Occupations

Characters Present[]

• Blue
• Steve (North America)
• Kevin (United Kingdom)
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Mr. Salt
• Mrs. Pepper
• Paprika
• Slippery Soap
• Shovel
• Pail
• Fifi
• Horace
• Door (debut)
• Architect (pencil pen figure; debut)
• Librarian (book figure; incorrect answer)
• Farmer (trowel figure; incorrect answer)
• Builder (hammer figure; single appearance)
• Painter (pail figure; incorrect answer)
• Mechanic (ratchet figure; incorrect answer)
• Plumber (pipe figure; single appearance)
• Electrician (lightbulb figure; single appearance)
• Landscaper (rake figure; single appearance)

Elements[]

• Question: Who does Blue want to be today?
• Clues:
  • 1. A Wooden Stick
  • 2. A Bandage (Plaster in the UK)
  • 3. A Stethoscope
• Answer: An Emergency Doctor
• Skidoo location: A construction site
• Living room picture: A roof and a wall, then a red roof and a yellow wall with green windows and a green door, then a truck and a sign, then a house and a sign, then the red roof and the yellow wall with blue windows and a purple door, then a red cross
• Felt Frame picture: Fifi wears Astronaut costume.
• Letter: Orange (US & UK)
• Snail Appearances: (1. behind the vase) (2. on concrete block) (3. under the bush)

Summary[]

Steve, Blue, and their friends define different occupations.

Recap[]

All of Steve and Blue's friends are pretending to be different occupations, and they play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue wants to be. They help Steve, who is pretending to be a news reporter, and figure out what occupation their various friends are pretending to be. Then Steve skidooed into a picture of a house building site and help a blue door named Door build his house by calling on the right workers to complete their appropriate tasks.

Video Releases[]

• Blue's Jobs (VHS/DVD, 2006)

Trivia[]

• Danielle Gonzales, a relative of the first Production Coordinator for Murmur Music, Erick Gonzales, is one of Steve's Friends in this episode.
• Tickety Tock is absent in this episode.
• When Blue waves goodbye at the window, there is something wrong with the screen.
• When interviewed by Steve at the beginning of the episode, the viewer stated that he/she/they come over to play Blue's Clues.
• During the credits, the recording glitched up. This was also the first episode to introduce a new character in the credit sequence permanently, Shovel and Pail.
• In the UK version, Kevin sings the Post Time song with his reporter microphone in his hand, but not in the US version due to the Mailtime footage from Anatomy.
• The Thinking Chair music from Season 2's "What Was Blue's Dream About?" was used instead of from "Blue's ABCs".
• Throughout the episode, Steve's voice from Season 4 is used.
• This episode aired on Disneyland's 45th Anniversary.
• The part where Steve cleans up the Pawprint with a squeegee would later be mentioned in Joe Gets a Clue and reused in 100th Episode Celebration.
• In the UK version, the word "plaster" was used instead of the word "bandage".
• Throughout most of the episode Sidetable Drawer wore a security guard hat, but at the end when Blue was a doctor she wore a nurse hat.
• This is the third time of the line called "A Clue" from Blue's Sad Day.
• This episode used the "No!" phrase from "The Lost Episode!".
• This is the last episode to use the "Notebook!" phrase from "What Story Does Blue Want to Play?".
• This is also the last episode to use the "A clue! A clue!" phrase from "What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?".
• This is the only episode in which Steve does not say, "Bye!" after the letter ends. Instead, he says, "Fascinating story!" without it.
• Steve wears his brown shoes instead of his tan shoes for the first time since Mechanics!.
• In this episode, Mrs. Pepper pretends to be a pilot, but Joe will pretend to be that in Away Great Playdate, for which he will take Sprinkles and Blue to the farm where Jalen lives and where his house is.
• When the reporter girl says "Back to you, Steve.", she, the composer, and the studio people wave and say goodbye and the letter ends when they do so.

Gallery[]

This scene is from the 100th Episode Celebration

This scene is from the 100th Episode Celebration

This scene is from the 100th Episode Celebration

From UK version

Wooden Stick

Bandage/Plaster

Mailtime Season 3 Occupations

Post Time Season 3 Occupations

Orange Letter

Orange Letter

Stethoscope

From the UK Version

Occupations

3 clues from Occupations

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