YMMV / Shaun the Sheep

• Adorkable: Lu-la is a brightly-colored puppy-alien whose cute design and quirky personality has made her popular between the fans. She's also a kid, so that adds points.
• Awesome Music: The hip-hop version of the theme performed by Rizzle Kicks for The Movie is pretty great.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Timmy (who, just like Shaun himself, earned a spinoff for it), and sometimes Shirley (she's so fat it's hard to miss her!)
• Friendly Fandoms: With Curious George in Japan, which is also popular there. Both show aired on NHK in the Saturday mornings, albeit with subsequent timeslots, and it makes Japanese Gen-Z natural to associate these shows.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun is very popular in Japan. So popular that it often makes the weekly top 10 anime list ^note in Japan, the word 'anime' refers to animation in general. There were also plans for a local remake which got scrapped, as well as crossover statues made to promote the movie of the franchise with Japanese properties such as Hello Kitty, Sugar Sugar Rune, and even Neon Genesis Evangelion. Shaun even appears in Super Mario Maker, playable as one of the Mystery Mushroom costumes. Walt Disney Studios Japan even distributes the series on home media in the country, alongside the movies and specials.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • While Trumper from The Movie might have been a slightly pathetic villain at first, he eventually crosses the line either with the abusive conditions he keeps his captives in, or when he outright attempts to murder the farmer plus all the animals in the climax.
  • The llamas from "The Farmer's Llamas" go from merely hooligans and petty bullies to chasing and threatening violence on Shaun for stopping them.
• More Popular Spin Off: To Wallace & Gromit (where Shaun originated from. Specifically A Close Shave). Although Wallace and Gromit are far from unpopular and are arguably more iconic in pop culture as a whole, Shaun the Sheep has become the far bigger cash-cow (or cash-sheep in this case) for Aardman, with the series having spawned six seasons, two movies, several video games (including a crossover with Super Mario Maker), a theatrical show, and even its own spin-off series in the form of Timmy Time.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • From The Movie, Trumper trying to outright kill the animals and the farmer by pushing their caravan into a gorge. It doesn't help that he's grabbed a scythe and has an uncanny resemblance to the Grim Reaper.
  • Some of the expressions of The Llamas from The Farmer's Llamas are quite scary to look at.
  • In the end credits of Farmageddon, Lu-La's parents' ship knocks several planets into a black-hole.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Home Sheep Home is a very fun and beautiful-looking puzzle platformer that has a ton of creative levels and implements a lot of the series' signature humor into the level design.
• Spiritual Licensee: The film, to an extent, is one for Sheep in the Big City.
• Squick: "Shaun the Farmer", has the farmer's face literally turn green and then he throws up in a bucket. Twice.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The happy flashback from The Movie, after it cuts to the drabness of the present day.
  • When Shaun gets stuck in the animal "shelter", you see just how badly the animals are treated.
  • When the sheep finally track down the Farmer, he's still suffering from memory loss, and shoos them away, leaving them heartbroken and homeless.
  • The farmer's memory coming back to him just as he and the other animals think they're about to die. They all embrace and just... wait for the inevitable.
  • In "Fireside Favorite", Bitzer gets taken in from the cold to take a nap by the fire, but Pidsley gets mad because he was previously napping there and tries to throw him back outside. It's even implied that Bitzer has a cold as he has a runny nose and the farmer puts a thermometer in his mouth. Thankfully, the episode ends with Bitzer doing a "thumbs up", indicating he's fine.
  • In "Farmageddon":
    • Shaun finds a holographic picture of Lu-La and her parents and realizes Lu-La is a child. Shaun asks her what happened to her parents. Lu-La, while playing with her doll, changes her expression from happiness to sadness.
    • Lu-La's backstory, after she woke up, she went to her father spaceship to play, but accidently turned it on, and sent herself to earth. After landing, she sadly and fearful calls for her parents.
    • After Shaun accidently crashlands the spaceship, Lu-La is heartbroken. She grabs the holographic picture of her and her parents, but it turns off. Bitzer sits with her to comfort her while Shaun feels awful for it.
• Tough Act to Follow: While the sequel, Farmageddon,did receive postive reviews from critics and audiences, many considered the film inferior to the first movie.
• Unintentional Period Piece: There was an episode done around 3D TVs.
• Ugly Cute: Shaun and the flock's new friend Slip is supposedly a dog (at least she barks and wags her tail) but looks more like a mangy dog/rat/wombat hybrid. She's pretty cute nonetheless, although prospective owners seem to disagree. Until the end.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: With her very low voice and huge body shape, those unfamiliar with series can easily mistake Shirley for a male.

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