Blue's Clues & You! JPL49650 Mail Time with Mailbox, Multi-Color

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Magenta - Another dog who resembles Blue with a bright magenta coat. She is Blue's friend from school and occasionally comes over to visit. She's pink. In addition to the main characters, the show included various newly introduced recurring characters and guest stars throughout its run. Some guests appeared as live-action companions of the host, while others voiced an animated cameo role. When a spin-off series titled Blue's Room premiered in 2004, a group of puppet characters was introduced as new friends of Blue. A reboot titled Blue's Clues & You! premiered in 2019, with Josh Dela Cruz as the new host. Shovel and Pail are part of the answer to Blue’s Clues along with Josh and Blue but Shovel was drawn in Blue's Treasure Hunt and in Rhyme Time, Steve drew a regular pail instead of Pail(character).

Wadler, Joyce (23 May 2002). "Public Lives; Searching for Clues in the Land of the Blue Dog". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 June 2021.Crawley, Alisha M.;Daniel R. Anderson; Angela Santomero; Alice Wilder; Marsha Williams; Marie K. Evans; Jennings Bryant (June 2002). "Do Children Learn How to Watch Television? The Impact of Extensive Experience With Blue's Clues on Preschool Children's Television Viewing Behavior". Journal of Communication 52 (2): 264–280. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02544.x This is the third episode in which " The So Long Song" is not sung, after " Blue's Night Before Christmas" and " Blue's Show and Tell Surprise". In Weight and Balance, Blue's Play, Occupations, Shape Searchers, and Animals in Our House?, Blue's barking is muted out. This is the fourth episode in which there are r a i n b o w-colored instead of blue cups. The first three being Happy Birthday Blue, Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure, and Mystery of the Missing Pies. This is the first episode of the reboot that Steve appears in where Sidetable doesn’t appear in her inanimate cameo appearance.

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 in the United States and resembles 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 is familiar to American children, but has a look unlike previous children's TV shows. Regional versions of the show, featuring native hosts, have been produced in other countries. Kevin Duala hosted the United Kingdom version and the show became part of pop culture in South Korea. [128] [129] In total, Blue's Clues was syndicated in 120 countries, and was translated into 15 languages. [39] In 2000, it became one of the first preschool shows to incorporate American Sign Language into its content, with between five and ten signs used consistently in each episode. [130] Blue's Clues won an award from the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD) for promoting deaf awareness in the media. [131] Cultural influence and impact [ edit ]Blue's Clues for Success: The 8 Secrets Behind a Phenomenal Business". Publishers Weekly. 17 May 2002 . Retrieved 3 June 2021. Lawrie Mifflin (August 9, 1996). "U.S. Mandates Educational TV for Children". The New York Times. p.16 . Retrieved March 14, 2010. Living room picture: Chalk drawing of an apple, then a pencil, then an envelope, then a book, then a bus Blue's Big Beat Band" • " Hide and Seek with Blue" • " Blue's Treasure Hunt" • " Welcome to Blue's Bistro" • " Blue's Big Baking Show" • " Blue's Night Before Christmas" • " Sleepy Singalong with Blue" • " Blue's Big Dance Party" • " Blue's Big Imagination" • " What I Like About Blue" • " Blue's Show and Tell Surprise" • " Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow" • " Spring is Here!" • " Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure" • " Blue's Beach Bonanza" • " Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise" • " Mystery of the Missing Pies" • " Blue Makes a Movie with You!"• " It's Your Birthday!" • " Blue's Big Costume Parade" Six episodes do not feature Mailtime: " Blue's Big Musical," Blue Takes You to School," " The Legend of the Blue Puppy," " Skidoo Adventure," " The Fairy Tale Ball," and " Blue's Dino Clues."

This is the ninth time where a star was seen. The others being Pretend Time, Blue's Collection, Meet Polka Dots!, Sleepy Singalong with Blue, Spring is Here!, and Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise when stars were drawn, Blue's ABCs when Steve and Blue read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Sleepy Singalong with Blue when Josh singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when Blue left three clues on a star, Josh’s guitar, and Josh himself, and Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise when there was a picture of a star. Cinnamon says "Whenever we have a problem, we solve it over waffles." referencing the plot for the Jonas Brothers recent song "Waffle House." listen to it here. https://youtu.be/TasKo5HHWb4 After the credits, Blue who's chasing her ball kneels down and barks. And then the book closes, leaving magic sparkles. The thinking games presented in each episode used what Anderson called "a layered approach" [86] that took the varying capabilities of the audience into account. Santomero said that they used scaffolding and that layering was inherent in the script and design of each game. They purposely presented the problem presented in increasing levels of difficulty, to prevent children from feeling frustrated and to master concepts, experience success, and feel empowered to attempt to solve more challenging concepts presented to them. The producers' goal was that all viewers understood the problem, even if they did not know how to solve it. As a result, the child was temporary frustrated by not knowing the answer because after giving them time to come up with it, child voice-overs provided the answers for them, so that they learned the correct answers, even if they were unable to come up with them. [86] [69] If the child was able to come up with the answers, however, they felt "part of a larger, knowing, child audience" [86] when their answers were confirmed by the voice-overs. [86] The child voice-overs also helped viewers maintain high levels of attention during critical educational portions of the episode and modelled the audience involvement encouraged by the program. [34] [69] The audience was told how they could help problem-solve by the host explaining how, by the child voice-overs modeling verbal participation, and by giving them enough time to respond. According to Johnson, the slow pace of the program was challenging for television directors used to the fast pace of television production and for parents, who praised the pace but expressed concerns that their children would find it boring. [30] In Steve Gets the Sniffles, Steve doesn't yell out the word "mail", he almost did but he was almost going to sneeze again so he just says it calmly.

Miss Marigold (voiced by Aisha Hinds in the original and Rachel Bloom in the reboot]] is the teacher of Blue's preschool class who appears in three episodes. Unlike most other humans on the show, she is not portrayed by a live-action actor but is animated. In the reboot, she is a pink, anthropomorphic hippopotamus with a flower on her head. Gladwell, Malcolm (2000). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Little, Brown, and Company. ISBN 0-316-31696-2 Mailtime usually happens after discussing the 2nd clue, and sometimes before the 2nd clue is found. Aly (played by Izzy Nagel) is Periwinkle's owner; she never appeared or was mentioned in the original series until her debut in "A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights" in the reboot series.

This is the sixth episode where a book was a clue. The others being What Time Is It for Blue?, Geography, Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue, and Something To Do Blue. This is the first episode where the off-screen kid contestants yell, "Notebook!" really loudly. It was used on most episodes until Signs. For Mailbox's birthday, there is a special celebration, and we are invited to help out. They help decorate the cake for the party by observing patterns. They also skidoo along with Steve and Blue into the present store. There, they find the perfect present for Mailbox, a stamp book, and then help Blue and Steve find it when it gets lost among a bunch of other presents. The pace of Blue's Clues was deliberate, and its material was presented clearly. [42] Similar to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, [87] this was done was in the use of pauses that were "long enough to give the youngest time to think, short enough for the oldest not to get bored". [39] The length of the pauses, which was estimated from formative research, gave children enough time to process the information and solve the problem. After pausing, child voice-overs provided the answers so that they were given to children who had not come up with the solution and helped encourage viewer participation. Researcher Alisha M. Crawley and her colleagues stated that although earlier programs sometimes invited overt audience participation, Blue's Clues was "unique in making overt involvement a systematic research-based design element". [69] Blue's Clues also differed from Sesame Street by not using cultural references or humor aimed at adults, as this could confuse preschoolers but, instead, made the show literal, which the producers felt would better hold the children's attention. [88] The structure of each episode was repetitive, designed to provide preschoolers with comfort and predictability. [84] Repetition of the same skills used in different contexts or games within and across episodes encouraged the mastery of thinking skills and the approach to content within an episode was consistent with learning theory that emphasized situated cognition and provided all viewers, no matter their age or abilities, with repeated opportunities to try to solve the problems presented. [34] [89]Living room picture: Big and small apples, then open and closed books, then up and down arrows, then full and empty cups, then closed and open books, then on and off lamps, then happy and sad faces Steve's and Joe's Grandmother - The grandmother of Steve and Joe, and the grandaunt of Josh. She wears a green striped shirt like Steve. In Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, it's the only episode the theme song got cut off, and this was the reason. It was Mailtime, but it's not. Kirkorian, Heather L.; Ellen A. Wartella; Daniel R. Anderson. (Spring 2008). "Media and Young Children's Learning". The Future of Children 18 (1): 39–61 doi:10.1353/foc.0.0002 Instead, the characters sing " The Birthday Song", the viewers blow out the candle and make a wish, and the episode ends with Blue pulling the piñata.