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"This is confusing."
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Dance Mode is the first episode of Season Two of Bluey.
Synopsis
After Dad eats Bingo’s last chip without asking, Bingo is given the power to play ‘Dance Mode’ as payback.
Bingo has three chances to make Mum and Dad dance. They MUST bust a move whenever they hear music, wherever they are.[2]
But the game is too tempting, and the rest of the family keep taking Bingo’s Dance Mode turns for her. Dad even bribes her with dollarbucks for her last one and Bluey then convinces her to spend on a toy she doesn’t really want.
Poor Bingo is now sadder than ever. Realising their mistake, the family know what they must do to make it up to her no matter how embarrassing.
After Dad eats her last chip, Bingo is given three chances to put Mum and Dad in ‘Dance Mode’ as payback. But the others can’t resist taking Bingo’s turns for her.[2]
Episode Recap
The Heelers are having lunch at a local restaurant. Bingo accidentally knocks her crayons to the ground and ducks under the table to get them as Bandit "scabs" her last chip (Chilli thought she'd probably finished eating). A devastated Bingo returns to find her chip gone, believing that it was obvious she was saving it.
To make it up to her, Chilli and Bandit tell her to name her price, so Bluey suggests a game called Dance Mode, which is having people dance on command. Bandit explains that she only has three Dance Modes to use as they start crossing the road to the "green-dog". A car is playing loud doof-doof music so Bingo says 'yes' to Bluey's request to activate Chilli in Dance Mode. Chilli dances across the road (much to the amusement of onlooking cars).
In the post office Bingo assures Bluey that she wants to use the next Dance Mode and that she's saving it for something special. As Bandit is being served at the counter, Chilli finds a musical greeting card and begs Bingo (with the please face) to let her use Dance Mode on Bandit. Bingo hesitantly agrees. Cue ridiculous dancing from Bandit, much to the postal assistants' disdain.
Walking outside, they then come across a busker performing music with a thongophone using pipes and thongs. Just as Bingo goes to use her last Dance Mode, Bandit bribes her off it for 20 dollar bucks, despite Chilli saying that this "not good parenting".
Coerced by Bluey, Bingo buys a "yes/no" button. On the way to the car Bingo looks forlorn, but Bluey has a great time using the new toy. After probing (and using the yes/no button), they learn the reason why is that everyone has taken Bingo's decisions away from her today and she was only saying yes to be polite when she wanted to say no, so Bluey, Chilli and Bandit apologises to Bingo.
To make it up to Bingo, everyone agrees to be activated in "Dance Mode" to the street busker, and they have a family rave-like dance off including Bandit performing the worm, hyper robot moves, and kung-fu dance moves.
Appearances
- Bingo
- Chilli
- Bluey
- Bandit
- Pat
- Busker
- Postie
- Wendy (non-speaking)
- Surfer (cameo)
- Cornelius (cameo)
- Mackenzie's Mum (cameo)
- Wanda (cameo)
- Yellow Dad (cameo)
- Hockey Player (cameo)
- Customer (Dance Mode)
- Nurse (cameo)
Trivia
- An ibis can be seen picking through the trash in this episode, further reinforcing the nickname "bin chicken."
- At the end, the busker's hat contained the same five-dollar bill with the tooth fairy sticker that Bluey had in Markets.
- This episode has two actors from Australian bands interacting together, that being Anthony Field from The Wiggles (as the postie) and David McCormack from Custard (as Bandit).
- This was the first episode to air in 2020, which also makes this the first new episode to air in the 2020s.
- This episode, along with Hammerbarn and Featherwand, were the first Season 2 episodes to air in the US.
- This episode's inspirational poster is based on the movie poster for the 1984 film, Footloose.
- This is the second time Bandit does the please face. The first being Verandah Santa.
- Several cars at the zebra crossing and in the car park have vanity license plates with humourous messages written in letters and numbers. They are:
- SBWFR8 ("subwoofers")
- SPWY2 ("surprise")
- W3ND73 ("Wendie/Wendy")
- LUDO ("Ludo," after the studio that produces Bluey)
- The portrait on the twenty-dollar bank note is a canine version of John Flynn, a Presbyterian minister who helped to found both the Australian Inland Mission and the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance. Flynn is probably depicted as a St. Bernard in honor of the breed famously being used to rescue avalanche victims in the Western Alps.
- When Bandit says he "needs to change the address on this", the card he presents to the Postie is a 2010-2019 Queensland driver's license[3]. It's unclear what he's actually doing in this scene - he can't be changing the address on his driver's license, because you can't do that at a post office, and additional ID is not required[4].
- The Pocoyo episode "The Change-Up" features a toy that is very similar to the Yes/No button used in this episode. It even has a white front and an aerial to fit in with the aforementioned show's art style.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Hammerbarn and Featherwand.
- On this episode's page on the official website, the character section has the Heelers dancing.
- The instrument Busker is playing is called a "thongaphone," also known as a "slapaphone" or a "tubulum." It is made up of multiple PVC pipes which are tuned by cutting each tube to a specific length. One plays a thongaphone by striking one of the open ends of a tube with a flat foam rubber paddle, causing a pulse of air to be forced out the other end and creating a note. The paddles are usually made from inexpensive thong sandals (or simply are thongs like Busker uses) and gives the instrument its name. The instrument is closely associated with the music of American performance art company Blue Man Group, who build complex, unusual, and visually interesting musical instruments for their concerts.
- The background music is used for Bluey Medley.
- Starting with this episode, the default "Bluey dancing" animation in the credits begins with Bluey appearing from the left of the screen.
Goofs
- Just when Bingo is about to flip Chilli and Bandit's tails, Bandit's black area splits in half. This can be spotted briefly.
- When Chilli puts Bandit into Dance Mode, for a few frames, the Nurse's envelope is out of her hand and goes back to it.