Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

[HappySquid]

I have just realised that Shaun the Sheep's name is a play on words (Shaun/shorn). Feeling rather sheepish.

Has anyone else come across a joke that only sunk in many years later or is it just me?!

This made me laugh OP and you're not alone. I hadn't realised this either!
I get this with song lyrics that I used to love as a child and sing along to all the time. Then as an adult I realise what the song was about! Haha I'm surprised my parents let me listen to the radio.
I'm think of Alison Moyet singing about a warm injection to ease her pain (Love Resurrection) and the song Turning Japanese by The Vapours ...

I thought the lyrics to Barbie girl were “I’m a fucking girl in the fucking world” until I got caught singing it at my Saturday job 😳

@HappySquid 🐑😂🐏🤣 I love this more than I should

I have up till now never noticed this about Shaun the Sheep ! Ewe are clever.

I knew about Shaun but what do you mean 30 years? Omg how old am I? 😫

"Turning Japanese"... what have I missed? I thought it meant becoming overwhelmed or emotionally excited/bombarded by something.

@JellyBeanFactory The whole song is about masturbation.

Yes! I only realised a couple of years ago that the vampire in Sesame Street was Count Dracula because he counted.

@username247
1uhuhu
2uhuhu
3uhuhu ! Loved him

But there’s nothing to ‘get’ if you have a rhotic accent — Shorn and Shaun aren’t homonyms.

This happens to me all the time. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that when Jack Black held up three fingers in School of Rock and said, "Read between the lines, Theo! Read between the lines!" he was giving him the finger.

You must have missed Wallace saying it in the film, it was a key punchline. That apparently a lot of people missed.

Exactly! And I've been accused of being dense because I didn't get the 'joke' about Sandy Shaw's name too....

In which film? Wallace isn’t in Shaun the Sheep. I get that for people with a certain accent, including Wallace from the Aardman films, ‘Shorn’ and ‘Shaun’ are homonyms. I’m just pointing out that the joke doesn’t work for all accents because the two words are pronounced differently.

I'm sat talking to myself Shaun/shorn 🤣

I realised this just now while reading your post, so you you’re ahead of me at least…

I had to google it 😅

It’s ok, I only recently worked out that one of the little piggies didn’t go off to the local shopping market! I’d always pictured them with a wicker basket topped with a chequered covering, which would be swinging away in their hand as the dear little piggy skips to buy their loaf of bread, fruit and veg!

Poor piggy was off to a different type of market 😳🫣. I know I wasn’t the only one on here to think this, so ‘fess up the rest of you 😁.

Shaun the Sheep (the character) was originally from the very popular Wallace and Gromit film "A Close Shave".

And Aardman were behind the Shaun the Sheep series.

I know!

I had another revelation. I looked up the Count on YouTube and realised that the running joke in Hotel Transylvania, comes from him. The 'ah ha ha' laugh.

No it's not. This is what David Fenton said about it

“It was weird when people started saying it was about masturbation. I can’t claim that one! That happened when we went to America – for some reason they thought it was an English phrase for masturbation. I thought that was quite interesting, and it made people talk about the song and created more interest, so it didn’t hurt I don’t think, but that wasn’t the intention. It was just a love song."

@MercyChant66 say what about Sandy shaw???

Sandy Shaw
Sandy shore ( like the beach, I presume? ) though I could be wrong , I'm still saying "Shaun/shorn" to myself

Paws for thought (pause)

Central perk (park)

Only smarties have the answer

Those of us about in the day didnt believe his BS then and we dont believe it now! It was about wanking, but they got on to TOTP with it and had to stick with the narrative! Its definitely about having one off the wrist! The film "Hunting Venus" is a piss take about it!