Magenta Gets Glasses (2024)

Magenta Gets Glasses is the 28th episode of Blue's Clues from Season 3.

Characters Present[]

• Blue
• Steve
• Sidetable Drawer
• Mailbox
• Magenta's Mailbox (cameo)
• Miranda
• Magenta
• Mr. Salt (end credits only)
• Mrs. Pepper (end credits only)
• Shovel (end credits only)
• Tickety Tock (end credits only)
• Dr. Eyeleen
• Orange Kitten
• Snail
• Skinny Pig (frame only)
• Billy Chicken (frame only)
• Sun (frame only)

Summary[]

Magenta goes to the eye doctor to improve her eyesight and to get glasses.

Elements[]

• Question: What should Magenta do after she gets her glasses?
• Clues:
  • 1. Magenta's House
  • 2. A Window
  • 3. Blue
• Answer: See Blue
• Place: Eye Doctor
• Living room picture: The Sun wearing sunglasses: Shaped like red stars, then black semi-circles, then green triangles, then blue hearts

Recap[]

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. While there, the eye doctor, Dr. Eyeleen, tests her vision through various means; at the end of the exam, she tells Magenta that she did need glasses, so they later help her pick out her glasses and also help out when she is a bit shy about wearing them in public. Throughout the episode, Steve and Blue play Blue's clues to find out what Magenta wants to do with her new glasses. Now Magenta is ready to go back to her house and end the day.

Video Releases[]

• Blue's Biggest Stories (DVD, 2006)
• Story Time with Blue (DVD, 2021) (bonus disc)

Trivia[]

• This episode was probably filmed after “Blue’s Big Musical” since of Steve’s hairstyle.
• This marks the first episode where Magenta wears her famous purple glasses.
• Steve acts flustered, awkward, and overly polite around Miranda, indicating that he might have a crush on her.
• Blue is the third clue again (third as a clue overall).
  • The first time it happened was on "What Is Blue Trying to Do".
    • Ironically, both episodes had her as a clue on herself.
    • The first two times overall as a clue was in “What Is Blue Trying to Do?” and “Weight and Balance”. It will happen again in “Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day”.
• This episode is on the DVD "Blue's Biggest Stories." It is the only episode on this DVD that wasn't on a prior Blue's Clues or Blue's Room home video release.
• The second clue appears on Eyeleen's glasses display.
• There is no skidoo segment in this episode. The skidoo music was played when Steve, Miranda, Blue and Magenta headed home.
  • This is the second episode to have the skidoo music played when racing to the thinking chair from a non-skidoo location, after Blue's Big Musical. It is followed by Blue's New Place and Blue Goes to the Doctor.
  • This is also one of the two episodes in Season 3 to not have a skidoo segment, the other being Blue's Big Mystery.
• Steve and Miranda sit together on the couch which they called it a Thinking Couch to do the clue review instead of the Thinking Chair (due to the lack of additional room for Miranda).
• At first, Magenta got shy of wearing her glasses in public. But Magenta realized that she should just be herself.
• During the clue review, Miranda remembered what the second clue was; a window.
• A brand-new original song in the Video Letter segment plays after Steve opens the letter. It just so happens to be the tune where all three clues were collected and pieces of the tune was played out for each clue found.
  • An acoustic guitar was heard for the first clue. An electric guitar was heard for the second clue. And the maracas was heard for the third clue. However, the drum was added in the video letter segment.
• This is the fourth time Steve gets the mail at the end.
• This is the first episode to feature a song in the video letter.
• This is another episode in which the Video Letter segment does not start with "Hi Steve" and end with "Bye Steve".
• Magenta gets sad like Blue in "Blue's Sad Day".
• Like in the episode "Shy", there is no UK, Pistas da Blue or Korean version because the producers could not find a replacement for Miranda. However there was a UK version of Magenta Gets Glasses, but only the book version.
• This is the other episode to feature Magenta's owner, Miranda.
• Steve did not use a blue crayon to colored blue in the notebook.
• This is the second time that Steve draws a window in his notebook.
  • The first was Adventures in Art.
    • They are both the second clue.
• Shovel appears without Pail during the credits.
• Steve, as usual, begins singing We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues but as the music stops, he cuts it off and lets Miranda take over having a turn singing a line but she didn't know what to do, she walks up and sings very slowly, then both of them sing together in a different way but without music.
• This episode was later remade in , as titled Getting Glasses with Magenta.
• In "We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues", Miranda and Steve sing the third and fourth lines to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".
• Dr. Eyeleen does not appear at the end of the episode because she was very busy.
• Steve's excited higher pitched voice from Season 1 was returned in this episode. This also happened in Stormy Weather.
• This is the first time a song happens in the letter without greetings and goodbyes. This will happen again later in Let's Boogie, Can You Help?, Blue Goes to the Doctor, Numbers Everywhere!, and Bluestock, but only by They Might Be Giants.

Goofs[]

• For some unknown reasons, this episode is listed in online listings as the Season 4 premiere, although this is a Season 3 episode.
• How did Blue put a clue on the window if Magenta was the one looking at it? Blue must've skidooed into Dr. Eyeleen's Glasses Display. However, she wasn't even seen nor heard during that time. Plus, there was no skidoo segment in this episode. This may be a goof, but it's very confusing. This also happens in the remake.
• Steve somehow knew the pictures Magenta was looking at.
• The first time Blue left a clue on herself from "What Is Blue Trying to Do", it was on her stomach. In this episode, she leaves a clue on her back. How was Blue able to leave a clue on her back safely? She would have had to reach as far as she could with her blue paw print to leave a clue on herself on that part of her body safely.
• When Magenta sees Blue across from her house:
  • The fence between Blue's house and Magenta's house appears out of nowhere.
  • The side of Magenta's house is on the wrong angle across the bedroom window of Blue's house.

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