Bluey - Verandah Santa

Verandah Santa — Trivia

• The episode's music features well-known Christmas carols and excerpts from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. It aired as the final episode of 2019 and the 2010s decade.

  Reference

• Verandah Santa, along with Dad Baby, Christmas Swim, and Easter, does not air in the regular Disney Junior rotation due to its Christmas theme.

  Production

• A scene from 'Verandah Santa' where Bluey, Bingo, Muffin, Socks, Aunt Trixie, Uncle Stripe, and Chilli are tucked into bed is reused in the 2021 Disney Jr. German lullaby sign-off, with the moon having a face and paw prints appearing on the floor as Bandit walks.

  Production

• The episode originally included a life-sized nativity set, but it was replaced with a tree or reindeer to comply with ABC's rules against explicit religious iconography.

  Production

• Stripe, Muffin, Chilli, and Trixie do not participate as Verandah Santa, but Socks helps Bingo when it's his turn.

  Continuity

• A dark purple long dog appears outside the Heeler house in the overhead shot at the end of the episode, near the candy cane decorations.

  Continuity

• Socks is revealed to be only one year old.

  Character

• Bandit makes the 'please face' for the first time.

  Character

• The audio of Bluey yelling 'HEY!' when Bingo takes the pencil case is reused from the episode 'Asparagus'.

  Production

• When 'Verandah Santa' aired on Disney Channel, it was paired with 'Mount Mumandad' and 'Blue Mountains' from season one, and 'Bad Mood' and 'Christmas Swim' from season two.

  Production

• The episode marks the final appearance of 'BBC Worldwide' in both the opening and ending credits, as well as the last to feature the BBC Worldwide logo at the end.

  Production

• In the Disney+ closed captioning for 'Verandah Santa', Muffin is incorrectly referred to as 'Mittens'.

  Production