What Was Blue's Dream About?

Here comes another. This one is my personal favorite season two episode, "What Was Blue's Dream About?" What's strange is the fact that this episode aired right after "Blue's Birthday" where Steve had much shorter hair, minus the intro, I point this out because Nickelodeon had a very strange airing order. But I digress. What's the story? Blue had a dream, and we play Blue's Clues to figure out what it was., along the way, we see what Slippery had a dream about, what Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper dreamed about what Paprika grew up to be, and Mailbox delivering a letter about making dream catchers, and last but not least, Steve and the audience help Sleeping Beauty change her nightmare into a party!

What's great about this episode is that it's fun, it tackles on dreams and how we can use our imaginations to change them. The episode also got funny at times, like for example, Steve mishearing "A clue!" as the viewers telling him to tie his shoes, it's important to note that it's revealed that Steve indeed wears green socks, the other funny part is the part where Steve trips over the second clue, the mat that is, and says :"Oops," as well as him getting the wrong answer about a leotard rolling up and taking a nap. I also like the idea of Slippery Soap's superhero alter ego, which ironically, he would get a superhero alter ego a few years later.

But perhaps the best highlight of the entire episode was of course, the Skidoo segment, where Steve and Blue skidoo into Sleeping Beauty's dream to fix it and make it into a party, changing a monster into a three layered cake (a piece of cake), during scary trees into three balloons, pretty neat, and finally, changing the dark fence into a fence with party hats on them, when all that's done, we get a cool song that unfortunately never released on CD on any of the Blue's Clues CD albums, "Our Dream" a glitzy Disco tune that really helped put Disco back on the map, kind of like how The Angry Beavers' "Beaver Fever" song did. If I didn't know better, I'd say this song looks like something that Christopher Cerf would write, in fact, I wonder if Christopher Cerf actually co-wrote this song with Nick Balaban and Michael Rubin. Oh, well, wild guess or not, we'll never know.

If your a fan of disco, or if your just a fan of Blue's Clues, go ahead and check it out if you haven't already. It's a heck of a lot of fun.