Blue's Favorite Song

"Blue's Favorite Song"
Episode number	Season 1, Episode 6 (#106)
Airdate	October 7, 1996
Written by	Angela C. Santomero
Directed by	Todd Kessler
Question in the episode	What song does Blue want to sing?
Clues	A Duck A Barn A Tune (C-C-C-G-A-A-G)
Answer to Blue's Clues	Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Chronology
Previous episode	"What Does Blue Need?"
Next episode	"What Does Blue Need?"(aired) “Adventures in Art” (produced)
Update in or theme concept made into	Song Time with Blue

"Blue's Favorite Song" is the 6th episode of Blue's Clues from the first season. It was the 5th episode aired in the United States.

Summary

"It's song time, but first Blue and Steve listen to sounds and determine their appropriate musical instruments, remember and repeat the line of a song, and determine which chick is singing in tune to Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Steve and the viewers deduce what Blue's favorite song is."

Elements

• Question: What song does Blue want to sing?
• Clues:
  • 1. A Duck
  • 2. A Barn
  • 3. A Tune (C-C-C-G-A-A-G)
• Answer to Blue's Clues: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Wrong Answer: Rubber Ducky Had a Barn
• Living room picture: A red barn (same as "Snack Time", also the Skidoo location)
• Felt Frame picture: Felt Friends with music notes

Recap

It was song time, and Blue was playing piano, and then she jumps on it, but Steve cannot figure out Blue's favorite song. They play a game of Blue's Clues to find out. Steve steps on the first clue, a duck, and draws it in his notebook. Later on, Steve and Blue try to find the right sounds for each musical instrument. Immediately after that, the phone rings. Steve answers it and it was the felt friends on the phone who had a song of their own. Steve tries it but messes up. He listens again. He gets it right and hangs up the phone. Steve sees the felt friends Fifi and Freddy.

They both sang Boom-ba-cha-cha-la-la boom-boom-bop. Steve sings along with them. Then it was mail time. Steve reads the letter where a boy named David is making a maraca. After that, Blue and Steve Skidoo into a picture of a farm, just like they did in Snack Time. Immediately after that, Steve finds the second clue, a barn, and draws it in his notebook. Steve had two clues to what Blue's favorite song is, which were a duck and a barn. Steve had to find the third clue so he can get more information. Steve and Blue saw some chicks who were putting on a song show. They were going to sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." They figure out the right verses and the right key for the song. Soon after, Blue and Steve skidoo back home. Not long after that, Steve hears the piano playing off-screen. Steve sees the third clue on a piano key. Steve touches the piano key that the little paw print was on.

After tapping the key it was on a few times, the paw print moves to different keys and Steve realized he just played a little tune that went "C-C-C, G, A-A, G". He draws the third clue in the notebook. He goes to the thinking chair to put all the clues together. Steve thought it was Rubber Ducky Had a Barn. But the answer was Old MacDonald Had a Farm. After figuring out Blue's Clues, everybody (including the musical instruments, the felt friends, and the chicks) got together for song time. Blue was on piano and Steve was on guitar. They play the tune "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". Not long after that, Steve plays "The So Long Song" and the episode ends.

Video Releases

• Season One (3 Disc Set, DVD, 2014)

Objects

• Kazoo
• Trumpet

Characters

• Blue
• Steve
• Mailbox
• Sidetable Drawer
• Felt Friends
  • Freddy
  • Fifi
• Snail
• Chicks
• Musical Instruments
  • Piano
  • Maracas
  • Conga
  • Trumpet
  • Flute
  • Tuba
  • Recorder
  • Clarinet
  • Triangle

Gallery

Steve's early-mid Season 1 hair (2nd version) from Adventures in Art-Blue Goes to the Beach is shown.

Steve grabbing the Handy Dandy Notebook

Steve steps on the first clue

Duck

Steve we need our Handy Dandy Notebook

Alternate Notebook cover

Duck

Steve Said What song does Blue want to sing? with a Duck?

Steve said We got Letter with Song note Stamp

Letter with Song Note

Steve Said What is that?

There's a clue on this

Barn

Barn

Barn

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Piano tune 3rd clue

This Tune is our Clue

Piano

Tune

WE READY FOR OUR THINKING CHAIR

What is that who had farm?

Steve Said Blue want to Sing Old MacDonald

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Okay Everybody time for sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Background

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Trivia

• This episode's closing credits (Banjo) music was later reused for the credit music of The Grow Show!.
• This is the first time Steve plays the guitar while singing The So Long Song.
  • Steve moves to the front of the Thinking Chair to make it zoom out of the house before the closing credits.
• Even though it is shown that the house has a piano, this is the only episode that didn't have this kind of piano that don't appear until the remake.
  • This piano would later be seen in the remake of this episode.
• This is the first time that the Felt Friends move, talk, and interact with the main characters.
  • The felt friends in this episode's names were Freddy and Fifi.
• This is the fourth and final episode where Steve does not do his arms swinging dance at the beginning of the Mailtime song from What Time Is It for Blue?, Blue's Story Time, and What Does Blue Need? (which is the last aired episode where that happens).
• It is also the first time Blue joins the Thinking Chair to see the letter she and Steve received.
• Steve is revealed to have a guitar in this episode.
• This is the first appearance of Blue's Modern Singing at Mailtime.
• It is revealed by the boy sending Steve the letter that his name is David, marking the second time any child sending a letter to Steve is known by name.
• Many scenes from this have re-shot footage of the second version of his early-mid Season 1 hair from the next episodes Adventures in Art and Blue Goes to the Beach.
• Steve said "Notebook" twice for the second clue.
• The clues during thinking time appeared so fast out of the notebook.
• Steve sang "That we want to do" for The So Long Song.
  • Joe would sing that in season five.
• This is the first time that the rubber duck represents a clue.
  • Steve will draw the same duck again in Blue Wants to Play a Game (Along with an actual duck).
• This is the first episode that Steve skidoos into a location and finds the second clue immediately afterward. This time, Steve Skidoos into a picture of a farm and finds the second clue on a barn.
  • The other one is The Trying Game.
• The duck sang the tune with Steve during thinking time.
• The answer to Blue's Clues is the same answer from the season six finale episode, Bluestock and the version from Blue's Clues & You!).
• The telephone turns into a real-life telephone when it rings and Steve answers it.
• This episode was later remade in Blue's Clues & You!, titled Song Time with Blue.
• This is the first episode where The So Long Song was sung in a different place in the house.
• In the credits, Blue's second action is missing.
• This episode mainly features a Noggin Blue Ball logo.
• This episode premiered on the same day as the premiere of Hey Arnold! on Nickelodeon, the premiere of Arthur on PBS Kids, and the launch of Fox News.
• Steve and Blue both skidoo to the farm, just like they did in Snack Time.
• Fittingly, since the picture frame is a red barn, the Play Blue's Clues footage is the exact same one as Snack Time.
• This is the second time Steve falls down when the telephone rings, the other was in Snack Time.
• After the So Long Song, Steve waves goodbye silently.