Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Nick Park Richard Starzak[1]
Developed by	Richard Starzak Alison Snowden David Fine
Directed by	Richard Starzak Christopher Sadler
Voices of	John Sparkes Justin Fletcher Gemma Dixon Joe Haynes Jo Allen
Theme music composer	Mark Thomas
Opening theme	"Life's a Treat", performed by Vic Reeves
Ending theme	"Life's a Treat (Instrumental Version)"
Country of origin	United Kingdom Germany[2]
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	130 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Miles Bullough David Sproxton Peter Lord Nick Park Michael Carrington
Producer(s)	Julie Lockhart (series 1), Gareth Owen (series 2), John Woolley (series 3 and 4)
Running time	7 minutes
Production company(s)	Aardman Animations BBC Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Release
Original network	CBBC, BBC
Picture format	16:9 Widescreen PAL (576i) (2007) 16:9 HDTV (1080i) (2009–10, 2013–2014)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	5 March 2007 – present
Chronology
Related shows	A Close Shave Timmy Time
External links
Website

Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated television series, a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. The series stars Shaun, a sheep previously featured in the 1995 short film A Close Shave and in the Shopper 13 episode from the 2002 Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions series, and his madcap adventures around a small farm as the leader of his flock. Having first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007 and broadcast in 180 countries globally, the series consists of 150 seven-minute episodes. The fifth season contains 20 episodes and has been aired in the Netherlands from December 1, 2015 until January 1, 2016.^[3][4][5]

The series inspired its own spin-off, Timmy Time, which follows the adventures of Shaun's small cousin and is aimed at younger viewers. A feature-length film, titled Shaun the Sheep Movie, was released theatrically in 2015. A 30-minute film, titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas was aired as a 2015 Christmas TV special.

Plot

Shaun, an unusually bright and clever sheep, lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, a traditional small northern English farm. In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic sitcom-style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer, while they all are simultaneously trying to avoid discovery by the Farmer.

Production

The show was produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR),^[6] a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. It has aired on CBBC in the UK from 2007 onward.

Each seven-minute episode is entirely shot in Aardman's distinctive stop-motion animation style. The comedic tone is a combination of slapstick and classic silent comedy, similar to that used in the Wallace & Gromit shorts. In this series there is no spoken dialogue at all, even from the human characters; simple grunts, bleats, pointing, sighs, mutterings and similar wordless inflections are all used to indicate each character's moods and motives. There are also no readable words in any episode, although "Bitzer" can be seen on a dog bowl, and—starting in series four--"Mossy Bottom Farm" on a gate, in the original English-language title sequence. All other signage, such as on a pizza box or a bus stop, is replaced by an illegible scrawl and a picture.

Shaun the Sheep's first appearance was in Wallace & Gromit's third short feature, the Academy Award winning A Close Shave, as the youngest member of a flock of sheep Wallace and Gromit work to save from being turned into dog food. He was named Shaun as a pun on the word "shorn" after he was accidentally subjected to Wallace's automated sheep shearing machine. This early version of Shaun shows a hint of his characteristic human-like bravado—among other things, wearing a sweater knitted from his own shorn wool—and he proves to be a major help in saving the day.

At the end of this short, Shaun and the entire flock are seen living with the duo; Shaun later made a brief cameo appearance in the "Shopper 13" episode of Wallace & Gromit's "Cracking Contraptions" web series. No official explanation has been given for the flock's later transfer to the farm.

Although the original series is silent aside from sound effects, a Hindi-dubbed version seen on Nickelodeon India was redone with scripts and dialogue.^[7]

Characters

Series director Richard Goleszowski at Canterbury's Anifest 2008 with models of a generic sheep, Bitzer, Timmy, and Shaun.

Main characters

• Shaun is the protagonist of the series and, despite being the skinniest of them all, the leader of the flock. He is a clever, confident sheep, prone to mischief but equally adept at getting himself and/or his friends out of it. As there is no dialogue, like all the sheep he communicates entirely through bleating, and often explains his ideas to the flock by drawing diagrams on a blackboard. He has a good friendship with Bitzer, though this does not stop him from playing pranks on him at times.
• Bitzer is the farmer's loyal, long-suffering sheepdog, dressed for work in a blue knit cap, black collar, knitted wristlet and large official-looking wrist-watch, carrying a clipboard and walking upright or on all fours as needed. He communicates, canine-fashion, via barks, growls, and the occasional whimper. He also gives instructions to the flock by blowing a whistle. Despite a tendency to be caught out listening to music, he takes his job very seriously, to the point of occasionally letting his power go to his head. He is however a generally good friend to Shaun and does his best to keep the whole flock out of trouble.
• Shirley is the largest member of the flock. A gentle giant, she is usually seen placidly eating, though she's intimidating enough to have defended Shaun from Pidsley the cat. She's so big that large objects routinely disappear into (or are deliberately hidden in) her fleece, and she quite often gets stuck herself, needing the other sheep to push, pull or even sling-shot her out of trouble. However, her size can also come in very handy when what's needed is a battering ram or similarly immovable object.
• Timmy, Shaun's cousin, is the flock's only lamb, and thus often the innocent center of the chaos. He appears to be a toddler in this series, and is often seen sucking a dummy. The spinoff series Timmy Time chronicles his later adventures in preschool.
• Timmy's Mother, Shaun's aunt, wears curlers in her topknot and is a bit careless about maternal duties, even using Timmy once as a makeshift paint brush. But when her offspring goes astray, she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her care.
• Nuts, is quite an eccentric, but useful sheep and usually like the rest of the flock, accompanies and helps Shaun. But the thing that makes him stand out from the flock is that he has two different shaped eyes.
• The Flock, like typical sheep, tend to follow Shaun and one another, are obedient to orders and generally form one big happy if sometimes fractious family group. Unlike Shaun, however, they are not particularly bright, which becomes a problem when combined with their ongoing fascination with the human world. It's usually Shaun and Bitzer who sort out the resulting mess.
• The Farmer is a bespectacled, balding man who runs the farm with Bitzer at his side and acts as the flock's primary if unwitting nemesis. His livestock's main concern is to ensure he remains completely oblivious to their unusual sentience, a task made easier by his conventional, unobservant nature but complicated by his enthusiasm for picking up new hobbies. He can be heard frequently making wordless noises or muttering under his breath just audibly enough for the viewer to pick up on his meaning. His disastrous attempts at dating are a running joke of the series. In the 2015 movie, he is referred to as Mr. X by those who don't know his identity.
• The Naughty Pigs, whose pen is adjacent to the sheepfield, are bullies to Shaun and his flock, always trying to antagonise them and get them into trouble. They are, however, scared of Bitzer (though they still take the chance to bully him whenever possible), and they get told off by the Farmer in "Pig Trouble".
• Pidsley is the Farmer's yellow cat, a minor character (without fur) in series 1 and the main antagonist of series 2. He desires to be the sole recipient of the Farmer's attention, and thus is jealous of Bitzer. He also dislikes the sheep, thinking of them as stupid and beneath him.

Other characters

• Mower Mouth the Goat, who first appears in the episode of the same name, is an unstoppable eating machine. While not an unfriendly character, all her considerable energy is focused on her next meal. She thus routinely causes trouble for Shaun and the flock, as also seen in "Shaun the Farmer" and "Saturday Night Shaun".
• The Bull is belligerent, powerful, and easily provoked by Shaun’s antics and the colour red. He appears in "The Bull", "Saturday Night Shaun", "Who's the Mummy?" and "Heavy Metal Shaun".
• The Ducks make frequent appearances. In the first series, a single duck suffers collateral damage due to Shaun’s exploits in "Off the Baa!", "Tidy Up", and "Bath Time". Sometimes he is seen with his lady friends. In series two there are two ducks; in series three, they have once again been replaced with a single, pure white duck.
• The Aliens appear in "Shaun Encounters", "The Visitor" and "Cat Got Your Brain" and briefly in "Spring Lamb". They are green and have one large eye on the top of the head. Despite their clearly advanced scientific technology—which frequently causes trouble for the farm animals—they exhibit human-like behaviour and generally jovial personalities.
• The Granny is a short-tempered, short-sighted old lady, appearing in "Takeaway" and "Save the Tree". She also appears in "Two's Company", holding a cart and "The Big Chase", forcing the pigs to give her a lift in their car. She is renowned for hitting people (or animals) with her handbag when they annoy her.
• The Pizza Delivery Boy is a young man who rides a moped (which Bitzer often "borrows" to chase after the sheep) and works in the local pizzeria. He also moonlights as a postman in "Saturday Night Shaun".
• The Farmer's Girlfriend appears for the first time in Series 2. She appears to be adventurous and an animal lover, patting Bitzer and Shaun and offering food to Timmy.
• The Farmer's Niece appears in "The Farmer's Niece" and "The Rabbit". She appears to be a fan of horses and causes irritation to Shaun, Bitzer and the flock. She is also one of the few humans who know what the flock are up to.

Episodes

The first two series consisted of 40 seven-minute episodes each, and the third 20 episodes. The fourth series debuted on 3 February 2014.^[8] A series of 15 1-minute 3D shorts were released on Nintendo's Video service for the Nintendo 3DS between March and June 2012.^[9] The Nintendo shorts will be released in early 2016 on the official Shaun the Sheep YouTube channel under the name "Mossy Bottom Farm Shorts".^[10] Another series of 21 1-minute sports-themed shorts, named Championsheeps, aired on CBBC during the Summer of 2012.^[11]

Series		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	40	5 March 2006	14 September 2007
	2	40	23 November 2009	17 December 2010
	3	20	25 February 2013	21 March 2013
	4	30	3 February 2014	19 December 2014

References to popular culture

As with the series' parent show Wallace and Gromit, there are many allusions to other aspects of popular culture and movies such as Star Wars, The Lion King, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Matrix, and Pulp Fiction. These include:

• Shirley's training in the episode "Shape Up with Shaun" is based on the film Rocky.
• The paintings parodied in "Still Life" include the Mona Lisa and Constable's The Hay Wain.
• In "Buzz Off Bees", the Farmer appears in his hooded beekeepers outfit, with accompanying Darth Vader-style heavy breathing.
• The infamous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is spoofed in the episode "The Little Sheep of Horrors", whose name is itself based on the film and play The Little Shop of Horrors.
• In "Hiccups", Shaun turns his guitar amplifier up to 11 in a reference to a scene in This Is Spinal Tap.
• In "Fleeced", at the beginning of episode when farmer switch on shearing machine in front of the frightened flock, is very obvious reference to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, specially when farmer grab the sheep and drag it into shearing room and jerkily closes the metal door after him - this is clear reference to scene from same film, when crazy masked killer with chainsaw catches his poor victim into his killing room and jerkily closes its metal doors after him.^[12] The sheep break out and accompanying music is very reminiscent of British World War II prisoner of war films (e.g., The Great Escape)
• In "The Visitor", the alien thrashes his car with a tree branch à la Basil Fawlty.
• In "Mountains out of Molehills" a sheep is reading a magazine called "Bleat", a spoof of celebrity gossip magazine "Heat". In the same episode, Shaun tries to catch a mole with a fishing rod and line. When the first "bite" is shown, the first two notes of the Jaws theme are played.
• Near the end of "Off the Baa", the "Nessun Dorma" theme from Puccini's opera Turandot is used, which was the musical theme of the BBC's coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The episode itself featured Shaun and the rest of the flock engaging in a football game with Bitzer as the referee.
• At the end of "Mower Mouth" the shrubs are clearly reminiscent of those in Edward Scissorhands.
• In "Saturday Night Shaun" Shaun rips off his coat and tosses it away as he is dancing, only to have it tossed back. This is reminiscent of the scene in the 1980 movie Airplane!, where Robert Hays tosses his white sport-coat away, only to have it tossed back in his face.
• In "Party Animals", one of the sheep is dressed as a crude version of a Dalek trying to get up some stairs but failing because of the suit.
• In "Bitzer from the Black Lagoon", Shaun cannot start the Farmer's truck and hits his head on the horn to get it started. This is a reference to Back to the Future.
• In "Zebra Ducks of the Serengeti", the Farmer's signpost over the gate falls over Bitzer - à la Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr.
• In "An Ill Wind", when the power supply to the farmhouse blows up, the Farmer grabs an axe and chops his wind turbine in a similar fashion to The Shining.
• In "Shaun Encounters" the two alien kids throw a bone for Bitzer. He catches the bone to Also sprach Zarathustra music, the scene is close related to the first scene with the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• In "Pig Trouble," the background music when the Farmer makes the pigs in charge of the flock is the song "If I had Words". This is a reference to the movie, Babe, which is about a pig becoming a sheep-herding pig.

Reception

Reviews of the series were consistently positive. Harry Venning of "The Stage" found "characterisation charming and the animation superb. All this before even a mention of how funny and splendidly slapstick the script is."^[13] The Guardian noted that the series "hits the four-to-seven-year-old age group smack in the eye."^[14] Gareth Owen, the producer of the series, said Shaun the Sheep is aimed at viewers "aged four to seven, though in reality, the age range is four to 87", as the series became popular among all different age-groups.^[15]
Charles Arthur wrote "classic Aardman style that leaves me laughing out loud."^[16]

Accolades

Awards
Award	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
British Academy Children's Awards[17]	Animation in 2010	Gareth Owen, Richard Webber, Chris Sadler	Won
British Academy Children's Awards[18]	Animation in 2014	Richard Starzak, Jay Grace, John Woolley	Won
British Academy Children's Awards[19]	Animation in 2015	John Woolley, Steve Box, Lee Wilton	Nominated

Spin-offs

Television special

A half-hour television special based on the television series, titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas, premiered on BBC One on Boxing Day 2015.^[20]

Timmy Time

Beginning in 2009, Aardman Animations produced a spin-off CBeebies series aimed at pre-schoolers, based on Timmy's own small adventures as he attends preschool for the first time and learns how to interact and play with a variety of young animal friends.^[21]

Other media

Films

Aardman developed a feature film Shaun the Sheep Movie,^[22] written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, which was financed by French StudioCanal,^[23] which was released on 6 February 2015. The film received very positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics have given the film a positive review.^[24] The film opened to £2.1 million in the UK and grossed £13.3 millon in the UK and $100 million worldwide.^[23] On 14 September 2015, StudioCanal announced it is working with Aardman on a sequel.^[23]

Video games

On 16 June 2008, D3 Publisher of America, which had previously published a game based on Aardman's 2006 film Flushed Away, announced that it would also release a video game based on Shaun's escapades. The Shaun the Sheep game was developed by Art Co., Ltd exclusively for Nintendo DS, and was released in autumn 2008.^[25]

A second game for Nintendo DS, titled Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head, was released on 23 October 2009, exclusively in Europe.^[26]

The Shaun the Sheep web site is also home to several Flash-based games, including Home Sheep Home,^[27] which is also available at the iOS App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.^[28]

The first game for Nintendo 3DS, titled Shaun the Sheep: Championsheeps was released in December 2015.^[29]

Theatre

On 9 March 2011, Shaun the Sheep made its live theatre début in Shaun's Big Show.^[30] The 100-minute long musical/dance show features all the regular characters, including Bitzer, Shirley and Timmy.

In 2015 Shaun starred in Snow White and the seven dwarfs pantomime at Bristol Hippodrome.^[31]

Shaun the Sheep Experience

In 2015, a family attraction based on Shaun the Sheep, called "The Shaun the Sheep Experience" will open at Lands End, rebranded "Lamb's End" for the duration of the attraction. It will feature original sets, models, and characters from many Aardman productions. Using green screen technology, guests will be able to "star" in a scene from the show, as well as meet other characters from the Aardman filmography including Wallace and Gromit, as well as Morph.^[32]

Promotional

On 26 September 2013, the International Rugby Board and Aardman Animations announced that Shaun and other characters from the franchise would be used in a merchandising programme to promote the 2015 Rugby World Cup to children.^[33]

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep appeared as the face of the "Holidays at Home are Great" directive. In the advert, seeing the Farmer going away, Shaun and the flock decide to have their own holiday around the UK before the Farmer got back.^[34]

Shaun in the City

Shaun in the City sculpture by Cath Kidston, London

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep starred in two public charity arts trails to raise money for sick children in hospitals across the UK. Organised by Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation in collaboration with Aardman, Shaun in the City saw 50 giant artist and celebrity-decorated sculptures of Shaun appear in London in the spring, before a further 70 appeared in Bristol throughout the summer.^[35] All 120 sculptures were auctioned in October 2015, raising £1,087,900 for Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity.^[36]

Shaun the sheep movie poster.

Shaun the Sheep Land

Shaun in the city sculpture ''Ram of the match''

A Shaun the Sheep theme park, titled Shaun the Sheep Land will open at Skånes Djurpark in early Summer 2016.

DVDs

Region 2 (Europe)

• Off the Baa! (12 November 2007): Off the Baa! / Timmy in a Tizzy / Buzz Off Bees / Things That Go Bump / Mower Mouth / Fleeced / Shaun Shoots the Sheep / Mountains out of Molehills
• Shape Up with Shaun (17 November 2007): Shape Up with Shaun / Bathtime / Fetching / Take Away / Still Life / Scrumping / Little Sheep of Horrors / The Kite
• Shaun the Sheep Box Set (17 November 2007): Off the Baa! / Timmy in a Tizzy / Buzz Off Bees / Things That Go Bump / Mower Mouth / Fleeced / Shaun Shoots the Sheep / Mountains out of Molehills / Shape Up with Shaun / Bathtime / Fetching / Take Away / Still Life / Scrumping / Little Sheep of Horrors / The Kite
• Saturday Night Shaun (10 March 2008): Saturday Night Shaun / Stick with Me / Shaun the Farmer / Sheep on the Loose / Tidy Up / Snore-Worn Shaun / Camping Chaos / If You Can’t Stand the Heat
• Abracadabra (20 October 2008): Abracadabra / The Bull / Who's the Mummy? / Hiccups / Heavy Metal Shaun / Troublesome Tractor / Sheepwalking / Save the Tree
• Wash Day (17 November 2008) Wash Day / Tooth Fairy / The Farmer's Niece / The Visitor / Helping Hound / Big Top Timmy / Bitzer Puts His Foot in It / Shaun Encounters
• Shaun the Sheep – The Complete First Series (17 November 2008) (Letterbox/Widescreen)
• Spring Lamb (29 March 2010): Spring Lamb / Sheepless Nights / Bitzer's New Hat / Fireside Favourite / Bitzer's Basic Training / The Boat
• Two's Company (6 September 2010): Two's Company / Double Trouble / Bitzer's New Hat / Everything Must Go / In the Doghouse / Ewe've Been Framed / Hide and Squeak / Frantic Romantic
• Party Animals (8 November 2010): Party Animals / What’s Up, Dog! / Cock-a-Doodle-Shaun / Cat Got Your Brain? / Chip Off the Old Block / Pig Trouble / Cheetah Cheater / Draw the Line
• The Big Chase (4 April 2011): The Big Chase / An Ill Wind / Bitzer from the Black Lagoon / Zebra Ducks of The Serengeti / The Boat / Bitzer’s Basic Training / The Magpie / Operation Pidsley
• We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas (3 October 2011): We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas / Snowed In / Whistleblower / Pig Swill Fly / Shirley Whirley / Foxy Laddie / Shaun Goes Potty / Fireside Favourite
• Shaun the Sheep – The Complete Second Series (3 October 2011)
• Spring Cleaning (7 April 2014): The Shepherd / Hard to Swallow / Bye Bye Barn / The Skateboard / The Rabbit / The Stand Off / The Coconut / You Missed a Bit / Let's Spray (exclusive to DVD) / The Crow
• Shaun the Sheep – Complete Series 3&4 Boxset (26 October 2015)
• Shaun the Sheep - The Farmer's Llamas (8 February 2016)

Region 1 (U.S. and Canada)

• Off the Baa! (11 November 2008): Off The Baa! / Timmy In A Tizzy / Buzz Off Bees / Things That Go Bump / Mower Mouth / Fleeced / Shaun Shoots The Sheep / Mountains Out Of Molehills
• Back in the Ba-a-ath (10 February 2009): Shape Up with Shaun / Bathtime / Fetching / Take Away / Still Life / Scrumping / Stick With Me / The Kite
• Sheep on the Loose (9 June 2009): Sheep on the Loose / Saturday Night Shaun / Tidy Up / Shaun the Farmer / Camping Chaos / If You Can't Stand the Heat
• Little Sheep of Horrors (1 September 2009): Little Sheep of Horrors / Abracadabra / Things That Go Bump / Heavy Metal Shaun / Troublesome Tractor / Sheepwalking
• A Wooly Good Time (16 February 2010): Washday / Tooth Fairy / The Farmer's Niece / Snore-Worn Shaun / Helping Hound / Big Top Timmy
• One Giant Leap for Lambkind (8 June 2010): Shaun Encounters / The Bull / Hiccups / Bitzer Puts His Foot In It / Save The Tree / The Visitor
• Party Animals (7 September 2010): Double Trouble / Strictly No Dancing / Party Animals / Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow / Pig Swill Fly / Shaun Goes Potty / Operation Pidsley
• Shaun the Sheep: Season 1 (19 October 2010) (Full Screen)^[37]
• Spring Shena-a-anigans (25 January 2011): Spring Lamb / Supersize Timmy / Bagpipe Buddy / Cheetah Cheater / Lock Out / Draw the Line / Ewe've Been Framed
• The Big Chase (19 April 2011): The Big Chase / Bitzer from the Black Lagoon / Zebra Ducks of the Serengeti / Bitzer's Basic Training / The Magpie / The Boat / Hide and Squeak
• Animal Antics (26 July 2011): Foxy Laddie / Whistleblower / Frantic Romantic / Who's the Caddy / Everything Must Go / In the Doghouse / Cock-a-Doodle Shaun
• We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas (18 October 2011) We Wish Ewe a Merry Christmas / Snowed In / Fireside Favorite / An Ill Wind / Bitzer's New Hat / Chip Off the Old Block / Shirley Whirley
• Shaun the Sheep: Season 2 (15 November 2011) (Widescreen)^[38]
• Shear Madness (17 April 2012): Pig Trouble / Sheepless Nights / Party Animals / Cat’s Got Your Brain / Two’s Company / What’s Up, Dog! / Draw the Line

Blu-ray discs

Region B (Europe)

• Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 2 (complete Series 2) (Germany, 25 March 2011) (16:9 Widescreen)
• Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 3 (complete Series 3) (Germany, 5 November 2013) (16:9 Widescreen)
• Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 4 (complete Series 4) (Germany, 5 November 2015) (16:9 Widescreen)
• Shaun das Schaf – Die Lamas des Farmers (Germany, 10 March 2016) (16:9 Widescreen)

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External links

• Official website
• Aardman Animation official website
• BBC Press release (animation series)
• Shaun the Sheep at BBC Online
• Shaun the Sheep at the British Comedy Guide
• Shaun the Sheep at the Internet Movie Database
• Shaun the Sheep at TV.com