Superdog and the Comedian is an episode of The Sooty Show from 1988.
Plot
Sweep awakes hearing that someone needs his help as Superdog, but unfortunately he has lost his Superdog outfit, until he finds it in the linen basket. Superdog arrives to help a woman, but crash lands in some rubbish. The woman tells Superdog she was screaming as the milkman had delivered the wrong milk.
We learn that Superdog crash landed due to an evil villain, by the name of the Comedian. The Comedian caused Superdog to crash, with the aide of his 'Brain Drainer' machine. This allows the Comedian to control his victims. The Comedian decides to demonstrate his machine on Sooty, causing him to be very naughty by throwing cornflakes everywhere. Sooty then conjures up a custard pie, which ends up in Matthew's face. The Comedian's next victim is Soo, who offers to get rid of the custard pie, but places it on Matthew's chair and he sits on it. Matthew says he has something in his eye and Soo then squirts water in his face. The Comedian decides to do the same to Matthew, but he pushes a custard pie into his own face.
The gang are very confused about what is going on and decide to enlist the help of Superdog. After Soo calls for Superdog, he crashes through the roof. Superdog then faints and tells Matthew, Sooty, and Soo that their behaviour is down to his arch-nemesis. Sooty magically transports the Comedian to their kitchen where he reveals that he now controls Superdog. He then orders Superdog to snap Sooty's magic wand and whilst the brain-draining is taking place the Comedian "treats" them to some of his best jokes. Whilst the Comedian is distracted, Sooty meddles with the brain-draining machine and has the Comedian's own brain drained and makes him do silly things on himself. Soo then arrives with Sooty's magic wand, which she has taped back together, and they send the Comedian back to his home planet of Tarby.
As Superdog is about to successfully fly away, Sweep wakes up and realises that it was all a dream. Matthew then introduces Sweep, Sooty, and Soo to his friend, comedian Derek Deadman, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Comedian from Sweep's dream and, unfortunately, has the same bad jokes.
Characters
Trivia
- The woman at the start is, obviously, Matthew dressed up.
Goofs
- In some shots of Matthew and Sooty at the table whilst talking to the Comedian, Matthew's arm can be seen going up into Sooty.
- It's very unlikely that Superdog crashed through the roof and into the kitchen, as that would mean he would have gone through, not only the roof, but the upstairs and downstairs ceilings as well.
- After Soo says Superdog's name after noticing he went through the ceiling, another split-second shot of Sooty and Matthew can be scene before going to the intended shot.
- In real life, Superdog would actually get seriously injured after crashing in the roof.
Availability
VHS/DVD
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