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

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Post by youainti »

relaxing wrote: post #124
Cyph0n wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on age, but almost anything by PBS Kids is excellent. Prime and Netflix have a few good ones too. Some good shows I found for my son: * Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood - spiritual spinoff from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood * Elinor Wonders Why * Word World * Peg + Cat * Numberblocks and Alphablocks for learning about numbers and words * Guess How Much I Love You * Trash Truck * Hero Elementary * Mecha Builders * St…

Numberblocks goes hard in the later seasons, but sadly Netflix no longer has those. I really enjoyed the adaptation of El Deafo on AppleTV. Its brilliant use of audio effects to explain the evolving technology of the little girl’s hearing aids had me in tears.

Colourblocks is another great one from the BBC. The two things I really like about CB and NB is that

1. they are designed to be part of a curriculum and so they build across episodes. 2. Every so often the songwriters decide to remind you that they are capable and not just ripping off old songs like other shows do.

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Post by lmpdev »

naikrovek wrote: post #183
drekipus wrote: post #114

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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.

I’m American and I lived in Sydney for two years from 2001-2003. > we got talent right here You have no idea how right you are. Or maybe you do… There are writers and musicians and … every kind of talent on par with anything anyone else in any country has ever done. It was extremely eye opening for me to listen to TripleJ or whatever station I would tune to after hearing some American pop junk, and hear music I’ve ne…

NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts gets all these rave reviews for its production quality

But tbh Triple J’s Like a Version blows it out of the water

Especially giving artists the leeway to try genre switching

Like Denzel Curry covering Rage Against the Machine for instance

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Post by youainti »

mmmlinux wrote: post #55

Am I the only one that thinks it's crazy that an extremely popular children's show, with all kinds of merch and what not. is only worth 2B. When websites are getting sold in the 10s of B range.

$2B across approximately 40 hours of content. That puts each 7 minute episode at value of about $5.8 million.

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Post by defrost »

lmpdev wrote: post #192
naikrovek wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m American and I lived in Sydney for two years from 2001-2003. > we got talent right here You have no idea how right you are. Or maybe you do… There are writers and musicians and … every kind of talent on par with anything anyone else in any country has ever done. It was extremely eye opening for me to listen to TripleJ or whatever station I would tune to after hearing some American pop junk, and hear music I’ve ne…

NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts gets all these rave reviews for its production quality But tbh Triple J’s Like a Version blows it out of the water Especially giving artists the leeway to try genre switching Like Denzel Curry covering Rage Against the Machine for instance

Or the King Stingray cover of Coldplay's 'Yellow'

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Post by prismatic »

atonse wrote: post #138
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.

Agreed. My three-year-old's favorite episode, by far. Realizing how artistically ambitious and just plain good Bluey is has been an interesting lesson in how kids actually do have good taste/interesting preferences as long as you don't bombard them with the Cocomelons of the world.

My daughter likes to say "that makes me happy... and sad!" at the end of a particularly artistic episode, like Sleepytime, the wordless one where it rains, or the final episode ("The Sign" - the Citizen Kane of children's television).

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Post by prismatic »

eru wrote: post #189
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…

> One thing I really appreciate about the show is the music [...] The music is great but many shows have great music. What makes Bluey stand out for me is their commitment to 'avant-garde' formal constraints. Some examples: - In the episode 'Faceytalk' they never once break from the perspective of the iPad. - In 'Rain' there's not a single word of audible dialog. - In 'Turtle Boy' there's lots of sign language. Remem…

Love this comment. Had never thought about Bluey and Oulipo in the same sentence before, but you're definitely on to something.

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Post by Auracle »

op00to wrote: post #75
grepfru_it wrote: post #57

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The dad is who you want to aspire to be when you see his relationship with his kids. Definitely sighup’d my idea of parenting after watching a few episodes

I think it sets a high bar, which is ok because they also show the parents at low points without making them look pitiful or less worthy of love.

They also show them busy cleaning a lot, which is like half of parenthood at that age.

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Post by majormajor »

danielvaughn wrote: post #127
_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.

Yeah that stood out to me as well. There’s a kind of reverse-bechdel test where you can ask yourself to find any portrayal of a husband that doesn’t include mockery of some kind. And you can actually go back pretty far with it - it seems like that general trend began in the 70’s. Like you have I Love Lucy, which was a bit of a sexist show in its own right of course, but the husband wasn’t portrayed as incompetent. I…

"Any portrayal of a husband" on TV?

Comedies often have some mockery built in, and comedies aimed at kids in particular like to take shots at authority, but there are a lot of examples I can think of in just the general-TV-millenial-vibe-y things I've watched over the past couple of decades. More than the "bumbling dad" type, I'd say, from things I've seen in the zeitgeist (I guess one recent super typical example is Rick and Morty, though everyone sucks there):

* Arrested Development: Michael is the most competent of the bunch. His father was also quite competent, if an asshole and eventual criminal. But, you know, that put the "sit" in sitcom...

* Luke from Gilmore Girls is pretty consistently more sane than Lorelai, turns out to be a good dad too IIRC; other fathers include a loser and a number of very successful businessmen, teachers, etc.

* King of the Hill: doing his best, often the most sane of the bunch

* Bob's Burgers: haven't watched a ton of this but from what I've seen Bob is a goofball but respectable and wholesome, kinda a Hank Hill. Not a lazy Homer

* Parks and Rec: Ben Wyatt is a pretty positive character

* Brooklyn 99: Terry is practically a superman of competence and seems to hold is own with his wife and kids. Holt is a supremely competent husband. Boyle is a goofball generally and in dating, but that does not really extend to his eventual marriage and child, where he seems to be doing quite well.

* Schitt's Creek: Johnny is the competent center of the family surrounded by comically exaggerated crazy wife + kids

Dramas seem even further away. Where do Breaking Bad or the Sopranos land?

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Post by squigz »

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…

Storytelling has been integral to humanity's progression through the ages since day 0.

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Post by disillusioned »

eru wrote: post #189
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…

> One thing I really appreciate about the show is the music [...] The music is great but many shows have great music. What makes Bluey stand out for me is their commitment to 'avant-garde' formal constraints. Some examples: - In the episode 'Faceytalk' they never once break from the perspective of the iPad. - In 'Rain' there's not a single word of audible dialog. - In 'Turtle Boy' there's lots of sign language. Remem…

The behind the scenes of Rain shows just how many effects shots they animated, and just how laborious the process was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYwru8RdGQ

They also break the 4th wall specifically by showing the animator's point of view in a really fun sequence at the end of Puppets, and it's just... such a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhvVl0CW670

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