Masha and the Bear 720p - (2009-2016 Lang: English)

Masha and the Bear (Russian: Маша и Медведь, Masha i Medved') is a Russian animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio (Moscow, Russia), loosely based in the oral children's folk story of the same name. The show focuses on the adventures of a little girl named Masha and a fatherly pictured bear that always keeps her from disasters. The first episode “How They Met” was released on the 7th of January, 2009.

The series has been translated into 25 languages[citation needed] and was broadcast in more than 100 countries.[citation needed] The series was released on Netflix and through NBCUniversal.

Many of the episodes have been successful on YouTube; in particular, "Recipe for Disaster" has received over 1.87 billion views, making it the site's sixth most viewed video of all time. The other episodes with over 300 million views are: "Bon AppГЁtit", with over 670 million views; "Laundry Day", with over 670 million views; "La Dolce Vita", with over 540 million views; "The Foundling", with over 480 million views; "Hocus-Pocus", with over 400 million views; "Two Much", with over 380 million views; "Little Cousin", with over 360 million views; and "One, Two, Three! Light the Christmas Tree!", with over 340 million views.

The show consists of two full seasons, with 26 episodes each. The first three episodes of the third season have been launched recently, and the additional 23 are in work at the moment, to be released over the next three years.

For the first season in English, Elsie Fisher—the voice of Agnes, the youngest of the three girls in the Despicable Me films—was chosen to dub the voice of Masha.

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Masha is a Russian girl who lives in the forest with her pig, goat and dog. All the animals in the forest are afraid of her as she forces them to play with her. One morning, Masha sees a butterfly and inadvertently follows it inside the home of a bear who has gone fishing. While playing there, she makes a big mess. When the Bear returns, he sees the disaster caused by Masha. The Bear tries to get rid of Masha, but he is unsuccessful, and he and Masha become friends.

In each episode of the show, Masha is portrayed as a smart, very kind and mischievous little girl who is exploring the world through a number of entertaining situations where she demonstrates her assertiveness, being absolutely fidgety, whereas the kind-hearted Bear always keeps Masha out of trouble but often ends up the unintended victim of her mischief. There are several supporting characters in the series, including Masha's cousin – Dasha, a penguin adopted by the Bear, a young panda cub from China who is the Bear's cousin, two wolves who live in the old UAZ car, a tiger that worked with the bear in the circus, and Female Bear that is the object of the bear's affections, along with a hare, squirrels and hedgehogs, and a pig Rosie, goat, and dog who live in Masha's front yard.