At dinner, Bandit is telling everyone to be polite, but Bluey doesn't see the point of manners. Bandit claims that manners are what sets them apart from animals, then Chilli hands up a piece of asparagus and claims it will turn people into whatever animal Bluey says.
So Bluey points the asparagus at her family and says, "Donkey!" to Bandit, "Piglet!" to Bingo, and "Chicken!" to Chilli, to which they play along and pretend to be that animal. However, they then start doing rude things, so Bluey "turns" them into a different animal whenever they act rude, eventually having all her family be peacocks.
When Bandit pretends to be a peacock, he dances suggestively at Chilli, so Bluey tells Chilli and Bingo to be lions. The two "lions" chase Bandit up a tree, then go into Lucky's house and drag Pat away by the feet. Bluey has Bandit be a walrus, Chilli be a bunny, and Bingo be a parrot, and then brings them all inside.
She tries to give them "manners lessons", but Bandit pretends to try to poop on the rug, Chilli walks away (so Bluey has her be a worm), and Bingo eats the asparagus. Bluey's family refuses to end the game, so Bluey reasons that since Bingo has eaten the asparagus, she "has" it, so if Bingo uses the word "dog", she and the parents will have to "turn back into dogs", thus ending the game.
Bluey tells Bingo to say, "Polly wants a doggie", but she says, "Polly wants a dinosaur" instead, prompting the parents to pretend to be dinosaurs. Eventually, however, Bingo does say, "Polly wants a doggie", ending the game. After dinner, however, Bingo starts the game again by continuing to act like a bird and saying, "Chicken!" to Bandit.
This episode provides examples of:
- Animorphism: Bluey and her family pretend this is the effect of the asparagus, giving Bluey the ability to transform them into animals. She keeps transforming them into animals that are very uncivilized, forcing her to teach them some manners.
- Batman Gambit: To teach Bluey manners, Chilli gives her some asparagus and says it's magic and will turn anyone into animals. When Bluey has her family be animals, they deliberately do rude things so that Bluey will realise the importance of manners.
- Big "NO!": The word "No!" is yelled twice by Bluey in this episode. The first was when Bandit as a walrus was "about to go to the toilet on the rug", then again after Bingo as parrot eats the magic asparagus.
- Character Development: Initially, Bluey loves the idea that the "magic" asparagus has 'freed' her family from using manners. But as the game wears on, she realizes more and more that manners are what make her family more manageable than if they were without. In the end, Bluey demonstrates an appreciation for manners and even shows some good manners of her own, a far cry from the beginning where she had a disregard for manners.
- The Compliance Game: Downplayed — the Heelers are already playing a game (pretending to be animals), but Bluey finds an in-game way to get them to stop by having Bingo say, "Polly wants a doggie".
- Denial of Animality: Bandit explains that everyone should have table manners because "[they're] not animals", despite everyone being anthropomorphic dogs.
- Gluttonous Pig: When pretending to be a piglet, Bingo pretends to eat out of the trash.
- Grossout Fakeout: Bandit pretends to try to poop on the rug when pretending to be a walrus.
- Here We Go Again!: At the end, Bingo starts the game again by saying, "Chicken!" to Bandit.
- Mating Dance: When being a peacock, Bandit does a dance for Chilli.
- Mature Younger Sibling: Downplayed. Bingo joins in on a plan to teach Bluey (her older sister) manners, but she does also mess with Bluey by having her and the parents pretend to be dinosaurs.
- Non Sequitur: When being a parrot, Bingo says nonsensical statements like "Polly wants a dinosaur".
- Soundtrack Dissonance: An in-universe example with Pat singing the opening of Moreton Bay, an Australian folk song, while hanging laundry. He manages to get away with this by being cut off from the first line, making it sound like it's just a song about a leisurely morning stroll by a river. In reality, the song is not a very happy one, to say the least.
- Stock Animal Name: Bingo calls herself Polly when she's being a parrot.
- Third-Person Person: Bingo speaks in third person (referring to herself as "Polly") when she's being a parrot.
- Toilet Humor: While Bluey is trying to give etiquette lessons to her "animal" family, she sees walrus-Bandit pretending to attempt to go to the bathroom on the nursery rug, prompting her to give the rule "Fourth manners is, don't go to the toilet on the rug."
- Vertigo Effect: Bluey's Big "NO!" when she sees Bingo eating the asparagus has the camera simultaneously zoom in on her face and zoom the background further out.
