Serengeti

Overview

This one went completely off the allegory charts. A species of creature called "Shurikis" (means "Fellas") inhabits the Serengeti national park. A wildlife documentary segment about them — in the style of the classic Soviet nature show "In the Animal World" — is the subject of this episode. Yet what seems like an overly elaborate allegory effortlessly brings us back to a world of simple, instantly recognizable realities. The cartoon's allegory is as simple a game as the mating rituals of the "Shurikis" themselves that it describes. A primitively Freudian episode, one might say. Pretty cool, in my opinion... :))