"... and that's it!"
Thanks to Faren Taghizadeh for introducing me to this!
Apparently, growing up up in Tehran, you got your clownish antics and bywords for ineptitude, not from the Chuckle Brothers, but from any Laurel and Hardy short that didn't have wives in it, or – thanks to the fact that neither were identifiably female – from Czechoslovak Television's Pat & Mat. But do you know what? I'll take it. Because every episode I've seen so far of Lubomir Beneš' and Vladimir Jiránek's "... a je to!" ("... and that's it!") is beautifully animated and unimprovably funny, powered by a genuine love and undersanding for the detail of how things actually break. Silent partners Pat and Mat are a charming realisation of the differently ept; endlessly creative, endlessy unfazed; the architects of both their own undoing and their making do. This is the stuff, and there's hours of it.
"I
have called it 'Slapstick' because it is grotesque, situational poetry."
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