Pat and Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series first shown in 1976, created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek. It follows two neighbours, Pat and Mat, whose confident attempts at home repairs almost always end in slapstick chaos. The show became a long-running favourite across Central Europe and beyond, helped by its wordless humour and instantly recognisable characters. Short loud moments from their failed projects now circulate online as reaction sounds, because the noisy collapse needs no translation and fits perfectly over modern DIY fails, pranks and editing mishaps.