As Google marks the 20th anniversary of the first Wallace and Gromit appearance, we look back at the duo's adventures
Tue 18 Nov 2008 14.39 GMT First published on Tue 18 Nov 2008 14.39 GMT
Wallace and Gromit appear on the Google homepage to mark 20 years since the cartoon pair's first public appearance - at an animation festival in Bristol
TV viewers got their first look at the plasticine duo just over a year later on Christmas Eve 1990, fact fans – when the BBC first broadcast A Grand Day Out. They went to the moon. In search of cheese, obviously
A classic pose from 1993’s The Wrong Trousers. Wallace: cheerful, well-meaning, massively over confident. Gromit: sceptical, sharply intelligent, tragically lacking in vocabulary
I know it, you know it, and Gromit knows it. Alas, Wallace has no idea that when he presses the button on his remote control, disaster is going to ensue. Probably. Cracking Contraptions again
The high-speed car chases are one of the joys of Wallace and Gromit. This one is from their big-screen adventure, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Just how do they do that? With difficulty. 'Anti-pesto!' Fabulous
Aw, look at the cute liccle bunny wunny! Except Wallace and Gromit's humane pest control outfit ends up with rather more rabbits than they can handle. This one ended up in a pie with his ears stretched into a pair of furry slippers. No, of course that didn't happen
The enthusiasm for animal contestants on Britain’s Got Talent just went a little bit too far. Alternatively, a scene from the Children's BBC series Shaun the Sheep. Shaun. Shorn. See?
This is what they performed in the Britain's Got Talent final, but fell foul of the authorities for uprooting that footpath sign. Being sheep, you thought they would have read the countryside code
Oh my God, a giant has pulled Wallace's head off! Well, if you want to make an award-winning animation, you have got to break a few handcrafted figurines. This is from the brand new instalment, a Matter of Loaf and Death, and the giant is Aardman head of animation Loyd Price. Her on the right is Piella Bakewell. What fun they must have coming up with the names
His head reinstated, thank goodness, Wallace has a giant brush – or something similar – stuck in his ear. Never let it be said these actors don't earn their corn
The name of Wallace and Gromit’s traditional baker – Top Bun! Of course it is. I don't know about you, but A Matter of Loaf and Death is going to be required viewing in my house. Even if, at the exact moment it starts, I have just opened a present that turns out to be a home cinema projector
