Blue's Room

Blue's Room is an American children's live-action puppet show based on the animated Nick Jr. series Blue's Clues. It was created as a series of shorts in 2003 and shown at the end of the Blue's Clues on Nickelodeon in 2004, beginning with the sixth season premiere "Legend of the Blue Puppy". It later became a spin-off series, running from August 10, 2004 to March 29, 2007.

Plot
Moona grants Blue a special wish–a new place where she can talk and make new friends. In Blue's Room, Blue does various activities with her new playmates Roary the Dinosaur, Frederica (Fred for short), Dress-Up Chest, Doodle Board, and Polka Dots, among others.

Why It Is Mixed

 * Fans of the original are split over this series, mainly due to Blue suddenly having the ability to talk and whether it was a good thing or not. However, the audience who watched it in the mid-2000s has tended to fondly look back on it and find it good on its own merits in recent years. Overall, the show was unable to match the success of its parent show Blue's Clues, only lasting for two seasons over 2 ½ years.

Why This Room Should Be Closed

 * 1) Blue is given the ability to talk in this show, which ruins the fun and defeats the purpose of Blue's Clues since the way everybody understood Blue, despite her only barking, made her cute and likable.
 * 2) *Not only can Blue speak now in the series, but she never stops.
 * 3) Much like the later seasons of Barney & Friends and the later seasons of Dora the Explorer, the show is basically nothing but sunshine and happiness to the point where it may get somewhat repetitive, unlike Blue's Clues (which was done in a much more tasteful manner).
 * 4) Poor/mediocre characterization:
 * 5) *Blue has been flanderized in the show to become a generic blue puppy who talks a lot.
 * 6) *Roary the Dinosaur only has one trait, which is roaring really loudly. His roars also sound more like Tarzan yelling.
 * 7) *Like Blue and Roary, Polka Dots is overly talkative and obnoxiously loud.
 * 8) *Fred/Frederica has a tendency to pretend that it's her birthday, which gets annoying and tiresome fast.
 * 9) *Silly Seat is a laughable sofa who does nothing but tell "knock-knock" and "what do you call?" jokes to make others laugh.
 * 10) *Doodleboard says "A Doodle, Doodle, Doodle" three times until he says "Guess", which can get very irritating.
 * 11) *Boogie Woogie is a jukebox who is obsessed with singing and dancing.
 * 12) *Sprinkles (introduced in Season 2) is Blue's baby brother who has rainbow spots. He also lacks any of the flaws, which makes him a Gary Stu.
 * 13) This show nearly killed the Blue's Clues franchise, as it went on an 11-year hiatus after its cancellation in 2007, until the announcement of mh:besttvshows:Blue's Clues & You! in 2018.
 * 14) In "Knights of the Snack Table", King Joe cries over losing his dragons when it isn't even a big deal at all, which makes him unlikable in the episode.
 * 15) Steve never appeared in the series, which is disappointing to everyone who grew up with his episodes of Blue's Clues. It doesn't help that he headed out for college in "Steve Goes to College".
 * 16) So many bad/mediocre episodes and shorts, such as:
 * 17) *"Cinderella"
 * 18) *"Roary"
 * 19) *"Silly Seat"
 * 20) *"Polka Dots"
 * 21) *"Old MacDonald"
 * 22) *"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
 * 23) *"Snacktime Playdate" (which started the series on a sour note)
 * 24) *"Beyond Your Wildest Dreams"
 * 25) *"The Power of the Alphabet"
 * 26) *"Meet Blue's Baby Brother" (which started Season 2 and ended Blue's Clues'' on sour notes)
 * 27) *"Knights of the Snack Table"
 * 28) *"Shape Searchers" (which ended the series on a sour note)
 * 29) Unfortunately, Paramount Global never bothered to cut out the shorts from reruns, DVD releases, or streaming prints of later Blue's Clues episodes.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Cute puppet designs.
 * 2) They encourage kids to use their imagination.
 * 3) Decent voice acting from Victoria Pontecorvo and Jared Goldsmith.
 * 4) Some characters from the original series (besides Blue) appears in this spin-off as one time guests, and are still likable such as:
 * 5) *Handy Dandy Journal
 * 6) *Dictionary
 * 7) *Key
 * 8) *Moona
 * 9) *Joe (who guest appeared in Season 1's "Holiday Wishes", and became a main character in Season 2)
 * 10) *The rest from here on out guest appeared in Season 2's "Meet Blue's Baby Brother":
 * 11) **Mailbox
 * 12) **Mr. Salt
 * 13) **Mrs. Pepper
 * 14) **Paprika
 * 15) **Cinnamon
 * 16) **Shovel
 * 17) **Pail

Trivia

 * Blue was puppeteered by Muppet performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, with Canadian voice actress Victoria Pontecorvo dubbing over her lines.