Australians Are Not Loving The Daily Wire’s ‘Bluey’ Knock-Off
Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
https://www.themarysue.com/australians-are-not-loving-the-daily-wires-bluey-knock-off/Open linkView original on kbin.social
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Someone saw how amazing and loving the Heeler family was and decided "this makes me mad, I'm going to make an intolerant version of this that fits my world view!". Not to mention I can't remember politics ever even coming up in bluey when I watch it with my kids.
Like every work of art, it’s full of politics:
No wonder it triggers right-wingers.
Not to mention, it even caters to actual dogs! The colour scheme used was designed to only use colours that dogs can see.
I never heard that before. Very cool!
It's one of those fake TikTok "facts" that's only kind of true. The Heelers are blue/orange, which does work decently well with Deuteranopia (red-green color blindness), and is closest to what dogs' vision is like. But it's mostly just a coincidence, and there's plenty of cases where scenes really don't work well if you run them through a Deuteranopia filter, and Chili/Bingo really blend into the background a lot of the time.
I've never heard this before and don't know if it's true or not... but if you told me that Ben Shapiro and his ilk were absolutely furious it, I'd say that sounds a hundred percent on brand for them.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of sounds? IIRC, dogs see in monochrome.
That's a myth. They can see a very limited palette of colors.
Ben Shapiro is a cancerous colon wart.
That's not fair to cancer.
I'm fine with that.
Yeah, at least cancer has the decency to not be contagious from one moron to another.
Everyone knows the dad is supposed to come home angry about what he's listened to all day about the left, beat his wife and kids mercilessly to show them who's really in charge, and not engage in any meaningful way with them at all before passing out drunk.
It's as American as apple pie!
Which, coincidentally, isn't even American.
Hey, we stole that from the Dutch, fair and square.
At this point, anything they call "the left" just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
Whenever they say “woke” I filter it in my mind to “being a reasonable person.”
whenever they say "woke" it's generally in the context of accepting that a black person or woman is currently speaking.
Sharing cookies is beta male wokeness!
It is hard not to be to the left of Republican Media groups since 2016 and everything that followed.
This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.
Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you're being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it's a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They'd still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.
When you think you're justified in being an asshole because you're not actually an asshole you're great actually it's those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you're entitled to, who are wrong, you're just defending yourself and your people (you're a hero actually), that's when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.
They are trying to ruin Bluey? Australia's second greatest cultural export? Is nothing sacred any more?
It's pathetic how they are not making shows out of love, but out of spite.
What's the greatest cultural export in your opinion?
Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actor Hugh Jackman, of course!
That man can sing.
I'd say it's a tie between Steve Irwin and the bloomin' onion.
... the bloomin' onion isn't Australian. Americans made it up.
Next you’re gonna tell me fortune cookies aren’t Chinese.
Um, no. It was brought over by poor Australian immigrant outback steak chefs in the 1980s. You can tell it's legit because all thier menu items have authentic Australian words in them.
I swear one of the most American things ever is to think a lot of the foods we associate with certain countries that we invented came from other countries.
Makes it seem more exotic. That fortune cookie? Super exotic because you can only get them when you eat Chinese, so they must have originated from China!
Theyre from San Francisco for anyone curious.
Steve Irwin.
All these people forgetting about the Wiggles.
The Wiggles at one point were the highest-grossing Australian band of all time, beating out AC/DC. (I don't think that's true anymore though.)
The wiggles could never all be on a plane together. I think they said they always sent 2+2 on commercial flights so if one crashed half the band would still be around
Yahoo Serious
knifey spoony was the greatest cultural export
Have you ever seen a line which is immediately apparent as pure, distilled truth? homeschooling being a common tactic among conservatives to indoctrinate their children into Christian nationalism fits the bill.
Can confirm. Was Christian homeschooled. Learned nothing useful outside of the Bible and a weirdly curated list of other topics. Physics, but not biology. And exclusively America/Christian centric history.
Can also confirm, was 'homeschooled' which meant those terrible books the homeschool book companies would send you all about how Noah's ark was on mount Arrerrat (sp?) And how supply side Jesus was the best. Did read the Bible cover to cover 3 times for something to do, lotta weird shit in there...
Thank fuck for PBS or I wouldn't have learned anything
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
I mean, it's totally a self own. The thing is though, republicans as a whole are putting forth a decades long concentrated effort to villify schools and schooling. They know that public exposure and education leads to left leaning opinions, even for kids raised in strictly right households, and even through the young adult phase into college.
The conversation has been so warped for republicans and their conservative base that what sounds like a self own to a regular person is just another truth. It doesn't even sound strange to them.
So while it is a self own to anyone with a shred of sense, it's also a terrifying sign of the times and a serious foundational threat for our young generation.
As an Australian I can confirm I have nfi what the daily wire's bluey knock off is
As an American, from the Daily Wire's home country, neither do I. And I don't have a young child, but I know who Bluey is.
As another Australian, I think Disney needs to beat the living shit out of them with a DMCA hammer.
Disney owns the American distribution rights, but yeah. They don't own the copyright or the trademarks.
Disney has the US rights. The ABC should also join in though. The more the merrier!
In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey
BLUEY
It really doesn’t get any sadder than this
Not only does he hate Bluey, he hates Bluey so much that he decided to spend a substantial amount of money to make Not-Bluey.
I just found another, more detailed article about the show. Rob Schneider is starring in it, so you know it's good.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/17/is-new-kids-show-chip-chilla-a-blatant-bluey-knock-off-for-conservatives
In the first picture in this article they’re clearly cooking on an electric stove. Weren’t electric stoves supposed to be woke?
Ewww. I remembered he exists.
Rob Schneider, the guy who starred in an entire movie with the plot being him having swapped minds with a woman and being stuck in her body? That Rob Schneider?
Yes, and many other terrible films. Often with Adam Sandler.
By the way, he also wrote The Hot Chick.
"This summer, Rob Schneider is...A Stapler!”
He sure put in a performance... of some sort... in Norm of the North.
I wonder how successful these counter mainstream efforts will be. There's a market for crazy Christian movies etc, I imagine there will be a similar one for parents terrified of reality.
Yeah, but Bluey? That's like being terrified of Mr. Rogers. This is a failure for the same reason it would be a failure if you decided Mr. Rogers wasn't mean enough so you made your own show with a similar guy but mean.
But Fox News is scared of Mr Rogers too
What aren't they terrified of? But Rupert didn't go so far as saying, "we need to make the anti-Bluey now!"
Oh if Mr Rogers was current he would have been seen as incredibly "woke". This is the man who during the civil rights discourse decided that kids needed to see black people as less scary and capable of authority so they implemented the character of Officer Clemmons. There is a famous clip of him offering Officer Clemmons a chance to cool his feet in the same wading pool he's using because out in the world there was a massive push to keep public pools segregate and conservative nutjobs were throwing caustics into pools that didn't comply and telling their kids that black people were dirty.
They would have been screaming for an end to Rogers " woke SJW tyranny".
...and this is very likely the last time you'll ever hear about Chip Chilla.
Lessons from chilli.
Don't hold hands with the gerbils chilli, they'll make you dirty.
No, you see chilli, your friend goes to school hungry because their father doesn't work hard enough, they deserve it.
If you're good, daddy will take you the range where we can take turns playing with his brand new gun!
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There's no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that's not the world we live in.
Anything Republicans make will be cringe propaganda
Bluey is the shit! How can anyone not love Bluey?
Not enough propoganda, id imagine
Something something grooming kids, what's irony mean?
Knee replacement surgery
I understand the Australians.
One presumes the breed of the family will be German Shepherds.
Literally says in the articles thats its chinchillas but I get you meant it as a joke.
Heres a (crappy) video that shows a bit of the art, looks super similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4F1Yg9hBg
Can someone sue on behalf of all chinchillas for the show being derogatory to all chinchillas?
The sheer audacity of the chinchillas lacking hispanic accents. Did no-one working for the show look up where chinchillas are from?
Which is more offensive: that none of the chinchillas have Latin accents, or that the father is voiced by Rob Fucking Schneider?
You know what's wild? We all thought Rob Schneider was gonna be the sellout making weird movies forever about being random things.
Well Adam Sandler is now the class iguana that solves all the kids problems in his new movie and Schneider is just a sad loser schilling for conservatives. Somehow the future ended up a full step even sadder than imagined.
this reminds me of when my parents got us mail order vhs tapes from feature films for families and came across a movie called the buttercream gang and was supposed to hate the kid pete who joined a gang in chicago (lol not too obvious, especially since he was latino) and basically thought he was the coolest and i wanted to be his friend so much :P
Here's what I would like to see. Have Bluey do the same thing to the rip-off that Gumball did with its own copycat.
Opening the link in Chromium with no ad blockers, I get a "you're using an ad blocker" popup that prevents me from seeing the article and can't be closed (and, ironically, an ad loads behind the ad blocker message). Opening the link in Firefox with an ad blocker, I get no messages and I can read the article without ads. Genius.
E:
Huh... It's exactly the same argument I heard from a left winger about the right wing. I'm wondering if it's all bs and everyone is wrong and we should all just love one another and respect each other. Huh...
E: I just watched a couple minutes on YouTube. This show [the knock off one] has THE worst voice acting I think I've ever seen (even on children's shows). The writing is also crap, which doesn't help. Maybe it was just the clip and not the whole show, but I don't think so. The makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this. Cocomelon looks like Shakespeare when compared to chinchilla. Wth
E: this was the couple-minute clip I watched, if anyone's interested.
Where have I heard this before?
Both sides, actually. Kinda my point haha It's all stupid.
Are you talking about Bluey or the rip off show?
I was talking about the rip off. Bluey's voice acting and writing are next level.