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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (it was ''The Sooty Show'' at BBC/Thames TV, ''Sooty & Co.'' and ''Sooty Heights'' at Granada TV, then finally ''Sooty''), first on Creator/TheBBC and later on Creator/{{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 1955 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (it was ''The Sooty Show'' at BBC/Thames TV, ''Sooty & Co.'' and ''Sooty Heights'' at Granada TV, then finally ''Sooty''), first on Creator/TheBBC and later on Creator/{{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
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Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. Creator/TheBBC gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
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Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. Creator/TheBBC gave were impressed enough to give Sooty an appearance on a programme called ''Talent Night'' in 1952, and Harry he then became a slot among their nascent regular on the children's programming variety show ''Saturday Special''. He was popular enough to be given his own show in 1955, and the programme it [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
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--->'''Robot:''' You're right! It's made of green cheese, and it's very tasty, too.
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* CheesyMoon: Sweep believes the moon is made of green cheese in an episode of ''Sooty's Amazing Adventures''.
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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (''The Sooty Show'', ''Sooty & Co.'', ''Sooty Heights'' and finally ''Sooty''), first on Creator/TheBBC and later on Creator/{{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (''The (it was ''The Sooty Show'', Show'' at BBC/Thames TV, ''Sooty & Co.'', '' and ''Sooty Heights'' and at Granada TV, then finally ''Sooty''), first on Creator/TheBBC and later on Creator/{{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by long-time fan Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by long-time fan Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
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* Little Cousin Scampi, even naughtier than Sooty; a late addition (1992), he first made a one-off appearance but was brought back as a regular character.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In one episode of ''Sooty and Co.'', Soo challenges the others to make something useful from random bits of wood in one minute. Sooty makes a 'matchbox holder', Sweep makes a 'bone holder', and Scampi makes a 'bone holder holder'.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In one episode of Granada's ''Sooty and Co.'', Soo challenges the others to make something useful from random bits of wood in one minute. Sooty makes a 'matchbox holder', Sweep makes a 'bone holder', and Scampi makes a 'bone holder holder'.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Butch, the bulldog puppet introduced in the late 1960s, but axed in the 1990s.
* CursedWithAwesome: Harry's magic show, and thus Sooty, would never have come about if he hadn't started going deaf - he could no longer play the piano in his band and so took up conjuring instead. (An operation later restored his hearing.)
* CursedWithAwesome: Harry's magic show, and thus Sooty, would never have come about if he hadn't started going deaf - he could no longer play the piano in his band and so took up conjuring instead. (An operation later restored his hearing.)
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Butch, Butch the bulldog puppet Bulldog, introduced in the late 1960s, but axed in the 1990s.
* CursedWithAwesome: Harry's magicshow, shows, and thus Sooty, would never have come about if he hadn't started going deaf - he could no longer play the piano in his band and so took up conjuring instead. (An operation later restored his hearing.)
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* SuddenlyVoiced: In one of the animated cartoons. It didn't work very well.
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* PrejudiceAesop: In one episode, Matthew thinks that [[WomenDrivers men are better drivers than women]]. He changes his tune when Soo wins against him in a car race.
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* LowCountGag: In the episode "Amateur Dramatics", Matthew is surprised to see only two people in the audience as Soo had told him that there were twice as many people before. She says that previously there was only one person in the audience and now there are two, so technically there's twice as many. Later, when they walk out in the middle of the play due to finding it boring, Matthew is embarrassed at having the "whole audience" walk out on him.
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* MagicWand: Sooty uses one.
* MagicalIncantation: Whenever Sooty is about to initiate a trick with his magic wand, he uses the rhyme, "Izzy wizzy, let's get busy!".
* MagicalIncantation: Whenever Sooty is about to initiate a trick with his magic wand, he uses the rhyme, "Izzy wizzy, let's get busy!".
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** An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
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** An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins Creator/JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
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* AdultFear: In "Safety First", there's a scene where it looks as though Sweep has been run over by a car. He hasn't, and Sooty and Matthew's reactions are PlayedForLaughs, but it's still quite unnerving.
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** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
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** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett.Creator/RonnieCorbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
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* An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
* A number of picture books can be seen in the area where the puppet characters live; one of them is a ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'' book.
* A number of picture books can be seen in the area where the puppet characters live; one of them is a ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'' book.
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* ShoutOut: An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
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* An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And doubledrat!"drat!"
* A number of picture books can be seen in the area where the puppet characters live; one of them is a ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'' book.
* An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double
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* ShoutOut: An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WackyRaces [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (''The Sooty Show'', ''Sooty & Co.'', ''Sooty Heights'' and finally ''Sooty''), first on Creator/TheBBC and later on {{ITV}}.Creator/{{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
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** A late episode had a Buddha statue being nicknamed 'Buddhy Jolly' for its beatific expression.
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** A late episode had a Buddha statue being nicknamed 'Buddhy Jolly' for its beatific expression. The same episode also had Matthew injure his fingers on his left hand, requring him to heavily bandage them up. He then tells a laughing Sooty that "If it had been my right hand, you wouldn't be laughing. It would bring tears to your eyes....".
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* DomesticApplianceDisaster: When Sooty and Sweep both get given jumpers that are too big for them, they try to shrink them in the wash but use too much soap powder and the laundry room fills with bubbles. Later, they didn't shrink, so they put them in the dryer but they shrink to itty-bitty size.
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* TheKiddieRide: A camper van ride by RG Mitchell. Sooty existed as a figure inside the ride, but the rest of the characters only appear as decals outside. It also engages the child in an educational match game while the ride is in use.
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* TheKiddieRide: A camper van ride by RG Mitchell.R.G. Mitchell from 1997. Sooty existed as a figure inside the ride, but the rest of the characters only appear as decals outside. It also engages the child in an educational match game while the ride is in use.
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* TheUnintelligible: Sweep talks only in high pitched squeaks, and has to be 'translated' by other characters. However, his squeaks are clearly synched to a written script, and some longtime viewers of the show can understand him even without translation.
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* TheUnintelligible: Sweep talks only in high pitched squeaks, and has to be 'translated' by other characters. However, his squeaks are clearly synched to a written script, and some longtime viewers of the show can understand him even without translation. A blooper was featured on ''The Kids From Alright on the Night'' where Matthew accidentally spoke one of Sweep's lines!
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* PromotedFanboy: Richard Caddell, made clear in an interview for CITV's 30th anniversary celebrations.
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* TheKiddieRide: A camper van ride by RG Mitchell. Sooty existed as a figure inside the ride, but the rest of the characters only appear as decals outside. It also engages the child in an educational match game while the ride is in use.
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A perennial children's favourite in the UK, running from [[LongRunners 1952 to 2004]] under various titles and settings (''The Sooty Show'', ''Sooty & Co.'', ''Sooty Heights'' and finally ''Sooty''), first on TheBBC Creator/TheBBC and later on {{ITV}}. A new series, entitled ''Sooty'', began in 2011.
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Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. TheBBC gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
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Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. TheBBC Creator/TheBBC gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
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* LongRunners: Until it finally ended in 2004 it was the longest running children's TV show in the world (that's now BluePeter).
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* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: Sooty is mute, and Sweep can only squeak, but they both have a lot to say. Matthew interprets for them.
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* [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda-ing To The Audience]]: PandaingToTheAudience: Soo.
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** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
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** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=qnE_8oeDj88 com/watch?v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
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* PhraseCatcher: Sooty's magic words "Izzy Whizzy Let's Get Busy!" (it would be a CatchPhrase, were it not for the fact that he doesn't speak)
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Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
* Sooty, a small, naughty but lovable teddy bear who [[TheVoiceless cannot speak above a whisper]] and is a dab hand with a magic wand (sometimes - when it goes wrong, HilarityEnsues).
* Sweep, a puppy dog who is dim-witted and naive and talks in an impossible-to-understand squeaking noise.
* Soo, a female panda; the most grown-up of the group (though still not averse to a bit of mischief once in a while) and the only one who can speak.
* Little Cousin Scampi, even naughtier than Sooty; a late addition (1992), he first made a one-off appearance but was brought back as a regular character.
Other characters have included:
* Other puppets like Butch the bulldog and Ramsbottom the snake, who were regulars for a while but eventually disappeared, barring rare guest appearances.
* Connie Creighton, a friend of the 'family' who also co-presented the Sooty stage show with Matthew.
* Mo (from [[OopNorth t'market]]), a regular customer during the Sooty & Co. incarnation, who always ending up selling Matthew something (sometimes conning him) rather than buying anything.
Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. TheBBC gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
From quite early on Sooty was a big franchise, spawning toys, books, musical instruments, stage shows, games, educational videos and, of course, copies of the puppets themselves.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: When "Mo from t'market" appeared, she would mention her nephew Duane (TheGhost) and the others (usually Matthew) would get it wrong, prompting her to say "Duane! As in [[IncrediblyLamePun Duane-pipe]]!"
* AmusingInjuries: Sooty didn't just attack Harry and Matthew with a water pistol or a [[PieInTheFace custard pie]], he sometimes hit them with a hammer, sawed their fingers or left mousetraps for them to trap their fingers in!
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In one episode of ''Sooty and Co.'', Soo challenges the others to make something useful from random bits of wood in one minute. Sooty makes a 'matchbox holder', Sweep makes a 'bone holder', and Scampi makes a 'bone holder holder'.
* BrutalHonesty: Everyone exhibits this.
* CatchPhrase: "Bye bye, everybody, bye bye." is said at the end of [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Butch, the bulldog puppet introduced in the late 1960s, but axed in the 1990s.
* CursedWithAwesome: Harry's magic show, and thus Sooty, would never have come about if he hadn't started going deaf - he could no longer play the piano in his band and so took up conjuring instead. (An operation later restored his hearing.)
* ExecutiveMeddling by TheBBC prompted Harry Corbett to take Sooty to {{ITV}}.
* HandPuppet
* HeadBob: Sooty, being TheVoiceless, does this when whispering into any of the other character's ears (who then translate for him).
* HomeAloneAntics: The episode ''Home Alone Sweep'' has Sweep left home alone. He hears sounds outside and starts setting traps for the burglars. [[spoiler: However, it turns out that the 'burglar' was actually Matthew, who ends up falling into all of his traps.]]
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Sweep's many relations once appeared, all indistinguishable save for the colours of their collars and having the same name with different vowels (Swoop, Swap, etc.)
* LongRunners: Until it finally ended in 2004 it was the longest running children's TV show in the world (that's now BluePeter).
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe example in ''Sooty and Co.'' -- Scampi tries to scare Sooty and Sweep out of their camper van in order to win a bet, but the other two find his efforts more laughable than scary. That is, until Scampi gets his Boom Box and plays an already creepy song very slowly and backwards, with spectacular results.
* NoFourthWall: The characters always greet the audience, and are aware that they're being watched on television.
* NotThisOneThatOne: In the first episode of the Nineties series ''Sooty and Co.'', Sooty and Sweep take delivery of their miniature campervan. Matthew is to get his own vehicle, and is overjoyed to find his own full-sized luxurious campervan...only to find it was actually the bicycle behind it.
* [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda-ing To The Audience]]: Soo.
* {{Pantomime}} - several Christmas episodes involved Sooty and the gang putting one on.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sooty, Soo and Scampi's parents are never heard from. Sweep's circumstances are even more confusing, as his family ''has'' been seen and they appear to live together, so it's unclear why Sweep lives away.
* ParentalBonus: Repeatedly. Prompted complaints from viewers in an episode when Soo pretended to be pregnant.
** One episode saw the puppets almost getting arrested by the police for "driving a shopping trolley while under the influence of corn flakes".
** A late episode had a Buddha statue being nicknamed 'Buddhy Jolly' for its beatific expression.
** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
** There were increasingly frequent BreakingTheFourthWall AsideGlance jokes from Matthew, such as this one when he was discussing his collection of cassette tapes:
--->'''Matthew:''' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment I do like Gary Glitter, don't you?]]
* PerpetualPoverty: In ''Sooty & Co.''
* PhraseCatcher: Sooty's magic words "Izzy Whizzy Let's Get Busy!" (it would be a CatchPhrase, were it not for the fact that he doesn't speak)
* PingPongNaivete: All of the puppets can switch between being immature and childlike to being far wiser than their stated ages would suggest.
* PromotedFanboy: Richard Caddell, made clear in an interview for CITV's 30th anniversary celebrations.
* RemakeCameo: In the recent Sooty show with Richard Caddell, a certain Matthew Corbett reappears in one entire episode as a van driver [[spoiler:and chocolate thief]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading ensues]], with Matthew passing on the torch...or pie-in-the-face rather, to Richard.
* ShoutOut: An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
* SuddenlyVoiced: In one of the animated cartoons. It didn't work very well.
* TheTalk: Matthew once tried very inexpertly to give it to Sweep (it didn't help that Sweep seemed to think 'the birds and the bees' was meant literally and there were props handy).
* TheUnintelligible: Sweep talks only in high pitched squeaks, and has to be 'translated' by other characters.
** However, his squeaks are clearly synched to a written script, and some longtime viewers of the show can understand him even without translation.
* VitriolicBestBuds: ''Everyone''.
* TheVoiceless: Sooty.
** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Matthew.
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Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
* Sooty, a small, naughty but lovable teddy bear who [[TheVoiceless cannot speak above a whisper]] and is a dab hand with a magic wand (sometimes - when it goes wrong, HilarityEnsues).
* Sweep, a puppy dog who is dim-witted and naive and talks in an impossible-to-understand squeaking noise.
* Soo, a female panda; the most grown-up of the group (though still not averse to a bit of mischief once in a while) and the only one who can speak.
* Little Cousin Scampi, even naughtier than Sooty; a late addition (1992), he first made a one-off appearance but was brought back as a regular character.
Other characters have included:
* Other puppets like Butch the bulldog and Ramsbottom the snake, who were regulars for a while but eventually disappeared, barring rare guest appearances.
* Connie Creighton, a friend of the 'family' who also co-presented the Sooty stage show with Matthew.
* Mo (from [[OopNorth t'market]]), a regular customer during the Sooty & Co. incarnation, who always ending up selling Matthew something (sometimes conning him) rather than buying anything.
Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. TheBBC gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[LongRunners ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal SitCom about the 'family' of puppets, with Harry/Matthew/Richard as a parental figure.
From quite early on Sooty was a big franchise, spawning toys, books, musical instruments, stage shows, games, educational videos and, of course, copies of the puppets themselves.
!!! TheSootyShow provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: When "Mo from t'market" appeared, she would mention her nephew Duane (TheGhost) and the others (usually Matthew) would get it wrong, prompting her to say "Duane! As in [[IncrediblyLamePun Duane-pipe]]!"
* AmusingInjuries: Sooty didn't just attack Harry and Matthew with a water pistol or a [[PieInTheFace custard pie]], he sometimes hit them with a hammer, sawed their fingers or left mousetraps for them to trap their fingers in!
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In one episode of ''Sooty and Co.'', Soo challenges the others to make something useful from random bits of wood in one minute. Sooty makes a 'matchbox holder', Sweep makes a 'bone holder', and Scampi makes a 'bone holder holder'.
* BrutalHonesty: Everyone exhibits this.
* CatchPhrase: "Bye bye, everybody, bye bye." is said at the end of [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Butch, the bulldog puppet introduced in the late 1960s, but axed in the 1990s.
* CursedWithAwesome: Harry's magic show, and thus Sooty, would never have come about if he hadn't started going deaf - he could no longer play the piano in his band and so took up conjuring instead. (An operation later restored his hearing.)
* ExecutiveMeddling by TheBBC prompted Harry Corbett to take Sooty to {{ITV}}.
* HandPuppet
* HeadBob: Sooty, being TheVoiceless, does this when whispering into any of the other character's ears (who then translate for him).
* HomeAloneAntics: The episode ''Home Alone Sweep'' has Sweep left home alone. He hears sounds outside and starts setting traps for the burglars. [[spoiler: However, it turns out that the 'burglar' was actually Matthew, who ends up falling into all of his traps.]]
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Sweep's many relations once appeared, all indistinguishable save for the colours of their collars and having the same name with different vowels (Swoop, Swap, etc.)
* LongRunners: Until it finally ended in 2004 it was the longest running children's TV show in the world (that's now BluePeter).
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe example in ''Sooty and Co.'' -- Scampi tries to scare Sooty and Sweep out of their camper van in order to win a bet, but the other two find his efforts more laughable than scary. That is, until Scampi gets his Boom Box and plays an already creepy song very slowly and backwards, with spectacular results.
* NoFourthWall: The characters always greet the audience, and are aware that they're being watched on television.
* NotThisOneThatOne: In the first episode of the Nineties series ''Sooty and Co.'', Sooty and Sweep take delivery of their miniature campervan. Matthew is to get his own vehicle, and is overjoyed to find his own full-sized luxurious campervan...only to find it was actually the bicycle behind it.
* [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda-ing To The Audience]]: Soo.
* {{Pantomime}} - several Christmas episodes involved Sooty and the gang putting one on.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sooty, Soo and Scampi's parents are never heard from. Sweep's circumstances are even more confusing, as his family ''has'' been seen and they appear to live together, so it's unclear why Sweep lives away.
* ParentalBonus: Repeatedly. Prompted complaints from viewers in an episode when Soo pretended to be pregnant.
** One episode saw the puppets almost getting arrested by the police for "driving a shopping trolley while under the influence of corn flakes".
** A late episode had a Buddha statue being nicknamed 'Buddhy Jolly' for its beatific expression.
** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the late '80s and through the '90s, where there were SpecialGuest appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids, such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett. One of the most well known guest appearances was when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=qnE_8oeDj88 Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain appeared teaching Sooty and Sweep drumming.]].
** There were increasingly frequent BreakingTheFourthWall AsideGlance jokes from Matthew, such as this one when he was discussing his collection of cassette tapes:
--->'''Matthew:''' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment I do like Gary Glitter, don't you?]]
* PerpetualPoverty: In ''Sooty & Co.''
* PhraseCatcher: Sooty's magic words "Izzy Whizzy Let's Get Busy!" (it would be a CatchPhrase, were it not for the fact that he doesn't speak)
* PingPongNaivete: All of the puppets can switch between being immature and childlike to being far wiser than their stated ages would suggest.
* PromotedFanboy: Richard Caddell, made clear in an interview for CITV's 30th anniversary celebrations.
* RemakeCameo: In the recent Sooty show with Richard Caddell, a certain Matthew Corbett reappears in one entire episode as a van driver [[spoiler:and chocolate thief]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading ensues]], with Matthew passing on the torch...or pie-in-the-face rather, to Richard.
* ShoutOut: An episode of the new show features WackyRacing with go-karts, and stars JustinLeeCollins as Fred Firewheel, a LargeHam cheating villain racer. When one of his traps fails, he channels his best [[WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]], shakes his fist and says "Drat! And double drat!"
* SuddenlyVoiced: In one of the animated cartoons. It didn't work very well.
* TheTalk: Matthew once tried very inexpertly to give it to Sweep (it didn't help that Sweep seemed to think 'the birds and the bees' was meant literally and there were props handy).
* TheUnintelligible: Sweep talks only in high pitched squeaks, and has to be 'translated' by other characters.
** However, his squeaks are clearly synched to a written script, and some longtime viewers of the show can understand him even without translation.
* VitriolicBestBuds: ''Everyone''.
* TheVoiceless: Sooty.
** VoiceForTheVoiceless: Matthew.
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