#sooty and sweep

[partywithponies]

I am in TEARS over this image. Look at him.

[mrs-elsie-barnes]

I like to share my hobbies with my daughter so she knows I'm a real whole person and not just her mum. Including fandom stuff, in an age appropriate way!

She likes that I write stories and I write them for her too.

So here's a brief plot outline of a Sooty and Co fanfiction she came up with last night. She can't write yet so let's call it a podfic.

Sooty and Sweep steal the caravan and take her to the beach and they do a water fight on the beach and then Matthew buys them ice cream and Scampy steals her ice cream. The end.

And if you don't know Sooty and Co

(the 90s version is free on YouTube. Enjoy)

[goblinhound]

What the dog doin

[agerev4mp]

puppet shows i loved when i was bodily little ^w^

[perplexingluciddreams]

Mum re-found the kids DVDs zip-up pouch book thingy. I love so many of the DVDs in there! So many are safe and familiar and nostalgic in a good way.

There is ones like Bagpuss, Mr Benn, Camberwick Green, Flash Gordon, Cult Kids Classics, The Muppets, Tracy Beaker, and lots of other films I watched as a child!

The pouch they are all in has "pages" with slots on both sides for DVDs. And they flip like a book. There is actually too many DVDs in there, so some are just sitting loose between the "pages", a few have separate plastic sleeves over them which sit between "pages". And some of the DVDs in there are blank with just the title written on 😆.

I am going to love rewatching many of these! A few more that I can think of which is not in here is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Fifi & the Flowertots. I watched those DVDs over and over and over again as a kid! Especially Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 film, not the 2005 one called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) when I was a bit older.

I don't think we ever had a DVD of it, but along with Fifi & the Flowertots, I also loved The Tweenies when I was young. And Sooty & Co/The Sooty Show/Sooty and Sweep. And In The Night Garden 🥰. And Noddy!

I would love to get DVDs of those if I don't have them already (oh, and Tots TV too!). I am pretty sure we do have Chorlton and the Wheelies somewhere. And we might have Rainbow (but not sure of that).

I still love all the TV programmes I watched as a kid. And a lot of those were programmes my parents watched, so many of them are from quite a while ago.

Anyway, Bagpuss time now!! I have seen all episodes of this countless times. And I never get less excited!

Mum does impressions of the noises and voices and songs of characters from Bagpuss when I am in the bath. It makes me laugh 😆😄!!

[things-to-show-my-child]

Children's media I am excited to share with my child.

The Muppets

Sooty and Co

Bluey

Thomas the Tank Engine

Winnie the Pooh

Craig of the Creek

Bananas in Pyjamas

Peanuts

Asterix and Obelix

Beatrix Potter

Moomin

Postman Pat

Honestly I am so excited for my son to arrive and thinking of sharing these things with him makes me so happy and I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.

[palatteflags]

The Sooty Show moodboard~ ^^ For an anon! Hope you like the look :)

Want one? Send an ask~ -mod Jay

[gordonsgano]

Sooty & Sweep attacking Graeme

[hauntswitch]

Thinking about him

Squeak squeak...

[weaversweek]

From this day in 1983.

The Sooty Show, with a special guest appearance from Bonnie Langford.

[partywithponies]

[welcomehomeincorrectquotes]

Wally: *laying wide awake at night*

Barnaby: *calling from his house* HELLO? HELLO?

Rowlf: *calling from a distance* HELLO?

Barnaby: ARE YOU A DOG?

Rowlf: YES!

Barnaby: I AM ALSO A DOG!

Rowlf: YEAH!

Barnaby: ALRIGHT! YEAH, WE'RE DOGS!

Rowlf: WE'RE DOGS THAT LIVE NEAR EACHOTHER!

Wally: ...

Sweep: *calling even further away* HEY, ARE YOU GUYS DOGS?

Barnaby: YEAH!

Rowlf: WE'RE TOTALLY DOGS!

Barnaby: YEAH, BOTH OF US!

Sweep: WOO!

Wally: ...

[sootygifs]

"I'm In The Mood For Christmas" - Music Video [2023]

[landofii]

Sweep effing dies

[luckyshouse]

drawing for @lesbomination :D ty for helping me out

[stupidlittlespirit]

I know this is kinda a random ask but Do you think Ford would enjoy the muppets? Or any Jim Henson related movies or shows?

I think he could get a kick out of dark crystal or labyrinth (I’d like to think ford enjoys David Bowie)

Puppets were very popular (or at least, more popular) back in the day, especially in the UK.

There was such a huge boom for Space-Race themed shows at that time over here. It was really hard for me to find much info on that with regard to the US, which is surprising because the US was arguably a lot more invested in that kind of thing during the 50's/60's.

I have no idea if those themes in puppet shows specifically were airing as much in the USA back were Stan and Ford were kids, but over here we had stuff like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, which I imagine would have been right up Ford's alley. I think maybe they got a show called Stingray in the US in like 1960?

When he returns, I can definitely imagine him like Dark Crystal and stuff. He has a weak spot for fantasy in general and man, Bowie in those leggings? Hell yeah. Plus, I like to imagine that he teaches himself the crystal ball trick that Bowie does because extra fingers would definitely help with that.