The Baker's Dozen is a list of the bakers that were killed by the serial killer, Piella Bakewell, in the Wallace & Gromit short film A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Why They Were Murdered[]
Piella Bakewell was the spokesmodel for the Bake-O-Lite Bread Company, but after Piella gained far too much weight from eating entirely too many pastries, and became too heavy to ride the Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon, the company dropped her as their spokesmodel.
Feeling it was the fault of the bakers who made the pastries she ate rather than her own or the company's, Piella decided to get revenge by killing a "baker's dozen" of bakers (a "baker's dozen" is thirteen).
She gained the trust of the thirteen bakers by pretending to fall in love with them, and then killed them when they least expected it, not that they actually expected Piella to murder them.
Bakers[]
Norbert Stodge[]
The first baker stabbed to death by Piella.
Wayne Scales[]
The second baker bludgeoned by Piella.
Rich Teabiscuit[]
The third baker strangled by Piella.
Basil Dumplings[]
The fourth baker drowned by Piella.
Phil O'Pastry[]
The fifth baker crushed to death by Piella.
Bread Astair[]
The sixth baker impaled by Piella.
Quiche Richards[]
The seventh baker poisoned by Piella.
Crusty Rolls[]
The eighth baker electrocuted by Piella.
Herb Bruschetta[]
The ninth baker burned alive by Piella.
Shorty Shortcrust[]
The tenth baker decapitated by Piella.
Brendan Butterpudding[]
The eleventh and penultimate baker throat slit by Piella.
Baker Bob[]
The twelfth and final baker bludgeoned by Piella and whose death appeared in the local newspaper. He is named after writer Bob Baker. It is also possible whether the character referenced in A Close Shave is the same baker. He was voiced by Ben Whitehead.
Trivia[]
- Quiche Richards was the only unseen chef picture in the film. There was no image of Quiche Richards in the behind the scenes or puppets ever built.
- Wallace was the only baker Piella wasn't able to murder, which makes him the sole survivor of her bakers dozen by far.
- Piella got killed instead when she made an unsuccessful "escape" with The Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon and vowing of getting Wallace somehow someday to complete her "baker's dozen" but her vast weight leads her down to the crocodile pit in a nearby zoo where she got eaten by crocodiles, which it makes the last of Wallace, Gromit and Fluffles ever see her again.
- With the exception of Baker Bob and Wallace, the names of all the bakers who were murdered by Piella are all puns on baked goods.
- Bread Astair's name is a parody of the famous musician/actor Fred Astaire. He also bears a resemblance to Victor Quartermaine.
- Fluffles was more against her former mistress, Piella's diabolical plan since the very beginning with her victim, Norbert Stodge.
- Norbert Stodge is a brief reference to the Austrian-German Nazi soldier Adolf Hitler, despite the look of his mustache.
- In the Novelization book, Pat O'Cake, Ken Wood, and Peter Bread were bakers whose names had appeared in the Novelization, but none of them were seen in the film (with the exception of Pat O'Cake's name on one of the bakery signs). The other two bakers didn't even get mentioned, either.
- Shorty Shortcrust's name in the Novelization book was incorrectly written as "Shorty Shortcake".
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