The Sign - Most Misunderstood Ending in Bluey (Deeper Meanings Explained)

Heya Buddies, today we will be reviewing and analyzing the Bluey episode the Sign and the deeper meanings & themes within the episode. The ending to the Sign is often misunderstood and leads to others deeming it as a bad ending.. Bluey season 3 Season 4 Disney Plus Review analysis

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00:00 Introduction
02:25 Bluey Creator, Joe Brumm's Thoughts on the ending
03:20 "Is it a Happy or a Sad Ending?"
05:30 Bandit's Reason for Staying
06:34 Cop Out Ending?
07:20 Bandit's Doubts
08:36 Coping with Change
09:20 Culmination of Everything
10:33 The Butterfly Effect
11:14 Conclusion

[Pugly]

This was one of the more fun videos I’ve made in a while because of all the fun symbolism I got to talk about as well as all the messages that the episode offers. I hope you buddies enjoy!

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[therealopaartist]

Calypso literally said that stories give us happy endings because real life gives you sad ones. That should’ve been A SIGN of what what going to happen.

[ThePhantomCavalier]

Can we talk about how The Sign is also about Bluey growing up ans rites of passage. She's allowed to sit up front for the first time, she's learning to accept change, and she's telling stories to help those younger than her process their grief.

[epicbirdy]

I think "Army" helps show kids that moving is okay. Jack says he's very nervous when going to school but immediately fits in. He's not only good representation, he's a hope for kids leaving everything they knew.

[Nutellacat]

it's both a happy and sad ending, happy for the heelers but sad for bucky who didn’t sell their house.

[sleeping_asher]

I just realised that the whole moving and new job situation might be the reason Bandit was so stressed and lost in thought in earlier episodes of this season. For example the stickbird one

[NobodyC]

Right now in this day and age, I'm growing tired of online discourse being incapable of tolerating ambiguity and ambivalence. Everything has to be unanimously good and unanimously bad. I think it's good for Bluey to teach kids (and adults) that not everything has easy answers and easy solutions; it just is.

[lackedpuppet]

My favorite tie-in to the rest of the series through this episode is seeing how far Bingo and Lila's friendship has come. From seeing them meet in Daddy Dropoff, and seeing Bingo be happy for her in Pass the Parcel, to just a couple episodes earlier playing in Slide (and bringing Flappy the Butterfly into the series.)

Bingo realizing she'd have to leave Lila was the part that really hit me in The Sign, and I'm excited to see if you mention this aspect in your deep dive!

[BUGFlower]

that expression of pure anger from Bandit against the sign is what always gets me, i love so much how at the end the ones that show the strongest emotions are Bandit and Chili that had been holding it together for so long for their daughters
also i think the issue is how many people didn't understand Calypso's message to Bluey from the beginning. life will already gives us enough sad endings, and also risking it all for the happiness of the ones you love like Bandit did i think is a message just as if not even more powerful

[gd]

as a kid who was forced to move every few years, I love the ending of the sign. its healing to see them get to make the choice to stay. to see this sweet family not have to go through the experience of being forced to move. it's the kind of episode I wish I had as a kid so in that moment I could live out that selfish wish fulfilment that meant we didn't have to move again that my whole family would have been able to relate to and connect over.

[tc]

I've already talked about why I like the ending in the community post, but I'll shorten it to this. The ending of The Sign isn't just about change, but realizing the best life you can give to your family is already the one you have. Chilli and Bandit wanted to move to give their family a better life, but by the end, they saw their home was the best life for their family. I know not everyone who moved will have the same conclusion, but there are people there who are in a similar situation in realizing their home is where the happiest.

Also, this lesson can be learned anywhere and isn't just found in moving, so please don't always try to project your own experience in moving places to the Heelers.

[alphaomega]

I think some people are missing a core message - THERE ARE NO ENDINGS. The storybook doesn't have an ending - characters experience monumental changes but not once does that result in a clear unambiguous ending. They even cast a voice actor whose life has moments of exhilarating highs and at least one truly tragic low as Bucky. Whatever Bandit chose at the end wouldn't have been an ending because thats not really the way life works. Life continues on. Change will happen. The only real certainty is that nothing is ever really certain. At the end Bandit makes a choice that he hopes makes him and his family happy but he cant be certain it will in the long run - all he can do is make the choice that he hopes will work out best.

[jonathanbarton]

Series 3 starts with bedroom, where Bluey and Bingo think they'll be better off moving into separate rooms but end up realising that they will actually be better off staying together in the same room and ends with the same situation but for Bandit and Chilli, perfect bookends to the series and shows how well thought out the writing is of the series as a whole.

[Nutellacat]

calypso it's right, let the ending be a happy one guys life is sad already!!

[plaidzebra]

I would like to point out that I knew they weren't going to move because going into it I remembered Bingo's best friend Lila showed up in Season 2, Episode 8 | Daddy Drop Off. And at the end it showed through still photo's how close Bingo and Lila are as friends as they got older, up to when they graduated from school. I always thought that was a very important detail and surprised that no one's brought that up. Maybe because Lila doesn't make an appearance in The Sign, but when Bingo finally understands that their moving, she quickly asks if Lila is coming.

[Zodiastarmann]

another thing someone pointed out is that if the Heelers moved then there would be a huge continuity error with the ending to Daddy drop-off showing Bingo and Lila growing up together in the same school

[ratter]

Bandit was absolutely *terrified* of making the decision to stay instead of going after a better paying job. He knows well it will be hard. He's not like Radley who's been living alone working that oil rig for years now. He has children and those children need to be provided for, they need doctor appointments, they need school supplies, etc. It's a decision of either break his family's hearts and leave, or stay and be in way worse position financially for honestly who knows how long, BUT his 3 girls will be happy. Nobody in the family really wanted to move. Maybe for Bandit it was just a sad reality, but Chilli and the kids were so distressed. I believe Bandit had job problems way back in Stickbird and all that lead to him resigning. Who knows what the future will bring? You can see in Bandit's eyes how scared he is when he's pulling out that sign. But the universe *clearly* was telling him something with that last phone call, the last moment to turn back. I'm so glad that he listened. It will be tough, but it will be worth it.

[jeremyblade]

They may not have moved, but the way the house was empty at the end still reminds of when I did move as a child. Everyone sitting on the floor because the furniture is buried, eating fast food because the dishes are too.

Swap the rug for a plush carpet and the food for Subway and thats my family.

Imo. Thay managed to make staying still feel like a fresh start, and still remind me of that nervousness/excitement of finding out where you're going to live now.

[VoidWalkerOblivion]

When I was about eight years old, my parents sat me down and asked for my opinion on moving because of a job offer my dad got. We'd be going from Sydney to Adelaide. Closer to *their* families (who were in Melbourne), but an infinite distance away from everything I'd ever known. I was treated like a grown-up in return with my opinion valued and considered instead of dismissed, but had to deal with the uncertainty of knowing what MIGHT happen and without any idea of what that would mean.
Getting to be a part of that decision - to be able to really think and *have* to express my *thoughts* instead of my impulses - was an incredibly potent thing that I think really influenced the kind of person I became. Being able to say I didn't want to move, but having to explain why like I was a grownup. The idea of moving was something that I'd seen in my books and cartoons. The idea of having to sit there and think about it, to make a decision about it, and then have the uncertainty of not knowing whether I'd be at the same school next semester - that was not something I had any media to help me process.

In the end, we didn't move. People wanted a different message to the one we got because they think its what always happens. But not moving is also a very common story; and its an important message we don't see nearly as much.

[ikrIkarus]

I think it all also ties into that message from "Chest" like Bluey having the compassion to share her coin because the other kids wanted to use the binoculars. Also that message kind of clicking with Bandit, as he decides that the new job and some more money are not worth the distress moving would put his family through. Also perhaps overcoming his competitive nature a little, like getting a new job, that pays more can be considered winning. So it's not just the kids that are growing.