- Fridge Horror:
- The “Freeze” sketch from the 67th episode, while funny, is full of this, especially the ending. First we have a boy named Dudkin pranking others by telling them to “freeze”, immobilizing them. Among his victims are the truck driver who loses control of the vehicle and isn’t seen stopping and a boy doing experiments in a lab, leading to an explosion (luckily, at least the latter survives). The real horror kicks in when a schoolgirl offers him to try and play bugle and then “freezes” him while he’s playing it, places the boy on the pedestal, paints him white head-to-toes and leaves him standing like a statue, with others either unaware of or indifferent to his fate. It should be noted that the idea for the plot was borrowed from the book Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, where kids were simply too devoted to the “freeze” game and could “unfreeze” if told too. One of the titular boys is also made to pose as a statue, but for a short time and only as a prank, not to replace a missing one. If we assume that, like in the book, the “freeze” can be undone, has Dudkin actually “unfrozen” anyone he’s pranked? Can they “unfreeze” themselves? And does the girl plan to keep Dudkin a statue for a short time, like in the book, or is she fine with keeping him there forever, regardless of what his friends and relatives think? There's also a question of whether those "frozen" still need to eat and drink to survive, as even if an actual statue is found eventually, it may take day or weeks, and Dudkin may not last that long. And given that he, unlike other “frozen” kids, is completely still once he’s fully painted (and that paint can be toxic), is he even alive by the end of the episode? Even if he was a jerk, he didn't deserve this…
- There’s also the fact that the student’s first course of action was to trick a younger child into becoming a statue. And she gets away with it. What else is she ready to do to get her job done?
- The camera from "Freeze-Frame", episode 280. Anyone it takes a picture of remains standing still, and unlike the above example, where, it being a game after all, the kids were able to move at least slightly, it seems that the camera's victims are completely frozen in time. Are they aware of the situation? Are they even alive? Where did the camera come from, and what if there's another one like this out there?..
- Then we get “I Wanna Go to the Moon” from episode 276. A brother and a sister argue over whether or not Father Frost is real. When the latter asks her brother what he wants Father Frost to get him, he replies…well, try and guess. Of course, once Father Frost turns out to be real, the sister is given her New Year present while the brother flies off into space. Without a spacesuit. Unless Father Frost’s magic can keep him alive in space (since he does say that the brother may return eventually), chances are high that he will suffocate before he even reaches the Moon. If not, he'll die of starvation/dehydration/radiation. All because he didn’t believe in Father Frost.
- The “Freeze” sketch from the 67th episode, while funny, is full of this, especially the ending. First we have a boy named Dudkin pranking others by telling them to “freeze”, immobilizing them. Among his victims are the truck driver who loses control of the vehicle and isn’t seen stopping and a boy doing experiments in a lab, leading to an explosion (luckily, at least the latter survives). The real horror kicks in when a schoolgirl offers him to try and play bugle and then “freezes” him while he’s playing it, places the boy on the pedestal, paints him white head-to-toes and leaves him standing like a statue, with others either unaware of or indifferent to his fate. It should be noted that the idea for the plot was borrowed from the book Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, where kids were simply too devoted to the “freeze” game and could “unfreeze” if told too. One of the titular boys is also made to pose as a statue, but for a short time and only as a prank, not to replace a missing one. If we assume that, like in the book, the “freeze” can be undone, has Dudkin actually “unfrozen” anyone he’s pranked? Can they “unfreeze” themselves? And does the girl plan to keep Dudkin a statue for a short time, like in the book, or is she fine with keeping him there forever, regardless of what his friends and relatives think? There's also a question of whether those "frozen" still need to eat and drink to survive, as even if an actual statue is found eventually, it may take day or weeks, and Dudkin may not last that long. And given that he, unlike other “frozen” kids, is completely still once he’s fully painted (and that paint can be toxic), is he even alive by the end of the episode? Even if he was a jerk, he didn't deserve this…
- Memetic Mutation:
- A snippet from the show's main theme (mere seconds before it ends) is used here and there on the Russian internet to lampshade a bad (sometimes intentionally so) joke.
- The sketch Do You Speak English?! has been subject to various edits on TikTok.
- Squick: Check out any video talking about the issues with the current state of the show, and it's likely that the often suggestive imagery involving minors (including in various states of undress) will be among them. Not helped by the revelation that one of the directors of Yeralash, Ilya Belostotsky, was eventually convicted for pedophilia
. - Toy Ship: The age of the actors makes this very common.
- Values Dissonance: Episodes like Guess? and Suntan feature performances in Blackface
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