Shaun the Sheep Movie but Shaun is captured by Trumper, an overzealous animal-control worker. Shaun is reunited with Bitzer in the animal lock-up, and with the help of a homeless dog named Slip they manage to escape while imprisoning Trumper. They find the farmer, but he does not recognise Shaun, who is heartbroken. Feeling unwanted, Shaun, Bitzer, and the flock make a makeshift home in an alley. Their spirits are revived when they stumble upon evidence of the farmer's memory loss. They devise a plan which involves putting the farmer to sleep again, returning him to the trailer on a pantomime horse (really the
Shaun the Sheep allusions to other aspects of popular culture and movies such as "", "The Lion King", "", "The Matrix", and "Pulp Fiction". These include: Beginning in 2009, Aardman Animations produced a spin-off CBeebies series aimed at pre-schoolers, based on Timmy's own small adventures as he attends preschool for the first time and learns how to interact and play with a variety of young animal friends. Aardman developed a feature film "Shaun the Sheep Movie", written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, which was financed by French StudioCanal, which was released on 6 February 2015. The film received very positive