Blue's Clues & You!

Blue's Clues & You!
"It begins with a paw print!"
Genre: Educational Running Time: 21–26 minutes Country: United States Release Date: November 11, 2019-present Network(s): Nickelodeon Created by: Traci Paige Johnson Todd Kessler Angela Santomero Distributed by: ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks Starring: Traci Paige Johnson Doug Murray Liyou Abere Shazdeh Kapadia Seasons: 5 Episodes: 86 Next show: TBA

Blue's Clues & You! is a reboot of the hit Nick Jr. preschool series Blue's Clues. It premiered on Nickelodeon on November 11, 2019, the same day as Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.

Plot

Blue invites viewers to join her and friend Josh on a clue-led adventure and solve a puzzle.

Why It Will Still Figure It Out

1. It stays faithful to the original Blue's Clues series, and the reboot even has a reference to the original Blue's Clues series pilot.
2. The CGI animation is beautiful.
3. Extremely catchy theme song.
4. Josh is an amazing host for this reboot, especially since he has the charm of Steve and Joe, even though Joe wasn't a horrible host and wasn't as perfect as Steve.
5. A lot of the original characters return such as Mailbox, Tickety Tock, and Sidetable Drawer, and even Steve and Joe return.
6. Paprika and Cinnamon get 2 new twin baby siblings named Sage and Ginger.
7. Steve and Joe make a return in the first ever episode, as well as them making appearances in later episodes even there being several episodes where one of them appears without the other.
   • Joe makes another appearance in "Blue’s Sing Along Spectacular".
8. It was also surprising that Blue's Clues came back thirteen years later since it has been long left in dormant for an eleven-year time period, 2007-2018, and it's great to see Blue's Clues back after thirteen years.
9. As of Season 2, they now only take plots from the original and make something new out of it rather than making a full remake in Season 1.
10. On the show's "3 Little Ducks" sing-along video on YouTube, they sing it twice, once in English and once in Tagalog, which teaches kids to sing in Tagalog.
11. The animated characters are cute and lovable as always, especially the lovely little Blue since she retains her original personality.
12. The 25th anniversary of the franchise was great, and the video where Steve talks to the older fans who grew up watching him, talking about how far he and the fans came was heartwarming, emotional, and tear-jerking.
13. The show even introduced an autistic character named Lavender in the Camp Clue arc, which kicked off season 5.

Clueless Qualities

1. Most of the episodes in Season 1 are just remakes of episodes from the original, which can get pretty boring and dull if the series always relied on remaking episodes without making anything new to them.
2. The CGI could be a bit ugly to some people, and one could argue if this reboot should have kept the 2D animation. This is especially when the CGI characters are in a low framerate, looking like a Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation or Xbox cutscene.
3. One of the side characters, Pearl, has different eyes than the rest of the characters, and her eyes move weirdly and glitch out, which can be creepy for some people.
4. Plot hole: There is an episode that is a remake to an episode of the original show where Magenta gets glasses as it shows us and the audience that this show is a sequel to the original Blue's Clues, so it might get confusing to younger viewers that have not seen the original series during reruns on Nick Jr.
5. The song "We Just Got a Letter" was changed into "We Just Got an Email", though the former song is still used, but rarely. Though, to be fair, this can basically be understandable since most people usually get emails in the modern times instead of letters.
6. While Traci Paige Johnson reprises her role as Blue and still does a great job voicing her, unfortunately, she is the only voice actress to reprise her role, especially since the rest of the animated characters were recast here.
   • However, Nick Balaban returned to reprise his role as Mr. Salt in the fifth and final season.

Trivia

• After a few years of being adored, the Paramount+ film Blue's Big City Adventure suffered from a lack of advertising, reruns were removed on the main channel in in favor of more PAW Patrol reruns and the show would have several long hiatuses. The Nick Jr. channel burned off the show's remaining season 4 episodes shortly before Paramount+ removed the series in late March as a tax write-off by Paramount. Four season 5 episodes were later released on YouTube and for digital purchase on September 27, 2024.

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