The Beach is the twenty-sixth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis[]
As her Mum goes for a walk along the beach, Bluey runs to catch up with her. Along the way, she has a series of encounters that will both excite and test her in her first solo adventure.
Episode Recap[]
Bluey, Bingo and Dad pull up to the “Beeeeeaaaaaaacchhhh!!!” on a skateboard as Mum walks slowly behind.
Once they get to the sand they commence the activities that most Australian families do upon arrival at the beach: delight in the texture of the sand, apply sun cream and zinc, set up the sunshade, play jump the waves, soak up the sunshine, make sandcastles and bury your siblings legs in the sand in a mermaid tail.
Mum embarks on a walk along the beach (alone..... because she’s a normal mum who need time out).
Bluey finds a conch shell that she wants to show Mum and surprisingly, Dad allows her to go on a solo adventure to follow Mum. Firstly though, King Neptune Bingo releases Blueys legs from the mermaid tail, so she can walk for the day.
Along the way, mermaid-with-legs Bluey encounters many things that both challenge and delight her: a surfing champion (voiced by surfing legend Layne Beachley), a flock of seagulls, a big wave that covers Mums footsteps, a weeing pippy, a soldier crab (followed by a herd of soldier crabs), a scary jellyfish and a washed out sand castle that she decides must be a mermaid house.
At one stage Bluey realizes she’s too far and out of hearing distance from both Mum and Dad. Now, truly alone on her walk, she must summon all her courage when she encounters a beady eyed pelican.
Bluey politely asks the cheeky pelican to move, but he stubbornly refuses, making her think she’ll have to turn around. However, she luckily spies Mums footsteps re-emerge in the sand and gives herself a big-mermaid-girl pep talk to creep around the scary pelican!
As Mr Pelican flies off giving us a beautiful vista of a typical quiet, Aussie beach, Bluey catches sight of Mum, and they run to meet up.
After regaling Mum with her heroic solo adventure, they walk back along the beach hand in hand and Bluey observes that she too enjoys walks on her own.... however walks with a loved one are special too.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Pipi's feed by taking in water and feeding on the Phytoplankton, then they squirt out the water so they can take in more. This squirt is what Bluey thinks is a "weewee".
- This is the second time a sound effect was used in title card, the first time being in The Doctor.
- Speaking of title cards, this episode has the shortest interval before it appears, at 6 seconds.
- Bluey plays the "Mermaid who got her legs, but only for a day!" This is a reference to the fairytale The Little Mermaid written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1837. Most well known from the Disney movie of the same name.
- The surfer that Bluey meets is voiced be surfing legend Layne Beachley, who won the World Championship seven times and is also the chair of Surfing Australia.
- The surfer even references the plot of said Disney movie.
- The surfer that Bluey meets is voiced be surfing legend Layne Beachley, who won the World Championship seven times and is also the chair of Surfing Australia.
- The surfer's board displays who is probably King Neptune as mentioned by the girls earlier.
- A sand carving and seashell portrayal of mermaid Bingo can be seen on the abandoned sand castle that Bluey plants the stick in.
- The facepaint Bluey and Bingo wear in this episode is zinc oxide - a heavy-duty sunscreen. In Australia, it comes in brightly-coloured applicator sticks.
- The shot of Chilli sunbathing is a reference to Max Dupain's famous photograph Sunbaker[1].
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Wagon Ride and Taxi.
- On this episode's page on the official website, the character section has Bluey holding a shell, Bingo holding a spade, both girls in sunscreen, and Chilli in a beach hat carrying a bag.[2]
Errors[]
- The soldier crabs are depicted as walking sideways, parallel to the ocean. Real-life soldier crabs are one of the few crabs that walk forwards, and their swarms march towards the ocean, not alongside it[3].
- When Bluey is matching Chilli's pawprints after scaring away the seagulls, one of Chilli's pawprints is missing in the left column[4]. Also, when Bluey hops into where the pawprint should be, there is no pawprint left behind from where she stepped[5].
References[]
- ↑ https://instyleaustralia.com.au/chilli-bluey-cover-story
- ↑ https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-1/the-beach/
- ↑ Wikipedia:Mictyris_longicarpus
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Bluey following Chilli's pawprints in the sand
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Bluey's paw didn't leave a print in the sand on the left side
