The WORST episodes of Blue's Clues
Every episode of Blue's Clues ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Blue's Clues!
Blue's Clues is a colorful learning series that is targeted at the younger crowd but can be enjoyed by all. A host, Steve or Joe Burns, invites viewers daily into the Blue's Clues house to help, learn, and have fun. Help Steve or Joe find three clues that Blue has secretly labeled with a paw print, and have an adventure figuring something out in the process.
#1 - Hide and Seek
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1999
A hide-and-seek game gets us going as we look for things all throughout the episode. For example, we get calls from Felt Friends to help them find things that they're giving each other and so we use their descriptions to figure it out. Later, we skiddoo into Blue's current favorite story, a book where everything is in Blue. We listen to blues style music and try to figure out what Blue's favorite party of the story is.
#2 - Nurture!
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/5/1999
Sometimes, things need to be nurtured in order to grow and live properly. We help Steve and Blue with this by figuring out that their plants need water. We also attend to other needs, such as the various things needed to care for a baby when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper ask us to look after Paprika. Later, we skiddoo into a safari book and help some jungle animals to get their baths.
#3 - Mechanics!
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1999
Blue has a toy plane she enjoys flying, but when she tries to fly it, it falls, hits the ground and breaks. We help her to fix it by showing her that it just had a broken wing and she can tape it. We are enlisted as mechanics and help characters to solve their mechanical problems and questions. We show Shovel and Pail how ramps work. We have great fun with a tape recorder and later skidoo into a game board. There, we help several characters that are experiencing trasnportation difficulties.
#4 - Anatomy
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/2000
As we come in, Steve invites us to try out his stethoscope and listen to Blue's heartbeat. In this episode, we learn all about different parts of the body. We check out a computer program and learn about the mouth, the eyes and the ears. Steve shows off his muscles when helping Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. In the Blue Skiddoo segment, we experiment with a special type of x-ray machine.
#5 - Geography
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/10/2000
In this episode, viewers learn all about direction and following maps. To help Steve find Blue, we follow a number of maps. We help out Shovel and Pail in identifying a number of buildings that they could visit to do certain things. Later, we skidoo into a board game and use maps and transportation to reach a gingerbread house.
#6 - The Wrong Shirt
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/13/2000
When we come in, we find that there's something very different about Steve's clothing - he's wearing a button-down shirt that looks like his normal pants and striped pants that look like his normal shirt. Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper explain what opposites are and Steve seems to like the idea. We learn more about opposites when a guy named Bob skidoos out a picture frame into the Blue's Clues house to deliver something to Steve. His presence often causes things to turn opposite. He has a magic ability that can fix it, but it's up to us to first find the things that are opposite so that we can tell him to fix them. Later, we skiddoo into a book where we help out two sisters that like opposite things to make their favorite places.
#7 - Environments
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/13/2001
Today, the characters are all learning about different environments. As always, one great way to learn is to skiddoo and so we skiddoo into a globe and meet up with Mother Nature and help her to come up with the lyrics to a song about the grasslands, the tropical rainforest and the arctic tundra. Later, we learn about the favorite environments of some of the other characters and use our newfound knowledge to identify them.
#8 - The Anything Box
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/2001
When a mysterious box shows up in the backyard of the Blue's Clues house, Steve is disappointed to find that it's empty, but Blue shows him that by using imagination, the box can be anything one pretends it to be. We use this idea to have a lot of fun, pretending that the box is anything from a car to a rocketship. Shovel and Pail manage to get three different uses out of it. We even use it to make it to the top of a high tower in the Blue Skidoo segment.
#9 - Adventure
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2001
In this episode, we use our imaginations to go on a big adventure. We're in Queen Blue's kindgom and are trying to rescue King Horace, who has been captured by Periwinkle, the Kitten Castle Keeper. We have to think creatively to overcome his magic obstacles. Then, finding our path blocked by a lock, we skidoo into a storybook and must solve a series of riddles to obtain a magic key.
#10 - Superfriends
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2001
Steve and the Blue's Clues characters are all pretending to be superheroes. Steve is Stripe Man, Blue is Super Blue and there's also Clock Girl and Super Soap. Together, with us the viewer (The Incredibly Helpful Friend) we're The Thinking Squad. Together, we use our superpowers to solve a number of problems. We help Paprika find her missing Teddy Bear and help Mr. Salt at telling time. In the Blue Skidoo segment, we help a friend named Frank to find out just what his superpower is and help out two other friends in the process.
#11 - What's New, Blue?
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/2001
What's new? Blue and the Blue's Clues characters are trying out new things and so Blue and Steve decide to create ""Blue's News"" to document it. See Blue rollerskate, Pail try playing basketball, big news about Paprika, Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper and more. That's the news - now everyone knows.
#12 - Blue's New Place
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2001
With Mr. Salt and Mrs. Peppers' new baby coming, changes have been happening in the Blue's Clues house and in this episode, Blue creates an entirely new place for herself, while Paprika moves into a big kid room. We learn about the special places of some of the various characters and what they like to do in them. We help Paprika to select big-kid things that let her do the things she enjoys. We also check out Blue's special place after receiving an invitation.
#13 - Making Changes
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/2001
Now that Cinnamon has come to the Blue's Clues house, it's necessary to make some changes to keep him comfortable. That means that things such as loud games are out when Cinnamon is trying to sleep - but we learn that by just thinking a little, we can come up with changes that will let us still do the things that we want to do, but in a different way. Sometimes the changes aren't easy at first, but they help others and aren't really that much of a problem. In the spirit of change in helping out, we also try to find ways to help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper take care of Cinnamon.
#14 - Bugs!
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/2001
Steve and Blue are going on a bug-watching expedition and we're invited to come along. We help them to spot many neat bugs and once we've found them, we learn more about them and also theorize about why they do the things that they do. We also skidoo into a big bug book. There, we meet up with Antoinette, a worker ant on the first day at the job.
#15 - Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2002
Steve is all dressed-up in t-shirt and sport pants as we head out for Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza. It's a fun-filled event containing all sorts of different ballgames. We help out our friends with the games by acting as a coach and telling them how they can make the balls do the things they want. We also have fun with Steve's invisi-ball and later skidoo into a stadium where we assist Steve in making sense of an obstacle course filled with ball challenges.
#16 - ¡Un Día Con Plum!
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/2001
Periwinkle missed his friend from the city, Plum, for a long time, but now he's finally come over to visit. Plum is a small purple bird who knows how to speak both Spanish and English. Throughout the episode, we learn how to speak Spanish words and also help out our friends. We learn Spanish as we help Periwinkle and Plum to create a marioneta. We also skiddoo into a puppet book, where we find Pedro, who needs our help in finding things to wear, so we use both Spanish and logic to figure out the right things that he needs.
#17 - The Fairy Tale Ball
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/5/2004
When Blue and Joe receive an invitation to the fabulous Fairy Tale Ball, we skidoo right along with them into Fairy Tale Land. There, we meet up with and help many well-known fairy tale characters such as Cinderella and Jack. We get everyone on their way and then check out the ball. Later, in ""Blue's Room,"" we pretend that we're putting on our own Fairy Tale Ball and sing a number of songs.
#18 - Joe's Clues
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/2004
In this episode, Joe has something very special for us. He's created his version of Blue's Clues known as ""Joe's Clues,"" in which he leaves orange handprints on the clues and he wants us and Blue to play along. We have fun searching for Joe's Clues, solving riddles and turning many of the program's customs upside-down along the way. Later, in ""Blue's Room,"" we play Polka Dot's Puzzles with Polka Dots.
#19 - Body Language
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/19/2003
In this episode, we study body lanuage to learn about feelings. We practice showing feelings with our faces and also trying to identify others feelings based on their faces. A skiddoo segment shows us that we can tell a lot just from shadows. We help to make a play that's acted out entirely using body language.
#20 - Let's Write!
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/17/2003
Joe and Blue have been having fun writing labels, labeling all sorts of different things in the Blue's Clues house. We have fun with writing too, as Joe teaches us a trick where we can write a letter in the air using our finger. We find a character named Marky up in the attic and we help him to make labels for a couple of boxes. In the Blue Skidoo segment, Joe finds himself holding a very large paintbrush and a character named Palette shows up and asks us to help her write a word.
#21 - Up, Down, All Around!
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/2003
When Joe needs help finding Baby Bird, we learn about the importance of directions. From left and right to up and down and more, we learn all about directions in this episode. Directions come in handy when a felt friend needs our help in getting back to his felt frame. They can even help classic storybook characters, such as Little Bo Peep, when help her to find her sheep in a Blue Skidoo segment.
#22 - Dress Up Day
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/2003
Today, the characters are playing dress-up and we get to watch them, join in and have some fun pretending. The fun starts as Joe becomes Explorer Joe and later dresses up as a robot. We see some of our favorite characters dress up as a crossing guard, an astronaut and more. Later, in a Blue Skidoo segment, we help an ostrich to put on a play, finding the proper props and costumes to make the play work.
#23 - The Boat Float
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/9/2002
In this episode, we have fun with the characters making boats and learning more about them. We learn how boats should be constructed and things that will cause them to sink or float. We help all of the characters to make sure that their boats float. In a Blue Skidoo segment, we visit a beach filled with different types of boats. We help some of them to figure out why they're not moving, or going in circles. Then, we get to take an exciting ride on a speedboat.
#24 - I'm So Happy!
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/2/2002
In this episode, we talk about what makes us happy and also find out what makes some of the Blue's Clues characters happy. Periwinkle likes magic, of course and Shovel has a favorite animal he likes to do impressions of. Joe's happy just to see us because we're so helpful. Unfortunately, sometimes we aren't always happy, as we find out in the Blue Skidoo segment. There, we find several characters that are having problems and help them to solve their problems so that they're happy again.
#25 - Can You Help?
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/30/2002
Today, Joe needs our help. That's not unusual, but it happens to be the particular theme for this episode. We help out Joe, Blue and the other characters in a number of ways. For example, we help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper to make some blueberry pancakes for Blue. We also help out some friends in Storybook Forest to prepare for a porridge party.