A je to! Pat & Mat

This page is dedicated to Lubomír Beneš (1935-1995), Vladimír Jiránek (1938-2012) and Vlasta Pospíšilová (1935-2022), who put their whole heart into creation of this show.

Pat & Mat is Czechoslovakian stop motion series made by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek in 1976,

As of 2022, there are 129 (and one unaired episode) episodes.

Plot
In each episode, two tinkerers named Pat (one, who has yellow sweater) and Mat (one, who has red, formerly gray sweater) are making inventions or solution to their problems, which end up being a mess or with success.

Why this show is "A Je To!" indeed?

 * Great Stop-motion animation, that gets better every season, sadly it downgraded in the latest season (Pat a Mat kutí).
 * Some of moments in this show are hilarious (like Mat acting like fireman in episode "Bethlehem ")
 * Great soundtrack composed by Petr Skoumal, Zdeněk Zdeněk and Luboš Fišer.
 * Simply, but creatively made episodes.
 * Good intros songs, Especially the AiF one.

Bad Qualities

 * There was downgrade in the latest season (Pat a Mat kutí), with the animation being more lazily made.
 * In early 2022, Lubomír Beneš Jr. - son of Marek Beneś, made a NFT collection of original frames from episode "Cactus" from 2011, but NFTs are heavily criticized by people
 * Names of characters can be confused with MatPat or Postman Pat
 * After the death of Lubomír Beneš, episode "Playing Cards" was made without Lubomír Beneš' permission, this caused episode to be not released but it was nominated for Annecy 99

Trivia

 * Pat and Mat appeared in commercials in some countries (like for example. in Poland for Tablica.pl, now known as OLX.pl, ČPP car insurance in Czech Republic or LIDL supermarket in Netherlands ).
 * In some countries, Pat & Mat were dubbed to some languages (though they had no dialogue in original), such as English (for Korean students) or Dutch.
 * The characters' names were given in 1989.
 * Episodes made from 1975-1989 had Mat wearing a gray sweater instead of a red one, because someone objected that the colors of the sweaters (Red and Yellow) were chosen to mock Soviet-Chinese Relations. The creators were forced to change it from red to gray until 1989, when communism in Czechoslovakia collapsed, and it was safe to make Mat's sweater red again.