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Bluey is a good kids show. It has moments that are funny and poignant for adults. It's also pretty fucking cishetero-normative. Plus the recent conflicts in West Asia still exist in the Bluey universe, so probably the best recent episode "Cricket" is tainted by the fact Rusty's dad was probably murdering Afghan hounds and planting weapons on them
drinking beer out of a prosthetic dog paw
Okay... the lore of this show I just thought was about a stay at home dad dog just got deeper...
There's a side character called Rusty. His father is in the Australian army. There's a poem a Palestinian wrote about it, that summarizes it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1nPq7LBEQw/?hl=en
Oh damn Rusty probably shot people in Papua New Guinea.
I apologize if I seem like a
here, but I just want to point out Afghanistan is in Central and South Asia.
Also
war criminal children's show. 
Fair, I've just recently started saying West Asia instead of the Middle East (as it's a British colonial thing). I should have said West and Central Asia. I wanted to basically include Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza etc. But then I guess I've also got to say North Africa for Libya.
Yeah, it's surprisingly hard to describe the region in a concise way. West and Central Asia and North Africa doesn't exactly roll off the tongue lol.
just say "the caliphate" /s
Just call it the Midwest at that point
Dogs of War
What makes that even worse is Rusty's dad is voiced by Anthony Wiggle.
wait so that thing about Bluey's dad being a vietnam vet wasn't just a meme
Bluey's maternal grandfather is implied to be a Vietnam war vet.
I didn't remember which one but lol I thought that was a meme and not actual canon
There's probably heaps of memes but it's really strongly implied in the show. There's like no stigma to being a Vietnam War or an Afghan War Veteran in Australia (I mean there should be). The Australian fairytale approach to any war is basically "Even if the war is bad and a fuck up, our soldiers are brave mates respected by everyone, including the enemy".