What’s that Sooty? You want a girlfriend? The BBC Director-General was forced to intervene in a row over providing children’s puppet Sooty with a lady friend. A documentary on the creator of the Sooty Show Harry Corbett - nephew of fish and chip entrepreneur Harry Ramsden - revealed his suggestion of a female friend for his creation led to a massive row within the …
I had always assumed that Soo was his bitch {1.} and that Sweep was trying to muscle in on the action.
I also thought that Florence in Magic Roundabout was a seriously sexy looking woman so perhaps my suspect opinions should be treated with the opprobrium they deserve.
1. i do not know the term for a female Panda.
I dunno how the obvious candidate for Sooty's unconventional sexual tastes could have been missed by so many so-called 'smart" people.
Why would a bulldog go by the obvious soup-briquette "Butch"?
Clearly the assumption that the bulldog was male was, in fact, false. The rest just falls into place once this obvious fact is assumed.
Sooty preferred assertive - if not openly aggressive - dominant, doggish bitches with poor dentition and faces like the back end of a skip transporter.
According to Wikipedia
" In June 2008 Rod, Jane and Freddy appeared on the show 50 Ways To Leave Your TV Lover on Sky and talked about newspaper claims that they were involved in a love triangle. They revealed that Rod and Jane had in fact been married and divorced, Jane partnering up with Freddy some time after he had joined the trio, a relationship that lead to their eventual marriage in May 2016."
"and I think the little house knew something about it! Don't you?"
Ah those sweet, innocent days when "Muffin the Mule" was not a euphemism ...
That episode was a little bit questionable, wasn't it?
The first thing I thought was: "Pandas monthly, huh? Is she 'reading' it in the same way people 'read' Playboy etc for the articles?"
Then Matthew commented to Sooty "You have to wonder what it was that she was reading exactly that she didn't want you to see ... possibly a guilty secret there."
Then a little later, she read out an advert from a blatant paedophile: "Are you under six years old and less than thirty centimetres tall?" =:o
The other three puppets were trying to spy on her in the bathroom - under the claim that they just wanted to know what she was reading. Yeah, right.
I dare not watch any further!
"Pandas Monthly"
- Womens Weekly?
"Are you under six years old and less than thirty centimetres tall?"
- No way Soo is under six, she's been claiming that since at least the early eighties...
I dare not watch any further!
You'd have missed a rather good Cilla Black impersonator... and the best bit IMO the dodgy blind date contestants, Butch the dadgy Landaner and the northern snake - and Sweeps totally inappropriate answers that put him out of the running immediately.
- And the main point of the episode where at the end Soo admits there's probably nobody else for her than Sooty.
Classic telly, that for a kids programme, I was surprised to find I enjoyed.
"Nope, he was called Tom"
I think that you're missing the purpose of the comments as well as the joke!
Should be working, but instead thinking of other potential names; such as:
The head of the Marine Contingent, Major Hardwick (or the more obvious, Major Hardon).
Gunner Blige and his lovely daughter, Sheila (there's a naval joke there as well!)
Fat Willy, the cook.
And of course, the Ship's Cat, "Nine-Tails"!
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