Early Baby is the fortieth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis
Bluey's playgroup is at odds when Indy's baby hospital collides with Rusty's knights and dragons. But in explaining themselves, they both find that their games actually have a lot in common.
Episode Recap
This episode is set at the gorgeous hobbit looking Steiner preschool that Bluey attends. Teacher, Calypso, is mediating an argument between Rusty and the girls; Bluey, Indy and Honey.
The girls were playing Baby Hospital: pretending to deliver babies complete with pregnant bellies/pouches, pronouncement of gender and flannel waiving midwife. Indy had an “early baby” (like her real life sister) so they had to recreate an incubation crib and handwashing station to care for the new baby. Once they got the baby set up and reassured new mum Indy (“you’ll have to be the bravest you’ve ever been”), they were interrupted by Rusty brandishing the “early baby” and asking if they had any crutches.
Having heard the background of their game, Rusty now understands why they all screamed at him. Calypso wants some more information though so Rusty tells his game story.
He and Coco were building a castle when a terrifying dragon (Snickers the sausage dog) came along, as it did every day, demanding a villager as a sacrifice. It ends up being the kings daughter, who assures her father that it’ll be ok, they’ll both just have to be the bravest they’ve ever been.
Luckily Rusty becomes a knight and sets off to rescue the kings daughter from the dragon. In battle, they swap the wooden doll for Indy’s early baby (who looks more like a daughter) and the knight defeats the sausage dragon but gets injured in the process... hence their arrival at the baby hospital!
Now that the girls understand the story THEY want to join in with knights and dragons so everyone goes off to play happily, including Indy and Rusty who had the squabble in the first place.
Appearances
Trivia
- This episode reveals that Indy has a sister who was an early baby herself[1].
- The BBC version of this episode and Bluey's render on the bluey.tv page for this episode changed all the crosses from red to purple, due to the legal complications of showing a Red Cross outside of its intended use.
- Playsets depicting Bluey's cap either blank out or cover the cross.
- The weather reacts to the story unfolding: It is shown to be raining during the flashback and storytelling scenes. When the two stories come into conflict, lightning flashes. After Rusty tells his story, the sun comes out. A rainbow appears when Indy asks him to play Mums and Dads.
- According to Joe Brumm, Rusty referring to the Hospital as a "Hostible" was an actual flub by his voice artist, but the flub was kept in.[2]
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Hospital and Daddy Putdown.
- In the character section on this episode's page on the official website, Bluey is dressed as a doctor, Rusty is dressed as a knight, and Snickers is dressed as a dragon.[3]