To have thought Bluey was a wee boy?

[Stylishkidintheriot]

DS just told me she’s a wee girl!!!!! I’m shocked

I hadn’t heard of this so googled and was struck by nearly everyone rating it a 10

Bluey is excellent, watchable even without kids in the room.

But yes I thought she was a boy too - boys are always the lead, she's blue, looks like the dad. It's depressing really.

What's even worse is that even though I know she's a girl I can't stop myself saying he.

So if you look at the end it's actually produced by the Australian government and so much is about tackling stereotypes. The dad is always doing the washing and is super hands on. The mum is often seen going to work. The kids are girls etc. I think I have thought about it too much.

We love Bluey here. I made the same mistake as you did and was corrected by DH and DS who looked at me like I was mad!
Again as Bluey is a carbon copy of her dad I presumed! Naughty me!!

And there I was thinking Bluey was an Australian cop from the 70s.

I've only watched it a few times with dc, and never paid much attention, but I also assumed Bluey was a boy. Don't know why.

Me and my husband also thought she was a boy until a few days ago!

The first time I watched it I thought she was a boy. We love Bluey in this house too but some of the stuff the parents put up with/allow the girls to do is unrealistic!

I had a budgie called Bluey as a child and he was definitely ALL MALE.

DS5 refuses to accept she’s a girl

Bluey is great but is currently banned in our house because DS basically wants to re-enact every episode, and I am not playing fucking magic statues ever again.

That’s definitely news to me… shows how much attention I pay to things 😬😂🤣

A clue re what you're talking about would be nice for the uninitiated.

I thought she was a boy when I first watched it too. But love the fact that both Bluey and Bingo are girls.

It's a great show! Definitely our favourite to watch with our 2 year old

lmgtfy.app/?q=bluey

Bluey is a cartoon about a family of dogs who live in Australia. Dad (Bandit), Mum (Chilli), and their two kids - Bluey and Bingo. It's basically about family life with small children but, like PPs said, it challenges stereotypes. It's focused on a child's perspective of the world but there's lots there for adult issues too (in one of the episodes Chilli feels like a shit mum when all the other babies are hitting milestones faster than Bluey).

It's ace, recommend watching it.

As an aside, the suburb in Melbourne where they live has property starting prices of roughly $1,000,000 and a house the size/layout of what they have would easily be around $2 million. There is no way they could afford it on Bandit's archaeologist salary (around $80,000 a year if full time which he doesn't appear to be) and Chilli's airport security salary (around $40,000 full time which, again, she doesn't appear to be). The only way they could afford it would be via nefarious means which isn't that much of a stretch when you realise that one parent has insider knowledge of where to find ancient (and valuable) artifacts and the other has knowledge of how to smuggle them out of the country.. ..

@Crankley

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I love bluey but I also thought it as a boy until I read online it was a girl.

@Changechangychange we also play statues on loop, it was fine the first 50 times but after that it wears a bit thin, we also play veranda Santa ALOT!

headofpotsandpans

I don't care enough to google it.

It's genuinely a fantastic cartoon that I'm happy to continue to watch when the kids have wandered off. The Baby Race one made me cry.

We play that too 🙄

Just asked my 6yo and she said 'two girls, a mum and dad, and their dogs'

We have had to hide the "magic xylophone" in our house too.

But "bum worms" is our favourite episode

Hospedia

Just a word of warning for anybody old-fashioned like us who still uses DVDs and wanted to get some of this series (which they seem very slow to release in Region 2 format, for some reason): If you search for 'Bluey DVDs', you may just get results that have nothing to do with an all-ages cartoon about an Aussie dog family and which you most certainly would not want your kids to see....

<fetches bleach for eyes>

anybody old-fashioned like us who still uses DVDs

I should have just saved time and said 'grey nomads'