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?!

So you seriously say pass the tomato soss? This is getting weird

It’s not dropping the r; the r is just silent in certain accents. Pronouncing it is no more correct than not pronouncing it.

How is not pronouncing it different to dropping it? It's exactly like dropping a "t" (or "not pronouncing" it). Nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just not correct. Have at language any way you wish!

A Close Shave

Maybe that's because southern English people can't fathom the fact that they say something incorrectly. Dropping a "t" is identical to dropping an "r" - how is it not?

Wasn't Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in The Boat That Rocked also known as The Count?

Presumably not for the same reason as our Sesame Street pal........

no idea....

So you think every letter should be pronounced or it’s incorrect? That’s not how English works, in any accent!

I always get intensely irritated when watching The Apprentice, when Lord Sugar always apparently wants to know the quantity of pigs involved in the results of the task - always asking "How many sows?"

I even argued with my friend who said she was pregnant and insisted she has misunderstood. I was 10 and very very confident but also very clueless 😂

I can hear that. Also I can hear ‘pass the red soss’.

Yes. I understand all that.

Is it? Considering the other character is Master Bates?

But shorn/shaun isn't about how the words sound is it? I thought it was because of the meaning of the word shorn what with him being a sheep.

There was a DJ known as Emporer Rosco so maybe a nod to that.

Emperor

WHAT?!!?

I must have heard that joke hundreds of times!

I thought the joke was that it was a kinda meta non-joke. That the chicken literally just wanted to cross the road.

But it was just a bog standard pun style joke all along???!!!!

Wow, I had no idea!!

I'm thick as mince cos I didn't know any of these before reading this thread 😂

I can’t believe people still going on about Shaun and Shorn. It’s a play on words because sheep get their wool cut. It’s not that tricky. It may not work with all accents but that’s okay. 😂

Again the chicken thing is nonsense.

I absolutely love that song

But yeah, even as a teen I picked up the meaning pretty quickly!!

Yes, it doesn't work in my accent.

And Knockturn Alley is nocturnally

My god....you're on the wind up now aren't you?

They sound exactly the same to me. (Googling rhotic).

@Zonder
Peperami
Sausages are/were made of bits leftover from the nicely presented "cuts" of meat
The less "attractive" bits but still tasty/edible
If you described a person as a "bit of an animal" you would be inferring they were a bit wild & unpredictable like the visual character
Not laugh out loud funny , it's a play on words