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Blue's Clues!

Blue's Clues is a famous, long-running, and incredibly influential children'southward television bear witness, produced by Nickelodeon equally part of their Nick Jr. preschool block. If you grew upward in the The states, the UK, Portugal, or Republic of korea during the 1990s or early 2000s, the odds are skillful that this show volition be familiar to you (under dissimilar hosts and names respectively).

Set in a vibrant, candy-colored world of animated characters combined with a human host, the prove features the escapades of Blueish, a blue-colored canis familiaris (voiced by Traci Paige Johnson, one of the show's creators). Once an Episode, Blue will want to do something—be information technology read a book, have a snack, or brand some kind of craft. Withal, as Blue seems to be the only animal in her world who tin can't talk, the only way she can communicate with her human owner is by playing Blue's Clues- a game in which she will banner 3 objects effectually the house (or backyard) with her blue pawprint, labeling them a "inkling." Once performed, information technology's up to her possessor—along with the kids watching from habitation—to figure out what she wants to do by piecing together these clues.

Introduced in 1996, the show is notable for pioneering the child's show version of an Interactive Narrator—one who talks "to" the camera, seemingly at the children watching. Blueish'southward Clues was so successful, this went on to become the norm for almost kid's show hosts today— especially those directed at the "Nether vi" historic period subclass. It also originally ran nether the notion that children learn through repetition—so the same episode of the show would run for a full week. (The evidence afterwards dropped this do.) It was hugely successful, leading to several straight-to-video movies, a live show adaptation, an eventual Spin-Off chosen Blueish'southward Room, and, of course, heaps and heaps of merchandise.

The show was originally hosted past Steven Burns as "Steve", but he left the show after six years. ^note A big number of rumors swirled well-nigh the reasons why, from expiry hoaxes to drug overdoses. The truth was a number of the bear witness's original production staff had left, and he felt ready to motility on. In improver he was losing his hair and was afraid of going bald on a kids show and seeming too "old" to the kids - and he has been successful in indie stone circles thanks to his connections with his friends, the Flaming Lips. His replacement was "Joe" (Donovan Patton), his in-universe younger blood brother, who ran the show, and its spinoff Blue'southward Room, until 2007, when production came to a halt. Reruns aired on the Nick Jr. aqueduct until July 2019 (four months before the reboot premiered), and DVDs still exist. Running from 1996 to 2006 (or 2007 if y'all count Blue's Room), Blue'due south Clues was Nick Jr.'s longest-running serial, upwardly until Dora the Explorer broke that record in 2010.

On March vi, 2018, it was announced that a reboot using CGI animation was in product. On September 13, 2018, the reboot was revealed to be titled Blueish's Clues & You!, with actor Joshua Dela Cruz as the new host, "Josh". On August 26, 2019, a November 11 premiere was announced, and information technology was stated that the evidence would be a continuation of the original series.

Compare to Llan-ar-goll-en, another Preschool Show about a live-activeness man and his animated female doggy sidekick finding clues (or in this instance, solving mysteries).

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'Cuz they're whose tropes? Blue's tropes!

• Absentee Actor: Sidetable Drawer was missing from "Blue's Big Auto Trip," and Mailbox was missing from "Blue'due south Big Motorcar Trip," "The Legend of the Blue Puppy," "Skidoo Take a chance" and "The Fairy Tale Ball."
• Adaptational Name Modify: Fifi, one of the Felt Friends and one of the two near reoccuring ones in the series, was renamed "Felicia" in the Humongous Entertainment games. This would also carry over to the reboot.
• Astonishing Technicolor Wildlife: Bluish is the current trope film. Not only that, but she is probably the Trope Codifier too, most colorful animals on this show tend to be named afterwards their color as well.
• Breathing Inanimate Object: Bated from Steve, Joe and the animals ^note Blue, Magenta, Periwinkle, Orange Kitten, Dark-green Puppy and Purple Kangaroo , most of the characters are talking things.
  • Heck, there's even a estimator mouse cursor that talks in i episode!
• Animation Bump: Blue'southward Big Musical Pic for the almost function averts it due to mainly looking the same every bit the rest of the series, just also uses several alternate angles and zoom furnishings never shown in the episodes themselves.
• Anthropomorphic Food:
  • Mr. Table salt and Mrs. Pepper, their children Paprika and Cinnamon, and numerous other characters.
  • A small case with the monster cake.
• Anthropomorphic Typography: The special "Blue's Big Musical" features a talking musical symbol, a Grand-clef named G-Clef, who teaches Steve how to write music. He also has several friends who are singing music notes with faces.
• Arc Words: Used in several episodes:
  • "What Experiment Does Blueish Want To Effort?": "Experiment"
  • "What Does Blue Want to Make With Recycled Things?": "Recycle"
  • "Blue's Deplorable Twenty-four hour period": "Tough situation" ("Tricky state of affairs" in the Uk dub)
  • "Nurture": "Need"
  • "What Is Blue Trying To Do?": "Encourage"
  • "Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day": "Appreciate"
• Statement of Contradictions: In "Blue Goes to the Beach," Mr. Common salt and Mrs. Pepper have an statement over whether a straw will sink or bladder in water. Mr. Salt thinks information technology will sink, Mrs. Pepper is convinced it will float. Mrs. Pepper is right, every bit is found out when Steve reasonably suggests that they just try it and see what happens.
• Art Evolution: In the book releases. Take a look at the earlier ones and you lot'll find that Blue's face is a fleck chubby and the blue coloring is rather dark. Then take a await at the later volume releases - the coloring is lighter and Blueish's face up has been thinned out. This generally holds true for the other characters as well and there are other, more subtle changes to the appearance of the art.
  • In the show itself, the animation was a little rougher in the offset few episodes, editing mistakes were much more common (usually part of the background or a prop being cutoff or boom mics being visible) through the starting time season, and Steve's colors became a lot more vibrant beginning in the second season, equally did the Thinking Chair.
• Fine art Imitates Life: In 2021, Steve revealed the biggest reason why he left the prove: he wanted to focus on getting a college education. At the time of his departure, his character was besides heading for higher himself.
• Audience Participation: Every episode.
• Beach Episode: "Blue Goes to the Embankment".
• Big Lilliputian Brother: Joe to Steve in-universe. He is called a "little" blood brother of a college student simply looks like an adult.
• Bilingual Bonus: In one case American Sign Language is introduced in "Signs," the signs for "showtime," "2nd," "third," "thank y'all," and "smart", among others, are incorporated into the show'due south routine.
  • The episode "¡Un Dia con Plum!", introduces Periwinkle's bilingual friend, Plum, who tin speak Spanish. The episode incorporates learning Spanish into its plot.
• Birthday Episode:
  • "Mailbox's Birthday" for Mailbox.
  • "Blueish'southward Birthday" for Blue.
  • "Joe'due south Surprise Party" for Joe.
• Bookends: Both figuratively and literally.
  • Since well-nigh of the original episodes—if not all of them—take place in a volume, each episode begins with the book opening and ends with information technology closing.
  • In-Universe. Each episode begins with the "Friend" arriving at the house for today'southward story and then ends with them leaving.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Steve and Joe talk to the viewers.
• Breakout Character: In 2 book releases, small grapheme Green Puppy is a main focus.
• Brother–Sister Squad: Shovel and Pail are siblings and are about never seen seperately.
• BSoD Song: Steve gets "As Smart As Yous" in Blue's Large Musical Movie about how he can never discover the clues on his own and needs the viewers to assist him. A longer, different version of the song is used on the soundtrack than the one used in the picture.
• Carnivore Defoliation: Periwinkle (a cat) was all-time friends with Plum (a bird) back when he lived in the urban center.
• Cartoon Brute: Blue and Magenta don't seem to have a divers breed.
• Catchphrase: "Bark bark bark!" (said with the same inflection every bit "No you don't!", to clarify)
  • "A inkling, a clue!" - Said by the pre-recorded children'due south voices whenever a clue is spotted.
  • "We just figured out Bluish's Clues!" - When the clue is solved.
  • "Bluish skidoo, we can too!" - When the host is about to skidoo (jump) into whatever Blue went in.
  • "At present that we're three, what volition we be?!" - The clues in the episodes in which the clues talked, once all three clues were establish.
  • "Whoa!" - Slippery Soap.
  • "Mail'due south here, mail's in!", "Here'southward your alphabetic character!", and "You're welcome!" - Mailbox.
  • "Blue's Clues, I'1000 and so excited!" - Sidetable Drawer. Lampshaded in the CD-ROM game Bluish'southward Birthday Adventure where she follows it up with "I always say that, don't I?".
• Character Tics: When Blue is happy, she will frequently squint her optics and run in place. Magenta and Green Puppy are also shown to practise this.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Turquoise, the turtle Steve bought for Blue in "Blueish's Altogether," turns out to be the answer to that episode's game of Blueish'southward Clues (a turtle ^note Granted, he didn't specify a certain turtle, simply...).
• Christmas Episode: "Blue'south Big Holiday" in Flavour three & "Blue'southward Outset Holiday" in Season 5.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Magenta'southward possessor, Miranda, just appears in "Shy" and "Magenta Gets Glasses" and does not appear during Joe's seasons.
• Prune Show: "100th Episode Celebration" is this, celebrating the occasion with clips from previous episodes. Thankfully, said clips only concluding a few seconds each.
• Comically Missing the Signal: In the early on episodes, whenever Steve goes to the Thinking Chair to resolve the episode with the given clues, he usually makes a bizarre guess, similar Blue putting a moo-cow in a cup and slurping information technology upwards with a straw (she just wanted milk), or wrapping a pillow in a blanket and reading it a story (she but wanted a nap).
  • Steve and Joe can sometimes be like this whenever the audition is trying to tell them almost a clue nearby.
• Concept Anthology: Three were released during the bear witness'southward run- Blueish's Big Treasure, Goodnight Blueish, and A Playdate With Blue. Loosely tying in with the episodes "Blue's Big Treasure Hunt", "Blue'south Large Pajama Party", and "Magenta Comes Over" respectively. The albums consist of original sound-simply "episodes" with musical numbers added in.
• Continuity Nod: In an early episode, Steve bought Blue a pet turtle (named Turquoise) for her altogether. Turquoise shows upwardly in the groundwork of nearly scenes set in the chamber after that.

• Couch Gag:
  • In Steve-era episodes, what Blue hides behind in the intro is always different.
  • Joe-era episodes, on the other hand, have him wearing a different colored shirt in every episode.
  • Something consequent across almost every episode is what's in the Skidoo Frame in the living room. Sometimes information technology even changes between scenes. The same goes for what's on the felt lath and the tabular array in-betwixt the living room and kitchen.
• Cross-Referenced Titles: "Colors Everywhere!," and, a little farther down the line, "Numbers Everywhere!"
  • There are two well-spaced episodes chosen "Nature!" and "Nurture!".
  • "Blueish Wants to Play a Game" and "Bluish Wants to Play a Song Game".
• Cute Kitten: Blueish's classmates Orangish Kitten and Periwinkle are of the Talking Animal diverseness.
• Cute Little Fangs: Green Puppy has fangs, and she'southward cute due to being a puppy.
• Deconstruction: The Blue'due south Big Musical deconstructs how the kids e'er found the clues with Steve'southward subplot virtually finding a Blue'south Clue all by himself and the frustration that Steve gets when he's unable to do it himself. Thankfully, everyone cheers him up to continue and he finds the last clue all past himself.
• The Diaper Modify: Cinnamon gets his diaper changed several times. This was actually the answer to a game of Blue'south Clues at i point.
• The Ditz: In that location's always at least one clue in the show (sometimes ALL Three) where Joe or Steve will enquire the kids if they see a clue, or where it is. Information technology takes three times for him to FINALLY understand what the kids are saying. ("A clue!" "A shoe? Aye, I'm wearing shoes." "No, a inkling!" "You, too?" "No, a clue!" "Oh! A clue! Where?" "Correct over there!")
  • "Math!" has a variation: The first clue is an ice cube. However, Steve has just finished counting water ice cubes in a tray (ten to be exact)... and is near to have a heart attack over the prospect of ten clues.
  • Similarly, a clue is seen on a carton of orange juice in "Blueish'south Surprise at 2 O'Clock". Steve merely drank some after being told of the clue. Cue Steve thinking he drank the clue.
• Dream Episode: "What Did Blue Dream About?" shows most of the primary characters' dreams, either through them sleeping or through them existence described by the characters.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The arc of Steve going to college wasn't kept in the UK adaptation, and Kevin Duala stayed the host. Notwithstanding, when the Joe episodes were adapted, they for some reason had Kevin wear Joe's shirts, and use his notebook. The shirt was at least Mitt Waved, as when this start happens in "Shape Searchers", Kevin says it's because squares are his new favorite shape.
• Early Installment Weirdness: In the early episodes, Steve was much more than excitable, and during Mail Time, he would say each child's name, instead of using the extensive term of "our friends".
  • In the first episode, "Snack Fourth dimension", Blue is frequently shown with her tongue sticking out. She doesn't practise this for the rest of the show, however about costly toys released of her while the show was ambulation kept this.
  • Bluish fabricated a few additional barking vocal effects besides her typical "bow bow" sounds in some of the early episodes, such as a "ruff!" audio she would make in the opening sequence and in "Adventures in Fine art". This was dropped during the second season, most likely due to Magenta's barks using an "r" sound unlike Bluish's.
  • A different version of the theme song was used in most of the outset season until the episode "What Does Blue Want to Brand?". Bluish would also hide in the same spot in the opening sequence until the same episode, where she would kickoff hiding in unlike spots at the first of each episode.
  • Blue tended to act a fiddling more "canine" in the earlier episodes, such as carrying things in her mouth and licking Steve'southward face. This became downplayed as the show went on.
• Educational Song: "Planets" from "What Experiment Does Blueish Want to Effort?", which teaches the names of the planets in order.
• Ending Theme: At the end of each episode, they would sing "At present it's time for and so long merely nosotros'll sing 1 more vocal. Thanks for doing your part, you sure are smart, y'know with me and you and my domestic dog Blueish ^annotation or "and our friend Blue" in Joe'south earlier episodes we can exercise anything that we want to practise."
• Episode Tagline:
  • "The Baby's Here": Steve drops the championship several times.
  • "Blueish is Frustrated": "Stop, breathe, and think".
  • "The Lost Episode": "Go back, get dorsum, go back- go dorsum to where you were".
  • "Inventions": "Try, try again".
  • "Making Changes": "Change, change, change- how tin can we modify?"
  • "Joe'due south First Day": "What'due south Joe gonna show?"
  • "Steve Goes to College": "Steve is going to college!"
  • Blue'southward Big Musical Flick: "When something goes wrong, don't surrender- only continue"
• Episode Title Card: Averted in the first four seasons which had no title cards at all. Played straight in the final 2 seasons, where Mr. Salt holds upwards a pennant with the title on information technology and reads the title at the finish of the theme song.
• Evolving Credits: The fifth season introduces a new upbeat vocal theme song and new sequence to go forth with it, likewise as Mr. Table salt belongings up a pennant with the episode'southward name on it at the end.
  • Commencement with the fourth flavor, the original intro sequence adds Magenta and Periwinkle, as well as their houses next to each side of Blue's house. Shovel and Pail also say "Hi, Blue!" equally Blue comes into the firm instead of silently actualization next to the firm.
• Excited Kids' Show Host: Steve (and, to a further extent, Joe) goes (very close to) BERSERK when he finds a clue for the showtime time.
• Exploiting the Fourth Wall: Every bit part of the imitation interactivity, Steve or Joe would sometimes pass an object dorsum or forth between them and the viewer(s).

  Steve: Y'all know, I can tell I'm really going to need your help today. Will you assistance me? ... Yous will? Great!

• Fake Interactivity: Along with Dora the Explorer, this was one of the early Nick Jr. shows that popularized the idea. Normally, pre-recorded children's voices would answer the question. Host Steve or Joe would keep upwards a running dialogue with the viewer, who was supposed to help figure out the clues to the game of Blue'south Clues.
• Fingerless Hands: Some of the characters, such equally Periwinkle. The bottoms of his feet sow to manus pads.
• Kickoff Mean solar day of School Episode: "Blue Takes You to Schoolhouse", in which Blue and Joe take Periwinkle to his outset day of preschool.
• Foreshadowing: An example is implemented in "Blueish is Frustrated": The starting time inkling, the sink, is discovered (and drawn) from the flooring looking upward, making it look like the sink is taller than it is. The answer to this game of Blue's Clues is that Blue is frustrated over trying to castor her teeth... because she tin can't reach her toothbrush.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Blueish sometimes has these. Rarely, so does Periwinkle. Only 2 pictures show this.
• "Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: In "Bedtime Business concern", everyone's getting ready to go to bed and the object of the game of Bluish's Clues is to notice out what Blueish's favorite part of bedtime is. Part of this is also included in "Blue's Large Pajama Political party".
• Halloween Episode: "What Is Bluish Afraid Of?" in Season 1 and "Blue'due south Big Costume Party" in Flavor 3.
• Happily Married: Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. They have 2 children, Paprika and Cinnamon, are a happy couple and whenever they're angry, it'southward non at each other.
• Subconscious Track: The album "Goodnight, Blueish" has a bonus at the finish called "Hidden, Blue'southward Dream" that isn't listed on the album itself, but plays every bit a separate rails. In that location'due south just under 2 minutes of night noises and snoring earlier the dream function actually starts.
  • The Bluish's Big Musical Picture soundtrack has a hidden track at the stop of the final track, "Then Long Vocal". Afterward about fifty seconds of silence, the background music from Periwinkle's magic bear witness plays, followed past some Studio Chatter.
• I Can't Hear You: This is done in "Nature!" between Steve and the voice of the kid used to represent the viewer when the viewer discovers a waterfall and tries to signal it out to Steve, but he says that he can't hear because there'southward a loud waterfall. Also, it's a fairly common Running Gag on the serial for either Steve or Joe to mishear when when a child'southward vocalization says "A clue!".
• "I Want" Song: Sidetable Drawer gets two in Bluish's Big Musical Motion-picture show. "Sidetable's Complaining" is a more downbeat vocal nigh how she wants to be in the show simply wishes she wasn't so shy. She subsequently sings the more upbeat "Sing!" to Steve, to tell him that she wants to sing in their music show.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Downplayed equally it didn't happen for every episode, only most "special episodes" during the Steve era (commonly the ones debuting in a primetime slot) followed the "Bluish's Large (Episode Subject)" pattern. As did the direct-to-video moving-picture show, Blue's Large Musical Picture, and the Story Arc of Cinnamon's nativity was released across two videos under the Blue's Big News title. This extended to marathons airing on Nick Jr. that led up to new episodes, which would be titled "Blue's Big (Day of the Week)".
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Every canis familiaris graphic symbol spoke in a kind of canine whine that the viewer couldn't understand but all the other characters seemed to empathise fine.
• Interactive Narrator: The audience regularly talks to Steve and Joe.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: In Nihon, Blue starred aslope How-do-you-do Kitty on a alive phase show called "Blue'due south Clues Show". The show ran between 2008 and 2009 at Sanrio's indoor theme park Sanrio Puroland.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Steve more often than not believes Green Puppy (a bulldog) to exist male.
• Lampshade Hanging: In "What's That Sound?", one of the clues was a cloud. Correct before drawing it down, Steve wonders how Bluish could put her mitt-print on it.

  Steve: How did Blue get a paw...?

• Afterwards Installment Weirdness: Start with season five, Joe takes over as the host instead of Steve, various songs and music cues from the showtime 4 seasons were replaced, and season six introduces the Bluish'due south Room segment and a shortened version of the "Blue'southward Clues Theme". Beginning with "Magenta Gets Spectacles" (the last episode of season 3), some of the video letters have groundwork music or are presented in a music video style.
• Licensed Games / Edutainment Games: Ii were released during the testify'south popularity peak: one for the PlayStation and one for the Game Boy Colour. Later on on, there was ane released for the 5-Tech 5-Smile plug-and-play learning arrangement. Apart from that, nearly a dozen edutainment titles for the PC/Mac (many of them past Humongous Entertainment—a demo version of Blue's ABC Time Activites can be downloaded from Infogrames). Many of them were surprisingly expert.
• Limited Wardrobe: Steve wore nothing but green striped shirts and khaki pants. All of Joe's shirts are different colors, only they have the same square pattern.
• Matryoshka Object: A VHS-exclusive scene in "Blue's Birthday" has Steve opening a present with an increasingly smaller present inside each one.
• Medium Blending: The prove mixes cutout animation with a live-action host.
• Merchandise-Driven: All types, from shampoo to plush toys (some, such as the Shovel and Pail Eden plush, are very rare) to model Thinking Chairs. At that place were too dry-erase Handy Bully Notebooks, of which the non-dry-erase replicas are easy to find on eBay.
• Mocking Singsong: Inverted in "Magenta Comes Over". Everyone at the house is and so eager to have Magenta as a invitee that they break into a short song and dance whenever it's discussed. The tune carries over when Magenta finally shows upwardly.
• The Picture: Bluish's Large Musical Motion-picture show, the merely straight-to-video movie for the show.
• Mythology Gag: The get-go song on the Blueish'south Large Treasure CD, "Can You Help Me Today?" (sung to the tune of the "And so Long Song") was originally used as the theme vocal for the 1995 pilot, Blue Prints.
• New Baby Episode:
  • "The Baby's Hither" focuses on the birth of Mr. Table salt and Mrs. Pepper's son Cinnamon, and how a lot of things will exist changing, including their schedules and Cinnamon's diapers.
  • The season ane finale "Blue's News" has Steve play a scavenger hunt variant of Blue's Clues to figure out some "big news." The clues are Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and a canteen. The big news turns out to be Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper's new baby Paprika, who the cast meets at the terminate of the episode (which was foreshadowed before when Steve encounters Mr. Salt muttering to himself about spices). Paprika would go a recurring character for the residuum of the series, growing up and becoming a large sis of her own.
• No Adversary: There is no villain or "bad" character in the series.
• No Fourth Wall: The people on the show would often query the "audience" on the answer to the show's questions and puzzles. Not to mention Blue pawprints the screen in the kickoff of an episode.
  • One interesting example: In one case after Steve greets the viewer, he asks how they "got" there. The conclusion he reaches? "Oh, by television. (knocks on the screen) Cool!".
• Not Immune to Abound Up: Averted with Paprika and Cinnamon. They both started out as babies who couldn't talk (having been born during the series), just over fourth dimension, they started acting more like little kids instead of babies. By the finish of the series, Paprika was speaking total sentences like the residual of the cast, and Cinnamon knew some words. Blue's Clues and You! continues this with Cinnamon now having his shaker cap shaped like a snapback reflecting how he'south gotten a little older.
• Once an Episode:
  • The mail arriving.
  • Sitting in the Thinking Chair to figure out the clues, and when they take, singing nearly information technology.
  • The "one more song" they sing at the stop.
• Out of Focus: Fifi and Fred Felt, likewise as several other Felt Friends, begin to get less speaking roles in the later flavour three episodes and usually just announced in the background.
• Pink Girl, Blueish Boy: A notable subversion as Blue and Magenta are both girls.
• Portal Picture show: Blue, Steve, and Joe can all "Skidoo" into pretty much any movie around and interact with the residents.
• Prime number Time Cartoon: Not regularly as it aired on Nick Jr., which aired on weekday mornings. But the premiere episode ("Snack Fourth dimension") and several special episodes later on ("Blue's Birthday", "Blueish'south Big Treasure Chase", "Bluish's Big Pajama Party", "Blue's Big Holiday", "Joe's First Day", "Joe Gets a Clue", "Steve Goes to College", "100th Episode Celebration", and "The Fable of the Blue Puppy") all aired in primetime on the main Nick schedule.
• Pun-Based Title: The episode about finding things that have been lost or misplaced is named "The Lost Episode!"
• Put on a Bus: Steve (literally), when he went off to college. He sometimes comes dorsum, though.
• Real Time: The evidence gave every appearance of taking place in existent time. Viewers follow the host through events in the Blue'southward Clues firm and lawn, or into skidoo, without cutting away or whatever indication of boosted time passing. In 1 installment, viewers fifty-fifty saturday with Steve for one infinitesimal as a clock appeared on-screen counting downwardly one infinitesimal as an exercise in patience. Some other installment with Joe, "Patience," was all near finding ways to exist patient to pass the time until an egg hatched at the cease of the episode. There was fifty-fifty a song to become with it— "Expect. Wait. Wait. What can we do while nosotros expect?"
• Retool: From the first, the Blue's Room spin-off never really defenseless on. And then when they made it into a full serial, they fabricated several changes. The biggest was calculation Blue'southward new infant blood brother Sprinkles every bit a regular fellow member of the cast. Joe was likewise given a more prominent role and the sets were expanded. It still didn't work, and the program ended one time its episode gild was up, and has rarely been seen in repeats since.
  • The unabridged series received ane with Joe replacing Steve as the host in the fifth season. A new, vocal opening sequence replaced the original, several classic music cues from the show were replaced, and "Nosotros Just Figured Out Blue'due south Clues" was changed to "We Sabbatum On Down" for the fifth flavor. Season six would add the Blue's Room segment, the theme vocal shortened, and the "And so Long Song" replaced with "The Farewell Song".
• Rhyming Episode: "Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhymes" in Flavour 1 and "Rhyme Time" in Season 4.
• Ridiculously Beautiful Critter: Every animal in the serial (Blue, Magenta, Green Puppy, Periwinkle, Orangish Kitten, Purple Kangaroo, etc.) are absolutely adorable.
• Roger Rabbit Consequence: The live action characters, Steve and Joe, collaborate with many blithe characters in every episode.
• Rule of Three: The viewer is always expected to discover 3 clues.
  • Most of the questions asked to the viewers are broken up into threes.
  • There are besides three pink snails hidden in the background of every episode for older viewers to discover.
• Running Gag:
  • In "What is Blueish Afraid Of?," Steve and Bluish skidoo into a mansion with a ghost, Boo, who's afraid of his own name. Whenever Steve says it, the ghost gets frightened. Steve somewhen catches onto this and starts getting quite a kick out of saying the proper noun and watching the ghost jump in fearfulness.
  • There's also the joke near Steve mishearing "A clue!".
  • "What Does Blue Demand?" has a running gag where Steve keeps being sprayed with water.
• Running Gagged: For the entire first season, during the Thinking segment, Steve would requite a very silly respond to Blue's Clues (i.e. putting a moo-cow in a cup and slurping it with a harbinger). This is completely dropped after the offset eight episodes of the second season.
• Selective Localisation: In the United Kingdom, many viewers of the bear witness might be puzzled to hear Steve mentioned constantly. The reason why was because the U.k. version featured Kevin Duala (who like with Steve, played a character with the same proper noun every bit his actor) as the host instead of Steve. Kevin and his stripy green shirt are merely equally fondly remembered in the UK as Steve is in the Us.
• Shrinking Violet: "Shy" has Blue feeling, well, shy when Magenta's owner Miranda comes over for a visit.
• Ill Episode: Steve in "Steve Gets the Sniffles".
• Slippery Soap: Slippery Lather (yes, that'southward his proper noun) is the resident klutz of the Blue's Clues House. As his name suggests, he is a talking bar of lather. He'south very clumsy and slips around a lot (and then much that it almost ruins the gang'southward musical bear witness in Blue's Big Musical Pic). His catchphrase is "Whoaaa!" and the show's intro sequence features him sliding into the window on a trail of bubbles.
• Something Completely Different: In "Meet Polka Dots," Blueish opened the door to the Blueish'southward Clues house and in that location were several segments in which time was spent with but Blue or Bluish and her other friends rather than Joe while Joe attended to his stuffed duck Boris, who was having a nap. Perchance most unusually, viewers got to actually watch every bit Bluish placed her pawprint on each clue, something which had always been washed firmly off-screen before.
  • "100th Episode Celebration" doesn't feature a game of Blueish's Clues and is instead a Clip Testify and retrospective of the series due to hit its' 100th episode.
  • "The Legend of the Blue Puppy" too doesn't have the characters playing Blue's Clues at all; instead the plot has Blueish looking for the lock that will reveal her "greatest souvenir"- kicking off the premiere of the Blue's Room segment (and eventual spinoff).
  • "Skidoo Take chances" features Blue and Joe in the episode's "skidoo" location for the majority of the episode, and doesn't take them playing Blue's Clues. Rather, they need to collect the letters making up the word "home" to get them back dwelling house.
  • "The Fairy Tale Brawl" also takes place in the "skidoo" location for the majority of the episode, without the characters shown skidooing back home.
  • "Blue's Big Pajama Political party", "Bedtime Business", and "The Legend of the Blueish Puppy" all take identify entirely at night, while almost episodes would take place in the daytime.
  • "Nature!", "Blue's Big Car Trip", and "Soccer Practice" accept place entirely outside Bluish's house.
  • "Blue's First Holiday" consists of two flashback segments presented equally home movies, showing how Steve get-go met Blue and the start time Bluish and Steve played Blue's Clues, with linking cloth.
  • Bluish'southward Big Musical Movie, "100th Episode Celebration", "Blue Takes Yous to School", "The Fable of the Blue Puppy", "Skidoo Adventure", and "The Fairy Tale Ball" do not characteristic a Mailtime segment.
• Special Edition Title: The show did this quite a number of times.
  • In "Blueish's Big Treasure Hunt", Mailbox calls "Mailtime!", and the episode starts prematurely.
  • "Blue'south Pajama Party" starts with a different version of the theme song, and the intro at dusk with fireflies.
  • "What's That Audio" has the intro take place during Autumn, and the theme song is replaced with nature ambience.
  • "What Does Blue Want to Practice on a Rainy Solar day?" has the intro become cloudy, and the viewer rings the doorbell. The sound of information technology distracts Steve for a little scrap before he finally opens the door.
  • "Blue's Large Holiday" has the intro at Winter (dictated by the leafless tree), with Steve wearing his sweater, and bells added to the theme song.
  • "Blue's Birthday" has the business firm decked with party decorations, and Blue wearing her party hat while singing The Altogether Song.
  • In "Nature", "Blueish's Backyard Abortion Bonanza", and "Joe Gets a Clue", both Steve and Blue aren't nowadays at the first. In the former two episodes, Steve appears in front of the viewer on thier manner to the door, while Joe does and then in the latter.
  • "The Wrong Shirt" shows Steve wearing a tan shirt and green-striped pants, signifying that something is a little off.
  • "Stormy Atmospheric condition", "Blue's Big Mystery", and "Blue's Collection" has the intro at Fall, similar to "What's That Sound", only with Blue hiding in a pile of leaves, and pumpkins at the front porch.
  • "Steve Goes to Higher" has both Steve and Joe greet the viewer.
  • "The Legend of the Blue Puppy" skips the 2d one-half of the theme vocal, and has Moona present the title against the blue moon.
• Spin-Off: Blue'south Room, which swaps out virtually of the primary bandage salve Blueish and Joe for puppets. Oh, and Blue can talk at present.
• Stock Sound Effect: Baby Kate Cry: Variant in the fourth role of the story in Flavour 4 "The Babe's Here!", in that location were some babies crying at the Baby Hospital, and i of them was crying similar this.
  • The Oggy Cry was also used besides.
  • Though in that location no new changes to the prove in the first flavor or the last flavour, Steve stopped telling the viewers the incorrect answer to Bluish's Clues in Flavor 2.
• Story Arc: There'southward a three-episode arc in Season iv introducing Joe. First, he arrives at the business firm for testify and tell, then he learns how to play Blue's Clues, and the arc ends with Steve leaving for college.
  • There's too a v-episode story arc which is meant to introduce Cinnamon.
• Storybook Opening: The intro of the Steve-era episodes showtime off with this, amongst a pile of other classic children's books. Joe-era episodes instead have Bluish taking the book off of a bookshelf (though it'due south withal surrounded by the same books).
• Studio Audience: Crossed with Faux Interactivity, offscreen children's voices would often shout out the answers or point out a clue is spotted.
• Suddenly Speaking: Blue in the Blueish's Room spin-off serial. Additionally, in the volume releases, Blue was speaking earlier Blue's Room fifty-fifty started. Seriously, selection upwardly any of the more than recent numbered Bluish'due south Clues book releases non set up within the world of Blue'southward Room and you'll find that Blueish actually talks out loud to Joe, Green Puppy, Magenta and everyone else. This was truthful even in some of the Steve books. Justified in the books as since readers couldn't hear Blueish's (or the other domestic dog characters) barking, and it was an easier way to prove what they were maxim in the medium (especially for instances where the canis familiaris characters would be talking to each other).
  • Of class, astute viewers might note that Blueish always could talk. Seriously, some of those barks were and so specific that she pretty much was talking if you were clever plenty to figure out what she was saying.
  • The clues, beginning in "Blue's Neighborhood Festival" were no longer drawn by Joe but seemingly drew themselves equally if by magic, then talked and sung a little song.
• Surprise Party: "Joe'due south Surprise Party," in which the viewers are asked to keep Joe distracted while Blueish and the cast terminate putting together a surprise birthday party for him. It works out very well.
• Suspiciously Like Substitute: Steve'south replacement, Joe. They're brothers and they act pretty much alike.
• Have Your Time: Blueish wants a snack but won't tell us what that specific snack is. We take to waste god-only-knows how much fourth dimension playing Blue's Clues to find out what snack she wants. She must not have been that hungry. Downplayed and in some instances justified, considering all episodes seem to take place in Existent Time, so we can be certain that things will be resolved in less than twenty minutes, which isn't that long. And besides, Blue's Clues is, as Steve and Joe point out, a really great game.
• Talking Animal: Played directly with Periwinkle, Orange Kitten and Majestic Kangaroo, but averted with Blue and other dog characters such as Magenta and Greenish Puppy.
• Third Sexual Characteristics: The show actually makes a concentrated effort to avoid this. Almost all of the characters have non-gender-specific features, and all of them speak with the wholly androgynous voices of small children. It's actually more than probable for random characters to exist female.
• That Cloud Looks Similar...:
  • This is the answer to Blue's Clues in "Nature!", that Blueish wants to do this equally a game.
  • In the book release Blue'southward Backyard Mystery, Bluish and her friends Magenta and Periwinkle play the "Cloud Game" at Blueish's suggestion. Blue sees a boat, Magenta sees a dinosaur, and Periwinkle sees a banana.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: This is often used and is oftentimes combined with the bear witness's particular make of Fake Interactivity. There were besides at least a couple of episodes specifically about feelings and, of course, this trope was correct at the fore. A typical example of how this might get...

  Joe: Then, tell me, exercise y'all call up Felt Friend Sam is feeling happy, or sorry? ... ...

  Kid's Vocalisation: Sad!

  Joe: That's correct! Sam is sad because Anna wouldn't share with him.

• That'southward All, Folks!: Every episode ends with Steve or Joe proverb goodbye to the audition and singing the "So Long Song" (or "The Bye Song" in Joe'due south later episodes).
  • Blue's Big Musical Movie ends with Bluish holding upward a cardboard card reading "Thanks for coming to Bluish'south Big Musical" as she barks out "Cheers for coming!" right before the credits start. At the stop of the credits, another card reading "Adieu bye" appears as Blue barks it out.
• Through a Face Full of Fur: In "Shy", Blue blushes as she hides behind the Thinking Chair.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Well, technically the human. In Bluish's Big Musical, Steve suddenly realizes that he's never found a inkling on his own without the help of the kids. He'due south sorely depressed nigh this fact until he looks inside of a box (that the camera tin can't see in) and realizes—there's a clue in there! He institute it himself!
• Time Skip: One appears to have happened in Blue'due south Clues & Yous!. Obviously, in the 13 years the show's been off the air, Joe got a job at the present store somewhere down the line, and moved out of the house. Meanwhile, Steve, having graduated higher, opened his own detective agency, which is implied to be quite successful.
• Title, Please!: In the earlier episodes, the episode titles didn't announced within the episodes themselves. Averted once the show started using "Another Blue's Clues Twenty-four hour period"; near the stop, Mr. Salt and his family would appear property a banner with the episode'south title, and Mr. Salt would read the title to the audience. Later on, Blue's Clues and You! would bear witness the episode titles outright, along with the episode'southward writer.
• Title Theme Melody: "Another Blueish'due south Clues Day." They didn't kickoff using it until later Joe became host, though. Upward until and so, a elementary instrumental theme was used to pb into the program.
• Toilet Sense of humour: The Toilet Song in Morn Music, even mentioning pee and poo.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Blue and Magenta.
• Toyless Toyline Graphic symbol: Virtually every main character received plush toy releases by Eden Toys, Mattel, Ty, or Nanco, including more minor recurring characters such as Green Puppy, Purple Kangaroo, Orange Kitten, and Snail. Neither Sidetable Drawer nor Cinnamon were released in any plush toy line for the serial. While Sidetable Drawer received at least 3 different toys of her during the original series, Cinnamon would not get whatever sort of toy fabricated of him until the reboot.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Sandwiches and milk for Blue.
  • Milk and orange juice for Paprika.
  • Annihilation with bananas in it for Steve. Banana cookies, banana muffins, banana breadstuff, etc.
• Trailers Always Spoil: At to the lowest degree one promo for an episode actually gave plenty data for especially astute viewers to figure out the answer to Blueish's Clues earlier the episode had even started.
• Translation Convention: In some of the tie-in books, Blue, Magenta, and Greenish Puppy are able to properly speak. Unlike Blue gaining the ability to speak in Blue's Room however, it's possible that these are merely their regular barks existence translated for the readers' convenience.
• Triumphant Reprise: Throughout Blue's Large Musical Motion-picture show, Sidetable Drawer sings "Sidetable's Lament" about how she wants to sing in the musical, but is too shy to inquire. When she and Periwinkle come up up with a way to get Steve'southward attending, she sings a more upbeat version of the song most how she's definitely going to ask Steve this time and sing in the show.
• Truncated Theme Tune: Beginning in season six, the "Blue's Clues Theme" is shortened to permit more than time for the Blue'southward Room segment.
• True Blue Femininity: Blue is a girl.
• Unconventional Nutrient Usage: In "What'south and so Funny?", a construction worker tries to use a banana to boom in a nail.

  Steve: Question: Why not a hammer?
  Structure Worker: I think I'k going bananas!

• Universal Driver's License: In "Away Great Playdate" on Blue's Room, Joe conducts a train, drives a taxi and pilots a plane.
• Unwanted Glasses Plot: Inverted in "Magenta Gets Glasses," which was also released as one of the books. Magenta feels unsure at first virtually getting spectacles, simply feels amend nigh it when her friends give her back up.
• Vague Age: The brothers, more often than not Joe. Acted by men but they behave similar boys merely apparently live alone. Steve goes off to college so he's an adult, and likely Joe is, as well.
• Variable Mix: When the clues are reviewed using the notebook, each clue is accompanied by music. Each clue is accompanied by its own melodic line when mentioned, and together, they harmonize.
• Very Special Episode: "Magenta Gets Spectacles", which would afterward get a remake in the reboot. Every bit the championship suggests, Magenta gets her offset pair of spectacles, and the episode teaches immature kids getting glasses for the first fourth dimension that it's nothing to be nervous or ashamed of, and improves their vision in the end.
• Viewers Are Geniuses: After episodes oftentimes covered topics that had been dealt with before, but rather than but beingness some rehash, they introduced new material. For example, the "Colors Everywhere" episode covered the familiar topic of mixing colors, but took it the new level of showing how the mixed colors could so exist mixed with each other to create even more new colors. "Chartreuse, a colour I had not seen, looks to me similar a yellow-green. ... Mix blueish and yellow and they're suddenly green. Then blueish and green makes aquamarine."
  • Chartreuse is also featured in the episode "Blue Takes You to School", where it's pointed out equally a color of a chair in the bedroom.
• Vocal Development: Effectually season half-dozen, Sidetable Drawer's voice started to sound more mature.
• The Voiceless:
  • Blue doesn't speak, but her friends understand her perfectly. Same goes for other dog characters like Magenta and Greenish Puppy.
  • Librarian Marlee doesn't speak with her vox and simply communicates with sign language.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • Why exactly was there a sock in a bakery?
  • Miranda, Magenta'south possessor, only appears in ii episodes and is never seen nor mentioned again.
  • In "What Does Blueish Need?", we're introduced to Dresser, Ironing Lath, and Washer. The one-time two never appeared once more, while the latter made a few cameos in the outset season and in some books earlier permanently but being shown in an "inanimate" course.
• With Lyrics: Two of the testify's background music cues were extended and given lyrics on some of the soundtrack releases:
  • On the album Blue'due south Large Treasure, the music used for the three clues in "Blueish'southward Big Treasure Hunt" would be given lyrics as "The Things I Love To Do".
  • The anthology A Playdate With Blueish gives lyrics to Magenta's Leitmotif, "Magenta'due south Coming Over", every bit "Truly a Friend". Miranda and Steve besides sing it with lyrics as "Magenta'south Got New Spectacles" in "Magenta Gets Spectacles".
• Wrap-Up Song: Every episode ends with The Then Long Song". In Flavor half dozen, it's replaced by "The Bye Song", which was shorter.
• You Mean X Mas: There's an episode called Dearest Solar day.

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Now it's time for so long!
Merely we'll sing just ane more song!
Thank you for doing your role!
Y'all sure are smart!
You know with me and you,
and my canis familiaris, Blueish!
We can exercise anything!
That we want to do!

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