Headline : Surprise! How I got turned into Bluey’s Bandit, the world’s greatest dad

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Three years ago, on a tough day out with my kids, I barricaded myself in a toilet and wrote to Bluey’s creator with an idea. Now, it has become a reality. I couldn’t be more weirded out

For most people, the latest episode of Bluey – entitled Surprise – came as exactly that. Deliberately unannounced, it dropped like a Beyoncé album, ambushing viewers who were still coming to terms with the recent gut-wrenching, 28-minute masterpiece The Sign.

However, I have spent the past three years waiting for Surprise. This is because my name appears in the credits. “Created and written by Joe Brumm, from an idea by Stuart Heritage,” it says. I am as weirded out about this as anyone else – but let me explain how I came to play the smallest possible role in my favourite television programme.

Like a lot of parents, I discovered Bluey on Disney+ during lockdown. Although its premise was unassuming to the point of blandness – a cartoon about a family of dogs – I put it on for my kids and quickly became smitten. Each episode was a perfectly realised short film. Some played out in real time. Others ended with breathtaking time-jumps into the future. One managed to depict the entire arc of human evolution, from the swamps to a distant intergalactic future, in the space of seven minutes. It was incredible. I needed to know who wrote it, so I put in a request to interview Brumm, Bluey’s creator.

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