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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
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.
But most of all, I loved the line "Gromit, I've got a bomb in me pants!" 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.
Wow, it was awesome! I really enjoyed it. Now I'm excited for Telltale's games Congratulations to Aardman for receiving 14.3 million viewers. That is amazing!
I just saw it, I was disappointed. It was nice, good plot, but why murder? Wallace & Gromit isn't about murder, it's about action and suspense, not about people being murdered, now I have to say, it was dark.. And not because it was always sunset, because of the insane cereal killer known as
Do you really think it was more disturbing than "The Wrong Trousers"? I think Feathers McGraw is so much more upsetting with him being completely silent and his creepy looks.
In Curse of the Wererabbit, Victor spent some of the movie trying to
kill the wererabbit, completely aware that it's Wallace. Wallace did die because Victor was trying to kill him, even though he got better right afterwards. It's still more than the villain of A Matter of Loaf and Death managed.
A Cosworth engine in an Escort? That is baffling and awesome to me. You win this round, european Ford...
oh yes they were awesome, however with the power of the engine, and the lack of safety in an escort (1 star euro ncap) it is basically death to be within a close proximity of one let alone inside it
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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.
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.
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.
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
A Cosworth engine in an Escort? That is baffling and awesome to me. You win this round, european Ford...
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.
And I did go to the website, but nothing could help me there.
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!
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.
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.
Hot off the press, this 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.
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...
But most of all, I loved the line "Gromit, I've got a bomb in me pants!"
oh yes they were awesome, however with the power of the engine, and the lack of safety in an escort (1 star euro ncap) it is basically death to be within a close proximity of one let alone inside it
wiki link for the hell of it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth