Blues clues done in by identity politics disorder? - Patient Zero

[mindlessobserver]

So I missed the blues clues train growing up having been too old by the time it came along. The show has had a major renaissance though as Amazon now holds distribution rights and publishes it on its Prime streaming service. Suffice to say my kids love it with the strident demand for "puppy!" being given.

I have watched a ton of blues clues since. The first set of seasons are run by "steve" and focus solely on him and his dog blue. He does a brilliant job and the kids love the show. Problems emerge a few seasons later though with the introduction of a "neighborhood". Coincidentally, Steve's neighbors are checklist of wahmen and ethnic minorities. All struggling for air time in the short 30 minute episodes. The women actresses in particular being super forced and for all his efforts "steve" clearly had a hard time shoe horning in the new cast and it shows in his acting. Leading ultimately to him being replaced by "Joe". My oldest daughter is 3 years old and she loves blues clues. Until joe and the diversity cast. At which point she ignores it entirely. Cant say I blame her either. The show is terrible by that point. How terrible? They do an episode on Kwanzaa terrible.

I have to wonder if this is patient zero for the identity politics infection in pop culture. It's certainly the oldest infestation I have come across that turned something good into something contemptable. The actor who played steve claimed he left the show because he was going bald, but considering the leading article supporting that theory is the Huffington post, I have to press X to doubt.

 

[The Pink Panther]

This is so dumb, my dude. There was no forced diversity in Blue's Clues. There wasn't really any women actresses forced in for the sake of diversity and inclusion. Those actresses served purposes as characters integral to the narrative of the show. The "forced women" in the show was Magenta's (Blue's friend) neighbor and the deaf librarian of the town. That's pretty much it and they weren't made just to include "women on the show". Like WTF. There was no "diversity" cast when Joe came on the show either. Merely the things that changed when Joe came on was that the clues started talking and the ending theme song changed.

 

[SiccDicc]

This is so dumb, my dude. There was no forced diversity in Blue's Clues. There wasn't really any women actresses forced in for the sake of diversity and inclusion. Those actresses served purposes as characters integral to the narrative of the show. The "forced women" in the show was Magenta's (Blue's friend) neighbor and the deaf librarian of the town. That's pretty much it and they weren't made just to include "women on the show". Like WTF. There was no "diversity" cast when Joe came on the show.

BUT THE MISCEGENATION BETWEEN SALT AND PEPPER!

 

[Ronnie Rocket]

Steve was going bald and also he wanted to play rock star with The Flaming Lips.

Steve Burns- Mighty Little Man

www.youtube.com

 

[mindlessobserver]

This is so dumb, my dude. There was no forced diversity in Blue's Clues. There wasn't really any women actresses forced in for the sake of diversity and inclusion. Those actresses served purposes as characters integral to the narrative of the show. The "forced women" in the show was Magenta's (Blue's friend) neighbor and the deaf librarian of the town. That's pretty much it and they weren't made just to include "women on the show". Like WTF. There was no "diversity" cast when Joe came on the show.

So I was just hallucinating the sudden proliferation of characters all hitting various inclusivity check boxes? Or the shift away from solving simple real life problems to learning about all the differences that make us special?

 

[SiccDicc]

So I was just hallucinating the sudden proliferation of characters all hitting various inclusivity check boxes? Or the shift away from solving simple real life problems to learning about all the differences that make us special?

All cartoons do that when they run out of ideas, though. Even Rugrats started doing that.

 

[The Pink Panther]

So I was just hallucinating the sudden proliferation of characters all hitting various inclusivity check boxes? Or the shift away from solving simple real life problems to learning about all the differences that make us special?

Yeah, you are hallucinating the first one. The second one, yeah, I can see that...sorta.

Season 6 wasn't really about feeling "special" persay, but it shifted away from the academic context to more fantastical ideas. Like going to a Skidoo World or a Fairy Tale Adventure or inviting celebrities to sing semi-educational songs. It became more...corporate.

 

[mindlessobserver]

BUT THE MISCEGENATION BETWEEN SALT AND PEPPER!

So if Paprika is what happens when Salt and Pepper breed, how do we explain Cinnamon?!

Yeah, you are hallucinating the first one. The second one, yeah, I can see that...sorta.

Season 6 wasn't really about feeling "special" persay, but it shifted away from the academic context to more fantastical ideas. Like going to a Skidoo World or a Fairy Tale Adventure or inviting celebrities to sing semi-educational songs. It became more...corporate.

Which I definitely agree with. The vibe I got is that certain people realized they had something popular on their hands and decided to shoe horn in their corporate/political agenda.

 

[SiccDicc]

So if Paprika is what happens when Salt and Pepper breed, how do we explain Cinnamon?!

Vaccines.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Which I definitely agree with. The vibe I got is that certain people realized they had something popular on their hands and decided to shoe horn in their corporate/political agenda.

No. Not at all, dude. They just went for more fantastical concepts, more socially-related ones too, but on a kids' level. No political agenda involved in this show, not even close to having one. They only went there because they had to shoehorn Blue's Room because they wanted to hand over the torch, so they made Blue's Clues more cartoony to accommodate...with Blue's Room's surrealism.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Steve was going bald and also he wanted to play rock star with The Flaming Lips.

Steve Burns- Mighty Little Man

www.youtube.com

That's actually a great fucking song

 

[CWCissey]

Steve was going bald and also he wanted to play rock star with The Flaming Lips.

Steve Burns- Mighty Little Man

www.youtube.com

Holy fuck, I didn't know that song was by Steve from Blue's Clues! (It's the theme song for Young Sheldon by the way)

 

[Judge Holden]

Blues Clues? More like Jews Clues amirite nibbas?

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

That was my favourite TV show as a kiddie back in the early 2000s! But, I have to admit it was very very autistic.

But, as autistic was it was, that show had nothing to do with the current post-modern idpol/SJW/woke nonsense. Maybe that is because the show is from the 90s and 2000s, long before the fixed idea "everything is political" took motion in society... in fact, that was a time were the opposite was true. And then maybe, and mostly, because little kids are not that much into politics?

 

[RG 448]

I heard Steve committed suicide on three seperate occasions after leaving that show.

 

[Crichax]

Mega-autismo-mania, my dude.

Curious about the CGI reboot, though. That, in theory, could have an agenda within it.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

Blues Clues? More like Jews Clues amirite nibbas?

Blueskadoo, gas the Jews!

 

[Graffiti canvas]

ya niggas arguing about a show for toddlers.

 

[The Pink Panther]

ya niggas arguing about a show for toddlers.

Yeah...and? We're just as Autistic as the rest of the cartoon reviewers.

 

[Nekromantik]

All I remember from Blue's Clues is the mail song, because mine would sing it when ever I got the mail. I now know how my parents felt when I would scream when I heard the word of the day from Pee Wee's play house.