The Big Book About Us

The Big Book About Us is the 4th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 5.

Characters[]

Blue
Joe (North America)
Kevin (United Kingdom)
Mailbox
Sidetable Drawer
Shovel (end credits only)
Pail
Tickety Tock
Slippery Soap
Periwinkle
Mr. Salt (end credits only)
Mrs. Pepper (end credits only)

Summary[]

Joe and everyone else at the Blue's Clues house are all creating pages for a scrapbook called The Big Book About Us. Joe creates his on a green piece of paper, putting on it some of his favorite things, and encourages us to create one as well. We also help out some of the other characters put neat things on their pages that show what they like.

Elements[]

Educational Themes:
- Getting to Know One Another
- Self-expression
- Books
- Interests
Question: What does Blue want to put on the front of The Big Book About Us?
Clues:
1. Paper
2. Crayons
3. A Mirror
Answer: Ourselves
Skidoo location: Sticker book (with Periwinkle)
Living room picture: Magenta with a paint palette, then Green Puppy building with blocks, then Blue reading a book
Felt Frame picture: Freddy Reading a book made out of shapes
Colored Shirt and Crayon: Green
Snail Appearances: (1. beside the lamp) (2. on the side of the pencil cup) (3. on one of the stickers)

Video Releases[]

It's Joe Time! (VHS, 2002)
Get to Know Joe! (DVD, 2002)

Trivia[]

This episode was surprisingly produced before Joe Gets a Clue which is also in a surprise move because in said episode, Joe learned how to play Blue's Clues. Both this episode and the latter was filmed in between November-December 2000, making Joe's actor Donovan Patton 2 1/2 years old at the time of production.
This is the very first episode to feature Joe as the host and to use the "Another Blue's Clues Day" opening sequence in production order.
This episode was shown on the VHS release It's Joe Time! and the DVD Get to Know Joe!.
This is the second time Periwinkle skidoos. His first time was in Periwinkle Misses His Friend.
Joe and Kevin wear a green squared shirt in this episode.
On June 27, 2019, this was the last Joe episode to air on the Nick Jr. Channel, four days before the show was dropped from the network altogether to make way for the reboot, which premiered 4 months later.
Pail appears without Shovel, except during the end credits, because Shovel is the only character that he doesn't make a page for the book.
When Joe writes wiggle lines on his paper, the trombone/tuba noise is heard.
Although wiggling is drawn offscreen in this episode, a wiggle motion as the second clue from Anatomy is drawn onscreen.
In this episode, the title flag was blue, but the flag did not match Joe's shirt.
In this episode, Joe says, "We have our third clue!" instead of "We have all three clues!".
The boy in the video letter segment also appeared in the video letter segment in Animal Behavior!.
This is the first episode produced for season five.

Goofs[]

In the DirecTV guide for this episode, Steve Burns was mistakenly added to the cast.
When deciding what to include in the Big Book About Us, the characters conveniently forgot about the items they collected from Blue's Collection.
In this episode, Sidetable mentions that her favorite color is purple, even though in Colors Everywhere! she said her favorite color is orange.
Her favorite color was actually the rainbow in Colors Everywhere with Blue.
- It's a mistake to think she can only have one favorite color.
Joe skidoos back home 2 seconds late in this episode.
- The same thing happens with Steve in The Trying Game and Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme, where his skidooing takes 3-4 seconds longer.
In the UK version, when Kevin skidoos back home, he's standing up instead of crouching, which makes him look smaller due to the background. This also occurred in the UK version of Something to Do Blue.
This episode is labeled as a Season 4 episode on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime and iTunes. The same issue occurs in Can You Help?, I'm So Happy!, The Boat Float, and The Scavenger Hunt. Another similar mistake is that on the streaming platforms mentioned above, this episode is listed before Joe's First Day, Joe Gets a Clue, and Steve Goes to College. It's likely that this episode was accidentally swapped with Puppets, as a similar situation happened with that episode but in reverse.

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Watch Episode[]

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

Blue's Clues Season 5