130. Blue's Clues 30th Anniversary

So-

I dare say, was this the original blue dog? O- other than Huckleberry Hound, you know.

Yeah.

I think, I guess Huckleberry Hound was the first original blue dog, obviously well before Bluey.

Mm-hmm.

Paving the way.

See, Blue walked so Bluey can run.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

That's true.

Blue, Blue left the clues on how to be a successful TV show.

Blue skadooed onto the story.

[laughs]

If he could too.

[laughs] But yeah, it was like the first of its kind.

It was.

And, and as for me, like I, I grew up with it even though I was probably too old to watch it.

I really, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Um, watching Nickelodeon and Nick Jr., it was just a really cool concept of a show to have the host talking back to you.

Of course, we grew up with like Pee-wee's Playhouse and Mister Rogers and stuff, but this one took a different approach with making it really interactive with the audience, and that was really cool.

And especially like Steve talking to the camera like that, that was literally all him because in his audition he thought he was just gonna be doing a voice role because he did voice acting.

And so if he knew that he was gonna be the star of the show, he probably would have not went into the audition 'cause he's like, "I don't wanna be the main character.

I don't wanna do that." But he literally played to the camera because he thought Blue's Clues was a game show.

So he was like, "Can you spot the triangle? Here's how to spot the triangle," you know, like a regular standard game show host.

But he took a different approach, and he actually walked up to the camera, "Do you know where the triangle is? Where's the triangle?" And the audition people loved it, and that's how he got the job as Steve from Blue's Clues.

And, uh, uh, for all of you listening, no, you're not y- hearing things.