Blue's Clues (seasons 5 & 6)

Blue's Clues is an American children's television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn.

Unfortunately, the show went downhill in Seasons 5 and 6.

Overall

 * 1) Nickelodeon decided to milk the series for all its worth during these seasons by keeping it going after Steve Burns left because he was going bald.
 * 2) *While replacing the host is not bad at all, Joe himself is not as good as Steve, see reasons below.
 * 3) Some plots are rehashed from older episodes. For instance, "Animals in Our House?" is basically Joe's version of "Animal Behavior!".
 * 4) These seasons are filled with mediocre/bad episodes, such as:
 * 5) *"Can You Help?" (which started the downfall of the whole series)
 * 6) *"Blue Takes You to School"
 * 7) *"Morning Music"
 * 8) *"Legend of the Blue Puppy" (which was a horrible way to start season 6)
 * 9) *"Meet Blue's Baby Brother" (which ended the series on a sour note)
 * 10) *"Soccer Practice"
 * 11) *"Scavenger Hunt"
 * 12) *"Love Day" (arguably the worst episode of the show)
 * 13) *"Bluestock"
 * 14) *"Blue's Wishes"
 * 15) *"Our Neighborhood Festival"
 * 16) *"Blue's Big Band"
 * 17) *"Bedtime Business"
 * 18) *"Joe's Clues"
 * 19) *"Blue Goes to the Doctor"
 * 20) *"Playdates"
 * 21) *"Joe's Surprise Party"
 * 22) *"Animals In Our House?"
 * 23) *"The Snack Chart"
 * 24) *"Meet Polka Dots!"
 * 25) Several awful/bad/mediocre/annoying new characters:
 * 26) *Roary the Dinosaur only has one trait, which is roaring really loudly. His roars also sound like Tarzan yells and his voice is annoying.
 * 27) *Polka Dots (a sea-green plush toy who creates puzzles for others to solve) is overly talkative and obnoxiously loud.
 * 28) *Fred/Frederica (a princess doll) has a tendency to pretend that it's her birthday, which gets annoying and tiresome fast.
 * 29) *Silly Seat (a chair who tells silly jokes and crazy riddles) is a laughable sofa who does nothing but tell "knock-knock" and "what do you call?" jokes to make others laugh.
 * 30) *Joe (Blue's caretaker in these seasons and Steve's brother) has his flaws, since he's hyperactive and goofy host, even though he was tolerable in "Blue's First Holiday", "100th Episode Celebration", and his debut episodes from Season 4. He has also become a Gary Stu.
 * 31) **He fed Blue chocolate in three episodes ("The Snack Chart", "Scavenger Hunt", and "Soccer Practice"), despite the fact that chocolate is poisonous to dogs in real life because it contains theobromine (though Blue might be immune due to her origins).
 * 32) **He and Steve are almost the exact same character with only a few differences between them. Both hosts even do the same things, such as telling the audience that they need their help playing Blue's Clues.
 * 33) **His shirt changes color in every episode for no apparent reason.
 * 34) **Basically, like how Sammy Hagar ruined Van Halen and Phil Collins ruined Genesis, Joe ruined the entire series because of his flaws.
 * 35) Most of the inanimate/sentient object character designs are unfitting for a children's cartoon, as they fit more into Battle for Dream Island or Inanimate Insanity instead. Coincidentally the show was animated by most of the animators of those shows.

Season 6

 * 1) The show experienced several unnecessary changes:
 * 2) *Several attempts were made to save time due to the Blue's Room segments. Most notably, "Play Blue's Clues" was shortened considerably and the "So Long Song" disappeared.
 * 3) The talking clues (introduced in late Season 5) became permanent.
 * 4) Joe becomes even goofier than he was in the fifth season.
 * 5) A horrible ending song called "The Goodbye Song" is used in every episode.
 * 6) Unlike the first five seasons of Blue's Clues, this season doesn't have a single good episode (except for the Steve ones).
 * 7) The show completely jumped the shark in this season, as a new segment called Blue's Room started taking up the last few minutes of each episode.
 * 8) *Blue can now talk, despite already being understood by those who watched the series. Not only that, but she also never stops talking.
 * 9) *None of the characters from the original series appear except in the episode "Meet Blue's Baby Brother".

Good Qualities

 * 1) mh:besttvshows:Blue's Clues & You! is great and a huge improvement over these seasons, as it stays faithful to the original Blue's Clues and the characters become more tolerable.
 * 2) The Steve episodes (originally made for Season 4 but delayed), "Blue's First Holiday" (which ended the fifth season on a high note and would have been a good series finale if the show didn't get a sixth season), and "100th Episode Celebration!" are the only decent episodes from these seasons.
 * 3) The characters are still tolerable. Despite his flaws, Joe is still a decent host. People started realizing that the changes made to the show were not his fault and started to warm up to Joe. The reception of Joe is now largely positive.

Reception
TBA.

Comments
This show went completely jumped the shark in those seasons.

-- XanManYT (talk) 12:12, 18 May 2022 (UTC)