History WesternAnimation / BluesCluesAndYou

* FloatingInABubble: Josh and Blue are seen floating in a bubble in the fourth season first episode "Blue's Wishes Come True!", as they adventure through the Wishing World.

* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits genuinely follow the same formula as the original series, but the visuals now correlate to what happened in the episode.

** The [[TheBigBadWolf big bad wolf]], or [[AffectionateNickname Wolfie]], was completely evil in the original tale, and morally questionable in [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues the original series]] to the point that not even [[TheDitz Steve]] would fall for his FauxAffablyEvil act, here he is a nice guy with some anger issues, who doesn't want to seem as big and bad, and is good friends with the three little pigs.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Gopher. He was never hostile in the first place, but became more friendly in the Reboot version of "What's so funny", "[[Recap/BluesCluesAndYouS1E8LaughWithBlue Laugh with Blue]]", as his rivalry with the host was completely removed and he appears to be on good terms with Josh.

** The big bad wolf, or Wolfie, was completely evil in the original tale, and morally questionable in [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues the original series]] to the point that not even [[TheDitz Steve]] would fall for his FauxAffablyEvil act, here he is a nice guy with some anger issues, who doesn't want to seem as big and bad, and is good friends with the three little pigs.

** Jack O'Lantern here is a relatively nice guy and a BenevolentAbomination, In the original tale he was so bad that he was denied both heaven and hell.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Gopher. He was never hostile in the first place, but became more friendly in the Reboot version of "What's so funny", Laughing with Blue, as his rivalry with the host was completely removed and he appears to be on good terms with Josh.

** "Firefighter Blue to the Rescue!" It introduces us to Fiery Truck, the local fire truck and Fire Chief Frankie's assistant, curiously like Sidetable when she's not talking, she switches to an "inanimate form" [[TheBlank with no face]].

** In the original series' episode "Blue's Birthday", Blue gets a pet turtle named Turquoise. In the reboot's remake "[[Recap/BluesCluesAndYouS1E2HappyBirthdayBlue Happy Birthday, Blue!]]", she gets her ''again''. This is {{Handwaved}} in, "The Mystery of the Missing Thinking Chair" which reveals that Steve keeps the original Turquoise in his office.
** In the original series' episode "Magenta Gets Glasses", Magenta gets her purple-framed glasses and wears them for the rest of the original series. In the reboot's remake "Getting Glasses with Magenta", she gets them ''again''.
** In the original series' Season 1 episode "Blue's News", Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper stay at home when Paprika was born, while in the Season 4 episode "The Baby's Here!", they go to the hospital when Cinnamon was born. In the reboot's remake "[[Recap/BluesCluesAndYouS1E4BigNewsWithBlue Big News with Blue]]", they stay at home ''again'' when Sage and Ginger were born.
*** Although Sage and Ginger being different types of seasoning dispensers may imply that the shaker couple adopted them.

** In the original series' Season 1 episode "Blue's News", Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper stay at home when Paprika was born, while in the Season 4 episode "The Baby's Here!", they go to the hospital when Cinnamon was born. In the reboot's remake "Recap/BluesCluesAndYouS1E4BigNewsWithBlue Big News with Blue]]", they stay at home ''again'' when Sage and Ginger were born.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Paprika, who, although she still participates in the episodes with her family, is the friend in the house with the least focus, being the only one in her family up to this point to not have ADayInTheLimelight.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Josh with Blue, Magenta, the Salt and Pepper family, Shovel and Pail, Slippery Soap, Tickety Tock, Sidetable Drawer and Mailbox.]]

** In “[[Recap/BluesCluesAndYouS1E1MeetJosj Meet Josh!]]”, Steve is revealed to have opened Blue Prints Detective Agency. ''Blue Prints'' was the name of the original 1995 pilot of the original series.

* NighthawksShot: The Bad Day Café in "Josh's Crummy Day", where the customers and employees are people who are having a bad day, but are helped by our protagonists.

** [[AudienceParticipation The viewer]]. Originally they were just the voices that helped Steve find the clues, but little by little they gained more participation in the plot and more interactions with the main characters. Becoming a clue once, getting titles in special episodes, being the answers to Blue's clues in "Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood" and finally having an emotional reunion with Steve and Joe in the "real" New York on the Movie.

** "Happy Birthday, Blue!" where once again we need to find out what gift Blue wants to receive for her birthday

** In "Playdate with Magenta", Mr. Salt says that he was a clue once, a reference to "Blue's News". Funnily enough, one episode later, this happens again in "Big News with Blue", since it's a remake of that episode.
** In "[=123s=] with Blue", Mailbox shows his stamp collection, and also states that Steve helped him start it. The collection itself is also filled with stamps that were on letters in the original series.
** "ABC's with Blue" reveals that ''A Really Great Book'' is about a boy and his dog on a boat paddling as fast as they can to escape a giant wave, a reference to both "Blue's News" and "Big News with Blue".

** After "Big News With Blue", Sage and Ginger appear in the opening with the rest of the spice family.

* FleetingDemographicRule: "Meet Josh!" is similar to the plot of "Joe Gets A Clue" from the original series, in which the older hosts teach the new host how to play the titular game. It is also similar to "Snack Time", the original series premiere, as both episodes involve figuring out what Blue wants to eat.

* FollowTheBouncingBall: Happens at the end of "ABC's With Blue".

** In “Meet Josh!”, Steve is revealed to have opened Blue Prints Detective Agency. ''Blue Prints'' was the name of the original 1995 pilot of the original series.

** In the original series' episode "Blue's Birthday", Blue gets a pet turtle named Turquoise. In the reboot's remake "Happy Birthday, Blue!", she gets her ''again''. This is {{Handwaved}} in, "The Mystery of the Missing Thinking Chair" which reveals that Steve keeps the original Turquoise in his office.

** In the original series' Season 1 episode "Blue's News", Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper stay at home when Paprika was born, while in the Season 4 episode "The Baby's Here!", they go to the hospital when Cinnamon was born. In the reboot's remake "Big News with Blue", they stay at home ''again'' when Sage and Ginger were born.

* NewBabyEpisode: "Big News With Blue" has Josh play Blue's Clues to figure out the big news about Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. The clues are Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, and a bottle. The news is that the spice family has new twin babies, Sage and Ginger. This premise is very similar to the episode of the original series about Paprika's birth, right down to having the same clues.

** Blue licks the screen at the end of "Laugh With Blue." She also did it in "Happy Birthday, Blue!", "Bluestock", "Blue's Night Before Christmas", "Blue's Show and Tell Surprise", and "Our New Neighbor."

** “Blue's Show and Tell Surprise” introduces us to School Bus, which as the name implies is a sentient school bus. Later in the film a new variation of it called "Skidoo Express" would be revealed, being one of the ways that people from Storybook World visit the "real world" (if they are not bothered by the risks to [[DrivesLikeCrazy all living beings that he brings when he drives]]).

** "Meet Josh!" shows us that Steve is green, Joe is purple, and Josh is blue.

* ContinuityCameo: Steve and Joe appear in "Meet Josh!" on Josh's phone.

* CoolOldLady: Lola who is Josh's grandmother.

* {{Crossover}}: Some of the online shorts have featured other Nick Jr. characters, such as WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher and Molly from ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' coming over to the Blue's Clues house for Halloween.

** Although Sage and Ginger being different types of seasoning dispensers may imply that the shaker couple adopted them.

* SpaceEpisode: "Into Blueniverse", the seventeenth episode of the third season, is an affectionate parody of Franchise/StarTrek, where Josh, Blue and Magenta, intent on finding Magenta's remote-controlled ship, venture into the "[[PunnyName Blueniverse]]", a skidoo world that basically works like space, with themed planets for each member of the house, a civilization of adorable snail aliens, named "[[VisualPun Snaliens]]" and the Thinking Chair becoming a spaceship.

* AllCGICartoon: How the non-human characters are done in this show, as opposed to the traditional animation of the original. However, the original was already clearly using at least some computer-generated elements in its later seasons, specifically UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. A lot of the characters really don't look all that different from how they did on the original show.

** In "A Blue Christmas With You!" Santa Claus quotes "someone with a striped sweater" who said "Christmas is a special time for giving, and showing that you care". This is a reference to "Blue's Big Holiday", where Steve said this, and also wore a green-striped sweater throughout that episode.

* ChevoksGun: In "Blue's Wish Comes True!", Josh finds a lucky coin in the Wishing Woods. Later, he uses it to make a wish on a fountain, saying it really wound up being lucky after all.

** In the original series' episode "Blue's Big Mystery", Periwinkle moved to the Blue's Clues neighborhood for the very first time. In the reboot's first third season episode "Our New Neighbor", he moved to the Blue's Clues neighborhood ''again''. It is unknown if he briefly moved back to his old home for a while, then came back to the Blue's Clues neighborhood.