Blue's Senses

"Blue's Senses" is the 3rd episode of Blue's Clues from the Season 2. It was the 23rd episode to be produced and the 25th to be aired.

Summary[]

In this episode, Steve and Blue experiment with a few senses.

Elements[]

Educational Theme: The Five Senses
Question: What does Blue want to play?

Clues:
1. A Box
2. A Light
3. A Sound Note (Choo Choo)

Correct Answer: Train

Wrong Answer: Put the box over the light, and then shake it until it makes a "choo-choo" sound

Living room picture: Green handprints

Computer Screen: The Sound Game (skidoo location)

Skidoo location: The Sound Game

Felt Board: Freddy and Fiona Felt Friend wind-up keys on the back, then Freddy and Fiona Felt Friend, then Freddy and Fiona Felt Friend surprised, then Freddy and Fiona Felt Friend dancing, then Light clue, then train as the answer.

Snail Appearances: (1. under the nightstand next to the bed) (2. under the computer desk) (3. behind the delete button)

Characters[]

Blue
Steve (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Sidetable Drawer (Play blue's clues only)
Mailbox (Mailtime only)
Tickety Tock (no lines) (before found our 1st clue only)
Felt Friends (cameos)
Wind-up Drum Toy (debut)
Wind-up Frog Toy (debut)
Bunny Slippers
Stuffed Giraffe
Squirrel (debut)
Red Bird
Frog
Snail
Mr. Salt (end credits only)
Mrs. Pepper (end credits only)

Recap[]

Blue leaves tactile, visual, and audio clues. They play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue wants to play. Steve gets his notebook from Sidetable Drawer. Steve follows a wind-up toy (which he used to race earlier) as it goes into the bedroom. The wind-up toy disappears under Steve's bed. He tries to find it but Steve fishes out other objects under his bed based on how they feel. He felt a hairbrush, a pair of bunny slippers, and finally Blue, who found the wind-up toy. After feeling more objects, Steve finds the first clue on a box. He draws it in his notebook. Later on, Steve and Blue play Lights On, Lights Off as they clean up in the dark. After about three rounds of Lights On, Lights Off (where some blocks, a stuffed giraffe, and some crayons were put in the toy chest), a clue was found on a light on the felt board. Steve draws the second clue in his notebook. Then, it was mail time. In the Mailtime segment, Mailbox could not stop laughing. Something was tickling him. As he opens up, Steve realized that there were lots of feathers on the letter that was tickling Mailbox. Steve reads the letter and once he was finished, Steve and Blue Skidoo into their computer to do some listening with Squirrel. They hear a bird chirping, a water fountain rushing, and a swing squeaking as it rocks back and forth. Suddenly, the squirrels had to leave. Steve finds a clue on a sound note that went "choo-choo". Steve draws the third clue in his notebook. Then, he Skidoos back home with Blue to the thinking chair to put all the clues together. The clues were a box, a light, and a sound note that went choo-choo. Steve thought Blue wanted to put the box over the light and then shake it until it made a choo-choo sound. But that was not it. The answer to Blue's Clues was a train. Blue wanted to play train by using the box as the front of the train and train cars, a light to see where she was going, and the sound note that went choo-choo for the train's whistle. After figuring out Blue's Clues, they started playing train with the bunny slippers from under the bed; the toy giraffe from the Lights On, Lights Off game; and Squirrel. Steve sings the so long song and the episode ends.

Objects[]

Thinking Chair
Notebook
Bunny slippers
Hairbrush
Airplane
Stuffed Giraffe
Teddy Bear
Blocks
Toy Car
Train
Wind-Up Key
Blue's Ball
Books
Roller Skates
Crayons
Jump Rope
Baseball
Bat
Cardboard Box

Gallery[]

Deleted/Unused sense[]

Watch Episode[]

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

Trivia[]

This episode aired as part of Blue's Big Wednesday, an all-day Blue's Clues marathon on Nick Jr.
This is the second episode where viewers say "Notebook!" from Mailbox's Birthday was not used.
This episode breaks the episode tradition, because not only a re-shot of Steve in his mid-Season 2 hair is used when he tells the viewers he needs help figuring out the clues and during The So Long Song, but also, during the Thinking Time segment, a re-shot of him in his hair from Late Season 2 is also used.
- This is one of the three Season 2 episodes in which breaks tradition that shouldn’t have been done, the other two are Blue's Birthday and What Is Blue Trying to Do?.
- This was also the first episode where the clues' music starts playing before they come out of the notebook, except for the last one, a tradition that will continue for the rest of the Steve's duration in the show.
Steve did not say "Handy Dandy..." in this episode, however, Kevin did say "Super Duper..." like he always does in the UK version.
When Steve draws the third clue (Sound (choo-choo), the mid-Season 2 drawing footage when Steve had his mid-Season 2 hair on was used.
This is the first time that Blue and Steve skidoo into the computer and meet Squirrel there. They will do it again in What Did Blue See?.
This is the first episode since The Trying Game that the viewers didn’t sing The So Long Song, which was put to almost permanent use until What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?, What Was Blue's Dream About?, and Blue's Birthday.
This is the first of the six episodes with an alternate recording of the Thinking Chair theme music. The next five were What Does Blue Want to Make Out of Recycled Things?, ¡Un Día Con Plum!, Blocks, Let's Plant, and Something To Do Blue.
Some of the credit music would be used at the starting of part one of Joe’s Scrapbook.
The Wind-Up Drum Toy appears at the end of The So Long Song when Steve said bye to the viewers.
The piano when Steve goes to find the first clue would later be seen in the Blue's Clues theme song from Blue's Big Holiday to Joe's Clues.
When the viewers said the answer (Train), Steve said that the viewers are geniuses.
- In the KBS Korean version, the So Long Song Hyunshup holds tickety tock plush.
This is the first episode where Steve asks the viewers if they will help him during The Thinking Time. He will say this more often starting with What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture? and he will say it one more time in Joe's First Day.
The felt friend from Blue's News appears as a pretend wind-up toy.
In this episode, after Steve says, "Blue's paw print will be on the clues.", he and the viewers say "Blue's Clues!".
In the letter, the kids say, "Hi, Steve and Blue!" and they don't say, "Bye. Steve!" at the end of it.
In the letter, the kids play a feeling, listening, and guessing game. The puzzle is the wrong answer, but Macaroni is the correct answer before it ends.
This is the third episode to use the "Right there." line from "Magenta Comes Over".
In this episode, the part "song game" is omitted after Blue Wants to Play a Song Game and the part "ball game" will be added in Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza, but only in the question.
In this episode, Squirrel says, "My ball!", but what she means about it is "Oh, no!" when it jumps out of the computer. This will happen again later in Blue's Collection, where Periwinkle will say, "It's my ball, Blue!", but what he will angrily mean is "Hey, gimme that!" at the end of that after Blue steals it from him.

Goofs[]

The KBS Korean version uses footage from the Mailtime segment from What Is Blue Afraid Of?, just like the KBS Korean version of Pool Party.
When Blue catches Squirrel's ball, Squirrel disappears from the computer.
After Steve draws the third and final clue, the pawprint is still on the sound.
While playing train, when the stuffed giraffe and squirrel join in, Blue instantly pops into the scene, and her right ear (the viewer's left) is cut off a bit.

Blue's Clues Season 2