Blue Skidoo, otherwise known as Skidooing, is a common action used by Blue, Steve, Joe, Josh and other characters to enter another world. It is the show's equivalent to usage of other forms of interdimensional travel such as portals and wormholes in other televised media.
Lyrics[]
Standard[]
Blue skidoo, we can too!
What Is Blue Afraid Of?[]
Blue skidoo, let's go together.
What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?[]
(humming)
Blue Is Frustrated[]
Blue Skidoo, you and me too!
Superfriends/The Thinking Squad[]
Thinking Squad skidoo, to the rescue!
Blue's Birthday/Happy Birthday, Blue![]
Let's skidoo, don't tell Blue. (skidoo in Blue's Birthday and Happy Birthday, Blue)
Blue skidoo, a present for Blue! (skidoo back in Happy Birthday, Blue)
I skidoo, right to you. (exclusive in VHS for Blue's Birthday)
Steve Gets the Sniffles/Getting Healthy with Blue[]
Blue skidoo, a-achooo!
Blue Wants to Play a Game[]
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Animal Behavior![]
(instrumental)
Numbers Everywhere![]
Joe: Blue skidoo...
Tickety: ...we can too!
Playdates[]
I'll skidoo to a playdate with you.
Joe's Clues[]
It's the great Joe's Clues chase.
Story Time with Blue/Blue's Big Beat Band/Blue's Big Dance Party/What I Like About Blue[]
There goes Blue, let's go too!
Blue's Dino Clues[]
Blue skidoo, we can too! Roar!
Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure[]
Rainbow Puppy skidoo, we can too!
Rainbow Puppy skidoo, driving-a-through!
The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern[]
Blue Skidoo, we can too! MUHAHAHAHAHA!
Story Time with Josh & Blue[]
Blue skidoo, we can too, inside our storybook with you.
Let's close our eyes and go inside; there's so much we will do!
Gallery[]
Behind the Scenes[]
- To make the host skidoo, they turn the character forwards using photo software or video software, such as VideoPad Video Editor, FutureWave Software and MOLDIV.
Trivia[]
- Sometimes, characters aside from the host and Blue skidoo.
- In the episode "Periwinkle Misses His Friend," Periwinkle joined Steve and Blue in the model city he built after Blue skidooed into it. and In Reboot Periwinkle Skidooed again in The Ghost of the Living Room.
- He also skidooed into the sticker book in the episode The Big Book About Us, but with Joe this time.
- Shovel skidooed with Steve and Blue into a beach book in the episode "Blue's Collection" to help find things for Shovel's collection.
- Shovel and Pail somehow skidooed into the picture frame of a playground which made Blue and Josh follow them.
- In the episode "Café Blue," Mr. Salt joined Steve and Blue when they skidooed into the picture of the grocery store to get the ingredients needed for the spaghetti sauce.
- Tickety Tock skidooed with Joe and Blue in a numbers book from "Numbers Everywhere!"
- In the episode, "The Scavenger Hunt," Magenta skidooed with Joe and Blue into the felt board as they continued their scavenger hunt quest.
- She also skidooed into the Snail and Seek Game board in "Hide and Seek with Blue", but with Josh and Blue this time.
- She also skidooed with Josh and Blue in Building with Blue.
- Bob skidooed in and out of the picture frame in The Wrong Shirt.
- In "Blocks," Green Puppy skidooed with Steve and Blue into a block city.
- Rainbow Puppy skidoos in Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
- In Blue's Big City Adventure, it is revealed that School Bus (named the Skidoo Express in the movie) is able to skidoo.
- Miranda and Magenta skidoo into a thank you card in Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise.
- In the episode "Periwinkle Misses His Friend," Periwinkle joined Steve and Blue in the model city he built after Blue skidooed into it. and In Reboot Periwinkle Skidooed again in The Ghost of the Living Room.
- Each host has skidooed solo once.
- Steve/Josh in "Blue's Birthday" (renamed as "Happy Birthday, Blue!" in Josh's version).
- Joe in "Playdates."
- Sometimes Blue does skidooing by herself.
- An unfinished painting in "Snack Time".
- The bedroom drawer in "What Time Is It for Blue?".
- The felt board in "Adventures in Art".
- The video letter in "Joe's Clues".
- The host skidoos more than once in the VHS version of Blue's Birthday and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure
- The skidoo is similar to the jumping into the painting scene from Mary Poppins, the jumping into the picture sequence from Out of the Box, and Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario jumping into the paintings and walls to travel to other worlds in Super Mario 64/Super Mario 64 DS and Super Mario Odyssey.
- The melody Steve sings the song to is taken from Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning."
- In some episodes, skidooing isn't featured at all, beginning with the episode "Blue's Big Mystery." (See List of Blue's Clues episodes with no skidoo segment for all of the episodes).
- in Blue's Clues & You!, Josh's skidoo has effects, unlike Steve and Joe, who have no effect when skidooing.
- The effects are glowing with sparkles while moving and having multi-layers when flying to the place being skidooed into. In Meet Josh!, Josh's skidoo has no swirls. However, starting with Playdate with Magenta, Josh's skidoo has swirls, except in Happy Birthday Blue.
- Some episode has wear with different outfits.
- In the 2010 webseries "Battle for Dream Island", a character named Leafy can be seen blue-skidooing into a map in Season 2's "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".
- In Steve Gets the Sniffles, Steve's skidoo is upwards instead of forwards.
- In Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Josh Can Skidoo a Car And Submarine.
- In You Can't Spell Blue Without You!, Steve, Joe and Josh skidoo all at once.
- Trying to do this in real life would result in injury.