Does the dog die?
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Blue's Clues
TV Show • 1996 • Drama
ReportBlue's Clues is an American children's television show that premiered on September 8, 1996 on the cable television network Nickelodeon, and ran for ten years, until August 6, 2006. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn. It was hosted originally by Steve Burns, who left in 2002 to pursue a music career, and later by Donovan Patton. Burns was a crucial reason for the show's success, and rumors that surrounded his departure were an indication of the show's emergence as a cultural phenomenon. Blue's Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was crucial to Nickelodeon's growth. It has been called "one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, and ground-breaking preschool television series of all time". A spin-off called Blue's Room premiered in 2004.
The show's producers and creators presented material in narrative format instead of the more traditional magazine format, used repetition to reinforce its curriculum, and structured every episode the same way. They used research about child development and young children's viewing habits that had been conducted in the thirty years since the debut of Sesame Street in the U.S. They revolutionized the genre by inviting their viewers' involvement. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show, and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process. Blue's Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers, and resembled a storybook in its use of primary colors and its simple construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colors and textures. Its home-based setting was familiar to American children, but had a look unlike other children's TV shows. A live production of Blue's Clues, which used many of the production innovations developed by the show's creators, toured the U.S. starting in 1999. As of 2002, over 2 million people had attended over 1,000 performances.
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Show for preschoolers, all doggos are safe
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You could make an argument for Blue Skidoos being an "unstable reality" if you really *really* wanted to, but it's intentional and not made to be distressing at all
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The whole making is just Steve (and later Joe) running around in front of a green screen for 22 minutes per episode.
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please ignore the trolls on this page. this is a kids show and is very child-friendly.
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There are many times where Blue (and/or other animal characters like Magenta and Periwinkle) are sad, but it doesn't last any longer than an episode.
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There are occasional bugs. They do not harm anyone. They are often cute ones like ladybugs, butterflies, and fireflies.
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Ignore the trolls. This is a literal preschool show.
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The closest thing I can think of is the episode where Green Puppy keeps knocking down Blue’s block tower, but the blocks themselves are fine. The solution is that Blue gives Green Puppy a few blocks to set up and knock down.
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The closest thing to a shower scene would be Slippery Soap (a sentient bar of soap) playing in the bathtub, but nobody is nude.
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The episode where Mrs. Pepper gives birth to Cinnamon. (I believe Paprika was a home birth.) In both cases the audience doesn’t see the births, just seeing the newborn spice jars afterwards. Also the hospital scene focuses mostly on the nursery, and some observation games take place (which baby is wearing a certain hat for example).
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Alluded to when Paprika (S1E20) and Cinnamon (S4E6) are born, but they're offscreen. Also they're table shakers it's honestly not clear how they're born in the first place as the target audience is too young to know where babies come from
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Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper have two children over the course of the series (Paprika and Cinnamon plus two more in the reboot series) that are born and grow up semi in real-time. We also at one point see a real human baby in the form of Joe in a flashback in the special Blue’s First Holiday
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Whenever Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper have a baby, it's always a successful delivery.
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Not only is there no antisemitism but Jews are treated very well on the show, just as kindly as anyone else. Hanukkah is celebrated on the show alongside Christmas and Kwanza in the holiday episode. The reboot also does a good job of showing that any religious group are okay.
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I can't recall if this happens in the OG or just the reboot, but Hanukkah is celebrated by Periwinkle in the latter, confirming him to be Jewish.
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