A Grand Day Out

A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as Wallace and 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.

'''From the Oscar-winning creator of The Wrong Trousers. '''taglines

Dialogue

 * [first lines]
 * Wallace: Eee, these bank holidays. It's a problem to decide. Tell you what, Gromit lad!
 * [Gromit wakes up]
 * Wallace: Let's have a nice hot cup of tea, hm? [walks out of the room] Kettle should have boiled by now.


 * Wallace: No cheese, Gromit. Not a bit in the house.


 * Wallace: Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!
 * [Wallace looks at "Cheese Holidays" magazine]
 * Wallace: [looking at the magazine] Now then, where were we? Places you find cheese. Lancashire, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Philadelphia, Tesco's...
 * [The duo then out window]
 * Wallace: Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese...


 * Wallace: 60 seconds to blast off! Oh! Unlock the doors!


 * Wallace: No crackers Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!


 * [Wallace is eating the moon]
 * Wallace: I don't know, lad. It's like no cheese I've ever tasted. Let's try another spot.


 * [The machine doesn't work]
 * Wallace: [getting annoyed] Come on, stupid!
 * [pulls off a part of the machine]
 * Wallace: [slightly stunned] Oh!


 * Wallace: [referring to "The Cooker"] Oh! Daylight robbery! They always nick your money, them flippin' machines. Come on, Gromit.


 * Wallace: Oh! Oh! The fuse! You forgot to light the fuse!


 * Wallace: Set coordinates for 62 West Wallaby Street.

Taglines

 * From the Oscar-winning creator of The Wrong Trousers.
 * From the Oscar-winning creator of Creature Comforts.
 * From the makers of Chicken Run.

Cast

 * Peter Sallis as Wallace