Something New at Blue's School

**Something New at Blue's School** is the sixteenth episode of season three and the fifty-sixth episode overall in the reboot series *Blue's Clues & You!*.

## Summary

Join Josh and Blue at school for a day of trying new things! Josh’s excited to try being Teacher for the Day, but Blue seems nervous to try something. As we play games and sing songs at school, we learn all about why it’s so awesome to try new things!

## Characters

* Blue
* Josh
* Sidetable Drawer
* Mailbox
* Snail
* Periwinkle
* Purple Kangaroo
* Miss Marigold
* School Bus (Second Appearance)
* Pearl (First Appearance)
* Rainbow Puppy
* Chicks

## Locations

* Blue’s House
* Blue’s School
* Blue’s School Playground

## Elements

* **Question**: What is Blue nervous about?
* **Clues**:
	1. Steps
	2. The Color Orange
	3. A Spiral
* **Answer to Blue’s Clues**: The New Swirly Slide
* **Living room picture**: Blue's School
* **Skidoo Location**: School Yard on a Farm
* **Email or Letter?**: Letter

## Trivia

* This is the sixteenth episode in the franchise where an episode was based off of two episodes. The others being What Is Blue Afraid Of?, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Blue's Big Costume Party, Blue's Big Mystery, Blue's Play, Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza, Blue Takes You to School, The Ghost of the Living Room, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise, Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular, Mailtime Mystery, Magenta's Case of the Giggles, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood, Blue's Storytime with Camila, and Tickety's Big Musical Morning.
* Periwinkle went to school again like he did in Blue's School and Blue Takes You to School.
* Josh got mail and did the Thinking Time in the Thinking Bean Bag at school again like he did in Blue's Show and Tell Surprise.
* In Blue's Show and Tell Surprise, Josh was a Super Helper. This time he is being a teacher like Miss Marigold is and like Blue did in Blue's School.
* This is the twenty-third episode in the franchise where someone other than the hosts talks to The Viewer. The others being Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Blue's Big Musical, Magenta Gets Glasses, The Baby's Here!, Joe's Surprise Party, Blue Takes You to School, I Did That!, Playdates, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Joe's Clues, Blue's Wishes, Soccer Practice, The Fairy Tale Ball, Meet Blue's Baby Brother, Hide and Seek with Blue, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Blue's Big Baking Show, Blue's Show and Tell Surprise, Blue Makes a Movie with You!, A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure and Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon.
* This is Rainbow Puppy’s sixth appearance. The others being Our New Neighbor, Mailtime Mystery, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
* Blue is trying something again like she did in The Trying Game when Blue wanted to try learn how to ride a bicycle when Blue left three clues on a horn, a basket, and a wheel. Also in The Trying Game, others were trying too like when Steve was trying to learn how to juggle, Tickety Tock was trying to learn how to practice telling time for lunchtime and bedtime, Mailbox was trying to learn how to whistle, Baby Bear was pretending to be an artist, a builder, and a writer and when Steve went to a creak and saw Spider, who was trying to spin webs like her dad, Caterpillar, who was trying to learn how to become a butterfly like his grandmother, and Tadpole, who was trying to turn into a frog like her mom.
* Periwinkle had broccoli and a mushroom like Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper did in both Magenta Comes Over and Playdate with Magenta when they used them for the seat and driver to make race cars.
* This is another new thing happening like in What's New, Blue? when Blue had something new to tell Steve, which was Paprika moved from her crib to a bed when Blue left three clues on a crib, Paprika herself, and a bed, Blue's New Place when Blue had her new place and wanted to make a book when Blue left three clues on paper, a pencil, and yarn, A Brand New Game when Joe and Blue played a brand new game itself at the park when Blue left three clues on friends, a ball, and a slide, and Our New Neighbor when Periwinkle arrived and Blue wanted to throw him a welcome party when Blue left three clues on music, friends, and decorations.
* This is the sixth time where steps were seen. The others being The Lost Episode! when Felix went upstairs to return his book to the library and retrieve his backpack, Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue when Steve, Josh, Blue, and Boo went up the stairs with 11 steps to find Oogla Boogla, Let's Write! when Joe went upstairs to help Marky, and Building with Blue when Josh helped Mr. Salt fix the staircase, so he and Mrs. Pepper can reach the food they need for lunch.
* This is the sixth time where celery and carrots were seen. The others being A Snowy Day, Steve Gets the Sniffles, Getting Healthy with Blue and Blue's First Holiday when celery and carrots were drawn, and What's Inside? when Steve and Blue helped Boris Bunny find carrots.
* This is the third time where corn was seen. The first two being Thankful and Thankful with Blue when Steve and Josh helped the Felt Friends with their feast and they cut corn in half.
* Rainbow Puppy is playing drums like Blue and Periwinkle did in What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Blue's Big Band and Blue's Big Beat Band.
* Josh and Blue went to the farm again like they, Steve and Joe did in Snack Time, Meet Josh!, Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue, The Grow Show, Growing with Blue, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Blue's Play, The Snack Chart, Bluestock (Original/Remake), Blue's Farm Playdate, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Mystery of the Missing Pies and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
	+ This is the ninth episode of the franchise with a skidoo to the farm. The first eight being Snack Time, Meet Josh!, Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Mystery of the Missing Pies, and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
		- This is also the first time where the host of any series skidooed to the farm from Blue's School because in Snack Time, Meet Josh!, Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue, and What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Steve and Josh skidooed to the farm from the Living Room, in Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Josh skidooed to the farm from the Kitchen, in Mystery of the Missing Pies, Josh simply made it to the farm after he climbed a ladder from one of Detective Gopher's tunnels that led to the farm and emerged from a haystack, and in Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Josh skidooed to the farm from the Post Office.
		- This is also the first time where the host of any series skidooed from the farm to Blue's School because in Snack Time, Meet Josh!, Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, and Mystery of the Missing Pies, Steve and Josh skidooed from the farm to the Living Room, and in Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Josh skidooed from the farm to the ocean.
* This marks the sixth episode in the franchise where orange was drawn as a clue. The first five being Prehistoric Blue, Bugs!, Blue's First Holiday, Meet Blue's Baby Brother, and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
	+ This is also the first time where orange was a clue separately because in Prehistoric Blue, Bugs!, Meet Blue's Baby Brother, and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, it was part of a group of colors.
* This is also the second time Josh uses an orange crayon to draw a clue with Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure being the first one, and like the color yellow in Blue's Show and Tell Surprise, the clue is presented by a bottle of paint.
* This marks the forty-second episode in the franchise where any color was a clue. The others being Blue's Birthday, Happy Birthday Blue, Blue's Sad Day, Sad Day with Blue, Animal Behavior!, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Signs, Pool Party, Draw Along with Blue, Nature, Laugh with Blue, Prehistoric Blue, Blue's Collection, Magenta Gets Glasses, Getting Glasses with Magenta, Imagine Nation, What's New, Blue?, Bugs!, Let's Plant, Blue's Book Nook, The Boat Float, Colors Everywhere!, Colors Everywhere with Blue, The Alphabet Train, Dress Up Day, Our Neighborhood Festival, Body Language, Look Carefully..., I Did That!, Blue's First Holiday, Meet Blue's Baby Brother, Hide and Seek with Blue, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Blue's Big Baking Show, Blue's Show and Tell Surprise, It's Your Birthday!, Mystery of the Missing Pies, Building with Blue, Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular, Mailtime Mystery, and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
* This is School Bus’ second appearance with the first time being Blue's Show and Tell Surprise.
* This is the second episode of the franchise where a spiral was a clue. The first episode being Joe Gets a Clue.
	+ Coincidentally, this is also the second time where a spiral was the third clue with Joe Gets a Clue being the first.
* This is the first time a slide was the answer to Blue’s Clues because in both A Brand New Game and Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure, a slide was the third and final clue to be drawn.
* This episode marks the debut of a new character, Pearl, a blind bunny who is one of Blue's classmates.
* Hopscotch is seen again like in What Game Does Blue Want to Learn? when hopscotch was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on numbers, chalk, and a shape, Magenta Gets Glasses and Getting Glasses with Magenta when Blue and Magenta played hopscotch with and without Orange Kitten, and Tickety's Big Musical Morning when hopscotch was drawn.
* This is the third time where soccer was seen. The first two being Soccer Practice and Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular.
* The scene where Josh is trying to figure out which vegetable each classmate is describing and asking the Viewer which is the right vegetable is similar to Welcome to Blue's Bistro when Josh was trying to figure out which vegetable Farmer Goat was describing and asked the Viewer which vegetable was the right vegetable.
* The scene at the farm where Josh and Blue were helping the chicks decide on something to do when they were nervous on their first day of school is similar to Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue when Steve and Blue helped Orange Kitten, Blue Kitten, who was omitted from the remake, and Purple Kangaroo decide on what they should do when they felt sad and disappointed and Shy when Steve and Blue helped Duck, Orange Kitten, and Green Kangaroo decide on something to do when they were shy and nervous on their first day of school.
* The chick with glasses took the ball away like how Green Puppy and Magenta did to Purple Kangaroo when they took the book away from them in Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue and in Soccer Practice when Periwinkle took the soccer ball away from the team.
* The Chicks were nervous about their first day of was like in Bubble Guppies from Get Ready For School when Oona’s friend Avi was nervous on his first day of school and learned that school is fun to go to and the teacher is gonna take care of him.
* Josh is helping chicks again like how he and Steve did in Snack Time and Meet Josh! when they helped Chicks find their friends that match, Blue's Favorite Song and Song Time with Blue when Steve and Josh helped Chicks sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day? when Steve helped a chick find her partner, who was also a chick, and What's New, Blue? when Steve and Blue saw a news article about a younger chick hatching.
* This is the fifth episode of the franchise where a clue was found at Blue's School. The first four being Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue, Blue Takes You to School, and Blue's Show and Tell Surprise.
* This is the seventh episode of the franchise where a clue was found at the farm. The first six being Snack Time, Meet Josh!, Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, and Mystery of the Missing Pies.
* One of Snail's appearances in this episode is in the form of a classroom painting hung upon the wall that was seen during the Mailtime segment.