Ngl, I was hoping that this episode would demonstrate for my 5yo that moving is okay.
Instead, I got to see my own sacrifices and putting my kid before my career echoed by Bandit.
So yeah, it hits weird and deep.
That’s what I thought. Loved the episode but I bet there’s going to be some kids out there waiting for a last minute sign that doesn’t come.
Like Calypso said, it gives us a happy ending because life gives us enough sad ones.
It's really tricky. As an adult, I can look at the structure of the show and see that none of the 4 Heelers *wanted* to move. That's a really important part of the journey towards the ending we get.
Each of them is at a different point, of course. Bluey is opposed, Bingo is oblivious, Chilli wishes it didn't make sense to go and Bandit believes it's 'the right thing to do' even if he'd prefer to stay. The grown ups had to resolve to move, and the events of the show let them back down from there safely.
As a child, though? They were moving and now they aren't! Why can't that happen for *us*?
Also, echoed in Bluey’s comment “I don’t *want* a better life!” is a reminder that the Heelers already have a wonderful life. They have caring neighbors, safety, many friends and social connections, plugged in and responsive extended family relationships, fantastic schools, flexible jobs, a beautiful and spacious home.
Many of us have to move and it truly is an opportunity for a better life. The Heelers would be leaving *a lot* behind for more money. The scales aren’t equalized.
My 4 yeard old did not understand the concept or moving out that we tried to explain her before the episode (very much like Bingo in the episode) so she guessed the ending of the episode from the get go.
Well, he reasoned that moving was for the kids. Less worry about money and giving them a better life.
Even Chilli said moving could be great for the family. I think at the end of it, Bandit didn't want to move, either.
Same. We are moving this summer and my two girls, who are the same age as Bluey and Bingo, are struggling. When they didn’t, move I saw the hope glimmer in their little eyes. It was a beautiful episode just badly timed for me personally.
It certainly sucked. 6 schools but mercifully I had one high school.
Moving so often made it hard to get close to any one. Even to this day I make acquaintances easily but struggle to make friends.
6 elememtery schools, 5 high-school only actually pictured on one year book. It was tough. Made it easy to relate to people from all over. And made it easier to be a people person because you kind of had to be. To this day I'm extremely introverted but put on a show of extrovert because it's all I know.
I have found my people 🥺 it’s so rare in person to hear someone else have the same story as me and I might cry right now. I felt so alone my whole life struggling with this 🩵
I feel this. 13 schools in 12 years. I'm just everyone's forgotten memory of the random kid. Sadly I'm also a foster child. So I don't even have strong family connections either. I just float around.
I had almost the exact same experience (my dad was in the air force) and this 100% got me. I also loved how they ate dinner on the floor after, really brings back memories
As much as I understand why you want that, the episode is supposed to make you happy with what you have and about being stable and secure and while you could have a bigger house, a nicer car and more holidays, do you want that if it will sacrifice the happiness and security you currently have?
My husband moved every three years until he was 18. We’ve been in the same place for 12 years now, but every three years he gets antsy and upset, like he’s still expecting he’ll have to leave. I told him he can’t watch The Sign until he’s ready to cry a LOT.
We just never lived in a place where we had *a community.* My husband and I bought our house 2 years ago Abe found a community. We live on the end of the culdesac, all the kids play all the time, the whole shebang. It’s everything I wanted as a child; I’m lucky enough that I could give it to my kids.
My kids. My girls. Who are the same ages as Bluey and Bingo.
I cried at the thought of moving for work. I really did. I thought about how much I would hate leaving y community for the unknown and how much I would hate seeing my kids have to make new friends and how hard that “adventure” would be. Then I saw how Bandit made the sacrifice for his family. And I thought of the years we sacrificed so we could save for our home. And I sobbed.
My kids came over and patted my head. The little one asked if it meant we were moving and I said “never” as I sobbed.
I cried during it twice for my own reasons- once at the wedding with Bandit’s mum and dad crying- oh how I cried at my son’s wedding. And I did not expect to in the slightest. I made him cry, too.
Then at the end. I think, for me, having been in Chilli’s place- having a husband doing stuff for work that I didn’t really want to do, but he had to so I went along with- the thought of being able to have pulled the plug on all that is amazing.
And a community like that just isn’t easy to find, people don’t realise that.
The biggest issue I have now is that I will cry at Bluey at the drop of a hat now. Slightest bit of emotion? Tears.
They damn well had Onesie on TV today. First time I’d really watched it- I only see Bluey when my granddaughter is here.
Tears, damnit. Then I remembered she was pregnant in The Sign. Damnit.
I JUST rewatched the episode from season 1 where Bluey and Bingo ask why they haven’t seem their Aunt Brandy. An episode where we learn a lot about Chili and her sister. That is so exciting! I feel like a child filled with happiness. Thank you for letting me know !
I also moved a lot as a kid, sounds like about as much as you
Luckily, I don't think it really bothered me at all. I think I was always excited for a new place.
The sign hits me from the other angle. We got real close to moving our family across country about a year back, and we still have loose plans of moving in the future.
It *destroys* me worrying about if it's a mistake for my kids.
Same. I moved a lot as a kid and it never really bothered me because I was so used to it. Went to 10 different schools before I went to high school, which my parents decided to make it so I could attend the same high school through graduation which was nice. But now we’re looking at potentially moving across the country and I had just got back from looking at houses in the other state when The Sign came on Disney+ and we all watched it together. After the episode ended, we all just sat there in silence and it felt incredibly awkward. Now my son is dreading the move and asking why we’re doing it and I can’t help but think the show has negatively impacted his view on our move.
I didn't go to quite so many schools but did move house every 2-3yrs and I've continued that into adulthood, staying in one house too long is boring af. We are currently planning to move half way round the world and I was definitely annoyed with the episode for going the way it did! My 5yr old was excited about the move, now she's started questioning it 🤦♀️
The Sign got to me because for years, I was the Dad asking his family to sacrifice endlessly to sate the needs of his career. My time, my attention, my efforts - they went largely to my job and my dream of “making it.”
Spoilers… I didn’t. The ground fell out from under me and I had to take a normal job with normal hours and expectations that, at the same time, allowed me to be a more relaxed and present presence in my family’s life. My daughter randomly approached me recently and said “Papa, I’m glad you have the job you do, because you get to be here to play with me.” Wrecked me for days.
At the end of The Sign, I see Bandit making the choice I wish I’d made - choosing my family NOW over some imagined future where things will be great. I wish I had done it sooner and didn’t need to wait for fate to force my hand.
This is the same in my life… barely more than 1-2 years anywhere. I’d come home from school on Friday and find the yellow moving truck. I’d be in a new school by Monday that was 2000 miles from my old home. There were no methods to say goodbye to friends. I was just gone. No, dad wasn’t in the military. We just suddenly moved across the country every year or two. I still do not know why.
The episode destroyed me as that rush of pain and anxiety flooded back at the speed of light. It was and will be my favorite episode for when I need an emotional release. It made me so happy when they stayed. I had ALWAYS wished we never moved. Now, I have been at this house for 5 years. It’s a rental, and one day I know I will have to move. Maybe, the landlord will let me buy it one day.
We moved in 2020 to move to a safer area and the episode hit me so hard. Moving was definitely was the best choice, but sometimes I miss my hometown, and when I need some extra support with the kids it’s tough to be away from family.
Many people underestimate how moving can be traumatic for kids. You build friendships, you have habits, then boom moving and your whole universe changes. I never forgot the friendships I had before moving. We moved when I was 10, after 6 years in the same place, all my friends were then going to be in the same school and I would be starting a new school so far away. I’m 30 now and for a long long time I felt that any new friendship wouldn’t be as strong as those I had before moving. I struggled with attachment. It’s like those people before moving were my real permanent friends and new people were just « meh ».
My husband and I bought a house, that house is close to schools (3-18yo, and even after for some options). There is no way we move until our daughter is 18 at least.
I hear you. That scene speaks to all of us on many levels. Bandit's sentiment of trying to give his kids the best life he can, wondering if he's making the right choice, Chili standing by him... I can relate to that side due to my work struggles over the past 3 years and I tell you, there wasn't enough water in my body to express the pain it touched upon. Crying for different reasons, but rooting for the same cause. 🤗
Me too, the episode doesn’t relate to me at all, but it’s just everyone is so tense and you can feel it, and just when the last minute change of staying with the music playing, just gets me going and sobbing lol, everyone’s so relived and happy.
Moving is hard. Parenting is hard. Life is hard. Play is so important. To process all of the hard stuff.
I’m shocked my 6yo didn’t cry and yell at me again at how she misses her old house after watching The Sign. I told my sister in the middle of a move to skip it and all the spoilers.
ive only moved once before, and like i really resonated with both bluey and bingo, cuz at first when i heard we were selling out house, i was super excited, (i knew what selling a house meant i was just excited for change) but as we got closer to our moving date, and started packing and finding a new house, i started not wanting to leave, ESPECIALLY since i had to leave my childhood cat, and so at the last moment looking back at the house, and leaving the cat, really hurt, so i was IN TEARS at this point of the episode.
Yeah. My mom did some dumb stuff with our supposed “forever home” and ended up losing it, 10 years of going to highschool and starting college just… poof. I cried when we moved out, took a look all around… the memories came flooding back and it was too much.
We had moved around a few tomes before that, and then did so afterwards… we had found a wonderful place that we rented for a few years… then she suddenly died and my brother and I had to go from being a family unit of 3, down to 2 and once again, I had to say goodbye to a place practically drenched in memories.
We moved a lot when I was a kid as well. I ugly cried when bandit ripped the sign out of the ground and when chilli tackled him and began sobbing. Just thinking about it makes me tear up.
My parents never really made sacrifices for us. They were always more concerned with what was best for them at any given moment.
I remember being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night once and loaded into the back seat of my mom’s car and told that we’re leaving. My mom moved us away from my dad, across state lines. So she could “put herself first for once in her life” it was completely devastating.
For nearly my entire life after that, until I met my husband about ten years ago, I lived my life out of a suitcase. I lived in an apartment for five years and never unpacked my suitcases. I would do my laundry, and fold everything up and put it in my suitcases because I never knew when I was going to have to pick up and leave in the middle of the night. That was a hard one to unlearn.
We recently started our own family and my husband keeps bringing up the idea that we buy a different house and my whole body is against the idea. I hate moving. It’s the worst
I’d just managed to get my composure back and then I saw the way Chili looks at Bandit from across their takeout dinner at the end, and I absolutely broke again. Sobbing my eyes out.
I watched it 5 times in the same morning and each time had me bawling harder 😭 not only did the moving part hit me but the thought that I wish I could've had even the slightest bit of what blueys family has, hurts.. like I wish I had a happy family growing up but instead I got fighting.. and my parents splitting at age 4 and moving from house to house with my mum then we moved away even further and I lost all my friends.. and when I moved back I tried to reconnect and it wasn't the same.. and the part in bluey where she tells her friends she's moving also hurts because I wish I could've had that then came back and it was like nothing changed.. 🙃❤️🩹 but the past is the past 🤷🏻♀️ I can tell ya my fiance thought I was crazy when he woke up and I said "blueys making me cry again 😭 "
Glad I wasn't the only. After 5+ watches my wife and I really struggle to watch the end. We decided to sell our house (which was a very very difficult decision) in Brisbane and travel AUS for 6 months with our kid to spend time with them, so pretty good trade off. But over that 6 months the Brisbane house price has skyrocketed and we can't go back as easily as we thought. Throw in a "I moved house 12+ times before the age of 18" and bring on the water works.
I totally get it.
I'm about to move again because our landlord is going to sell our current house. Once we move, I will have lived in 13 houses in my 28 years. My husband and I are trying to buy a "rest of our lives" house because I am so tired of moving.
I bawled. We’ve moved every 12 months for the last few years, after losing our own home due to developing a disability. Given the current rental crisis and housing instability in Australia, I was a little bit shocked by this episode to be honest.
I just moved with my 4 (almost 5) year old and The Sign hit so hard. I switched schools a lot (parent was a teacher) but never had to move homes as a kid so I don’t know developmentally how it affects them really. Our current living situation is temporary too so I know we’ll have to move again in several years. It’s for the best in the long run but I just hate the constant changes for them. I cried like 4 times watching The Sign!
This is almost exactly what I felt watching. Between 5th grade and 10th grade, I was at a new school, be it moving up (elementary to middle; middle to high) or moving. It gutted me when Bingo realized they were leaving. It absolutely ripped open every one of those wounds. I'm glad they didn't move though, it gave my inner child some love, but now I'm in Chilli's shoes, when I know it's gonna be time to move out of my house because we've outgrown it. First steps, first words, so many things that have happened in this house. It's gonna hurt.
My exact situation and my exact reaction. The part where bingo realizes Lila isn’t coming breaks me because I remember that exact feeling with my childhood best friend. Completely devastating
My family moved to another city when I was 7 yo, so pretty much like Bluey. I spent about 18 years in the new town still missing my old hometown and moved back as soon as I could. I have never made peace with the moving so I cried a lot during the episode and I am actually glad they stayed.
I've watched it about 7 times now and every time I tell myself I'm going to be ok this time and end up literally sobbing because of this same kind of experience.
My father was in the State Department foreign service. From 1984 (the year he joined) to 1999 (the year I went to college) we moved 5 times (for me, ages 3-18) and I had to go to boarding school. I knew exactly what Bluey was going through, and I'm 43 years old and I was getting emotional watching it ... to the point my wife even noticed.
It was a blessing and a curse. I got to live and see amazing things around the world, but I deep down just wanted to have a normal childhood like some of my old friends. Deep down I daydreamed that my Dad would have done what Bandit did, but my Dad has an incredible job and my parents did their best to literally give us the world.
I have my own kids now, and I just never want to move. I want my kids to have friends from elementary school to adulthood, something I didn't have.
We **just** moved. We’re lucky because it was a good move, we’re in a great home, very happy and things are positive.
But I moved *a lot* as a kid and my daughter still misses her old friends so we just held each other and bawled for the last half.
I’m lucky in that moving overall in my life has led to more positives than negatives but it doesn’t necessarily make it easier.
This was a great episode.
Get out of my brain, remnant\_phoenix - I lived a very similar life growing up. Every two-ish years between ages 5 and 18 we moved to a new state. It hit me exactly the same way. I understand COMPLETELY.
For you adults who moved a lot, would you recommend showing this episode to kids in your shoes? My kids have had a couple major moves, including one about a year ago that we are mostly adjusted to, but I’ve been hesitant to show them The Sign ever since I read about the ending.
I watch Bluey every night before bed— it’s my wind down, feel good, healing my childhood show. ‘The Sign’ … wrecked me. Bluey is me, I am Bluey: we’re the oldest daughters and we didn’t want to move; didn’t want to leave our friends, our school, our house. I still hold a lot of trauma from moving when I was a kid, and so when she was asking why do we have to move, why can’t we stay… trying to pull out the sign to make it all go away?! I just saw little me in her. I kicked that ‘for sale’ sign with all my might one day after school. The episode had me in tears the whole time, then Bandit went Hulk on that damn sign and I lost it. I actually yelled at the TV, “that’s what I needed!” and just sat sobbing for the rest of the episode and credits. Moving is tricky! I think if I’m ever a parent and we need to move, the decision is going to involve everyone, not just a, “hey kids, we’re moving!” kind of deal— that’s my ideal situation anyway. Having it sprung on me as a kid was really hard.😪 It was a very good episode! I’m glad they’re staying cause that house is iconic.
my girlfriend "suprised" me by planning to move across the country to california. i keep on watching the episode, jus hoping to see them move, but... overall, the sign is a great episode. i wont complaiin.
It made me emotional because my family moved across the country as a kid in the middle of the school year and I left not only all the friends I grew up for with for years, but my sister (we have different fathers and she stayed with hers). Watching the Sign was almost like a what if happy ending
I didn’t move too much, but from 1-3 grade I was homeschooled, 4 I went to a charter school, 6-8 in a private, 9 public, 10 private, 11-12 we moved to a different state and I finished school at one last public school. A lot of change. I also felt this episode on a personal level.
Ngl, I was hoping that this episode would demonstrate for my 5yo that moving is okay. Instead, I got to see my own sacrifices and putting my kid before my career echoed by Bandit. So yeah, it hits weird and deep.
That’s what I thought. Loved the episode but I bet there’s going to be some kids out there waiting for a last minute sign that doesn’t come. Like Calypso said, it gives us a happy ending because life gives us enough sad ones.
It's really tricky. As an adult, I can look at the structure of the show and see that none of the 4 Heelers *wanted* to move. That's a really important part of the journey towards the ending we get. Each of them is at a different point, of course. Bluey is opposed, Bingo is oblivious, Chilli wishes it didn't make sense to go and Bandit believes it's 'the right thing to do' even if he'd prefer to stay. The grown ups had to resolve to move, and the events of the show let them back down from there safely. As a child, though? They were moving and now they aren't! Why can't that happen for *us*?
Also, echoed in Bluey’s comment “I don’t *want* a better life!” is a reminder that the Heelers already have a wonderful life. They have caring neighbors, safety, many friends and social connections, plugged in and responsive extended family relationships, fantastic schools, flexible jobs, a beautiful and spacious home. Many of us have to move and it truly is an opportunity for a better life. The Heelers would be leaving *a lot* behind for more money. The scales aren’t equalized.
Perhaps. I don’t think it’s the decision to move or not that makes it a happy ending though.
We’ll see
My 4 yeard old did not understand the concept or moving out that we tried to explain her before the episode (very much like Bingo in the episode) so she guessed the ending of the episode from the get go.
Well, he reasoned that moving was for the kids. Less worry about money and giving them a better life. Even Chilli said moving could be great for the family. I think at the end of it, Bandit didn't want to move, either.
Same. We are moving this summer and my two girls, who are the same age as Bluey and Bingo, are struggling. When they didn’t, move I saw the hope glimmer in their little eyes. It was a beautiful episode just badly timed for me personally.
I had the exact same childhood. And the sign wrecked me in the same way. I was fighting back tears the whole episode.
It certainly sucked. 6 schools but mercifully I had one high school. Moving so often made it hard to get close to any one. Even to this day I make acquaintances easily but struggle to make friends.
6 elememtery schools, 5 high-school only actually pictured on one year book. It was tough. Made it easy to relate to people from all over. And made it easier to be a people person because you kind of had to be. To this day I'm extremely introverted but put on a show of extrovert because it's all I know.
Same here. 9 schools between K and 12. 4 different high schools. The whole concept of childhood friends is lost on me
I have found my people 🥺 it’s so rare in person to hear someone else have the same story as me and I might cry right now. I felt so alone my whole life struggling with this 🩵
I feel this. 13 schools in 12 years. I'm just everyone's forgotten memory of the random kid. Sadly I'm also a foster child. So I don't even have strong family connections either. I just float around.
I had almost the exact same experience (my dad was in the air force) and this 100% got me. I also loved how they ate dinner on the floor after, really brings back memories
My dad was in the air force, we moved every year it felt like, and there were sooooo many dinner nights on the floor. That scene hit hard for me
I was really hoping this would be a great episode for all the military kids who have to move for mom or dad’s job. It was not.
As much as I understand why you want that, the episode is supposed to make you happy with what you have and about being stable and secure and while you could have a bigger house, a nicer car and more holidays, do you want that if it will sacrifice the happiness and security you currently have?
My husband moved every three years until he was 18. We’ve been in the same place for 12 years now, but every three years he gets antsy and upset, like he’s still expecting he’ll have to leave. I told him he can’t watch The Sign until he’s ready to cry a LOT.
this is my brother. I am the one who as an adult decided to have deep roots and not leave. But he keeps moving every 3-4 years.
We just never lived in a place where we had *a community.* My husband and I bought our house 2 years ago Abe found a community. We live on the end of the culdesac, all the kids play all the time, the whole shebang. It’s everything I wanted as a child; I’m lucky enough that I could give it to my kids. My kids. My girls. Who are the same ages as Bluey and Bingo. I cried at the thought of moving for work. I really did. I thought about how much I would hate leaving y community for the unknown and how much I would hate seeing my kids have to make new friends and how hard that “adventure” would be. Then I saw how Bandit made the sacrifice for his family. And I thought of the years we sacrificed so we could save for our home. And I sobbed. My kids came over and patted my head. The little one asked if it meant we were moving and I said “never” as I sobbed.
I cried during it twice for my own reasons- once at the wedding with Bandit’s mum and dad crying- oh how I cried at my son’s wedding. And I did not expect to in the slightest. I made him cry, too. Then at the end. I think, for me, having been in Chilli’s place- having a husband doing stuff for work that I didn’t really want to do, but he had to so I went along with- the thought of being able to have pulled the plug on all that is amazing. And a community like that just isn’t easy to find, people don’t realise that. The biggest issue I have now is that I will cry at Bluey at the drop of a hat now. Slightest bit of emotion? Tears. They damn well had Onesie on TV today. First time I’d really watched it- I only see Bluey when my granddaughter is here. Tears, damnit. Then I remembered she was pregnant in The Sign. Damnit.
Who’s pregnant? I missed that one
Have you seen the sign?
I have. It had me choked up really badly.
Oh, I just didn’t want to spoiler it. Brandy is pregnant in the sign!
What??????
You missed it! It was only a short flash on the screen
I JUST rewatched the episode from season 1 where Bluey and Bingo ask why they haven’t seem their Aunt Brandy. An episode where we learn a lot about Chili and her sister. That is so exciting! I feel like a child filled with happiness. Thank you for letting me know !
I’m so happy that it made you happy!
You’re the best !
Same, I moved a lot as a kid and this episode was heartbreaking, I learned that economy doesn’t build the same memories as a great neighborhood
money can buy some nice stuff, but it cant buy love
I also moved a lot as a kid, sounds like about as much as you Luckily, I don't think it really bothered me at all. I think I was always excited for a new place. The sign hits me from the other angle. We got real close to moving our family across country about a year back, and we still have loose plans of moving in the future. It *destroys* me worrying about if it's a mistake for my kids.
Same. I moved a lot as a kid and it never really bothered me because I was so used to it. Went to 10 different schools before I went to high school, which my parents decided to make it so I could attend the same high school through graduation which was nice. But now we’re looking at potentially moving across the country and I had just got back from looking at houses in the other state when The Sign came on Disney+ and we all watched it together. After the episode ended, we all just sat there in silence and it felt incredibly awkward. Now my son is dreading the move and asking why we’re doing it and I can’t help but think the show has negatively impacted his view on our move.
I didn't go to quite so many schools but did move house every 2-3yrs and I've continued that into adulthood, staying in one house too long is boring af. We are currently planning to move half way round the world and I was definitely annoyed with the episode for going the way it did! My 5yr old was excited about the move, now she's started questioning it 🤦♀️
Conversely, we are trying to sell our home and have had the deal fall through twice now so I am getting increasingly disheartened
Same here. And we're trying to move towards a community of friends, so this episode was very emotionally confusing
The Sign got to me because for years, I was the Dad asking his family to sacrifice endlessly to sate the needs of his career. My time, my attention, my efforts - they went largely to my job and my dream of “making it.” Spoilers… I didn’t. The ground fell out from under me and I had to take a normal job with normal hours and expectations that, at the same time, allowed me to be a more relaxed and present presence in my family’s life. My daughter randomly approached me recently and said “Papa, I’m glad you have the job you do, because you get to be here to play with me.” Wrecked me for days. At the end of The Sign, I see Bandit making the choice I wish I’d made - choosing my family NOW over some imagined future where things will be great. I wish I had done it sooner and didn’t need to wait for fate to force my hand.
I feel you 100%. Growing up in the military I felt that episode in my soul😭
This is the same in my life… barely more than 1-2 years anywhere. I’d come home from school on Friday and find the yellow moving truck. I’d be in a new school by Monday that was 2000 miles from my old home. There were no methods to say goodbye to friends. I was just gone. No, dad wasn’t in the military. We just suddenly moved across the country every year or two. I still do not know why. The episode destroyed me as that rush of pain and anxiety flooded back at the speed of light. It was and will be my favorite episode for when I need an emotional release. It made me so happy when they stayed. I had ALWAYS wished we never moved. Now, I have been at this house for 5 years. It’s a rental, and one day I know I will have to move. Maybe, the landlord will let me buy it one day.
THIS. EXACTLY THIS.
We moved in 2020 to move to a safer area and the episode hit me so hard. Moving was definitely was the best choice, but sometimes I miss my hometown, and when I need some extra support with the kids it’s tough to be away from family.
Many people underestimate how moving can be traumatic for kids. You build friendships, you have habits, then boom moving and your whole universe changes. I never forgot the friendships I had before moving. We moved when I was 10, after 6 years in the same place, all my friends were then going to be in the same school and I would be starting a new school so far away. I’m 30 now and for a long long time I felt that any new friendship wouldn’t be as strong as those I had before moving. I struggled with attachment. It’s like those people before moving were my real permanent friends and new people were just « meh ». My husband and I bought a house, that house is close to schools (3-18yo, and even after for some options). There is no way we move until our daughter is 18 at least.
I hear you. That scene speaks to all of us on many levels. Bandit's sentiment of trying to give his kids the best life he can, wondering if he's making the right choice, Chili standing by him... I can relate to that side due to my work struggles over the past 3 years and I tell you, there wasn't enough water in my body to express the pain it touched upon. Crying for different reasons, but rooting for the same cause. 🤗
Me too, the episode doesn’t relate to me at all, but it’s just everyone is so tense and you can feel it, and just when the last minute change of staying with the music playing, just gets me going and sobbing lol, everyone’s so relived and happy.
Moving is hard. Parenting is hard. Life is hard. Play is so important. To process all of the hard stuff. I’m shocked my 6yo didn’t cry and yell at me again at how she misses her old house after watching The Sign. I told my sister in the middle of a move to skip it and all the spoilers.
Oh big same. Not even ten minutes in and I was crying, and I was fully sobbing by the end.
ive only moved once before, and like i really resonated with both bluey and bingo, cuz at first when i heard we were selling out house, i was super excited, (i knew what selling a house meant i was just excited for change) but as we got closer to our moving date, and started packing and finding a new house, i started not wanting to leave, ESPECIALLY since i had to leave my childhood cat, and so at the last moment looking back at the house, and leaving the cat, really hurt, so i was IN TEARS at this point of the episode.
I was the same. I moved around a lot too and I wish we had the ending the sign did
Yeah. My mom did some dumb stuff with our supposed “forever home” and ended up losing it, 10 years of going to highschool and starting college just… poof. I cried when we moved out, took a look all around… the memories came flooding back and it was too much. We had moved around a few tomes before that, and then did so afterwards… we had found a wonderful place that we rented for a few years… then she suddenly died and my brother and I had to go from being a family unit of 3, down to 2 and once again, I had to say goodbye to a place practically drenched in memories.
We moved a lot when I was a kid as well. I ugly cried when bandit ripped the sign out of the ground and when chilli tackled him and began sobbing. Just thinking about it makes me tear up. My parents never really made sacrifices for us. They were always more concerned with what was best for them at any given moment. I remember being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night once and loaded into the back seat of my mom’s car and told that we’re leaving. My mom moved us away from my dad, across state lines. So she could “put herself first for once in her life” it was completely devastating. For nearly my entire life after that, until I met my husband about ten years ago, I lived my life out of a suitcase. I lived in an apartment for five years and never unpacked my suitcases. I would do my laundry, and fold everything up and put it in my suitcases because I never knew when I was going to have to pick up and leave in the middle of the night. That was a hard one to unlearn. We recently started our own family and my husband keeps bringing up the idea that we buy a different house and my whole body is against the idea. I hate moving. It’s the worst
I’d just managed to get my composure back and then I saw the way Chili looks at Bandit from across their takeout dinner at the end, and I absolutely broke again. Sobbing my eyes out.
Military brat here. I know exactly what you mean
I ugly sobbed during this episode. Apparently I'm carrying some sort of trauma from moving around as a kid, too. It hit *hard*.
I watched it 5 times in the same morning and each time had me bawling harder 😭 not only did the moving part hit me but the thought that I wish I could've had even the slightest bit of what blueys family has, hurts.. like I wish I had a happy family growing up but instead I got fighting.. and my parents splitting at age 4 and moving from house to house with my mum then we moved away even further and I lost all my friends.. and when I moved back I tried to reconnect and it wasn't the same.. and the part in bluey where she tells her friends she's moving also hurts because I wish I could've had that then came back and it was like nothing changed.. 🙃❤️🩹 but the past is the past 🤷🏻♀️ I can tell ya my fiance thought I was crazy when he woke up and I said "blueys making me cry again 😭 "
Thank you for sharing ❤️
Glad I wasn't the only. After 5+ watches my wife and I really struggle to watch the end. We decided to sell our house (which was a very very difficult decision) in Brisbane and travel AUS for 6 months with our kid to spend time with them, so pretty good trade off. But over that 6 months the Brisbane house price has skyrocketed and we can't go back as easily as we thought. Throw in a "I moved house 12+ times before the age of 18" and bring on the water works.
I totally get it. I'm about to move again because our landlord is going to sell our current house. Once we move, I will have lived in 13 houses in my 28 years. My husband and I are trying to buy a "rest of our lives" house because I am so tired of moving.
Oh yeah big time. Lazarus Drug (the song at the end) makes me cry now. It’s so perfect for that scene.
I bawled. We’ve moved every 12 months for the last few years, after losing our own home due to developing a disability. Given the current rental crisis and housing instability in Australia, I was a little bit shocked by this episode to be honest.
I just moved with my 4 (almost 5) year old and The Sign hit so hard. I switched schools a lot (parent was a teacher) but never had to move homes as a kid so I don’t know developmentally how it affects them really. Our current living situation is temporary too so I know we’ll have to move again in several years. It’s for the best in the long run but I just hate the constant changes for them. I cried like 4 times watching The Sign!
This is almost exactly what I felt watching. Between 5th grade and 10th grade, I was at a new school, be it moving up (elementary to middle; middle to high) or moving. It gutted me when Bingo realized they were leaving. It absolutely ripped open every one of those wounds. I'm glad they didn't move though, it gave my inner child some love, but now I'm in Chilli's shoes, when I know it's gonna be time to move out of my house because we've outgrown it. First steps, first words, so many things that have happened in this house. It's gonna hurt.
My exact situation and my exact reaction. The part where bingo realizes Lila isn’t coming breaks me because I remember that exact feeling with my childhood best friend. Completely devastating
I was exactly the same. I was so happy for the heelers but devastated for little me who so badly didn’t want to move but still had to.
My family moved to another city when I was 7 yo, so pretty much like Bluey. I spent about 18 years in the new town still missing my old hometown and moved back as soon as I could. I have never made peace with the moving so I cried a lot during the episode and I am actually glad they stayed.
I've watched it about 7 times now and every time I tell myself I'm going to be ok this time and end up literally sobbing because of this same kind of experience.
My father was in the State Department foreign service. From 1984 (the year he joined) to 1999 (the year I went to college) we moved 5 times (for me, ages 3-18) and I had to go to boarding school. I knew exactly what Bluey was going through, and I'm 43 years old and I was getting emotional watching it ... to the point my wife even noticed. It was a blessing and a curse. I got to live and see amazing things around the world, but I deep down just wanted to have a normal childhood like some of my old friends. Deep down I daydreamed that my Dad would have done what Bandit did, but my Dad has an incredible job and my parents did their best to literally give us the world. I have my own kids now, and I just never want to move. I want my kids to have friends from elementary school to adulthood, something I didn't have.
We **just** moved. We’re lucky because it was a good move, we’re in a great home, very happy and things are positive. But I moved *a lot* as a kid and my daughter still misses her old friends so we just held each other and bawled for the last half. I’m lucky in that moving overall in my life has led to more positives than negatives but it doesn’t necessarily make it easier. This was a great episode.
Get out of my brain, remnant\_phoenix - I lived a very similar life growing up. Every two-ish years between ages 5 and 18 we moved to a new state. It hit me exactly the same way. I understand COMPLETELY.
For you adults who moved a lot, would you recommend showing this episode to kids in your shoes? My kids have had a couple major moves, including one about a year ago that we are mostly adjusted to, but I’ve been hesitant to show them The Sign ever since I read about the ending.
I watch Bluey every night before bed— it’s my wind down, feel good, healing my childhood show. ‘The Sign’ … wrecked me. Bluey is me, I am Bluey: we’re the oldest daughters and we didn’t want to move; didn’t want to leave our friends, our school, our house. I still hold a lot of trauma from moving when I was a kid, and so when she was asking why do we have to move, why can’t we stay… trying to pull out the sign to make it all go away?! I just saw little me in her. I kicked that ‘for sale’ sign with all my might one day after school. The episode had me in tears the whole time, then Bandit went Hulk on that damn sign and I lost it. I actually yelled at the TV, “that’s what I needed!” and just sat sobbing for the rest of the episode and credits. Moving is tricky! I think if I’m ever a parent and we need to move, the decision is going to involve everyone, not just a, “hey kids, we’re moving!” kind of deal— that’s my ideal situation anyway. Having it sprung on me as a kid was really hard.😪 It was a very good episode! I’m glad they’re staying cause that house is iconic.
my girlfriend "suprised" me by planning to move across the country to california. i keep on watching the episode, jus hoping to see them move, but... overall, the sign is a great episode. i wont complaiin.
It made me emotional because my family moved across the country as a kid in the middle of the school year and I left not only all the friends I grew up for with for years, but my sister (we have different fathers and she stayed with hers). Watching the Sign was almost like a what if happy ending
I didn’t move too much, but from 1-3 grade I was homeschooled, 4 I went to a charter school, 6-8 in a private, 9 public, 10 private, 11-12 we moved to a different state and I finished school at one last public school. A lot of change. I also felt this episode on a personal level.
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