What A Cartoon! - Wallace & Gromit "The Wrong Trousers"

As a fully fledged, tea & crumpets, absolutely confirmed British "chap" (or "bloke" if you'd rather) there is nothing funnier to me than hearing americans saying british names, doing british accents, talking about british things and really british-ing up the place. so thanks for this episode - Wallace and Gromit is probably the most british thing to have ever happened so this episode has been an absolute comedy rollercoaster for me.

This is along comment and will be of interest to no one but its one of the reasons I love W&G so much. I am a music teacher in the UK and I teach a unit of work on film music that requires students to compose music that fits with a clip. I always choose clips from The Wrong Trousers and no student has ever complained, not even PRU students (ones kicked out of other schools). We always watch the short as a class (in case they've never seen it) and I have to say I love watching my 13 &14 year olds drop all pretence and just loose themselves in some cheesy puns! P.S. This episode also made me realise that listening to Americans talk about Britain is my new favourite thing - I found it utterly charming!

The Shaun the Sheep movie is fantastic.

Nina C.

Yeah I've also heard it as a generic insult, in place of wimp. Also heard it used in place of effeminate, ie "stop being a nonce" = "stop being effeminate" kind of like man up

Timmy Time was great.

Matt Deakin

In 1977 Aardman created the character Morph in a series of shorts for a children's art show Take Hart with Tony Hart. I believe there is a whole bundle of stuff on YouTube including a more recent Kickstarter channel for newer episodes.

Matt Deakin

It can also be used as a generic insult, but yes, it's usually saved for sex offenders. It pops up in tabloid newspapers quite a lot

Alex Bullock

So does 'nonce' mean something other than a sexual offender? I've seen it used in reference to Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville.

John Harrison

Didn't know the term Y shirt existed outside Japan

Sadie Carter

In high school I once called the sleeveless undershirts by their colloquial name in front of my mother...I was corrected and learned that they are "A-shirts", in that they make the shape like the letter 'A" similar to short sleeve shirts being "T-shirts" and long sleeve shirts being "Y-shirts".

John Harrison

The train chase is the greatest scene in the history of motion picture

Stuart Gipp

Been catching up after university has finished taking over my life and so glad this episode was the latest one. Wallace has always meant a lot to me being from Yorkshire, the county where Peter Salis and presumably Wallace come from though not where the series is set, and for having been introduce to it by my grandad who is so much like Wallace it’s ridiculous. I’m glad to see the shorts translated so well considering how incredibly British, and specifically northern English, the series has always felt to me.

So glad this got picked! We have a real reverence for Wallace & Gromit in the UK, where it plays every Christmas on the BBC, but it's always hard to tell how things have travelled. I'm glad Aardman get the recognition they deserve, even if it's most prominent among animation nerds. As far as your Brit specific questions, 'Chuck' is Northern slang for a friend or acquaintance. You'll find regional variations on this everywhere - love, mate, duck, mucker and pet are all things you might call someone affectionately. The UK: 'tis a silly place.

Alex Bullock

Another reason why Shawn the Sheep is so popular is because there is no dialogue spoken which allows the show to be sold overseas without the need for translation. Even the feature film of Shaun the Sheep had no dialogue.

Darren Hinchy

The Hitchcock comparison is great, I'd never thought of it before. Also not only did Shaun of the Sheep get a spin off, one of its characters also got a spin off. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Time" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Time</a> So a spin off of a spin off of a short film. Also minor technical note, I think one of the break clips was playing only on one channel because I only heard it through one earphone.

SuperBiasedGary

Hi, small correction the "undershirt" Wallace wears, rather than it being "how thread looks at that size" it is in fact a string vest which older and normally working class men used to wear as part of their underwear in the UK. It is less common these days but there are still a few older men who wear them.. just thought I'd let you know and stop you imagining Wallace at the gay club! Great show btw first time listening to what a cartoon as I have not been aware of most of the others you've covered as I'm English so we don't get all of your shows

Excellent! As a huge Aardman fan I've been looking forward to this one! Will comment more after listening.

Chris J