Shape Searchers

Shape Searchers
Episode number	Season 5, Episode 12 (#503)
Airdate	September 23, 2002 (US) June 3, 2003 (VHS/DVD) August 12, 2003 (UK)
Written by	Adam Peltzman
Directed by	Bruce Caines John Rowe (UK)
Question in the episode	Where should Joe and Blue go to search for shapes?
Clues	A Cash Register A Cart Food
Answer to Blue's Clues	A grocery store (US) A supermarket (UK)
Chronology
Previous episode	Bedtime Business (Broadcast Order) Colors Everywhere! (Production Order) Contraptions! (Credit Order)
Next episode	Blue Goes to the Doctor (Broadcast Order) A Surprise Guest (Production Order) Joe's Surprise Party (Credit Order)

Shape Searchers is the 12th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 5.

Characters Present

• Blue
• Joe (North America)
• Kevin (United Kingdom)
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Tickety Tock
• Boris (cameo)
• Shapes (debut)

Summary

We search for shapes in all sorts of places, pointing them out as we see them. We also have a Skidoo segment filled with shapes. We meet some shapes and show them how they can combine with other shapes to make various things.

Elements

• Question: Where should Joe and Blue go to search for shapes?
• Clues:
  • 1. A Cash Register
  • 2. A Cart (Shopping Trolley in the UK)
  • 3. Food
• Answer: A Grocery Store (Supermarket in the UK)
• Living room picture: An oval and a circle, then a rectangle and a square, then a square and a triangle
• Felt frame picture: Felt City Bus and a Sign a cloud (Skidoo location)
• Place: Grocery Store
• Colored shirt: Red (US) Green (UK)
• Snail Appearances: (1. under the snack table) (2. by the sign) (3. next to the bush)

Objects

• Notebook

Video Releases

• Shapes and Colors! (VHS/DVD, 2003)
• Nickelodeon: Let's Learn Patterns and Shapes (DVD, 2014)

Gallery

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Cash Register

Cash Register (US)

Cash Register (UK)

Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart (US)

Shopping Trolley (UK)

Post Time Season 6 Shape Searchers

Food (US)

Food (UK)

The pawprint is still on the food.

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From the UK Version

From the US Version (Red)

From the UK Version (Green)

3 Clues from Shape Searchers

3 Clues From Shape Searchers

3 Clues From Shape Searchers

3 Clues From Shape Searchers UK

3 Clues From Shape Searchers UK

Background

Watch Episode

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

Trivia

• The characters Boris, Sidetable Drawer, and Tickety Tock are too busy to appear at the end of the episode, except for Crescent who was seen at the grocery store.
• Danielle and Jennifer Brown are credited as Joe's friends and relatives of Laura G. Brown, a content consultant for this episode.
• This episode is included in the Shapes and Colors! VHS and DVD along with 2 bonus episodes from Arts and Crafts.
  • It is also featured on the compilation DVD called Nickelodeon Let's Learn Shapes.
• Mystery cues from previous episodes like What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture?, The Scavenger Hunt, and Blue's Big Mystery were used in this episode.
• This episode aired exactly 6 years after Mailbox's Birthday premiered.
• In the UK Version, After finding the 2nd clue, Kevin wanted to pull out the notebook early as he would now do in later episodes. He says "Come On" before the UK Viewers say it.
• Blue's barking to the Mailtime song was muted in this episode, as with the last three episodes: Weight and Balance, Occupations, and Blue's Play.
• New York City is shown during the video letter skidoo segment in Blue's Big City Adventure.
• Joe and Blue walk to the store, but in Café Blue, Blue and Steve skidooed there with Mr. Salt to help him find three spaghetti sauce ingredients and to let Steve find the second clue alone.
• The musical instruments for the clues have a tune similar to Healthy Snacks.
• In the UK version, Kevin wears a green squared shirt for the first time, indicating squares as his new favorite shape. This change may be related to Steve leaving the series in the US and being replaced by Joe, who wears a squared shirt. Therefore, Kevin was likely asked to change his shirt to a squared one.
• This episode, which is all about shapes, was a reference to the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Shape of a Bear".
• The answer in the US version is the grocery store, while in the UK version, it is the supermarket.
• Joe wears a red squared shirt in this episode, marking the third time in the series he wears this shirt.
• Joe sings The So Long Song in the grocery store instead of at home, making it the first Joe episode to feature the actual beginning music of The So Long Song.
• Mailbox debuts a new credit action in this episode, waving his flag before looping it around while leaving the credits. This animation style is only seen on Season 5 episodes animated by David B. Levy's team until Blue Takes You to School, where it becomes permanent.
• In this episode, Blue looks for shapes in the skidoo location from Café Blue, where Steve helped Mr. Salt find three spaghetti sauce ingredients.

Goofs

• Closed captioning during the opening sequence displays Mailbox as saying, "I can play," when the correct line is actually "Right this way." This mistake is only found on the DVD version of this episode.
• The copyright year reads "2003" instead of "2002".
• In the UK version, after Kevin draws the third clue, the clue is still seen on the food. Also, Kevin wears a green squared shirt instead of a red squared shirt.
• Mailbox is silent during the credits.
• There was only one video engineer on this episode, but the credits list it under the plural name. There were also two directors of photography and two content consultants, but the credits list them both under the singular name.
• At the beginning of the UK version, Kevin can be seen wearing Steve's green striped shirt through the windows.