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Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a British series of ten Wallace & Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's sceptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations. All ten shorts were aired on BBC One after the television premiere of Chicken Run (2000).
The idea for Cracking Contraptions came about when Japanese broadcasters were desperate for new material and asked if there were any shorts they could air on TV.
This was the first Wallace & Gromit production to be in widescreen.
Because no dogs are allowed into the shop, Wallace deploys a remote-controlled trolley equipped with a camera and accessories to retrieve cheese from it and carry it home. Though it successfully picks up the largest wheel of Edam in the shop, its weight causes one wheel to fall off. Gromit guides it to grab a loaf of French bread, which it uses as a crutch to limp home. The other wheel comes off at the front door, stopping the trolley and, in the process, dumping the Edam in the garden. Wallace sends Shaun the Sheep to bring it in here, but Shaun begins eating the Edam cheese instead. Wallace began calling Gromit, who is still in the basement, to stop Shaun, but Gromit, not wanting to get involved, ignores Wallace while Shaun happily munches away on the cheese. This short contains numerous references to NASA, especially the Apollo 13 mission.
To avoid the necessity for cooking, Wallace activates the Autochef, a robot chef equipped with a tea nozzle, frying pan and blender. He has it cook scrambled eggs, but they end up on Gromit's head instead of a plate (Gromit clearly suspects something like this will happen as he has donned a sou'wester to protect himself). Wallace decides that he will have fried eggs, but the Autochef throws them onto Wallace's eyes instead, which blinds him. It then starts to squirt hot tea all around the room saying nonsense. Gromit blocks the nozzle with a banana skin, which makes the Autochef shout more nonsense, getting faster and louder as the pressure increases, saying different phases. Finally, after a brief pause it declares "Knickers!” and explodes, destroying the dining room in the process. A weary Wallace resigns himself to having a continental breakfast the following morning.
Wallace has built a machine to make Christmas cards, with a camera hooked up to take the pictures for them. He has set up a crudely built snowy landscape in the living room, and Gromit - dressed in a bird costume - is reluctantly posing for the pictures. Wallace is pleased with the results, then hoists the backdrop away and walks off, not noticing the picturesque winter scene outside the window. The birds perched out there wave to Gromit, and one blows a party noisemaker at him when Wallace calls out for him to lick the stamps.
To activate the TV set without leaving his chair, Wallace launches a tennis ball into a hole in the wall. It triggers a mechanism that extends the TV across the room on a telescoping shaft, so that Wallace can reach the on/off and channel buttons. When he accidentally tunes into the wrong programme, he finds that he has no more balls available; Gromit hands him the TV remote control, but Wallace throws it into the hole in the wall instead of using it normally. The remote control jams the mechanism, causing the TV to shoot across the room and pin Wallace to the wall.
For the annual Grand Snowman Competition, Gromit is building a snowman that depicts Wallace as Rodin's "The Thinker", but he is interrupted by the arrival of Wallace with his new Snowmanotron machine. It builds a crude snowman and crushes the body of Gromit's creation, whose head falls off in his paws. An annoyed Gromit goes back into the house, slamming the door hard enough to dump a load of snow off the roof and onto Wallace so that it covers him completely. Realising that he now has a better-looking snowman than before, Gromit adds a carrot nose and eyes. He wins the competition, and Wallace, while later thawing himself out, says, "Well done, Gromit. But I thought that snowman was abominable!”.
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Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a British series of ten Wallace & Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's sceptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations. All ten shorts were aired on BBC One after the television premiere of Chicken Run (2000).
The idea for Cracking Contraptions came about when Japanese broadcasters were desperate for new material and asked if there were any shorts they could air on TV.
This was the first Wallace & Gromit production to be in widescreen.
Because no dogs are allowed into the shop, Wallace deploys a remote-controlled trolley equipped with a camera and accessories to retrieve cheese from it and carry it home. Though it successfully picks up the largest wheel of Edam in the shop, its weight causes one wheel to fall off. Gromit guides it to grab a loaf of French bread, which it uses as a crutch to limp home. The other wheel comes off at the front door, stopping the trolley and, in the process, dumping the Edam in the garden. Wallace sends Shaun the Sheep to bring it in here, but Shaun begins eating the Edam cheese instead. Wallace began calling Gromit, who is still in the basement, to stop Shaun, but Gromit, not wanting to get involved, ignores Wallace while Shaun happily munches away on the cheese. This short contains numerous references to NASA, especially the Apollo 13 mission.
To avoid the necessity for cooking, Wallace activates the Autochef, a robot chef equipped with a tea nozzle, frying pan and blender. He has it cook scrambled eggs, but they end up on Gromit's head instead of a plate (Gromit clearly suspects something like this will happen as he has donned a sou'wester to protect himself). Wallace decides that he will have fried eggs, but the Autochef throws them onto Wallace's eyes instead, which blinds him. It then starts to squirt hot tea all around the room saying nonsense. Gromit blocks the nozzle with a banana skin, which makes the Autochef shout more nonsense, getting faster and louder as the pressure increases, saying different phases. Finally, after a brief pause it declares "Knickers!” and explodes, destroying the dining room in the process. A weary Wallace resigns himself to having a continental breakfast the following morning.
Wallace has built a machine to make Christmas cards, with a camera hooked up to take the pictures for them. He has set up a crudely built snowy landscape in the living room, and Gromit - dressed in a bird costume - is reluctantly posing for the pictures. Wallace is pleased with the results, then hoists the backdrop away and walks off, not noticing the picturesque winter scene outside the window. The birds perched out there wave to Gromit, and one blows a party noisemaker at him when Wallace calls out for him to lick the stamps.
To activate the TV set without leaving his chair, Wallace launches a tennis ball into a hole in the wall. It triggers a mechanism that extends the TV across the room on a telescoping shaft, so that Wallace can reach the on/off and channel buttons. When he accidentally tunes into the wrong programme, he finds that he has no more balls available; Gromit hands him the TV remote control, but Wallace throws it into the hole in the wall instead of using it normally. The remote control jams the mechanism, causing the TV to shoot across the room and pin Wallace to the wall.
For the annual Grand Snowman Competition, Gromit is building a snowman that depicts Wallace as Rodin's "The Thinker", but he is interrupted by the arrival of Wallace with his new Snowmanotron machine. It builds a crude snowman and crushes the body of Gromit's creation, whose head falls off in his paws. An annoyed Gromit goes back into the house, slamming the door hard enough to dump a load of snow off the roof and onto Wallace so that it covers him completely. Realising that he now has a better-looking snowman than before, Gromit adds a carrot nose and eyes. He wins the competition, and Wallace, while later thawing himself out, says, "Well done, Gromit. But I thought that snowman was abominable!”.