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Blue won at least a couple hundred bucks in the Superpower Lottery
She can create semi-sentient, shape-shifting, size-changing two-dimensional entities that execute her will (usually delivering messages to Steve, but they could be repurposed for, say, suffocation). They can also be applied to almost anything, including bubbles, your TV screen, and even in one episode sound waves! She can also Skidoo into anything two-dimensional, which, if used correctly, has a lot of applications as well. In short, Blue could make an excellent supervillain on the level of some of the Batman villains. We should be thankful she's so nice. Blue CAN talk- she just doesn't want to so she has a reason to play Blue's Clues. Alternately, it's not that she chooses not to talk, it's that she cannot be understood due to a speech impediment.
I mean it's repeatedly stated to be her favorite game so she might just pretend she can't talk so she has an excuse to play it. On the other paw, it's also worth noting that she's a puppy, so she may not have learned how to talk coherently- some kids have such bad speech impediments that adults just can't understand them (being unable to say "Th", "L", "R", "C/K", "Sh", certain vowels/certain vowels after certain consonants, being unable to enunciate, etc), and Blue herself can speak, some of her barks ARE clearly words, but just indistinct. Blue is the Sister of Scooby Doo.
Blue was originally human.
She was once a vain and selfish princess who lived in a castle with her servants. Until one day, a poor beggar came to the castle seeking hospitality. Blue insulted his ugliness and turned him out. But it turns out the beggar was really a wizard, and he cursed Blue to become a puppy, her servants to become talking inanimate objects, and the castle to become an ordinary house. Now the only way to break the curse is for Blue to learn to love and be loved in return. And that's where Steve comes in... Steve and Joe
Blue's Clues is a series of story books that Steve reads to a preschool class
The opening shot of each episode pretty much tells you straight forward that it is a storybook, coupled with the colorful design of the world and the talking utensils that inhabit it. Steve assists at a preschool and frequently reads those books to the children, placing himself in the story and encouraging the kids to interact along the way. Since he wants the kids to play along, he acts oblivious to the location of these clues, begging the kids to help him out. Of course, Steve eventually goes off to college and his brother, Joe, takes his place. Steve is a walking Idiot Ball
Think about it. If half of the things that he helps characters do need his help every time, NOTHING WOULD EVER GET DONE. The only reason he does this is that the characters have been rendered temporarily stupid by his presence. This also explains his bizarre personality—he himself is affected by the field—and the only reason the kids are immune is that they come from the television! Steve actually does see the clues, and is Obfuscating Stupidity.
Since he's playing a game with a small child/small children (the audience), he pretends not to see the clues so that his friend doesn't feel useless. This is basically the Doylist explanation, but it also makes sense in-universe (as that's usually how adults interact with children). Steve, Joe, and Josh have some form of colour blindness
Hence why they have trouble seeing the clues even when they're right in front of them: the specific shade they are in blends into whatever they are on. Steve was once a girl
He was once a girl, who was transformed into an "Idiot Ball" through something in the house which took away her beauty. He is looking for something in the house to change him back. Steve is a teenager who got emancipated from his parents.
This explains why we never see his parents before he goes to college. Maybe Joe is younger than Steve and still lives with their parents until he moves into Steve's old house after getting emancipated or turning eighteen and not wanting to go to college. Joe is older than Steve.
Maybe he already went to college and then moved into his brother Steve's place.- Jossed, there was a flashback showing Joe as a baby with a child Steve.
Steve is an adult who waited a little while before going to college.
The same thing may apply to Joe as well. Maybe Joe does not even want to go to college. Joe and Steve aren't actually brothers.
They're actually secret lovers, but Steve was too terrified to come out of the closet to his young friends, so he told them Joe was his brother.Heartbroken and embarrassed of his cowardliness, he left Joe to "find himself" in college, while Joe lovingly keeps up the facade in front of the children.- Does this explain why so many people rejected Joe? They subconsciously knew this so Steve's fangirls/boys make up for it by hating Joe coz he screwed over their hopes...
- Seems plausible, Captain.
- Jossed by Blue’s first Holiday.
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Paprika is adopted
Because you can't mix salt and pepper together to get a completely different spice.- How can you explain Nutmeg then?
- Jossed by Angela Santomero herself, which confirmed that they intentionally made Mrs Pepper wider when she was pregnant with Paprika.
Skidooing is an extreme application of the fact that Blues Clues has no 4th wall
Ever notice that whenever they skidooed into something, it was always parallel to the camera and 4:3? That's because they knew that they were on a blue screen and could scale up the background so it would fill the screen. The colors from the episodes "Colors Everywhere!" and its remake "Colors Everywhere with Blue!" are the descendants/children of the paint drops in "Adventures in Art"
We Sat on Down was originally intended to replace We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues from Blue's Big Treasure Hunt onwards.
I mean, it seems odd that the song debuted in Blue's Big Treasure Hunt under Steve, but was not used regularly until Joe took over. It can be assumed Blue's Big Treasure Hunt was used as a sort of "test run" for "We Sat On Down" (hence the alternate lyrics referring to the plot of the special), but it was shelved afterward because someone didn't want the iconic "We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues" song to be replaced as early on as season 3.- Possibly jossed- the tune for the song comes from the end of the song "Blue's Big Treasure". Steve sings some of the main portions of the song in the episode, but the full version appears on the album Blue's Big Treasure. It was intended to be a special, one-time thing for the episode (which aired as a primetime special with a ton of fanfare), but eventually became used full-time in Joe's seasons with a few lyric changes.
Shovel is a young FTM Transsexual
Think about it. His Viewer Gender Confusion, behavior, voice, look, etc. Shared Universe Theories
Peewees Playhouse and The Big Comfy Couch are alternate dimensions of Blue's Clues.
Main character dressed strangely? Check.Friends, who help with the learning and activities? Check.Large pieces of furniture which anchor the show? Check.Events that occur every episode? Check. Blue is a Time Lady and the house is her TARDIS.
The house looks bigger on the inside. Not my original idea. Blue's Clues is in the same universe as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
All of the talking animals and objects are imaginary friends. Steve is Mac all grown up. He ran away from home and created a home of his own because his mom would not let him have imaginary friends in the house.- He changed his name to Steve so that it would be hard for his mom to find him. Bloo became too dickish, so Mac abandoned him, and then Bloo got adopted. Nevertheless, he still created another main blue imaginary friend: the nicer female dog Blue. He did not give her the ability to speak because he was worried that it would make her as annoying as Bloo. Luckily, that ended up not being the case in Blue's Room. When Steve/Mac goes to college, his brother, who is actually Terrance under the new nickname Joe, takes over, having become a nicer person since the events of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.
- Alternatively, the main characters we see here are the children of the main characters of Foster's. Steve and Joe are Mac's sons, and Blue is Bloo's daughter (her full name is Bluella P. Kazoo). I'm not sure if imaginary friends can reproduce normally but if they can't, perhaps Steve created her.
The series takes place in the world of Myst and all the people are D'ni.
When an episode starts, a book opens, and "You" are pulled into the world of the book, the Age where Blue's Clues exists. Steve, Joe, and Blue, when they "Skidoo", are using the D'ni ability to travel to other Ages. Blues Clues and Supernatural take place in the same continuity.
Steve's house is actually Lucifer's Cage.The entire scenario is an elaborate hallucination created by Lucifer's endless years of boredom, which have slowly turned him insane. The 'Steve' Character has a detached identity he has assumed as a result, and he constantly solves mysteries in a continual cycle to pass the endless eons of time.- Joe is Michael. The events of the Steve/Lucifer series take place at the same time as the Joe/Michael series; They are separated so they won't fight.
- Blue is Sam's Soul.
- Magenta is Adam's Soul.
Steve is a Time Lord and his Handy Dandy Notebook is his TARDIS
Blue is an incarnation of Randolph Carter.
In "The Legend of the Blue Puppy," Blue is revealed to have been born with a key that would be used to unlock "her greatest gift."Crack Theories
"It’s all a dream" and variations
Steve's (and Steve's replacement) world is the result of him owning a handheld camera and a LOT of drugs.
Who else do you think he's talking to? Steve is a stoner
He always wears green, talks to inanimate objects, the kids have to constantly remind him what he was doing, and he has his "Skidoo" hallucinations too. Steve is a very lonely, overworked man.
The show chronicles the daydreams he has while at work, of doing nothing all day but playing with a dog he doesn't have and talking to friends that don't exist. Eventually, he becomes so ashamed of himself that he feels the need to create Joe, a new resident in his own house, who he feels deserves it all more than himself.- Or maybe Steve gets promoted to a better job, and has to train Joe to daydream to deal with the stress of inheriting Steve's old job.
Steve (and Joe) suffer from severe mental disorders
Steve (and Joe) suffer from severe mental disorders, and the world of Blue's Clues is how they experience the real world. In reality, Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are an interracial couple who care for them, and since Steve and Joe are harmless they let their children play with them (though they keep an eye on them just in case). Blue is a service pet they only imagine can do all the things she can, and the rest of the cast are items they anthropomorphize mentally. And when they "skiddo" they are merely imagining they're entering the book/picture/sand castle/etc. "Bordering the Dark Fic" Theories
Blue and her animal friends are dead
They died around the first episode Blue's brother appeared in. That explains why he didn't appear any more and the episodes stopped aside from Blue's Room. They were a fantasy of a dying Blue. Scientific Experiments
All of the young animals in the neighborhood are scientific experiments that have taken shelter with human caretakers. Purple Kangaroo, Orange Kitten, Periwinkle, Green Puppy, Magenta, Blue... and the puppies are huge variations of some DNA experiment. (The puppies ALL LOOK THE SAME, except for color.) We'll probably never know why they were created, but they were apparently discarded to some sort of holographic environment with talking condiments and toys and clocks. Steve and Joe are master tulpamancers
It explains a lot while keeping your childhood intact. Steve can skiddoo into magazines, too
Oh, like any guy Steve's age wouldn't given the power. Serious Power Perversion Potential.