History Recap / BlueyTheSign

-->'''Stripe:''' ...What day is it?

* PrehensileTail: Chili covers Bluey's mouth with her tail when her arms are full (covering the other kids' mouths) to keep her from revealing that Frisky left and the "wedding is off".

** The umbrella from [[Recap/BlueyRain "Rain"]] is seen in the back of the car as Chilli takes out the extra car seat. In the same shot, Chattermax from [[Recap/BlueyHideAndSeek]] is hidden in the boot, though he gets let out to dance at the wedding reception.

** The umbrella from [[Recap/BlueyRain "Rain"]] is seen in the back of the car as Chilli takes out the extra car seat.

** The episode opens with Bandit pushing Bingo on the swing. The production team has stated that this is a callback to [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the original unaired pilot]], in which the premise was Bandit pushing Bluey on the swing.

** The wedding DJ is the same busker from [[Recap/BlueyDanceMode "Dance Mode"]]--and plays the same song!

** Muffin's scream as she tries to shake the stuck coin from the viewfinder is reused audio of the same scream from [[Recap/BlueyTheSleepover "The Sleepover"]] as she shakes various objects.[[note]]This might not be wholly a callback. The production crew has stated that they reuse certain audio clips from earlier episodes to conceal that the child voice actors' voices have changed. Muffin's tendency to shake things when she doesn't get her way, however, is definitely a callback.[[/note]]

** The shot of Bluey sitting on the porch wearing red headphones is a reproduction of the artwork for ''Bluey: The Album.''

* CallBack:

** The butterfly that Bingo saved as a caterpillar in "[[Recap/BlueySlide Slide]]" plays a small but important role in the episode.

** As the wedding guests begin arriving, Bingo tricks Granddad Mort with Bluey's toilet prank from [[Recap/BlueyFavouriteThing "Favorite Thing"]].

** In the background of the reception, Bluey can be seen tricking another grown-up with the toilet prank from [[Recap/BlueyFavouriteThing "Favorite Thing"]].

** One of the Heeler's gnomes (Jeremy) is knocked by Frisky after she gets angry in a phone call with Radley. A RunningGag in the series is Jeremy getting hit by accident. Only Socks seems to feel bad for him.

** What's the first instrument we heard when the credits roll? [[Recap/BlueyMagicXylophone A Xylophone]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A police office pulls over Chilli due to Bluey sitting in the front seat, but after reading the law stating it is allowed under special circumstances, he checks to make sure Bluey is old enough and apologizes for the mix up. After the kids explain they are looking for Frisky, he tells them he just gave her a speeding ticket near the juice store, so they know where to search for her.

* TakingItWell: Throughout the episode, Bingo is uncharacteristically blasé about the family's house being sold. It's then {{subverted|Trope}} when it turns out Bingo [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint didn't understand that when a family sells their house, it means they won't be living in it anymore]]. When Chili finally explains this to her, she breaks down crying.

** Due to his job of working on an oil rig, Rad has to live far away from the rest of the family on the Western coast of Australia, and Frisky marrying him would mean that she would have to move out there with him too. However, since Rad just assumes that Frisky understands this already, he doesn't really bother to explain this to her until Stripe accidentally tells her for him, and after a disastrous phone call with her about it, Rad admits to Chilli that he's not very good at this.

* ShownTheirWork: There really ''is'' a Queensland rule which states children over four can sit in the front of a car if the back seats are all taken.

* TheNicknamer: Bucky Dunstan refers to Bandit by nicknames like "Bandito" and "Bandicus".

** Played for laughs with Grandpa Bob after he explains to Bingo, Socks, and Muffin that he's been away to India to "find himself." Muffin finds it silly and Bingo points out that he's "[[LiteralMinded right here]]". Bob concedes the point.

-->'''Stripe''': "...what day is it?"

* RightForTheWrongReasons: After hearing Calypso's story about the farmer (and the [[AnAesop moral]] about how everything will turn out the way it's supposed to), Bluey rides home with Bandit and shares her new-found optimism that things ''will'' work themselves out... because she's convinced that it means the sheepdog couple won't buy their house. On one hand, [[InstantlyProvenWrong a phone call later]], they learn that the buyers ''did'' purchase the house after all, but later, Bluey is unwittingly proven right when the couple changes their mind and moves into Winton's former house instead, as it was just a matter of a chain of events happening first.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: While Frisky goes aside to talk with Rad over the phone, the girls reflect on how helpful she's being volunteering to help them remove the "For Sale" sign. To this, Muffin gleefully remarks how nice Frisky is. ...before Frisky's conversation with Rad escalates, leading to her exploding and kicking the gnome in a nasty fit of frustration, much to the girls' shock.

* {{Symbolism}}: Throughout the episode, everyone tries to remove the "For Sale" sign that heralds the Heeler's house being on sale. First Bluey tries to remove it, then she tries to do so with Frisky's help. This not only signifies Bluey's wish to stay, but also Frisky lashing out at Rad's resolve to move the both of them out West. Later, Bingo tries to remove it when the ''true'' meaning of [[MovingAngst moving]] sinks in for her. None of these attempts ever work. It's only once Bandit (who attempted to go through with the move for the betterment of his family) uproots the sign himself that the family's resolve to stay in Brisbane sticks.