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While they are most well known for the critical and commercial success of 2000’s “Chicken Run” and 2005’s “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the geniuses behind claymation company Aardman Studios first gained notoriety by making half-hour TV films of the well-read dog and his naïve, slightly off-kilter partner.

After their fruitful foray into the world of computer animation with “Flushed Away,” Peter Lord and Nick Park released the fourth television installment of the Wallace & Gromit series with 2008’s “A Matter of Loaf and Death.” Despite its short run time, the movie delivers the same knockout combination of amazing animation and humor that the company has become world renowned for.

Being the jacks of all trades that they are, Wallace and Gromit are now the proud owners and sole employees of Top Bun, a bakery with an uncanny output that is the result of Wallace’s inventions and Gromit’s fine tuning and know how. The bakery business is a risky one, though, as twelve bakers have been found dead in a year in their small town.

All is going well until Wallace has a chance encounter with Piella Bakewell, a former pin-up girl for the Bake-O-Lite company, and her dog Fluffles. A romance ensues between the two human characters and it moves at such a fast pace that Gromit becomes skeptical. After learning a dark secret about Piella, Gromit sets out to save his best friend with Fluffles help before it is too late.

A lot of the charm that was lost with computer animation in “Flushed Away” returns in “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” as the filmmakers returned to using stop motion photography for each clay character’s body and mouth movements to create a visual marvel. The fact that you can occasionally see the fingerprints of the animators shows the amount of devotion to the project, and it is probably the most fluid moving of all the Aardman features.

More than twenty years after “Creature Comforts” and the first Wallace & Gromit short, “A Grand Day Out,” wowed audiences, it is still hard to get over how much talent and dedication it takes to make a film like this.

Of course, it would not be a Wallace & Gromit feature without an abundance of humor and visual puns, and “A Matter of Loaf and Death” continues the tradition.

From the always crazy contraptions Wallace makes to help him get ready for the day, to the dog related paraphernalia that fills Gromit’s room, the writers once again drew as much as possible from the source material in the name of delivering a laugh a minute. And, of course, there are plenty of bakery and bread jokes. As such, it is easily as funny as anything Aardman has produced in the past and is another gleaming example of why the British are so good at comedy.

Despite being the most watched program when it aired on BBC One during Christmas Day 2008, “A Matter of Loaf and Death” quietly made its way stateside with little to no fanfare. Thankfully, fans of Wallace & Gromit and newcomers alike can enjoy this comedic gem instantly without having to be launched out of bed.