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Dad thinks the kids have too many toys and suggests a chuck out. To save their beloved Mr. Monkeyjocks from getting the chop, Bluey and Bingo must prove he is special.


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  • Acquired Situational Narcissism: Bandit goes along with the girls' game and makes this trope the consequence of treating Mr. Monkeyjocks extra special. Instead of simply being a special toy, Bandit gives him the attitude of someone who believes they're too special to follow regular norms and rules.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Bandit and Chili try to coax the girls to part with some of their toys on the grounds that they'll simply be donated to charity, and go to needy children. Bluey and Bingo respond by saying they're needy children who need these toys more. This comically satirizes just how spoiled the girls are to think they qualify as needy children when they in fact have an abundance of toys to go around.
  • The Dog Bites Back: For once, Bandit doesn't take being humiliated lying down. When the girls and Chilli say that Monkeyjocks is now married to Chilli and Bandit is his butler, Bandit plays up Monkeyjocks as having become so spoiled that he throws them out of the house when they begin disagreeing with him. This finally gets Bandit's lesson about being spoiled across to the girls.
  • Everybody Has Standards: In-Universe, Bandit has gone along with "Mr. Monkeyjocks" and his spoiled escapades of taking whatever he wants, even kicking out his own family without remorse. But towards the climax, though he serves out the task dutifully, Bandit acknowledges things are going too far when Mr. Monkeyjocks wants all the "special" toys chucked out so he can be the only special toy.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Bluey and Bingo bring it upon themselves to treat Mr. Monkeyjocks extra special in order to prove he's not ready to be donated. When they enlist Bandit to be his butler (since he's replaced him as Chili's husband), Bandit gets an idea as to make the girls' special treatment of the toy backfire on them. He starts tailoring Mr. Monkeyjocks to adopt a spoiled rotten personality, from claiming Bluey's bed as his own, to taking the other toys' clothing, right down to kicking the collective family (sans Bandit) out of the house. It comes to a head when Mr. Monkeyjocks orders Bandit to "chuck" all the girls' "special" toys so he can be the only "special" toy in the house, defeating the purpose of Bingo and Bluey hoarding such toys in the first place.
  • Heel Realization: In the beginning, Bluey and Bingo insists on more toys and keeping their old ones to themselves rather than donating it to needy children, insisting they need it more. But after a game of making Mr. Monkeyjocks "extra special" leads to him being spoiled with everything he could ever want, his statement (or rather Chili's) about how having everything is unsatisfying leads the girls to realize they've been selfish. This leads to them adopting a sense of generosity, deciding their old toys should go to children who deserve to feel special.
  • Moving Right Through: When Bandit tells the children they've gone too far in treating Mr. Monkeyjocks special, Chilli enters the room and sounds as though she's sweet-talking Bandit. Chilli gets closer to Bandit, but she passes him by and is focusing on Mr. Monkeyjocks instead, whom Bandit finds out she's pretending to have married.
  • Symbolism: Mr. Monkeyjocks has closed eyes, as though exuding a content personality. When the girls start treating him extra special, he's given Bandit's sunglasses at one point, making him look nonchalant and right at home with his new pampered lifestyle. It also reflects how spoiled he's become when Bandit makes him want Bluey's bed and the other plushy toys' clothing. Towards the end, before he's donated, Mr. Monkeyjocks loses the sunglasses, as though signifying he's regained his humble personality once more.
  • There Can Only Be One: In-Universe, this becomes Mr. Monkeyjocks' mindset when (after spending the episode as Bluey and Bingo's "extra special" toy), he decides he should be the only special toy. So he "tasks" Bandit with throwing out all the other "special" toys to have the honor of being the special toy, therefore getting everything he wants. Of course, it turns into a Pyrrhic Victory when the girls note he looks awfully bored for someone who has everything he could ever want.
  • Wanting Is Better Than Having: The takeaway of the story. Bluey and Bingo want more toys, despite already having a ludicrous amount of toys already, even keeping the hardly-played-with Mr. Monkeyjocks. Towards the end, Mr. Monkeyjocks (through Bandit) adopts a spoiled attitude where he wants everything, including being the most special toy. But when he accomplishes that, Chili notes he seems bored with having everything. She "translates" that the reason is "When you have everything you want, it's not special anymore." This gives the girls food for thought at realizing that although having the best toys to themselves sounds nice, it's not as fulfilling as it's cracked up to be. At best, it leads to them deciding they'll have more fun donating their toys to other kids who have yet to experience the thrill of receiving a new toy.

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