Fandom of Fandoms Podcast
Fandom of Fandoms is a podcast that dives into the worlds that fans love most — from galaxies far, far away to magical schools, epic quests, and everything in between. Each episode spotlights a different fandom, exploring its history, what makes it special, and why people are so passionate about it. We’ll chat with real fans, share wild stories, and invite you to geek out with us, one fandom at a time.
Fandom of Fandoms Podcast
Wackadoo! The Guys Talk All Things Bluey
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Bluey isn't just another cartoon for kids—it's a cultural phenomenon that's captured the hearts of viewers across generations. What makes this show about a family of Australian blue heelers so special? We dive deep into the magic behind those seven-minute episodes that somehow pack in more emotional depth than many feature films.
Our host Nick shares his journey into Bluey fandom, starting as a parent searching for children's content he could actually enjoy watching alongside his kids. The show's authentic portrayal of family life, creative gameplay, and genuine emotional moments has made it a standout success worldwide since its 2018 debut. From Bandit the archaeologist dog (who literally digs for bones) to Chili's nurturing presence, the character dynamics resonate with both children and their parents in profound ways.
We explore fan-favorite episodes like "Cricket," which teaches valuable life lessons through sports, "Baby Race," which tackles parental insecurities, and "The Sign," the special 28-minute episode that Nick boldly declares "one of the best single episodes of television maybe ever." Behind-the-scenes trivia reveals fascinating details, including that the show's child voice actors are uncredited to protect them from fame, and creator Joe Brum originally intended for side character Rusty to be the protagonist.
The conversation takes unexpected turns into the show's fan theories (does Bluey exist in a post-apocalyptic world?), Disney's controversial editing decisions, and the upcoming Bluey feature film planned for 2027. Whether you're a dedicated fan who hunts for the hidden "long dog" in every episode or someone who's curious about what makes this Australian export so beloved, this exploration reveals why these brief animated stories have made such a lasting impact.
Watch Bluey on Disney+ or find episodes on YouTube, and discover for yourself why this show has adults saying, "I put it on for my kids, but really, it's for me too."
Thanks so much for listening! We hope you will consider leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts!
You can also join our Fandom of Fans! Follow us on social media!
If you have ideas about future episodes or would like to join us as a guest, send us an email at fandomofpodcast@gmail.com!
Introduction to Bluey
Speaker 1All right, gentlemen. Well, we are back for episode two of Phantom of Fandoms you know what's funny?
Speaker 2It's actually episode three, because it wouldn't let me name the trailer episode zero. So I'm really annoyed.
Speaker 1It's not episode three, but you get it All right, well, episode three, yeah right, that sounds good to me. What have you guys been up to in the last two weeks?
Speaker 2I guess I'll start here. Yeah, it's been, really it's. It's been fun. Uh, my wife and I just celebrated 10 years together.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, we put out a crazy.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's amazing put out something on social media and everything and um, yeah, no, we, we had a great time, went up to geneva on the lake and had a nice quiet couple days together. My parents watched the kids. So that was that was a nice time. And then really, I mean just spent the time kind of getting ready for the launch of the podcast and all that good stuff and finding things to do with my kids over the summer. So it's been a really really good last couple weeks for me.
Speaker 3You've been putting a lot of work into the podcast and I appreciate that. Yeah, it's my passion project right now.
Speaker 2I mean, you guys both have jobs where you gotta work during the summer. I don't, so it's like well I'll put in some extra time and like work on some things and I had some ideas and I felt, honestly, I feel really good about where things are right now. So, yeah, I've been working, working really hard at it yeah, as do I.
Speaker 1Very good, what about you, ben?
Speaker 3we've been up to not a lot, just avoiding the heat. I'm fortunate enough that I get to work from my basement, so it's nice and cold all the time, but every time I step outside I dread it. So that's really about it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Nice. How about you, mike? Yeah, we have entered the nesting phase of the pregnancy, and so I'm just inundated with home projects and checking off the to-do list before baby arrives. That's fun. How far out are we now? Two months.
Speaker 2Two months away.
Speaker 1Wow, yeah, that's not a lot of time.
Speaker 2Is everything like the nursery put together, and all that?
Speaker 3No, Is all your stuff, because it used to be your office. Is all your stuff out of there?
Speaker 190% of my stuff is out of there. The main thing I had to get out of there was the Lego sets, oh yeah, and now those are out. There's just an incredible amount of space, so anyway.
Speaker 2Nice, when are you going to store those Lego sets? At Michael.
Speaker 1We have the previous owners created these built-in shelves in our bay window room.
Speaker 2There you go.
Speaker 1And so I've been able to put most in there. I've deconstructed a few and, uh, dana has graciously allowed me to keep some out on display but it's nice ever honestly yeah awesome, all right.
Speaker 3Well, let's go ahead and dive into today's episode. Absolutely, um, if you are watching the video which I'm not sure many people are yet, but regardless, maybe someday you'll be watching it, it'll be pretty obvious what we're going to be talking about from our special guest that Nick has brought from home.
Speaker 3So let's go ahead and dive in to Bluey. So, again, if you're joining us for the first time, this is Fandom of Fandoms, where every week we dive into a different fandom, something that people love and want to talk about. So, uh, this week we're talking with nick, one of our co-hosts. Uh, about bluey. So I'll start off, michael, what do you know about bluey?
Speaker 1you know, I don't know a lot. I know that it's extremely popular among adult fans, children fans, kids fans, children fans. Yeah, it was made in Australia. I like to do the accents sometimes, which maybe.
Speaker 2I'll do a demonstration later.
Speaker 1No, I've watched a couple episodes and have also enjoyed it myself. Ben, what do you know about louis?
Speaker 3about what you do, except I have not watched any episodes. Uh, I think it was like on the background once while I was at a friend's house or something and they put it on for their kids, but that's probably about it. Like I said, I know of it, I know the basic premise, but, like in terms of the actual like content and lore behind it, especially nothing. So, yeah, really excited. I I mean again, no, it's huge, not just among kids but among their parents as well. Yeah.
Speaker 2So, yeah, really excited to hear more about it, man, I'm excited to you know, get you to watch an episode today and yeah, we're watching one new today, we're already exposing each other to new things. So this is, this is fun.
Speaker 1I love that well, um, nick, I was gonna say what. On that note, why don't you kind of? Since we're new to the? Well, let's say that ben and I are new to the fandom yeah you know what's uh. Can you kind of give us some background on on bluey?
Speaker 2yeah, so, uh, I funny enough when I got into it because I I remember exactly how I heard about it. Truthfully, I know, by the time that I had heard about it, disney was already like distributing it and so it was on Disney plus and all that. And so I was like, well, this is cool. Like I, I heard that this is a cool show and everything. And my kids at that point I only had one and he was really small and started turning it on and I'm like this is really odd, like this is the type some kids shows like I don't know if you've you've experienced it at all. They are absolutely insufferable. They're terrible to watch. As a parent, you sit there and you're like this is terrible, I never want to watch this. So I wanted to find something that was going to be like. I actually didn't mind watching, I enjoyed it on some level. So like that's where, um, it came from. For me, like why did I? I don't want to say I forced my kids to get involved with it.
Speaker 2I kind of did, in some ways, like it was my idea to put it on for the first time, and so, but yeah, no, a little bit of background about it. Specifically, it was created by this guy named Joe Brum, from Australia, it launched in 2018 and it's made by Ludo Studio in Brisbane.
Speaker 3Or Brisbane I don't even know.
Speaker 2Is that how they say it in Australia?
Speaker 3Probably yeah.
Speaker 2You have to ask someone from there. We don't have an Australian with us.
Speaker 3I don't think I know any, do you guys? No, I guess I don't. I do not. Off topic Anyways so you mentioned that, so I know it's on Disney Plus now. Who was originally distributing it then or streaming it, or you know, putting it out there before disney then?
Speaker 2I don't know how. So like disney was responsible, I think, for it blowing up worldwide in a sense, because once they had a distributor in disney, like it was sure, it was everywhere.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it was a global thing.
Speaker 2Um, I know that it was definitely around, there are. You can still find episodes on youtube, so I would imagine some of the the episodes are still there and present, um, but I couldn't tell you I don't know much about like the, the distribution and how it was getting out before then how it got so big, but it's just wild to think that, like, it got big enough to get disney's attention, sure and then they then wanted to distribute it further. And now I mean, it's just absolutely insane how big the fandom is.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1What are some of the like? So walk us through an episode. You know what's kind of the format? Sure.
Speaker 2So there's seven-minute episodes. There's not like a continuous plot that's going in with them, it's just things that are happening in each of them. There are callbacks and things like that that happen during the episodes, but it doesn't have like a storyline. Um, obviously, I feel like most kids shows don't. But um, it's about bluey. She's a six-year-old blue healer pup. She's also got the rest of her family around her sister, bingo, uh, who's four, and then bandit, who's her dad, and chili's her mom. So that's what it focuses around, and not every single episode is 100% about each and every single one of them, but they are featured in almost every single episode, like all four of them are in most of the episodes. Gotcha.
Speaker 3So when you say six years old, the main character, Bluey, is six years old. That's relative to a human child right, not like a six-year-old dog.
Speaker 1Oh, that's, that's relative to a human child, right, not like a. Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 3That'd be an old dog, right? Yeah, I guess it's human years.
The Format and Family of Bluey
Speaker 2Yeah, it makes sense, yeah yeah, um, but yeah, they're really overall, like it's just got this tone that's very genuine and authentic for sure. Um, lots of of humor and fun, loving nature, like. Like I mean Bluey, one of her key features is she's always coming up with games and you know her and her sister are playing these games and then dad gets involved with them and mom and they're just always doing something fun and exciting together. And sometimes it's just like there's episodes that are very, very silly and you know they don't have a lot of deeper meaning attached to them. But then, like, why I think it's so big among parents is that there are some episodes where they get kind of deep. Um, it hits you in the feels a little bit. You know there's some, there's some parts about it. You're like this is kind of it's, it's silly, it's fun, but it's also real and it feels that way as well, and I think that's part of the, the allure of it I guess.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean that brings up so a question that I had then, like can you relate it to anything that you remember watching like growing up?
Speaker 2good question that is a good question. Um, I can't think of anything that's really that similar. Truthfully, like I so some of my earliest so like, if I think about the first tv shows that I watched as a kid, it was definitely so I can remember being into barney um, for sure, like I don't know if you guys had the barney phase, but like and I mean that had a lot of like heart.
Speaker 2It was trying to teach kids lessons. I think that one was a little bit more like overt in its like lesson teaching and trying to get that out there. A lot of times bluey is kind of like there's there's some lessons in there that are being taught, but it's not like it's not punching you in the face with it there's no songs about cleaning up and stuff like that, but no, I mean it's, but when you think about it like it's, they're seven minute episodes.
Speaker 2Yeah, as compared to I think a barney episode was closer to like that 22 like episode.
Speaker 3Yeah, I will say that was something I was surprised to kind of learn, just like looking very quickly. Is that they are so short? Because, yeah, I was expecting at least you know, I think of, maybe like Rugrats and some of the old Nickelodeon shows.
Speaker 2They would put like 15-ish minute episodes on, like they'd split them in two for like commercial breaks and stuff like that.
Speaker 3But yeah, they're a little bit longer, so seven minutes seems pretty short, yeah that's.
Speaker 2That's every single episode except for so they've got a couple things. They're uh, they recently have put out these things. They're called mini sodes, which is funny.
Speaker 1I already feel like the episode I know, yeah, seven minutes is, but these are like really quick, like just one shot, one scene, kind of things, almost.
Speaker 2Uh, I think they're about three minutes long, um, so they've done those. And then they did do one full length episode that was released. I don't remember when exactly we could look that up, but it was released. That was one of the last things that came out. Like they, they worked on this super episode of bluey for a long time and it was 28 minutes long I think.
Speaker 3So it was a full length, like full, yeah, four episodes put together, pretty much. Well then, let's, let's dive a little deeper into it then, like so, as a parent, for you, why does this show mean so much?
Speaker 2well, um, so I I guess it's one of those things that my, my kids and I can connect on for sure, like because my son is obsessed with it, as I mean, as you can see if you're watching the youtube like these are his toys that I went missing?
Speaker 3this giant four-foot bluey stuffed animal is not yours.
Speaker 2I had to smuggle her out of my house, uh, without him noticing, which was so I had to like shut the door and be like all right, let me run this out into my truck real quick uh, but you worry, he's gonna be missing it, while hopefully not okay my wife was like if, if he asks for it, I'm I don't know what I'm gonna tell him like I I don't think he's going to.
Speaker 2He's not like completely obsessed with, uh, with giant blue. There was like a I don't know for the week after he got her. He was definitely kind of obsessed with her like where, oh, where's giant blue he's got? You know, she's gotta be in the bed with him. Gotcha, yeah, takes up most of the space, yeah, but yeah, it's definitely a connection point because my kids love it so much. Um, you know, they're always asking me if they can watch it. Um, my, my wife's, more of the the, uh, you know, doesn't want the kids watching on the screens all the time, that sort of thing, and so they know that they can sucker me into it. Like I'll watch bluey with them more more likely than than she will. So that's kind of like a bonding point. Like I enjoy watching it too, I'll sit there. I've seen all the episodes too many times now.
Speaker 3I don't know how many too many times I mean there's three, how many seasons?
Speaker 2yeah, there's three seasons, three seasons, I think. Each of them have close to 50 episodes um, right around.
Speaker 3So yeah, there's 150,. I think about episodes. Yeah, gotcha, there's a decent amount. Yeah, for sure, yeah.
Speaker 1I mean again.
Speaker 3With such small, bite-sized sessions or episodes, it's probably easier for you to sit down and watch them then. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2We can go through several episodes and not a very long sit-down, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, bluey is obviously resonates a lot of people and, nick, you put out an amazing uh fandom poll. I did this weekend, uh sharing with our listeners and uh getting their responses back, so I'm gonna run through, uh, our fandom poll responses. So, um, let's see here.
Speaker 2So I asked uh, I asked on the fandom poll what, or who I should say is your favorite bluey character? I'm hoping to do this, like for all of our episodes like I want to be able to put out some sort of a fandom poll.
Speaker 2So, like, please, guys, like, if you see this pop up on um instagram or uh you know, threads or facebook, wherever you're you're catching us at uh, respond to those polls. Like, I would love to be able to shout out as many people as we can and kind of see who's involved with these different fandoms, like who cares about them and who's uh who's got some opinions that they want to share out for sure yeah, well, let's see.
Speaker 1Uh, so brianna bingo is her favorite. Uh, caroline said chili is my favorite. She has fun. She is fun but also holds everything together, wow I'd like to hear more about that, the mom right.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, chili is the mom and all that that holds up, uh it's usually mom's job, like she's gotta hold everything yeah, she is, she's definitely got uh um I don't know, just a a nice calming presence throughout the show all the time. Like I appreciate chili a lot. She's not my favorite character, but I I do love so many. I love all of the characters. Like it'd be easier for me to say, like actually it's not even hard, easy for me to say like who's my least favorite? I wouldn't say that, but like I'm not, they're all good. Like I love all of them.
Speaker 1So well, let's see, uh, logan jay says, her kid says bluey, that's so that's sorry, I my notes weren't clear.
Speaker 2Logan jay is caroline's kid, so bluey's his favorite character. I gotcha I gotcha.
Speaker 1Yeah, she always makes funny games, Megan. Let's see sharing her kids' favorites. Miles' favorite is Muffin. Wow good, we watch all of the episodes with Muffin on repeat daily. Wow.
Speaker 2Daily.
What Makes Bluey Special
Speaker 1Muffin is Louie and Bingo's cousin, so Muffin's a little crazy, honestly, like she's kind of known and has a reputation for being a wild child, nice so megan says that miles is a terror like muffin, so that checks. Uh, let's see here uh, mallory and kids, mine is definitely winston, he's unapologetically himself. Uh, riley said moana, there's a moana character?
Speaker 2I don't think there's a Moana character. She got a little bit confused.
Speaker 3It says she changed it to Bingo. Yeah, they changed it to Bingo Cooper her other kid likes Bingo as well, Nice.
Speaker 1And then Luke says I like the Scottish Terriers at the school.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know what's funny? The Terriers don't even have a name, so there's three of them and they just call them the terrier, the terriers they're not. They're not in very many episodes like they're just around, but yeah, they are. They are nameless so far as I know identifiable by appearance.
Speaker 3Uh, or are they? Are? They are identical. Wow, I think they're voiced by the same, by the same kid, yeah which actually brings me into.
Speaker 2I mean, I got a couple pieces of trivia I'll get into later, but this is kind of another funny thing. So like, uh, you've got the main. Like the adults, they they actually show. Like, if you go and you look in the credits, like the adults are all credited for, um, you know the voices that they have within the show, the kids from my understanding, most of them are kids of people that are like on the production crew and stuff like that the animators and all that they're. They're their actual kids, um, and in an effort to keep them out of the limelight like they did, none of the kids are credited.
Speaker 2So if you go and try and look up like, oh, who's the voice of bluey or bingo or any of these people, like none of these kids are credited as being the voices because their parents didn't want them to have that kind of you know, limelight thrust into their lives. So it's kind of like it's interesting. I, I it's really. It's cool because, like they're really talented. I mean, if you watch the episodes, you're gonna see this. Like these kids are talented voice actors, um, but yeah, they, I I can appreciate that. I guess that they've their parents don't really want them to have that kind of um all that attention, I guess in their life yeah, that that makes sense.
Speaker 1What are, um, what are some of the? So obviously you're saying that this resonates a lot with adults. What are some of the emotional moments that you would highlight kind of throughout the series? You know, later too there's some people that have done a lot more deeper dives into this than I ever have.
Speaker 2There was one guy that I watched and I should have written down his name, I'll definitely put it in the show notes that did like this deep dive of just analyzing all of the subplots within that long episode that I was telling you about. And so the reason I bring that up is because lots of these episodes kind of have subplots. There's like the parent plot, there's something that's in there about the parenting aspect of things, and then there's the kid plot that has nothing to do. They're not aware, for the most part, of some of these bigger things that are going on between the parents. They're just having fun, they're playing, they're being silly, that sort of thing. So I think that that's part of it, is a lot of these emotional moments are built in. So there's an episode called Baby Race which, without going too much into detail about it, but the basis of it is, chili is telling a story to the kids that is specifically about how, when she was a first-time mom, she was constantly finding herself comparing her kid and herself and her parenting to other parents.
Speaker 3Jeez, that sounds deep well, yeah, it is very deep uh relatable thing for pretty much any parent, right? Absolutely yeah, for sure um.
Speaker 2So it's just surprising to like think about that and the depth that that comes to like at the I mean at the end of the episode. Like she's kind of remembering just how, um, you know, one of her friends was so supportive of her and like realized, hey, as a first-time parent, these are the kinds of feelings that she was feeling, she knew that inherently. Again, these are seven-minute episodes. It wasn't long drawn-out conversations about this. They do it in such little short bursts. It's a lot to fit in seven minutes yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3That somehow these deep plots can get into these episodes somehow I have something to bring up that I just saw before we started recording. So it seems like this seems very typical for a children's show, especially. It seems like the last episode of the last season there was like some big cliffhanger, yeah uh, yeah, yeah, and that's again gets into a pretty deep and emotional thing from what I've heard.
Speaker 2Yeah uh, so are you talking about the, the final episode? So are you talking about? Yeah, uh, so are you talking about the, the final episode? So are you talking about the long episode? Are you talking about the one that came after?
Speaker 3I'm not sure.
Speaker 1I'm sure I like tell me what cliffhanger you know of and I'll let you know. Well, before we do that, maybe we should hit our spoiler alert do we have?
Speaker 3spoiler alert for some excuse to hit that off. No, we got to hit our sound effects. That's the goal yeah, no, um.
Speaker 2So there's a couple different things like um, we're probably gonna talk a little bit about this in the fan theories portion of the show, I imagine. But, um, at the end of the, the last episode, you see like there's a couple times throughout the show where it will jump forward in time, and so on the very last episode it's called surprise. It jumps further into time, um, and louie is an adult and coming to visit her parents and, uh, she shows up and then her kid shows up as well and you don't really see very much like her kid doesn't talk or anything. It's just the last five seconds of the episode that you kind of see this happening. Um, and so there's been some discussion, uh, around that and lots of people get very passionate about uh, who, whose kid like who, who did bluey actually end up with?
Speaker 1so there's how I met your mother crossover that's what it feels like sometimes, but we're talking about a six-year-old that gets a little different.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's funny. What are? Have you seen any or derived any parenting lessons from Bluey, Any of the episodes? I mean, talk us through some of that.
Speaker 2So, if I can be completely honest with you, like Bandit, the dad is like the dad that I want to be. He's what I aspire to be. I think he's wonderful. You know, we're going to get into again fandom things, where some people think that maybe he's not as wonderful as he seems, but there's so much that when you watch him and the way that he interacts with the kids he plays with them just all the time and is coming up with these games and finding out ways to try to teach them lessons. He's trying to get them to learn lessons without them realizing that they're learning them. Um, and he's so creative in the way that he does that and in the way that he interacts with his daughters is just I I aspire to be like bandit for sure.
Speaker 3Yeah, um huh, that's cool, well, so here's a, here's a question then do the dogs have, the parents have, jobs like? So they do they relate that in some way? Yeah?
Speaker 2uh, so chili, I believe, works, for she works at the airport. I believe she's in airport security. I'm not 100% certain and Bandit is an archaeologist.
Speaker 3Oh wow.
Speaker 2So he's a dog that digs for bones Amazing.
Speaker 1That's really funny actually.
Speaker 3That is very clever, yes yes.
Speaker 1Are there any? Do you have any personal moments where an episode really hit home for you, like just resonated on some deeper level?
Speaker 2for sure. Uh, yeah, I mean there's there's so many of the the moments within the show, um, I mean, I a lot of like these emotional. So the one that like comes comes to mind is in another episode I'm blanking on the name of it right now but Chili's sister comes to visit. She's not in the show very much, but you learn in the episode that she is.
Speaker 2The reason that she doesn't come around is because she wants to have kids but has been unable to have kids, and so that's kind of a deep thing to deal with in a children's show for sure, yeah um, and just kind of seeing that and the way that they portray that in the show is it definitely hits you like you get to the end, you're, you're, you're feeling a little bit misty, but there's that's not the only place, for sure that, like, you feel the misty eyes a little bit, did you? My producer looking up, did you find the episode?
Speaker 1It's titled Onesies.
Speaker 2That's right. I can't believe I forgot. How dare you forget one of?
Speaker 3the 150 episodes.
Speaker 2I was going through it as I was preparing for the podcast. It's funny how many of the titles that you do remember Sure, because my wife and I were talking about it. I'm like, how am I going to? Because we're gonna talk about here in a few minutes, my favorite episode. So I was trying to go through like just all of them in my head like, oh, what about this episode, what about this? Trying to remember what the titles are. So you remember a lot more than what you think you do.
Speaker 3Yeah, oh, so that brings up. Okay, so for michael and I who, michael, you said you've seen maybe an episode or two?
Speaker 1uh, yeah, probably like three or four. Okay, three or four well, okay.
Speaker 3So if you were gonna have watching bluey, do they start at the beginning, or where would you have them start?
Speaker 2that's a fair. That's a fair question. The beginning is definitely a great place, like I mean, you can't go wrong, just like starting at the very beginning of the show and watching it straight through. Um, I do think there are some episodes that hits um a lot like that, they hit the hardest for me and like I really appreciate it a lot. So we could, I can go into that, I can tell you. I listed off my top five.
Top Episodes and Emotional Impact
Speaker 2So, this is my personal top five. I'm not saying people should start with these episodes, but if you want to go and like, oh, I'm going to curate this playlist. What are Nick's top episodes? These are it. There's an episode called Cricket and that is my number one favorite episode. Funny enough, it's about cricket, like the sport cricket, which I know nothing about. You're not.
Speaker 1British.
Speaker 2No, I've never watched it. Like nothing about cricket is in my knowledge bank whatsoever, but the basis of it is, and this is probably why it appeals to me so much. So Bandit kind of gets a front seat in this one. He's the one that's narrating the story and kind of talking about this kid Rusty and they're at some cookout or something like that and they're telling this story about specifically, kind of what it ends up being, kind of the importance.
Speaker 2I guess it's not like the importance of sports so much as it is like the relationship between like oh, just, you're not just playing sports because we're playing and having a competition, whatever, and there's something great about that. Like, obviously that's cool, but the main lesson that I think you learn by the end is like oh, it's about the, the way that you relate, it's about the lessons that you learn from those sports and it's just, it's just a beautiful episode I'm gonna make you guys watch it here in a few minutes for sure, great um fairy tale is my next one, that one, um again, I don't want to go too deep into any of these, but uh, dad's telling a fairy tale to his kids, but it's the the tale, the way that he tells is.
Speaker 2It's the tale of how he met their mom, how I met your mother.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, such a crossover, incredible uh so that's good.
Speaker 2Uh, then that I want to say fairy tale and camping go back to back into each other. If I'm not mistaken, I'd have to look um, because there's there's a lot of um. So fairy tale is about a camping trip that dad took when he was a kid. Okay, and then I. That's why I think it comes right after. It is that then they're on a camping trip together and so there's kind of some some things that tie in there. So I really like those two episodes together. Uh, the sign that is the 28 minute episode. It's beautiful, it's it's absolutely just so perfectly done.
Speaker 3One of the the best single episodes of television maybe ever, I don't know wow wow, that's really high praise, especially considering how much media that I like, I can I consume and I know you consume. That's saying a lot. I know I mean you got the acolyte out there.
Speaker 2It is Wow no.
Speaker 1I'm joking.
Speaker 2Oh man, that's a mean joke, mike. The last one is Curry Quest. So I actually had my eighth graders watch this episode this past year. I was talking about the hero's journey and mom is actually narrating this episode chili and she is talking about the like she goes through, kind of the the nature of the hero's journey, and so she's telling this story as, uh, dad and bingo were going to swap curries with one of their neighbors, so they had made a curry and they were going to swap it with their neighbor for a different curry.
Speaker 2I don't know, Maybe it's an Australian I've never done that personally but maybe it's a thing I don't know. But those are my personal top five episodes.
Speaker 1Yeah, very cool. Do you think that your family wife and kids do they share that same list or do they have different episodes that they love?
Speaker 2I feel like the kids won't for sure I feel like for them it's not very deep like they I mean my kids are young, you guys know yeah yeah um they, I was trying, actually, before we we started recording, like I was asking my, my son, like oh, who's your favorite bluey character? And you know, I was trying to get him to say to put something out there, and he just, he just enjoys it, you know, mean Like he enjoys the, the music and the silliness and that sort of thing. So it's not really.
Speaker 3I was going to save that for when we pause but, oh shoot.
Speaker 2The music.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Having never seen an episode, I know this like song, like yeah really. Yeah.
Speaker 2It's popular. Yeah, but yeah, my wife. I know my wife loves the Sign a lot Like that's probably her favorite episode, for sure. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if she fits right in line with all of my episodes, because I know she's not in love with cricket as much as I am. I don't want like it just speaks to me on some level, Like well, that's.
Speaker 3It's a great episode. Maybe that's part of the like. I mean, that's the nature of everything is we can all take different things away from every piece of media, so that's perfectly valid yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1Well, why don't we transition and talk about fandom culture a little bit? Yeah, um. So, you know, nick, maybe um to educate ben and I, you can talk us through. You know what are some of the fun, like memes, merch out there any viral moments, stuff like that uh.
Speaker 2So I've seen a lot of stuff, so this kind of gets me back into the. Uh, the cliffhanger that you were talking about there were after, I would say even leading up to the, the last episode. Um, there was a lot of talk and people like to debate this a lot Like people that get really intense about, oh no, bluey absolutely ends up with John Luke, or Bluey absolutely ends up with McKenzie, which I've got them both here. This is, that's John Luke, right there.
Speaker 1For our non YouTube viewer or listeners. There's McKenzie, so we've got some action figures here.
Speaker 2There's a debate there as to to which one she ends up with, and there's a center of debate there as to which one she ends up with, and people.
Speaker 3I mean, man have they.
Bluey Fandom Culture and Theories
Speaker 2We just love pitting romantic interests against each other, I guess so Like people, just yeah, exactly Going back, throw it way back.
Speaker 1There's always got to be something there. Yeah, get that reorganized. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2I need them to look nice and pretty. Yeah, so lots of people I can't even tell you. So this was before. Like I, I didn't follow any of the account so I didn't want to admit I guess that I was deep into this fandom, but it popped up consistently, like I don't know if I interacted with something or what, but I was always getting just on my social media things popping up to do with bluey and specifically a lot of conversation centering around that, and I don't know if it was because I looked at it and was like man, what are the people like debating about this show? But that's one thing that I can definitely remember, as I was, you know, getting into the show, a little bit kind of denying.
Speaker 3Um, you know, this is how intense are some people um, it's so interesting to think that there's a children's show again, 7 minute episodes, that so many debates center around, because I can't think of a children's show growing up that there was this much adult conversation around really for sure well, and I'm sure too, like maybe the shows that we watch, like I'm thinking, when I was a kid I watched Recess and Doug and hey.
Speaker 1Arnold and. I think a lot of those shows actually as an adult I still love. Maybe it's because I watched them when I was a kid. But I could see if social media was as prevalent during that time you probably have similar things come up.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a good point to think. The culture has changed and shifted over the years, for sure.
Speaker 1Are there any interesting fan theories out there? Oh no.
Speaker 2There are several that I was going to get into. The other thing that I did want to bring up, um was, uh, the merch.
Speaker 1I specifically because I brought a few things along with me you know, like my, my kid has several.
Speaker 2I think we've got uh varying sizes of bluey this is our largest one. We also have a water bluey, that is like that stays in the bath okay, these cool little action figures are awesome. And then my little car.
Speaker 3I like how you said my, yeah, my, I bought this myself. Well, actually I did but for my kids.
Speaker 2No, those are some of my favorite. I love these little figurine things. I don't know, they're kind of fun. My son I was looking for it before I I came one of the coolest toys that I think I've seen and it's actually a game. Um, it's the hide and seek bluey. So for any of our listeners out there, they're looking for a cool toy maybe to play with your kids. It's essentially, um, you press her nose and then she starts making a little bit of noise like she'll like giggle and kind of laugh and whatever, and then you're meant to hide her somewhere in your house and then the kids can go and find yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1And then when they find her, they can push her nose again.
Speaker 2She'll play celebratory music and stuff. So my son is way into that. We'll play that sometimes, you know, and hide it around the house. It's a.
Speaker 3It's a fun little toy, for sure, well, and a lot simpler than, like you know, playing hide and seek like where, like I mean, it's more fun, we have more people but this way at least you involve a third party in some way, yeah, yeah, so easy for you as a parent to like and then you can use that time to go get something done, probably.
Speaker 2But precisely no, but fan theories, oh man, there are. I mean, besides the who does bluey end up with? Which is that's a? That's a big one.
Speaker 2Um, another one is there has been some conversation centered around this idea of is Bandit a problematic father because of some of the things that he has done throughout the show? Like there's been certain things where he's been accused of being like bullying towards the kids and that sort of thing. Like there's one specific episode they'll bring up in this. You know, in some of the conversations around it where he got really competitive. They're doing a race. He's doing a race with the kids and he gets kind of competitive, involved with that and doesn't want to let the kids win and just all this stuff.
Speaker 2And so some parents will, I don't know, make, make some accusations, say something. And I'm like you know, I'm not falling in that at all Like I, I I obviously I told you earlier like I can identify a lot with with bandit. So Like I, obviously I told you earlier like I can identify a lot with Bandit. So I don't necessarily agree with that. But there is some discussion, there's some people that would probably disagree with my point of view, and that's okay, I'm not upset about it. Another one that's a little out there for me again is does Bluey exist in a post-apocalyptic world?
Speaker 3That'd be amazing. Yeah, honestly.
Speaker 2And I would go watch all the episodes right now, yeah, kind of a salad finger situation somebody wrote this big long essay about it and explaining all of the the evidence that they think points to that, and I'm like man. I'll tell you like that's. I am impressed that you took the time to do that.
Speaker 1I personally am like I'm not putting that much.
Speaker 2It's a cartoon. I'm not putting that much. It's a cartoon. I'm not putting that much thought into it. But apparently there's some discussion around it. You can go into Reddit and find some of those debates if you get into those types of things. But yeah, does Bluey exist in a post-apocalyptic world where dogs are now the main thing?
Speaker 3walking around. I don't know the alpha species or whatever. Yeah, exactly, okay. Well, here's okay. One of the few things I do know about bluey is that there's a adult following around finding the long dogs in every episode is that something that you are a fan of and take?
Speaker 2I don't have a sharp enough eye, oh really, okay I I like, uh, when people point them out to me, and then I I can go and look and say, oh yeah, there it is, and every once in a while there's some of them that are pretty obvious Okay.
Speaker 3Well, so, for those who may not know what it is like, what is it Like? What is a long dog?
Speaker 2So in every single episode, or just about every single episode, they hide this um, you know, I mean a dachshund, a wiener dog. Whatever. It's this same picture. It looks kind of similar um every single time we'll in one of our social posts this week.
Speaker 3I'll post it and then we can actually see the picture, or you can hide it or hide it in a post.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the honest.
Speaker 2That'd be a good one actually I like that um, but yeah, they, they hide it in there. And there's um, yeah, that's another thing I didn think about, that. That's another viral thing that people were doing all the time. Like oh, I found a long dog. We never spot these, whatever.
Speaker 3For some reason, that's one of the few things I have seen about it and I'm just like I don't understand. I love it.
Speaker 1Speaking of things that theyolas sorry in the area yes, on that side of the globe, on that side of the globe.
Speaker 2Okay, all right sorry, I should I I, if we have any listeners in australia, new zealand, I'm sorry first of all, thank you, yeah, yeah, they're never gonna listen again, but I apologize in any case. They still call it back in the like. There's several things that they have thrown into, uh, the episodes, and we could maybe I'll show you guys that sometime too, but uh, just certain things that they are alluding to. Lord of the rings, okay so it's really funny like you'll.
Speaker 2You'll catch it every once in a while and you're like it's like a lord of the rings scene right there, man, we got lord of Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1We got how I Met.
Speaker 2Your Mother.
Speaker 1We're throwing it all in there. Yeah, amazing, wow.
Speaker 3Interesting, great.
Speaker 2Well, okay, last thing on our list, that you kind of sent us some primer stuff Last thing on our list that I do want to talk about and I'm curious about is tell me about the controversy around the Disney Plus edits. There are a few episodes that Disney Plus so there's. I'll tell you this right now. This kind of goes back to. You were asking me before Actually I think it was Michael was asking me if my wife agrees with my order of favorite episodes. So one of my wife's favorite episodes is an episode called Dad Baby and it's not on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2You cannot find it on Disney Plus whatsoever. It's a secret episode of Bluey, if you will, I guess, and I don't know exactly the reason. They're trying to keep some things out of there. They're censoring, I guess in some ways the basis of the episode is I mean, you get the idea. It's called Dad Baby, so like Dad is showing, like there's somehow the game got on to like, uh, you know the babies and how, where they come from, whatever, and that sort of thing. So maybe that's what it is like.
Speaker 2We in america don't want our kids finding out where babies come from through cartoon dogs, I don't know, but it was. It is a very funny episode, um, but you can't, you're not gonna find it on disney plus, you gotta go and you gotta find that one on youtube for sure. So that's one thing that they've kind of censored out of there. There's a few others, the only thing I can't really go too much into without, like, actually watching the episode itself. But there's been certain parts that they will take out of episodes, um, like little mini scenes. So I I'll just tell you this there's one where they're at a I don't even know, like a farmer's market, I guess is what I would call it, and Bluey wants to ride the ponies at this farmer's market and they're, you know.
Speaker 2They're talking to the lady that's got the ponies and asking if she can ride, and then she realizes she doesn't have enough money that she can pay for both her and her friend to ride the pony. So they're getting off the pony. They're like the pony um. So they're getting off the pony. They're like going up and talking to it and saying it's dressed up kind of in fun colors and it looks kind of like a unicorn. And they're saying, oh, how beautiful it is.
Speaker 1And then the, the this is in the episode wait, wait.
Speaker 2Spoiler alert this is in the episode, but the, as they're sitting there talking, the horse poops right in front of them and the you know the kids scream and run away and like it's not as they should. Yeah it's not on disney plus oh, they edited that part out and it just like disney is anti-poop.
Speaker 3I know I guess, I don't know, anti-horse poop there's, I don't know it's.
Speaker 2It's funny to see, like, where they're going to make those edits we I mean, we know that yeah in certain parts of certain countries, like they'll change and alter certain names.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, exactly, especially for kids' movies, I feel like, yeah, it makes a lot of sense, it's just funny to make that happen.
Speaker 2But yeah, there's some controversy around that, in the sense that it's like all right, is it necessary? Like why you know? First Amendment freedom of speech. Come on, man.
Speaker 3This is the USA, but true, but I'm saying, yeah, they're, they're censoring it in the united states. You know well, it's because it was made somewhere else. Right, we're censoring it here. Yeah, maybe, maybe that makes sense.
Speaker 1Gotta be it all right, well speaking of controversies, nick, do you have any hot takes about the fandom or about the show? Sorry?
Speaker 2I do. I do have one in particular. I'm probably going to make a lot of people mad, uh, because probably if you go and you research, uh, what is generally accepted as like best episode of Bluey, you're going to find that it's an episode called Sleepy Time. I it's. It's just to me it doesn't do it for me. Like it's, I don't like it very much. I'm not going to say that it's like a terrible episode, but it's not my favorite and most people are like, oh no, it's so good, it's, it's one of the best episodes or the best episode.
Speaker 2The the basis of it is is that the kids have been put to bed for the night and the entire thing pretty much is a dream sequence of of bingos. Pretty much is a dream sequence, um, of of bingos. Uh, and I think part of the reason people love it so much is it's got it's got a good score. There's a lot of good music. That's a part of that episode, um, and so I I think that's part of what it is.
Speaker 2It's got this kind of emotional swell to it, um, and just it's another one where you've got some of the the parenting aspects of it, like where parents kind of like it, cause it kind of connects them to like, oh, this is real, this is, you know, cause, throughout the episode, bingo gets out of it Like she wants to stay in her bed and do a big girl sleep, but she ends up you know, she told her, her mom that at the beginning of the episode and you kind of see like she ends up in their bed for a little bit and then finally does make it back to her own bed and there's this whole entire sequence that happens there. But to me personally, uh, it's, it's fine, like it. Just it didn't do it for me, the same way that some people get really emotional about it.
Speaker 3So yeah, there's my fandom hot take or or show hot take yeah yeah, speaking of episodes that you do and don't like, I think now is a good time for us to take a quick break, so we'll be right back, we're going to watch Nick's favorite episode and we'll have a couple of minutes discussion after that. That was great, we're going to watch Cricket.
Speaker 1Alright, so we just finished.
Speaker 2I'll bring us in to start then, Mike will start.
Speaker 1I think that hitting the button oh no, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2If you're watching on YouTube, that's going to be funny.
Speaker 3Yeah, literally before we pressed record, I said, all right, I'll bring us back in to start. Hit the button and Michael starts talking. Fine, michael go on.
Speaker 1No, no, no, I got to pass it over to you, uh-huh. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3Thank you. Anyways, we just got finished watching cricket and I got to say for my first episode I can see why you enjoyed that one and I will also say I'm more confused about the rules of cricket.
Speaker 2I know nothing.
Speaker 3Every time I think I understand a little bit of it. Something else changes and I'm like, okay, whatever it has something to do with bowling.
Speaker 2So the goal of the person that's throwing the ball is trying to knock over those sticks with the things on top of it. That's something about that.
Speaker 3But I don't know much else. Then, when they get knocked over, they're out Something. We'll have to do a cricket episode. We'll find a new one who's big into cricket, but yeah, that'd be awesome, all right. So I mean, michael, what are your first thoughts on it?
Speaker 1Yeah, first thoughts on it, yeah, first thoughts that was. That was enjoyable, uh, very wholesome, very light-hearted. Um, it was cool that they highlighted this kind of side character. You know, you kind of just assume all the episodes are going to be about bluey and the immediate family, but um, yeah, I laughed I actually had a couple, a couple belly laughs there yeah, they had some good, good yeah.
Speaker 3I thought it was great. I mean, I can immediately see how deep it kind of gets, and you look at.
Speaker 2I'm blanking on his name, but Rusty Rusty, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, how Rusty he was dedicated. And again, you keep seeing the different weaknesses that are pointed out to him in his cricket game. But you can definitely relate that to anything Seeing your weaknesses and like being so determined to work on them that you get just like really good at it and yeah, isn't it wild, they could fit that into a like a seven minute show, that, like all of these that comes up a few times in the show the whole entire, you know rusty and um, uh, jack bit.
Speaker 2there's a whole episode where they're doing their thing and they're playing an army game because Rusty's dad's in the army, and so he wants to play you know a game about, and there's a lot of like this, dealing with like some of those things like kids playing out their understandings of situations which is kind of cool, but yeah, no, that's a, that's a such a good episode, yeah.
Speaker 1Oh man, that's such a good episode. Yeah, that was great. No, I definitely, yeah, Appreciate you picking that one out, yeah. Nick, do you have any fun pieces of trivia for our listeners out there?
Speaker 2I do, and it actually has to do with this episode. So, funny enough, joe Brom, the creator of Bluey, did say that initially, like when they were planning out the show, that Rusty was going to be the main character. Oh, wow, okay, he, he was meant to be like that, was they put him in the show still? Um, my understanding is based off of my brief research on it is that the ultimately they liked the color palette of the healers better I can understand that um, so they they ended up going away from from rusty, but he still has a pretty significant role, um in the show.
Speaker 2Okay, and it's, it's definitely he's just, oh man, he's such a good, wholesome character well, that was for sure gonna be.
Speaker 3My question is like I mean, he's obviously a side character, but like how much do we know about him before this? He's not in like a ton.
Speaker 2Okay, um, he. He has several episodes where he is kind of the the main. You know one of the main faces of the episode, um, so he's he's definitely been around by that point. Like, this is a season three episode. So if you've watched most of the episodes you know, like you know who rusty is. He's been around for um for a little while and is in a decent, my fun piece of of bluey trivia for you. So if you didn't know, very nice, rusty was almost going to be bluey there.
Speaker 3That was, I guess they called the show rusty, I don't know, but yeah, I truthfully don't think it would have caught on as much, because I do agree the color power like I mean look you get a blue dog like I mean that stands out, yeah, as opposed to there have been a lot of blue dogs throughout history, as we know. So blues clues, what other one exactly?
Speaker 2yeah, blues clues. Um, oh man, what's the? What's the one one with the hat, like from hannah barbara oh, I do not remember, I know you're talking about he's.
Speaker 1They exist okay yeah, don't question it well, we're getting ready to wrap the episode episode here. Let's do a couple quick reflections. Nick, in your opinion, what makes Bluey so universal?
Speaker 2Yeah, it's got to be the plots that are going on and the way that the parents are involved throughout many of the episodes and they're kind of doing their own thing throughout there and interacting with the adults in certain ways, but then the kids have their own understanding of it at the same time. So that's where it really comes from, I think, is, um, you know a lot of parents from the conversations I've had with other parents that like love the show because their kids love the show and and all that good stuff. It's because it's that realness, that genuineness, the plots aren't just about just just kids stuff.
Speaker 2Right Um there's, there's some deepness to it. It's, it's got that depth um of plots.
Speaker 2And so I would say that's the. The biggest thing is like, absolutely, I mean the, the adults in the show and them being present, um, but just in general, the, the fact that I mean so much of it, it, I mean the music is something that's there, the amount of of little callbacks and details. You know, looking for the long dogs with your kids, um, I've gotten, like my kids have have pulled out a few of the games in there and I've even used a few of the things they do in the show and like I'll do those same games with my kids, um, and it's I don't know, there's just something about that that like really engages parents. Yeah, more with well, that brings.
Speaker 3That brings up something that I've been wanting to ask you like, besides games, have you seen your kids find anything else that they've learned from watching the show anything more emotionally building? Not I I not yet, I'm not, I'm not gonna say it's still very young, but young um, I I would say the games are the main thing, that they're that they're interested in.
Speaker 2I mean I. There's a game, there's a little thing I'll do with my kids called squish squash.
Speaker 1That's in one of the episodes that's fun um keepy uppies.
Speaker 2Another one like uh, the little you know, the hide and seek bluey thing like they're, they're all into those types of games. For sure it's like I mean my kid's three my oldest and so he doesn't have a ton of emotional depth yet. Like I just don't know that he understands those plot lines really at all. But I don't know. We'll kind of see. I'll keep my eyes open for that, see if I've got a better answer in the future, but for right now I guess it's just the games.
Speaker 3Again, they're young and that's fine. I just was curious as to if they've picked up a habit or anything.
Speaker 1Let's have a follow-up episode in about five years. We'll come back to your kids.
Speaker 2See where it's at.
Universal Appeal and Future of Bluey
Speaker 1Well, nick, in closing here, why don't you shout out some of our, our our listeners that talked to us over the last week or so of listening to the podcast? Yeah sure.
Speaker 2Absolutely. I got to pull this up, cause this is actually on my on my phone because I definitely wanted to make sure that I mentioned this. Um, first of all, just a big thank you and a shout out to everyone who has watched the podcast so far and listened to it. Um, we really appreciate that. It's been so good to hear from people and just know that they're taking the time to listen in. I really it means a lot to me and I know it means a lot to Ben and Michael, as well, absolutely.
Speaker 3I mean again, this was something that we just planned to be like sit down and talk with our friends, and if someone happens to listen, great, and if otherwise, we still have a good time. But, the fact that anyone does care to listen is is amazing. We really appreciate you.
Speaker 2Yeah, yes, absolutely so. I, that anyone does care to listen is is amazing. We really appreciate you. Yeah, yes, absolutely so. I've had a few things like people sending me message, and michael's got one too, so I'll just kind of shout these out.
Speaker 2Uh, big shout out to ben, not this ben um he he's, uh, he's talked to me a couple times, texted me uh, said that uh, he was really glad about the way that we approached star wars, our first episode. He liked that a lot. Just going through that that first the the um original trilogy, and he was really excited for the bluey episode. So, um, you know he told me how much he enjoyed that, the the episode once he watched the first one, and so I'm excited for him to see the bluey one because he's got small kids as well, and so I know he's going to appreciate some of this.
Speaker 3I have several people that I've talked to when they heard we were doing Bluey's second, we're like, okay, that's the one that I'm going to Okay, great, we're going to get on this.
Speaker 1Last night actually I did too. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2My friend Deb. She also sent me a message, said that she listened to the podcast while she was on the rower this morning. Really looking forward to more. Thanks, deb. I appreciate you so much review, which we really appreciate that as well. If you take the time to leave us a five-star review, wherever you get your podcasts I know Apple you can leave them and also on Spotify, I believe you can leave reviews for sure, says that he's really looking forward to all the fun deep dives on so many fun topics. So we're excited to have you along for the ride, bailey. Thanks for listening and we hope to hear more from you, for sure. And then you know what, mike, I'll let you take this last one because it was a message that was sent to you. I don't know if you had anything else that you wanted to shout out about it, but from our man. What was it? Isaac and Devin looks like.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, no, I just yeah, I've gotten positive feedback, you know, from a couple people and yeah, I got some texts from those guys here at some point for different, different fandoms. So hopefully make that happen but awesome yeah great.
Speaker 3Well, nick, how do you want to end this on Bluey? Anything in particular, that you like final words that you want to send everybody out on no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2I mean, like I truly think that there's something, for you know most people in Bluey. If you're one of those people, you're like I don't have kids, I can't watch bluey. Like it's a cartoon, like it's it's worthwhile, like it doesn't mean you have to watch all 150 episodes. Like you can go and just kind of enjoy a few of like the go, look and see what the top episodes are, and then you'll realize, like the amount of depth that's in there and maybe it might, might entice you to watch a few more. I know it's a lot easier when you got kids and it's like it was really easy for me to watch every single episode because it was like, well, my kids are watching it, I'm watching it for them, um, but in reality it's for me too. Like I, I really truly have appreciated it so much, um, and just I'm looking forward to to more. I guess I should talk about this because, um, there's, there's kind of like the the sad part.
Speaker 2This is kind of what's next for the fandom. In case anybody you guys obviously haven't heard, but in case anybody else hadn't so, joe Brum, the creator, wrote a letter this was a few months ago and said that he's going to be stepping away from the series. The series, I mean. We're at the top of its popularity. So there's definitely going to be more episodes that are ordered, for sure, but they've taken a step aside Joe Brum. But they've taken a step aside joe brahm. They're the next thing that's coming or that they're working on really hard right now is they're going to do a full-length movie.
Speaker 1Wow so uh the that longer episode.
Speaker 2They were kind of it was the test run, it was to see if people would be interested in watching a longer episode of bluey, and it blew up people. You know it obviously was one of the most popular things that happened, um, and so they were like, yeah, we're gonna make a full length um movie about this I think is due out in 2027. Uh, and that's one of the last things that joe brum is going to do with the series. And then I know, just because of the, the amount of money that it makes, that they're going to continue to make episodes so the only.
Speaker 2Thing that I can help is that they are as good and that was what joe brum had said is like he just his kids are older, like he used his experiences to kind of help him create these episodes and so, um, you know, wanted to step aside because his kids have gotten a little bit older, he doesn't feel like he's in that world anymore and doesn't feel like he can do as good of a job um portraying that as much these days.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's a beautiful thing, especially like the creator something to be able to let go of it and let someone else take the reins. So, yeah, huge shout out to him for that.
Speaker 2Absolutely. It'll be interesting to see what happens with that afterwards, so I'm looking forward to it. I will definitely be seeing the movie in theaters. I can't wait for that to come out, can't wait for a trailer.
Speaker 3All that good, alone in the theater by himself watching Blue. Not gonna bring my kids, nope, they don't want to see it yet. Don't want them to ruin. You. Gotta screen it first, right, yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2Gotta make sure it's good for them all yeah, yeah, absolutely no, but that's well I guess we should talk about. So that's what's next for the fandom like this fandom. What's next for this podcast?
Speaker 3yeah, ben. What do we? Dungeons and Dragons, nice. Yeah, nick, I know you've got some experience with Michael. You've heard some of and seen some of in Stranger Things, but that's probably about it for you, right?
Speaker 1Yeah, well, we already talked about how I thought the Mind Flayer was the good guy yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so, yeah, all right, looking forward to that, that's going to be fun, so really Michael's getting lots of education far I
Speaker 2feel extremely educated right now yeah, I could do the same with dnd, so that's gonna be awesome. Yeah, um, you know what's? What's everybody else, anybody up to anything else between now and when we record the next episode?
Speaker 1I'm gonna be my more house projects for me volleyball new season starting for ben and I so I think that's it volleyball starting.
Speaker 3All right, I'll be building some uh lego to prepare for Michael's episode when he comes back.
Speaker 2Sounds good yeah.
Speaker 3I'm looking forward to the Lego episode too. That's going to be, great.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, let's go ahead and cue up that outro.
Speaker 3And yeah, thanks you so much for listening along. We'll see you next time. Well, we hope you enjoyed hearing about today's fandom. Thanks for joining us. Give us a follow on Instagram or threads at fofpod to stay up to date with all the latest and check out the video version on YouTube at fandom of fandoms. Have a fandom that you want us to dive into? Send us an email at fandomofpodcast at gmailcom. Till our next adventure, keep being passionate, keep being curious and keep being a fan.
Podcasts we love
Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
Light Roast
Obadiah and Mindy
Critical Role
Critical Role