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Handstand is the fourty-fifth episode of the second season of Bluey.
Synopsis
Bingo tries to impress the people at her party with a Handstand, but they're too distracted, And Nana also tries to help out, but everyone just tells her to go take a rest. So, Bingo shows Nana her handstand.
Episode Recap
Warning Spoilers!
It's Bingo's birthday party, and she is in the kitchen, Bingo tries to do a perfect handstand; naturally, handstands are hard, but she'll see it through. As she goes...
- Lucky and Rusty have a whistleball, which they throw through the open kitchen window.
- Missy is playing with a pull-back car.
- Bandit is cooking some pikelets, and...
- Bluey and Mackenzie are having a race.
Her hands strained, Bingo takes a short rest.
- Chilli serves the pikelets Bandit has cooked.
- Buddy sneaks in from the balcony and takes some whipped cream for himself.
Bingo takes a power pose and tries again.
Bingo tries a running start.
- Indy sets up a line of dominos - with a gap big enough for the pull-back car.
- Trixie blows up a balloon, which either pops, lands by the fridge, or in this case, ends up on the balcony.
Bingo has finally done a handstand! However, no one has seen it.
Bingo asks Trixie and Buddy if they've seen it, which they respond in the negative. Bingo has successfully gotten her dad's attention.
- Stripe brings in pies.
The pikelets start to burn as Bandit turns to his cooking... as Bingo has successfully done another handstand.
- Missy is brought back to Bingo's area, though she is more focused on her car.
- Bluey and Mackenzie are still focused on their race.
- Chilli does watch, but ends up setting down some jam, whipped cream and the pikelets.
Bingo does a handstand, but Chilli has exited. Saddened, she leaves the kitchen.
- Lucky and Rusty continue to play with the whistleball.
- Chilli has served the pikelets, but nobody is taking them.
- Buddy, his hand full of whipped cream, runs back inside for seconds.
- Honey is tagged by Snickers, and they go on to refill their blasters.
- Trixie uses a cooler as a stool to tie a balloon.
- After sulking for a bit, Winton tries his tower again.
- Stripe's pies are still frozen, so he goes to microwave them.
- Chloe and Indy are checking a box of dominos.
Nana offers help to Honey, Snickers, Stripe, Lucky, Rusty, Winton, Chilli, Bandit, Bluey, Mackenzie, and Trixie, but is rejected.
Chloe sits next to the line of dominos as Bingo walks over to her and asks her to watch her handstand, though Chloe is focused on knocking down the dominoes.
So, in the end, no one saw her handstand... except Nana. She's seen Bingo's handstand and attends to her.
- Chilli takes the duck cake and closes the fridge door just as Lucky and Rusty's whistleball flies in.
- Bandit fixes Stripe's microwave problem; it was on defrost.
- Rusty pulls Missy's car into the TV room.
- Winton has finished his tower.
- Buddy finds no whipped cream and puts the step-stool back to its reguiar position.
- Honey, Snickers, Bluey and Mackenzie attend to Winton's tower.
- So do Indy and Coco.
And now, the cake is ready.
- Stripe takes out the steaming hot pies.
Nana continues to watch Bingo as the girl finally does a handstand! Chilli calls for the birthday girl, but she's not there. She is instead with her Nana, who watches her do a handstand.
Bingo Heeler is now a five-year-old.Appearances
- Bingo
- Chris
- Rusty
- Missy
- Bandit
- Bluey
- Chilli
- Aunt Trixie
- Uncle Stripe
- Mackenzie
- Buddy
- Honey
- Snickers
- Indy
- Winton
- Coco
- Lucky
- Chloe
- Muffin (Deleted scene - Twitter exclusive)
- Socks (Deleted scene - Twitter exclusive)
- Lila (Deleted scene - Twitter exclusive)
Trivia
- As of this episode, Bingo is now five years old.
- This episode is a direct sequel to "Duck Cake".
- This is the first time Bingo shows her handstand skills.
- This episode reveals Nana's first name to be Chris, which coincidentally is her voice actress' name.
- The closed captions mistakenly names Missy as "Lucy" and Buddy as "Honey".
- The misspelled names in the captions were spelled right in the US version on Disney Junior.
- The Disney+ captions, however, mistakenly refer to Winton as "Winter".
- The misspelled names in the captions were spelled right in the US version on Disney Junior.
- The episode gives visual reference to Zbigniew Rybczynski's 1981 short film Tango, which shows people repeating the same actions in a small room. It could also be a reference to the music video of Green Day's song "Redundant" in which the same style is used.
Oh, there's Lila, Muffin and Socks!
- Many audiences wondered where Socks, Muffin and Lila in this episode, on the Bluey Twitter page reveals that Muffin, Socks and Lila are watching "Cat Squad” together in order to explain to the audience where Socks, Muffin and Lila in this episode.
- The picture itself is technically a deleted scene of this episode.
- The music in this episode is similar to the popular electronic instrumental "Popcorn" as rendered by the group Hot Butter.
- Long Dog: The only long dog in this episode is the reoccurring magnet long dog.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Dunny and Duck Cake.
- The bluey.tv page for this episode shows Bingo doing a dance and smiling, despite a render of her doing a handstand, from this episode, existing. That render would instead be used in "Cricket"'s page.
