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

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Post by Apocryphon »

donatj wrote: post #251
jbd28 wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

either you've seen the wrong episodes over and over, or you're just not approaching it with any sort of an open mind. even in the opening song you don't like the "staccato melodica" theme song, its just a small snippet of a longer song their musical director composed that the creator decided to snip down and turn into a game of musical statues...its just supposed to be fun! and there are episodes like Cricket where i…

So I pulled up Cricket just now and watched through it, as I'd seen it mentioned a few times in here. I can see why someone would enjoy that particular episode. It's lighthearted and sappy. However, a sizable portion of the episodes short runtime is Rusty smashing a cricket ball against the side of his parents house, visibly damaging the siding , with zero on-screen repercussions. That's exactly the sort of thing I d…

Maybe you are just unfamiliar with Australian customs and mores

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Post by Apocryphon »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #248
bitwize wrote: post #18

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I was rewatching Max Headroom recently and my favorite episode stood out to me. It's about an addictive game show called "Whacketts" which is so mind-numbingly insipid that even the punk operator of the pirate TV station that runs the show wonders why it's so popular. Turns out that the Whacketts broadcast is interlaced with a signal that looks like rapidly changing hexadecimal numbers and functions as a "drug" that…

Yeah, we imagined brainwashing would involve rapidly flashing hidden messages. In reality, it involves a head sticking out of a toilet. Hearing some of the things my elder daughter hears from other kids in the kindergarten, I sometimes wonder if we haven't jumped into some bizarro alternate universe.

Are they all using tablets?

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Post by Apocryphon »

paxys wrote: post #24

My family loves Bluey, but considering we're at the stage where an entertainment publication is describing it as a "$2B juggernaut", I'm afraid American capitalism is well on its way to ruining another good thing.

Technically it’s an Australian production

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Apocryphon wrote: post #282
TeMPOraL wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, we imagined brainwashing would involve rapidly flashing hidden messages. In reality, it involves a head sticking out of a toilet. Hearing some of the things my elder daughter hears from other kids in the kindergarten, I sometimes wonder if we haven't jumped into some bizarro alternate universe.

Are they all using tablets?

No, but some kids have slightly older siblings in primary school, and learn all kinds of crap from them.

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Post by robotnikman »

h0l0cube wrote: post #128
_spduchamp wrote: post #121

Bluey helped me out immensely at my research job. I was watching it with my daughter and in the episode, the father says, "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." It was a big ah-ha! moment that completely changed my attitude about the frustration I was having in my research. Then looking at my journal notes, it was all about obstacles and how to work through and around them, and that shift in perspective…

You'd like this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way

Seconding this book, this is one I go back to every once in a while.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

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.

Yup. Makes me think of that episode where they were racing and Bandit just blatantly cheated to win. A low point for him, but only makes him more relatable.

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Post by sandworm101 »

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 no-dialogue thing is an industry trick. It can allow for animation to start prior to the vocals being recorded and therefore provide some wiggle room in the production process. Simpsons did something similar with the couch gags which were detached from the plot and so could be worked on regardless of vocal progress. More recently, Bojack Horseman also had a no-dialogue episode.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

donatj wrote: post #243
john2x wrote: post #71

A couple of other great kid/parent shows: - Hilda on Netflix - more appropriate for 9+ year olds but my 5 year old loves it. Has some genuinely scary moments though especially the later seasons - The Gruffalo, Stick Man, Snail and the Whale, etc - based on the books - Avatar the Last Airbender - for older kids but has one of the best character arcs

Hilda is absolutely fantastic! I enjoy it and my daughter is enthralled by it. Steven Universe is a similar and fantastic show. Maybe a little more mature, particularly in later seasons, but I'm more than happy to let my young kids watch it. I didn't particularly enjoy the follow up Steven University Future however. For Younger kids, Puffin Rock is unbeatable in my book.

Seconding Puffin Rock. It's like the opposite of all the other kids shows - where they tend to stimulate kids to larger or smaller degree, Puffin Rock is so calming that just listening to it in the background makes me relaxed.

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Post by Tyr42 »

h0l0cube wrote: post #128
_spduchamp wrote: post #121

Bluey helped me out immensely at my research job. I was watching it with my daughter and in the episode, the father says, "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." It was a big ah-ha! moment that completely changed my attitude about the frustration I was having in my research. Then looking at my journal notes, it was all about obstacles and how to work through and around them, and that shift in perspective…

You'd like this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way

Thanks, bought it.

Turns out it's on sale now too: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ

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Post by Tade0 »

drekipus wrote: post #114
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.

> We got talent right here.

Indeed you do. A random stab at TripleJ Unearthed is enough to find an artist/band that's well above the world average.

I don't know if it's the remoteness or dangerous animals that is the reason for this, but Australians sure know how to make music.

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