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Bluey is not just a show set in the present. Across three seasons, the show has jumped backwards into the past and forwards into the future more times than most people have counted. And some of those jumps are genuinely surprising.
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00:00Bluey is not just a show set in the present.
00:02Across three seasons, the show has jumped backwards into the past
00:05and forwards into the future more times than most people have counted.
00:09And some of those jumps are genuinely surprising.
00:12Let's start at the very beginning.
00:14In the episode Baby Race, we see the earliest version of Bluey we have ever witnessed.
00:19A tiny drooling puppy who has just come into the world.
00:22We see Bandit changing her nappies, Bluey rolling around at the doctor's office,
00:27and eventually taking her very first steps walking toward Chili.
00:31It is one of the most genuinely touching moments in the show.
00:34And alongside Baby Bluey, we also get to see other characters as babies.
00:38Coco, Snickers, and Judo all appear as tiny versions of themselves.
00:42Most of them already showing the personalities they would carry into the main series.
00:47And the context around this episode matters too.
00:49We know from the show that Bandit and Chili lost a baby before Bluey was born.
00:54Which means those first steps toward Chili carry even more emotional weight
00:58when you understand what the family went through before she arrived.
01:01But before any of that could happen, Bandit and Chili had to meet.
01:05And the episode Fairy Tale takes us back even further.
01:08To a holiday in a caravan park in the 1980s.
01:11Here we see the young version of Bandit, who was very different from the patient.
01:15Playful dad we know today.
01:16He was messy, slightly mean, and loved picking on his younger brother Stripe.
01:21He rode his bike, spent summers at the beach.
01:24On holiday, Bandit got caught in a jinx.
01:26Meaning he couldn't speak until someone said his name.
01:29To teach him a lesson, everyone refused to say Bandit for the whole day.
01:33But then he meets a girl in a She-Ra costume.
01:35She was the one to help break the spell Radley had put on Bandit.
01:39And it turns out, the girl in She-Ra costume was none other than Chili.
01:43It all happened when Chili returned Bandit's cap,
01:45which conveniently had his name written on it.
01:48Bandit She-Ra.
01:50From that moment, you could say it was basically love at first sight.
01:54And Bandit clearly never forgot Chili's face.
01:56But that's not all we got to see.
01:59We also got a look at young Radley and Stripe,
02:01plus Nana and Bob, when they were much younger.
02:03And yes, Bob still had both of his ears completely intact back then.
02:07Which is definitely worth pointing out,
02:09considering one of them is missing a chunk today.
02:11Now let's jump to Bingo's future.
02:13In the episode Daddy Drop-Off,
02:15we get not one but three glimpses of Bingo's future.
02:18And it is genuinely one of the most quietly moving sequences in the series.
02:22It starts in the present, with Bingo meeting Lila for the first time.
02:26Lila is shy, struggling to make friends,
02:28and Bingo invites her to wind imaginary string on her back.
02:31And that tiny moment turns into a lifelong friendship.
02:35The episode then shows us progression.
02:37The two girls a little older, sitting together at school.
02:40And if you look closer, you can see it's the same school that Bluey currently goes to.
02:44Then slightly older, winning a science fair together.
02:47And finally around 15 or 16 years old,
02:50graduating from high school, holding their diplomas.
02:53You can also notice that, by her older version,
02:55Bingo has developed the yellow spot on her belly, just like Bandit.
02:59A small detail that makes the time jump feel even more real.
03:03It is the kind of moment that reminds you that Bluey is not just a show for kids.
03:07It is a show about time passing, and relationships lasting through it.
03:11Then, there is the Grandad episode, which gives us something even more emotional.
03:16Throughout the episode, Grandpa Mort takes Bluey and Bingo
03:19through the remote natural landscape where Chili grew up.
03:22The place where Mort still lives.
03:24There is even a name carved into a tree root,
03:27clearly from when Chili was the same age as Bluey.
03:29And when they finally reach the lake deck
03:31that Mort and his family used to visit,
03:33Chili sits down next to her dad.
03:35And the two of them start talking about the old days.
03:38Then the scene shifts.
03:39We go back in time to that same lake deck,
03:42and we see a tiny version of Chili,
03:44just a small puppy,
03:45sitting in that exact same spot beside her dad.
03:48It is a brief moment,
03:49but it is one of the most emotional time jumps in the entire show.
03:53Because it is not just showing us the past.
03:55It is showing us that the love between a parent and a child repeats across generations.
04:00The same lake, the same bench, the same quiet happiness.
04:03The camping episode handles time differently.
04:06Bluey meets Jean-Luc,
04:07a French-speaking Labrador visiting from Canada,
04:10and the two of them become fast friends despite the language barrier.
04:13They play together,
04:14they catch bandit together,
04:16and they plant something in the ground together.
04:18But then, Jean-Luc sadly tells Bluey,
04:23which means he is leaving the next day.
04:26But due to the language barrier,
04:27she does not understand.
04:29Next day, Bluey goes back to the creek,
04:31expecting to see him,
04:32but he's not there.
04:34And later,
04:34Chili tells her she saw them packing up and leaving.
04:37Bluey gets sad because she didn't get the chance to say goodbye.
04:40But then, the episode jumps forward in time.
04:43The small plant the two of them planted together
04:45has grown into a large leafy tree.
04:48Years have clearly passed,
04:49and a much older Bluey is sitting under that tree,
04:52reading a book when someone calls her name.
04:54Hello, Bluey.
04:56It is Jean-Luc.
04:57The two of them reunite after years apart,
05:00tails wagging,
05:00and the episode ends there.
05:02It is one of the best time jumps in the show
05:04because it earns every second of it.
05:06And the fact that Jean-Luc is one of the main candidates
05:09to be the father of Bluey's daughter
05:11makes that reunion even more significant looking back on it.
05:14Then there is space,
05:16which takes a different approach to the past.
05:18We see a toddler version of Mackenzie on a slide,
05:21and when he gets off the slide,
05:22he cannot see his mom anywhere.
05:24He panics and starts to feel completely abandoned.
05:27It is a small childhood trauma
05:29that the episode explores gently,
05:31with Calypso eventually helping him understand
05:33that his mom has always been there.
05:36It is a quiet and brief flashback,
05:38but it adds a lot of depth to who Mackenzie is in the present.
05:41And given that he is the other main candidate
05:43to be the father of Bluey's daughter,
05:45understanding where his anxiety
05:47about being left behind comes from
05:49makes his whole character feel more complete.
05:51And then there is Cricket,
05:53which is one of the cleverest uses of time
05:55in the entire series,
05:56because most people do not even realize it is happening.
05:59The whole episode appears to be Bandit telling a story
06:02about trying to beat Rusty at Cricket.
06:05But if you watch carefully,
06:07Bandit is telling the story
06:08as if it happened a long time ago,
06:10in the past.
06:11Now what we didn't know
06:13was that Rusty loved cricket.
06:15Which means he is telling it
06:17from some point in the future.
06:18And at the very end of the episode,
06:20we see an adult Rusty walking into a cricket stadium
06:23to the sound of a full crowd.
06:27He is a professional cricketer.
06:29The entire episode was a flashback
06:31being told by Future Bandit,
06:32possibly to his grandchildren
06:34watching cricket on television.
06:35The show hid a complete time travel story
06:37inside what looked like a regular episode
06:40about a backyard cricket game.
06:42And most people only realize it
06:43on a second or third watch.
06:45And finally, the biggest time jump of all.
06:48At the end of season three finale surprise,
06:50we jump forward to the future
06:52and see an adult Bluey coming home
06:54to visit Bandit and Chili.
06:55And hiding behind the door with a ball blaster
06:58is a small puppy, Bluey's daughter.
07:00The fandom has named her Roxy.
07:02Her design is a deliberate mix of Bluey,
07:04Mackenzie, and Jean-Luc,
07:06which creator Joe Broom confirmed
07:08he did intentionally to keep the question
07:10of who her father is completely unresolved.
07:13She is hiding behind the same door,
07:15in the same house,
07:16using the same trick Bluey used on Bandit years ago.
07:19Some things are just passed down.
07:22Whether we ever get a full episode set in that future
07:24is something only the movie or season four can answer.
07:28And the surprise episode
07:29does not just give us one glimpse of the future.
07:32It gives us several.
07:33If you pay close attention throughout the episode,
07:35there are multiple small details
07:37hinting at what is coming.
07:38There are drones flying in the background,
07:40suggesting that technology has moved on significantly.
07:43And if you look carefully,
07:44there is what appears to be
07:45a university graduation photo of Bluey,
07:48confirming that she went on to study after school.
07:51And then there is Bingo,
07:52who at some point visited Easter Island,
07:55which may also be hinting
07:56that she became an archaeologist just like Bandit.
07:59Bluey is not just a story about a puppy growing up.
08:02It is a story about a whole family across generations.
08:05And based on everything we have seen so far,
08:08it is very far from finished.