Obsession: Bluey

This is a hand episode. We only see the characters acting with their hands for the majority of the episode, but Bandit is lying on the ground and Chilli, Bluey, and Bingo are all trying to get to the top of the Blue Mountains to find the softest warmest beds because it is getting cold outside. They journey on through heights, through caves, and through a cheeky fox trying to trick them up. Finally they make it to the warm beds—which are bandit’s ears and usually the softest fur on a dog for some reason—and they learn a lesson about taking care of each other and how big sisters need to look out for little sisters.

Bluey gets five bucks from the tooth fairy…even though she doesn’t look like she lost a tooth anywhere in her mouth. Her mom suggests that she spend it at the markets when they go later. So Dad, Bingo, and Bluey go and Bluey meets up with Indy and has a hard time trying to find something she wants to spend her money on. She ends up stress buying a toffee apple that she really doesn’t want. She regrets it and wishes she had the five bucks back to be able to put into the musician's guitar case so he can play another song that Bluey wants to dance to. But she already licked the toffee apple so there was no chance she can return that. But the five dollars makes its way around each of the vendors and into the dancing hands of Indy’s mom. She gives the five to Indy to tell her to put it in the musician's case, and Bluey learns that what goes around comes around…even if she doesn’t understand it.

The family are at a restaurant when Bluey and Bingo come across a claw machine—one of those machines you have to guide and you can get prizes when it grabs something. They quickly realize how rigged the game is and drive home very mad at the injustice of it all. While home, Chilli comes up with a home remedy game of the claw to try to put the girls in a better mood. Bingo loves it, but Bluey finds it a bit too easy. So dad makes the game much more difficult and the girls try to win a block that will give them bottomless ice cream sundays after dinner. Haha. Bottomless. Things go a bit awry after this, and no one really learns a lesson and the house is not cleaned. We’re just out here having fun.

So Bingo is the doctor and Bluey is the receptionist. Honey comes in and wants to see the doctor but she doesn’t really have anything wrong with her so Bluey tells her to make something up. Honey says her knee hurts and just as she’s about to go see the Doctor, someone else comes in with an issue that is a bit more urgent and serious than Honey. And that happens time after time after time, until Honey starts making the kids laugh out in the waiting room and the doctor comes to see what she’s doing and notices that it’s a serious issue and that the doctor needs to see Honey immediately. And Honey and the kids learn about playing to your strengths and just having a good old time.

This episode is centered around Bluey’s teacher, Calypso. Her and her students are all having story time, and when story time ends, they all get up and start playing doing different activities in different parts of the classroom. Calypso walks around and just observes and makes a few comments here and there. She gently directs the students to help each other and the students learn about economics and capitalism. In all honesty they do learn about those things but they also learn the important lessons of leaning on each other and collaboration.

Bandit is trying to get some work done from home today, but Bingo and Bluey keep distracting him to play. And every game that they play Bandit plays a little too rough with Bingo. Bingo gets a bit dazed and crawls under the tree bench where Chilli helps her discover her big girl bark. Now whenever dad plays a little too rough with Bingo, she can let him know. She’s the cutest, as we always say, and she learns a valuable lesson about confidence and speaking up.

Bandit is hanging a fabric swing on their big poinciana tree in the backyard. Bluey and Bingo are hanging out waiting for their dad to put it up so they can…swing. Judo, their neighbor pokes her nosy head over the hedges and asks what they are doing. Bluey then has the brilliant idea to play butterflies. Judo is a bit insecure and bossy, so she runs away from Bingo and Bluey follows along. All together the girls learn about friendship and how to treat each other so no one’s feelings are hurt.

Bandit, Bingo, and Bluey all go together to pick up some takeout—or take away as the Aussies say it. Unfortunately, the spring rolls are not ready yet and Bandit is not leaving without his spring rolls. They’ll be ready in five minutes which ends up feeling like an eternity for the girls as they try to find ways to entertain themselves. And Bandit learns the lesson that a person never has the chance to be young again, so they should soak up as much life as they can while they’re young.

Bingo, Bluey, Mackenzie, Chloe, and Honey are all playing a “spy game” at a BBQ between the families. Bluey and Mackenzie are the spies, Chloe and Honey are the guards, and Bingo is collecting the potion grass. The purpose of the game is to collect a hair from every adult dog and with enough potion grass the kids should be able to control whatever the adults are doing with two sticks dug into the ground. Sounds ridiculous, but it might actually be real. Bingo gets fed up with collecting the potion grass as she wants to be a spy, and she quits. And Bluey needs to learn the valuable lesson of teamwork and leadership.

Bingo gets to bring home Bob Bilby—a little bilby sock puppet. She is supposed to take pictures of all the fun things her and Bob do during the weekend and put them in the album the rest of her classmates have created during their weekends with Bob Bilby. But the girls get sucked into their screens, and after Chilli takes some pictures and shows them, Bingo is upset because Bob Bilby is having the worst weekend ever while with the Heelers. Bluey helps and puts the screens away for the rest of the weekend, and the family has adventures to last a lifetime and enough memories to put in the book to make all the other kids jealous of the weekend Bob Bilby spent with the Heelers.