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

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Post by codeduck »

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…

Bluey learning to ride her bike to the slow building of the Ode to Joy was a moment of profound and innocent joy for me.

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Post by lproven »

lproven wrote: post #261

Nobody seems to have mentioned it, so I thought it deserved credit... I am fairly sure that the episode "Handstand": https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-2/handstand/ ... in which Nana can't actively help with the party, and nobody will take the time to watch Bingo's handstand, is an intentional homage to an (at the time) award-winning Ariston TV advert from 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUVs7vXNZiw Its video-g…

And now I discovered what inspired the Ariston advert: Zbigniew Rybczyński's video short Tango from 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z7oLQb3o

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Post by bolognafairy »

bdash wrote: post #272
bombcar wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not even sure what his job is. I think he’s an accountant.

Doctor Bandit Heeler is an archeologist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiv_V7QOy3A

And mum works for airport security.

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Post by bolognafairy »

eru wrote: post #186
salicideblock wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

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Post by bolognafairy »

shirro wrote: post #184

Bluey was funded by the Australian ABC and British BBC. Both public broadcasters with a strong commitment to quality children's programming. It wasn't created to sell Hasbro toys or Disney merchandise or increase children's Youtube watch time. The merch and Disney streaming came later because the show is obviously brilliant. Bluey isn't just good family programming. It is a snapshot of Australian culture and family v…

Bluey is unusually good even for the ABC, but the floor on children’s programming is just so much lower in the US. Sure, America’s obsession with Bluey stems in part from its on-again off-again fetishisation of Australia. But, Christ, I’m Australian and recently spent a few weeks in the US, and, fuck me, American TV just sucks so much.

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Post by resoluteteeth »

prawn wrote: post #145
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

Maybe review for appropriateness for your kids, but my kids and I like watching these little animal shorts. https://www.naturalhabitatshorts.com/shorts We quote this one especially all the time. https://www.naturalhabitatshorts.com/shorts?pgid=ku471zfv-b9... "Gerald... That's not a proper hello." "Jason, get in there."

A lot of them are pretty dark. I'm not sure I would show them to young kids.

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Post by LeonB »

tomhoward wrote: post #224
LeonB wrote: post #208

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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!

Well, Triple Z is an independent/community station, not ABC! I know that song/line well and remember mentions of Custard being “banned” by Triple Z in the band’s early days, but I can’t find any details. Do you know why they banned/smashed their music?

No one knows why it happened! It was possibly one rogue triple Z volunteer on a bender, not some organised putsch.

We’ve known Paul and David from custard for a long time now. Only time we ever talked about that was waaaaay back, around 1996 when we interviewed David for Semper, the UQ newspaper.

(“We” is my wife and I… girlfriend back then)

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Post by eru »

sandworm101 wrote: post #287
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 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.

That's an interesting aspect! Creativity thrives on constraints.

For the 'industry trick' part you can get most of the benefit from going 'most of the way'. Ie you get almost the same wiggle room, if 90% of your scenes are without dialogue, and 10% are voiced.

For the artistic effect, there's a big difference between 90% and 100%. (Sparse dialogue is also a perfectly valid artistic choice, but it's doesn't make much sense to analyse it as '90% of a no-dialogue' piece.)

I've mostly come to appreciate 'pantomime' in web comics. Many comics go overboard with text, be that speech bubbles, thought bubble or narration boxes. It's always interesting to me to see an author work out how use the medium to its full advantage, instead of writing a novel.

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Post by eru »

bolognafairy wrote: post #294
eru wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?

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Post by defrost »

eru wrote: post #299
bolognafairy wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people. What's robotic ink?

Probably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk

.. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.

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