The Creek

**The Creek** is an episode from the first season of *Bluey*.

## Synopsis

Bluey and Bingo are at the playground with their friend Mackenzie (and every other neighbourhood kid too). The girls are bored, so they find Dad and suggest a visit to the creek.

Dad and Bingo charge ahead “bush bashing” through the scrub, but poor Bluey is very hesitant about coming along the bug infested path #princessmoment

To reinforce her fear, along the way she encounters thorns, potential snakes and drop bears (#dadjoke), spiders webs and a leech! But then they spot a beautiful lizard to remind them of the beauty of nature.

Bluey slips down the steep descent to the creek and hurts her knee #princessmoment - magically it heals once Dad tells her he’ll have to chop it off - good one Bandit #dadjoke.

They eventually arrive at the crystal clear creek and Dad leads them to where he played as a kid.

Whilst rock hopping, Bluey lands on a wobbly rock, then steps onto some moss and slips into the water... “I swallowed mud!” #princessmoment After picking herself up, she starts a positive self talk mantra “the creek is beautiful” to get her to the next hurdle - a waterfall requiring a big jump from one rock to another!

They eventually arrive at Dads waterhole and it seems Bluey has finally embraced nature and the great outdoors as she giggles at tadpoles, marvels at a dragonfly and nonchalantly pulls a leech off.

The kids ask Dad what to “play” but he tells them just to “hang out” resulting in: making and racing boats, rock skimming, building a dam and treating Dad at their “dayspa” (definitely encouraging this one).

As Bluey goes to get more mud for Dads facemask, she comes across a wallaby and realizes that her confidence building “the creek is beautiful” mantra IS actually true.

Upon return to the playground the kids are tired after their adventure down the creek, and they wander happily home. Dad tells Bingo she’ll have to look out for ticks #dadjoke #notreally

## Cast

### ABC Kids

* Dave McCormack as Bandit
* Jack Simmons as Mackenize (uncredited)

### Disney

* Brook Jenell Slack as Bingo/Winton/Bentley
* Karen Prell as Bluey/Dark Gray Terrier
* Amelie Bea Smith as Buddy
* Nathan Lane as Bandit
* Nancy Cartwright as Mackenzie
* Monica Ray and Francesca Marie Smith as the other Terriers
* Pam Arciero as Juniper

Additionally, E.G. Daily provides Bluey's vocal effects, Jim Cummings provides the vocal effects of a dragonfly, Frank Welker provides the vocal effects for a bird and the joey and reads the title of the episode, and Nika Futterman does some of Mackenzie's lines.

## Trivia

### General

* This is the first episode to have Nika Futterman provide some of Mackenzie's lines.
	+ Nancy Cartwright had done some of Snickers' lines in Shadowlands and would do so again in Seesaw.
* A form of fourth wall break can be seen when Bluey refused to jump and Mackenzie mentions being a herding dog saying that it's like "jumping from one sheep to another."
* This is one of three season 1 episodes to have sneak peaks in 2019, the other two being Grannies and Asparagus.
* Dropbears are a fictitious creature that are said to be a carnivorous and highly dangerous relative of the koala, hunting their prey by dropping on them from the treetops in a surprise attack. Foreign tourists and the highly gullible are often told to watch out for dropbears as a joke, much like how Bandit warned the kids in the episode. Gazontapedes, however, don't exist in Australian folklore.
* This is the first episode to have music composed by Mike O’Donnell and Junior Campbell; however, most of the music heard is done by Helena Czajka and Jazz D'Arcy, as creator Joe Brumm did not want O’Donnell and Campbell's music to be heard in the show, believing it to be wrong for the kind of show *Bluey* is and David Barber and Joff Bush's music to be more fitting. O’Donnell and Campbell would try again with Pirates, and that got Brumm's approval. While the two have continued to compose the series' most grand music, their work on this episode has not surfaced online and is considered lost media, though many recreations have been made.

### Goofs

* Bluey fell in the water when she slipped on the moss covered rock, but when she gets up, she's completely dry with no water dripping on her.
* Tadpoles were tickling the kids toes, but in the very next scene, they're nowhere to be seen.
* Mackenzie's fur goes a little out of control in this episode. First, the black patch on his face merges, causing him to look like Bandit. Then, the right side of it goes missing, causing him to look like Chilli. Finally, during the end when everyone's feet are covered in mud, his right leg turns white, as opposed to being black.
	+ This would happen again in the Disney version of Shops. However, in that episode, his leg has the correct shading.