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
A grumpy Santa Claus has problems with his reindeer and encounters an martian Santa.
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.
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, aliens and their robot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man is laughing his head off while watching a horror film on TV while his dog gets chased by aliens.
Walking the dog in the Middle Ages gets silly thanks to a demented rabbit and wild boars looking for somebody to beat up.
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 and occasionally beat up the dog.
The daily routine of a cat obsessed with underpants, a dog and an astronomer is shattered by an alien invasion.
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.
The dog is sick which causes much fun for the other animals around the house and hysteria for the careworn lady of the house.
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.
