Comments on: Are czechs really this wild and crazy? / Jsou cesi opravdu tak blaznivi?

By: Georgia Miller

Georgia Miller — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:34:13 +0000

Dan Aykroyd is a classical comedian, i love Coneheads movie~`:

By: Amelia Thomas

Amelia Thomas — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:11:06 +0000

Dan is a classic comedian. I love his role on the Blues Brothers.”;-

By: Tanja

Tanja — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:22:23 +0000

I checked out that YouTube Wendy’s ad and it is great…my favorite part is the “evening wear” )

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:10:57 +0000

These characters were almost certainly just given the nationality “Czech” more or less randomly, and not really because they represented Czechs specifically. They’re a generic depiction of young guys from Eastern Europe or the Middle East who came to the United States and didn’t know how to behave around women. They could just as well have called them Bulgarians or Saudis. Nothing in it was really meant to be identifiably Czech, sorry.

However, some of their English involves some typical Czech mistakes, such as “wild and crazy” or generally putting “and” between adjectives where you shouldn’t. Although we now use the collocation “wild and crazy” a lot — specifically because of these skits — it was considered odd and foreign at the time these shows aired and was part of the humor. A lot of kids now are probably not aware of the humor in it, just as they’re not aware that the title “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was hilarious at the time the original movie came out.

Here is an advertisement from nearly the same era dealing with “Russians”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ&feature=related

What some of you are doing is the same as if I were to go over all the details in “Limonádový Joe” that I found disturbing because they’re not accurately American. Of course they weren’t accurate, because the Czechs knew it was all a spoof about America and not a movie about real Americans.

By: Jana V

Jana V — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:17:41 +0000

In another sketch on YouTube they have a vacuum cleaner which they brought from Bratislava, the firm name is Pozor. You have to find that one too.
I do not want to find the crazy pants pic of my dad. I know it exists and that is enough for me.

By: Tanja

Tanja — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:24:29 +0000

I too think that they could have made it funnier…if they had done their research on Czech culture!

I can’t believe, Jana, that you dad had those pants! That is scary…;)

By: Jana V

Jana V — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:09:42 +0000

yeah but the scary thing about this sketch is that my dad had some pants like those and he mixed his paisley with his stripes. I think my mom has given him a makeover.

By: Vlastimil

Vlastimil — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:57:28 +0000

Sorry, I was not impressed.
If you want to see “crazy Czechs”, look at “Jozin z bazin” )

Czech humor is an intelligent one. Not all people can get it. Czech humor is targeted only to a chosen circle of people ))