Wallace and Gromit have aged like a fine cheese. Aardman’s stop-motion duo starred in multiple shorts throughout the ‘90s, but in recent years, they’ve taken a backseat while the studio focuses on other projects like Shaun the Sheep. Still, the duo has had no shortage of adventures: we’ve seen the two face off against mechanical dogs, try their hand at space travel, and solve a blood-curdling murder mystery. Their second foray, “The Wrong Trousers,” even worked as a tense thriller.
The key was in the short’s silent baddie, one heralded by Esquire as “cinema’s greatest villain.” In “The Wrong Trousers,” Wallace and Gromit take in a penguin named Feathers McGraw as a lodger, only to realize he’s a wanted murderer. Wallace almost meets the same fate at his flippers, but Gromit subdues the penguin and contains him in a zoo.
