History YMMV / BluesClues

* CommonKnowledge: It's commonly spread that Blue is female and Magenta is male, and that was intentionally done to invert gender roles. That's incorrect. They're ''both'' female.

* AccidentalInnuendo: We never find out what the book Steve reads in one episode (the book is called "A Really Great Book"), and he's very into it...what ''is'' that book about!? The ''Blue's Clues & You!'' episode "ABC's with Blue" reveals that the book is about [[ContinuityNod a boy and his dog on a boat paddling as fast as they can to escape a giant wave]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Why a sock in a bakery? Well, it was the third clue. So maybe Blue [[GuileHero left it there herself]].

* NightmareRetardant: The show is for young kids, so naturally there isn't really anything to be afraid of in "What Is Blue Afraid Of?". The shining example is when Mrs. Salt is terrified by photoes that are just of ''zoomed in food''.

* AccidentalInnuendo: We never find out what the book Steve reads in one episode (the book is called "A Really Great Book"), and he's very into it...what ''is'' that book about!?

** In ''The Wrong Shirt'', the picture frame shakes, warps, and inverts colours before one character of the day skidoos out of it. This would be a bit unnerving, but the gurgling sound and the fact its strong enough to shake the room and ''warp reality'' can make even older viewers let alone adults uneasy.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Magenta didn't appear as often as the rest of the main characters, but was just as popular with fans of the show. She ends up making more frequent appearances in the reboot. In fact, when the extended opening for the reboot was uploaded to Youtube, many of the comments (before the feature was disabled due to the Elsagate settlement in the fall of 2019) exclaimed joy when it was confirmed Magenta would be returning.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: With a lot of preschool shows today (notably ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' and the like) using FakeInteractivity to try to teach children lessons, ''Blues Clues'' doesn't seem like anything too original. But back in the 1990s, there was hardly anything like it with the way Steve (and later Joe) would interact with the audience.

** In ''TheWrongShirt'', the picture frame shakes, warps, and inverts colours before one character of the day skidoos out of it. This would be a bit unnerving, but the gurgling sound and the fact its strong enough to shake the room can make even older viewers let alone adults uneasy.

** In ''TheWrongShirt'', the picture frame shakes, warps, and inverts colours before one character of the day skidoos out of it. This would be a bit unnerving, but the gurgling sound and the fact its strong enough to shake the room can make even older viewers adults uneasy.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Magenta didn't appear as often as the rest of the main characters, but was just as popular with fans of the show. She ends up making more frequent appearances in the reboot. In fact, when the extended opening for the reboot was uploaded to Youtube, many of the comments (before the feature was disabled) exclaimed joy when it was confirmed Magenta would be returning.

** This becomes {{subverted|Trope}} in the ''Blue's Clues & You!'' episode "ABC's with Blue", where it's revealed that the book is about [[ContinuityNod a boy and his dog on a boat paddling as fast as they can to escape a giant wave]].

** This becomes {{deconstructed|Trope}} in the ''Blue's Clues & You!'' episode "ABC's with Blue", where it's revealed that the book is about [[ContinuityNod a boy and his dog on a boat paddling as fast as they can to escape a giant wave]].

** At one point in "Blue's News," Steve and Blue jump into a chalkboard, whereupon Steve grabs a piece of chalk and starts drawing. Steve invented ''WesternAnimation/{{Chalkzone}}''.

** After ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'' revealed she had a hidden talent for singing, this became a major part of Sidetable Drawer's character for the rest of the series. Her voice actress, Aleisha Allen, would later sing backup for Film/SchoolOfRock.

* EarWorm: "Well, the sun's a hot star..."

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Magenta didn't appear as often as the rest of the main characters, but was just as popular with fans of the show. She ends up making more frequent appearances in the reboot.

* CrossoverShip: There's some [[WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}} Ceri]] X [[HoYay Blue]] ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Bleri]]) fans out there, due to both being smart problem-solving female dogs.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The "Up a Mountain and Over a Bridge" song has often been compared to a certain [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_VDI3f5dMQ recurring music cue]] on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', which premiered the same year as ''Blue's Clues'' did, no less!

** Every song from ''[[TheMovie Blue's Big Musical]]'', Especially ''I Can Be Anything That I Wanna Be''.

* FriendlyFandoms: ''Blue's Clues'' and ''Llan-ar-goll-en'' fans seem to overlap, thanks to both shows being about a live-action man and his animated female dog solving mysteries.