It's Joe's birthday and the viewers are invited to a surprise party for him. Blue and her friends Tickety, Slippery, and Periwinkle play Blue's Clues to figure out what else they need to do to finish getting ready for his surprise party.
Elements[]
Educational Themes:
Birthday
Surprises
Question: What else do we need to do to get ready for the surprise party? (Mr. Salt)
Clues:
1. Tape (Tickety)
2. Joe's Present (Slippery)
3. Wrapping Paper (Periwinkle)
Answer to Blue's Clues: Wrapping Joe's Present
Living room picture: Doodle of Joe wearing a party hat
Felt frame picture: Fifi covering her eyes, Freddy holding a cake with a candle on it
Colored Shirt and Crayon: Blue
Snail Appearances: (1. beside the block) (2. near the flower) (3. on Side Table Drawer from behind the right side of the phone)
This is the first time Joe says, "I'll be right back!". This will happen again later in Bluestock, where he gets to become the Bluestock announcer.
The clips where Blue jumps onto the screen after playing Blue's clues and where Mr. Salt is hanging on a balloon and where Sidetable Drawer gives Mr. Salt the Notebook was used in a Nick Jr. Play With Us bumper, The bumper can be viewed here.
Joe did not play Blue's Clues in this episode and he had the spotlight in some parts. This is because he didn't know about the surprise party.
The air date reveals that Joe's birthday is August 5. But for the sake of this being a preschooler's show, it can rerun on any date, just like Blue's Birthday.
There was no Blue Skidoo segment in this episode, despite the race to the Thinking Chair music being played after the third clue was found.
Joe had to be outside for almost the entire episode because he was supposed to go into the kitchen because they were having a surprise party for him in that room.
This is the only time Joe did not sing how to play Blue's Clues, because he was keeping himself very busy.
Mr. Salt, Tickety, and Periwinkle are the characters to sit in the thinking chair for the demo of the game.
Tickety, Slippery, and Periwinkle are the characters that played Blue's Clues with Sidetable Drawer handing them the Notebook to let them draw the clues. Tickety drew the first clue (tape), Slippery drew the second (Joe's present) and Periwinkle drew the last (wrapping paper).
The episode title flag did not have any pictures in it. This was the only time that this happens.
"The Birthday Song" from "Blue's Birthday" was sung in this episode, but the lyrics were changed to: "Everybody play, it's Joe's special day, happy birthday!" because it was Joe's birthday in this episode.
This episode is often considered Joe's version of Blue's Birthday, only it is Joe's Birthday.
This is the first time the host didn't play Blue's Clues. The second is Joe's Clues.
This episode is speculated to have been filmed on Donovan Patton (Joe's actor)'s birthday, March 1.
Steve and Joe are the ones who speak to The Viewer but because today was Joe's birthday, he had to keep busy and not find out. And the Blue's Clues characters substituted for Joe and spoke to the viewer like he and Steve did.
It is revealed that Joe's second-favorite color is orange, first favorite color being green, the colors that nobody picked in Blue Takes You to School.
Ironically, the four other colors of his shirts (blue, red, yellow, and purple) are the four colors of the shirts worn in the Australian children's band "The Wiggles".
Everyone in the credits sans Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper wore birthday hats, since the credit sequence was slightly different in this episode, but Mailbox does not appear in the credits.
The skidoo music plays when Tickety, Slippery, and Periwinkle race to the thinking chair, except Mr. Salt, who only sings the demo song, keeping Joe busy.
Tickety, Periwinkle, and Mr. Salt sing the Play Blue's Clues song instead of Joe.
At the start of the letter, the girls say, "Happy birthday!" without the Joe part.
The letter ends when the kids let out the last "Happy birthday, Joe!".
In this episode, Tickety says, "We're trying to figure out..." like Steve did in earlier episodes. Joe will say it again later in Blue's Big Car Trip starring the Talking Clues.
In this episode, "beak" is said by mistake, but it was actually a bill.
When Joe says, "My birthday!", two trumpet notes play.
When Joe says, "Oh, hi! Guess what today is?", what he means is "Oh, hi! Guess what? I am not going to play Blue's Clues with you today because...", that way he is going to do his gardening errand because it's his birthday.
When the girl talks about the dance, the girls in the clubhouse giggle because it was so funny.
When the brunette in the clubhouse says, "How old are you anyway?", Joe could've said, "I'm not sure.".
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