The Sooty Show/Characters

Sooty
The mischievous but lovable teddy bear who can't speak above a whisper and dabbles in magic, often with humourous results.


 * Deadpan Snarker: Manages to be this despite not audibly talking.
 * Former Even Worse Trouble-Maker: Although he's still a big trouble-maker, apparently he was even worse than Scampi when he was his age.
 * Fur Of Gold
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Sweep.
 * Inept Mage: Sometimes his magic goes awry.
 * Innocent Prodigy/Ping-Pong Naivete: He is shown to be very intelligent and quick-witted, but he can also be rather naive and dense.
 * Lovable Rogue
 * Naughty Is Good
 * No Mouth
 * Not Allowed to Grow Up: He always has been and always will be 5 years old.
 * Phrase Catcher: His magic words "Izzy Whizzy Let's Get Busy!" (It would be his Catch Phrase, were it not for the fact that he doesn't speak).
 * Puppy Love:(in-universe) With Soo.
 * Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He only wears his glasses for reading or when he's inventing something. The fact that they actually have no lenses and are just for show is lampshaded at least once.
 * Shrinking Violet: It was once suggested that he only whispers because he's shy.
 * Trademark Favourite Food: Honey.
 * The Voiceless
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Sweep
Sooty's best friend; an excitable and innocent, albeit somewhat dim-witted puppy dog who speaks in squeaks.


 * Accessory Wearing Puppet Animal: He tends to wear a collar.
 * Adorkable
 * Animal Jingoism: In Sooty & Co he claims not to like cats because he's a dog; this is dropped in Sooty when Miki, a puppet cat, is added to the cast.
 * Big Eater
 * Butt Monkey: He is quite frequently teased by the others, usually about his intelligence.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * The Ditz
 * Genius Ditz: Although he's generally considered dim-witted, he has been shown to be able to build machines.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Sooty, and later with Scampi.
 * Ho Yay: When Soo wanted to give him a Christmas kiss, he asked if Sooty could give him one instead, and threatened to run away when Soo said he can't because they're both boys.
 * Keet: He can be  rather hyperactive when he's excited.
 * The Klutz
 * Large Ham
 * Literal-Minded
 * Motor Mouth
 * The One Who Wears Shoes: It's not often shown, but he wears Wellies.
 * Perpetual Frowner: The puppet is, but his personality isn't.
 * Strong Family Resemblance: He looks just like his parents and his Massive-Numbered Siblings.
 * Trademark Favourite Food: Bones and sausages.
 * The Unfavourite: Sometimes treated like this.
 * The Unintelligible: Sweep only talks in high-pitched squeaks, and has to be 'translated' by other characters. However, his squeaks are clearly synched to a written script, and some long-time viewers of the show can understand him even without translation.
 * Why Did It Have To Be The Dark?: In the Sooty & Co episode "Sooty's Magic Solutions".

Soo
A female panda and the most collected and sensible of the puppets. She is Sooty's girlfriend.


 * All Girls Like Ponies
 * Bratty Half-Pint: Quite often.
 * Closer to Earth
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Frequently wore bows at one point.
 * Flanderization: In Sooty she is much more of a Bratty Half-Pint, to the point of being an outright Jerkass Attention Whore.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all of her tattling and snarky comments, she does show that she cares about the boys... sometimes.
 * Large Ham
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Not So Above It All
 * Pandaing to the Audience
 * Parental Favoritism: Sometimes subject to this.
 * The Smurfette Principle
 * Stepford Smiler: Her puppet is always smiling, even when she's crying or angry; her personality isn't one though.
 * The Stool Pigeon
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Miki's tomboy in Sooty.
 * Toy Ship:(in-universe) With Sooty.
 * Tsundere: Type B.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Spiders? In the Sooty & Co episode "Sooty's Magic Solutions".
 * But in the episode Moose Loose in the Hoose she is scared of mice instead.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Little Cousin Scampi
Sooty's young cousin who is even more mischievous than Sooty himself.


 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Demoted to Extra: In Sooty.
 * Fourth Ranger
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Sweep in Sooty & Co.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In his debut episode, after all of his tricks, he sends the gang a tin of chocolates to say sorry.
 * Nice Hat
 * The Prankster: Even more so than the others.
 * Screwy Squirrel
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Token Wholesome: The only male puppet to wear an outfit.
 * The Voiceless: Like Sooty, he only communicates by whispering in another character's ear.

Matthew Corbett
The presenter of the show and father-figure (and victim) of the puppets.


 * Adult Child
 * Amusing Injuries: The frequent victim of them.
 * Butt Monkey: They just love to pick on him!
 * The Chew Toy
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Hollywood Pudgy
 * Hypocritical Humour
 * Large Ham
 * Mr. Vice Guy: Though whatever vice he displays is very likely to come back to bite him in some way, especially his ego.
 * "No Respect" Guy
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Prone to bouts of this; he usually learns his lesson, only to get Aesop Amnesia and brag about something else.
 * Team Dad
 * Why Did It Have To Be Birds?: In the Sooty & Co episode "Sooty's Magic Solutions".

Richard Cadell
The new presenter since Sooty Heights; a cheerful magician who watches over the Sooty gang.


 * Adult Child: At times.
 * Butt Monkey
 * The Chew Toy
 * Hypocritical Humour
 * Team Dad

Butch
A boisterous bulldog who occasionally appeared, but became a regular in the Sooty series.


 * Accessory Wearing Puppet Animal: Wears a collar.
 * Animal Jingoism: He hates Miki because she's a cat and he's a dog, and tries to get Sweep to do the same.
 * Ascended Extra
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Mr. Fixit

Miki
A tomboyish cat from Brazil who hangs out with Sooty and the gang in Sooty.


 * Accessory Wearing Puppet Animal: Wears a collar, and then a neckerchief.
 * Affirmative Action Girl
 * Closer to Earth
 * Put on a Bus: It is said that she won't be appearing in the new series because she's gone back to Brazil.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Soo's girly girl.