Talk:Gromit (disambiguation)

About Gromit
Gromit is a dog who lives with Wallace. His birthday is 12th February, and he graduated from "Dogwarts University" (a pun on Hogwarts of the Harry Potter books). He likes knitting, reading the newspaper, his alarm clock, bone, brush and framed photo of himself with Wallace. He is also very handy with electronic equipment (a grommet is a piece of electrical wiring insulation, a term Nick Park picked up from his brother, an electrician), and is sensitive, intelligent and resourceful. He holds a genuine affection for his master and remains loyal to him, even at his own expense or when Wallace's contraptions inevitably blow up in his face.

Gromit does not express himself in words but his facial expressions -- particularly his eyebrows -- speak volumes. Nick Park says: "We are a nation of dog-lovers and so many people have said: "'My dog looks at me just like Gromit does!'" and... "'Gromit was originally the name for a cat in another story!'" Gromit enjoys eating 'KornFlakes' and reading many books including:

The Republic, by Pluto (a pun on Plato and perhaps a nod to the Disney dog Pluto); Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoevsky (a pun on Fyodor Dostoevsky); Men are from Mars, Dogs are from Pluto (a pun on Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus); Electronics For Dogs (a pun on Electronics For Dummies) Sheep. He also listens to Bach and solves puzzles with ease.

Trivia Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him the perfect straight man with a pantomime expressiveness that drew favourable comparisons to Buster Keaton. NASA has now named one of its new prototype Mars explorer robots after Gromit. The other new prototype is named "K-9". Interestingly, Gromit happens to mean “destroy” (Russian: громить, cf. pogrom). Nick Park originally imagined Wallace as owning a cat. Redirects to Wallace and Gromit and grommet.

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Target of #redirect
"Gromit" is an animated dog; a "grommet" is a rubber ring. Each has a relevant wiki page--Wallace and Gromit and Grommet, respectively--and each of them has a link to the other one. IMO, a page should redirect to a page about that thing, not a homonym of it. If a reader has mis-spelled it and gotten to the "wrong" page, the cross-link makes it easy to get where one wants to go. DMacks 04:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)