Pool Party

Pool Party is the 11th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 3.

Elements[]

Question: Who did we forget to invite to the pool party?
Clues:
- 1. Blue's School
- 2. A Puppy
- 3. A Purplish-Pinkish Color
Answer: Magenta
Living room picture: A beach ball, first flat, then partially inflated, then 50% inflated, then almost inflated, then fully inflated
Skidoo location: A card game
Felt Frame picture: Freddy with an ice cream cone by the sun.
Letter: Orange (US) Green (UK).
Snail Appearances: (1. beside the lamp) (2. in the bookshelf under windowseat)

Summary[]

Steve and Blue host a Pool Party in their backyard.

Recap[]

On a hot summer day, Blue and Steve hold a pool party, with a big list of friends to invite drawn up. We help to find them all to get them invited. We also test our memory skills while helping Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika make sundaes. Later on, we take part in a matching card game.

Characters[]

Blue
Steve (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Duarte (Portugal)
HyunSup Shim (South Korea)
Mailbox
Sidetable Drawer
Mr. Salt
Mrs. Pepper
Paprika
Shovel (cameo)
Pail (cameo)
Tickety Tock
Slippery Soap
Magenta
Felt Friends
- Freddy
Snail
Bowl (inanimate cameo)
Octopus
Joker
Yellow Kitten (cameo/debut)
Baby Bear (cameo)
Green Puppy (cameo)
Orange Kitten (cameo)
Purple Kangaroo (cameo)

Objects[]

Thinking Chair
Notebook
Banana Splits
Bowls
Ice Cream
Bananas
Whipped Cream
Sprinkles
Spoons
Cards

Sundae Patterns[]

Bowl, ???, Banana, Whipped Cream, Sprinkles, Spoon
Bowl, Ice Cream, Banana, Whipped Cream, ???, Spoon
Bowl, Ice Cream, ???, Whipped Cream, Sprinkles, Spoon

Skipped Toppings in the Sundae Memory Game[]

Ice Cream
Sprinkles
Banana

Video Releases[]

Blue's Pool Party (VHS, 2001)
What's So Funny? (DVD, 2006)

Gallery[]

Watch Episode[]

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

Trivia[]

Steve's friends include Codi Leitner, a relative of long-time Steve's friend Sierra Leitner, Yvonne Ortiz, a relative of Set Decorator Pete Ortiz from Blue's Room, and Madeleine Steinberg, a relative of soon-to-be Executive Assistant Amy Steinberg.
This is the first episode to be air in 2000, which also means that this is the first episode to be premiere in the 2000s decade.
This is the first episode to have the 1999-2005 Nick Jr. Productions logo.
- As of this episode, there is also no copyright information in the credits.
- Even though this is the first episode to have the 1999-2005 Nick Jr. Productions logo, in the Spanish version, this is also the last time the 1996-1999 Nick Jr. logo plays at the end of the episode.
This episode aired as part of Best Friends Week on Nick Jr.
This episode appeared in the DVD What's So Funny? and the VHS Blue's Pool Party. They were both released in Australia.
Steve did not have his green striped long-sleeved shirt or his tan pants on for the entire episode. When it was time for the pool party, he is in his green striped t-shirt and tan shorts. He also wore flip-flops. The t-shirt and tan shorts would be worn again in the episode "Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza". The flip flops weren't shown in that episode.
In Pistas Da Blue, Duarte wears a Hawaiian shirt instead of a green striped shirt during the pool party. He also wore it during The So Long Song.
In the KBS Korean version, Hyunshup just wore his normal clothes. And during the So Long Song, he wears a birthday hat.
When this episode is shown on Noggin, the pawprint for the third clue is blocked up almost entirely by the Noggin screen bug at the bottom left corner of the screen.
This episode used the same pool from Season 1's "Blue Goes to the Beach".
This is the sixth time Blue nods her head no.
This episode features new designs for Sidetable Drawer and Mailbox.
Magenta hung up on Steve and Blue during a phone call in this episode.
In the Concentration shockwave game, the cards each have a picture of the characters (Blue, Steve, Mailbox, Tickety, Slippery, Shovel, Pail, Magenta, Green Puppy, Purple Kangaroo and Orange Kitten)
This is the second time Blue leaves a clue onscreen.
There is a tiny meme used from this episode, it is when Steve says "Bananas" in a low voice.
This is the first time Kitty Charde was credited.
- The next time is in Nature.
This is the first time the start of the show doesn't fade, it rather cuts instead.
This is the first time that the telephone sits on the floor.
- The other episodes where the telephone was sitting on the floor were Blue's Big Musical, Joe's First Day, The Big Book About Us, The Scavenger Hunt, Let's Write! and Blue's First Holiday.
In this credit sequence, Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper are back to their proper position and Tickety Tock only rings her bells.
When Steve goes to the Pool Party, his long sleeved clothes get changed to short sleeved ones.
In the VHS version, after Steve uses his listening skills when trying to find the first clue, the "No, it's a clue" phrase from Math! was used twice.
In the VHS version, the "Notebook" phrase line from What Story Does Blue Want to Play? was used twice.
In the VHS version, Blue's barking of Mailtime was re-used from Snack Time instead of Blue's Favorite Song.
Before the girl says "Bye, Steve!", she says "I remembered everything!". In the Joe episodes, the girl says "I was right!" when she said that cookies was the answer, the boy says "Yay! We made it!" in the supermarket on the way to the checkout after finding yellow things while waiting in line, and the finger puppets, which are the elephant and rabbit, said "Thank you, thank you!" when the play ended.
In the Sundae Game, Mrs. Pepper says "Bowl!", Mr. Salt says "Ice Cream!", Paprika says "Banana!", Mrs. Pepper says "Whipped Cream!", Mr. Salt says, "Sprinkles!", and Paprika says "Spoon!" in the order, but for skipped ingredients, Paprika says her name and says them to fix the sundaes.

Goofs[]

When Steve looks at his list, there's a check mark next to Mailbox, but Steve didn't check him off.
When the camera zooms in to show Paprika putting sprinkles on the sundae that was lacking some sprinkles, the spoon disappears. The spoon reappears when the camera zooms out after the sprinkles were added.
During Thinking Time, a spot was added on the second clue, a puppy, even though Steve did not put a spot when drawing the clue.
- This is because the image of the second clue is taken from a future episode, Magenta Gets Glasses, instead of rendering an image from the drawing in this episode.
When Steve finished drawing the third clue, the pawprint is still seen on the Purplish-Pinkish Color.

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