Headscratchers / A Matter of Loaf and Death

• Why didn't Piella just hire a fitness instructor or join Weight Watchers or something?
  • The woman was clearly as mad as a sackful of starving weasels; maybe we should take her version of events with a pinch of salt.
  • Piella tells Wallace that she ate too much bread and was dropped from the advertising campaigns and now she hates bakers. And it's so much easier to blame other people than take responsibility and try to fix things yourself. When you think of things as Never My Fault it becomes very easy to do bad things. That's what makes her a villain.
• So one of the first things that gets Gromit suspicious about Piella is the fact that her brakes apparently work fine. But she's shown to be pressing them and they don't do anything during the bike rescue scene. What's going on here?
  • She was probably deliberately not pressing on them hard enough to trigger them. Or perhaps she was actually skilled enough to temporarily disable them and then set them back later.