-Melanie, Dave, nice to meet you,
and thank you for coming on our show.
We appreciate this.
-Thanks for having us. -Thanks for having us.
This is awesome. -I'm so happy to be here.
In America. -Yes, in America. Yes.
Well, "Bluey" is one of the, I think, one of the most --
It's the best show on TV right now, "Bluey."
I mean, there's "Tonight Show." -Did you hear that?
-I did hear that. And who are your favorite characters?
-Oh, yeah, well, of course Bandit and Chilli,
of course, my favorite.
Better than Bluey and Bingo, of course.
But I think the show is -- It's so funny.
It's clever.
It's game changing.
I think -- I love it so much.
I've seen more of you guys and heard more of your voices
than I've heard my own voice in my household.
And the kids aren't even watching.
It's just me watching this. Yeah.
Melanie, how did you end up getting the role?
-It was actually quite a serendipitous situation.
I was putting a voice-over down with Joe's brother, Dan,
who works on the show.
He plays Stripe. -And Joe created --
-Joe created the show. -Yeah.
-And he said, "My brother's creating this animation.
You've got a great voice.
Do you want to work some voice-overs down?
It's already cast, but maybe in the future."
Anyway so, at the 11th hour, ABC decided to change up the voices.
I had already seen the pilot, and I had fallen in love.
Like, the most cute -- Like, my heart hurts.
This is so cute show.
So I'm like, "Yes, use anything."
And then they did their due diligence and auditioned for
like three months and then came back and said,
"No, you were right."
And a year later, the producers told me that they couldn't find
the same warmth from anyone else.
-Hey. You'll take that. [ Audience aws ]
Come on, see. And they were right. They're correct.
Dave? -Yeah.
-How did you get this? -Well --
[ Laughter ]
I was walking out of a lift and someone was walking --
Someone I knew was walking into the lift and they said,
"I know someone who's making a show about a cartoon dog family.
Maybe you'd want to be the dad voice?"
And I was like, "I can't act. I can't do that."
And he said, "Can you read?"
[ Laughter ] I said, "Well...
I can read a bit." [ Laughter ]
And so they gave me, you know, a script with highlighted bits
of where I got to say stuff.
So I started reading and we just kept going.
And then we sort of had done a pilot.
And then I thought, "Oh, this will be nice.
This will be on YouTube as some sort of,
one-off, you know, short animation."
And then here we are. Bigger than the Beatles.
[ Laughter ]
-"Bluey" is bigger than the Beatles, yeah.
And you guys, you were telling me backstage
you just met each other -- -Two days ago?
-Two days ago, for the first time.
-So, I'm sorry, how?
-So, we record separately. -Yeah.
-We live in different cities, and I travel a lot for work.
So, this was the first time.
-How cool is that? -It was wild. In New York.
-I know. I thought it would be all of us sitting
around a table, you know, like in the movies when
they're making a TV show. -Yeah.
-And everyone is sitting around the table with coffee
and salads and rolls and stuff.
But we're just isolated in our booths.
-Yeah. -You have young kids.
What do they think of their dad voicing Bandit?
-They love it. Rose and Grace.
They're now -- Grace is almost 9. Rose is 11.
They love it. They were confused when it first
came on TV because they'd look at the TV and Bandit speaking
and look at me and look at the TV and like, "What's going on?"
-Yeah, it's so hard to tell a kid what --
-It's a connection, isn't it? -Yeah, it's wild.
'Cause now when you talk, all I see is the cartoon.
-I know. It's weird when parents say, "Come and meet my kid.
They love the show." I'm like, "Oh, don't.
They normally burst into tears."
[ Laughter ]
Because they think I've, like, eaten Bandit
and his voice is coming out. [ Laughter ]
-They don't understand it, yeah.
-And they, "Go on, do the voice." "Hey, how you doing?"
-But you really just sound like Bandit.
-"He's doing the voice! Oh, my God, he's doing the voice!"
-It is my voice, yeah.
I should also mention, by the way, "Bluey's Big Play" is
a show, a live "Bluey" show that was just at
Madison Square Garden that I just missed.
I'm like, oh, my gosh.
But I'm sure it'll come back around.
But it's a giant phenomenon now, "Bluey."
In fact, also it is a balloon
in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
-Yeah. -Now, is that a big --
Do you know what that is in Australia?
-Well, it was explained to me from friends in L.A.
just, like, how monumental that is.
Because I was like, "Oh, we have some float in a parade."
-Yeah, there's a balloon somewhere.
-It's Thanksgiving. Is it a thing?
-It's a massive deal.
-And people are like, "It's a thing!"
-It's a massive deal to have a balloon, yeah.
You have a Bluey balloon. That's so cool.
It's going to be unbelievable.
It's going to be -- Congrats on that.
I'm just so happy that you guys are here and came on the show.
I'm the biggest fan of the show.
I want to see a "Bluey" movie, by the way.
-Sure.
-I'd like to see a "Bluey" movie.
-A trilogy. -A trilogy.
-Yes. Make a trilogy.
-The pre-story one. -Let's start with a trilogy.
Yeah, exactly. Very smart, Dave.
I want to show everyone a clip from the show.
Here are Dave McCormack and Melanie Zanetti in "Bluey."
Take a look a this.
-Check it out, Mum.
-Hey, nice strategy, balloon girls.
-I'm a keepie-uppie expert.
-Yeah. But it's not as fun now.
Can you make it hard again?
-Sorry, pickle. I've got my hands full.
-♪ Oh, good morning, everybody ♪
♪ I said good morning, everyone ♪
Unh. What up, party people?
-Dad, we're playing keepie-uppie.
Can you make it harder?
-Ah, my newspaper.
-Dad! -Bingo, help!
-I can't. I'm a newspaper! [ Giggles ]
-Oh, I love it. [ Cheers and applause ]
It's such a great show.
I love it, love it, love it so much.
Dave McCormack and Melanie Zanetti, everybody.
You can watch "Bluey" on Disney Jr. and Disney+.
Got to blueylive.com for more info on "Bluey's Big Play."