Masyanya: Season 2
Episodes
TV Intro
Sep 9, 2002
The release of this episode marked a huge turning point in Masyanya's fate. The show made its way onto television screens via NTV — a channel that was still very good at the time.
Language Barrier
Sep 16, 2002
A sweet little episode about a German guy who ended up hanging around Saint Petersburg. The second episode to air on TV.
Pink Sweater
Sep 23, 2002
A dumb episode. In reality, it's just a scene lifted straight from real life, down to the last detail. With the only difference being that the money never got fully drunk away in r
Pushkin's Button
Sep 30, 2002
An episode about getting the giggles. For a while I just took storylines from the previous night's hangouts and turned them into cartoons. This doesn't always work, because the vie
Two Bridges
Oct 6, 2002
Purely St. Petersburg humor, basically. Originally the script had around 7 bridge stories. By airtime, three bridges remained. In the end only two made it — the third simply didn't
The Rat
Oct 14, 2002
A sort of tragic episode. About how a small, seemingly insignificant tragedy — like the death of a rat — can stick with you more deeply than serious drama. And if you dig deeper, i
Cataclysm
Oct 21, 2002
I really love the ending of this episode. I've heard this joke a thousand times — and it cracks me up every single time. The plot, so to speak, is familiar to every resident of any
Pills on Blyukhera street
Nov 10, 2002
"Two hundred bucks a month." Yeah, those times weren't so long ago, when people somehow managed to actually live on that. The theme of this cartoon is summed up in one punchy word:
Out There
Nov 3, 2002
A sad and melancholy episode. Though it still ends on an optimistic note. The episode aired on NTV during a dark time — right after the Dubrovka terrorist attack, when releasing an
Pogo
Nov 18, 2002
The episode is also known as "Pogo Dance, or Counterculture." In reality, the cartoon is about how no such thing as "counterculture" exists. As everyone knows, St. Petersburg is th
Hamster
Nov 25, 2002
The cartoon starts exactly the way it starts because literally a couple of weeks before this, an episode called "The Rat" had come out. And now here's "Hamster". We joked around in
Cinema Avant-Garde
Dec 1, 2002
This episode actually predicted the emergence of such a phenomenon as "trolling." Only from its "artistic" side — as art provocation. At that point the concept of "trolling" didn't
Prince Albert
Dec 7, 2002
What "Prince Albert" is, I won't be explaining here. We're all adults and not new to the internet. In any case, this episode is an innocent gag about piercing. I have nothing again
Pop Trash
Dec 14, 2002
This cartoon didn't help, alas. Pop Trash has completely taken over Russian TV and the entire Russian show business. Popular, mass-market music exists everywhere, of course, but in
The Woodpecker Effect
Honestly, God help me, I have absolutely no idea of what was going on in my head when I came up with this episode's title. :) Let's consider it mysterious. Though the cartoon itsel
Health
A gag. The number of times I've personally quit unhealthy habits — I've lost count. I envy people with strong willpower, but none of us is an angel, and saying "ah, to hell with it
Fairy Tale 2003
Dec 29, 2002
This New Year's episode, made for the new year of 2003, is quite simply the peak of my idealism. Having access to the pre-New Year's airtime on a leading channel, I was desperately
Post-New Year's Delirium
Jan 10, 2003
The title of this jubilee, fiftieth episode is very accurate. Pure delirium. This is a one-hundred-percent hangover episode — made with a hangover, about a hangover, by hungover ar
Habibi
Feb 8, 2003
The plot of this episode has also faded into history by now. What came after New Year's? Right — long holidays. And what did people do during the holidays in the late 90s and early
Carousel
Feb 10, 2003
Originally called "The Carousel Operator," but plain "Carousel" is better in my opinion. More global and mysterious-sounding. I always really loved this episode. It really "hits ho
Groundhog Dayed
At one point I had a paranoid fixation on the film "Groundhog Day." It worked on me in such a way that I decided "why the hell watch all kinds of different movies anyway? Suffer th
Society for the Struggle Against Jerks
A cartoon about how Masyanya and company decided to create a society for fighting jerks and ended up becoming its victims themselves. Writing this brief summary because some people
Sex
Despite such a sweeping title, the cartoon is not about sex... but about something greater. I myself didn't used to like this episode, but now, rewatching it while editing, I reali
Okolobakha
The character's name "Okolobakha" is a play on words between "Kolobakha" (a real nickname of a real guy whose real story the cartoon is based on) and "Okolo Bakha" — meaning "Near
Triangles
The cartoon ended up consisting of 15 fragments. It's hard to give this one a precise description. The thing is, it's a collection of scattered "shards" or "fragments" of Masyanya'