Mini Bluey

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Mini Bluey
Airdate	November 27, 2021 November 10, 2022 (US) November 29, 2023 (CBeebies UK)
Created and Written by	Joe Brumm
Cast	Melanie Zanetti (Chilli) Dave McCormack (Bandit)
Credits
Producers	Libbie Doherty (Executive-ABC) Henrietta Hurford-Jones (Executive-BBC Studios) Richard Jeffery (Series Director) Charlie Aspinwall (Executive Producer) Daley Pearson (Executive Producer) Sam Moor
Music & Sound	Joff Bush (Music) Jazz D'Arcy (Composer Assistant) Dan Brumm (Sound Design & Mixer) Dave Champion (Recording Engineer)
Production	Andy Blazdell (Technical Advisor) Simon Lipowicz (Technical Advisor) Lauren Brown (Manager) Rhiannon Steffensen (Manager) Chloe Hume (Assistant Producer) Jessica Magro (Assistant Producer)
Designers	Costa Kassab (Lead Art Director) Trudi Monteath (Art Director) Rob Smyth (Lead) Jake Bresanello Tim Delaney Owain Emanuel Sarah Rackemann (Storyboard)
Background Artists	Nick Rees (Lead) Faith Chen
Animation	Beth Harvey (Director) Seb Davis (Lead) Chris Bennett Kathleen Hirst Dan Smith Madeleine Parker-Hill
VFX	Francis Stanton (Lead) Nicole Clowes Daniel Sun
Editors/Post-Production	Josef Switak (Editor) Grant Sundin (Online Editor) Anthony Pham (Assistant Editor) Reezy Miller (Post Production Scripts)
Other Staff	Daniel Schultz (Production Accountant) Jenny Lalor (Production Lawyer)
Episode Guide
Previous	Born Yesterday
Following	Unicorse

Mini Bluey is the seventh episode of the third season of Bluey.

Synopsis

• ABC
• Bluey.tv

When Dad complains about how dissimilar Bluey and Bingo are, Bluey hatches a plan to make them more alike and happily introduces Mini-Bluey!

When Dad complains about how dissimilar Bluey and Bingo are, Bluey hatches a plan to make them more alike. After colouring Bingo in blue chalk, Bluey happily introduces Mini-Bluey!

Mini-Bluey is just like Bluey; they both like to sing, talk nonsense and question everything! But when Dad washes off Mini-Bluey’s chalk, Bluey decides to turn herself into Big-Bingo!

After hearing how much Dad enjoys having two Bingos, Bluey starts to worry that her parents prefer Bingo. But when Bingo teaches Big-Bingo her own brand of annoyingness, Mum and Dad admit they’d just prefer one of each!

Episode Recap

Warning Spoilers!

It is morning at the Heelers' residence, and there's already some chaos in the house. Bluey misplaced her borrowed library book whilst acting rather annoying and singing. Looking at Bingo being the calmer and more ordered of the sisters (plus some starkly different taste preferences), both parents wonder why both of them are very different. Bandit goes as far as wishing that they can be similar. Hearing this, the sisters hatch a plan. With help of some hair chalk, Bluey presents to her dad, "Mini Bluey" (really just Bingo colored like Bluey).

Being Mini Bluey now, Bingo gets a lesson from Bluey on the latter's habits and mannerisms: dancing, singing, being talkative, inattentive, and just being annoying. They eventually get to the backyard where Bandit asks the two to help him, but, being two Blueys, they instead work very reluctantly and whine the whole time. So he hoses off Mini Bluey and asks for double Bingos.

More hair chalk later and out comes "Big Bingo", Bluey in Bingo's colors. She is now everything that Bingo would be: a joyful worker, a helpful child and one with a calm demeanor. Both parents are pleased with this change. Bandit even comments on how he will definitely get used to this, which deeply upsets Big Bingo, and Bluey runs to her room.

In the girls' bedroom (with Bluey/Big Bingo on Bingo's bed trying to fit the image), she laments to Bingo on how the parents wants two Bingos and none of Bluey, thinking that is because she is annoying. Bingo assures her that Bingo herself is annoying all the same, even more annoying. To demonstrate, she asks for some sticky tape and fake teeth; a very disturbing and scary looking face.

Spooked out by their little scary Red Heeler and her double, the parents finally demand one of Bluey and Bingo each. Satisfied, they run off to fulfill that request. When the parents eventually gets to see the kids back to normal, however, in front of them are Mini Bluey and Big Bingo instead! "Heh, close enough," they remark.

Appearances

• Bluey
• Bandit
• Chilli
• Bingo

Trivia

• This is the first episode to have Bluey's name in the title; this is also the third overall after Calypso and Bingo.
• When Bluey shows Bingo how she likes to dance, she does a move she uses in the theme song.
• This episode explores more of Bluey and Bingo's personalities.
  • Bluey also asks questions but never listens to the answer in full and would whine (or whinge) about doing housework or chores.
  • Bingo is the slight opposite to Bluey as she likes doing housework or chores, makes the job more fun and actually helps Dad and Mum.
• When the parents hide in the food cupboard, the cereals from Featherwand (to the left in the foreground) and The Weekend (immediately behind) are visible.
• Long Dog: This long dog is yellow with a teal spot, ears, and nose. It is overturned in the playroom next to the alligator plushie in the bottom left of the screen. It is only visible when Chilli is in the playroom looking through the stack of books for "Shmurtle the Dirty Turtle."
  • The magnet long dog on the fridge appears once again.
    • This is the second time the magnet long dog has appeared in three episodes consecutively, with the streak being ended by the following episode.
• When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Promises and Magic.
• Mini Bluey’s outer muzzle marking is closer in appearance to Bandit’s than Bluey’s.

Censorship

• Disney+ and Disney Junior airings removes the shot of Bingo putting the fake teeth in her mouth.
  • However, it isn't removed on said scene video on Disney Junior's YouTube channel.

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