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?!

Not saying it’s not possible but I think it’s more likely her pronunciation is closer to mine than yours if she was born and brought up here.
I have 5 people in my house right now all with different Scottish accents and I want to wake them all up and test them.

So did I - in spite of the very clear lyrics "this is...NOT a joke shop"!

I think I just knew that Madness were known for their general fun, silly, don't-take-themselves-too-seriously vibe, heard 'joke shop' and assumed from there!

That's really overthinking! Unless you're saying all sausages are a secret joke?

Oh come on. That's a stretch

Thank you for the "lurve", @JaninaDuszejko ! Another speaker of with a rhotic accent (US), when I see "lurve" I think of "lurgy", bleurgh.

For anyone who's really invested, further explanation.

My favourite example of a rhyme only working in certain accents was hearing a song by an Irish singer who managed to make a line about waiting for the kettle to boil rhyme with smile.

It was just a bit of a play on words for the ad. The character himself was supposed to be a bit rugged and hard man and was described as a bit of an animal but the tag line he’s a bit of an animal was an amusing double entendre.

I thought the peperami thing was because they had an ad campaign where the oeperami was alive and acting a bit 'crazy' - ie it's a bit of an animal.

Plus it's is literally a bit of an animal / it is made of meat

That's just it: people are thinking that there's much more to it than there is - maybe because the garment was invented by Lady Titania Titterton or something - when it's just called that because it makes the shape of a 'T' when flat!

Nothing. The ‘t’ in t-shirt is referencing the shape of the garment. It looks like a capital T.

I knew the Shaun the Sheep one but it took me longer to realise that Wallace's girlfriend Wendolene was called that as he meets here by cleaning the windows of her shop (windowlene).

I have learned about the smarties slogan and House of Fun .I guess I only ever sang the chorus, so thought it was about a boy turning 16, didn't pay attention to the verses. Is Our House filled with (not very) hidden meaning too, or just about a house?

Buddy from cake boss definitely pronounces boss as boarse. Very broad New Jersey accent.

Interestingly enough, that gag does work better with a Scottish accent!

Don't be silly - different accents have different pronunciations of all sorts of sounds. There isn't one correct way and all other accents are mispronouncing things.

Central perk as in the coffee shop in Friends? I don’t think it relates to Central Park? Perk is percolation - as in they percolate / filter coffee in a central location.

I don't get this one at all! Any clues?

"Wears the soap..."

The nuns thing is just to make it a bit more surreal.

the nuns,
it stings?

i didnt know about knockturn or grimwauld in harry potter, i knew diagnolally

Central perk as in the coffee shop in Friends? I don’t think it relates to Central Park?

It does. They’re in Manhattan and it’s a play on both the famous park and as you said, percolated.

I assume it was a play on words - ‘wears’ as in wears away /‘ where’s’ as in where is

The character was a bit crazy in the advert, so “it’s a bit of an animal” has a double meaning.

the nun joke about soap is a masturbation joke!@Travellingraspberry

It's a pun - perk as in coffee, park as in Central Park because it's near the park.

Me too and knockturn alley - nocturnally