Nudnik's Nudnickel

"Nudnik's Nudnickel" is the 10th episode of the series. In this episode, Nudnik finds himself a nickel, but gets into a bit of trouble afterwards.

## Summary

The episode begins as it pans into the city, and pans into a trash bin on the street. Nudnik arises out of it as if he just woke up, and checks himself out in the reflection of the opening flap of the garbage bin. He pulls out a brush and attempts to brush his hair, but as his previous experience with a hairbrush should have foretold, it only leads to the bristles getting stuck in his hair. He pulls out a Kleex (The Nudnik version of the brand Kleenex) and uses that for a bandana.

A man walks by and stuffs a newspaper in the garbage and this shoots Nudnik the other way into the bottom of a "NO PARKING" sign, and the sign part falls down onto his head. He tries to put it back up, but it only falls down again, so he grabs to trash bin to keep it up, but when the sign falls down on it, it shoots garbage paper all over Nudnik. He shakes it off and stuffs it back in the bin, but gets his scarf caught, and upon pulling it out pulls out the trash again with him. He tries again, but instead of stuffing it in, he lifts up the flap of the garbage bin and goes to put it back in, but a woman with a bag groceries walks beside him to wait for the bus and he accidentally grabs her bag. He realizes this as the garbage is still on the ground, so he digs the bag out of the garbage only to have the groceries fall in, but manages to stuff it back in her bag before the bus arrives.

Before Nudnik can put the garbage in the bin, he accidentally gets caught in a crowd and stuck on the bus with the garbage. He leans out a window to try and put the garbage in a passing bin, but as more people enter the bus as the bus is stopped, he falls out face first onto a sewer and drops the garbage on the street. After he pulls his nose out of the sewer, he notices a shiny nickel down in the sewer, so he pulls out from his pants a device he made for this sort of situation consisting of a rock tied to a stick. Now all he needed was something sticky, and conveniently enough, his attention turns to a gumball machine nearby. He rushes over and pulls out what looks to be a crooked old penny, straightens it out with his teeth and puts it in the machine. He turns the dial and pats the machine but nothing comes out, so he whacks it a bit, and whacks it some more, then decides to put his hand up in the machine to try and grab it while hitting the machine, but this only causes all the gumballs to fall into his pants. He climbs on top of the machine to pull it out, but it turns over and all the gumballs in his pants fall back in. He falls off and manages to get his hand out, and despite the machine hitting him on the head, a gumball conveniently bounces out into his hands.

He rushes back over, chews the gum, pulls it out of his mouth, sticks it to the bottom of the rock and lowers it into the sewer. He successfully pulls out the nickel, but pulling the nickel off the rock is proving to be a lot harder than he expected. He pulls the rock off of the string and does his all to pull off the nickel, but the gum is just too sticky. He holds the nickel on the sewer with his foot and pulls at the rock, to which he does pull off the rock, but now the gum and the nickel is stuck to his shoe instead. He grabs a pair of scissors from his pants and successfully snips off the nickel, but now the scissors and the gum are stuck to his shoe.

Nudnik holds the coin with his mouth unties his shoe (Despite it being untied already, but probably loosens it up), sets it upright on the sewer, pulls it backwards with both his hands, but the gum proves to be extra stretchy to the point where walks back right where he was before while stretching it. The gum snaps off, but takes the bottom of his shoe with it. It zips back to the pair of scissors and flings it, and Nudnik chases it until he and the scissors hit a pole, splitting the scissors in half and running face first into the bottom of his shoe. The bottom of Nudnik's shoe falls off the pole and he stamps it back into place.

He brushes off his coin and admires it for a second, but as he goes to put it in his coin purse, it slips out rolls across the tops of the signs of the nearby stores. Nudnik chases it, even running over and upcoming ground elevator, which lifts him up and he begins to run across the exterior of a hotel. The nickel rolls onto the overhang of the entrance, and Nudnik bounces on it just trying to grab it. He ends up getting his scarf caught on a flashing lightbulb on the hotel sign (Flashing him as well when the sign flashed too, where you could see his skeleton), so he unscrews the lightbulb to set himself free, and this bounces him and the nickel into a night deposit slot on a bank, and he spends the rest of the night in it.

The next morning, Nudnik wakes up, stretches and yawns and goes in to deposit the nickel. He notices an officer keeping guard, so he greets him and shows him the shiny nickel he's about to deposit. Nudnik runs over to the deposit table to fill out a slip and runs into it, sending the deposit paper all over. looks at the slip in front of him and sees that it asks to "enter in words and figures", so he grabs a pen and his eyes circle the coin once and accordingly, to his understanding, enters in all the words and figures on the coin, and signs his name at the bottom, but to his dismay the inkwell of the pen falls over onto the slip he filled out.

The officer isn't pleased by this at all, and despite Nudnik showing him the nickel he had for the bank, the officer throws him out through the spinning door, but is left spinning for a second until suddenly, a robber walks in with a bag and a gun, and Nudnik falls into the bag and sighs. The robber holds up the bank, stuffs his bag with money and gets away in a car with other robbers. The officer runs out blowing his whistle and gets picked up by a cop car with other officers, and a police chase is now in full pursuit.

The bag Nudnik is in gets thrown around in the car and he eventually falls out. The car hits an open sewer and Nudnik flies out, landing on and hanging upside down from a traffic light, and falls onto the windshield of the getaway car as it circles back, with the robbers not noticing as they're too busy looking around them for the police. The two cars turn into the front of the same building and eventually crash into each other head on. Nudnik, still on the hood of the car, is shot up into the air by the oil shooting out of the getaway car, and oil rains out of his pants onto the robbers and officers as well as the money, and falls down onto the pavement.

A man who is presumably the bank owner walks up to Nudnik with a large pile of cash, and Nudnik is awfully happy to see this, and while Nudnik feels proud of himself, the man stuffs the rest of it into his pockets and hands Nudnik his nickel from earlier. Nudnik is delighted by this, but drops it as the man shakes his hand, and it rolls back into the sewer where it once was. Nudnik goes to grab a nickel-catching device again, but the sticky part of it catches onto his pants, ripping a hole in the bottom, so he jumps in a nearby garbage bin out of embarrassment. Suddenly, a robber with a bundle of cash walks by and notices an officer on the other side of the street, so he stuffs the bag in the bin and runs off, and Nudnik arises holding happily holding it all, and the episode ends.

## Characters

* Nudnik
* A random man
* Crowd of people
* The fat woman
* Robbers
* The Police
* Bank owner

## Trivia

* This episode features a different design for the police characters.
* This is the only episode where when Nudnik falls asleep, the episode doesn't end.
* This episode in particular shows that Nudnik is not only left handed, but is capable of writing at least his name in cursive.
* This episode is the only one that shows Nudnik pulling out a Kleenex instead of his usual bandana.