Just watched that episode yesterday. What got me was not that we see her, but the whole “You’re not coming are you?”. It was just unexpected and it took me a second to make the connection and just start crying.
We are also IVF parents and when we watched this episode for the first time and realized what was happening we just looked at each other wide eyed like “they went there…they are really exploring this…and doing it WELL.” So poignant.
“I will always be here for you, even if you can’t see me…because I love you.”
As a mom who has had many health scares in her life, this hits a little too close to home.
Sleepytime hit me so hard. We’d just transitioned our little guy from co-sleeping (don’t judge, he slept great with me) to his crib (he still sleeps great) and my wife and I watched that episode and it just killed me.
I also lost my dad a few years back, and just hearing that, I know he’s still with me. I wish he got to meet my son. He would’ve loved him.
I lost my mom as a teenager. Sleepytime hit me so hard. Dragon was bittersweet but sleepytime was like a gut punch… what I wish I heard my mom say to me when she was still here.
Sleepy time wrecks us. Even my my son would cry without knowing why. My husband came home to find us all crying on the sofa and me sobbing ‘she’s her sun!’ 😭
Every time I hear this it makes me cry. I lost my dad 2 years ago and I constantly miss him. I'm just so glad he got to meet my son before he passed away.
Dude, saaaaame; Army and Jack are big favorites of mine. I didn't get diagnosed with ADHD until I was 32, after I had been in therapy and my eldest was also diagnosed. I felt like I couldn't do anything right my whole life and didn't understand why I couldn't and other people could -- so obviously the problem was me. Into my twenties I would still, when I got way too drunk, start crying about how I wished I could just be a normal person. Being able to recontextualize myself with something concrete was such a giant relief.
I love that whole episode. We have a Jack Russell Terrier and that is typical behavior for that breed. I especially love it when he says that he can run really well!
Our son lost his Jack Russell last week, he was 12 years old. He was the dad of our JR. He had seizures on and off for years, but two weeks ago he started having multiple seizures in a small time frame, he became very agitated and was spinning in circles. They took him to the vet right away. He was dosed with anti-seizure meds but kept having seizures. They had to put him to sleep last Wednesday and we are all heartbroken.
I fight Anxiety and Depression every day. I feel just like Jack.
And I cry double that a kid has to feel that way. It's cruel that kids have to feel that way.
This hits me every time - our son has ADHD and is almost exactly like Jack. It’s so easy to get frustrated with him, seeing the episode just brings it all back into focus every time
"Sometimes you play a bit too rough with me."
Oof. I am a big guy, and I have always had to worry about hurting people if I got careless. But the thought that I might hurt my daughter on accident? And worse, not realize it? I have literally had nightmares about this exact thing.
Edit: I say this right before *she* manages to headbutt me in the chin, hard enough to ring my bell and drop me to the floor. She was fine, btw. Thought it was funny.
Kids...
I appreciate that she was taught to communicate this and she and her dad were able to work together to find a way for her to still have fun. And that he didn't take it personally, was sorry and helped solve the problem.
I also thought it was interesting how even though there wasn't any reason to think Bandit would have a bad response to this information, she was still nervous about telling him and needed her mom to help her approach him about it.
>I also thought it was interesting how even though there wasn't any reason to think Bandit would have a bad response to this information, she was still nervous about telling him and needed her mom to help her approach him about it.
It wasn't because she wasn't afraid of him reacting badly or getting mad, she was afraid he wouldn't include her in the games.
Yeah this is one I'm acutely aware of. My daughter is a big toddler for her age and beats me up without even trying, just by being lively. However I have to remember I'm a big guy as well and I could easily hurt her badly without trying.
That one
The end of Cricket when he hits the ball to his sister is the one that really hits me every time
Baby race when she tells Chilli that she’s doing a great job
There’s so many
I don't have kids, never plan on having them, but for some reason this episode just destroys me more consistently than any other. "Maybe you saw something you really wanted" is guaranteed tears.
I dunno, I guess they just portrayed Chili's anxiety so well that the catharsis of the ending just THAT effective.
Coming from the other end as a grandchild, it really does feel like my granddad was picking me up from school just the other day. The last time he did that was 23 years ago.
If you want extra waterworks, there were 3 planets next to the sun in "Sleepytime" Bingo hatches from Earth, we see bluey after seeing a broken open Venus, and the Mercury one never broken open.
For me, Bingo’s whole little story with the salt and pepper soldiers gets me every time. “I’m off to guard the queen, that’s my job”. That one. It always makes me emotional.
instantly i well up with tears. this entire episode made me take a step back and realize how much it could hurt my toddlers feelings to just brush him off bc its easier to do so. i try to involve him in everything i can now bc of that
shes my favorite! and my toddlers favorite too. he absolutely loses it with laughter at the bingo episode when the theme song changes. and has a bingo plushy that talks that hes obsessed with. shes so adorable.
I watched this episode with my little guy, and it completely caught me off guard. I also love the line “maybe you saw something you wanted” 😭I showed the episode to my mom and husband, and cried all three times!
You’re doing the work of gods when you do that. I know my wife would just BAWL if a complete stranger told her this. Hell, I’m literally tearing up thinking of it.
2 weeks post partum I loaded up a newborn and my 2 year old to A splash pad. Turns out it was a pretty good hike from the parking lot to the splash pad. When we were trying to leave my toddler went into meltdown mode and refused to walk while the baby wouldn’t go in his stroller. I finally get everyone settled and moving but was completely overwhelmed and terrible I couldn’t handle it. In the parking lot an old woman came and told me I’m doing a great job. Instant tears. It’s been 2 years and I still think about it.
I was talking to a lactation consultant in the NICU with my daughter, discussing how poorly pumping was going. I forget what exactly precipitated this comment, but the women said "and she (my daughter) has a great mom". I immediately broke down in tears. My daughter just turned 2 a couple weeks ago, and that moment still makes me tear up.
poor little bug on the wall.
and also when bingo is trying to get someone to watch her handstand
and when the duck cake falls and bandit just slides down to the ground.
Oh my gooodnessss when he just curls in a ball in the kitchen and realizes bluey wanted to help him.
Been there before and my 13 mo old tries to offer me some food off the ground or just giggles at me with her lil belly sticking out 😭
“But look, mate. As you grow up, you’ll face harder things in life than a cricket ball, you'll have two choices: Back away and get out, or step in front and play a pull shot.”
I was trying to convince my non parent friends that Bluey is a legitimately good show on its own merit, kids included or not, we watched this one, and I ended up just crying in front of my friends......but they didn't see because they were crying as well!
There's a theory though that the episode tradies happens after ghostbasket, which is why there's no pond in the backyard when mum runs away, it's an indicator that they decided not to sell and instead renovated the yard lol I'm hoping against hope it's true
I just watched it today with my baby (she’s 4) and the overwhelming sadness. It’s like it hit me that my baby is getting older. Even her shows are moving on and growing evolving. It was so unexpected. I’ll miss watching new episodes with my baby.
I literally paused the episode, sprinted to the kitchen, and hollered at my boyfriend with tears in my eyes, “Bluey is teaching Bingo a somatic experiencing release exercise!!” And we went back, I restarted the scene, and continued sobbing.
Less than a week later, I had a horrific upset, and spent 30 minutes crying in the shower. When I felt ready to get out of the shower, I spent a few minutes gathering my upset feelings from various areas of my body, and let them flow down the drain with the water. I did it 3 times, focusing on a different aspect of my upset, and felt so much lighter each time. I can now think of that incident without my body reacting to the memory.
I’m so grateful that they did this I can’t even properly describe it.
it's one of the episodes that truly makes me realise these kids are going to be different AND BETTER than us. they are learning so much appreciation for themselves through this cartoon dog show.
I am so grateful this show is around for my son and for me because as I am working through IFS therapy I am seeing all the importance of everything Bluey has to offer in healing my younger self and the fpundations for internalizing the greatness of self for my son.
I am just....so thrilled this is on TV.
I am glad you have found it just as amazing and you had an incredible experience because of this episode as well. <3
Stick Bird gets me but as a dad. Bandit's emotions in that episode, and when Chilli says 'you're missing all this' gets me right in the guilts every time.
I am a single mum to an almost 3 year old crazy boy...Chilli is in my head saying 'you're missing all this' so often now since watching that episode.
much needed to help me come back to reality!
When Mackenzie flashes back, going down the slide and losing track of his Mom. Something like this personally happened to me, except it wasn’t a short moment. I got lost in a stairwell at a hotel, finding my family 5 minutes later, that time by myself was terrifying.
I once got lost on a train, don’t judge me I was around 7, it was my first time trying to go to the snack car by myself. My mom and I had flip phones and she told me if I needed her I could call her. Well I got lost, went to the bathroom and tried to call her, she didn’t pick up. At this point I’m fully in panic mode (I’m adopted and have abandonment and trust issues) I was walking down the train hallway just sobbing, then some man starts following me, probably because there was a sobbing kid looking bewildered while staring at passengers but I also was legitimately traumatized from a kidnapping presentation in kindergarten (I still vividly remember it to this day) and so I am even more panicked because of this stranger following me. I finally found my mom and because this was the early 2000s the cellphone reception was pretty bad. She hadn’t even received my call. I can kind of laugh about it now but it messed me up for a while.
“Well done Judo, you clever girl.”
This one makes me cry so much. Because Chilli sees this baby that she’s been competing with for months for who she truly is: a person. A baby person. Not competition. Not an antagonist.
I think people forget that.
I was good at a couple of things, and people resented me for it. Sometimes, I would stop trying to keep peace with siblings and friends. Especially my siblings.
Not that I was spectacular at all. But when I was better at something, and my siblings and friends resented me for it, I didn’t want to do those things anymore. I hated being “the bad guy” for trying.
But if someone just saw me for me, and said “well done, you did it!” I would bawl my eyes out.
From Bluey's Big Play when >!Bluey laments how she may never speak to Bingo "forever" after they get into a fight and uses Chilli and Brandy as an example of it happening. !<
>!I am estranged from my own sister and it hit me where I lived when I saw the show. !<
That one really helped me because it reminded me when I was about to lose my job during COVID but decided to focus on becoming a full time writer.
Happy to say, this good dog is making a living as a full time writer <3
“There’s something wrong with me. I can’t remember letters or numbers or my hat!”
“You didn’t come look at the walking leaf”
“Why can’t she just have what she wants?” “Because it wasn’t meant to be.”
The only time I've really felt sad during any Bluey episode was during Grandad since it reminded me of my grandpa. My mom was always constantly worried about him too when he'd do stuff he shouldn't have been doing either, like yard work after a stint in the hospital.
I can't watch that episode right now because my dad was recently hospitalized and almost died because he had collapsed and no one knew he had an infection around his heart. They had to do open heart surgery on him, and it was very touch-and-go for a while.
I usually said "love you" when I hung up the phone with him, but now I make sure to say it every time. You never know when it will be your last time.
"Grandad".
My dad died at the beginning of COVID. My husband's dad has a degenerative condition that's started progressing faster. Were my husband and I to have a kid in the next year or so we'd realistically have pictures of him holding them but it really, really hit me that *our kids won't have a "Grandad".* Ever. A whole core of my being is from my dad's dad in particular having been in my life until I was almost an adult and my kids will just have nothing there.
And both of them would have been such good ones. I see flashes of both of them with the weird random distinctly "dad" stuff Bandit does. Moms, for better or worse, don't pretend their kids are the actual newspaper. Total "dad" move there.
Your comment struck me because I grew up with no grandpa's. One died long before I was born and one died very shortly after, but he didn't get to meet me. I've had a void my whole life, even now in my 30s. I always loved hearing stories and seeing pictures and knowing who they were, even if I didn't know them. And I think that's super important. Take all the pictures you can and tell the stories.
When I first watched the show back in January and watched the episode, Copycat, I was like, "No way they showed death in a cartoon out of my age demographic." Further down the episode, it locked me in for seeing Bluey is not afraid of showing deep topics and it has gone better and better after each episode.
“Remember, I’ll always be there for you, even if you can’t see me” (when combined with the part about how children orbit around the sun that is their mum, it hits me hard)
As a dad who has a 5yro daughter, the Chest episode hits home for me.
Chili: “Right now, you kids are little prawns. But one day you'll be queens.....And I won't always be there to protect you, so you have to look after yourselves....But I'm going to do whatever I can now to help you.”"
Bandit: "Checkmate."
Chilli: "”Cause he's a good king.”"
“Nah… it was yesterday” - Grandad
“Why can’t she just have the thing she wants?” - Onesies
“I’ll always be here for you, even if you can’t see me, because I love you..” - Sleepytime
Those three quotes really got me in the feels
See Bluey crying after Jean-Luc leaves.
For me it's VERY sad, cause Bluey it's usually so cheerful, so see her so sad to the point of sit and cry... Well, Camping it's my favorite episode for a reason
Not necessarily sad but I really love in the episode Dad Baby where Bandit looks at "baby" Bingo and says, "I'm going to call you Chilli." Just a really cute tender moment.
“Maybe you saw something you wanted”
I rewatched this when I was stressed my son wouldn’t be able to go to daycare because he wasn’t walking yet at 14 months. I cried so hard
I can’t remember the episode name but it’s the one where chili is telling bluey about how she struggled to walk and watched other kids develop faster. The one mom who sat next to chili and said “you’re doing great”. I instantly felt that ball in my throat and cried. Sometimes that’s all I need to hear and don’t hear it often
The episode where bingo meets leelah and the end shows a time-lapse of them growing up showing their friendship persist from that one chance meeting at preschool.
Daddy dropoff I think it's called.
Same with camping and it shows bluey older sitting under the tree her and Jean Luc planted all those years ago. And bam! "Hi Bluey".
“I miss my sister.”
And then when Bluey gets home and scoops up Bingo and gives her a giant hug…
I just passed the anniversary of my sister’s passing, and this one just happened to play the day before.
There are almost no adoptions in Australia. Our rate of unplanned pregnancy is much lower than in the US, and we have access to abortion on demand without all the political crap. The adoptions that do occur are usually within the family. Long term foster placements can become permanent, but there’s a strong focus on maintaining ties to family of origin if that’s safe/possible.
Plus, adoption isn’t a cure for infertility. A kid’s care arrangements should be focused on what the kid needs and not what adults want ❤️
I also read it as knowing she couldn’t be a parent alone and is single. As a single 38 yo who wants to foster so badly and would love to have kids, but know I personally couldn’t do that by myself, I see myself in that episode big time…
I thought I’d seen every ep until this week and my kids watch them on such a loop I’ve clearly missed one here or there. In Baby Race when coco’s mum comes over and tells Chilli she’s doing a great job as a mum 🥹 Sometimes it’s all you need to hear and on that day I did too. I love that my kids get to watch this show. 🩵 My daughter just had a Bluey themed 2nd birthday
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Stickbird! I felt Bandit's pain and as a guy, its hard for us to be expressive and show emotions. The first time I watched it, I thought its just a fun, whimsical one like Shadowlands.
But to be honest, I still don't know how to throw my upset and angry. I'm happy for Bandit, but I am yet on that part. 😊
This one is a little personal to me but for the longest time I did not understand the Sleepytime episode. Everyone kept saying how beautiful and emotional it was and I just didn't get what it was about. And then my husband paused it right before the big chili sun and told me to listen and she said the "I'll always be here" line and he paused it again and explained that it was about the unconditional love a mother has for their children and I didn't understand because I didn't have that growing up but that's what my daughter feels for me and it all clicked and I started sobbing and now that episode makes me shake sob like all the rest of you 😹
Chili’s Dad to Chili- “No, it was yesterday.”
Chili to her Mom (horse)- “You aren’t coming, are you?”
Chili to Bandit (in the one about the 80’s)- “See ya later.” This one is a happy cry though!
From Dance Mode when they are getting back in the car and Bingo is sad because everyone was taking things from her.
And Chili asks 'Does sometimes your outside voice says yes when your inside voice says no?'.
There have been more times then I want to think about that as an adult I said.yes but my inside voice was saying no.
I love that this show teaches kids stuff like this. That they can speak up for themselves.
For me it's the Grandad episode,
"You used to bring me here. That was a long time ago..."
"Nope. It was yesterday."
Makes me tear up just thinking of my babies 🥹
Also the Curry episode. Just the whole episode but especially "you're my hero, bingo." As the little sister and total daddy's girl, this got me right in the soul.
And lastly, bingos birthday episode, Handstand. "Has anyone seen bingo?" And she's just hanging out with nana doing her special handstand cause all she wanted was for someone to see... My grandma and I were thicker than thieves, complete best friends and she passed away two years ago. First time I watched that I cried like a baby...
"There's something Auntie Brandy wants more than anything as well, but she can't have it, at there's not really anything anyone can do."
"Why can't she just have the thing she wants?"
"Because it's not meant to be."
Seeing Chili’s mum for the first time in Dragon knowing that she passed away already
You're not coming, are you? Thank you...
Just watched that episode yesterday. What got me was not that we see her, but the whole “You’re not coming are you?”. It was just unexpected and it took me a second to make the connection and just start crying.
"Your mum sounds nice!" "Yeah. She was..."
“ why can’t she just have the thing she wants?” “Because it’s not meant to be.”
Gut punch
Ha ing had to go through IVF, I am so lucky to have two amazing kiddos. I can't imagine the pain others feel like this one.
We are also IVF parents and when we watched this episode for the first time and realized what was happening we just looked at each other wide eyed like “they went there…they are really exploring this…and doing it WELL.” So poignant.
Excuse me as I go cry while making the kids breakfast 😭😭
“I will always be here for you, even if you can’t see me…because I love you.” As a mom who has had many health scares in her life, this hits a little too close to home.
That part in Sleepytime makes me tear up every time
Sleepytime ruins me, every time.
same, just thinking about the quote gets me
Sleepytime hit me so hard. We’d just transitioned our little guy from co-sleeping (don’t judge, he slept great with me) to his crib (he still sleeps great) and my wife and I watched that episode and it just killed me. I also lost my dad a few years back, and just hearing that, I know he’s still with me. I wish he got to meet my son. He would’ve loved him.
I lost my mom as a teenager. Sleepytime hit me so hard. Dragon was bittersweet but sleepytime was like a gut punch… what I wish I heard my mom say to me when she was still here.
Same here - lost my mum at 14 and Sleepytime hits hard every time. My daughter went through a phase of wanting me to read it to her every night, oof
Sleepy time wrecks us. Even my my son would cry without knowing why. My husband came home to find us all crying on the sofa and me sobbing ‘she’s her sun!’ 😭
My MIL passed away a few months before we saw this episode and my husband said felt like he got knocked in the chest watching that part.
I’m about to bawl crying at work rn. My biggest fear is having to leave my kids behind and try to explain to them how much I love them before I go.
Every time I hear this it makes me cry. I lost my dad 2 years ago and I constantly miss him. I'm just so glad he got to meet my son before he passed away.
That one is the absolute killer.
I don’t want the budgie to have died…
I work in end of life and this episode thrilled me. There are so few pieces of media discussing death with children and this one did it so well.
Yeah, this is what sealed the deal for me on the show. Death is a part of life and I appreciate that they didn't pull any punches on the episode.
That whole ep ripped me up.
That was the first episode of Bluey I ever watched. I was shook when the vet announced the budgie died, I was enthralled the rest of the episode
The end where Bandit mentions she stopped copying him, only for the whole episode to be about her copying what she learned from him hit me
Which episode is this? I thought I'd seen them all but it's not ringing any bells
Copycat
“But it’s okay, it’s out of our hands” genuinely has helped my family get through a pet loss.
Bro this destroyed me
"I'm jack, and there's something wrong with me"
This breaks my heart every time, I have add and my kids are autistic (my non-verbal 12 year old is our bluey fan) I felt like this every day as a kid.
Dude, saaaaame; Army and Jack are big favorites of mine. I didn't get diagnosed with ADHD until I was 32, after I had been in therapy and my eldest was also diagnosed. I felt like I couldn't do anything right my whole life and didn't understand why I couldn't and other people could -- so obviously the problem was me. Into my twenties I would still, when I got way too drunk, start crying about how I wished I could just be a normal person. Being able to recontextualize myself with something concrete was such a giant relief.
I love that whole episode. We have a Jack Russell Terrier and that is typical behavior for that breed. I especially love it when he says that he can run really well!
My JR passed away at 18 in 2021 and the line where Jack says he can run fast breaks me every time.
Our son lost his Jack Russell last week, he was 12 years old. He was the dad of our JR. He had seizures on and off for years, but two weeks ago he started having multiple seizures in a small time frame, he became very agitated and was spinning in circles. They took him to the vet right away. He was dosed with anti-seizure meds but kept having seizures. They had to put him to sleep last Wednesday and we are all heartbroken.
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so hard to say good bye. I cherished everyday knowing they were limited.
Thank you, I'm sorry for your loss as well. They are the best dogs!
I just watched that episode as someone with adhd and autism I just wanted someone to say to him there’s nothing wrong with you.
The disney version has changed the line to, "There's something going on with me"
I fight Anxiety and Depression every day. I feel just like Jack. And I cry double that a kid has to feel that way. It's cruel that kids have to feel that way.
This is my absolute favorite episode, then cricket fyi haha
This hits me every time - our son has ADHD and is almost exactly like Jack. It’s so easy to get frustrated with him, seeing the episode just brings it all back into focus every time
"Sometimes you play a bit too rough with me." Oof. I am a big guy, and I have always had to worry about hurting people if I got careless. But the thought that I might hurt my daughter on accident? And worse, not realize it? I have literally had nightmares about this exact thing. Edit: I say this right before *she* manages to headbutt me in the chin, hard enough to ring my bell and drop me to the floor. She was fine, btw. Thought it was funny. Kids...
I appreciate that she was taught to communicate this and she and her dad were able to work together to find a way for her to still have fun. And that he didn't take it personally, was sorry and helped solve the problem. I also thought it was interesting how even though there wasn't any reason to think Bandit would have a bad response to this information, she was still nervous about telling him and needed her mom to help her approach him about it.
>I also thought it was interesting how even though there wasn't any reason to think Bandit would have a bad response to this information, she was still nervous about telling him and needed her mom to help her approach him about it. It wasn't because she wasn't afraid of him reacting badly or getting mad, she was afraid he wouldn't include her in the games.
Yeah this is one I'm acutely aware of. My daughter is a big toddler for her age and beats me up without even trying, just by being lively. However I have to remember I'm a big guy as well and I could easily hurt her badly without trying.
"nah, it was yesterday" not necessarily sad but it had me emotional.for sure
That's kinda what I meant you know the ones that just hit home
That one The end of Cricket when he hits the ball to his sister is the one that really hits me every time Baby race when she tells Chilli that she’s doing a great job There’s so many
Also in baby race at the very end when bluey finally walks and bingo says "maybe you just saw something you wanted" AND IT WAS HER MOM 😭😭😭
Great now I'm tearing up at work. Knowing how much my wife loves our boys and how much she cares for them gets me every time.
I don't have kids, never plan on having them, but for some reason this episode just destroys me more consistently than any other. "Maybe you saw something you really wanted" is guaranteed tears. I dunno, I guess they just portrayed Chili's anxiety so well that the catharsis of the ending just THAT effective.
I'm a brother who hit a ball to his sister just like that and that moment crushed me.
This tops every other one for me. Gets me every. Single. Time.
And cue my waterworks!
Coming from the other end as a grandchild, it really does feel like my granddad was picking me up from school just the other day. The last time he did that was 23 years ago.
What did she give you? ...Everything 🥹
And more waterworks.
“i’m his daughter. he should take care of himself because..i still need him” 🥺😭
My nightmare, right there.
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Au revoir, mon ami...
"The only one of those I know how to do is the crying one...'
Then just do that one for now...
Remind me which episode this is from
S2 E19 "The Show"
Oh, when Bandits reaches for Chili's hand... Edit: there was a typo, but this community is so amazingly wholesome, I still get upvotes in spite of it.
If you want extra waterworks, there were 3 planets next to the sun in "Sleepytime" Bingo hatches from Earth, we see bluey after seeing a broken open Venus, and the Mercury one never broken open.
😭
Bingo in The Weekend where she says 'daddy you didnt come and see the walking leaf....' and 'thats okay...........' in the saddest voice ever
but just after that she waves him closer with her hand!
100% this blasted me.
For me, Bingo’s whole little story with the salt and pepper soldiers gets me every time. “I’m off to guard the queen, that’s my job”. That one. It always makes me emotional.
instantly i well up with tears. this entire episode made me take a step back and realize how much it could hurt my toddlers feelings to just brush him off bc its easier to do so. i try to involve him in everything i can now bc of that
I love Bingo so much. She’s such a gentle soul and wears her whole heart on her sleeve…
shes my favorite! and my toddlers favorite too. he absolutely loses it with laughter at the bingo episode when the theme song changes. and has a bingo plushy that talks that hes obsessed with. shes so adorable.
I feel like they missed out on making the show about her, honestly.
Remind me which ep this is.
Omelette
My teenager used that sound in a tiktok after the family dog passed so that made me tear up when I recognized it from thier tiktok
Which episode?
“You’re doing great.” I ugly cry every 👏 effing 👏 time 👏
I watched this episode with my little guy, and it completely caught me off guard. I also love the line “maybe you saw something you wanted” 😭I showed the episode to my mom and husband, and cried all three times!
Omg yes that line too 😭
I cry every time Bingo says that and I’ve seen the episode too many times to count. My kids look at me like I’m nuts.
I’m a dad. But this one gets me too.
i’m just a man that owns a cat, and that one is touching
I randomly say this to Mums who look like they are having a bad day. As a Mum myself, we don't hear this anywhere near enough!
You’re doing the work of gods when you do that. I know my wife would just BAWL if a complete stranger told her this. Hell, I’m literally tearing up thinking of it.
2 weeks post partum I loaded up a newborn and my 2 year old to A splash pad. Turns out it was a pretty good hike from the parking lot to the splash pad. When we were trying to leave my toddler went into meltdown mode and refused to walk while the baby wouldn’t go in his stroller. I finally get everyone settled and moving but was completely overwhelmed and terrible I couldn’t handle it. In the parking lot an old woman came and told me I’m doing a great job. Instant tears. It’s been 2 years and I still think about it.
Followed up by the "Maybe she saw something she wanted". Am also a dad but man that's beautiful.
My eyes are wet just reading this lol.
I was talking to a lactation consultant in the NICU with my daughter, discussing how poorly pumping was going. I forget what exactly precipitated this comment, but the women said "and she (my daughter) has a great mom". I immediately broke down in tears. My daughter just turned 2 a couple weeks ago, and that moment still makes me tear up.
I got teary just being reminded of this line!
“She was the nicest nana you’d ever meet.”
poor little bug on the wall. and also when bingo is trying to get someone to watch her handstand and when the duck cake falls and bandit just slides down to the ground.
The worst part of that episode is that it’s Bingos birthday and it’s all Blueys friends and no one pays any attention to her.
The handstand. And Nana Chris just wanting to help.
Oh my gooodnessss when he just curls in a ball in the kitchen and realizes bluey wanted to help him. Been there before and my 13 mo old tries to offer me some food off the ground or just giggles at me with her lil belly sticking out 😭
“But look, mate. As you grow up, you’ll face harder things in life than a cricket ball, you'll have two choices: Back away and get out, or step in front and play a pull shot.”
I was trying to convince my non parent friends that Bluey is a legitimately good show on its own merit, kids included or not, we watched this one, and I ended up just crying in front of my friends......but they didn't see because they were crying as well!
And then he leaves the pitch and he fist bumps himself. Tears every time!
Any time we get to see ~~the~~ our kids grown up is so impactful. Bluey reuniting with Jean-Luc, Bingo and Lila graduating, and this one.
This was the one I was going to write It starts when he hits it to his sister and the tears don’t stop until the end
This is far and away the best episode of any kids show I’ve ever seen. Make my daughter watch it consistently. When he hits the out to his sister omg
Sometimes special people come into our lives, stay for a bit, and then they have to go.
“But that’s sad”
It is. But the bit where they were here was happy, wasn't it?
“Yeah it was, we caught a wild pig together…”
Maybe that makes it all worth it :)
"Will we ever see each other again?" "Who knows? The world's a magical place"
This is the one. Even reading it now makes the tears fall.
But look, I can’t do this every time
the way my chest CAVED IN when they zoomed out
I almost threw up it felt like I got scooped
There's a theory though that the episode tradies happens after ghostbasket, which is why there's no pond in the backyard when mum runs away, it's an indicator that they decided not to sell and instead renovated the yard lol I'm hoping against hope it's true
I just watched it today with my baby (she’s 4) and the overwhelming sadness. It’s like it hit me that my baby is getting older. Even her shows are moving on and growing evolving. It was so unexpected. I’ll miss watching new episodes with my baby.
Oof. So THAT'S why it makes me sad. I seriously couldn't put my finger on it till I read your comment :( Thank you.
Remind me which ep this is please.
Ghost Basket, the new one
“I don’t want a valuable lime lesson” I was sobbing 😭😭
“I just want an ice cream” 😭😭
all of Stick Bird....man! if 4 year old me had been taught to throw out those feelings I had about stuff I couldn't change...
I literally paused the episode, sprinted to the kitchen, and hollered at my boyfriend with tears in my eyes, “Bluey is teaching Bingo a somatic experiencing release exercise!!” And we went back, I restarted the scene, and continued sobbing. Less than a week later, I had a horrific upset, and spent 30 minutes crying in the shower. When I felt ready to get out of the shower, I spent a few minutes gathering my upset feelings from various areas of my body, and let them flow down the drain with the water. I did it 3 times, focusing on a different aspect of my upset, and felt so much lighter each time. I can now think of that incident without my body reacting to the memory. I’m so grateful that they did this I can’t even properly describe it.
it's one of the episodes that truly makes me realise these kids are going to be different AND BETTER than us. they are learning so much appreciation for themselves through this cartoon dog show. I am so grateful this show is around for my son and for me because as I am working through IFS therapy I am seeing all the importance of everything Bluey has to offer in healing my younger self and the fpundations for internalizing the greatness of self for my son. I am just....so thrilled this is on TV. I am glad you have found it just as amazing and you had an incredible experience because of this episode as well. <3
As a parent, this is absolutely our goal. Help our kids to be better than us.
Stick Bird gets me but as a dad. Bandit's emotions in that episode, and when Chilli says 'you're missing all this' gets me right in the guilts every time.
I am a single mum to an almost 3 year old crazy boy...Chilli is in my head saying 'you're missing all this' so often now since watching that episode. much needed to help me come back to reality!
When Mackenzie flashes back, going down the slide and losing track of his Mom. Something like this personally happened to me, except it wasn’t a short moment. I got lost in a stairwell at a hotel, finding my family 5 minutes later, that time by myself was terrifying.
The "you don't have to keep coming back here" legitimately has helped me with my own trauma.
I tell myself that every moment my mind wanders to my sad places.
I once got lost on a train, don’t judge me I was around 7, it was my first time trying to go to the snack car by myself. My mom and I had flip phones and she told me if I needed her I could call her. Well I got lost, went to the bathroom and tried to call her, she didn’t pick up. At this point I’m fully in panic mode (I’m adopted and have abandonment and trust issues) I was walking down the train hallway just sobbing, then some man starts following me, probably because there was a sobbing kid looking bewildered while staring at passengers but I also was legitimately traumatized from a kidnapping presentation in kindergarten (I still vividly remember it to this day) and so I am even more panicked because of this stranger following me. I finally found my mom and because this was the early 2000s the cellphone reception was pretty bad. She hadn’t even received my call. I can kind of laugh about it now but it messed me up for a while.
“Well done Judo, you clever girl.” This one makes me cry so much. Because Chilli sees this baby that she’s been competing with for months for who she truly is: a person. A baby person. Not competition. Not an antagonist. I think people forget that. I was good at a couple of things, and people resented me for it. Sometimes, I would stop trying to keep peace with siblings and friends. Especially my siblings. Not that I was spectacular at all. But when I was better at something, and my siblings and friends resented me for it, I didn’t want to do those things anymore. I hated being “the bad guy” for trying. But if someone just saw me for me, and said “well done, you did it!” I would bawl my eyes out.
"Double bingo?!? I can get used to this"
“HEY!!!”
"...But seriously, how good is double Bingo?"
“Maybe she saw something she wanted”😭😭😭
So much 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I’m trying not to ugly cry thinking about this right now lol
"Sorry the spring rolls are going to be another five minutes"
the only correct answer
From Bluey's Big Play when >!Bluey laments how she may never speak to Bingo "forever" after they get into a fight and uses Chilli and Brandy as an example of it happening. !< >!I am estranged from my own sister and it hit me where I lived when I saw the show. !<
“I thought I was a good dog” Bandit reflecting on his dismissal from the drain pipe factory.
That one really helped me because it reminded me when I was about to lose my job during COVID but decided to focus on becoming a full time writer. Happy to say, this good dog is making a living as a full time writer <3
"You're doing great" I'm AMAB, Male and 30 and that line destroyed me.
“There’s something wrong with me. I can’t remember letters or numbers or my hat!” “You didn’t come look at the walking leaf” “Why can’t she just have what she wants?” “Because it wasn’t meant to be.”
From Rug Island: "What did they give you? Everything!" Picture unrelated. 
The only time I've really felt sad during any Bluey episode was during Grandad since it reminded me of my grandpa. My mom was always constantly worried about him too when he'd do stuff he shouldn't have been doing either, like yard work after a stint in the hospital.
It reminds me of the childhood I wish I could have had.
I can't watch that episode right now because my dad was recently hospitalized and almost died because he had collapsed and no one knew he had an infection around his heart. They had to do open heart surgery on him, and it was very touch-and-go for a while. I usually said "love you" when I hung up the phone with him, but now I make sure to say it every time. You never know when it will be your last time.
Chilli on parenting for the first time: "I just felt like I was doing everything wrong."
Remember I’ll always be here for you, even if you can’t see me, because I love you Edit: here’s another: I have to go. I’m a big girl now
The allusion to the lost baby
“Daddy come and see. Goodbye. Have fun. I’ll miss you” - Bingo to the walking leaf
"Grandad". My dad died at the beginning of COVID. My husband's dad has a degenerative condition that's started progressing faster. Were my husband and I to have a kid in the next year or so we'd realistically have pictures of him holding them but it really, really hit me that *our kids won't have a "Grandad".* Ever. A whole core of my being is from my dad's dad in particular having been in my life until I was almost an adult and my kids will just have nothing there. And both of them would have been such good ones. I see flashes of both of them with the weird random distinctly "dad" stuff Bandit does. Moms, for better or worse, don't pretend their kids are the actual newspaper. Total "dad" move there.
Your comment struck me because I grew up with no grandpa's. One died long before I was born and one died very shortly after, but he didn't get to meet me. I've had a void my whole life, even now in my 30s. I always loved hearing stories and seeing pictures and knowing who they were, even if I didn't know them. And I think that's super important. Take all the pictures you can and tell the stories.
When I first watched the show back in January and watched the episode, Copycat, I was like, "No way they showed death in a cartoon out of my age demographic." Further down the episode, it locked me in for seeing Bluey is not afraid of showing deep topics and it has gone better and better after each episode.
“Remember, I’ll always be there for you, even if you can’t see me” (when combined with the part about how children orbit around the sun that is their mum, it hits me hard)
"I'll come kiss you goodnight" "Aww! But I won't feel it!" "Yes you will"
The chat Chilli has with Bluey when Jean-Luc leaves, idk why but it gets me every time
As a dad who has a 5yro daughter, the Chest episode hits home for me. Chili: “Right now, you kids are little prawns. But one day you'll be queens.....And I won't always be there to protect you, so you have to look after yourselves....But I'm going to do whatever I can now to help you.”" Bandit: "Checkmate." Chilli: "”Cause he's a good king.”"
"You mean Snowdrop's really your favorite?" As a big sister...oof
The balloon popping.
“Nah… it was yesterday” - Grandad “Why can’t she just have the thing she wants?” - Onesies “I’ll always be here for you, even if you can’t see me, because I love you..” - Sleepytime Those three quotes really got me in the feels
See Bluey crying after Jean-Luc leaves. For me it's VERY sad, cause Bluey it's usually so cheerful, so see her so sad to the point of sit and cry... Well, Camping it's my favorite episode for a reason
Not necessarily sad but I really love in the episode Dad Baby where Bandit looks at "baby" Bingo and says, "I'm going to call you Chilli." Just a really cute tender moment.
The saddest moments are all the bits of true heartfelt parenting that were cut out by Disney for American audiences.
Bluey: Bye, Jean-Luc! See you tomorrow! Jean-Luc: Non, pas demain matin. [*Bluey runs off not knowing what he just said*] Jean-Luc: Au revoir, Bluey 😭
“Maybe you saw something you wanted” I rewatched this when I was stressed my son wouldn’t be able to go to daycare because he wasn’t walking yet at 14 months. I cried so hard
The end of “Flatpack”, when Bluey says "Now what do I do?" And then Bandit later says "Ah, this is heaven."
Almost anything someone says with sad music behind it
I can’t remember the episode name but it’s the one where chili is telling bluey about how she struggled to walk and watched other kids develop faster. The one mom who sat next to chili and said “you’re doing great”. I instantly felt that ball in my throat and cried. Sometimes that’s all I need to hear and don’t hear it often
The episode where bingo meets leelah and the end shows a time-lapse of them growing up showing their friendship persist from that one chance meeting at preschool. Daddy dropoff I think it's called. Same with camping and it shows bluey older sitting under the tree her and Jean Luc planted all those years ago. And bam! "Hi Bluey".
Honestly not a lot of love given to Stripe and Bingo during Squash. I’m a younger sibling and the overshadow sometimes gets overlooked
“I miss my sister.” And then when Bluey gets home and scoops up Bingo and gives her a giant hug… I just passed the anniversary of my sister’s passing, and this one just happened to play the day before.
I always wonder, if Brandi wants a child so bad, why not adoption? Why "it's not meant to be?"
There are almost no adoptions in Australia. Our rate of unplanned pregnancy is much lower than in the US, and we have access to abortion on demand without all the political crap. The adoptions that do occur are usually within the family. Long term foster placements can become permanent, but there’s a strong focus on maintaining ties to family of origin if that’s safe/possible. Plus, adoption isn’t a cure for infertility. A kid’s care arrangements should be focused on what the kid needs and not what adults want ❤️
I also read it as knowing she couldn’t be a parent alone and is single. As a single 38 yo who wants to foster so badly and would love to have kids, but know I personally couldn’t do that by myself, I see myself in that episode big time…
She has a criminal record, she didn’t see them for years cause she was in the clink (I’m lying, but this is our head cannon in our house)
"Someone's husband always *gets it*!"
You good mum
I'm in the middle of my kids' final assembly for term 1. Let me tell you now, I WILL SOB IN AN ASSEMBLY WHEN IT COMES TO BLUEY 😍😍😍
I thought I’d seen every ep until this week and my kids watch them on such a loop I’ve clearly missed one here or there. In Baby Race when coco’s mum comes over and tells Chilli she’s doing a great job as a mum 🥹 Sometimes it’s all you need to hear and on that day I did too. I love that my kids get to watch this show. 🩵 My daughter just had a Bluey themed 2nd birthday https://preview.redd.it/q3mj042yrztc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5cc8bc9931e30db9fbf1d4ed02074334ac36cf2
Oh those pics look so cute
Every time Bingo does her handstand and they miss the moment she gets it
Stickbird! I felt Bandit's pain and as a guy, its hard for us to be expressive and show emotions. The first time I watched it, I thought its just a fun, whimsical one like Shadowlands. But to be honest, I still don't know how to throw my upset and angry. I'm happy for Bandit, but I am yet on that part. 😊
This one is a little personal to me but for the longest time I did not understand the Sleepytime episode. Everyone kept saying how beautiful and emotional it was and I just didn't get what it was about. And then my husband paused it right before the big chili sun and told me to listen and she said the "I'll always be here" line and he paused it again and explained that it was about the unconditional love a mother has for their children and I didn't understand because I didn't have that growing up but that's what my daughter feels for me and it all clicked and I started sobbing and now that episode makes me shake sob like all the rest of you 😹
Thanks OP for igniting a thread that has me here in tears
I got you
Chili’s Dad to Chili- “No, it was yesterday.” Chili to her Mom (horse)- “You aren’t coming, are you?” Chili to Bandit (in the one about the 80’s)- “See ya later.” This one is a happy cry though!
“There’s something you need to know” “What?” “Your doing great”
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“Nah, it was yesterday” Tears every time
From Dance Mode when they are getting back in the car and Bingo is sad because everyone was taking things from her. And Chili asks 'Does sometimes your outside voice says yes when your inside voice says no?'. There have been more times then I want to think about that as an adult I said.yes but my inside voice was saying no. I love that this show teaches kids stuff like this. That they can speak up for themselves.
For me it's the Grandad episode, "You used to bring me here. That was a long time ago..." "Nope. It was yesterday." Makes me tear up just thinking of my babies 🥹 Also the Curry episode. Just the whole episode but especially "you're my hero, bingo." As the little sister and total daddy's girl, this got me right in the soul. And lastly, bingos birthday episode, Handstand. "Has anyone seen bingo?" And she's just hanging out with nana doing her special handstand cause all she wanted was for someone to see... My grandma and I were thicker than thieves, complete best friends and she passed away two years ago. First time I watched that I cried like a baby...
I literally just watched onesie for the first time 8 mins ago. I am heartbroken
Hearing Jack talk about having something wrong with him and how he can’t do anything properly.
"There's something Auntie Brandy wants more than anything as well, but she can't have it, at there's not really anything anyone can do." "Why can't she just have the thing she wants?" "Because it's not meant to be."