The Claw is the nineteenth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis[]
When Bluey and Bingo are unable to grab some chocolate doodads on a Magic Claw machine, they both return to their house. Mum and Dad create their own version at home. But for Dad, he isn't about to make winning easy.
Episode Recap[]
The Heelers are out to dinner and Bingo gets a coin for the “claw thing” machine, which results in winning nothing but disappointment.
Bluey sulks, but at home Chilli tells them to collect their toys, and she pretends to be the claw machine. However, even after winning a prize, Bluey is not happy, saying it's not the same.
Bandit steps in to show them how it’s done. After he fires up the claw machine music he tells Bluey to do a job and get some real coins to play. Chilli gives them 20c for making the bed, but they don't do it properly.
The girls return to activate the "magic claw" and it grabs Bingo’s toy dolphin 'Grey Dancer' but then drops it whilst bleeping, “YOU LOSE”. Bandit, still pretending to be the machine, tells them to insert more money, which Bluey quickly correlates with doing more jobs. The girls run off to clean and Bandit congratulates himself on such an excellent plan - teaching the kids a lesson AND making them clean the house, to which Chilli promptly replies that NEITHER of those things are happening (because they haven't learned anything, and Bluey is dusting incompetently, while Bingo is overwatering a plant).
After another miss, the "magic claw" retrieves two prizes and the girls want to play again. Chilli suggests a different game (not wanting her daughters to do more chores badly), but "Magic Claw" has a bonus prize: a block stating that the holder will get bottomless ice cream.
Bluey convinces Bingo to give up ‘Grey Dancer’ in exchange for another coin, promising she’ll win him back. However, Bandit pretends to shut down, claiming he is too weak to lift the prize up.
Bandit tries to get the girls to repeat what they’ve learned (chores = dollarbucks? Life isn’t fair?) which results in Bluey tickling him to get their toys back and she also steals the prize block for the ice cream. Bandit gets up to chase them but runs into the coffee table and collapses.
After dinner that night when the sisters are eating their ice cream, Chilli pointedly steers the conversation back to Bandit's “did anyone learn a lesson today” question. Bluey and Bingo both reply, “nope”, but Bandit responds (despite his bandaged leg and exhausted expression) that “These kids are awesome”
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Trivia[]
- The bark that Bingo makes at the beginning of the episode is similar to the bark from the theme that's heard in the 2016 pilot and 2017 pilot cut of The Weekend, if not in its uncut form. [2][3]
- The purple plush cat seen in the mummy and daddy claw machines resembles the design of Cheshire Cat from Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951 and 2010).
- Bandit is revealed to be left-handed.
- The logo in the chocolate doodads looks like the logo for the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
- This episode makes Graydancer's first appearance.
- The music in this episode is based upon the famous Canon in D by German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel.
- Long Dog: Only it's tail-end is visible but it resembles the original long dog. It can be found under the table on the right side of the screen when Chilli first awards the girls 20 cents.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with The Doctor and Markets.