A Matter of Loaf and Death

[xChri5x]

I was refreshing my knowledge on Wallace & Gromit on wikipedia and found out that another short is being released soon called A Matter of Loaf and Death. It's suppost to be pretty much done and will be aired sometime this year.
It's nice to know that they'll still live on in their original medium too!

The story has Wallace and Gromit becoming bakers. In addition there is a murder mystery, and a new love interest for Wallace in the shape of bread enthusiast Piella Bakewell. Park expressed delight in returning the characters to British television, as "I don't feel like I'm making a film for a kid in some suburb of America — and being told they're not going to understand a joke, or a northern saying."[

[jp-30]

Ha, I wonder if the games' subtitles will use proper English rather than American English spellings?

;)

[tobar]

"Proper English?" Well ain't that a hoot 'n a holler!

Also, awesome news about the new Wallace & Gromit short!

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.
Oh, and proper English spelling in subtitles would be spiffing.

*sips tea*

[Tellyn]

This is going to do nothing for the traditional British stereotype. :p British spelling would be fantastic, even though we have to wait longer for games to be translated into loads of different languages in Europe, Americanisms are never changed. 'Favorite', 'color', 'center', etc. Telltale, if the Americanisms are abolished in the game, I will possibly send every member of your team a new sports car.

Possibly.

[patters]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.
Oh, and proper English spelling in subtitles would be spiffing.

*sips tea*

i don't think it would be right without the correct spellings of the words. please for the love of god do the british spellings

[Badwolf]

Thank god I'm not the only one who was bothered about that.

EDIT: Also, extra kudos if it comes out in Series rather than Seasons.

Also, cos I just realised we're really hijacking the topic here, I heard about the new one (A Matter of Loaf and Bread) a while back, I'd completely forgotten until now though.

[Chuck]

Telltale, if the Americanisms are abolished in the game, I will possibly send every member of your team a new sports car.
That sounded tempting until we realized they'd be British sports cars.

[MaxFan]

Hey, at least they didn't offer to cook for you.

[Yellowtail]

No loafing?

[Tellyn]

That sounded tempting until we realized they'd be British sports cars.

Ah, well. *goes back to sipping tea*

[splash1]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.
Oh, and proper English spelling in subtitles would be spiffing.

*sips tea*

Ah yes that would be smashing, crumpet?

[Mysterysheep]

The irony of it all is that I actually am sipping tea.

[Rather Dashing]

Hey, at least they didn't offer to cook for you.

Or do your dental work. ;)

[Tellyn]

Tea sipping, crumpets, cooking, dental work, I'd imagine you think we all talk like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, too? :p

[patters]

That sounded tempting until we realized they'd be British sports cars.

british sports cars
-noble
-morgan
-ariel
-radical
-caterham

american sports cars
-corvette
-ford

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Hey, at least they didn't offer to cook for you.
What? That doesn't make any sense

[patters]

What? That doesn't make any sense

apparently we brits can't cook, ahem, i find these stereotypes offensive.

[Rather Dashing]

It's okay, patters. You can call me fat and stupid if it'd make you feel better. =p

[Badwolf]

apparently we brits can't cook, ahem, i find these stereotypes offensive.

They're preferable to the ones we'd have if the outside world heard about chavs /:

[Tellyn]

They're preferable to the ones we'd have if the outside world heard about chavs /:

100% truthfulness.

[Shambling Corporate Poster]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.
Oh, and proper English spelling in subtitles would be spiffing.

*sips tea*
*feels Stereotyped*

Lol. That's wdonerful though, seeing the two still making shorts is quite Spiffing

*rolls eyes*

[Guybrush Threepwood]

*feels Stereotyped*

Lol. That's wdonerful though, seeing the two still making shorts is quite Spiffing

*rolls eyes*

*is English*

[stronggamer]

i like green tea ,for the eco brit

[Rather Dashing]

So.

What *are* chavs?

[Awesome5]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.
Oh, and proper English spelling in subtitles would be spiffing.

*sips tea*

DAAAAAH! Culture shock! Culture Shock!

[Nuroticat]

So.

What *are* chavs?

(insert pic of Ali G. here)

[V_Ben]

Strangely Enough, I'm British, And I HATE tea... (And Chavs)

[deadlinejon]

wow this went off topic pretty fast.

[langley]

In an effort to try and get us back on track, I will say that our own Dave Bogan and Dan Connors went to visit the Aardman people the other week and got to visit the set of A Matter of Loaf and Death. From what I understand, it was pretty awesome. Plus, we got to show them work of what we've done so far, and they seemed excited.

[Tjibbbe]

Wow, good to hear the guys at Aardman are interested in this project.

I guess no secret pictures of the set have been taken?;)

[RobD]

Strangely Enough, I'm British, And I HATE tea...


Isn't that treason?:eek:

:p

[someguyfromazoo]

Wow, can't wait for it. I love Wallace & Gromit!

[Zootch]

Do not play the crossdressing card so many British "comedians" love to play. It's not funny, it's not edgey... it's pathetic.
This is the reason I hate Benny Hill so much.

That said, be sure to SATURATE the game with Doctor Who references!

[ted12]

i don't think it would be right without the correct spellings of the words. please for the love of god do the british spellings


Pip-Pip, tally-ho!

[Limenut]

In an effort to try and get us back on track, I will say that our own Dave Bogan and Dan Connors went to visit the Aardman people the other week and got to visit the set of A Matter of Loaf and Death. From what I understand, it was pretty awesome. Plus, we got to show them work of what we've done so far, and they seemed excited.

Ooooh, Aardman. Are they doing anything that could be construed as involvement?
Oh, and Zootch? No-one likes Benny Hill. Even Benny Hills' mum didn't like Benny Hill. Cross-dressing stopped being funny sometime around the dawn of the steam locomotive.
I'm more of a Jack Dee, or Tim Minchin man, myself.
>_>
<_<
*Sips Ovaltine*

[ShaggE]

On the bright side, it spawned the greatest theme song in the history of theme songs that are great theme songs.

[tabacco]

The song wasn't written for Benny Hill, as far as I know. It's called 'Yakety Sax' and is by Boots Randolph:

http://www.amazon.com/Yakety-Sax/dp/B000WHGWAI/

[Mel]

The song wasn't written for Benny Hill, as far as I know. It's called 'Yakety Sax' and is by Boots Randolph:

http://www.amazon.com/Yakety-Sax/dp/B000WHGWAI/

The things you know amaze me! :D

[ShaggE]

I always thought it was composed for BH... interesting! But my point still stands, because I'm always right by default. :p

[Imapus Sylicker]

Hey, I like Benny Hill...

Cheers!

[Lena_P]

Cross-dressing isn't funny, unless it's Kids in the Hall. Or, to be more specific, Dave Foley. Proper "British" spelling? You mean French spelling, don't you? Theatre, metre, tyre ... oh wait. Okay, okay, so tyre is British, I guess, if you ignore the city in Lebanon of the same name. But People of Uk, do not despair! To prepare themselves for the Britishness that they are about to create, the people of Telltale have all begun a strict regimen of watching two hours of public television a night.
For those of you not in the know, public television in the United States, are independent but connected television stations that are funded completely by the American people ... and huge multinationals like ExxonMobil. To differentiate themselves from the coarser for profit television stations, they show educational, culturally uplifting programs, like Eastenders, The Vicar of Dibley and, of course, Are You Being Served? After a week of that, the Telltale staff will be so British, they'll start talking about heading down to their local for a bacon sarnie before buying some sachets from Boots.

[Shwoo]

I just saw it. Sorry UK people, but you do get Doctor Who before we do! It was really good, kind of like all the other Wallace & Gromit shorts are. And the movie too.

I guessed that the new love interest was the murderer literally five seconds in. Or however long it took for Baker Bob to turn and say "Oh, it's you". I forgot how I figured that out. Probably guessed that there wouldn't be many bread related new characters in the show.

Then she was so blatantly evil so early that I stopped patting myself on the back for it really quickly.

I liked Fluffles, or whatever her name was, but I don't know why Gromit puts up with Wallace. And as much as I dislike "pooch" as a word for dog, I think I "poochy-woochy-wooch", or whatever she said, might be even worse.

[S@bre]

That sounded tempting until we realized they'd be British sports cars.

And what's wrong with Aston Martins? Sir, they've regularly beat your Yank Corvettes on the track over the last few years. We don't have many sports car brands going in this country any more, but the ones we do are good performers.

I trust Telltale understand quite how cultural Wallace and Gromit are in the UK. If it goes wrong (ie Bosco's impressions of the English in Situation: Comedy), expect the HMS Ark Royal to be sitting off the coast of San Rafael with Tornados ready to surgically strike your office. I'm fairly confident that they should be able to get the British humour right in it though.

[tabacco]

Until recently, Aston Martin was owned by Ford :)

[patters]

And what's wrong with Aston Martins? Sir, they've regularly beat your Yank Corvettes on the track over the last few years. We don't have many sports car brands going in this country any more, but the ones we do are good performers.

i've said previously in this thread we have more sports cars than the US do, they mainly have muscle and super cars, we have real sports cars ie morgans

Until recently, Aston Martin was owned by Ford :)
their HQ was still in england, despite being owned by ford, despite their cars being made of escort switches, thats like saying the escort cosworth was an american car when it wasn't

[LittleBuddy]

I saw it yesterday. Don't think it'll ever be broadcast here, W&G are not famous here so I guess I'll have to import the DVD. Meh. Back on topic, I thought it was pretty good, some gags were hilarious,

and I really cracked up at the whole finale. From the spoof of Batman: The movie with the bomb, the yorkshire border joke, the random Woman ms Machine fight and the way she fell to the cocrodile pit... as Mr. Burns would put it, excellent.

[Shauntron]

thats like saying the escort cosworth was an american car when it wasn't

A Cosworth engine in an Escort? That is baffling and awesome to me. You win this round, european Ford...

[seanvanaman]

Please make sure this game has some British humour in it.

Rest assured, we're doing out darnedest to bring the appropriate level of British-ness to the game.

Like not using vocabulary such as darnedest for instance.

[Falzo]

Does anyone have an idea when it could be seen in Canada?

And I did go to the website, but nothing could help me there.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I just saw it. Sorry UK people, but you do get Doctor Who before we do! It was really good, kind of like all the other Wallace & Gromit shorts are. And the movie too.

Hey, what?! That's because Doctor Who is a British production. I feel miffed that America got to see the new Wallace & Gromit before the UK did... goes against Nick Park saying he is glad to be back making it for British television. Ah well, it's a nice Christmas day treat.

[Emily]

Hey, what?! That's because Doctor Who is a British production. I feel miffed that America got to see the new Wallace & Gromit before the UK did... goes against Nick Park saying he is glad to be back making it for British television. Ah well, it's a nice Christmas day treat.

Um... I'm not sure where Shwoo saw it, but North American air dates haven't even been announced for A Matter of Loaf and Death. (We've been asking our contacts at Aardman about this for months!) It is premiering in the UK on Christmas and from what I understand the BBC is making a very big deal about it!

[Tjibbbe]

The showed it a few weeks ago on Australian television. I don't know if the station was allowed to show it early, but that's why there are already quite a number of reviews online. I'm waiting for christmas, I'm from the Netherlands, so I can just watch it on BBC, together with the UK.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Um... I'm not sure where Shwoo saw it, but North American air dates haven't even been announced for A Matter of Loaf and Death. (We've been asking our contacts at Aardman about this for months!) It is premiering in the UK on Christmas and from what I understand the BBC is making a very big deal about it!

Oops, my bad. Thanks for the info too Tjibbbe, although I am still a bit miffed about the UK not having the first showing. Anyway, yes, the BBC are making a big deal -- Wallace and Gromit have their own BBC1 Christmas idents, and they have also taken over the BBC's YouTube page.

[BlackMageJ]

Just saw it.

I hereby demand that Fluffles show up in Grand Adventures. She was brilliant.

[Mouldcube]

Just saw it.

I hereby demand that Fluffles show up in Grand Adventures. She was brilliant.

hey, I was going to say that.
please put her in!
PUT! HER! IN!
...please.

[splash1]

Wait, it's out already for the Americans? What a rip-off for England!

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Cracking viewing figures, Gromit! Animated duo Wallace and Gromit have topped the Christmas Day TV ratings with their latest adventure.

Hot off the press, this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7800091.stm) BBC news story announces that the program "secured the biggest Christmas Day TV audience for five years", with an average of 14.3 million viewers, and this isn't even accounting people who will watch it via recordings.

I personally loved it, very good small details and jokes (Yorkshire border, for example) - hopefully Telltale retain this touch in the games.

[Chris1]

Well, Christmas day has passed and I've seen it now ^_^;;

I think the reason for us seeing it after others was that the Beeb were holding it back for Christmas day - Wallace and Gromit on Christmas Day is sort of a tradition, after all!

Really enjoyed it - and it's had the side-effect that it's pot me in the mood for the Telltale game now...

[Jennifer]

I just saw it too. I loved it. :D

I especially loved the parody of the movie Ghost with the bread dough on the pottery wheel, the weapons of mass destruction shed, and Gromit's expression when Wallace asked him if he was a fruitcake. :D

But most of all, I loved the line "Gromit, I've got a bomb in me pants!" :D The way Peter Sallis delivered that line just had me laughing the first time I saw it. Then when I rewound it, and I saw Wallace's expression, I laughed even harder. :D

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Wow, it was awesome! :D I really enjoyed it. Now I'm excited for Telltale's games :D Congratulations to Aardman for receiving 14.3 million viewers. That is amazing!