Favourite Reece Shearsmith character

[Average Comedy Enjoyer]

I recently introduced my 5 and 9 year old to this and it's now one of their favourite quotes / things to shout out loud in a supermarket.

If you add "I can I can't!?" and "Jumper Cables for two" to their vocabulary that'll be everyone but Dyson covered.

[Oosp]

They hacked my accunt

[frajer]

They hacked my accunt

The cunts are in the mainframe

[Stinky Lomax]

"Jumper Cables for two"

Sorry to be pedantic, but just to avoid young minds being corrupted: it is actually "Jump leads for two".

And back to fave Reece quotes: "What, in the jungle?!"

[Average Comedy Enjoyer]

[The Mollusk]

The way he says "YOUR robot" is stuck in my head forever

Well then it's stuck in your head forever WRONG! The line is actually "Their robot". Someone get Reece in here to call this guy a cunt!

I love that bit too. The way he's holding the chip between thumb and forefinger somehow adds to the smugness of it.

[Two Headed Sex Beast]

Well then it's stuck in your head forever WRONG! The line is actually "Their robot". Someone get Reece in here to call this guy a cunt!

I love that bit too. The way he's holding the chip between thumb and forefinger somehow adds to the smugness of it.

I am a cunt, bloody hell, I remembered it being from a completely different scene. But yes the delivery is obviously the thing that stuck with me, so smug. He's got a good voice, does (hi!) Reece

[ros vulgaris]

Mr Jelly or Geoff, who could really be the same character.

He was talking on a podcast a while ago about how long he was struggling and slumming in London before LoG hit it big, it made me wonder how much of that experience seeped into those kind of characters.

[Des Wigwam]

Mr Jelly or Geoff, who could really be the same character.

He was talking on a podcast a while ago about how long he was struggling and slumming in London before LoG hit it big, it made me wonder how much of that experience seeped into those kind of characters.

What was the podcast? Do enjoy early LoG tales.

[ros vulgaris]

Just found it - it was the Two Shot Podcast, with Craig Parkinson interviewing. I'd definitely recommend a listen, he opens up about the industry and their creative process pretty candidly.

[SirDoris]

Just announced that the new Wallace and Gromit film will have Reece as a homicidal garden gnome robot. I mean, on concept alone, it's already rising up the stakes of best Reece character.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/wallace-and-gromit-norbot-first-look

[Average Comedy Enjoyer]

[The Mollusk]

If it's Wallace's invention why's he cracking it out of a giant crate like it was just delivered to his house?

SHITE, GET IT BINNED

[frajer]

Outsourced it to China. Heart's not in this shit anymore.

[Glebe]

"Save the trees, save the trees, but what about the spoons, what about the spoons?"

[neveragain]

"Ahhh, blow it out yer ass!"

[Brundle-Fly]

Peter SAllIs?

[thatguyfromthatthing]

No, it's a different voice actor. https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a39891013/wallace-and-gromit-new-voice-actor/

[idunnosomename]

Props, Ben Whitehead is superb in that, feels such a natural imitation of Sallis. and Reece of course is a great casting who I'm sure will be brilliant.

but there's something off-putting about Gromit. I think it's the strong shadows on him that makes it a bit weird especially the shadows going basically behind his eyeballs. particularly when the set they're in is so bright.

[Glebe]

Peter SAllIs?

[dead-ced-dead]

It's probably been mentioned here before, but Reece took over from Lee Evans in The Producers as Leo Bloom. I wish I'd seen that, because that would have been pretty perfect. Anxious, but also a little bit sinister.

[Ruben Remus]

There's a bit in one of the dvd commentaries for the earlier W&G films where the composer Julian Nott talks about his principle of using music cues to emphasise dramatic moments rather than comedic ones. I don't know if he's involved in this new film but the bit in that clip where the gnome vigorously shakes Gromit's hand seems like it would be instantly funnier without the wacky hijinks music over it.

[Ron Superior]

This has just popped in to my head, bizarrely because of the Linkin Park thread in Oscillations, and it's destroyed me

[idunnosomename]

There's a bit in one of the dvd commentaries for the earlier W&G films where the composer Julian Nott talks about his principle of using music cues to emphasise dramatic moments rather than comedic ones. I don't know if he's involved in this new film but the bit in that clip where the gnome vigorously shakes Gromit's hand seems like it would be instantly funnier without the wacky hijinks music over it.

Yeah almost struck me like a case of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mousing

Sadly, Julian Nott, who has scored all W&G since Grand Day Out, is not
https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/08/01/aardman-animations-wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-to-feature-music-by-lorne-balfe/

I dont want to rag on this but I feel all the Netflix stuff might make it a bit off, lad

[BritishHobo]

No Julian Nott?! Fuck that!

[jobotic]

What? Not Nott? Not on. Not for me. Not without Nott.