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Well, Just You Wait!

★ 8.5 7K votes 1969–2017 2 seasons · 23 episodes Ended Central Television USSR
SlapstickBroad, physical comedy.This show: 10/10Kids & familyGenuinely watchable for and with children.This show: 9/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 9/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 8/10NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Klara RumyanovaAnatoliy PapanovIgor KhristenkoVladimir SoshalskyOlga ZverevaGennadiy Khazanov
Written by
Aleksandr KurlyandskiyArkadiy KhaytFeliks Kamov
Starring
Klara RumyanovaAnatoliy PapanovIgor KhristenkoVladimir SoshalskyOlga ZverevaGennadiy Khazanov
Written by
Aleksandr KurlyandskiyArkadiy KhaytFeliks Kamov
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
075150225300

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About

"Slapstick chase cartoon that became a cultural institution"

A blustering, chain-smoking Wolf endlessly schemes to catch a cheerful, quick-witted Hare, and endlessly fails. There is no dialogue beyond the Wolf's exasperated catchphrase, so the whole thing runs on visual gags, slapstick timing, and a genuinely great jazzy score. Each short episode drops the pair into a new setting, from beaches to circuses to space, for a fresh chase. It is warm, silly, and oddly hypnotic, a Soviet-era answer to Tom and Jerry that became a comfort-watch institution across generations of Russian-speaking households.

Watch it for

the endlessly inventive chase gags set to a genuinely catchy, jazzy score.

Maybe skip if

you need dialogue-driven humor or serialized plots rather than repeating chase setups.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Season 11969
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Klara Rumyanova Hare
Anatoliy Papanov Wolf
Igor Khristenko Wolf
Vladimir Soshalsky Hippopotamus, Walrus, Wolf from Red Riding Hood
Olga Zvereva Hare
Gennadiy Khazanov Various
Boris Novikov Dog referee
Mariya Vinogradova Hare karate

Crew

Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy
Arkadiy Khayt
Feliks Kamov

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