Sweep

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I mean Learn to Read with Sooty is fun.  Sweep spells his name 'Smeed', it's a riot

I bet Soo was standing right over his shoulder, "no Sweep you idiot; you do a w like this and a p like this, you got it wrong Sweep you failed your attempts at learning Sweep, you are stupid Sweep you are so stupid.  Why are you panicking Sweep; at least Sooty has the good grace to suffer in silence."

[Icehaven]

All this Sweep joy has cheered me right the hell up.

[Ambient Sheep]

Not sure about the wisdom of putting Sweep in a hot air balloon but here he actually does SOS in Sweep-squeak, the lad isn't daft.

https://youtu.be/r83Sd7sAg5w?t=139

Hah, that's actually "OSO" not "SOS".  Presumably deliberate.

[Harry Badger]

Fuck Soo. People like her make my life a misery and always have done.

Also worth mentioning again that Sweep's dad is a Hasidic Jew.

[Icehaven]

The hot air balloon squeaks at 6.20 are definitely "Matthew. MATTHEW!".

[bos]

Thank you, OP.  Sweep is truly one of the greats.

I love his brief performance of "Boredom" from 1978.

And this moment from "Down Dog":

Oh, there you are, Sooty. Have you probed the darkest recessses of Sweep's mind? And what did you find? ... Darkness?  Mm.

[non capisco]

I dunno if anyone else follows the Sooty Twitter account but once on bonfire night it was the caption 'Oh no! Who left Sweep in charge of the fireworks?' with a picture of Sweep chucking a shit fit and a mushroom cloud in the distance. I kid you not.

[idunnosomename]

@Sootyandco has some quality self-aware, borderline shitposting content. am i imagining it or was there an official Sooty account that just posts blank tweets?

[Ron Maels Moustache]

Thank you, OP.  Sweep is truly one of the greats.

I love his brief performance of "Boredom" from 1978.

And this moment from "Down Dog":

That's a superb episode all-round. A gooseberry in a lift!!

[shiftwork2]

Hah, that's actually "OSO" not "SOS".  Presumably deliberate.

Motherfucker.  A joke in a forty year kid's show sails right over my head.

[gilbertharding]

[AllisonSays]

I find the guy who manipulates these puppets very sexually alluring, for some reason.

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I find the guy who manipulates these puppets very sexually alluring, for some reason.

They manipulate themselves.



You know when it's Matthew there and Sooty and Sweep are having a chat, and then cousin Scampi joins in and pretty soon Soo turns up to send everyone to bed early because they are boys?


Well what's going on below the table top there; is Matthew one of the manipulators or do they let him just be himself and have two (or more) additional people out of sight?



And which of these unseen manipulators do you find the most sexually arousing?

[Glebe]

Forgot about The Sooty Show's absolute banger of a theme tune, actually!

*dweeble dweeble dweeble dweeble dwub - bling-blong!*

[gilbertharding]

That's odd - the picture of Simon Pegg  which was supposed to draw attention to his resemblance to Matthew Corbett has... vanished.

[Icehaven]

Thank you, OP.  Sweep is truly one of the greats.

I love his brief performance of "Boredom" from 1978.

That's bloody excellent, Tony Wilson too!

[Glebe]

I find the guy who manipulates these puppets very sexually alluring, for some reason.

Yes, Matthew has that kind of animal magnetism that James Hetfield has.

[Rolf Lundgren]

He's not even the best drummer in The Sooty Show.

[idunnosomename]

Nicko of course usually has a Sooty on his drum kit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtd2rGbCEdk

[pigamus]

Matthew is brilliant but as a kid I found his intensity a tiny bit unsettling. Wouldn't want to cross him, you know what I mean?

[bos]

That's bloody excellent, Tony Wilson too!

Sweep is a very talented musician.

He was (probably) the first dog to do a bass solo on a trombone.

[The Mollusk]

That Buzzcocks cover is ace! Sweep would have made for a very passable James Chance tribute act too.

[shiftwork2]

Unashamedly bumping the thread as Sweep on This Is Your Life has been brought to my attention.  From the transitional 1977 studio audience series so it's a mix of Harry's basically 1950s sets and slapstick set pieces and the beginnings of Matthew making the show into the sitcom.

Features the definitive Sweep puppet, bedraggled 70s tache Sweep.  There's an early version of Sweep's family and Sweep pretends not to know who Sooty is, and claims Soo is 'the Queen Mother'.

The kids must have thought 'who is this boring cunt, get Sweep back on' when Joe Brown is introduced and I'm totally on their side.

[shiftwork2]

Finally, It's An Aubergine.

The comedy chops on show here rival anything.

[Kankurette]

I'd absolutely fucking love to watch Sweep beating the shit out of Edd the Duck in a pub car park.

Sweep could snap him like a twig.

[The Bumlord]

Sweep could snap him like a twig.

Yeah, there's no way Sweep would fight fair. Edd would be on his arse in seconds. If he had one.

[shiftwork2]

Of course, Sweep on This Is Your Life should have actually happened (sploff).

[Spudgun]

Finally, It's An Aubergine.

The comedy chops on show here rival anything.

Brilliant.

Which is the one where they're all making model boats, and Sweep gets a huge great tree stump and spends the whole episode chiselling away at it, and we're all watching thinking "This is going to be all massive and spectacular", and in the end he hands Matthew a sad little three-inch canoe? Probably my first experience of the anticlimactic anti-joke, and I remember finding it hilarious.

[Armed Traffic Warden]

Matthew is brilliant but as a kid I found his intensity a tiny bit unsettling. Wouldn't want to cross him, you know what I mean?

His pre-beard knashers are fucking terrifying.

[idunnosomename]

lol that all things bright and beautiful was fucking torture