S01E01 Whats Up Teddybear (Pilot)
A grumpy Santa Claus has problems with his reindeer and encounters an martian Santa.
Lava-Lava!
S01E04: Rock Around The... Frock!
It is noon in a quiet little town and the monk enters the church to fest his eyes on the mechanical nativity scene. However, his cloth gets stuck in the displays gears and while he tries to save himself from being eaten alive by the machine the nativity scene gets engulfed by madness. The three kings beat each other up, infant Jesus sets fire to his crib and the animals start humping each other and the kings.
Overview
Lava-Lava! is a french slapstick animation series by Federico Vitali from 1995. It contains a pilot and 13 episodes of about 3min each.
The main characters of the short stories are animals, humans or aliens. They go through bizarre situations ending frequently out-of-control and violently.
Lava-Lava! uses many slapstick elements and get along without spoken words.
Episodes
S01E02 Shut Up Mutt !!
Beneath an medieval castle boars play in the excrement and have fun teasing the dog on the castle walls. The dog gets trashed by the castle's inhabitants for making a racket.
S01E03 Not To Be Or Toby
Chaos ensues in an neat suburban house as the dog gets trashed by the housewife for eating the canary and destroying the flower bed. A crucial part in the mayhem plays the evil garden dwarf,...
S01E04 Rock Around The... Frock!
It is noon in a quiet little town and the monk enters the church to fest his eyes on the mechanical nativity scene. However, his cloth gets stuck in the displays gears and while he...
S01E05 Much A Quack About Nothing
A hunter and his dogs prepare to go on a duck hunt while the ducks are trashing his hunting boat. As always in the series, aliens get somehow involved as well.
S01E06 Time After Chime
A pigeon gets fascinated by the clock tower's mechanism and sets total chaos in the daily routine of the two animated figures living in the clock.
S01E07 Un Oeuf Is Enough!!
The morning routine on a farm: the cockerel gets shot at for making a racket, the wife gets a beating and the cat gets kicked out of the house.
S01E08 Strangers in the Night
A man is laughing his head off while watching a horror film on TV while his dog gets chased by aliens.
S01E09 Pull Me Up! Pull Me Down!
Walking the dog in the Middle Ages gets silly thanks to a demented rabbit and wild boars looking for somebody to beat up.
S01E10 Who's Afraid Of The Big Baaaa Wolf
The typical day on the pasture: the shepherd plays the flute, the sheepdog is all eager and silly, the wolf in a sheep costume tries to get some sheep and the sheep just crap around...
S01E11 Houston... We Have A Problem!
The daily routine of a cat obsessed with underpants, a dog and an astronomer is shattered by an alien invasion.
S01E12 Bingo! Bongo! I Don't Want To Leave The Congo!
A plain crashes in the jungle of (supposedly) Congo. An hunting expedition passes by the crash site to meet its cruel and silly end. Santa and one of his reindeer makes a cameo appearance.
S01E13 Sick As A Dog
The dog is sick which causes much fun for the other animals around the house and hysteria for the careworn lady of the house.
S01E14 Total Eclipse
At night a dog goes to its doghouse to read newspapers, but the bulb starts to act funny. Further attempts by the dog to read are followed by total destruction.
