A thought

[dragonscholar]

Technicaly Wallace and Grommit are steampunk.

Comments

[primalfire]

right on.

[tearak]

the pants.....THE PANTS!!

[afeldspar]

I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion. "Steampunk" usually means that at least the aesthetic of the setting reflects the Victorian/Edwardian era. Yet modern-day cars and trucks and motorcycles exist in the setting (see for instance the chase scene in A Close Shave.

I don't think it matches up with "steampunk" but I do wonder if there's some term there waiting to be defined, where the aesthetic of the setting is the aggressive cozy and homey and normal and then super-FM technology explodes into everything.

[dragonscholar]

I think what I see is that Steampunk is the closest term we have, but I agree - there's no real name for the aesthetic it DOES have. Yet.