The play's cast. Left to right: Unnamed Neighbour 1, Unnamed Neighbour 2, the Wise Old Wolfhound, the shopkeeper, Unnamed Neighbour 3, Barnicus, Bumpy, and the baker lady.
Bingo is in the hospital with an unknown disease, and has to stay another night. She and Chilli are sad, but then gets a message, which involves a video.The video starts with Bluey in purple underwear, playing a woman named Barnicus who wants a puppy more than anything. A shopkeeper, played by Bandit, tells "Barnicus" to wish upon a star, so she does, and her wish comes true the next morning. She names the puppy (played by Socks) "Bumpy", and they go everywhere together.
However, "Bumpy" gets sick and doesn't recover even after many days. "Barnicus" asks everybody for advice, but no one knows how to heal "Bumpy". Then, a baker (played by Muffin) suggests asking the Wise Old Wolfhound. She does, and the Wolfhound (played by Trixie) asks for a pair of purple underpants from someone who has never been sick.
"Barnicus" can't give up her own underpants, since she's had "a runny nose" (presumably a cold or a sinus infection) the previous year, so she tries to get purple undies from someone in town. However, the "shopkeeper" has "bum worms", and the "baker" had rabies last week. Upon finding nobody who's never been sick, "Barnicus" realises that everyone gets sick and being sick is just a part of life. However, eventually, "Bumpy" recovers and the story ends.
Tropes:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Everyone in the video wears only underwear, except "Bumpy" (Socks), who wears only a collar, and Muffin who wears a chef's hat along with the undies. Later, the "Wise Old Wolfhound" is seen wearing a flower crown and a bathrobe.
- Artistic License – Medicine: In-Universe — the Baker Lady (played by Muffin) casually mentions that she had rabies the previous week. In real life, rabies can't spread in Australia, and, except in very, very exceptional cases, it has a 100% mortality chance.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Muffin keeps forgetting her lines, Bandit's line delivery is rather stilted and Bluey is too hammy in her acting.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: The doctor wears scrubs but no shoes.
- Bittersweet Ending: Bingo is still sick, but at least the video entertains her. At most, it cheers her up over being sick.
- Black Comedy: The Baker Lady (played by Muffin) says that she was sick with rabies in the past week, which is a fatal disease for dogs.note However, Bingo's nurse and Chilli, who are watching the video with Bingo at the hospital, laugh at this because of Muffin's nonchalant line delivery and Unexplained Recovery.
- Brick Joke: While watching the video, both Chilli and the nurse tending to Bingo wonder why everyone is wearing purple underpants. The pay-off when it's finally revealed why everyone wears purple underpants in the story is rather priceless.
- Call-Back: At one point in the video, "Bumpy" (Socks) bites "the shopkeeper" (Bandit) in the leg. Later, when "Barnicus" (Bluey) revisits the hapless merchant, he has band-aids all over his leg.
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase: The episode title (which also happens to be the single longest episode title in the series) follows the "[name] and the [phrase]" format.
- Cross-Cast Role: In-Universe — "Bumpy" is described as a male puppy, despite being played by the female Socks.
- Disney Acid Sequence: The Wise Old Wolfhound’s appearance is an attempt at one, with bizarre psychedelic filters.
- Downer Beginning: The episode starts with a sad Bingo and Chilli at the hospital, with them both unhappy about Bingo having to stay another night.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Wise Old Wolfhound (played by Aunt Trixie) wears a costume made out of towels. One angle shows the initials "C.H." (Chilli Heeler) on one of the towels.
- Furry Confusion: Bluey's character Barnacus wishes for a puppy and gets Bumpy (played by Socks), but it's not entirely clear whether Bumpy is supposed to be a baby or a pet, as Bumpy is both walked on a leash and carried in a swaddle.
- Joke of the Butt: Bandit's character's illness he's had (and apparently still has) is "bum worms".
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Zigzagged in the story — it's unknown if "Barnicus" is a woman who really wants a child, or a pet.
- Left It In: Bandit says this to the camera when Muffin accidentally breaks Chilli's good vase while filming a take.Bandit: We can edit that bit out, right?
- Make a Wish: In the video, "Barnicus" wishes upon a star to get her own puppy.
- Never Work with Children or Animals: An In-Universe case with the Heeler family's home movie; while Bluey generally does a good job as the movie's main character aside from overacting, Muffin and Socks prove to be harder to work with. Muffin keeps calling Bluey by her real name instead of her character's name, bungles her lines multiple times, and accidentally breaks a vase she was using as a prop. Meanwhile, Socks is initially in a bad mood when she's on-screen and does things like growling and shrieking while Bluey is delivering her lines, repeatedly biting Bandit and Stripe, and stopping mid-take to poop on the grass. Stripe even has to feed her a cookie from off-screen to calm her down enough for one shot.
- Noodle Implements: The "Wise Old Wolfhound" asks for a pair of purple underpants from someone who has never been sick.
- Noodle Incident: It's never explained what Bingo is in the hospital for.
- Pain to the Ass: At the end of the video, Socks bites Bandit on the butt.
- Polka-Dot Disease: "Bumpy" is portrayed as covered in polka dots when she's sick.
- Pooping Where You Shouldn't: At one point in the video, Socks poops on the lawn.
- Sick Episode: The episode centers on Bingo being sick in the hospital with an unknown affliction and Chilli staying with her, and the rest of the Heeler family sending Bingo a video to cheer her up.
- Stylistic Suck: The video the Heelers put together for Bingo is a rather amateurish production; the video itself is shoddily edited, most of the acting is either wooden or over-the-top, there are problems with the props and sets, and then there are other complications like Muffin forgetting her lines or Socks constantly biting Bandit.
- Toilet Humor: As part of the many bloopers the video has, Barnicus/Bluey's joyful frolic with Bumpy/Socks is ruined when the latter realizes she has to poop and proceeds to do so right on the lawn.
- Underage Casting: In-Universe — Bluey, a six-year-old girl, plays a "young lady", and Muffin (a three-year-old) plays an adult woman.
- Unexplained Recovery: In the Show Within a Show. Muffin's character is perfectly fine after an attack of rabies the week before.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To the Buddhist story Kisa Gotami, which involves the Buddha stating he could bring a child back to life if the mother could find mustard seeds from a family where no one had died, helping her accept that death is natural. Obviously, the Heelers tone this down to simply "everyone gets sick at some point in their lives".
