Return of the Thinking Squad

**Return of the Thinking Squad** is the tenth episode of season four and the seventieth episode overall in the reboot series *Blue's Clues & You!*. It is a new version of "Superfriends".

## Summary

Everyone in Storybook World is playing superheroes again. This time, Cinnamon shows up as Villain Ice with the power to turn everything into ice! As the gang plays Blue's Clues to figure out how to stop Villain Ice from turning their world into ice, they also skidoo into Super City for some superhero fun!

## Characters

* Blue/Super Blue
* Josh/Song Man
* Sidetable Drawer/Wonder Drawer
* Mailbox
* Tickety Tock/Clock Girl
* Slippery Soap/Super Soap
* The Viewer/The Incredibly Helpful Friend
* Cinnamon/Villain Ice
* Shovel
* Pail
* Snail

## Elements

* **Question**: How are we going to stop Villain Ice?
* **Clues**:
	1. A Sphere
	2. Hot
	3. The Sky
* **Answer to Blue's Clues**: The Sun
* **Living room picture:** Baby Bear dressed as a superhero
* **Felt Frame picture:** Superheroes
* **Skidoo Location**: Villain Ice Comic Book
* **Email or Letter?**: Email

## Trivia

* This episode serves as the sequel to The Thinking Squad.
* On September 11, 2023, when this show was pulled from Nickelodeon's lineup, this was the final episode to be broadcast.
* The Super Duper Notebook (which, yet again, references the British version of the original series) made a return in this episode, but it still had a red cape on the back of the notebook.
* Josh, Blue, Sidetable Drawer, Slippery Soap, Tickety Tock and the Viewer still have their superhero names like they and Steve did in Superfriends and The Thinking Squad.
* Cinnamon appears by himself without Paprika, but he doesn't appears again with her in the credits.
* Josh said, “With the Power to Help,” like Super Why himself did in *Super Why!*.
* This is the fourth time where pants were seen. The first three being What Does Blue Need? when Steve and Blue gave clean pants to Dresser and both Superfriends and The Thinking Squad when clothes with a shirt, pants and socks were drawn.
* This the fifth time where a globe was seen. The first four being What Did Blue See? when Steve and Blue looked through a kaleidoscope and saw a globe, Environments when Steve and Blue skidooed into a globe and sung The Environment Song with Mother Nature, The Alphabet Train when Joe and Pail found a globe for the G box and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure when a globe was drawn.
* This is the thirteenth time where a blanket, trumpet, and hammer were seen. The others being What Time Is It for Blue?, Blue Goes to the Beach, Blue's Big Holiday, Mystery of the Missing Pies and A Blue Christmas with You! when a blanket was drawn, What Is Blue Afraid Of? when Blue was shivering under a blanket because she was afraid of an owl, Nurture! when Steve and Blue gave Paprika a blanket since she wanted to sleep and was cold, Blue's Favorite Song when a trumpet was making the sound of a flute and the trumpet, maracas, drum and flute made the right sounds and they accept for the drum at the end to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm, What Does Blue Want to Build? when Steve had a hammer on him, Building with Blue when Josh used his hammer to fix stairs for Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper, Occupations when Builder arrived and looked like a hammer, and Blue's Big Costume Parade when a hammer was drawn.
* This is the eleventh time where a rubber duck, scrub brush, and bubble bath were seen. The others being Blue's Favorite Song, Song Time with Blue and Blue Wants to Play a Game when rubber ducks were drawn, Animals in Our House? when Joe played Duck Duck Goose with Boris, a rubber duck and Goose, Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped cure a rubber duck, What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try? and Science with Blue when Steve and Josh saw Paprika, Sage and Ginger floating in the sink near a rubber duck, Bedtime Business when Joe, Blue, Slippery Soap and Bubbly Bubbles sung the Bath Time Song and scrubbed Blue’s nose, toes and wrists, What Does Blue Need? when a bath was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on bubbles, a towel and soap and Sleepy Singalong with Blue when Blue took a bath again for bed.
* The Thinking Chair is frozen in ice even though in Math!, 123's with Blue, Animal Behavior! and Blue's Wishes, ice was drawn, and in Adventure, Periwinkle pretended to turn Steve into a block of ice.
* This is the twenty-first time where milk, bananas, and soup was seen. The others being Snack Time, Meet Josh!, The Snack Chart and Knights of the Snack Table when milk and chocolate milk were the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a cup, a straw, a cow, milk, chocolate syrup, and chocolate, Superfriends and The Thinking Squad when Slippery Soap (Super Soap) cleaned a milk spill, What Does Blue Want to Make?, What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture? and Welcome to Blue's Bistro when Steve, Josh and Blue helped Bowl and Spatula make banana cake and banana muffins, Steve Gets the Sniffles and Getting Healthy with Blue when there was 1 banana and it didn’t belong and when vegetable soup was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a spoon, a bowl and vegetables, Blue's ABCs and ABC's with Blue when Steve and Josh helped Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Paprika, Sage and Ginger with their grocery list and got milk, bread and juice, which was omitted from the remake, Pool Party when Steve helped Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper and Paprika make ice cream sundaes with bowls, whipped cream, bananas, sprinkles and spoons, What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue when Steve and Josh saw a construction worker weasel hammering a nail with a banana, Prehistoric Blue when Steve said that he was a meat eater and ate chicken soup, Numbers Everywhere! when Joe helped Mr. Salt and Paprika find the numbers 3 and 5 behind “3” bananas and “5” soup cans, Magenta's Case of the Giggles when Josh helped a stuffed banana, Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise when Grandma Cayenne, Paprika, and Cinnamon had a cooking show and added bananas, pineapples, and tomatoes to their dish and Knights of the Snack Table when Josh and Blue helped Marlon stack foods and even bananas.
* Josh is doing Hot and Cold like Steve did in Blue Wants to Play a Game when Steve played Hot and Cold and saw the third clue on a goose.
* This the first time where a thermometer was a clue even though Steve and Blue used one in Stormy Weather with Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper when it was sunny and then cloudy and rainy.
* This marks the sixteenth time where the color red was drawn as part of a clue. The others being Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Prehistoric Blue, Blue's Collection, Bugs!, Let's Plant, The Boat Float, Our Neighborhood Festival, Body Language, Look Carefully..., I Did That!, Colors Everywhere with Blue, Hide and Seek with Blue, Welcome to Blue's Bistro, It's Your Birthday! and Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure.
* Hot is a clue even though in Blue Wants to Play a Game, Gingerbread Boy and the Viewer said that Steve was getting hotter and saw the third clue on a goose, in What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?, Science with Blue and Bluestock (Original/Remake), Steve, Josh, Blue and Tickety Tock sung the Planets Song with Toni Braxton and the Sun and part of it was, “The sun’s a hot star. Mercury’s hot too,” in Pool Party, Steve and Sidetable Drawer knew it was hot, and in Environments, Steve and Blue sung The Environment Song with Mother Nature and they arrived at the rainforest and they sung it was hot and rainy.
* Josh and Blue skidooed into a comic book like they and Steve (Stripe Man) did in Superfriends and The Thinking Squad. And this is the first time where Tickety Tock (Clock Girl) and Slippery Soap (Super Soap) did skidoo even though they didn’t in Superfriends and The Thinking Squad.
* Tickety Tock skidooed with Josh like she did with Joe in Numbers Everywhere! when they did a jellybean story with the number 3 and saw the third clue on the number 0.
* This is the thirteenth time where someone skidooed with the host. The others being Periwinkle Misses His Friend, Blue's Collection, Café Blue and Blocks when Steve skidooed with Periwinkle, Shovel, Mr. Salt, and Green Puppy, The Big Book About Us, Numbers Everywhere! and The Scavenger Hunt when Periwinkle, Tickety Tock, and Magenta skidooed with Joe, Hide and Seek with Blue, Building with Blue, Blue's Mystery Present, Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure and Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood when Magenta, Periwinkle, and Rainbow Puppy skidooed with Josh.
* Blue is flying even though she did fly in space in both What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?, Science with Blue, Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue when Steve and Blue became Super Blue and Super Steve to skidoo into space to sing the Planets Song with the Sun and to search for the meaning of night and saw the Sun, Earth and Moon and Blue didn’t fly at all in Superfriends and The Thinking Squad.
* Tickety Tock made a big stopwatch on the screen like in Blue's Surprise at Two O'Clock when Steve gave the Viewer his watch and put it on the screen and they counted 5 seconds to find Blue, 8 seconds to get to the Kitchen, 1 minute for Mailbox to come, and they kept track for the time 2:00 itself.
* This is the second time where a snowball was seen. The first time being A Snowy Day when Blue wanted to build a snowman when Blue left three clues on a carrot, a hat, and a snowball.
* This is the fourth time where the sky was a clue. The first three being Nature, Our Neighborhood Festival, and Spring is Here!.
	+ This is the second time where the sky was the third clue with Nature being the first. However, in Our Neighborhood Festival, it was the first clue, and in Spring is Here!, it was the second clue. Also, in Spring is Here!, the sky was drawn with clouds, which were also drawn in What's That Sound?, Stormy Weather and Blue's Book Nook (clouds).
* This is the first episode of the reboot and the whole franchise to have a villain; though Cinnamon is only pretending to be the villain. There was never a true villain in the original series or in Blue's Room or in the first three seasons of the reboot.
* The sun is the answer to Blue’s Clues even though it was a clue in Blue Wants to Play a Song Game, The Itsy Bitsy Spider was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a sun, rain, and a spider and in Environments, the desert was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a sun, sand, and a cactus, in What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?, Science with Blue, Bluestock (Remake) and Blue's Big City Adventure, Steve, Josh, Blue and Tickety Tock sung the Planets Song with the Sun, in Blue's Big Pajama Party and Pajama Party with Blue, Steve, Josh and Blue skidooed to space in search of the meaning of night and saw the Sun, Earth and Moon and in Adventure, the Viewer became the sun to melt Steve after he got frozen by Periwinkle.
* This is the fifth time where any space object was drawn or being the answer to Blue’s Clues. The others being Pretend Time when an astronaut was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on a helmet, a star, and a rocket, Meet Polka Dots! and Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise when space was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on up, stars, a planet, a helmet, and a circle and Into the Blueniverse! when a shooting star was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on bright, a zooming motion, and a star.
* Blue (Super Blue) and the Viewer (The Incredibly Helpful Friend) are blowing the clouds away like in Blue's Story Time, Story Time with Blue, What Story Does Blue Want to Play? and The Fairy Tale Ball when part of The Three Little Pigs is the Big Bad Wolf blew down the straw and stick houses and Steve, Joe, Josh, Blue and the Viewer did the same thing, Mechanics! when wind was drawn, and Adventure when Dragon did a riddle about the wind and Steve and Blue became the wind and found the key by some flowers.
* Villain Ice is a robot even though in Something To Do Blue, Periwinkle made a picture of a robot, in Contraptions!, Joe and Blue helped a robot named Gilda with different contraptions, in Dress Up Day, Joe dressed up as a robot at first, and in Blue's Predictions, Joe and Blue helped Paprika and Cinnamon figure out which robot will get to the bus and the red one with long legs did.
* The Thinking Squad (group) unmasked Villain Ice and asked who he really is like in Scooby-Doo when he, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy unmasked ghosts, monsters and villains for 54 years since they too are people in costume trying to scare everyone else off.
* Cinnamon has frozen fruit pops even though there were orange juice pops in Blue's Surprise at Two O'Clock, orange juice pops was the answer to Blue’s Clues when Blue left three clues on orange juice, a popsicle stick, and an ice cube tray, and in The Snack Chart, Pail, Mrs. Pepper and Paprika liked juice pops.
* This is the second episode of the reboot to be written by the second host of Blue's Clues with Night at the Blueseum being the first.
* This is the eleventh episode where the host of any series skidoos into a random object but comes out of the Yellow Frame. The first ten being Steve Gets the Sniffles and Getting Healthy with Blue when Steve and Josh skidooed into a storybook but came out of the Yellow Frame, Blue's Big Beat Band when Josh skidooed into a song book but came out of the Yellow Frame, Welcome to Blue's Bistro when Josh skidooed into a postcard on the refrigerator but came out of the Yellow Frame, Blue's Night Before Christmas when Josh skidooed into a snow globe but came out of the Yellow Frame, Spring is Here! when Josh skidooed into a butterfly book but came out of the Yellow Frame, Mystery of the Missing Pies when Josh skidooed into a Detective Gopher book but came out of the Yellow Frame, Our New Neighbor when Josh skidooed into a picture of Periwinkle's old neighborhood but came out of the Yellow Frame, Building with Blue when Josh skidooed into a blueprint but came out of the Yellow Frame, and The Case of the Missing Thinking Chair when Josh skidooed into a picture of Blueprints Detective Agency but he and Steve came out of the Yellow Frame. In this episode, Josh skidoos into a Villain Ice comic book but comes out of the Yellow Frame.