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The rural Toontown where our protagonists live, have fun, socialize, and look for help when they need it. Full of userful living objects, funny talking animals, and humans beings, both animated and in live action.
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Magenta's House
Magenta's House
The house next to the yellow house, a purple house, with two roofs, full of art decorating the walls, where Magenta, her owner Miranda and their yellow Mailbox live. Magenta
Magenta Puppy
Magenta
Click here to see her on the reboot
Location: Magenta's House, School
Voiced by: Koyalee Chanda (original), Diane Salema (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues & Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2
Blue's best friend. Another puppy, who lives nearby.——
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Starts wearing purple glasses beginning with season three's "Magenta Gets Glasses". In the reboot, she gets them as early as season one's "Getting Glasses with Magenta".
- Advertised Extra: While she appears on most merchandise made for the original series, she usually would only appear a few times a season. Averted with the reboot, where she appears much more frequently.
- The Ageless: Like Blue, she has remained a Puppy since her owner Miranda's childhood.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Is a purplish-pinkish dog.
- Ascended Extra: Has more frequent appearances in the reboot, even having her own version of Blue's Clues called "Magenta's Clues' and her backstory expanded by her owner Miranda.
- Bespectacled Cutie: An adorable puppy who begins wearing glasses in the third season (and late in the first season in the reboot).
- Canine Companion: She is a dog and her owner Miranda's best friend.
- Canine Confusion: Like Blue, Magenta can eat chocolate and chocolate-based products despite being a dog.
- Cartoon Creature: Just like Blue, she seems to be an ambiguous-looking breed of dog.
- Cartoon Dog Breed: Seems to be the same ambiguous breed as Blue, just pink (well, magenta) instead of blue.
- Cheery Pink: A cheerful magenta puppy.
- Color Character: Just like Blue, she is named after her colour.
- Color Motif: Besides obviously Magenta, she is also associated with the color purple.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: At times she is shown to be a bit clumsy, sometimes causing problems by accident, but everyone is always quite understanding towards her.
- A Day in the Limelight: She has a main role in the episode "Magenta Gets Glasses", and its remake, "Getting Glasses With Magenta". The remake even has her joining Blue leaving clues, calling it "Blue and Magenta's Clues", and again in the episode "Magenta Thank You Day Surprise" where instead of Blue's clues we play "Magenta's Clues" while her backstory and relationship with her owner Miranda is explored.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Inverted. She is a female puppy and is friends with Periwinkle a male cat.
- Genki Girl: Just as playful and excitable as Blue.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: It is mentioned in one episode that she loves playing with stuffed animals.
- Inconsistent Coloring: Her nose is dark pink in most stock art, merchandise, and the reboot, while it appears more reddish in the original series and the earlier PC games.
- Innocently Insensitive: In the reboot episode "Blue's Sad Day" where she replaces Green Puppy by being the one who accidentally makes Blue sad, as well as Purple Kangaroo and Orange Kitten, they are quick to forgive her after realizing she didn't do it on purpose.
- Leitmotif: "Magenta's Coming Over", a piece of upbeat background music from "Magenta Comes Over" that played when she arrives at Blue's house, often accompanies her appearances and several toys of her from the original would play it. The album A Playdate With Blue would give it lyrics as "Truly A Friend".
- Lovable Jock: Magenta, like her owner, is a great soccer player, although a little anxious about her abilities, she is also a Precious Puppy who used to be her owner's only friend.
- Non-Standard Character Design: In the Reboot where she, Blue and Rainbow Puppy are animated in 3D in contrast with the 2D animation of the other recurring characters.
- Only Friend: Magenta used to be Miranda's only friend during her childhood when she first moved into the neighborhood.
- Palette Swap: Has Blue's model down to the same spots, just colored magenta and later on gained glasses. One exception is that her pawprint is shown on her right paw on merchandise for the original series as opposed to Blue's left.
- Pawprint Stamping: Like Blue, Magenta can place semi-sentient pawprints on objects, and she uses this skill to play "Magenta's Clues" or "Blue and Magenta's Clues".
- Pink Means Feminine: She is a cheerful Girly Girl whose body is almost entirely Magenta (a purplish-pink shade).
- Precious Puppy: Just like Blue, Magenta is an adorable, friendly, magical puppy who just showed up one day to become her owner Miranda's first and best friend in the neighborhood.
- Promoted to Opening Titles: Beginning in the fourth season. Ironically, it's the only season where she doesn't appear in any episodes outside of the opening, photos, drawings, and in the credits of "Steve Goes to College".
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: A magenta furred dog with a cheerful personality.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She's adorable, and more traditionally feminine than the other puppies, but she's also a talented soccer player.
- Suddenly Speaking: Even though she only speaks in barks like Blue does, some of the book releases depict her as talking freely to the other characters in normal English.
- Super Cute Superpowers: The "puppies" in general seem to have the ability to put adorable (and almost sentient) Pawprints around, with some magical skills like animating objects they touch and changing their shapes, that Magenta uses to play "Blue and Magenta's Clues" or "Magenta's Clues".
- Town Girls: She is Girly Girl, being literally pink, focused on arts and a little more timid and delicate, while Green is a Tomboy and Blue can be either one depending on the moment.
Miranda
Miranda, from next door
Neighbourhood Location: Magenta's House
Played By: Shannon Walker Williams (Original Series), Adriana Vasquez (Reboot)
Series: 2 (different versions)
Episodes: "Magenta's Gets Glasses", "Shy" (original series), "Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise", "Hola, Mexico City!", "If You Don't See It, Be It!" (Reboot)
Characteristic Pattern : Red Flowers (Original), Pink Polka Dots (Reboot)
Magenta's Owner who lives next door, a few live action characters to have more than one appearance in the series. In the original series she only appears in "Shy" and "Magenta Gets Glasses". Theres also a character named Miranda on the Reboot, played by Adriana Vasquez, although it is unclear whether they are intended to be the same character or a Significant Name Overlap.
- Ambiguous Situation: Unlike from the hosts, both versions of Magenta's caregivers have the same name. It's unclear whether original Miranda and Miranda in the reboot were supposed to be the same character played by two different actresses, two different characters with the same name or an alternate version of the same character.
- Messy Male, Fancy Female: On the original series Miranda is an intelligent and elegant artist, while Steve was a timid goofy guy. In the reboot Miranda is a Street Smart athlete, always ready to prevent Josh from doing something silly.
- Only Sane Woman: She's a bit sharper than Steve; she finds a clue before Steve does, and she remembers to get the Notebook out. She still needs the viewer's help picking out Magenta's new glasses.
- Downplayed on reboot, where although she has a little more common sense than Josh, she is still as good as him at playing Blue's Clues.
Tropes that apply to the Blue's Clues version:
- The Cameo: While she is not mentioned in "Magenta's Messages" a drawing of her made by Magenta can be seen on the wall of the living room of her house.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She disappears after "Magenta Gets Glasses". When Joe and Blue house sit for Magenta in "Magenta's Messages", Miranda is neither seen nor referenced, although the clothing patterns she uses can be seen scattered throughout her home, and a drawing of her made by Magenta can be seen in the living room.
- Color Motif: She is associated with the color red as opposed to Steve's color green.
- Consistent Clothing Style: She wears red flowered shirts, which are also the theme of her house hall.
- Decomposite Character: In the reboot, her role appears to have been divided between the character of the same name, who is Magenta's current owner, and Camila, one of Josh's human friends, who is wiser and is better at playing Blue's Clues.
- Eccentric Artist: Averted. Miranda is implied to be an artist and her house is filled with works of art of various kinds (both hers and Magenta's) but she is a mature and responsible woman (especially when compared to Steve).
- Not So Above It All: While she is better than Steve when it comes to using logic, she still needs the viewer's help to figure out which glasses Magenta wanted and the answers to the Blue's Clues game from the episode.
- Red/Green Contrast: She is associated with the color red, and was wise and extroverted, to contrast with Steve, who was associated with the color green with a childish and introvert behavior.
- Ship Tease: Steve clearly had a crush on her, but it's not completely clear whether she reciprocated the feeling or just saw him as a friend with shared interests.
Tropes that apply to the Blue's Clues & You! version:
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She knows that Josh is hard-headed, forgetful and prone to acting without thinking, which is why she tries to be the one in charge by not giving him the chance to make mistakes (which he eventually does anyway), but she's ready for when that happens.
- Color Motif: She is associated with the colors pink and magenta to complement Josh's blue.
- Consistent Clothing Style: She has been wearing pink shirts with polka dots since he was a child, which is a clue that Magenta is thankful for her on Thank You Day.
- Fictional Holiday: The Thank You Day (which seems to be a mix between Valentine's Day and Thanksgiving) is Miranda's favorite holiday, as it happens on the same day that Magenta first appeared.
- Friendless Background: "Magenta's Thank You Day Surprise" (or "Thank You Day") reveals that Magenta was her first friend in the neighborhood during her childhood.
- Inexplicably Awesome: She's the only other human character besides the hosts to the skidoo on the screen, her skidoo aura is Magenta.
- Lovable Jock: She is more athletic than Josh is, her main interest is soccer and she is a kind and caring woman, and Magenta's best friend, with both sharing their love of soccer.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: While she is not a Tomboy in the traditional sense, she is an athletic girl with high stamina who is quite determined, compared to the artistic, kind, and anxious guy that Josh is.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: She's the pink girl to Josh's blue boy. Interestingly, they both flip the trope's gender expectations, with Josh being a sensitive artist and Miranda an unstoppable jock.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Unlike her predecessor, Miranda does not have any moment that could be interpreted as a Ship Tease with Josh.
- Spicy Latina: Downplayed. She doesn't follow most stereotypes of Latina women, but she is determined, unstoppable, and smarter than Josh, and is more than happy to show it and make more well-intentioned, smart-ass comments that criticize her friend's behavior, in a kind and constructive way.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Downplayed. She's not really huge, but is visibly taller than Marlon.
Mailbox (Yellow)
Magenta's house Mailbox
The mailbox at Magenta's house.- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking mailbox.
- The Blank: Occasionally she is shown without a face.
- Yellow/Purple Contrast: She is yellow as opposed to Mailbox purple color. Interestingly, our Mailbox is a resident of a yellow house, while she is a resident of a purple house.
Periwinkle's House
Periwinkle's House
Periwinkle
Periwinkle
Click here to see him in the reboot
Location: Periwinkle's House, School, Big City (Previously)
Voiced by: Cameron Bowen (season 3), Kenny Kim (seasons 4–5), Jansen Panettiere (season 6), Victoria Pontecorvo (Blue Takes You To School PC game), Luxton Handspiker (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues & Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1
A cat who lives nearby and likes to do magic tricks. He moves to the neighborhood in season three's "Blue's Big Mystery".- Ambiguous Situation: It is not completely clear whether Periwinkle's big city neighborhood was located in Storybook World or in the real New York City. On the one hand Rainbow Puppy mentions that she come from NYC, on the other considering that she spends a lot of time in Blue's neighborhood to visit her friends, it's not impossible that she would do the same thing to Periwinkle in the big city.
- Also like Miranda, his character in the reboot is completely different from the original version besides his name, house and interest in magic. As Steve and Joe's adventures are canonical in the ‘’Blue's Clues and You’’ universe and many of them involved Periwinkle it's unclear whether the Reboot version of Periwinkle is: The same character struck by Negative Continuity, two different characters with the same name, like Orange Kitten and Purple Kangaroo who have look alikes with the same name in the neighborhood, or an alternate version of the character.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: He's bipedal in the reboot, while in the original he walked on all four legs.
- Bedsheet Ghost: He turns out to be the titular ghost from the episode "The Ghost in Our Living Room".
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Downplayed when compared to Joe or his grandfather, but his eyebrows are noticeably thicker than most of the children in the series.
- Character Catchphrase: His magic words: "Peri pocus ocus crocus!".
- Character Tics: Wiggling his ears.
- City Mouse: Periwinkle in the original series was this, having a bit of difficulty adapting to the neighborhood, which is mainly a rural area, after living his entire life in the big city.
- Color Character: Light periwinkle.
- Cute Kitten: He's a very cute looking kitten.
- Crossdressing Voices: In the PC game Blue Takes You To School, he's voiced by Victoria Pontecorvo (who would perform Blue's speaking voice in Blue's Room).
- Dub Name Change: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub of Blue's Clues & You! he is called "Bigodinho", which means "Whisker".
- Expressive Ears: Seen noticeably in the reboot when he droops his ears while talking about his worries regarding fitting into the new neighborhood.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Inverted, Periwinkle is a male Cute Kitten while his puppy friends, Blue, Magenta, Green and Rainbow Puppy, are all female.
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Unlike the dogs, Periwinkle can talk, and unlike them, he walks on two legs in the reboot.
- Gender-Blender Name: While Periwinkle is a real name, it is a name mainly given to girls, while Periwinkle is a boy kitten.
- In-Series Nickname: He is sometimes called "Peri" by other characters.
- Inconsistent Coloring: Some toys of him make the white parts of his fur a lighter periwinkle shade while the stripes are darker.
- Inexplicably Awesome: He can somehow float when disguised as a ghost in "The Ghost in Our Living Room", when he is revealed to be the "ghost" and removes the costume he is walking normally but he start to float again when he puts on the disguise for the secound time.
- Informed Judaism: In the reboot, he's revealed to be Jewish, celebrating Hanukah.
- Nice Jewish Boy: A Cute Kitten and a lively, polite kid who was confirmed to be Jewish in the reboot.
- Promoted to Opening Titles: In most later season three episodes, he can he found hiding behind the tire swing in the opening sequence, and then appearing more prominently beginning with the fourth season.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: He has a red stuffed rabbit named Presto that he uses for this kind of tricks, no wonder he once forgot him in the magic store.
- She's a Man in Japan: He's female in the UK adaptation.
- Stage Magician: His main hobby is stage magic which is relevant in "Blue Big Musical Movie" as he wants his friends to see him perform and again in the reboot where he inspires Josh to become a stage magician for a day in "Joshini the Amazing".
- Talking Animal: A talking cat.
Aly
Aly, from the house behind
Played By: Izzi Nagel
Series: 1
Episodes: "A Blue's Clues Festival of Lights"
Characteristic Pattern : Purple/Magenta Triangles
The neighbor who lives in the house behind the yellow house and Periwinkle's owner, who has no equivalent in the original series.- Ambiguous Situation:
- It's unclear whether the original series' version of Periwinkle had an Aly counterpart, lived alone, or lived with his grandfather, since his owner was never mentioned, and Joe sort of fulfilled the role of his caretaker.
- The reason the two are currently living together is also unclear, but the dialogue implies that it wasn't always like this and that Peri used to live with his grandfather in the big city.
- Canon Foreigner: While Periwinkle appeared in the original series, his owner was never mentioned or even referenced to the point where it was thought he lived alone. Aly was created to fill this role in the reboot.
- Cheery Pink: She wears a pink sweater and in her debut episode she looks very excited and happy.
- Color Motif: She is associated with the colors purple and pink.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: The loving owner of Periwinkle, a cat as well as a good friend of his grandfather Mauve.
- Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats: Like Sam, she is the girl who owns a cat when the male host has a dog.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The pink girl to Josh's blue boy.
Deedee
Blue's School
The School
The Staff
Miss Marigold
Miss Marigold
Miss Marigold
Blue's school teacher. She was originally one of the few human characters outside of live action, but in the reboot the character with her name is a pink hippo.Tropes that apply to both versions
- Adaptation Species Change: If you believe it's the same character. In the original Blue's Clues, Miss Marigold was an African-American human woman. In Blue's Clues & You, she is a pink hippo.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if both versions are supposed to be the same character, or if they just share the same last name.
- Cool Teacher: In both versions, but especially in the reboot which encourages its students to try new things with music.
- Floral Motifs: Her surname is Marigold, which are also her symbol plants.
- Vibrant Orange: All its versions are associated with different shades of Marigold, a yellowish orange, and they are very fun, relaxed teachers and generally pleasant women to be around.
Tropes that apply to Blue's Clues version
Original Series
Click to see Miss Marigold in second design
Location: School
Voiced by: Aisha Hinds
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues)
Episodes: 5 note
Blue's teacher, a tall, calm and responsible animated human lady who runs the school and takes care of her students.- Adaptational Name Change: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, her name is Mary.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In some games and books her hair is dark brown instead of blue.
- Depending on the Artist: In the series she was an African-American human with blue hair, wearing a marigold button-down shirt with marigold stamps on it and blue pants; In the books she normally wore lipstick which she did not in the animation; In the games she had brown hair and a yellow shirt with stamped marigolds, wears orange pants and again uses red lipstick.
- Dub Name Change: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub her name is changed from "Miss Marigold" to simply "Miss Mary".
- First Installment Weirdness: Before she was introduced in the fifth season, the voice of the teacher in the classroom that Blue studied was masculine.
- Token Human: She was one of the only non-live action humans who didn't come from one of the skidoo worlds.
- True Blue Femininity: Her hair is blue and she normally wears blue pants, and is one of the more traditionally feminine members of the cast.
- World of Technicolor Hair: Her hair is dark blue in the animated series.
Tropes that apply to Blue's Clues & You! version
Reboot
Location: School
Voiced by: Rachel Bloom
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: "Blue's Show and Tell Surprise", "Something New at Blue's School", Blue's Mystery Present (cameo), Blue and Little Rainbow Riding Hood (Cameo) "Rock on, Rainbow Puppy!" (Cameo)
Blue's teacher in Reboot, a (relatively) small and cheerful pink hippo who loves to sing and encourage her students to try new experiences.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: She is a pink hippo.
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's an anthropomorphic hippo, so she's naturally a big woman, and she's also a pretty cute teacher.
- Cheery Pink: She is pink and is a relaxed teacher who loves to sing and have fun with her students.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: She is one of the few anthropomorphic animals to be fully clothed.
- Huggy, Huggy Hippos: She is a hippo who works as a teacher, and is kind, friendly and patient, always encouraging her students to try new things.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Subverted. She is pink, which wouldn't make anyone guilty of thinking she would be similar to Magenta and have pink fur, but hippos are less hairy than other mammals, having hair only on their tails. Meaning her skin is pink, not her fur.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: She is the only anthropomorphic animal that always wears shoes, while the others normally go barefoot.
- Talking Animal: A talking pygmy hippo.
School Bus
School Bus AKA Skidoo Express
School Bus
Click to see Skidoo Express
Location: School
Voiced by: Donovan Patton
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1
Blue's school bus, which is apparently also the one that transports people from Storybook World to places in the real world.Tropes that apply to both
- Animate Inanimate Object: An animated bus.
- Gentle Giant: Because he is an living bus, he is much larger than most of the characters in the series, he is also quite relaxed and friendly, being as excited as Blue about the prospect of Josh realizing his dream in New York.
- Sentient Vehicle: A bus capable of thinking, speaking and causing accidents.
Tropes Applied to School Bus
- Advertised Extra: Downplayed. While he doesn't appear in as much official art, you could assume he's an important character considering he has more toys than some main and recurring characters.
- Flat Character: There's not much to say about School Bus, and we don't know much about him other than the fact that he's a sentient bus and a Nice Guy. Although we see a school bus with a more developed personality in Blue's Big City Adventure, it is unclear whether he is intended to be the same character.
Tropes Applied to Skidoo Express
- Drives Like Crazy: Hilariously despite being a talking bus his safe driving capabilities are questionable at best. Not only does he jump into the middle of the road making Josh scream, he also drives at high speed towards a dead end without informing Josh of how the travel work and lands out of control, knocking over several things in Times Square making some people run away in panic.
- Flying Car: Well, Flying Bus. He flies as easily as he drives, although his skills doing both may not follow the safety manuals.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: While the standard school bus is yellow, the Skidoo Express has gold exterior details as well as his interior, as golden is the color associated with skidoo and skidoo portals.
- Gold Is Yellow: He's a yellow car, but he is designed to be golden.
- The Klutz: His landing skills leave a lot to be desired. He almost causes an accident and leaves many people scared when he lands in New York City.
- Magic Bus: As if it weren't enough for him to be able to talk, he (or a very similar bus) is one of the ways to transport people from Storybook World to real-world locations, via skidoo.
- Swirly Energy Thingy: What makes the skidoo express stand out from an ordinary bus are the swirls on his windows and front (making him look like a large skidoo portal) and the aura of swirls that he leaves behind before he skidoo.
Students
In General
Tropes shared by the Blue School Students.
- Cheerful Child: Everyone is kind and good-natured, as well as being intelligent and cooperative with the Hosts and new students.
- Colourful Theme Naming: With the exception of the duck in the original series and Pearl in the reboot, all of the school's characters are named based on what colors they are, or of the clothes they are wearing in Miss Marigold case.
- Innocently Insensitive: They are kind and well intentioned but as children they will occasionally hurt each other by accident in some situations (and quickly apologize).
- Palette Swap: The class originally consisted mainly of characters with reused models but with different colors, with the only students not to repeat their models being Periwinkle and Duck who were new students. In the reboot Magenta is the only pallete swap to return.
- Blue has Magenta and Green Puppy.
- Purple Kangaroo has his sister Magenta Kangaroo and the Green Kangaroo.
- Orange Kitten has the Blue, Green, Purple, Red and Yellow kittens.
- Species Surname: Their surnames are usually the type of animal they are.
Orange Kitten
Orange Kitten
Orange
Click to see Orange Kitten on the series reboot
Location: Orange's House, School
Voiced by: Caitlin Hale (original, 1998-2002), Naelee Rae (original, 2002-2005), Nicole Gibson (Blue Takes You To School PC game), Glee Dango (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues & Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1
One of the kitties from Blue's School.
- Ambiguous Situation: As "The mystery of the Missing thinking chair" reveals that there are multiple Orange Kittens and Purple Kangaroo in the neighborhood this raises the question of whether the Orange Kitten and the purple Kangaroo in Blue's classroom right now are the same characters as in the original series.
- Ascended Extra: Like Magenta, she is much more relevant in the reboot than she was in the original series. Having an important role in the episode "Blue takes you to school" and even interacting with the viewer without needing the presence of a Host.
- Color Character: Has "Orange" in her name.
- Cute Kitten: The first of the kittens introduced in the series who is cute and well-mannered.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The Case of the Missing Thinking Chair reveals that there are at least three identical Orange Kittens in the neighborhood, which may or may not be related.
- In-Series Nickname: Sometimes referred to as simply "Orange".
- Informed Judaism: "Blue's Big Holiday" shows that she and her owner, Sam, are Jewish, and celebrate Hanukkah.
- Palette Swap: Has a few, in the forms of Green Kitten and Blue Kitten. Two others, Red Kitten and Yellow Kitten, only appear in the PC games.
- Shout-Out: She's essentially a repurposed version of "Mr. Orange", an orange cat that was originally going to be the titular character of the show before they decided on a blue dog.
- Species Surname: Orange Kitten.
- Talking Animal: A talking kitten.
Purple Kangaroo
Purple Kangaroo
Purple
Click to see Purple Kangaroo on the Reboot
Location: Purple's House, School
Voiced by: Max Behren (original), Alexander Claffy (Blue's Big Musical), Justice James (Reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues & Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1
One of the kangaroos from Blue's School.- Ambiguous Gender Identity: In the original series Steve pointed out that because he was a male kangaroo he didn't have a marsupium but wished to have one, hence why Steve and Blue gave him a pocket for Christmas, because he wanted to have one, meanwhile in the reboot he seems to have a natural pouch but still uses masculine pronouns.
- Ambiguous Situation: As "The mystery of the Missing thinking chair" reveals that there are multiple Orange Kittens and Purple Kangaroo in the neighborhood this raises the question of whether the Orange Kitten and the purple Kangaroo in Blue's classroom right now are the same characters as in the original series (the fact that the purple kangaroo is an Animal Gender-Bender in the reboot doesn't help).
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: His name is what he is: a purple kangaroo.
- Animal Gender-Bender: Averted in the original series, where he's not given a pouch due to being a male kangaroo. Played straight in the reboot and the computer games based on the original, however.
- Ascended Extra: Together with Orange Kitten, he is much more relevant in the reboot than his counterpart in the original series was. Having an important role in the episode "Blue takes you to school" and even interacting with the viewer without needing the presence of a Host.
- Color Character: Purple Kangaroo.
- Depending on the Artist: In the PC games, he has a pink nose (as opposed to black) and a pouch. This carries over to the reboot.
- Palette Swap: Has two in the form of Magenta Kangaroo (who is also female and hinted to be his sister in "Blue's Big Holiday") and Green Kangaroo.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The Case of the Missing Thinking Chair reveals that there are at least three identical Purple Kangaroos in the neighborhood, which may or may not be related.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: According to Steve, Purple Kangaroo is Australian, but one day he was visiting the neighborhood and decided to start living there with Tyrese permanently.
- National Animal Stereotypes: He's Australian and is a kangaroo.
- Species Surname: His last name is Kangaroo, which is what he is.
- Talking Animal: A talking kangaroo.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Steve mentions that Purple Kangaroo wished to have a kangaroo pocket that only female Kangaroos like his sister had, in reboot he makes this wish come true.
- Yellow/Purple Contrast: His owner Tyrese is associated with the color yellow, while he is purple.
Green Puppy
Green Puppy
Green
Location: Wynonna's House, School
Voiced by: Adam Peltzman
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1A puppy who goes to Blue's school.- Adapted Out: This appears to be the case in the reboot, as any remakes of the original series' episodes that featured her have Magenta take her place. She is mentioned in a video on the show's YouTube channel that adapted "Blue's Big Holiday" from the original, but it's unknown if she'll ever make a proper appearance in the show. If she does she would be the last original character to return.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Is, just as the name suggests, a green puppy.
- Ambiguous Situation: She seems to exist in the Reboot universe since Josh mentions her in an official video where he tells the story of the episode "Blue Big Holiday" but is not present at school. Whether she moved away at some point or simply we only see the times when she is not present (as happened with other characters) is unclear.
- Bifauxnen and Lad-ette: Very very Downplayed, because they are children. But she and Blue have this dynamic being both androgynous girls which can cause some Gender Confusion. Blue is an Intellectual Animal and Wise Beyond Their Years who likes to play Prince Charming and Green Puppy is a rough demolisher who prefers to play destroying things.
- Bully Bulldog: Averted. Green Puppy appears to be a bulldog and tends to play a little rougher compared to Blue or Magenta, but is otherwise very friendly.
- Cartoon Creature: Downplayed compared to Blue and Magenta- while the latter two are of a more ambiguous-looking dog breed, Green Puppy appears to be a bulldog.
- Character Catchphrase: Does a "Bow-BOW!" bark every time she knocks over a block tower.
- Color Character: Green Puppy.
- Crossdressing Voices: Voiced by Adam Peltzman, who was also a writer for the series.
- Cute Little Fangs: The only one of the puppy characters to have them, too.
- A Day in the Limelight: She gets a bigger role in the episode "Blocks".
- In-Series Nickname: Sometimes she gets referred to as simply "Green".
- Green and Mean: Subverted. She initially appears to be this, but is actually very nice, only having difficulty understanding that she has hurted Blue.
- Innocently Insensitive: In her first appearance in "Blue's Sad Day". Blue feeling sad was caused by Green Puppy knocking down her block tower at school. While she came to Blue's house to apologize, she still continued to knock down Blue's block towers until Blue gave her her own pile of blocks to play with and knock down. Green Puppy wasn't intentionally being malicious; that was just how she likes to have fun and didn't consider how Blue felt. After that, they become good friends.
- Nice Girl: She completely avoids negative stereotypes for both bulldogs and tomboys, being quite kind and presenting Blue with flowers when she comes to visit the yellow house, with most of her problems coming from being Innocently Insensitive rather than being rude.
- Red/Green Contrast: She is literally a Green Puppy, while her owner Wynonna is associated with the color red. She is also a bit rough while Wynonna is calmer and more mature.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's red oni to Blue’s blue oni. Both are genki girls, but Blue prefers to play more creatively, while Green prefers to just knock over toys.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Subverted. She is initially introduced as this, by a drawing made to look intimidating probably done by Blue who was clearly hurt, but when she is finally revealed she is a gentle puppy, who just needed to learn to play in a group.
- Socially Awkward Hero: Green is very friendly and kind, but also a little less sociable than the other characters, sometimes being seen to spend time separated from others when she feels overwhelmed, has difficulty understanding social cues and understanding when she is hurting someone, sometimes seeming a little impolite, but never malicious.
- Species Surname: Green Puppy.
- Suddenly Speaking: Even though she only speaks in barks, some of the book releases depict her as talking freely to the other characters in normal English.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy for Magenta and Orange Kitten’s GirlyGirls. Preferring to knock things over rather than play with stuffed animals.
- Tomboyish Voice: Is more of a tomboy compared to Blue and Magenta and has a deeper bark to emphasize this.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While she is The Lad-ette and acts a little rougher than the other puppies, she doesn't seem to have any problems wearing dresses or dressing up in flowers.
- Town Girls: She is Tomboy being Ladette, with a Tomboyish Voice and somewhat aggressive behavior, to Magenta Girly Girl and Blue who can be both depending on the moment.
Pearl
Pearl
Pearl
Location: ???, School
Voiced by: Sadie Trant
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1
A young rabbit with albinism who joined Blue's school in season three of the reboot.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: She uses regular glasses when inside, and sunglasses with a hat to protect her from sunlight when outside.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Pearl is always wearing glasses and has different glasses for different situations, she is also a happy, outgoing and energetic rabbit who couldn't stop being cute even if she wanted to.
- Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Has partial blindness and wears sunglasses when outside.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Exactly what it says, Pearl is an adorable white rabbit.
- Color Character: Downplayed She'a pearl white bunny, but the name is not as obvious as her peers.
- Hammerspace: When she is not using her cane it will just disappear quickly after being put back, appearing with the same speed when needed.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: The only character in the main cast to have them.
- Little Miss Snarker: Yes, this sweet bunny can be a little sarcastic when she wants to, sometimes without even saying a single word, although unlike most cases she doesn't come off as rude.
- Lovable Jock: She's the best kickball player in the neighborhood and she's very nice.
- Non-Standard Character Design: The only one of the regular characters to have visible irises and pupils, to highlight her condition.
- Remember the New Guy??: First appeared in "Something New At Blue's School", but everyone seems to know and be used to her during the episode.
- Those Two Guys: In most of her appearances, she is always seen being accompanied by Periwinkle, with the two being implied to be best friends.
- Toyless Toyline Character: As of 2024, Pearl is the only member of Blue's class in the reboot to not have a toy based on her.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pearl loves popsicles, even more than she loves Kickball.
- White Bunny: Because she has albinism, Pearl is a adorable white bunny.
Minor Students
Kittens and Kangaroos
Location: Purple's House (Magenta Kangaroo), School
Voiced by: ???
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues)
Episodes: ???
From the right for the left: Yellow Kitten, Green Kangaroo, Green Kitten, Magenta Kangaroo, Blue Kitten and Red Kitten
Orange Kitten and Purple Kangaroo's recolors.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: They are all colorful animals. Downplayed with Red Kitten, which has a color that real cats have, but in an unusual shade.
- Adapted Out: They do not return in the Reboot, unlike Purple Kangaroo and Orange Kitten, in fact the only recolor to return is Magenta.
- Companion Cube: Green Kangaroo has a pet rock.
- A Day in the Limelight: Green Kitten receives a special focus in the game "Blue's Treasure Hunt: A Learning Adventure", where he has his own minigame where Steve and Blue help him decorate the school's Bulletin Board.
- Color Character: They are all named based on their colors.
- Lemon Green to Green Kitten
- Dark Green to Green Kangaroo
- Dark Magenta to Magenta Kangaroo
- Celestial Blue to Blue Kitten
- Red to Red Kitten
- Colorful Theme Naming: Their names are the colors their bodies are, while their surnames are their species names.
- Cute Kitten: Theres at least 4 adorable background kittens.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: Green Kangaroo as Purple Kangaroo has an Australian accent in the English dub, and Magenta Kangaroo is Purple Kangaroo's older sister who is Australian, indicating that she is Australian as well.
- National Animal Stereotypes: The Kangaroos have Australian accents in the UK version
- Palette Swap: For Orange Kitten and Purple Kangaroo, who are recurring characters.
- Significant Name Overlap: Green Kangaroo and Green Kitty share their name with Green Puppy and Magenta Kangaroo with Magenta, this is because they are all named based on their colors.
- Shrinking Violet: The green kangaroo is a very shy boy, being nervous to expose his pet rock at the Show and Tell.
- Species Surname:
- Magenta and Green Kangaroo
- Red, Green, Blue Kitten
- Talking Animal: Several Kangaroos and Cats capable of speaking.
Duck
Duck
Location: ???, School
Voiced by: Kevin Catoire
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues)
Episodes: ???
A new student at Blue's School introduced on season 3.- Adapted Out: He never appears in the reboot.
- A Dog Named "Dog": A Duck named Duck.
- Shrinking Violet: His introduction is on the episode "Shy". Where he's feeling shy about being the new student at school.
Giraffe
Giraffe
A giraffe that occasionally appears in the background of Blue's school.- Out of Focus: Maybe the student in Blue's class with the least focus
Present Store
Different designs of the Present Store
Cash Register
Cash Register
Cash Register
Voiced by: Justin Burke (Series), Duke Burger (Games)
The first owner and cashier of the Present Store before Joe took over. As the name suggests, he is an animated cash register.- A Dog Named "Dog": A cash register named Cash Register.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking cash register.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Very friendly and polite, never seeming to be in a bad mood.
- Passing the Torch: At some point he passed the control of his business to Joe.
- Mellow Fellow: Always calm, patient and with good humor, his speech is soft and his look gives the impression of tranquility.
Joe
Actor: Donovan Patton
As a Kid: Ethan Twomey Perello(original series/baby), Felix Pindor (reboot)
Series: 3 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You)
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 70 note
Movies: 1
Fixed Pattern: Squares
Steve's younger brother and Blue's second caregiver, taking over the yellow house when Steve went to college. Joe is a pretty smart, artistic and dramatic guy who likes to think outside the box and attracts attention wherever he goes, but at the same time he is impulsive, naive and hyperactive, that can occasionally cause problems (sometimes on purpose). It is revealed in "Meet Josh" that during the Time Skip, Joe became the second owner of the Present Store.
For more information about him visit the hosts character page.
Human Neighbors
In General
Besides our three hosts, there are other humans beings in the neighborhood, even though they rarely appear. Although surrounded by a fantastic and quirky world, they will usually have more down-to-earth behaviors compared to our protagonists, to highlight the host quirkiness, but never being rude about it, sometimes even joining in the fun.
- Blue Oni, Red Oni: They are typically the blue oni to the red oni of the three the hosts to the hosts red oni. They are usually mature and calm, while the hosts are cheery and gentle manchilds. Ironically, the human friends are typically associated with warm colors while the hosts are associated with cool colors, inverting the color dynamics of the trope.
- Color-Coded Characters: Like Hosts, the secondary human characters are associated with a color and pattern of clothing. Wynonna and the original series Miranda wore red, Julia, Tyrese and Marlon are yellow, Sam and Marlee are orange, Aly and Miranda in the reboot are pink, Camila is purple and the Fire Chief Frankie is black.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Aly, the Reboot version of Miranda and to a lesser extent Camila are associated with the color pink/magenta while the series host Josh wears blue clothing.
- Red/Green Contrast: Marlee, Miranda and Wynonna who were associated with the color red while Steve wore the color green. They are also normally mature and extroverted while he is the friendly and timid manchild.
- Token Human: Besides the three hosts they appear to be the only human beings in Storybook World.
Julia
Neighbourhood Location: Slipper store
Played By: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Series: 1
Episodes: Blue's Big Pajama Party (Premiere only)
Characteristic Pattern : Yellow Slipper Stamp
Julia, the slipper repairwoman
The neighborhood slipper repairwoman who only appeared in the Premiere of the episode Blue's Big Pajama Party.
- Birds of a Feather: She and Steve get along well because they are both dorks, who love books and slippers.
- Distaff Counterpart: A particularly funny example, Joe, who is one of the main characters, is this for her while in other cases it would be the opposite. They are both Friendly Shopkeepers, who are suspiciously similar to Steve, their favorite animals are ducks just like their slippers, act like The Ditz, are the red oni to Steve's blue oni, are always on their work uniforms and their even yellow clothes are similar.
- The Ditz: In her debut Julia made Steve seem like someone with common sense with the mistakes she made, as she seemed genuinely unable to understand that the slippers she handed Steve would never fit his feet.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Julia is such a kind shopkeeper that Steve can't help but want to spend some time with her.
- Permanently Missable Content: Her only appearance was during the premiere of "Blue's Big Pajama Party" in the period before and after the end of the episode and she does not reappear in the reruns.
- Severely Specialized Store: Julia is a store owner whose sole purpose is to repair slippers.
Wynonna
Neighbourhood Location: Wynonna's House
Played By: Wynonna Judd
Series: 1
Episodes: "Blue's Big Holiday"
Characteristic Pattern : Plain Red
Wynonna
Green Puppy's owner who may or may not be a famous singer and teaches Steve about the religious meaning of Christmas.- Advertised Extra: Unlike Tyrese and Sam, she received an official promotional art about her, but she doesn't have much more input than the other two do.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Wynonna is short, Tyrese is big and Sam is thin.
- Fiery Redhead: Inverted. She has red hair, but is a calm, soft-spoken woman.
- Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats: Averted. Wynonna, like Steve, is also a dog owner.
- Red/Green Contrast: Wynonna is Red in contrast with both Steve and her Green Puppy. In her short time on screen she seems more outgoing and patient than they are.
Sam
Neighbourhood Location: Orange's House
Played By: Lisa Datz
Series: 1
Episodes: "Blue's Big Holiday"
Characteristic Pattern : Orange Swirls
Sam
Orange Kitten's owner who explains to Steve about Hanukkah.- Dork in a Sweater: She wears an orange sweater and doesn't seem to be much more sociable than Steve is, being the least sociable of the three neighbors.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Sam is thin, Tyrese is big and Wynonna is short.
- Everyone Is Christian at Christmas: Averted. Although she was introduced in a Christmas-themed episode, it is made clear that neither her nor Orange Kitten are Christians.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair, and even though she doesn't seem to be very close to Steve, she is still quite kind and cordial towards him.
- Informed Judaism: Sam, who explains to Steve and viewers what Hanukkah is in the episode.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She owns an Orange Kitten, who always looks happy and well-groomed and appears to be quite friendly.
- Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats: Sam is the girl who likes cats while Steve owns a dog.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Downplayed. Although Sam isn't actually huge, she is a few inches taller than Steve, which is quite evident when they are next to each other.
Tyrese
Neighbourhood Location: Purple's House
Played By: Tyrese Gibson
Series: 1
Episodes: "Blue's Big Holiday"
Characteristic Pattern : Yellow Vertical Stripes
Tyrese
Purple and Magenta Kangaroo's caretaker who explains to Steve about Kwanzaa.- Big Guy, Little Guy: Tyrese (6'0") is the big guy to Steve's (5'6") little guy.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Tyrese is big, Sam is thin, and Wynonna is short.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: While Sam is mentioned a few times even though she doesn't appear on screen, neither he nor Wynonna are mentioned again after their debut (although Wynonna has a justification as her puppy was Adapted Out).
- Nice Guy: He's a friendly guy without a hint of hostility.
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Averted. He owns two kangaroos, but he's a down-to-earth guy.
- Yellow/Purple Contrast: His characteristic color is yellow in contrast to the kangaroo he takes care of which is purple.
Neighborhoood Square
Neighborhood Square Skidoo Frame
The place where most of the neighborhood stores and other establishments are located. The neighborhood has a huge variety of establishments, ranging from extremely specific stores to vague stores that sell basically anything, but it is not recommended to try to think about where these establishments are located, as bizarrchitecture is in effect, everything can change location depending on the moment.Bakery
Mr. Salt
Mr. Salt
Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by: Nick Balaban (original and Blue's Big City Adventure), Brad Adamson (reboot)
Series: 3
Episodes: 123 note
The father figure of Yellow House, patriarch of the Spice Family, father of four and as revealed in Blue's Clues & You! the neighborhood baker in his spare time.For more information about him visit the Yellow House Residents page.
Bowl & Spatula
Bowl & Spatula
Voiced by: Travis Greisler (Bowl), Laura Sweitzer (Spatula)
A Brother–Sister Team who work at the neighborhood bakery.- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking Spatula and Bowl duo.
- Brother–Sister Team: They are brother and sister and are rarely seen apart.
- Cheery Pink: They are both pink, and are happy, friendly bakers who love their work.
- Color Motif: Pink like the Bakery.
- Distaff Counterpart: For Shovel and Pail, they have the same dynamics and similar designs as the Backyard Duo, but their genders are reversed.
- A Dog Named "Dog": No prizes for guessing what objects they are supposed to be.
- Palette Swap: Both are a recolor for Shovel and Pail (although Bowl has more unique features).
- Sweet Baker: They are a pair of kind, attentive bakers who are very patient with Steve when they ask for his help.
- Toyless Toyline Character: Inverted. Spatula does not appear in Blue's Clues & You, but is still present in toy form as she's one of the items in the "Cooking-Up-Clues Wooden Play Kitchen & Handy Dandy Notebook" set.
Convenience stores
Digital Cash Register
Cash Register
Voiced by: Stacey DePass
- Animate Inanimate Object: Maybe? She's a cash register who can talk, but she's also a robot. It is unclear whether she is a robot brought to life or an ordinary robot.
- Cute Machines: She is an adorable robot.
Marlon
Neighbourhood Location: Square Convenience Store
Played By: Xavier Lopez
Series: 1
Episodes: "Knights of the Snack Table", "If You Don't See It, Be It!"
Characteristic Pattern : Yellow Plaid
"Good Sir" Marlon
A kind neighborhood shopkeeper who needs help organizing his convenience store.- Big Guy, Little Guy: Little Guy to Josh's Big Guy.
- Distressed Dude: Parodied in his intro episode. He's not really in danger and just needs help organizing his shop but as Josh is playing knight he plays along as the shopkeeper in distress.
- The Ditz: Like Josh, he is not very good at organizing things and needs the viewer's help to figure out where to put the items in his shop.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: He works at a convenience store in the neighborhood square and plays alongside Josh when he is on an "important quest".
- The One Guy: Aside from the three hosts, he's the only human guy in the neighborhood in the reboot (the second in the entire series).
- Orange/Blue Contrast: Wears an orange apron from his store while Josh and Blue are associated with the color blue. He's also acting as the citizen in danger, while Josh is the knight in shining armor who rescues him.
- Remember the New Guy?: Averted. Marlon is the first human from Reboot who didn't seem to know our protagonists previously.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tiny Guy to Frankie Huge girl. Of Josh's human friends, he is noticeably the shortest while Frankie is the tallest. He is also shorter than Miranda and Camila, but is Downplayed in comparison.
Library
Marlee
Neighbourhood Location: Library (Formerly), Marlee's House
Played By: Marlee Matlin
Series: 2
Episodes: "Blue's Book Nook", "Our Neighborhood Festival" (Original Series), "All Kinds of Signs" (VHS Segment), "Blue's Storytime with Camila" (Reboot/Video Letter)
Characteristic Pattern : Plain Dark Orange
Marlee, the librarian
Click here to see Marlee on reboot
The neighborhood librarian in the original series, she's one of Joe and Steve's few human friends to appear on more than one occasion.
- Cute Bookworm: She is a woman with a passion for books, and is as joyous with the world around her as the hosts are.
- Cute Mute: A lovely lady who only speaks using sign language.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and it's nothing but nice with her neighbors.
- Magic Librarian: As a librarian in a magical storybook world this is inevitable. In one episode she is demonstrated as being able to separate fairy tale book characters from their books and insert them back into the story.
- Passing the Torch: Sometime between the original series and the Reboot she switched places with Camila as the person who runs the neighborhood library.
- Vibrant Orange: A cheerful and outgoing woman who is associated with the color orange.
Camila
Neighborhood Localization: Library
Played By: Gaitrie Persaud Dhunmoon
Series: 1
Episodes: "Blue's Storytime with Camila", "If You Don't See It, Be It!"
Characteristic Pattern : Purple Diamonds
Camila, the librarian
The current neighborhood librarian who replaced Marlee.- Cheery Pink: Like Mailbox, she wears mostly purple but has pink accents and is just as happy and expressive as José is.
- Cute Mute: Like Marlee before her, she only communicates through sign language. She also rivals Josh in terms of happiness.
- Reading Lips: Josh mentions that she, like some deaf people, can read lips during her introduction.
- Genki Girl: She's lively and expressive as Josh is.
- Only Sane Woman: Like Miranda before her, she seems more capable than Josh when it comes to finding the clues. She also seems to remind him of things while he is distracted.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Downplayed. Like Miranda, she's not really huge, but is visibly taller than Marlon.
Fire Station
Fire Chief Frankie
Neighbourhood Location: Fire station
Played By: Lisa Michelle Cornelius
Series: 1
Episodes: "Firefighter Blue to the Rescue", "If You Don't See It, Be It!"
Characteristic Pattern : Black with Yellow Stars
Frankie, the Firefighter
The chief of the neighborhood fire department.- Badass Adorable: Although she is never seen in action, her job is to help people in risky situations and risk her own life in the process, she is also a lovely, smiling woman who is more than happy to sing and have fun with Josh before rescuing Periwinkle.
- Black Boss Lady: Frankie is a black woman and also the chief of the neighborhood fire department, who is quite competent at her job.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Her “standard” outfit is a black fire department uniform and she is a firefighter whose job is to save lives and avoid risks.
- One-Steve Limit: She avoids this twice by having the same name as Frankie, a Felt friend with a dark yellow skin and a blue square body, and Frank/Cheer-Upper, one of the citizens of the super city that Steve/Josh try to help discover what his superpower is.
- The Real Heroes: Josh even goes into his fanboy mode in her presence, as he thinks firefighters are amazing.
- The Reliable One: Handwaved. As the local firefighter, Frankie needs to build trust with those around her, and always be prepared regardless of the situation.
- Rookie Male, Experienced Female: Acts as a mentor figure to the rookie Josh, who wants to become a firefighter helper but still needs training.
- Statuesque Stunner: Of Josh's neighborhood friends she is the tallest, apparently the same height as Josh himself and she is also a Badass Adorable, who is very beautiful.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's the huge girl to Marlon Tiny Guy. Frankie is Josh's neighbourhood tallest friend, while Marlon is the shortest.
Fiery Truck
Fiery Truck
Voiced By: AJ Bridel
The neighborhood fire truck, and Fire Chief Frankie's co-worker.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient fire truck.
- Badass Adorable: She's a fire truck so she always has to be prepared for action, she also has an adorable design, charming demeanor and likes to show off her equipment to people.
- Take a Third Option: When unable to use her siren to indicate their arrival and without time to fix it, Josh and Blue come up with the idea of making the sound themselves replace it, signaling people that they are nearby.
- The Blank: Like Sidetable, when she's not talking she can switch to an inanimate form.
- Color Motifs: She is associated with red.
- Emergency Services: A literal fire truck.
- Gentle Giant: One of the biggest characters in the neighborhood and also a kind firefighter who just wants to be useful and help others.
- Interspecies Friendship: An animated fire truck who is good friends with a human.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is Fiery Truck, and she is a sentient firetruck.
- The Real Heroes: From the firefighter variant. She is a sentient fire truck who is looked at with admiration by other members of the neighborhood, not surprisingly, she is kind and always wants to be ready for action.
- Red Is Heroic: She is red, and one of The Real Heroes.
- Sentient Vehicle: A sentient fire truck.
Pizza Parlour
Pizza Chef
Pizza Chef
Voiced by: Nick Balaban
A neighborhood pizza chef from the original series.- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient pizza chef hat.
- No Name Given: He was not given a name in his short screen time.
Mr Oregano
Mr Oregano
Voiced by: David Krumholtz
The neighborhood Pizza vendor who comes from the world of Pizza. He's a little stressed, and is usually overwhelmed with pizza orders, but he still loves his job. As his name suggests, he is a giant animated oregano dispenser.- Angry Chef: Averted. He has every reason to be angry as an overworked pizza chef who works alone, but he's a kind and patient guy.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking oregano dispenser. Visibly he is much taller than the other shakers.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: The scarf he wears around his "neck" is made to resemble a tomato, a common pizza topping.
- Edible Theme Naming: He is named oregano, a spice that is commonly used to season pizza.
- Gentle Giant: He is an oregano shaker, but is much bigger than your average shaker (being taller than Josh himself), and despite being a little stressed he is a nice guy and very nice.
- Meaningful Name: He's named Oregano, a common seasoning on pizzas
- Supreme Chef: A pizza chef who runs his business alone, and is so good that he is overwhelmed with orders and needs Josh and Blue's help to keep up.
- Sweet Baker: A non-traditional example, he is a pizza maker and very a sweet guy.
Post Office
Post Office Mailbox
Post Office Mailbox
A mailbox that is also sentient and friends with the Purple Mailbox and lives in front of the Post Office.- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient public Mailbox.
Mailbox Four
Mailbox Four
The trio that normally announces Mailtime. They are part of an acapella band with Mailbox called the Mailbox Quartet.- A Cappella The kind of music they sing, they are the ones who sing the chorus that announces Mailtime.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A trio of talking Mailboxes.
- Palette Swap: Purple Mailbox green, blue, and magenta recolors
- Unseen No More: They were only heard but never seen, as they were the voices that announced Mailtime, that is until the reboot version of "Bluestock" where they make their first appearance on screen.
Other
Baby Bird
Baby Bird
Baby Bird
Location: Red Bird Nest
Voiced By: Daniel Richardson
Series: 1 (Blue's Clues)
Episodes: 8 note
A baby bird that lives in the tree in front of the yellow house. He was born in the episode "Patience".- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the neighbors, literally being a baby bird.
- Cheerful Child: He is an adorable and happy baby who would occasionally deliver clues to Joe.
- Courier: In at least 2 situations he was the one who gave clues to Joe.
- New Baby Episode: Its debut episode, Patience, is about Periwinkle, Joe and Blue waiting for him to be born.
- Talking Animal: A talking bird, even more impressive because he's a baby.
Gopher
Gopher
Gopher
Click to see Detective Gopher
Voice: John Cleland
A playful groundhog that lives in the backyard of the house.
- A Day in the Limelight: The eighth episode of "Storytime with Josh and Blue" "Detective Blue and Gopher
" video takes place mainly from his point of view. Where we see him, with Blue's help, solving a case. - Anthropomorphic Shift: He starts off as an ordinary Gopher who understands English, then becomes increasingly intelligent by creating relatively complex games for the hosts, later he is seen working as a detective in the series podcast, having a family, and and finally revealing that he knew how to speak the entire time in the series' canon.
- Badass Longcoat: As "Detective Gopher", in a look likely inspired by Steve.
- Civilized Animal: In the Reboot where he is a detective, has an office, a cell phone, uses secret stairs and passages, and takes photos with his family, him knowing how to speak is just a bonus.
- Clueless Detective: Even though Gopher is smart, he demonstrates some memory problems that make his job a little more difficult.
- Collector of the Strange: Steve theorizes that Gopher collects the clues he doesn't erase after he picks one from the screen in "Blue's Collection".
- Color Motif: He is associated with the color brown.
- Detective Animal: In the reboot he is revealed to be a detective in the same style as Steve when he is not playing with our protagonists.
- Dork Knight: He has some memory problems that hinder his work as an investigator, but he is actually quite intelligent, as seen in his previous appearances.
- Dub Species Change: In the Brazilian dubbing during Steve's episodes he is just called a rodent, while Josh calls him a squirrel, Joe is the only one who refers to him by the correcto species name (although Josh also calls him by the right species once, but only when talking about Detective Gopher).
- Fast Tunnelling: He seems to have the ability to dig extremely fast whenever he wants to.
- Friendly Rivalry: Likes to troll the Hosts with his games and Josh looks comically serious whenever he mentions his name, but he's friends with them like all the neighbors.
- Funny Animal: An intelligent rodent that likes to play games and tease people.
- The Gadfly: He likes to play tricks on his hosts, and laughs whenever they try to outsmart him, seeming impossible to predict his next move. His detective persona does not abandon this side, as it reveals that he knew how to speak, meaning that the gopher sound that bothered the hosts was just a form of teasing them.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Detective Gopher wears a hat, a tie and a long coat, but he doesn't wear pants.
- Hero of Another Story: "The Mystery of the Missing Pies" is revealed that not only he can talk, but also that he is a Private Detective, has a family, has his own version of Josh's Handy-Dandy Notebook and lives in a community of colorful Gophers. Somehow the adorable Gopher who occasionally trolled the hosts had a whole adventure story going on.
- Jerkass to One: Downplayed since he's not really a jerk, just a lot less patient with Steve compared to the other house members and the other two hosts. Ironic when you consider that Steve seems to be the main inspiration for his detective persona.
- Mole Miner: Downplayed. He is a gopher and although he does not act stereotypically like a miner, he is mentioned as making large tunnels, and secret passages to different locations, including his own office, by himself.
- Nearly Normal Animal: He is generally less magical than the other animals in the neighborhood, being a normal, but smart, gopher. In the Reboot he learns to speak, but still remains very down to earth.
- Perpetual Frowner: In the original series he was one of the least expressive characters, appearing to be permanently frowning even when he was happy (which is justified since he was a non-anthropomorphic animal).
- Race-Name Basis: His name is Gopher and he is a Gopher
- Strong Family Resemblance: His children are basically shorter clones of him.
- Suddenly Voiced: He gains a voice in the reboot during the episode "The Mystery of the Missing Pies".
- Took a Level in Kindness: He was never mean to begin with, but seems to become friendlier with Josh than he was with Steve.
- Troll: He likes to tease the hosts along with Shovel and Pail with his games.
- Unreliable Narrator: Not him, but Josh, who describes him as having a pink nose in Storytime With Josh and Blue'' even though his nose is black in the canon media.
- Wormsign: Leaves it behind when digging or after jumping out of the ground.
- You Can Talk?: In the reboot much to Josh and Blue's surprise, though the other residents don't seem surprised.
Jingles
Jingles, the Ice Cream Truck
Jingles!
Voiced by: Cynthia Erivo.
The neighborhood ice cream truck, who is super happy and loves to sing. Jingles comes from the ice cream world.- Animate Inanimate Object: An animated ice cream truck.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Her colors are made to resemble Neapolitan ice cream.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: Jingles is an amazing singer who loves singing about ice cream (which is her favorite thing).
- The Blank: Like Sidetable and Fiery Truck, when she is not speaking she switches to a "inanimated" form.
- Blue Means Cold: Although she is primarily white, a considerable portion of her body is blue and she is an ice cream truck.
- Cheery Pink: She is pink, (+brown with white) and extremely cheerful and excitable.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: A mobile, sentient ice cream shop that is more than happy to sell and teach people how to make ice cream.
- Gentle Giant: As a sentient vehicle, she is much larger than the average person in the neighborhood (she makes the 5'10" Josh look tiny in comparison), and is also kind, loves helping people and more than anything spreading joy with ice cream, she even takes Josh and Blue to the ice cream world to try to improve their mood when their ice cream melts.
- Inexplicably Awesome: Like the Skidoo Express, she can skidoo to other locations.
- Interspecies Friendship: She is good friends with her three backsingers, who are sentient ice cream cones. She also gets along very well with Josh and Blue.
- Keet: She is even happier than Josh himself, never seeming to be down, always singing, shouting with happiness and telling facts about ice cream.
- Meaningful Name: Twice. She's called Jingles and she is an ice cream truck announced by the signature ice cream bell jingles and often repeats her business jingle.Jingles: Scoop, scoop, scoop, with a cherry on top!"
- Sentient Vehicle: A sentient ice cream truck.
Marky Marker
Marky Marker
Marky
Voiced by: William Tronsor
A talking marker that Blue and Steve occasionally observe making art. He didn't appear much in the animated series, but he has a slightly larger role in the games.- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient marker.
- Ascended Extra: He doesn't appear much in the original series, but he is a recurring character in the games, being the one who guides the player in many games involving paintings.
- Flying Face: A rare example of an Animate Inanimate Object. He has no other body parts besides his face and floats around while drawing.
- Punny Name: His name is obviously a joke with him being a marker.
Hospital Workers
Neighborhood residents who work in the hospital neaby the yellow house.
Baby Doctor
Baby Doctor
Voiced by: Lisa Kudrow
The neighborhood baby doctor.- Animal Occupation Stereotypes: A stork that works "delivering" babies.
- Delivery Stork: In a variation, she is a stork and a baby doctor who works in the hospital's nursery.
- Intellectual Animal: She is a stork who has a degree in medicine and is a pediatrician.
- No Name Given: Never named in her short time on screen.
Doctor Eyeleen
Doctor Eyeleen
Voiced by: Sherry Stringfield (Original Series) Victoria Sullivan (Reboot)
The neighborhood ophthalmologist or "Eye Doctor" who examines Magenta and delivers her new pair of glasses.- Punny Name: An eye doctor named Eyeleen.
- Robot Girl: An optician robot that uses feminine pronouns.
Doctor Mya
Doctor Mya
Voice Actor: Nisette Oiola
The neighborhood veterinarian.- Kindly Vet: She a veterinarian and is very friendly and kind with her patients.
- Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Nurse Kenny's fat.
Nurse Kenny
Kenny
Voice Actor: Anthony Hsu
The nurse at the neighborhood veterinary clinic.- Big Beautiful Man: He is overweight and as cute as any other character in the franchise.
- Kindly Vet: A vet nurse who is extremely patient and friendly.
- Fat and Skinny: He's the fat for Doctor Mya's skinny.
Sock Puppet
Sock Puppet
Sock Puppet
Voiced By: Stacey DePass (Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure), Cory Doran (The Wizard of Skidoo).
A friendly and happy sentient sock puppet who owns a sock puppet shop. She is also part of the chorus of sock puppets that announce the arrival in skidooland.- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient sock puppet.
- Hand Puppet: One that is sentient, and has an entire store dedicated to selling non-sentient hand puppets.
- Keet: She is quite cheerful, does not have an internal voice and often speaks shouting with joy.
- Severely Specialized Store: She owns a store that exclusively sells sock puppets.
- Your Size May Vary: She is around Tickety's height when she is in the neighborhood, but is taller than Blue in skidooland.
- Vocal Dissonance: Although she is a girl puppet, she has a rather deep voice in "The Wizard of Skidoo".
