History Trivia / WallaceAndGromit

* ColbertBump: The series owes a lot of it's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popularity across the pond]] to Nick Park 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 Americans]] and selling 2 million video cassettes of the first three films by year's end.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Nick Park 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.

* ActorInspiredElement: Wallace's banana-shaped mouth evolved from animating Peter Salis's elongated vowels.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Subverted. Peter Salis retired from acting in 2010 due to his failing health, with Ben Whitehead succeeding him for various TV spots, but it was Salis's eventual death in 2017 that ensured that he'd never voice Wallace again.

* ColbertBump: The series owes a lot of it's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popularity in America]] to Nick Park 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 introducing the duo to those across the pond. By the end of the year, 2 million video cassettes of the first three shorts had been sold in America.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Subverted. Peter Salis retired from acting in 2008 due to his failing health, with Ben Whitehead succeeding him for various TV spots, but it was Salis's eventual death in 2017 that ensured that he'd never voice Wallace again.

* AuthorExistanceFailure: Subverted. Peter Salis retired from acting in 2008 due to his failing health, with Ben Whitehead succeeding him for various TV spots, but it was Salis's eventual death in 2017 that ensured that he'd never voice Wallace again.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Nick Park has stated that Wallace is loosely based on his father, who also liked to tinker.

* HeyItsThatGuy[=/=]HeyItsThatVoice: This isn't the first time PeterSallis played a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors maverick scientist]].

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Nick Park has stated that Wallace is loosely based on his father, who also liked to tinker.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Nick Park has stated that Wallace is loosely based on his father.

* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Whitehead has been increasingly acting as the voice of Wallace, most notably in the ''Grand Adventures'' series, along with a number of TV adverts featuring the duo. Fortunately Whitehead's voicing is so near to Peter Sallis that most people don't even notice the difference.
** Except 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.

* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Whitehead has been increasingly acting as the voice of Wallace in recent years, most notably in the ''Grand Adventures'' series, along with a number of TV adverts featuring the duo. Fortunately Whitehead's voicing is so near to Peter Sallis that most people don't even notice the difference.

* TheRedStapler: Wallace's [[BlessedAreTheCheesemakers cheese obsession]] ''saved Wensleydale cheese''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most DVD releases of "The Wrong Trousers" replace several music cues (including "Happy Birthday to You" and "How Much is That Doggy in the Window") due to copyright issues. However, the very first DVD release has all of this music intact.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In ''Were-rabbit'' Lord Voldemort (RalphFiennes) is trying to kill Wallace, and Bellatrix (HelenaBonhamCarter) is Wallace's potential love interest.

* KeepCirculatingtheTapes: Most DVD releases of "The Wrong Trousers" replace several music cues (including "Happy Birthday to You" and "How Much is That Doggy in the Window") due to copyright issues. However, the very first DVD release has all of this music intact.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In ''Were-rabbit'' Lord Voldemort (RalphFiennes) is trying to kill Wallace, and Bellatrix (HelenaBonhamCarter) is Wallace's potential love interest.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In ''Were-rabbit'' Lord Voldemort(Ralph Fiennes) is trying to kill Wallace, and [[HelenaBonhamCarter Bellatrix]] is Wallace's potential love interest.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In ''Were-rabbit'' [[Ralph Fiennes Lord Voldemort]] is trying to kill Wallace, and [[HelenaBonhamCarter Bellatrix]] is Wallace's potential love interest.

* HeyItsThatGuy: In ''Were-rabbit'' [[RalphFiennes Lord Voldemort]] is trying to kill Wallace, and [[HelenaBonhamCarter Bellatrix]] is Wallace's potential love interest.