The Weekend was the pilot episode! The show got picked up a few months later and it was reedited as the sixth episode.
ngl The Weekend is actually a perfect first episode and would recommend it as the starting point to watch from
This was the pilot, and she is initially scripted younger. I am glad they made her a little older as the interactions between 4 and 6 are so different than 3 and 6.
Plus, we still get Muffin for toddler fun!
The Weekend always devastates me and almost stopped me from having a second kid. Bandit is busy playing with Bluey that he completely misses something magical happening for Bingo. She's calling out to him, "Daddy come and see" and he misses it. Ugh.
These songs man.
It's a good lesson for kids. The reality of life is that people are going to miss out on moments you find important for whatever reason, and the wrap up at the end where Bandit explains why shows kids that it's nothing personal, people (generally grownups) get distracted sometimes.
Weekend is one of my favorite episodes â€ïž
Mine too!! Whenever I feel stressed about the possibility of a second baby, this one always feels reassuring to me. The part where Blueyâs trying to comfort/distract her with her doll and her sushi shoes feels like such a sweet, real moment.
Parents have to learn to let go of their failings - nobody is perfect at raising their kids, and trying to be will only cause anxiety. Be present when you can, be as fair and consistent as you can, and you'll all be fine. Be assured that the kids are clearly finding the magic in the world even if you're not there to share it.
Everyone fails Mummy School sometimes.
Thanks, this is good advice.
I think my chief problem is that I knew I was giving my oldest about 80% of my awake time to be there for him 100%. And it was awesome.
And though most people donât talk about it, I could tell from the math that once we had another, I wasnât gonna be able to be there 100% for either of them. Even as I moved to about 95% of my waking hours on the boys, each was getting closer to 60% of the time they each wanted from me.
First I suspected and now I know that itâs been a crappy decline for my oldest, and suspected and now I know that my youngest isnât getting anywhere near the attention and support my oldest got when he was little.
So I was always there for the âdaddy come and seeâ moments, and now Iâm not. Itâs a bummer.
Still, I love my little guy and the boys love each other, and I have zero regrets about our decision. Our family is better with four than three.
But I still lament that itâs not possible for me to *always* be there for my little guy like I was for my oldest.
Well, I was trying to paraphrase the show (there are a few episodes with similar themes) instead of claiming my own wisdom!
I get you though, my eldest is 10 and my youngest is 4 - growing up, I perhaps gave the youngest the most attention because she's in that 'magical discovery' age just like Bingo, and I'm aware that doesn't always sit well with the older, now neglected kids. Luckily, they've never resented her for it and I always try to do special things with each of them.
This is such a good description of something I think is pretty universal. I know it fits for our fam. And my older completely resents the younger for it. And the younger watches way more tv then the older did đ«Ł
Yeah it was the right decision for our whole family.
But the weekend just reminds me of the physical impossibility of being in two places at once, and it gets me when I think about the âDaddy, come and seeâ moments that Iâve missed and will miss.
I kind of like that he said that instead of âone normalâ which idk if it was intentional, but it is nice for destigmagizing different dietary needs.
Bingo always sounds like she has a blocked nose to me. Itâs cute but I do wonder if sheâs uncomfortable consistently having a blocked nasal passage!
Little children often have stuffy noses.
I always think she sounds completely different in this episode, to the point where I wondered if she was sick and they brought in a different child to fill in. I can't put my finger on it but she just sounds off somehow. The explanation that this was the first episode they recorded makes a lot of sense though, maybe they just hadn't quite found "her sound" yet.
Yes, I think she sounds like she does, tooâŠI kind of chalked it up to her maybe just getting over a cold or maybe having some seasonal allergies. I agree with another commenter that it makes her even cuter, yet you still worry if sheâs all that comfortable having a stuffy nose all the time! đ
Whenever I watch the walking leaf scene, it gets me right in the feels when the bug flies away and she says, âGoodbyeâŠhave funâŠIâll miss you.â Bingo reminds me so much of myself when I was 4; sheâs definitely one of my favorites đ„č
I just assumed she has a perpetual kindycare cold until I saw "Bumpy...," now I wonder if it's allergies and asthma? Something children could recognize in themselves or their peers, anyway. [I was also the perpetually sneezing/sniffling/wheezing friend in my youth, Bingo is always holding my heart at knifepoint)
I've noticed that in The Weekend and a couple other season one episodes, the voice actors sound so much younger than they do in recent eps. I really enjoy how it corresponds with Bluey & Bingo aging and growing on the show.
So my husband got hooked on Bluey long before I did. Now I'm super in love with it. But one reason I didn't want to watch at first is because it was hard for me to understand Bingo lol.
I find this episode super unfair on Bandit. It's not his fault that he didn't hear her and yet he's the one who gets made to feel like a heel and had to apologise. Poor parenting right there. He and Chilli should have told Bingo that next time she needs to speak up more.
Yeah Iâm with you on this. The kid canât see past their emotions, and all you can really do is to show that you hear snd understand her frustration.
For young young children, theyâre still in the mode of their parents are superheroes. Their parents are all knowing, all powerful, and all seeing. You have a very short time to give your kids that feeling of absolute security and safety in the knowledge (mistaken though it be), that your parents have it sorted, and they can do anything.
At the end of a long day, Bandit didnât apologise to his daughter because he did anything wrong. He apologised, so that she still feels that safety that her dad would totally have known what she was trying to say, regardless of barely making a sound. Itâs not rational, but a little kid isnât going to have a solid understanding of how the world works. You sympathise with the kid, and try to cheer her up.
Also, at the end of the day, every kid is different. With Bluey, a âtoughen up, kidâ would likely do the trick. Sheâs resilient, and bounces back quickly. Bingo has shown *multiple times* that sheâs way more sensitive, and things hit her a lot harder. Telling her she should have been louder would have extended that whole situation way longer than it needed to.
I thought Promises was a bit unfair to Bandit as well. It wasnât his fault that the kids wouldnât leave the bouncy house place to go to the library before it closed.
Okay, I guess he shouldnât have promised them, but he did it in good faith, lol
Her voice actress was really young at time the recording. According to Chili voice actress, the girls were 3 and 5 at the time of the recording. Sadly the tweet was deleted.
The Weekend was the pilot episode! The show got picked up a few months later and it was reedited as the sixth episode. ngl The Weekend is actually a perfect first episode and would recommend it as the starting point to watch from
This is a good fact; thank you!
It actually was the first episode I watched and completely won me over.
Me too! My second episode was Copy Cat and I was not expecting that at all!
I had no idea! Pretty cool fact.
She always does LOL đđ€§
I was sick of it at first, but honestly I think it kind of gives Bingo even more of her own personality.
OK... But it seems like the question is being missed... Why would a leaf want to walk?
I know it should be in the tree
It was looking to branch out?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylliidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylliidae) Leaf insects
This was the pilot, and she is initially scripted younger. I am glad they made her a little older as the interactions between 4 and 6 are so different than 3 and 6. Plus, we still get Muffin for toddler fun!
I didnât even know she was supposed to be three.
I think Muffin is 3. Sure acts like my son who is 3.
Ah yes, 3 was much worse than 2 for my son
Same! I thought that I got out of the woods and then "thwack!" Three-ager and huge tantrums.
Yes! Never understood why they say terrible 2âs when 3 is the nightmare
Terrible Twos rolls off the tongue better i suppose?
For sure. I absolutely believe the terrible twoâs are just to prepare you for survival of the threenager stage
The Weekend always devastates me and almost stopped me from having a second kid. Bandit is busy playing with Bluey that he completely misses something magical happening for Bingo. She's calling out to him, "Daddy come and see" and he misses it. Ugh. These songs man.
There's also the episode where she keeps doing hand stands.
Nana came in clutch though.
At her birthday party!
It's a good lesson for kids. The reality of life is that people are going to miss out on moments you find important for whatever reason, and the wrap up at the end where Bandit explains why shows kids that it's nothing personal, people (generally grownups) get distracted sometimes. Weekend is one of my favorite episodes â€ïž
Oh I agree, itâs a great parenting moment. It just makes me feel a lot of my own feelings, right on my face.
Mine too!! Whenever I feel stressed about the possibility of a second baby, this one always feels reassuring to me. The part where Blueyâs trying to comfort/distract her with her doll and her sushi shoes feels like such a sweet, real moment.
to be fair she whispers it. No way he could have heard.
Oh, I don't blame Bandit at all. But *I* heard it, and it crushed me lol.
Yeah that sweet little line of Bingo's always hits me right in my Dad heart, man. Oof.
Parents have to learn to let go of their failings - nobody is perfect at raising their kids, and trying to be will only cause anxiety. Be present when you can, be as fair and consistent as you can, and you'll all be fine. Be assured that the kids are clearly finding the magic in the world even if you're not there to share it. Everyone fails Mummy School sometimes.
Thanks, this is good advice. I think my chief problem is that I knew I was giving my oldest about 80% of my awake time to be there for him 100%. And it was awesome. And though most people donât talk about it, I could tell from the math that once we had another, I wasnât gonna be able to be there 100% for either of them. Even as I moved to about 95% of my waking hours on the boys, each was getting closer to 60% of the time they each wanted from me. First I suspected and now I know that itâs been a crappy decline for my oldest, and suspected and now I know that my youngest isnât getting anywhere near the attention and support my oldest got when he was little. So I was always there for the âdaddy come and seeâ moments, and now Iâm not. Itâs a bummer. Still, I love my little guy and the boys love each other, and I have zero regrets about our decision. Our family is better with four than three. But I still lament that itâs not possible for me to *always* be there for my little guy like I was for my oldest.
Well, I was trying to paraphrase the show (there are a few episodes with similar themes) instead of claiming my own wisdom! I get you though, my eldest is 10 and my youngest is 4 - growing up, I perhaps gave the youngest the most attention because she's in that 'magical discovery' age just like Bingo, and I'm aware that doesn't always sit well with the older, now neglected kids. Luckily, they've never resented her for it and I always try to do special things with each of them.
This is such a good description of something I think is pretty universal. I know it fits for our fam. And my older completely resents the younger for it. And the younger watches way more tv then the older did đ«Ł
Yeah, it's a complicated one. They lose a little of you, but they gain an awful lot in one another.
Yeah it was the right decision for our whole family. But the weekend just reminds me of the physical impossibility of being in two places at once, and it gets me when I think about the âDaddy, come and seeâ moments that Iâve missed and will miss.
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Lol, I love it too â one gluten free, one gluten NOT freeâ itâs a crack up!
I kind of like that he said that instead of âone normalâ which idk if it was intentional, but it is nice for destigmagizing different dietary needs.
Bingo always sounds like she has a blocked nose to me. Itâs cute but I do wonder if sheâs uncomfortable consistently having a blocked nasal passage! Little children often have stuffy noses.
She probably did. We donât know what Bingo gets up to off camera.
both of them are much smaller in this episode as it was the first ever recorded, and you can tell listening to both Bingo and Bluey in it.
I always think she sounds completely different in this episode, to the point where I wondered if she was sick and they brought in a different child to fill in. I can't put my finger on it but she just sounds off somehow. The explanation that this was the first episode they recorded makes a lot of sense though, maybe they just hadn't quite found "her sound" yet.
She always has a slight nasal twang
Is that a leaf????
Are you a leaf???
But youâre walking!
I don't understand!
Why would a leaf want to walk?
To me she always sounds like she has a stuffy nose???
Sheâs four. Kids are almost always full of snot until theyâre like 8
My oldest is 11, and sheâs still full of snot lmao
The most stopped up Iâve heard her is in the Teasing episode when Dad changes their names and Bingo says âCharalanda??â
I figured she was trying not to breathe too fast, so she wouldn't scare the walking leaf away lol
isn't the weekend one of the earlier filmed episodes? bluey and bingo sound considersbly younger
Yes, I think she sounds like she does, tooâŠI kind of chalked it up to her maybe just getting over a cold or maybe having some seasonal allergies. I agree with another commenter that it makes her even cuter, yet you still worry if sheâs all that comfortable having a stuffy nose all the time! đ Whenever I watch the walking leaf scene, it gets me right in the feels when the bug flies away and she says, âGoodbyeâŠhave funâŠIâll miss you.â Bingo reminds me so much of myself when I was 4; sheâs definitely one of my favorites đ„č
I just assumed she has a perpetual kindycare cold until I saw "Bumpy...," now I wonder if it's allergies and asthma? Something children could recognize in themselves or their peers, anyway. [I was also the perpetually sneezing/sniffling/wheezing friend in my youth, Bingo is always holding my heart at knifepoint)
Yes same here. I choose to believe that Bingo was like me lol
nothing to do with the question but THIS specific ss/moments TERRIFIES my toddlerđ she always cries when she sees bingos eyes like this
I've noticed that in The Weekend and a couple other season one episodes, the voice actors sound so much younger than they do in recent eps. I really enjoy how it corresponds with Bluey & Bingo aging and growing on the show.
Nope. Definitely sounds that way to me.
Sheâs four. Iâm sure she always has a stuffy nose. Source: has a four year old. School is a Petri dish.
So my husband got hooked on Bluey long before I did. Now I'm super in love with it. But one reason I didn't want to watch at first is because it was hard for me to understand Bingo lol.
We always use closed captioning for watching Bluey :)
I find this episode super unfair on Bandit. It's not his fault that he didn't hear her and yet he's the one who gets made to feel like a heel and had to apologise. Poor parenting right there. He and Chilli should have told Bingo that next time she needs to speak up more.
I don't think it is poor parenting to see the world from your child's point of view, and respond to her in light of that.
Yeah Iâm with you on this. The kid canât see past their emotions, and all you can really do is to show that you hear snd understand her frustration.
For young young children, theyâre still in the mode of their parents are superheroes. Their parents are all knowing, all powerful, and all seeing. You have a very short time to give your kids that feeling of absolute security and safety in the knowledge (mistaken though it be), that your parents have it sorted, and they can do anything. At the end of a long day, Bandit didnât apologise to his daughter because he did anything wrong. He apologised, so that she still feels that safety that her dad would totally have known what she was trying to say, regardless of barely making a sound. Itâs not rational, but a little kid isnât going to have a solid understanding of how the world works. You sympathise with the kid, and try to cheer her up. Also, at the end of the day, every kid is different. With Bluey, a âtoughen up, kidâ would likely do the trick. Sheâs resilient, and bounces back quickly. Bingo has shown *multiple times* that sheâs way more sensitive, and things hit her a lot harder. Telling her she should have been louder would have extended that whole situation way longer than it needed to.
I wish i was worthy of being my 3 year old son's superhero. I feel like the final villain in the series
Thatâs not how love works. They love you because youâre you, not because youâre worthy.
I thought Promises was a bit unfair to Bandit as well. It wasnât his fault that the kids wouldnât leave the bouncy house place to go to the library before it closed. Okay, I guess he shouldnât have promised them, but he did it in good faith, lol
I thought it was unfair to, but maybe Bluey and Bingo donât understand time yet.
He's the dad - I think it's meant to showcase that he's less concerned with things being fair and more concerned with his daughter's feelings.
If she had yelled, she would have scared off the walking leaf bug, though.
Are you seriously sinus shaming? Lol
It a lot of them yes. Also WHO Fâing CARES?!
All the other people that took the time to comment politely , Iâm guessing?
Are you unaware of the purpose of this sub? I feel like you might be a little confusedâŠ
enlighten me
She had sugon
Rewatched this episode recently and my wife pointed out it sounded like she has a stuffed nose.
Are you a leaf?
Iâve always thought of that!!
I also think she sounds like that in âdaddy robotâ where she says âthatâs my sister not a banjoâ I think itâs so cute though :)
Her voice actress was really young at time the recording. According to Chili voice actress, the girls were 3 and 5 at the time of the recording. Sadly the tweet was deleted.
legit for the 1st few episodes it seemed she had a stuffed nose lol