Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios.
The first cartoon of the series, Here's Nudnik, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1965, losing to The Pink Phink.
At first the idea was for each short to be scored with melancholy jazz music, which was done for the first cartoon.
The song that was used most often was "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams", used both for the opening sequence and as a general theme of sorts for the character himself.
[6] The shorts were featured on Cartoon Network's animated anthology series ToonHeads in 1996.