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Unofficial Bluey Timeline: Part IV

Welcome back to another installment in the Unofficial Bluey Timeline; this week, we'll be covering episodes 16-20 (Yoga Ball thru Markets).

Yoga Ball - Episode 16

Bandit plays too rough

Debuts and Details:

The yoga ball is what Bandit sits on due to changing Bluey's diapers in the past. We do see him with a normal, green chair when the yoga ball is elsewhere.

While the stairway room has minimal changes, it IS missing a drawing of a dog near the glass doors on the left side (pic #1)

We get the first glimpse of the "Please" face running gag

(What constitutes as a "Please" face, is ears drooped, hands crossed, sparkled eyes, and sometimes a verbal "Please")

Bingo plays as "Lan" for a short bit, and Bluey reads a green book with a koala face on the cover.

This episode is when Bingo learns how to do her "Big Girl Bark", which brings up an interesting situation, considering she was able to do this in "Takeaway", meaning this would take place before that episode.

According to the Bluey Wiki, this was the first episode to be produced for season 1, which could explain the last bullet point (Takeaway was #4).

This episode is also the first time the girls' ages were revealed to be 6 for Bluey, and 4 for Bingo (Which we already assumed for this timeline)

In the end of the episode, the yoga ball ('Bally') sports two rainbow and one unicorn sticker, a callback to an earlier scene.

This episode, like some other season 1 episodes, was a tad slow, but still enjoyable

Favorite Part: The please face that gets me every time.

Calypso - Episode 17

Bluey and schoolmates create a society

Debuts and Details:

Calypso, as well as Rusty, Indy, The Terriers, and Pretzel make their debuts.

Coco, Indy and Chloe play as mothers, and their kids' names are [UNKNOWN], Polly, and Rodrick.

The Terriers play as "Romans", which means romans existed in the Bluey-verse.

Rusty and Indy are set up as the caretakers for Polly.

Episodes with Bluey's classmates are cool to see, especially if its for the whole episode; its nice to step away from the main family and see the other kids spend time on screen.

Favorite Part: Pretzel being a bum; he's unironically my favorite character despite getting little screentime after this.

The Doctor - Episode 18

Bingo runs a clinic

Debuts and Details:

Bingo's plush rabbit "Floppy", makes a very brief appearance when Bingo is operating on Lucky.

Bluey plays as "Edna", while Bingo plays as the doctor (a swap from "Hospital")

Just your average playdate episode. cute.

Favorite Part: When Bingo starts operating on Lucky (like why does she charge towards him like that?)

The Claw - Episode 19

Bluey and Bingo learn the claw machine

Debuts and Details:

"Grey Dancer", Bingo's plush dolphin appears.

Bingo does bark, but it isn't the signature "Big Girl Bark"

Chilli is eating a salad, her favorite

Bluey and Bingo sit in opposite seats than usual, although given the fact both are harnessed similarly, it doesn't entirely matter.

This is the second time they are shown in the car, so I guess I'll describe what the back looks like;

There's a green bag, loose almonds, and some pens/pencils thrown around. The booster seats also look very identical to each other (it looks like they copy-pasted, the flipped it), and importantly nothing in the middle seat (although the driver angle shows the middle with two cushions).

The front door room now has a red seat instead of a yellow seat (which went missing in "Horsey Ride")

Both Chilli and Bandit use their left hands to portray the claw, which many suspect them as being left-hand dominant users. (Das cool)

Bandit misspells the word "Holder" despite having a PhD in Archaeology (Possible answers: "Holdr", "Holdre", "Holber", "Holdeer", "Holderr", "Holeder", "Holda", "Holdar")

The first instance of the girls admitting they didn't learn anything

I like how this episode shows the method of play by both the parents, as Chilli operates the claw to be fair, but not challenging, whereas Bandit operates the claw to be challenging, yet rewarding while also highlighting the negative effects of game addiction. He turns it into a lesson that while unspecified and a bit harsh, is effective in its own right.

Favorite Part: Definitely Bandit's claw machine.

Markets - Episode 20

Bluey and Indy attempt to spend money

Debuts and Details:

This is the first of several instances of the "Floss" dance being shown, cuz this series is so hip.

Chilli can't floss, but Bandit can. Das why he's still cool.

Apparently 5 bucks is the new norm for the tooth fairy.

This ep was altered in Disney releases due to a controversial scene of a horse taking a massive dump in front of children.

Indy is revealed to not eat foods with added ingredients, wheat, sugar, gluten, and dairy

"Markets", like "Bob Bilby" before, has many new and returning faces in the background, so I'll make this more of a "Who's there" showcase, than a simple debut (BOLD for debut)

We start off with the background filler characters that surprisingly all show up in the first shot of the market. Via crappy description, this includes from left-to-right, Tan colored dog; light orange dog w/ lighter ear tips; dark purple dog w/ white hands; greenish-white curly dog; dark blue curly dog; Brown top white bottom dog; lavender colored dog; white dog with back spot that only appears for one scene for some reason; orange dog that looks like Rusty, even down to the tail design; and finally brown dog w/ brown spots [He shows up in later episodes, and is named "Postie" by the wiki].

Next shot shows Indy's mum and her shop, as well as Indy.

A zoomed out shot shows a brown-orange-white dog in another stall, but covered up by a teddy bear display and newspaper. [The wiki claims this to be the "Surfer" dog in "The Beach"]

After Indy joins Bluey, we see Rocko releasing bubbles in the air, as well as Mrs. Retriever in another stall; zoom out again and we see Pat (Lucky's Dad) shopping.

We see our first recognizable debut of the "Pony Lady", a brown gradient dog, and her two ponies, "Biscuits" who's decorated as a blue Pegasus, and "Buttermilk" who's dressed as a pink Unicorn.

The German Sausage stand is operated by Gruber and his dad.

The Poffertjes stand is operated by the "Poffertjes Dog", a light brown husky of Dutch descent.

Cornelius, Winton's dad, shows up offering toffee apples; Winton does later show up in the ep to get his dad a German Sausage.

Busker, an orange dog musician and definite fursona of series composer Joff Bush, makes his debut.

Buddy donates 5 dollarbucks.

Gruber gets carrot juice from the juice stall operated by Juniper's mum and Juniper.

Juniper gets carrots from a basenji in a produce stand.

Honey's mum, Daisy purchases mushrooms from the same place.

At the end of the episode, Bluey looses another tooth which is never discussed about or even shown in any episode afterwards. In the development of the timeline, this could lead to two scenarios:

Forget the fact she lost another tooth, and proceed with the later episodes. (Preferred method, b/c its simpler to forget the tooth as it doesn't serve any purpose afterwards; also cost-effective cuz why would they have to alter Bluey's model to remove a single tooth?).

Let the tooth grow back, and assume the next ep doesn't happen for another month or so (Could set back the episode in terms of the timeline for no exact reason, or if left alone, makes no sense why we have to wait for that long for a single tooth to grow).

Favorite Part: "5 Bucks", I like how the interaction serves as short argument between the parents, while at the same time maintaining the allusion of the Tooth Fairy for Bluey. (I mean the tooth fairy is real, right?)

This concludes the 4th part of the Unofficial Bluey Timeline. Pretty interesting findings for this week with the bark and markets. If you have any questions about these findings or any that I missed, as always leave a comment in the post. With that, see you next week for another installment of the UBT.