Are Blue and Magenta from 'Blue's Clues & You!' a Couple? (2024)

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Are Blue and Magenta from 'Blue's Clues & You!' a Couple? ›

Whilst the image doesn't confirm that Blue, who happens to be a girl pup, and Magenta are a couple, it does hint that the pair are part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Magenta is Miranda's pet and Blue's next-door neighbor and best friend. She is an artistic female puppy who loves to take and draw pictures, and she is also very friendly, just like her best friend Blue.

The star of Blue's Clues, Blue, is a girl puppy who communicates to Steve and Joe through barks, which they understand. Every episode she initiates a game of Blue's Clues in which she leaves three paw print clues for Steve or Joe and the viewer to find in order to a question.

Even though most children's television shows at the time were built around male characters, Blue was female and as The New York Times put it, "never wore a bow".

Magenta is Blue's best friend from school. She looks exactly like Blue except she is magenta with magenta-colored spots. Magenta likes photography and making macaroni picture frames.

Periwinkle (or simply Peri) is a male kitten from the city who first appears in Blue's Big Mystery. He is also Aly's pet. He becomes a recurring friend of Blue afterward.

The trend changed in 1940 when baby boomers dressed their boys in blue and girls in pink. They claimed that pink is a delicate color that suits girls and blue is vigorous, perfect for boys. With a surge in gender-oriented activities in 1980 and onward, pink became a fashion trend for girls and blue for boys.

Even though Bluey is blue, Bluey is a girl. That's because Bluey and Bandit are Blue Heeler dogs, so she looks like her dad. Bingo and Chilli, meanwhile, are the Red Heeler breed, so their fur is cream, orange and reddish-brown.

The colors pink and blue are associated with girls and boys respectively, in the United States, the United Kingdom and some other European countries.

In the 1920s, some groups had described pink as a masculine color, an equivalent to red, which was considered for men but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were increasingly choosing to buy pink for girls, and blue for boys, until this became an accepted norm in the 1940s.

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Thousands of adults who grew up in the 90s watching the popular kids show 'Blue's Clues' are only just realising the animated dog, Blue, is a girl. The show hosted by Steve Burns is accompanied by Blue while searching for a trail of paw print clues she's left.

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Don was known to be a feisty coach who encouraged a tenacious and aggressive style of play, and Blue was a Bull Terrier, a feisty and tenacious breed of dog with a strong sense of loyalty.

Sprinkles is Blue's younger brother.

Magenta (voiced by Koyalee Chanda in the original series and Diane Salema in the reboot series) is Blue's best friend, who is the same age as Blue and identical to her the exception of a magenta fur coat and glasses.

Magenta has been having trouble seeing lately, so she goes to the eye doctor to get glasses. Steve, Blue, and Magenta's owner, Miranda help her out and they get to see how an eye test works.

Watch this hilarious and surprisingly well-researched and insightful analysis of the spice family from Blues Clues — which consists of Mrs. Pepper and Mr. Salt, and their children, Paprika, Cinnamon, Sage, and Ginger.

Blue was meant to go with blue eyes and/or blonde hair, and pink for brown eyes and/or brown hair. Then, blue was actually the color that was assigned to girls, because it was seen as a dainty color, and pink was seen as a stronger color, so it was assigned to boys.

It wasn't until the 1940s that manufacturers went in the opposite direction and decided that pink was for girls, and blue was for boys. But then, just one generation later, the women's liberation movement ushered in unisex baby clothing once again, which remained in vogue until the mid-1980s.

It wasn't until the 1940s that retailers and manufacturers decided on pink for girls and blue for boys. Then the women's lib movement of the '70s actually pushed retailers back to gender neutrality. But in the '80s, the once lace-deprived girls became new moms, and the division of pink and blue started anew.

The baby boomers in the 1940s were the first to be dressed in the sex-specific clothing that Americans are familiar with today. Boys and girls were dressed like miniature men and women instead of uniformly in children's dresses. Pink became the girls' color, blue the boys'.