It was just so intense, and obsessive.
It was just so intense, and obsessive.
- Krtek (Little mole) by Z. Miler - its never dying cartoon that basically every kids since 1y still watching in Czechia https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ZKvF049Iku9y41WpIUUCA
- animated feature films by Karel Zeman (I was a student at school that is located in ateliers where he was making his films) https://youtu.be/fP7T9J6AiHM
- Broučci by J. Trnka https://youtu.be/8Apo0tj5Rso
- Bob a Bobek (one of director was my teacher at high school) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhvvA2ar-wN0PRnQVxaEsre...
- Pat a Mat (one of animator was my teacher as well) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhvvA2ar-w9QewRWADbr6DW...
- surrealist animation films by J. Švankmajer https://youtu.be/tK_l74cSPGY
- many more
In America, Czech cartoons somewhat unfairly have the reputation for being weird, because a dozen Tom & Jerry episodes were made in Prague in the early 1960s in very weird circumstances, on a shoe-string budget by animators unaccustomed to the very idea of violent cartoons. [3] These were received with some confusion by the American audience in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. From this you then have consequent parodies like The Simpsons' Worker and Parasite, which - though not exactly a fair reflection of Czech animation - is absolutely hilarious. [4]
[0] Krtek a telefon / The Little Mole and the Telephone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwrCTxF9Oc
[1] Krtek chemikem / The Little Mole as the Chemist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8xO4PiJ--w
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(1988_film)
[3] The story of this is told here: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/tom-jerry-produced-prague
There's also a stop-motion TV series for kids, with someone who's always doing some sort of handy man task that gets completely out of hand? What's that one called again?
In terms of general TV humor, I've found it rather similar to English humor. Very dry, a great example is the movie Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem (I was a teenage intellectual)[1]. Completely surreal, and worth a watch.
I, personally, rather enjoy it all.
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HNEyBN3Lo (English Subtitles)