Trivia / Blue's Room

• Follow the Leader: All signs indicate that this was made in an attempt to cash in on Sesame Street and the Elmo's World segments, including having segments air at the end of Blue's Clues episodes. Needless to say, it didn’t work at all.
• Follow-Up Failure: Compared to its predecessor, the show only lasted two seasons, has barely aired reruns, and is rarely acknowledged by Nickelodeon.
• Franchise Killer: If Joe replacing Steve in the original show didn’t kill Blue's Clues, then this certainly did. At least, for over a decade.
• Looping Lines: While Blue was puppeteered by Leslie Carrera-Rudolph in the first season and Noel MacNeal in the second, her voice would be dubbed in by Victoria Pontecorvo.
• Milestone Celebration: The first episode of the second season (which crossed over with the original series, serving as its Series Finale), "Meet Blue's Baby Brother!", was made to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Blue's Clues.
• Production Posse: Many of the puppeteers and puppet builders from this series also worked on Sesame Street (Joey Mazzarino, performer of Murray Monster, played Roary, Sprinkles and Boogie-Woogie, while Cheryl Blaylock, AKA Eureeka, portrayed Frederica, and Polka Dots and Dress-Up Chest were performed by Oobi puppeteer Tim Lagasse, and then Bear in the Big Blue House puppeteers Peter Linz and Tyler Bunch. Other puppeteers included Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (Abby Cadabby) puppeteering Blue during the first season, Noel MacNeal (Bear on Bear and Magellan on Eureeka), Matt Vogel (understudy and currently full-time performer of Big Bird), Heather Asch and Lisa Buckley). 3/Design Studio, who created the Sprinkles puppet, also served as the puppet workshop for The Great Space Coaster, Eureeka's Castle, and Between the Lions. Two of the builders from season two, Lisa Buckley and Bob Fappiano, had previously served as assistant puppeteers for ALF.
• Recast as a Regular: Victoria Pontecorvo originally voiced Periwinkle in the Blue Takes You To School game, but voices the title character.
• Screwed by the Network: The show was basically dead on arrival, doing poorly in both merchandise sales and ratings. Joe's presence in Season 2 did not help matters. It only lasted 17 episodes, rarely had reruns, and was pulled from Nickelodeon after its final episode aired.

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