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"This is confusing."
This article is about The episode Phones.
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Phones is the sixteenth episode of the third season of Bluey.
Synopsis
Bluey and Bingo want to play restaurants with Grandad, but it’s a little different than he’s used to… he’s going to need an app to order the food!
Grandad’s visiting for dinner. On arrival, he goes to pay the driver but finds out it’s already been paid for on the app. Inside, the kids want to play restaurant, but he needs a phone to order food.
Making him one out of cardboard, Bluey explains how it works. You don’t go to the restaurant, you just ‘doot’ the app on your phone!
Eating alone is not much fun, he has an idea. He sneaks out and sets a toy-croc loose in the restaurant! If you can make an app for anything, perhaps you can make one to summon a croc-catcher?
Things have changed since he was last in the city, but kids are still kids. [1]
Episode Recap
Warning Spoilers!
Grandad (Mort), Chilli's dad, is driven to the Heelers' home by an Internet ride sharing service driver named Ziggy. Mort wishes him good luck with his app, though his understanding is vague about what that is. Bandit and Chilli are there to greet him as he gets out of the car. Grandad tries to pay the driver, but Ziggy drives off, and Chilli says he's already been paid via the Internet. As they walk inside, Chilli suggests he visit with the kids while she and Bandit finish making dinner. He's fine with that, but he wants to know what an app is.
Bingo is making a cardboard phone when Grandad appears, and she and Bluey both greet and hug him. They want him to play Restaurant with him, and he agrees, but they say he'll need a phone, and he hasn't got one. So Bingo gives him her cardboard phone and makes another. They say that a playhouse they've made is where he lives, but it's not his house; it's a place he's living at on holiday, all arranged online. Bluey shows him the "app" on his "phone" that does it. Boop! He takes off his hat and knocks some things over; Bluey says he'll have to pay for that, but he just has to push a button on his phone. Boop!
Bluey says she works at the restaurant and that Grandad is hungry and wants some food. He seems OK with this game, so Bluey runs over to the restaurant, where Bingo is making herself a new phone. They're interrupted when Grandad walks over to the restaurant, to their confusion. They explain that he's supposed to stay home and use his phone to order. So he goes back home and rings the restaurant on the phone. Bluey explains that he's not supposed to call the restaurant; he's supposed to use the app. He wants to see the menu, but they tell him that's on the app too. He wants to know what kind of restaurant it is, but they tell him they've got everything. He can have anything he wants, but he says that makes it harder for some reason. He knocks something else over and supposes he'd better pay for that too. Boop!
So he tells them he wants curried sausages, which Bluey and Bingo both think sounds awful, but he loves them, so Bluey gets to work making some. Then Grandad shows up at the restaurant to pick up his food, and Bluey tells him he's supposed to stay home, and Bingo will deliver. He goes back home, and Bingo takes his order to him on her scooter. He tries to chat with Bingo, but Bluey says you don't do that. He pays with his phone – Boop! – and Bingo leaves. He asks if he did it right, and they tell him good one.
Grandad wonders whether he's just supposed to eat at home alone. Bluey and Bingo tell him he can watch TV on his phone, because it has an app for that. He's still not sure he's doing it right. But he asks if anyone can make an app, and they reply yes. So he borrows a crayon and adds to his phone, then tells the girls he's finished his sausages but could go for some dessert. He orders a Pavlova, then sneaks over and puts a toy crocodile in Bingo's delivery box. When Bluey tries to put his Pavlova in, she sees the croc, and she and Bingo both panic. Grandad says they should use the new croc catcher app he's made. While Bingo continues panicking, Bluey runs over to see what the app Grandad's drawn looks like, then runs back, draws it on her phone too, and pushes it.
Grandad answers, and Bluey says they need a croc catcher, so he says he'll be right over. And he comes right over. He wants to chat, but Bingo's still running in circles with a croc in the box on her back. He tells them the first step is to get it outside, so they run out into the yard. Bluey asks what they do now, and Grandad tells her to grab it by the snout – while he stands over here and supervises. She does, and the croc comes out and lies on the ground. Grandad says to jump on its back, so she does. Next step: which of their neighbors doesn't have any pets? Bluey and Bingo run across the yard with the croc.
Lucky's Dad is hanging up some laundry to dry when the toy croc comes flying over the fence and lands on him. He yells and struggles with it. Meanwhile, the kids give Grandad's app 5 stars. Boop boop boop boop!
Chilli comes out to tell them dinner's ready. Bluey and Bingo cheer and run inside. She says it's curried sausages, and their run slows to a less enthusiastic walk, but Grandad is happy. He and Chilli walk toward the house. Grandad says things have changed since he was last in the city, but kids are still the same.Appearances
Trivia
- Bluey has a framed picture of the Wiggles in dog form with each of their signatures on it, indicating that she has met them in person.
- This picture depicts the 2013-2021 members of the group: [from left to right in picture] Lachlan Gillespie, Emma Watkins, Simon Price and Anthony Field.
- Anthony also voices Rusty's Dad and the Postie.
- Grandad's name is revealed to be Mort.
- Mort's voice actor, Laurie Newman, is misspelled "Lawrie Newman" in the credits.
- The portrait on the fifty-dollar note that Mort tries to pay Ziggy with depicts Edith Cowan in canine form. Cowan was a social reformer who advocated for women's and children's rights in the late 1800's. She also has the distinction of being the first woman elected to the Parliament of Western Australia.
- Pat sings Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby), as he’s hanging up his laundry.
- Mort wears a Tapered Pork-Pie Style Hat in this episode, it is the exact same colour to his first hat in Grandad.
- The app Chilli uses to pay for Mort's ride is a reference to ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft. The logo on the windshield is closer to the logo of Uber.
- When Bingo first gave the toy phone to Mort, the app with a crocodile as an application was already in the homepage even though Mort later draws the app.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Pavlova and Rain.