Library

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

## Synopsis

### ABC Kids

On the way to Bluey and Bingo's house, Muffin warns her dad on the car about an orange light. Stripe, instead of slowing down and stopping, he hastily drives through it. Muffin calls her dad out on this, on which he says that this is a "special case". She asked him is she is special, to which Stripe answers, "Muffy, you're the most special kid in the whole world." Muffin takes this remark to heart.

In Bluey and Bingo's, Chilli answers the door after Muffin demandingly knocks it. It has been raining, so the cousin and uncle got muddy feet. However, Muffin refuses to wipe her feet on the towel Chilli provides because she's "special".

She then goes the living room, and finds her cousins setting up a game of "Library". After Bluey goes through everything, including a whole array of books they have in store, which Muffin wows in surprise and gets "shh"-ed at, Muffin asks if she can play. Bluey agrees and proceeds on making a library card for Muffin.

Bluey then makes Muffin a card, but Muffin bellows that she wants a pink card (another shh for Muffin). Despite Bluey's (quiet) explanation that the cards are orange, Muffin still insists on pink, so Bluey agrees. She tells her younger cousin that she can go and get some books as long as she keeps quiet.

However, Muffin instead rides her (loud) Cat Squad Bike around the living room, annoying Bingo with her book. Bluey rightfully steps in and tells her that she can't do that, but Muffin disobeys. Bluey turns off her cousin's bike, apologizes to library visitor Bingo and gives Muffin her pink card. Just as she is told about all the books she can look at, Muffin's eyes are on Bingo's pop-up book, which she tries to take it from Bingo's hands and a tug-of-war ensues.

Muffin then walks up to her dad, telling him that Bluey does not let her play "Library". Chilli calls her and tells her to include Muffin. Bluey says she does so, but also that Muffin is not playing properly. Stripe argues that everyone has their own way of playing, so Chilli tells her to let Muffin play how she wants it. Bluey reluctantly agrees, and the first thing she does is to give Muffin the book Bingo has been having.

The game of Library continues, as the girls check the books out for them to borrow. Just as Bluey mentions the book borrowing limit of three, Muffin just proceeds on (loudly) scanning out all the books she can get. Bluey has to reluctantly oblige.

Then it's story-telling time, but Muffin has "borrowed" all the books, so they have to make do with a large, pictureless book Bluey found in her dad's study. Even that gets difficult as they are constantly being annoyed with Muffin using the animal sound book nearby. When she gets "shh-ed" for it, Muffin just walks to them, and "eats" Bingo's "child" with the "lion" in the book. Once again, Bluey has to accept that she can do that.

It's time to return the books, and naturally Muffin disobeys. Bluey then has to explain to her that she can't do that because everyone else would need them. Condescendingly, Muffin tells that everyone has to borrow, but she gets to keep them all because she's special.

Enraged, Bluey has to shut the musical book Muffin uses to explain to her that she has to return the books in order for her to play properly. Muffin just defiantly opens the book again.

Bluey and Bingo walk up to her mum and tells her about how their cousin won't follow the rules and play properly. When Uncle Stripe asks why, they tell him that she's the "most special kid in the world". Realizing his mistake, Stripe then goes to the living room to have a talk with his daughter.

In the living room, after turning off the TV Muffin is watching, he goes into a conversation with her, telling her that she's not the most special kid in the world. He also tells her that she's always special to her parents and probably not to everyone else. He then tells her to follow the rules everyone tells her. Muffin obliges and hugs her dad.

Muffin goes to her cousins with surprisingly happy news; she's not special anymore! All the girls are overjoyed with this. When Muffin asks to play again, this time promising to follow the rules, the cousins agree.

The game of "Library" finally goes as it should be: Muffin returning the books, Bingo reading without annoyance, Muffin has to "shh" a toy beside her as she reads, and Bluey has a book for everyone during story time.

Stripe and Muffin drive back to their home, with the latter being lent the animal sound book. She had a good time with her cousins and asks her dad if they can play "Library" at their home, which he agrees. He then sees an orange light in front of them. This time, he slows down and stops. Muffin compliments him in response.

### Disney

At Bluey and Bingo's house, Chilli answers the door after Muffin demandingly knocks it. It has been raining, so the cousin and Uncle Stripe have got muddy feet. After they wipe their feet, Bluey and Bingo take Muffin to the living room and tell her that the three are going to play "Library". As Bluey goes through everything, the whole house transforms into a library, having millions of books in store on shelves that are 3 stories high, which Muffin wows in surprise and gets "shh"-ed at. Bluey makes a library card for Muffin.

Once she gets the card, Bluey tells Muffin that she can go and get some books as long as she keeps quiet. She agrees, but as soon as she picks up a book about lions and opens it, lion roars can be heard. This causes the whole library to shake, prompting Muffin to quickly close it and Bluey to explain that some books are extremely noisy, and Muffin must watch out for those. Muffin then heads to the "pop-up" shelves, only to see Bingo reading a book about lorikeets on a pile of books. The lorikeets fly all over the library in a peaceful manner, causing Bingo and Muffin to quietly wow in surprise. Bingo asks Muffin if she'd like to read with her, to which the cousin agrees to.

The two happily continue exploring the library, reading books about tree frogs, butterflies, pillows, flowers and even cats. They then spot a book about dragons, but it has the words "DO NOT OPEN" written in red marker. Bingo and Muffin ignore this and open the book, causing a dragon to be set free and Bluey to scold the two for what they've done. With the two confused, Bluey calmly explains that the dragon is infamous for having set fire to the library five times, each release being worse than the last! She goes on to explain that the only way to defeat the dragon is to put its tail into the book pages; this will cause the dragon to be sucked back into the book.

They find the dragon as it chases Buddy and his mum. Bluey distracts him by blocking his firey breath with her shield, while Bingo and Muffin try to grab his tail tip, but it keeps swinging the opposite direction. Eventually, the two grab the tip and put it into the book, causing the dragon to be sucked into the book with no mercy! The three burn the book in a campfire (with adult supervision), that way the book will never cause harm again! The rest of the game goes as it should be: Muffin returning the books, Bingo reading without annoyance, Muffin has to "shh" a toy beside her as she reads, and Bluey has a book for everyone during story time. Once she finishes, the imaginary library transforms back into its previous form, and Muffin says that was the best game she ever played.

### Disney

* Brook Jenell Slack as Bingo/Muffin/lorikeets
* Karen Prell as Bluey/lorikeets
* E.G. Daily as the vocal effects of Bluey and the tree frogs
* Amelie Bea Smith as Buddy
* Melanie Zanetti, Jim Cummings and Frank Welker as lorikeets
	+ Welker also provides the vocal effects for the lion, tree frogs and dragon, and reads the title of the episode as usual.
* Dave McCormack as Uncle Stripe
* Ming-Na Wen as Buddy’s Mum

## Trivia

* Muffin replaces Bluey in the end credits for this episode.
* The music played throughout the episode is “Sur le Pont d'Avignon”.
* The music in the animal sound book plays “The Ants Go Marching” (Johnny Comes Marching Home).
* Stripe reveals he calls Chilli "Chilli Dog."