Piella's old Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon, Gromit and Fluffles arrive at Wallace's house as he lights the candle. After a struggle, the cake falls, revealing it to be a bomb. Wallace and Gromit are attacked by Piella, who reveals she detests bakers after her weight gain ended her career as the Bake-O-Lite girl. She is about to kill Wallace but is attacked by Fluffles in a forklift. In the chaos, the bomb ends up in Wallace's trousers; Gromit and Fluffles neutralise the explosion by filling the trousers with dough while Piella leaps onto her balloon and escapes. However, her weight drags the balloon into the zoo and right to a crocodile enclosure where she is fatally devoured. Dejected, Wallace and Gromit decide to take their mind off their great adventure, especially the battle they had with Piella, with a delivery. Outside, they find Fluffles and she joins them. Cast Peter Sallis as Wallace Sally Lindsay as Piella Bakewell Melissa Collier as Fluffles Sarah Laborde as Bake-O-Lite singer Ben Whitehead as Baker Bob (uncredited) Geraldine McEwan as Miss Thripp (uncredited) Production In October 2007, it was announced that Wallace and Gromit were to return to television after an absence of ten years with a new short film titled Wallace and Gromit: Trouble At' Mill. Filming began in January 2008; creator Nick Park commented that the production period for the short was significantly quicker than that of the feature-length films Chicken Run and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which each took five years to complete. A Matter of Loaf and Death was the first Aardman film to be made using the software Stop-Motion Pro. Five models were created for Gromit alone, with scenes being shot simultaneously on thirteen sets. Commenting on the fact that the short would be made directly for a British audience, Nick Park said: "I don't feel like I'm making a film for a kid in some suburb of America — and being told they're not going to understand a joke, or a northern saying." Regardless, Park changed the title from Trouble at Mill as he thought it was too obscure a Northern England colloquialism. As well as a final title that references A Matter of Life and Death, the film also references Batman, Aliens and Ghost. Park said in an interview with the Radio Times, "The BBC hardly gave a single note or instruction on the whole thing",