Camping

**Camping** is an episode from the first season of *Bluey*.

## Synopsis

### ABC Kids

Bluey and Bingo are playing in cousin Muffin's caravan until she gets stroppy and kicks them out.

Bluey wanders off into the woods and starts collecting sticks to make a house when a French-speaking dog named Jean-Luc turns up.

They work together to build a teepee and chatter away despite not understanding what the other one says. Upon completion Bluey mimes that she’s hungry and understanding, Jean Luc finds a seed which they plant.

Dad arrives to fill up the billy and pretends to be a wild pig - Bluey and Jean Luc attempt to catch the pig, but he escapes and both kids are called off for dinner before exchanging names.

The next two mornings Bluey goes to fetch Jean-Luc, and they resume their unspoken game: building, playing and trying to catch the wild pig. Bluey shows Jean-Luc that their tree still hasn’t grown.

Bluey mixes water and a soft rock to do some cavemen finger painting and they formulate a plan to catch the wild pig - executed with success and a disgruntled looking wild pig / Bandit.

After the game is over, Bluey tells Jean-Luc that she will see him tomorrow but Jean Luc looks sad as they hug goodbye.

Bluey arrives at the play site first the next day to discover the seed has sprouted and runs to tell Jean-Luc who she finds has left early that night. Bluey is very sad at the departure and loss of her new friend. She sits down and begins to cry softly.

That night Bingo needs to do a bush wee and Bluey wonders if she’ll ever see Jean-Luc again and Mum tells her that sometimes special people come into our lives, stay a bit, then leave. And yes, that’s sad, but it’s how life goes.

A cartoon time-lapse shows the tree growing as the years went by and an older Bluey eventually goes to sit under it to read a book. As she does, she hears “Hello Bluey” and sees Jean-Luc again, thus marking the end of the episode.

### Disney

Bluey, Bingo, Muffin and Socks are playing in the family's caravan. They then exit and decide to play in the forest, but not before Chilli comes by and takes the former three to take a bath, leaving Socks by herself. The young pup goes near the creek to pick up some sticks when a French-speaking dog named Jean-Luc turns up. Knowing some English, he explains to Socks that he and his family are staying in the woods for a while, since previous attempts went nowhere, and suggests they build a house with Socks' sticks and some leaves. Once the "house" is done, the two decide to plant a tree for some food. Suddenly, a wild boar named Chancer shows up - Socks and Jean-Luc attempt to catch the pig, but he escapes and both kids are called off for dinner.

The next two mornings, Socks goes to fetch Jean-Luc, and they resume their game: building, playing and trying to catch the wild pig. Jean-Luc notices that their tree still hasn’t grown. Socks mixes water and a soft rock to do some cavemen finger painting and they formulate a plan to catch the wild pig - executed with success and a disgruntled looking wild pig. Chancer is set free, knowing Jean-Luc very well. After the game is over, Jean-Luc tells Socks that he will not see her tomorrow as they hug goodbye. Socks arrives at the play site first the next day to discover the seed has sprouted and runs to tell Jean-Luc, who she finds has left early that night. Socks is very sad at the departure and loss of her new friend. She lies down and begins to cry.

That night in the caravan, Socks wonders if she’ll ever see Jean Luc again, and Bluey tells her that sometimes special people come into our lives, stay a bit, then leave. Bingo and Muffin then tell stories of friends they had who had to leave not even a week after they met. While their backgrounds were different, they all led to one lesson in friendship: yes, not being able to see friends you've made is sad, but it’s how life goes. Chilli then comes by and explains that sometimes friends do come back; when they do is made unclear, but the five go outside as Chilli says that the world's a magical place. A time-lapse shows the tree growing as the years went by and an older Socks eventually goes to sit under it to play with her stuffed toys. As she does, she hears “Hello Socks” and sees Jean-Luc again, thus marking the end of the episode.

### Disney

* Brook Jenell Slack as Bingo/Muffin
* Karen Prell as Bluey
* E.G. Daily as Jean-Luc's Mum
* Amelie Bea Smith as Socks
* Frank Welker as Jean-Luc's Dad/Chancer
* Myf Warhurst as Aunt Trixie
* Tim Lagasse as Jean-Luc

## Trivia

### General

* The Disney version of this episode is the first since Keepy Uppy to not have the title read aloud at all.
* Amelie Bea Smith helped write this episode, making her the second child in history to write an episode for an official production, the first being Tyler Samuel Lee in 1997 with the *Dexter's Laboratory* episode "Dexter and Computress Get Madark!"
	+ Smith would do this again for the episode Pizza Girls, 80 episodes later.
* This episode ends with older version of Bluey reuniting with an older Jean-Luc, though in the Disney version, since Socks is the main character of the episode, she is seen as older. Either way, an older Muffin is heard offscreen.
* The tree at the end of Camping is a Pink Trumpet tree.
* Despite a drawing of Jean-Luc holding a stick in the title, he never actually drew himself holding a stick in the ABC Kids version.
* On Day 3 of the ABC Kids version of this episode, Bluey drew the wild pig (Bandit) without his paw touching two pebbles. However, on day 4, the drawing of his paw touches two pebbles.
* The bunny light is the first object that does not move at all in the ending credits.
* There is no explanation why Bandit was acting like a pig in the ABC Kids version of this episode. This is most likely what led to the creation of Chancer.
* In the ABC Kids version, Bandit doesn’t talk, he only makes pig noises. However, in both that version and the Disney version, he does speak in the camp fire scene but with no audio, just music playing over it.
* In the French dub of this episode, Jean-Luc speaks English.
* This is the first (and so far only) appearance of Jean-Luc and his parents.
	+ However, Jean-Luc *did* return for the Disney versions of Circus and Easter, finally meeting Bluey and her family and friends and reuniting with Socks.

### Goofs

* As mentioned above, Bandit does not speak in this episode. However, in the end credits for the Disney version of this episode, Nathan Lane is still credited for his role. However, it was confirmed in the audio commentary that Lane recorded audio for the camp fire scene, but it was removed as it was felt it took away from the episode's emotional feel.