Obsession: Bluey

Bingo and Bluey become employees at their dad's pipe company. Bluey is a lazy, power-hungry worker, and Bingo is a frog. Eventually, the game shifts so that Bluey is the boss and she makes her dad do a lot of really strange things, like lick the floor, clean the windows with his bum, and she eventually fires him and kicks him out of the house. Bingo, feeling bad for her dad, hatches an elaborate ruse to cheer him up and she gets him to start dancing, which catches the eye of the pavlovian dancer, Chilli, who then hires him to dance for the night and all of Bandits dreams have come true. The whole gang learns about work, power, and helping out people in need even if it doesn’t help you at all.

Bingo is making a domino heart for her dad. It’s a love heart. And she wants her dad to knock down them down. She runs over to him, but he’s on the phone and loses patients with Bingo. A rare moment for Bandit. Then the episode gets weird. There appear to be real fairies messing up the things around the house because Bandit did something to upset the fairies. A lot of this episode you think it’s Bingo, but there is no way. There’s just too many things that get done that make it an impossibility for it to have been Bingo. And together the family learn that they need to dance around the letterbox in order to appease the fairies. So they do and Bandit validates the hurt that Bingo is going through and this episode is just an episode of love and beauty.

Bingo, Bluey, and Mackenzie are kind of bored playing in the playground. So they ask Bandit if he can play with them all right before Mackenzie has the brilliant idea to go to the creek. Bandit likes the idea so he goes along with it and with Bingo, on he treks into the wild to do some bush bashing. Mackenzie follows, but Bluey is a bit nervous—I mean there are drop bears, uneven ground, and leeches that eat your blood. But as she gets comfortable a bit more and takes steps of bravery, she realizes that the creek is beautiful. Even if she didn’t quite realize it before, she now understands how beautiful the world is.

Bingo is just in the backyard enjoying some flossing. She’s practicing a bit when Bluey comes up to her and asks if she wants to play grannies. Bingo obliges and the girls then proceed to be two destructive grannies. Bingo comes out of character every once in a while to floss again and the age old question arises: can grannies floss? They recruit the help of Nana and Bob and when they discover that Grannies can’t indeed floss, Bingo is a little annoyed and leaves the game. Bluey is upset that Bingo left but also knows that she's right, so she remedies that by having Nana learn how to floss and Bingo is super happy about it and they keep playing. They barrel Bandit over with their car, he hurts something in his back, and the girls stand there and floss as Chillis helps Bandit and they both dream together of their future of flossing when they’re old and gray.

We are back for another season, and this time with two special guests. My two nieces are going to be on the podcast hopefully the whole time for this season. Lai, Ellie, and Uncle Jonny talk about problem solving, and how if you learn to problem solve when you are young, a lot of difficulties will be turned into something fun.