Bluey: Sleepytime

Episode · 2020

A nearly wordless, eight-minute gem in which four-year-old Bingo dreams she is travelling the solar system while sleepwalking through the house on her first big-girl night in her own bed. The emotional warmth is high and the content concerns are essentially nil, though the swelling orchestral score and the mother-sun reunion at the end reliably move adults to tears.

A lovely watch for ages 2 and up, and quietly one of the most moving eight minutes on television for the grown-ups in the room too.

Loss & griefBig emotions

If you’d rather skip

Loss & griefmid-episodeMild

Bingo releases her toy bunny Floppy in the dream so it can join stuffed-animal rings around Saturn; a brief, gentle farewell that may spark bedtime feelings about separation.

Worth knowingmid-episode

Slapstick comedy beat: in real life, Bingo and Bluey sleepwalk into their parents' bed and kick Dad (Bandit) repeatedly, eventually evicting him to the floor with only a tiny blanket. Very funny and harmless.

Big emotionsthe final minutesMild

Bingo floats toward the sun (Mum) in her dream while Chilli whispers a loving message to her sleeping daughter; the swelling Holst score makes this the episode's emotional peak and regularly moves adult viewers to tears.

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