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Meet Josh!

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Josh, the new host of the Blue's Clues game, arrives home and tries to work out what his puppy Blue wants with her snack. With help from the viewer and a video call to his cousins Steve and Joe, he finds three paw-print clues, a cup, a straw and a cow, drawing each in his notebook and visiting an animated farm along the way. Sitting in his thinking chair, he reasons that cows make milk, so Blue wants milk poured in a cup to drink with a straw. The episode ends with a snack party and a closing song.

Happy Birthday Blue

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Host Josh welcomes the viewer to Blue's birthday party and needs help figuring out what present the puppy Blue wants. Across a colourful house, backyard and animated present store, he collects three clues, the colour green, a tank and a shell, drawing each in his notebook. Sitting in the thinking chair, he reasons that the answer is a turtle, which he gives to Blue as a green turtle named Turquoise. The episode ends with the whole group singing, blowing out candles and eating birthday cake.

Big News with Blue

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Josh and his animated puppy Blue play Blue's Clues to work out Blue's big news. With help from friends like Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Tickety, the Mailbox and Slippery Soap, Josh finds three clues, writes each in his notebook, and thinks them through in the thinking chair. The clues, Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper and a bottle, lead to the answer that the couple has had a new baby. The episode ends with the reveal of twins, Sage and Ginger, and a goodbye song.

Fort Yaber

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Phoebe and Jay are siblings who want to surprise their friend Manny by building a pillow fort while he is away doing chores. Using a diagram Manny drew, they gather blankets, pillows and couch cushions, but their first attempt collapses because they ignore the order of the steps. With encouragement from their dad, they realize the numbers on the diagram show the sequence, rebuild the fort correctly, and add their own touches to make it bigger. Manny returns to find the finished fort, and the family wraps up with a playful pretend gator chase.

Jessica's Restaurant

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Jessica visits Rosie's restaurant with her dad and tastes gumbo for the first time, discovering that trying new food can be fun. Back home, she and her friend Stanley set up their own pretend restaurant, drawing a menu and serving snacks to family and friends. When their last crackers break, Jessica invents a new dish from carrots, peanut butter and crumbs. Everyone tastes it and enjoys the surprise creation.

Playdate with Magenta

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In this episode a live-action host named Josh and his animated puppy Blue play a round of Blue's Clues to work out what Blue wants to do when her friend Magenta comes to visit. Along the way they help Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper make snacks, join Shovel and Pail in hide and seek, and collect three clues: Josh himself, a smile and a phone. Sitting in the thinking chair, Josh puts the clues together and realises Blue wants to take a picture. Magenta arrives and everyone poses for a group photo before the goodbye song.

Star Ball

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Alma has to skip her perfect freeze tag plans to tag along to her mom's meeting, where she finds her friends Andre and Rofia bored. Using the empty space, the three invent a floor board game they name Star Ball, with Andre drawing the board, Rofia supplying a spinner, and Alma adding rules. When Alma keeps changing the rules to her own advantage, Andre and Rofia get frustrated and want to quit. Alma thinks back over what happened, apologizes, and the friends agree on the rules together before happily replaying the game, which Andre wins.

The Thumbsucker

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Jessica, a young girl living with her family, realises she sucks her thumb without noticing and decides to stop so she can do 'big kid things'. Over one afternoon at home she tries a string of plans, a mitten, sour and yucky flavours, even wrapping herself up, and fails each time before asking her dad and uncle for help. Her uncle suggests keeping her hands busy, and she starts coloring to redirect the urge. By the next TV night she gets through a whole show without sucking her thumb and her brother tells her he is proud of her.

Alma the Artist

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Alma notices the painted murals around her Bronx neighborhood and suggests decorating the blank gate on Mr. Huda's store. When her friends talk over each other with ideas about spaceships, cowboys, and basketball players, Alma stops to think and proposes that everyone sketch a design for Mr. Huda to choose. He picks Alma's view from her window, and as Andre keeps adding space chinchillas, polka dots, and hippos, Alma learns to speak up and ask him to check with her first. The finished mural includes all the friends, and a neighbor asks Andre to paint the next one.

Curious George's Home for Pigeons

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On a city balcony, the curious monkey George draws birds when a tagged homing pigeon named Compass drops in. Told the balcony isn't a good home for a pigeon, George sets out to build the bird a tree, working through pipe cleaners, clay and a pile of found materials while making a big mess indoors. In the end the doorman arrives to take his pigeon back to its real home, and George is given a real tree for birds to visit. The pigeon leaves happy and George stays as curious as ever.

Happy Birthday, Qyah!

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Molly and her best friend Tui set out to answer one question: how old is their Alaska Native village of Qyah, really? After Molly's dad finds a cave revealed by an earthquake, the two join archaeologists Nina and Olin to investigate signs that ancestors once sheltered there. They uncover a painted pictograph that matches an oral origin story, get briefly trapped by an aftershock before climbing out, and help carbon-date the find. The episode ends with a new museum exhibit, a corrected town website, and the news that people have lived in the area for at least 13,000 years.

Drawing Time

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Jessica and her friends put on unicorn party hats to watch a movie, but the TV breaks and Dad cannot fix it right away. Left to entertain themselves, the children decide to draw their own story and imagine traveling through 'the lands of paper' to reach a unicorn dance party. Along the way they solve small problems with their drawn characters and help Felix, who thinks he is a bad artist, see the value of his own style. When Dad finally gets the TV working, the children choose to keep making up stories instead.

Jack and Olivia's Big Bus Adventure

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Jack, the host of a kindness show, helps a girl named Olivia who feels nervous about her first school bus ride. At the Hummingbird Cafe he gives her a practice ride, a toy bus buddy and encouragement from friends until she climbs aboard the real bus on her own. When Olivia leaves her lunch behind, Jack rushes it to the class at the farmer's market. There they watch how sunflower seeds are turned into sunflower butter, and the episode closes with a song about spreading kindness.

Chip Is Sorry

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Chip the pug puppy spends the day trying to apologize to her best friend Nico after getting him into trouble at school, but Nico is busy with his visiting daddy. With help from her brother Spud and his friend Paco's walkie-talkies, Chip finally voices her apology, and Nico forgives her and explains he was simply spending time with his dad. The two confirm they are still best friends, and the episode ends with Grandma and Gordy arriving with pumpkin tacos and news of a new taco restaurant in the neighborhood.

A Royal Visit

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At Honeydew School, the bees learn that the Queen is coming to celebrate the school's 100th birthday. Everyone is given a job, but Busby keeps being turned away and his painting gets ruined, so he slips off to a quiet spot on his own. There he meets a friendly stranger who suggests he paint a new picture to send to the Queen. When the visitor is announced, Busby discovers his new friend is the Queen herself, who asks him to keep his painting for her.

The Secret

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In a bright seaside town of talking animals, a friend keeps being told secrets and keeps blurting them out to everyone. Each slip is smoothed over by turning it into a kind compliment, which keeps friendships warm even when the secret escapes. The biggest secret, that Podium the crab is preparing a dance show, turns out to be something everyone already knows. The episode ends with the friends happily agreeing that a shared secret is no secret at all.