 Pat (right, in yellow) and Mat (left, in red) Pat and Mat (original name Pat a Mat) is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek Image File history File links Pat and Mat File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Stop motion is an animation technique which makes static objects appear to be moving. ...
An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ...
The term handyman (which may be sexist language as a handyman may be female), describes someone competent in a variety of small skills or inventive or ingenious in repair or maintenance work; somebody who earns money by the experience and skill to perform a variety of small jobs and/or...
The show The show consists of the two characters facing a problem and trying to solve it using tools and building gadgets, which always causes more problems. Eventually, the two manage to get a satisfying result with a mostly inefficient solution.
According to the authors, it is the manual ineptitude that inspires the stories. The humour is not the only feature of the show, but also the optmistic approach to life. The two characters always get into problematic situations but they never give up, until they solve the problem in imaginative ways.
The show is also memorable for its soundtrack, composed by Petr Skoumal, which consists almost entirely of the theme song and a harmonica tune. A harmonica A harmonica is a very common free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into...
History The two characters first appeared in a 1976 short film entitled The Tinkers. Later, the characters appeared in more shorts, making their own TV series called And That's It!, where they got their final look. The two handymen got their names Pat and Mat in 1989, and this became the name of the show. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
While creating the two characters, the authors had in mind especially entertainment for adults, but the show became popular with all audiences. The show became popular in several countries, being aired in Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Iran.
There were also five DVDs released with the episodes. As of 2005, 78 episodes were made in total. // DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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