The Aardman Show

The Aardman Show is an British animated sitcom created by Aardman Animations. It features characters from many Aardman IP's.

Synopsis
The series revolves around Wallace and his dog, Gromit who live together on West Wallaby Street in the town of Aardville, Wigan with "colorful neighbors" and other characters including Rex the Runt, Morph, Shaun the Sheep and many others.

Wallace & Gromit

 * Wallace - A middle-aged man who lives at 62 West Wallaby Street,along with his dog Gromit. His last name is never given. He usually wears a white shirt, brown wool trousers, a green knitted pullover, and a red tie. He is fond of cheese, especially Wensleydale, and crackers. An inveterate inventor, Wallace creates elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended.
 * Gromit - A Beagle who is Wallace's pet dog and best friend. Gromit is very intelligent, having graduated from "Dogwarts University" ("Dogwarts" being a pun on "Hogwarts", the wizard school in the Harry Potter books) with a double first in Engineering for dogs. He likes knitting, playing chess, reading the newspaper, tea, and cooking. His prized possessions include his alarm clock, dog bone, brush, and a framed photo of himself with Wallace. He is very handy with electronic equipment and an excellent airplane pilot. He often threatens the plans of the villains he and Wallace encounter in their adventures. Gromit has no visible mouth and expresses himself through facial expressions and body language.

Shaun the Sheep

 * Shaun - A friend of Wallace & Gromit and the leader of the flock. He is clever, confident, and prone to mischief, but equally adept at getting himself and/or his friends out of it. As there is no dialogue, like all the sheep he communicates entirely through bleating and often explains his ideas to the flock by drawing diagrams on a blackboard. He has a good friendship with Bitzer, though this does not stop him from playing pranks on him at times. His vocal effects are performed by Justin Fletcher.

Rex the Runt

 * Rex — Wallace and Gromit's neighbor who lives with his housemates at 7, Marsupial Way in the Rexford part of town. He's a timid, irritable runt. He is quick-witted and usually comes up with plans to get out of the scrapes the gang finds themselves in. However, he can also annoy the others by being a smart aleck. His favourite superhero is Rocket Raymond.


 * Bad Bob - One of Rex's housemates. He is a "big, fat slob", interested in food and TV. His friends, and occasionally even he himself, describe him as a "Big, fat, jelly-wobbly, fat idiot". He is distinguishable by his eye patch, which changes from eye to eye, and often carries around a revolver almost the size of himself. However grumpy he might be, he is intelligent and loyal.


 * Wendy - Rex's female housemate, distinguishable by her eyelashes, pink colour, noticeably hemispheric breasts, and wears a red (Or starting with series 2, pink) bow on her head. She is cynical, sarcastic, and fiercely independent. Wendy provides solutions to problems albeit in a distant or non-caring way. She speaks in a Mancunian accent.


 * Vince - Rex's pet, although all four are dogs. He is distinguished by his prominent buckteeth and mismatched eyes. He speaks in single words or short disjointed phrases, his favourites being "Spaghetti", "Tuesday", "Jam", and "Trousers". Vince suffers from "Random Pavarotti Disease", causing him to randomly blurt out snatches of opera. While he appears to be unintelligent, he occasionally shows great ingenuity. The other members of the gang often respond to Vince's random outbursts by irritably telling him to "shut it". Vince often has a habit of copying what others have said, sometimes even if they have just said it in their minds, which Bad Bob (and sometimes Gromit) finds really annoying.

Morph

 * Morph – A curious and creative clay figure with terracotta skin who can transform into many things. He lives alongside his friends on a desk in Wallace's basement.
 * Chas – Morph's amoral white-skinned best friend.
 * Nailbrush – Morph's 'canine' companion, a barking, male nailbrush.


 * Grandmorph – Morph's elderly, bearded grandfather, who travels by skateboard and frequently invents things.
 * Delilah – A bossy, bespectacled female character in a yellow dress with dark brownish-purple skin.
 * Folly – A scatter-brained girl made of tin-foil.
 * Gillespie – A large, purple, dimwitted but peaceable friend of Morph's.
 * The Very Small Creatures – An array of small plasticine balls with eyes who travel in a swarm; the smallest of the group, Little Green, features prominently on his own in a number of episodes.
 * Gobbledygook – A green, omnivorous alien (who arrived on the table by sleeping near Morph's box in The Amazing Adventures of Morph, but in The Morph Files and this series, he arrived by mistakenly being printed from a 'Space Invaders' style game).
 * The Paint Pots – A group of sentient paint pots who can morph their paint into facsimiles of people; unlike Morph and Chas, they are able to speak coherently (one of them even chides Morph for his non-existent linguistic skills on multiple occasions); they originally appeared in Take Hart.
 * Luxo the Lamp – A Luxo lamp who warns the others when someone's entering the room; like the Paint Pots, it originally appeared in Take Hart, but later reappeared in a 2018 short in a silent role more akin to Luxo Jr.

Episodes
Main Article:The Aardman Show/Episodes

Production
The show was the concept that Nick Park and Richard Goleszowski pitched to Peter Lord and David Sproxton.