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How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by bombcar »

rich_sasha wrote: post #90
timeimp wrote: post #29

The best part is how people are learning that the Disney+ version is censored. Yes, a childrens show is censored, in current year. Why? Because some jokes don't play well with adults, even though they go right over kids heads. Have a Google for "Bluey censored" to see what I mean!

Fun fact: one episode of Peppa Pig was censored in Australia. It was one about spiders, and basically about how spiders are cute, cuddly and there's no reason to be scared of them. I mean, I sympathise with the decision... Just funny.

Now I’m imaging Australia requiring a disclaimer before any children’s show involving the outdoors or animals: “WARNING: This show depicts fictitious worlds where animals and the outdoors are not trying to kill you at every turn. We remind you to stay indoors and stay safe.”

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by bombcar »

alberth wrote: post #16
bennyg wrote: post #11

My only problem with Bluey is actually a problem with the Disney+ app on my Vizio TV. The episodes are all fairly short, but then there’s like 5m of credits before the next episode starts and it’s kind of annoying to manually fast forward through them via remote. I often reach for stuff on Netflix just so the next episode will auto play after a few seconds instead of requiring actual manual intervention to keep the l…

As a parent I like it. It’s just enough time for my kiddo to learn the value of patience. But not so long, that I need to fast forward.

My four year old already knows how to use the remote to skip commercials and credits, turn the tv on himself, and find what he wants.

Hasn’t figured out the voice controlled outlet the TV is plugged into yet.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by bombcar »

hdhfjkrkrme wrote: post #43
DanHulton wrote: post #14

Bluey, I honestly believe, is a show for adults (more specifically parents, but, you know, parents are adults) that kids can also enjoy. Like, traditionally, the "best" kid's media from an adult point of view has been kids shows that are also enjoyable for adults, but Bluey is genuinely the opposite. There are episodes where it feels like the entire point is to get the adults in the room misty-eyed and sniffling, and…

Since some parents actively control what their kids watch it makes sense to create a show optimized for that niche - you increase parent appeal, but this will decrease kids appeal, so now you have an optimization problem to solve. It would be interesting to see a chart with kids preferences - I bet kids enjoy Bluey far less than other shows since it's not optimized for them, but for parents. When I was a kid it was a…

Kids are not a reliable demographic; without being “trained” to like things they’ll be perfectly happy watching baby shark on repeat.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by karmajunkie »

berrel wrote: post #124
robby_w_g wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "This family has two mommies. They love each other so proudly and they all go marching in... the... big parade," sing the lyrics. Other terms featured include "trans," "non-binary" and "queer." > “Love is love is love you see, and everyone should love proudly,” Acknowledging LGBTQ people are capable of love is somehow an example of “culture war”. It’s incredible people can be so bothered by a simple, sweet message.

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that’s an interesting way of justifying homophobia and transphobia.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by karmajunkie »

robby_w_g wrote: post #55
jimbob45 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> "This family has two mommies. They love each other so proudly and they all go marching in... the... big parade," sing the lyrics. Other terms featured include "trans," "non-binary" and "queer." > “Love is love is love you see, and everyone should love proudly,” Acknowledging LGBTQ people are capable of love is somehow an example of “culture war”. It’s incredible people can be so bothered by a simple, sweet message.

yes, acceptance of others is an overly political message to those of a certain political persuasion. can’t have kids running around thinking whatever they grow into might be ok if it doesn’t comport with mommy and daddy’s worldview.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by _chu1 »

My niece likes this show and I had never heard of it before. When I was a kid I liked cartoons that were on the air like 5-10 years before because even when I was 5 I found newer cartoons annoying. This one was pretty neat though and I agree it's refreshing after seeing the slop on the screen blasting from iPad kids.

One thing I really appreciate is that it's quiet, the characters are soft spoken, stock sounds don't play constantly, there isn't constant music, it's simple and doesn't make my head hurt.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by RecentlyThawed »

myspy wrote: post #80
jboggan wrote: post #18

Bluey is a godsend in our household. It's not annoying and the amount of classical and original music woven into each episode is wonderful. There's one particular episode - "Sleepytime" - which I cannot bring myself to watch anymore because I get so emotional. Every parent I talk to with young kids who has seen the episode agrees and knows what I mean. It's really that good, and despite being a fun little show there…

We haven‘t watched Bluey yet but when my older kids were young we watched Sarah & Duck. We loved it because it‘s chill and relaxing and a little weird.

Sarah & Duck is such a nice change from the typical loud and fast action kids programming. Shaun the sheep is another good slower alternative though not always as calming

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by gambiting »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #126
gambiting wrote: post #69

I feel like I'm the only parent on planet Earth that really doesn't like Bluey. Every time I watch it(which is often, my son likes it), it just seems to be promoting bad behaviour at the expense of the dad(like many other shows to be fair - looking at you Peppa Pig), including physical violence(one episode the kids decide the dad now has a stomach ache, so they punch him in the gut - and the dad just plays along with…

> including physical violence(one episode the kids decide the dad now has a stomach ache, so they punch him in the gut They are pretend playing. There is no indication Bingo meant to actually harm her dad. I pretend fight and let my toddlers beat me up, but I am sure they know only to do that when pretending.

The core of pretend playing, is pretending. Bluey very clearly punches her dad square in the stomach, he lets out an audible sound of pain, and......nothing happens. I agree that maybe Bluey didn't actually mean to hurt her dad - but the way the scene plays out she clearly does and she isn't told about it, the dad just takes it. Because the dad is portrayed as a (in this episode - literal) punch bag who has to accept everything the kids do. No valuable lesson was shown or taught here.

My opinion anyway.

Re: How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

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Post by jncfhnb »

berrel wrote: post #123
The_Colonel wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluey is targeted towards pre-school children. I'm not really bothered if my 4-year-old daughter sees stuff like this, it's just that she won't really understand things like "non-binary". It seems like a topic more appropriate for older children - maybe from age 8 or later?

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Meanwhile, other people get angry when such people’s mere existence is revealed to children!
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