What's Inside?

Characters Present[]

• Blue
• Steve (North America)
• Kevin (United Kingdom)
• HyunShup Shin (South Korea)
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Mr. Salt
• Mrs. Pepper
• Paprika
• Boris Bunny (only appearance)
• Sammy (only appearance)
• Shovel (end credits only)

Summary[]

The finding of a secret lost door gives us the opportunity to talk about things that are inside other things. For example, we play the Grocery Game with Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. This involves placing various food items on shelves based on what's inside them. We also get to skidoo into a pull tab book, where we find many interesting things inside the tabs.

Recap[]

Steve welcomes us in. He's very excited, saying that he & Blue found something so amazing. It turns out that they've found a secret door. It's locked and we'll need a key to get into it. This whole secret door thing gets us exploring the concept of things that are inside other things. For example, Steve decides to take a look inside a piggy bank. He finds that there are coins inside. We get a call from Mrs. Pepper. It turns out that she, along with Paprika & Mr. Salt, wants us to play the Grocery Game. We're the guest contestants. The first round involves a shelf for things that have seeds. We're presented with lettuce, an apple, cottage cheese & milk. After thinking about it, we decide that the seeds are inside the apple. We're correct and are rewarded with an inside of the apple. We do again, and this time we look for things with red. We have a choice of a watermelon, mustard, a cucumber or a cantaloupe. None of these things are obviously red but Steve gets our help in figuring out that the watermelon has red inside. On the third and final shelf, we search for something with liquid inside. We have a choice of a box, bread, a carob pod, or coconut. Since this a hard one, we get to shake them. We hear a sloshing sound from the coconut and correctly choose that it's the item with liquid inside. In the Skidoo segment of this episode, we visit a pull tab book. Boris the bunny has asked for our help in finding his friend, Sammy the squirrel. We realize that perhaps Sammy is inside something. Pulling a tab reveals that Sammy lives inside a tree. Now that we've taken care of that, Sammy is thirsty and wants some juice. That's from an orange, orange juice, of course. We also check out some of the other tabs and find a nest of eggs in a tree and a hummingbird in a patch of flowers. Finally, we help out Boris, who is need of a snack after forgetting to bring one. He likes carrots and we pull a tab that reveals some growing under the ground. We also find a bird in another tree and some berries in a bush. And at the end we find the key in the music box to open the trunk. There was something inside. Blue opened the trunk with the key and there was Steve & Blue's Farm inside the trunk. Steve forgot that they put it in there. Boris opened the trailer door. Paprika opened the farm truck and there were horses inside. Steve sings the So Long Song and the episode ends.

Elements[]

• Question: Where is the key to our trunk?
• Clues:
  • 1. A Box
  • 2. Open
  • 3. A Melody
• Answer: A music box
• Skidoo location: Pull tab book
• Living room picture: A closed jack-in-the-box, then an open jack-in-the-box
• Felt Frame picture: Freddy opened the box
• Snail Appearances: (1. on the table) (2. beside the bush) (3. beside the lamp)

Objects[]

• Notebook
• Apple

Gallery[]

First clue

Box

Second clue

Open

Melody

Thinking Time Segment

correct answer

Background

Trivia[]

• A Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-style game is played when Steve and The Viewer played "The Grocery Game".
• When Steve says "Cool!" after winning a paper bag, he uses his early Season 1 voice.
• A letter was inside another letter twice. Steve had to open three letters to open the video letter, leaving the main question of the episode unanswered twice: "What's inside?"
• This episode features David B. Levy, but the credits were too short to accommodate the traditional order. Instead, Shovel appears by himself without Pail, and Tickety does not appear.
• This was the first episode to feature music as a clue. Steve can't really draw the sound itself, instead, he draws musical notes.
• A box was previously the first clue in the Season 2 episode, Blue's Senses.
• Steve does not say "Bye" before closing the letter, just like in Occupations in which he said "Fascinating story" and What's So Funny? in which he popped out of the Thinking Chair and barked like Blue when she closed the letter instead.
• Sammy, Sidetable Drawer, & Mailbox didn't appear at the end of the episode because they were very busy.
• When Boris Bunny appears at the end, Steve does ask the viewers if they remember when Sammy and Boris had a picnic together.
• Before Steve skidoos back home, he does not say goodbye to Boris and Sammy, but instead says, "Bon appetit!".
• When Steve says, "It's a letter from our friends!", what he means is "And it's really small!".
• The video letter about the inside of the submarine happens in the smallest letter.
• In this episode, Steve sings "Wonder who it's from." three times instead of once.

Goofs[]

• Despite not appearing in this episode, Periwinkle’s voice cast Kenny Kim was credited.

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