Pat & Mat (1989 film)/Tropes

The following are the list of tropes for the 1989 Universal Pictures animated film Pat & Mat.

Pat & Mat provides examples of:
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 * The Human Duos: Pat & Mat.
 * Big “NO”: Pat and Mat saw the guard dogs coming in the street, then they were chased by them. Pat and Mat ends them all, and they defeated them all.
 * Mean Character: The guard dogs.
 * Art Shift: The stop motion animation of Pat & Mat appears in flashback.
 * The Cameo: The Mole from Little Mole was seen as in photo.
 * Alternate Continuity: Only reason why the 29 shorts was adapted into a film.
 * Adaptation Expansion: While Pat & Mat were both in film, the characters featured Marek, Karl, Karel, Kathy, Lucy, Cuddles, Rex, and the other characters were added in the film.
 * Good-Times Montage: The footage of The Tinkers were shown in the flashbacks.
 * Title Drop: The various characters when they say Pat and Mat’s names.
 * Put on a Prison Bus: The guard dogs sent to the animal shelter by animal control near the end of the film.
 * Extreme Tearjerker: Pat’s old home got destroyed by the bulldozers which very emotional for any viewers.
 * The Real Heartwarming: Pat and Mat saving Marek’s mall from the bankruptcy, and some other scenes were heartwarming.
 * Inevitable Waterfall: Played for drama. Pat and Mat tries to go over into the waterfall when the stormy weather has the heavy rain and thunder, they escaped from the waterfall to prevent it from falling.
 * Creative Closing Credits: The stop motion animation version of Pat and Mat were done by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek in the end credits which it was creative.
 * The Animal Chase Scene: The scene is where The guard dogs chasing Pat and Mat.
 * Voices in One Room: Tom Kenny and Jim Cummings recorded their dialogue together for this film which considers for English Pat and Mat voice act.
 * The Worker’s Pet: Cuddles.
 * Tom and Jerry: Pat (Tom), is a brave and friendly handyman who solves problem. Mat (Jerry), is a smart and funniest handyman who knows to solve problems.
 * Platonic Life-Partners: The two handymen Pat and Mat becomes this when he saw him in the street.
 * Creation Sequence: Don’t they mean these creation sequences, Pat and Mat solves problems to create and repair the TV therefore.
 * The Problem Sequence: Marek’s mall’s bankruptcy sequence when Pat and Mat sees this sign saying “STORE CLOSING”.
 * Creative Opening Credits: The opening credits has the same credits as the previous Pat & Mat episode on Red and Yellow background.
 * Foreshadowing: The buildings appear behind the other buildings are seen while Pat was taken to Prague by the wind.
 * Archive-Recording Music: The Pat & Mat music was scored by Petr Skoumal while the music was scored by James Horner.
 * Eh? What’s Up Doc!: Cuddles eats a bit of carrots as Lucy fed him some.
 * Flashbacks: The “…a je to!” is shown in flashbacks as Pat and Mat were upset while it’s snowing.
 * Shifted to Traditional Animation: The original Pat & Mat was stop-motion animated, the film is fully traditionally animated.
 * The Given Names: Pat and Mat.
 * Working Around: Pat and Mat are solving imaginary problems at the middle of the film as they’re working on Marek’s mall to re-open.
 * Happy Endings: Pat and Mat saving Marek’s mall, and the trademark gesture of their hands at the end of the film.
 * Continuation of the Film: Pat & Mat 2: Traffic Jam (which being released in 1992) follows the continuation of the first film which Pat and Mat were able to solve their imaginary traffic problems due to the purpose of traffic jam caused by Mr. Deitch, since Pat has two pets which is a rabbit and a dog named Cuddles and Sat. the characters are added in the sequel to continue the film’s installment.
 * Heartbreaking Moments: Pat and Mat getting lost in the snow, and some possible bankruptcy scene which can be upsetting for some viewers.
 * World’s Oldest Pet in the Country: Cuddles, which is the world’s first oldest rabbit in Czechoslovakia.
 * Eye Cam: Pat when he saw the waterfall which he and Mat will be able to climb up the hill in the dark woods.
 * Logo Changing: The logos (such as Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment) were replaced with K.F. Film a.s. (or other logos) and Electric Pictures logo. some reasons on the American and international DVD release that Electric Pictures appeared with Imagine Entertainment logo, while Canadian version has one without Imagine Entertainment logo.