A Grand Day Out
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. In the short film, Wallace and Gromit spend a bank holiday by building a homemade rocket to the Moon to sample cheese.
The short premiered on November 4 1989, at the Bristol Animation Festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on December 24 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4.
- Directed by Nick Park. Produced by Rob Copeland. Written by Nick Park and Steve Rushton.
Dialogue
[edit]- [First lines]
- Wallace: Eee, these bank holidays, it's a problem to decide. [Gromit snores] Tell you what, Gromit lad! [Gromit wakes up] Let's have a nice hot cup of tea, hm? [walks out of the room] Kettle should have boiled by now. [sets up the tea tray with cups, pours tea in the teapot, grabs some crackers from the cabinet, and pours some on the plate; checks the fridge; eyes widen] No cheese, Gromit! [Gromit begins to sulk a bit] Not a bit in the house! [brings the tray to the living room, and take a bit out of a cracker; eyes widen with a gulp] Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese! [Gromit is confused; looks at "Cheese Holidays" magazine] Now, where were we? Places you find cheese. Lancashire, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Philadelphia, Tesco's... [they stopped reading; then look out the window to see the moon] Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese...
- Wallace: 60 seconds to blast off. Oh! Unlock the doors. [Gromit pushes the button; the doors under the backyard opens, causing 3 garden knomes to fall; realizes that something's missing as Gromit looks on] No crackers, Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers! [Gromit became worried; slides down the ladder to get the crackers in full speed] Hold on, Gromit! Hold on! [grabs most of the pack of crackers from the cabinet; Gromit looks at the time, the fuse is still burning; runs back to the basement, climbs up the rocket, pushes down the ladder before locking the door shut. The fuse finished burning as the clock chimes the bells. Then they hear the rumbling sound; the rocket is about to lift off, shaking the whole basement. The mice look on, and put on dark shades of glasses. Gromit remembers with the snap, and pushes the lever as the rocket blasts off from the basement to the sky] GROOOMMMMIIITTT!!!
- Wallace: [takes a picture of Gromit with playing cards] One for the album.
- Wallace: Adjust angle of thrust. [presses 2 buttons] Steady now. [pushes the small lever] Easing up. [Gromit carefully finishes the pyramid of cards] Steady! [Gromit is making sure that the cards won't fall] Gently does it. [pulls the lever as the rocket lands on the moon, causing the cards to fall on the table, much to Gromit's annoyance]
- Wallace: Nice drop of tea to get the tastebuds going. [drinks the cup] Plate. [Gromit gives him the plate] Knife. [Gromit gives him the knife] Cracker. [Gromit gives him the crackers; cutting the cone, putting 'moon cheese' on it, eating it] Hmm? See what you think. [gives a bowl to Gromit, sniffing it] Wensleydale? [Gromit shakes his head] Stilton? [Gromit shakes his head again; swallows the cheese] I don't know, lad. It's like no cheese I've ever tasted. [wipes his mouth] Let's try another spot. [pulls Gromit]
- [The Cooker machine doesn't work]
- Wallace: [getting annoyed] Come on, stupid! [pulls off a part of the machine] Oh! [Gromit is stunned; fixes the knob; walks off] Oh! Daylight robbery. They always nick your money, them flippin' machines. Come on, Gromit.
- [Gromit follows Wallace]
- Wallace: Emergency countdown! 10 second of counting! Ugh!
- Wallace: Oh! Oh! The fuse! You forgot to light the fuse!
- [Last lines]
- Wallace: Set coordinates for 62 West Wallaby Street. [eats cheese with a cracker while looking at the cheese magazine]
- [Gromit pushes the lever, as the rocket flies back to earth]
Taglines
[edit]- From the Oscar-winning creator of The Wrong Trousers.
- From the Oscar-winning creator of Creature Comforts.
- From the makers of Chicken Run.
Cast
[edit]- Peter Sallis as Wallace
