Look Carefully...

Look Carefully... is the 32nd episode of Blue's Clues from Season 5.

Characters Present[]

Blue
Joe
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Shovel
Pail
Gopher
Tickety Tock (end credits only)
Periwinkle (end credits only)
Mr. Salt (picture frame only)
Fifi
Baby Bird
Duck
Boris (cameo)
Chicks (cameo)
Owl
Snail
Big Booming Voice (only appearance)
Boy and Girl in Movie (only appearances)
Talking Clues

Summary[]

Joe and Blue teach the viewers about observing things to learn more about them. For example, we look carefully at a duck to figure out what it's doing. They play a game called Mystery Box with Shovel, Pail, and Gopher. Later, we skidoo into a game show hosted by Big Booming Voice, where observing things could earn us big prizes, or not in his three-part story about a boy and a girl who share their cookie halves after sticking together from getting separated.

Elements[]

Question: What does Blue want to look carefully at?
Clues:
- 1. A Bug
- 2. Wings
- 3. Red with Black Spots
Answer: A Ladybug
Skidoo location: A game show "How Observant Are You?", hosted by Big Booming Voice
Living room picture: Mr. Salt wearing mittens, then the addition of a hat, then the addition of sunglasses, but Mrs. Pepper is not there.
Felt frame picture: Fifi looking a magnify glass some flowers
Snail Appearances: (1. on the goodie bag) (2. under a bush)

Recap[]

Joe first greets the viewer by wanting to show what Blue and he found. What they found was a duck in their pond, and they wanted to look closer and more carefully at it to see what it was doing. Joe asks the viewer, "What do you think the duck is doing?" and then kids say, "Eating!" The duck was eating the plants underwater as its food. Then they wondered the question of the episode, "What can we look more carefully at?", which then transitions into We Are Gonna Play Blue's Clues. Then the Pawprint transforms into a duck after Joe says, "Remember, Blue's pawprint will be on the clues. Blue's Clues." The pawprint then moves away after Joe quacks at it. Then the Handy Dandy Notebook is mentioned, and Joe goes to Sidetable Drawer to get it. After Joe gets it, Sidetable then says his shirt matches his crayon. After that, Joe tells the viewer to look carefully, then go into the Play Blue's Clues song. Then he questions the viewer if they're ready to play Blue's Clues. Joe then sings We Are Looking for Blue's Clues. Joe says "Let's look carefully for clues" before viewers said there was a clue on a bug. Joe then goes outside and sees Shovel and Pail and they were playing "Gopher's Mystery Box" with Gopher. The viewers, Joe, Shovel, and Pail look carefully at what Gopher has in the box. The first round answer was then a carrot, and the second was Gopher himself. The viewers and Joe went to look carefully at more objects, including a bird's nest. The second clue was seen, and when the viewers said there was a clue, Joe asked were is the clue. The viewers said something, but Joe still can't see it. Then the viewers said on the wings, which then Joe found the second clue. It was on Baby Bird's wings. After writing the clue down, it was Mailtime. Mailbox has a letter for Joe to carefully at. The video letter was in a museum. After that, Blue and Joe skidoo into a game show with a special three-part movie titled "How Observant Are You?" hosted by Big Booming Voice. The first question was "What color shirt was the boy in the movie wearing?" The answer was a blue shirt. The second question was "What did the girl say when she saw the cookies?" The answer was "Yummy!". And the third and final question for the super challenge round, which is the last round of the game show to make it end, was "Where did the girl hide last?" The answer is a tree. Blue and Joe got all the questions correct and were the new champions. The last clue was then rumored. It then went away from the screen, and Joe asked where, and the viewers said behind him (however nothing was said at all). Joe found the last clue and it was on red with black spots. When Joe went back home, he went to think what does Blue want to look carefully at. And with our three clues, it was a ladybug. Joe and Blue went outside to go find the ladybug, with assistants from Shovel and Pail. The ladybug was on Blue's paw. Joe thanked the viewer for helping out, and the episode ends.

Objects[]

Notebook
Carrot

Video Release[]

Holiday Wishes (DVD, 2005)

Trivia[]

Big Booming Voice did not show up at the end of the episode because he was busy or may have gone home to a different house in the neighborhood.
Jennifer Brown, who is related to Content Consultant Laura G. Brown (not in this episode), is one of Joe's friends in this episode.
This episode is similar to Blue's Big Costume Party, where Joe and Blue have to pay attention to what they see.
The game show "How Observant Are You?" is a spoof of the popular game show "Jeopardy!".
This episode aired exactly one year after the premiere of "Shape Searchers".
This is the second time Joe has met Gopher, the first time being in "Our Neighborhood Festival".
Joe wears a purple checkered shirt in this episode, which is also the last time in season 5 that Joe wears this shirt tinted in purple.
This is the last episode of season 5 to feature live actors who are not Steve or Joe, excluding the kids in the letters.
This is the only appearance of Big Booming Voice and the boy and girl in the movie.
This is the last season 5 episode where the final clue is found in the skidoo location.
This episode says goodbye to the mirrored reflection of Mailbox's 2nd action and Shovel & Pail in their proper positions in the credits.
Mr. Salt appears in the yellow swirl picture frame without Mrs. Pepper, but they do not appear together in the credits.
After the letter, someone calls Joe from a distance, saying, "Who wants to play next?" That is Big Booming Voice, who reveals himself in the skidoo segment as the host of a game show with a three-part story about a boy and a girl who get separated and share their cookie halves, called "How Observant Are You?".
"How Obervant Are You?" ends when the boy and girl eat happily ever after.
In this episode, someone's first words after the letter are "Who wants to play next?" and that is Big Booming Voice revealing himself in his game show.

Goofs[]

This episode on iTunes is titled Look Carefully, but the three periods at the end are missing.
During the show, Joe mentions using his red crayon to draw the third clue (red with black spots). However, it is unclear how he managed to quickly switch to the black crayon to draw the black spots at the speed shown.
- Another mistake occurred in the episode Our Neighborhood Festival.

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Watch Episode[]

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

Blue's Clues Season 5