scene cuts to a flashback of the said morning where Simka is cleaning part of a machine and Nolik tags her to play a game of tag. The same thing happens the Nolik as the stick figure. Nolik gets frustrated and leaves.

Tom Thomas tells Nolik not to leave, and Simka says that it's OK, and says that he just needs to sulk for a while. Simka then says that while Nolik is gone, there is something she wants to show to Tom Thomas, in which she asks if Tom Thomas has a cartoon that he can put on the TV, to which he replies that he has plenty. Tom Thomas inserts a DVD of a cartoon to the TV's DVD player, and Simka jumps on the Play button, which plays the cartoon on the TV. Simka then pauses and replays the cartoon, other than replaying and watching the cartoon normally, Simka shows Tom Thomas the same cartoon a frame at a time, and Simka shows a frame to Tom Thomas, Simka then shows another frame, and another frame, to Tom Thomas.

Tom Thomas says that it is so cool, then Simka turns the cartoon back to the regular speed, and says that there is 25 frames every second. And tells that it is magical. However, Tom Thomas says that he feels awful for Nolik. Simka says that she feels awful for Nolik too. Grandpus explains the ways of making animation at this point.

Simka walks to Tom Thomas and asks what is he doing. Tom Thomas replies that he is fixing the old cartoon, so Nolik will stop being angry. Simka tells Tom Thomas to keep drawing, and says that she will go and get Nolik. Simka then calls Nolik. Nolik says that he is not here. Simka tells Nolik to forgive her and not be so mad, and also telling Nolik that there is a cartoon to watch. Nolik replies that he already seen Tom Thomas' "stupid" cartoon, and thinks he put a huge bump on the stick figure's head. Tom Thomas says that it is not a chance, but he did it all over again, and tells Nolik that he will love it.

Nolik then goes to watch the cartoon and sits on the eraser and so does Simka. Tom Thomas shows both Fixies the now-fixed cartoon, which is about the stick figure destroying the wall. Nolik gets happy about the new cartoon and says that he really liked it. Tom Thomas replies that he is all out of paper. However, Simka says that she thinks the first cartoon was funnier, to which Nolik gets angry at her for saying that, Simka then says that the new cartoon is much better of course.

## Trivia

* The cartoon that Simka showed to Tom Thomas is a scene of an episode of the Russian animated series Kikoriki.