The Weekend

**The Weekend** is the first episode of *Bluey*.

## Synopsis

It’s breakfast time on the weekend at the Heeler’s house, and Bingo is pretending she's a digger with her spoon. Bluey comes in and asks her is she wants to play a game of “Statues”. Bingo is more than excited, but points out that it wouldn't be as much fun without Dad joining in. So the girls begin their planning.

Mum heads off on a run while Dad attempts to settle down in front of the TV to watch the program. However, with the kids climbing all over him, he embraces defeat and joins in with the game of “Statues”. Shortly after commencement, Dad pauses the game to go to the bathroom; meanwhile, Chilli has stopped by the local flower shoppe to buy some cut-leaf daisies for the girls. At an approximate $3.50 ($2.30 in US currency), she declares the purchase a steal and says her now iconic catchphrase, “whack-a-doo!”

After unpausing the game, Bluey the shop keeper sells Dad what he assures is a non-magical statue (Bingo). While Dad goes to get his receipt the statue moves places but Bluey just tells him he’s “probably just going crazy or something”. The magical statue then moves outside and the kids play a game of knock&run on Dad until he catches them at it and chases them around the garden. Bingo discovers a leaf katydid and tries to get Dad’s attention to show him, but he is too busy chasing the shopkeeper to get back his four hundred dollerydoos.

Evening time, and it’s squawking rainbow lorikeets in the tree and prawns for dinner (regular meal at the Heeler’s House). Mum is tucking the kids in and, realizing Bingo is sad, talks to her and calls Dad in. Dad sincerely apologizes for not hearing her, and then Dad and Bluey recount their day with the crazy statue. Bingo finally cheers up and tells Bandit she was the statue and the kids go off to sleep happy.

## Cast

* Brook Jenell Slack as Bingo Heeler / rainbow lorikeets
* Karen Prell as Bluey Heeler / rainbow lorikeets
* E.G. Daily, Jim Cummings, Frank Welker and Brian Hull as rainbow lorikeets
	+ Daily also provides the vocal effects for Bluey.
	+ Welker also voices the leaf katydid and cockatoos as well as does some of the voices heard on the TV.
	+ Hull also does some of the backing vocals on Chilli’s album
* Melanie Zanetti as Mum / rainbow lorikeets
* Andrew Sachs as Dad
* Myf Warhurst and Joe Brumm as the TV voices
* “Weird Al” Yankovic as the lead singer on Chilli’s album
* David Barber and Joff Bush as backing vocals on Chilli’s album
* Greg Page as the flower shoppe owner

## Trivia

* This episode is the only one to be directed by Britt Allcroft and one of three to have Andrew Sachs voice Dad and not Dave McCormack, Ozzy Osbourne or Nathan Lane.
* The walking leaf is actually a leaf katydid.
* LBW (short for "leg before wicket") is one of the ways a batsman can be dismissed in the game of cricket. To be declared "out LBW," the batsman must have used any part of their body (apart from the hand holding the bat) to block a properly bowled ball from hitting the wicket (the three wooden sticks in the ground). The word "wicket" is also used interchangeably with any dismissal in cricket, not just LBW.
* The album art for Chilli's workout music is a parody of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd where the triangular prism has been replaced by a dog bone.
* This episode had a few scenes cut to fit an 8-minute running time, though these have never been seen outside of a few DVD/Blu-ray extras, thus making them lost media. While the exact number is unknown, four have been confirmed:
	+ The entirety of the cricket game seen in the television as well as commercials.
	+ Bluey and Bingo climbing the tree in their backyard and pretending to be monkeys.
	+ Chilli accidentally squishing the leaf katydid and apologizing to Bingo in the process, saying she didn’t know.
	+ Chilli reading the girls a bedtime story.
		- Out of the confirmed deleted scenes, this is the only one to make it back into the episode, having been seen on home media releases as well as Disney+.
	+ In addition, it is said that Andrew Sachs swore during the recording of this episode, but nowhere near as nasty as either Tom Baker or Ozzy Osbourne.