Nudnik

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Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. Twelve shorts were released during 1965 and 1967.^[1][2][3] The character's tagline is "Whatever can go wrong with Nudnik, will go wrong."

The first cartoon of the series, Here's Nudnik, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1965, losing to The Pink Phink.^[4]

Nudnik was based on a previous Terrytoons character, Foofle, who appeared from 1959 to 1960.^[5]