Building with Blue

**Building with Blue** is the sixth episode of season three and the forty-sixth episode overall in the reboot series *Blue's Clues & You!*. It is a new version of "What Does Blue Want to Build?.

## Summary

Blue and Magenta are building something special, and viewers need to play Blue and Magenta's Clues to figure it out; while looking for clues, they fix and build things with their handy-dandy tools.

## Characters

* Blue
* Josh
* Sidetable Drawer
* Mailbox
* Magenta
* Snail
* Mr. Salt
* Mrs. Pepper
* Hannah Hammer

## Elements

* **Question**: What does Blue and Magenta want to build in the yard?
* **Clues**:
	1. A Door
	2. A Window
	3. A Tree
* **Answer to Blue and Magenta’s Clues**: A treehouse
* **Wrong answer**: A door with a window in it so we can look outside to see a tree
* **Skidoo Location**: Blueprint World
* **Living room picture:** Blueprint
* **Email or Letter?**: Email

## Trivia

* Strangely, this episode has been released to the Nick Jr. app, but has not yet been released to the website.
* This is the second episode to feature a game of Blue and Magenta's Clues. The first one was Getting Glasses with Magenta.
* In What Does Blue Want to Build?, Steve and Blue built a tent when Blue left three clues on a flashlight, a sheet, and a table, and in Contraptions!, Joe and Blue built a bird feeder when Blue left three clues on a cup, seeds, and a bird, but instead, Josh and Blue built a treehouse.
* This is the fourth show where a treehouse is seen. The others being Dora the Explorer from To the Treehouse, The Simpsons, and Arthur.
* This is another show that involves building and construction. The others being Thomas and Friends with the Construction Crew and Miss Jenny, Bob the Builder, Blaze and the Monster Machines from Construction Crew to the Rescue and the Construction Contest, Paw Patrol with Rubble, Bubble Guppies with Build me a Building and Construction Psyched, Scooby-Doo with High Raise Hair Raiser, Elmo’s World with Building Things, and Team Umizoomi with Buster the Lost Dog.
* Blue is wearing the construction worker costume like she did in Blue's Big Costume Parade.
* In What Does Blue Want to Build?, Steve had a hammer, screwdriver, wrench, tape, a paper towel roll, and pliers. In today’s episode, Josh had a hammer, wrench, and level.
* This is the ninth time in the franchise where the host skidooes into a random object and comes out of the Yellow Frame. The first eight being Steve Gets the Sniffles and Getting Healthy with Blue in which Steve and Josh skidooed into a story book with Jill but came out of the Yellow Frame, Blue's Big Beat Band in which Josh skidooed into a song book but came out of the Yellow Frame, Welcome to Blue's Bistro in which Josh skidooed into a farm picture on the refrigerator but came out of the Yellow Frame, Blue's Night Before Christmas in which Josh skidooed into a snow globe but came out of the Yellow Frame, Spring is Here! in which Josh skidooed into a butterfly book but came out of the Yellow Frame, Mystery of the Missing Pies in which Josh skidooed into a Detective Gopher book but came out of the Yellow Frame, and Our New Neighbor in which Josh skidooed into a picture of Periwinkle's old neighborhood but came out of the Yellow Frame. In this episode, Josh skidooes into a blueprint but comes out of the Yellow Frame.
* In What Does Blue Want to Build?, when Steve went to get his notebook, Sidetable Drawer wasn’t crooked. Instead he got his notebook and forgot his crayon.
* This is the fifteenth time where blocks were seen. The others being The Trying Game when Steve and Blue saw Baby Bear building with blocks, Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue when Blue was sad because Green Puppy/Magenta kept knocking Blue’s blocks down and when Blue left three clues on a tower of blocks, a green puppy/Magenta, and a fallen down tower of blocks, What Did Blue See? when Steve looked through a kaleidoscope and saw blocks, Blue Is Frustrated when Steve and Blue skidooed to help Rabbit with blocks to put the same number of blocks on each side of a teeter-totter and a few times it was unbalanced and Rabbit and Blue had been frustrated but stopped, breathed, and think, Mechanics! when Shovel and Pail had a race and used blocks for their ramps. Shovel won, then Pail won, and then a tie, Weight and Balance when Steve and Blue weighed sets of blocks from the red shelf and gave the lightest set of blocks to a woodpecker, Blocks when Blue and Green Puppy wanted to build a bridge and left three clues on a triangular block, another triangular block, and an arch block, Joe Gets a Clue when Steve and The Viewer first taught Joe how to play Blue’s Clues and when Joe saw a block, which was blue, but not a clue, Playing Store when Joe and Blue helped Ms. Giraffe find a bed that was 6 blocks tall as Ms. Giraffe, Mr. Elephant find a door that was 5 blocks tall and 4 blocks wide as Mr. Elephant and the bed on the right and the door in the middle were the ones for Ms. Giraffe and Mr. Elephant, Blue Takes You to School when everyone said their names and picked a different colored block, I Did That! when Shovel had built a block tower until Tickety Tock accidentally knocked it over with her car, and Blue's First Holiday when young Tickety Tock got her first blocks and she counted, "One. Two,", and What I Like About Blue when there was a picture of blocks.
* This is the third time where someone or something was balanced. The first two being Blue Is Frustrated when Steve and Blue skidooed to help Rabbit with blocks to put the same number of blocks on each side of a teeter-totter and a few times it was unbalanced and Rabbit and Blue had been frustrated but stopped, breathed, and think, and Weight and Balance when Steve and Blue had been weighing and balancing things.
* This is the fourth episode in the franchise where a door was a clue. The first three being Adventures in Art, Signs, and I'm So Happy!.
	+ This is also the second episode in the franchise where a door was the first clue with Adventures in Art being the first. However, in Signs and I'm So Happy!, it was the second clue.
	+ In Signs, Steve drew a door with an arrow.
	+ In Adventures in Art, Steve drew the doorknob on the left and in both Signs and I'm So Happy! when Steve drew a door with an arrow and Joe drew a door, they made the doorknobs on the right.
	+ The back door is a clue and it’s the same that Steve and Joe drew from both Adventures in Art and I'm So Happy!.
* The area of the kitchen was seen again like in Blue's New Place when Steve saw that Paprika was a big kid and he helped Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper get rid of the little kid stuff and replaced them with big kid stuff and afterwards, Steve, Mr. Salt, and Mrs. Pepper sang You're A Big Kid Now, and found the second clue on a pencil and in Rhyme Time when Steve helped Mr. Salt do a rhyming lullaby to help Paprika and Cinnamon go to sleep and then found the second clue on a sail.
* The sides of the step-stool are yellow with orange swirls just the walls in the kitchen.
* This is the second time where someone uses a stool. The first time being Blue Is Frustrated when Blue was frustrated because she couldn’t reach her toothbrush and left three clues on a sink, water, and a toothbrush, and used a stool at the end of the episode to reach her toothbrush.
* This is the twenty-fifth time where there were rhymes. The others being Blue Wants to Play a Game, Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme, Blue's News, Big News with Blue, What Does Blue Want to Build?, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Blue's Big Costume Party, Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Blue's Big Pajama Party, Pajama Party with Blue, Adventure, Rhyme Time, Bedtime Business, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Joe's Clues, Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Night Before Christmas, What I Like About Blue, It's Your Birthday!, The Ghost of the Living Room, and Blue's Snowy Day Surprise.
* This marks the third episode in the franchise where the colors red and purple were seen together. The first two being Laugh with Blue and Colors Everywhere with Blue.
* This is the third time where paint was seen. The others being Adventures in Art when at the beginning of the episode, Steve and Blue painted pictures and used paint to paint Blue’s wagon and Blue's School when Steve and the others had art time.
* This marks the thirty-eighth episode in the franchise where colors were seen. The others being Blue's Birthday and Happy Birthday Blue, Blue's Sad Day and Sad Day with Blue, Animal Behavior!, Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Pool Party, Signs, Draw Along with Blue, Nature, Prehistoric Blue, Blue's Collection, Magenta Gets Glasses and Getting Glasses with Magenta, Imagine Nation, What's New, Blue?, Bugs!, Let's Plant, Blue's Book Nook, The Boat Float, Colors Everywhere! and 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, Laugh with Blue, Hide and Seek with Blue, Blue's Big Baking Show, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, Blue's Show and Tell Surprise, Mystery of the Missing Pies, and It's Your Birthday!.
* This is the third time where the colors of a rainbow were seen. The first two being Art Appreciation when the paw print turned itself into a rainbow and Steve blew it away and Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow when Josh and Blue befriended Rainbow and sang Here Comes a Rainbow.
* This is the fourth time in the franchise where a window was a clue. The first three being Adventures in Art, Magenta Gets Glasses, and Getting Glasses with Magenta.
	+ Coincidentally, this is also the fourth episode in the franchise where a window was the second clue with Adventures in Art, Magenta Gets Glasses, and Getting Glasses with Magenta being the first three.
* This is the second episode where both a door and a window were a clue in the same episode. The first was Adventures in Art, but a roof was the third clue instead of a tree.
* This is the third episode where dirt was seen. The first two being The Grow Show and Growing with Blue.
* This is the third episode where a roof was seen. The first two being Adventures in Art and Patience.
* This is the third episode where a bulldozer was seen. The first two being Adventure when Periwinkle imagined a small rock was big and Steve pretended to be a bulldozer to push the rock and Blocks when Blue and Green Puppy drove block bulldozers.
* Finding which vehicles to build a house was similar to what happened in Contraptions! when Joe and Blue helped a robot figure out which things to use to make contraptions work and showed us the other two things that would not make the contraptions work.
* This marks the fourth episode in the franchise where a tree was a clue. The others being The Lost Episode!, What Did Blue See?, and Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure.
	+ This is also the second episode in the franchise where a tree was the third clue with The Lost Episode! being the first. However, in What Did Blue See? and Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure, it was the second clue.
* This is the third time where blueprints were a skidoo location. The other two being Inventions and Contraptions!.
* This is the fourth episode where blueprints were seen. The others being Occupations when Steve and Door called an architect, who drew Door’s house on a blueprint, and then a builder, who read the blueprint and built Door’s house, Inventions when Steve and Blue skidooed into a workshop and helped these inventors out with their blueprints and built a bicycle, a train, and a car, and Contraptions! when Joe and Blue helped a robot named Gilda build different contraptions.
* This is the third time where someone was a construction worker. The first two being Occupations when Steve helped Door to find the right people to build his house, and Blue's Big Costume Parade when Blue wanted to be a construction worker and left three clues on a vest, a hard hat, and a hammer.
* Josh had a hammer again like Blue did in Blue's Big Costume Parade when a hammer was the third clue.
* This marks the seventh episode in the franchise where someone builds something. The others being What Does Blue Want to Build?, Occupations, Inventions, Blocks, Patience, and Contraptions!.
* This marks the sixteenth episode in the franchise where a house (any type of house) or any type of building was a clue or being the answer to Blue’s Clues or being the wrong answer. The others being Blue's Favorite Song and Song Time with Blue when a barn was drawn, Adventures in Art when a house was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a door, a window , and a roof and when Steve thought it was a car, What Does Blue Want to Build? when a tent was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a flashlight, a sheet, and a table and when Steve thought Blue wanted to put the flashlight in the sheet and do a little flashlight dance on the table, Pool Party when Blue's School was drawn, Geography when a building was a clue and a library was the answer to Blue’s Clues and when Blue left three clues on a building, a shelf, and a book, Magenta Gets Glasses, Morning Music, and Getting Glasses with Magenta when Magenta’s House was drawn, Something To Do Blue when a school was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on books, a lunchbox, and a chalkboard, Patience when a bird house was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on pieces of wood, a roof, and a bird, Shape Searchers when a grocery store was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a cash register, a cart, and food, A Surprise Guest when a school was drawn, Magenta's Messages when the Blue's Clues House was drawn, and Love Day when a castle was drawn.
* This is the sixth episode of the series, or the third in this season, that does not end with "The So Long Song", after "Blue's Night Before Christmas", "Blue's Show and Tell Surprise", "It's Your Birthday!", "The Ghost of the Living Room" and "A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights". Instead, the characters sing "Teamwork Makes the Dream Work".
	+ This is the second of three consecutive episodes in production order with a different ending song, after "The Ghost of the Living Room" and before "A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights".
* This is the first Season 3 episode to use the "*subject* with Blue" episode title pattern that is prominently used in Season 1 and in two Season 2 episodes, such as Hide and Seek with Blue and Sleepy Singalong with Blue.