US streaming bosses in flap over phrase 'flipping Nora' in new Wallace & Gromit film, fearing it was obscene
US streaming bosses got into a flap over the phrase “flipping Nora” in the new Wallace & Gromit film, fearing it was obscene.
Netflix, showing Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl from January 3, asked the filmmakers: “Who is Nora and why is she being flipped?”
Director Merlin Crossingham said: “We explained it’s not rude or an expletive, just a fairly innocent turn of phrase. They said that’s fine.” Chief Insp Mackintosh, voiced by comedian Peter Kay, shouts the expression as jewel thief Feathers McGraw escapes.
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In Vengeance Most Fowl, the second most watched programme on Christmas Day after the Gavin and Stacey finale, prisoner Feathers hacks into Norbot, a robotic garden gnome invented by Wallace.
And, just like 1993’s The Wrong Trousers, Gromit takes on the dastardly Feathers. Creator Nick Park said they went a “bit mad with the puns”.
He added: “They’re quite shameful and quite real groaners at times.” He told BBC Front Row’s podcast the film had dark turns as kids often love to be scared. He said: “This has quite a reference to Village of the Damned, which I remember really freaked me out as a child.”
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