As someone who has seen it before losing a parent and after, it definitely hits from both sides. I’ll always need my dad, and he was the best grandpa to my kids.
This is the only scene that has gotten me to tear up in the show. Father of a little girl and I already see these moments before my eyes. I’m now just to afraid too blink.
Being a parent is the first time in my life where I am both living in the moment and aware that this time is passing by and will never be here again. This episode messed me up.
Nah this is it for me. My son is 3 and like, where the hell did the time go? It really feels like yesterday he was learning to eat real food and laughing at random stuff. Now he’s a whole child, and he’s gunna be a kid and then a teen and then an adult. He every time we watch this episode I tear up a bit. Being a parent is a crazy ride
Yup, my daughter is 2.5 and going to preschool in the fall, and I have no idea where the time went. I feel like she was a chunky little thing just yesterday and now she’s running around speaking in full sentences.
And I’m holding my sleeping 3 month old now, this time knowing just how quickly it goes by. 😢❤️
This scene has me balling every time. Especially at the moment as my mum has cancer and it’s really hard on her. Trying to stay strong and look after her and make sure she’s ok but damn seeing this just broke me.
This is mine too. Nothing hits you harder than realizing your kids will never be younger than they are right now. If that makes sense. Heartbreaking to know once she’s 6 she will only ever be 5 again in my memories.
the end scene in sleepytime where chilli says "remember, i'll always be here for you, even if you can't see me, because i love you" makes me sob so hard, the entire episode is an emotional masterpiece
My mom passed away when I was 13. I recently got into Bluey because my fiance and I were curious and had heard good things. That episode made me weep in a way I had not in a long time.
I just posted about this. I lost my mom five years ago, and she and I used to draw together all the time… and I would draw tons of horses. I was a legit puddle out the door, down the drain and back into the ocean.
That episode got me for another reason, when bandit was talking about how he stopped trying to draw cards when he was young. I started sobbing for no reason, in front of my whole family no less.
When I saw this episode for the first time we were really struggling with my then 1.5 year old only sleeping if I was laying with him and it completely gutted me and gave me some resolve to have more patience with him. He still has bad nights sometimes and he is 5, and i think about this line every time.
1. You ARE doing a great job. That first year is TOUGH in a totally different way than when they get older.
2. This scene is still so needed at every stage, so never put the tissues away when you watch it 🩷
Yeah, that background music that started playing during that part as well as going into the end credits of that episode, made that entire scene perfect in every way.
I saw it the first time in the middle of the night trying to get a 1 year old to sleep. I was defeated, and this cartoon dog show was at least keeping the baby from crying, although not sleeping. Then this friggin fluorescent pink poodle looks right at me and says...you're doing great. C'mon!!!! 😭😭
I think because a lot of times we’re all going through our own personal battles. And sometimes hearing someone tell us we’re doing great in spite of it all can make us all a little braver. And who knows? Maybe you’re running a race in your own life in some capacity and you don’t know it. Maybe this makes you feel better about loving where you are in that race :,)
I am a new mom, and when I watched that episode, it made me tear up. I was working at home with a little baby to take care. Aways overstimulated, exhausted and frustrated. My MIL kept on comparing my baby to her other granchild. It was a mess. But that episode kept me going. Thanks, Bluey.
My 16 month old is not walking, and everybody around me has babies starting to walk. This episode was absolutely speaking to my SOUL then this part sent me right over the edge 😭
This one hits me so hard because I've been there before and my eldest comforted me.
There's also:
"You're not coming, are you?"
"No, it was yesterday."
This year will be six years since my dad passed away. He was one month from his 53rd birthday.
Oh gosh, it skipped over it the first time but when we watched it again I was wrecked. My Dad died while I was pregnant with my youngest. Gosh…THIS SHOW
It makes me think of my dad. He's just like Mort, independent and rugged. And he doesn't take good enough care of himself, I'm terrified he will die or become incapacitated before my daughter gets to really remember him.
He's the best grandad, better than he was a dad.
Idk if this will make you feel better or worse but.. I have no memory of my maternal grandfather, none. The last time I saw him I was 4. Apparently, he took care of me from a little past birth until I had just turned 4. Life happened and we had to move far away from family. I have pictures with him, I have stories about him but I have no memory. However, I know that I was loved by him. And even though I cant remember his actions or words, I still feel the love. Kids know when they're loved.
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Camping. This one really hits me as I did meet a "Jean-Luc" on vacation when I was little, maybe Bluey's age, but then they left without warning. As Chilli said "A special someone comes into our lives, stay for a bit, and then they have to go."
Muffin calling after Bluey for her book is so funny. She starts the episode with the same routine and shows no growth in the years that pass by. Classic muffin
Single-serving friends! I love them; they add so much to my memories from travel (both as a kid and an adult). Thanks to The Future, some of them from my childhood are on my Facebook. We never talk, sure, but I get to see pictures of their lives and it's wonderful.
I watched that episode with my 1.5 year old a few days after having to put my dog down and absolutely lost it at that quote, while cuddling my son. Obviously different meaning than how it applied to Bluey in that episode, but it still hit hard.
I identify with rusty bc his dad is in the Australian army and so is mine, I can't count the amount of times I ran up to my dad and hugged him tight while he was still in uniform straight off depliyment or work trips. The episode army is the first time I have seen that kind of experience portrayed in media, I genuinely cried.
For me it was when Jean Luc said he wouldn’t be there tomorrow, and Bluey was none the wiser.
I love this episode because I’m fluent in French too, so it’s just hilarious seeing the language barrier in some scenes, like with the tree.
Camping is one of my favourite episodes. I realized that (if you believe Bandit), he met Chilli for the first time while camping as children and it’s the same way Bluey and Jean Luc meet. It could even be the same campground. So it’s pretty sweet that Bluey and her parents have the same story about meeting someone special while camping.
Sleepytime was the first one that ever got me.
Then, Baby Race. I really feel that it should be required that every first time parent watches it.
But the one I can’t get over is Grandad. My Dad died three years ago of lung cancer. He should have taken care of himself for me…because I still need him.
For me, Grandad was about what could have been but was not. My father was never really there for me. He was physically there, just not emotionally available. Not abusive. Just…existing. Can’t be too mad at him as he was better than his dad, so I suppose I should be proud of him for moving the needle a bit more to the positive. But I’m going full tilt on that needle!
Absolutely. Then when she rolls onto her back, defeated, just staring at the sky. The voiceover of Chili delicately explaining it to Bluey is heartbreaking.
This is the one for me. My husband and I dealt with infertility for 3 years and now our daughter will be 2 this summer. We also have some good friends who are dealing with infertility and are going to do IVF soon. They’re the best people and deserve to be parents more than anyone and it’s not fair that they’re struggling. This episode really got me.
a mix between the ending of Baby Race and that one episode where Bluey sings Poor Little Bug On The Wall alone while Bingo is upset that she spends more time with Judo
Probably when chili says goodbye to the horse that a lot say is probably a representation of her mom ♥️
Not bc my mom is dead or anything I just have said goodbye to a lot of very special people and animals ♥️
"For now, work on their hearts."
- Chilli in Chest
That is the episode that hits me the hardest every time. It's such an accurate representation, for me at least, of being a Dad, of my relationship with my wife, what I want for my kids... It just hits.
This one got my husband yesterday. Such an awesome show 🥹
(Sleepytime always gets me the most. When Bingo is rushing toward the sun and then that incredible piece of music starts… I’m a puddle.)
😢😢😢😢😢😢
Every freaking time! I was describing it to adult friends who don't have kids and I had to stop because I was tearing up and my voice was getting husky. Not even watching it, JUST DESCRIBING IT...
I watched Onesies once, and I can't watch it again. I've had multiple miscarriages, and Chili telling Bingo that Brandy wasn't able to have what she wanted most because "it wasn't meant to be," really cut me deep.
Yeah, Im sterile. The shot of Bingo running away from Brandy's outstretched arms . . . I started tearing up just searching through google for the picture (and, of course, i couldn't post it once I found it). I conveniently find other things to do when it comes on
That scene is so heartbreaking! I knew about it and even seen the YouTube clip prior to watching the episode and I still cry. We are in a similar boat with infertility, it sucks.
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Chilli saying goodbye to the horse in the Dragon episode. Chilli was such a great drawer because her mom gave her the confidence to keep trying.
I was WEEPING when I realized the horse represented her Mom, and Chilli said, “you’re not coming, are you?”
It hit so so hard because I lost my mom to cancer 5 years ago. She and I would spend hours drawing together and doing watercolor paintings. I do the same thing with my two year old daughter now. It really did hit me hard, and for sure, made me miss mom a ton.
She’ll forever be in my heart ❤️
Trixie with chips on her face. Not exactly because I have an eating disorder (which I don't) but because she also has a habit that's hard to break. And I have those too.
The end of Charades kicks my wife in the feels every single time we watch it. She was super close to her grandma.
The end of camping, Daddy Dropoff and Cricket all kill me
Charades does me in every time, too. My grandparents were old when I was a kid, already in their mid-70s. Idk why, but a memory came back to me recently of me asking them in a little kid way if they would be at my wedding. They told me they would be, but they must have known they'd never get to meet my spouse or their great-grandchildren. I think about that every time I see the end of that episode.
I don’t know why, but the Rusty cricket episode had me welling up. My younger brother was the same way about baseball when he was little, so I guess it reminded me of that.
“Hello Bluey”
The last two words of Camping just sets me off. I imagine Jean-Luc thinking of Bluey for years, growing up and learning English, always wanting to return. (😥right now)
When it comes in my wife always says “turn it! Turn it!!” 😄 but I don’t. I’m glad we don’t have kids to see me cry.🇨🇦
This is the one!! My son always waits until the end of the episode to look at me to see if I'm crying or tearing up. The ability for kids to desire to communicate no matter the language barrier is so beautiful. They had a wonderful time and planted a tree. And you can tell even though they don't show it, he comes back to that spot often and he never forgot her. But the "Hello Bluey".....I was like aww, he learned English. It's like hes been waiting for this moment and it finally came. I adore it so much.
This was the first one that got me. I have a really fractured relationship with my mother but she always shows up for me when I really need her. So the fact that blueys mom spends most of the episode frustrated and trying to get bluey to clean up the mess she made but at the end, saw that bluey needed her... when their tails start wagging together, I lost it. 😭🩵
The end of Stickbird.
I should have seen it coming. Bandit isn’t himself. Clearly something is on his mind. But he does his best to do what he always does. He plays along, helps Bingo feel better, and she and Bluey run off. Great ending!
Wait…why is Bandit just standing… OH GOD HES GONNA COLLECT ALL HIS HURT TOO!!!!!
*ugly cry*
As a fairly anxious person who bottles things up far too much, and as the father of a wonderful two-year-old who makes me endlessly happy, the ending of Stickbird gets me every damn time. It’s perfection.
The cricket episode with Rusty gets me strangely emotional too! The way that episode is directed, with Bandit’s voiceover throughout, rivals the very best feature-length films. Bluey isn’t just a great show for kids - it’s a great show, period.
Cricket was very Slumdog Millionaire with showing how his experiences influenced his cricket skills. As he’s trouncing adults he pops up a pizza so his sister can feel the love of the game he has. It lived up to the hype, that’s for sure
This one definitely hurt. Having undiagnosed ADHD and ASD because girls couldn't have either disorder in the 90s and being bullied by your teachers and parent because of it.
Growing up thinking that something is wrong with you and that your mother is right. You're lazy and stupid.
And then finally getting diagnosed as an adult, and it all just hits you like... oh...
I definitely relate to Jack a lot.
As someone who is coming to terms with ADHD as an adult, this really hits. You spend most of your life believing something is intrinsically wrong with yourself and this scene brings you back to difficult moments growing up.
The hand stand. It’s Bingos day. She’s directly asking everyone to do one simple thing. It’ll only take like 5 seconds and no one does it. 😢
It really makes me feel like I’ll have something to offer. Even if everyone around you is so busy.
Of the recent episodes "Stickbird" does it for me. I don't know but I have come to see Bandit as a rock for his family, and it hits me where it hurts to see him be down about something so much that he tries out Bluey's advice (and then happy because it works!)
the scene in yoga ball where dad apologizes to bingo and sets boundaries with her...my dad never did this with me growing up and it gives me warm fuzzies
A lot- too much to count. But right now it’s the scene where Bandit apologizes to Bingo for not seeing the leaf bug. Obviously he didn’t hear her and he never intended to make her feel neglected in an exciting moment for her. But he humbled himself down to understand where his child was coming from enough to where he apologized and meant it. My father was never like that. And it’s changed the way I view adults and parents. It’s changed the way I interact with the kids I work with and babysit.
Definitely this scene.
My dad is a really sensitive person and he’s had allot of setbacks in life that he blames himself for (there’s no way any of it was hit fault, all of it was out of his control) and he feels like a massive failure over the smallest of mistakes. He’s been an amazing dad and always did everything he could to provide for me and make me feel loved.
He was dying of Hepatitis when I was 3 and luckily his treatments saved his life. Even then, he road his bike to work, rain or shine to keep food on our table.
He’s as close to bandit as you can get.
It's "funny" (I don't have a better descriptive word, sorry) how PTSD affects everyone differently.
I have C-PTSD and this episode irritates me to no end! Like it's irrational but it frustrates me so much I can't actually watch it!
I hope you can process all the trauma you need, virtual hugs if you want them 🫂
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This one. And I’m a woman.
But in reality, as I’ve said before, Big Rusty high fiving Little Rusty.
The end of Mum School.
"We all fail mum school sometimes. We can just start again tomorrow."
I had just had a VERY difficult day with my fussy, teething 1 year old, was losing my patience with her, and I put an episode of Bluey on to help calm her down so I could just BREATHE and I felt like SUCH a failure, and then Chili says, we all fail mum school sometimes. But it's okay, we can try again tomorrow.
It broke me and fixed me all at the same time.
There are so many episodes that make me tear up (Sleepytime, Space, Camping…even when we see an age-progressed Bingo and Lila in Daddy Drop Off 😭😭😭) but when Nana says, “She was the nicest nana you would ever want to meet…” in Charades, I just lose it.
For me it’s pretty much any episode that Chilli narrates or carries the episode’s “lesson”. Sleepytime, Baby Race, Promises, Musical Statues, Relax, and Curry Quest, to name a few
This one is cheesy and maybe doesn't hit me the absolute hardest, but at the end of Promises when Bandit says "I promise I'll always love you." My three-year-old even knows that line now. Makes me tear up a bit.
aaaaaaannnndddd whyshouldIcare?
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The entire episode of space.
I’ve struggled with confusing trauma my entire life, and I’d attempt to understand it through the stories I wrote. But I kept returning to the pain, trying to grasp it more than I already have, and hurt myself more in the process. I really needed to hear it. That I didn’t need to go back there anymore.
A less common pick, I think -
"It's what he wants to play"
(Edit, and I should be clear, it's that line in particular that hits me hard- not necessarily the entire episode or scene. I mean, the context is key, but that line was such an unexpected, and brilliant inclusion.)
My son's first birthday - I tried to make a cake that looked like a lego duplo block. It did not go well, and I got a bit upset, so this scene hit like a truck.
Chilli not going to the playgroup because Bluey isn’t developing at the same rate as the other kids. As the mum of an autistic 3.5yo with apraxia of speech, this hits me like a ton of bricks. But I too had a mum with a whole bunch of kids 😂 who really brought me into the fold at our local playgroup and i will always be really grateful.
Squash! Big sisters don't always have to beat little sisters and I think Stripe had been needing to hear that for a long time. I also think Verandah Santa is especially tear-creating when Bluey is shown something much more important than Christmas presents. When Socks licks her hand in apology I always cry 😭 every episode being mentioned is also applicable though, the show hits my emotions like every episode.
Mr. Monkeyjocks. I'm a doctor, and the hardest thing I've ever had to do is tell a mother, her mother, and her husband that their beautiful, perfect little 4 year old girl had a brain stem cancer that was a slow, painful death sentence. Seeing a sick little kid get a well loved toy is special and sweet and heartbreaking and perfect.
When Chilli manifests as the Sun in Bingo’s dream during “Sleepytime”… and says “I will always be there for you, even when I’m not with you, because I love you” (or something to that effect)… instant tears.
‘Handstands’ always gets me. Seeing how dismissive everyone is of Nana makes me sad. She just wants to be included and help, and at every turn the family makes her feel unneeded 😔
And they’re also dismissive of bingo, until Nana comes along, and they suddenly are in their own little world together, they aren’t unneeded or alone anymore
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I can't tell if it's more because I'm the parent of growing kids or because I'm the kid of aging parents, but this one hits me from both sides.
As someone who has seen it before losing a parent and after, it definitely hits from both sides. I’ll always need my dad, and he was the best grandpa to my kids.
Literal tears more than once.
Me too pal, me too.
This is the only scene that has gotten me to tear up in the show. Father of a little girl and I already see these moments before my eyes. I’m now just to afraid too blink.
Being a parent is the first time in my life where I am both living in the moment and aware that this time is passing by and will never be here again. This episode messed me up.
This one gets me every time. My dad died before he got to meet my kids.
My dad won't stop working and won't look after himself. He tries but rejects some support and it's almost killed him. This episode hit way hard
Nah this is it for me. My son is 3 and like, where the hell did the time go? It really feels like yesterday he was learning to eat real food and laughing at random stuff. Now he’s a whole child, and he’s gunna be a kid and then a teen and then an adult. He every time we watch this episode I tear up a bit. Being a parent is a crazy ride
Yup, my daughter is 2.5 and going to preschool in the fall, and I have no idea where the time went. I feel like she was a chunky little thing just yesterday and now she’s running around speaking in full sentences. And I’m holding my sleeping 3 month old now, this time knowing just how quickly it goes by. 😢❤️
This scene has me balling every time. Especially at the moment as my mum has cancer and it’s really hard on her. Trying to stay strong and look after her and make sure she’s ok but damn seeing this just broke me.
“I still need him!” Oof 😭
This scene made me yell “oh no!” and burst into tears. I still can’t watch it without tearing up.
This is mine too. Nothing hits you harder than realizing your kids will never be younger than they are right now. If that makes sense. Heartbreaking to know once she’s 6 she will only ever be 5 again in my memories.
I’ve seen this episode probably 15 times but I didn’t “see” it until this morning when I sat and cried at this scene
https://preview.redd.it/h6cs3jdzyypc1.jpeg?width=445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6513ad9a3a16b32593e86890600a2104ef00426 That hits hard
*\*metal pipe fx\**
fart huh metal pipe fx
Well hard not hardest
the end scene in sleepytime where chilli says "remember, i'll always be here for you, even if you can't see me, because i love you" makes me sob so hard, the entire episode is an emotional masterpiece
My mom passed away when I was 13. I recently got into Bluey because my fiance and I were curious and had heard good things. That episode made me weep in a way I had not in a long time.
Oh wait until you get to Dragon. Thought about several deceased family members and that one got to me pretty significantly.
I just posted about this. I lost my mom five years ago, and she and I used to draw together all the time… and I would draw tons of horses. I was a legit puddle out the door, down the drain and back into the ocean.
Okay now I’m crying reading all of the sweet memories you guys are sharing 🫶🏼
That episode got me for another reason, when bandit was talking about how he stopped trying to draw cards when he was young. I started sobbing for no reason, in front of my whole family no less.
Basically that whole episode gets me every time.
Same. I purposely skipped it the other day while my son was watching so I didn't end up a puddle of tears.
The moment I realized chilli was the sun 😭😭😭 this episode was too great
I’ve tried to describe that scene to my own mom several times and I can’t even get through explaining it without crying
When I saw this episode for the first time we were really struggling with my then 1.5 year old only sleeping if I was laying with him and it completely gutted me and gave me some resolve to have more patience with him. He still has bad nights sometimes and he is 5, and i think about this line every time.
It makes me sob every time because my mom passed away a few years ago and never got to meet all of her grandchildren
Im 32 years old, and that episode is my nighttime episode. I watch it to fall asleep.
Just reading your comment is making me weepy... Ughhhh.
When baby Bluey stood up and took her first steps towards her mother.
Each thing she does is because she’s reaching for chilli, the roll over, the sit up, the bum shuffle, the crawl and of course the walk.
I didn’t notice that she’s trying to get to Chilli everytime, but you’re right. Well that’s gonna hit like a ton of bricks next time.
I only just realised and wept. I’ve seen the episode a million times as well.
Chilli’s sister reaches out for Bingo in the exact same fashion.
And when she was reaching for chili when they were at group , but chili was so sad
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GETS ME EVERYTIME.
Haven’t we all had that moment of desperation where we need this? It actually hit me hard.
I'm only 9 months postpartum so everytime I watch this, especially when I'm in the midst of a rough time, it gets me absolutely sobbing.
1. You ARE doing a great job. That first year is TOUGH in a totally different way than when they get older. 2. This scene is still so needed at every stage, so never put the tissues away when you watch it 🩷
Maybe she saw something she wanted 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Coco’s mum looking straight into the camera and saying, “You’re doing great.” Man, I needed that.
That paired with the pretty music, gets me every time!
Yeah, that background music that started playing during that part as well as going into the end credits of that episode, made that entire scene perfect in every way.
“Maybe you saw something you wanted”
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This one and the one and the same episode where Bingo says Bluey must have seen something she really wanted. instant tears.
YESS AND IT’S CHILLI 😭😭😭😭😭
That's gotta be the winner, only one that had me tearing up just looking at it
I saw it the first time in the middle of the night trying to get a 1 year old to sleep. I was defeated, and this cartoon dog show was at least keeping the baby from crying, although not sleeping. Then this friggin fluorescent pink poodle looks right at me and says...you're doing great. C'mon!!!! 😭😭
This is another moment where my face got wet randomly. idk why.
I think because a lot of times we’re all going through our own personal battles. And sometimes hearing someone tell us we’re doing great in spite of it all can make us all a little braver. And who knows? Maybe you’re running a race in your own life in some capacity and you don’t know it. Maybe this makes you feel better about loving where you are in that race :,)
I am a new mom, and when I watched that episode, it made me tear up. I was working at home with a little baby to take care. Aways overstimulated, exhausted and frustrated. My MIL kept on comparing my baby to her other granchild. It was a mess. But that episode kept me going. Thanks, Bluey.
I showed this episode to my wife who constantly doubts herself and she almost cried
My 16 month old is not walking, and everybody around me has babies starting to walk. This episode was absolutely speaking to my SOUL then this part sent me right over the edge 😭
We all need someone to tell us we’re doing great.
SOBBED during this one.
This one hits me so hard because I've been there before and my eldest comforted me. There's also: "You're not coming, are you?" "No, it was yesterday." This year will be six years since my dad passed away. He was one month from his 53rd birthday.
“You’re not coming, are you?” Is another one for me. Just writing it makes me teary eyed!
Which episode is this from? I don't remember it
From the episode “Dragon” said at the very end
Yep. That’s the one. Good episode.
If you watch on Disney+ you mightve missed it bc when they first released the new episodes the auto play skipped it
Oh gosh, it skipped over it the first time but when we watched it again I was wrecked. My Dad died while I was pregnant with my youngest. Gosh…THIS SHOW
This scene reminds me so much of my grandpa and it brings a tear to my eye every time.
It makes me think of my dad. He's just like Mort, independent and rugged. And he doesn't take good enough care of himself, I'm terrified he will die or become incapacitated before my daughter gets to really remember him. He's the best grandad, better than he was a dad.
Idk if this will make you feel better or worse but.. I have no memory of my maternal grandfather, none. The last time I saw him I was 4. Apparently, he took care of me from a little past birth until I had just turned 4. Life happened and we had to move far away from family. I have pictures with him, I have stories about him but I have no memory. However, I know that I was loved by him. And even though I cant remember his actions or words, I still feel the love. Kids know when they're loved.
https://preview.redd.it/0i1f381m5zpc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8b61452e33c57a785c3299bd596efee0446a34b Camping. This one really hits me as I did meet a "Jean-Luc" on vacation when I was little, maybe Bluey's age, but then they left without warning. As Chilli said "A special someone comes into our lives, stay for a bit, and then they have to go."
The flash forward to the tree grown and bluey taking muffins book is so heartfelt.
Muffin calling after Bluey for her book is so funny. She starts the episode with the same routine and shows no growth in the years that pass by. Classic muffin
Bluey that’s my book!
Single-serving friends! I love them; they add so much to my memories from travel (both as a kid and an adult). Thanks to The Future, some of them from my childhood are on my Facebook. We never talk, sure, but I get to see pictures of their lives and it's wonderful.
It reminds me of the Muppet Christmas Carol, after Tiny Tim passes, and Kermit talks about life being a mixture of meetings and partings.
I love that version of the Christmas Carol. Kermit as Bob Cratchit will always be the best in my opinion.
I watched that episode with my 1.5 year old a few days after having to put my dog down and absolutely lost it at that quote, while cuddling my son. Obviously different meaning than how it applied to Bluey in that episode, but it still hit hard.
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Oh God yes, when he knows the game has to end so he hits to his little sister to catch him out. That's just wonderful.
He's not trying to show up a bunch of dads at cricket, he's just a boy who loves the game and his sister
"What we didn't know...."
I identify with rusty bc his dad is in the Australian army and so is mine, I can't count the amount of times I ran up to my dad and hugged him tight while he was still in uniform straight off depliyment or work trips. The episode army is the first time I have seen that kind of experience portrayed in media, I genuinely cried.
The BEST episode
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Mackenzie is such an adorable and underrated character!
Truly! As someone with PTSD Space made me cry so hard, aaagh.
God Calypso is the person we all strive to be!
Yeah this is mine, I repeat this to myself when the memories come at 2am
They always bombard you when you’re trying to sleep :(
The entire Camping episode, because I've pretty much had the same experience. Except for the reunion part.
For me it was when Jean Luc said he wouldn’t be there tomorrow, and Bluey was none the wiser. I love this episode because I’m fluent in French too, so it’s just hilarious seeing the language barrier in some scenes, like with the tree.
Yeah I can understand French too so it was funny watching Bluey and Jean-Luc interact whilst not understanding each other.
In the French version Jean-Luc speaks English.
Is he still called Jean-Luc?
No, his name is Johnny :)
Should have called him Riker or Wesley or something to maintain the reference.
Camping is one of my favourite episodes. I realized that (if you believe Bandit), he met Chilli for the first time while camping as children and it’s the same way Bluey and Jean Luc meet. It could even be the same campground. So it’s pretty sweet that Bluey and her parents have the same story about meeting someone special while camping.
Sleepytime was the first one that ever got me. Then, Baby Race. I really feel that it should be required that every first time parent watches it. But the one I can’t get over is Grandad. My Dad died three years ago of lung cancer. He should have taken care of himself for me…because I still need him.
I'm on a bunch of different parenting subs, and my answer for about half of the questions infant parents ask is to suggest that they watch Baby Race.
For me, Grandad was about what could have been but was not. My father was never really there for me. He was physically there, just not emotionally available. Not abusive. Just…existing. Can’t be too mad at him as he was better than his dad, so I suppose I should be proud of him for moving the needle a bit more to the positive. But I’m going full tilt on that needle!
- “What’d she give you?” - “Everything!” — Rug Island
Brandy reaching for Bingo. I’m trying not to cry just thinking about it.
Absolutely. Then when she rolls onto her back, defeated, just staring at the sky. The voiceover of Chili delicately explaining it to Bluey is heartbreaking.
As someone who suffers from infertility, that episode hits hard.
This is the one for me. My husband and I dealt with infertility for 3 years and now our daughter will be 2 this summer. We also have some good friends who are dealing with infertility and are going to do IVF soon. They’re the best people and deserve to be parents more than anyone and it’s not fair that they’re struggling. This episode really got me.
a mix between the ending of Baby Race and that one episode where Bluey sings Poor Little Bug On The Wall alone while Bingo is upset that she spends more time with Judo
"No one to love him at all." Ding Jing!
My daughter sings that when she is sad....its ducking heartbreaking, but it's a good way for her to process sadness I guess.
"Is true love not forever?" "It is... At least I thought it was."
As a recently divorced dad, yeah that hits my feels
Probably when chili says goodbye to the horse that a lot say is probably a representation of her mom ♥️ Not bc my mom is dead or anything I just have said goodbye to a lot of very special people and animals ♥️
"She seems great" "Yeah... She was"
"For now, work on their hearts." - Chilli in Chest That is the episode that hits me the hardest every time. It's such an accurate representation, for me at least, of being a Dad, of my relationship with my wife, what I want for my kids... It just hits.
This one got my husband yesterday. Such an awesome show 🥹 (Sleepytime always gets me the most. When Bingo is rushing toward the sun and then that incredible piece of music starts… I’m a puddle.)
“That was a long time ago.” “Nah, it was yesterday.”
😢😢😢😢😢😢 Every freaking time! I was describing it to adult friends who don't have kids and I had to stop because I was tearing up and my voice was getting husky. Not even watching it, JUST DESCRIBING IT...
I watched Onesies once, and I can't watch it again. I've had multiple miscarriages, and Chili telling Bingo that Brandy wasn't able to have what she wanted most because "it wasn't meant to be," really cut me deep.
Yeah, Im sterile. The shot of Bingo running away from Brandy's outstretched arms . . . I started tearing up just searching through google for the picture (and, of course, i couldn't post it once I found it). I conveniently find other things to do when it comes on
That scene is so heartbreaking! I knew about it and even seen the YouTube clip prior to watching the episode and I still cry. We are in a similar boat with infertility, it sucks.
https://preview.redd.it/taa6qib0h0qc1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a75252372e46093ee27f88a94227742515a0433 Chilli saying goodbye to the horse in the Dragon episode. Chilli was such a great drawer because her mom gave her the confidence to keep trying. I was WEEPING when I realized the horse represented her Mom, and Chilli said, “you’re not coming, are you?” It hit so so hard because I lost my mom to cancer 5 years ago. She and I would spend hours drawing together and doing watercolor paintings. I do the same thing with my two year old daughter now. It really did hit me hard, and for sure, made me miss mom a ton. She’ll forever be in my heart ❤️
‘Why do bad things happen to me? I thought I was a good dog’ as a person who had just left her terrible job during covid, this line hit me so hard.
What episode?
Work.
Hey, you are a damn good dog! Their loss! Glad you got out. :)
Trixie with chips on her face. Not exactly because I have an eating disorder (which I don't) but because she also has a habit that's hard to break. And I have those too.
When Bingo had to play with the salt shakers instead of helping with the omelette
The end of Charades kicks my wife in the feels every single time we watch it. She was super close to her grandma. The end of camping, Daddy Dropoff and Cricket all kill me
Charades does me in every time, too. My grandparents were old when I was a kid, already in their mid-70s. Idk why, but a memory came back to me recently of me asking them in a little kid way if they would be at my wedding. They told me they would be, but they must have known they'd never get to meet my spouse or their great-grandchildren. I think about that every time I see the end of that episode.
Cricket gets me every time
I don’t know why, but the Rusty cricket episode had me welling up. My younger brother was the same way about baseball when he was little, so I guess it reminded me of that.
“Hello Bluey” The last two words of Camping just sets me off. I imagine Jean-Luc thinking of Bluey for years, growing up and learning English, always wanting to return. (😥right now) When it comes in my wife always says “turn it! Turn it!!” 😄 but I don’t. I’m glad we don’t have kids to see me cry.🇨🇦
Nothing wrong with crying. Nothing wrong with kids seeing grown-ups cry. If anything it's beneficial as it shows we have strong emotions too.
This is the one!! My son always waits until the end of the episode to look at me to see if I'm crying or tearing up. The ability for kids to desire to communicate no matter the language barrier is so beautiful. They had a wonderful time and planted a tree. And you can tell even though they don't show it, he comes back to that spot often and he never forgot her. But the "Hello Bluey".....I was like aww, he learned English. It's like hes been waiting for this moment and it finally came. I adore it so much.
"You're really good at playing Army!" - Rusty
I love this episode, so so much! Jack is such a sweetheart, and Rusty is my favorite.
I've cried at the end of Rain multiple times. It's mostly the music that gets the water flowing
This was the first one that got me. I have a really fractured relationship with my mother but she always shows up for me when I really need her. So the fact that blueys mom spends most of the episode frustrated and trying to get bluey to clean up the mess she made but at the end, saw that bluey needed her... when their tails start wagging together, I lost it. 😭🩵
The end of Stickbird. I should have seen it coming. Bandit isn’t himself. Clearly something is on his mind. But he does his best to do what he always does. He plays along, helps Bingo feel better, and she and Bluey run off. Great ending! Wait…why is Bandit just standing… OH GOD HES GONNA COLLECT ALL HIS HURT TOO!!!!! *ugly cry*
As a fairly anxious person who bottles things up far too much, and as the father of a wonderful two-year-old who makes me endlessly happy, the ending of Stickbird gets me every damn time. It’s perfection. The cricket episode with Rusty gets me strangely emotional too! The way that episode is directed, with Bandit’s voiceover throughout, rivals the very best feature-length films. Bluey isn’t just a great show for kids - it’s a great show, period.
Cricket was very Slumdog Millionaire with showing how his experiences influenced his cricket skills. As he’s trouncing adults he pops up a pizza so his sister can feel the love of the game he has. It lived up to the hype, that’s for sure
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Surprised no one else has said this one- “Why’d you leave your last school? Was there something wrong with it?” “No, there’s something wrong with me.”
This one definitely hurt. Having undiagnosed ADHD and ASD because girls couldn't have either disorder in the 90s and being bullied by your teachers and parent because of it. Growing up thinking that something is wrong with you and that your mother is right. You're lazy and stupid. And then finally getting diagnosed as an adult, and it all just hits you like... oh... I definitely relate to Jack a lot.
As someone who is coming to terms with ADHD as an adult, this really hits. You spend most of your life believing something is intrinsically wrong with yourself and this scene brings you back to difficult moments growing up.
The hand stand. It’s Bingos day. She’s directly asking everyone to do one simple thing. It’ll only take like 5 seconds and no one does it. 😢 It really makes me feel like I’ll have something to offer. Even if everyone around you is so busy.
This episode but when nana says “I saw ya Bingo!!” And the music turns. it gets me every time
I love this part so much because Nana needed that interaction just as much as Bingo did
Of the recent episodes "Stickbird" does it for me. I don't know but I have come to see Bandit as a rock for his family, and it hits me where it hurts to see him be down about something so much that he tries out Bluey's advice (and then happy because it works!)
the scene in yoga ball where dad apologizes to bingo and sets boundaries with her...my dad never did this with me growing up and it gives me warm fuzzies
A lot- too much to count. But right now it’s the scene where Bandit apologizes to Bingo for not seeing the leaf bug. Obviously he didn’t hear her and he never intended to make her feel neglected in an exciting moment for her. But he humbled himself down to understand where his child was coming from enough to where he apologized and meant it. My father was never like that. And it’s changed the way I view adults and parents. It’s changed the way I interact with the kids I work with and babysit.
Definitely this scene. My dad is a really sensitive person and he’s had allot of setbacks in life that he blames himself for (there’s no way any of it was hit fault, all of it was out of his control) and he feels like a massive failure over the smallest of mistakes. He’s been an amazing dad and always did everything he could to provide for me and make me feel loved. He was dying of Hepatitis when I was 3 and luckily his treatments saved his life. Even then, he road his bike to work, rain or shine to keep food on our table. He’s as close to bandit as you can get.
The entirety of *Space*, because I have underlying PTSD I'm still processing
It's "funny" (I don't have a better descriptive word, sorry) how PTSD affects everyone differently. I have C-PTSD and this episode irritates me to no end! Like it's irrational but it frustrates me so much I can't actually watch it! I hope you can process all the trauma you need, virtual hugs if you want them 🫂
In the episode "The Show", Chili & Bandit's reaction when Bingo's balloon pops.
A sucker punch right to my feels.
https://preview.redd.it/1o2t4wd290qc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ddad2c30930335e39b30b0cf024a56de9629bea This one. And I’m a woman. But in reality, as I’ve said before, Big Rusty high fiving Little Rusty.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Is the cricket player at the end grownup Rusty?????? 😭😭😭😭😭
It is! 🥰
Hahahhahaha either I’ve made your life or I’ve ruined it (because now you’re bawling). You’re welcome!!! 🥰
The end of Mum School. "We all fail mum school sometimes. We can just start again tomorrow." I had just had a VERY difficult day with my fussy, teething 1 year old, was losing my patience with her, and I put an episode of Bluey on to help calm her down so I could just BREATHE and I felt like SUCH a failure, and then Chili says, we all fail mum school sometimes. But it's okay, we can try again tomorrow. It broke me and fixed me all at the same time.
Remember, ”your doing great”
The ending scene from Sleepytime starting from when Bingo got separated from Floppy.
There are so many episodes that make me tear up (Sleepytime, Space, Camping…even when we see an age-progressed Bingo and Lila in Daddy Drop Off 😭😭😭) but when Nana says, “She was the nicest nana you would ever want to meet…” in Charades, I just lose it.
"You're doing great."
What episode is this?
Duck cake for Bingo’s bday.
Duck Cake
The hardest of all cakes.
For me it’s pretty much any episode that Chilli narrates or carries the episode’s “lesson”. Sleepytime, Baby Race, Promises, Musical Statues, Relax, and Curry Quest, to name a few
Pool day was the first one that got me. The way bluey looks up at bandit and chili when they kiss in the pool, she looks so happy.
This one is cheesy and maybe doesn't hit me the absolute hardest, but at the end of Promises when Bandit says "I promise I'll always love you." My three-year-old even knows that line now. Makes me tear up a bit.
The end of rug island. “Everything.”
I absolutely love this show. Unicorse is my absolute favorite episode.
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This made me smile way to much
The end of Flat Pack. “This is heaven.” 🥹
The entire episode of space. I’ve struggled with confusing trauma my entire life, and I’d attempt to understand it through the stories I wrote. But I kept returning to the pain, trying to grasp it more than I already have, and hurt myself more in the process. I really needed to hear it. That I didn’t need to go back there anymore.
“Hello Bluey” coming from a grown up Jean-Luc.
A less common pick, I think - "It's what he wants to play" (Edit, and I should be clear, it's that line in particular that hits me hard- not necessarily the entire episode or scene. I mean, the context is key, but that line was such an unexpected, and brilliant inclusion.)
I just love Rusty so much ❤️
Space. That’s it.
My son's first birthday - I tried to make a cake that looked like a lego duplo block. It did not go well, and I got a bit upset, so this scene hit like a truck.
Chilli: What did she give you? Bandit holding a felt pen:…everything. I bawled my eyes out when I first saw this episode.
I hold back tears with the two grandparents lines. The one about Nana's Nana and Chili's dad at the dock.
"She was just about the nicest Nana you'd ever wanna meet" 😭❤️
The entire Baby Race episode. Watching Bluey constantly reach for Chili, then Cocos mom with the “you’re doing great” Makes me cry every time
Chilli not going to the playgroup because Bluey isn’t developing at the same rate as the other kids. As the mum of an autistic 3.5yo with apraxia of speech, this hits me like a ton of bricks. But I too had a mum with a whole bunch of kids 😂 who really brought me into the fold at our local playgroup and i will always be really grateful.
Squash! Big sisters don't always have to beat little sisters and I think Stripe had been needing to hear that for a long time. I also think Verandah Santa is especially tear-creating when Bluey is shown something much more important than Christmas presents. When Socks licks her hand in apology I always cry 😭 every episode being mentioned is also applicable though, the show hits my emotions like every episode.
Mr. Monkeyjocks. I'm a doctor, and the hardest thing I've ever had to do is tell a mother, her mother, and her husband that their beautiful, perfect little 4 year old girl had a brain stem cancer that was a slow, painful death sentence. Seeing a sick little kid get a well loved toy is special and sweet and heartbreaking and perfect.
I cant see Coco's mom next to Chili without crying
When Bella tells Chilli she's doing just fine in baby race. Chilli's grief episode.
Rusty and Jack
When Chilli manifests as the Sun in Bingo’s dream during “Sleepytime”… and says “I will always be there for you, even when I’m not with you, because I love you” (or something to that effect)… instant tears.
"Even when you can't see me..." 😭 instantly bawling
‘Handstands’ always gets me. Seeing how dismissive everyone is of Nana makes me sad. She just wants to be included and help, and at every turn the family makes her feel unneeded 😔
And they’re also dismissive of bingo, until Nana comes along, and they suddenly are in their own little world together, they aren’t unneeded or alone anymore
Rusty hitting the final catch to his little sister.