Well just you wait

 

Well, just you wait is a Soviet animated series of the Moscow studio "Soyuzmultfilm", directed by Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, created and broadcast in the period 1969-1986. Additional series were created in 1993 and 2006.

The classic is full of exceptional dynamics and tells the story of Wolf, who wants to catch the Rabbit to eat him, but still fails. Unlike the American animation starring Tom and Jerry, here the Rabbit does not play the mean tricks of the Wolf, but instead is good-natured, sometimes even naive, and is always ready to help the Wolf in trouble. The series consists of 20 episodes. In addition to the two main characters, there are other characters in the series, such as The Hippopotamus, The Pig, The Goat. It can be said that here the Hippopotamus plays the role of the Dog in "Tom and Jerry". In the original, the characters are voiced by Anatoli Papanov (The Wolf) and Klara Rumyanova (The Rabbit).

The Rabbit and the Wolf first appeared in the first series of the animated magazine "Merry Carousel" in 1969 (in the same year they appeared as characters in the film Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena). In this series, consisting of four two-minute episodes, the fourth part is called "Well, guess" and consists of three short stories with a wolf chasing a bunny - as a target on the shooting range, as a baby and as a kid. There, for the first time, the Wolf uttered and wrote the phrase "Well, just you wait" (the screenwriters of this episode are Alexander Courland and Arkady Height).

In the same 1969, Kurlyandski and Height together with the director Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin created the first episode of the new series. This team created a total of 16 episodes, considered classics of the Soviet period (1969 - 1986). The episodes from 17 to 20 (1993 - 2005) are written by Alexander Kurlyandski and Felix Kamov (18 - 20 episodes), and the director of the last two episodes is the son of Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin - Alexei.

The Wolf was originally supposed to be voiced by Vladimir Vysotsky, but was not confirmed and was replaced by Anatoly Papanov (episodes 1 to 18, although 17 and 18 were made after his death and old recordings were used with him). From the initial recordings with the sound of Vysotsky, only the whistling of the Wolf in episode 1 remains, which is based on a song by Vysotsky ("Song of Another" from the movie "Vertical"). In the last two episodes, The Wolf is voiced by Igor Khristenko. The Rabbit was voiced from 1 to 18 episodes by Klara Rumyanova, and after her death in 2004 - by Olga Zvereva.

The headline of the series is not specifically written for him. This is the composition "Water Skis" (Vizisi) by the Hungarian Tamas Deak (Tamas Deak). The episodes use excerpts from popular Russian and foreign melodies of their time. As the performers are not indicated in the captions and it is not entirely clear It is interesting that Hungarian, Czech, Polish, and German, even Bulgarian performances were used - the instrumental of Emil Dimitrov's song - "You left in September" in episodes 17 and 18. Episodes 8 and 9 also feature songs specifically created for the series.

The series is dedicated to a postage stamp of 5 kopecks, issued in the USSR in 1988 (part of a series about Soviet animation, including Konek Gorbunek, Cheburashka, and crocodile Gena, Winnie the Pooh, Hedgehog in the Mist, etc.).

One of the first Soviet portable electronic games (produced since 1984 on the basis of Nintendo) is with the characters from "Well, just you wait" - in it the Wolf has to collect eggs, which the Rabbit releases.

The two characters also have several monuments, the most famous of which was erected in Ramenskoye in 2005. The author is Oleg Ershov, who created their monuments to other popular characters from Soviet animation - Cheburashka and the crocodile Gena, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet and etc.

In 2010, the Polish Mint issued a commemorative $ 1 coin depicting the Wolf and the Rabbit.