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

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Post by ip26 »

paradox460 wrote: post #106
fma wrote: post #84

Can we get a discussion going on where other parents are finding high quality media for kids to consume? YouTube Kids is a definite no. YT Kids feels like it's intentionally made to brainwash your child and having unsuspecting parents let their guard down with the "Kids" in the app name. From my experimentation it is far worse than regular YouTube. YouTube, need to watch them carefully and catch the YT algorithm tryi…

I set up a Plex user for my kids, and loaded it full of things that are kid appropriate. Old PBS kids shows from my childhood, bluey, a smattering of the newer kids shows my wife was familiar with from raising her siblings, etc. We don't give the kids much TV time at all, maybe an hour a week, but it's nice knowing they can just pick something themselves, and we don't have to worry that it's decent

Some of the new shows, e.g. Bluey, do feel head and shoulders above the good shows from my childhood. I’ve abandoned using age of the content as any signal of quality.

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Post by ip26 »

legitster wrote: post #97

For a road trip we put on the Ramona Quimby audiobooks and I was shocked at how much better they were than I remembered, and how similar of a feeling they gave me to Bluey. It comes from the minutiae and details of childhood psychology. To a small child, a pair of new red boots is so much more than a pair of red boots. It's not only relatable to kids, but the magic is that it reminds me what it's like to be a kid, an…

It was amazing how riveting my kids found Henry Huggins. In those pages, for them, saving money to buy a football became as compelling as anything.

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Post by ip26 »

alberth wrote: post #41

Bluey is like Seinfeld. It's timeless, everyone gets a laugh (including parents) and is a "show about nothing" (just the daily lives of family dynamics). As a parent, I really appreciate the show and no other show can compare. (For those who haven't seen it, it's more akin to a family sitcom than a traditional kids show/cartoon)

It might just be their daily lives, but every single story has a memorable point, which is significant and distinct. “Shadowland” is a clear & more obvious example.

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Post by ziml77 »

legitster wrote: post #94
fma wrote: post #84

Can we get a discussion going on where other parents are finding high quality media for kids to consume? YouTube Kids is a definite no. YT Kids feels like it's intentionally made to brainwash your child and having unsuspecting parents let their guard down with the "Kids" in the app name. From my experimentation it is far worse than regular YouTube. YouTube, need to watch them carefully and catch the YT algorithm tryi…

YouTube Kids is legitimately awful. And the content filters are a joke. We've been using the Dude Perfect app lately. It's got ads, but it only features a select few YouTubers that focus on kid friendly content. And everything is screened by a real person. So it lets our kids watch YouTube without the "endless trash" content feed.

I've heard about videos being marked as kids content automatically simply because it's animated. It not only sucks for people who expect YT Kids to be kid-friendly but it also sucks for the creators who don't want their adult-oriented content being shown to kids and who get less ad revenue due to less valuable ads being show against their video.

It would be better for everyone if Google would turn YT Kids into a manually curated service. I think that even Google would benefit from getting more people trusting YT Kids. But unfortunately having humans in the loop is not the Google way, so it will never happen.

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Post by goatforce5 »

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 came here to say this. Dave McCormack and Custard were in a popular indie band in Oz in the 90s. A couple of years ago he performed a couple of songs with The Wiggles, and came out on stage saying "Hello everyone, it's me! I'm from the 90s!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeEjEdTqqk

He uses his normal speaking voice for Bandit, and you can very clearly hear the same voice when he's signing most of the Custard stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_LSm7FjRI

Wisenheimer and Wahooti Fandango are still both great albums (...and then I moved overseas and drifted out of the Custard orbit). For anyone with kids firmly in the Bluey demographic, I bet you could really confuse them by playing Custard at them.

I'm surprised they (i.e. record companies) haven't been trying to push Custard more, given there's a large fan based just waiting to be tapped. It would be fun to see Bandit do karaoke of a Custard song, or sing a few lines when he was in the shower, or just doing chores, etc.

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Post by oluckyman »

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…

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

Verdex wrote: post #11

As a kids show bluey is adequate. However, I suspect its secret is that it's really a show for parents with young children that just happens to hold the attention of kids. My daughters like bluey (ages 3-8). But they also enjoy many things on TV and bluey doesn't stick out that much. On the other hand, I happened to be in the room for an episode where blueys dad is having a hard time making some sort of cake and blue…

To be clear, Bluey was actually the most streamed show in 2024.

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Post by atonse »

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…

This is what stuck out to me when I first watched it. Sleepytime is a masterpiece not only for the music but the whole episode. Everything about it is perfect. The pacing, the feelings, the moments, even the humor (Jupiter's giant spot).

It gets me every single time.

Many bluey episodes are like this. But Sleepytime especially stands out.

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Post by tinco »

fma wrote: post #84

Can we get a discussion going on where other parents are finding high quality media for kids to consume? YouTube Kids is a definite no. YT Kids feels like it's intentionally made to brainwash your child and having unsuspecting parents let their guard down with the "Kids" in the app name. From my experimentation it is far worse than regular YouTube. YouTube, need to watch them carefully and catch the YT algorithm tryi…

I don't know about YT kids, but Ms Rachel on YouTube is a really good show for babies / toddlers. On Netflix there's Kit & Sam that's a really cool series, it's apparently from the same makers as octonauts which I don't think is as good, but my daughter actually prefers (probably more age appropriate). Gigantosaur is a really cool one on Netflix as well.

We mostly use YouTube for Ms Rachel and watching music video clips (from the Sing movies and Disney movies). I don't know how it is in the US but here in the NL Netflix has licensed a whole bunch of great kids shows and we don't really use any other apps because of that.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

_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.

True, even back in my day the closest thing to a father figure would have been Steve from Blues Clues. But he was always coded more as an uncle/big brother instead.
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