‘My kids were heartbroken over Bluey’s biggest episode’

“The show reminded them we had to move away from our house and our city, and unlike Bluey, there was no twist that saved us.”

This morning, the season three finale of Bluey finally aired. 

At 28 minutes, it was the longest episode of Bluey ever, and for my family, it was the saddest.

Bandit and Chilli were selling their gorgeous Queenslander in Brisbane so they can move to a new city.

“Why do we have to sell our house,” Bluey asks during a car ride early in the episode.

“We’ve been through it, Dad’s got a new job in a new city,” Chilli replies.

“What’s wrong with this city?” Bluey asks.

“Nothing,” says Chilli as she looks sadly out the window.

“But this job pays more money and we’ll be able to give you a better life,” Bandit chimes in.

“But I like this life,” Bluey says quietly.

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The Heelers' house was up for sale. Photo: Ludo

Bluey doesn’t want to move house

The episode follows the family as they grapple with the reality of leaving their lives: their friends, their family, the house where the kids were born and grew up.

Bluey thinks that if she can just get the For Sale sign down from out the front of the house, their lovely Queenslander will be safe. Frisky, Chilli’s best friend and Bluey’s godmother is enlisted by the kids to take the sign down. Frisky is getting married in the Heelers’ backyard and thinks the sign looks a bit daggy, so she agrees.

But Frisky gets cold feet and mum and the girls have to chase her down.

Bluey begs Frisky to come back and help pull up the For Sale sign.

Frisky realises what her goddaughter is asking. “If we pull the sign down, the house won’t be for sale and you won’t have to move?

“Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?” Frisky asks her friend.

“Of course I don’t want to leave,” Chilli says. “It could be good for our family though.”

“But it could be bad for our family,” Bluey counters.

“It could. I wish I could tell you which one it was going to be.”

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But in the end, the sale fell through and the Heeler family got to stay in their old familiar house. Photo: Ludo

Bluey moving reminds family of their own move

Last November my husband and I put our Sydney unit on the market.

We were a family of five living in two bedrooms, and we’d outgrown it long ago. But we’d raised our kids there, weathered the pandemic there, celebrated birthdays, hosted grandparents from overseas. It had the best neighbours and the best community.

It was home and we were saying goodbye.

After the real estate listing went live, I woke up every morning panicked that we were making the wrong decision.

Like Bluey, I was worried it would be bad for our family.

Unlike Bluey, there was no saving grace at the end of our story. Our Sydney apartment sold and we traded up for a house in the Blue Mountains.

Goodbye old bedroom. Photo: supplied

And it has been great for our family. The space, the community, the outdoors: it’s exactly what we needed.

But watching tonight’s episode made my kids sad.

“I thought it was beautiful,” my nine-year-old said as the show ended. “That they got to live in their old house again, the house where they took their first steps.”

“Did it make you think about how we had to leave our home and couldn’t go back?” I asked.

“I felt quite sad. But I think our new home is better for us,” he said.

Originally published as ‘My kids were heartbroken over Bluey’s biggest episode’