#sooty and sweep

[partywithponies]

[modmad]

Is the stuffed animal assok? Or someone else? I must know

well, some of you might have spotted this little friend in the comic-

and some of you might recognise him as Sweep! Sooty and Sweep are two puppets who had a tv show for a lot of years in the UK, and when I was two years old I was given a puppet toy very like this one

mine is... considerably more hugged looking :'D I love Sweep so much, he has given me so many good dreams and looked after me through many sad times and terrible illnesses, and it felt appropriate to pay him due respect by making him Hero's favourite toy as well.

[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...

[partywithponies]

WE DID IT LADS!! WE MADE A LOST MEDIA LIST VIDEO ON YOTUBE!! STAY STRONG SAA GANG THE SEARCH ISN'T DEAD!!

[weaversweek]

From this day in 1983.

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

[sootygifs]

"Sooty and Sweep's Fun With Numbers" 1991 video game for the Amiga.

[landofii]

Sweep effing dies

[luckyshouse]

drawing for @lesbomination :D ty for helping me out

[whowouldwininafite]