Blues Clues

Last night we bought a DVD at Target of all of the BIG Blues Clues stories. The real mile markers if you will. Now, keep in mind that Blues Clues has been going on for more than ten years now. It hit ten in 2006 and in that time a lot of mysteries have been solved and my daughter is a HUGE fan of the show.

The DVD was on sale too. For seven bucks, we could watch all of the episodes that really stand out.

Like the episode where we meet Steve's grandma. Do you know who plays Steve's grandma?

Blanche from the Golden Girls!

She popped out from behind a tress wearing a green striped long dress and it was awesome! She seemed to fit the role so well too. She seemed like she would be a great grandma.

Or how about the episode where Steve goes off to college. This is the big one, honestly, the reason we bought the DVD. See, I really liked Steve because, while Bues Clues is too new for me to have grown up with, I watched some kids that grew up with it and Steve was always cool with me. This Joe guy... He's alright, but not the familiar Steve.

Rumors abounded after Steve's departure from the show. I had heard That Steven "Steve" Burns had become a coke addict and died of an overdose. This isn't true though. I found him on MySpace. He's a musician in a band. Apparently he left because he wanted to focus on his music and there were some other, slightly less-important issues to be dealt with. Steve was losing his hair and wanted to shave his head, but the folks at Blues Clues said no.

Anyway, I never got the impression that Steve didn't want to be at Blues Clues, didn't like doing the show and helping out kids. He always struck me as a guy who was having a good time doing a job that wasn't bad at all. So when the college episode rolled around and they introduced his brother, Joe, it was an interesting one. Blue's Clues that day ended up being that Blue wanted Steve to take a phone with him to college so they can stay friends.

How sad is that?

And then all of the characters in the show had a surprise going-away party for him and I felt like this was pretty sad for Steve. If he was acting, he was doing a pretty good job. He said he would miss Blue and everyone else and then he looked at the camera and said "I'm going to miss you too."

Then he went off to college.

Later, Blue and Joe are playing hide and seek and the phone rang and it was Steve who wanted to talk to Blue of course, but then he wanted to to talk to us and he said he missed us. It was pretty sad.

The DVD though, well worth 7.00.