I've seen parents complain that it sets an unrealistic expectation for parents. That nobody could spend all their time entertaining their kids whims and games the way Bandit does and how you don't often see the parents really putting their foot down or even having to work. I think some of the push back is guilt/regret that it can't always be like that. It's better to see it as something to aspire to when possible than an expectation that things will be like that all the time. The show is also careful to show the parents struggling at times too and tries to encourage parents.

It’s not unrealistic!

I also can entertain my kids for 8 minutes a day!

It's just doggies singing songs, mate.

It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?

Probably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk

.. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.

Yeah, at first I thought it was 'ilk', but then I suspected that there was yet another exclusionary in-joke hidden somewhere.

Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.

Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.

Don't worry, just for fun.

I'm pretty certain that's a quote from Bandit.

Ah fair enough.