Funny / Tatu and Patu

An important thing to remember when drawing with chalk on the sidewalk: You can't take those drawings home.

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• In "Veera's Kitchen Doings" Patu reads a booklet of good dining etiquette, including passages telling you to come to eat when you're called, take a little bit of everything, not talk with your mouth full, and so on, all of which are accompanied by an illustration of a baby looking disapprovingly at their father breaking all of these rules.
• In "Tatu and Patu in Kindergarten", the brothers spend the first half of the book attending kindergarten thinking it's a spa, and the second half attempting to escape it to go to a real spa, first by having the kids build a teleporter out of cardboard and later by Totem Pole Trench.
• In "This is Finland" Tatu tries to give a lesson about the history of Finland, but is constantly interrupted by Patu placing toys among his historically accurate models.
  Tatu: Patu! Get that Spider-Man out of the cattle yard right now!
• "Tatu and Patu's Weird Sleep Book" has a Fractured Fairy Tale based on Princess and the Pea where the king doesn't just put a pea under the prince's mattress, he dresses up as a pea and crams himself in there. And it takes the prince a surprisingly long time to notice him.
• In "Tatu and Patu's Space Adventure", A.T. Lantic (Tatu) constantly makes status updates, many of which are funny:
  A.T. Lantic's status update. Top 5 reasons I became a space pilot:
  1. Beautiful scenery
  2. Astro-enjoyment
  3. Stylish gear
  4. Free sun holidays
  5. Pilot Box asked me

  A.T. Lantic's status update. Top 5 reasons I regret becoming a space pilot:
  1. Unknown threats
  2. Leaking fuel
  3. Wings on fire
  4. Overtime on weekends
  5. Too small pilot jacket

  A.T. Lantic's status update. The preparations are done. It's time to save the universe. It's time to do real acts of space heroism that only real fake heroes are capable of.

  A.T. Lantic's status update. Oh grud! A sad setback - we got stuck in someth-
  Styrox Box: Lantic! Stop that updating right now and think of how we'll get out of this!
• In "Tatu and Patu in the Yard", Tatu shows us how to build a snowman, starting with rolling three snowballs. When he rolls the first one, a squirrel accidentally ends up inside it and he has to remove it. When he rolls the second one, Patu accidentally ends up inside it and he has to remove him. When he rolls the third one, both Patu and the squirrel end up inside. Tatu gets mad and chases them away.
  • Half of the section on how to climb a tree is just telling you what you shouldn't do. For example, you shouldn't try to climb a tree if you're inside a sleeping bag or wearing a sombrero, you shouldn't climb a tree that's covered in sap or has been felled, and you shouldn't climb a tree butt first or without using your hands. All of which are accompanied by a picture of Tatu or Patu trying to do just that.
  • One section has Patu run a pretend shop and run into multiple problems: rain, difficult customers (a couple of small children throwing tree cones at him), inflation (leaves falling from trees in autumn), Tatu dressing up as an unhealth inspector and telling him that his products aren't dirty enough, Tatu competing with him by setting up a pretend supermarket, and finally the shop being trampled by moose.
  • One section has Patu build a playhouse for kids. At one point he calls for help from a kid named Late, who he tells to hold the walls while he nails them down. When they get to the last wall, Late leaves to take a nap, leaving Patu to swing his hammer in panic trying to keep the wall from falling.
  • In the section focusing on drawing with chalk on the sidewalk, the brothers come across a problem: How do you save those drawings? Patu's idea is to take a photo of the drawing. Tatu's idea is to remove the piece of sidewalk and bring it home. Patu's reaction says it all.
  • When making a snow angel, Patu comes across a dilemma: How does he get up without ruining the angel? His ideas are, in order: Getting a crane to lift him up, levitating himself out with willpower, and jumping out.
• In "Tatu and Patu's Odd Inventions Through Time", the brothers imagine that Sumer, where wheels were invented, must've used a giant version of a children's block shape sorting toy to separate the wheel-shaped objects from non-wheel-shaped objects.
  • The brothers' invention for the Industrial Revolution is a coal-powered machine that can do pretty much anything. Tatu demostrates how it cools his tea, poofs a lap dog's fur, works as a small ferris wheel, presses his mustache into the shape of Queen Victoria's face, and wipes coal dust off his clothes, while poor Patu works hard shoveling coal in it and eventually goes on strike when smoke covers the whole screen.
• In "Come to Eat, Tatu and Patu!", all of Patu's instructions on how to make a sandwich begin with a reminder to wash your hands:
  Wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap. Your hands might infest the food with bacteria, viruses, glitter, play-dough, lego bricks, or even gerbil hair.
  Wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap. Your hands might infest the food with bacteria, viruses, glitter, play-dough, lego bricks, gerbil hair, or even small stickers.
  Wash the cucumber with water. The cucumber might infest the food with bacteria, viruses, glitter, play-dough, lego bricks, gerbil hair, small stickers, or even DIRT.
  Wash your hands and so on blah blah blah.
  • Much like the tree climbing section from "Tatu and Patu in the Yard", half of the section of what you can eat is telling you what you can't eat. You can't eat pictures of food, moonlight, or winter sports equipment, you can't find food on the moon, in an erupting volcano, or a society inhabited by robots, and potatoes are not shrunken planets, mushrooms are not the handles of ancient swords, and cauliflower is not the brains of abominable snowmen.
  • One section states that it's never acceptable to not show up for dinner immediately when you're called… though there are exceptions, including:
    • You're just about to figure out the meaning of life.
    • The King of Sweden calls you first.
    • You've accidentally superglued yourself to your computer.
    • You're called by the food itself.
    • You can't come for dinner, because you're already sitting at the table.
    • World-famous cello artist Yo-Yo Ma is stuck behind the radiator.
  • Tatu and Patu demonstrate three different ways to get spilled flour off the floor: sweep it with a broom, suck it with a vacuum cleaner, or put on scary masks and try to scare it off the floor.
  • The end of the book has a quiz about various things you've learned from it. One of the questions is "How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?" which, according to a text in the end, accidentally ended up in the wrong book.
• In "Tatu and Patu as Detectives" the brothers set up a detective agency and make a playhouse in a public playground their headquarters. Eventually, a bunch of children come to tell them off for taking the whole playhouse for themselves. The brothers mistake the kids for a criminal gang and run away in panic.