Small defense of Omelette

I see some people getting annoyed with Omelette over two things: Food Waste, and making Bandit wait. I won’t go into Food Waste here, but I wanted to bring up a point about making Bandit wait.

Thinking of Chilli’s initial plan, and how long it took Bluey to finish setting up the brekkie tray, even if Bingo had not been helping at all: Bandit yells downstairs twice and calls on the PHONE before the time the omelette would have been finished by Chilli (Which would be when Bingo goes “that was a BIG one!”).

You could argue it took Bluey longer because she had to clean up the orange juice, but even that happened directly after the second yell downstairs.

Even after Bluey runs dad up some celery, and Chilli makes her “extra-super-quick omelette,” he calls like 20 seconds after she’s just finished, and when he gets a response he doesn’t like he trounces downstairs in his blankie like a child.

Is it his birthday? Yes. Is this extremely childish and borderline ungrateful behavior? Also yes. Him being made to actually wait so Bingo can be allowed to help feels blatantly set up to be Bandit’s comeuppance for this. And even then it’s unlikely that the whole ordeal took more than an hour. The sunlight is the same from the time they wake him up to the time they actually deliver the omelette.

Omelette tackles the questions: What happens when it’s inconvenient to teach your child? How does that affect them and their perception of themselves and abilities? By the nature of the activity, isn’t it always inconvenient to teach your child? If not now, when?

I am, as usual, biased here as I still struggle with my parents to allow me to “do things worse than them so I can learn how to do it at all.” Not full-on helicopter, but it’s a really damaging thing as you get to be 18 and realize you still don’t know how to make the foods you like to eat.

I really enjoy this episode from that perspective, and it helps when you realize, despite the situation, Bandit is in a sort of antagonistic role here.