Some of this comes from watching Bluey in a literal fever binge and believing I wrote a PhD dissertation on the show because it touched so many half-forgotten things from my Masters Degree's "individual studies": I think an interesting thing to Bluey is that it is not just a "show about nothing". It's not just the daily lives and family dynamics, it actually has a central point embedded in even the studio name (Ludo Studios), which is the importance of play and games (Ludo relates to the latin for play from which we also get modern fancy terms like ludology, the study of games, and ludonarrative dissonance, the difference between what a game's story is trying to tell and what its mechanics and play style is telling), not just for fun (but also for fun), but in learning good conflict resolution and safely exploring your identity and your relationships with others and things you might want to be or grow up to do and understanding complex systems by analyzing their rulesets and playstyles and more.

There's always at least one game in every episode. It hit me early in my fever dream of a binge watch: even the intro is itself a game. One of the many simple "freeze"/"simon says"/"red light/green light"/"musical chairs" variants (the show calls it "statues" in one episode), dance while the music plays and freeze when the music stops and if you move while you are supposed to be frozen you lose. (I cheered loudly at the first episode where Bluey doesn't win the intro game. It was a lovely reward for never skipping the intro.)

There's so many good lessons about games as a lifelong tool scattered across nearly every episode, as a part of what makes the family dynamics so bright and exciting.

Ludo is also the name of a very popular board game

> For those who haven't seen it, it's more akin to a family sitcom than a traditional kids show/cartoon

That’s a really good way of describing it.

It really does have that kind of vibe to it.

It might just be their daily lives, but every single story has a memorable point, which is significant and distinct. “Shadowland” is a clear & more obvious example.