Blue's Collection

Blue's Collection is the 31st episode of Blue's Clues from Season 3.

Elements[]

Question: What is missing from Blue's circle collection?
Clues:
- 1. A Red Stripe
- 2. A Blue Star
- 3. A Bouncing Motion
Answer to Blue's Clues: Her ball
Living room picture: Three coins adding up to 31¢ (25+5+1=31) with a nickel, a penny and a quarter.
Skidoo location: A Beach
Letter: Yellow (US) Orange (UK)
Snail Appearances: (1. in front of the fence) (2. in front of the beach fence) (3. under the beach umbrella)

Summary[]

Steve and Blue start a collection of their own things.

Recap[]

Collections are the order of the day. Steve invites us in to see Blue's collection of circles. It turns out that she got the idea from her circular shaped spots. She has all sorts of different things that are either circular or covered with circular spots. Steve has a collection too. His collection is filled with things that are striped. It came from his wearing striped shirts, which came from his grandma, who gave him his first-ever striped shirt.

We come across Periwinkle, who it turns out has several collections. Using associations, we help Periwinkle to restore things that are missing from his collection of things that roll, things that remind him of the city and magical things. Later, we're called by Shovel and Pail. Pail has a great collection of leaves, including a very big brand-new one, but Shovel can't find any seashells in the backyard and that's a problem if you're trying to collect seashells. So, we skidoo into a beach and there we're able to find a giant oyster shell, a conch shell, and a clamshell.

Characters[]

Blue
Steve (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Duarte (Portugal)
HyunShup Shin (South Korea)
Steve's Grandma (mentioned)
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Mr. Salt
Tickety Tock (photo & end credits only)
Shovel
Pail
Periwinkle
Gopher
Cards

Objects[]

Notebook
Striped Sock
Wand
Trumpet
Ball

Video Releases[]

Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (DVD, 2005)

Gallery[]

Watch Episode[]

This episode is available for streaming on Paramount Global's video streaming service Paramount+.

Trivia[]

In this episode, Periwinkle made an appearance, and his voice actor Cameron Bowen is friends with Steve, as well as Anna Sherman Weiss, who is related to Teri Weiss, the future Vice President of Production for Nick Jr.
This was the only episode where Shovel skidooed.
Mailbox, Sidetable Drawer, Mr. Salt, Gopher, and Pail did not appear at the end of the episode because they were very busy.
The term "Clue collector" was previously used in Blues ABCs.
When Steve says "Blue! Your ball!", his voice from Season One's Snack Time is used.
Gopher gets rid of the pawprint in this episode, showing that he has a pawprint collection.
There is a fan theory that Gopher takes a picture of each clue and swipes its pawprint away.
When Shovel puts the clamshell in the box, you can hear the sound effect of Mailbox opening himself up.
This is the first episode where a blue crayon is used for drawing a clue. In Nature, Steve used a sky blue crayon for the third clue (the sky).
The music for the closing credits is a remix of the opening theme song, which was also sorta used for the beginning of the So Long song.
This is the first episode to feature a jumping clue, followed by Dress Up Day and Animals in Our House?. However, the jumping clue in this episode is referred to as bouncing, while in the other two episodes, the jumping clue is referred to as hopping.
This episode reveals why Steve always reaches under the thinking chair to put the letter there. He has a letter collection, and the box has a yellow slot that is always facing forward so that Steve can put the letter through and into his collection. It's also the first time that he does this with the box onscreen.
Mr. Salt appears by himself and without Mrs. Pepper, but he doesn't appear again with her in the credits.
The cards in Periwinkle's collection of magical items previously appeared in Pool Party. The only difference is that both sides of each card in this episode are all purple (in the previous episode, the backs of all cards are light blue, and the Ace of Swirls is red).
The palm tree on the beach is the same one from Blue Wants to Play a Song Game.
When Steve gets out his letter collection, he pulls out the letters from What Does Blue Want to Build?, Environments, and What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, but as it turns out, they're called references.
Before the "We Just Got a Letter" song, Steve says, "We just got another letter." instead of "We just got a letter!". This is the only time this happens.
In the UK version, when Kevin gets out his letter collection, he pulls out the letter from Environments and Kevin Gets the Sniffles.
In the UK version, before the "We Just Got a Letter" song, Kevin does not say, "We just got a letter.". This is the only time this happens.
Although Steve's Grandmother didn't appear, she was mentioned.
At the end of the episode, Shovel says the host's name in an accent like Sean Connery after Steve says "Seashells by the seashore" in bad grammar, semi-scolding it. After that, Steve apologizes incorrectly.
When Steve helps Shovel collect seashells by the seashore, it means that it's a Sean Connery day for him.
After Steve says, "Bye-bye. See you later!" in bad grammar, he corrects it by saying, "See you later. Bye!" in his normal accent, which was absolutely perfect.
At the end of the episode, Blue keeps her photograph, but she steals Periwinkle's ball. Since Periwinkle apologized, he is going to give it back to Blue, and Blue will replace the photograph with the one that Periwinkle gave her.
This episode was based on the V.Smile game but it actually featured Joe.

Goofs[]

In the US version of the opening, the ball was shown. But in the UK version, the ball was not shown.
When the viewer said a clue the first time in the second clue, he probably didn't really say a clue.
- On top of that, he might have said a glue instead.
In the UK version, after Kevin draws the third clue, he ends up in a different area in the backyard, as the picnic table is nowhere to be seen and a second tree appears behind him.
At the end of the episode, the ball belongs to Periwinkle and the photograph belongs to Blue, but Steve helped them trade their stuff back to normal.

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