Blue's Clues/YMMV


 * Accidental Innuendo: We never find out what the book Steve reads in one episode (the book is called "A Really Great Book"), and he's very into it...what is that book about!?
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Feast your eyes.
 * Steve: cheerful inhabitant of a colorful house full of talking objects, or friendless schizophrenic whose loneliness has led him to populate his home with chattering hallucinations?
 * Or so pathetically stupid that he is regularly out-thought by pets and condiments?
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: You best believe it. And even if you don't much care for music aimed at the six-and-under set, you've got to admit that the show's full of Earworms.
 * Fridge Horror: In a later episode about patience, Joe helps Periwinkle -- the neighbor cat -- be patient while waiting for a bird's egg to hatch.
 * Les Yay: A lot of adult watchers think of Magenta as Blue's girlfriend.
 * Of course, it didn't help that a good amount of people thought that Blue was a boy.
 * Memetic Mutation: "There's a sock in a bakery?"
 * Periphery Demographic: The show was surprisingly popular even with older kids and parents--possibly due to a combination of Parental Bonus and the fact that Steve's jokes, while simple enough for kids to understand, weren't so painfully lame as to be unfunny to everyone else.
 * In fact, most college students will outright admit to watching it, or that was at least true when the show was still regularly airing new episodes, and particularly when Steve was still on.
 * Replacement Scrappy: Lots of people don't like Joe. Why? He isn't Steve. To be fair, though, he does just as good a job as Steve, he's just a little more enthusiastic about it.
 * Ruined FOREVER: How a lot of people felt about the clue segments once the clues started appearing without Joe actually drawing them, talking, and basically just solving themselves without Joe's intervention. Word of God had it that the change was made because the producers found in their research that the kids weren't really engaged in these segments, but fans balked because the change was made after the program had already been on for 4 1/2 seasons.
 * Tastes Like Diabetes: But it was quite tastefully done. And then Blue's Room was created.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Hoo boy... Most of the confusion stems from the lack of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics on Blue; she lacks eye lashes or a slim build as one might expect. She never speaks, just barks, and the pitch is deep enough that it can't be distinguished as explicitly feminine, unlike most cartoon dogs. Also, she is colored (and named) blue, often thought of as a boy's color by many children and parents alike.
 * Blue's a girl?
 * It doesn't help that in one episode, Steve refers to Green Puppy (another girl character, and a friend from Blue's school) in pronouns twice: once with a male pronoun, and again with a female one. And this was the only indication of Green Puppy's gender for a while.
 * Thank goodness for Spanish's gender specific adjectives!
 * How did Steve never use pronouns given the amount of time he spent talking to the audience about Blue? And if they really never revealed it in-show, how do we know it now?
 * Occasionally, if you listen, you'll hear Steve or Joe refer to Blue as "she" or "her".