There are two scandals in Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues historical past that will probably be without end seared into the recollections of parents who grew up watching the sequence throughout its unique run: when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper had their child Paprika within the season one finale, and when Blue’s first proprietor Steve (Burns) left the present in 2002.

What made Steve’s departure—and the introduction of Steve’s youthful brother Joe (Donovan Patton)—such an enormous deal to Blue’s Clues followers was the way it marked the passage of time and the truth that issues change. In the years because the fictional Steve left Blue with Joe to go off for school, the Blue’s Clues legacy has lived on in subsequent sequence Blue’s Room and Blue’s Clues & You, the place each Burns and Patton have reprised their roles alongside Josh (Joshua Dela Cruz), Steve and Joe’s cousin.

Aside from the finale, the place Joe watches Steve catch a bus out of city, Blues Clues by no means spent an excessive amount of time dwelling on the gravity of his exit, however this week forward of a new live-action Blue’s Clues movie, Steve popped up on Nick Jr.’s Twitter web page with a message to all of the individuals who knew him when.

It’s jarring at first to listen to Steve acknowledge the scholar mortgage debt he incurred after going off to high school, however that’s part of life that lots of Blue’s Clues followers ultimately got here to grasp as they adopted in his footsteps. That stated, it’s a bit odd to listen to Steve tapping into that good-old Blue’s Clues parasocial relationship with different grown adults. But the the video’s earnest message is perhaps the type of factor you’d be eager about listening to if you happen to’ve ever questioned whether or not Steve from Blue’s Clues ever thinks about you.

Blue’s Clues & You is now airing on Nickelodeon, and the brand new Blue’s Clues film is due out a while within the close to future.

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