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I wanted to talk about Bluey. If you haven't seen the last two episodes of Bluey, spoiler alert for the end of season three. But in this very big giant episode we're seeing, oh, my God, I'm about to cry. Rad and Frisky's wedding and this whole saga with the house being sold, Bluey is really upset, and Bingo don't really give a fuck. And that's one of the things I love about this episode is the whole time, Bingo's like, yeah, they buying our house, girl. And so what? I named my feet. But I listened to an Australian podcast. I'm in way too deep. There's a Bluey podcast, and I've been listening to em. One of them interviewed the creator of the show who said that, you know, we wanted to do something emotional, and he moved a couple of times as a kid, and it seemed like, you know, like, the most appropriate storyline for a children's show. You know, he didn't really want to talk about death or divorce. He wanted to do something maybe a little bit more relatable and less traumatic. The ending of this episode where, again, spoiler alert. The healer family does not actually move. A lot of things just kind of fall apart at the end, and they decide to stay home or in their home. But the ending of this episode was foreshadowed when the children are in the. In kindergarten or whatever with Calypso, and they're reading this story about the farmer and his horse. And Bluey says, you know, why do stories always have happy endings? And Calypso says, I guess because real life gives us enough sad ones. And I thought, oh, how true that is. But also, like, we see a lot of different storylines wrapping up. Chilli's sister, who has been struggling with infertility, is pregnant. And there's lots of, like, little things. We see Greeny again, which made me so happy. Cause when I was a kid, I had, like, a favorite balloon, which sounds really whack, but I did. And one day it flew away. You know, it got lost. It wandered off. And I really loved that balloon. And I was so sad. And I just. I miss you, Spotty. But Cause they had dots rip. She's gone. And Lilo. And Bingo's butterfly helps lead them to where Frisky is at the living room. And it's just a great episode. The muffins coin getting stuck, and then the sheepdogs finding it. And then they seeing the house with the pool, which is what they really wanted. And that house being Winston's dad's house, because Winston's dad is moving in with the terrier's mom. Like, it's just too much. So, anyway, I loved that. The episode just really illustrates how much everything is connected. And, like, the story goes like, you think something is good, you think something is bad. The lesson here is really that, yes, life is both of those things. It's good and bad in the same day, sometimes at the same time. Like, Bluey's having the worst day of her life because Frisky has called off the wedding. And two minutes later, she's having the best day of her life. Cause she gets to ride in the front seat for the first time. So it's things like that that I just really, really loved. Also, I was so glad that Bucky didn't get no commission off of Bandit, because I still don't appreciate the fact that he made fun of Bandit's drawing ability when they were kids. Like, I just felt like, you don't deserve no money off of him. Bandit is, you know, a better person than I am. And, yeah, a lot of. I saw a lot of pushback, obviously, from adults who are like, oh, my God, this isn't realistic. Like, me and my family are about to move, and now our kid is gonna think that something magically will happen at the very last minute, and we won't. And, you know, I've also struggled with infertility. And, you know, that's not gonna just magically change. I'm not gonna get pregnant like Brandi did. And it's like, yes. And I want to be empathetic about that, that y'all are going through hard times. Your kids are gonna have to go through something that they don't like. But that is the point. The point. That is the point of the episode. Like, yes, we're giving you a happy ending because it's a story. But also, we're showing you how the things that you think you don't want to happen are sometimes actually good for you. And sometimes the things you want don't serve you. So I just really, really loved the episode. Thought it was so well done. And then they put out another one on Sunday called Surprise. Oh, God. Which is all about, like, the girls. Bingo is playing house. Like, she's pretending to be a mother. Bluey is asking about what it's like to have kids. And it's like, girl, y'all are hell, but y'all are everything. It's like, it's both of those. And we get to see, like, there's a flash into the future. We get to see Bluey's kid, and there's been a lot of debate about who the daddy is. Maybe it's Jean Luc, maybe it's MacKenzie. I kind of feel like it's MacKenzie, but I do see the case for both. But it also just could be somebody else. So, you know, I don't know. We'll see. But really, I just wanted to say really quickly, I really adore Bluey. Like, it is just such an excellent show. And I love the way they weave all the different threads together and all the callbacks. It's just. More adults should be watching it. Go stream it right now. Disney, excellent, excellent programming.
