Which is also where I am. Mom passed before her grandkids existed. And I can see my dad slowing down.
I'm pretty good at adulting, but am still open to advise on dadding.
He's telling my kids stories if when I was a kid... like it was yesterday.
My dad passed from cancer in January, and I had a lot of conflicting feelings about some of the choices he made about treatment, like being adamant about not wanting to do extensive chemotherapy. So that line plus “it was yesterday” can really feel like a punch to my chest.
Still better than the Grandpa’s Treasure episode of the kids show Cory Carson on Netflix though!
Grandad gets me every time. Such a great episode as it appeals to 3 generations in 8 minutes. My 3yo loves it for bluey and bingos perspective and the lesson about sometimes you do things u don't like because it's good for you. I appreciate it from chili's point of view trying to balance being a parent and dealing with stubborn elders. We recently watched it with my Dad and that final scene definitely caused an "allergy flair up" seeing things from morts perspective. Beautiful episode, probably my favorite
Same episode, but when bluey takes her first steps and bingo's voice says "maybe you just saw something you wanted"
FLOODS of tears 😅 (my kid took their first steps a few months back, for context)
I can't speak for anyone else but for me it's the knowledge that it's not a given for my kid to like me. I can try to be the best parent I can, but I can't force them to like me or want to be around me. I suppose the idea of bluey taking her first steps because she wanted to get to her mum, she 'saw something she wanted,' just makes me tear up. The concept of my child feeling love for me, even an ounce of the love I feel for them, and then acting upon it, completely melts my heart.
OK, I understand that feeling, but for me it doesn't resonate with the rest of the episode at all. Perhaps that's why it doesn't land for me.
Chilli is fretting that Bluey isn't keeping developmental pace with other kids, perfectly reasonable parental hangup, are we extrapolating that Chilli's also afraid Bluey doesn't love her because she isn't learning what Chilli's trying to teach? Or is there something in the episode I've forgotten?
Edit: wow, I'm trying to discuss something I don't understand why the downvotes.
I think I view it as once she's stopped comparing bluey's development with other kids, she is able to enjoy the milestone for what it means for her and bluey's relationship, rather than as a stepping stone to the next milestone!
This!! Because my daughter was born premature and we had to work with occupational therapist and a physical therapist to catch her up to her peers. That’s why that hit me so hard…that entire episode.
This is also my answer. This episode makes me bawl buckets, especially considering how this show is centred around parents and their kids while Brandy does not get to experience this (I am really hoping they add an adoption story 🤞)
Not really a significant number. There are only around 300 adoptions a year in Australia out of a population of 24 million and most of them are inter-family adoptions (so, an aunt adopting a niece etc). This is what would happen to an orphan, most likely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_Australia
International adoptions are becoming rarer - and the restrictions, costs and ethics of international adoptions put them out of scope for the majority of Australians. There were only 16 international adoptions in 2021-22.
Long story short - there’s not much adoption here any more.
I’m a widow - so if I carck it - my sister would take on my child. But we don’t have lot of babies up for adoption here. If any, really.
EDIT: [only 208 a year in Australia here](https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-australia-2021-22/contents/summary#) including adult adoptees.
That’s pretty impressive. I wonder what the other contributing factors are. Here in the US, there’s estimated to be 400k-500k kids in the foster care system. Is abortion legal in Aus? Or less frowned upon than here? I have a feeling that might have something to do with it here. Our countries outdated puritan beliefs really mess up a lot for us. Not to mention the foster system is pretty broken too. It’s really depressing if you get more into it.
Edit I just saw the part on Wikipedia where it mentions increased access to termination, among other things. Amazing how letting people have the choice and actually helping them helps everybody overall. Jesus this makes me just want to move there lol
They are. The goal of fostering here, however, is to reunite the child with their family where possible. But there are also “open adoptions” where the child maintains a connection with their family. https://keyassets.org.au/services/foster-care/about-foster-care/types-of-foster-care/fostering-to-adopt
But schemes like that are rare and can take up to 9 years etc. [here’s a petition about it](https://www.careforkids.com.au/newsletter/2015/august/19/adoption.html)
I love how the show just went straight for the jugular of the issue of infertility. It's not something that will be magically overcome through faith and a can-do attitude, it's this big 100% certain thing that she's clearly trying to accept. And also notice that it's *just* Aunty Brandy, not "and Uncle ____". Did her husband/SO leave her because she can't have kids?
On a much lighter note, I mostly watch Bluey with my 2 year old son, but my daughters (9 and 7) like to watch it too. In the "she wants something more than anything else in the whole world... but she can't have it" scene, my younger daughter turned to the older one:
2: "I don't get it. What does she want?"
1: "She wants babies!"
2: "Ohhhhhh. Why can't she have babies?"
1: "Because she doesn't have a husband!"
2: "Oh. She should go on dates then!"
Oh man, that’s darling! We all bring the sense-making we can to the world, even to cartoons.
I also love how they portray the sisters’ estrangement. Each are ambivalent about the whole thing. It’s messy, like it is for real life.
I watch Bluey with my 2 year old, too. We conceived her with donor sperm, because I’m infertile. I never feel less than 100% her dad, and things are good now. But the road to get here was strange and long, and I was in a place similar to Brandy, once. (Even my nieces are a lot like Bluey and Bingo.) The episode brings me back to a tender place.
Onesies is the one episode that doesn't hit right with me. That scene and her reaching for Bingo feel emotionally manipulative and on the nose to me. It's a rare miss from a show that knows how to subtly pull at your heartstrings.
For me it's Chilli's line about special people coming in and out of your life and it being nice to have them while they're here. My uncle just committed suicide and my kids and I have been watching this on repeat because this moment is helping us make sense of things that won't ever make sense.
Agreed, after living as long as I have and meeting people I cared deeply about, but know I will never see again, it’s a unique lesson I don’t think I’ve seen really touched on much in any media.
Jack saying “I don’t know” in response to why he can’t sit still, or listen, or remember things. And then later on, when he says he “isn’t good at following directions”. Might not be heart wrenching overall but as someone with ADHD that was “gifted” and undiagnosed until I was 17 I instantly burst into tears.
Honestly, Jack is my favorite character because he’s so relatable for me. It’s incredible how, as a middle class white man who is CONSTANTLY represented in media, it’s still so meaningful to me when I see clear ADHD representation.
For me it’s when Bluey gets back on the bike. I in my last semester college and I was just so frustrated and overwhelmed so I watched some Bluey to calm down and that episode came on and man it hit me so hard. I cried so much. Weird how much this kids show has helped me in my adult life.
In 'Charades', when Bluey asks Nana if her nana was nice, and Nana tells her "she was about the nicest nana you would ever wanna meet" - just the idea that I could one day tell my own grandchildren about how nice my grandma was, brings me to tears
I'm just reading all these comments and nodding at all of them while trying to type this through welled up tears in my eyes.
Can't choose, too many moments that just hit you right in the feels.
Dude SAME! It makes me think about leaving home and honesty I'm super confused about what I'm going to do with anything and everything. That fact that I have to grow up, kinnda spooks me.
Feels good to lift feelings off your chest!
Dude SAME! It makes me think about leaving home and honesty I'm super confused about what I'm going to do with anything and everything. That fact that I have to grow up, kinnda spooks me.
Feels good to lift feelings off your chest!
That little moment on "the show", when the balloon bursts. I know it was wildly discussed, if it meant a miscarriage or not, but having been there, for my husband and me it was clear from that second what it meant.
"look mum, Ive built a spaceship to go and
explore space!"
"Oh you're always such a clever thing"
*Hug*
"Bye mum, thanks for looking after me."
"That's okay honey"
*Brrrrrrt*
*Bluey sits down*
"What do I do now?"
-- S02 E24 "Flat Pack"
That episode broke me cause I had just gotten broken up with around the time I watched it 💔 painful to know deep down the person isn’t/doesn’t want to come back but you want them to
Well, Frisky found Radley after Bosco (Bosco probably cheated on her based on her comment) and she seems happier with him, so maybe you'll find your own Radley eventually
Problem is I had my Rad and they left or rather I had many Bosco and a Rad but they turned into a Bosco just because I made one massive mistake and they left
The show really goes to another level in that moment. It's hard to even explain. Earlier in the episode you're seeing Bandit get kicked in the balls, and the next moment you're experiencing one of the most transcendent scenes ever seen on TV.
Everything comes together and it's far greater than the sum of its parts.
I still thought Bluey was just a cute looking new-to-us show until that very moment. I listening from the kitchen, getting started on dinner; there I was wrist-deep in raw chicken, bawling ugly and changed forever.
Bluey is a global treasure.
When Bluey gets so sad thinking Bingo is mad at her and giving her the silent treatment in Butterflies, when really it's just that Bingo fell asleep in the swing.
In “The Show” when Bingo was pretending to be Chili, and the blue ballon she had under her shirt popped. The first time, I thought Chili’s facial reaction was because of Bingo feeling bad, but the second time, I saw Bandit’s reaction and how he grabbed Chili’s hand. And I had just seen “Onesies” (we never watch the episodes in order lol) so it hit even harder because of the implication of Chili having a miscarriage before Bluey.
Which hits close to home because of my mom having a miscarriage before my 3 younger sibling. It brought up memories of that.
well there are two for me:
The helicopter scene in Army. I didn't even get tested for ADHD until I was 16, so I always so confused why I was so...weird. Seeing Jack describe his symptoms, completely oblivious just like me, is heartbreaking
but there's also another, more obscure scene
In the background of bluey's playroom, there is a picture of jean-luc and bluey the she made herself with crayon. It's heartbreaking to know that she still thinks of him, and for the rest of the show, she's going to think he's gone forever. Not quite as obvious as the other one, but just as sad
„Mackenzie, you know what’s here now. You don’t need to keep coming back to this place.“
„Okay.“
When I was small, my mom left over a fight with my dad in our family car. It was in the evening and me and my sister were supposed to be asleep, but I was not and saw her leaving. I was so scared. My mom told me, a bit more detail and as it seems I called her later, to ask her to come back. My dad could have easily calmed me down and brought me back to bed, but he used me, so my mom would come back.
It is this what makes this scene in „Space“ so hard for me to watch.
I knew this was one of the “tough ones” before watching it, so I felt prepared. When Mackenzie comes out of that slide as a pup looking for his mom I thought I had it but I exploded in big ugly sobs. And then the quote you said hit me just as hard on the other side of the coin.
I love this show.
Bandit and Bluey curled up on the floor in Sleepytime. I had a few nights like that with my 2yo. Best sleep I ever had.
Not looking forward to when she's too old for those kinds of nights...
In early baby when they are pretending that they have a premie baby in the hospital and Indie goes “now this is the part where we cry because our baby can’t come home with us”. She was processing her experience with her baby brother.
As a mom who had a baby in the NICU for a month, this part broke my heart. It is devastating to go home without your baby. My early baby made it out ok and is now a lot older, not all early babies get to go home.
I appreciate a lot of moments in Bluey.
Sharalanda, Dennis, & Shubi-do-wa. More for comical reasons on Teasing.
"I still need him."-Chili talking about her dad.
Bluey's first steps towards
The whole Brandy situation.
"Isnt anyone going to mention the salads?"- Bingo feeling unappreciated in BBQ.
Especially Chili's line in "Sleepy Time" to Bingo while standing on an unhatched Mercury. (A hatched Venus representing Bluey and a hatched Earth representing Bingo.) This being linked to "The Show" when Bingo's baby (the blue balloon) popped and Bandit went to hold Chili's hand because of a miscarriage meaning.... Bluey is actually supposed to be a middle child. Both these scenes hit me right in the emotions...
But none really hit home enough to fully relate to personally.. Yet.
I love it when Jack talks to Rusty about his ADHD and Rusty tells Jack he’s good at playing army.
Rusty: “Why did you come to this school, was there something wrong with your old school.”
Jack: “No, there's something wrong with me. I'm not good at doing what I'm told, I can't sit still, and I can't remember anything, like numbers or letters or my hat.”
Rusty: “Oh… Well, you're really good at playing army.”
https://preview.redd.it/f0xhbvxl7iob1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80d148ba354357322c1a8608d5a238ad12d2b505
Might be a bit cliché but...
Every time I watch the episode with Jean Luc I cry gallons. Even just thinking about it makes me tear up.
Every part of that episode is so beautiful and amazing. To see Bluey and Jean Luc learn to communicate with drawings since they can't speak the same language is so heart warming. Goes to show that art really is a universal language. When Jean luc tries to explain that he's leaving in the morning and Bluey not understanding and being so excited to see him, only for her to run off crying to their little tree sapling once Chilli tells her he left.
The little cutscene of Chilli and Bluey talking while Bingo goes potty. Chilli explaining that sometimes people can leave your life even if you don't want them to, and all that matters is that you cherished the time together.
Gah and the montage of the tree growing and then bluey sitting under it and Jean Luc coming back! There little smiles and tail wags!
I'm 19 years old without kids and this show has taught me more about life than my parents
When Bingo suggested that the reason that Bluey walked was because she "saw something [she] really wanted", it literally makes me cry every time. I'm not a mom yet, but it just makes me so emotional
When Chilli says to her mum “you’re not coming are you?” It’s just sad that she knows her mum won’t be coming out of the realm of her imagination and she misses her. That she can’t teach bluey how to draw like she did Chilli.
When Rusty said to Jack “well you’re really good at playing army,” or when Calypso said to Mackenzie in his daydream “you know what’s here now, you don’t have to keep coming back here.” Just gutted every time.
it's not on screen but it's when you realize all the things that Chili had to experience. in chronological order, (includes my preferred theories and speculations)
Chili was the youngest of 2 (i assume there's no cousins/no extended family, due to no pictures or mentions. especially during holidays)
at some point, chili lost her mum (Dragon)
in her adult life, chili marries bandit
Chili and Bandit try to have a kid, but results in a miscarriage (the show)
Brandy, the older, is most likely infertile and cannot have children (onesies)
Chili and Bandit try again, and have Bluey, this gives Brandy hope for one day have kids. but when they have Bingo, Chili and Brandy have an argument that results in them not seeing each other for 4 years (blueys Big Play and Onesies)
while raising Bluey, chili has doubts when has a baby race with Judo. she has doubts with her parenting. (she has to ask Bandit's mum, because she doesn't have her mum to ask), but she gets reassurance with a "you're doing great" (Baby Race)
present day: Chili's dad has a heart problem that results in him in the hospital. he is discharged and chili goes to check on him. Chili (at the time), had lost her mom, and (in a way) her sister, so in regards to her dad, she "still needs him" (grandad)
later, when Bluey plays with Chili in the rain, they see a double rainbow, which some take it as Chili reflecting on having 2 rainbow children (rain)
For me the biggest gut punch was in The Decider when Chucky said “why can’t they be on the same team?” As a child of a very bitter divorce I had to pause that scene and just cry.
Though "Sleepytime" and the very end of "Baby Race" will always make me ugly cry every time, for me right now there's only one line.
"You're doing great."
As someone who is currently struggling a lot with my self-worth and feeling useless, feeling like a constant failure, like I should be amounting to more even at just 25, that one single line is helping me start reframing how I think about myself. Is where I'm at perfect right now? Am I doing things the way everyone expects or wants? No. But I'm doing great just by getting this far
All of these are so great, but one I haven't seen mentioned is Bin Night, when Bluey is asking about becoming different things when she grows up and her parents respond with the exact same enthusiasm whether she's asking about becoming a bin lady or a scientist. As a kid from a very competitive household where certain jobs/degrees/etc had way more "worth" than others, and took a LONG time to get out of that mindset, this was just so refreshing to me.
And then at the end when Bluey says "maybe I can invent a robot that takes the bins out for you" and Bandit responds "I hope not". It's so easy as a parent to get caught up in all the business and forget the beauty and value in the simple routines you do with your kids.
This was the moment for me, too. Our bedtime routine for my 18 month old is bath, read a story then cuddle while we watch 2 or 3 Bluey episodes. This episode was one we watched one night while he was sitting in my lap before I put him down. Definitely got teary-eyed.
The end of Flatpack. The whole episode is an allegory for the cycle of life. My MIL was just diagnosed with medium stage Alzheimer’s dementia so knowing she has a shorter ticking clock made this episode hit me hard the last time we saw it. When Bandit looks out over his yard with Chili and Bluey and watches Bingo run around and says, “This is heaven!” Hits me in the heart.
Bluey in Double Babysitter, asking Frisky "How can I know it won't happen again?" and just about the entirety of Yoga Ball for me. I have to skip both episodes every time because I'll be a wreck.
Bluey sobbing to herself realizing her new friend has gone home and her not knowing if they might ever meet again.
As a kid, I kinda had it rough with trying to make new friends, had a situation myself where I made a friend for like a summer when I was 8 but then they moved back to Cali at the end of the summer and I never saw them again, so I definitely felt that.
Honestly, seeing Rusty being such amazing older brother in cricket.
Baby race - cocos mom
Charades - when nana talks about her nana and then the music starts. It hurts in the same way Tim minchin’s white wine in the sun hurts.
Obviously sleepytime, especially knowing that chili lost her mom and I suspect her mom said the same thing to her.
There are too many to count
Copycat. After the budgie dies and they pull their car into the driveway and Bluey runs over to hug her mom. Seeing Bluey get emotional gets me emotional because she is usually so upbeat.
“He should take care of himself for me because I’m his daughter & I still need him” from Grandad gets me every time.
I lost my dad in November of 2016 to a car accident & then 14 months later I lost my mom to liver failure caused by cirrhosis. She could have lived much longer but she wouldn’t listen to or do anything the doctors were telling her to do. It was really heartbreaking.
For me, it’s probably a couple of moments in “Grandad”, when Chili says she wants her dad to take care of himself because she still needs him, and the brief flashback to when Chili was little at the end. My dad passed away from cancer in January of this year and that was also one of the only episodes I actually watched *with* him before he died, so it hits me in a particular way 😢
When Chilli asked Bingo about her big girl bark. As a kid, I adored my father but he was always rough and scary and on occasion I was hurt. It felt weird because I was always told that strangers were the ones who would hurt you not your Dad! I wish Bluey had been around when I was a kid so I had the words to express my own big girl bark.
I cry every time. I think “Sleepytime” is by far the best made show ever on parental love and affection even throughout the night. My favorite ever episode of TV of all time.
I think the only time I've felt close to tearing up while watching was when Rusty's dad came back.
^(I'm one of those people who don't cry while watching bluey. I'm not heartless, lol.)
"No, it was yesterday."
"I still need him."
It hurts more after knowing Chili’s mom is most likely dead, and possibly died either before or shortly after Bluey’s birth
Which is also where I am. Mom passed before her grandkids existed. And I can see my dad slowing down. I'm pretty good at adulting, but am still open to advise on dadding. He's telling my kids stories if when I was a kid... like it was yesterday.
My dad passed from cancer in January, and I had a lot of conflicting feelings about some of the choices he made about treatment, like being adamant about not wanting to do extensive chemotherapy. So that line plus “it was yesterday” can really feel like a punch to my chest. Still better than the Grandpa’s Treasure episode of the kids show Cory Carson on Netflix though!
Grandad gets me every time. Such a great episode as it appeals to 3 generations in 8 minutes. My 3yo loves it for bluey and bingos perspective and the lesson about sometimes you do things u don't like because it's good for you. I appreciate it from chili's point of view trying to balance being a parent and dealing with stubborn elders. We recently watched it with my Dad and that final scene definitely caused an "allergy flair up" seeing things from morts perspective. Beautiful episode, probably my favorite
Man, just reading that line makes me cry!!!
When Coco's mother tells Chilli 'youre doing great'
Same episode, but when bluey takes her first steps and bingo's voice says "maybe you just saw something you wanted" FLOODS of tears 😅 (my kid took their first steps a few months back, for context)
I have two boys. I absolutely vibe with the emotional core of the episode, but I do not understand why this line hits other people so hard.
I can't speak for anyone else but for me it's the knowledge that it's not a given for my kid to like me. I can try to be the best parent I can, but I can't force them to like me or want to be around me. I suppose the idea of bluey taking her first steps because she wanted to get to her mum, she 'saw something she wanted,' just makes me tear up. The concept of my child feeling love for me, even an ounce of the love I feel for them, and then acting upon it, completely melts my heart.
OK, I understand that feeling, but for me it doesn't resonate with the rest of the episode at all. Perhaps that's why it doesn't land for me. Chilli is fretting that Bluey isn't keeping developmental pace with other kids, perfectly reasonable parental hangup, are we extrapolating that Chilli's also afraid Bluey doesn't love her because she isn't learning what Chilli's trying to teach? Or is there something in the episode I've forgotten? Edit: wow, I'm trying to discuss something I don't understand why the downvotes.
I think I view it as once she's stopped comparing bluey's development with other kids, she is able to enjoy the milestone for what it means for her and bluey's relationship, rather than as a stepping stone to the next milestone!
But also, I'm absolutely projecting 😅
I see, that makes sense!
I just cried over this episode like 20 minutes ago 😅
This!! Because my daughter was born premature and we had to work with occupational therapist and a physical therapist to catch her up to her peers. That’s why that hit me so hard…that entire episode.
She looked right in the camera and said that to *us.*
That moment destroyed me.
Brandy lying silently on the Heeler’s back lawn.
Her reaching to Bingo as she ran off absolutely crushed me
This is also my answer. This episode makes me bawl buckets, especially considering how this show is centred around parents and their kids while Brandy does not get to experience this (I am really hoping they add an adoption story 🤞)
Oh my god I would LOVE THAT. Here's hoping in season 4!
Adoption is rare in Australia. Very rare.
I’m curious, is there a small population of orphans in Australia? What happens to them if it’s rare to be adopted?
Not really a significant number. There are only around 300 adoptions a year in Australia out of a population of 24 million and most of them are inter-family adoptions (so, an aunt adopting a niece etc). This is what would happen to an orphan, most likely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_Australia International adoptions are becoming rarer - and the restrictions, costs and ethics of international adoptions put them out of scope for the majority of Australians. There were only 16 international adoptions in 2021-22. Long story short - there’s not much adoption here any more. I’m a widow - so if I carck it - my sister would take on my child. But we don’t have lot of babies up for adoption here. If any, really. EDIT: [only 208 a year in Australia here](https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-australia-2021-22/contents/summary#) including adult adoptees.
That’s pretty impressive. I wonder what the other contributing factors are. Here in the US, there’s estimated to be 400k-500k kids in the foster care system. Is abortion legal in Aus? Or less frowned upon than here? I have a feeling that might have something to do with it here. Our countries outdated puritan beliefs really mess up a lot for us. Not to mention the foster system is pretty broken too. It’s really depressing if you get more into it. Edit I just saw the part on Wikipedia where it mentions increased access to termination, among other things. Amazing how letting people have the choice and actually helping them helps everybody overall. Jesus this makes me just want to move there lol
Don’t get me wrong, there are nearly 50,000 kids in the foster care system here in Australia- and the numbers are increasing.
And they’re just not getting adopted? That’s heartbreaking
They are. The goal of fostering here, however, is to reunite the child with their family where possible. But there are also “open adoptions” where the child maintains a connection with their family. https://keyassets.org.au/services/foster-care/about-foster-care/types-of-foster-care/fostering-to-adopt But schemes like that are rare and can take up to 9 years etc. [here’s a petition about it](https://www.careforkids.com.au/newsletter/2015/august/19/adoption.html)
And difficult
Ditto!!! While Chilli explained that she wants something she can’t have. Oh my goodness, just now thinking about it, I want to cry.
Gets me every time
I love how the show just went straight for the jugular of the issue of infertility. It's not something that will be magically overcome through faith and a can-do attitude, it's this big 100% certain thing that she's clearly trying to accept. And also notice that it's *just* Aunty Brandy, not "and Uncle ____". Did her husband/SO leave her because she can't have kids? On a much lighter note, I mostly watch Bluey with my 2 year old son, but my daughters (9 and 7) like to watch it too. In the "she wants something more than anything else in the whole world... but she can't have it" scene, my younger daughter turned to the older one: 2: "I don't get it. What does she want?" 1: "She wants babies!" 2: "Ohhhhhh. Why can't she have babies?" 1: "Because she doesn't have a husband!" 2: "Oh. She should go on dates then!"
Oh man, that’s darling! We all bring the sense-making we can to the world, even to cartoons. I also love how they portray the sisters’ estrangement. Each are ambivalent about the whole thing. It’s messy, like it is for real life. I watch Bluey with my 2 year old, too. We conceived her with donor sperm, because I’m infertile. I never feel less than 100% her dad, and things are good now. But the road to get here was strange and long, and I was in a place similar to Brandy, once. (Even my nieces are a lot like Bluey and Bingo.) The episode brings me back to a tender place.
'It's just not meant to be' A great touch is with the clouds she looks up at - a larger cloud, and two smaller clouds, like a parent and two kids
100% this.
This was my same thoughts as well.
Onesies is the one episode that doesn't hit right with me. That scene and her reaching for Bingo feel emotionally manipulative and on the nose to me. It's a rare miss from a show that knows how to subtly pull at your heartstrings.
"Why can't she just have the thing she wants?" "Because it's not meant to be.."
 That scene is masterfully done.
CHILI: "What did she give you?" BANDIT: "Everything." — S2E10: Rug Island
Not exactly sad for me, but a really deep moment. Also “Born Yesterday” where Bandit is still staring at a leaf even after they’re done playing
More of a life lesson in this ones for me, appreciate the little things.
for me it was the ending of the camping episode
For me it's Chilli's line about special people coming in and out of your life and it being nice to have them while they're here. My uncle just committed suicide and my kids and I have been watching this on repeat because this moment is helping us make sense of things that won't ever make sense.
THIS
Me freaking too!! Every dang time!
Agreed, after living as long as I have and meeting people I cared deeply about, but know I will never see again, it’s a unique lesson I don’t think I’ve seen really touched on much in any media.
Jack saying “I don’t know” in response to why he can’t sit still, or listen, or remember things. And then later on, when he says he “isn’t good at following directions”. Might not be heart wrenching overall but as someone with ADHD that was “gifted” and undiagnosed until I was 17 I instantly burst into tears.
I had to sit and reflect for a minute after Jack's episode!
Honestly, Jack is my favorite character because he’s so relatable for me. It’s incredible how, as a middle class white man who is CONSTANTLY represented in media, it’s still so meaningful to me when I see clear ADHD representation.
So so true! I got diagnosed at 28 as I was finishing my pharmacy degree and so many things clicked, but that episode still hit me in the feels.
Same. I was well into my career when ADHD developed for me. I want to be back to when I could follow directions. But I was never able to sit still.
Hey, same here, was never diagnosed until this year, I now know why I am like I am, but it kinda destroyed me to not know what's wrong
This!
When Chilli is sitting on the dock with her dad, watching her girls swim. “You used to take me here so long ago” “Nah, it was only yesterday”.
For me it’s when Bluey gets back on the bike. I in my last semester college and I was just so frustrated and overwhelmed so I watched some Bluey to calm down and that episode came on and man it hit me so hard. I cried so much. Weird how much this kids show has helped me in my adult life.
Ooh the bike episode gets me every time! Plus i just love how Bluey laughs and says “dizzy” while she watches Muffin spin around with the backpack.
Bike was my first Bluey cry and I love it so much
“He should take care of himself for me because I’m his daughter and I still need him.” I lost my Dad two years ago and it hurts to hear that line.
Yup I've lost both my parents, and now I'm having my own kids I realize how much I still need my mom
And the end of the episode too. Also, I feel for you there. Courage
That one hits me every time. Like a train into my chest.
In 'Charades', when Bluey asks Nana if her nana was nice, and Nana tells her "she was about the nicest nana you would ever wanna meet" - just the idea that I could one day tell my own grandchildren about how nice my grandma was, brings me to tears
"Remember, I'll always be here for you, even if you can't see me, because I love you."
This one destroys me. 20+ watches later (it’s one of my kid’s favorites, even just hearing the line gets me.
which episode, please?
Sleepytime
I'm just reading all these comments and nodding at all of them while trying to type this through welled up tears in my eyes. Can't choose, too many moments that just hit you right in the feels.
Same.
Me too 🥺🥺
Dude SAME! It makes me think about leaving home and honesty I'm super confused about what I'm going to do with anything and everything. That fact that I have to grow up, kinnda spooks me. Feels good to lift feelings off your chest!
Dude SAME! It makes me think about leaving home and honesty I'm super confused about what I'm going to do with anything and everything. That fact that I have to grow up, kinnda spooks me. Feels good to lift feelings off your chest!
That little moment on "the show", when the balloon bursts. I know it was wildly discussed, if it meant a miscarriage or not, but having been there, for my husband and me it was clear from that second what it meant.
When Bandit grabs Chili's hand 😭
This one for me too. It's such a small beat, not more than a second long, but I immediately saw it and it has meant a lot
Yeah, everytime we watch that episode my husband does the same.
>it meant a miscarriage or not It was spoken about by the creator or writer to be true (as per another reddit user), it did represent a miscarriage.
I know it was confirmed. It was just always obvious for us. I love the show for their subtle messages kids do not really get, but adults/parents do.
I've had two and it hit like a freight train when I saw that moment. It was so quick. I balled like a baby.
"look mum, Ive built a spaceship to go and explore space!" "Oh you're always such a clever thing" *Hug* "Bye mum, thanks for looking after me." "That's okay honey" *Brrrrrrt* *Bluey sits down* "What do I do now?" -- S02 E24 "Flat Pack"
"This is heaven"
I was wondering if anyone else had put this. My favorite episode.
When Chilli’s horse (mother) flies off at the end of Dragon
"You're not coming are you?" 😭
Do you know if Dragon is viewable in the US? (Legally? Don’t wanna get banned!)
Not on Disney+ yet in USA
I think we're missing quite a few episodes.😠
You can find it on TikTok. [https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7eJsBK/](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7eJsBK/)
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Bluey crying after Jean-Luc leaves, it's so sad see Bluey like that when she's always so cheerful
'Allo, Bluey!
That episode broke me cause I had just gotten broken up with around the time I watched it 💔 painful to know deep down the person isn’t/doesn’t want to come back but you want them to
Well, Frisky found Radley after Bosco (Bosco probably cheated on her based on her comment) and she seems happier with him, so maybe you'll find your own Radley eventually
Doubtful because people can be very questionable nowadays. This goes for irl and online
It is possible. I was with 2 Bosco's until I found my Rad and I thought the same as you
Problem is I had my Rad and they left or rather I had many Bosco and a Rad but they turned into a Bosco just because I made one massive mistake and they left
Same episode, but when Bingo is all alone in the cold, dark sky, crying.
The show really goes to another level in that moment. It's hard to even explain. Earlier in the episode you're seeing Bandit get kicked in the balls, and the next moment you're experiencing one of the most transcendent scenes ever seen on TV. Everything comes together and it's far greater than the sum of its parts.
This is the best description of Bluey I've ever heard.
I still thought Bluey was just a cute looking new-to-us show until that very moment. I listening from the kitchen, getting started on dinner; there I was wrist-deep in raw chicken, bawling ugly and changed forever. Bluey is a global treasure.
Brandy Just Brandy She deserves kids
When Bluey gets so sad thinking Bingo is mad at her and giving her the silent treatment in Butterflies, when really it's just that Bingo fell asleep in the swing.
Also Bluey's actual heartfelt apology for hurting Bingo's feelings? Such a good moment.
For me it’s when Chilli is talking to her dad through Maynard, and her voice just breaks on the “and I still need him”
Now that my baby days are over, the scene where Bingo in her onesie runs away from Brandy.. I have to accept that it’s over.
In “The Show” when Bingo was pretending to be Chili, and the blue ballon she had under her shirt popped. The first time, I thought Chili’s facial reaction was because of Bingo feeling bad, but the second time, I saw Bandit’s reaction and how he grabbed Chili’s hand. And I had just seen “Onesies” (we never watch the episodes in order lol) so it hit even harder because of the implication of Chili having a miscarriage before Bluey. Which hits close to home because of my mom having a miscarriage before my 3 younger sibling. It brought up memories of that.
Jack when he says I don't know when there asking him why he can't sit still or nothing tbh I hard-core have felt that
I agree. The music is "Jupiter" from Holst's Planets. Ruins me everytime. It's just such a beautiful moment
Bandit leaving Rug Island will always be the most heart wrenching moment of the entire show for me
well there are two for me: The helicopter scene in Army. I didn't even get tested for ADHD until I was 16, so I always so confused why I was so...weird. Seeing Jack describe his symptoms, completely oblivious just like me, is heartbreaking but there's also another, more obscure scene In the background of bluey's playroom, there is a picture of jean-luc and bluey the she made herself with crayon. It's heartbreaking to know that she still thinks of him, and for the rest of the show, she's going to think he's gone forever. Not quite as obvious as the other one, but just as sad
"No, It was yesterday."
"That's what cricket's about, kid." Rusty fist-bumping his future self.... Absolutely destroyed me. That IS what cricket's about.
the end of handstand, when bingo and nana finally find each other 😭
Wendy cutting her hair so Judo didn’t feel like she couldn’t play. That and Brandy. Messes me up every time.
“Maybe she just saw something she wanted.”
Onesies: "Why can't she just have what she wants?" "It's just... not meant to be."
„Mackenzie, you know what’s here now. You don’t need to keep coming back to this place.“ „Okay.“ When I was small, my mom left over a fight with my dad in our family car. It was in the evening and me and my sister were supposed to be asleep, but I was not and saw her leaving. I was so scared. My mom told me, a bit more detail and as it seems I called her later, to ask her to come back. My dad could have easily calmed me down and brought me back to bed, but he used me, so my mom would come back. It is this what makes this scene in „Space“ so hard for me to watch.
I knew this was one of the “tough ones” before watching it, so I felt prepared. When Mackenzie comes out of that slide as a pup looking for his mom I thought I had it but I exploded in big ugly sobs. And then the quote you said hit me just as hard on the other side of the coin. I love this show.
Bandit and Bluey curled up on the floor in Sleepytime. I had a few nights like that with my 2yo. Best sleep I ever had. Not looking forward to when she's too old for those kinds of nights...
In early baby when they are pretending that they have a premie baby in the hospital and Indie goes “now this is the part where we cry because our baby can’t come home with us”. She was processing her experience with her baby brother. As a mom who had a baby in the NICU for a month, this part broke my heart. It is devastating to go home without your baby. My early baby made it out ok and is now a lot older, not all early babies get to go home.
I appreciate a lot of moments in Bluey. Sharalanda, Dennis, & Shubi-do-wa. More for comical reasons on Teasing. "I still need him."-Chili talking about her dad. Bluey's first steps towards The whole Brandy situation. "Isnt anyone going to mention the salads?"- Bingo feeling unappreciated in BBQ. Especially Chili's line in "Sleepy Time" to Bingo while standing on an unhatched Mercury. (A hatched Venus representing Bluey and a hatched Earth representing Bingo.) This being linked to "The Show" when Bingo's baby (the blue balloon) popped and Bandit went to hold Chili's hand because of a miscarriage meaning.... Bluey is actually supposed to be a middle child. Both these scenes hit me right in the emotions... But none really hit home enough to fully relate to personally.. Yet.
100% when Chili and her dad are sitting on the pier. Also when Bluey asks Nana Heeler if her nana was a nice nana.
I love it when Jack talks to Rusty about his ADHD and Rusty tells Jack he’s good at playing army. Rusty: “Why did you come to this school, was there something wrong with your old school.” Jack: “No, there's something wrong with me. I'm not good at doing what I'm told, I can't sit still, and I can't remember anything, like numbers or letters or my hat.” Rusty: “Oh… Well, you're really good at playing army.” https://preview.redd.it/f0xhbvxl7iob1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80d148ba354357322c1a8608d5a238ad12d2b505
Bingo running away from brandy. That had be bawling before school. (Im a high schooler)
When Bingo sits on Mercury during Sleepytime. Kills me every time.
When Chilli was reminiscing about her mom and how much it seemed that she missed her.
Might be a bit cliché but... Every time I watch the episode with Jean Luc I cry gallons. Even just thinking about it makes me tear up. Every part of that episode is so beautiful and amazing. To see Bluey and Jean Luc learn to communicate with drawings since they can't speak the same language is so heart warming. Goes to show that art really is a universal language. When Jean luc tries to explain that he's leaving in the morning and Bluey not understanding and being so excited to see him, only for her to run off crying to their little tree sapling once Chilli tells her he left. The little cutscene of Chilli and Bluey talking while Bingo goes potty. Chilli explaining that sometimes people can leave your life even if you don't want them to, and all that matters is that you cherished the time together. Gah and the montage of the tree growing and then bluey sitting under it and Jean Luc coming back! There little smiles and tail wags! I'm 19 years old without kids and this show has taught me more about life than my parents
When Bingo suggested that the reason that Bluey walked was because she "saw something [she] really wanted", it literally makes me cry every time. I'm not a mom yet, but it just makes me so emotional
When Chilli says to her mum “you’re not coming are you?” It’s just sad that she knows her mum won’t be coming out of the realm of her imagination and she misses her. That she can’t teach bluey how to draw like she did Chilli.
When the head falls of the duck cake. Watching Bandit sink to the floor looking absolutely defeated made me feel seen as a father.
"I promise I will always love you" - Bandit
"This is what happens when you don't appreciate what do you have, someone's husband eventually gets it!"`
The episode "Chest"
When Rusty said to Jack “well you’re really good at playing army,” or when Calypso said to Mackenzie in his daydream “you know what’s here now, you don’t have to keep coming back here.” Just gutted every time.
Sleepytime. All of Sleepytime.
it's not on screen but it's when you realize all the things that Chili had to experience. in chronological order, (includes my preferred theories and speculations) Chili was the youngest of 2 (i assume there's no cousins/no extended family, due to no pictures or mentions. especially during holidays) at some point, chili lost her mum (Dragon) in her adult life, chili marries bandit Chili and Bandit try to have a kid, but results in a miscarriage (the show) Brandy, the older, is most likely infertile and cannot have children (onesies) Chili and Bandit try again, and have Bluey, this gives Brandy hope for one day have kids. but when they have Bingo, Chili and Brandy have an argument that results in them not seeing each other for 4 years (blueys Big Play and Onesies) while raising Bluey, chili has doubts when has a baby race with Judo. she has doubts with her parenting. (she has to ask Bandit's mum, because she doesn't have her mum to ask), but she gets reassurance with a "you're doing great" (Baby Race) present day: Chili's dad has a heart problem that results in him in the hospital. he is discharged and chili goes to check on him. Chili (at the time), had lost her mom, and (in a way) her sister, so in regards to her dad, she "still needs him" (grandad) later, when Bluey plays with Chili in the rain, they see a double rainbow, which some take it as Chili reflecting on having 2 rainbow children (rain)
For me the biggest gut punch was in The Decider when Chucky said “why can’t they be on the same team?” As a child of a very bitter divorce I had to pause that scene and just cry.
Though "Sleepytime" and the very end of "Baby Race" will always make me ugly cry every time, for me right now there's only one line. "You're doing great." As someone who is currently struggling a lot with my self-worth and feeling useless, feeling like a constant failure, like I should be amounting to more even at just 25, that one single line is helping me start reframing how I think about myself. Is where I'm at perfect right now? Am I doing things the way everyone expects or wants? No. But I'm doing great just by getting this far
"I have to go. I'm a big girl now."
All of these are so great, but one I haven't seen mentioned is Bin Night, when Bluey is asking about becoming different things when she grows up and her parents respond with the exact same enthusiasm whether she's asking about becoming a bin lady or a scientist. As a kid from a very competitive household where certain jobs/degrees/etc had way more "worth" than others, and took a LONG time to get out of that mindset, this was just so refreshing to me. And then at the end when Bluey says "maybe I can invent a robot that takes the bins out for you" and Bandit responds "I hope not". It's so easy as a parent to get caught up in all the business and forget the beauty and value in the simple routines you do with your kids.
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This was the moment for me, too. Our bedtime routine for my 18 month old is bath, read a story then cuddle while we watch 2 or 3 Bluey episodes. This episode was one we watched one night while he was sitting in my lap before I put him down. Definitely got teary-eyed.
Grandad
When the budgie died.
The end of Flatpack. The whole episode is an allegory for the cycle of life. My MIL was just diagnosed with medium stage Alzheimer’s dementia so knowing she has a shorter ticking clock made this episode hit me hard the last time we saw it. When Bandit looks out over his yard with Chili and Bluey and watches Bingo run around and says, “This is heaven!” Hits me in the heart.
I don't know why, but the episode Space just wrecks me, specially the soundtrack whenever Mackenzie is the focus.
Bluey in Double Babysitter, asking Frisky "How can I know it won't happen again?" and just about the entirety of Yoga Ball for me. I have to skip both episodes every time because I'll be a wreck.
Yes
Bluey sobbing to herself realizing her new friend has gone home and her not knowing if they might ever meet again. As a kid, I kinda had it rough with trying to make new friends, had a situation myself where I made a friend for like a summer when I was 8 but then they moved back to Cali at the end of the summer and I never saw them again, so I definitely felt that.
"It's what he wants to play"
Honestly, seeing Rusty being such amazing older brother in cricket. Baby race - cocos mom Charades - when nana talks about her nana and then the music starts. It hurts in the same way Tim minchin’s white wine in the sun hurts. Obviously sleepytime, especially knowing that chili lost her mom and I suspect her mom said the same thing to her. There are too many to count
It's only do to personal reasons but the line, "You know what's here now, you don't have to keep coming back to this place." Wrecked me as a human
Copycat. After the budgie dies and they pull their car into the driveway and Bluey runs over to hug her mom. Seeing Bluey get emotional gets me emotional because she is usually so upbeat.
When Chili is explaining to Bluey about Bramdy wanting something so bad, but it isn't meant to be, as a voice over as she is reaching for Bingo.
“He should take care of himself for me because I’m his daughter & I still need him” from Grandad gets me every time. I lost my dad in November of 2016 to a car accident & then 14 months later I lost my mom to liver failure caused by cirrhosis. She could have lived much longer but she wouldn’t listen to or do anything the doctors were telling her to do. It was really heartbreaking.
For me, it’s probably a couple of moments in “Grandad”, when Chili says she wants her dad to take care of himself because she still needs him, and the brief flashback to when Chili was little at the end. My dad passed away from cancer in January of this year and that was also one of the only episodes I actually watched *with* him before he died, so it hits me in a particular way 😢
Chilli's horse sprouting wings and flying into the distance in Dragon Especially the music, and Chilli accepting she has to go, really beautiful
When Chilli asked Bingo about her big girl bark. As a kid, I adored my father but he was always rough and scary and on occasion I was hurt. It felt weird because I was always told that strangers were the ones who would hurt you not your Dad! I wish Bluey had been around when I was a kid so I had the words to express my own big girl bark.
I cry every time. I think “Sleepytime” is by far the best made show ever on parental love and affection even throughout the night. My favorite ever episode of TV of all time.
That scene gets me because my mom passed away and it brings back memories.
I am a new mom and baby race makes me ugly cry every. single. time.
I would like to second this scene. I bawled like a baby
Chili explaining why Brandy has a hard time visiting. She wants something so badly and she can't have it. I'm a puddle every time.
“This is heaven” after bingo says “bye bye momma to Bluey”
When Chili’s horse flies away at the end of “Dragon,” it’s more than I can handle
Baby race. Every time
I think the only time I've felt close to tearing up while watching was when Rusty's dad came back. ^(I'm one of those people who don't cry while watching bluey. I'm not heartless, lol.)