5 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Hidden Easter Eggs You Didn't Notice

The animated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, one of the funniest nominees for the 2025 Oscars despite not winning the coveted statuette, works with humor on several levels.

The film is full of Easter eggs, some of which will be recognized by the ordinary viewers, others by aficionados, and some of which even require a knowledge of regional British particularities.

1. The Shawshank Redemption

In the prison zoo, Feathers is serving time for stealing a diamond and dreams of revenge, so he keeps a newspaper clipping of how Wallace and Gromit caught the bad guy as a motivational poster on the wall.

In fact, the clipping is needed not only to enrage the penguin, but also to cover the hole in the wall – just like the poster of the half-naked woman in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

2. The African Queen

The boat on which the villain Feathers sails is a reference to the classic movie The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

According to the plot, the captain and a missionary are sailing a steamboat down a tropical river and plan to torpedo a German boat.

To reinforce the non-obvious Easter egg, 1951, the year of the movie's release, was attached to the side of the ship, and during the chase, the penguin dresses up as a nun.

3. Cape Fear

Feathers, a prisoner at the zoo, keeps in shape by exercising regularly, just like the character in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear. Feathers does pull-ups while Max Cady does push-ups to very similar music.

Both are burning with a thirst for revenge, only Cady supports his obsession with themed posters, while Feathers uses a newspaper clipping of Wallace and Gromit, the happy culprits of his arrest many years ago.

4. The Bond Movies

The scene in which Feathers pets a seal alludes not so much to a specific plot as to an antagonist in the James Bond franchise.

The cunning villain Blofeld confronts Agent 007 over the course of several films and remains the main character's nemesis. The villain's appearance has changed from film to film, but an important detail of the classic Blofeld has always been the white cat in his arms.

5. No Parkin

On the border with Yorkshire there is a sign saying No Parkin, which seems to prohibit parking. It seems to be misspelled, but it is actually a play on words: in Yorkshire there is a traditional pastry called parkin – gingerbread with oatmeal and treacle.

Lancashire, where the characters in the movie live, also has Parkin, but it is prepared slightly differently: instead of treacle, they use syrup, and the gingerbread is lighter.

Of course, a dispute about whose pastry is better is inevitable, and one can assume that the Yorkshiremen are using this sign to ask not to import Lancashire parkins.