History WesternAnimation / WallaceAndGromit

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* ''Cracking Contraptions'' (short-shorts – 2002). A series of ten 2-3 minute films showcasing Wallace's latest wacky inventions.

In 2003, Frontier Developments released a video game known as ''Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo'', which saw the return of Feathers [=McGraw=] as the villain in an original storyline; it was SoOkayItsAverage in most respects. In the spring/summer of 2009, Creator/TelltaleGames released a series of four episodic Wallace & Gromit adventure games, collectively ''VideoGame/WallaceAndGromitsGrandAdventures'', for the PC and Xbox Live Arcade. The games are notable for successfully replicating the look and feel of the shorts, to the point of having fingerprints and other clay modeling details visible on the characters.

In 2010, [[Creator/TheBBC BBC One]] commissioned a television program, ''Wallace and Gromit's World of Inventions'', an educational program about famous or revolutionary inventions, hosted by the two. It begin airing in November with the episode ''Nature Knows Best''.

In 2022, it was confirmed that production has begun on a new ''Wallace & Gromit'' film, with Nick Park on board as director.

See also its spin-off series ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimmyTime'', the SpinOff of the spin-off. Wrap your head around that one.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Averted with Feathers [=McGraw=], the antagonist in ''The Wrong Trousers''.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Many of Wallace's inventions fall into this category, often to an ''absurd'' degree. For example, his "Telly-scope" invention involves launching a tennis ball through a complicated Rube Goldberg-type mechanism which ultimately physically moves the telly closer so that Wallace can press the power button, as opposed to, say, simply launching the tennis ball at the power button or simply ''using the remote that came with the telly''. Naturally, this tendency for complication often results in spectacular and hilarious failures.

AwesomeButImpractical: Many of Wallace's inventions fall into this category, often to an ''absurd'' degree. For example, his "Telly-scope" invention involves launching a tennis ball through a complicated Rube Goldberg-type mechanism which ultimately physically moves the telly closer so that Wallace can press the power button, as opposed to, say, simply launching the tennis ball at the power button or simply ''using the remote that came with the telly''. Naturally, this tendency for complication often results in spectacular and hilarious failures.

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In 2003, Frontier Developments released a video game known as ''VideoGame/WallaceAndGromitInProjectZoo'', which saw the return of Feathers [=McGraw=] as the villain in an original storyline; it was SoOkayItsAverage in most respects. In the spring/summer of 2009, Creator/TelltaleGames released a series of four episodic Wallace & Gromit adventure games, collectively ''VideoGame/WallaceAndGromitsGrandAdventures'', for the PC and Xbox Live Arcade. The games are notable for successfully replicating the look and feel of the shorts, to the point of having fingerprints and other clay modeling details visible on the characters.

* StockCartoonAnimalDepictions: Subverted. Gromit is a yellow dog with floppy brown ears, but other dogs that appear are solid color.

* AnimationBump: ''A Grand Day Out'', was made entirely by Nick Park himself, with Aardman only helping him when he finished ten minutes of the film. By the time ''The Wrong Trousers'' was released(the first short where a lot of Aardman work was involved), the animation and models were more refined and more or less resembling to the later films.

* 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.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The exact time ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield and place]]) in which the shorts take place has never been specified, with modern living conditions and fashion at a roughly 1950s level, but with technology that is occasionally far more advanced, albeit in a [[{{Zeerust}} distinctly old-school]], almost DieselPunk style. In one particularly amusing instance, Wallace, a brilliant inventor who can build a fully functional ''rocket'' in his garage almost single-handedly, is shown using an ''abacus'' to check his math instead of a calculator. One could pass this up to Wallace simply being a cracking good inventor, if it weren't for the occasional appearance of other advanced technology like the moon robot in ''A Grand Day Out'', the LaserHallway in ''The Wrong Trousers'' or the factory equipment and [[spoiler:[[RobotDog Preston]]]] in ''A Close Shave''. The [[MinimalistCast absence of any other onscreen humans]] until ''A Close Shave'' and the WorldLimitedToThePlot does little to clarify matters much.

In 2003, Frontier Developments released a video game known as ''Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo'', which saw the return of Feathers [=McGraw=] as the villain in an original storyline; it was SoOkayItsAverage in most respects. In the spring/summer of 2009, Creator/TelltaleGames released a series of four episodic Wallace & Gromit adventure games, collectively ''VideoGame/WallaceAndGromitsGrandAdventures'', for the PC and Xbox Live Arcade. The games are notable for successfully replicating the look and feel of the shorts, to the point of having fingerprints and other clay modeling details visible on the characters.

* BaldOfAwesome: The grand inventor himself, of course.

In 2022, it was confirmed that production has begun on a new ''Wallace & Gromit'' film, with Nick Park on board as director. It is currently unknown who will provide the voice of Wallace, due to Peter Sallis's passing in 2017.

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[[caption-width-right:300:All's well that ends well, eh, lad?]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'' (short - 1989). Wherein Wallace and Gromit realise that they're out of cheese and the shops are closed. The solution? Build a rocket in the basement and take a trip to the moon... which, as everyone knows, is made of cheese. While there, they have an encounter with a coin-operated robot who dreams of going skiing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'' (short - 1993). Wherein Wallace takes in a boarder, a silently menacing penguin named Feathers [=McGraw=], who has sinister plans for both his landlord ''and'' Gromit's new birthday present: a pair of "techno-trousers" for automatic walkies. Chaos, naturally, ensues. ("It's the wrong trousers, Gromit, and they've ''gone wrong!''")
* ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' (short - 1995). Wherein Wallace's crush Wendolene turns out to have ties to the local wool shortage, leading to Gromit being imprisoned for sheep-rustling, forcing Wallace to stage a daring jailbreak with the help of a woolly jumper-wearing lamb named Shaun. The three must face the real BigBad in a final showdown for all the yarn. Shaun later got his own {{Spinoff}} called ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' (which has since been made into a 2015 movie).
* ''Cracking Contraptions'' (short-shorts - 2002). A series of ten 2-3 minute films showcasing Wallace's latest wacky inventions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' (feature-length - 2005). Wherein the combination of a vegetable-growing contest and Wallace's latest invention accidentally unleashes a giant rampaging parody of ancient Film/HammerHorror cliches on their unsuspecting village... oh, also a giant [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent half-man, half-bunny]]. This received a LicensedGame adaptation and is noted as being one of the very few horror films in existence to feature a vegetarian monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'' (short - 2008). Wherein the two run a bakery. While Wallace falls in love with a former bread mascot, Gromit attempts to solve the murders of several bakers... no prizes for guessing whether the two are related. Aired on Christmas Day 2008, it was the top-rated programme of the day (ahead of ''Series/DoctorWho'''s [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]]). Wait, no, scratch that. With 16.15 million viewers, it was the most viewed programme of the YEAR.

--->'''Wallace:''' Relieved to have come out of this in one piece.\\

''Cracking cheese, Gromit!''

** In a ''A Grand Day Out'', the poor robot who just wanted to go skiing gets left behind on the moon...but then realizes the moon is a pretty awesome place to go skiing.

* BritishBrevity: Americans who are aware of the franchise might be surprised to know that in over 25 years, there have been only ''six'' installments, and only one of those six is feature-length. However, this is less to do with it being British and more to do with the agonisingly slow process that stop-motion creation is! It also has to do with Peter Sallis' declining health and decision to retire from acting in the early 2010's.

* ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'' (short - 1989). Wherein Wallace and Gromit realise that they're out of cheese and the shops are closed. The solution? Build a rocket in the basement and take a trip to the moon... which, as everyone knows, is made of cheese. While there, they have an encounter with a coin-operated robot who's desperate to go skiing.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''A Matter Of Loaf And Death'' is to date the only instalment to have an honest-to-goodness murderer as a villain, and an actual death at the story's conclusion. It also features some edgier jokes than has been typical for its predecessors
* DeadpanSnarker: While Gromit is usually a SilentSnarker, the duo's mutual diary - published as the Cheese Lover's Yearbook - has little typewritten notes expressing Gromit's reaction to whatever is happening. After the entries for "A Close Shave":
--->'''Wallace''': Relieved to have come out of this in one piece.\\
'''Gromit''': Instead of several hundred, like Preston. - G

** Gromit is a silent DeadpanSnarker but he has UndyingLoyalty to Wallace and is also a good-hearted and caring soul.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: About 1/3 of Wallace's inventions, due to accidents (e.g. The Rabbit Rehabilitator), or misuse (e.g. the Power Trousers).

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