It was a while ago in which Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit died. In at least two of the three things I’m going to cover, his was the only voice heard as no one else even spoke. I know that there was a 2008 special, A Matter of Loaf and Death, but I don’t know how to watch it at the moment so I’ll be skipping it for now, despite it also featuring Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace. I also won’t be covering these three specials in order, but you are more than free to read them that way if you want to. Now let’s get to Wallace and his involvement in the specials at hand.
The Wrong Trousers
Wallace starts out asleep until he hits a button in his bed for breakfast, being taken to the main floor there at hand. The landing is a bit painful. He needs money since he’s short on cash. He gives a present to his dog since it is his dog’s birthday. He gives his dog a collar and a leash, something Gromit does not like. Then comes a scary gift: techno-trousers. This leads to him being taken on a walk, but a decoy is used at one point in time.
Wallace lets in a penguin about a room to rent. This penguin wants Gromit’s room instead. Wallace helps put up wallpaper and decoration in another room, the spare one that he’s in now. Wallace seems to like this guest too much, which Gromit doesn’t like as Gromit runs away from home.
The morning after, Wallace finds himself in the wrong trousers, the techno-trousers. The controls are gone which leads to him being taken from place to place. He tells Gromit that they have gone wrong. It is revealed that the penguin is controlling them. Wallace is somehow about to put pajamas over these trousers as after his exhausting day, he goes to bed.
Gromit is later seen under Wallace’s bed as Wallace sleeps. Wallace continues to sleep as the penguin, now revealed to be a wanted chicken, takes him away. He is taken to where a diamond is on display. The penguin takes him to the roof where he goes through a vent and walks on a ceiling to be used to steal the diamond that’s there. A device on his head is used to steal the diamond.
After hitting an alarm by mistake due to a loose ceiling tile, Wallace is woken up and thinks that he’s dreaming. The penguin reveals himself. But he traps Wallace in a wardrobe. Gromit gets trapped there as well and fiddles with the controls on the trousers, breaking them out there.
Wallace gets stuck on a train and is able to help by taking the gun. He is later seen trying to catch the penguin with a next, but winds up catching part of the furniture. He then gets on the track behind Gromit who is able to build a way forward and they manage to catch the penguin and get the reward money to pay off all their debts. Wallace gets cheese and crackers for himself as this ends.
A Close Shave
Wallace is seen sleeping at one point. He and Gromit have a washing business. He is seen pushing a button wanting portage today since it is Tuesday. The machine malfunctions since the wires were bitten into. Wallace wants to make his own, but the box was bitten into as well. He notices a hole in the newspaper he is reading while saying that something fishing is going on.
He gets a call for a cleaning service so he takes himself and Gromit there to do it. It is a wool place where he sees a woman there. He meets her dog Preston. Her name is Wendolene. He stumbles over some words and talks about the sheep rustling and her wool that she has plenty of.
He and Gromit return home and he finally sees the sheep he was oblivious to before, not even realizing that it was a footrest for him as he read the plot convenience newspaper. He wants to get this sheep cleaned up. Wallace takes this sheep downstairs to the knit-o-matic. He watches as the machine winds up malfunctioning and accepts a small sweater from it. He names the sheep Shaun.
Wallace reminds Gromit that they are cleaning a clock which apparently isn’t hurt by this. He talks to Wendolene a lot about different things in the meantime. He continues to be oblivious to things as a herd of sheep go past him.
Later, he reads the paper about his dog’s arrest, being mistaken for a killer dog. Later, Wendolene comes and tells him to stay away from her and that she’s sorry about Gromit. The sheep are with him still as he passes time reading more newspapers about Gromit’s trial and imprisonment.
Unable to stand this, Wallace sends Gromit a mystery puzzle and busts him out of jail. They are fugitives. He notices that Wendolene and her dog are doing the sheep rustling and chases after her when her dog turns on her. The motorcycle winds up getting chased in return, but Gromit turns things around. Wallace gets separated from Gromit when the sidecar comes undone.
He is able to free the sheep briefly, but winds up captured with the sheep and Wendolene where they go to where Preston, the dog, makes his dog food. Shaun and also Gromit are able to assist in making sure that Wallace doesn’t get sucked into Wallace’s invention that Preston stole. Preston is a cyber dog. He does not do well prevent being sucked into this, although Shaun saves the day and Wallace’s life among the lives of everyone else.
Later, Wallace learns that Wendolene was able to reprogram her dog back to good. He offers her some cheese, but she is allegoric, ending any potential relationship between them. Wallace wants to eat the cheese that he has with a now exonerated Gromit, but Shaun is there eating the cheese instead. Gromit does nothing about this despite Wallace’s pleas.
A Grand Day Out
We begin with Wallace looking through various travel magazines, wondering where to go. Upon noticing that there is no cheese and eating a cracker on its own, he decides to go to the moon as the moon is made of cheese. But then, won’t there be less of the moon?
He designs a way of building a rocket to the moon. He kneels on top of an old yellow door as he saws it and once it predictably comes off the place where it is standing, he uses his dog Gromit to hold it up. The rocket gets built with everything under control as Wallace falls into it. He lights the fuse of it.
He has to quickly get the crackers and he does get it and back into the rocket before it blasts off. He reads the paper as they make their way to the moon. I’m unsure how they can do this without any space suits on, but this is Claymation, so I don’t really care as it isn’t realistic anyways. He takes a picture for the album. They do land on the moon which is, in fact, made of cheese.
They have a picnic on the surface of the moon. Again, no space suits and this is okay for both of them. Wallace can’t identify the type of cheese that is on the moon as it is like no cheese he has ever tasted. He messes with something that looks like a machine of sorts, but it doesn’t work until it comes to life. He had taken part of this machine off, a knob at the very right.
This machine notices Wallace eating part of the moon and as a protector, I guess, tries to strike Wallace with a bat, stopping right short of it having lost its powers. Wallace gets confused by it and goes back to the rocket when the robot chases after it. He starts an emergency countdown. The robot accidentally lights the fuse that Gromit had forgetting to. They do ultimately make it home and notice the robot skiing on part of the railing it took out of the rocket.
Well, I’m currently unsure how or if I can see A Matter of Loaf and Death here in America legally. I might see a bootlegged version online, but I feel that I got the classic three covered and that’s all that I need to do. I hope that you enjoyed this tribute to the late Peter Sallis.
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