Bluey, Bingo, Muffin and Socks are playing in the kitchen when Muffin asks Chilli about a figurine on the kitchen counter. Chilli says she got it while backpacking and that it brings her good luck. Bluey explains what backpacking is and Muffin suggests making a game of it. Bluey has the idea that they play the backpacks while Bandit and Chilli carry them around. Bandit and Chilli look worried.
Bandit (carrying Bluey and Bingo) and Chilli (carrying Muffin and Socks) arrive in a new city looking for a place to stay. Chilli looks through the guidebook for a hotel while Bandit goes in search of food. He buys and eats an entire stall’s worth of croissants with a banana.
Chilli haggles with a rickshaw driver to take them to a hotel. Before she can bring the price down, Bandit gets a stomach ache from all the croissants and urges Chilli to pay the driver whatever he wants.
Chilli wants to stop and take a photo of a temple. She searches her front backpack (Socks) and pulls out a potato masher instead of a camera.
The pair find their stop, and Bandit attempts to pay the driver but instead pulls out a TV remote. Bluey tells Bandit he is really thirsty and gives Bandit an empty water bottle. Chilli can’t find the hotel, and Bandit is desperate to find a toilet. He suggests a nearby motel.
The two try to book a room, but the front desk asks to see their passports. Bandit searches for his bags but his tummy ache gets worse. Bandit rifles through Chilli’s backpack for the passports, which the kids keep switching between them. After Chilli pulls out a toilet brush, Bandit says they need to empty the backpacks, turning them (the kids) upside down and shaking everything loose.
Chilli's lucky souvenir falls out and Bandit begs the statue for luck. The passports shake out and everyone cheers. Chilli tells Bandit the statue works. Later in the evening, Bandit throws the guidebook away and says it’s time for their mountain hike. They put on their new hiking boots (once again, played by the children).
This episode provides examples of:
- Good Luck Charm: The souvenir Chilli got while backpacking, which is a figurine of a dog wearing a straw hat and playing a flute while riding an ox. Chilli says it brings good luck but Bandit disagrees.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Bandit and Chilli throw around phrases in various languages like French, German, Italian and Sanskrit.
- Here We Go Again!: After the whole ordeal of finding the hotel and carrying very heavy backpacks, Chilli and Bandit have a moment to relax. Then Bandit suggests a mountain hike with their new hiking boots, the boots in question being played once again by the kids.
- I Warned You: Chilli tells Bandit not to eat too much. He then eats an entire stall’s worth of croissants which later gives him a stomachache.
- Keep Away: The kids play this with the passports to prevent the adults from finding them.
- Lint Value: Bandit tries to pay the croissant vendor but instead hands him a banana. Surprisingly, the banana is a valid payment.
- Potty Emergency: Bandit eats too many croissants and soon suffers a tummy ache (here represented by Bingo punching Bandit in the stomach). He spends the rest of the episode desperate for the toilet.
- Rummage Fail: The kids specifically invoke this trope whenever the adults need something from their bags by handing them the wrong thing.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Both Bandit and Chilli have this reaction when the girls say they want to play Backpackers.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The city that Bandit and Chilli explore is an ambiguous mixture of cultures and landmarks, including a stall that sells French croissants, an unspecified temple, open air markets, Chilli greeting a cart driver by saying "Namaste", and Bandit later speaking to the hoteliers in Italian. Justified, as it's both a child's game and a city made from what are implied to be mementos of the parents' various backpacking adventures prior to the kids being born.
