The sight gags in Nick Park ’s Wallace and Gromit films are all part of their charm, from Gromit’s vinyl collection (mostly Bach) to his highbrow reading matter (Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky, The Republic by Pluto…) to his alma mater (where else would a clever canine graduate from but Dogwarts University?).

It's been 16 years since the franchise's last short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 19 since its first feature film, the Academy Award–winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. That's a long time to be apart from two of Britain's greatest treasures.