The Shaun the Sheep: Sheep on the Loose collection contains six of the short five-minute episodes, including "Sheep on the Loose," "Saturday Night Shaun," "Tidy Up," "Shaun the Farmer," "Camping Chaos," and "If You Can't Stand The Heat". These are great episodes that feature many of the fun characters on the farm. From the mean spirited pigs who often get in the way of Shaun's fun to the unbelievable appetite of Shirley, the biggest sheep in the flock who manages to eat everything or hide it in her fleece.
Watching with my daughters, we really enjoyed "Sheep on the Loose," "Tidy Up," and "Shaun the Farmer."
In "Sheep on the Loose," most of the flock hops on a bus to go to a nearby carnival to enjoy the games and food. Bitzer follows them to get them back to the farm, but that leaves Shaun in charge of making sure that The Farmer doesn't see that the flock is missing. He employs a number of creative techniques to exploit The Farmer's bad eyesight to hide the fact that the flock is missing while Bitzer does his best to hurry the sheep home. One of my favorite parts was when Timmy (the baby sheep of the flock) gets caught in a cotton candy machine and comes out in a big wad of cotton candy his mother bought.
"Tidy Up" centers around The Farmer cleaning his house and asking Bitzer to take out the garbage. When the bag rips and garbage becomes spread all over the pasture, The Farmer tells him to get it cleaned up (in the non-verbal grunts and hand gestures The Farmer uses to communicate). When Shaun and the flock laugh at his predicament, Bitzer gets upset has them do the work. As you might imagine, this doesn't go well and culminates in the explosion of a vacuum inside The Farmer's house, creating an even bigger mess!
And then in "Shaun the Farmer," The Farmer is sick with Bitzer taking care of him. So that leaves Shaun in charge of the many chores around the farm. Once again, the sheep get involved to get the various tasks completed, from milking the cow to picking up the eggs from the chickens, from feeding the pigs to simply counting the flock. And as always, the sheep manage to cause a great deal of trouble during these chores. Who would have thought that having a sheep try and use a milking machine on a cow would be so entertaining?
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