Line #3 Trivia/WallaceAndGromit


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2	* ''Trivia/AGrandDayOut''
3	* ''Trivia/TheWrongTrousers''
4	* ''Trivia/ACloseShave''
5	* ''Trivia/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit''
6	* ''Trivia/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath''
7	* ''Trivia/WallaceAndGromitsGrandAdventures''
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10	* ActorInspiredElement: Wallace's banana-shaped mouth evolved from animating Creator/PeterSallis' elongated vowels.
11	* ChannelHop: Although Wallace and Gromit are closely associated with Creator/TheBBC, it's a little-remembered fact that "WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut" actually premiered on Creator/Channel4, and the BBC later bought the rights to it when they commissioned "WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers".
12	* ColbertBump: The series owes a lot of its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popularity across the pond]] to Creator/NickPark accidentally leaving two puppets from ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' in the back of a New York taxi cab during a press tour. The British press reported on it [[SeriousBusiness as if it were a national crisis]] and the American press reported on the British press reporting it as if it were a national crisis, in the process [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity introducing the duo to Americans]] and selling 2 million video cassettes of the first three films by year's end.
13	* TheMerch: Shortly after the release of "WesternAnimation/ACloseShave", companies took note of how merchandisable the characters were, particularly Gromit and Shaun. Plush toys, backpacks, key chains, alarm clocks and figurines are just a small helping of products you can find with their likeness slapped on.
14	* TheOtherDarrin:
15	** Ben Whitehead increasingly began acting as the voice of Wallace towards the end of the 2000s, most notably in the ''Grand Adventures'' series, along with a number of TV adverts featuring the duo and some scenes in ''A Matter of Loaf and Death''. Fortunately Whitehead's voicing is so near to Creator/PeterSallis that most people don't even notice the difference. The only exception was in "Fright Of The Bumblebee", the first game in the Grand Adventures series. As it was Whitehead's first time voicing Wallace, he sounds a little different than he usually does. Fortunately, he seems to have gotten much better as he continues to voice Wallace, especially following Sallis' death in 2017.
16	** In the French dub, Wallace went through several voice actors. Namely, he was voiced by Creator/FrancisLax in ''A Grand Day Out'', Creator/GilbertLevy in ''The Wrong Trousers'' and ''Cracking Contraptions'', Yves Beneyton in ''A Close Shave'', and Jean-Loup Horwitz in ''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' and ''A Matter of Loaf and Death''.
17	* TheRedStapler: In the early 1990s, the Wensleydale Creamery in the Yorkshire market town of Hawes was teetering on the edge of oblivion after being closed by Dairy Crest following the privatisation of the Milk Marketing Board (with production of traditional Wensleydale cheese being transferred to a creamery in Lancashire). A management buy-out saved the creamery, but their prospects looked grim ... until Wensleydale cheese received a ShoutOut by Wallace. Noticing the increased interest in their product as a result, the creamery persuaded Aardman Animation to endorse the use of Wallace and Gromit in their advertising, which worked to rebuild Wensleydale into a thriving product worldwide.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** Wallace was originally a postman named Jerry, but Creator/NickPark felt the name did not match well with Gromit.
20	** Some of Nick Park's early sketches featured Wallace with a mustache.
21	** Gromit was going to originally be a cat, but nearly every design Park made looked more like a dog, so he just skipped the formalities. Park originally wanted to voice Gromit himself, but then had the idea of Gromit's voice being recorded by Peter Hawkins. The very idea of Gromit being able to talk was dropped entirely when it became evident how expressive he could be through his eyes, ears, gestures of the limbs or body, and his brow. It's unclear if the yelps in A Grand Day Out were provided by Hawkins or not.
22	** According to Creator/NickPark, when the Wallace and Gromit shorts were first sold to America, there were suggestions to [[CulturalTranslation edit out the British voices in favor of redubbing it with American voice actors]], Park disliked the idea and held out. When they did come to America, the British voices were kept.
23	** Prior to Frontier Developments acquiring the video game rights, Creator/TravellersTales had created a [[https://youtu.be/387sOqy6sxQ short animation]] to pitch a Wallace & Gromit game to Aardman. If TT founder Jon Burton is to be believed, it was this pitch that inspired Aardman to invest in CGI rendering machines, which then lead to such works as ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' and ''WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas''.
24	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Creator/NickPark has stated that Wallace is loosely based on his father, who also liked to tinker, with a little of his brother, an electrician, thrown in for good measure.

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