Nature

Nature is the 14th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 3.

Characters Present[]

Blue
Steve (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Duarte (Portugal)
HyunSup Shim (South Korea)
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Mr. Salt
Mrs. Pepper
Paprika
Ladybug
Fish
Rabbit
Deer
Butterfly
Bird
Windy (debut)
Tickety (end credits only)

Elements[]

Question: What does Blue want to play outside?
Clues:
- 1. Shapes
- 2. Grass
- 3. The Sky
Answer: The Cloud Game/Find Shapes in the Cloud Game
Skidoo: Seasons Book
Letter: Brown (US & UK)
Snail Appearances: (1. behind the rock) (2. in front of the rock by the grass) (3. in the grass on the lower right corner)

Summary[]

Steve and Blue spend the day outdoors.

Recap[]

We are having fun outside on a spring day. All of our friends are there: even Sidetable has come out to do some bird watching. We have fun doing things like looking for four leaf clovers, identifying herbs, and exploring the vast backyard of the Blue's Clues house. In a Blue Skidoo segment, we help out a friend named Windy who has blown around things from all the different seasons, getting them all mixed up.

Objects[]

Notebook
Binoculars
Grass
Flowers
Lemon
Rosemary
Peppermint
Lavender

Video Releases[]

Nickelodeon: Springtime Adventures! (DVD, 2015)

Trivia[]

This is the last episode to have only Blue, Tickety, Mr. Salt, and Mrs. Pepper appear during the credit sequence. Starting with Occupations, other characters are shown daily.
This is the 2nd episode to feature Sidetable Drawer's Mid-Season 4 design. The first was Pool Party.
This is the first appearance of the Season 3 and 4 silent opening. Rather than opening with Steve asking the viewers to find Blue, instead the opening music plays as we zoom in on the Blue's Clues house and then Steve appears in front of it, outside.
Blue and Steve play Blue's Clues outside.
- This is also the first time that the inside of the house is not shown in the series.
An outdoor thinking chair was used and was called the thinking rock.
- This is also the first episode where no one sits on the thinking chair.
This episode did not have Blue and Steve go indoors.
Steve does not say "Sit down in our thinking chair, and think, think, think." Steve says "Sit down on our thinking rock and think, think, think." instead.
In the Portuguese version, Duarte's nature notebook still had the black boarder rather than wooden lining.
Before the end of the Mailtime Song, after Steve sings "When it comes I wanna wail", the music stopped for a couple of seconds when Steve and Blue went up to Mailbox to yell out "MAIL!" to surprise him.
During Play Blue's Clues, Steve sings it and was almost going to say "sit down in our thinking chair" but he cuts it off and says thinking rock instead in a calm voice and continues singing it.
- In the KBS Korean version, the So Long Song Hyunshup holds basket with a leaf clover.
Duarte's hair was used from the late Season 3 episodes.
In the credits, the credit sequence is recycled from Pool Party.
This is the third time Mailbox screams as he gets startled. The first was What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture? and the second was Hide and Seek.
This is the only time the letter features two goodbyes: one for the ladybug flying away, which happens first and the other for Steve who is ready to close it when it ends, which happens last.
As Steve sings "We are going to play Blue's Clues...", he sings, "On a really great day!".
When the kids see beetles, the volunteer could've said, "Bye, guys. Have fun!" wishing them good luck when the letter is not over yet.
The ladybug that the boys see will be the answer to Blue's Clues in Look Carefully....

Goofs[]

When Blue's signals with a paw print, Steve suggests playing Blue's Clues to figure out what the kids want to play outside.
Right when Steve, and Blue surprise Mailbox, for about a split second Blue flickers just before she and Steve wail "MAIL!".
In the video letter, one of the kids mistakenly identified several pill bugs as beetles.
When Sidetable Drawer first showed up, she had a pair of binoculars for birdwatching. In later appearances in the episode, she had the herb bouquet that Mr. Salt and Paprika made for Mrs. Pepper.
Blue now holds the regular notebook instead of the nature notebook.

Gallery[]

Watch Episode[]

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

Blue's Clues Season 3