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When Dad complains about how dissimilar Bluey and Bingo are, Bluey hatches a plan to make them more alike and happily introduces Mini-Bluey.


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  • Aesop: Good parents don't expect their kids to be perfect or blame them for being who they are.
    • Alternatively, you can't behave in an annoying way- especially deliberately (and this episode shows that a lot of Bluey's annoying habits are conscious decisions on her part)- and expect that not to affect people's view of you.
  • Continuity Nod: Bluey sings some early lines using the same operatic voice that she had sung with in the episode "Dance Mode". Also, when Bluey-as-Big-Bingo says, "What!?" in response to Bandit saying that he could get used to having double Bingo, it sounds almost exactly the same as when Bingo said it at the beginning of "Dance Mode".
  • Does Not Like Spam: Bingo doesn't like cheese and jelly sandwiches; she prefers banana and peanut butter (which Bluey doesn't like).
  • Exact Words: After getting fed up with the shenanigans of either two Blueys or two Bingos, Bandit and Chili say that from now on, they just want one Bingo and one Bluey. The kids comply. Except that now they get a mini-Bluey and a big-Bingo. As Bandit and Chilli put it, close enough.
  • Innocently Insensitive: It was rather facetious when Bandit claimed that he wouldn't mind if there was only two Bingos. This deeply hurts Bluey, who takes it to mean her parents don't want her.
  • Joke of the Butt: For the second episode in a row, Chilli is subjected to this. This time, while she is bent over cleaning the playroom, Bluey and Mini-Bluey (Bingo) come in and tap her rear.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After Bandit hurts Bluey's feelings by saying he prefers two Bingos to two Blueys, he watches her run away heartbroken. Despite that, he whispers to Chilli that he still feels that way, and the latter agrees. Neither of them ever apologise to Bluey on-screen, and Bingo gives them the last laugh, proving to Bluey that she can be just as annoying by scaring them into the closet.
  • Not So Above It All: After Bandit accidentally hurts Bluey's feelings and she flees the room, he turns to Chilli and repeats that having two Bingos is nice, to which she agrees.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: The story explores how Bluey and Bingo, for all their similar interests and shared love of made-up games, are like night and day. When Bingo becomes mini-Bluey, you have twice as many Blueys who "ask questions, don't listen to the answer, and whine about housework". Meanwhile, when Bluey becomes Big Bingo, there are now two Bingos who are helpful and don't mind house chores.

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