The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit, and was produced by Aardman Animations in association with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol, Lionheart Television and BBC Children's International. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989). In the film, a villainous penguin named Feathers McGraw uses Wallace and Gromit's robotic "Techno-Trousers" to steal a diamond from the city museum. This was the last Wallace and Gromit film to have Wallace as the only spoken character. The Wrong Trousers premiered in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993 on BBC Two. It was commercially successful, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1994. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Day", one of several events. The short was followed by two sequels, A Close Shave, released in December 1995, and A Matter of Loaf and Death released in December 2008. Feathers McGraw returns in the 2003 video game Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo. Plot On Gromit's birthday, Wallace gives him two presents: a collar and lead set, and some robotic ex-NASA Techno-Trousers, which can take Gromit for walks. While Gromit is out on a forced "test run", Wallace, realising that he does not have enough money to pay the bills, decides to put an empty room in the house up for rent. A penguin arrives to rent the room, but decides he likes Gromit's bedroom better. Unable to say no to a paying guest, Wallace moves Gromit into the empty room. The penguin takes an interest in the Techno-Trousers after watching Gromit use them to walk on walls and ceilings. By playing loud music all night, and taking up all of Wallace's time and affection, the penguin deliberately drives Gromit to run away from home. Once Gromit has gone, the penguin removes the controls from the Techno-Trousers and converts them into a portable remote. He then replaces Wallace's normal trousers with the Techno-Trousers, so that Wallace will accidentally put them on. Once Wallace is stuck in the "Wrong Trousers", the Penguin uses the remote to send Wallace running and jumping all over town, eventually exhausting him into a deep sleep. Meanwhile, Gromit