Funny / The Sooty Show

• In the Sooty and Co episode, A Magical Voice, Matthew is using a laptop to speak as he has lost his voice. The screen lights up in one scene and says, "Not a dickie bird." A dickie bird pops up from behind the laptop and Matthew hits it with a rolled-up newspaper.
  • Also, in the Sooty show episode, Boarding House, this scene with Sweep and Sooty make a bed for Matthew, only to find it has no mattress and lies down on it.
  Matthew: Where's the mattress for it?
  Sweep: (squeak)
  Matthew: You haven't got one?
  Sweep: (squeak)
  Matthew: Yes, I know, I realise that, Sweep. And so, the fact is you expect that after I've had a hard day at work, I'm going to come back and go to sleep on a nice, soft (thud) OW! ...plank!
• Most of the Sooty and Co. episode "Soo to the Rescue" counts, especially where the gang set to work on making adverts for the shop. Highlights include Sweep trying to make a banner that reads "Come To Sooty's Shop", which ends up reading "Cos Tooty Poo Smesh"^note and is itself corrected from "Coy Tom Shoots Sope" and "Shy Tosco Mooo Pet"; Sooty and Scampi's TV advert, Soo accidentally recording her radio advert backwards and getting herself completely buried in loose tape reels; and Matthew trying to attract business in a local shopping centre through a rendition of "My Way".
  Soo: Never work with children, animals... or tape recorders!
  • Earlier, which inspires the gang to make more advertising for the shop in the first place, is when Matthew ends up being suckered into buying the "latest state-of-the-art carpet cleaner" that "requires no batteries, and no mains power". It ends up being a Victorian carpet beater.
• The beginning of the Sooty and Co. episode "Read All About It!", where Matthew is excited to read an article on him and the shop in the local newspaper. Soo tells him not to get his hopes up as newspapers can often make mistakes. Hilarity Ensues.

  Matthew: Look at this! It's a picture of Sweep with my name underneath it!

• In the Sooty and Co. episode Buddy Jolly, Sweep is assigned to act as a guard dog at night to protect the titular statue. He has an Imagine Spot about how much he'll be praised for doing the job well, which escalates rather quickly... all while Sweep falls asleep and the statue is stolen in the background.
  Narration: Then, after triumphing over evil, maybe he'd be called to the Palace to receive a medal! (thought bubble shows Sweep as a Royal Guardsman getting a medal) He'd get to meet the Queen! Even better, he may even be the Queen, and rule the world! (thought bubble shows Sweep in a tiara and a Queen t-shirt)
  • In the same episode, the Running Gag of Matthew about to scream before the camera cuts to a dog (who is actually Matthew's dog, Label) hearing Matthew screaming wondering what's going on.
  • Matthew even lets out a Big "NO!" while the same dog runs to the left in the same episode.
• In the Sooty and Co. episode "Clocks Galore", Sooty has trouble with clocks. First, the alarm clock won't stop ringing, so he stuffs it in a cupboard and muffles it with duvets, then he is annoyed by a cuckoo clock, so he shoots it with an Acme Cuckoo Gun.
• In the Sooty and Co. episode "Camping Out", Sooty and Sweep give Scampi some of their favourite things, only to immediately take them back again when Soo points out that they might need those things while camping out. Extra points go to Sweep for leaning in and giving Scampi the cutest, squeakiest growl imaginable.
• The Sooty and Co. episode “Fat and 40” has a lot of funny moments, in particular, the birthday gifts Matthew ends up getting from Sooty, Sweep and Soo: a wig, some wrinkle cream, and an enormous pair of boxers. Later, Matthew receives a gift from his mother with several pastries and sweets, but she addresses him in her letter as “porky”. This of course inspires Matthew to exercise to drop the extra weight.

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