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After Angela and her team noticed kids wanted to hug and talk to Blue, they decided to drop a segment into the end of Blue's Clues (ala Elmo's World in Sesame Street), where they could be able to do so. In the season 6 premiere special, The Legend of the Blue Puppy, which let viewers stay up past their bedtimes, for it was a primetime premiere, in February, 2004, a magical moon fairy named Moona comes out from a blue moon Blue, Joe, and their friends are watching and tells them about Blue's legend - she was born under that same blue moon with a litter of puppies, was the only one that was blue and the only one that liked music and drawing. She didn't know it until now, but Blue was born with a key that Moona told her would unlock her greatest gift, which the gang found in Polka Dots' pocket in the bedroom inside the house, and they jolted around trying to find a perfect lock, while Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper served key and moon-shaped cookies. Eventually, they found a lock in a box with Polka Dots' body colors, and inside was a playroom where Polka Dots came to life and Blue could draw pictures, sing and dance, play, pretend, and do all sorts of fun stuff. Moona told her that the playroom wasn't her greatest gift, which turned out to be that in her playroom, she could talk to her friends and the viewer. Together, Blue and the viewer had a "favorite colors party" with juice and played with her playroom friends before heading back home and telling Joe.
After The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Blue's Room continued to be a part of Blue's Clues for the eight remaining season 6 episodes before getting its own show, which premiered in August, 2004, with the first episode, "Snacktime Playdate", which was initially greenlit as an episode of Blue's Clues. Five more episodes followed suit, and with six altogether, season 1 of Blue's Room was the second shortest Blue's Clues season after Blue's Clues & You!'s fifth and final season (4 episodes). The element of Blue talking was heavily promoted by Nickelodeon. The DVD release of "The Legend of the Blue Puppy" and "Love Day" was called, "Blue Talks", as were a book and a video game, there was a board game called a "Talking Game", and the spin-off also spawned videos, books, toys, ornaments, party supplies, and a plug-and-play game.
Blue's Clues' 10th anniversary was on September 8th, 2006, but the celebration started a bit earlier, with Donovan Patton (Joe) going on a tour sponsored by NOGGIN, a Nickelodeon network that aired preschool programming, a VH1: Behind the Music-styled documentary about the making of the show, titled, Behind the Clues: 10 Years of Blue, and of course, the first episode of the second season of the spin-off, Blue's Room, titled, Meet Blue's Baby Brother. In it, Joe and Blue pick up Sprinkles, Blue's new brother, in Puppyville, and bring him to a family party at Blue's playroom. It is also the only appearance of Mailbox, the Spice family, and Shovel and Pail in the spin-off.
Season 2 would have ten more episodes airing throughout January to March 2007, making there eleven episodes of the season altogether and seventeen as a whole. Blue's Room failed to bring in ratings Nickelodeon wanted and was quietly cancelled after its second season. However, it wasn't forgotten, it joined the NOGGIN app when the name was revived in 2015 and would remain there until about 2019, was able to stream on Amazon Prime, episodes could be bought on Apple TV, was on Paramount Plus until it was one of the shows removed in December, 2024, and despite not being in Blue's Clues & You!, the reboot of the main show, references to it were scattered throughout Blue's Big City Adventure.