Blue's Clues

Blue's Clues is a daytime children's show which airs on Nickelodeon. It features live action superimposed upon paper-cutout animation similar to that of South Park. The series follows a blue dog, named Blue, through her everyday life, providing small children with educational entertainment.

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Nickelodeon - Animation - South Park

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From 1996 to 2002, Blue's owner was Steve, a non-animated character played by Steve Burns. When Burns chose to leave the show, the character Steve went off to college and his younger brother Joe (played by Donovan Patton) moved in to take care of Blue.

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1996 - 2002 - Steve Burns - Donovan Patton

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The game of Blue's Clues begins near the beginning of the episode, when the host asks Blue some sort of question. Blue responds by jumping at the screen and marking it with a blue pawprint. The host, with the help of the audience (who are constantly spoken to and asked questions by the host), then searches the house for Blue's three clues. Along the way, the host speaks with many other residents of the house, which are usually characters based on inanimate objects such as a side-table drawer, a shaker of salt, and a mailbox. After all three have been found, the host sits in his "thinking chair" and puts the three clues together to form a central image. This image is the answer to the host's original question, which goes along the lines of "What does Blue want to do today?"

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Side-table - Shaker of salt - Mailbox

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In a 2004 Blue's Clues episode, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Blue talks as a puppet in a segment called Blue's Room.

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Also in 2004, Pat Robertson urged a boycott of the show citing satanic messages embedded in episodes of the program.

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Blue's Clues was extensively analyzed by Malcolm Gladwell in his bestselling book, The Tipping Point. According to Gladwell, Blue's Clues has been carefully designed so that its educational messages will 'stick' in a child's mind.

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Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point

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A UK version of Blue's Clues also exists, with Kevin Duala as the host.

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UK - Kevin Duala

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