Oh my god. This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Keep in mind that this comes right after I saw two of the most amazing political internet videos I’ve seen all campaign (but not the best). Anyway, this one beats them all.
I couldn’t explain it better than Cracked:
The American Original:
In 1966, the Walt Disney Company released a 26-minute short about A.A. Milnes famous bear searching for honey. An icon and merchandising empire was born.The Foreign Rip-Off:
In 1969, Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm released an 11-minute short about A.A. Milnes famous medved searching for med.Why It’s Better:
Where do we begin? First off, the Soviet Winnie is way more macho – the Ruskie version replaces the American Winnie’s foppish lilt with some hard, incomprehensible Cyrillic barking. He could be screaming about honey. He could also be screaming about Ivan Drago. Who knows? All we can surmise is that this cartoon was probably animated at gunpoint in a gulag somewhere.Also, the crudely drawn marker backgrounds remind us of Worker and Parasite from The Simpsons.
This is especially wonderful after being forced to watch the American Original almost every day for the past four months. The Soviet version is so close to the original that I actually understood most of it. I now know how to say “Tut tut, it looks like rain” in Russian!
Hmmm… does Winnie the Pooh really beat Ron Howard? Tough Call!!
Thank you, Joshua. I now know what a “gulag” is and will use it three times in casual conversation this week.