A Tale of Shovel & Pail is the eighth episode of season four and the sixty-eighth episode overall in the reboot series Blue's Clues & You!. It is a new version of "Blue Is Frustrated".
Summary[]
Shovel and Pail can't agree on an ending for their storybook; when they get so upset that they stop talking to each other, only a game of Blue's Clues would figure out the perfect way to get them to resolve the conflict.
Plot[]
Characters[]
- Blue
- Josh
- Sidetable Drawer
- Mailbox
- Shovel
- Pail
- Tickety Tock
- Slippery Soap
- Paprika
- Cinnamon
- Felt Friends
- Hansel
- Gretel
- Goldilocks
- Baby Bear
- Big Bad Wolf
- The Three Little Pigs
- Rainbow Puppy (credits)
Elements[]
- Question: How can we get Shovel and Pail to talk to each other again?
- Clues:
- An Open Motion
- A Turning Motion
- A Storybook
- Answer to Blue's Clues: Read Shovel & Pail's storybook
- Living room picture: A drawing of the cow jumping over the moon from "Hey Diddle Diddle"
- Skidoo Location: A Book
- Email or Letter?: Letter
Gallery[]
Mailtime A Tale of Shovel and Pail
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Storybook
3 Clues From A Tale Of Shovel And Pail
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Trivia[]
- Similar to Night at the Blueseum, this episode was originally supposed to air on February 17, 2023, but it was pulled and replaced with a re-run of the PAW Patrol episode, "Sea Patrol: Pups Save the Pirated Sea Patroller".
- Cinnamon says "Whenever we have a problem, we solve it over waffles." referencing the plot for the Jonas Brothers recent song "Waffle House." listen to it here. https://youtu.be/TasKo5HHWb4
- This episode premiered on Michela Luci's (the current voice actor for Pail) 17th birthday.
- The storybook drawings in the library include Hey Diddle Diddle (in the living room picture frame), Rapunzel, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Humpty Dumpty, Mary Had a Little Lamb, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
- The book Hickory Dickory Dock is located next to the storybook that serves as the skidoo location.
- Goldilocks shares the same design as Rapunzel from "Blue Makes a Movie with You!".
- Josh made the living room into a library even though Steve and Blue went to the library in Geography when it was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a building, a shelf, and a book, Blue's Book Nook when Steve and Blue went to the library to find a book about elephants and saw Marlee, and Our Neighborhood Festival when Joe and Blue played a library game with Marlee.
- There is a picture of The Itsy Bitsy Spider even though it was the answer to Blue’s Clues in Blue Wants to Play a Song Game when Blue left three clues on a sun, rain and a spider and there was even a spider in Chalk Girl’s story in Draw Along with Blue and there was also a spider in The Trying Game when Steve saw a Spider spinning webs like her spider dad, and in Blue's Big Treasure Hunt when Steve and Blue saw Little Miss Muffet and she had a spider frighten her away.
- This is the eighth time where a sheep was seen. The others being Snack Time and Meet Josh! when Steve and Josh passed by a pig and sheep at first to help Chicks find their friends with matching hats and passed by the sheep again and saw the third clue on a cow, Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme when Steve and Blue helped Jack, Joe, John and Julia with riddles and Julia starts the beginning and Jack, Joe, and John finishes the ending and there was a duck and sheep at first and Julia said, “A duck says, ‘Quack Quack,’. A sheep says…” then Jack thought a sheep said, “Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga whoo whoo,” why is the sound of a train, Joe thought a sheep said, “Neigh Neigh,” and John thought a sheep said, “Baa Baa,” and he was right and when Jack, Joe, and John went through again, Julia’s second riddle was, “When you’re happy, you smile. When you’re sad, you…,” Jack thought that when you’re said, you smile, which is what you feel when you’re happy, John thought that when you’re happy, you frown, in which he was right, and Jack thought that when you’re sad, you snore, which is what you feel when you’re sleepy and tired, and helped Sheep with her story, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day? when Steve and Blue helped a cow find her partner, who is a sheep, The Lost Episode! when there was a picture of Little Bo Peep finding her sheep and found them at the end, Blue's Play when Steve and Blue skidooed into Blue’s collage of the Funny Farm and there may have been a hippo, mouse, and cow but there was a sheep as well, and Up, Down, All Around! when Joe and Blue helped Little Bo Peep find her sheep.
- This is the ninth time where a star was seen. The others being Pretend Time, Blue's Collection, Meet Polka Dots!, Sleepy Singalong with Blue, Spring is Here!, and Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise when stars were drawn, Blue's ABCs when Steve and Blue read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Sleepy Singalong with Blue when Josh singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when Blue left three clues on a star, Josh’s guitar, and Josh himself, and Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise when there was a picture of a star.
- Blue has a book about a rainbow even though in Art Appreciation when Steve made a rainbow on the Pawprint, The Alphabet Train when Joe found a rainbow for the R box, Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow when Josh and Blue saw Rainbow and sung Here Comes a Rainbow and she showed up at the end to meet Slippery Soap, Blue's Show and Tell Surprise when Josh and Blue made Luna the Unicorn, a duck and flower, and saw Rainbow, Our New Neighbor when Josh and Blue saw Rainbow Puppy for the first time, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure when Rainbow World was the answer to Rainbow Puppy’s Clues when Rainbow Puppy left three clues on a curved line, a globe, and colors and they and Rainbow Puppy saw Rainbow again, and Night at the Blueseum when Slippery Soap made a rainbow heart and green buttons were missing.
- In I Did That!, Shovel got mad at Tickety Tock after she accidentally knocked Shovel’s blocks over with her car and in Love Day, Pail got mad at Shovel after he moved around in the sandcastle and accidentally knocked it down. This time, Shovel and Pail are mad at each other even though they never were throughout the original Blue’s Clues series and in the first 3 seasons and the first 6 episodes of the 4th season of Blue’s Clues & You!.
- In Blue Is Frustrated, Steve was frustrated because he was trying to make the picture frame straight but kept getting crooked, cleaned up the Pawprint in the wrong order with a rag and water, and dropped and broke his crayon until he turned the picture frame slowly, cleaned up the Pawprint in the right order, took out his crayon slowly and drew the second and third clue with half of his crayon, Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper were frustrated because they put a cheese sandwich and celery, peanut butter, raisins, and plastic wrap in the wrong order, and tried to put all the cups at the same time until they put the cheese sandwich in the right order and celery, peanut butter, raisins, and plastic wrap in the right order, and put the cups together, Mailbox was frustrated because he got stuck until he got himself unstuck, Rabbit was frustrated because her teeter-totter of blocks got unbalanced 3 times until she and Blue made it balanced, and Blue was frustrated because she couldn’t reach her toothbrush when Blue left three clues on a sink, water, and a toothbrush until she used a stool. And together, they all stopped, breathed, and thought and there was no wrong answer. This time, Shovel and Pail are mad and frustrated at each other.
- Shovel has an alien even though Steve and Josh were aliens in both Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue and Shovel and Pail were being aliens at the end of Pretend Time and Into the Blueniverse! when Josh and Blue saw aliens and Pail has a dinosaur even though in Prehistoric Blue when she and Shovel found dinosaur footprints, Steve’s notebook made a dinosaur roaring sound effect, Sidetable Drawer was being a dinosaur too, Shovel was scared out of his handle and mistook a giraffe, a bird, and a porcupine for dinosaurs, then was no longer afraid of them after seeing this, Steve showed Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper that he was a carnivore and ate chicken soup, Mailbox was dressed up as a triceratops and then he and Blue skiddoed into a dinosaur diorama where they encountered Apatosaurus, who was using his long neck to eat like the giraffe, Stegosaurus, who’s plates and spikes looked like the porcupine, protected her child and Steve and Blue from an Allosaurus by scaring him away by swinging her tail, and Archaeopteryx, who looked like the bird and she used her claws to climb, and Blue saw a chameleon, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a chameleon) when Blue left three clues on scales, a shape, and changing colors, I'm So Happy! when Shovel, who was no longer scared of dinosaurs, painted a picture of a dinosaur, and Blue's Dino Clues when Josh was a Josh-asaurus and Blue was a Blue-Rex and Josh made The Viewer a Friend-odactyl. Then they saw a dinosaur egg skidoo out of the picture frame and skidooed into, plus like Steve’s notebook from Prehistoric Blue, Josh’s notebook had a roaring sound effect too. Sidetable Drawer even said, “you’re welcome,” in a dinosaur kind of way, then they skidooed into the picture frame to a dinosaur world where they helped Tyrannosaurus feed other dinosaurs meat or plants and they fed T-Rex meat and Triceratops plants, and then they danced sung the Dino Stomp with another Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus, and Mailbox was a Tricera-Box, and the baby dinosaur that was in the egg was a Triceratops, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a triceratops), when Blue left three clues on 4 feet, plants, and 3 horns, and Josh thought it was a Broccoli-Saurus and during The So Long Song, the Triceratops sung along.
- Josh had a rhyme for the Pawprint like Steve did in Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme when Steve said, “Pawprint, Pawprint. Go away. Come again some other day,”.
- This is the twenty-seventh time where there were rhymes. The others being Blue Wants to Play a Game, Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme, Blue's News, Big News with Blue, What Does Blue Want to Build?, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Blue's Big Costume Party, Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Blue's Big Pajama Party, Pajama Party with Blue, Adventure, Rhyme Time, Bedtime Business, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Joe's Clues, Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Night Before Christmas, What I Like About Blue, It's Your Birthday!, The Ghost of the Living Room, Building with Blue, Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon and The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern.
- The Pawprint turned itself into a kangaroo even though in Animal Behavior! when Steve saw Sidetable Drawer hopping like a kangaroo and Animals in Our House? when a kangaroo was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a tail, a hopping motion, and a pocket and it hopped away like how Steve made it happen in What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve said, “Once upon a time, there was a happy Pawprint. And that Pawprint was just so happy that it just hopped away,”.
- This is the eighth time where a butterfly was seen. The others being The Trying Game when Steve saw a caterpillar trying to be a butterfly like his grandmother, What Did Blue See? when Steve looked through a kaleidoscope, Nurture! when Steve and Blue helped a butterfly out the door, Bugs! when a butterfly was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on wings, colors, and a chrysalis, Blue's Big Car Trip when Joe and Blue saw a butterfly going by, Spring is Here! when Josh and Blue helped butterflies find their matching friends, and Blue's Big Costume Parade when Josh and Blue dressed up as a butterfly, rabbit, and horse.
- This is the nineteenth time where apples and bananas were seen. The others being What Does Blue Want to Make? when strawberries were not needed in the recipe of banana cake but bananas, flour, sugar, and baking soda were, What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve saw bananas and then the first clue on a bowl, Steve Gets the Sniffles and Getting Healthy with Blue when there were 3 strawberries, blueberries and cherries, and only 1 banana and it didn’t belong, and then there was a watermelon, broccoli, peas, and a carrot, which didn’t belong because it was orange, and then there was a pear, orange, watermelon and celery, which didn’t belong and Steve, Josh, Blue, Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika sung Healthy Snacks, Math! when Steve helped Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper count their apples, Weight and Balance when Scale weighed an apple and coconut and the coconut weighed more than the apple, Thankful and Thankful with Blue when apples were a clue, Pool Party when Steve helped Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika make ice cream sundaes for the pool party with bowls, ice cream itself, bananas, whipped cream, sprinkles, and spoons, and as they made 3 more, of the things was missing: First ice cream, then sprinkles, and then bananas, What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue when Steve and Josh saw a construction worker weasel hammering a nail with a banana, The Snack Chart when Sidetable Drawer, Shovel, and Mr. Salt like apples and Joe and Mailbox liked Graham crackers, Playing Store when Joe and Blue got strawberries from Shovel and Pail, Numbers Everywhere! when Joe, Mr. Salt, and Paprika found the number 3 behind “3” bananas, Shape Searchers when food with a can, carrot, and banana were drawn, Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped a banana out, and Knights of the Snack Table when Josh and Blue helped Marlon put away carrots, soup and ice cream.
- The kitchen cabinet had the first clue like in Anatomy when after Steve used his muscles to help Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper and Paprika to help lift a bag of flour onto the shelf and after closing the cabinet, the second clue came out and it was wiggling and in Prehistoric Blue when Steve told Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper he was a meat eater and ate chicken soup and after closing the cabinet, he saw the second clue on a lizard/chameleon shape. Also, Josh closed the cabinet and it opened by itself like in Stormy Weather when the third clue was on freezing and Steve closed the freezer and opened by itself with the third clue.
- This is the second episode where an open motion was a clue. The first episode being What's Inside?.
- This is also the first episode where open motion was the first clue because in What's Inside?, it was the second clue.
- Also, in What's Inside?, the open motion came out of a paper bag and Steve drew arrows to make an open motion.
- Shovel and Pail were mentioned again like they were in Pool Party when Steve saw that Shovel and Pail were all that was left to invite to the pool party and Blue volunteered.
- The backyard was mentioned again like it was drawn in "Blue's Wishes".
- This is the 3rd time where a waffle was seen. The 1st time being Blue's Big Musical when there were waffles when Steve and the others sang Today's the Big Day and The Breakfast Song, and the 2nd being "Blue's Wishes" when the sunflowers became waffles from Mr. Salt's wish.
- A waffle also appeared among the snacks in the Snacktime activity in Blue's ABC Time Activities.
- This is the fourth time where a bulldozer was seen. The first three being Adventure when Periwinkle, who was a wizard imagining a small rock was a big rock and Steve, who was a knight, imagined himself as a bulldozer to push the rock, Blocks when Blue and Green Puppy used block bulldozers to move some blocks out of the way, and Building with Blue when Josh, Blue and Magenta used a bulldozer to move dirt.
- This is the fourth time to have a Shaker/Spice from The Spice Family without any of their parents of Mr. Salt or Mrs. Pepper (in this case, Paprika and Cinnamon appeared in this episode), the first was "Hide and Seek with Blue" (where, in this case, only Cinnamon appears in that episode), the second was in "Blue's Big Dance Party" (where, in this case, only Paprika and Cinnamon appeared in that episode) and the third being "Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise".
- This marks the nineteenth episode in the franchise where a ball was seen. The others being What Time Is It for Blue? when Blue's Ball was all that was left to put away, The Trying Game when Steve was trying to learn how to juggle balls, Blue's Senses when Steve and Blue saw Squirrel playing ball, Blue's ABCs and ABC's with Blue when Steve, Josh, and Blue read The Girl and The Puppy and there was a ball in the story, What Was Blue's Dream About? when Slippery Soap dreamt about playing basketball, What Game Does Blue Want to Learn? when Steve was playing Which Pocket the Orange Ball is In, Hide and Seek when Steve and everyone played hide and seek and Steve and Mailbox hid behind the Thinking Chair, then Sidetable Drawer hid the notebook by putting on her side, then Steve helped Diana Diamond, Cybil Circle and Chris Crescent find their kite, ball, and banana and skidooed into the book called All About Blue where everything was the color blue, Steve found Blue, who wanted to show us her favorite part, in Lady Basset’s audience, a blue bush, and in a costume store in a blue wolf costume and the costume store was her favorite part, and Blue wanted to hide in the bedroom, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (the bedroom), when Blue left three clues on a clock, a pillow, and pajamas, and Tickety Tock, Cybil Circle, and Lady Basset volunteered to help find Blue, who was hiding in the bedroom by the desk, behind the laundry basket, and under the bed where Cybil’s ball was rolled under the bed twice and Blue was there but moved on top of the bed and was found, Pool Party when Steve had a green-striped beach ball, What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue when juggling was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on 3 balls, Periwinkle Misses His Friend when Steve and Blue told Periwinkle to bounce a ball on a rock, Blue's Collection when Blue’s ball was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a red stripe, a blue star, and a bouncing motion, What's New, Blue? when Pail playing basketball was on a newspaper article, Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza when Steve and Blue played different ball games like when Shovel and Pail played the Roll-O-Rama and they kicked a ball to each other but Pail had to roll the ball softly down the hill and Shovel had to roll it harder, then the Pawprint turned itself into balls and bounced away, then Sidetable Drawer threw a ball to Steve, who had an invisi-ball to throw to the Viewer, then Periwinkle and Blue were practicing for the Bounce Off and there was a rubber ball, hard plastic ball, and sock ball and wanted to know which once bounces the most so Steve, Blue and Periwinkle did an experiment with all 3 balls and the rubber ball bounced the most because it was springy, then they did another experiment with the rubber balls on where the best place to bounce either on the grass, blanket, or pavement and Blue’s ball bounced the most on the pavement because it was hard and the grass and blanket were soft, and then did one last experiment on where to drop the ball from and Periwinkle, Steve, and Blue wanted to know where to drop the ball from either down low, up high, or in the middle and when they dropped the balls from different heights, the ball bounced the most from up high and when it was time for the Bounce Off, Periwinkle and Blue dropped the rubber ball onto the pavement from up high and it bounced 10 times, then Mailbox found Steve’s invisi-ball, then Steve and Blue skidooed into a stadium where Steve did different ball games on an obstacle course with Beach Ball by bouncing a ball into a box forward, then he rolled a ball softly towards the wall but stayed and Steve had to roll the ball harder, and then he had roll a ball into a hole but Steve rolled it too hard and he had to roll it softer, and Blue wanted to do bowling, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (bowling), when Blue left three clues on a rolling motion, plastic bottles, and fallen down plastic bottles, and then Periwinkle and Beach Ball arrived too for bowling, and as Blue was about to bowl, she needed to know where to aim the ball to get all bottles knocked down and she aim in the middle, and it worked, Steve, Blue, Periwinkle, Shovel and Pail and Beach Ball cheered for Blue and the Viewer and as Steve sung the So Long Song as he threw and caught the invisi-ball, A Brand New Game when Joe and Blue played Find and Pretend with Franny Felt Friend by mooing like cows, bounced like basketballs, and looked through telescopes, and Blue wanted to play a ball game at the playground, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (the playground) when Blue left three clues on friends, a ball, and a slide, Soccer Practice when Joe, Blue, Sidetable Drawer, Magenta, Purple Kangaroo, Orange Kitten and Periwinkle went to play soccer and Joe was being the coach and before playing, they all stretched high and low, and shook, and did jumping jacks, then Joe blew his whistle and the Pawprint turned itself into a a soccer ball and rolled away, and every time someone scored a goal, the clues were earned, as Magenta had the ball, she passed to Sidetable Drawer, who passed to Blue, who was close to the goal, and missed at first and tried again and this time, she scored and had a little encouragement, then Periwinkle had the ball, then as Purple Kangaroo and Magenta were both going to the ball they bumped into each other and they learned when running down the soccer field and when they are close to the ball, Purple Kangaroo and Magenta need to say, “I got it,” and then everyone will know that they have the ball and they won’t bump into each other and Sidetable Drawer had the ball, then as Magenta and Purple Kangaroo were going to the ball and Purple Kangaroo called out, “I got it,” and passed the ball to Magenta, who scored, then Mailbox arrived and learned to kick the ball with any part of the your body accept with hands, which Mailbox doesn’t have, then Blue passed the ball to Purple Kangaroo, who passed the ball to Orange Kitten, but Periwinkle came and snatched the ball away from Orange Kitten and wanted to play by himself but Orange Kitten told Periwinkle, who wanted to play by himself, not run away with the ball because they were playing together. Periwinkle knew Orange Kitten was right. So they bought it back. Then Magenta passed the ball to Orange Kitten, who passed to Periwinkle, who passed to Orange Kitten, who scored, and after soccer, they had ice cream, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (ice cream truck), when Blue left three clues on a truck, a cone, and circles, then Blue went to Blue's Room where Roary and Sprinkles gave Blue a blue soccer ball, and what Blue liked was kicking the ball and kicked it with a few other balls and a living basketball and football, who bounced and touchdown, then Blue played Doodle Doodle Board with Doodleboard, who made pictures of a boy named Drew, a soccer ball, and goal, and then Blue went to talk to Handy Dandy Journal where Blue wrote about soccer and Blue drew a soccer ball because she liked kicking it and saying, “goal,” and having ice cream, and Moona told Blue to go to Joe, Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular when Josh, who was a coach and Blue played different sports like basketball, bowling, and a big soccer game, plus Josh had a shell, bubble wand, and kazoo instead of his whistle and then Josh played baseball catch with the Pawprint, who turned itself into a baseball glove, Sidetable Drawer had a basketball and hoop on her head and got 2 points, Purple Kangaroo was doing bowling but the bowling ball couldn’t reach it but had to roll it hard and the pins got knocked down, then Orange Kitten was playing basketball but it would not go in the hoop but she had throw it higher and the ball went into the hoop, and then Magenta was trying to kick the soccer ball into the net but missed and she had to aim for the center of the net but still was nervous, Mailbox then arrived and was racing to deliver the mail very fast and had an email from Magenta, and then Josh and Blue ran on an obstacle course ran by Tickety Tock where Josh and Blue jumped over hurdles, crawl through a tunnel, and climbed up a rock wall, and slid down, and then Magenta was practicing doing soccer but was nervous and needed cheering, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (cheering), when Blue left three clues on a shout, a clapping sound, and Magenta herself, and at the soccer game while Purple Kangaroo and Orange Kitten were playing soccer, Magenta was still nervous but had cheering and then Magenta, Blue, Tickety Tock, Purple Kangaroo, and Orange Kitten where Purple Kangaroo passed the ball to Orange Kitten, Blue had the ball, who passed the ball to Magenta, who had cheering and scored, and Magenta wasn’t nervous anymore, Tickety's Big Musical Morning when a catching motion with a ball was drawn, and Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise when a soccer ball was drawn.
- Josh mentioned, “pickles,” like in Blue's News when a Felt Friend had a riddle for Steve about a pickle.
- The turning motion is similar to what happened in Blue's Wishes when a gliding motion was drawn and in The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern when a spinning motion was drawn.
- This marks the twenty-second time where any motion was drawn. The others being What Was Blue's Dream About? and Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza when a rolling motion was drawn, Animal Behavior! when a waddling motion was drawn, Anatomy when a wiggle motion was drawn, Blue's Collection when a bouncing motion was drawn, What's Inside? when an open motion was drawn, Dress Up Day and Animals in Our House? when a hopping motion was drawn, Up, Down, All Around! when an under motion was drawn, Story Wall when a moving motion was drawn, Blue's Wishes when a gliding motion was drawn, Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow when a splashing motion was drawn, Blue's Beach Bonanza when a sideways motion was drawn, It's Your Birthday! and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when a dancing motion was drawn, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise when a down motion was drawn, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon when an over motion was drawn, Tickety's Big Musical Morning when a catching and tagging motion were drawn, Into the Blueniverse! when a zooming motion was drawn, The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern when a spinning and shaking motion were drawn, and Firefighter Blue to the Rescue! when an up and down motion was drawn.
- This is also the fourteenth time where any motion was the first and second clue. The others being Anatomy when a wiggle motion was drawn, What’s Inside when an open motion was drawn, Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza when the second rolling motion was drawn, Animals in Our House when the second hopping motion was drawn, Up, Down, All Around! when an under motion was drawn, Story Wall when a moving motion was drawn, Blue's Beach Bonanza when a sideways motion was drawn, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when the second dancing motion was drawn, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise when a down motion was drawn, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon when an over motion was drawn, Tickety's Big Musical Morning when a catching and tagging motion were drawn, Into the Blueniverse! when a zooming motion was drawn, The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern when a spinning and shaking motion were drawn, and Firefighter Blue to the Rescue! when an up and down motion was drawn.
- And any motion was the third clue such as What Was Blue's Dream About? when the first rolling motion was drawn, Animal Behavior! when a waddling motion was drawn, Blue's Collection when a bouncing motion was drawn, Dress Up Day when the first hopping motion was drawn, Blue's Wishes when a gliding motion was drawn, Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow when a splashing motion was drawn, and It's Your Birthday! when the first dancing motion was drawn.
- The letter from our friend has a baby brother like the other one did in The Baby's Here! and she liked to make him laugh like what happened in What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue when Steve and Josh made others laugh when they wore shoes on their heads, then Sidetable Drawer did a joke by giving Steve and Josh a potato instead of the notebook, helped Shovel and Pail figure out where Gopher was gonna pop up next in a pattern, then Steve, Josh and Mailbox made each other laugh by wearing a glasses and a mustache and monster hats, and skiddoed into Silly Town where they had a tour with Mayor Billy Chicken and on a construction site, they saw a weasel hammering a nail with a banana and then saw the center of the city and saw a truck neighing like a horse, which was omitted from the remake, and saw a giraffe sliding and climbing down a ladder on a slide backwards and it was called Backwards Park, and what made Blue laugh was juggling, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (juggling), when Blue left three clues on balls, and Shovel, Pail, Gopher and Mayor Billy Chicken showed up to watch too and laughed along and with Blue, Blue's Play when part of the Funny Farm was the mouse tried to make the hippo laugh by doing his silliest dance and made a cow and sheep laugh and they were laughing at mouse’s silly dance and laughing with hippo, who had the wrong idea and thought that the cow and sheep were laughing at her and went down the hill to chase the mouse behind the barn, I Did That! when Blue wanted to make Joe laugh, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (laugh) when Blue left three clues on a mouth, a curved line, and a hee hee hee sound and Joe laughed and Duck and Purple Kangaroo, who arrived at what was going on and was puzzled, and found out what Blue was doing and they too laughed with Joe, Blue Makes a Movie with You! when Josh, Blue, and Rapunzel made a troll laugh, and Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Magenta was laughing nonstop and uncontrollably and to make her stop, laughing was the answer to Blue’s Clues again when Blue left three clues on a smiley face, a mouth, and a noise.
- Hansel and Gretel are sharing a cookie like the Felt Friends did in both Thankful and Thankful with Blue when they shared corn by cutting it in half, pie by cutting it in fourths, and cranberry sauce by cutting it in thirds and like in Look Carefully... when the boy and girl did the same thing as well by sharing a cookie.
- This is the twelfth time where a cookie was seen. The others being What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve and Blue did a king story with Rabbit and there was a green-striped cookie in it, Blue's ABCs when the letter from our friends had them reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt when Steve and Joe’s Grandmother had banana cookies for Steve, Blue's Big Holiday when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper made snowball cookies for everyone, Café Blue when cookies were drawn, Look Carefully... when a boy, who was wearing a blue shirt, made cookies and as he left, a girl came out of nowhere, and when she saw the cookies, she said, “Yummy,” broke one in half, and ran off, then when the boy got back, he was puzzled about the cookie as the girl ran and hid behind a tree, and she encountered the boy, who shared the cookies with the girl, The Legend of the Blue Puppy when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper made moon and key cookies for Joe, Blue and Key, Love Day when Mr. Salt made Love Day cookies for Paprika and Cinnamon, Snacktime Playdate when Blue read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Holiday Wishes when Polka Dots made holiday cookies, and Blue's Big Baking Show when Josh a cookie version of himself and the notebook.
- Goldilocks is asking Baby Bear to play with the wagon like in Shy when Steve and Blue told Orange Kitten to ask to play with Green Kitten and Giraffe.
- This is the sixth time where a wagon was seen. The first five being Adventures in Art when Steve and Blue gave Blue’s wagon a new coat of paint with a little help from the Paint Drops, Pretend Time when a wagon was between a bush and box, Words when Steve and Blue used the words “road” and “wagon” and they rolled along in a wagon and there was a lion and rock in the way and at first, the lion was mad and would not let Steve and Blue past and they used the words “ferocious”, which made the lion even more mad and he roared even louder and “tame”, which made the lion act gentle and they used the word “tame” and the king of jungle let them by and Steve and Blue’s wagon rolled along and when the word “rock” was used, a rock was in the way and was big to go around and over so they used the word “enormous”, which made the rock really big and “miniscule”, which made the rock small and they used the word “miniscule” and they went over the rock like a little bump, and then Steve wanted to know where the road ended and wanted to make the wagon go fast and they used the words “swiftly”, which made the wagon go really fast and “sluggishly”, which made the wagon go really slow and they used the word “swiftly” and they went fast but arrived back where they started but luckily, Blue used the word “party” and the blank piece of paper wasn’t blank anymore, The Alphabet Train when Joe and Blue found a wagon for the W box, and Up, Down, All Around! when Joe and Blue found Little Bo Peep’s second sheep in a left wagon.
- This marks the twenty-eighth time where any storybook and fairytale character was seen or being the answer to Blue’s Clues. The others being Blue's Story Time and Story Time with Blue when Steve and Blue did Jack and Jill with Shovel and Pail, which was omitted from the remake, they and Josh put pictures of Blue’s First Day of School pictures in the right order, helped the 3 Bears find their bowls of porridge and cups of milk, and read The Three Little Pigs, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (The Three Little Pigs), when Blue left three clues on bricks, a wolf, and a pig, The Trying Game when Steve and Blue saw Baby Bear being an artist, builder, and writer, What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve helped Wolf, Jack and Cinderella get back to their books of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Cinderella, did a king story with Rabbit/Bunny, and did Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (Goldilocks and the 3 Bears), when Blue left three clues on a bowl, a chair, and a bear, Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme when Steve helped Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper find P words to put in a purple paper bag, helped Jack, Joe, John and Julia do riddles, and then he and Blue helped Sheep with her story, and read Hickory Dickory Dock, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (Hickory Dickory Dock), when Blue left three clues on a number 1, a grandfather clock, and a mouse, Blue's ABCs and ABC's with Blue when Hey Diddle Diddle was the answer to Blue's Clues when Blue left three clues on a moon, a cow, and the word, “jump,”, What Was Blue's Dream About? when Steve and Blue went to help Sleeping Beauty with her dream, Blue's Surprise at Two O'Clock when Steve and Blue skidooed into Hickory Dickory Dock and did the Race Against Time with Grandfather Clock, The Lost Episode! when there was a picture of Little Bo Peep finding her sheep, who were found at the end, What Is Blue Trying to Do? when Steve and Blue helped Baby Bear clean her room to find her castle drawing, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt when Steve and Blue saw Little Miss Muffet, who didn’t know which insect came to her and it was a spider, who frightened her away and he had a picture of Jack Be Nimble, who didn’t know what to jump over and it was a candlestick, Making Changes when Steve and Blue saw Baby Bear and Baby Baby Bear, Puppets when Jack and the Beanstalk was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a boy, a tall plant, and a giant, Can You Help? when Joe and Blue helped Baby Bear, Gingerbread Boy and Cinderella find their bowl, button, and glass slipper and when Little Red Riding Hood was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a wolf, a basket, and a cape, Up, Down, All Around! when Joe and Blue helped Little Bo Peep find her sheep behind a haystack, in a wagon, and in a barn, Love Day when Cinderella was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a mop, a castle, and a glass slipper, Joe's Clues when Joe was dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood, The Fairy Tale Ball when Joe and Blue saw Rapunzel, the Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, The 3 Little Pigs, Jack, Giant, Cinderella, Prince Charming and Humpty Dumpty, who was the answer to Blue’s Clues (Humpty Dumpty), when Blue left three clues on a horse, a wall, and an egg and when Blue did Humpty Dumpty in Blue's Room and she was Humpty Dumpty and the Viewer was the horse and Silly Seat was the Big Bad Wolf, Sing & Boogie in Blue's Room when Blue, the Viewer, Roary, Fred and Polka Dots did Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, Little Blue Riding Hood when Joe, Blue and Sprinkles did Little Red Riding Hood in which Joe was the wolf, Blue was Little Red Riding Hood, Sprinkles was Little Red Riding Hood’s little brother, and Roary was Little Red Riding Hood’s grandma, Blue Makes a Movie with You! when Josh and Blue saw Rapunzel, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when Josh, Blue, and Rainbow Puppy were doing Little Red Riding Hood, in which Rainbow Puppy was Little Red Riding Hood, Josh was the woodsman, Blue was a bird, Pail was a tree stump, Slippery Soap was a squirrel, Mr. Salt was a pinecone, and the Viewer, who was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on singing, a dancing motion, and a friend, was the Big Bad Wolf, and Blue's Storytime with Camila when 5 Little Ducks was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a number 5, little, and a duck but the clues were taken as videos instead of drawn.
- The Big Bad Wolf, who’s name is Wolfie, is angry like Fred Felt Friend was in Blue's Sad Day because he was mad that Felicia Felt Friend scared poor Fred Felt Friend with a monster mask and in Body Language when angry was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on scrunched-up eyebrows, hands-on hips and a scrunched-up mouth.
- The Big Bad Wolf, who name is Wolfie, is taking a deep breath like Steve, Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Mailbox, Bunny/Rabbit, and Blue did in Blue Is Frustrated when they all stopped, breathed and thought.
- The 3 Little Pigs are talking like the other ones did in The Fairy Tale Ball but when Joe and Blue saw them, the Big Bad Wolf was on vacation at the beach and Joe and Blue filled in for the wolf and blew the straw and stick house down but not the ones in Blue's Story Time and Story Time with Blue when the 3 Little Pigs were the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on bricks, a wolf, and a pig.
- The 3 Little Pigs and the Wolf are friends like the other ones were in Super Why! from The Three Little Pigs and Team Umizoomi from "Lost Fairy Tales in the City".
- This is the sixth episode where a book was a clue. The others being What Time Is It for Blue?, Geography, Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue, and Something To Do Blue.
- This is also the fourth episode where a book was the third clue with Geography, Blue's Big Pajama Party, and Pajama Party with Blue being the first three. However, it was the second clue in What Time Is It for Blue? and the first clue in Something To Do Blue.
- Josh saying how to draw the book was similar to what happened in What Time Is It for Blue?, Geography, Blue's Big Pajama Party, Pajama Party with Blue and Something To Do Blue when Steve said the same thing when he drew the books.
- Reading a book was the answer to Blue’s Clues like it was in What Time Is It for Blue?, which was nap time, when Blue left three clues on a blanket, a book, and a pillow and Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue when Blue left three clues on a sleeping bag, a lamp, and a book. Plus in Blue's ABCs and ABC's with Blue when Steve, Josh, and Blue read a Really Great Book and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, then they read a grocery list with Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Paprika, Sage and Ginger and saw milk, bread and juice, which was omitted from the remake, skidooed into the book of the Girl and the Puppy where the sentences were mixed up and read, “the ball. threw A girl,”, “A ball. caught the puppy,”, and, “puppy snack. The and the ate a girl,” and it really goes, “A girl threw the ball. A puppy caught the ball. The girl and the puppy ate a snack,” and Blue wanted to read Hey Diddle Diddle, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (Hey Diddle Diddle) when Blue left three clues on a moon, a cow, and the word, “jump,” and then Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Paprika, Sage and Ginger and the word, “jump,” which was omitted from the remake, arrived to listen to Hey Diddle Diddle.
- Also this is the sixteenth time where any book was the answer to Blue’s Clues or being the answer to Blue’s Clues. The others being What Time Is It for Blue?, Geography, Blue's Big Pajama Party, Pajama Party with Blue and Something To Do Blue when books were drawn, Draw Along with Blue, Blue's Big Musical, Inventions and Night at the Blueseum when Steve and Josh’s notebooks were drawn, also in What Time Is It for Blue? when Steve, Blue, Tickety Tock, Lion Prince, Monkey, Frog and Elephant read a Puppy’s Day and also in Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue when Steve, Josh, Blue, Shovel, Pail, Slippery Soap and Tickety Tock read Goodnight Bird, Joe Gets a Clue when Joe’s notebook was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on paper, a crayon, and a spiral, Blue's New Place when making a book was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on paper, a pencil, and yarn, Blue's Book Nook when Steve read a book about planets at first, Blue was organizing her books and Steve helped out and there were transportation, space, and fairy tale books and the planet boom went with the space books along with the moon and astronaut books, then Blue showed made a category about numbers and counting, Steve looked in a book called How to Remove a Pawprint on how to clean the Pawprint and he decided to bounce it away and it worked, Sidetable Drawer was reading about music and had a book for Steve and it was the notebook, Slippery Soap had a drawing of an ocean and wanted to know what to see in the ocean so there were books with a river and waterfall, ocean with a fish and octopus, boats, and fishing, and the book with the waves and octopus and fish and seaweed and a submarine were picked, then Tickety Tock wanted a book to practice the alphabet and there were books with the alphabet, trees, animals, and counting, and the book with the letters were picked, and Periwinkle wanted a book about what bird he saw and there were books called Billy Bird Goes to the Dentist, Cows Around the World, a Guide to Backyard Birds, and Paula Pony Makes a New Friend, and a Guide to Backyard Birds was picked and the bird Periwinkle found was a sparrow, Mailbox was in a hurry because he wanted to find out how his book ends, then Steve and Blue read Steve’s book called Helen’s Hiding Place where a monkey named Helen herself and tried to find the best hiding place and she hid behind a banana tree but the parrot found her, then Helen’s hid under big leaves but an elephant found her, then Helen hid in a group of monkeys but the parrot and elephant didn’t see her this time and what Steve liked was the part where the elephant waved his trunk when he found Helen, and wondered if Blue had a book about elephants but unfortunately she didn’t so they went to the library to find elephants and when they got there, they saw Marlee for the first time and showed Steve signs with people and places, machines and vehicles, and plants and animals and plants and animals were picked and then there were ocean, jungle, and arctic animals and jungle animals were picked because elephants live in jungles and the letter E was picked because elephant starts with E anyway and the only elephant books that were there were the Elephant Family, Ella and Me, and All About Elephants and the book called All About Elephants was chosen and Steve saw the elephant was using its trunk for eating and spraying the it’s child, and Steve needed to bring the back in 2 weeks, and Blue wanted to read about the sky, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues, (the sky) when when Blue left three clues on the color blue, up, and a cloud, and the book about the sky was called a Trip Through the Sky, and inside was an airplane, a hot air balloon, the clouds, the sun, the stars, and the moon, The Big Book About Us when Joe and the others made the Big Book About Us itself by putting their favorite things and Joe’s favorite things on his page were the color green, wiggling, and squares, Blue’s favorite things on her page were books, Sidetable Drawer’s favorite thing on her page was a hippo singing because Sidetable Drawer’s favorite color was purple, hippos are her favorite animal, and she liked singing, Tickety Tock’s favorite things on her page were a tree, clock, and birdhouse because they were tall like Grandfather Clock and she had polka dots as well because Tickety Tock liked counting and she counted 4 polka dots and Tickety Tock wanted to put something that is tall and has polka dots and Tickety chose the giraffe, Pail’s favorite things on her page had a fire truck and red balloon because Pail’s favorite color was red and she had a carrot and broccoli because Pail liked planting things in the garden with Shovel, and Pail wanted to put something that is red and grows in the garden and Pail chose the red tulip, and Slippery Soap’s favorite things on his page were a shark and octopus because he liked underwater things and Slippery put a boat and a buoy because he liked on top-of-water things and Slippery Soap wanted to put something that goes over and the under the water and Slippery chose the dolphin, Mailbox’s favorite thing was bringing the mail like he always does to Steve, Joe, and Josh, Periwinkle skidooed into a sticker book with Joe and Blue to find his favorite things and when they were there, Blue and Periwinkle found different things in their pages like flowers but Periwinkle chose short ones because he liked to crouch down to be short and Blue chose tall ones because Blue liked to make herself tall, then the arrived at flying sticker stuff but Periwinkle chose transportation vehicle flying stuff such as a helicopter, airplane, and blimp and Blue chose birds like 2 regular birds and a flamingo because they both like the sounds the vehicles and birds make, and then they arrived at party stickers where Periwinkle chose curvy things he has a “curvy” tail and Blue chose straight things because she has a “straight” tail and and they all had to find something to put on the Big Book About Us and they put themselves, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (ourselves/themselves) when Blue left three clues on paper, crayons, and a mirror, Bedtime Business when after Blue’s favorite part of bedtime was brushing teeth when Blue left three clues on a mirror, a sink, and a toothbrush, they read a book called Bedtime Business itself, and What I Like About Blue when a Love Day Book was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on paper, crayons, and pipe cleaners.
- Shovel and Pail are part of the answer to Blue’s Clues along with Josh and Blue but Shovel was drawn in Blue's Treasure Hunt and in Rhyme Time, Steve drew a regular pail instead of Pail(character).
- This marks the fifty-fifth episode in the franchise where any type of character in Blue’s Clues was drawn or being the answer to Blue’s Clues. The others being Magenta Comes Over and Playdate with Magenta when Steve and Josh were drawn, Blue's News and Big News with Blue when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper were drawn, Blue's Birthday and Happy Birthday Blue when Turquoise was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on the color green, a tank, and a shell, What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture? when Mailbox was drawn, Mailtime Mystery when Mailbox was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a flag, the color purple, and a box, Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue when Green Puppy and Magenta were drawn, Nurture! when Turquoise was drawn, What Is Blue Trying to Do?, Weight and Balance, Magenta Gets Glasses, and Getting Glasses with Magenta when Blue was drawn and in What Is Blue Trying to Do? when Steve drew a finished picture of himself and Blue, Hide and Seek when Tickety Tock was part of the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue wanted to hide in the bedroom and left three clues on Tickety Tock (a clock), a pillow, and pajamas, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt when Steve and Joe's Grandmother was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on glasses, a red rocking chair, and a green striped dress, Blue's Treasure Hunt when Shovel was drawn, Blue's Big Holiday when Blue as a baby was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on 4 little prints, a blanket, and a rattle, Pool Party when Magenta was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on Blue's School, a puppy, and a purplish pinkish color, Draw Along with Blue when Steve was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a notebook, green stripes, and a person, Blue's Big Mystery and The Ghost of the Living Room when Periwinkle was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on footprints, a curvy, skinny tail, and a picture, paw prints, a tail, and triangles, Blue's Predictions when Periwinkle was drawn, Blue's Big Musical when Sidetable Drawer was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on Steve’s Notebook, a knob, and a drawer, Shy and Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise when Miranda was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a bag, a footprint, a video tape, a heart, polka dots, and a soccer ball, Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper themselves and Blue were drawn, What's New, Blue? when Paprika was drawn, Making Changes when Cinnamon was part of the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue wanted to help Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika change Cinnamon’s diaper when Blue left three clues on a table, powder, and a diaper, Colors Everywhere! and Colors Everywhere with Blue when Green Puppy and Magenta were the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on the colors blue, yellow, red, and purple, and a puppy, I'm So Happy!, Blue's Night Before Christmas, and Sage & Ginger's Baby Book when the Viewer was drawn, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when the Viewer was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on singing, a dancing motion, and a friend, Blue Goes to the Doctor, Joe's Clues, and Joshini The Amazing when Joe was drawn, Let's Write! when Joe was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on the letters J, O, and E, A Surprise Guest when Miss Marigold was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a school, a person, and tall, Magenta's Messages and Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular when Magenta was drawn again, Blue Takes You to School when friends, which had Periwinkle and Blue, were drawn, Meet Blue's Baby Brother when Sprinkles was the answer to Blue’s Clues when there were gold clues on the word, "Puppy," circles, and colors, Blue's Big Baking Show when Josh’s grandmother Lola was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a heart, glasses, and a blue striped scarf, Feelin' Filipino when Josh and Lola were drawn, Sleepy Singalong with Blue when Blue wanted Josh to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when Blue left three clues on a star, Josh’s guitar, and Josh himself, Night at the Blueseum when Josh was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on Josh’s notebook, the color blue, and Josh’s guitar, Blue's Show and Tell Surprise when School Bus was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a rectangle, the color yellow and wheels, Blue’s Show and Tell Surprise when School Bus was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a rectangle, the color yellow, and wheels, A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights when Periwinkle’s grandfather Mauve was the answer to Blue's Clues when Blue left three clues on a family, glasses, and a cat, and Firefighter Blue to the Rescue! when Firetruck was drawn, but without the face.
- This is the second time Sidetable Drawer appears without the host getting the notebook from her. The first was Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
- The book Josh is reading is about penguins even though in Animal Behavior! when a penguin was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on black and white, ice and a waddling motion, Blue's Predictions when Joe, Blue and Bookmark read a book about a penguin named Penguin Pierre going to an elephant’s party and Blue's Mystery Present when there was a stuffed penguin.
- This is the first time after 27 years of the Blue’s Clues franchise where Pail’s handle is down.