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Post by peanutz454 »

prismatic wrote: post #195
atonse wrote: post #138

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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 o…

Rain and Rainbow... the best music ever, even among all of Bluey episodes. That episodes takes me back to my childhood. Just listen to these:

Rain - https://youtu.be/U7Pvxqe2JvM

Rainbow - https://youtu.be/j1E8C_qLjbk

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Post by ksynwa »

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…

Their original musical is top notch too. I am not an expert on music but I was watching the music video for Rain and it hit home how much talent and effort they put in it.

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Post by eru »

prismatic wrote: post #196
eru wrote: post #189

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> 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.

I only noticed the brilliance of Faceytalk when I looked over the shoulder of my daughter watching a recreation of the episode someone had done with merch dolls and put up on YouTube Kids.

The recreation sadly broke the strict rule of 'singe take / no cuts, iPad view only', but that drove home to me how great the original was.

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Post by disillusioned »

sylens wrote: post #15

Different Bluey episodes resonate with different people for different reasons, but the Cricket episode from Season 3 is just about as perfect an episode of a kid's show as I've ever seen. In about 7 minutes it manages to tackle how being passionate about one of your interests or hobbies and sticking with it even when you experience setbacks pays off.

Cricket is, bar none, the best episode of children's television ever produced. (Chess is also _fantastic_.) It's so good, I've made adults watch it without a child in the room. It's a perfect short story: the backstory character development, the heartstring-pulling deployed father, the overcoming challenges and stepping into them, the letting his sister have a win, the adults recognizing that's what he's done, and then the coup de grace, the flash forward to Rusty as a professional cricket player. "_That's_ what cricket's about, kid."

It's brilliant at every level. Such a perfect piece of television, told in this flawless 7 minutes.

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Post by eru »

disillusioned wrote: post #200
eru wrote: post #189

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> 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

Thanks!

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Post by ksynwa »

kristianp wrote: post #165
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…

Regular YouTube has shorts though, which has kids watching bizarre and totally inappropriate stuff.

There are psychedelic edits of cocomelon songs for developing brains to trip on. It is truly an abhorrent platform.

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Post by ksynwa »

WorldMaker wrote: post #91
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)

Some of this comes from watching Bluey in a literal fever binge and believing I wrote a PhD dissertation on the show because it touched so many half-forgotten things from my Masters Degree's "individual studies": I think an interesting thing to Bluey is that it is not just a "show about nothing". It's not just the daily lives and family dynamics, it actually has a central point embedded in even the studio name (Ludo…

Ludo is also the name of a very popular board game

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Post by LeonB »

tomhoward wrote: post #130
autoexec wrote: post #120

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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!

I suspect they had him in mind right from the start and even developed the character for him. Custard/McCormack are Brisbane-based and Bluey has been produced from a Brisbane studio since the very beginning. The writers/producers would have known and liked his music and voice, and probably someone there already knew him personally. Bluey is shown on ABC in Australia and Custard has always had lots of airplay on ABC T…

Lots of airplay, apart from that time they went into the 4ZZZ studios and found a bunch of custard cds and tapes were all smashed up… leading to the song “fantastic plastic” off Wahooto, “I wish that triple zed would play us…”

Love Custard with my heart and soul. Thanks for bringing them up Tom Howard!

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Post by lukan »

bombcar wrote: post #22
_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.

Bluey may have done more for fathers (and families) than anything in recent history. So many are dealing with fatherhood without having a role model themselves, and everything on TV being "fat dumb lovable idiot" sitcom-types. The episode "The Sign" is an incredibly deep story from multiple angles.

I like bandit, but for a role model he spoils his children a bit too much I think. He allmost always does what the kid wants and not what he actually wanted to do. Well, he is also good at integrating it, like when he is doing exercises with the kids instead of weights.

But sometimes he is literally fleeing the kids, to not have to play with them, instead of saying no.

(But from the avaiable alternatives, he is indeed the best role model that comes to mind)

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Post by conductr »

lukan wrote: post #209
bombcar wrote: post #22

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Bluey may have done more for fathers (and families) than anything in recent history. So many are dealing with fatherhood without having a role model themselves, and everything on TV being "fat dumb lovable idiot" sitcom-types. The episode "The Sign" is an incredibly deep story from multiple angles.

I like bandit, but for a role model he spoils his children a bit too much I think. He allmost always does what the kid wants and not what he actually wanted to do. Well, he is also good at integrating it, like when he is doing exercises with the kids instead of weights. But sometimes he is literally fleeing the kids, to not have to play with them, instead of saying no. (But from the avaiable alternatives, he is indee…

Speaking for myself, that's exactly what makes it relatable. My kid consumes all my time if I let him. And, I often have to remind myself, this age is special and very short - my hobbies and 'rest' will be available again soon. I think the hard job of being a mom is well understood, documented, portrayed in media, etc. But, as a dad, I'm expected (by my kid) to be a tireless playmate matching his energy levels, playing his games, being imaginative and creative in my play, etc. and I don't think that type of parenting is well portrayed in media. My wife and I have spoken about it several time as we've fallen into pretty traditional gender roles and she's "cool with cooking and cleaning every evening, because [she] can't play the way [I] do" and it's equally exhausting after a long day of work/life/adulting.
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