The Shadow Play is the 20th episode of Series 3 and 100th episode overall of Shaun the Sheep.
Synopsis[]
Timmy starts to get upset so to cheer him up, Shaun and Bitzer decide to put on a play for him.
The first movie[]
Shaun and Bitzer were playing together but when Bitzer left, a wolf came and try to make Shaun food so then Bitzer shoos him away.
The second movie[]
Shaun kicks a ball into a tree so four sheep decide to help but collapse and the ball bangs on Bitzer's head while he's laughing. Then the Farmer comes to tell Bitzer to put the sheep in the pen but it opens and the sheep come out and the farmer kicks Bitzer's groin which makes the real Bitzer and Shaun fight and then the theatre ends.
After that, Timmy finally gets some sleep.
Plot[]
The episode begins with the title text, and the Barn at night. There, Timmy is crying for an unknown reason where Timmy's Mother tries to calm him down and can't stop. Bitzer and Shaun wake up from the noise, and they try different things to help the problem. Timmy does not want his pacifier when Bitzer enters. He grabs Timmy and gives him a scary look to try calm him down, but instead he cries. It was a bad idea until Shaun grabbed his Teddy Bear to try calm him down. However, he continue crying. But the whole thing begins to thaw until Timmy sees a shadow with his teddy. Then, he begins to laugh and Shaun morphs his hands on the shadow to make a butterfly. As Timmy's mother, Bitzer and The Flock were looking at this fun-like playing on. Then, Bitzer gets his hat onto the shadows to make another shadow shape. Timmy liked this so much that Shaun and Bitzer had to make the whole play.
As of this plan. everything had to be set. The Flock worked together as Shaun told them what to do. The Twins were pushing down the hay bales where the seats will be. Two sheep pulled the rope as Shaun and Bitzer went behind the lifting display. They made their crafted cast as Timmy and his bed had to be moved to watch the play. As the main manager sheep allows The Flock to watch the shadow play, they were in their classics. After the couple went to see the show, the play was about to begin.
As the sheep were playing music in the backstage, The Flock were together to watch the exciting show. Bitzer pulled out a "No Cellphones" sign as the sheep turned off their cellphones. Then, the shadow play begins.
The first play begins with a background of Mossy Bottom Farm. As of, a crafted figure of Shaun walks into the scene from the tree. The Shaun bleats and walks back to the tree. Everyone was quite laughing at this, including Timmy and his mother. The Shaun figure begins to stand up where a Bitzer figure flies into the play. They both had a short conversation and then they danced. The Flock laughed more as one of the sheep bleats out loud. After this, Bitzer leaves the scene when a wolf pops up. The sheep who were making the music turned it into thrilling, the Flock began to feel terrified. As Shaun looks the other way where the Wolf was, it appears by behind him as Shaun didn't know where he was as the wolf barks. The Flock began to feel even more sacred as he was about to make a impact. Shaun then looks where the wolf was and the Wolf makes his attack onto Shaun. Shaun is been attacked as the Flock were terrified. Then, Bitzer reappears and barks at the Wolf to save Shaun's life. Shaun and Bitzer celebrated as the Wolf left the display screen and the Flock were making applause for them, also Timmy. Then a short while, the first play is over as the display screen faded to black.
The lights went back on unfading as a sheep told everyone it was intermission and also, it got ice treats and ice creams. The Flock rushed as Timmy stayed in his bed as thinking his mother was getting him one. Shaun and Bitzer were making new figures for the second play as some of the sheep had to go to the restrooms, which is a dunny. The sheep from the entry got out and had toilet paper on his left leg. But the sheep (Hazel) in the middle of the line was busting and had to go quickly. Shirley takes almost of the ice treats as one sheep was going to have one but there was none. Just a while, the manager rang the bell to have the Flock back on their seats. Timmy also got a ice cream, too. Then, the lights fade out and the display unfades.
The second play begins with Shaun, playing with a ball as the music reappears. As Shaun kicked round his own business, the ball flew down until it got stuck in a tree. The Shaun figure knew he had to get it back and play with it again. Different sheep went on the display as he bleated, "Baa!" As two sheep on the top of the barn attic (The Twins) were laughing until who it was. So they decided it was both of them when another one went on screen. The music was like a drumroll but spectacular as some sheep and a Shirley figure went on top, which was controlled by Bitzer as he tried to trick Shaun. The tower was about to collapse with one of the sheep who was playing the keyboard did a near-collapsing cartoony sound effect. Then, the sheep fell down onto Shaun. The Flock laughed at this, when Shirley saw herself in the play and thought it was funny, so she laughed. After this, Bitzer reappears into the shadow play as the real Bitzer laughed. Shaun felt not-funny, so he got the ball back down and for it to fall on Bitzer's head. The Flock laughed again as Bitzer fell down and got back up. Shaun was laughing, but Bitzer was quite stressed. He made a plan for himself as a Farmer figure and a pen and then the Farmer told Bitzer to round up the sheep into the pen. After rounding them up and Bitzer laughing, the Real Shaun had to come up with a idea by making his figure and the sheep escape the pen by hopping out of it and unlocking the fence door. The sheep escape as Bitzer appears and barks for escaping the pen. Then, the Farmer pops in to argue for them not in the pen, and then he kicks up Bitzer, where the Flock is laughing. A sheep in the backstage was honking with a honk toy at the right timing for each hit. After this, Bitzer thought it was over but then the Farmer returns for one more hit as a honk played. Shaun giggled at this craziness until Bitzer was growling at him.
Then, Bitzer and Shaun leaped out of the display and ruined the background. The only thing was Shaun and Bitzer. A fight erupted as the music was dramatic. The Flock gasped in fear as just when they were trying to get their figures as everything was falling apart and then the display fell off the pole and it was too bright for the Flock. One sheep bleats to everyone to look at the back as they are terrified. The fight continued until Shaun and Bitzer and objects were collapsing to the ground, and after that, the lights go back on.
The Flock make applause as of the last play. Shaun and Bitzer were proud of their self's making such a big finale. Then, Timmy fell asleep after the fight was over and Bitzer was thrown in the face a piece of underwear. Shaun sees Timmy sleeping as his mother adores this and Shaun tells everyone to be quiet. The episode ends with Shaun giving Timmy's teddy to him.
Characters[]
- Timmy
- Bitzer
- Shaun
- Timmy's Mother
- Hazel
- The Flock
- The Farmer (shadow only)
Trivia[]
- It's oddly the Farmer doesn't appear in this episode despite Timmy crying for unknown reason.
- This is the second episode that Timmy is crying at the beginning scenes
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