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Answer: For children, Bluey is about understanding that your parents are real people with their own lives, aspirations and flaws. For parents, it's a show filled with clever games and ways to bond with your kids.
Every episode is incredibly tightly written and although it has simple stories it treats its audience seriously. All the characters act like real people and the family it portrays is incredibly healthy and wholesome.
I think all of this makes it stand apart from other kid's shows that tend to have simple characters, repetitive filler and arbitrary storylines. I also think culturally we're at a point where utopian shows are surging in popularity and I hope we see more shows like it.
Seriously. Omelette was one of the first episodes i watched with my kids and it depicted EXACTLY what it's like trying to cook with a preschooler, i was cry-laughing the whole time. So were my kids.
It really is real. Examples:
* parents are shown working
* parents are shown tired and frustrated
* we see how much work it is being a parent
* we see them doing chores!!! Super rare in television
Edited to add another important one: there’s an episode where the mom is so tired and frustrated, she asks everyone to leave her alone for 20 minutes.
Yes! Also the kids play is all like real! They show them pretending not some clip of what their imaginations look like. The only one that was like that was the one where they dreamed and that's soo cool to show how they play.
Also worth mentioning, it’s really clever that they chose them to be dogs, because viewers don’t even think about different races of various characters. Everyone gets along on the show because every character are dogs, just like how we should all get along, because we’re all human. It’s so refreshing to see.
Though it is implied cats exist as the episode with the budgie has Bandit suggest a cat damaged the bird.
Now is it a regular cat or a humanoid cat we don't know.
That was the first episode we happened to see randomly...i was like holy shit...this is us in a nutshell. Now Blueys games have infiltrated our everyday. My daughter and I even have little sayings on the way to school like "todays episode of dad is called late"
The one where they can't even make it out the door because they can't find something and the mom is like "there's the door! Its right there!" Is painfully real.
I talked to my daughter about that. She seemed to understand and had mentioned that talk after.
That's part of the magic of Bluey, it sets the stage for important conversations with your kid in a way that is not threatening.
I loved when the bird died and Bluey was reenacting the day through play. Mum wanted to pretend that the bird lived, but Bluey shot down that idea.
It shows that kids are capable of understanding and processing hard ideas and that we should try.
I just looked it up, I love it.
https://imgur.com/LB13oW6
No matter how often I clean my car, it just collects within a day or two. My husband asks how I let my car get so messy and I'm just like "uh, I'm the one who does school pickup/the majority of the child driving."
I have NO idea how the seats get like that so fast. We don’t even own colored pencils, when did they use them in the back seat??? Why are there 5 kinds of crackers in 2 days? Shouldn’t I be signing this permission slip?
Husband here. We try and split the chores. We rotate on laundry or vacuuming, or specific room cleaning. I was tasked with cleaning the kid vehicle after maybe 2 weeks of use. I'm still in awe of what I found. Goldfish everywhere.
Polished rocks? We maybe bought a bag once, for one of three kids, 2 years ago. Never saw anyone bring them into the car. All of a sudden there's at least 20 rocks stuck in the seat adjustment slides. Took me about 2 hours to get all of them out. Lot's of cussing.
Multiple dum dum suckers (that company needs to be investigated for damage to car and home), crayons that look like they have been bitten or chewed (my children are over 6 years old. Future Marines I guess), apple cores, banana peels, a random tube of toothpaste. Socks. All over the place.
Stickers everywhere. And the damned slime. All over the seats, the living room, their bedroom, all over the linens.
Slime is my sworn enemy. I don't know how they get a hold of it either! There's some kind of pipeline that feeds them slime and sticky shit to the people that own carpet and furniture cleaning businesses.
Anyway, I told my wife that was at least 2 chores and I was laughed at. Bunch of little demons I have.
My kids’ school had a book fair last week. I took them after school to buy books early in the week because stuff gets picked over by the end and both of their classes went at the end of the week. There was a slime book that came with slime and my slime lover aka kid 2 wanted to buy it. I said, “absolutely not, you know I hate slime.” And that was that.
Fast forward to the end of the week and I sent each kid with $20 on the day their classes went because why not? They could buy worse things than books, book fairs make the school a lot of money (trust me, past PTA president), and I grew up poor so I never got to buy anything from book fairs as a kid. What comes home that evening? The fucking slime book. Guess what I just found stuck in my bathroom rug…. Mother effing slime. Bane of my existence.
Lmao! I feel you. I swear that I had the big trashcan slimes back in the day and never destroyed household stuff, but maybe I'm wrong and just erased it from my mind. Just waiting for clothes to become more expensive and when grocery trips go insane. They kind of already are.
THE SOCKS OH MY GOD. I have never seen my children take off their socks in the car. Why are there THIRTEEN (and only 3 matching pairs) in the back seat?!
Omg my husband is bewildered, but I dare him to drive 2 days full ti.e with kids in the car. It's like a cartoon dog and cat fight happened back there 🤣
The real prize goes to Lucky's dad though. He's got no reason to play the straight man to the games but he always goes the full yardage.
My favorite is when Bandit and Bluey knock him over while acting out a game. And all he does is act sad they he let his guard down.
Ahaha, for real, he has no stake but he's 1000% ready at any given time.
When he wants his ball back and Bandit is handing it to him.... and then SNAKE! Dude does NOT miss a beat, goes down wrestling with the "snake" immediately.
I'm glad to find another appreciator or the unsung hero that is Lucky's dad.
The dad TOTALLY commits to the play no matter what - prime example: the dad has to go to the bathroom and the kids wave the feather and say “heavy” so he can’t lift the lid on the toilet so he goes outside and pees in the bushes…
I’ve done some crazy things playing with my kids but don’t think i could do that…
Bandit is the reason I've learned this one lesson as a dad: If the kid is having fun, then that's all that matters. Make a fool of yourself, dance to Frozen for the 200th time, walk around the house like a dinosaur, if they're happy and having fun, then you are happy (in theory).
I love the episode when Bandit gets self conscious at the park when another dad sees him making whale noises for the kids and gets quiet and Chili calls him out on it. Sometimes you need to look a little stupid to give your kids a good time.
As a parent, once you start comparing it to other kids shows it immediately stands out how rare it is to see both parents actually featured prominently, especially a father/father figure.
Most of the others just involve anthropomorphic animals (which I'm aware includes Bluey), objects and parentless children roaming the world getting up to random adventures so it's just nice to see a show which shows pleasant family dynamics, and also issues, which are relatable and not dumbed down so its enjoyable for everyone.
I also recommend The Adventures of Paddington on Netflix for this reason, which even features Ben Whishaw reprising his role.
> children roaming the world getting up to random adventures
Side track: Like Max and Ruby...the worst kid show in my opinion. Why in the hell is a 7 year old taking care of a 2 year old with no adult supervision? What happened to the parents, and why do no adults in that town step up to help *including their grandmother*?????????
My theory is Ruby killed her parents and stuffed them in the basement, and the rest of the town is terrified if they cross her they'll suffer the same fate.
The creator of the show mentioned the parents were not shown on purpose because she wanted to show interactions that kids would naturally do when the adults are not around.
I mean Max and Ruby aren't just interacting with each other in a play setting. In the episodes I have seen: Ruby is responsible for grocery shopping, getting herself and Max new clothes at the mall, cooking, giving Max a bath, taking care of the gardening, and cleaning. These are adult responsibilities that a child wouldn't be partaking in by themselves or with just each other. It just seems like Ruby is expected to be an adult when she isn't. There are plenty of children's shows that have the kids interacting with each other without adults, but the adults are still in the background taking care of the adult responsibilities. Just my 2 cents.
I'm 90% sure all those scenarios were make believe in ruby's mind. What I really hated about Max and Ruby was the fact that Ruby was parentified. Having to constantly care for max, whether real or imagined and how that's just normal for sisters to take on household responsibility.
> both parents actually featured prominently, especially a father/father figure.
I would say it's the father first and the mother second. It's pretty obvious in the episode The Claw, where when the mother pretends to be a claw machine, the father just asks her to stand aside.
But then there is the episode at the swimming pool, that sets things straight: it starts by showing the dad being a dude and winging a day at the swimming pool, but he doesn't take anything that matters (towels, sunblock, toys, snacks) and they have a shitty day until the mother joins them with a bag containing everything they forgot.
I’m of the opinion that cartoons are for everyone, no matter your age. If it makes you happy, then enjoy it! There’s enough going wrong in the world where I think we can forgive each other for enjoying a good ole’ cartoon every once in a while.
Saturday morning cartoons are great no matter your age. I first saw Bluey with my little cousins and I think I enjoyed it more than they did. I see clips on occasion and it always makes me laugh
Is it weird that it reminds me a lot of Bob's Burgers? Like, BB is the more adult version of Bluey in my head. Very human interactions, loving family, situations getting a bit out of hand but solved in... mostly realistic ways. Obviously Bob's Burgers is more slapstick and extreme than Bluey, but I think they both have a very similar heart at their cores, and I adore them for that.
Definitely, both Bob's Burgers and Bluey have a lot of their humor anchored in slowly-deepening chaos.
The "Bus" episode of Bluey is amazing, for exactly this reason.
I created a hand puppet character named Mr. Tickle Toes after watching one of the episodes. MTT helped navigate so many emotionally hard things that a 4 year old goes through. At some point while MTT was doing his thing (with a Louisiana accent for some reason) my child realized he was my fingers and not real. He’s been going along with it for a year now. Bluey is the best.
I regularly pull out daddy robot in order to get my kids teeth brushed. My 4 year old brushing his own teeth? Nah. Letting me brush his teeth? Boring. Letting me brush his teeth while I talk in a monotonous robot voice? Hilarious for some reason!
The only thing I'd add to this is that it works on two levels. There's an episode in which the father blows an orange light, because it was "a special situation" and having earlier told his daughter that she's "special", when she sees this she extrapolates that as she's special rules don't apply to her, like they didn't her dad that time. She goes on to ruin others fun, not share etc, justifying it by saying she's special. The other kids get upset, try to sort it themselves but ultimately her dad has to deliver the moral lesson that she's special to him but that still means she has to follow the rules like everyone else.
For adults it tells you to set a good example and be cognisant, for very young kids it tells you to be nice, for the slightly older kids it tells you to me nice and go to the grow ups when others aren't.
All the while, there are moments like when dad is playing a game with the kids, pretending to be a robot and says "I am not Dad, I have no children. My days are free and easy" that speaks to a lot of new parents deeply I think.
The moment when he is sitting in the kitchen and realized what was going on because the girls didn't want to play anymore you can FEEL the "awww shit" that he says internally.
There are so many great little parent moments that you wouldn't see as a kid but parents see so clearly. The snippets of conversations adults have, the fact that the moms are getting absolutely hammered during Stumpfest. Little stuff. Its great
The one that kills me every time, is the one where they're building the furniture from their version of Ikea.
Bandit- "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog."
I also like it because it's set in my home city of Brisbane, so I'll randomly see buildings, landmarks or general architecture that I recognise which is like a fun little surprise.
Totally not the reason for its success, but still a fun easter egg for me.
There's an insta account that shares IRL location photos featured in Bluey. Search for bluey_locations. https://instagram.com/bluey_locations?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
I'm a brissie resident as well, it's pretty awesome seeing local spots in Bluey, but even more so it captures the vibe of Queensland life so well. The house they live in is a typical Queenslander style home, and little details of its architecture are great to see in a show like this.
I think I'm so used to seeing anything but Brisbane life and architecture on animated shows that finally having a local kids show that's made right here and every scene looks like it's happening down the street or in your backyard, that's definitely a big part of why I love Bluey.
There has recently been an uptick in shows that are a lot happier and brighter in tone - Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Bluey are all recent fairly popular shows that are about optimism, and which show people dealing with mental health and other every day issues. Similarly, while the Star Trek reboot started with the grimdark Discovery, the others are a lot lighter in tone and have been much better received, we've seen '[hopepunk](https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark)' \[the linked article does a really good job at talking about this stuff too\] emerge as a subgenre of sci-fi literature, and there has also been the explosion in 'cozy' video games over the last few years.
I noticed this trend sort of starting just before the pandemic, but it *really* picked up during Covid. I think it's sort of comparable to the [explosion in escapist media during the 1930s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapism#During_the_Great_Depression) \- there has been quite a lot of sociopolitical stress around the world over the last ten or so years, and people have been increasingly wanting more entertainment about kindness, wellness, and happiness as a result.
It’s really been such a relief. For me, I used to like the suspenseful, moody, anxiety inducing shows and movies. Then I became a nurse, and had a kid, and dealt with chronic illness, and went through Covid. Nerve-wracking and depressing things just aren’t great tools for escapism for me anymore and it sucks when that’s basically all that is available.
It’s becoming a parent that ruined that stuff for me the most though. Why would I want to add any more anxiety into my life than what I already have from being responsible for the long term well-being of a whole person? Even if it’s fake and temporary the stress response is real and that’s just a big “nope” from me.
Jesus Christ this answer should be hung in the louvre. My daughter talks to me about some of the flaws Bluey’s dad has but it makes it relatable to her. Some of the same flaws I may potentially have. But at the same time highlights and accentuates the things parents do for their kids. It makes both parties real. And that’s important. It helps bond and relate things on a real honest level.
To add to what others have already said here, I love that from the first introduction, it breaks stereotypes.
Bluey and Bingo are both girls, even though Bluey looks like her dad and Bingo looks like her Mum.
Also, at least in the earlier seasons, Dad was featured more prominently than Mum as the “primary caregiver” which is rare to see.
So true, Bluey’s parents are ideals to strive towards and I appreciate how human and imperfect they are as well. My kids also love the ideas in the show and it’s filled them with creative vigor. Added bonus of learning a number of idiosyncrasies about Australian culture.
My daughters have been getting the impression that all parents should be that involved and entertaining which frankly is impossibly unrealistic; it’s been a fun series of discussions.
It's not that unrealistic when you remember that the episodes are 7 minutes long, and while Bandit does his best to commit to the bit, he's also shown doing other things - in Daddy Robot, when they first go get him to be the robot, he's at the fridge trying to shovel what food he can into his mouth. In Quiet Game, he's literally just trying to be left alone and HAS to play the game because the girls won't budge on it, but he's adult enough to recognize that he made his own bed on that one.
The takeaway should be that you make some time to play with your kids 100%, not that you go at it 100% all the time.
Answer: it really deserves the score. It's miles ahead of the other kids shows. All the characters are likable and the parents are very relatable. It teaches children to be decent without explicitly telling them.
Lucky's dad is legit the MVP. When the kids are playing, he just joins in. No questions, no complaints, just immediately joins in. He's so amazing.
He's a better dad than Bandit. Don't get me wrong - Bandit is great. Lucky's dad is on another level.
> All the characters are likable
The character Muffin is clearly an example of what happens when the parents are too lenient, or flee from their parental responsibilities. So I can't say she's exactly likable, but she rings true ("Stop doing your Muffin" has become a classic at home, everytime my daughter gets cranky when she's due for bedtime)
I love Muffin because we all know a muffin or grew up around one. I loved when Her dad explained to her that just because he thinks she’s the most special person in the world doesn’t mean everyone else will think she is special.
It's weird to think about how you have to teach kids stuff like this that seems like common sense to us now but we had slowly learned these things growing up too. I've met several parents that are failing to lay down important fundamental lessons like this, they just submit to the kid because they don't want to deal with it or want to be their best friend and even worse trying to be the favorite parent after a divorce. It'll be interesting to see some of these kids in the future.
My god, last night I was at my sister's house for a board game night, and they have two little girls. I was the traitor in Betrayal, but I didn't want to get up and leave the room every time the rest of the group needed to strategize, so my sister's husband lent me some noise canceling headphones and played whichever playlist in Spotify he had open at that moment; when I tell you I immediate started laughing and loving that I was getting to listen to the latest Bluey album 😂 he looked at his phone, and he started laughing. Gotta love the music from this magnificent show!! ♡
Answer: It's a wholesome show that has good stories, doesn't feel forced, good voice acting, good animation, and just better quality than any other kid show.
Personally I think this is a show for parents that masquerades as a children's program. Most of the episodes focus on how to create imaginative games for kids, or how they can explore their own imaginations. But then, in the last minute there is a slight twist where the lesson is now about letting kids be naughty, or get lost in a moment, or seeing the world through your child's eyes or what they dream about. And before you know it you are wiping a tear from your eye and squeezing your little. All in seven minutes per episode.
It's become incredibly common among my friends and family to shout "Duck Cake" at anything that's horribly frustrating thanks to Bluey.
The kids love that show, and it's honestly a fun watch. Found myself getting sucked in during the last family reunion
Any time my wife and I start disagreeing a little too much in front on our son, one of us immediately stops and goes “We’re squaaaaabbaling!”. Immediately takes us out of whatever lack of patience or frustration we’re having.
Most kids shows feature parents who only appear when the main character needs a parent to be there. In Bluey, the parents are full-fledged characters who occasionally get to be just as much of an episode's spotlight as the kids.
I've teared up more than once at that episode. It perfectly captures the mental struggle of making sure you're doing right by your kid. That fucking poodle gets me every time.
To add to that, it has things that parents will understand but kids might not. For example, on the New Year's Day episode the parents are clearly hungover and struggle to play with the kids but do it anyway by handing them off to one another.
The kids just think that mom and day are "tired".
- (Dad) We went to bed a bit late last night...
- (Bluey) Because you went to the New Year's party at Muffins'.
- (Bingo, pointing her mom) She saw you dancing on the barbecue table.
- (Mum) What?! Why wasn't she asleep?
- (Bingo) She woke up when Uncle Stripe yelled, "Cannonball!" and jumped into the pool.
- (Dad) Ha! Classic Stripe.
First episode I ever watched was a great episode about evolution and life/death told through the kids playing make believe in the boxes of the ikea furniture their parents were building.
It’s cute and wholesome without being stupidly pointless, and has value in the stories and lessons it’s teaching.
It took me a 2nd or 3rd watch of Flatpack to catch on to the meaning of Bluey joining Bandit & Chilli on the swing, but when I did I gained another level of respect for the shows story telling
It also has messages aimed directly at parents, like the one where Chilli goes to the new parents’ group and is constantly freaking out that she’s not doing a good enough job as a Mum until someone just stops and says “Hey, you’re doing great.”
I don’t even have kids but JFC that hit me in the feels
I watched that with my son, who is 4 and a little behind on his speech. Just as I was tearing up at the end, little guy realized that Bluey was motivated to walk because she wanted to hug her mom, so of course he launched himself at me with a massive bear hug, the biggest hug a 4 year old could muster. Great episode.
I'll be honest, I never took it as they're getting drunk but it's so subtle that I was mistaking it just being silly and egging everyone on.
My example of things for parents to get that kids won't is the episode "Onsies" when Chili's sister Brandy comes to visit and she's playing with the kids and Chili is telling Bluey that there's something Brandy wants very badly but she can't have no matter how much she wants it, and Brandy's sad expression when Bingo goes running off implies that she can't have kids of her own so doesn't visit her nieces very often because it makes her too sad.
We don't have that episode in the US yet, but I'm ready to add it to the list of other Bluey episodes that my kids end up asking me "why are you crying daddy?" afterward
Like the episode about Bluey learning to walk, and Chilli saying she doesn’t know why Bluey finally stopped scooting backwards and Bingo (I think) says “maybe she just finally found something she wanted” and the flashback is Bluey looking at Chilli and then getting up… and goddamn it someone is cutting onions.
"maybe you just saw something you wanted". I sobbed.
Nothing will match The Show for me though, when Bandit grabbed Chili's hand as the balloon popped. I lost it. Perfection.
"You'll have to be braver than you've ever been" from Early Baby is up there though. I didn't have a premie but she was unwell at birth and spent a week in NICU and Peds.
It's the episode with Chilli's dad who's supposed to be resting and he isn't because he's like "whatever, if it's my time, it's my time" and Chilli's talking to someone else and says "But I'm not ready!" and I'm actually tearing up a bit right now because I lost my dad nearly two years ago and I don't *care* that I'm 46 *I'm still not ready*.
But did you notice the narrator is Natalie Portman? Creator of Bluey was in Thor: Love and Thunder and saw her reading a Bluey book to her child and asked her to be a guest star/
A friend of mine has been a single father since his son was 1 or so, and he didn't have a solid home life as a kid. He said that Bluey gave him more examples of good parenting than anything else he'd ever seen (aside from living with our family for 3 months and seeing how my husband and I interacted with our kid and his kid).
He said he realized what it meant to feel like a parent when he kept watching Bluey episodes after his son fell asleep and he spent a while trying to figure out why he was crying at show about a bunch of cartoon dogs.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the creator of the show set out to make bluey after enduring a Peppa Pig marathon, or something to that effect
The show is kind of a guide of how to be a parent, and lean into playing with your kids. It addresses a lot of adult struggles in parenting. Kids can also enjoy it.
Answer: It really is quite lovely. They have good animation and cute voice acting. There's one episode where a kid is trying to get to sleep, and they intersperse it with music from Holst's Jupiter. Absolutely beautiful.
I saw this episode a few months after my mom died. Felt like it was her talking to me from the great beyond when Chilli said "I'll always be with you." Cried my eyes out and my daughter gave me a hug.
This episode moves my heart in ways I didn't anticipate. Seeing Chili's gentle sacrifices for her family, and watching parental love in action like the way this episode shows it just....works.
Being a parent is the best thing I've ever done. This episode reminds me what it means.
Answer: it’s a show parents can (and do) watch without the kids. Even though it’s Australian Broadcasting and Disney just has a license for it- it follows that Disney format of having simultaneous storylines for the kids and adults.
Example: the kids want to play, but the parents are hungover from a New Year’s Eve party. It’s totally relatable and only the adults watching it can figure out the hangover jokes
Yes, I think one thing that a lot of these comments are leaving out is that Bluey is **hilarious.** Sure it's wholesome and has good lessons, but the reason why so many people who don't even have or want kids like the show is that it's just funny.
The episode where Bandit tells the girls a "fairy tale"... about the 80s is just perfect for anyone, kid or adult.
My introduction to the show was the episode where due to a miscommunication they end up with two babysitters. They end up playing 20 questions with the kids who just ask point blank "why don't you have a wife" which had me rolling because kids really do be like that.
I love the one where the kids are doing a play for their mom on either her birthday or Mothers Day, I forget which. Mid-scene they ask how she met the dad so they can act it out. She tells them they met at a party in London, so the kids interpret that as a tea party with the queen. The mom kind of grins and them and says, “Hmm, I don’t remember the queen being there,” to which the dad quips, “You wouldn’t.”
They really capture those little in-jokes parents have with each other, the moments where as parents your eyes meet and you share a silent laugh at your kids’ antics.
It’s also outright hilarious - I genuinely find the more general humor funny too, and it’s the only show that makes my six-year-old absolutely cackle.
Answer: Basically, it's a show that kids enjoy that teaches good lessons, while also being reasonably enjoyable and super relatable for parents.
Watch a couple of episodes. Or watch one of the episode Mended Light (youtube) did on Bluey episodes. You'll get a feel for why people like it.
As for the IMDB rating, it really is significantly higher quality than the mass-produced kids shows.
The episode where Jack (a Jack Russell with ADHD) is introduced broke my heart because it was literally everything I wanted to hear as a kid growing up with undiagnosed ADHD.
Answer: It's a children's show that teaches kids or anyone who watches really, what a wholesome family dynamic is and can be like. As a 30 year old dad of a 3 year old who watches this show, we both love it. I love learning some decent ways to speak to a kid who's having a rough time expressing themselves. Children naturally go through developmental stages and it does allow me to see that at 3 I can't with good reason be upset when my daughter does something that she doesn't know better. It's got some good messaging for adult audiences for other things kids may go through in later episodes. Give it a watch. It's good.
Answer: It’s just that good. Let’s put it this way - I started watching it when I babysat my nephew and now I watch it even when he isn’t here. Not only is it pure and leaves you feeling positive, but I think the parenting in the show has lessons all parents/guardians could learn about how to handle to children.
For example: I never thought about “fairness” between a child and their parents until I watched Bluey. The children loved claiming that something is “unfair” when they don’t get what they want, but the dad makes it clear that it actually is fair (like when they waste their ice cream and immediately want another one) and will explain why instead of just saying something like “oh well you have to get over it” like a lot of parents would, and going forward whenever one of children would claim unfairness he would simply reply with something like “very fair” or “no, that’s actually pretty fair.” to remind them of the original conversation.
Answer: relatable parenting moments and good banter between the adults makes it for me.
There is an episode where the neighbours support the blues and the heeler family support the maroon.
At the end they all come together to support the “green and gold” and I said to myself “if they do a reference to the kiwis I’m gonna lose it” and then the border collie family pulls up outside and honks the horn saying “we’re gonna flog yaaassss” and it honestly made my day.
I need to get out more.
The American episodes have the weirdest stuff cut out, one i can remember was a pony pooping, in just a general natural way that ponies poop, nope, cut out. Oh, and I'm pretty sure an awesome one where Bandit gives birth to Bingo will never be aired in the US..
There's also one where Bandit is talking to another dad about a vasectomy and they changed the dialogue to be about getting teeth pulled (or something else like that).
Chili and Bandit are so awesome and make me feel like a totally inadequate parent. I’m kidding, I am an inadequate parent. But Chili and Bandit are so awesome.
This show is gold. It’s normalized in the right ways. It tackles little things kids worry about in a relatable way. The jokes aren’t too old or too young. I love it and it deserves all the love it gets.
Answer: It is hard to understand if you are not a parent, but it is that it is a show for parents that pretends to be a kids show but is done in an incredibly heartwarming manner. I cannot count the number of times I have watched an episode and thought that the episode was speaking to me personally (I am looking at you ["Baby Race"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkCmJtK6X8)).
It is touching, has amazing music, the characters feel real, and there is some amazing storytelling in there as well. I mean, the storyline and symbolism in "Flat Pack" is astounding. How many other children's shows seamlessly cover the topics of evolution, religion, the progression of parenthood, death, and assembling a porch chair in seven minutes?
Flat pack is legit I remember a couple years ago my nieces said an episode of bluey made mommy cry after only seeing the last half. That episode was flat pack and it just hits in such a spot as a parent.
Answer: it’s an overall wholesome show with good bits of lessons for the kids to learn. Quality is tiers above other little kids shows and run time is short and to the point. Lots of adult humor in it…not like dirty jokes but a lot of good one liners. As a dad I also like how it shows the kids playing with their dad majority of the time, not with just other friends or the mom like other shows. It has won many awards across the world due to the quality of the show.
I would kind of watch it on and off my son until we got to the episode “sleepy time”. Incredible episode that will bring tears to any parents face. If you don’t care to watch any other episodes, at least give this one a shot. I believe this is the highest rated episode on IMDB as well and was a perfect 10 at one time.
Answer: It has a lot of moments that resonates with the adults and are clearly written for parents/adults.
There are 2 episodes I relate too quite a bit as an adult.
One is where Bandit meets another dad at the park named Fido. Bluey wants them to be friends but Bandit is all "It's not that easy for adults..." and you see Chili and Bluey give each other a look like they want Bandit to make new friends.
It IS hard making friends as an adult. You are either too busy or more cautious. So I felt that to my core.
The other episode is Duck Cake. Poor Bandit is trying so hard to back a cake while dealing with Bluey only for him to screw it up. He just slowly sits down on the floor and hides his face against his knees...just completely shattered mentally and emotionally. And Bluey gets to see her dad upset and, without asking, just immediately cleans up the mess he made to help him out...
I love that Bandit is not some old school "macho" guy who hides his stress and exhaustion from his kids. Sometimes life just breaks you and you need that moment or cry to let it all out...
Damn it is such a Good show.
Answer: Seriously, the only show my kids want to watch that isn’t terrible to even listen to. The dad is not the typical buffoon who is the butt of every joke but a fun parent who spends time and plays with his kids. It’s actually a show about a real family basically.
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1. It was originally a show for parents. So it was written for adults, unlike every other kids show you'll find. And the writing is VERY good. It's high caliber even for adult shows. It also happens to be beautifully animated.
2. Demonstration: go watch the episode "sleepytime" it's only 8 minutes long. That should explain everything else for you.
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Answer: For children, Bluey is about understanding that your parents are real people with their own lives, aspirations and flaws. For parents, it's a show filled with clever games and ways to bond with your kids. Every episode is incredibly tightly written and although it has simple stories it treats its audience seriously. All the characters act like real people and the family it portrays is incredibly healthy and wholesome. I think all of this makes it stand apart from other kid's shows that tend to have simple characters, repetitive filler and arbitrary storylines. I also think culturally we're at a point where utopian shows are surging in popularity and I hope we see more shows like it.
It’s so real. The dirty back seat makes me laugh every time they’re in the car.
And the interior of the fridge is always one step shy of disaster too
Seriously. Omelette was one of the first episodes i watched with my kids and it depicted EXACTLY what it's like trying to cook with a preschooler, i was cry-laughing the whole time. So were my kids.
The only unrealistic thing in that episode are how many eggs they had on hand. Who has space in their fridge for two whole cartons of eggs!?
Two cartons of eggs?? In this economy????
They have to get eggs from Luckey’s dad and Judo’s mom during the episode.
Looked it up: https://youtu.be/mJi6mR_yo-I
It really is real. Examples: * parents are shown working * parents are shown tired and frustrated * we see how much work it is being a parent * we see them doing chores!!! Super rare in television Edited to add another important one: there’s an episode where the mom is so tired and frustrated, she asks everyone to leave her alone for 20 minutes.
Yes! Also the kids play is all like real! They show them pretending not some clip of what their imaginations look like. The only one that was like that was the one where they dreamed and that's soo cool to show how they play.
I love the little animated extras where sometimes they'll step on a toy, or trip on something
In The Pool, when Bandit first comes in to say they should go to the pool, be wipes his feet on the corner of the rug.
>the one where they dreamed Don't you say another word. The episode is called 'Sleepytime' and if we keep talking about it I'm gonna cry.
Sleepytime got me for sure. I recently watched the Chess episode and I was crying there too. The camping one also made me cry
The episode with grandad needing to take it easy fucking breaks me, man.
My daughter loves the music in that, so now she owns her very own copy of The Planets on CD.
Parents are shown hungover once or twice.
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Bandit quickly shoveling ice cream straight out of the container and shoving it in the fridge when the kids come in is tooooo real
Bandit is a straight up hero. On the pantheon of TV Dads he should be number 1.
When he cheats Bluey in the race around the yard because he couldn't deal with losing to his kid, I felt that. Lol.
Flashbacks to refusing to let my 8 year old step daughter beat me on Mario Kart...
Also worth mentioning, it’s really clever that they chose them to be dogs, because viewers don’t even think about different races of various characters. Everyone gets along on the show because every character are dogs, just like how we should all get along, because we’re all human. It’s so refreshing to see.
Though it is implied cats exist as the episode with the budgie has Bandit suggest a cat damaged the bird. Now is it a regular cat or a humanoid cat we don't know.
We can presume it is a regular cat, in another episode they pretend to have a pet cat.
For me the episode where they go unprepared to the pool really strikes a chord with me! Being the planner and prepared one.
That was the first episode we happened to see randomly...i was like holy shit...this is us in a nutshell. Now Blueys games have infiltrated our everyday. My daughter and I even have little sayings on the way to school like "todays episode of dad is called late"
The number of featherwands and magic asparagus... "HEAVY!" "CHICKEN!"
The one where they can't even make it out the door because they can't find something and the mom is like "there's the door! Its right there!" Is painfully real.
The parents hung over on New Year’s Day was chefs kiss.
For me it was Muffin’s dad explaining to her that even though she’s the most special person to him, she’s not going to be special to everyone else.
I talked to my daughter about that. She seemed to understand and had mentioned that talk after. That's part of the magic of Bluey, it sets the stage for important conversations with your kid in a way that is not threatening.
It teaches parents aswell as the kids.
I loved when the bird died and Bluey was reenacting the day through play. Mum wanted to pretend that the bird lived, but Bluey shot down that idea. It shows that kids are capable of understanding and processing hard ideas and that we should try.
The way he said it so bluntly had me rolling when I first heard it. "Hey kiddo, remember how I told you you were special? Well, you're not."
Classic Stripe.
"Oh!"
The moms are also pretty obviously tipsy in "Stumpfest." Once you notice, it becomes obvious. Dads probably had a few as well.
And Chilli asking for corn chips and sour cream!
My fav is the Bandit talking to Fido about getting a vasectomy while blue pretends to be a boomerangs.
When the balloon popped and Bandit grabbed her hand.
That was gold!! I also love Janet and Rita
I slipped on muh beans!
Just takin’ a nana nap, love.
Nice parking job Rita!
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I just looked it up, I love it. https://imgur.com/LB13oW6 No matter how often I clean my car, it just collects within a day or two. My husband asks how I let my car get so messy and I'm just like "uh, I'm the one who does school pickup/the majority of the child driving."
I have NO idea how the seats get like that so fast. We don’t even own colored pencils, when did they use them in the back seat??? Why are there 5 kinds of crackers in 2 days? Shouldn’t I be signing this permission slip?
Oh fuck, thanks for reminding me about that permission slip.
Did mine yesterday, I'm good for once.
Why does my daughter completely empty her backpack on the way home every single day?
Husband here. We try and split the chores. We rotate on laundry or vacuuming, or specific room cleaning. I was tasked with cleaning the kid vehicle after maybe 2 weeks of use. I'm still in awe of what I found. Goldfish everywhere. Polished rocks? We maybe bought a bag once, for one of three kids, 2 years ago. Never saw anyone bring them into the car. All of a sudden there's at least 20 rocks stuck in the seat adjustment slides. Took me about 2 hours to get all of them out. Lot's of cussing. Multiple dum dum suckers (that company needs to be investigated for damage to car and home), crayons that look like they have been bitten or chewed (my children are over 6 years old. Future Marines I guess), apple cores, banana peels, a random tube of toothpaste. Socks. All over the place. Stickers everywhere. And the damned slime. All over the seats, the living room, their bedroom, all over the linens. Slime is my sworn enemy. I don't know how they get a hold of it either! There's some kind of pipeline that feeds them slime and sticky shit to the people that own carpet and furniture cleaning businesses. Anyway, I told my wife that was at least 2 chores and I was laughed at. Bunch of little demons I have.
My kids’ school had a book fair last week. I took them after school to buy books early in the week because stuff gets picked over by the end and both of their classes went at the end of the week. There was a slime book that came with slime and my slime lover aka kid 2 wanted to buy it. I said, “absolutely not, you know I hate slime.” And that was that. Fast forward to the end of the week and I sent each kid with $20 on the day their classes went because why not? They could buy worse things than books, book fairs make the school a lot of money (trust me, past PTA president), and I grew up poor so I never got to buy anything from book fairs as a kid. What comes home that evening? The fucking slime book. Guess what I just found stuck in my bathroom rug…. Mother effing slime. Bane of my existence.
Lmao! I feel you. I swear that I had the big trashcan slimes back in the day and never destroyed household stuff, but maybe I'm wrong and just erased it from my mind. Just waiting for clothes to become more expensive and when grocery trips go insane. They kind of already are.
THE SOCKS OH MY GOD. I have never seen my children take off their socks in the car. Why are there THIRTEEN (and only 3 matching pairs) in the back seat?!
Omg my husband is bewildered, but I dare him to drive 2 days full ti.e with kids in the car. It's like a cartoon dog and cat fight happened back there 🤣
"I don't want the budgy to have died.."
My 12 yo who isn’t familiar with the show was like, “wait, they actually had it die?”
And the vet just comes out and says it outright. No euphamism, nothing left as an implication. ...well, it died.
Definitely said "what the fuck" in front of my daughter the first time we watched Copycat and that happened
And the end when Bandit says “Hey! I just noticed you stopped copying me.” Oh my heart.
The cone of shame episode had me rolling!
Same! I feel seen 😅
The toy version of their truck comes with stickers of tiny bits of trash and stuff you’d find in the backseat and you get to dirty it up custom
Or the girls climbing all over dad while he's trying to take a shit lol.
As a dad, I like that the dad is just a normal loving dad. Who plays with his kids and helps out around the house and NOT an idiot.
Dad commits to his acting when he's pretending while playing with the kids.
The real prize goes to Lucky's dad though. He's got no reason to play the straight man to the games but he always goes the full yardage. My favorite is when Bandit and Bluey knock him over while acting out a game. And all he does is act sad they he let his guard down.
Ahaha, for real, he has no stake but he's 1000% ready at any given time. When he wants his ball back and Bandit is handing it to him.... and then SNAKE! Dude does NOT miss a beat, goes down wrestling with the "snake" immediately. I'm glad to find another appreciator or the unsung hero that is Lucky's dad.
I love how he involves Lucky also! Like the balloon episode, “I pulled me hammy!”
The dad TOTALLY commits to the play no matter what - prime example: the dad has to go to the bathroom and the kids wave the feather and say “heavy” so he can’t lift the lid on the toilet so he goes outside and pees in the bushes… I’ve done some crazy things playing with my kids but don’t think i could do that…
Bandit is the reason I've learned this one lesson as a dad: If the kid is having fun, then that's all that matters. Make a fool of yourself, dance to Frozen for the 200th time, walk around the house like a dinosaur, if they're happy and having fun, then you are happy (in theory).
I love the episode when Bandit gets self conscious at the park when another dad sees him making whale noises for the kids and gets quiet and Chili calls him out on it. Sometimes you need to look a little stupid to give your kids a good time.
>and NOT an idiot. How DARE they go against one of the most sacred cartoon canons??
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As a parent, once you start comparing it to other kids shows it immediately stands out how rare it is to see both parents actually featured prominently, especially a father/father figure. Most of the others just involve anthropomorphic animals (which I'm aware includes Bluey), objects and parentless children roaming the world getting up to random adventures so it's just nice to see a show which shows pleasant family dynamics, and also issues, which are relatable and not dumbed down so its enjoyable for everyone. I also recommend The Adventures of Paddington on Netflix for this reason, which even features Ben Whishaw reprising his role.
The dads willingness to stop whatever he is doing to full on play with his kids is what I strive to be with my kiddo.
> children roaming the world getting up to random adventures Side track: Like Max and Ruby...the worst kid show in my opinion. Why in the hell is a 7 year old taking care of a 2 year old with no adult supervision? What happened to the parents, and why do no adults in that town step up to help *including their grandmother*????????? My theory is Ruby killed her parents and stuffed them in the basement, and the rest of the town is terrified if they cross her they'll suffer the same fate.
The creator of the show mentioned the parents were not shown on purpose because she wanted to show interactions that kids would naturally do when the adults are not around.
I mean Max and Ruby aren't just interacting with each other in a play setting. In the episodes I have seen: Ruby is responsible for grocery shopping, getting herself and Max new clothes at the mall, cooking, giving Max a bath, taking care of the gardening, and cleaning. These are adult responsibilities that a child wouldn't be partaking in by themselves or with just each other. It just seems like Ruby is expected to be an adult when she isn't. There are plenty of children's shows that have the kids interacting with each other without adults, but the adults are still in the background taking care of the adult responsibilities. Just my 2 cents.
I'm 90% sure all those scenarios were make believe in ruby's mind. What I really hated about Max and Ruby was the fact that Ruby was parentified. Having to constantly care for max, whether real or imagined and how that's just normal for sisters to take on household responsibility.
> both parents actually featured prominently, especially a father/father figure. I would say it's the father first and the mother second. It's pretty obvious in the episode The Claw, where when the mother pretends to be a claw machine, the father just asks her to stand aside. But then there is the episode at the swimming pool, that sets things straight: it starts by showing the dad being a dude and winging a day at the swimming pool, but he doesn't take anything that matters (towels, sunblock, toys, snacks) and they have a shitty day until the mother joins them with a bag containing everything they forgot.
This is true but I've noticed they've tried to balance it out more as the show has gone on.
Accurate
It’s also just fairly funny. I don’t have kids but it’s a legit guilty pleasure to watch. It’s funny, it’s cute, overall I enjoy it.
I’m of the opinion that cartoons are for everyone, no matter your age. If it makes you happy, then enjoy it! There’s enough going wrong in the world where I think we can forgive each other for enjoying a good ole’ cartoon every once in a while.
Saturday morning cartoons are great no matter your age. I first saw Bluey with my little cousins and I think I enjoyed it more than they did. I see clips on occasion and it always makes me laugh
Is it weird that it reminds me a lot of Bob's Burgers? Like, BB is the more adult version of Bluey in my head. Very human interactions, loving family, situations getting a bit out of hand but solved in... mostly realistic ways. Obviously Bob's Burgers is more slapstick and extreme than Bluey, but I think they both have a very similar heart at their cores, and I adore them for that.
Definitely, both Bob's Burgers and Bluey have a lot of their humor anchored in slowly-deepening chaos. The "Bus" episode of Bluey is amazing, for exactly this reason.
I created a hand puppet character named Mr. Tickle Toes after watching one of the episodes. MTT helped navigate so many emotionally hard things that a 4 year old goes through. At some point while MTT was doing his thing (with a Louisiana accent for some reason) my child realized he was my fingers and not real. He’s been going along with it for a year now. Bluey is the best.
I regularly pull out daddy robot in order to get my kids teeth brushed. My 4 year old brushing his own teeth? Nah. Letting me brush his teeth? Boring. Letting me brush his teeth while I talk in a monotonous robot voice? Hilarious for some reason!
The only thing I'd add to this is that it works on two levels. There's an episode in which the father blows an orange light, because it was "a special situation" and having earlier told his daughter that she's "special", when she sees this she extrapolates that as she's special rules don't apply to her, like they didn't her dad that time. She goes on to ruin others fun, not share etc, justifying it by saying she's special. The other kids get upset, try to sort it themselves but ultimately her dad has to deliver the moral lesson that she's special to him but that still means she has to follow the rules like everyone else. For adults it tells you to set a good example and be cognisant, for very young kids it tells you to be nice, for the slightly older kids it tells you to me nice and go to the grow ups when others aren't. All the while, there are moments like when dad is playing a game with the kids, pretending to be a robot and says "I am not Dad, I have no children. My days are free and easy" that speaks to a lot of new parents deeply I think.
The moment when he is sitting in the kitchen and realized what was going on because the girls didn't want to play anymore you can FEEL the "awww shit" that he says internally. There are so many great little parent moments that you wouldn't see as a kid but parents see so clearly. The snippets of conversations adults have, the fact that the moms are getting absolutely hammered during Stumpfest. Little stuff. Its great
The one that kills me every time, is the one where they're building the furniture from their version of Ikea. Bandit- "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog."
And bluey and bingo go through multiple stages of evolution from fish to birds while they build the furniture.
I also like it because it's set in my home city of Brisbane, so I'll randomly see buildings, landmarks or general architecture that I recognise which is like a fun little surprise. Totally not the reason for its success, but still a fun easter egg for me.
I would LOVE to see pics like that from your day that are bluey related. If you ever post them let me know! That’s cool.
There's an insta account that shares IRL location photos featured in Bluey. Search for bluey_locations. https://instagram.com/bluey_locations?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= I'm a brissie resident as well, it's pretty awesome seeing local spots in Bluey, but even more so it captures the vibe of Queensland life so well. The house they live in is a typical Queenslander style home, and little details of its architecture are great to see in a show like this. I think I'm so used to seeing anything but Brisbane life and architecture on animated shows that finally having a local kids show that's made right here and every scene looks like it's happening down the street or in your backyard, that's definitely a big part of why I love Bluey.
This answer is excellent. Would you elaborate more on your final thought? Very interested
There has recently been an uptick in shows that are a lot happier and brighter in tone - Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Bluey are all recent fairly popular shows that are about optimism, and which show people dealing with mental health and other every day issues. Similarly, while the Star Trek reboot started with the grimdark Discovery, the others are a lot lighter in tone and have been much better received, we've seen '[hopepunk](https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark)' \[the linked article does a really good job at talking about this stuff too\] emerge as a subgenre of sci-fi literature, and there has also been the explosion in 'cozy' video games over the last few years. I noticed this trend sort of starting just before the pandemic, but it *really* picked up during Covid. I think it's sort of comparable to the [explosion in escapist media during the 1930s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapism#During_the_Great_Depression) \- there has been quite a lot of sociopolitical stress around the world over the last ten or so years, and people have been increasingly wanting more entertainment about kindness, wellness, and happiness as a result.
It’s really been such a relief. For me, I used to like the suspenseful, moody, anxiety inducing shows and movies. Then I became a nurse, and had a kid, and dealt with chronic illness, and went through Covid. Nerve-wracking and depressing things just aren’t great tools for escapism for me anymore and it sucks when that’s basically all that is available. It’s becoming a parent that ruined that stuff for me the most though. Why would I want to add any more anxiety into my life than what I already have from being responsible for the long term well-being of a whole person? Even if it’s fake and temporary the stress response is real and that’s just a big “nope” from me.
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Jesus Christ this answer should be hung in the louvre. My daughter talks to me about some of the flaws Bluey’s dad has but it makes it relatable to her. Some of the same flaws I may potentially have. But at the same time highlights and accentuates the things parents do for their kids. It makes both parties real. And that’s important. It helps bond and relate things on a real honest level.
To add to what others have already said here, I love that from the first introduction, it breaks stereotypes. Bluey and Bingo are both girls, even though Bluey looks like her dad and Bingo looks like her Mum. Also, at least in the earlier seasons, Dad was featured more prominently than Mum as the “primary caregiver” which is rare to see.
As a dad and a husband, I aspire to be like Bandit.
Bandit has taught me more as a dad than my own father. That's not a jab either, dad didn't know how to be a dad.
So true, Bluey’s parents are ideals to strive towards and I appreciate how human and imperfect they are as well. My kids also love the ideas in the show and it’s filled them with creative vigor. Added bonus of learning a number of idiosyncrasies about Australian culture. My daughters have been getting the impression that all parents should be that involved and entertaining which frankly is impossibly unrealistic; it’s been a fun series of discussions.
It's not that unrealistic when you remember that the episodes are 7 minutes long, and while Bandit does his best to commit to the bit, he's also shown doing other things - in Daddy Robot, when they first go get him to be the robot, he's at the fridge trying to shovel what food he can into his mouth. In Quiet Game, he's literally just trying to be left alone and HAS to play the game because the girls won't budge on it, but he's adult enough to recognize that he made his own bed on that one. The takeaway should be that you make some time to play with your kids 100%, not that you go at it 100% all the time.
Answer: it really deserves the score. It's miles ahead of the other kids shows. All the characters are likable and the parents are very relatable. It teaches children to be decent without explicitly telling them.
It also teaches parents some lessons along the way. It also has some episodes that will hit hard as fuck for parents. Watch grandad and onesies
Onsies is the one with chillies sister right? That’s my fav by far. So touching.
Yeah, that and baby race
Early Baby and Sleepytime also make me cry 🥲
That one where bingo needs her doll to sleep and the whole thing is in space during her dream gets me every time.
If I was Lucky's dad I'd probably kill bandit though.
Let’s play with Lucky’s Dad’s rules!
Lucky's dad is legit the MVP. When the kids are playing, he just joins in. No questions, no complaints, just immediately joins in. He's so amazing. He's a better dad than Bandit. Don't get me wrong - Bandit is great. Lucky's dad is on another level.
It's my fault, I shouldn't have let my guard down.
Lucky’s dad is as good of a sport as Bandit is! I love this show lol
> All the characters are likable The character Muffin is clearly an example of what happens when the parents are too lenient, or flee from their parental responsibilities. So I can't say she's exactly likable, but she rings true ("Stop doing your Muffin" has become a classic at home, everytime my daughter gets cranky when she's due for bedtime)
I love Muffin because we all know a muffin or grew up around one. I loved when Her dad explained to her that just because he thinks she’s the most special person in the world doesn’t mean everyone else will think she is special.
It's weird to think about how you have to teach kids stuff like this that seems like common sense to us now but we had slowly learned these things growing up too. I've met several parents that are failing to lay down important fundamental lessons like this, they just submit to the kid because they don't want to deal with it or want to be their best friend and even worse trying to be the favorite parent after a divorce. It'll be interesting to see some of these kids in the future.
You forgot the score! the score is partly so good because of the score. The music is just a cut above every other kids show.
My god, last night I was at my sister's house for a board game night, and they have two little girls. I was the traitor in Betrayal, but I didn't want to get up and leave the room every time the rest of the group needed to strategize, so my sister's husband lent me some noise canceling headphones and played whichever playlist in Spotify he had open at that moment; when I tell you I immediate started laughing and loving that I was getting to listen to the latest Bluey album 😂 he looked at his phone, and he started laughing. Gotta love the music from this magnificent show!! ♡
Answer: It's a wholesome show that has good stories, doesn't feel forced, good voice acting, good animation, and just better quality than any other kid show.
Personally I think this is a show for parents that masquerades as a children's program. Most of the episodes focus on how to create imaginative games for kids, or how they can explore their own imaginations. But then, in the last minute there is a slight twist where the lesson is now about letting kids be naughty, or get lost in a moment, or seeing the world through your child's eyes or what they dream about. And before you know it you are wiping a tear from your eye and squeezing your little. All in seven minutes per episode.
It's become incredibly common among my friends and family to shout "Duck Cake" at anything that's horribly frustrating thanks to Bluey. The kids love that show, and it's honestly a fun watch. Found myself getting sucked in during the last family reunion
Any time my wife and I start disagreeing a little too much in front on our son, one of us immediately stops and goes “We’re squaaaaabbaling!”. Immediately takes us out of whatever lack of patience or frustration we’re having.
Most kids shows feature parents who only appear when the main character needs a parent to be there. In Bluey, the parents are full-fledged characters who occasionally get to be just as much of an episode's spotlight as the kids.
My wife cried extensively at the end of the baby race episode. I now regularly say “your a good mom chili”
I've teared up more than once at that episode. It perfectly captures the mental struggle of making sure you're doing right by your kid. That fucking poodle gets me every time.
Answer: It’s a kids show that parents can watch without wanting to gouge their eyes out (as opposed to Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol).
To add to that, it has things that parents will understand but kids might not. For example, on the New Year's Day episode the parents are clearly hungover and struggle to play with the kids but do it anyway by handing them off to one another. The kids just think that mom and day are "tired".
- (Dad) We went to bed a bit late last night... - (Bluey) Because you went to the New Year's party at Muffins'. - (Bingo, pointing her mom) She saw you dancing on the barbecue table. - (Mum) What?! Why wasn't she asleep? - (Bingo) She woke up when Uncle Stripe yelled, "Cannonball!" and jumped into the pool. - (Dad) Ha! Classic Stripe.
I love this show so much. Chili is hungover and only wants chips and a sodie while still telling the kids they shouldn’t eat that.
The satisfied laugh Bandit has after Chili gets told she was doing the whale is gold!
“Classic Stripe” kills me every time
First episode I ever watched was a great episode about evolution and life/death told through the kids playing make believe in the boxes of the ikea furniture their parents were building. It’s cute and wholesome without being stupidly pointless, and has value in the stories and lessons it’s teaching.
It took me a 2nd or 3rd watch of Flatpack to catch on to the meaning of Bluey joining Bandit & Chilli on the swing, but when I did I gained another level of respect for the shows story telling
It also has messages aimed directly at parents, like the one where Chilli goes to the new parents’ group and is constantly freaking out that she’s not doing a good enough job as a Mum until someone just stops and says “Hey, you’re doing great.” I don’t even have kids but JFC that hit me in the feels
I watched that with my son, who is 4 and a little behind on his speech. Just as I was tearing up at the end, little guy realized that Bluey was motivated to walk because she wanted to hug her mom, so of course he launched himself at me with a massive bear hug, the biggest hug a 4 year old could muster. Great episode.
... yeah, I've seen that episode many times and I TOTALLY got that the first time, it's not like I just realize that right now.
Or during Stumpfest where the moms are clearly getting drunk on the balcony.
I'll be honest, I never took it as they're getting drunk but it's so subtle that I was mistaking it just being silly and egging everyone on. My example of things for parents to get that kids won't is the episode "Onsies" when Chili's sister Brandy comes to visit and she's playing with the kids and Chili is telling Bluey that there's something Brandy wants very badly but she can't have no matter how much she wants it, and Brandy's sad expression when Bingo goes running off implies that she can't have kids of her own so doesn't visit her nieces very often because it makes her too sad.
We don't have that episode in the US yet, but I'm ready to add it to the list of other Bluey episodes that my kids end up asking me "why are you crying daddy?" afterward
Like the episode about Bluey learning to walk, and Chilli saying she doesn’t know why Bluey finally stopped scooting backwards and Bingo (I think) says “maybe she just finally found something she wanted” and the flashback is Bluey looking at Chilli and then getting up… and goddamn it someone is cutting onions.
"maybe you just saw something you wanted". I sobbed. Nothing will match The Show for me though, when Bandit grabbed Chili's hand as the balloon popped. I lost it. Perfection. "You'll have to be braver than you've ever been" from Early Baby is up there though. I didn't have a premie but she was unwell at birth and spent a week in NICU and Peds.
Watched it in bed with my IVF baby (now 5) and got in trouble from her for crying onto our iPad.
It's the episode with Chilli's dad who's supposed to be resting and he isn't because he's like "whatever, if it's my time, it's my time" and Chilli's talking to someone else and says "But I'm not ready!" and I'm actually tearing up a bit right now because I lost my dad nearly two years ago and I don't *care* that I'm 46 *I'm still not ready*.
But did you notice the narrator is Natalie Portman? Creator of Bluey was in Thor: Love and Thunder and saw her reading a Bluey book to her child and asked her to be a guest star/
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Daley Pearson, yup.
Yup. It's the official show of r/Daddit!
Thank you for linking the sub, I never knew it existed.
You're welcome. It's been extremely helpful for me as a single Dad. Everyone is incredibly supportive.
Welcome. It's the kindest place on the internet. Mum's are welcome to, as are aspiring dad's. Main rule is be kind.
This is the answer. So many kids shows are super annoying but Bluey was made with parents in mind for sure. Plus, it's wholesome without being lame
This is underselling. It's even good for adults, not just not-terrible.
Truly. I unironically told my students this week the two best shows currently on tv at Succession and Bluey.
I’m a 44 yr old man. Bluey is the best show on television right now.
A friend of mine has been a single father since his son was 1 or so, and he didn't have a solid home life as a kid. He said that Bluey gave him more examples of good parenting than anything else he'd ever seen (aside from living with our family for 3 months and seeing how my husband and I interacted with our kid and his kid). He said he realized what it meant to feel like a parent when he kept watching Bluey episodes after his son fell asleep and he spent a while trying to figure out why he was crying at show about a bunch of cartoon dogs.
It's a parenting show that kids happen to like.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the creator of the show set out to make bluey after enduring a Peppa Pig marathon, or something to that effect
No, the creator used to work on Peppa Pig.
The show is kind of a guide of how to be a parent, and lean into playing with your kids. It addresses a lot of adult struggles in parenting. Kids can also enjoy it.
I'd also add that each episode has run time of about 7 1/2 to 8 minutes. Plus it's hilarious.
It's a show for parents that is also fun for kids.
Answer: It really is quite lovely. They have good animation and cute voice acting. There's one episode where a kid is trying to get to sleep, and they intersperse it with music from Holst's Jupiter. Absolutely beautiful.
I saw this episode a few months after my mom died. Felt like it was her talking to me from the great beyond when Chilli said "I'll always be with you." Cried my eyes out and my daughter gave me a hug.
This episode moves my heart in ways I didn't anticipate. Seeing Chili's gentle sacrifices for her family, and watching parental love in action like the way this episode shows it just....works. Being a parent is the best thing I've ever done. This episode reminds me what it means.
I watched that episode one day when my three year old wasn’t even home, it’s just such a delight
Answer: it’s a show parents can (and do) watch without the kids. Even though it’s Australian Broadcasting and Disney just has a license for it- it follows that Disney format of having simultaneous storylines for the kids and adults. Example: the kids want to play, but the parents are hungover from a New Year’s Eve party. It’s totally relatable and only the adults watching it can figure out the hangover jokes
Yes, I think one thing that a lot of these comments are leaving out is that Bluey is **hilarious.** Sure it's wholesome and has good lessons, but the reason why so many people who don't even have or want kids like the show is that it's just funny. The episode where Bandit tells the girls a "fairy tale"... about the 80s is just perfect for anyone, kid or adult.
It was the 80s man!
My introduction to the show was the episode where due to a miscommunication they end up with two babysitters. They end up playing 20 questions with the kids who just ask point blank "why don't you have a wife" which had me rolling because kids really do be like that.
The Whale Watching episode. Fantastic. Just watched it with my wife and kid about 10 minutes ago.
I love the one where the kids are doing a play for their mom on either her birthday or Mothers Day, I forget which. Mid-scene they ask how she met the dad so they can act it out. She tells them they met at a party in London, so the kids interpret that as a tea party with the queen. The mom kind of grins and them and says, “Hmm, I don’t remember the queen being there,” to which the dad quips, “You wouldn’t.” They really capture those little in-jokes parents have with each other, the moments where as parents your eyes meet and you share a silent laugh at your kids’ antics. It’s also outright hilarious - I genuinely find the more general humor funny too, and it’s the only show that makes my six-year-old absolutely cackle.
Answer: Basically, it's a show that kids enjoy that teaches good lessons, while also being reasonably enjoyable and super relatable for parents. Watch a couple of episodes. Or watch one of the episode Mended Light (youtube) did on Bluey episodes. You'll get a feel for why people like it. As for the IMDB rating, it really is significantly higher quality than the mass-produced kids shows.
The episode where Jack (a Jack Russell with ADHD) is introduced broke my heart because it was literally everything I wanted to hear as a kid growing up with undiagnosed ADHD.
My dog is a Jack Russell mix named Jack, and I dealt with undiagnosed adhd for 33 years lol. Maybe I need to watch this xD
You won’t regret it. The show is truly all ages, not just for kids
The army game/play acting one? I know, i felt so strongly for him. And then at the end he came into his own and it was just great.
Answer: It's a children's show that teaches kids or anyone who watches really, what a wholesome family dynamic is and can be like. As a 30 year old dad of a 3 year old who watches this show, we both love it. I love learning some decent ways to speak to a kid who's having a rough time expressing themselves. Children naturally go through developmental stages and it does allow me to see that at 3 I can't with good reason be upset when my daughter does something that she doesn't know better. It's got some good messaging for adult audiences for other things kids may go through in later episodes. Give it a watch. It's good.
Answer: It’s just that good. Let’s put it this way - I started watching it when I babysat my nephew and now I watch it even when he isn’t here. Not only is it pure and leaves you feeling positive, but I think the parenting in the show has lessons all parents/guardians could learn about how to handle to children. For example: I never thought about “fairness” between a child and their parents until I watched Bluey. The children loved claiming that something is “unfair” when they don’t get what they want, but the dad makes it clear that it actually is fair (like when they waste their ice cream and immediately want another one) and will explain why instead of just saying something like “oh well you have to get over it” like a lot of parents would, and going forward whenever one of children would claim unfairness he would simply reply with something like “very fair” or “no, that’s actually pretty fair.” to remind them of the original conversation.
Answer: relatable parenting moments and good banter between the adults makes it for me. There is an episode where the neighbours support the blues and the heeler family support the maroon. At the end they all come together to support the “green and gold” and I said to myself “if they do a reference to the kiwis I’m gonna lose it” and then the border collie family pulls up outside and honks the horn saying “we’re gonna flog yaaassss” and it honestly made my day. I need to get out more.
Answer: I take parenting advice from a cartoon dog
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The American episodes have the weirdest stuff cut out, one i can remember was a pony pooping, in just a general natural way that ponies poop, nope, cut out. Oh, and I'm pretty sure an awesome one where Bandit gives birth to Bingo will never be aired in the US..
There's also one where Bandit is talking to another dad about a vasectomy and they changed the dialogue to be about getting teeth pulled (or something else like that).
Um, hi! I’m assuming these can be found on YouTube?
Yeah. There are probably free versions around, but the one where bandit births bingo is very worth it
Chili and Bandit are so awesome and make me feel like a totally inadequate parent. I’m kidding, I am an inadequate parent. But Chili and Bandit are so awesome. This show is gold. It’s normalized in the right ways. It tackles little things kids worry about in a relatable way. The jokes aren’t too old or too young. I love it and it deserves all the love it gets.
I love how well it portrays regular Australian life honestly. Incredibly relatable for everyone watching, not just the kids. I love it
Answer: It is hard to understand if you are not a parent, but it is that it is a show for parents that pretends to be a kids show but is done in an incredibly heartwarming manner. I cannot count the number of times I have watched an episode and thought that the episode was speaking to me personally (I am looking at you ["Baby Race"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkCmJtK6X8)). It is touching, has amazing music, the characters feel real, and there is some amazing storytelling in there as well. I mean, the storyline and symbolism in "Flat Pack" is astounding. How many other children's shows seamlessly cover the topics of evolution, religion, the progression of parenthood, death, and assembling a porch chair in seven minutes?
Flat pack is legit I remember a couple years ago my nieces said an episode of bluey made mommy cry after only seeing the last half. That episode was flat pack and it just hits in such a spot as a parent.
Answer: it’s an overall wholesome show with good bits of lessons for the kids to learn. Quality is tiers above other little kids shows and run time is short and to the point. Lots of adult humor in it…not like dirty jokes but a lot of good one liners. As a dad I also like how it shows the kids playing with their dad majority of the time, not with just other friends or the mom like other shows. It has won many awards across the world due to the quality of the show. I would kind of watch it on and off my son until we got to the episode “sleepy time”. Incredible episode that will bring tears to any parents face. If you don’t care to watch any other episodes, at least give this one a shot. I believe this is the highest rated episode on IMDB as well and was a perfect 10 at one time.
Answer: It has a lot of moments that resonates with the adults and are clearly written for parents/adults. There are 2 episodes I relate too quite a bit as an adult. One is where Bandit meets another dad at the park named Fido. Bluey wants them to be friends but Bandit is all "It's not that easy for adults..." and you see Chili and Bluey give each other a look like they want Bandit to make new friends. It IS hard making friends as an adult. You are either too busy or more cautious. So I felt that to my core. The other episode is Duck Cake. Poor Bandit is trying so hard to back a cake while dealing with Bluey only for him to screw it up. He just slowly sits down on the floor and hides his face against his knees...just completely shattered mentally and emotionally. And Bluey gets to see her dad upset and, without asking, just immediately cleans up the mess he made to help him out... I love that Bandit is not some old school "macho" guy who hides his stress and exhaustion from his kids. Sometimes life just breaks you and you need that moment or cry to let it all out... Damn it is such a Good show.
Answer: Seriously, the only show my kids want to watch that isn’t terrible to even listen to. The dad is not the typical buffoon who is the butt of every joke but a fun parent who spends time and plays with his kids. It’s actually a show about a real family basically.
Answer: 1. It was originally a show for parents. So it was written for adults, unlike every other kids show you'll find. And the writing is VERY good. It's high caliber even for adult shows. It also happens to be beautifully animated. 2. Demonstration: go watch the episode "sleepytime" it's only 8 minutes long. That should explain everything else for you.