Sweep (puppet)

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Sweep is a British puppet and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Sweep is a grey, glove puppet dog with long black ears who joined the Sooty show in 1957. His general dim witted behaviour and penchant for bones and sausages has made him an endearing, entertaining character that children still love to this day. Probably his most unusual characteristic is his method of communication. It consists of a loud high pitched squeak that gains its inflection from normal speech and its rhythm from the syllables in each word.

Unusually for a glove puppet, we know that Sweep wore wellingtons as several of the more slapstick routines involved his getting upended, leaving his wellies flailing helplessly in the air.