As Chilli leans in she shrinks down to pup size. "No, it was yesterday," he says, putting an arm around her. "I remember when you used to take me swimming here," Chilli says. Chilli walks up and sits beside her father. The chase is on.įinally - after tracking them through the scrub, even swimming after their canoe - Chilli catches up.įrom a distance, she watches Bluey and Bingo swim joyously as Grandad, winded, finally sits down to rest. Annoyed - because he is meant to be resting - Chilli shouts at him, and he escapes into the bush with the girls. As they pull up, Grandad is out front hacking away at a tree stump. The other episode that makes me cry is Grandad.Ĭhilli, Bluey and Bingo drive out to the country to visit Grandad, who's recovering from heartworm. Mum, Chilli, tries to sleep in Bluey's bed while 'big girl' Bingo whimpers in her sleep in the Sleepytime episode of Bluey. And every time I watch it, my eyes go wet.īecause this solar metaphor for unconditional parental love - warming, life-giving and constant - hits me right in the heart, as does the brave gumption of four-year-old Bingo determined to make good on her promise. I'm a big girl now."Ĭhilli's voice emanates from the sun: "Remember I'll always be here, even if you can't see me, because I love you." She shuts her eyes contentedly.Ĭut to the home front - Chilli and Bingo are spooning in bed.īack to the dream, Bingo musters her courage, stands and says, "I have to go. As it streaks past, Bingo catches onto a little moon, hoists herself up and sits facing the sun, basking in its warm glow. Suddenly, she's riding on a shooting star hurtling toward the massive, bright sun. Starting with a promise from little sis Bingo to do a 'big girl sleep' in her own bed, Sleepytime weaves the Heeler family's nocturnal perambulations with Bingo's dreamscape of hatching egg planets in space.Īfter a night of sleepwalking between her parent's bed and her own, Bingo, asleep, reaches out and whimpers.Ĭut to the dream - Bingo's on her own in the vast dark space, tiny, cold and sad. An episode called Sleepytime catches me right near the end.
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