It's the weekend, and Bluey and Bingo are playing statues with their dad.
Note: An early version of this episode exists, as the second pilot episode of the show. It was later re-edited as the sixth episode of Season 1.
Tropes applying to The Weekend:
- Animation Bump: During the close-up shots of the walking leaf, Bingo's face is drawn with a much higher level of detail and expressiveness.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Due to the final version reusing scenes and voice lines from the 2017 pilot, the characters often looked rather Off-Model compared to other episodes, as well as Bluey and Bingo sounding a bit different.
- Dollars are called by the standard Aussie slang term "dollarydoos"; fairly soon the show would start using Bluey's idiosyncratic term "dollarbucks" exclusively.
- Episode Title Card: Bingo reads the title card.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: Bluey and Bingo play a game called Statues, where Bingo pretends to be a statue, Bandit "buys" her from Bluey, and then she moves to another place and assumes the same position when he's not looking.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: The tiny walking leaf that Bingo comes across.
- Stock Femur Bone: The screen of Chili's Fitbit and Bluey's blanket both have bones on them.
- Toilet Humor: Bandit pausing play to go to the toilet.
Tropes exclusive to the 2017 pilot version:
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference:
- Mackenzie's tail has a white tip, and the colors of both of his legs and feet match.
- The markings on Bluey's face are darker, and her nose is brown.
- The intro shows Mackenzie, Rusty and Bluey in their designs from the 2016 pilot, with the pilot itself using an artstyle closer to the eventual series.
- Bingo's snout is longer and the markings on her back are nearly completely different.
- Bandit has no dark blue markings on the left side of his face, and there is no yellow on his belly.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The pilot version has quite a few major differences from the final version, as well as the show in general.
- Mackenzie, Rusty, and Bluey are the only ones to appear in the opening, which also consists of them dancing above Bluey's name.
- Like in the 2016 pilot, "Pinball Lez" by Custard (with the line "Bluey! Ruff ruff!") is used as the theme music.
- The characters' eyelids aren't visible when they blink.
- The episode's title is not spoken aloud, and no illustration is shown in the title card.
- The appearance of each room in the house is completely different from the show, and Bluey and Bingo have separate bedrooms; in the series proper, they share the same bedroom.
- Chilli's voice is softer.
