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?!

It does feel like we are going round in circles!

He was Count von Count, not Count Dracula.
It was DM who pointed out that DH1 looked like him, on the morning of our wedding!!

No, most English accents don't rhyme sauce and cross. A few do, mostly in the north, because they pronounce sauce as "soss". I'm Coventry born and bred, my mother was Liverpudlian and my father was Welsh. I now live in Staffordshire and Derbyshire but I've lived all over the UK, in almost every county, in my 6 decades on this planet, and most people I've met pronounce sauce as a variant of "sorse" apart from a few in the North (and no, the Midlands, Warwickshire, Staffordshire or Derbyshire are not classed as "North", despite what many "Southerners" believe! Lol!).

True 😁

I'm 53 and I only last year realised that the robotic dog from Dr Who in the 70's was named K9 as it was a play on the word canine. I mean, it's so obvious now that I'm actually embarrassed to tell you this 😅

I meant the puppet was a vampire.

I didn't realise that the cartoon dog name Muttley, was referring to him being a dog/mutt, until about 40 years later,

My son used to think Girls Aloud were singing "I can't speak French so I let the fucking music do the talking" !!

And just yesterday I heard of a little boy's favourite xmas song "Felice ma wee dad" !!! I'll never hear anything different now....😂

Not heard of that one! What about Spongebob Squarepants who lives in Bikini Bottom?!

Few?! I've scrolled more than I've read!

So are you with Seaman Staines and Ben Dover yet?

Ditto
i was clueless
Who broke the news ?

What's the real version say? I don't know the song but I'm intrigued!

Felice Navidad .... think it's Spanish for seasons greetings or something along that line... be thankful you don't know it... it's one of those that you can't unhear!!

Thanks but I speak Spanish and I meant the Girls Aloud line 😊
My son used to think Girls Aloud were singing "I can't speak French so I let the fucking music do the talking"

Ah ... sorry.... it's "funky music" the songs called I can't speak French if you're going to listen to it...

Brilliant!

They aren't anyway. They're homophones.

Ok so I only just realised this right now - I.e after reading your post OP so you are not alone!

Phil McCracken!

lol, I didn't know either, until you pointed it out, (feeling rather sheepish) ha, ha. Good one!

Phil McCracken! Lol, Never heard that one before, good job I wasn't eating, I might have choked! Thing is? I'll bet there is someone out there with a name like that! 🤣 thanks for the chuckle.

None of us in Northern Ireland would have gotten this, unless we're thinking in an English accent. Shaun & shorn are pronounced differently. We pronounce the "r".

Sean/shorn, surely you'd have heard it in the pronounciation in the programme itself though?

I never did. They didn’t say shorn that I remember, so never guessed Shaun was meant to be a pun.