The Big Book About Us

The Big Book About Us is the 4th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 5.

Characters Present[]

Blue
Joe (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Shovel (credits only)
Pail
Tickety Tock
Slippery Soap
Periwinkle
Mr. Salt (credits only)
Mrs. Pepper (credits only)

Summary[]

Joe and everyone else at the Blue's Clues house are all creating pages for a scrapbook called The Big Book About Us. Joe creates his on a green piece of paper, putting on it some of his favorite things, and encourages us to create one as well. We also help out some of the other characters put neat things on their pages that show what they like.

Elements[]

Question: What does Blue want to put on the front of The Big Book About Us?
Clues:
- 1. Paper
- 2. Crayons
- 3. A Mirror
Answer: Self-portraits
Skidoo location: Sticker book (with Periwinkle)
Living room picture: Magenta with a paint palette, then Green Puppy building with blocks, then Blue reading a book
Felt Frame picture: Freddy Reading a book made out of shapes
Colored Shirt: Green

Video Releases[]

It's Joe Time! (VHS, 2002)
Get to Know Joe! (DVD, 2002)

Trivia[]

This episode was surprisingly produced before Joe Gets a Clue which is surprising because in said episode, Joe learned how to play Blue’s Clues. Both this episode and the latter was filmed in September 2001, making Joe's actor Donovan Patton 23 years old at the time of production.
This is the very first episode to feature Joe as the host in production order.
This is the first episode in production order to use the "Another Blue's Clues Day" opening sequence.
This episode was shown on the VHS release It's Joe Time! and the DVD Get to Know Joe!.
This is the second time Periwinkle skidoos. The first time was in Periwinkle Misses His Friend.
Joe wears a green squared shirt in this episode.
Pail appears without Shovel, except during the credits.
When Joe writes wiggle lines on his paper, the trombone/tuba noise is heard.
Although wiggling is drawn offscreen in this episode, a wiggle motion as the second clue from Anatomy is drawn onscreen.
In this episode, the title flag was blue, but the flag did not match Joe's shirt.
In this episode, Joe says "We have our third clue!" instead of "We have all three clues!".

Goofs[]

In the DirecTV guide of this episode, Steve Burns is mistakenly added to the cast.
When coming up with things to represent themselves for the "Big Book About Us," the characters have all conveniently forgotten about the things they collected from Blue's Collection.
In this episode, Sidetable states that her favorite color is purple. But in Colors Everywhere!, she states that her favorite color is orange instead.
- Her favorite color was the rainbow in Colors Everywhere with Blue.
- This is a total goof that she might have more than one favorite color.
Joe skidoos back home slower than usual.
- The same thing happens with Steve in The Trying Game and Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme.
In the UK version, when Kevin skidoos back home, he's standing up instead of crouching making him look smaller due to the background, it also happened in the UK version of Something To Do Blue.
This episode is listed as a Season 4 episode on streaming services, such as Amazon Prime and iTunes.
- The same thing happens in Can You Help?, I'm So Happy!, The Boat Float, and The Scavenger Hunt.
  - This is the first season five produced episode.
  - Another goof similar to this is that on the streaming services listed above, this episode is listed before Joe's First Day, Joe Gets a Clue, and Steve Goes to College.
- It's likely this episode was accidentally swapped with Puppets as a similar situation happened to that episode but in reverse.