What Does Blue Need?

"What Does Blue Need?"

Episode number
Season 1, Episode 5 (#105)

Airdate
October 6, 1997

Question in the episode
What does Blue need to do?

Clues
BubblesA towelSlippery Soap

Answer to Blue's Clues
Bath time

Chronology

Previous episode
"Blue's Story Time"

Next episode
"Blue's Favorite Song"

**What Does Blue Need?** is the 5th episode of *Blue's Clues* from Season 1.

Summary
"As we discover what Blue needs, we take the time to help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper find fruits by describing where they are to each other, sort the laundry by putting clothes in the right places, and help a starfish through a maze to find the ocean."

Elements* **Question:** What does Blue need to do?
* **Clues:**
	+ 1. Bubbles
	+ 2. A Towel
	+ 3. Soap
* **Answer to Blue's Clues:** Bath time
* **Wrong Answer:** A bubble sandwich (putting the bubbles in between the soap and towel)
* **Living room picture:** A rubber duck
* **Skidoo location:** A beach (Bathroom picture)

Recap
Needs are the order of the day. After taking care of some gardening needs, we help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper, who need to know which fruits to wash for their fruit salad. Later, we help out with Steve's need to have his clothes clean and in order when Blue gets into them and they get messed up and she needs a bath. Then we skidoo into a picture of a beach where we help Starfish go through a maze to get to the ocean to get cleaned off.

Characters

* Steve
* Mailbox
* Sidetable Drawer
* Mr. Salt
* Mrs. Pepper
* Shovel
* Pail
* Tickety Tock (opening sequence only)
* Slippery Soap (debut)
* Snail
* Starfish (debut)
* Washer
* Ironing Board
* Dresser
* Orange
* Watermelon
* Kiwi
* Strawberries

Gallery
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Trivia* ﻿This is the first appearance of Starfish. She also appears in later episode Blue Goes to the Beach.
* ﻿In this episode, the show recorded more Notebook voiceovers.
* This is the first time a character is one of the three clues. In this episode, Slippery is a clue, making his debut.
* This is the first official episode to feature Slippery and the bathroom of the house.
* This is the second time where a question is asked as the name of the episode.
* This is the only episode where Blue and Steve skidoo into a picture in the bathroom.
* Blue finished up her bath and dried off pretty quickly to go appear with Steve during the "So Long Song" and wave goodbye at the window.
* This is the first episode where the intro starts late.
* Basically, this was the only time Steve and Blue Skidoo into a different picture frame. Usually, They skidoo in the yellow picture frame in the living room by the Thinking Chair.
* The Strawberries were gloating when they said, "We have the most seeds! We have the most seeds!"
* Washer would make another brief appearance later in the season (in Magenta Comes Over), but had never spoken.
* When Steve pops back up at the end of the Blue's Clues theme song, his hair from the later episode Adventures in Art is used.
* The Blue's Clues theme song also uses the same footage in Blue's Favorite Song.
* The Mailtime Music sounds starting out like I Did That!, Bedtime Business, The Grow Show!, Love Day and Blue's First Holiday.
* Steve draws Slippery as a plain bar of soap.
* This episode mainly features a Noggin train logo.

Running Gag​s* Steve got splashed with water throughout the episode.
	+ He didn't want to get splashed.