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-> ''"It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And they've gone wrong!]]"''
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-> ''"It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], trousers, Gromit! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And they've gone wrong!]]"''wrong!"''
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: See quote at top.
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-> ''"It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
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-> ''"It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And they've gone wrong!"''wrong!]]"''
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: See quote at top.
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* SilentPartner: Gromit, who is also...
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* SilentPartner: Gromit, who is also...also a...
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* AwesomeYetPractical: Wallace buys a set of robotic trousers (made by NASA, no less) and uses them to give Gromit walks and paint the house. [=McGraw=] finds use for them as a burglary tool.
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** Wallace does mention early on that "those presents weren't cheap". It's possible that Wallace is still paying off the trousers.
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-> ''It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
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-> ''It's ''"It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
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** We see a "walk" for Gromit concluding with him sitting on a cart and being pulled by the Techno-Trousers via a leash attached to the collar he received earlier. [[spoiler: Guess how Feathers McGraw is brought to the police after he's caught]].
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** We see a "walk" for Gromit concluding with him sitting on a cart and being pulled by the Techno-Trousers via a leash attached to the collar he received earlier. [[spoiler: Guess how Feathers McGraw [=McGraw=] is brought to the police after he's caught]].
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** We see a "walk" for Gromit concluding with him sitting on a cart and being pulled by the Techno-Trousers via a leash attached to the collar he received earlier. [[spoiler: Guess how Feathers McGraw is brought to the police after he's caught]].
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Debatable with Mc Graw\'s revolver
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** In the same scene, [=McGraw=]'s revolver never seems to run out of bullets.
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** In the same scene, [=McGraw=]'s revolver never seems to run out of bullets.bullets, although it's debatable because he fires a total of 7 rounds[[note]]one hits the light cord, one narrowly misses Gromit, one hits Gromit's 'helmet', one knocks out the flap on the front door, two more strike Gromit's helmet, and the final one hits a railway switch[[/note]] before his gun is taken, which is possible if he had a fully-loaded 7-shooter instead of a 6-shooter.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Driven out of his room and practically replaced by [=McGraw=], Gromit opts to run away from home, first with stoic determination, but when he looks at a picture of him and his master, he leaves, visibly crying.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Driven out of his room room, then the house, and practically replaced by [=McGraw=], Gromit opts to run away from home, first with stoic determination, but when he looks at a picture of him and his master, he leaves, visibly crying.
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Poor Gromit
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* DespairEventHorizon: Driven out of his room and practically replaced by [=McGraw=], Gromit opts to run away from home, first with stoic determination, but when he looks at a picture of him and his master, he leaves, visibly crying.
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* GeniusBookClub: While eating breakfast, Gromit reads ''Literature/TheRepublic'' (by, according to the cover, Pluto).
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* ChekhovsGun: The model train set... [[TrainTopBattle in a sense]].
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* TrainTopBattle: Granted. "'''Model''' Traintop Battle", but it counts.
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* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut".
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* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut". Which raises the question of why they were cash-strapped enough to need to let the room out in the first place, but then the series has never been that big on continuity anyway, so who knows.
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* BlandNameProduct: Gromit takes shelter in a cardboard box labeled "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetabix Meatabix]] Dog Food."
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* MagicPants: The legs have machinery inside of them, and yet Wallace's legs somehow fit inside them.
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance For him, the zoo is prison.]]
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance For him, the zoo is prison.]]
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* BritishAccents: Wallace has a distinctive OopNorth accent.
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* TheParody: Of heist movies.
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* TheParody: {{Parody}}: Of heist movies.
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If this film fits the trope, you need to explain how. The trope is not \'somebody says \"All\'s well that ends well\"\'.
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* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Wallace says this at the very end of the short.
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* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Wallace says this at the very end of the short.
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* HumiliationConga: After catching him, Wallace and Gromit have Feathers paraded into the police station, tied up and towed by the same Techno Trousers he used in the robbery. He then gets imprisoned in a zoo, on display to everyone passing through the entrance.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Most DVD releases replace "Happy Birthday to You" with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "How Much is that Doggy In The Window" with generic muzak. The original FOX DVD from 1999 features the original music.
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* HomeVersionSoundtrackReplacement: Most DVD releases replace "Happy Birthday to You" with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "How Much is that Doggy In The Window" with generic muzak. Averted with the original FOX DVD from 1999, which features the original music.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Most DVD releases replace "Happy Birthday to You" with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "How Much is that Doggy In The Window" with generic muzak. The original FOX DVD from 1999 features the original music.
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* AnimationBump: The first short, ''A Grand Day Out'', was mostly made by Nick Park himself, with Aardman Animations only coming in when the film was half complete. When compared to ''The Wrong Trousers'' (the first one with a lot of Aardman work), there is a world of difference in animation between the two.
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* AnimationBump: The first short, ''A Grand Day Out'', ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'', was mostly made by Nick Park himself, with Aardman Animations only coming in when the film was half complete. When compared to ''The Wrong Trousers'' (the first one with a lot of Aardman work), there is a world of difference in animation between the two.
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* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "A Grand Day Out".
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* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "A Grand Day Out"."WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut".
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''The Wrong Trousers'' is the second WallaceAndGromit short film, made by Nick Park and AardmanAnimations and released in 1993.
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''The Wrong Trousers'' is the second WallaceAndGromit Franchise/WallaceAndGromit short film, made by Nick Park and AardmanAnimations and released in 1993.
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* AssInALionSkin: Feathers [=McGraw=]
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* AnimationBump: The first short, ''A Grand Day Out'', was mostly made by Nick Park himself, with Aardman Animations only coming in when the film was half complete. When compared to ''The Wrong Trousers'' (the first one with a lot of Aardman work), there is a world of difference in animation between the two.
* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.
* AssInALionSkin: Feathers[=McGraw=][=McGraw=], who simply wears a red glove on his head during jobs to convince others he is a chicken.
* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.
* AssInALionSkin: Feathers
* BigOlUnibrow: Gromit never speaks, so this is the only way you know what he's feeling. It's really incredible, the emotion you can wring out of an artfully-squashed bit of plasticine...
* BindleStick: Gromit carries one when he leaves home.
* BindleStick: Gromit carries one when he leaves home.
* BritishAccents: Wallace has a distinctive OopNorth accent.
* BunglingInventor: Wallace, natch.
* BunglingInventor: Wallace, natch.
* CivilizedAnimal:
** Gromit is usually depicted as walking upright, and is capable of creating and operating complex machinery. Generally he's shown to be ''significantly'' more shrewd and sensible than his master. However, despite all of this, everyone treats him the same as you treat ''any'' dog. He has both a room in the house and a kennel in the yard, and walks on two or four legs as the plot requires.
** Feathers [=McGraw=] is apparently capable of showing up and ''renting rooms'' from humans, but the film still ends with him at the ''zoo''.
* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "A Grand Day Out".
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** Feathers [=McGraw=] is apparently capable of showing up and ''renting rooms'' from humans, but the film still ends with him at the ''zoo''.
* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventurings in "A Grand Day Out".
* HypercompetentSidekick: Gromit.
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* PaperThinDisguise: The disguise Feathers always uses? The one that has everyone convinced he's a chicken? Yeah, it's nothing but ''a red rubber glove on his head.'' Particularly played for laughs when even the intelligent and perceptive Gromit does a DoubleTake when he takes it off.
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* MediumAwareness: At one point, Gromit is seen reading a newspaper whose headline is ''Dog Reads Paper!''
* MinimalistCast: A cast of only '''three''', of which only one (Wallace) has a speaking part.
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* NoMouth: Gromit
* PaperThinDisguise: The disguise Feathers always uses? The one that has everyone convinced he's a chicken? Yeah, it's nothing but ''a red rubber glove on his head.'' Particularly played for laughs when even the intelligent and perceptive Gromit does a DoubleTake when he takes it off. (Wallace has even less excuse, considering he was renting a room out to Feathers and interacting with him frequently -- but then again, it's Wallace.)
* TheParody: Of heist movies.
* PoweredArmor: The Techno Trousers are at the very least half of one.
* MinimalistCast: A cast of only '''three''', of which only one (Wallace) has a speaking part.
* NewspaperThinDisguise
* NoMouth: Gromit
* PaperThinDisguise: The disguise Feathers always uses? The one that has everyone convinced he's a chicken? Yeah, it's nothing but ''a red rubber glove on his head.'' Particularly played for laughs when even the intelligent and perceptive Gromit does a DoubleTake when he takes it off. (Wallace has even less excuse, considering he was renting a room out to Feathers and interacting with him frequently -- but then again, it's Wallace.)
* TheParody: Of heist movies.
* PoweredArmor: The Techno Trousers are at the very least half of one.
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* SilentPartner: Gromit, who is also...
* SilentSnarker: ...and it's quite shocking how expressive he is considering he is always portrayed without a ''mouth'', leaving his ''eyebrows'' to convey all of his emotions.
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* SilentSnarker: ...and it's quite shocking how expressive he is considering he is always portrayed without a ''mouth'', leaving his ''eyebrows'' to convey all of his emotions.
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* ToTheBatpole: Wallace apparently begins every day with his bed tilting up and dropping him into a trapdoor from his upstairs bedroom to a chair at the dining room table, with mechanical arms providing a costume change.
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* GiftGivingGaffe: The Techno-Trousers fall into the category of "this present is really for myself" -- everything Wallace says about how they'll make Gromit's life easier is really about how they'll make ''Wallace's'' life easier.
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-> ''It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
-->-- '''Wallace'''
''The Wrong Trousers'' is the second WallaceAndGromit short film, made by Nick Park and AardmanAnimations and released in 1993.
The story begins on Gromit's birthday, and Wallace has a special present for him; "Techno-Trousers," robotic pants with the ability to walk by themselves. At the same time, Wallace decides to rent out a room in the house to deal with his growing debt. Their lodger is Feathers [=McGraw=], a shady penguin who immediately takes a liking to the trousers and a disliking to Gromit. As Feathers becomes favored by Wallace, Gromit starts to feel like he's being replaced and makes plans to leave. But the morning after his departure, Wallace gets stuck in the Techno-Trousers, the controls of which have mysteriously disappeared, along with Feathers...
The short has received critical acclaim and won the 1993 AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film. It established many of the story and character elements now commonly associated with the series, mainly Wallace's [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg]]-esque inventions and Gromit's role as the SilentSnarker, not to mention that [[{{AnimationBump}} the animation got a lot better]]. Aside from TheMovie, it's probably the most well-known Wallace & Gromit story.
!!Tropes appearing in ''The Wrong Trousers'' include:
* AssInALionSkin: Feathers [=McGraw=]
* AwesomeYetPractical: Wallace buys a set of robotic trousers (made by NASA, no less) and uses them to give Gromit walks and paint the house. [=McGraw=] finds use for them as a burglary tool.
* BottomlessMagazines:
** At the end of the short, Gromit chases [=McGraw=] on a model train - by rapid-fire laying of track from an inexhaustible box.
** In the same scene, [=McGraw=]'s revolver never seems to run out of bullets.
* ChaseScene
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Very purposefully subverted with Feathers [=McGraw=]. You'll never look at this trope quite the same way again.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Feathers' misuse of the Techno-Trousers. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Wallace when he is stuck inside them (see quote at top).
* LaserHallway: In the City Museum.
* MacGuffin: The diamond.
* PaperThinDisguise: The disguise Feathers always uses? The one that has everyone convinced he's a chicken? Yeah, it's nothing but ''a red rubber glove on his head.'' Particularly played for laughs when even the intelligent and perceptive Gromit does a DoubleTake when he takes it off.
* ShippedInShackles: Feathers at the end.
* TitleDrop: "It's the wrong trousers, Gromit!"
* WraparoundBackground: During the model train chase. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the train is actually going around in circles around the edges of the same room. The creators even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in the DVD audio commentary.
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-> ''It's [[{{TitleDrop}} the wrong trousers]], Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
-->-- '''Wallace'''
''The Wrong Trousers'' is the second WallaceAndGromit short film, made by Nick Park and AardmanAnimations and released in 1993.
The story begins on Gromit's birthday, and Wallace has a special present for him; "Techno-Trousers," robotic pants with the ability to walk by themselves. At the same time, Wallace decides to rent out a room in the house to deal with his growing debt. Their lodger is Feathers [=McGraw=], a shady penguin who immediately takes a liking to the trousers and a disliking to Gromit. As Feathers becomes favored by Wallace, Gromit starts to feel like he's being replaced and makes plans to leave. But the morning after his departure, Wallace gets stuck in the Techno-Trousers, the controls of which have mysteriously disappeared, along with Feathers...
The short has received critical acclaim and won the 1993 AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film. It established many of the story and character elements now commonly associated with the series, mainly Wallace's [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg]]-esque inventions and Gromit's role as the SilentSnarker, not to mention that [[{{AnimationBump}} the animation got a lot better]]. Aside from TheMovie, it's probably the most well-known Wallace & Gromit story.
!!Tropes appearing in ''The Wrong Trousers'' include:
* AssInALionSkin: Feathers [=McGraw=]
* AwesomeYetPractical: Wallace buys a set of robotic trousers (made by NASA, no less) and uses them to give Gromit walks and paint the house. [=McGraw=] finds use for them as a burglary tool.
* BottomlessMagazines:
** At the end of the short, Gromit chases [=McGraw=] on a model train - by rapid-fire laying of track from an inexhaustible box.
** In the same scene, [=McGraw=]'s revolver never seems to run out of bullets.
* ChaseScene
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Very purposefully subverted with Feathers [=McGraw=]. You'll never look at this trope quite the same way again.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Feathers' misuse of the Techno-Trousers. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Wallace when he is stuck inside them (see quote at top).
* LaserHallway: In the City Museum.
* MacGuffin: The diamond.
* PaperThinDisguise: The disguise Feathers always uses? The one that has everyone convinced he's a chicken? Yeah, it's nothing but ''a red rubber glove on his head.'' Particularly played for laughs when even the intelligent and perceptive Gromit does a DoubleTake when he takes it off.
* ShippedInShackles: Feathers at the end.
* TitleDrop: "It's the wrong trousers, Gromit!"
* WraparoundBackground: During the model train chase. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the train is actually going around in circles around the edges of the same room. The creators even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in the DVD audio commentary.
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