History WesternAnimation / BluesClues

* NoFourthWall: The people on the show would often query the viewers on the answer to the show's questions and puzzles. Not to mention Blue pawprints the screen in the beginning of an episode.
** One interesting example: One time after Steve greets the viewer, he asks how they "got" there. The conclusion he reaches? "Oh, by ''television''. Cool! ''([[ScreenTap knocks on the screen]])''".

* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Steve (and, to a further extent, Joe) goes (very close to) BERSERK when he finds a clue for the first time.

%%ZCE * FourFingeredHands: Blue sometimes has these. Rarely, so does Periwinkle. Only 2 pictures show this.

* TriumphantReprise: Throughout ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'', Sidetable Drawer sings "Sidetable's Lament" about how she wants to sing in the musical, but is too shy to ask. When she and Periwinkle come up with a way to get Steve's attention, she sings a more upbeat version of the song about how she's definitely going to ask Steve this time and sing in the show.

'''Construction Worker:''' I think I'm going [[{{pun}} bananas]]!

* TheMovie: ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'', the only direct-to-video movie for the show.

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: A notable subversion as Blue and Magenta are both girls.

** ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'' ends with Blue holding up a cardboard card reading "Thanks for coming to Blue's Big Musical" as she barks out "Thanks for coming!" right before the credits start. At the end of the credits, another card reading "Bye bye" appears as Blue barks it out.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Well, technically the human. In ''Blue's Big Musical,'' Steve suddenly realizes that he's ''never found a clue on his own without the help of the kids.'' He's sorely depressed about this fact until he looks inside of a box (that the camera can't see in) and realizes--''there's a clue in there! He found it himself!''

* AnimationBump: ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'' for the most part averts it due to mainly looking the same as the rest of the series, but also uses several alternate angles and zoom effects never shown in the episodes themselves.

** Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper, their children Paprika and Cinnamon, and numerous other characters.

* AnthropomorphicTypography: The special "Blue's Big Musical" features a talking musical symbol, [[ADogNamedDog a G-clef named G-Clef]], who teaches Steve how to write music. He also has several friends who are singing music notes with faces.

* BSODSong: Steve gets "As Smart As You" in ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'' about how he can never find the clues on his own and needs the viewers to help him. A longer, different version of the song is used on the soundtrack than the one used in the movie.

* ChristmasEpisode: "Blue's Big Holiday" in Season 3 & "Blue's First Holiday" in Season 5.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The ''Blue's Big Musical'' deconstructs how the kids always found the clues with Steve's subplot about finding a Blue's 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 by himself.

** ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'': "When something goes wrong, don't give up- just go on"

** The ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'' soundtrack has a hidden track at the end of the final track, "So Long Song". After about fifty seconds of silence, the background music from Periwinkle's magic show plays, followed by some StudioChatter.

* IWantSong: Sidetable Drawer gets two in ''Blue's Big Musical Movie''. "Sidetable's Lament" is a more downbeat song about how she wants to be in the show but wishes she wasn't so shy. She later sings the more upbeat "Sing!" to Steve, to tell him that she wants to sing in their music show.

* {{Edutainment Game}}s: Two were released during the show's popularity peak: one for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation1 and one for the Platform/GameBoyColor Later on, there was one released for the V-Tech V-Smile plug-and-play learning system. Apart from that, nearly a dozen edutainment titles for the PC/Mac (many of them by Creator/HumongousEntertainment--a demo version of ''Blue's ABC Time Activites'' can be [[ftp://ftp.infogrames.net/demos/bluescluesABC/bluescluesABCdemo.exe downloaded]] from Infogrames). Many of them were surprisingly good.

* LevelAte: Gingerbread Boy and his sister Gingerbread Girl live in a Candyland board game where everything is made of sweets and bakery items, full of GingerbreadHouse and GiganticFood.

* {{Licensed Game}}s / {{Edutainment Game}}s: Two were released during the show's popularity peak: one for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation and one for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor. Later on, there was one released for the V-Tech V-Smile plug-and-play learning system. Apart from that, nearly a dozen edutainment titles for the PC/Mac (many of them by Creator/HumongousEntertainment--a demo version of ''Blue's ABC Time Activites'' can be [[ftp://ftp.infogrames.net/demos/bluescluesABC/bluescluesABCdemo.exe downloaded]] from Infogrames). Many of them were surprisingly good.

* AudienceParticipation: Every episode.
%%ZCE * BeachEpisode: "Blue Goes to the Beach".

%%* CoolBigBro: Steve to Joe.

%%ZCE * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Blue and Magenta.

Compare to ''WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}}'', another PreschoolShow about a live-action man and his [[RogerRabbitEffect animated]] female doggy sidekick finding clues (or in this case, solving mysteries).

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

* InteractiveNarrator: The audience regularly talks to Steve and Joe.

* NoFourthWall: 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 beginning of an episode.

* ThatsAllFolks: Every episode ends with Steve or Joe saying goodbye to the audience and singing the "So Long Song" (or "The Goodbye Song" in Joe's later episodes).

* TitlePlease: In the earlier episodes, the episode titles didn't appear within the episodes themselves. Averted once the show started using "Another Blue's Clues Day"; near the end, Mr. Salt and his family would appear holding a banner with the episode's title, and Mr. Salt would read the title to the audience. Later, ''Blue's Clues and You!'' would show the episode titles outright, along with the episode's writer.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Fifi, one of the Felt Friends and one of the two most reoccuring ones in the series, was renamed "Felicia" in the Humongous Entertainment games. This would also carry over to the reboot.

* BeachEpisode: "Blue Goes to the Beach".

* CatchPhrase: "Bark bark bark!" (said with the same inflection as "No you don't!", to clarify)

** Steve and Joe can sometimes be like this whenever the audience is trying to tell them about a clue nearby.

* EvolvingCredits: The fifth season introduces a new upbeat vocal theme song and new sequence to go along with it, as well as [[EpisodeTitleCard Mr. Salt holding up a pennant with the episode's name on it]] at the end.

* FingerlessHands: Some of the characters, such as Periwinkle. The bottoms of his feet sow to paw pads.

* FourFingeredHands: Blue sometimes has these. Rarely, so does Periwinkle. Only 2 pictures show this.

* TalkingAnimal: Played straight with Periwinkle, Orange Kitten and Purple Kangaroo, but averted with Blue and other dog characters such as Magenta and Green Puppy.

* ToiletHumor: The Toilet Song in Morning Music, even mentioning pee and poo. Really, Nick Jr.?!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Blue and Magenta.

** The season 1 credits only featured Blue and both the occupations and people's names were in dark blue. Beginning with season 2, more characters are added to the credits in addition to Blue and the people's names are in light blue while the occupations are still in dark blue.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the early episodes, Steve was much more excitable.

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* ToiletHumor: The Toilet Song in Morning Music, even mentioning pee and poo.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the early episodes, Steve was much more excitable, and during Mail Time, he would say each kid's name, instead of using the all-encompassing term of "our friends".

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