What Game Does Blue Want to Learn?

"What Game Does Blue Want to Learn?" is the fifteenth episode of Blue's Clues from the second season. It was the 34th episode to be aired.

Summary[]

Steve invites the viewers into the house as he and Blue learn new games to play. While playing Blue's Clues to figure out what game Blue wants to learn, we also play tic-tac-toe with a felt friend, a math trick with Mailbox and "Mother May I" with Shovel and Pail.

Elements[]

Question: What game does Blue want to learn?
Clues:
- 1. Numbers
- 2. A piece of chalk
- 3. A tessellated shape made out of an octet of squares
Answer: Hopscotch
Living room picture: Starfish's maze to a castle
Felt Frame picture: Fifi playing tic tac toe (Skidoo location)
Letter: Tan
Snail Appearances: (1. behind the felt board frame) (2. on the window) (3. behind the right side of Side Table Drawer)

Characters[]

Blue
Steve
Sidetable Drawer
Mailbox
Mr. Salt (cameo)
Mrs. Pepper (cameo)
Shovel
Pail
Starfish (in living room picture)
Felt Friends
Tickety (end credits only)

Objects[]

Recap[]

Steve needs to get his notebook from Sidetable Drawer. Sidetable Drawer opens up her drawer. The notebook is on the left side. Steve reaches in and grabs his notebook. He tells the viewers that to play Blue's Clues they had to find a paw-print because that is the first clue and then they had to put it in their notebook because they are Blue's Clues, they had to find another paw-print, that is the second clue, put it in their notebook because they are Blue's Clues. They had to find the last paw-print, that is the third clue, they put in the notebook because they are Blue's Clues and they had to sit in the thinking chair and think.

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Watch Episode[]

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

Trivia[]

This is the second time Steve juggles. The first time being in The Trying Game.
The shot where Steve holds up his middle finger while making an L shape became an internet meme.
Tickety Tock & Slippery Soap are both absent in this episode.
When Steve said "Our third clue!", he used his original Season 1 voice.
In the Mailtime segment, Blue's singing was from Snack Time instead of Blue's Favorite Song.
Several recurring toys (like the rubber duck, the blue teddy bear, and blue versions of the toy giraffe and the toy monkey) appear in this episode.
This is the first of two consecutive episodes where both of the first two clues are drawn in the living room.
This is the open and close the mailbox for all times.
The answer to Blue's Clues is the same as the answer to gold clues in the online game, "Blue's Gold Clues Challenge".
This is the seventh episode to use the "Right there." line from Magenta Comes Over. it was used for after Steve asked the viewer "Where does Shovel want to go?".

Goofs[]

When Steve says "We'll play Blue's Clues to figure out what game Blue wants to learn," the sound effect that plays when Steve opens his hands and says Blue's Clues is heard even though he didn't actually open his hands.
When Steve makes an L with his hand, he ends up holding up his middle finger instead of his index finger.
When Steve says "You just got to follow the L," a boom mic can be seen in the shot.
Before singing, Steve doesn't say "We just figured out Blue's Clues!" but instead he says, "That's the answer to Blue's Clues!". However, Steve will say it in Draw Along with Blue with an "I'm..." instead of "That's...".
A very quiet older Mailbox sound from Snack Time can be heard after The Mailtime Song.
Before singing The So Long Song, Steve doesn't say, "Thank you so much for all your help today."
When Steve finished drawing the third clue, the pawprint did not come off of the shape.
The footage where Blue counts paws in this episode would later be reused in Backstage at Blue's Clues in Blues Big Musical Movie on DVD.
The footage where Steve finds the third clue in this episode would later be reused in the 100th Episode Celebration.
The audio is out of sync in the second half of the episode on Paramount+.
When Steve returns home after saying goodbye to Shovel and Pail, Steve is cut off.

Blue's Clues Season 2