Modern animation · 2025
A Bedtime Story
Сказка на ночь
Published premise · ending unverifiedThe town’s mayor asks the bureau to look after her children. Gena and Cheburashka agree, prepare supper and read a bedtime story. The tale unexpectedly becomes frightening, so they must rescue the story as well as reassure their young listeners. The ordinary duty of babysitting becomes a lesson in how a storyteller’s choices affect a child’s sense of safety.
Story & key events
Plot details and spoilers ahead.
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Place in the world
The new Russian animated series turns friendship into a daily service: Gena and Cheburashka open a Bureau of Good Deeds, while Shapoklyak counters with bad deeds. The familiar town acquires new neighbours and small problems to solve. This CGI continuity is distinct from both the four Soviet puppet films and the human Gena’s live-action world.
Episode titles are the stable identifiers here. START’s order omits the two winter specials, while broadcast-oriented lists count them as episodes 11 and 12. Consequently later numbers differ by two. This archive keeps the winter stories separate and links to the relevant platform page instead of treating those numbering differences as new episodes.