A Grand Day Out

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A Grand Day Out is a 1989 clay-animated short film. Created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations, it is the first installment in the Wallace and Gromit franchise.

Wallace and Gromit realise that they're out of cheese and the shops are closed. The solution? Build a rocket in the basement and take a trip to the moon... which, as everyone knows, is made of cheese. While there, they have an encounter with a coin-operated robot who's desperate to go skiing.


Tropes used in A Grand Day Out include:
  • Batman Can Breathe in Space: Most of the short takes place on the moon, sans any protective gear. Granted, they are stop-motion characters in an animated film on a moon made of cheese, so…
  • Cartoon Cheese: Averted, as moon cheese doesn't look anything like typical "orange-y swiss" cartoon cheese. More like cheddar. Wallace names several terrestrial cheeses in an unsuccessful attempt to determine what moon cheese tastes like, and finally concludes, "It's like no cheese I've ever tasted."
  • Cheesy Moon: The pair travel to the moon to harvest it for cheese. Whether or not it IS cheese is never clarified, but Wallace eats it regardless.
  • Fridge Sorrow: On the surface, we have a happy ending for all, with Wallace and Gromit returning home, and the robot living out its dream of going skiing. Problem is a couple minutes into the future: the robot will run out of money and shut down. Best case scenario, it is stuck waiting for someone else to visit the moon; worst case is it breaking itself in an out-of-control skiing accident.
  • Retro Rocket: Their home-built rocket.
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