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It’s Day 14 of ‘Bradley’s Basement’s Advent Calendar 2024.

Here’s the fourteenth Christmas recommendation by me on ‘Bradley’s Basement’.

If you’re looking forward to ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ on Christmas Day via BBC One and BBC iPlayer or perhaps on January 3rd via Netflix, then you’ll want to see or revisit the previous ‘Wallace & Gromit’ short film, which is ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’.

‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’ was shown on BBC One on Christmas Day in 2008. I have very fond memories seeing this short film featuring Wallace and Gromit, especially as it was after seeing the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special ‘The Next Doctor’, which is exciting.

Three years beforehand, Wallace and Gromit appeared in their first feature film ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’, which was shown at cinemas in 2005. So, it was nice to see them doing their fourth short film and to see it on Christmas Day. It was quite unexpected.

I wouldn’t regard ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’ being as good as ‘A Grand Day Out’, ‘The Wrong Trousers’, ‘A Close Shave’ and ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’, but it’s certainly very entertaining, especially when Wallace and Gromit are attempting to run their own bakery.

It was also funny to see Wallace having a relationship with Piella Bakewell, the Bake-O-Lite girl, before it goes pear-shaped, especially with a serial killer (or ‘cereal’ killer 😀 ) on the loose. It’d be terrific to see ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’ before ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’.

Thanks for reading!

Check out what Day 14 of my ‘Bradley’s Basement’s Advent Calendars for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 were about!

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂