History WesternAnimation / BluesClues

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* OnceAnEpisode:

* WrapUpSong: Every episode ends with the "So Long Song". In Season 6, it's replaced by "The Goodbye Song", which was shorter.

%%ZCE ** Steve and Joe can sometimes be like this whenever the viewers are trying to tell them about a clue nearby.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The arc of Steve going to college wasn't kept in the UK adaptation, as Kevin Duala stayed the host. However, when the Joe episodes were adapted, they for some reason had Kevin wear Joe's shirts, and use his notebook. Both elements were {{Hand Wave}}d in "I'm So Happy!" (when Sidetable Drawer gives Kevin his new notebook) and the following episode, "Shape Searchers" (when Kevin reveals his new shirt and explains it's because squares are his new favorite shape).

** In the first episode, "Snack Time", Blue is frequently shown with her tongue sticking out. She doesn't do this for the rest of the show, however most plush toys released of her while the show was airing kept this.

* FourFingeredHands: Unlike the other characters (except other puppies) she has 4 fingers, this is justified, as she is a puppy. Weirdly, she has more fingers than most of the characters.

* BlueOniRed Oni: Joe is the red oni to Steve's blue oni. Joe is a {{keet}} incapable of sitting still, while Steve is [[MellowFellow more slow]] and needs to stop to rest frequently as he needs to eat to gather his train of thought. Joe has a more animated voice, while Steve is soft-spoken. Steve is more passive and relies on his friends to decide what to do, Joe is more likely to think outside the box and then thinks of many ways to break out of the routine during his era.

** Why exactly was there [[MemeticMutation a sock in a bakery?]]

{{Bookworm}}: Steve is a rare case who avoids BookSmart. He is a book lover who often reads his favorite books over and over again. In fact, Blue is a character from Steve's favorite book when he was a kid that came out of a book he read non-stop for days. One of his reasons for going to college is the new books he will be able to read there.

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Steve generally believes Green Puppy (a bulldog) to be male.

* CuteKitten: Blue's classmates Orange Kitten and Periwinkle are of the TalkingAnimal variety.

* BigLittleBrother: Joe to Steve in-universe. He is called a "little" brother of a college student but looks like an adult.

** Blue in the ''Blue's Room'' spin-off series, once she enters her playroom. Additionally, in the book releases, Blue was speaking before ''Blue's Room'' even started. Seriously, pick up any of the more recent numbered ''Blue's Clues'' book releases not set within the world of ''Blue's Room'' and you'll find that Blue actually talks out loud to Joe, Green Puppy, Magenta and everyone else. This was true even in some of the Steve books. Justified in the books as since readers couldn't hear Blue's (or the other dog characters) barking, and it was an easier way to show what they were saying in the medium (especially for instances where the dog characters would be talking to each other).

* TimeSkip: One appears to have happened in ''Blue's Clues & You!''. Apparently, in the 13 years the show's been off the air, Joe got a job at [[ContinuityNod the present store]] somewhere down the line, and moved out of the house. Meanwhile, Steve, having graduated college, opened his own detective agency, which is implied to be quite successful.

Introduced in 1996, the show is notable for [[TropeCodifier pioneering]] the kid's show version of an InteractiveNarrator--one who talks "to" the camera, seemingly at the children watching. ''Blue's Clues'' was so successful, this went on to become the norm for most kid's show hosts today-- especially those directed at the "Under 6" age bracket. It also originally ran under the notion that children learn through repetition--so the same episode of the show would run for a full week. (The show later dropped this practice.) It was ''hugely'' successful, leading to several DirectToVideo movies, a live show adaptation, an eventual SpinOff called ''Series/BluesRoom'', and (of course) heaps and heaps of [[TheMerch merchandise.]]

The show was originally hosted by Steven Burns as "[[TheDanza Steve]]", but he left the show after six years. [[note]]A large number of rumors swirled about the reasons why, from death hoaxes to drug overdoses. The truth was a number of the show's original production staff had left, and he felt ready to move on. In addition he was [[PrematurelyBald 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 rock circles thanks to his connections with his friends, the Music/FlamingLips.[[/note]] His replacement was [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute "Joe"]] (Donovan Patton), his in-universe younger brother, who ran the show, and its spinoff ''Blue's Room,'' until 2007, when production came to a halt. Reruns aired on the Creator/NickJr channel until July 2019 (4 months before the reboot premiered), and [=DVDs=] still exist. Running from 1996 to 2006 (or 2007 if you count ''Blue's Room''), ''Blue's Clues'' was Nick Jr.'s longest-running series, up until ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' broke that record in 2010.

On March 6, 2018, it was announced that a reboot using CGI animation was in production. On September 13, 2018, the reboot was [[https://deadline.com/2018/09/nickelodeons-blues-clues-reboot-gets-new-host-new-title-1202463576/ revealed]] to be titled ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', with actor Joshua Dela Cruz as the new host, "Josh". On August 26, 2019, a November 11 premiere was announced, and it was stated that the show would be a continuation of the original series.

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[ImpliedTrope Strongly Implied, but never completely said]]. Various promotional materials and the later the [[Film/BluesBigCityAdventure 2022 film]] imply that the main characters (including [[TokenHuman Steve and Joe]]) are sentient ficcional characters in-universe, but that initially only the children that watched the show were aware of this fact.