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‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut

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Post by xattt »

jboggan wrote: post #30

One thing I really appreciate about the show is the music - so many of the best episodes are extended musical variations on great themes from classical music, and done so skillfully that you don't realize you're listening to Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" or Saint-Saens' "Organ Symphony" until you're at the emotional climax of the episode when the entire piece is restated, which has been priming you for a big theme or b…

Chili’s line is perfectly delivered. It sums up a parent’s love so concisely.

I make sure my kids hear it every so often, knowing that one day it will click on an emotional level and they realize what I truly mean.

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Post by stuaxo »

jjulius wrote: post #7
resource_waste wrote: post #2

>“The parents were so relatable and mirrored the parent I wanted to be,” Ooof fiction teaching Idealism. From Nietzsche to Plato, its agreed, fiction corrupts. One day the floury idealism will be seen not to work, and the damage will have already been done. I've seen Bluey, it was funny, it taught some general concepts... but if my kids are going to watch TV, why not Bill Nye the Science Guy or similar? Remember that…

>... but if my kids are going to watch TV, why not Bill Nye the Science Guy or similar? This comparison almost makes me wonder if you have kids.

(Or have watched much Bluey).

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Post by autoexec »

jamesliudotcc wrote: post #88
bag_boy wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. Bandit is a fantastic role model and I have learned a lot from this pretend dog dad lol. My father is deceased. I feel like a lot of the advice he would have given me, I picked up from watching Bluey.

In the Flatpak episode, he rolls his eyes and states, "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog!" The episode is mostly about how Bluey takes after the parents in a game where she's raising Bingo through adulthood while they also go from fishes through dinosaurs to modern humans, er, dogs. This show is so good on so many levels.

The writing in that episode is insane when you consider how much they managed to pack into such a short run time. The entire evolution of life and the building of society complete with religion, the story a parent raising Bingo before seeing her head off as an adult and then dying, and also two parents fighting over cheap furniture assembly and then making up. It all happens in just a few minutes and much of the story will certainly go over the heads of many young children watching the episode, but it ends up being perfectly enjoyable to everyone anyway.

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Post by drekipus »

tomhoward wrote: post #107

For those not aware… The voice actor for Bandit, Dave McCormack, was not previously known as an actor or voice artist, but he has been known in Australia since the early 90s as an indie rock band frontman. The band he fronted, Custard, started getting airplay on Australia’s national youth radio station, Triple J, in about 1993, and they became a staple of the live music scene - especially uni student bars, live rock…

I told my father-in-law about this, he didn't know anything about custard, but he pulled out a CD that he had of "Dave McCormack and the Polaroids"

Sure enough same guy, played at a pub down the road from us last year or so.

Very musically talented guy. It's so strange being a younger Australian and realising that we don't have to import fame/stardom from America. We got talent right here.

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Post by autoexec »

neal_jones wrote: post #25
_mlbt wrote: post #12

What I really appreciate about Bluey is that it’s one of the few children’s shows with a really great and relatable Dad character. The Dad in most children’s shows is either barely present or a total idiot that nobody respects.

Never before has a dog made me feel so lacking as a father /s

I've seen parents complain that it sets an unrealistic expectation for parents. That nobody could spend all their time entertaining their kids whims and games the way Bandit does and how you don't often see the parents really putting their foot down or even having to work. I think some of the push back is guilt/regret that it can't always be like that. It's better to see it as something to aspire to when possible than an expectation that things will be like that all the time. The show is also careful to show the parents struggling at times too and tries to encourage parents.

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Post by HenryBemis »

mcphage wrote: post #98
op00to wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He also normalizes farting in your kids’ faces. More seriously, Bluey is so enjoyable because the characters have dimensions and seem way more real than just about anything else on TV.. at least that you’d watch with kids.

> He also normalizes farting in your kids’ faces. ALLEGABLY!

How on earth does this gets downvoted???? That (too) was an amazing episode!!!

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Post by Paul_Clayton »

jboggan wrote: post #30

One thing I really appreciate about the show is the music - so many of the best episodes are extended musical variations on great themes from classical music, and done so skillfully that you don't realize you're listening to Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" or Saint-Saens' "Organ Symphony" until you're at the emotional climax of the episode when the entire piece is restated, which has been priming you for a big theme or b…

For some reason — I am musically incompetent — "The Beach" really felt like the soundtrack was very emotive in a way that fit the story.

The stately feel in "Sleepytime" may have fit the solar system motif and provided contrast to the earthy elements of the story.

I liked "Sleepytime" in part from the expression of letting go while being faithful. Bingo's letting her rabbit go did not mean a complete separation but an expansion (as a few additional rabbits came to help later) similar to a parent allowing a child to grow up and leave while affirming that the child is loved.

Bluey also has some similarity to Calvin and Hobbes in that some fantastic elements are not explained. E.g., in "Sleepytime", do Bluey and Bingo have a psychic connection such that they shared part of the dream or is there imagination/unreliable narration or some third option?

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Post by autoexec »

tomhoward wrote: post #107

For those not aware… The voice actor for Bandit, Dave McCormack, was not previously known as an actor or voice artist, but he has been known in Australia since the early 90s as an indie rock band frontman. The band he fronted, Custard, started getting airplay on Australia’s national youth radio station, Triple J, in about 1993, and they became a staple of the live music scene - especially uni student bars, live rock…

I don't know how many Bandits they went through to find him, but they got lucky. Voice acting isn't easy and he does such a great job!
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