Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep is an animated using stop-motion Anglo- German television series produced by Aardman Animations ( known inter alia, by Wallace & Gromit ). Head writer, director and creative director is the English animator Richard Goleszowski.

Since April 2007 she is running in Germany in KiKA and individually in the First and in the framework of the program with the mouse. In Austria, ORF shows one the series since the end of May 2007.

The Sheep Shaun first appears in an episode of Wallace & Gromit in which it is accidentally shaved. This results in reference to the English shorn ( " clipped " ) to its name.

The series consists to date (2014) of six squadrons each with 20 episodes.

In January 2014 Aardman and STUDIO CANAL began with the production of the first film " Shaun the Sheep The Movie ", which will be released in 2015 worldwide.

Description of the Series

Shaun, namesake of the series, is a curious, mischievous sheep. The flock of sheep living together with the sheepdog Bitzer, the farmers, three nasty pigs and various other animals on a farm idyllic. The animals in the series show human behavior, but the sheep are trying to ensure that the farmer does not notice what they are doing, and therefore behave like "normal" animals when he observed them.

In the consequences of everyday occurrences lead the sheep under the leadership of Shaun's in ludicrous situations from which arises the humor of the series. The individual episodes are relatively short (6 minutes without opening and closing credits ) and complete in itself, so give up a follow overarching story arc, but not on running gags. The series offers slapstick and situation comedy, coupled with lovely details and allusions to cinematic classics, and does not need to completely spoken text. The people appear from the perspective of the animals and therefore give only unintelligible sounds whose meaning is only conveyed through sound and gesture.

All episodes were produced in two versions - with 7 minutes or 5 minutes in length. The 7 -minute versions of each 6 minutes of animation and 1 minute titles and credits, the 5-minute versions include 4 minutes and 1 minute animated titles and scrolling credits. The 5-minute versions exist, since some stations a 7- minute program can not accommodate in their broadcasting schedules and was therefore asked for a shorter version. Aardman denotes the 7 -minute versions as the "Director's Cut" and also admits that some of the shorter versions do not work as intended, since they were written for two minutes longer duration.

Main characters

  • Shaun, a sheep
  • Bitzer, the herding dog
  • The herd, the other sheep, which are always very interested in Shaun's ideas. Try to repair it by forces to support, but not always succeed. Occasionally, they go their own ways, and especially what Shaun Bitzer then often brings in the greatest difficulties. Outstanding figures are: Shirley, a heavily overweight sheep
  • Timmy, the little lamb
  • Timmy's mother to realize on their curlers

Minor characters

  • A rooster crows in the opening sequence and in the episodes "Sheep Convert ", "Abduction " and "Merry Christmas" has appearances.
  • Three nasty pigs who fight regularly with the sheep.
  • Ducks, one of which is in the "vegetable football," the cabbage head swallows or freezes in " bath day " to ice. In "Tracks in Concrete" they drive the farmer to madness because they run around on the fresh concrete.
  • The Lawnmower goat comes in the same sequence as unstoppable eating machine, as well as in " disco in the barn ", " full on the line " and "Shaun the Farmer" before.
  • The Bull
  • The cat Pidsley is rather lazy and usually occupied with themselves. You do not like it when the sheep enter into the farm house. It comes in " Timmy's Teddy ," before "Disco in the barn " and in Season 3.
  • Several hens and a cow (once in "Shaun the Farmer" ) and the hen, which examined her chicks (in " Who's the Mummy ?").
  • The pizza Ausfahrer with a moped, who works at the local pizzeria, but also acts in " disco in the barn " as a postman.
  • The granny with handbag, short-sighted and easily excitable, suggests in " Pizza Service" on the dressed sheep and flies in "Save the Tree " from a park bench.
  • Female acquaintances of farmers in " A hairy problem " and " The Date".
  • An alien in the episode " The Extra- Terrestrial," two young and two adult aliens in "Shaun and Aliens."

Broadcast in Germany

The series had on April 7, 2007 at KiKA premiere. Saturday and Sunday showed the KiKA to 3 June 2007 a ​​total of 16 episodes in full length. As the WDR is involved in the production of the series, some episodes were on German TV to see who had not yet been shown in the UK, as they were from the local second season. Other consequences replaced by summer 2007 and currently Captain Blue Bear at the end of the program with the mouse. These consequences are shortened, even at the beginning of the episode no German title is specified. From July to September Shaun the Sheep was shown on Sunday morning in the ARD program Blaubär & Dopey - unabridged and with the complete opening credits; Only the lack of an episode title distinguished this broadcast of the regular KiKA series. As of October 19, 2007 Shaun was again - one behind the other day with two episodes - to view KiKA. The broadcast ended on November 7, 2007.

From the 7th of January 2008, the series was repeated daily from Monday to Thursday at 23:20 on Eins Festival.

From 11 May 2008 ( Pentecost Sunday ) in the series in motley double episodes was back daily by 18 clock (not chronologically ) in the ARD / ZDF children's channel to see KiKA.

On 11 April 2009, the station Eins Festival radiated from the first 40 episodes on the play by 0:30 bis 5:30 clock.

The Season III with 20 new episodes was opened in the " Mouse TV " ( 11:30 o `clock the First and KiKA ) with a special Shaun and the uncut episode 41 on October 18, 2009. The ARD / ZDF children's channel ( KiKA ) started the next day with an initial ten new episodes and the "mouse" showed ten new episodes - the episodes were then replaced ( under the two channels). . Further 20 episodes of Season IV followed then from April 11, 2010 About half of the episodes in the " Mouse TV " typically were reduced greatly: from effective ( without credits ) 6:00 min to lengths 3:36 to 5:44 min.

On 24th and April 25th, 2011 shone a festival in the night program the uncut episodes of seasons III and IV from.

November 30, 2012 until December 9, 2012 beamed the ARD / ZDF children's channel KiKA by 18 clock 20 more episodes of Season V (also called " series 3 " ) from.

On 30 November 2013 the ARD beamed from 05 clock 30, seven out of 12 episodes of Season VI.

Broadcast in Austria

Since May 29, 2007 ORF sent one Monday to Friday 20 episodes of Shaun the Sheep in the context of children's program Confetti TiVi (now okidoki ). Even today you can see Shaun the Sheep still in ORF 1.

Broadcasting in Switzerland

Since 2 July 2007, the series was also shown on SF within the two local children's program SF tubii (now Zambo ).

Broadcast in the UK

Since March 2007, the first season ran (20 episodes) of Shaun the Sheep on BBC One and CBBC. From the 3rd September 2007, the second season was shown in the UK. The third season (20 episodes) ran from 23 November 2009 to 18 December 2009 in British television.

List of Episodes

There are several scoring systems of the consequences. First, the episode lists on the official Shaun website. This differs from the count of the consequences of broadcasting in the UK. The KiKA initially used also has its own numbering. Capturing the essence of all 40 episodes of KiKA then moved but for counting the official website. The consequences of the 51-60 KiKA site currently uses back to their normal numbering, which differs from the official counting.

The following list contains the sequence number of the old count of KiKA, the sequence number in the UK, the sequence number of the official Shaun site, the German and English titles, a summary of the action and the date for the German Original (DEA, with German premieres as abridged version is the later German premiere of the uncut version is specified ).

April 7, 2007 The KiKA showed a program with four sequences to then ( according to the old German count) broadcast from 14 April to 3 June 2007 two of the first 16 episodes back to back; the episodes were shown there in a double well from 19 October 2007. On 30 October 2007 the German premiere of all the uncut versions of the first season was complete ( followed by repetitions). The date of the Original can be found in the respective single sequence.

On the official website, 2008 40 more episodes were announced on 25 November. The stories have been written to since September 2007, the scripts in July 2008 together with the designs of the sets. On January 5, 2009, the filming began. Mid-March 2009 were employed at 20 stage sets 10 reps.

From the third season was the record in HD. In the third and fourth season innovations were introduced:

  • The modeling technique has been modified so that the figures can be animated quickly as a modular system. Thus, the faces of some characters seem somewhat pieced.
  • The body of Bitzer and Pidsley the cat received a hint of fur structure.
  • The three pigs were also changed a little.

With the fifth season, the figures have again known from the first two seasons look.

( Aardman )

Allusions

As with Wallace and Gromit, there are many allusions to famous scenes from movies or music. Examples are:

  • Shirley's training in the following slimming down with Shaun based on the movie Rocky.
  • The images which are parodied in The Still Life, the Mona Lisa, The Hay Wain by John Constable and one by Picasso.
  • When Shirley flies past in snoring alarm in slow motion before the full moon, it refers ET played.
  • In Hitzefrei Shaun swims with the bound on the back shark fin to the music of Jaws through the pelvis.
  • In hum of the bees of the Farmer appears in his beekeeper clothing such as Darth Vader, later to duck the sheep and keep their eyes on when the swarm of bees flying past in the form of a spirit, like the ghosts of the Ark (Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark ).
  • The famous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho is parodied in The little horror sheep. The original title of Little Sheep of Horrors is in turn a parody of Little Shop of Horrors ( Little Shop of Horrors ).
  • In Hiccups Shaun turns his amp on stage 11, a quote from the movie This is Spinal Tap. Such a scene there are also in Back to the Future (Part 1 ) and in the music video for Michael Jackson's title "Black or White".
  • The farmer takes in the major eruption a sheep for shearing in a side room of the house and includes a heavy metal door behind him. The scene is reminiscent of the classic horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( Texas Chainsaw Massacre ), also plays the tunnel scene and of course the title at The Great Escape ( Escape ) to.
  • Add vegetables football Shaun jumping high in the air to catch the ball, and flies around like Superman with a stretched arm forward. Towards the end of the episode comes the familiar theme Nessun dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot before.
  • At the end of the lawnmower - goat the figures from bushes are very reminiscent of the film Edward Scissorhands.
  • The dance scene in Disco in the barn cites the scene in the harbor pub from Airplane ( The Incredible Journey in a crazy plane ) which is ( Saturday Night ) is in turn a parody of Saturday Night Fever.
  • In Camping Chaos, the turkey scene from Merry Christmas Mr. Bean is back, as well as Timmy the Teddy Bean is very similar.
  • At the end of snore alarm, toothache, when all go to sleep, as well as in dance at night is the melody Good evening, well played ' night.
  • In Supersize Timmy there are three allusions: First, the water trembles in the puddle, as the giant sheep approaching ( Jurassic Park), then climbs the giant sheep of the house with Bitzer in the arm ( King Kong ) and finally comes an angry mob of villagers to to expel the monster ( beauty and the Beast ).
  • In Waschtag seeks and finds Shaun a needle in a haystack.
  • At the end of A new friend plays the bagpipes Auld Lang Syne.
  • In the Follow The Country Mouse and The Taking the theme morning mood from the Peer Gynt Suite is played when you wake up in the barn.
  • The aliens in exchange body playing on her computer the tune from Close Encounters of the third kind
  • As a result, party animal, a sheep dressed as a Dalek and is amazed looked at by the farmer.
  • The result The Thieving Magpie Overture quotes the the eponymous opera by Rossini.
  • When the pigs take over the tasks Bitzer in pig anger, the Symphony No. 3 is alluded to in c minor by Camille Saint- Saëns, played in Babe.
  • The stolen from the cemetery recalls Christmas in Merry Christmas, as it is squeezed into the living room corner, very. Well to the oversized tree from National Lampoon
  • As Shaun towed at the beginning of the roll- out of the barn Shirley Sheep, the Song of the Volga Boatmen is to be played.
  • While the farmer in a heavy chunks processed the boulder, the Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker sounds.
  • When pigs fly their first attack in the mud, you will hear the Ride of the Valkyries, reminiscent of the film Apocalypse Now. The scene in which Shaun runs away from the plane, comes from the movie North by Northwest.
  • In " Bitzer - The beast out of the pond " there is another allusion to Back to the Future I, as the car only starts at the crucial moment when the driver strikes the steering wheel with his head.
  • In "Still Life " is painted on the radio during the peasant, although a heavily modified, but still easily recognizable version of Vivaldi 's "Four Seasons - Spring " played.

Others

How many Aardman animation productions distinguished by the serial wealth of detail, so that some subtleties only noticeable at second glance. This is also a recurrent error in the scene image of the Farmer house: From the inside the front door has a pet door from the outside, not usually. Particularly striking is the in Shaun as a farmer after Shaun knocks on the door. The door usually goes on inside, not only at cleaning up when the farmer opens it, and regularly in the opening credits, in which she gets Bitzer 's nose.

On 6 April 2009 began in the UK to broadcast the spin off Timmy Time, in the stories about Shaun's nephew Timmy and his friends are told. The target audience for this series are preschoolers. In Germany this series " Timmy " is since 12 January 2010 SUPER RTL under the title aired.

In a first broadcast on 18 October 2009 First Episode in the program with the mouse Ralph Caspers visited the studios of Aardman Animations in Bristol. In the only tangible history of the mission different levels of production (storyboard, model, production of the characters, animation ) are explained in episodes.

  • October 2, 2007: Slim down with Shaun (Shape Up With Shaun ): sequences 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 16
  • February 6, 2008: Vegetable football ( Off the Baa ): Follow 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 17, 19, 20
  • April 2, 2008: Disco in the barn ( Saturday Night Shaun ): Follow 15, 21, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 38
  • September 17, 2008: abracadabra ( Abracadabra ): Follow 6, 18, 23, 25, 26, 29, 31, 40
  • November 15, 2008: laundry day ( Wash Day ): Follow 9, 22, 24, 27, 32, 36, 37, 39
  • February 4, 2010: The Hüpfschaf ( Spring Lamb ): Follow 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50
  • April 8, 2010: Freshly fallen ( Two's Company ): Follow 41, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60
  • August 19, 2010: Under the Red Hood Piper ( whistleblower ): Follow 42, 51, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, 69
  • October 7, 2010: Rage (The Big Chase ): Follow 57, 61, 64, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72
  • December 2, 2010: The mudslinging (Pig Swill Fly): Follow 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
  • March 25, 2011: Special Edition 2 (Blu -ray): all episodes of The DVDs Hüpfschaf, fresh love, The trill Piper, Frenzy, The mudslinging
  • October 6, 2011: Best of One: Episodes 2, 3, 8, 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 34, 36
  • October 4, 2012: Best of Two (DVD / Blu -ray): Follow 41, 43, 47, 58, 59, 62, 68, 70, 74, 80, (including two Olympic championships spots: table tennis, fencing ), (4 "best of " episodes ), ( A visit to the Aardman Studios)
  • February 14, 2013: One bathroom with pitfalls: Follow 82, 84, 86, 87, 90, 91, 97 (including 4 Olympic champion sheep Spots: BMX, weightlifting, obstacle course, trampoline )
  • April 18, 2013: The hang-glider: Follow 83, 88, 92, 93, 95, 98, 100 (including 4 Olympic champion sheep Spots: archery, judo, Pole Vault, synchronized swimming, Extra: Behind the Scenes )
  • August 20, 2013: Smile, please: follow 81, 85, 89, 94, 96, 99 (including 5 Olympic champion sheep Spots: hammer throw, beach volleyball, swimming, relay race, rings )
  • November 5, 2013: Special Edition 3 (DVD box / Blu -ray): all the consequences of DVDs A bathroom with pitfalls, the kite flyer, please smile

Music

  • December 2007: Single / Video / Download: Ralf Schmitz sings Shaun the Sheep
  • September 2010: Single / Video / Download: Culcha Candela sings Shaun the Sheep

Awards

  • 2007: Emil for the following slimming down with Shaun
  • 2008: International Emmy Award in the category Children & Young People
  • 2010: International Emmy Award in the category Children & Young People
Nick Park Die Sendung mit der Maus CBBC (TV channel) Unidentified flying object Pablo Picasso The Little Shop of Horrors The Great Escape (film) Giacomo Puccini Jurassic Park (film) Peer Gynt (Grieg) La gazza ladra Babe (film) Spin-off (media)
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