Bluey - Spectacular Australian kids cartoon (in the US on Disney +)

Daley Pearson is the exec producer for Ludo, the company behind Bluey and yes, also Thor's roomie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XB0-UFs1aI

Everrrrryone who I know that has young kids loves it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf_l-vMkB_4

new episodes are up in the US! one posted per day on disney.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Is there anything the cartoon dog cannot do? It's number one on the album charts now.

Check out this week's Top Ten albums on the #ARIACharts featuring @OfficialBlueyTV, @thekidlaroi, @bmthofficial, @taylorswift13, @limecordiale and more.

For all of this week's charts, head to https://t.co/bfON5Bzzfk pic.twitter.com/yBoSf5v4P6

— ARIA (@ARIA_Official) January 30, 2021

lol, i drove my partner nuts whistling the theme song for months

thanks for saving us from endless my little pony! our 4 year old was literally rofling at the yoga ball on the loo, making us rewind and watch it again and again. still preferable to my little pony.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/bluey-best-kids-tv-show.html

I LOVE THIS SHOW

I have only seen two, but it makes the grand-daughters (4 and 6) do these serious belly laughs

(the ones I saw were "The Magic Xylophone" and the one where they operate on the dad because there is a cat in his stomach. I was dying w/laughter)

omg there are books?!?!

Great article, really captures the appeal.

Bluey Season 2 has just started on @disneyplus in the US and Canada Eh 💙 Love you to RT to your 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 Bluey friends and family! I’m so proud of the artists who make Bluey. Hope you love the new episodes as much as we love making them for you. Love from Australia 🦘 #bluey pic.twitter.com/u5YmDpAKOM

— Daley (@Daley_Pearson) June 8, 2021

I ask the question all Bluey-watching parents have asked themselves at some point: is Bandit based on you? “Well, on an extremely, extremely good day, I would say I get close to Bandit,” Brumm defers. “But no.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/03/peppa-pig-with-better-parenting-the-bounding-success-of-canine-cartoon-bluey

S2E32: ... Ultimately, Bandit realises that a more authoritarian approach is required to make the children listen.

*gasps*

punchline of that episode is dad playing hedgehogs with the kids instead of putting them to bed, so no worries

My God my kids love this show so much. It’s great.

I watched 15 minutes of OP’s youtube. This show seems like it could teach me how to be a dad if I ever forget when the time comes.

Web original!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOqlDvfWgY

Season three just started!

ooh, theres's a lot of original shorts on the bluey youtube channel that i didn't know about!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vTVadx8L08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHAHYCfnPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqo-qqKrw8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2kM0cOssc

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qJ9kLuRvs

first half of season three had a few missed steps but more than half great for sure

my partner is basically bingo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCKGuwsuwmc

not on disney in the uk yet :(

after disdaining it for a while in favour of paw patrol our 5yo got back into it again and must have watched both seasons at least twice in the school break, i got to catch a few i'd missed but not all. sleepytime (s2e9) destroys me.

xp - s3 not in the uk that is.

lol both ours were singing jingle bells batman smells over xmas, with slightly different words ('robin flew away' not ran away, that's the joke, and 'old saint nick lost his pants on the motorway')

I think we saw the Christmas Veranda episode at least 10 times!

whenever this thread gets bumped i assume bluey is finally getting milkshake ducked, it's too good to be true

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Promo, obv., but cute! (Full thread follows.)

Bluey’s home fo’ real life in Brisbane today! 🏠 It’s been building for over a year and it’s unbelievable to see this on @Airbnb today 🧡 🛏 https://t.co/xOu93ujsQe #bluey 💙 pic.twitter.com/Lrg3ZlluZP

— Daley Pearson (@Daley_Pearson) February 7, 2022

it's extremely faithful!

Holy crap. Maybe it's good we're not Australian as if our five year old got to stay there her head would literally explode.

oh my god, I watched the Sleepytime episode with my 5 year old daughter and it actually made me cry. I can't stop thinking about it. it's one of the most beautiful and perfect episodes of TV I've ever seen. and Bandit gets hit in the balls!

wait

WAIT

dave mccormack
THE dave mccormack from custard one of my fave bands… made a hit tv show and i’m only just finding out about it now? holy shit

The parents on this show are so patient I can feel my own kids eyeing my wife and me and thinking "And here I am stuck with these assholes..."

VG, where have you been?

it's the parents going along with things that i like. sitting on the lawn selling toilet roll drainpipes to passers-by, for instance, isn't something he had to do.

I'm gonna urge everyone who clicks on this thread to at least watch *that* episode - my daughter wanted to watch it again this morning and it was even better than I remembered. the constant parallels between Bingo's dream and the mundane, daily nighttime routine were really something. when she sleepwalks she's exploring in space but when her mom grabs her in her dream she's experiencing that crazy scene at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. and using "Jupiter" by Holst as the soundtrack? brilliant. the final scene where she looks back at the broken planet and says "I have to go, I'm a big girl now" is a real tearjerker...but this time I noticed it parallels what happens when Bingo drops Floppy, because my daughter asked me "why did the bunny leave her?" and of course she's going to join all the other bunnies, idk how I didn't notice this at first but that's a pretty obvious metaphor as well.

also worth mentioning how great the animation is too. it's so tightly storyboarded. especially since it's just like one episode out of a hundred.

out of curiosity I looked it up on IMDB and it has a perfect 10.0 rating, making it one of the greatest television episodes of all time? I rarely look things up there but it was nice to see that this is not just me losing my mind over a kids show

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12539164/?ref_=ttep_ep26

ha i loved that episode. when it finished my son looked at me and said "that one was boring"

Lol my elder one loves it - my girls are six and two & three quarters and I swear they sound just like Bluey and Bingo sometimes. It is incredibly good and it makes me cry too; The Flat Pack episode is, story wise, nearly as conceptually ambitious but not as trippy or quite as moving - maybe 9.8/10.

ending of the Barky Boats one was also very good - the older kids having feelings for each other but not knowing how to express it, then the little kids not understanding why the older kids aren't so interested in playing with them. the scene where they try to hold back the water was very moving - reminds me of last summer when my 6 year old son was on his bike while I walked around the block, then he suddenly picked up speed and I was trying to run alongside but he was going too fast. and then he got so far ahead where he couldn't hear me when I yelled at him to slow down and I realized "well he's off now, soon he'll be out of sight and I'll have to trust that he goes back home"...THAT is the feeling this show nails down so well

xxpost James Morrison

I KNOW ;_;

you guys need to watch the entire Jean-Luc episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k2SDjwzDN0

i nearly wrote about that one above. it's heartbreaking when you hear him say, in french, that he's off tomorrow and realise she doesn't know but salvaged by the coda

The latest episode…hoo boy.

Can't wait.

We went to see the stage show a little while ago. It was disappointing. The voices were all prerecorded by the actual cast, so it sounded er 'accurate' but didn't really feel like a live performance. The story involved Bandit trying to get his phone off Bluey which didn't really fit in with the normal show ethos, and it tried to shoehorn in all these 'greatest hits' sort of moments - chattermax, grannies, etc.

I thought The Sign was too long. But obviously still well worth watching.

One of my favourite episodes is the one where the grannies help out with a yard sale. "Oh no, ma coins!" is one of my all-time favourite lines.

the bbc have snuck out 12 episodes i haven't seen (series3). it's a pain to record them due to many repeats and season-pass mess (and cbbc / cbbchd doubling the listings. 76 showings it says in the next week)