Shaun the Sheep – How Earth Made Us – Newswipe with Charlie Brooker – 26 Jan 2010

The first recording today starts with the end of The Twisted Whiskers Show. There’s a trail for Relic: Guardians of the Museum. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Who’s the Mummy? Shaun finds some hen’s eggs hatching. Who then imprint on him. As a result they won’t leave him alone. Their mother discovers her loss and is very upset. Shaun tries to hide, putting them in Bitzer’s lunchbox. It doesn’t help. The mother hen is looking for her children. Shaun can’t cope and tries to hide the chicks in a milk can, in chains, put into a suitcase and locked in the shed. Is he suddenly the Masked Magician? But then he finds the chicks’ mother asking the other sheep and Bitzer. He goes to fetch them, but they’ve already escaped. He listens for them and finds them fascinated by a butterfly. But they’re in the middle of the road and there’s a car coming. He has to rescue them. He brings them back to their mother, but they’re still imprinted on him. Their mother is very sad. Bitzer has an idea. The mother…