# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**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 4, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/61 "2019-03-04T22:50:56Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > ‘East of Edam’ and ‘Fromage To Eternity’ _ **The Hunt for Red Leicester** _ ---
**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 5, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/62 "2019-03-05T07:00:18Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > Peter Sallis did the villain in a radio production of the Sherlock Holmes story _The Norwood Builder_. That was weird to listen to as I couldn’t help but visualize Wallace acting out the story. One of the first TV series I remember watching starred him in a dramatisation of Samuel Pepys’s diaries. [https://goo.gl/images/aPbFzk](https://goo.gl/images/aPbFzk) ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/63 "2019-03-05T09:00:21Z")
He was one of Dracula’s thralls in one of the Christopher Lee films as well. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/64 "2019-03-05T13:22:34Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Wallace and Gromit saved Wensleydale cheese: the factory was in danger of closing due to dwindling sales, until Wallace name-checked it in A Grand Day Out, when sales shot up. It’s also very good cheese: sharp and crumbly. In a similar vein, [Stinking Bishop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Bishop_cheese) cheese was prominently featured in _Were-Rabbit_ without the producers’ fore-knowledge and they couldn’t figure out for a while why demand for their artisanal cheese shot through the roof. ---
**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 5, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/65 "2019-03-05T14:49:57Z")
I ordered some Stinking Bishop from Amazon soon after the movie came out, just to see if it was deserving of the name. And it was, although it wasn’t \*that \*bad. To my untrained palate it tasted a bit like, and was somewhat similar to the consistency of, Camembert. ---
**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 5, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/66 "2019-03-05T17:47:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I ordered some Stinking Bishop from Amazon soon after the movie came out, just to see if it was deserving of the name. And it was, although it wasn’t \*that \*bad. To my untrained palate it tasted a bit like, and was somewhat similar to the consistency of, Camembert. Camem-_bert_? ---
**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 5, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/67 "2019-03-05T19:01:50Z")
It’s a bit runny, sir. ---
**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 5, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/68 "2019-03-05T19:19:00Z")
I linked to this the last time we had a W&G thread, and I’ll do so again. Here’s [Peter Sallis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqqDpZHwBg) in a clip from the show Last of the Summer Wine if you want to hear him again. Please note the cheese under discussion. ---
**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 5, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/69 "2019-03-05T19:51:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It’s a bit runny, sir. Whoops, the cat ate it! :smack: ---
**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 5, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/70 "2019-03-05T19:52:18Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Camem-_bert_? Oui; le “t,” 'e is silent. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/71 "2019-03-06T14:32:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I ordered some Stinking Bishop from Amazon soon after the movie came out, just to see if it was deserving of the name. And it was, although it wasn’t \*that \*bad. The Wiki article I linked to mentions that the cheese was named after the perry made from Stinking Bishop pears they wash the cheese in and the pears, in turn, were named after the [irascible nature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Bishop_pear) of the variety’s breeder and not any hygienic shortcoming he might have had. ---
**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 6, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/72 "2019-03-06T15:07:33Z")
It is nevertheless a rather smelly cheese. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/73 "2019-03-07T13:17:33Z")
Where do you suppose "Who cut the cheese?"came from? 🙂 ---
**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 8, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/74 "2019-03-08T10:14:46Z")
::Raises eyebrows a micron, shakes head slightly, goes back to soldering:: ---
**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 8, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/75 "2019-03-08T19:31:29Z")
My favorite part of _A Grand Day Out_ is when the little robot glues the tops back on the stalagmites. ---
**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 8, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/76 "2019-03-08T19:35:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > We’ll call him Shawn. And the rabbit they named “Warren”. HA HA HA! ---
**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 8, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/77 "2019-03-08T20:47:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > We’ll call him Shawn. I did not get this joke until just now! **DUH!** :smack: ---
**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 8, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/78 "2019-03-08T21:48:35Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I did not get this joke until just now! **DUH!** :smack: If I remember correctly, Wallace pronounces “Shawn” more like “Shorn”. Kind of. ---
**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 8, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385/79 "2019-03-08T22:02:44Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > If I remember correctly, Wallace pronounces “Shawn” more like “Shorn”. Kind of. As in the old joke: \*\*Australian tourist: \*\* Lissen, mate! Where I come from, we \*\*shear **those! \*\* New Zealand farmer:** (_Panting heavily_) Bloody hell! I’m not shearin’ this with anybody! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-and-gromit-fan-thread/830385.md?page=3)