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$\"\"$ <\/a>Every time the Wallace & Gromit<\/a> films give Wallace, the human half of the claymation duo, a love interest of some sort, people tend to react as though there were something unusual about this, as though such a thing had never been done before. Case in point: in a recent post on the upcoming short film A Matter of Loaf and Death<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which was called Trouble at Mill<\/i> when it was first announced eight months ago<\/a> \u2014 the sci-fi blog io9<\/a> actually emits a \u201cgasp!\u201d over the fact that Wallace seems to have a new girlfriend in the person of one Piella Bakewell. But what about Wendolene Ramsbottom in A Close Shave<\/a><\/i> (1995) or Lady Campanula Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/a><\/i> (2005)? Hasn\u2019t Wallace been friendly with the ladies before? I guess the difference this time is that Wallace may have finally gotten beyond the flirting stage. At any rate, it will be interesting to see how Gromit responds to there being someone else in Wallace\u2019s life. As we saw when that penguin moved in, in The Wrong Trousers<\/a><\/i> (1992), Wallace can be easily distracted, in ways that leave his pal in the doghouse \u2014 literally. And if the filmmakers ever really<\/i> want to startle us, maybe they\u2019ll give Gromit<\/i> someone to pine for.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"