Pat & Mat 2: Traffic Jam/Trivia

Here are the trivia for the 1992 Universal Pictures animated film Pat & Mat 2: Traffic Jam.

Cameos

 * Photo of Sonya and Mrs. Merlot were seen in Pat’s living room.
 * Pat was watching The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh when his grandmother Lucy bought him some cookies, which he considers that she is leaving the house.
 * Mat was watching Tom and Jerry when Pat interrupts him with the news about traffic jam starting.
 * Film Roman logo can be seen as a sign in front of Marek’s Company Mall where the traffic jam continued on the mystery.
 * The Czech restaurant was named “The Starling Pizzeria” was shown which an allusion to the Robyn Starling character from Tom and Jerry: The Movie.
 * The aiF Studio building was shown while Cuddles was driving his red car to stop Mr. Deitch from putting up traffic problems.
 * The Pat & Mat co-creator Lubomír Beneš was seen on the sidewalk which he is waiting for to animate Pat & Mat episode, while the traffic jam stopped.
 * The Tom and Jerry dolls were shown in Pat’s bedroom when he gets out of his bed, and then he walked to the living room to have something for breakfast.
 * The Mole (Krtek) was shown during the near end scene where the cars are moving, then he relocates to his new home.

Trivia

 * It was a second feature full-length animated film featuring Pat and Mat, as the film was stated before Tom and Jerry: The Movie being released in 1993.
 * It was a fifth Electric Pictures to be used in the animated film which is internationally used, some US and International DVD releases have one before another logo. sometimes Imagine Entertainment can be/was plastered by a said logo internationally.
 * In the closing of the film, Amblimation has the stop motion Pat and Mat variant in place of Fievel from An American Tail.
 * Stated over before Pat & Mat short called Miniature Army, Sat (a dog) made it to the first appearance in the feature film. although he also appears in the 1993 film The Iron Dog: The German Shepard Rally.
 * The opening credits has the same intro as the previous version of Pat & Mat (aiF era) from 1992-1994. the opening has an addition of Cuddles and his red car that had, and the addition of the scenes. although the intro was being filmed around in early 1991, it adds more of the filming between July to August 1991.
 * Unlike the first film, the characters can talk. but the other characters (like Lilac, Sat, other animals, cats, and dogs) do not speak expect for Cuddles who only talks.
 * This is the first film features the Croatian Cuddles doll, which appears in advertisements on television. The film shows Croatian Cuddles dolls at the store, it also shows talking Croatian Cuddles doll as Pat and Mat were finding the traffic lights to help drivers get out of the traffic jam.
 * First film made by aiF, following of the end credits’ open matte.
 * The music by Petr Skoumal was being recorded in early and mid 1991, when the score of the music was recorded in the same year.
 * In Poland, the film was translated to Polish as it was released by film distributor United International Pictures.
 * It was Rob Rackstraw’s first appearance in the film.

Logo/Credits Goofs

 * Some US and Canada only uses Imagine Entertainment logo.
 * On US and international DVD releases, Electric Pictures was used after Imagine Entertainment. It was most likely due to an international release of a said film.
 * In some international (including Netherlands, France, Spain, etc.) versions, Electric Pictures will be shown instead of Imagine Entertainment due to some international plastering.
 * On UK releases, Polygram Filmed Entertainment and Electric Pictures would be shown instead of Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment because of the UK release.