Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

Name: Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Released: 2002-12-21
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Peter Sallis

TV Series
20022002
TV-GTV-G
20m

7.6/10

2.7K

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Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002)

Animation Short Comedy

Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned.Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned.Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned.

7.6/10

2.7K

Star
- Peter Sallis

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Peter Sallis

Wallaceas Wallace

10 episodes10 eps • 2002

Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned.

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Trivia
In the episode "The Tellyscope," the program that is on at first is "When Penguins Turn." This could be a reference to Feathers McGraw, the main villain of The Wrong Trousers (1993), another Wallace and Gromit short.

Crazy credits
in the opening theme song of each episode, a contraption machine of Wallace's forms into the title card. one part of the machine shows a spoon mixing tea in a teacup.

Connections
Featured in Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo (2003)

Soundtracks
Good King Wenceslas
(uncredited)
Traditional tune, lyrics by John M. Neale and Thomas Helmore

Top review

5/10

Short clips to help with the full-length film

These Wallace and Gromit short clips were originally broadcast over the BBC web site in 2002, and they featured Wallace demonstrating many different inventions to Gromit. These shorts were developed as a test (and to practice animation) before the full-length film was in production. They used these as a sort of training before making the film.

These short clips were enjoyable and clever in their own right. However, they are not very memorable. The only one that seems to stick with me in any way or form is Wallace and Gromit playing tennis with some sort of automatic tennis player.

Die-hard Wallace and Gromit fans and any fan of this technique of animation would enjoy these, but I would recommend the Wallace and Gromit shorts 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'The Close Shave' to anyone who hasn't seen Wallace and Gromit.

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