To not get the love for Bluey?

[Snuffkintravellingsouth]

I think it will be an overwhelming wave of YABU based on how popular it is, but I just don't get the Bluey hype.

I was oblivious to it for years but lots of people were raving about it so I put it on one day for my 3 year old. We were both a bit bamboozled. He couldn't sit through an episode and wandered off. I found it very irritating- loud, whiny voices, irritating characters. One episode had the dad doing a mad sock puppet thing and the other episode was about kids on FaceTime. It was utter chaos and my son was nonplussed. I think because it was so chaotic and without any story to it. I find the colours really bland too.

It seems to be a hit with parents first, who put it on because of all the jokes they can appreciate that are over the kids' heads.

My son loves The Moomins, Postman Pat, all of the Julie Donaldson animations, The Wombles, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Thomas the Tank Engine and so on. He seems to really enjoy programmes that were made with real models in particular and these just seem so much more well made than Bluey, and have a gentler feel and better storytelling.

It's like a rubbish version of Peppa Pig.

Gosh me too - every single time

and I never well up at the tv!

But sleepy Time- it’s about the essence of being a mother isn’t it. How can it not feel emotional

Bing is utter tosh

I mean perfect for under 3s perhaps - but I can’t stand a single episode. Cringe and dull, nothing for the parents

blue - is its total opposite - I genuinely learn about parenting (as do the parents in bluey)

My son loves The Moomins, Postman Pat, all of the Julie Donaldson animations, The Wombles, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Thomas the Tank Engine and so on.

Apart from the Moomins that's boys boys boys boys. Mostly boys everywhere.

If you have a girl you struggle to fins non-sexist, non-stereotypical, not token girl. God bless the Ponies.

My son loves The Moomins, Postman Pat, all of the Julie Donaldson animations, The Wombles, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Thomas the Tank Engine and so on.

It's interesting - all these programmes are voiced by adults. I wonder if that's why you & your DC find the voices of Bluey & Bingo grating?
& to be fair Little My in the Moomins is very screechy but again voiced by an adult.

Yea you do, lighten up and let little Tarquin have some fun!

Bloody love Bluey (experienced vicariously through cousins DC on our Disney +). My favourite episodes are sleepy time, baby race, pass the parcel and cricket. Also the babysitter one where Rad meets Frisky.

Fair enough if it's not for you but I'll echo pp and suggest you look for calmer episodes. I like it but find some of the episodes a bit shrill. Watchable but shrill. Also nearly all Muffin episodes are well down my list because she's a nightmare (although the episode where she's trapped in a cone of shame is enjoyable).

I know someone mentioned it upthread and it gets a lot of love on here but I don't get Hey Duggee (again, experience vicariously through the kids in the family). I thought it was dull and dire.

This post intrigued me last night and I found myself coming back to it this morning. "Screechy" isn't a word I'd use to describe it tbh, not really sure what you mean. But the Heeler house is full of fun, which is a good thing with little kids. You surely don't expect the next five years to be purely calm and quiet conversation? There should be some bonkers.

There's a new mini episode called Robo Bingo, where Bingo is being a robot and Chilli is trying to make her brush her teeth. I bet every parent of a four year old relates hard to that episode - except maybe Chilli's patience.

I kinda love Muffin - so many two year olds are similar uncontrollable whirlwinds and then calm down when they're a bit older.

I will always love Bluey because it's the show that knocked bloody Bing off of our tv.
The episode where dad took the kids to the pool and they realised that all the boring stuff mum does actually makes sure they all have fun always gets my partner a pointed look.

You can hardly say the colours are bland but you like Pingu? That's not exactly a colourful programme. But each to their own. Parents loved and hated Peppa Pig, Teletubbies, In The Night Garden etc. I am 45 and have hated the Moomins for...45 years approximately.

I like Bluey, but I don't really get the incredibly over the top love for it that some parents have.

It's a nice show for kids, my son got into it about 3.5 and still likes it at 5, we watch it along with other bits like fireman Sam, Shaun the sheep and Yes, pepper pig which I don't get the hate for, it's fine.

Some people seem to be really smug about Bluey "ohhh it's ART and I'd NEVER let my child watch"insert alternative" and people who don't like Bluey just DON'T GET IT" ... Honestly they sound like those awful pretentious arty kids we had at college, who couldn't understand that different people just have different tastes.

You have a heart of stone!!!

The Sign is epic!

Every episode is funny with a warmth that rarely happens on TV 📺 let alone kids TV!

That's an interesting point and I hadn't noticed before. Yes, apart from Pingu's gibberish the others are all narrated. He loves Yoto stories like Winnie the Pooh read by Alan Bennett or Paddington by Stephen Fry too, and he likes the CBeebies bedtime stories. Maybe just a preference for that kind of storytelling style at the moment.

@BarbaraHoward

You surely don't expect the next five years to be purely calm and quiet conversation? There should be some bonkers.

My son is quite calm and quiet spoken but also never stops talking like most 3 year olds, and our home is hardly lacking in fun and laughter. He's a very funny and silly little boy. There's just no screeching. I watched a few more episodes myself last night and find the Bluey characters just very shouty. Too much shout-talking.

@Booksandwine80

Yea you do, lighten up and let little Tarquin have some fun!

You haven't a clue what you're talking about and this comment is truly pathetic.

I don't think Bluey is as good as Mumsnet generally thinks it is. Apart from anything else I hate the expectation that parents should be endlessly playful! It is made for parents as much as kids, and there is a definite smugness about it.

But your son is just very young still, has his favourites, and wants to stick to those. That will change - he will see other shows at a friend's house or someone at nursery will get a Bingo doll, and suddenly Thomas and Pingu will be old news and Bluey or Grizzy or Pokémon will be the favourite.

Stand down everyone, OPs 3-year old prefers Alan Bennett and Stephen Fry. He's probably flicking through the Iliad as we speak.

Hopefully Pokémon, I love Pokémon!

He's not unaware of other programmes. He knows who Bluey is when he sees it on children's T-shirts but isn't interested in it. Ditto for anything superhero at the moment but I'm sure he'll grow into that. Paw Patrol he sees at a friend's house but we don't watch it at home because I think it's dire. Growing up we didn't have cable or a wall of Disney DVDs like my friend did and it wasn't the end of the world. I still saw plenty of fantastic kids tv, but there was no on-demand access to anything and everything and I don't think that's a bad thing.

I think the love for Bluey is maybe partly down to how adults watch tv with their children more now so they've latched on to something that has more humour and adult themes instead of something mind numbing for toddlers. In the 90s you just watched what your parents were watching bar after-school kids tv. I'd watch Art Attack and Bodger and Badger etc while my parents were getting on with other things.

Yeh he knows all the works of Alan Bennett 🙄

Or, you know... he has a Yoto and those are the people that voice those particular stories.

Fuck sake.

Oh wow it's like a cult, I never knew it was so highly regarded! Mine are teens so this has completely passed us by, but 'art', still putting it on when they're 11, wow! Sounds like kids' tv has moved on from the days of bloody in the night garden, that intro song still makes me twitch.

Oh come on, now you're just being bitchy.

My son didn't like Bluey at just turned 3 either and yeah he liked the audio books read by Fry and Bennett because he loved Pooh and Paddington. And he was explaining decomposition to my mum at just turned 4 because he loved a book called "the big book of slimy things" that we had to read to him every night 🤣

He also loved paw patrol and pepper pig and guess what, it didn't effect his behaviour at all. Some kids just don't like Bluey (although he went through a big phase of it when he was 3.5/4.5, but can take it leave it now at 5)

It's almost like all kids/parents are going to have different tastes, isn't it??

People on here calling @Snuffkintravellingsouth smug then banging on about how her and her child "just don't understand" a cartoon.

To those saying 3 is too young, my 2 y/o granddaughter loves Bluey and has done for about a year. She laughs at the appropriate times so is definitely taking it in, not just staring at the screen.

I wouldn't watch it for myself, but have no trouble watching with DGD. Miss Rachel on the other hand.... nope, no way! I can't stand her fake over the top cheerfulness and it's banned while I'm looking after DGD!!

Bloody love Bluey, it's the only kids show I genuinely enjoy watching with mine. Wouldn't claim it's 'art' but some of the episodes are brilliant and have made me cry more than once. Yes, some are a bit screechy and OTT but overall I think it's by far the best kids show out there. My DH hates it though and thinks the Bluey dad is ridiculous so he'd sympathise with you OP. I can't stand Peppa and my DS recently got into Thomas - I have fond memories of the 80s version from when I was growing up but the new version is rubbish. Too much focus on diversity while at the same time managing to be spectacularly racist with some of the depictions and accents of the trains in other countries, and with stupid 'life lessons'/morals at the end of each story. Wish they had just stuck to the classic version.

Completely agree about the new version. It's such a shame what they've done to it. My son hates the new one as they've got "the wrong faces!"