Recap / Bluey Typewriter

Bluey, Winton, and Snickers are on their way to ask Calypso for help with their problems, when they are ambushed by the Terriers and use their unique talents to get past.

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Tropes:

• 1-Dimensional Thinking: When Snickers "sausage rolls" towards the Terriers, none of them think to dodge to the side or jump over him (despite Bluey and Winton doing precisely the latter). They all try to run away and get knocked off their feet.
• It Was with You All Along:
  • Calypso tells a story about an old dog who spends years begging for treats, while sitting on a wooden chest at the side of a road. When a passing gnome curiously prompts him to see what's in the chest he's sitting on, the old dog discovers it was full of treats all along.
    • Bluey wants to "write" a story of her own - she doesn't understand why the old dog didn't look in the chest in the first place, and intends to write a version of the story where the old dog looked in the chest right away - but finds the typewriter has gone missing (she hasn't yet learned to read or write for real, so she just wants to use the typewriter as a prop). While walking to Calypso, Bluey, Winton, and Snickers run afoul the Terriers, who convince the former three to avoid their imaginary arrows; Winton later encourages Bluey to use an imaginary shield as a defense. Calypso takes the imaginary shield as a sign of the strength of Bluey's imagination and so asks Bluey to demonstrate ''how'' she would use the typewriter if she could find it, so Bluey pantomimes typing - and finally realizes that an imaginary typewriter is just as good for her purposes as the real deal. (Tellingly, after Bluey leaves, it is revealed that Calypso's stool was concealing the typewriter.)
  • Snickers states he hates being a "sausage dog" simply because his long body and short legs make it difficult for him to sit cross-legged. Bluey utilizes this to beat the Terriers: Snickers' long body allows him to evade one Terrier by hiding behind thin tree trunks and later trip up all three Terriers when he rolls down a hill, at which point he yells out his love for being a sausage dog.
  • Winton is blind to having No Sense of Personal Space, noticing other kids moving away from him, failing to understand why, and becoming discouraged of himself. While Bluey tells Winton how she will use his 'flaw' to their advantage against the Terriers, she manages to get Winton to realize the problem, after which he only uses his "space-invading" tendencies to ward off an approaching Terrier; afterwards, he unconsciously respects Bluey's personal space.
• Stealth Pun: Bluey, Winton, and Snickers wander upon the Terriers, who are pretending to be Scottish archers defending Scotland from the British; while telling Winton what he needs to do to repel the Terriers, Bluey calls him a "space invader", a term that remains in use and sounds as if Winton is an extraterrestrial. But when one thinks about it, not only are the "British" invading the "space" of the "Scottish", but Winton is exactly that—a space invader.

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