What's Inside?

What's Inside?
Episode number	Season 4, Episode 12 (#408)
Airdate	November 26, 2001 (US) October 23, 2002 (UK)
Written by	Chris Nee
Directed by	Lucy Walker John Rowe (UK)
Question in the episode	Where is the key to our trunk?
Clues	A Box Open A Melody
Answer to Blue's Clues	A jack in the music box
Chronology
Previous episode	A Day with Plum! (Broadcast Order) Blue's New Place (Production Order) Blue's Book Nook (Credit Order)
Next episode	Blocks (Broadcast/Credit Order) Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day (Production Order)
Update in or theme concept made into	Blue’s Mystery Present

What's Inside is the 12th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 4.

Characters Present

• Blue
• Steve (North America)
• Kevin (United Kingdom)
• Duarte (Portugal)
• HyunShup Shin (South Korea)
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Mr. Salt
• Mrs. Pepper
• Paprika
• Boris Bunny (only appearance)
• Sammy (only appearance)
• Shovel (credits only)

Summary

The finding of a secret lost door gives us the opportunity to talk about things that are inside other things. For example, we play the Grocery Game with Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. This involves placing various food items on shelves based on what's inside them. We also get to skidoo into a pull tab book, where we find many interesting things inside the tabs.

Recap

Steve welcomes us in. He's very excited, saying that he & Blue found something so amazing. It turns out that they've found a secret door. It's locked and we'll need a key to get into it. This whole secret door thing gets us exploring the concept of things that are inside other things. For example, Steve decides to take a look inside a piggy bank. He finds that there are coins inside. We get a call from Mrs. Pepper. It turns out that she, along with Paprika & Mr. Salt, wants us to play the Grocery Game. We're the guest contestants. The first round involves a shelf for things that have seeds. We're presented with lettuce, an apple, cottage cheese & milk. After thinking about it, we decide that the seeds are inside the apple. We're correct and are rewarded with an inside of the apple. We do again, and this time we look for things with red. We have a choice of a watermelon, mustard, a cucumber or a cantaloupe. None of these things are obviously red but Steve gets our help in figuring out that the watermelon has red inside. On the third and final shelf, we search for something with liquid inside. We have a choice of a box, bread, a carob pod, or coconut. Since this a hard one, we get to shake them. We hear a sloshing sound from the coconut and correctly choose that it's the item with liquid inside. In the Skidoo segment of this episode, we visit a pull tab book. Boris the bunny has asked for our help in finding his friend, Sammy the squirrel. We realize that perhaps Sammy is inside something. Pulling a tab reveals that Sammy lives inside a tree. Now that we've taken care of that, Sammy is thirsty and wants some juice. That's from an orange, orange juice, of course. We also check out some of the other tabs and find a nest of eggs in a tree and a hummingbird in a patch of flowers. Finally, we help out Boris, who is need of a snack after forgetting to bring one. He likes carrots and we pull a tab that reveals some growing under the tround. We also find a bird in another tree and some berries in a bush. And at the end we find the key in the music box to open the trunk. There was something inside. Blue opened the trunk with the key and there was Steve & Blue's Farm inside the trunk. Steve forgot that they put it in there. Boris opened the corrage. Paprkia opened the farm truck and there were horses inside. Steve sings the So Long Song and the episode ends.

Elements

• Question: Where is the key to our trunk?
• Clues:
  • 1. A Box
  • 2. Open
  • 3. A Melody
• Answer: A jack in the music box
• Skidoo location: Pull tab book
• Living room picture: A closed jack-in-the-box, then an open jack-in-the-box
• Felt Frame picture: Freddy opened the box

Gallery

First clue

Box

Second clue

Open

Melody

Thinking Time Segment

Background

Trivia

• Whenever Steve opens a paper bag, the pawprint comes out. When he closes it, the pawprint disappears.
• A Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-style game is played when Steve and The Viewer played "The Grocery Game".
• When Steve says "Cool!" after winning a paper bag, he uses his Early Season 1 voice.
• A letter was inside another letter, twice. Steve had to open three letters to open the video letter, leaving the main question of the episode unanswered twice: "What’s inside?"
  • This is the only time where a video letter wasn't in a letter.
    • This is probably because this episode is talking about things inside.
• When the viewer found a clue (the first), Steve thought the viewer said there was stew.
• This is a David B. Levy episode, but the credits were too short to accommodate the traditional order. Instead, due to the short credits, Shovel appears by himself without Pail, and Tickety does not appear.
• This was the first episode to feature Music as a clue. Steve can't really draw the sound itself, instead, he draws musical notes to help him remember it.
• A box was previously the first clue in the Season 2 Episode, Blue's Senses.
• Steve does not say, "Bye!" before closing the letter, just like in Occupations in which he said "Fascinating story!" instead.
• Sammy, Sidetable Drawer, & Mailbox didn't appears at the end of the episode because he was very busy.
• When Boris Bunny appears at the end, Steve does not say, "Remember when he and Sammy had an orange juice and carrot picnic with each other?".

Goofs

• Despite not appearing in this episode, Periwinkle’s voice cast Kenny Kim was credited.

Watch Episode

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