Commercials from Patmat film

If you are mostly stuck at home like many of us are right now, here is some extra material featuring Pat & Mat: commercials made by Patmat film in the last thirteen years. These were usually uploaded to YouTube by the original clients, then reuploaded by the operators of the now defunct Dutch website www.ajetobuurman.nl or the current owner of the Dutch licence, Trademarc (are these one and the same? I don't know).

1. Sedita (2007)

Sedita is a Slovak biscuit company. This was made in a period where the studio was dormant, this being its only project from 2004 to 2009. The animation for this commercial was done by Bedřich Glaser, who animated on the series in 2002-03 and 2009, and whose animation I'm not much a fan of. Sorry, Bedřich.

during filming - photo was once on the studio's website

2. Tipos (2011)

Again a Slovak company, this time one that makes lottery scratchards. All of the following commercials in this post were animated by Jan Smrčka. This one was made on the Pat a Mat na venkově set.

3. tablica.pl (October 2012)

tablica.pl was a Polish e-commerce website that was in the meantime taken over by OLX. These commercials are interesting because they are made for new technology, but have a retro feel to them. This includes a recreation of the houses from 1989-1994 (this time conjoined as a duplex) and an old portrait of Pat & Mat that was used in some 1994 episodes.

video from filming, where we can also see ep. #86 in production

 

portrait on the wall

and in 1994's Trezor

The photo comes from this cover of aiF's VHS, also from 1994.

scan by Rakso 98

4. ČPP (2011 - today)

The commercials for ČPP and Eneco are some of the funniest stuff with the characters in the last years. Most of them are funny little gems. ČPP is short for Česká podnikatelská pojišťovna, or the Czech Business Insurance Company. Their slogan is A je to pojištěno! (And it's insured!), so that's a further connection with the series. The first commercials dealt with car insurance, which meant getting a big new car for the duo. They used the venkově sets mixed with the "retro" sets I mentioned previously. Gradually, home insurance also became a topic.

 

 

 

These ones from 2014-2016 are my favorites. Pure, absolute demolition.

 

 

a recreation of Mat's iconic number 13 house

a slight change from the 2015 one at the end of this one:

Notice that Pat and Mat also have a dog in these commercials, a first for the series. 

Some "making of" photos from the studio's website:

2017 saw the first appearance of the "BS" car (actually an MGB Roadster) that will become the new vehicle for the characters and the series. Watch out for a grey-pullover Mat in the balloon.

In 2018, housing was again the theme, while we were back with cars in 2019. One of these commercials also features a nostalgic element. The truck that appears in the 2019 is so similar to the one from the 1990s that I have to assume it is, in fact, the same truck.

1992's Kabriolet

2019

 

The most recent commercial, this time more of a compilation, was posted only in January. 

Hopefully, more are on their way!

Update (April 2021):

ČPP just posted a brand new animated commercial featuring our two guys, again with Jan Smrčka's ever-more-quicker animation, this time in slightly novel surroundings:

5. Eneco (2016, 2018)

This article about the commercials says: "Children's heroes get to work with Toon, Eneco's smart thermostat. In collaboration with advertising agency Dawn, Eneco has developed a campaign for Toon, the smart thermostat devised by the energy company. The idea behind choosing Buurman and Buurman is that if even the clumsiest handymen can operate, understand and use Toon, all Dutch people can." In 2018, another couple of commercials were made, this time for a waste checker. Both sets of commercials utilise the 2002-04 set.

6. Lidl (2018?)

Somewhere around 2018 an ad for Lidl was produced. In the ad, Buurman en Buurman watch their miserable end in Okap and try to do something about it. Since I can't link it from the original site, here's the ad from YouTube:

Phew, that was hard to put together, especially the Vimeo links, but I wanted to include links to the original creators of the ads. I hope I haven't missed any of the commercials. Tell me how much you enjoyed them. As I've said, I love some of these and I wish the newest episodes were closer in style to them!