Wallace and his dog Gromit are the two main characters in a series of British claymation films produced by Nick Park. They appear in the films A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave.

A Grand Day Out

In A Grand Day Out, Wallace and Gromit encounter the tragic event of discovering that they've run out of cheese. Naturally Wallace decides the only logical place to go to find cheese is the moon, as there's no other place to find cheese on a bank holiday: "Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese."

Wallace and Gromit therefore build a rocket in their cellar and paint it red. Of course, they encounter serious construction issues: Wallace has to use Gromit as a sawhorse after sawing through the wood one, Gromit gets spun around while trying to use the drill, and, most importantly, they almost forget the crackers. While in flight Gromit successfully constructs a house of cards that collapses during landing, and Wallace, with his shorter attention span, reads the newspaper, twiddles his thumbs, whistles, takes photographs of Gromit, and makes toast.

On the moon Wallace and Gromit picnic at various places and try to figure out what kind of cheese the moon is. Little do they know that the robot/cooker/whatever you want to call it is patrolling the area, angry at the destruction of cutting pieces of the moon and the mess left by the picnickers.

When the angry cooker chases after Wallace and Gromit on the way back to the rocket, they fear he is chasing them out of anger, although the little cooker really wants to return to Earth so he can go skiing. After accidentally lighting the rocket fuel directly, the poor machine is blasted backwards with only two pieces of metal strips from the rocket to show for his efforts. But that doesn't keep him down- he fulfills his dream, and Wallace and Gromit are left with a new friend from the moon!

The Wrong Trousers

In The Wrong Trousers, Wallace buys Gromit electronic trousers which can take dogs for a walk automatically. Gromit, of course, fails to share Wallace's enthusiasm for this gift. In the meantime, Wallace also counts his money and realizes their financial situation is in trouble. To replenish their cash supply, Wallace decides to put up a sign advertising a room for rent, and a penguin named Feathers comes shortly thereafter to rent the room.

Unfortunately the penguin also begins to take control of other rooms in the house, such as Gromit's room. Soon Wallace and Gromit are rewallpapering a new bedroom after the penguin moves into Gromit's former room. The penguin also plays music so loudly at night that Gromit can't sleep and takes too long in the bathroom, making Gromit wait his turn for a long time. Finally, when Wallace befriends the penguin to the point of abandoning his friendship with Gromit, Gromit decides to run away from home.

But after Gromit leaves, the situation goes even more downhill. Feathers reads Gromit's book Electronics for Dogs and runs Wallace all around the city in the electronic trousers until he is exhausted. After returning Wallace to his bed and waiting for him to fall asleep, the evil penguin uses Wallace and the wrong trousers for a risky robbery.

Wallace and Gromit pursue the penguin in a humorous chase through their house and finally lead the penguin to his fate as a zoo exhibit.

A Close Shave

Wallace and Gromit's innovative technology helps them solve another problem and catch another crook in A Close Shave. The movie begins with the mystery of something in their household eating pieces of plants, cheese and furniture. Wallace even finds a hole in the middle of his newspaper article about the sheep rustlers who were causing wool shortages. Finally Wallace and Gromit discover a sheep who'd been let loose in their house, and who was eating everything in sight. They name the sheep Shaun and wash him in Wallace's Knit-O-Matic, which also shears the sheep and creates a sweater from the wool.

In the meantime, Wallace and Gromit receive a phone call requesting their Wash 'n Go business to come clean windows. Apparently they'd decided this can be less trouble to their personal lives than renting a room of their house, but little did they know what lay ahead.

Wendolene, the client who had telephoned Wallace and Gromit, owned a yarn store in the town. She also had a dog named Preston. Wallace immediately falls for this lady, and while helping her pick up some balls of yarn he'd knocked off a shelf in the store, Wallace and Wendolene accidentally touch hands (gasp). But while Wallace flirts with Wendolene, he doesn't see Gromit being harrassed by Preston, sticking his head through a hole in the wall with a photo of a dog's body capturing a sheep and slaughtering it, or rescuing a truckful of sheep from the evil Preston.

Before they know it, Gromit has been framed using the photo setup and is sentenced to life in prison for stealing and murdering sheep. Wallace and many, many of the freed sheep undertake an intense rescue mission to help Gromit escape from prison, and the group pursues Preston in another classic Park chase.

Preston leads the group to the Preston's dog food factory and attempts to use a derivation of Wallace's Knit 'o Matic to can Wallace, Gromit, Wendolene, and all the sheep. But Shaun saves the day and rescues everyone, and Wallace learns never to fall in love with someone who dislikes cheese.

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