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

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Post by noman-land »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #276
noman-land wrote: post #254

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This is a really sweet story. Thanks for sharing it. Out of curiosity, what was the adjustment you made in your parenting? Being more playful or something?

The major thing was realizing my wife and I care way too much about kids getting dirty in play. This came mostly from being overwhelmed by laundry and cleaning up (and sand, sand f-in everywhere ). The other big thing was, I grew so fixated about my own job and various adult stuff, that I actually kind of hated the playground, and often felt impatient when playing (wanting to get back to million unfinished adult thin…

This is so cool, thanks again for sharing. Did your wife have a similar epiphany or did you communicate yours to her and convinced her you both needed to change?

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Post by stefs »

spectralglitch wrote: post #190
danielvaughn wrote: post #127

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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…

Hal from Malcom holds up pretty well, quirky and flawed of course, but all in all a great father and husband. though it’s admittedly been a while since I went through it.

not sure about that. hal is definitely a bit of a bumbling idiot, especially next to his wife.

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Post by whythre »

ip26 wrote: post #129
_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.

Perhaps the reason it works is because the dad character isn’t an overplayed masculine ideal, and therefore fresh. I personally suspect one reason for the “bumbling dad” trope is the “classically ideal dad” is everywhere in stories, and thus becomes boring. Subverting the conventional power figure is also played for laughs a lot, while Bluey doesn’t ask us to laugh at anyone.

Have you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades?

Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their children.

Classically ideal dads are so rare that this cartoon character is being lauded as one of the best examples of the ideal in recent memory.

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Post by tylerdurden91 »

enumjorge wrote: post #277
tylerdurden91 wrote: post #221

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You should try out Kidzovo. They curate huge amounts of content for kids from different creators and provide this cute little owl called Ovo, that's like the child's friend on the app and every minute or so it pops up and engages kids in these mini games that get them to do activities related to what they are watching like find & tap on something or use their voice to answer questions. They also have a huge bunch of…

Self promotion is fine, but you've plugged the company you work for four times on this thread already. It's also appreciated when you add a disclaimer like you've done in the past [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39214461

Apologies, will add the disclaimer from next time. Will be mindful from next time around excessive self promotion.

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Post by tylerdurden91 »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #255
tylerdurden91 wrote: post #222

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You should try out Kidzovo. They curate huge amounts of content for kids from different creators and provide this cute little owl called Ovo, that's like the child's friend on the app and every minute or so it pops up and engages kids in these mini games that get them to do activities related to what they are watching like find & tap on something or use their voice to answer questions. They also have a huge bunch of…

How many times have you posted this comment in this thread, overall?

4 times. I should have mentioned that I work for Kidzovo. Also, shouldn't have been so aggressive in self promotion.

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Post by LeonB »

tomhoward wrote: post #303
LeonB wrote: post #297

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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)

I love to think that it’s your shared love of Custard that’s kept you and your wife together all this time! I too wrote for my campus newspaper - Monash Caulfield. I didn’t interview Custard (I did interview Snout, Earthmen and Atticus). But in some shoebox in storage are some Kodak instant camera prints of me and my uni mates with Dave and Matt when they played at our campus in 98. Such a wonderful time to be young.

Awesome Tom.

Snout were v good.

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Post by lproven »

markus_zhang wrote: post #275
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…

Pavlova is also homage to some NZ band I think. Bandit is basically speaking the same lines.

NZ and Aus have a history of arguing the toss over who invented drinks and foodstuffs.

E.g. they both claim to have invented the style of coffee called a Flat White:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white

Pavlova is a popular fruit-and-meringue dessert invented by... let's be neutral: one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova

Allegedly it was named for, or inspired by, the ballerina Anna Pavlova:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Pavlova

This itself is in turn a reference to another fruit-based dessert named for a classical music performa -- the Peach Melba:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_Melba

That was named in honour of opera singer Dame Nellie Melba:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Melba

... who was from Melbourne. (Pronounced MEL-bun by its locals, I'm told.)

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Post by dakial1 »

_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.

My Sister-in-law says that Bluey’s father is me, I always take that as a compliment because I think he is awesome.

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Post by theoreticalmal »

tylerdurden91 wrote: post #315
theoreticalmal wrote: post #255

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How many times have you posted this comment in this thread, overall?

4 times. I should have mentioned that I work for Kidzovo. Also, shouldn't have been so aggressive in self promotion.

Kidzovo seems like a cool platform!! I hope it’s working out well :)

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Post by owenversteeg »

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

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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

Oh yeah, Triple J's Like A Version is incredible. I don't know what they've got in the water there but so many artists put out their best ever work with those covers. Here are some I like:

- Someday (Julia Jacklin cover of The Strokes)

- Love (CHVRCHES cover of Kendrick Lamar)

- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Arctic Monkeys cover of Tame Impala)

- Do I Wanna Know (CHVRCHES cover of Arctic Monkeys)

- Believe (DMA's cover of Cher)

And speaking of Australian childrens TV and Like A Version covers, the Wiggles covered Tame Impala's Elephant (bet you didn't expect that one!)

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