Blue's Big Baking Show

"**Blue's Big Baking Show**" is the fifth episode of the second season and the twenty-fifth episode overall in the reboot series *Blue's Clues & You!*.

## Characters

* Blue
* Josh
* Sidetable Drawer (inanimate cameo & no lines)
* Mailbox
* Mr. Salt
* Mrs. Pepper
* Tickety Tock
* Shovel
* Pail
* Lola (first appearance)
* Banana Baker
* Jimmy Neutron
* Timmy Turner

## Elements

* **Question**: Who are we baking the bibingka for?
* **Clues**:
	+ 1. A Heart
	+ 2. Glasses
	+ 3. A Blue Striped Scarf
* **Answer**: Lola
* **Wrong Answer**: A heart that wears glasses and a blue striped scarf
* **Skidoo Location**: Jungle cookbook
* **Living room picture:** A picture of bread
* **Email or Letter?:** Email

## Summary

Josh and Blue bake *bibingka*, a sweet cake made with rice from the Philippines. We play Blue's Clues to figure out who Blue wants to bake the cake for!

## Trivia

* This episode aired on the same day as the PAW Patrol episode *Pups Save a Bah Humdinger* premiered.
* "Baking with Blue" was a working title for this episode, but it was changed to "Blue's Big Baking Show" shortly before release to match the new title pattern (Blue's *subject*) introduced for this season.
	+ Others were "Meet Josh!", "Playdate with Magenta", "Getting Glasses With Magenta", "Happy Birthday Blue", "The Thinking Squad", "Bluestock", "Blue's Big Beat Band", "Blue's Treasure Hunt" and "Welcome to Blue's Bistro".
* This is the only episode of the reboot series to not have a new/updated version from the original series.
* Lola is named after Lola Martinez from the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101.
* The jungle was also a skidoo in "What Time Is It for Blue?" and "Pretend Time".
	+ Unlike this episode, which took place in a cookbook, they both take place in the living room picture frame.
* This is the second episode in which the notebook is replaced with something else in the "Play Blue's Clues" song after What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue. This time, it is replaced with a cookie that is designed like a notebook and the word "notebook" is replaced with "cookie".
	+ In What's So Funny? and Laugh with Blue, Sidetable gave Steve and Josh a potato.
		- Ironically, both episodes represent food instead of the Notebook.
			* Since this episode is a cooking episode, this might make since that there was a cookie version of the Notebook.
* This episode has many Philippines and Filipino references.
	+ Josh is revealed to be of Filipino descent.
	+ This episode marks the debut of Josh's grandmother, Lola, in person.
	+ Coincidentally, "Lola" means "grandmother" in the Filipino language.
	+ Also, Lola says "masarap" which means "delicious" or "yummy".
* Josh's voice is high pitched at some points.
* Singer and theater actress Carolyn Fe guest starred in this episode as Lola.
* This is the second episode in which the host's grandmother is the answer to Blue's Clues, the first one being "Blue's Big Treasure Hunt".
	+ As for the clues in both episodes, glasses is the only clue that is the same in both episodes.
* Josh does not interact with Sidetable Drawer because he had his notebook/phone (a cookie) with him already. this is the fourth time it happened.
* Josh and Blue are helping a monkey make banana cake like Steve and Blue did with Bowl and Spatula in What Does Blue Want to Make.
* A green striped shirt similar to Steve's shirt can be seen hanging to the right of the blue striped scarf that represents the third clue.
* This is the first episode in the franchise that the host does not change crayons onscreen and tell the viewers what colored crayon he is using to draw a colored clue (in this episode, it is the third clue, a blue striped scarf).
* This is the second time in the franchise where a heart was drawn. The first being Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day.
* There was a cookie version of Josh's notebook. However, Josh uses his normal notebook to draw clues.
* Josh got an email in this episode.
* Both this and "Welcome to Blue's Bistro" are food related.
* The real Notebook doesn't appear until the heart clue where Josh says "I mean, Notebook".
* This marks the second episode of the franchise where a heart was drawn. The first being Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day.
* This marks the second episode of the franchise where glasses were drawn. The first being Blue's Big Treasure Hunt.
* This marks the sixth episode in the franchise where something with the color blue was drawn. The others being Nature, Blue's Collection, Something To Do Blue, Colors Everywhere! and Our Neighborhood Festival.
* This also marks the sixteenth episode in the franchise when other characters spoke to the viewer. The seven times being Blue's Big Musical, Magenta Gets Glasses, The Baby's Here!, Joe's Surprise Party, Blue Takes You to School, I Did That!, Playdates, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Joe's Clues, Blue's Wishes, Soccer Practice, The Fairy Tale Ball, Meet Blue's Baby Brother, Hide and Seek with Blue, and Welcome to Blue's Bistro.
* This was the fourth time that Josh appears in the credits.
	+ The other times were Growing with Blue, Science with Blue and Bluestock.
* This is the first episode where Jimmy and Timmy appear without Wubbzy and Daizy.
* This is the second episode where Jimmy and Timmy appears in the credits since Science with Blue.
* This episode aired exactly a year after "Laugh with Blue" premiered.