Blue paws

Blue Paws is the patch episode of Blue's Clues 

Characters

 * Blue
 * Steve
 * Mailbox
 * Mr. Salt

Trivia

 * In this test patch, Steve's shirt is a short-sleeved red shirt. In the first official episode, it was changed to a long-sleeved green striped shirt.
 * Early concepts showed Blue as a male cat, she became a female dog because Nick Jr. said that they already green lighted a show with a cat.
 * The animation is different from the rest of the series, but the thinking chair is the same throughout.
 * Nick Balaban, the voice of Mr. Salt, originally gave the character a New York accent before deciding the character should be French.
 * The skidoo sound effect will be transferred to the more familiar title of the show, Blue's Clues.
 * The patch did not air on Nick Jr. due to being a test patch being shown to some preschool kids to see if the show would get the green light. Although clips of it can be shown on Behind the Clues: 10 Years with Blue.
 * Steve says that he never played Blue's Clues before. Something similar happens to Joe in Joe Gets a Clue.
 * Mailbox is Pink in the patch.
 * If going off the release of the patch, then Blue's Clues will be 20 years old as of June 26, 2015.