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"This is confusing."
This article is about the episode Unicorse.
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Unicorse is the eighth episode of the third season of Bluey.
Synopsis
Bluey can’t get to sleep, so Mum reads her a story. But they are interrupted by Unicorse, the most annoying hand puppet in the world, whom Bluey tries to reform.
Bluey is having trouble getting to sleep and declares she would rather change the world so no one has to sleep anymore.
Mum reluctantly decides to read her one last book before bed, but Dad has the bad idea of inviting Unicorse to join in.
Unicorse is the most annoying hand puppet in the world, who constantly interrupts while Mum tries to read the story.
She almost gives up completely, but Bluey insists that she can keep Unicorse under control.
She quickly learns that trying to change others (or the world) isn’t very easy and it might be better to change your own reactions.
Episode Recap
Warning Spoilers!
Chilli has just finished putting the kids to bed and Bandit offers her something to watch. However, Bluey is still not tucked up, complaining on why she needs to go to bed, and planning to get rid of sleeping altogether. Chilli offers her another bedtime story, but Bandit has another plan. After assuring Bluey that she's not grumpy at her and that she just wants her to go to bed, Chilli has caught attention of an unwanted visitor, an annoying hand puppet unicorn Unicorse.
While Bluey is excited and amused by him, Chilli is more than annoyed at his antics and behavior, from disturbing storytime by trying to read another book, to making noises while Bingo is asleep and Bluey is trying to be, to getting her name wrong every time. Bluey convinces her mum to let Unicorse stay, saying that she will try to make him better. She agrees, under condition that she will be reading from her book not his.
Soon Bluey begins to feel disturbed by him, for him blocking the story book, compulsively spoiling the ending, making rude noises when she tries to call him out, to acting very inappropriately at a painful scene in the book. An annoyed Chilli tries to make Bluey reconsider, but she has a plan to offer him his favorite food to calm him down, which doesn't help anything since he chews loudly and annoyingly likewise.
It is Chilli's last straw and Unicorse's victory dance. Bluey tries help the situation out, so she taps Unicorse on the shoulder to get his attention, but he reacts as if he's terribly hit and injured, saying that he will bring his lawyer. Chilli does praise her effort, but tells her that she can't just change him, even anyone. When Bluey asks what they can do, Chilli tells that she can change how they react, perhaps by ignoring him. Bluey tells her mum that Unicorse is hard to ignore, but Chilli tells her to give it a go.
So they sit down and continue with the story. It's also the same time Unicorse comes back with a hand puppet lawyer. Bluey and Chilli did get rather distracted by them, but they push on anyways to get the story done. Meanwhile, the lawyer gets frustrated that the two are ignoring him and Unicorse gets frustrated when he doesn't let him talk to them personally. Eventually the two puppets get in a fight simply by having Bluey and Chilli ignoring them. They finally have the story done, and Chilli asks Bluey if they're going to leave the two to it. Bluey agrees, she's already tired anyway.
Appearances
Trivia
- This is the first episode where Chilli reads the title card.
- This is also the first episode where a character expresses an opinion about the title card. Instead of the usual formula, she says "This episode of Bluey, unfortunately, is called Unicorse."
- The name "Unicorse" is a portmanteau of "unicorn" and "horse".
- The music Unicorse dances to is a disco remix of the final section of the overture to Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell.
- As this piece was used as the theme music of a long-running and influential multimedia franchise, the William Tell Overture is known to many as "The Lone Ranger Theme".
- When Bluey touches Unicorse and he exclaims “Ow! My back! My neck! My back and my neck!” Ludo has confirmed it is intended as a reference to My Neck, My Back by The Vandals[2].
- Previous fan theories supposed that it was referencing the movie Friday or the the song My Neck, My Back (Lick It) by Khia.
- The picture book Chilli reads is a version of "The Leather-wrapped Village."
- The story is an expansion of a passage in A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, a Buddhist text written by the monk Shantideva around 700 AD.
To cover all the earth with sheets of leather—
Where could such amounts of skin be found?
But with the leather soles of just my shoes
It is as though I cover all the earth! - The next passage explains the meaning, which connects it with the plot of the episode.
And thus the outer course of things
I myself cannot restrain.
But let me just restrain my mind,
And what is left to be restrained? - Picture book versions of the story have been published in real life:
- The story is an expansion of a passage in A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, a Buddhist text written by the monk Shantideva around 700 AD.
- This episode, like Shaun, references the muppets.[citation needed]
- During the credits, Bluey is replaced with Unicorse dancing.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Born Yesterday and Curry Quest.
- This episode was uploaded on the official Bluey Official Youtube-channel on January 17th 2024,