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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne.

You can explain the magic of Wallace and Gromit, or maybe just part of it, in one scene.

It comes from the first ever installment of that series. It's called A Grand Day Out. Wallace is a goofy, bumbling, cheese-loving inventor, living in provincial England. With his dog

grommet, he builds a rocket to the moon, which is, as it turns out, made of cheese. So the

mission looks like it's a success. They're in the spaceship. They're coasting toward the moon.

And then Wallace realizes the fatal flaw in his plan.

No crackers, grommit. We've forgotten the crackers.

On the page, or maybe in an audio medium like this, that line doesn't inspire a big laugh.

But if you've seen the clip, you know that Wallace holds his big, goofy hands on either side of his face.

And I guess sort of for emphasis, kind of frantically waved them left to right. That little

gesture, I mean, for one thing, it is preposterous. Nobody actually does that with their hands,

not even like Liza Manelli or whatever. But it also somehow communicates so much about how goofy,

weird, and endearing the world of Wallace and Gromit is, the odd combination of the

lowest possible and highest possible stakes. The creator of Wallace and Gromit, who is my guest,

Nick Park, he made that choice to have those waving hands.

He, along with the famous stop-motion production company at which he works,

Ardman, have kept the Wallace and Gromit series going for more than 35 years.

There's a new Wallace and Gromit story.

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