# Wallace and Gromit fan thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385 "2019-03-01T17:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/1 "2019-03-01T17:13:25Z")
I just checked, it doesn’t look like we have one. For those who haven’t yet discovered W&G’s charms: [Wallace and Gromit - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_and_Gromit) And to get things started, I thought I’d share this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/avxews/wallace\_sculpted\_from\_a\_40lb\_block\_of\_sharp/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/avxews/wallace_sculpted_from_a_40lb_block_of_sharp/) Don’t forget the crackers! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/2 "2019-03-01T17:22:47Z")
I love W&G, and have watched every bit of video I can find, including the Cracking Contraptions shorts. I was very sad when Peter Sallis died, and tracked down on youtube an old live-action comedy he had starred in, just to hear his voice. What’s this? Wikipedia says an actor named Ben Whitehead later voiced Wallace. I thought there had been no new W&G since Sallis’s death. Does this mean there’s something new that I’ve missed? Or that Wallis in the later years had a different voice actor? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/3 "2019-03-01T17:39:31Z")
Yes, here’s more on Whitehead: [Ben Whitehead - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Whitehead) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/4 "2019-03-01T17:43:27Z")
W&G are superb, and Aardman Animations had been consistently the best animation studio of the past decade. I remember seeing a trailer for _Chicken Run_. The words “Aardman Animations” were the first thing shown and I immediately thought “Nick Park!” and knew I’d be there the day it opened. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/5 "2019-03-01T18:12:51Z")
I love them, too. _Curse of the Were-Rabbi_t is my favorite animated film ever! Loved _Chicken Run_, too. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/6 "2019-03-01T18:27:46Z")
I love the sly “sidebar” jokes that won’t necessarily translate abroad. For instance, in Chicken Run, the one chicken who ends up in a pie for not producing enough eggs is called Edwina. Not so many years before the movie came out, a government minister for agriculture had to resign after a botched discussion of food contamination gave the impression that eggs were riddled with salmonella. Her name was Edwina. And in A Matter of Loaf and Death, Gromit’s bedroom wall boasts a poster for Citizen Canine, and among his possessions is a comic looking just like the 50s comic called Eagle - only it’s called Beagle. And somehow, for Curse of the Were-Rabbit, they got Helena Bonham-Carter (of all actresses,) to voice the line “Call me Totty!” Which was both puerile and wickedly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/7 "2019-03-01T18:37:35Z")
“It’s the wrong trousers Gromit! And they’ve gone wrong!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/8 "2019-03-01T18:44:33Z")
My favorite moment in _ **Chicken Run** _: **ROCKY:** (_After being asked where he comes from_) Oh, just a little place I call the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. **MAC:** What, Scotland?!? I must have watched _ **Chicken Run** _ a half-dozen times with my daughter when she was little. (She was born in Moscow in 1995.) Not long ago, she told me she didn’t get such jokes until she’d lived in Canada a while. (She moved here with her mother in 2005.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/9 "2019-03-01T19:25:15Z")
_A Close Shave_ and _The Wrong Trousers_ are my favorites. I’ve enjoyed the movies, but I just think W&G works better in short films. All-time favorite line: “You’ll be hunted down, like… well, a dog.” ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/10 "2019-03-01T19:33:55Z")
_Cheese!_ [waves hands in the air] ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/11 "2019-03-01T19:37:01Z")
I love when Gromit reads books like “Physics for Dogs”. It also tickles me that someone would write a book for dogs called “Physics for Dogs”. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/12 "2019-03-01T19:52:06Z")
My 4 year old grandson is at the age where he just wants to watch the same movies over and over again. His current favorites are WALL-E and the Incredibles. To break up the tedium (not that those aren’t good movies) one day I got him to let me put in Were-Rabbit, then we watched Chicken Run, then we found the W&G shorts on Amazon. So now he is a fan. And yeah I just love all the subtle little jokes, some of which I can’t believe they worked into a “kids” movie. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/13 "2019-03-01T20:31:09Z")
Mmmm, I do like a bit of Gorgonzola! :o ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/14 "2019-03-01T21:09:38Z")
‘Good grief, it’s You!’ Feathers McGraw removes his disguise. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/15 "2019-03-01T21:12:39Z")
I expect you’ll be wanting kippers for breakfast. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/16 "2019-03-01T21:14:43Z")
I was very sad a couple years ago when I heard [Peter Sallis](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-06/voice-behind-wallace-of-wallace-and-gromit-dies-aged-96/8592146) passed away ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/17 "2019-03-01T21:28:05Z")
I was reading the quotes from _ **Chicken Run** _ at IMDb, and there are some brilliant lines I either missed the first few times around (hard to believe) or had forgotten over the last 20 years or so. The funniest ones IMO are from when Mac does Scotty as they’re trying to get away in the flying machine: [_The plane reels as Mrs. Tweedy hangs on to it_] **Fowler:** Great Scott, what was that? **Mac:** A cling-on, Cap’n, and the engines can’t take it. **Fowler:** We need more power. **Mac:** I cannot work miracles, Cap’n. We’re giving her all she’s got. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/18 "2019-03-01T21:30:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And to get things started, I thought I’d share this: [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/avxews/wallace_sculpted_from_a_40lb_block_of_sharp/) The animator there, to sculpt a head of Wallace, used Sharp Cheddar. [Wallace] What’s wrong with Wensleydale?[/W] Well, it would crumble all over for starters… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/19 "2019-03-02T03:51:26Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > ‘Good grief, it’s You!’ > > Feathers McGraw removes his disguise. Oh Yes!! And the “Have you seen this chicken” wanted poster. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/20 "2019-03-02T09:44:48Z")
Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is completely bonkers but also top-notch, and the Nick Park directed Early Man probably comes closest of all of Aardman’s recent movies to capturing the spirit of early Wallace and Gromit: the omnicompetent boar sidekick Hognob is probably an early ancestor of Gromit. And Tom Hiddleston as the villainous Lord Nooth is just a joy: he uses a Monty Python French accent, and then turns the ham up to 11: Take him away and kill him slowly! (Guards drag away the hero at a snail’s pace) NO! TAKE HIM AWAY AT NORMAL SPEED AND THEN KILL HIM SLOWLY! IDIOTS! You have to admire the total commitment to a gag like that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385.md?page=2)