Bluey Just Did Something Incredible...

I I think blue just peaked legit I think

they might have just made the best piece

of Television media for kids and

families uh ever at least in the last

decade or so but okay uh let's back up

here first Bluey if you haven't heard of

it Bluey is an Australian animated

series that if you're in the US like I

am airs on like Disney Channel and

Disney plus if you don't know anything

about it and just see a few Clips on the

internet you might think it's one of

those silly cartoons for preschoolers

like Peppa Pig or D the Explorer yeah

and it is but believe it or not it's a

lot more than that Bluey has become a

massive phenomenon over the last few

years with people of all ages kids teens

and parents alike because this is not

just a show meant for kids I've argued

that it's likely more for the parents in

general being a show more about

parenting than anything else the show

follows Bluey healer her sister Bingo

and her parents Chile and Bandit as they

just kind of do their everyday thing

they play games they go to the movies

they go to school they sleep you normal

anthropomorphic dog stuff but where

other preschool cartoons might cover

topics like you know sharing waiting

your turn and I don't know shapes blue

he focuses more on teaching lessons that

are more emotionally resonant for both

kids and parents yeah how many times did

D the Explorer's Adventures turn into an

allegory for the creation of Life an

evolution of society ending in dying and

passing on to the afterlife did Caillou

ever focus on the mom's insecurity with

her parenting they probably should have

and even as a dedicated Blues Clues kid

back in the day that dog never learned a

life lesson about how sometimes you

can't have children no matter how hard

you try and you just have to learn to be

okay with it these are all actual things

that blue tackles I'm I'm not kidding

now obviously this isn't the entire show

there's still plenty of episodes that

are almost entirely light-hearted and

just fun for the kids watching I mean

there's a whole episode where the

healers hold a family meeting like it's

a court case and it's all over just the

dad having farted but even in simpler

episodes like these where say Bluey and

bingo are on FaceTime call with their

cousin the show manages to work in a

b-plot about their cousin's parents

having a disagreement over their

parenting styles that leads to an

argument in the background not played

for Laughs either they do this 100%

straight these aren't things that kids

in the show's Target demographics are

necessarily going to pick up on so they

are absolutely making the show just as

much for the parents and because of that

Blue's become popular with basically

everyone and if you've been watching my

channel for the last year or so you'll

know that this isn't new I said

basically all the same things in my

first video about Bluey but something

happened recently that has been kind of

a culmination of all of this into what I

genuinely believe is not only the peak

of the bluey Series so far but possibly

the best piece of television in this

like genre or demographic the sign and

this isn't just any episode they have

been subtly building up to this for a

good chunk of the show's third season it

all starts in season 3 episode 41 stick

bird where the family all head to a a

shockingly empty beach for a day of fun

but while Chile teaches es blue and

bingo how to throw sticks or something

Bandit is constantly distracted sort of

Lost in thought dissociating even when

he snaps out of it he eventually finds

himself back in the void and at no point

in the episode do we ever learn what's

worrying him and this bothered me so

much I mean sure maybe there's a

poignancy to not knowing exactly what's

on his mind and maybe it's more accurate

to how a kid in real life may see a

parent who's dealing with their own

anxieties but I am nosy I want to know

and a few episodes go by like normal you

know there's an episode where everyone

just draws pictures and we get an

off-hand mention of Bandit's Elementary

School classmate Bucky dunon who

insulted Bandit's drawing skills and

killed his motivation to keep going

Bandit also mentions how he grew up to

be a real estate agent can't imagine

that will be relevant at any point and a

bit later while at the pharmacy or as

they call it the

chemist Australia we see some of blue

and Bingo's friends parents start to

mingle in the background not important

in the slightest episode after that

Bingo saves a caterpillar from getting

squished so it can go want to become a

butterfly purely a one-off I'm certain

of it and then we get to the episode

Ghost basket it's a pretty normal

episode where the family just play a

game where Bandit pretends to be a real

estate agent okay weird coincidence and

he's trying to sell their house to Chile

but Bluey and bingo are pretending to be

two grandmas who refuse to let the house

be sold it's a standard fun Bluey story

but then right before the credits we see

this shot from outside of the healer's

house zoom out to reveal the sign a for

sale sign sign a real one and now we're

getting to it the sign is as far as I

know Blue's first ever fulllength

special clocking in at over a half hour

and that's saying something when most

episodes of blue are like it's 7 minutes

long so clearly this is the big one and

the ending of the previous episode

wasn't kidding in the sign the healers

are looking to sell their house and move

to a new city apparently Bandit here got

a big new job offer one that pays a lot

more money than what he's currently

earning

by uh hm you know what don't really see

either of their parents working much I

know they have jobs because clearly

they're extremely rich they live in a

huge multi-story house that sits on top

of a hill but going just by the show

they mostly just kind of hang out with

their kids I mean there was one episode

where Bandit had to fly away for work I

think it had something to do with

archaeology maybe I don't know anyway

not important bandit has a new job offer

he wants the best for his family so he

and Chile are planning to sell the house

and move to a new town and while it's

never like outright stated or confirmed

this has to be the thing that was on

Bandit's mind in the beach episode

thinking about this new job offer and

how he might have to uproot his entire

family to go to a new town like that's

really going to weigh on your mind that

has to be what was going on there right

right I have to know but anyway yeah and

at the start of the episode we actually

see them leaving their house for a bit

so their real estate agent Bucky Dunston

huh can show some potential buyers

around the place the couple likes the

house so it's looking like the sale's

going to go through really the only

thing they don't like is that that the

house doesn't have a pool privileged

yeah obviously Blue's not really taking

the news great and why would she I

remember what it was like being her age

and having to move house or dealing with

literally any change to your status quo

it sucks change is weird and scary at

that age so I totally relate to BL here

and even as she tries to help BL

understand and accept the change it's

clear Chile's not in love with the idea

of moving either weirdly though uh bingo

doesn't seem phased by any of it she

seems fine look she's even doing the

thing that we all used to do when we

were kids like playing the little

running game with the car window that's

cute I totally used to do that later at

school blue tells her teacher Calypso

about the whole thing so Calypso reads

the class a story to teach them that

despite the good things or bad things

that come their way everything will work

out the way it's supposed to Good Luck

can lead to unforeseen circumstances and

bad luck can have unexpected Silver

Linings you just have to wait and see

and Bluey doesn't get it she's seven but

as if this wasn't enough and uh yes I'm

really doing a Bluey lore recap right

now that's the video you clicked on as

if this wasn't enough the healers are

also throwing a wedding ceremony at

their house for Bandit's brother rad and

his fiance frisky who we actually got to

see meat and originally get together in

previous episodes blue is still soaking

about the whole move when her cousin

muffin suggests just pulling the sign up

out of the ground so the house quote

won't be for sale anymore and luckily

Frisk wants to pull the sign up anyway

so it won't be there during the wedding

so from Blue's perspective her problem's

about to be solved but there's trouble

in Paradise as someone lets it slip that

rad was planning to move out west with

frisky without checking with her first

this throws everything out of order as

frisky calls rad and gets so upset that

she's ready to call off the wedding

entirely frisky hops into her car and

speeds off causing Chile to go into a

panic trying to save the wedding and

causing Bluey to also enter a panic

because she needs frisky to pull the

sign out of the ground so with that the

chase is on with things constantly

flopping back and forth between bad luck

and strangely convenient coincidences as

if the show were attempting to teach a

moral of some kind coincidences

including no joke the butterfly from the

water slide episode accidentally flying

inside the car causing muffin to freak

out which forced Chile to pull over

right in front of a road sign that

helped her realize exactly where frisky

would have run off to so once they all

find frisky at this Lookout Point the

real heart-to-heart starts frisky says

that all the change is becoming too much

for her you know with Chile and her

family moving away and rad wanting

frisky to move away too that's a lot but

here Chile admits to frisky and Bluey

that she doesn't actually want to move

and gets genuinely very sad about the

whole thing uh meanwhile a few feet away

Bingo and her cousins are just

absolutely pulverizing these Lookout

binoculars they want to look around but

they need a coin to operate it luckily

Bluey found one on the floor of a shop

they went to while hunting for frisky

she gives it to her sister and they

immediately get it lodged in the wrong

slot so now it won't budge oh well after

the heart-to- heart as Bluey chilly and

frisky all sit in their uncertainty rad

shows up he he and frisky manag to

reconcile and the wedding is back on and

during the reception the couple

announced that they're no longer moving

away hooray and so the next day the sign

goes back up the deal is done and the

house is sold the family packs up their

stuff and gets ready to head out well

except for Bingo Bingo's been pretty

unaffected by all of this so far that is

until move out day when she sees people

moving all of their furniture out of the

house Bingo didn't realize that selling

your house meant you had to you know not

live there anymore so that fear and

dread that Blue's been feeling for who

knows how long all Just Hits bingo in an

instant so Buie tries to help her sister

by telling her the same story Calypso

told her earlier in the episode

meanwhile back at the Lookout Point the

two dogs who bought Blue's house just

happen to go up to that same pair of

binoculars you know they want to look

through them and see if they can spot

their new house and sitting right there

in the wrong coin slot is Blue's coin

from yesterday they managed to get the

coin unstuck and put it in the right

slot take a look through and find of all

things another house for sale and it has

a pool also are the are are those the

parents of bl's friends who we saw

mingling in the pharmacy episode a I

guess they wound up dating and now the

families are moving in together that's

sweet so with the house empty and

everyone saying they're good buys the

healers are just about to pull out of

the driveway when Bandit gets a call

from Bucky the buyers change their mind

and the sale is off Bandit reflecting

walks up to the sign and then rips it

out of the ground and tosses it into the

road the healers are staying in uh

wherever it is they live I don't know

Australia the family excitedly runs back

into their home and the episode ends now

okay some of you might be wondering

what's the big deal I mean this just

sounds like a very nice standard story

for families and yeah this isn't the

world's most groundbreaking piece of

fiction or anything but considering this

is a show in the same vein of like Peppa

Pig the level of Storytelling here is

borderline unheard of there are shows

for adults that don't have this level of

emot maturity I love how this episode

tackles the conflict from basically

every possible angle you have Bandit who

is unfortunately the instigator of the

move you know excited for the

opportunity that's come his way but

unsure of whether or not uprooting his

family is a good idea and feeling guilty

for the way that doing what he thinks is

best for his family is causing so much

sadness for everyone and then you have

Chile who really and truly doesn't want

to move but wants to support Bandit and

wants her kids to be brave so she's kind

of putting on an act you have blue who

is just totally going through it and

then you have Bingo who's just too young

to fully process the gravity of the

situation until it's too late it's a

very well-rounded portrayal of how a

family might deal with something like

this plus this episode does an

incredible job at keeping you on your

toes legit the show had me convinced

that they were going to move up until

that scene at the lookout spot I was

fully ready for the status quo of the

show to completely change New Town new

house new Supporting Cast new set of

stories for the family to face the works

to some extent I was actually a little

excited about it you know from the

perspective of what it could do for the

show story-wise but the moment it became

clear they were going to stay was just

so satisfying not only because of how

the show had been building things up to

this point but also because of the

show's incredible presentation see Bluey

as a Series has a deceptively simple art

style and most of the characters are

rectangles with a few triangles and

circles it's not rocket science it's

simple enough that even my crappy

drawings of the characters don't look

too far off but these simple characters

and pleasant pastel colors are very

often used as a springboard for some

really beautiful imagery when the show

wants to create a more emotional

atmosphere you know they'll add fancier

lighting more cinematic framing increase

the detail on characters or objects or

make the animation a little more

involved and this episode does all of

that and more and it all comes together

with a beautiful Montage sequence near

the end of the episode as the family all

prepares to move only to realize they

can stay it's set to this amazing song

called Lazarus drug by Meg Washington

who is also the voice of calypso the

song is very iial and dreamy kind of

melancholic it kind of reminds me of the

ballad that plays during that one scene

from Toy Story 2 you know the one the

one that makes literally every human

being SOB uncontrollably and for this

song to be sung by the same person who

taught blue the lesson of the episode

it's just such an incredible full circle

moment makes cry so much it is insane

how much of a tear jerker it is and also

what a unique moral for you know not

just a kid show Family Show preschool

show just in general I mean when you

boil it down it's mostly a Twist on the

whole whatever will be will be idea but

I think the way they take that idea

place it into real world scenarios like

having to move towns or a wedding going

off the rails mix it with Concepts like

the butterfly effect literally and show

it from multiple different perspectives

makes the whole thing just so special

and unique for both kids and adults to

learn from yes the idea that there isn't

really good or bad luck there's just

what's happening you don't know what

might happen in the future a good thing

could turn bad or a bad thing could turn

good the only thing you can do is just

wait and see I love that but I know you

you guys don't want life lessons you

want the lore timelines Easter eggs

continuity all for a show about dog

toddlers okay Jokes Aside there is a

shocking amount of continuity and Bluey

blore essentially in this episode and

when you start digging through it it

becomes clear that the writers of this

show have been setting up the dominoes

here for a while and we've already

talked about some of the more obvious

ones like the two single parents from

the pharmacy episode getting together

leading to the house with the pool being

put up for sale the heck at the start of

the episode we even see one of those

kids Winton saying his parents don't

live together anymore but then his

friend one of the Terriers just goes my

mom likes your dad a little awkward but

you see they were building this stuff up

when I wasn't even paying attention plus

there's the caterpillar Bingo save

turning into the butterfly that caused

Chile to pull over so that they could

find where frisky went blah blah blah

blah blah Bucky dunon the real estate

agent being randomly named dropped six

episodes before this one and how the

wedding between rad and frisky in

General is a payoff from the previous

season when these two first got together

but beyond all that the episode is still

full of Easter eggs callbacks and things

that further the continuity of the

series even if they don't relate to the

story directly there's kind of this

General theme of growing up throughout

this entire episode during the scene

where the gang is trying to find frisky

blue gets to sit in the front passenger

seat of the car for the first time which

is treated like a huge deal by all the

other kids and later while the kids are

attempting to overthrow the binoculars I

guess blue is the one who hangs back and

engages with the heart-to-heart talk

with her mom about not wanting to move

and of course when Bingo gets sad about

having to move blue sets her own peers

aside to help her sister I think it's

really interesting how the show isn't

just allowing blue to get older instead

of just keeping her at 6 years old for

the entire show but her character and

her role in the family is actively

changing as well it's very smart and I'm

sure very relatable for the kids

watching the show plus it makes this

shot of Chile during the Montage at the

end hit even harder I mean not only is

this scene sad enough already but Chile

here is standing in the exact same spot

she was in when Bluey took her first

steps it's even shown at the same angle

man there's some real character growth

happening here that's so cool and

refreshing to see from this kind of

cartoon and they're using the filmmaking

and the medium to convey that to the

audience in very subtle ways the sign

really has the vibe of like a series

finale it feels like everything that was

being built up over the last couple of

Seasons got paid off beautifully Here If

This Were the show's finale it would

feel totally earned they even bring back

one of the show's most iconic storylines

for a super brief callback that just hit

me like a train earlier in season 3 in

the episode onesies we meet Blue's Aunt

Brandy if you know the show you already

know where I'm going with this this is

the episode that many believe to be

tackling the subject of not being able

to have kids it's one of the most mature

and heavily discussed stories in all of

Bluey and during the wedding scene we

see Brandy for the first time since that

episode and she's actually managed to

get pregnant this one time tiny detail

is just so heartwarming and actually a

really great and subtle way to back up

the episode's moral you know Brandy

believing that she might never have kids

only for her luck to turn around by the

end of the season is actually a very

nice mirror to the way Blue's luck

consistently turned around throughout

the episode reinforcing that phrase from

Calypso's story we'll see it's just so

good dude again it all feels like it

could have made a perfect series finale

but it's not in fact it seems like the

show is far from over and actually the

show might already be hinting at some

more serious subjects they're planning

to tackle moving forward like socks

socks is another of blue and Bingo's

cousins and throughout the episode her

parents stripe and Trixie are seen

arguing like a lot even during the

wedding we see him fighting and at the

same time we see Socks playing with the

bride and Grom wedding cake toppers and

she's making them argue oh my God that's

so sad I feel like this has to be them

building up to a future story about like

a troubled marriage or even a divorce

also the next day stripe stumbles out of

the bushes clearly hung over I think

that it is funny but dude's clearly

going through it and that's not all

because at the time I'm making this

video there's another new episode out

already and well spoilers I guess it

ends with another bit of continuity from

the sign this episode called surprise

ends with a Flash Forward into the

future where we see bluee now all grown

up giving her parents a visit you can

tell they're older because Chile is

wearing the grandma glasses with the

headstrap thing only old people wear

those as she walks in blue says the

house is looking nice and Chile's like

thank you can you believe dad almost

sold it oh the attention to detail I

love it I love it so much I mean

seriously I know I said this at the top

of the video but how many shows made

primarily for the preschool channels

have this level of continuity character

growth emotional maturity and like legit

lore Lou out here doing more in one

episode than some shows do in a season

and if the responses I've seen online

are any indication the kids and their

parents are absolutely balling their

eyes out over it and for good reason

it's it's re it's really yeah I just

don't think I've ever seen a show able

to touch so many different people young

and old at the exact same emotional

level it it's genuinely astonishing so

yeah uh I think bluee might have just

hit its peak at least so far I cannot

wait to see how the show manages to top

this episode I got no idea how they'll

do it but this show has never failed to

surprise me man don't you feel bad for

the people who think they're too old to

watch cartoons

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