I Did That!

I Did That! is the 33rd episode of Blue's Clues from Season 5.

Characters[]

Blue
Joe
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Felt Friends
- Frankie
- Franny
Tickety Tock
Shovel
Pail (end credits only)
Purple Kangaroo
Orange Kitten
Duck
Boris (cameo)
Miss Marigold (only heard off-screen)
Periwinkle (end credits only)
Slippery (end credits only)
Mr. Salt (end credits only)
Mrs. Pepper (end credits only)
Talking Clues

Summary[]

Joe and Blue teach the viewers about who did what and how to make people feel good during an apology.

Recap[]

This episode is all about actions and results. we learn that by doing certain things, we can cause things to happen or make people feel a certain way. For example, Tickety makes Shovel mad/angry when she accidentally knocks over his block tower and we find a way to help her out. After mail time, Joe nearly tripped over a stuffed zebra, but then he put it back. We skidoo to Blue's school, where we explore sharing and taking turn.

Elements[]

Educational Themes:
- Achievements
- Feeling Good
Question: What does Blue want to make you do?
Clues:
- 1. A Mouth
- 2. A Curved Line
- 3. A Sound ("Hee hee hee")
Answer: Laugh
Skidoo location: Blue's School
Living room picture: A person winning a running race, then standing on a mountain top, then a laughing face
Felt Frame picture: Fifi & Freddy tied shoes
Colored Shirt and Crayon: Blue
Snail Appearances: (1. Next to the right side of the Toy Box) (2. Next to the lamp) (3. Next to the Blue block)

Objects[]

Notebook
Kazoo
Stuffed Monkey
Blue's Ball
Henrietta

Running gag[]

First Person[]

Joe: I/We did that! (past action)

Second Person[]

Joe: You did that! (past action)

Trivia[]

Elizabeth Bernstein, a relative of retired Research & Development Analyst Debra Bernstein, is one of Joe's Friends in this episode.
After the third clue was introduced, the clues weren’t gone over. Instead, the other clues commented on the sound, before they all say “Now that we’re three, what will we be?”. This is most likely due to the shortened length of the episode and time constraints.
- However, the producers could have shortened the credits since they were on the long side. That way, the clues could've introduced themselves in addition to commenting on the sound.
When dressing up in silly things at the end of the episode, Blue does a Groucho Marx impression.
This episode has a lot of allusions to earlier episodes.
- The scene where Joe made Sidetable Drawer sad while asking her for the notebook without saying please is a remake of a similar scene from Blue's Sad Day. Joe says "I'm sorry".
- When Blue wears the shoe on her head, it's an allusion to what Steve did in What's So Funny?.
- When Blue does a Groucho Marx impression, it's also a reference from when Steve and Mailbox did it in the same episode.
This is the second appearance of Mouth after Anatomy, but Joe did not use a red crayon.
The doorbell from What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day? was reused in this episode.
When Blue brought blocks to help Shovel build his block tower, they were in her wagon from Adventures in Art.
Other dinosaur-related items in Blue's School include a T-Rex made of aluminum foil and Shovel's dinosaur painting from "I'm So Happy!".
In the Mailtime Segment, Joe talks to Mailbox about what getting the mail makes him feel like doing.
A different phone was answered in this episode.
This is Joe's version of "Blue's Sad Day", "Blue Is Frustrated", "Shy", "What's So Funny?", and "Superfriends".
- The reason why it is the Joe version of Blue's Sad Day is because Blue (in one of the situations at school --through a Skidoo Adventure segment) appears sad. However, it was Orange Kitten who made Blue sad instead of Green Puppy. Orange Kitten says "I'm sorry" and Blue says "that's okay, I'm sorry as well"
The phone sound clue clip is mostly similar to the episodes What Is Blue Afraid Of? and Steve Goes to College.
Shovel gets mad at Tickety Tock for knocking his tower of blocks down by her car. Tickety Tock says "I'm sorry" to Shovel and Shovel says "That's okay, I'm sorry as well!".
Duck gets mad at Purple Kangaroo for stealing his toy dinosaur. Purple Kangaroo says "I'm sorry" to Duck and Duck says "That's okay, I'm sorry as well!".
Joe wears a blue squared shirt in this episode.
This episode is the debut of by far the most infamous "A clue" phrases, these being used in almost every fanmade episode on Youtube.
Blue's funny dance animation will later be reused in Season 6 for the transition to Blue's Room, except she'll do it in place with an excited expression.
Miss Marigold doesn't physically appear in this episode, but she says, "Time to go outside to the playground!" with her voice being heard off-screen.
The Video Letter was filmed in January 2002.
One of the books seen in the background in the Video Letter segment is Amazing Grace, which was a feature book on the PBS series Reading Rainbow in 1993.
In the credits, they did that, they bid farewell to all of the characters and their actions, this is the last episode with the character animations of Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper in their proper positions, Tickety's 1st action (ringing her bells), Slippery's 1st action, Shovel by himself without Pail altogether after being mirrored, and finally, the very first animation ever created for a Blue's Clues credit: Blue's goodbye barking and waving at the very end.
Shovel appears without Pail, except for during the credits.
The mad characters in this episode are Shovel and Duck.
The sad characters in this episode are Frankie, Sidetable Drawer, and Blue.
In this episode, Blue feels sad the second time after Orange Kitten pushed her, just like after Green Puppy knocked down her block tower, which happened for the first time and the same way Sidetable Drawer did because Steve didn't say "Please!" in Blue's Sad Day and in Blue's Big Musical, where Periwinkle likes her singing which means she can sing in the show after all, the same way the baby did, crying when the janitor went past him in What's That Sound? after noticing that his balloon got destroyed when the wind makes it hit the lamppost in the skidoo movie, the same way the real mouse did after the hippo turned her back in Blue's Play, and the same way the rabbits did when the directions flew out of Robbie's pocket and they were gone while they were walking in the woods to Grandma Rabbit's house in Story Wall after stopping. That's because the rabbits should only replace the directions with their friend, the eagle who will cheer them up and give them a ride to the picnic as Rebecca's idea, not give up going to Grandma Rabbit's house.
In this episode, Shovel and Duck feel angry the same way Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper did when they can't do three parts of their picnic basket, the same way the real cow did after the hippo turned her back, the same way the hippo did when she roared in Blue's Play, chasing the scaredy-mouse, the same way Rebecca did to Robbie when he forgot to pack her sandwich and she was hungry in Story Wall, and also the same way Blue did in Body Language, but they all fight, which was the answer.
This is the second episode in which a block tower is knocked down. The first time this happened was in Blue's Sad Day.
In this episode, Franny tied Frankie's shoes the same way Frank, aka the Cheerer-Upper, did to The Runner in Superfriends.
This episode is similar to stopping, breathing, and thinking, just like in Blue Is Frustrated.
The second clue, a curved line, would later return in the Blue's Clues & You! episode, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure. But this time, it was actually seen being drawn and was the first clue.
Also, the mouth clue later returns in Magenta's Case of the Giggles with a different appearance and being the second clue.
The stuffed zebra that Joe almost tripped over on was Henrietta from "Blue's Collection".
At the end of the episode, The Viewer laughs like Blue did in What's So Funny? because ever since What's So Funny? when Steve made Blue laugh by juggling, it is revealed that Blue decided she wanted to have a turn to make the host laugh and the other characters in What's So Funny? that made each other laugh were Shovel and Pail and Gopher, who made Shovel and Pail laugh by popping up in different places in a pattern and Steve and Blue skidooed to Silly Town and met Billy Chicken, who showed Steve mixed up things like a construction worker weasel hammering a nail with a banana, a truck sounding like a horse, and Backwards Park, then Sidetable Drawer laughed because she gave Steve a potato and at Mailtime, Mailbox and Steve wore Groucho Marx glasses and made each other laugh and then Steve juggled and made Blue laugh and Shovel, Pail, Gopher, and Mayor Billy Chicken laughed along with Blue and they, Steve, Sidetable Drawer, and Mailbox all laughed with each other and not at each other.
After Blue goes first and Orange Kitten goes second for sliding down the slide, which is the last part of the skidoo segment, it was time for Joe to skidoo back home and figure out what Blue wants to make the viewer do.
This is another Joe episode with feelings, just like in Body Language.
When Joe sings, "I/We/You did that!", he explains what the past action is.
The only thing Joe does not sing is "This/These did that!" for objects.
Joe does not sing, "This did that!" before saying "The phone rang and it made me jump a little.".
Joe only says, "That's brilliant!" without the "That's it!" part.
In this episode, Blue feels sad when Orange Kitten pushes her, but in Blue's Sad Day, the Blue Kitten feels the same way when Magenta Kangaroo does the same.
In this episode, Joe does not sing "Me did that!", but only Cookie Monster from Sesame Street or Petrie from The Land Before Time could've sung it like that.
After the theme song, Mailbox does the honors in telling the viewer to do nothing but to ring the doorbell.
In this episode, Frankie pretends to be the Runner and Franny pretends to be the Cheerer-Upper.
In this episode, Joe does not sing "We did that!" before saying "We just got a letter!".
This is the letter version of the upcoming Special Agent Oso episode "License to Cheer Up".
In the letter, before the teenaged girl says, "Bye, Joe!", she says, "I did that! I made her feel better!". That's because her younger sister Casey wanted the clay cat.
When Joe sings "I did that!", he says, "I left my zebra toy out, and almost tripped over it.", which made him sad.
When Joe sings "I did that!", he says, "I put my zebra toy away, so that nobody will trip over it.", which made him feel better.
In this episode, Tickety's car pretends to be Green Puppy.
When Joe says, "Hey!" and "We still don't know what Blue wants to make you do!", what he means before saying the second thing is "Oh, no!". That makes him say, "Let's look for our last clue. Come on.", just like Steve who said "We better find our last clue to straighten this out." after raising his voice and saying that it was a big misunderstanding in Blue's Play about the hippo charging down the hill.
In the episode, taking place in this world, Joe knows how to sing "I/You/We did that!", not Steve, because he's in college.

Goofs[]

While Blue wears the clown nose and flaps her tongue at the viewers, her eyes suddenly go into two different directions, which would be impossible and painful to do in real life.
When Orange Kitten pushes Blue out of the way, Joe's "Oh no!" is super quiet.

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