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How many film/tv/music references?

posted 15 years ago by chantelle_gymer2000
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E.g
1)Reference - Parody scene

1)Batman - Stopping throwing the bomb out the window due to ducks and nuns.
2)Ghost - "Sculpting" with bread
3 Pulp Fiction - In the rubbish bin is a book called "Pup Fiction" along with BAGPUSS! <--- LOL!
4)Citizen Kane - A poster for "Citizen Canine" <-- My dad and I laughed HARD at that.
5)Top Gun - Top Bun 'nuff said.
6)Puppy Love by Donny Osmond - Puppy Love by DoGGy Osmond
7)Mcfly (band) - McFLEA <--XD!
8)The Sound of Music - The HOUND Of Music also on Fluffles records
9)Toy Story/Spiderman - Where Gromit's stuck in the chandellier. Wow, those are two films I'd never previously put in the same sentence. (Did anyone else pick that up?)
10) The Matrix - Where Wallace leaps slow-mo to grab Gromit.
11)Fairy Liquid (anyone living in the Uk will know what that is) - FURRy Liquid.
12)"Flower Power" - Written on a sticker on the van is "Flour Power", I rolled my eyes but it's still funny.
13) Swan Matches - Duck matches
14)Tarzan - Gromit swinging from the balloon
15)The Great Escape (possibly) - Wallace "escaping" (even for me that's lame) from Piella through some tunnels. Unsucessfully of course.
16) Puccini - POOCHini
Can anyone find anymore?

BONUS: The licence plate on the van says "D0H NUTS"

No day but today - RENT

[–] lovedawn 15 years ago

You totally missed 'Aliens'. The whole sequence with Wallace crawling under the grates, and Piella ripping them up. Then Fluffles shows up in a forklift and battles Piella, like Ripley in the powerloader against the Alien Queen.

The title itself is a pun of 'A Matter of Life and Death', a Powell and Pressburger film. (and an album by Iron Maiden)

The baker murdered in the opening is Baker Bob. The short is co-written by Bob Baker.

Cake shop shows poster "Hot Cakes" with a "Sold Out" sticker — a play on the expression "selling like hot cakes".

The rear door of the van features a sticker marked "Flour to the people". (Power to the people)

Piella's character is a tribute to a 70s TV advert for Nimble bread (featuring a girl suspended from a balloon). Bake-O-Lite could be a take on Bakelite, a type of plastic.

Wallace passes Gromit the steering wheel with the classic phrase "Take the Wheel!" - fortunately there is a spindle for it on the passenger side.

Feathers McGraw (the penguin from The Wrong Trousers) makes an appearance on a poster outside the Zoo. There are also similar-looking penguins in the zoo when Piella's balloon goes into the crocodile pit.

Wallace tells Piella that he is 'In Bread', a play on the word inbred.

Following the shot of Wallace touching Piella's hand is a shot of the bread rapidly rising in a heart shape. (a parody on 'romantic' images, such as fireworks exploding, rockets taking off, trains going into tunnels etc.)

There's a poster with "Fly to Venice with Cheesy Jet". (EasyJet)

Piella's shoes have a "POUCHI" label in them. (Gucci)

The shed in which Gromit hides all of the knives and other small possible weapons has a 'WMD' sign on the door.

Albums in the van include "Pouchini" (Puccini), "The Beagles" (The Beatles), "The Hound of Music" (The Sound Of Music).

"My PC smells funny"

[–] axis12002 15 years ago

Laurel & Hardy "Towed in A Hole" - 'Blowing' on their finger to raise their hats

Man With Two Brains - Wallace licks his hands to use them as suction pads

Indians Jones & The Temple of Doom - Wallace trying to stop the bike is similar to Indy on the rail car.

Return of The Jedi - Crocodile pit scene is similar to the Sarlacc pit.

Camberwick Green - Windy Miller's mill sails also pass directly across his front door

Hitchcock / Jaws etc - 'Dolly zoom' on Gromit when Wallace announces his engagement.

Dr Who (Voyage of the Damned) - alternate source for forklift driving to a precipice

Foreign Correspondent - the mechanical workings of Wallace's mill look similar to those in this Hitchcock film.

Oh, Mr Porter! - Wallace riding the mill sails

[–] nick_payne 15 years ago

Although Doctor Who uses a forklift/loading device, I still believe Aliens was the original reference. The lighting, camera angle and surrounding elements are the same as in aliens (they even had it on during the best films of the 80's last night to compare).

[–] ManlyStump 15 years ago

I've managed to get hold of it in HD, and I just noticed that the record Fluffles puts on at the end reads "Parlobone" instead of "Parlophone".

[–] axis12002 15 years ago

I would certainly agree with you that the W&G sequence is clearly a reference to Aliens - the lighting alone should confirm this.

However, I actually had in mind the very end of that sequence (from the point where Wallace slides down from his bed & Gromit comes up through the trapdoor) which I think is visually closer to Dr Who.

[–] Crazy-_-Beautiful 15 years ago

Another I've just noticed after watching it again- at the beginning on the newspaper there is a headline saying Preston are playing in the cup tie, and there's a shop called Tank-Top Man

Fry doesn't have beer goggles. He has Madeira Pince-nez

[–] martinu-2 15 years ago

- the channel-selection buttons on the car radio toaster: MUTT

- Meatabix dog food (Weetabix)

[–] madmardy 15 years ago

also just before he jumps onto the bike for the temple of doom reference wallace is hanging onto the front of the van in a very clear reference to indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark. thats two indy films

[–] korax1214 15 years ago

When the four of them crash through the zoo gates and fall headfirst into the crocodile pit, to the right of the gate is a poster saying "One of our penguins is missing". I'm sure there was a film called One of Our Submarines is Missing.

The penguin on the poster isn't explicitly stated to be Feathers McGraw (from The Wrong Trousers), but looks exactly like him. The ladder up against the wall on the other side of the gate, with sheets knotted into a rope dangling from it, is another strong hint. ;)

[–] axis12002 15 years ago

That would be either "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" or "One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing".

I would probably go for the latter as there are dinosaur skeletons in the museum in "The Wrong Trousers"

[–] [email protected] 15 years ago

That would be either "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" or "One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing".
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There's also a Man From U.N.C.L.E film called 'One of Our Spies Is Missing'

[–] thjoden 15 years ago

The stair scene in Piella's house before Gromit went into her bedroom <--> the stair scene in Psycho before Arbogast got killed

Actually this stair scene reminds me of similar shots in a number of horror movies

[–] efcdamo-1 15 years ago

The scene in Piella's bedroom when Gromit falls onto the bed and Piella opens her eyes is I believe a parody of the scene in An American Werewolf in London were David is dreaming he is running through the forest and comes across himself in the hospital bed, watch em both and see what you think

[–] comedyfish 14 years ago

Duck matches - rather than Swan