That was my favorite part, just to see how Josh has grown the show. Twenty-five years ago, this counted as dancing on Blue’s Clues. There’s a reason why, when the mail showed up, I danced like this. It’s like a video game where someone has the cheat code. Donovan and I would just sit on the side and be like, we couldn’t do any of that. It was out of control to watch.īurns: Watching what Josh was doing-it was mind-blowing. Patton: There’s a section where Josh is basically flying around at the top of the theater, on the top of a ladder. Now I’m just third banana, and I have no responsibilities. I show up, sometimes I write scripts, and I’m like, Steve enters and eats a cookie.
I was late twice in seven years, and neither time was my fault. What you did was remind me that oh, it’s all play.īurns: Back in the day, I was super professional. It’s not a great thing for us to be left unsupervised.ĭela Cruz: I remember that day because I was nervous. We were the worst, just giggling and stalling and it was terrible. We have to support Josh he’s probably nervous. We were like, we have to be professional. What was it like the first time they got the three of you in a room together?īurns: The day when we were doing Josh’s first episode of the reboot, Donovan and I were on set because we did a little cameo. There is a group text.īurns: No one must ever see that group text. Because most of the time, I’m in Toronto, Donovan is in LA, and Steve’s in New York. Joshua Dela Cruz: We’re cousins on the show, and in real life, it does feel like a family reunion whenever we do get to get together. In real life, Burns also writes, directs, and produces on the reboot-and, as evidenced by last year’s viral address to his now grown-up viewers in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary-isn’t above acknowledging that particular traumatic event to the millennial psyche known colloquially as When Steve Went to College (“kicking ’em in the childhood!” as he puts it over Zoom). The latter two remain highly involved with the franchise to this day via recurring roles: Canonically, Joe works at the local Present Store while Steve runs a detective agency. It’s been 26 years-six seasons, three hosts, one successful reboot, and one feature film, Blue’s Big City Adventure, released on Paramount+ last month-since a certain cerulean-spotted canine reconfigured the possibilities of children’s television, and still the Blue-niverse has endured, owing in large part to the show’s ultra-beloved mononymous human intermediaries, Steve and “Joe” (“Donovan” being a little too syllabic for the average preschooler), who hosted the original show from 1996 through 2006, and now Josh, who took his seat on the Thinking Chair for a new generation of young critical thinkers via the 2019 reboot.Īs in all societies, the transition of power hasn’t always come to pass without its share of uproar (and wacko rumors), but the show’s original millennial fandom-now aging back into Nick Jr.’s demographic by way of parenthood-has forged an uncommon brotherhood between Cruz, Patton, and Burns. Here’s the mail, it never fails, and so on and so forth. For a microsecond, all is well with the world. Harumi Abe, Carlos Alfonzo, Kathryn Andrews, Eddie Arroyo, Tauba Auerbach, Patricia Ayres, Hernan Bas, Loriel Beltran, Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Peppi Bottrop, Mark Bradford, Joe Bradley, Agustín Cárdenas, Dan Colen, Martin Creed, Aaron Curry, Salvador Dalí, Peter Doig, Kaye Donachie, Chris Dougnac, Austin Eddy, Tomm El-Saieh, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Wade Guyton, Guyton\Walker, Rachel Harrison, Arturo Herrera, Jim Hodges, Thomas Houseago, Alex Hubbard, Shara Hughes, Alex Israel, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger, Wifredo Lam, Glenn Ligon, Michael Linares, Nate Lowman, Pepe Mar, Victoria Martinez, Adam McEwen, Ana Mendieta, Murjoni Merriweather, Sarah Morris, Albert Oehlen, Paulina Olowska, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Jorge Pardo, Manfred Pernice, Seth Price, Rob Pruitt, Christina Quarles, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, Xaviera Simmons, Diego Singh, Josh Smith, Vaughn Spann, Reena Spaulings, Rudolf Stingel, Su Su, Ilona Szwarc, Rufino Tamayo, Cosima von Bonin, Kelley Walker, Elizabeth M.For once, doing this on Zoom feels right: I’m peering through my screen at Joshua Dela Cruz, Donovan Patton, and Steve Burns all seated cozily together on a couch somewhere in Los Angeles as they each wave hello and wait expectantly, as if they’re welcoming me to my own personal episode of Blue’s Clues.
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