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6	-> ''"It's the wrong trousers, Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"''
7	-->-- '''Wallace'''
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9	JustForFun/TheOneWith [[TrainEscape the train chase]].
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11	''The Wrong Trousers'' is the second WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit short film, made by Creator/NickPark and Creator/AardmanAnimations and released in 1993.
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13	The story begins on Gromit's birthday, and Wallace has a special present for him: "Techno-Trousers," robotic pants with the ability to move by themselves ("Ex-UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}! Fantastic for walkies!"). 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 favoured 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...
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15	The short won the 1993 UsefulNotes/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]].
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17	----
18	!!Provides examples of:
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20	* AchillesHeel: The Techno-Trousers's ability to walk on walls and ceilings is really impressive, but Feathers finds out the hard way that suspending the heavy equipment on an unstable surface made from old flexible ceiling tiles simply held in with fixative will cause problems.
21	* AirVentPassageway: Feathers [=McGraw=] gets Wallace into the museum through a rooftop ventilation duct that's large enough for Wallace to stand upright inside. It is shown to be cacophonously loud, ([[HeavySleeper not that a slumbering Wallace is bothered]]).
22	* AnimationBump: The first short, ''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.
23	* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.
24	* AssInALionSkin: Feathers [=McGraw=] the penguin passes himself off as a chicken just by slipping a red rubber glove over his head.
25	* BaitTheDog: Feathers sweetens up to Wallace by in addition to paying rent takes up all of Gromit's duties such as fetching Wallace's slippers and newspaper. Because of this, Wallace gives Feathers more attention and praise than Gromit, causing the latter to leave the house in dejection. As soon as Gromit leaves, it's revealed Feathers schemed on getting Gromit out of the picture so that the dog won't interfere in his plan to force Wallace in the Techno-Trousers to steal a diamond.
26	* BewareTheQuietOnes: Feathers [=McGraw=]. He may be silent and seem pleasant (to Wallace at least), but he's a real jerk to Gromit and also a wanted thief who won't hesitate to use you as a prop in his crimes or to pull a gun on you.
27	* BiggerOnTheInside: Wallace and Gromit's house is big enough for them to have an entire (miniature, but still) TraintopBattle inside. [[RuleOfFunny Somehow.]]
28	* 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...
29	* BindleStick: Gromit carries one when he leaves home.
30	* BlandNameProduct: Gromit takes shelter in a cardboard box labeled "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetabix Meatabix]] Dog Food."
31	* BottomlessMagazines:
32	** At the end of the short, Gromit chases [=McGraw=] on a model train - by rapid-fire laying of track from an inexhaustible box.
33	** In the same scene, [=McGraw=]'s revolver never seems to run out of bullets, although it's debatable because he fires a total of 8 rounds[[note]]the first hits the light cord, one narrowly misses Gromit, one hits Gromit's 'helmet', one knocks out the flap on the front door, one narrowly misses Gromit, 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 8-shooter instead of a 6-shooter.
34	* BrickJoke: The system that gets Wallace out of bed and serves him toast at the beginning comes back later when Feathers gets a sleeping Wallace out of bed, with Gromit hiding in it. Gromit ends up getting dressed in Wallace's clothes and a spoonful of jam gets launched at him, but because this time there's no bread in the toaster to intercept the jam, it hits him in the face.
35	* BunglingInventor: Wallace, natch.
36	* ButtMonkey: Gromit falls into this hard. His birthday presents are things that benefit Wallace more than him, he gets evicted from his own bedroom by Feathers, then Feathers forces him out of the house and causes him to leave home out of resentment. He doesn't even manage to stop Feathers's plan from going ahead, as by the time he finds out about it, Feathers is already putting it into operation. Things only go his way at the end when he traps Feathers in a bottle and Wallace decides lodgers are more trouble than they're worth.
37	* ChaseScene: Played with as the movie gets a lot of mileage of a small-scale chase involving the model train as the chase vehicle being split up across the space of a house interior.
38	* ChekhovsGun: The model train set... [[TrainTopBattle in a sense]].
39	** 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]].
40	* CivilizedAnimal:
41	** 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.
42	** Feathers [=McGraw=] is apparently capable of showing up and ''renting rooms'' from humans, but the film still ends with him at the ''zoo''. Likewise, it is not seen as unusual for the police to be looking for a felonious chicken.
43	* CombatPragmatist: Feathers is confronted with a very pissed off Gromit (who, remember, is much larger and presumably stronger than Feathers) wielding a rolling pin. Feathers ''whips out a revolver''.
44	* ConcealmentEqualsCover: A variation, in that "cover equals protection", when Gromit uses a [[ImprovisedArmor fallen lampshade]] as a helmet, which manages to ''block three headshots'' from Feather's revolver at a distance of barely six feet away.
45	* ContinuityNod: At the beginning, Gromit reads a newspaper which bears a headline, ''Moon Cheese Shares Soar'', referring to their moon-cheese-related adventuring 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.
46	** Wallace does mention early on that "those presents weren't cheap". It's possible that Wallace is still paying off the trousers.
47	* CreatorInJoke: One of the lions from ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts'' can be seen in a display case at the museum, [[FreezeFrameBonus if you're quick and perceptive]].
48	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ditzy and clueless as Wallace might be, he ''[[LetsGetDangerous snatches]]'' the revolver away from Feathers without any hesitation during the chase scene, and even drops a pretty smooth one-liner in the process.
49	-->'''Wallace:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner I'll have that if you don't mind, eh?]]
50	* DarkerAndEdgier:
51	** Not to the same degree as the later shorts, but the stakes are still noticeably upped from ''A Grand Day Out'': The suspense in this film rival the work of Creator/AlfredHitchcock and a few scenes, such as Gromit walking away from the house after getting kicked out, are played relatively dramatically. On top of that, there's more action set-pieces, and the antagonist is genuinely evil as opposed to [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood misunderstood]], to the extent of outright trying to shoot the protagonists dead.
52	** The atmosphere of the short is significantly gloomier in spite of the humour and cosy surroundings. The lighting and colours are duller and even the score ups the ante on the melancholy creepiness, especially when Feathers arrives on the scene.
53	* DeathGlare: Gromit gives a few of these to Feathers. The first is when he growls at him after taking Wallace the paper. The second is when he sees Feathers controlling the Techno-Trousers with Wallace stuck in them. The third is when he braces a rolling pin to try and hit Feathers with it after trapping Wallace in the wardrobe, only to [[OhCrap make an about face when Feathers pull out a revolver]].
54	* DespairEventHorizon: Driven out of his 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.
55	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: During the heist, one security laser is in a position that barely blocks Wallace from simply walking above it. Feathers is only able to navigate Wallace through because he's asleep and randomly yawns, which moves his head in such a way that it lets him pass by.
56	* TheDogBitesBack: Subverted. After Feathers locks Wallace in the wardrobe, he bumps into Gromit, who has a DeathGlare on his face and is wielding a rolling pin, about to whack Feathers with it. Feathers simply pulls a gun on Gromit and locks him in the wardrobe too.
57	* DressOMatic: Part of Wallace's morning routine involves a machine of his own invention that puts his clothes on him. Feathers [=McGraw=] subverts it to trap Wallace in the Techno-Trousers.
58	* EmpathicEnvironment: It’s raining (along with thunder and lightning) when Gromit leaves home, along with the {{Wham Shot}} of Feathers afterwards.
59	* TheEndOrIsIt: After [[spoiler:the two foil Feathers's diamond robbery and use the Techno Trousers one last time to anonymously drop him off at the Police Station]], the Trousers are seen lying upside-down in the bin outside. Then, as Wallace and Gromit enjoy some cheese together, [[spoiler:they start moving on their own and are last seen walking off down the street and [[RidingIntoTheSunset into the sunset over the credits]]: still with the bin on top of them, humorously enough.]]
60	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: All Feathers [=McGraw=] has to do is walk past Gromit in the hallway, pause, and then abruptly turn and ''stare'' [[DeathGlare straight at him]] with those beady black eyes, and you immediately know without a single word of dialogue that this penguin is, at best, not to be trusted, and at worst possibly evil incarnate.
61	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Before seeing Feathers walking down the street, Gromit is reading a newspaper that [[FreezeFrameBonus has an article titled "Dog Reads Paper"]].
62	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted. Feathers pulls a fairly realistic, non-cartoonish revolver on the duo and doesn't hesitate to fire it at them.
63	* FeatheredFiend: Feathers [=McGraw=].
64	* FeatherFingers: Curiously averted with Feathers, and yet he still manages to reprogram and operate complex technology. When needing to pull the trigger on his gun, his wingtip magically splits to form an "index finger".
65	* FeetFirstIntroduction: The introduction to the Techno-Trousers, as they perform an OminousWalk towards Gromit.
66	* FlintstoneTheming: Gromit's canine-themed library includes, in this film, a book by the famous philosopher [[{{Creator/Plato}} Pluto]].
67	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
68	** Literally, at the beginning, as the shadow of the Techno Trousers is seen on the wall as the title appears.
69	** In the first breakfast scene, one of the ads on the newspaper Gromit is reading reads, “What A Gem!”, subtly setting up the later appearance of the diamond Feathers wants to steal.
70	** In an effort to get Gromit out of the house, the penguin plays very loud music. One tune is "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" which indicates that he's just been released from prison.
71	** When Gromit is upside-down in the Techno-Trousers painting the ceiling of the spare room, Feathers comes in and looks rather intently at him. Wallace is later upside-down in the Techno-Trousers when Feathers uses him to steal the diamond from the museum.
72	** As Feathers is guiding Wallace along the museum ceiling, one of the ceiling tiles the Trousers steps on is almost pulled loose. After Feathers gets the diamond, another tile comes loose, putting Wallace off-balance and setting off the alarm.
73	* GeniusBookClub: While eating breakfast, Gromit reads ''Literature/TheRepublic'' (by, according to the cover, Pluto).
74	* 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.
75	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Feathers's misuse of the Techno-Trousers. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Wallace when he is stuck inside them (see quote at top).
76	* GroinAttack: When Wallace lands crotch-first on the rear end of the train he's visibly squirming and vocalising in discomfort.
77	* HammerSpace: A grappling hook and chain (and, presumably, all its control mechanism) crammed into the helmet Wallace wears during the heist.
78	* HandyRemoteControl: The titular trousers have the controls mounted on them at first; but Feathers pulls the panel out and converts it to a remote. He first sends Wallace on an exhausting run all over town, then uses him and the trousers to carry out the diamond theft.
79	* HatDamage: When Gromit is being shot at by Feathers, the bullets bounce off the hat-like lampshade on Gromit's head.
80	* HeavySleeper: Invoked and exploited by Feathers [=McGraw=]. When he traps Wallace in the techno-trousers, the first thing he does is force Wallace to run and jump through the city all day, leaving Wallace completely exhausted afterwards. So exhausted, in fact, that he sleeps like a baby while Feathers pulls off the actual jewel heist. It takes the museum's alarm system to finally wake Wallace up.
81	* HighSpeedTrainReroute: Three instances, all during the ChaseScene while the villain attempts to escape aboard Wallace's model railroad:
82	** Feathers shoots away the doggie door, which will allow the model locomotive to carry him outside. Gromit is riding atop the trailing cars, and alertly smacks the BigRedButton that shunts the locomotive onto a spur line, keeping Feathers indoors.
83	** Feathers fires his eighth shot from a revolver at another track switch that shunts the last car, which Wallace is riding, onto another line.
84	** Feathers uncouples the engine and tender from the rest of the train, then whacks a third switch to shunt the trailing cars with Gromit atop them onto another spur, which is incomplete. Fortunately, Gromit seizes a box of track sections and builds more track as he goes to continue the pursuit.
85	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After using the Techno-Trousers to commit his heist, Feathers [=McGraw=] gets his train escape ruined by the Trousers walking in front of the tracks and sending him flying into a milk bottle.]]
86	** To a lesser degree, Feathers shooting the switch to separate Wallace from the train allows Wallace to swipe Feathers's gun.
87	* {{Homage}}: Creator/NickPark cited ''Film/{{Rebecca\|1940}}'' as an influence on the film, particularly some of the shots of Feathers.
88	* 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.
89	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Averted, all of Feathers's shots are reasonably close to the target considering that he's 1) FiringOneHanded, 2) on a moving train, and 3) [[FeatherFingers a penguin.]] At least three of his shots would have been lethal if Gromit wasn't [[ConcealmentEqualsCover protected by]] [[ImprovisedArmor the lampshade]] on his head.
90	* {{Jerkass}}: Feathers [=McGraw=]. His EstablishingCharacterMoment features a big KickTheDog moment to Gromit by forcing him out of his own bedroom and then out of the house, reducing Gromit to tears and resentment and after only two nights in Feathers's presence, Gromit is so depressed, he leaves home. The worst part? Wallace doesn't even notice any of this. He only realises Feathers' true colours when he sees Feathers is the thief who stole the diamond from the museum.
91	* JustEatGilligan: After discovering Feathers controlling an unwilling Wallace in the trouser, Gromit, for whatever reason, ignores Wallace's pleas to pull him out of them in favour of spying on Feathers until the heist is pulled off. Perhaps justified as when he finally takes action, Feathers instantly disarms him with his pistol.
92	* KickTheDog: A close-to-literal example. When Feathers arrives, he does this to Gromit repeatedly, first by taking over Gromit's room within the first minute of arriving (forcing him into the spare room - which has to be done up to accommodate him), playing loud music to keep him awake and drive him out of the house (even if Feathers isn't in the house at the moment), then taking over Gromit taking Wallace his slippers and newspaper, which essentially replaces Gromit and causes him to get so fed up and upset he leaves home. This is actually part of Feather's overall plan to steal the diamond, as he needs Gromit out of the way in order to trap Wallace in the Techno-Trousers and prepare for the actual heist.
93	* KnightOfCerebus: Despite being, well, a penguin, Feathers [=McGraw=] is arguably the most overtly (and realistically) evil villain in the whole franchise, being not a cartoonish supervillain who tries to kill the heroes with some elaborate death trap, but a sociopathic thief motivated only by personal gain. He remains the only ''Wallace and Gromit'' antagonist who simply tries to ''[[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shoot]]'' the duo dead with an ordinary handgun when they get in his way.
94	* LaserHallway: In the City Museum.
95	* LastNoteNightmare: The short begins with a noticeably sombre rendition of the theme song and descends into a frightening tone.
96	* LivingWithTheVillain: Feathers becomes Wallace and Gromit’s lodger.
97	* MacGuffin: The diamond.
98	* ManlyTears: Gromit sheds these during his first night in Feathers's presence. Feathers forces him out of the house by playing loud organ music to keep him awake and displace him. After presumably hours of being kept awake (which somehow doesn't affect Wallace - probably because Wallace is a HeavySleeper), Gromit is in his kennel with earmuffs on, thinking Feathers is upstairs in his (Gromit's) bedroom, but then he sees Feathers enter the back yard and go into the house, and moments later, the music stops. Gromit promptly breaks down in tears. One almost can't help but wonder if he cried himself to sleep...
99	** Gromit's eyes are also wet with tears as he prepares to leave home, after seeing the photo of himself with Wallace.
100	* MediumAwareness: At one point, Gromit is seen reading a newspaper whose headline is ''Dog Reads Paper!''
101	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: "Oh, it's no use prevaricating about the bush."
102	* MinimalistCast: A cast of only '''three''', of which only one (Wallace) has a speaking part.
103	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The climax features what was, up until ''Film/AntMan1'', the only cinematic example of a ''model railway'' TraintopBattle.
104	* MurderTheHypotenuse: Or at least pressure him into leaving. Presumably, Feathers knew Gromit was too cunning to work his operation around.
105	* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Gromit confronts Feathers [=McGraw=] with a rolling pin. Feathers, being a professional criminal, simply pulls a gun on him.
106	* NewspaperThinDisguise: Gromit spies on Feathers as he cases out the museum by cutting eye holes into a cardboard box. [[spoiler:As chance would have it, the suspicious villain notices something is off, but ignores it because Gromit's eyes are peeking through the eyes of the cartoon dog drawn on the box.]]
107	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Gromit using the Techno-Trousers to paint the ceiling of the spare room presumably gave Feathers [=McGraw=] the idea to use them in his plan to steal the diamond from the museum.]]
108	* NoMouth: Gromit. Feathers [=McGraw=] counts as well - he has a beak, but it never opens.
109	* NoNameGiven: Averted in the final scene. Though never mentioned by any character, and Wallace simply refers to him as "penguin" in the scene where Gromit runs away from home, we learn Feathers [=McGraw's=] name from the headline of the newspaper Gromit is reading.
110	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Used to great dramatic effect with Feathers [=McGraw=]: as discussed in [[https://www.tumblr.com/beholdthemem/705100199849328640/obscureculturalreference-hextrudedcubes?source=share this post]], the style of the series is such that the characters in it are ''very'' expressive, so Feathers's design (a static face and eyes with no sclera that are constantly looking straight ahead) manages to make him deeply unsettling.
111	* OhCrap:
112	** Feathers, despite his utter lack of expressions, manages to convey an intense display of panic through body gestures when the heist goes horribly wrong.
113	** Gromit goes from DeathGlare to this once Feathers pulls a revolver on him.
114	* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Feathers when the diamond heist enters a crucial phase.
115	* 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 puts it on. (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.)
116	* {{Parody}}: Of heist movies.
117	* PeculiarPenguin: Feathers [=McGraw=] (along with his ancestors in the museum's display case).
118	* PiggyBank: Wallace keeps one in a wall safe behind a portrait of a piggy bank. Unfortunately, he finds himself down to his last few coppers, which leaves him unable to pay the bills. Fortunately, when Wallace and Gromit receive the reward money for the capture of Feathers, it not only pays off their debts, but there's plenty left over to fill up Wallace's pig.
119	* PoweredArmor: The Techno-Trousers are at the very least half of one. Wallace's offhand comment that they're "ex-NASA", along with the [[WallCrawl suction feet]], subtly imply they were designed to be worn as some kind of EVA equipment.
120	* PriceOnTheirHead: There's a £1,000 reward for Feathers [=McGraw=]. Wallace and Gromit turn him in and use the reward money to pay off their debts.
121	* ProductionForeshadowing: In addition to "Dog Reads Paper", one of the news stories that Gromit [[ShapedLikeItself reads in the paper]] is "[[WesternAnimation/ACloseShave Sheep Found Guilty]]".
122	* ReReleaseSoundtrack:
123	** Most DVD releases, except for the original Fox DVD in 1999, replace "Happy Birthday to You" with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and the organ renditions of "Happy Talk" and "How Much is that Doggy In The Window" with generic muzak.
124	** In the original version, the ''Open University'' fanfare[[note]]A British correspondence/home learning university that used to have classes/courses broadcast on [=BBC1=] and 2 in the 70s, 80s, and 90s; they've since dropped [[http://www.open.ac.uk/ in favour of using the internet]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w6fodbcTfk/ The fanfare itself]] - also known as "Divertimento for Three Trumpets and Three Trombones" by Creator/LeonardSalzedo - was, ironically replaced by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp37awSLwTA/ newer animation and fanfare]] by the time the short was released in 1993.[[/note]] can be heard when Gromit watches TV. In the re-release, it's simply something generic.
125	* RidingIntoTheSunset: At the very end the trashed Techno Trousers come to life of their own accord and walk away into the sunset.
126	* SayMyName: Wallace yells for Gromit after he gets a scary awakening from setting off the burglar alarm.
127	* ShippedInShackles: Feathers at the end.
128	* ShoutOut:
129	** A villain in the form of a ''[[Characters/BatmanThePenguin Penguin]]''.
130	** Gromit bottling Feathers evokes what WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn and the Barnyard Dawg do to WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck when they find he's been playing them in "The High and the Flighty".
131	** After setting off the alarm, a [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk slowly-descending security containment door]].
132	* SilentPartner: Gromit doesn't speak at all.
133	* SilentSnarker: Gromit is amazingly expressive without even having a ''mouth'', leaving his ''eyebrows'' to convey all of his emotions.
134	* StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly: Feathers [=McGraw=] successfully sneaks Wallace and the Techno-Trousers into the museum, dodges the laser security system, and grabs the diamond (after two unsuccessful tries and a scare where he almost drops it). Then a loose ceiling panel triggers the security alarm anyway, so Feathers and Wallace have to book it out of the museum, with klaxons blaring.
135	* StealthPun: Gromit, a mute dog, has his ''Bach'' (i.e. a Brandenberg Concerto playing in his bedroom).
136	* StickyShoes: The techno-trousers with their suction feet (ex-NASA) seem to be a partial exoskeleton example. Though one's upper body still flops around when going up the wall.
137	* StockSoundEffects: "Castle Thunder" can be heard accompanying the lightning bolts that strike during the night when Gromit decides to leave for good.
138	* StopMotion: A necessity given the medium of the animation.
139	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Although the Techno-Trousers's wall and ceiling walking functions are impressive, the heist Feathers [=McGraw=] conducts with them goes wrong since the museum's ceiling consists of old tiles only held in with fixative, which causes the heavy Techno-Trousers to nearly fall down after tearing one off and subsequently triggers the alarm.
140	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Feathers intentionally invokes this to annoy Gromit and get him out of the picture.
141	* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: Feathers [=McGraw=] operates the Techno-Trousers by remote control while Wallace is asleep and wearing them. The trousers take Wallace to the top of a museum, and walk him into a spacious AirVentPassageway that leads to the room where a huge diamond is on display. The ceiling grate swings open, and Wallace emerges. The suction-soled Techno-Trousers allow him to walk around on the ceiling, which avoids the waist-high light beams protecting the prize. All the while, Wallace is snoring away in perfect obliviousness.
142	* TitleDrop: "It's the wrong trousers, Gromit! And they've gone wrong!"
143	* 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.
144	* TrainTopBattle: Granted. "'''Model''' Traintop Battle", but it counts.
145	* TrouserSpace: The techno-trouser legs have machinery inside of them, and yet Wallace's legs somehow fit inside as well.
146	* UnwittingPawn: Wallace is driven to exhaustion by Feathers while stuck in the Techno-Trousers so he can be used by Feathers to steal the diamond from the museum.
147	* VisualInnuendo: After Feathers [=McGraw=] locks Wallace and Gromit in the closet, Gromit opens the ''crotch area'' of the trousers Wallace is wearing in order to control the trousers with the electrical wires. Wallace comments, "Steady on! Watch where you're puttin' them paws."
148	* WakingUpElsewhere: Wallace falls asleep in bed at home, and remains asleep until the diamond robbery goes wrong. The alarm wakes him up, and he finds himself still stuck in the Techno-Trousers, standing on the ceiling and unaware of where he is and what’s going on.
149	* WallCrawl: The Techno-Trousers's suction feet are powerful enough to walk up walls and upside-down on ceilings.
150	* WantedPoster: Feathers [=McGraw=] has one - "Have you seen this chicken?"
151	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: After Wallace and Gromit get rid of Feathers and are out of debt thanks to the reward money, Wallace declares they're not having any more lodgers, citing them as more trouble than they're worth.
152	* WhamShot:
153	** Feathers at first just comes off as [[InnocentlyInsensitive an incredibly thoughtless lodger]] that gets on Gromit's nerves. When Gromit finally leaves however, it cuts to Feathers, watching and rubbing his fins in satisfaction, his villainous plan with the Techno-Trousers now revealed.
154	** Feathers pulling a gun on Gromit, showing how serious he is about making his escape.
155	* WhenItRainsItPours: It pours with rain when Gromit decides to leave for good, and he is appropriately wrapped up in a yellow raincoat.
156	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Turns out it's Wigan, [[FreezeFrameBonus as revealed by Wallace's address on his post]].
157	* WithCatlikeTread: The Techno-Trousers make a ''massive'' amount of noise getting into the building through the AirVentPassageway. One has to wonder whether or not the only reason Feathers wasn't caught was because [[MinimalistCast there are so few people in Wensleydale.]] (And yet Wallace ''[[HeavySleeper still]]'' doesn't wake up until the alarm goes off.)
158	* 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.

Context WesternAnimation / TheWrongTrousers