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11 Mar 07 - 09:38 AM (#1993369) Subject: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Flash Company Latest Nick Park creation running in an afternoon on BBC1 and early morning on BBC2. Based on the Sheep in the Wallace & Grommit cartoon 'A Close Shave'. No dialogue, and the sort of humour that used to be in things like Magic Roundabout. Very funny! FC |
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11 Mar 07 - 11:02 AM (#1993407) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Nigel Parsons My daughter planned to record every episode. Somehow she missed the first three, I'm hoping there'll be an omnibus repeat at some stage CHEERS Nigel |
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11 Mar 07 - 01:59 PM (#1993533) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: lady penelope Give it a couple of months and the lot will be out on DVD..... |
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11 Mar 07 - 02:20 PM (#1993553) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Geoff the Duck It's on Digital TV - It'll be repeated ad nauseum. There won't be any problem recording it all. I saw a couple of them and enjoyed what I saw. Quack! GtD. |
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11 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM (#1993578) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: McGrath of Harlow Here you are - Shaun the Sheep 1 - a football match, courtesy YouTube.. And there's more where that came from. |
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11 Mar 07 - 05:26 PM (#1993669) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Tig The ones I've seen have been brilliant. Badger came through to find out why Firecat and I were laughing so much. Like The Magic Roundabout has bits for the grown ups to appreciate. |
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11 Mar 07 - 06:07 PM (#1993697) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: McGrath of Harlow They're all down that YouTube link I gave, I think. |
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11 Mar 07 - 08:19 PM (#1993824) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: GUEST I have a shaun the sheep eggcup.......don't all rush at once. |
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12 Mar 07 - 04:35 AM (#1994037) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak It's fabuloso!! Caught the 'Sheep Dip' episode yesterday... that poor duck! LTS |
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12 Mar 07 - 06:27 AM (#1994107) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump No - but it might help us find him if you tell us where you last saw him? |
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12 Mar 07 - 02:22 PM (#1994556) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Mrs.Duck Its always the poor bloody duck that gets it :) I have loved the ones I've seen but Geoff is right CBBC tend to run everything on an eternal loop so all the episodes will get repeated often enough to record. If you haven't got digital they are probably repeated at some ungodly hour on weekend mornings too. |
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12 Mar 07 - 04:29 PM (#1994666) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak They're on BBC1 at 4.45pm... caught a pair of episodes today! LTS |
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12 Mar 07 - 04:44 PM (#1994684) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck Never see one on its own, do you? Quack! GtD. |
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12 Mar 07 - 06:16 PM (#1994765) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Jim Dixon Thanks for bringing this to my attention. There are a lot of American fans of Wallace & Grommit, but it might take awhile for Shaun the Sheep to appear on American TV. By the way, I believe there's a pun here that most Americans would miss, that is, Shaun = Shorn. Is Shaun just an alternate spelling of Sean? Is it pronounced the same? Who uses Shaun? |
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12 Mar 07 - 06:41 PM (#1994800) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Tattie Bogle I saw it today too, while having a very late lunch: good job it was lasagna and not moussaka! Great stuff! |
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12 Mar 07 - 07:01 PM (#1994821) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: McGrath of Harlow Shaun is quite a common anglicised spelling for Sean, to help make sure it gets pronounced right, I suppose (which isn't the case with the other altyernative spelling, Shane). "I believe there's a pun here that most Americans would miss, that is, Shaun = Shorn." Aren't Americans familiar with the word "shorn"? I'm surprised at that - it crops up a few times in the Bible, both New and Old Testaments. (I mean in the main translations into English.) |
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12 Mar 07 - 11:11 PM (#1995008) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Jim Dixon Yes, Americans would know the word "shorn" but we wouldn't pronounce it so that it sounds like "Shaun". |
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13 Mar 07 - 05:26 AM (#1995120) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: fogie This is on far too early when will they place it in its proper spot - about 7pm. Anyone know if it's repeated at any other time yet? Agree about the magic roundabout -except this is funnier. |
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13 Mar 07 - 08:00 AM (#1995217) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Sandra in Sydney I loved it, unfortunately there was no-one here to see why I was laughing so much. My sheep collection is definitely lacking, I really must have a Shaun. My penguin collection has a Wallace & Grommit penguin (dunno what his name is so I checked Wikipedia & he's called Feathers McGraw!) sandra |
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13 Mar 07 - 08:52 AM (#1995266) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: BanjoRay I've just finished touring England with The Orpheus Supertones from Pennsylvania - they spent most of the time looking for a Shaun The Sheep. Ray |
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13 Mar 07 - 09:10 AM (#1995280) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scoville Yes, we Americans get that "Shaun=shorn". Well, most of us do. It's pretty obvious in the original context when he gets named "Shaun" after having his wool shaved off and knitted into a sweater. |
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13 Mar 07 - 09:22 AM (#1995291) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: McGrath of Harlow ...but we wouldn't pronounce it so that it sounds like "Shaun". So how on earth would you pronounce it? I suppose you might pronounce "Shaun" is some other way, to rhyme with "gown" or something like that, but both in these films and in the original film it gets repeatedly pronounced in the customary way. And I can't really see how "shorn" could really be pronounced any differently. I know the English sometimes go in for some pretty weird pronunciations, but the Americans generally seem to prefer to pronounce words the way they look like they should be pronounced. |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:15 AM (#1995348) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump There's an 'r' in "Shorn" which is pronounced in some parts of England (e.g. the West Country; parts of Lancashire), which would mean it was not pronounced exactly the same as "Shaun". In the south-east, though, the 'r' is probably silent, so in that case you are probably correct, McGrath of The South-East :-) |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:32 AM (#1995372) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scoville "Shorn", with a hard "r". Some regional accents--New England, some places in the South--might drop the "r" but a generalized American accent would pronounce it quite clearly. Also, mostly in America "Shaun" (usually "Sean" or "Shawn") has a pretty broad "a" sound that would sound less like "shorn" even with a dropped "r" ("sho'n"). With the drawls we have here it would almost be two syllables: "SHAW-wun". |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:36 AM (#1995376) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump Good job Jim explained the pun then Scoville! :-) |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:41 AM (#1995382) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: jeffp Just checked out the one linked. Brilliant! Thanks so much. |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:07 AM (#1995402) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scoville Well, like I said--the pun is pretty obvious in context, even to Americans. Also, I always thought Wallace's pronunciation sort of hinted at an "r", but maybe that's the normal UK pronunciation (?? I don't currently know any Brits named Shaun). |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:12 AM (#1995410) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump I was about to say that Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace, and also a member of the cast of the series Last of the Summer Wine, set in Yorks) may have been from Lancs, but I just discovered he is in fact from Twickenham, so bang goes that theory. However, Aardman Animations is based in Bristol, so if he went there to do the voice-overs he could have unconsciously picked up the local accent :-) |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:22 AM (#1995425) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: McGrath of Harlow I can't see how peronouncing with or without an r or leaving it out would really make much difference in wordplay like this. Puns aren't normally as exact as all that. |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:44 AM (#1995458) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump Agreed, McGrath. I was simply replying to your point And I can't really see how "shorn" could really be pronounced any differently. There is a slight difference between the two cases (the 'r' is pronounced or left silent), but as you say, in the context of a pun, it shouldn't really make much difference to the understanding. Hopefully by now, everyone will understand the pun. If they don't, they probably never will! :-) |
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13 Mar 07 - 05:01 PM (#1995760) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak Sorry, brain freeze - I meant 3.45pm! LTS |
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14 Mar 07 - 01:45 AM (#1996030) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak And it's repeated at something like 7.30am the following day! LTS |
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14 Mar 07 - 07:37 AM (#1996209) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Sandra in Sydney I think I need to get a TV Shaun the Sheep is coming to a TV set near me!! |
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14 Mar 07 - 08:51 AM (#1996275) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: JennyO So you'll be getting up to watch channel 2 at 8am Sandra? I watched McGrath's link. He is very cute and it's quite funny. |
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14 Mar 07 - 09:23 AM (#1996316) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump I watched McGrath's link. He is very cute and it's quite funny I never thought of McGrath as being 'cute', but now you mention it JennyO... :-) |
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14 Mar 07 - 04:01 PM (#1996768) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak Today I indoctrinated my niece Rachel into the delights of Shaun the Sheep... she's hooked. Ain't I a stinker?! LTS |
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14 Mar 07 - 05:43 PM (#1996886) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Schantieman Shorn without the r would be shon. Like wot the sun did. And anyone in the Liverpool/S Lancs area knows that Shaun the Sheep is a women's rapper side. Steve |
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14 Mar 07 - 06:56 PM (#1996954) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Sandra in Sydney well, JennyO I was thinking you could record each episode for me, before you go to bed, & I'll watch the episodes when I visit! |
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15 Mar 07 - 08:36 AM (#1997415) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: JennyO Before I go to bed? 8am? I know I have been known to go to bed very late, but not THAT late (or early)! And Scrump - LOL! |
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15 Mar 07 - 06:45 PM (#1997966) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Herga Kitty I loved it. The website at www.shaunthesheep.com is good too! Kitty PS When I say I loved it I mean I loved watching the Aardman animation, not a particular sheep.... |
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16 Mar 07 - 12:00 AM (#1998144) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Sandra in Sydney Shaun the Sheep I understand, Kitty. sandra |
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16 Mar 07 - 10:43 AM (#1998607) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Scrump When I say I loved it I mean I loved watching the Aardman animation, not a particular sheep.... It's OK, Kitty, we're not judgemental round here:-) Mental, yes; judgemental, no... |
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17 Mar 07 - 02:39 AM (#1999315) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: Liz the Squeak Does anyone else think that Timmy may have a long career in showbiz ahead of him? LTS |
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19 Mar 07 - 03:34 PM (#2001349) Subject: RE: BS: Anyone seen Shaun the Sheep? From: GUEST Where was shaun today? Is that it? I thought they had 40 episodes of Shaun to show, but there so far has only been 20. Lisa. |