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) *"Dress-Up Day"
 * 7) *"Numbers Everywhere!"
 * 8) *"Blue Takes You to School"
 * 9) *"Morning Music"
 * 10) *"Legend of the Blue Puppy" (which was a horrible way to start season 6)
 * 11) *"Meet Blue's Baby Brother" (which ended the series on a sour note)
 * 12) *"Soccer Practice"
 * 13) *"Scavenger Hunt"
 * 14) *"Love Day" (arguably the worst episode of the show)
 * 15) *"Bluestock"
 * 16) *"Blue's Wishes"
 * 17) *"Our Neighborhood Festival"
 * 18) *"Blue's Big Band"
 * 19) *"Bedtime Business"
 * 20) *"Joe's Clues"
 * 21) *"Blue Goes to the Doctor"
 * 22) *"Playdates"
 * 23) *"Joe's Surprise Party"
 * 24) *"Animals In Our House?"
 * 25) *"The Snack Chart"
 * 26) *"Meet Polka Dots!"
 * 27) Several awful/bad/mediocre/annoying new characters:
 * 28) *Roary the Dinosaur only has one trait, which is roaring really loudly. His roars also sound like Tarzan yells and his voice is annoying.
 * 29) *Polka Dots (a sea-green plush toy who creates puzzles for others to solve) is overly talkative and obnoxiously loud.
 * 30) *Fred/Frederica (a princess doll) has a tendency to pretend that it's her birthday, which gets annoying and tiresome fast.
 * 31) *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.
 * 32) *Joe (Blue's caretaker in these seasons and Steve's brother) is flanderized in these seasons to become a hyperactive and goofy host, even though he was tolerable in "Blue's First Holiday" and his debut episodes ("Steve Goes to College", "Joe's First Day", and "Joe Gets a Clue"). He has also become a Gary Stu.
 * 33) **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.
 * 34) **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.
 * 35) **His shirt changes color in every episode for no apparent reason.
 * 36) **Basically, like how Sammy Hagar ruined Van Halen and Phil Collins ruined Genesis, Joe ruined the entire series because of his flaws.
 * 37) 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 unnecessarybchanges:
 * 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) A few decent episodes like "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), "100th Episode Celebration!", earlier episodes like "Can You Help?" (which started this era on a high note), "The Big Book About Us" and "Colors Everywhere!", and "Magenta's Messages".
 * 3) In Season 6, the main characters, except for Joe, became more tolerable than they were in mid-late season 5.
 * 4) *Joe was also tolerable in earlier episodes in Season 5 as well, but became more goofy as the season went on.

Reception
TBA.

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

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