Episode
Blue's Clues: Animal Behavior!
Overview
In this episode, we learn all about different animals with the help of a book Blue has that we can use to look them up. As we learn, we also try imitating the behavior of a number of animals for fun. We help Shovel and Pail to find out why beavers pick up sticks and why birds tweet. In the Blue Skiddoo segment, we meet Lady Godiva, who uses a submarine to take us under the sea, where we find out about a very interesting form of animal behavior called ""camouflage.""
Details
- Series
- Blue's Clues
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1999-06-21
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Animal Behavior! is Episode 5 in Season 3 of Blue's Clues. It aired on 1999-06-21. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 4: What's That Sound?
In this episode, we listen carefully to hear all sorts of different sounds. We start out hearing a noise and identify it as wind chimes coming from outside. Later, we use noises to help Shovel + Pail follow a gopher to a neat-sounding stream. Later, we skiddoo into a soundless black-and-white movie to fix it up by adding sound effects to it.
Episode 6: Blue's Big Pajama Party
Blue is having a big pajama party, late at night at the Blue's Clues house. We're invited, but what fun is pajama party if you do nothing but sleep? Blue certainly thinks this and so we have all sorts of fun. We help Shovel and Pail to identify animals that stay awake at night. We even pay a visit to outer space to try and answer the deep question of just why it is that we have night.
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Episode 3: Weight and Balance
When Steve asks for help with some heavy groceries, it gets us thinking about weight and balance. We decide to compare the weights of some of the groceries and then later things around the Blue's Clues house. With the help of a scale, we solve a debate between Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. Later, in the Blue Skiddoo segment, we help out customers at a Country Store who are looking to buy some things that are very light.
Episode 7: Draw Along with Blue
Blue and Steve have been having fun drawing and we're invited to grab a pencil and a paper and draw along. We get to draw all sorts of neat things and meet Markie the Marker, who has us play a game in which he try to figure out who he's drawing. We look outside the window for something neat to draw and then share our drawing with Steve and he shares his with us. Later, we skiddoo into Chalk World, where Chalk-Girl asks for Steve's help in telling the story of him trying to find the third clue.
Episode 2: Art Appreciation
There's a big Art Show happening at the Blue's Clues house. We pose for a portrait for Steve. We alaso find that there's something fishy going on, when fish seem to be popping up in artwork everywhere. In a Blue Skiddoo segment, we help soem friends to get back to the paintings where they belong.
Episode 8: Hide and Seek
A hide-and-seek game gets us going as we look for things all throughout the episode. For example, we get calls from Felt Friends to help them find things that they're giving each other and so we use their descriptions to figure it out. Later, we skiddoo into Blue's current favorite story, a book where everything is in Blue. We listen to blues style music and try to figure out what Blue's favorite party of the story is.
Episode 1: Blue's Big Treasure Hunt
When Mailbox provides Steve with a package, it turns out to be a treasure chest, introducing ""Blue's Big Treasure Hunt."" Throughout the episode, we search for both clues and treasure hunt hints (scrolls of paper) to lead us to our goal. We solve riddles for clues and even find secret compartments. We even get to skiddoo into the Land of Great Discovery, where we help out characters from favorite nursery rhymes to remember just what happens in their rhymes.
Episode 9: Thankful
Steve has come up with a "Thankful Book" and so he's looking to find out some of the things that the characters in the Blue's Clues house are thankful for. We help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper prepare for the big feast they're having that evening and also find out about what they and Paprika are thankful for. We also get Shovel and Pail's thoughts on this, as Steve grows hungrier and hungrier. Finally, before the big feast, we skiddoo into a picture frame and help some felt friends out with sharing and Steve practices patience in waiting for the big feast just a little big longer.
Episode 10: Blue's Big Holiday
It's the holidays in the Blue's Clues neighborhood and we're getting together some great gifts, as well as creating patches for a memory quilt. In the Blue Skiddoo segment, we pick out the perfect gifts for some of Blue's friends. Later, we deliver them and learn all about various holiday traditions. In the process, we also receive several great patches for the quilt.
Episode 11: Pool Party
On a hot summer day, Blue and Steve hold a pool party, with a big list of friends to invite drawn up. We help to find them all to get them invited. We also test our memory skills - first using them to help Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper and Paprika to prepare sundaes. Later on, we take part in a Blue Skidoo segment in which we play a matching card game.
Episode 12: Anatomy
As we come in, Steve invites us to try out his stethoscope and listen to Blue's heartbeat. In this episode, we learn all about different parts of the body. We check out a computer program and learn about the mouth, the eyes and the ears. Steve shows off his muscles when helping Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. In the Blue Skiddoo segment, we experiment with a special type of x-ray machine.
Episode 13: Signs
Blue is trying to tell Steve something and in order to tell him, she decides to use a sign. It turns out that signs are all around us, in fact, Blue's Clues is a game of signs in a way. We help out Pail in this episode when Shovel posts signs to help find him. We learn all about ""don't"" signs as well as signs that give directions for locations. In the Blue Skiddoo segment, we find a girl named Carly whose telling a story in sign language and we help Steve with some of the signs that he's having trouble figuring out.