Blue's Clues Episode Number 1: Snacktime (1997 VHS)

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Snacktime is the premiere episode of Blue's Clues.

Characters

 * Steve
 * Blue
 * Sidetable Drawer
 * Mr. Salt
 * Mrs. Pepper
 * Elephants
 * Tickety Tock (cameo)
 * Mailbox
 * Chicks
 * Cow
 * Morgan, Perry, and Brent

Synopsis
The episode begins when Steve greets the viewer and invites us at the table with Blue for snack time. However, Blue claims that their snack time is not complete, so she sticks a blue pawprint on-screen, and Steve tells us we're going to play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue wants for snack. Steve wipes off the pawprint with a rag and recieves the Handy Dandy Notebook from Sidetable Drawer. He shows us how to play Blue's Clues in a song - we find three clues, which Blue will mark her pawprint on, and Steve will jot them in his notebook. Then we sit in the Thinking Chair and think, think, think, and the answer will be found.

Steve follows Blue into his room and looks around for clues. He finds the first clue - a cup, and he draws it in his notebook. As he looks over his first clue, he notes that you can't eat a cup and assumes that Blue will put something in the cup. Next, Steve finds Blue under his bed and hears an elephant trumpet. We go over to a drawing of an orange elephant, who asks Steve and Blue to help him color his family. The elephant requests the big mother elephant to be colored yellow, and long-nosed brother elephant pink, and the small baby elephant purple. Steve asks the viewers to help him find the right colors. Once the elephants are colored, they celebrate with a bowl of peanuts and an excited trumpet.

As Steve leave his room, the phone rings. He picks it up and receives a call from someone who needs his help in the kitchen. There, he sees that Blue has knocked down a grocery bag and let out four different foods in different shapes. Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper ask Steve and the viewers to help them put the foods in the form of a shape name back in the fridge one by one. The orange is a circle, the cheese is a square, the grapes are a triangle, and the graham cracker is a rectangle.

Once everything is put away, Blue knocks down a cup of straws next. Just when Steve is about to put them back, he finds one with a pawprint on it, which means that the straw is the second clue! After the clue is drawn, Steve looks over the first two clues, noting that Blue wants something to drink. Just when Steve goes to look for the third clue, it's mailtime! Mailbox gives Steve a video letter. When Steve opens it, he watches three kids, Morgan, Perry, and Brent, making peanut butter apples. After the letter is done, Steve follows Blue skidooing to a picture of a farm.

At the farm, Steve finds some hat-wearing chicks. One of them is looking for his identical friend. Steve asks the viewer to help this chick find another one with the exact same hat. After Steve helps with two other chicks, he notices Blue wandering off and follows her. The viewer alerts Steve that the third clue is right there - a cow. After Steve jots down the third clue, we skidoo back home, ready for the Thinking Chair. Steve invites the viewers to help him think and he recites the three clues - a cup, a straw, and a cow. He incorrectly guesses that Blue wants to put a cow in a cup and slurp it with a straw. As Steve wonders that cows make aside from "moo" sounds, he notices they also make a liquidy substance called milk, which is the answer. Milk comes from cows and is poured into a cup and drank from a straw. Steve exclaims "We've just figured out Blue's Clues!"

At the table, everyone enjoys a glass of milk. They are then joined by Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, the family of elephants, and the chicks. Steve thanks the viewers for helping them and sings "The So Long Song" and says goodbye.