Asparagus is the forty-ninth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis
Dad tells Bluey to mind her manners at the table - they're not animals. But when Bluey gets her hands on a stick of magic asparagus, she shows them everyone's got a wild side.
Episode Recap
bestbits: Bandit the walrus.
lifelesson: Having manners makes us different to animals.
The Heeler family is sitting at the table having dinner with Bandit trying to remind everyone to use their manners - Bluey asks why manners are necessary. Bandit says that it's because they're not animals, and Chilli gives Bluey a piece of ‘magic asparagus’ which she claims will turn everyone into animals.
Bluey points the asparagus at her parents and Bingo to try to turn them into different animals, and they play along, while Bluey changes them each time they do something impolite. This results in an extravaganza of animal reenactments: donkey (Bandit), piglet (Bingo), chicken (Chilli), goat (Chilli), elephant (Bandit), meerkat (Bandit), mouse (Chilli), penguin (Bingo).... finally Bluey "turns" them all into peacocks in an attempt at some obedience.
Unfortunately this doesn’t work for Bandit, the male "peacock", who performs a mating dance at Chilli. Bluey "turns" Chilli and Bingo into lions, and they scare Bandit outside up a tree before running off to stalk the neighbor. Bluey then has Bandit be a walrus, and he falls out of the tree making walrus sounds.
After "turning" the stalking "lions" (who’ve hunted poor Lucky’s dad) into a parrot (Bingo) and a bunny (Chilli), Bluey hustles everyone inside to have some “manners” lessons. This ends in mayhem with Chilli being "turned" into a worm, Bandit as "Daddy Walrus" pretending to attempt to poo on the rug and Bingo as a bird eating the magic asparagus.
In a last ditch attempt, Bluey gets everyone to the table and gets Bingo to say, “doggies” so that everyone can return to normal and continue eating dinner. Bluey has learned her lesson and displays beautiful manners, even offering to clean the kitchen. Unfortunately though, Bingo keeps pretending to be a bird and shouts, "Chicken!", causing Bandit to start acting like one.
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Appearances
Trivia
- This episode aired April 1, 2019 on ABC iView
- Pat mentions Janelle (his wife/Lucky’s mum).
- Janelle would make her physical debut in "Pass the Parcel".
- The only same animal that Bingo, Bandit, and Chilli are "turned into" at the same time are peacocks. Two Heelers being "turned into" the same animal happened twice -- Bingo and Chilli as lions, then the parents and Bluey as dinosaurs.
- This is one of thirteen full episodes available to watch on the official Bluey YouTube channel.
- Interestingly, the YouTube upload of this episode gives it the title "Magic Asparagus", which is not used anywhere else.
- The song Pat was singing was "Moreton Bay", an Australian folk ballad that details the brutal conditions of colonial Australia's penal settlements. Moreton Bay itself is near the city of Brisbane, Queensland.
- This is one of three season 1 episodes to have sneek peaks in 2019, the other two being The Creek and Grannies.
- Long Dog: The magnet long dog. It appears on the fridge.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Mums and Dads and Mount Mumandad.
Errors
- As Chilli and Bingo gnaw on Pat's ankles and drag him into the tall grass, one of Bingo's hands clips through one of Pat's ankles for a frame.
- When Bandit turns around to flaunt his "peacock tail" at Chilli and Bingo, the black patch of fur that is usually on his back appears on his chest for a split second.
- Bluey asked Chilli why they need to have manners, in which Bandit said that it is because they "are not animals". This is incorrect as Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, and Chilli are all dogs.
- Lucky is listed as a character in this episode on the Bluey website, even though he was mentioned in this episode.