Man goes viral after recreating Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers breakfast scene
Joseph Herscher, 40, spent two months creating machines that would drop him out of bed and into a pair of trousers when he sat in a chair at the dining table, as well as a machine that would dress him in Wallace's iconic outfit - a white shirt, a knitted green sleeveless cardigan and a red tie.
The London-based resident even trained his pooch Archie - who played Wallace's pet dog Gromit in his video - to press a button that fired jam across the table before it slapped onto a piece of toast as it popped out of the toaster.
And the 29-second clip - which took Joseph two days to shoot - has gone viral on his TikTok account, Joseph's Machines.
The fan of Aardman Animations - which created the beloved TV series and film characters - is quoted by the Metro newspaper as saying: "It felt like a childhood dream come to life. I have wondered about how this invention could be made since I first saw the film in 1993 ...
"This project really meant a lot more to me than some of my other ones.
"Having been an Aardman fan since I was a kid, this really felt like I was fulfilling every inventor's dream."
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