Away Great Playdate

"Away Great Playdate"
Episode number	Season 2, Episode 8
Airdate	March 26, 2007 (Television Release) November 13, 2007 (DVD)
Written by	Jill Cozza (main script) Jeff Borkin Angela C. Santomero Jeremy Slutskin Dr. Alice Wilder
Directed by	Koyalee Chanda Mac O'Brien
Chronology
Previous episode	Mathstronauts
Next episode	Little Blue Riding Hood

Away Great Playdate is the 8th episode of Blue's Room from Season 2.

Characters

• Blue
• Polka Dots (beginning of episode only)
• Frederica (beginning of episode only)
• Roar E. Saurus (beginning of episode only)
• Sprinkles
• Joe
• Boogie Woogie (background cameo)
• Jalen (only appearance)
• Sabrina (only appearance)
• Lance (only appearance)
• Pretzel Man (only appearance)
• Khail (only appearance)
• Antonio (African-American; only appearance)
• Jalen's mother (voice only, but not appearing for the only time)

Summary

When Blue's friend Jalen leaves his favorite hat behind, Blue, Sprinkles, and Joe use some forms of transportation to catch up to him, including train to Sabrina and Lance's city to eat pretzels, taxi to Khail and the African-American Antonio's beach to collect seashells, and even airplane to Jalen's farm to play the last Duck, Duck, Goose game and fly back home to Blue's playroom to make the viewer leave.

Songs

• "Blue's Room Theme Song"
• "Jalen Lost His Hat Today"
• "We Love the Beach"
• "Way Great Playdate"

Vehicle Sounds

• Train: Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga, chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga, choo, choo!
• Taxi: Vroom-vroom, beep-beep.
• Airplane: Zoom, zoom, vroom!

Elements

• Colored Shirts: Blue, and Yellow

Video Release

• World Travelers (DVD, 2007)

Trivia

• This is the only episode of Blue's Room where Blue, Sprinkles, and Joe explore beyond the playroom. On top of that, this is the 2nd time Blue officially visited the real world (the 1st being in the Blue's Clues episode "Joe's Clues") outside of promos for the show or Nick Jr., and the only Blue's Room episode where she or any of the other characters in that show do.
• Jalen’s duck hat somewhat resembles Joe's stuffed duck Boris.
• This is the third time Duck, Duck, Goose is played. The first time this happened was in Blue Wants to Play a Game and the second time this happened was in Animals in Our House?.
• The instrumental version of Things I Love to Do (thinking music from Blue's Big Treasure Hunt) plays as Blue and Sprinkles leave the farm.
• In this episode, Antonio is not to be confused with Antonio Ortiz.
• Joe wears a blue shirt for the most of the episode but he magically changes into a yellow shirt, then he changed back into a blue shirt. In Colors Everywhere, Joe changes into four shirts. In A Brand New Game, Joe wears a yellow shirt for the most of the episode but changes into a green shirt for the Presto, Change Joe game. In Dress Up Day, Joe wears a purple squared shirt for most of this episode, but he changes into a yellow shirt when dressing up as a duck at the end of this episode. In Joe's Clues, Joe wears an orange squared shirt for most of this episode, but he changes into a yellow shirt when pretending to be a duck, then a green shirt when pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood. In Bluestock, Joe wears a purple shirt for most of this episode, but he changes into an orange shirt, blue overalls, and a straw hat for the Old MacDonald song. Joe does not wear a red shirt in this episode.
• Moona does not appear in this episode, but Jalen's mother says, "Time to go, Jalen.", just like her, who says, "Time to go, Blue.".
• This episode does not talk about transportation. It only talks about where Jalen left his hat.
• In this episode, while Blue and Sprinkles deliver the duck hat to Jalen, the city and beach are pit stops.
• In the beginning of the episode, Jalen wears black pants, a plaid shirt, and a silver zipped sweater, and near the end, he wears just gray pants and the same plaid shirt.
• In this episode, the taxi is the fastest way to the beach, which was the answer to Blue's Clues in Rhyme Time.