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Wrong Browsers: Free Wallace And Gromit

By Kieron Gillen on November 4th, 2009 at 11:52 am.

You just know that they're secretly serial killers, don't you?

This is both cute and scary. Cute, because for the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit, telltale are giving people free access to the Muzzled Episode of their Grand Adventures. You can also order the full package for twenty dollars instead of the usual thirty-five, which include a charitable donation. The offer runs until 12pm on Monday the 9th. If you’re interested, go gets. Conversely, it’s scary because I remember the very first Wallace and Gromit and I don’t need a reminder of my own mortality when I’m still in my dressing gown. Muzzled’s trailer follows…


I’m not sure what “The Wrong Browsers” as a title actually means, but it amuses me. If it was still old skool RPS, I’d have gone for something like The Wrong Shoppping Browsers, but there’s no room no more. Oh woe is us.

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  1. 04/11/2009 at 11:55 Baboonanza says:

    I find that picture scary and disturbing!

  3. 04/11/2009 at 12:03 R says:

    “The Wrong Browsers” is a play off one of their original cartoons, “The Wrong Trousers.”

  4. 04/11/2009 at 12:03 Simon Jones says:

    Glad it wasn’t just me, then.

  5. 04/11/2009 at 12:03 Cedge says:

    Forgive me, but at first glance, and for just a fleeting and alarming instant, I had the horrifying and confusing thought that Wallace was gripping onto a rather large man-rod. Fortunately, I realized what was actually going on before I noticed that Gromit is clutching something similar-looking.

  6. 04/11/2009 at 12:03 Inigo says:

    Normally I hate to nit-pick, but having someone other than Peter Sallis doing Wallace’s voice just seems wrong. Just like how the Telltale Sam & Max games have a theme tune that SOUNDS like the Hit The Road theme, but then suddenly changes at the last minute. It’s like Silent Hill – there’s a jarring abnormality about it that just keeps digging away at you.
    Either that or it’s just me.
    Damn you, Carlsberg Special Brew. Damn you to hell.

    • 04/11/2009 at 12:57 Man Raised By Puffins says:

      It’s not just you. I picked up Muzzled for free when I bought Monkey Island and I just couldn’t play it for more than a few minutes because of the ersatz Sallis, who squats at the bottom of the uncanny valley like some unruly troll.

  7. 04/11/2009 at 12:12 Bear says:

    I’m happy I’m not the first to notice.

  8. 04/11/2009 at 12:17 Inigo says:

    Oh, NOW I see it.
    Goddamn you all.

  9. 04/11/2009 at 12:24 Kester says:

    Good punning, Kieron! :) There should be a "Top 10 RPS Title Puns" feature at some point.

  11. 04/11/2009 at 12:41 phil says:

    You’re not proper old unless you remember Morph, the slightly cruder, speech impeeded, nightmare inducing precursor of W & G, his staring eyes containing cold hard madness.

  12. 04/11/2009 at 12:56 Psychopomp says:

    PUNS >:|

  13. 04/11/2009 at 12:58 Lillipuy King says:

    Also adding myself to the “glad I’m not the only one to notice” list.

    I mean, for goodness sake.

  14. 04/11/2009 at 13:07 Songbearer says:

    Yep, sorry, I saw it too.

    My world is shattered.

  15. 04/11/2009 at 13:26 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:

    sthu and lick it! Ahem *shivers*

  16. 04/11/2009 at 13:40 Hodge says:

    It’s the facial expressions that make it work.

  17. 04/11/2009 at 13:53 Jacques says:

    That sure is suggestive.

  18. 04/11/2009 at 14:00 Inigo says:

    There sure is some barely concealed Freudian homoeroticism in here.

  19. 04/11/2009 at 15:09 EGTF says:

    Thankfully, RPS knew where to stop cropping the image at in order to avoid making this picture inherently dubious.

  20. 04/11/2009 at 15:17 Inigo says:

    Phallus analogues aside, this picture frightens me for reasons I cannot fully comprehend. Gromit’s eyes seem too close together. Like some otherworldly, eldritch abomination is crushing his head.
    And possibly sodomising him out of shot.
    It’s possible.
    Shut up.

  21. 04/11/2009 at 15:27 Orin says:

    I will have to check RPS in the morning more often. It is the laughter that keeps me awake.

  22. 04/11/2009 at 17:37 Tei says:

    I can be worst… imagine “Hands on with Gromit’s “

  23. 04/11/2009 at 17:37 PleasingFungus says:

    …you know, I think I was happier before all the homoeroticism.

    Sigh.

    HOW ABOUT THOSE VIDEOS GAMES GUYS

  24. 04/11/2009 at 17:50 Railick says:

    Wow I was at work when I loaded this up and scrolled past it real quick until I realized what it was.

  25. 04/11/2009 at 17:51 Diogo Ribeiro says:

    So Grommit is into interracial?

  26. 04/11/2009 at 18:09 Railick says:

    BTW, am I the only person that hates Wallace and Grommit? The only thing I had worse than Wallace and Grommit is probably Post Man Pat and Paddington Bear.

    Shadowcat “It hammers at my retinas like an evil woodpecker of pure energy”

    • 04/11/2009 at 19:58 Klaus says:

      No, I don’t like them either. I don’t mind Postman Pat, and Paddington is too saccharine for my taste.
      That dog has the most blank stare though, there is no emotion in his face.

  27. 04/11/2009 at 18:22 Dean says:

    That’s handy, got the first episode for free for pre-ordering Tales of Monkey Island, got the second for free in the Pirate Day promotion (as I already had the free ToMI episode, so you could get any other one instead). Third episdoe through this promotion, and I believe you can get the 4th and final one with a free episode code from the ToMI treasure hunting mini-game.

    So basically Telltale gave away a free season for pre-ordering ToMI…

  28. 04/11/2009 at 19:21 Boldoran says:

    wow you guys have issues.

  29. 04/11/2009 at 22:46 Nero68 says:

    Thanks people, glad I’m not alone..

    Also, get it now. Think of the badger!

  30. 04/11/2009 at 23:04 Matzerath says:

    I have a bittersweet feeling about not noticing the phallic suggestiveness until it was pointed out.

  31. 05/11/2009 at 04:33 Urthman says:

    The moment in The Wrong Trousers when the penguin pulls the rubber glove off his head is one of the funniest things ever filmed. Genius.

  32. 05/11/2009 at 16:27 theworm says:

    Didn’t know Wallace invented the Fleshlight.

    (Google it)
    (Actually, if you’re at work, don’t)

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