It's Timmy Time!
Timmy! (Baa!) It's Timmy! (Baa!)
He's a little lamb with a lot to learn!
Timmy! (Baa!) It's Timmy! (Baa!)
He's a handful of trouble at every turn!
Timmy leaves the farm and goes out into the world,
Trying to be cool, he's number 1!
He joins all his friends on the big adventure,
And he's always having such a lot of fun!
He's a little lamb with a lot to learn!
Timmy! (Baa!) It's Timmy! (Baa!)
He's a handful of trouble at every turn!
Timmy leaves the farm and goes out into the world,
Trying to be cool, he's number 1!
He joins all his friends on the big adventure,
And he's always having such a lot of fun!
Spinning off from Aardman Animations' Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time follows that show's Ensemble Dark Horse as he heads to an all-animal preschool run by a pink heron named Harriet and a purple owl named Osbourne. There he meets Yabba the duckling, Paxton the piglet, Mittens the kitten, Ruffy the dog, Apricot the hedgehog, Stripey the badger cub, Kid the goat, Otus the owlet, Finlay the fox cub and Bumpy the caterpillar, and learns various lessons about getting along with others.
The series started in April 2009. If you live in the show's home of the United Kingdom, you can find Timmy Time on CBeebies. If you're in the United States, the home for the program is Amazon Prime Video (and was formerly on Playhouse Disney and its successor, Disney Junior), and Canadian viewers could see the show on Treehouse TV. Australian viewers can watch it on two channels, ABC Kids (shared with young adult-orientated channel ABC2) and (formerly)note Disney Junior (only on pay TV).
This series provides examples of:
- Age Lift: In this series, Timmy is slightly aged-up to a preschooler age as opposed to being a toddler.
- Animal Stereotypes: Seen in spades. Every character has the typical quirks associated with their species, such as Paxton being a messy Big Eater, and Mittens hating to get wet.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: Timmy (and his mother in the credits) are much more anthropomorphic than in Shaun the Sheep (where, again, the sheep were more anthropomorphic than they were in the Wallace & Gromit short A Close Shave). They also live in a world of anthropomorphic animals, which doesn't entirely fit with the Shaun the Sheep setting, where the sheep are treated like normal animals (one episode even shows that Timmy and his mother live in a house).
- Art Shift: Downplayed. A vibrant, colorful, simplified style is used for the environments compared to Shaun the Sheep's more realistic sets. However, the character designs aren't that different from its parent series, but they use molded silicone instead of plasticine, which Shaun would transition to from Season 2 onward.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Happens to Timmy all the time. Justified, since he's a kid and is naturally curious about stuff around him.
- Attention Whore: Often an episode's conflict is set off by Timmy wanting to hog attention, only to learn his lesson. To be fair, his need for attention is balanced out by wanting to help his friends.
- Baths Are Fun: "Timmy Needs a Bath" focuses on Timmy trying to avoid one. Eventually, however, he permits his teddy bear to go into the bath. Then, once he gets in, he splashes and has fun.
- Cats Are Mean: Downplayed with Mittens. She can be bossy and stubborn, as well as having several moments teasing Timmy, but she is otherwise kind and cares about her classmates.
- Cats Hate Water: Getting Mittens wet is just one way to make her cry.
- Class Clown: Ruffy, according to the show's former website.
- Cuckoo Clock Gag: The school that Timmy goes to has a cuckoo clock, with the cuckoo doing something different depending on what time it is (e.g. holding cymbals when it's time to have a music session or holding a paintbrush and a palette when it's time for an art session).
- Cunning Like a Fox: Finlay, who is more of a Keet than The Trickster.
- Cute Kitten: Mittens
- A Dog Named "Dog": There is a kid goat character named...Kid.
- A Dog Named "Woof": A dog named "Ruffy"
- Edible Theme Naming: There is a hedgehog named Apricot.
- Escalating War: Non-violent variation in "Timmy the Train": Timmy and Mittens both want to lead their friends as pretend trains, and take advantage of the others' attraction to shiny objects by making their costumes increasingly complex.
- Expressive Ears: Timmy, as well as some of the other characters.
- Extra-Long Episode: "Timmy's Christmas Surprise" and "Timmy's Seaside Rescue" are 22 minutes long as opposed to the usual 10-minute runtime.
- Extreme Omnivore: Kid is a young goat who has a large appetite and loves to chew everything and anything in sight, food or not food, one or the another.
- Halloween Episode: "Timmy Gets Spooked"
- Informed Species: Despite the matter of fact that Stripey is really a badger, quite a few viewers would sometimes mistaken him for a panda, due to the other matter of fact that he's rather black and white.
- Lighter and Softer: Being made for pre-schoolers, the occasional Black Comedy and Parental Bonuses of its parent series are all but absent here.
- Messy Pig: Paxton, though he's cleaner than, say, the Naughty Pigs.
- The Owl-Knowing One: Osbourne is the more patient of the teachers. His son Otus also tries to follow his example whenever possible, mimicking his actions.
- Pokémon Speak: Most characters make their respective animal noises, but since most kids don't know what sound badgers makenote , Stripey just says "Badger, badger, badger". This is subverted however, as although it's possible that his sound is very similar to a kecker, the Noisy Name Game found on the show’s former website refers to his sound as "honk"
- Precious Puppy: Ruffy is a puppy who is also cheerful and playful.
- Prone to Tears: Mittens cries the most out of the pre-schoolers, often bawling when things don't go her way. Otus too, to a lesser extent.
- Retcon: In the Shaun the Sheep episode "Happy Birthday, Timmy", Timmy’s birthday is established as being on the 22nd of a month with 30 days. However, this Facebook post
reveals that his birthday is on August 16th. - Shrinking Violet: Apricot, who responds to anything frightening by rolling up into a ball.
- Sleepy Head: Stripey is generally in a dozy state, though, to be fair, this is because badgers are nocturnal.
- Spin-Off: This show is a double example: it was spun off from Shaun the Sheep, itself a spin off of Wallace & Gromit.
- The Speechless: As on Shaun the Sheep, all the animals make their respective noises rather than speaking like humans.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Harriet is pink and wears a pearl necklace. Averted for the others.
- Vocal Evolution: Timmy's voice is deeper here than it was in Shaun the Sheep, since he is slightly older in this show. However, this change doesn't carry over to Shaun's later seasons.