Patience

Summary[]

Patience is a virtue and that is what Joe and Blue learn to do.

Elements[]

• Question: What should Joe and Blue do while they wait for the egg to hatch?
• Clues:
  • 1. Pieces of Wood
  • 2. A Roof
  • 3. A Bird
• Answer to Blue's Clues: Build a birdhouse
• Skidoo: The Waiting Game
• Living room picture: An egg in the nest, then a cracked egg in the nest, then Baby Bird in the nest
• Felt Frame picture: Purple circle clock, Blue clock face, Yellow Numbers, Pink Color hands.
• Colored Shirt: Orange
• Snail Appearances: (1. under the bush) (2. next to the toy chest) (3. on one of the cards)

Characters Present[]

• Blue
• Joe (North America)
• Kevin (United Kingdom)
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Periwinkle
• Baby Bird (debut)
• Mama Bird (debut, only appearance)
• Mr. Spinner (debut, only appearance)
• Game Pieces (debut, only appearance)
• Boris (cameo)
• Shovel (end credits only)
• Pail (end credits only)
• Tickety (end credits only)
• Slippery (end credits only)
• Mr. Salt (end credits only)
• Mrs. Pepper (end credits only)

Video Release[]

• Holiday Wishes (DVD, 2005)

Locations[]

• Living Room
• Kitchen
• Backyard

Objects[]

• Notebook
• Airplane
• Nest
• Egg
• Car
• Birdhouse
• Glue

Trivia[]

• This episode has a lot of staff credited as Joe's Friends. Those are Prop Maker Christina Aprea, Junior Writer Jeff Borkin, Assistant Episode Coordinator Amy Guttell (and relative Adam G. Guttell), Production Manager Mason Rather, and Executive Assistant Amy Steinberg. Samantha Yearwood was also a friend of Joe in this episode before she became the Scripting Department Assistant later this season. Also included in the list are Barry & Laraine Mirsky, relatives of former Executive Assistant Amy Mirsky.
• This episode introduces Baby Bird, who will be seen in several future episodes. Baby Bird is important enough for the voice to merit a character credit, rather than being credited as one of Joe's Friends.
• In the Mailtime Segment, done to pass the time after we've already solved the clues but are still waiting for the egg to hatch, Mailbox tells Joe that he's been waiting patiently to give him a letter.
• This is the last episode where Mailtime happens after Blue's Clues is solved. The other episodes that happened were in: Mailbox's Birthday, What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture?, Blue's Big Costume Party, and Magenta Gets Glasses.
  • This is also the first time since Magenta Gets Glasses and the only time featuring Joe where mail is delivered at the end instead of finding the first or second clue.
• In this episode, the last few notes of the original Blue's Clues opening theme are played by a flute (which was also used for the bird card and the clue it represented (a bird) instead of the usual lap steel guitar.
• This episode is the last of the two episodes included in the 2005 DVD release of Blue's Room "Holiday Wishes" (Alongside Look Carefully...).
• The "Wait, wait, wait" strategy will be used again in "Blue's Big Car Trip".
• This was the first time Periwinkle finds a clue before it happened again in the next episode Joe's Surprise Party (but that time without Joe).
• This is the only time we see a full view of the back of the Blue's Clues House along with the other side of the street.
• Blue will hop across the credits again for the first time after making two sneak peeks in Stormy Weather and The Anything Box.
• This is the only episode where the U.K. version's credits are shorter. Usually, it's longer.
• Joe and Kevin both wear an orange squared shirt in this episode.
• This is the second time a roof is a clue. The first was in Adventures in Art.
• The music playing during the video letter segment was the Present Store music from "Mailbox's Birthday"
• This was the final episode of the British adaptation.
  • This effectively means that this episode marks Kevin's final appearance in the franchise as Blue's Clues & You! does not have a British adaptation.
• This is Joe's version of "What Did Blue See?".
• In the letter, while the boy waits in line to get to the checkout in the supermarket, he finds things that are not white, not red, not orange, not green, not light blue, not dark blue, not purple, not brown, and not black, but yellow.
• The squash is the only yellow thing that the boy didn't mention in the letter.
• The last thing the boy mentions in the letter before signing off is one of his baskets.

Goofs[]

• When Jeff Borkin is listed under Joe's Friends, he is credited as Jeffrey Borkin.
• In the UK version, during the Thinking Time segment, Kevin can be seen giving the viewers the middle finger. This happened earlier in the UK versions of Can You Help? and Blue Wants to Play a Song Game.

Quote[]

“Wait, wait, wait. What can we do while we wait?”

This quote will return briefly in Blue's Big Car Trip.

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Pieces of Wood (US)

Pieces of Wood (UK)

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That's one big pawprint! This roof is our 2nd clue.

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A Roof (UK)

A Roof (UK)

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A Bird (US)

A Bird (UK)

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Post Time Season 5 Patience

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3 clues from Patience US

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