"What I Like About Blue" is the tenth episode of the second season and the thirtieth episode overall in the reboot series Blue's Clues & You!. It is a new version of "Love Day".
Characters[]
- Blue
- Josh
- Steve (in the photo frame)
- Joe (in the photo frame)
- Sidetable Drawer
- Mailbox
- Slippery Soap
- Tickety Tock
- Shovel
- Pail
- Felt Friends
- Hearts
Summary[]
Josh and Blue celebrate Love Day, and Slippery finishes his Love Day cards.
Elements[]
- Question: What does Blue want to make for Love Day?
- Clues:
- Paper
- Crayons
- Pipe Cleaners
- Wrong Answer: Put the crayons on the pipe cleaners and have them ride on paper ocean
- Answer: Make a Love Day book
- Living room picture: Steve, Josh, and Joe
- Skidoo Location: Love Day card
- Email or Letter?: Letter
Song[]
Gallery[]
1st Clue Paper
2nd Clue Crayons
3rd Clue Pipe Cleaners
Josh’s Loveday Notebook
3 Clues From What I Like About Blue
Watch Episode[]
Trivia[]
- This episode aired on February 12, 2021, 2 days before Valentine's Day 2021.
- This episode premiered alongside the Bubble Guppies episode "Alison in Wonderland!"
- This is the second episode where Josh sings "There goes Blue, let's go too!", instead of "Blue Skidoo, we can too!".
- This is the third episode where paper and crayons are the first and second clue. The first two being Periwinkle Misses His Friend and The Big Book About Us.
- This marks the tenth episode in the franchise where paper was drawn. The others being What Is Blue Trying to Do?, Mechanics!, Periwinkle Misses His Friend, Blue's New Place, The Baby's Here!, ¡Un Día Con Plum!, Joe Gets a Clue, The Big Book About Us and Joe's Surprise Party.
- This episode shares its name with a song that Joshua Dela Cruz sang at the 2019 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which in turn is a play on the Romantics song "What I Like About You".
- Josh also sang his own version of the original song in this episode. Plus it was an acoustic version, unlike the original music video and Parade version.
- This song was seen in the Face's Music Party episode, "Confidence".
- This is the first episode to feature the song What I Like About Blue.
- This is the fourth episode to break the normal pattern of "Blue's subject" in Season 2. They didn’t even used season one’s subject pattern either. They use a totally different subject naming for this episode. Not “(Subject) with Blue” or “Blue’s (Subject)”
- This is the fourth episode to celebrate a holiday in the reboot, this one being Valentine's Day.
- The others were Thankful with Blue for Thanksgiving, Blue's Night Before Christmas for Christmas, and Spooky Costume Party with Blue for Halloween.
- Steve and Joe made a cameo appearance on a drawing in the living room picture. They haven’t made it public appearance though, unlike other reboot episodes like Meet Josh! or Blue's Night Before Christmas.
- This is the twenty-first time where there were riddles and rhymes that were used and rhymed. The others being Blue Wants to Play a Game, Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme, Blue's News, What Does Blue Want to Build?, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Blue's Big Costume Party, Blue's Big Pajama Party, Adventure, Rhyme Time, Bedtime Business, Big News with Blue, Pajama Party with Blue, Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Joe's Clues, Skidoo Adventure, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Blue's Treasure Hunt and Blue's Night Before Christmas.
- When Josh was looking for the second clue, and the off-screen children said "clue", Josh thought they said glue, and thinks he sat on glue, which was a reference to Mailbox's Birthday when Steve was sitting on the chair clue. This makes Josh the 2nd Blue's Clues host thinking that he sat on glue.
- This is the first time that something from the video letter became a skidoo segment. Basically, after the boy gave Josh and Blue the love day card, they skidooed into it.
- In Love Day, Joe’s Notebook was heart shaped. In this episode, the notebook, had hearts on it.
- There was a picture of Blue like the one in Weight and Balance.
- In the original episode, the song was sung in the Season 6 way, but in this episode, it is sung in a normal way.
- This marks the second episode in the franchise where a soccer ball was seen. The first being Soccer Practice.
- This marks the fourth episode in the franchise where blocks were seen. The others being Blue's Sad Day, Blocks and Sad Day with Blue.
- This marks the second episode in the franchise where a pirate ship was seen. The first being Blue's Treasure Hunt.
- This marks the third episode in the franchise where a bird was seen. The first two being Patience and Contraptions!.
- This marks the second episode in the franchise where a rocket was seen. The first being Pretend Time.
- This marks the third episode in the franchise where a flower was seen. The first two being The Lost Episode! and Blue's Play.
- This marks the third episode in the franchise where an island was seen. The first two being Blue Goes to the Beach and Blue Wants to Play a Song Game.
- This marks the second episode in the franchise where a drum was seen. The first being What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?.
- The hearts being sad and getting cheered up is similar to what happened in both Superfriends and The Thinking Squad when Steve (Striped Man) Josh, (Song Man), and Blue (Super Blue) helped Frank help out two sad superheroes called Fancy Dancer and The Runner feel happy after Frank danced with Fancy Dancer and tied the Runner’s shoes, and I'm So Happy! when Joe and Blue helped Felix, Maryann, and Trevor figure out on how to be happy and others were happy about some things like when Joe was happy that The Viewer knocks on the door and says, “Notebook,” Sidetable Drawer is happy with a smile, Periwinkle was happy about magic tricks, Shovel was happy about painting and dinosaurs, Tickety Tock was happy about dancing, Mailbox was happy about waving his flag, bringing the mail to Steve, Joe and Josh, and telling jokes, and Blue is always happy because the Viewer comes over all these years, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a pathway, a door, and the Viewer.
- Blue made a book again like she did in Blue's New Place when Blue left three clues on paper, a pencil, and yarn.
- This is another show with valentine's day. The others beings Rolie Polie Olie with Love Bug, Rugrats with Be My Valentine, Barney with Be My Valentine Love Barney, Winnie the Pooh with Un-Valentine's Day.
Goofs[]
- When the Living Room was shown after when Josh sang, "Cause they're who's clues? Blue's Clues," the legs on the Thinking Chair were not shown, and after when Josh sang, "...and think think think," the legs are shown on the Thinking Chair again.