Promises is the fourth episode of Season 3 of Bluey.
Synopsis[2]
Bluey keeps breaking her promises! But after seeing how much Bingo trusts Mum’s word, Bluey learns the power of promises and why it’s important not to break them.
Bluey and Dad keep breaking their promises and – even worse – using their promises to trick each other into doing silly things!
Mum bans promise-breaking and ‘promisey tricks’; promises are supposed to be based on trust.
While walking home, Bluey and Bingo want to play on a playground, Mum agrees but only if they promise to leave when it’s lunch time.
While playing, Bingo gets stuck atop the climbing dome! When Mum promises to catch Bingo, Bingo trusts her word and jumps down.
After seeing this, Bluey keeps her promise when it’s time to leave, even though she hasn’t finished playing.
Episode Recap
Warning Spoilers!
Chilli has just finished tidying the living room, but Bluey wants to do a panda puzzle on the floor, even when she's going to the Trampolinium with Dad soon. She does make a promise to her mum that she will tidy it up when she's done. Sure enough, Bandit's ready to go before Bluey even starts. Promptly, she leaves the puzzle to follow him, but Chilli reminds her of the promise (her excuse that she's not finished yet).
En route to the Trampolinium, she sees the library and asks her dad if they can go to the library. He promises that they can go after. The kids end up spending longer than he thought in the Tampolinium, that when they drive back home, the library has been closed. Bluey, unable to go to the library, takes this as her dad breaking his promise.
She's still grumpy even on the bed, although Bandit tries to reason with her that the library has been closed. At the same time, an angry Chilli screams on how the puzzle downstairs hasn't been tidied. As Chilli confronts Bluey and her dad, she tells her mum that since dad broke his promise, she can. Bandit suggests that nobody in the house makes anymore promises, but Bingo reminds him on how he promises that he'd always love his children. Chilli tells everyone that they can make promises as long as they can keep them. Everyone agrees on that, and Bluey and Bandit agree to not break their promises, no matter what. So Bluey tells the family goodnight, but not without Chilli reminding her once again about the mess.
The next day has the family going to the library, with Bluey asking her dad if he and the kids can play "Toddlers" there. He says that he will play anything if the kids hurry up, to which he promises. Excited, Bluey and Bingo quickly get in the car as he offers. Seeing this, Bandit gets curious about this game.
In the library, Bandit learns how "Toddlers" works, they have to walk around on their knees and act like a toddler would. Bandit, after reluctantly making a childish request in the front desk, asking a stranger to read a book for him and play in the children area, makes an offer to Bluey if she can lend her book bag for his books. She allows it, to which she promises, since he says he only has two books for her; really two very huge and heavy books, much to her surprise.
Seeing both Bandit humiliated and Bluey struggling, Chilli calls both of them out, telling them that promises shouldn't be used for tricking others; that the point of promises is to build trust, and how the whole world will not function without it. Realizing this, Bluey and Bandit make another promise not to trick each other with promises anymore.
Meanwhile, Bingo finds a playground and asks if they can go there. Chilli agrees, but under condition that they have to leave when she says that they have to go since it's almost lunchtime, to which the kids agree and promise.
In the playground, Bluey spots a flying fox. However, she sees a kid after her not giving her a turn on it, much to her frustration. She then hears her sister calling at her; she's on top of a tall dome and she's too afraid to climb down. So Bluey runs to her mum to help Bingo. Chilli has her arms ready to catch, and tells Bingo to jump. Bingo, still afraid, asks her if she promises to catch her, to which Chilli says that she does. So Bingo assuredly jumps down, and lands safely in her mum's hold.
Seeing this, Bluey realizes how much a promise can worth. At the same time, the flying fox kid has finished playing with it, so it's finally Bluey's chance for a go. However, it's also the time her mum calls her to go. Looking at the flying fox, and her mum, she makes a decision. Ultimately, the platform reaches the end of the zipline- without her on it.
And so the family reach home, enjoying their books, even all the way to bedtime, and Bandit has to tell the kids to bed after catching their parents talking about them downstairs. In their bedroom, Bandit looks at them fast asleep. "I promise I'll always love you," those are the last things he tells them for the day.
Appearances
- The Heeler Family
- Librarian (debut)
- Library Dog (debut)
- Flying Fox Kid (debut)
- Rocko (cameo)
- Doreen (cameo)
- Hospital Kid (cameo)
- Cornelius (cameo)
- Vet Corgi (cameo)
- Checkout Lady (cameo)
- Alt Energy Dog (cameo)
- Cornelius' Girlfriend(cameo)
Trivia
- The books from Sleepytime can be seen in the girls' bedroom in the last scene of the episode.
- Bluey checks out Shmurdle the Dirty Turtle in this episode, which becomes a plot point in Mini Bluey.
- The book with the unicorn on the cover appears in numerous later episodes, most notably Unicorse.
- The library which the family borrow book from, alongside the incorporated café and the adjacent playground is based on the real life Ashgrove Library in western Brisbane.
- Towards the end of the episode, Chilli tells Bandit that when she asked Bingo to clean up her beads, Bingo responded with the unheard line “I’m not interesting in that.” This line is first heard when she says it again in Curry Quest.
- Long Dog: This episode has two long dogs.
- The first is a brown long dog with a look of contentedness, seen on the white library shelf on the left, when Bandit is asking for "books for big boys."
- In that same shot, there is a blue long dog in a magnifying glass on one of the posters on the wall.
- Librarian and Library Dog are voiced by Kate McMahon & Mary Bolling respectively, who host the Bluey podcast Gotta Be Done. As a debt of gratitude, Joe Brumm offered the two speaking roles in the show, through this episode.
- It is also said that one of Mary's children auditioned for the role of the toddler on the zip-line, though they didn't make the cut.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Magic and Mini Bluey.