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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 Season 5.

Bad Qualities The show experienced several changes in these seasons: Several attempts were made to save time in Season 6 due to the Blue's Room segments. Most notably, “Play Blue’s Clues” was shortened considerably. On top of that, the “So Long Song” was replaced with “The Goodbye Song”. Starting in late Season 5 with the episodes "Our Neighborhood Festival" and "Body Language", the clues magically draw themselves instead of being drawn by Joe. They also talk and sing, which many fans found both dry and annoying. They had a Blue’s Room segment take up the last few minutes of each episode in Season 6. Blue can now talk, despite already being understood by those who watched the series. Not only that, but she also never shuts up. None of the characters from the original series appear except in the episode "Meet Blue's Baby Brother". “Meet Blue’s Baby Brother” was not a good series finale and ended the show on a bad note because it was a crossover with Blue’s Room and felt more like a special. Some plots are still recycled from older episodes. Plenty of bad/mediocre episodes.

Good Qualities At least some of the show's charm from Seasons 1-5 is still present. The comedy is still hilarious. Blue's Clues & You! is a good spin-off and eliminated most of the problems mentioned above.

Trivia Blue's Clues went on a hiatus for two years after the last normal episode ("Bluestock") aired on May 10, 2004. The documentary "Behind the Clues: 10 Years of Blue" aired on July 27, 2006, then "Meet Blue's Baby Brother" aired the following week and the show ceased production.