The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern

**The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern** is the first episode of season four and the sixty-first episode overall in the reboot series *Blue's Clues & You!*. It is another new version of the season 1 episode "What Is Blue Afraid Of?”.

## Summary

During a Halloween party at Storybook World, Josh and Blue skidoo to the farm for a day of scarily fun festivities, and we play Blue's Clues to figure out how to make the legendary Jack O'Lantern emerge from the pumpkin patch!

## Characters

* Blue
* Count Josh-ula
* Mailbox
* Sidetable Drawer (inanimate cameo)
* Tickety Tock
* Slippery Soap
* Shovel
* Pail
* Rainbow Puppy
* Boo
* Periwinkle
* Snail
* Tractor T.
* Bessie
* Chicks
* Francis the Donkey
* Jack O'Lantern
* Oogla Boogla

## Elements

* **Question**: How do we make the legendary Jack O'Lantern emerge from the pumpkin patch?
* **Clues**:
	1. A Spinning motion
	2. A Shaking motion
	3. Music
* **Answer to Blue's Clues**: Dancing
* **Living room picture**: Pumpkin patch on a Farm
* **Skidoo Location**: Pumpkin patch on a Farm
* **Email or Letter?:** Letter

## Trivia

* This is the third episode of the reboot to feature Halloween, the first two being Spooky Costume Party with Blue and The Ghost of the Living Room.
* This marks the ninth episode in the franchise with the longest skidoo. The others being Skidoo Adventure, The Fairy Tale Ball, Meet Blue's Baby Brother Blue's Dino Clues, Blue's Mystery Present, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon, and Into the Blueniverse!.
* In Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue when every time Steve and Josh opened their notebooks, there was an evil laughter sound effect in the background, and in The Ghost of the Living Room, Josh’s notebook had a picture of a pumpkin on the Thinking Chair. In this episode, the Notebook is dressed up as a monster and "eats" the crayon every time Josh pulls out the notebook, in which the crayon gets shorter and shorter every time after Josh takes it out of the mouth of the monster notebook.
* In Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Josh was an alien, in Blue's Big Costume Parade, he was an astronaut, a farmer, a superhero, and Mailbox, and in The Ghost of the Living Room, he was a werewolf. This time, he’s a vampire and is calling himself "Count Josh-ula".
	+ In Blue's Big Costume Party, Steve was an alien and in Dress Up Day, Joe was an explorer, a robot, and a duck.
* This is the second episode of the franchise to have "The Legend of" in the title, the first being The Legend of the Blue Puppy.
* In Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Steve and Josh were aliens, Blue was a fish, Sidetable Drawer was a ghost, Mailbox was a letter in the remake, Slippery Soap was an octopus, Boo was a bag of leaves, and Magenta was a mouse, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a mouse costume), when Blue left three clues on footprints, whiskers, and a squeak sound, in Dress Up Day, Joe was an explorer, a robot, and a duck, Blue was a giraffe, Sidetable Drawer was an ice cream truck, Pail was a pig, Shovel was an astronaut, Slippery Soap was a crossing guard, Periwinkle was a bus driver, Mailbox was an alligator, and Blue wanted The Viewer to be a frog, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a frog), when Blue left three clues on the color green, a pond, and a hopping motion, in Blue's Big Costume Parade, Josh was an astronaut, a farmer, a superhero, and Mailbox, Sidetable Drawer was a magician, Shovel and Pail were firefighters, Mailbox was Josh, Purple Kangaroo was a lion, Orange Kitten was a ballerina, and Blue was a construction worker, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a construction worker) when Blue left three clues on a vest, a hard hat, and a hammer, and in The Ghost of the Living Room, Josh was a werewolf, Sidetable Drawer was a pirate, Blue was a unicorn, Slippery Soap was an octopus, Shovel was a fireman, Pail was a dragon, Tickety Tock was a superhero, like she was in Superfriends and The Thinking Squad, Mailbox was a cow, and Periwinkle was a ghost, and he was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on pawprints, a tail, and triangles. This time, Josh is a vampire, Blue is a bat, Sidetable Drawer is a pirate again, Tickety Tock is a superhero again, Slippery Soap is an octopus again, Shovel is a firefighter again, Mailbox is a snail, possibly Snail herself, Rainbow Puppy is a skeleton, Boo is a bag of leaves again, and Periwinkle is a magician in a cape and bow tie.
* Periwinkle is celebrating Halloween again like he did in The Ghost of the Living Room when he was a ghost and was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on pawprints, a tail, and triangles.
* This is the second time where a tractor was seen. The first time being Periwinkle Misses His Friend when Steve, Blue, and Periwinkle helped Tractor find Taxi.
* In this episode, The Viewer said, “Boo,” instead of, “clue”, and Josh and The Viewer said, "Boo's Clues", instead of "Blue's Clues", like in The Ghost of the Living Room,.
* Josh is sitting in a straw Thinking Chair like in The Three Little Pigs story in Blue's Story Time, What Story Does Blue Want to Play?, The Fairy Tale Ball, and Story Time with Blue with the straw, stick and brick houses.
* Slippery Soap is an octopus again like he was in Blue's Big Costume Party, Spooky Costume Party with Blue and The Ghost of the Living Room.
* When Josh said that we need a new crayon, the next episode has a new crayon.
* This is Boo and Oogla Boogla’s fourth appearance in the franchise. The first three being What Is Blue Afraid Of? when Steve and Blue helped Boo find out what sounds they’ve been hearing, which were footsteps, thunder, and pots and pans and Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue when they and Josh helped Boo find Oogla Boogla.
* This is the fifth time where a ghost was seen. The first four being What Is Blue Afraid Of? when Steve and Blue met Boo and helped him find out those sounds, which were footsteps, thunder, and pots and pans, Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue when Sidetable Drawer was a ghost and when Steve, Josh, and Blue met Boo again and helped him find Oogla Boogla, and The Ghost of the Living Room when Periwinkle, who was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on pawprints, a tail, and triangles, was dressed as a ghost.
* This marks the twelfth episode in the franchise where a cow was seen. The others being Snack Time and Meet Josh! when Blue wanted to have milk and left three clues on a cup, a straw, and a cow, Blue's ABCs and ABC's with Blue when Blue wanted to read Hey Diddle Diddle and left three clues on a moon, a cow, and the word, "jump", What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day? when Steve and Blue helped a cow find her friend who was singing the same tune as her when the cow sang, "Moo, moo-moo," and the cow’s partner was a sheep, who sang, "Baa, baa-baa," Blue's Play when there was a cow in the play The Funny Farm, Blue's Collection when there was a cow, Blocks when Steve had a cow, A Brand New Game when Joe, Blue, and Franny mooed like cows, bounced like basketballs, and looked through telescopes, The Ghost of the Living Room when Mailbox dressed up as a cow, and Blue's Mystery Present when Periwinkle bought a cow with a ballerina costume for Magenta.
* This is the third time where a spider was seen. The first two being The Trying Game when Steve got Spider’s dad, who was another spider, and Blue Wants to Play a Song Game when The Itsy Bitsy Spider was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a sun, rain, and a spider.
* This marks the ninth episode in the franchise where chicks were seen. The others being Snack Time and Meet Josh! when Steve and Josh helped Chicks find their friends with matching hats, Blue's Favorite Song and Song Time with Blue when Steve and Josh helped the chicks sing Row Row Your Boat and then they joined in to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm, which was omitted from the remake, What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day? when Steve helped a chick find her partner, who was another chick, What's New, Blue? when Steve and Blue saw an article about a chick hatching, Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped Toy Chick find the right sound, and Something New at Blue's School when Josh and Blue helped Chicks not be nervous.
* This is the second time where a scarecrow was seen. The first time being Thankful when a scarecrow pointed the way to the left.
* This marks the nineteenth episode in the franchise where any motion was drawn. The others being What Was Blue's Dream About?, Animal Behavior!, Anatomy, Blue's Collection, What's Inside?, Blue's Backyard Ballgame Bonanza, Dress Up Day, Up, Down, All Around!, Story Wall, Animals in Our House?, Blue's Wishes, Blue's Beach Bonanza, Blue's Rainy Day Rainbow, It's Your Birthday!, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood and Tickety's Big Musical Morning.
* This marks the seventh episode in the franchise where a person was drawn as a clue. The others being Draw Along with Blue, Adventure, A Surprise Guest, It's Your Birthday!, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood, and Tickety's Big Musical Morning.
* In It's Your Birthday! and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when Josh drew dancing motions, he drew little curved line marks. This time he drew squiggly lines with the shaking motion like he and Steve drew squiggly likes in Let's Boogie and Magenta's Case of the Giggles.
* This marks the thirteenth episode in the franchise where music was drawn or seen as part of a clue. The others being Mailbox's Birthday, Blue's Favorite Song and Song Time with Blue, What's Inside?, The Scavenger Hunt, Story Wall, Bluestock (Original/Remake), Blue's Night Before Christmas, It's Your Birthday!, Our New Neighbor and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
	+ This is also the seventh episode in the franchise where music itself was a clue. The first six being What's Inside?, Story Wall, The Scavenger Hunt, Blue's Night Before Christmas, It's Your Birthday!, and Our New Neighbor.
		- This is also the third episode where music was the third clue with What's Inside? and Story Wall being the first two. However, in The Scavenger Hunt, Blue's Night Before Christmas, It's Your Birthday!, and Our New Neighbor, it was the first clue.
* This is the fifth time where pumpkins were seen. The first four being Thankful and Thankful with Blue when a pumpkin was drawn, The Alphabet Train when a pumpkin was seen, and The Ghost of the Living Room when Josh’s notebook had a pumpkin on the Thinking Chair and when Josh and Blue helped Shovel and Pail decorate pumpkins.
* In Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Blue was a fish, in Dress Up Day, Blue was a giraffe, in Blue's Big Costume Parade, Blue was a construction worker, which was the answer to Blue’s Clues (a construction worker), when Blue left three clues on a vest, a hard hat, and a hammer, and in The Ghost of the Living Room, Blue was a unicorn. This time, she’s a bat.
* Josh and Blue are helping Rainbow Puppy, Boo, and Oogla Boogla through a maze like how Steve and Blue did in What Does Blue Need? when they helped Starfish find the ocean and went through a maze, What Game Does Blue Want to Learn? when there was a picture of Starfish going through a maze, Joe's Surprise Party when they were playing Pin the Beak on the Duck and the Viewer told Joe to go behind, left, low, and high to put the beak on, and It's Your Birthday! when Josh and Blue played Pin the Tail on the Puppy, they told the Viewer which way the go.
* There are color paths like in the show Dora the Explorer in episodes like Beaches when there were three paths and the blue path had a dead end, the red path had crabs, and the yellow path went through the sand dunes, Lost Map when Dora and Boots went through color paths to get through a cornfield in which the paths that were yellow, orange, and purple led to ants and the paths that were red, blue, and green led to the other side of the cornfield, and Click! when Dora and Boots went on color paths with the loudest snore to find a sloth in which the red and orange paths had the softest snores and the blue and green paths had the loudest snores.
* Boo is a bag of leaves again like he was in Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue.
* In both Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue when every time Steve, Josh, Blue, and Boo mentioned Oogla Boogla’s name, Oogla Boogla’s name echoed, but this time it didn’t.
* Josh’s crayon is small like his and Steve’s crayons were in Math! and 123's with Blue when Steve and Josh had their crayons small and they were still able to draw ice cubes and a cup and then they had their new crayons and drew lemons after skidooing to the Present Store and got a new crayon and hat from Cash Register and Joe, and Blue Is Frustrated when Steve's crayon broke before drawing the second clue (water) and Steve had to use a small crayon to draw the second and third clues, which were water and a toothbrush, for the rest of the episode even though at the beginning he drew a sink with his crayon regularly before it broke.
* Shovel, Pail, and Slippery Soap are seeing Boo for the first time again like they did in What Is Blue Afraid Of?, Blue's Big Costume Party, and Spooky Costume Party with Blue and are seeing Oogla Boogla for the first time as well, which was only Steve, Josh, and Blue’s first times, while Tickety Tock, Periwinkle, and Rainbow Puppy are seeing Boo and Oogla Boogla for the first time.
* 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, Building with Blue, Blue's Backyard Sports Spectacular, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure and Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon.
* This is the third time where a bat was seen. The first two being Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue when Steve, Josh and Blue played Nighttime Flash and Find with Shovel and Pail and they saw an owl, who explained that at night he looks around with his big eyes, a cricket, who explained that she rubs her wings at night to call to other crickets, which was omitted from the remake, and a bat, who said, “You’re right about that,”, was upside down and explained that she does that because bats always hang upside down and saw Steve and Josh yawning but pretended that Steve and Josh were sleep singing so they won’t wake any animals up.
* Halloween is being celebrated again like in What Is Blue Afraid Of?, Blue's Big Costume Party, Spooky Costume Party with Blue, and The Ghost of the Living Room.
	+ Dress Up Day and Blue's Big Costume Parade are considered Halloween episodes even though Halloween isn't celebrated in the episodes but the characters dress up in costumes anyway.
* Sidetable Drawer is being a pirate again like she was in Blue's Treasure Hunt and The Ghost of the Living Room. However in Blue's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Sidetable Drawer was a ghost, in Dress Up Day, she was an ice cream truck, and in Blue's Big Costume Parade, Sidetable Drawer was a magician.
* Pail is being a dragon again and Shovel is being a firefighter again like he and Pail and Blue were in The Anything Box, Playdates, Blue's Big Imagination, Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure, Blue Makes a Movie with You! and The Ghost of the Living Room.
* This is Rainbow Puppy’s first time celebrating Halloween like how it happened with Periwinkle in The Ghost of the Living Room.
* This is Rainbow Puppy’s seventh appearance. The others being Our New Neighbor, Mailtime Mystery, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon, Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood and Something New at Blue's School.
* 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, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure and Something New at Blue's School.
* This is the fourth time where a crab was seen. The first three being Blue Wants to Play a Song Game when Steve danced to the rhythm of rain with Crabs, Blue's Beach Bonanza when a crab was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on sand, a sideways motion, and a shell, and Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped Mr. Crabbycake who had a scrape on his claw.
* This is the fourth time where a Penguin was seen. The first three being Animal Behavior! when a penguin was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on the colors black and white, ice, and a waddling motion, Blue's Predictions when Joe read a book about Penguin Pierre, and Blue's Mystery Present when a Penguin was seen.
* This marks the tenth episode in the franchise where a banana was seen. The others being What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve saw bananas and the first clue on a bowl, What Does Blue Want to Make?, What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture?, and Blue's Big Baking Show when Steve, Josh, and Blue helped Bowl, Spatula, and Monkey make banana cake and banana muffins, Hide and Seek when Steve helped Chris Crescent find something in the shape of a crescent, which was a banana, Pool Party when Steve helped Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and Paprika make ice cream sundaes with bowls, ice cream, bananas, whipped cream, sprinkles, and spoons and as they made three more, one of the things was missing, in which the order was first ice cream, and then sprinkles, and then bananas, Colors Everywhere! when Joe found the second clue on the color yellow, which was by yellow objects including bananas, Shape Searchers when Joe drew food with a can, a carrot, and a banana, and Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped Stuffed Banana out who had a bump on his head.
* A koala is seen again like in Blue's Mystery Present when a koala was by a penguin and cow.
* This is the third time where a teddy bear was seen. The first two being A Snowy Day when Blue hid a teddy bear under a blanket and then popped out from behind the Thinking Chair to lick and kiss Steve and What Story Does Blue Want to Play? when Steve’s “favorite bear” was drawn.
* This is the tenth reboot episode where The So Long Song isn't sung with the first nine being "Blue's Night Before Christmas", "Blue's Show and Tell Surprise", "It's Your Birthday!", "The Ghost of the Living Room", "A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights", "Building with Blue", "Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure", "Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood", and "Feelin' Filipino". Instead, "The Very Scary Shuffle" is sung at the end.
* Dancing is the answer to Blue’s Clues like it was in Story Wall when Blue left three clues on a moving motion, feet, and music and where dancing was drawn in It's Your Birthday! and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
	+ In this episode, in which dancing was the answer to Blue's Clues, unlike Story Wall, a spinning motion and a shaking motion replace a moving motion and feet.
* This is the third time where a type of dancing motion was drawn. The first two being It's Your Birthday! and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
* Snail can be seen wearing different costumes in this episode: she was dressed as a witch and riding on a broomstick when Josh and Blue first skidooed to the farm, as a pirate like in "Blue's Treasure Hunt" during the Mailtime segment when Josh and Blue were singing the Mailtime song, and as an astronaut like in "Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise" when Blue was given a stuffed toucan from Jack O'Lantern.
	+ Mailbox was also dressed like Snail in the Mailtime segment of this episode, at the same time as Snail's 2nd appearance.
		- In Dress Up Day, Mailbox was an alligator, in Spooky Costume Party with Blue, Mailbox was a letter, in Blue's Big Costume Parade, Mailbox was Josh, who was dressed as Mailbox, and in The Ghost of the Living Room, Mailbox was a cow.
		- Josh additionally called Mailbox "Snailbox" like how he and Steve did in Blocks and The Ghost of the Living Room when they called Mailbox "MailBlocks" and "MooBox".
* This is the ninth reboot episode where an animated clue moves differently above the host's head and shoulders with the first eight being ABC's with Blue, Blue's Big Beat Band, Blue's Beach Bonanza, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise, Blue's Mystery Present, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon, Tickety's Big Musical Morning, and Into the Blueniverse!.
	+ This is also the fourth reboot episode where two clues move differently above the host's head and shoulders with ABC's with Blue, Blue's Treasure of Clue Lagoon, and Tickety's Big Musical Morning being the first three. However, in Blue's Big Beat Band, Blue's Beach Bonanza, Blue's Snowy Day Surprise, Blue's Mystery Present, and Into the Blueniverse!, only one clue moved differently above the host's head and shoulders.
* The piano played Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
* The Jack O'Lantern was voiced by James Monroe Iglehart, who also appeared in the Video Letter segment in Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood.
* When Josh says "Jack O'Lantern comes out of the pumpkin patch", it is a reference to *It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown*, which the footage was taken from in each *Peanuts* video preview played at the beginning of each *Blue's Clues* video.
* Tractor T. was voiced by Tyler Murree, who also played Santa Claus in A Blue Christmas with You!.