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Wackadoo! https://heresa.video/lindsay-bluey-adults

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AJ

Unexpected Friday surprise!

David Dalby

As someone British, with kids who were exactly the right age for it: Don't worry, Peppa Pig is fucking terrible, Sarah and Duck or Charlie and Loloa, however, I will defend to my dying day.

V

As someone who has never lived with small children, Lindsay commenting on children's media is a fun new insight that I appreciate

ilana nh

I'm confused. I am a subscriber here on Patreon and also pay for Nebula separately, and cannot access this...

Ben Allred

Same. I'm seeing "Patreon member access: Your current tier is not eligible for this content." when I click on this link and sign in. It looks like the video is visible when I just go directly to Nebula, though.

David W (d20dave) (d_dave)

So I'm not a Nebula member, but I am a subscriber here. On the other hand I don't think I have a tier here on Patreon. I'm just listed as an amount per month, and when I go to change it I don't see any tiers to choose from. Not sure if I should be able to access this video or not -- presumably do I need to be a Nebula member too?

David W (d20dave) (d_dave)

Ok I figured it out. You have to completely cancel your membership first, and then start over and select the Nebula tier. Now the video's working for me.

Lindsay Ellis

If you're already a member of Nebula, you don't need to stress about Patreon tiers or using this link to watch the video. You can just use your Nebula subscription to watch it over there like you do with any other Nebula content. --Lindsay's Assistant

Cinabeeeeee

Ok, my Patreon membership for Lindsay says "Nebula"-tier but I am not a Nebula subscriber. When I click the link below, I get the loading-circle of doom for a while and then a pop-up directing me to get a Nebula subscription to access the content.

Lyssa Dee

It took becoming a parent for me to really notice the difference in media for children. The AI slop is horrid but I'm happy to share Bluey with my son and things from my childhood like Little Bear and Zoboomafoo.

Arielle Lyons

there’s a guy i work with whose usual demeanor is grumpy and sarcastic, he has no kids, and he loves bluey. apparently his parents played it to calm down their dog once and he was hooked. i work at a newspaper so we have TVs on basically the whole time and if there’s no game or news happening he’ll turn on disney channel to watch bluey. his other favorite shows are like south park and rick and morty. and he loves bluey just as much as those other shows 😭

Lindsay Ellis

Now that's not right. You've got everything correct with your tier. Try using a different browser? --Lindsay's assistant

David W (d20dave) (d_dave)

Great video. Bluey is an amazing show! So well written. For me, there's a second layer to shows like this. When I watch things and wish I'd written it! Makes me want to get back to work and create something beautiful.

Eric Lundquist

I haven't watched Bluey yet, mostly just because of the sheer quantity of episodes (I am easily intimidated by that sort of thing), but I have always loved cartoons. I was in fact a brony back in the day, but not a preachy one - I had a couple shirts and some merch, and I would talk about it if the topic of shows we were watching came up. I love more recent shows like The Owl House, Amphibia, My Adventures with Superman, and more. I tell people about shows I like, but it is astonishing how many people, with or without kids, simply refuse to engage with any kind of children's media on their own. I've come to terms with the fact that those people cannot be convinced. I will take joy from these shows, and if they want to deny themselves that opportunity, then that's their loss. Being quietly unapologetic about things I like has made me a much happier person than """defending""" those things ever has. People can cringe at us, and I'll just be having fun in my corner. Love the video, as always.

Tommy

it made me laugh when you said you’d only heard the music in the sleep time episode at funerals - it was the song used as my high school’s school song 😂💀

enchantedsleeper

My nephews are currently being raised on a lot of the same media that my brother and I grew up with (including some stuff that was already "classic" when we were young, like Wacky Racers) thanks to my parents and their VHS player xD

Lyssa Dee

Omg I looooooved Wacky Racers when I was younger! I love that that media is still out there and available for the new generations!

zach spencer

Yeah I wish that adults didn't get defensive about liking children's media. We don't have to pretend that good children's stuff is secretly made just for the adults. Children's stuff can and does have the same artistic value as stuff for adults. I feel like when people dismiss children's media as inherently lesser in quality than adult media it just gives an excuse to people to produce worse children's art then they could.

D. Alfonso

Damn did we go to the same high school, lol

D. Alfonso

What a lovely video. As a millennial with friends with and without kids, it's been very entertaining have the parents proselytize this show to the rest of us. <3

enchantedsleeper

It's from Jupiter, a very famous piece of classical music by Holst. Though on its own the tune is also known as "I Vow to Thee My Country". It's really famous in its own right and I don't associate it with funerals at all (school concerts, maybe). But it's weird hearing it in a setting like Bluey.

enchantedsleeper

Yes! And watching Lindsay's video (which I hadn't done before writing the comment) made me appreciate that most of the cartoons we enjoyed growing up *were* in fact "classic" cartoons. But also timeless.

Lena

I watched The Sign with my 6yo and he liked it fine but I was in PIECES because I immigrated halfway across the world as a kid and I was not ok 😭 Bluey is awesome but I think that's it for us, by the time anything else comes out my kid will be a preteen.

BuckTurner

I saw the title of 'Bluey Adults' and thought it was going to take a left turn down the rabbit hole that is the crowd for whom Bandit is 'daddy'.

Tommy

thank you for that context! 🙏

Nicole Swedberg

The thing that drives me crazy about Bluey is that the girls never get in trouble for their behavior, even when it's pretty bad!

ts_babyjane

this is so exciting ur videos mean so much

ts_babyjane

angela collier just talked about how bluey was a show "for adults" in her video ranking PBS shows. great minds think alike.

Michael Wyzard

I think I realized that Pixar films are for parents as much as kids when I saw Finding Nemo, which loses all subtlety near the end ("LET GO!")

OatmealAddiction

What I like a lot about Bluey as a piece of "all ages" media is that it's one of the few shows for preschoolers that focuses more on connecting emotionally and allowing children to bring their own interpretations and perspectives to the table, rather than delivering very straightforward messages on how to behave, or how to learn your ABC's. While shows like Daniel Tiger and Sesame Street are very important, I think people see them and think that all children's media needs to be blunt, simplified, and depositing messages clearly into children's empty heads. Even though we've seen more complex and ambiguous children's art like "The Giving Tree" that gives children the ability to interpret a complex and ambiguous story the way an adult would. I like that so much of Bluey just lets children kind of breathe in an experience and think about their emotional connection to it, without racing to give them an answer, like the episode where MacKenzie remembers being lost in the mall, or Sleepytime, which elicits a lot of feelings without being very specific to any one. I think I tend to get a little defensive of children's art, (not just because I'm a cringey adult who likes it,) but because in the words of Mr. Rogers, people are very eager to tell children what to believe, and we should present children with more art that lets them do the work of constructing their own response and their own feelings. I really like that Bluey is a show that allows its audience that grace. And I think children's art that allows children to have that sophisticated response, will always in a way gravitate to adults as well.

Laura L

I tried Peppa Pig with my son. I found it to be too mean, plus he didn't seem interested in it

Laura L

My son is about your youngest kid's age, and Bluey was the first show he got into. He loves them theme song so much that, even if an episode is halfway through when we first start watching, I always restart it so he can hear the theme song. He'll only be 3 when the movie comes out, so that will likely be his first movie in theaters. I was only a little older than that when I saw my first movie in theaters, the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird. (Side note: why was so much kids' media at that time so sad? I'm thinking that plus the quicksand scene with the horse in The Neverending Story. Don't even get me started on Littlefoot's mom!)

Matt

As always, a truly excellent video

Deconstruction Interactive

I love the multiple layers of this video -- as someone who is not a primary parent, I've had limited exposure to it, and really appreciated your breaking it down, explaining the adult themes, and then delving into the Bluey Adults phenomenon. I do interact with kids quite a bit, and I've grown to really appreciate how important it is to just be in touch with them. Kids will always have their own world, and that is excellent, but it's also great to be able to play in that world -- to my limited understanding, Bluey does this very well, and I think it's better to have more shows like Bluey than like Daniel Tiger. Thinking back to my own childhood, my favorite books were also the ones that the adults in my life seemed to really enjoy, like Winnie the Pooh or the Hobbit. I think it's the same kind of thing -- I could enjoy Pooh's adventures and the adults (and eventually me, growing up) could appreciate the themes of nostalgia and deep friendship that the books deliver. More videos like this, please :)

Renga Ryuk

tried to reach out via DM but dms don't work for me...

ilana nh

This video is how I learned I was conflating Bluey with Paw Patrol… I genuinely thought they were the same show, like an Australian kids show about dogs who are cops. Also my husband refused to watch this video with me because he was convinced it was going to be about furries, and “didn’t Lindsay Ellis already do a video about that fanfic wolf stuff?”