History WesternAnimation / BluesClues

* TheStinger: Every episode ended on a small animation of Blue playing with her ball after the credits end, followed by the book from the opening and now closing along with the production logos.

* TheStinger: Every episode ended on a small animation of Blue playing with her ball after the credits end, followed by the book from the opening and closing along with the production logos.

* TheStinger: Every episode ended on a small animation of Blue playing with her ball after the credits end, followed by the book from the opening and closing along with the production logos.

* SelectiveLocalisation: In the United Kingdom, many viewers of the show might be puzzled to hear Steve mentioned constantly. The reason why was because the UK version featured Kevin Duala (who like with Steve, played a character with the same name as his actor) as the host instead of Steve. Kevin and his stripy green shirt are just as fondly remembered in the UK as Steve is in the United States.

* 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 "Shape Searchers" (when Kevin reveals his new shirt and explains it's because squares are his new favorite shape).

* 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).

* TheDitz: There's always at least one clue in the show (sometimes ALL THREE) where Joe or Steve will ask the kids if they see a clue, or where it is. It takes three times for him to FINALLY understand what the kids are saying. ("A clue!" "A shoe? Yes, I'm wearing shoes." "No, a clue!" "You, too?" "No, a clue!" "Oh! A clue! Where?" "Right over there!")

* 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 Shifters" (when Kevin reveals his new shirt and explains it's because squares are his new favorite shape).

* DubInducedPlotHole: The arc of Steve going to college wasn't kept in the UK adaptation, and 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. The shirt was at least {{Hand Wave}}d, as when this first happens in "Shape Searchers", Kevin says it's because squares are his new favorite shape.

** Though there no new changes to the show in the first season or the last season, Steve stopped telling the viewers the wrong answer to Blue's Clues in Season 2.

** One interesting example: One time after Steve greets the viewer, he asks how they "got" there. The conclusion he reaches? "Oh, by ''television''. ''([[ScreenTap knocks on the screen]])'' Cool!".

* AbsenteeActor: Sidetable Drawer was missing from "Blue's Big Car Trip," and Mailbox was missing from "Blue's Big Car Trip," "The Legend of the Blue Puppy," "Skidoo Adventure" and "The Fairy Tale Ball."

* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: At the end of "Soccer Practice", Blue, Joe, and all their friends have ice cream together. Blue and Magenta chose chocolate for their flavors, when in real life, chocolate is extremely toxic to dogs.

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 direct-to-video movies, a live show adaptation, an eventual SpinOff called ''Series/BluesRoom'', and, of course, heaps and heaps of [[TheMerch merchandise.]]

* SuddenlySpeaking: Blue in the ''Blue's Room'' spin-off series. 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).

** The clues, beginning in "Blue's Neighborhood Festival" were no longer drawn by Joe but seemingly drew themselves as if by magic, then talked and sung a little song.

* HiddenTrack: The album "Goodnight, Blue" has a bonus at the end called "Hidden, Blue's Dream" that isn't listed on the album itself, but plays as a separate track. There's just under two minutes of night noises and snoring before the dream part actually starts.

* DigitalDestruction: The first few seasons didn't exactly follow [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area_%28television%29? safe area]] standards. Rather, episodes were rendered with a lot of overscan that would otherwise be cropped off by most CRT televisions of the era. No attempt was made to fix this when the show was released digitally, which lead to a lot of editing mistakes that are very noticeable when watching the show on anything modern.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: In "Meet Polka Dots," Blue opened the door to the Blue's Clues house and there were several segments in which time was spent with just Blue or Blue and her other friends rather than Joe while Joe attended to his stuffed duck Boris, who was having a nap. Perhaps most unusually, viewers got to actually watch as Blue placed her pawprint on each clue, something which had always been done firmly off-screen before.
** "100th Episode Celebration" doesn't feature a game of Blue's Clues and is instead a ClipShow and retrospective of the series due to hitting its' 100th episode.
** "The Legend of the Blue Puppy" also doesn't have the characters playing Blue's Clues at all; instead the plot has Blue looking for the lock that will reveal her "greatest gift"- kicking off the premiere of the ''Blue's Room'' segment (and eventual spinoff).
** "Skidoo Adventure" features Blue and Joe in the episode's "skidoo" location for the majority of the episode, and doesn't have them playing Blue's Clues. Rather, they need to collect the letters making up the word "home" to get them back home.
** "The Fairy Tale Ball" also takes place in the "skidoo" location for the majority of the episode, without the characters shown skidooing back home.
** "Blue's Big Pajama Party", "Bedtime Business", and "The Legend of the Blue Puppy" all take place entirely at night, while most episodes would take place in the daytime.
** "Nature!", "Blue's Big Car Trip", and "Soccer Practice" take place entirely outside Blue's house.
** "Blue's First Holiday" consists of two flashback segments presented as home movies, showing how Steve first met Blue and the first time Blue and Steve played Blue's Clues, with linking material.
** ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'', "100th Episode Celebration", "Blue Takes You to School", "The Legend of the Blue Puppy", "Skidoo Adventure", and "The Fairy Tale Ball" do not feature a Mailtime segment.

''Blue's Clues'' is a famous, [[LongRunners long-running]], and ''incredibly'' influential children's television show, produced by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} as part of their Creator/NickJr preschool block. If you grew up in the United States, the UK, Portugal, or South Korea during the 1990s or early 2000s, the odds are good that this show will be familiar to you (under different hosts and names respectively).

* EpisodeTagline: In the episode "The Baby's Here", Steve says the title several times.

** Something consistent across almost every episode is what's in the picture frame in the living room. Sometimes it even changes between scenes. The same goes for what's on the felt board and the table in-between the living room and kitchen.