Faceytalk is the twenty-fourth episode of the third season of Bluey.
Synopsis[]
Bluey and Bingo love to video chat with Muffin and Socks so they can all draw pictures together. When Muffin won't give Socks a turn, the kids discover what happens when you hog.
Episode Recap[]
Warning Spoilers!
Bluey and Bingo wants to video chat with their cousins, Muffin and Socks. Chilli allows them a session, under the condition Bluey does not "hog" the tablet. Once they connect, it is revealed that Muffin is the one who's indeed hogging, disallowing Socks a turn. While Trixie can't tend to her daughters and Muffin's incessant hogging, Stripe, who's chilling on the couch, has got it covered. By threatening to shut off the entire call. Despite Trixie's insistence, Stripe brushes it off, letting her do her thing; he sets a timer on his phone - when it goes off, it's Socks' turn.
The timer goes off, though Muffin isn't budging; she really wants to finish her cowboy hat, but at the cost of Socks' turn on the tablet. Muffin continues to be stubborn and her time with the tab comes to an end when Stripe grabs her and gives her a timeout for her bad behavior, allowing Socks to take the tablet and have her turn. However, Muffin has nabbed Stripe's phone away from him and is back in the call.
A chase ensues, with Stripe right on Muffin's tail, but Stripe trips on the Cat Squad bike, so he loses Muffin. She hides underneath one of the beds and begins to draw her cowboy hat once again; Bluey points out Muffin hasn't returned her ukelele (Muffin is "still playing with it!") Stripe threatens to end the whole call once again, only to be met with resistance. So Stripe is going to track her down- oh, wait, Muffin has applied a gorilla filter on him! Determined to find his daughter and teach her a lesson about hogging, Stripe is back on the hunt, finding Muffin the moment she looks at the living room. However, Muffin screams as loud as she can, stunning Stripe and allowing her to get away once again. Bandit pops by and looks at the commotion, commenting that it's a "classic Stripe" event.
The chase continues into the bathroom - which Trixie is using. After a brief struggle, Muffin is able to wrestle the phone away from her dad's hands, and she is now able to continue her drawing; all the while. Stripe and Trixie are arguing about their respective ways on how to be a parent. Bandit, noticing this, tells Bluey and Bingo to mute the call, and after a bit of struggling off Bandit's side, Bingo mutes the call. Stripe and Trixie is shown to have come to an agreement, reconciling with each other. Bluey unmutes and tells Muffin to look behind her - and Stripe and Trixie are now working together! Trixie heads over to the living room, setting up an ambush, while Stripe remains in hot pursuit of Muffin - who falls for the trap, but outsmarts her parents!
However, Muffin trips on a wayward bone toy, sending Stripe's phone skyward... and into the pool. Leaving Muffin to head to a time-out.
The chaos gave Socks enough time to finish her drawing which has a crown, flowers and a sunny sky and Bluey, now knowing the consequences of hogging, allows Bingo a go - "because we know what happens when you hog."
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Muffin's full name is revealed to be Muffin Cupcake Heeler.
- This is the second time in season three where Bandit says "Classic Stripe", with the first being Whale Watching.
- CGI effects are used during the first chase scene, and partially the second.
- This is the second time a middle name is revealed. The first one was Bluey's in the episode Family Meeting.
- Coincidently, Family Meeting aired before this episode.
- The app the girls use to draw may be a reference to Snapchat, particularly in the scene where Muffin turns Stripe into the "gorillaman" by using a filter, similar to a Snapchat filter.
- This is the first time Muffin is shown punished on-screen.
- The music during the chase sequences is based on the prelude to the first act of the opera Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.
- The ukulele shown under Muffin's bed can be seen in the episode Bedroom.
- The "Why" in which Muffin makes when told to look behind her is the same voice clip used from Muffin Cone.
- The scream when Muffin was picked up by Stripe was reused from The Sleepover.
- The scream that Muffin did while she and Socks were fighting for the tablet was reused from Charades.
- The images that are composited into the background of Stripe's phone are:
- The Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament)
- The Eiffel Tower
- A starfield
- The Great Wall of China
- A picture of Stripe and Trixie
- A picture of Stripe, Trixie, and Muffin
- A picture of Stripe
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Ragdoll and Fairytale.
Censorship[]
- In the Disney distributed versions of this episode, when Muffin runs into a bathroom, the scene was originally cropped to hide Trixie sitting and using the toilet in the background. This censorship was later quietly reversed by Disney with little fanfare, but only on Disney+, DisneyNow and on demand. The cable airing currently remains censored.
Errors[]
- While spinning through the air (before hitting the swimming pool), the camera footage from Stripe's phone intermittently captures the balcony from which Muffin dropped the phone. However, Muffin, Stripe, and Trixie are all absent from the camera footage, despite them standing on the balcony.
- When the screen switches its layout for the final time in the episode, some errors are present, which could be uncovered by going frame-by-frame within the closing minutes of the episode:
- Just before the layout changes (two frames exactly), one of the sparkles Bluey has drawn switches position, being placed slightly higher. This isn't present after it has changed layout, however.
- Socks' drawings change to accommodate the bigger picture a frame earlier before the screen switches layout.
- The bone toy on the ground that Muffin trips on and flings Stripe's phone in the air appears out of nowhere.