History YMMV / BluesClues

* ViewerGenderConfusion: ''Hoo boy...'' Most of the confusion stems from the lack of TertiarySexualCharacteristics on Blue; she lacks eye lashes or a slim build as one might expect. She never speaks, just barks, and the pitch is deep enough that it can't be distinguished as explicitly feminine, unlike most cartoon dogs. Also, she is colored (and named) blue, often thought of as a ''boy's'' color by many children and parents alike.

* AwesomeMusic: You best believe it. And even if you don't much care for music aimed at the six-and-under set, you've got to admit that the show's full of {{Earworm}}s. The show's theme tune is a good example, and the "Glasses" song from "Magenta Gets Glasses." There was also the "Puppyville" song in ''Meet Blue's Baby Brother''. "Look at all these puppies, this must be Puppyville!"
** Every song from ''[[TheMovie Blue's Big Musical]]''. Especially ''I Can Be Anything That I Wanna Be''.

** Steve or Joe?
** Classic or ''Blue's Room''?

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: You best believe it. And even if you don't much care for music aimed at the six-and-under set, you've got to admit that the show's full of {{Earworm}}s. The show's theme tune is a good example, and the "Glasses" song from "Magenta Gets Glasses." There was also the "Puppyville" song in ''Meet Blue's Baby Brother''. "Look at all these puppies, this must be Puppyville!"
** Every song from ''[[TheMovie Blue's Big Musical]]''

*** WatchItStoned: Steve Burns himself joked in a trailer for his ''Songs for Dustmites'' album that one third of his periphery demographic fanbase on Blues Clues are stoned college students.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[http://rondell.deviantart.com/art/Blues-Clues-Brothers-159561007 Feast your eyes.]]
** Steve: cheerful inhabitant of a colorful house full of talking objects, or friendless schizophrenic whose loneliness has led him to populate his home with chattering hallucinations?
* BrokenBase: Steve or Joe?

* FridgeHorror: In a later episode about patience, Joe helps Periwinkle -- the neighbor cat -- be patient while waiting for a bird's egg to hatch.
** To be fair, his best friend from the city is a bird.

* LesYay: A lot of adult watchers think of Magenta as Blue's girlfriend.
** Of course, it didn't help that a good amount of people [[ViewerGenderConfusion thought that Blue was a boy.]]

** It should be known that most who don't like the character of Joe have nothing against his actor, Donovan Patton.

*** raises hands.
** Thank goodness for Spanish's gender specific adjectives!

*** WatchItStoned: Steve Burns himself joked in a trailer for his ''Songs for Dustmites'' album that one third of his periphery demographic fanbase are stoned college students.

* ReplacementScrappy: Lots of people don't like Joe. Why? '''He isn't Steve'''. To be fair, though, he does just as good a job as Steve, he's just a little more enthusiastic about it.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: But it was quite tastefully done. And then ''Blue's Room'' was created.

*** But there was still confusion in the hispanic countries!

** It doesn't help that in one episode, Steve refers to Green Puppy (another girl character, and a friend from Blue's school) in pronouns twice: once with a male pronoun, and again with a female one. ''And this was the only indication of Green Puppy's gender for a while.''

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: You best believe it. And even if you don't much care for music aimed at the six-and-under set, you've got to admit that the show's full of {{Earworm}}s.

** [[SamusIsAGirl Blue's a girl?]]

** How did Steve never use pronouns given the amount of time he spent talking ''to'' the audience ''about'' Blue? And if they really never revealed it in-show, [[AllThereInTheManual how do we know it now?]]
*** Occasionally, if you listen, you'll hear Steve or Joe refer to Blue as "she" or "her".

* RuinedFOREVER: How a lot of people felt about the clue segments once the clues started appearing without Joe actually drawing them, talking, and basically just solving themselves without Joe's intervention. WordOfGod had it that the change was made because the producers found in their research that the kids weren't really engaged in these segments, but fans balked because the change was made after the program had already been on for 4 1/2 seasons.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Steve ''finally'' finding a clue without the help of the kids. It. Was. Glorious.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Steve impersonating ElvisPresley because he's playing a "king." Sadly, [[ParentalBonus only parents understood that one...]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtcfoVXNZ6g&feature=related Episode 100]]

* SpotlightStealingSquad: PERIWINKLE. (In later seasons)
** And to a lesser extent, Sidetable Drawer.

* NostalgiaFilter

* TastesLikeDiabetes: ''And how!''