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* ButtMonkey: Sweep often serves as this. Out of all the hosts the show has had, Richard Cadell is the biggest butt-monkey, enduring embarrassment and being at the receiving end of any slapstick hijinks.
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* ButtMonkey: Sweep often serves as this. Out of all the hosts the show has had, Richard Cadell is the biggest butt-monkey, enduring embarrassment and being at the receiving end of any slapstick hijinks. hijinks in every episode.
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* ButtMonkey: Sweep often serves as this. Out of all the hosts the show has had, Richard Cadell is the biggest butt-monkey, enduring embarrassment and being at the receiving end of any slapstick hijinks.
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* PerpetualPoverty: In both ''Sooty & Co.'' (where Matthew, Sooty Sweep and Soo run a sort of thrift store that never turns a profit) and ''Sooty'' (where the main three puppets live with Richard in a mobile home, who works at an amusement park as a lackey to the mysterious Mr. Slater).
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* PerpetualPoverty: In both ''Sooty & Co.'' (where Matthew, Sooty Sooty, Sweep and Soo run a sort of thrift store that never turns a profit) and ''Sooty'' (where the main three puppets live with Richard in a mobile home, who works at an amusement park as a lackey to the mysterious Mr. Slater).
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* PerpetualPoverty: In ''Sooty & Co.''
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* PerpetualPoverty: In both ''Sooty & Co.'''' (where Matthew, Sooty Sweep and Soo run a sort of thrift store that never turns a profit) and ''Sooty'' (where the main three puppets live with Richard in a mobile home, who works at an amusement park as a lackey to the mysterious Mr. Slater).
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* TheVoice: Richard’s tyrannical boss Mr. Slater is never seen on screen, and only heard yelling at Richard over the phone in an unintelligible and muffled voice.
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* BrutalHonesty: Everyone exhibits this.
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* BrutalHonesty: Everyone exhibits this.this, but this is especially one of Soo’s main character traits, as she will rarely if ever sugar-coat things.
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* AprilFoolsPlot: In the ''Sooty'' episode “April Foolishness”, Richard successfully avoids all of Sooty, Sweep and Soo’s pranks because they’re the same ones from last year, but after a series of mishaps involving his delivering his boss Mr. Slater’s car to an April Fools contest, he is branded the April Fool for the second year in a row and given a trophy and a PieInTheFace.
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* FleetingDemographicRule: Richard reuses many of the plotlines from Matthew’s tenure on the show, presumably because decades have now gone by and today’s kids would be none the wiser.
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* IgnorantAboutFire: This show has an episode called "Never Play with Matches", in which Sweep fails at practicing being a firefighter because he fails to locate the pretend fire. They later sing a song that defies this by telling the audience not to play with matches or fire.
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* IgnorantAboutFire: This show has an episode called "Never Play with Matches", "Hot Stuff", in which Sweep fails at practicing being a firefighter because he fails to locate the pretend fire. They later sing a song that defies this by telling the audience not to play with matches or fire.
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* EarthSong: The episode "A Load of Rubbish" ends with Matthew and Soo singing about how they're "keen to be green" and tells the viewers not to litter and to help save the earth.
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* IgnorantAboutFire: This show has an episode called "Never Play with Matches", in which Sweep fails at practicing being a firefighter because he fails to locate the pretend fire. They later sing a song that defies this by telling the audience not to play with matches or fire.
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** In ''The Sooty Show'' episode “Cuddly Toys”, the machine Matthew is using to produce Sooty stuffed bears accidentally produces them with a series of deformities, including one with three legs, the extra leg right right between the other two, of course.
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* LostVoicePlot: In the ''Sooty & Co.'' episode “A Magical Voice”, Matthew gets a sore throat loses his voice, so Sooty and Scampi build a magical voice box in order to bring his voice back. However, the spell goes awry and it switches everyone’s voices; Sooty and Sweep end up SuddenlySpeaking, but Sweep gets Soo’s voice while Soo begins squeaking like Sweep.
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* LostVoicePlot: In the ''Sooty & Co.'' episode “A Magical Voice”, Matthew gets a sore throat and loses his voice, so Sooty and Scampi build a magical voice box in order to bring his voice back. However, the spell goes awry and it switches everyone’s voices; Sooty and Sweep end up SuddenlySpeaking, but Sweep gets Soo’s voice while Soo begins squeaking like Sweep.
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* LostVoicePlot: In the ''Sooty & Co.'' episode “A Magical Voice”, Matthew gets a sore throat loses his voice, so Sooty and Scampi build a magical voice box in order to bring his voice back. However, the spell goes awry and it switches everyone’s voices; Sooty and Sweep end up SuddenlySpeaking, but Sweep gets Soo’s voice while Soo begins squeaking like Sweep.
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* ToyTransmutation: One episode involves Sooty using his wand to turn Sweep into a toy dog and his toy frog into a real one, because Sooty was angry at Sweep for being noisy.
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* ActingForTwo: In the ''Sooty & Co'' era, Brenda Longman voices Soo and also plays Mo, the two often appearing in the same scene.
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* TheBusCameBack: The new series hosted by Richard Cadell mainly features just the three main puppets, although characters from previous incarnations of the show have made guest appearances. For instance, Butch and Ramsbottom appear as judges for a dance contest in an episode.
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* TheBusCameBack: The new series hosted by Richard Cadell mainly features just the three main puppets, although characters from previous incarnations of the show have made guest appearances. For instance, Butch and Ramsbottom appear as judges for a dance contest in an episode. And in another episode, Matthew Corbett reappears.
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** Sooty’s MagicalIncantation “Izzy Wizzy let’s get busy.”
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** Sooty’s MagicalIncantation “Izzy Wizzy let’s get busy.”” Although everyone says it but Sooty.
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* TheBusCameBack: The new series hosted by Richard Cadell mainly features just the three main puppets, although characters from previous incarnations of the show have made guest appearances. For instance, Butch and Ramsbottom appear as judges for a dance contest in an episode.
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--->'''Matthew:''' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment I do like Gary Glitter, don't you?]]
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--->'''Matthew:''' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment I do like Gary Glitter, Music/GaryGlitter, don't you?]]you?
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* CousinOliver: Cousin Scampi was this, appearing younger than the other three puppets, and added to give children someone else to relate to.
* {{Nephewism}}: Scampi is Sooty’s cousin, whose parents are never heard from. This is much easier than making him Sooty’s son.
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* PingPongNaivete: All of the puppets can switch between being immature and childlike to being far wiser than their stated ages would suggest.
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* PingPongNaivete: All of the puppets can switch between being immature and childlike to being far wiser than their stated ages would suggest. This is particularly obvious in relation to Cousin Scampi, as whenever he was around the puppets became more like adults in relation to him, while when he isn’t there and they are with Matthew, they are more like children.
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* ClipShow: Most of the episodes where it was Sooty’s birthday were also this, showing clips from over the decades.
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* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Each different series had at least one episode where it was Sooty’s birthday, usually to coincide with a MilestoneCelebration for the franchise. Sooty is sometimes said to be five years old, even when they acknowledge he has been around since the 1950s, but often his age isn’t mentioned. In ''The Sooty Show'' episode “Happy Birthday Sooty”, Matthew addresses this by confirming Sooty, like Literature/PeterPan, [[TheAgeless doesn’t age]].
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** In ''The Sooty Show'' episode “Happy Birthday Sooty”, Matthew tells Sooty that “we were just pulling your leg” when he, Sweep and Soo were pretending to have forgotten Sooty’s birthday. Sooty whispers to Matthew saying that’s not possible. Matthew glances under the table where Sooty is and turns to the camera, muttering “Of course”.
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Some installments can now be seen in the U.S.A through a streaming service called Ameba TV. There is also an [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0H8Df50rTfyqUfMt8AfF9Q official YouTube channel]], with mainly clips from the newest version of the show.
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Some installments can now be seen in the U.S.A through a streaming service called Ameba TV. There is also an [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0H8Df50rTfyqUfMt8AfF9Q official YouTube channel]], with mainly clips from the newest version of the show.show, and a [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6NhnAac0IDJj79xRFxzdLg second channel]] with official uploads of classic episodes.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: An episode of the new series has Sooty briefly gain the ability to speak thanks to a genie, but his voice is so thunderously loud they quickly take the wish back.
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Some installments can now be seen in the U.S.A through a streaming service called Ameba TV.
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Some installments can now be seen in the U.S.A through a streaming service called Ameba TV. There is also an [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0H8Df50rTfyqUfMt8AfF9Q official YouTube channel]], with mainly clips from the newest version of the show.
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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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* 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.translation (you can even pick out a British accent in his squeaks without much trouble). 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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** Sooty’s MagicalIncantation “Izzy Wizzy let’s get busy.”
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** In one of the newer episodes, when Soo is practicing ballet dancing, Richard remarks that he didn’t think she “had the legs for it” while smirking at the camera.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - although the puppets are treated as fully living characters, Harry/Matthew/Richard will occasionally subtly acknowledge their puppet nature with little remarks like "not if I have a hand in it", or the following when Sooty is about to play a xylophone:
-->'''Matthew:''' What are you going to play, then?
-->'''Sooty:''' ''(whispers in his ear)''
-->'''Matthew:''' Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D Minor? What, on that thing? I didn't know I could do that. I mean, I didn't know that ''you'' could do that.
-->'''Matthew:''' What are you going to play, then?
-->'''Sooty:''' ''(whispers in his ear)''
-->'''Matthew:''' Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D Minor? What, on that thing? I didn't know I could do that. I mean, I didn't know that ''you'' could do that.
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* ActingForTwo: In the ''Sooty & Co'' era, Brenda Longman voices Soo and also plays Mo, the two often appearing in the same scene.
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* StartMyOwn: In the "Sooty and Co." episode "Shop Keeping", Sweep decides to leave Sooty and Co. and start his own shop after being yelled at and insulted by Matthew.
