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02x18 - Elastic

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Sooty Show". Aired: July 30, 1968.*
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Children's slapstick show with the little bear glove puppet and his friends.

02x18 - Elastic

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hello

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ah look who it is it's our old friend

sweep hello sweep

he seems to be searching for something

um what are you looking for sweet

oh he's looking for his bone

well look no further sweet because

here's and he's got your bone

there you are

what are friends for

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oh

with friends like

who needs enemies

he's playing a trick on poor old sweet

with the help of some elastic

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and here's someone else who's about to

have a trick played on him

it's little cousin scampi doing his art

homework

now where's that red paint

ah

there it is

uh

fooled you says with a simple

piece of elastic

asked scampi if you'd like to see

another trick he's about to play using

elastic

scampi says yes

come on then says

follow me

there we are lots of lovely warm water

and soapy suns

well a panda needs pampering from time

to time and i must say it's nice to have

a bit of time to myself without those

three boys playing silly tricks on me

all the time i'll just shut the door

there

well goodness me look at that the wind's

blown it open again i'll just close it

again

hello what's going on here

how strange

this is silly i'll just have a look and

see what what aha what's this elastic

stopping the door from staying shut

what's that noise

it sounds like someone giggling

no

yes i might have known you two would

have something to do with it this is

typical this is playing silly tricks on

people and then giggling like a pair of

babies come on come out of there you two

come on

now why don't you grow up a bit be more

like matthew

now he's a serious responsible grown up

and the foot soldiers are in deep

trouble now because the big a*tillery is

on its way yes big bertha is here

boom

excellent

oh hello oh you must excuse me i don't

normally play silly games like this but

normally i am a serious responsible

grown-up

it's just that i was looking in the

drawer off of my belt and i found this

elastic you see and it reminded me that

when i was little we used to play with

elastic and with pellets like this

firing at soldiers like that he was good

fun really was

anyway i didn't find my belt but don't

worry because i did find something else

in the drawer to keep my trousers up and

actually they're made of elastic as well

it's clever stuff elastic

can you guess what they are

i think you guessed it

braces

yes it's clever stuff elastic

which is more than can be said about

sweep he's about to fall for another

trick that and scampi are about to

play on him

using elastic

how does the jacket look are sweet

it looks excellent says city just your

color sir

scampi i think i'm going to show it to

matthew it's a sweep

good idea says he's in his bedroom

why don't you go and show him right now

okay so sweep

i will

and with that sweep leaves the room

only to return a moment later

i thought you were going to see matthew

says

i was so sweet

i'll try

but i'm not going to give up

and sweep tries his best to get out of

the room

why don't you try leaving by that door

good idea the sweep

and he tries it

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oh a very funny joke i don't think let's

see tying elastic to the door so i

couldn't close it well it's off now so

maybe i can have my bath

what's this

more elastic

attached to the ceiling at one end i

wonder what it's attached to at the

other end

what do you know about a spider on a

piece of elastic

i said what do you know about a spider

on a piece of elastic

creep will you come and stand here while

i'm talking to you i know that and

scampi tied the door open with elastic

but i want to know who put that spider

there

it wasn't you

will you come back here

listen i hope you're telling the truth

because if you come here sweep

if i hope you're telling the truth sweet

sweep

here

i hope you are telling the truth

look will you come here you dozy dog

what is the matter with you

you don't know

you feel an irresistible urge to leave

or you can't leave i haven't finished

with you will you please stand up

straight

that's better

another soldier slips to a watery grave

well actually it's a milky grave excuse

me sorry about this look at this

breakfast time there's nobody here

except me it's always the same morning

matthew oh hello sue what kept you well

i've been having a lot of trouble with

elastic yeah so is he actually

where's sweet i just saw him on the

landing matthew i say he's behaving very

strangely today really um and what about

uh suttie and scampi were they well last

time i saw them they were busy playing

silly games with silly elastic yeah so

they're behaving normally are they mind

you don't blame the elastic because

elastic is very clever stuff you know

sue i mean no don't don't pull that

don't put let it go let it go

hello

what's the matter well i'm having a lot

of trouble with elastic as it happens

which elastic

well this elastic the sort of elastic no

no no no don't play god

i think we've all had quite enough

trouble with elastic for one day

do you think we could just get on with

our breakfast yes a good idea a good

hang on a minute there's no sign of

sweet we can't start breakfast without

him where is he he's struggling to get

here

what what's holding him back

oh he is

all right

right now that you're here sweep perhaps

we can get breakfast started can we by

the way it's a it's a very nice jacket

but did you get it

what happened i don't know he kept doing

that upstairs you're joking we've come

back you must have slipped are you all

right yeah hang on a minute look have my

cereal have mice

and now perhaps we can uh start

breakfast can we

sweep

would you stop doing that please just

stand still okay don't move you're

stretching my patience that's not always

stretching i don't understand anyway can

we please start breakfast

and once we do get breakfast no

and and scampi tied the elastic

over the jacket like that sweep so that

you couldn't see it and that's what kept

pulling you backwards

you felt an irresistible urge to leave

i'm not surprised with this lot pulling

at you but they were only playing a joke

sweep with elastic just like they played

on sue you know upstairs in the bathroom

with a door that wouldn't close the

spider they kept coming out of the linen

basket

someone should play a joke on them

well you're right

i tell you what sweet you know normally

i don't let you take anything out of the

shop without you paying for it is that

right yeah well today is different

because i've had this this delivery and

it is

elastic

now

if you were to borrow this

providing you put it back without me

noticing

i wouldn't know

anything had happened would i understand

oh

sweet what i mean is that you could use

the elastic to play a trick on and

scampi

yes

yes yes

right well look um i'm popping in here

just to see sue's holiday photographs

i'll leave that with you and i'll wish

you uh

good luck sweep

okay good luck

some people may say that i take too many

photographs of the same thing but i do

think it's so important to have a good

comprehensive record don't you matthew

what what okay

oh yes or sue these photographs they're

fascinating i mean really

oh you're really keen i could get the

slide projector out or better still

there's the video of the brass rubbing

expedition to king's lynn in 1993 soon

that would be

super

oh oh listen oh listen to that what a

shame what a terrible shame i'm gonna

have to leave you soon i mean just when

you're enjoying yourself it's always the

same but business calls

comey only me boyfriend

hello moe

have you come to make me rich heavy oh

well you never know your luck matt

because

if you've got what i want i've got what

you want

money right momo

just have a glance around the shop is

there anything that you fancy

yes what

braces what oh i love a man in braces

braces say something about a man they

say i'll support you i'll never let you

go

something just snapped that was my

braces never mind i should be getting

used to it by now

so

more

what do you want to buy

well i'm going to our tracy dawn's

wedding next week so i'm looking for a

hat

and a wedding present well uh i can't

really help you with a hat but we do

have some oh just a minute just a minute

don't go away look at this a hat oh it's

a beauty as well oh that's wonderful oh

it's so beautiful so subtle oh so cute

saw me

i think i might have cracked it if it

fits i'll buy it i made a sale

try it on try it down oh yeah

oh yes

oh no

what happened it must have been the wind

that's what it was

yeah it's

you must get that draft fixed you know

you need an excluder perhaps we'll try

it out again

try walking

it's obvious that hat doesn't like me so

if it doesn't like me i don't like it

let's move on to the presents

yes now matthew

i think that wedding presents should be

given a lot of thought

i mean you're buying something that will

last someone the rest of their lives yes

you can't rush decisions like that no no

no no no no

i totally

agree mo how much for them vows is 25

quid i'll take them right if you'd like

to bring them across here i'll get them

wrapped up for madame

you know i'm sure our tracy donald love

these because she likes cooking

what you think smashing hey go to the

foot of our stairs and i'm gonna go

straight up our stairs because i know

who's responsible for this sweep

you're only trying to play a trick on

yes i realize that sweep and

actually i'm responsible i should have

been supervising you but anyway listen i

hardly think that tying elastic to a hat

and two vars is going to cause such any

trouble is it

what about the elastic lasso

what elastic lasso

the one in the dining room

well i never saw an elastic

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what is it

look at this well i've heard of bouncy

castles before but never bouncy teddy

bears

please

yeah all right all right sue

let's let's cut you down sushi how do

you like it eh i mean you've been

playing tricks with elastic on people

all day and it's good stuff elastic

isn't it

take the elastic off your ankles yeah

you didn't like that did you eh you

didn't like that surprised i don't

expect you'd like it if someone dangled

you by a piece of elastic from your

ankles and then bounced you up and down

hey hey hey don't have a go at me i'm

just giving sort of a taste of his own

medicine in any case i wouldn't mind

being hung by my ankles by elastic and

jumping it'd be only like making the

bungee jump wouldn't

is it okay yeah yeah he's alright he's

just getting the elastic off his ankles

hey that was a very good joke the

elastic lasso very good very good better

joke it's that big brave matthew here

says he wouldn't mind making a bungee

jump uh

what's funny about that oh hello city hi

scampi go on then what's so funny about

me making a bungee jump then well

nothing other than the fact that you

wouldn't dare

what

me not dare you must be joking of course

i would well i don't believe you well

you believe me don't you boys

you must be kidding what of course i

dare i'll tell you something else as

well if if there was one nearby a bungee

jump that is i would prove it it

wouldn't frighten me at all it's

interesting that you should say that

matthew because they've just set one up

in heaton park

come on matthew you said you could do it

you said you weren't afraid now put your

money where your mouth is and jump

why do i have to open my big mouth what

am i afraid

me

afraid of a little jump oh do me a favor

of course i'm not

have my app are we

50 meters

50 meters

what is it exactly that stops me uh you

know

hitting the ground

no not that i'm very what's this oh the

cord the cord that's what's it what's

what's it made of

elastic

elastic

[Applause]

yeah oh

i am

i can't do it no no no

not not not that i'm afraid because

because i'm not it's just that uh uh

i'm worried about you i mean how will

you get down if i'm not here

oh

he says he can get down on his own

i wonder what it means by that

[Applause]

[Music]

he's done it

that little bear has done a bungee jump

what

what

come on now

big brave matthew

city's done it

your turn now

50 meters

and the only thing that stops me from

becoming a much shorter

fatter matthew

is a piece of elastic

what

i'm not gonna do it cancelled where's

the button for getting down where's the

button he's there wow

[Applause]

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[Applause]

there's just one thing to say

and

that is

bye bye everybody bye-bye

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so

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