يحيا الذكاء

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:00 GMT

This was perhaps one of the most entertaining children shows that most of the 70's and 80's kids grew up with. I was surprised to find it in a DVD store and in a very good quality too. However, it was the Czech version, not the Arabic dubbed one, so the notorious catch phrase of the two handymen "يحيا الذكاء" was missing.

Anyway, I found some Arabic clips from Zingo wa Ringo on youtube. I also googled them as "Pat and Matt", their original names and founds quite interesting info on Wikipedia, but this was the funniest piece of information:

"In socialistCzechoslovakia, the authors had to explain their "subversive" characters and stories to the Praguewatch-dogs of the regime, e.g. one of the questions was if they chose the t-shirt colors, red and yellow, to make fun of the Soviet-Chinese tensions. However, their explanations were "unsatisfactory", and so the "ideologic impurity" and the ban on Pat & Mat production remained. Yet, the Slovak colleagues from Czechoslovak TV in Bratislava gave Pat & Mat the necessary support, assigned them production means, so the production began and went on in the same Czech studio in Prague where Lubomir Benes and his crew worked, under their Slovak cover (28 episodes, 1979–1985)."

Here's one of the Arabic clipd, and there's more where that came from

Cinnamon Zone: cartoon

يحيا الذكاء