Sleepytime

**Sleepytime** is an episode from the second season of *Bluey*.

## Synopsis

The episode begins with Chilli reading Bingo a bedtime story about a baby and a mother chicken. Meanwhile, Bandit drags Bluey and places her on her bed. After initially complaining about her not being tired, Bluey immediately collapses to sleep as Bandit tells Bingo good-night as Chilli finishes the book. As she is about to leave, Bingo requests another book she hid under her pillow; a book about space. Chilli finally agrees after a small pleading from her daughter.

They go through the book, with Chilli questioning Bingo the name of planets and Bingo identifying the Sun. After then, it is finally sleepy-time for Bingo, but not after Chilli finding Floppy on the floor for her. Bingo tells her that she wants to do a "big girl's sleep" tonight and wake up on her own bed. Chilli encourages her, and reminds her, "I'm always here when you need me." Then Bingo closes her eyes, off to sleep she goes.

The dream begins. As the scene pans to the Earth illustration on the space book cover, the Earth itself hatches, revealing Bingo inside. Beside her, Floppy hatches from the Moon. As they both see one another, they float to each other and share a hug. In real life, Bingo can be seen cuddling Floppy very tightly. Back in the dream, the two look at the Sun. They both then float their way to it, passing a through an already hatched Venus. At the same time, Bluey's bed is empty in real life.

It turns out that Bluey has waken up and made her way to the parents' room, holding a glass. Chilli wakes up and sees her daughter, surprised, and is asked if she can get the latter a glass of water. After fulfilling her request, she instead finds Bluey sleeping on her side of the bed. She then tiredly makes her way to the children's bedroom and finds rest on Bluey's bed trying to cover herself with her tiny blanket. Just as Chilli gets herself comfortable, Bingo gets off her bed, "floating" in her dream.

In their dream-world adventures, Bingo and Floppy find the planet Uranus. Bingo feels it soft and cuddly, and lies on it like a bed, pulling the planet's surface beside her like a blanket. In truth, she ends up in her parents' room between Bluey and Bandit, and her lying and tugging on the blanket, taking Bluey and Bandit's share of it. So begins a tug-of-war between the freezing Bluey and Bandit as they pull the blanket for themselves and in process tosses and turns Bingo around. Bingo, however, feels overjoyed in her dream, as if the planet's surface rises and falls, rolling herself around as a laughing little fellow. Eventually the Blue Heelers pull the blanket simultaneously, launching Bingo in the air.

Just like that, Bingo and Floppy leave Uranus. The next planet she sees is Jupiter. She goes for a closer look, and plays around with its surface. She slaps it and finds that it is a fluid. Interested, she slaps some more, giggling. The gas giant is actually Bandit in reality, with him being constantly being smacked in the face in his sleep. After a few rounds of smacking, Bingo floats a bit farther from the planet, and quickly floats back, diving feet-first on the surface, just as Bandit's stomach gets a powerful kick from her daughter, enough to make him roll with his back facing her daughters. That same back that is being "walked" by Bingo as she treks Jupiter's surface with Floppy in hand. The ordeal is joined by Bluey on her side, both in her dream and in real life. The two's running escalates to them hopping on the planet's surface, and thus Bandit's back receives a lot of kicking from both of her children. Then, they see the Great Red Spot ahead of them. Ecstatic, they jump right into the hole, just as Bandit abruptly wakes up, clutching his crotch on which the girls' feet can be found.

Bluey then heads off as Bingo and Floppy find themselves in the center of the planet, with them cuddling its solid core, just like how Bingo holds on to Bandit tightly as he carries her to her original bed.

On the way back, Bandit finds Bluey in the toilet, with her asking him to sing to her. Bandit reluctantly concurs with a drowsy recital of "99 Bottles of Ink in the Wall" as the two struggle with their eyes trying to stay awake. Unbeknownst to them, Bingo once again "floats" away in her dream, back to her parents' room. They both return to the parents' room, with Bandit reasonably surprised to find Bingo on the bed once again. Bluey does not mind as she promptly gets into the bed to join her sister. Defeated, Bandit lies down on the floor, with only a pair of underwear as a blanket. Unfortunately for him, he gets another round of kicking from her older daughter as she gradually pulls herself closer to the bed's edge. Hence she rolls off the bed, landing on her father, carrying the blanket with her. Unfortunately for Bingo, she finds herself freezing, and she sees herself stuck on Pluto in her dream, holding on to Floppy.

However, as the planets revolve, the light of the Sun is revealed to them, on which the two immediately stare at. Thus Bingo sets off, en-route to the big star as real-life Bingo hops off the big bed walks straight to her own bed. Back in her dream, she passes by Saturn, and reacts with awe as she has a closer look on its rings: thousands and thousands of Floppy's! Bingo's Floppy is also amazed at this sight, and points to the ring. Bingo takes this as Floppy wanting to join them, and has her head low in sadness. However, the two share a farewell hug, and a wave goodbye as the plush bunny floats off to join its brethren.

Then Bingo, at the sight of Floppy among its many others, sorrowfully lets out a cry at its loss. Such is a cry that alerts Chilli on the other side of the children's room.

Yet just as all that Bingo feels is feelings of sadness of loss, she turns around and finds an unusually uplifting sight: a comet riding at supersonic speed, carrying Bingo in a beeline to the Sun. As she jumps off the comet and lands on the closest planet to it, Mercury, she bears witness to another magnificent sight. She sees the Sun itself and all its greatness and warmth; as warm as the hug of her mother who came all the way from her sister's bed. In the midst of the comfort, though, Bingo looks back on her shattered Earth. She says to the Sun, "I have to go, I'm a big girl now." The Sun replies, in the sound of her loving mother, "Remember I'll always be her for you, even if you can't see me. Because I love you." Bingo is once again filled with joy, worthy of a small tail wag. At the same time, Chilli tucks her Red Heeler daughter again, smiling in solace, as she walks back to her own bedroom.

Dream Bingo floats back to her home Earth, and tries to put its pieces back together around her. Just as it happens, Chilli finds Floppy on the hallway, and walks back to the kids' room. As Bingo is struggling to reassemble her planet, she is reunited with a pleasant surprise: her Floppy! And a few others like it. Bingo gives her Floppy one last hug and they help Bingo putting together the Earth she is in. As the last piece is about to be placed above her, Floppy gives Bingo a final wave goodbye.

What follows is set of scenes on how everything ends: an empty hallway, a faint light on a glass of water on the side of the parents' bed, Bandit and Bluey hugging together comfortably on the floor as they're equally covered by their blanket, and Chilli triumphantly having the entire parents' bed for herself. Then, as the scene transitions to the same planet Earth on the cover of Bingo's book, it pans to Bingo; happily embracing Floppy and sleeping tightly on her bed, just as the room's window slowly begins to show the morning light.

### Disney

* Brook Jenell Slack as Bingo/Floppy
* Karen Prell as Bluey/Floppy's
* E.G. Daily as Bluey's vocal effects/Floppy's
* Melanie Zanetti and Frank Welker as Floppy's
* Ozzy Osbourne (U.K.)/Nathan Lane (U.S.) as Bandit
	+ In the U.S. version, Ernie Sabella provides Bandit's line "Biscuits!" after getting hit in the crotch by the girls.

## Music

The music in this episode was composed by Mike O’Donnell & Junior Campbell and is based on Holst's orchestral suite The Planets. The three songs are Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, then briefly Venus, the Bringer of Peace and Saturn, the bringer of Old Age.