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* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Phillip, Victor's dog, and Gromit, near the end.
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** Gromit also rolls his eyes when Wallace makes a comment about the rabbits breeding like...you know.
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* ManHug: Wallace and Gromit give one another one after Wallace awakens from nearly dying.
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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Victor, after a fashion, at the end of the film. Gromit dresses him up in the female rabbit costume and sends him out to the mob, who chase him away.
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** The Were-Rabbit [[spoiler: (Wallace)]] emits a LoudGulp as Victor Quartermaine takes aim at him during the final fight scene.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat carat."carat, bunny boy."
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* StabTheSalad: When Lady Tottington asks what Wallace and Gromit are going to do with the bunnies they have caught, the next shot has Gromit holding something on a cutting board and raising a big knife...and then he starts cutting up carrots for the bunnies.
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* StabTheSalad: When Lady Tottington asks what Wallace and Gromit are going to do with one of the bunnies they have caught, villagers grumpily remarks that she hopes the rabbits "get what's coming to them", the next shot has Gromit holding something on a cutting board and raising a big knife...and then he starts cutting up carrots for the bunnies.
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* ItsPersonal: Victor is the one of of the few who knows the real identity of the Were-Rabbit and makes it clear to Lady Tottington that this trope is the real reason why he wants the creature killed.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: Victor.
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* SoreLoser: Victor.
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* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible, at least one of which (Wensleydale) was chosen because it looked funny when Wallace said it.
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* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible, at least one of which (Wensleydale) was chosen because it looked funny when Wallace said it. possible.
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* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible.
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* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible.possible, at least one of which (Wensleydale) was chosen because it looked funny when Wallace said it.
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* ToTheBatpole: Our heroes suit up via a Heath Robinson-esque process, depicted in all its absurd detail, complete with several direct references to Gerry Anderson and ''{{Thunderbirds}}''.
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* ToTheBatpole: Our heroes suit up via a Heath Robinson-esque process, depicted in all its absurd detail, complete with several direct references to Gerry Anderson and ''{{Thunderbirds}}''.''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''.
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** Gromit when Wallace [[spoiler: begins to turn into the Were-Rabbit]]. He reacts by locking the doors of the van.
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'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We take check, cash or money order.
'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We take check, cash or money order.
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-->'''Victor:''' I want... toupee, toupée, please.\\
'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We takecheck, cheque, cash or money order.
'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We take
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Wallace remains completely unaware that he is the Were-Rabbit, while he is trying to figure out how to get rid of it.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Wallace is the Were-Rabbit.]]
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** To ''Peanuts'' and Snoopy's role-play as a "World War 1 Flying Ace", when Gromit is flying a Sopwith Camel, and Philip is in a red triplane, like the Red Baron.
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** At some point, Gromit turns on the radio, and the song is Art Garfunkel's ''[[WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]''. He turns it off and [[LampshadeHanging rolls his eyes]].
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* BritishAccents: Wallace and the villagers have OopNorth accents. Lady Tottington and Victor Quatermaine have more upper-class accents.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/DreamWorks kept sending notes to Nick Park, telling him to changes things like the design of Wallace's car to appeal to Americans. Ultimately, the only change that was forced upon Aardman was toning down the British accents. Also, they re-dubbed every mention of marrows to "melon", in the US release, because [=DreamWorks=] thought most Americans wouldn't know what a marrow was.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Victor is not impressed by the vicar's little joke about how many "carrots" are in the gold bullets needed to kill the Were-Rabbit.
* LamePunReaction: Victor is not impressed by the vicar's little joke about how many "carrots" are in the gold bullets needed to kill the Were-Rabbit.
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* TheRedStapler: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Bishop_cheese Stinking Bishop cheese]] is featured in a plot-critical moment. Sales of this niche culinary product rose by 500% after the film was released.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DreamWorks apparently attempted to replace Peter Sallis with an American actor. Aardman disliked this request, but they came to a compromise to cast well-known British actors like Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, while keeping Sallis in the title role.
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* BigNo: Victor yells this in frustration [[spoiler:when Gromit uses his plane to take the bullet meant for Were-Rabbit Wallace.]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: Victor gives a most indignant ''"Potty POO!!!"'' after [[spoiler: Gromit blocks his shot at the Were Rabbit]].
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* ShoutOut: Several. The entire film's a Hammer Horror parody, even. They range from Dracula to KingKong to Jaws, and so on.
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''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creators/DreamWorksAnimation and AardmanAnimations, as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.
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''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creators/DreamWorksAnimation Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and AardmanAnimations, as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.
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''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit.
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''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit.
Franchise/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creators/DreamWorksAnimation and AardmanAnimations, as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.
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* AttackOfTheTownFestival: The vegetable festival. Since the eponymous creature is a giant ''rabbit'', it's ''only'' the focus of the festival that will attract it, and the people are in no real danger. The festival is SeriousBusiness, though.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, and some interact with each other, or with the credits text.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, and some interact with each other, or with the credits text. [[spoiler:The last rabbit bumps its head on the paragraph promising that NoAnimalsWereHarmed.]]
* EgomaniacHunter: Victor Quartermaine.
* GrowlingGut: Wallace's tummy rumbles.
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* IdeaBulb: When Wallace gets the idea to use his brainwashing machine to make the rabbits he has captured hate vegetables, the light on his van turns on...though that was Gromit's doing.
* ImpactSilhouette: The Were-Rabbitcreates one at one point.leaves a Were-Rabbit-shaped hole in the church window during its first rampage.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Victor is not impressed by the vicar's little joke about how many "carrots" are in the gold bullets needed to kill the Were-Rabbit.
* ImpactSilhouette: The Were-Rabbit
* IncrediblyLamePun: Victor is not impressed by the vicar's little joke about how many "carrots" are in the gold bullets needed to kill the Were-Rabbit.
* KingKongClimb: At the climax of the film, the Were-Rabbit climbs to the top of Tottington Manor, carrying Lady Tottington.
* MidBattleTeaBreak: Gromit and Philip are fighting in a bumper car that suddenly stops working. They stop fighting to insert some more change, then they resume fighting as soon as the car starts working again.
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* PoppingButtons: During the Were-Rabbit's transformation sequence.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eatkarat.carat."
* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat
* SilverBullet: Spoofed. A were-rabbit can only be killed with a ''gold'' bullet -- 24 carat.
* StabTheSalad: When Lady Tottington asks what Wallace and Gromit are going to do with the bunnies they have caught, the next shot has Gromit holding something on a cutting board and raising a big knife...and then he starts cutting up carrots for the bunnies.
* WhichMe: [[spoiler:Wallace starts referring to Hutch in the first person after he takes on his personality. For instance, when Lady Tottington rings the doorbell, Hutch goes to answer it and Wallace says, "I'm already answering the door!"]]
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''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit.
The combination of a vegetable-growing contest and Wallace's latest invention accidentally unleashes a giant rampaging parody of ancient HammerHorror cliches on their unsuspecting village... oh, also a giant [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent half-man, half-bunny]]. This received a LicensedGame adaptation and is noted as being, possibly, the only horror film in existence to feature a vegetarian monster.
Released in 2005, it won not only the AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", but also the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others.
!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wallace.
* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: On hearing that their vegetables will be used as bait to attract the Were-Rabbit, Mrs. Mulch flees with her Pumpkin, whilst the townsfolk yell at her "Come back! Come back!". The Were-Rabbit then approaches, prompting her to about turn. Cue villagers now yelling "Go away! Go away!"
* BackgroundHalo: Lady Tottington gets one, along with a set of background ''wings'', when she advocates trapping the Were-Rabbit humanely. Lord Victor Quartermaine, who wants to just shoot it, gets a pair of background horns.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Gromit.
* BigOlUnibrow: Gromit never speaks, so this is the only way you know what he's feeling. It's really incredible, the emotion you can wring out of an artfully-squashed bit of plasticine...
* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible.
* BritishAccents: Wallace and the villagers have OopNorth accents. Lady Tottington and Victor Quatermaine have more upper-class accents.
* BunglingInventor: Wallace, natch.
* TheCameo: There's two portraits of directors Nick Park and Steve Box (blink and you'll miss it) in the parsonage before the door slams shut.
* CivilizedAnimal: Gromit is usually depicted as walking upright, and is capable of creating and operating complex machinery. Generally he's shown to be ''significantly'' more shrewd and sensible than his master. However, despite all of this, everyone treats him the same as you treat ''any'' dog.
* ContinuityNod:
** Every single phrase [[spoiler:Hutch in "Were-Wallace" mode]] spouts is, if it's not from earlier in this movie, a quote from previous entries.
** When Wallace leaves Gromit alone in the van, he's parked outside a hairdressers called ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave''.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, and some interact with each other, or with the credits text.
* DefangedHorrors: ''Curse of the Were-Rabbit.''
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Despite an enormous amount of innuendo whenever the two of them are both on screen, Wallace and Lady Tottingham do not end up together.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Were-Rabbit Wallace]].
* DramaticThunder: Spoofed.
-->'''Reverend Hedges''': To kill such a beast would require nerves of steel and... (DramaticPause) a bullet. (Thunderclap)\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? (Thunder)\\
'''Reverend Hedges''': A bullet. (Thunder)\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? (Thunder; Victor slams the shutters of a nearby window shut, annoyed) What ''kind'' of bullet?
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/DreamWorks kept sending notes to Nick Park, telling him to changes things like the design of Wallace's car to appeal to Americans. Ultimately, the only change that was forced upon Aardman was toning down the British accents. Also, they re-dubbed every mention of marrows to "melon", in the US release, because [=DreamWorks=] thought most Americans wouldn't know what a marrow was.
* GeniusDitz / MadScientist: Wallace's inventions range from malfunctioning Rube Goldberg-esque devices to clever and groundbreaking gadgets -- which also have a tendency to malfunction. Notably, he seems more competent in the feature film than in most of the shorts.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: So, ''so'' many {{Double Entendre}}s...
** Towards the end, Wallace is left clothes-less after [[spoiler:transforming back to human]], so he grabs a handy cheese box to hold front of his private bits. The box has a "Contains nuts" label on it.
** Lady Tottingham inviting Wallace to see her secret garden is probably the most risque.
* GoldDigger: Victor's already a rich nobleman, but he was wooing Lady Tottington solely for her money.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Rabbit Rehabilitator.
* GoThroughMe: [[spoiler:Lady Tottington, after she realises the Were-Rabbit is Wallace, attempts to protect him from Victor.]]
* HomemadeInventions: A major plot propellant.
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: Reversed. Originally they thought that the were-rabbit prints were leading to the basement and that the pet bunny was the culprit. Then [[spoiler:Gromit closes the door and sees that not only do the prints continue past the basement door, they change into human prints as they lead towards Wallace's bedroom]].
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** The cheese-themed classic titles behind which Wallace's secret cheese dish is hidden.
** The climax is also very groan-heavy.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Gromit.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Victor at the church meeting.
* ImpactSilhouette: The Were-Rabbit creates one at one point.
* IntellectualAnimal / SpeechImpairedAnimal: Gromit.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: TheVicar gives a doom and gloom rant about the Were-Rabbit with dramatic organ music in the background. The church organist is told to knock it off.
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands: As the first film in the series without a MinimalistCast, Wallace and Gromit suddenly have a whole bunch of neighbours we've never seen before.
* NoMouth: Gromit
* OhCrap: Wallace when he realizes [[spoiler:he's the Were-Rabbit]].
-->'''Wallace''': Ohhh [[GoshDangItToHeck dear]].
* OnlySaneMan: Gromit; it turns out that Wallace is fairly typical of the villagers' level of common sense. Lampshaded in the church scene:
-->'''Lord Victor Quartermaine''': How on earth would those tiny-minded buffoons ever catch such a big rabbit?\\
'''Wallace''': Um... with a big trap!\\
''[FacePalm from Gromit. Hurrahs from everybody else.]''
* OopNorth: Specifically, Oop in Lancashire (though Wallace's accent is actually Yorkshire). Kept vague, but a deleted scene shows Gromit dumping all the rabbits Wallace was catching over the border into Yorkshire.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A were-rabbit instead of a werewolf.
* ParentalBonus: Besides a number of sophisticated jokes, Lady Tottingham's nickname "Totty" is British slang for an attractive woman.
* {{Parody}}: Of HammerHorror films.
* ParrotExposition: Spoofed.
-->'''Reverend Hedges''': To kill such a beast would require nerves of steel and... (DramaticPause) a bullet.\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet?\\
'''Reverend Hedges''': A bullet.\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? What ''kind'' of bullet?
* PhotoMontage: The opening titles.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat karat."
* PunnyName:
** Most of the villagers have names related to plants or gardening. Even Lady Campanula Tottington gets in on it; Campanula is a type of flower.
** PC Mackintosh.
* TheRedStapler: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Bishop_cheese Stinking Bishop cheese]] is featured in a plot-critical moment. Sales of this niche culinary product rose by 500% after the film was released.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: No wonders why Lady Tottington doesn't want to harm the [[http://www.igglevideo.com/images/gallery/71552/01.jpg rabbits]]...
* SeriousBusiness: The veg competition.
* SilentPartner: Gromit, who is also...
* SilentSnarker: ...and it's remarkable how expressive he is considering he is always portrayed without a ''mouth'', leaving his ''eyebrows'' to convey all of his emotions.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Early on in the film, Wallace makes a playful "rabbit paws" gesture in Lady Tottington's direction. She smiles and repeats it back. [[spoiler:Later, after carrying her away from the mob and back to the greenhouse, the Were-Rabbit makes the same gesture, looking at her wistfully. She recognizes Wallace at once, stops being afraid, and pulls a GoThroughMe moment when Victor arrives to shoot him.]]
* StopMotion
* SuperMultiPurposeRoom: Basically every room in Wallace's house has built-in intricate mechanisms and contraptions to help Wallace and Gromit wake up, get dressed, effortlessly get seated for breakfast, get the breakfast prepared, get into their car, and and and ... See ToTheBatpole.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:Hutch]], in the middle of rambling about cheese, inventing, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment cheese]], how cracking he thinks things are, eh, Gromit?, and [[RuleOfThree cheese]], says [[spoiler:"I'm Wallace" for no apparent reason. Perhaps he's vaguely aware that someone's been tinkering with his thinker, and trying to reassure himself?]]
* TorchesAndPitchforks: When the Were-Rabbit is loose at the festival, a booth selling "farm supplies", with pitchforks prominently displayed, places a new sign reading "angry mob supplies".
* ToTheBatpole: Our heroes suit up via a Heath Robinson-esque process, depicted in all its absurd detail, complete with several direct references to Gerry Anderson and ''{{Thunderbirds}}''.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cheese, particularly Wensleydale, is Wallace's favorite, but he's also pretty enthusiastic about toast.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One TV ad completely spoiled the secret of the Were-Rabbit.
* TheVicar: Reverend Hedges.
* TheVoiceless: All of the non-human characters, except for when the rabbits howl at the moon, and cry when [[spoiler:Wallace is believed dead]]; and Hutch when [[spoiler:he's become a were-Wallace]].
* VisualPun: PC Mackintosh blurts out that [[spoiler:the titular character isn't dead]], the festival comes to a screeching halt, everyone is standing there in StunnedSilence, and a piece of cotton candy [[ChirpingCrickets tumbles by]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DreamWorks apparently attempted to replace Peter Sallis with an American actor. Aardman disliked this request, but they came to a compromise to cast well-known British actors like Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, while keeping Sallis in the title role.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The name of the town is never given, though freeze-framing reveals a Wigan A-Z in Wallace's van.
* WhosOnFirst: After Victor's wig is sucked up by the Bun-Vac 6000:
-->'''Victor:''' I want... toupee, please.\\
'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We take check, cash or money order.
-->'''Victor:''' My hair is in your machine.\\
'''Wallace:''' Oh no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.
!!The spin-off video game provides examples of:
* ContinuityNod: There is a "have you seen this chicken?" poster with Feathers [=McGraw=].
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The combination of a vegetable-growing contest and Wallace's latest invention accidentally unleashes a giant rampaging parody of ancient HammerHorror cliches on their unsuspecting village... oh, also a giant [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent half-man, half-bunny]]. This received a LicensedGame adaptation and is noted as being, possibly, the only horror film in existence to feature a vegetarian monster.
Released in 2005, it won not only the AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", but also the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others.
!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wallace.
* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: On hearing that their vegetables will be used as bait to attract the Were-Rabbit, Mrs. Mulch flees with her Pumpkin, whilst the townsfolk yell at her "Come back! Come back!". The Were-Rabbit then approaches, prompting her to about turn. Cue villagers now yelling "Go away! Go away!"
* BackgroundHalo: Lady Tottington gets one, along with a set of background ''wings'', when she advocates trapping the Were-Rabbit humanely. Lord Victor Quartermaine, who wants to just shoot it, gets a pair of background horns.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Gromit.
* BigOlUnibrow: Gromit never speaks, so this is the only way you know what he's feeling. It's really incredible, the emotion you can wring out of an artfully-squashed bit of plasticine...
* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Wallace's cheese obsession. The producers have great fun referencing the most bizarre and obscure cheese names possible.
* BritishAccents: Wallace and the villagers have OopNorth accents. Lady Tottington and Victor Quatermaine have more upper-class accents.
* BunglingInventor: Wallace, natch.
* TheCameo: There's two portraits of directors Nick Park and Steve Box (blink and you'll miss it) in the parsonage before the door slams shut.
* CivilizedAnimal: Gromit is usually depicted as walking upright, and is capable of creating and operating complex machinery. Generally he's shown to be ''significantly'' more shrewd and sensible than his master. However, despite all of this, everyone treats him the same as you treat ''any'' dog.
* ContinuityNod:
** Every single phrase [[spoiler:Hutch in "Were-Wallace" mode]] spouts is, if it's not from earlier in this movie, a quote from previous entries.
** When Wallace leaves Gromit alone in the van, he's parked outside a hairdressers called ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave''.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, and some interact with each other, or with the credits text.
* DefangedHorrors: ''Curse of the Were-Rabbit.''
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Despite an enormous amount of innuendo whenever the two of them are both on screen, Wallace and Lady Tottingham do not end up together.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Were-Rabbit Wallace]].
* DramaticThunder: Spoofed.
-->'''Reverend Hedges''': To kill such a beast would require nerves of steel and... (DramaticPause) a bullet. (Thunderclap)\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? (Thunder)\\
'''Reverend Hedges''': A bullet. (Thunder)\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? (Thunder; Victor slams the shutters of a nearby window shut, annoyed) What ''kind'' of bullet?
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/DreamWorks kept sending notes to Nick Park, telling him to changes things like the design of Wallace's car to appeal to Americans. Ultimately, the only change that was forced upon Aardman was toning down the British accents. Also, they re-dubbed every mention of marrows to "melon", in the US release, because [=DreamWorks=] thought most Americans wouldn't know what a marrow was.
* GeniusDitz / MadScientist: Wallace's inventions range from malfunctioning Rube Goldberg-esque devices to clever and groundbreaking gadgets -- which also have a tendency to malfunction. Notably, he seems more competent in the feature film than in most of the shorts.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: So, ''so'' many {{Double Entendre}}s...
** Towards the end, Wallace is left clothes-less after [[spoiler:transforming back to human]], so he grabs a handy cheese box to hold front of his private bits. The box has a "Contains nuts" label on it.
** Lady Tottingham inviting Wallace to see her secret garden is probably the most risque.
* GoldDigger: Victor's already a rich nobleman, but he was wooing Lady Tottington solely for her money.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Rabbit Rehabilitator.
* GoThroughMe: [[spoiler:Lady Tottington, after she realises the Were-Rabbit is Wallace, attempts to protect him from Victor.]]
* HomemadeInventions: A major plot propellant.
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: Reversed. Originally they thought that the were-rabbit prints were leading to the basement and that the pet bunny was the culprit. Then [[spoiler:Gromit closes the door and sees that not only do the prints continue past the basement door, they change into human prints as they lead towards Wallace's bedroom]].
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** The cheese-themed classic titles behind which Wallace's secret cheese dish is hidden.
** The climax is also very groan-heavy.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Gromit.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Victor at the church meeting.
* ImpactSilhouette: The Were-Rabbit creates one at one point.
* IntellectualAnimal / SpeechImpairedAnimal: Gromit.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: TheVicar gives a doom and gloom rant about the Were-Rabbit with dramatic organ music in the background. The church organist is told to knock it off.
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands: As the first film in the series without a MinimalistCast, Wallace and Gromit suddenly have a whole bunch of neighbours we've never seen before.
* NoMouth: Gromit
* OhCrap: Wallace when he realizes [[spoiler:he's the Were-Rabbit]].
-->'''Wallace''': Ohhh [[GoshDangItToHeck dear]].
* OnlySaneMan: Gromit; it turns out that Wallace is fairly typical of the villagers' level of common sense. Lampshaded in the church scene:
-->'''Lord Victor Quartermaine''': How on earth would those tiny-minded buffoons ever catch such a big rabbit?\\
'''Wallace''': Um... with a big trap!\\
''[FacePalm from Gromit. Hurrahs from everybody else.]''
* OopNorth: Specifically, Oop in Lancashire (though Wallace's accent is actually Yorkshire). Kept vague, but a deleted scene shows Gromit dumping all the rabbits Wallace was catching over the border into Yorkshire.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A were-rabbit instead of a werewolf.
* ParentalBonus: Besides a number of sophisticated jokes, Lady Tottingham's nickname "Totty" is British slang for an attractive woman.
* {{Parody}}: Of HammerHorror films.
* ParrotExposition: Spoofed.
-->'''Reverend Hedges''': To kill such a beast would require nerves of steel and... (DramaticPause) a bullet.\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet?\\
'''Reverend Hedges''': A bullet.\\
'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? What ''kind'' of bullet?
* PhotoMontage: The opening titles.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat karat."
* PunnyName:
** Most of the villagers have names related to plants or gardening. Even Lady Campanula Tottington gets in on it; Campanula is a type of flower.
** PC Mackintosh.
* TheRedStapler: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Bishop_cheese Stinking Bishop cheese]] is featured in a plot-critical moment. Sales of this niche culinary product rose by 500% after the film was released.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: No wonders why Lady Tottington doesn't want to harm the [[http://www.igglevideo.com/images/gallery/71552/01.jpg rabbits]]...
* SeriousBusiness: The veg competition.
* SilentPartner: Gromit, who is also...
* SilentSnarker: ...and it's remarkable how expressive he is considering he is always portrayed without a ''mouth'', leaving his ''eyebrows'' to convey all of his emotions.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Early on in the film, Wallace makes a playful "rabbit paws" gesture in Lady Tottington's direction. She smiles and repeats it back. [[spoiler:Later, after carrying her away from the mob and back to the greenhouse, the Were-Rabbit makes the same gesture, looking at her wistfully. She recognizes Wallace at once, stops being afraid, and pulls a GoThroughMe moment when Victor arrives to shoot him.]]
* StopMotion
* SuperMultiPurposeRoom: Basically every room in Wallace's house has built-in intricate mechanisms and contraptions to help Wallace and Gromit wake up, get dressed, effortlessly get seated for breakfast, get the breakfast prepared, get into their car, and and and ... See ToTheBatpole.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler:Hutch]], in the middle of rambling about cheese, inventing, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment cheese]], how cracking he thinks things are, eh, Gromit?, and [[RuleOfThree cheese]], says [[spoiler:"I'm Wallace" for no apparent reason. Perhaps he's vaguely aware that someone's been tinkering with his thinker, and trying to reassure himself?]]
* TorchesAndPitchforks: When the Were-Rabbit is loose at the festival, a booth selling "farm supplies", with pitchforks prominently displayed, places a new sign reading "angry mob supplies".
* ToTheBatpole: Our heroes suit up via a Heath Robinson-esque process, depicted in all its absurd detail, complete with several direct references to Gerry Anderson and ''{{Thunderbirds}}''.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cheese, particularly Wensleydale, is Wallace's favorite, but he's also pretty enthusiastic about toast.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One TV ad completely spoiled the secret of the Were-Rabbit.
* TheVicar: Reverend Hedges.
* TheVoiceless: All of the non-human characters, except for when the rabbits howl at the moon, and cry when [[spoiler:Wallace is believed dead]]; and Hutch when [[spoiler:he's become a were-Wallace]].
* VisualPun: PC Mackintosh blurts out that [[spoiler:the titular character isn't dead]], the festival comes to a screeching halt, everyone is standing there in StunnedSilence, and a piece of cotton candy [[ChirpingCrickets tumbles by]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DreamWorks apparently attempted to replace Peter Sallis with an American actor. Aardman disliked this request, but they came to a compromise to cast well-known British actors like Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, while keeping Sallis in the title role.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The name of the town is never given, though freeze-framing reveals a Wigan A-Z in Wallace's van.
* WhosOnFirst: After Victor's wig is sucked up by the Bun-Vac 6000:
-->'''Victor:''' I want... toupee, please.\\
'''Wallace:''' Oh, grand. We take check, cash or money order.
-->'''Victor:''' My hair is in your machine.\\
'''Wallace:''' Oh no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.
!!The spin-off video game provides examples of:
* ContinuityNod: There is a "have you seen this chicken?" poster with Feathers [=McGraw=].
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