"I can't be happy with what I've got when what she's got is better!"
When Bandit gets a look at Lucky's Dad's brand-new pizza oven, he herds the family into the car for a trip to Hammerbarn, the local house-and-garden store, to acquire a pizza oven for himself, leaving Chilli to mind the kids and pick out accessories. The girls begin building their own gardens in the shopping trolley, complaining whenever one has something the other doesn't have. Chilli tries to explain that wanting what someone else has will only make them unhappy and that it's better to be satisfied with what you have, but the competition continues until one of the girls accidentally smashes her garden gnome husband, leading to a scolding from Chilli.Rounding a corner, the girls find a wall of free paint samples, which they use to pretend that they have everything—only to soon find themselves at the checkout, where their lavish gardens must be disassembled and all their "belongings" taken away. Back home, the family loves the pizza from their new oven, hinting that sometimes getting what you want can make life a little better.
Tropes:
- Bland-Name Product: The "Hammerbarn" hardware store is recognizable to Australian families as a stand-in for the Bunnings chain of big box hardware retailers.
- Broken Aesop:
- Played with and in-universe. When Chili tries to explain to Bluey the follies of coveting what someone else has, she drives home that buying everything you ever want is unwise because there's nothing that comes free. Cue Bingo and Bluey finding an entire section of free paint samples, all fit to make whatever Bingo and Bluey want for their imaginary game. So contrary to what Chili was trying to teach them, they did find everything they could ever want for free.
Chilli: Just try not to get used to it, okay?Bluey: (in an exaggerated posh voice) Oh, it’s that lady who said we can’t have everything we want!Bingo: Don’t listen to her, Rhonda.- In spite of Chilli's early insistence that the family doesn't really need a pizza oven, it turns out that the new oven is actually pretty great.
- Easily Forgiven: Even though Bingo is clearly saddened when her garden gnome "husband" is broken during hers and Bluey's scuffle for the "table", she doesn't hold it against her sister. She doesn't even blame her once for his "death".
- Grass is Greener: The running conflict, as Bluey is constantly dissatisfied that Bingo has better things than she does. Additionally, this episode starts because Bandit was jealous of Pat's new pizza oven and the family goes to Hammerbarn so they can get one of their own.
- Meaningful Echo: "Nothing lasts forever." First time, Bandit says it to Chili in response to her complaint about the house's gutters falling apart. Second time around, Chili says it to her daughters after the check-out that makes them lose her stuff. This time around, it's helping her come to terms with it.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the fight between Bluey and Bingo results in Bluey breaking a gnome, the usually calm and cheerful Chilli gets genuinely angry with her. After all, her daughters just broke unbought merchandise, and now she has to pay for it with her own money.
- Space Whale Aesop: How the aesop initially presents itself as. Bluey trying to take the pizza stone from Bingo results in Bingo's "husband" (a garden gnome) falling out the trolley and breaking. It's how Chilli tells off Bluey that crosses into this trope.Chilli: This is what happens when you're not happy with what you got! Someone's husband eventually gets it!
- Tastes Better Than It Looks: When Bandit uses the family's new pizza oven for the first time, the pizza comes out as a lumpy mess. However, Chilli says it tastes amazing after she tries it, and the episode ends with everyone enjoying the pizza.
- Tempting Fate: When Chili tries to inform her daughters not to get attached to their pretend "belongings", the two girls simply shrug it off, since she was previously wrong about how nothing comes free (despite they found a way to make things free in their game). Not long, they realize they're at the check-out, and promptly lose all their belongings one by one, just as Chili warned them.
