Shovel

**Shovel** is a main character on *Blue's Clues* and *Blue's Clues & You!*.

## Description

Shovel is the brother of Pail and is often found outside playing in the sandbox. Shovel likes to dig in the dirt and sand. He is often blamed by Pail for actions he did not do. He is rarely shown without Pail and he really cares about his sister. Shovel is sometimes forgetful and often doesn't take what others say very seriously. He is normally shown on the right side of the Blue's Clues house with Pail during the intro. He gets jealous whenever Pail hangs out with someone other than him, as he is used to playing with Pail alone. Shovel is quite gullible and wishes to become a vet, which he calls an animal doctor, along with Pail when he grows up. He has never been picked up and used to dig by another character. Shovel and Pail are best friends.

## Looks

Shovel is mostly yellow with a squarish blade for his head, a long shaft for his body, and a semicircular handle grip. His eyes are black and he has a red mouth. His color scheme is the opposite of Pail, who is red with a yellow mouth. In the original series, Shovel, Pail, and Slippery were the only main characters with permanent eyebrows.

## Episode Appears

1. Blue's Story Time
2. What Does Blue Need? (Beginning, Not appeared before until Playing Blue's Clues, & until the so long song)
3. Blue Goes to the Beach (Not appeared until after playing Blue's Clues)
4. Pretend Time
5. Blue Wants to Play a Game
6. The Grow Show
7. What Is Blue Afraid Of?
8. Magenta Comes Over
9. Blue's News
10. Steve Gets the Sniffles
11. What Does Blue Want to Build?
12. What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?
13. Math!
14. Blue's Birthday
15. The Lost Episode!
16. What Game Does Blue Want to Learn?
17. Blue Is Frustrated (cameo)
18. Mechanics!
19. Art Appreciation
20. What's That Sound?
21. Animal Behavior!
22. Blue's Big Pajama Party
23. Thankful
24. Blue's Big Holiday (Not appeared until after Playing Blue's Clues)
25. Pool Party (Not appeared until after Playing Blue's Clues)
26. Signs
27. Geography
28. Occupations
29. Blue's Big Mystery
30. What's So Funny?
31. Blue's Big Musical
32. Inventions
33. Blue's Play (Not appeared until after Playing Blue's Clues)
34. Prehistoric Blue
35. Blue's Collection
36. Café Blue (Customer)
37. Shy
38. Environments
39. Adventure (Oar Shovel)
40. The Anything Box
41. Superfriends (cameo)
42. What's New, Blue?
43. Bugs!
44. ¡Un Día Con Plum!
45. Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza
46. Let's Boogie
47. Let's Plant
48. Joe's First Day (Not appeared until after Playing Blue's Clues)
49. Steve Goes to College
50. Colors Everywhere!
51. The Snack Chart
52. 100th Episode Celebration
53. Playing Store
54. Joe's Surprise Party
55. Bedtime Business
56. I'm So Happy!
57. The Boat Float
58. Blue Goes to the Doctor
59. Dress Up Day
60. Story Wall
61. The Alphabet Train (Not appeared until after Playing Blue's Clues)
62. Our Neighborhood Festival
63. Look Carefully...
64. I Did That!
65. The Legend of the Blue Puppy (Drawing Cameo)
66. Love Day
67. Bluestock
68. Behind the Clues: 10 Years with Blue
69. Meet Blue's Baby Brother

## Game appears

1. Blue's Birthday Adventure
2. Blue's Treasure Hunt: A Learning Adventure
3. Blue's ABC Time Activities
4. Blue's 123 Time Activities
5. Blue's Art Time Activities (cameo sticker)
6. Blue's Reading Time Activities
7. Blue's Clues: Kindergarten
8. Blue's Big Musical (video game)
9. Blue's Clues Collection Day

## Appearances

Counting the opening and credit sequences, Shovel has appeared in nearly every episode of *Blue's Clues*. His first appearance was in "Snack Time". His last appearance on *Blue's Clues* was "Bluestock". He makes an additional appearance in the *Blue's Room* episode "Meet Blue's Baby Brother" and in the "Behind the Clues" special. In "The Legend of the Blue Puppy", he is only seen as a drawing in the opening sequence.

## Trivia

* Shovel was once scared of dinosaurs, as seen in "Prehistoric Blue." He has grown to like them a lot, as seen in the episode "I'm So Happy" and is possibly implied that Roary is his favorite toy (outside of Blue's Room) and Pail has a purple toy Stegosaurus named Spiky, who actually never appeared in Blue's Room.
* Shovel was previously shy around Sifter, but befriended him in "Shy".
* Shovel wasn't speaking in ¡Un Día Con Plum! and The Alphabet Train.
* In the promo of the *Blue's Clues & You!* episode "Blue's Treasure Hunt", Shovel was seen as a clue for the first time in the franchise.
* His season 6 voice actor, Thomas Sharkey, also did the voice of Baby Jaguar from *Dora The Explorer* & *Go Diego Go* and the singing voice of Austin from *The Backyardigans.*
* Leo Orgil also did the voice of Mo from Nick Jr's *Abby Hatcher,* Tito Mouse from the 2020 PBS Kids show *Elinor Wonders Why* and Mechanic Milo from *Mighty Express.*