“Baa baa sheep.”

My kids still don’t talk much when they happen to be watching TV, but these are the words my bright-eyed daughter said today on seeing the image below, at the start of the Wallace & Gromit cartoon A Close Shave (1995). I wonder to what degree she made that association, between those words and this image, because she recognized which episode this was, and to what degree she made that association because she recognized the sheep silhouettes themselves. Or perhaps the menu screen tipped her off.

And oh, man, do I get a kick out of showing my kids, who turned 2 on Monday, a cartoon that I first saw when reviewing an animation festival for one of the student newspapers at UBC.