Nebula Original: Bluey Adults
Added 2025-11-21 17:07:43 +0000 UTC
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This video is how I learned I was conflating Bluey with Paw Patrol… I genuinely thought they were the same show, like an Australian kids show about dogs who are cops. Also my husband refused to watch this video with me because he was convinced it was going to be about furries, and “didn’t Lindsay Ellis already do a video about that fanfic wolf stuff?”
ilana nh
2025-12-27 21:27:05 +0000 UTCtried to reach out via DM but dms don't work for me...
RengaRyuk
2025-11-29 05:36:55 +0000 UTCI love the multiple layers of this video -- as someone who is not a primary parent, I've had limited exposure to it, and really appreciated your breaking it down, explaining the adult themes, and then delving into the Bluey Adults phenomenon. I do interact with kids quite a bit, and I've grown to really appreciate how important it is to just be in touch with them. Kids will always have their own world, and that is excellent, but it's also great to be able to play in that world -- to my limited understanding, Bluey does this very well, and I think it's better to have more shows like Bluey than like Daniel Tiger. Thinking back to my own childhood, my favorite books were also the ones that the adults in my life seemed to really enjoy, like Winnie the Pooh or the Hobbit. I think it's the same kind of thing -- I could enjoy Pooh's adventures and the adults (and eventually me, growing up) could appreciate the themes of nostalgia and deep friendship that the books deliver. More videos like this, please :)
Vladimir Barash
2025-11-24 01:03:29 +0000 UTCAs always, a truly excellent video
Matt
2025-11-23 23:47:00 +0000 UTCMy son is about your youngest kid's age, and Bluey was the first show he got into. He loves them theme song so much that, even if an episode is halfway through when we first start watching, I always restart it so he can hear the theme song. He'll only be 3 when the movie comes out, so that will likely be his first movie in theaters. I was only a little older than that when I saw my first movie in theaters, the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird. (Side note: why was so much kids' media at that time so sad? I'm thinking that plus the quicksand scene with the horse in The Neverending Story. Don't even get me started on Littlefoot's mom!)
Laura L
2025-11-23 23:24:51 +0000 UTCWhat I like a lot about Bluey as a piece of "all ages" media is that it's one of the few shows for preschoolers that focuses more on connecting emotionally and allowing children to bring their own interpretations and perspectives to the table, rather than delivering very straightforward messages on how to behave, or how to learn your ABC's. While shows like Daniel Tiger and Sesame Street are very important, I think people see them and think that all children's media needs to be blunt, simplified, and depositing messages clearly into children's empty heads. Even though we've seen more complex and ambiguous children's art like "The Giving Tree" that gives children the ability to interpret a complex and ambiguous story the way an adult would. I like that so much of Bluey just lets children kind of breathe in an experience and think about their emotional connection to it, without racing to give them an answer, like the episode where MacKenzie remembers being lost in the mall, or Sleepytime, which elicits a lot of feelings without being very specific to any one. I think I tend to get a little defensive of children's art, (not just because I'm a cringey adult who likes it,) but because in the words of Mr. Rogers, people are very eager to tell children what to believe, and we should present children with more art that lets them do the work of constructing their own response and their own feelings. I really like that Bluey is a show that allows its audience that grace. And I think children's art that allows children to have that sophisticated response, will always in a way gravitate to adults as well.
OatmealAddiction
2025-11-23 04:00:53 +0000 UTCI think I realized that Pixar films are for parents as much as kids when I saw Finding Nemo, which loses all subtlety near the end ("LET GO!")
Michael Wyzard
2025-11-23 00:01:37 +0000 UTCangela collier just talked about how bluey was a show "for adults" in her video ranking PBS shows. great minds think alike.
ts_babyjane
2025-11-22 23:53:58 +0000 UTCthis is so exciting ur videos mean so much
ts_babyjane
2025-11-22 23:49:22 +0000 UTCThe thing that drives me crazy about Bluey is that the girls never get in trouble for their behavior, even when it's pretty bad!
Nicole Swedberg
2025-11-22 17:32:20 +0000 UTC
