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) Some plots are still recycled from older episodes. For instance, "Animals in Our House?" is basically Joe's version of "Animal Behavior!"
 * 2) These seasons are filled with mediocre/bad episodes, such as:
 * 3) *"Blue Takes You to School"
 * 4) *"Morning Music"
 * 5) *"Legend of the Blue Puppy"
 * 6) *"Meet Blue's Baby Brother"
 * 7) *"Soccer Practice"
 * 8) *"Can You Help?"
 * 9) *"Scavenger Hunt"
 * 10) *"Love Day"
 * 11) *"Bluestock"
 * 12) *"Blue's Wishes"
 * 13) *"Our Neighborhood Festival"
 * 14) *"Blue's Big Band"
 * 15) *"Bedtime Business"
 * 16) *"Joe's Clues"
 * 17) *"The Big Book About Us"
 * 18) *"Blue Goes to the Doctor"
 * 19) *"Playdates"
 * 20) *"Joe's Surprise Party"
 * 21) *"Animals In Our House?"
 * 22) *"Colors Everywhere!"
 * 23) *"The Snack Chart"
 * 24) *"Magenta's Messages"
 * 25) *"Meet Polka Dots!"
 * 26) These seasons were completely unnecessary, as "Steve Goes to College" would have been a perfect way to end the series.
 * 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) has been flanderized to become a hyperactive and goofy host, even though he was tolerable in the last few episodes of Season 4, "100th Episode Celebration!", and "Blue's First Holiday". 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 changes in this season:
 * 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".
 * 10) *"Meet Blue's Baby Brother" ended the show on a bad note because it was a crossover with Blue's Room.
 * 11) Nickelodeon decided to milk the series for all its worth and run it into the ground by keeping it going after Steve Burns left so his bald head wasn't shown on TV.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Blue's Clues & You! is a slight improvement over these seasons, though not by much.
 * 2) A few decent episodes like "Blue's First Holiday" and "100th Episode Celebration!".
 * 3) The show did improve slightly later on with later episodes as the main characters, except for Joe, became more tolerable than they were in the earlier episodes.

Reception
TBA.

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

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