Yoga Ball is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis[]
When Dad works from home, he likes to sit on a giant yoga ball that the kids cannot resist playing with. When he’s not looking they steal his ball and push it down the stairs.[2]
Dad starts horsing around too, bouncing them on the ball and throwing them onto the bed, but as the kids get more and more excited and want to play bigger and bolder games, Dad forgets that Bingo is not as agile as her big sister and accidently knocks her over with the yoga ball.
With help from Mum, Bingo learns to use her big girl bark so she can let Dad know when she’s hit her physical limit and a game’s going too far.
Bingo loves horsing around with Dad, but sometimes when they’re playing together, Dad forgets Bingo is younger than her sister.[2]
Episode Recap[]
Bandit is working from home today, so he doesn't have time to play games — or so he loudly proclaims, while playing Elevator with Bluey and Bingo. When he tries to sit down and get some work done, he finds that the kids have stolen the yoga ball that he uses as a computer chair. He chases them down, and bounces them on the yoga ball as "punishment." Bingo looks a bit queasy at this treatment.
They make off with the ball again, this time dressing it in a hat and stickers and putting it to bed. When Bandit gets it back to his office, Bluey takes over the actual office chair and demands to play Delivery Chair. This involves stamping the packages (with a poke to the stomach, which leaves Bingo a bit staggered), and then carefully chucking them onto Mum and Dad's bed. Bingo lands a bit hard.
Bandit tries to get back to his office, but now Bluey wants to play Raiders, the game where Bandit throws the ball down the hallway and goes ♫ na-na-na-na ♫, and Bluey and Bingo jump into a doorway to escape it. A few rounds in, Bingo doesn't make it and gets flattened by the ball. Bandit picks her up and advises her to "walk it off." Bingo walks downstairs and curls up under the poinciana. Tears well up in her eyes.
Chilli spots her, and they have a talk. Dad has been playing too rough with Bingo. Chilli asks if she used her big girl bark, but Bingo says she does not have a very good one. Chilli gives her a pep talk, and gets Bingo to do a big girl bark. They go off to talk to Bandit.
Bluey gloats that Bandit's in trouble, Chilli responds that Bingo just has something she needs to say — Dad has been playing too rough. After all, she is only four. Bandit apologizes, and Chilli prompts that Bingo doesn't want Dad to stop playing with her, and she'll get better at using her big girl bark. To practice, Bandit bounces her on the yoga ball a few times, and Bingo yips when he's bouncing her too hard.
Conflict resolved, Bandit shoos everyone out of his office, only to find the ball is gone again. Bluey has dressed it up and put it on the toilet.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- The "Raiders" game where Bluey and Bingo run away from the yoga ball takes its name from, and is a reference to, the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Multiple pictures of Chilli and Bandit can be seen on the walls throughout the episode.
- This is the first Bluey episode to be produced.
- This is the first episode where the children say their ages on screen: Bingo is four, and Bluey six (though they would age as the show progressed).
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Grannies and Calypso.
- On this episode's page on the official website, the character section has Bluey pushing the yoga ball and Bingo running away from it.