Bluey introduces same-sex couple in ‘The Sign’ season finale – but almost everyone missed it

Eagle-eyed Bluey fans have noticed that the beloved cartoon has introduced a queer couple for the first time.

In the season three finale titled ‘The Sign’, some viewers noticed a subtle hint that Bluey’s friend Pretzel has two mothers.

A few minutes into the episode, Pretzel said: ‘When my guinea pig ran away, my mums told me he might come back, but he didn’t.’

The quick plural reference to ‘mothers’ went over the heads of most viewers, but not all.

Australian Bluey fan Margie raved about the inclusion of an LGBTQIA+ couple in a TikTok videowith many agreeing that it was ‘the one thing missing’ from the show.

In the season three finale titled ‘The Sign’, some viewers noticed a subtle hint that Bluey’s friend Pretzel (pictured in the middle) has two mothers. A few minutes into the episode, Pretzel said: ‘When my guinea pig ran away my mums told me he might come back but he didn’t’

Margie described it as a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moment and said she didn’t notice it at first either.

‘When I first saw the episode I missed it. It wasn’t until I went back and watched it with subtitles and actually listened that I noticed we had our first gay couple,” she said.

Margie also pointed out that the subtitles show the plural “mothers” and not the word “mother”, further confirming that Pretzel has same-sex parents.

‘I love it, I think it was a really nice and organic way to do it. It’s really one of those subtle ones that I feel a lot of people will miss. But overall I thought they did really well,” she added.

Australian Bluey fan Margie raved about the inclusion of an LGBTQIA+ couple in a TikTok video, with many agreeing it was the ‘one thing missing’ from the show

It comes as Bluey fans panicked after being urged to re-watch five core episodes of the children’s cartoon ahead of the show’s ‘super grand finale’ on April 14

Although you don’t see the pair in the episode, the inclusion was praised by hundreds of others and spread like wildfire on social media.

‘This makes me so happy,’ one commented, another said: ‘Finally! That’s the only thing Bluey was missing.’

‘I brought it up but I had to bring it to my wife’s attention. I’m glad it finally happened, added a third.

“Loved how they put it in there so casual and organic,” added another.

One mother wrote: ‘This will mean the world to my son.’