The Sleepover is the thirty-ninth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis
A sleepover with their cousin means Bluey and Bingo get to stay up late! But when Muffin shows up exhausted after missing her nap, the girls get more fun than they bargained for.
Episode Recap
Bluey and Bingo get to stay up late because they're inviting their cousin Muffin to sleep over. However, when they answer the door, they find Muffin in terrible shape; she speaks rather incoherently, looks exhausted, but behaves wildly, as if without care. The sisters are confused, but Stripe points out that Muffin has skipped her sleep. He negotiates an early bedtime for Muffin, but the sisters argue that they can stay up late, causing him to hastily drive back before he can answer.
Muffin's antics continue from there. She drops a doorstop on her uncle's foot, runs around crashing, and even bites off an inflatable guitar. Meanwhile, the sisters try to negotiate with their mum, who also agrees that Muffin needs to sleep early. The sisters are disappointed, because she promised them that they could stay up late. They settle on one game before bed: "Restaurant". The kids have a plan; they will make the game as long as possible.
The kids, with sisters acting as wife and husband and Muffin as daughter Sheila, walk up to the restaurant (playroom), whose waiter Chilli boasts its fast service. The reservation begins well until "Sheila" has some shenanigans with a pot plant. All of them enter, with a tired "Sheila" reminded that the plate is not a bus's steering wheel. Chilli returns with menus and the kids say that they might take some time deciding. "No, you won't," the "waiter" says. At the same time, the tired Muffin's antics start again as she bites the cloth off the table, tries to engage in non-sequitur conversation with a patron (stuffed toy) and even jumps on a table, squirming on it.
The chaotic situation is instantly met by Chilli, whom Bluey assures that the game is not yet done. While she gives her daughter a rather angry look, Bluey suggests a trip to the chip shop. Just outside the "restaurant" a chip shop is put up, with Bandit keeping it. He has to endure his shop being shaken by the tired "Sheila" before serving them a serving of chips. When it's time to pay, however, Bluey is distressed that if they do it, the game ends. So she tells "Sheila" to run with the chips, and the rest of the three along with her.
The shopkeeper calls the police, played by Chilli. Unfortunately for them, the sleep-deprived kid stops to climb up a lawn flamingo, hoping that it will carry her away. Bluey and Bingo quickly realize how tired their cousin is. That is when Officer Chilli gets to them.
The chip-stealing culprit is finally apprehended, and Chilli drops her character to tell her kids that it's finally bedtime; it's already late for them since it's 8 o'clock already. Bluey and Bingo are happy, but their mum isn't. She reminds them that it's their duty to look after Muffin who should have been in bed long ago. Just as she points it out, Muffin promptly drives away with the "police car" she's held in. So the sisters chase after her cousin who tries to drive towards the lawn flamingo, with their mum reminding her that they're no longer playing.
They find their cousin crashing the car into the inflatable fountain pool alongside her flamingo. Seeing Muffin still acting pretty wonky, Bingo offers her sister to play even longer. Bluey considers her cousin's condition, and decides to do something about it. So she tells the others to follow her away from the police lady. While Chilli thinks that they're still playing, Bluey winks at her which reassures Chilli as she can tell Bluey is listening to her.
The kids run all the way to their bedroom, with a sleeping bag already set up. They make it as a hiding place for Muffin, who brings along the lawn flamingo with her. Meanwhile, Chilli has made all the way there, and Bluey has to "shh" her; she walks to the room and lift the bag's opening to show Muffin fast asleep. Her mum gives her a stroke on her head; "Good one, Bluey," she whispers.
Later, dawn comes where the house is, and Bluey is awakened by her ironically better-rested cousin. Muffin then asks her the reason for the flamingo in her sleeping bag. Bluey tells her that, "it's a long story".Appearances
Characters
Trivia
- In the scene where Bingo, Bluey and Muffin dine at a restaurant, a dog plushie that clearly resembles Sans from the video game Undertale can be seen for a few moments.
- Background music from "The Claw" is reused for this episode.
- In this episode, the subtitles read "idigamadama" instead of what Muffin actually says which is "Eating a banana" during the intro sequence.
- This may be the reason why "Eating a banana" doesn't get translated in other languages.
- Bluey also breaks the fourth wall by glancing at the camera when she says "Did she say she's a llama?".
- This is the second episode in which Muffin appears without her sister, the first being Bike.
- Muffin's groaning voice clip during her meltdown in Bike is also reused before she says "I hate plants."
- The music heard when the girls play "Restaurant" is based upon the third movement of Luigi Boccherini's String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11, No. 5, often referred to as "The Celebrated Minuet."
- On ABC iview, the title has been misspelled as "Sleepover."
- In the CBeebies airings, the scene where Muffin bites the inflatable guitar causing it to pop is cut.
- The CBeebies airing also removed the scenes of Bingo saying "babe" making it sound odd since the emphasis was out on that word.
- This episode reveals that Muffin still takes a nap in the afternoon, and that she's in the process of giving it up but on the days where she skips her nap, the lack of sleep can cause her to be a bit erratic from fatigue in the evenings.
- Long Dog: This long dog looks like the original but uses darker tones. It is visible briefly between Bingo and Chilli on the top of a shelf as the girls first approach the restaurant.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Hide and Seek and Camping.
- When Muffin lands on the table, the scream when she makes is reused in Faceytalk.
- On this episode's page on the official website, the character section has Bluey holding the play handbag, Bingo dressed up as a man, Muffin looking sleepy, and Chilli dressed up as a cop.
Errors
- When Muffin is driving the car, the door is missing for one frame.