Today, Blue and her friends are creating a Portrait of Pals. It is going to contain pictures of lots of our friends, but it seems that some of the colors we need are missing. In this episode, we help out with mixing needing colors to help with the portrait. We also skidoo into an app on Josh's phone that's about colors where we find some friends that are very colorful and help them to find their color friends, learning about special colors created by mixing in the process.
Elements
Question: Who does Blue wants to add to her painting?
Clues:
1. The color red
2. The color purple
3. A puppy
Right Answer: Magenta
Skidoo location: Josh's phone on his Handy Dandy Notebook (an app about colors)
This episode combines the original episode's title and the usual "with Blue" suffix.
This is the first remake from a Joe episode (which is a Season 5 episode).
The usual lyrics for the series We Just Got a Letter has changed, and added the word purple in it.
Differences
In the original episode, Joe changes his shirt multiple times, but in this episode, Josh stays in his blue shirt for the whole episode.
The original clues blue and yellow were replaced with red and purple.
This means Magenta is the answer to Blue's Clues instead of Green Puppy.
Magenta was only a cameo in the picture and the Portrait of Pals in the original, but in this episode, she actually appeared in person.
It is unknown if Green Puppy will appear in any future episodes.
Ironically, The aforementioned colors are the same ones used by Australian children's group "The Wiggles".
The skidoo location is an app about colors in Josh's notebook/phone instead of a book about colors.
This is the very first episode in which Josh and Blue skidoo from the kitchen and the first time they skidoo into Josh's notebook/phone in Blue's Clues & You!.
In the original, Joe and Blue skidooed from the living room, but in this episode, Josh skidooed from the kitchen.
In the original episode, Sidetable's favorite color was orange like her drawer, but in this episode, she mentioned that her favorite color is all the colors like the rainbow.
In the original episode, Mailbox’s favorite color was yellow, but in this episode, he said that his favorite color was purple just like his body.
In the original, the letter was yellow. In the reboot, the letter was purple.
In the original, it was Blue who got all the pictures together on the table. In the reboot, it was Shovel and Pail who did it.
In the original, the pictures of Magenta and Periwinkle were replaced with pictures Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika, Cinnamon, Sage & Ginger.
In the original, Joe swipes the pawprint away. In the reboot, Josh tries to wipe the pawprint which turns into a painted rainbow.
In the reboot, Josh stands up in a stripe background holding his notebook for a couple seconds and tells the viewers he needs their help to figure out the answer to Blue's Clues. In the original, after singing "Play Blue's Clues", Joe asks the viewers if they're ready to play Blue's Clues to figure out the answer.
In the reboot, the scene where yellow and blue were mixed with green, blue and red were mixed with purple was omitted.
Mailtime came immediately after Pail fingerpaints Shovel.
In the original, after solving Blue's Clues, Joe sings "We Sat On Down". In the reboot, Josh sings "We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues" like he always does.