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Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Pajama Party [VHS]

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My 2 year old son loves Blue's Clues and especially liked this video! Its nice to have something he'll sit through (for the whole 50 minutes!) so I can get ready for work in the morning. This is the first video that did the job! I plan on buying many more of the Blue's Clues series.

That video is the bomb! if you like blues clues i reccomend you get it. Its a great for children under 10 i'm 12 and still think its sweet. if your a blues clues fan you'll deffinately like it and want to get it. its also funny with Elane from seinfeld. get it!

Of all the Blue's Clues videos released (and I've seen most of them a number of times!), this is one of the best overall... BUT, if your child is hoping for the slipper song and/or story aired in the TV version, he or she will be disappointed. They're omitted for some reason. I also was hoping that this would be a quieter tape, nice for viewing after bath and before bed. The first episode is a winner in that respect. We guess what Blue wants to do before bed. The second episode is also great, the goal being to help kids work out their dreams and overcome nighttime fears, but it's full of loud, uptempo music and one of the worst moments in recording distortion history (Steve's letter from his friends). My son usually ends up a little too pumped up from the second one for the first one to have the (my) desired effect.

My daughter LOVES Blue and I was hoping this video would help her with her nightmares she keeps having. Love the idea of "changing your dreams" so they are not scary. Only wish this was available on DVD! Quick shipping by seller. THANKS!!

This a cute fun video and one of my favorite blues clues videos. I'm a home daycare provider. Over the yrs I have collected over 100 kids videos. Blue's Big Pajama Party seems to entertain my daycare kids ages 14 months to 5 yrs greatly. I also enjoy singing along to the tunes.

I do agree with the one reviewer who was bother by the a dream catcher part of the video. I think they should have at least say something on the box about this. Some people really don't want their children to know about this new age teaching. But saying that I still would have bought this video for the other parts of the video.

I like that this video tries to help children understand that we all have bad dreams and that we can change are dreams if we think really hard.

My three and a half year old loves Blue's Clues, and as a result, I've bought almost all of the videos available on Amazon. This is one of my personal favorites because of the Pyjamanauts sequence and its simple way of explaining night and day. I don't really "get" the segment about changing your dreams, and find that part less satisfactory.

My children LOVE this movie. Both will sit still and quietly not fighting to watch the entire thing. That in itself rates as a good kid movie for me. They will ask to watch it, and always sing the songs after it's over.

I thought that this video was wonderful. The segment with the Pajamanauts was just great, though frighteningly unrealistic (Blue and Steve were floating around in space, without space-suits and were having a personal conversation with the sun. In real life they would've either fried or died of lack of oxygen. But I do understand that this is a childrens show so things like that are easily excused. Kids will come to understand that later in life.)
This whole episode was just really great. I recommend it for everyone who's ever been a fan of Blue's Clues.
Blue's Clues rocks. It's a great show for all ages. Well, every episode that was Pre-Joe is great. Joe tries too hard.
That is all.

I specifically bought this video for my son to see the original version of "Blue's Big Pajama Party" that aired during the special Sunday night broadcast. My son was so disappointed that the weekly episode did not include the Slipper Shop storyline or the story Julia and Steve read together at the end, "Where Do Slippers Sleep?", that I promised him I'd purchase the video. Much to my surprise, they released the video without these adorable scenes!! Come on Nick Jr.!! I could have taped the same episode 5 times throughout the week and saved the money.

I'm the father of a toddler who absolutely loves Blue's Clues, and in general these tapes are of such uniform high quality that there's nothing to complain about. They're both educational and entertaining, and an adult can tolerate them without pain -- unlike a certain infamous purple dinosaur. So I only plan to comment on those tapes I've seen that present a problem in some way. These will get 3 stars from me, which is the lowest score I could ever bring myself to assign to anything in this series. I have nothing but good things to say about any Blue's Clues tape we own that I don't review, but since that's just saying the same thing as everyone else there's no point in adding to it.

The first episode is highly satisfactory. Over the course of the pajama party we learn about nocturnal animals and take a look at the solar system to find out why night happens on the way to figuring out what Blue wants to do at the party. The second episode is the one with the problem. In general it's very good. It's about dreams, with a special focus on dealing with nightmares. (My kids aren't really prone to nightmares, so I have no way of gaguing how effective it is.)

But then we get to the "Letter" segment, where we see two girls making "dream catchers." A dream catcher is a traditional Native American object that's supposed to ensnare bad dreams before they reach the sleeper. I'm told it's found mainly among the Ojibway (Chippewa). I don't know if other peoples use it as well, but it has in any event become a staple of New Age spirituality. The older woman guiding the girls tells them that "spirits and dreams are all around us." As the project is completed, we see they're not making the dream catcher in the usual spiderweb pattern, but with the pentacle symbol used by modern Wicca and neopagan practitioners, and it's then hung over the bed in the same place a Roman Catholic might hang a cross. If you're a Christian believer, you may find this section in direct opposition to some of the teachings of your faith, and you may need to provide guidance to your children if you allow them to watch it. It appears to be not-so-subtle proselytism for either Native American, Wiccan, or neopagan faiths, and I can only speculate as to why the producers of Blue's Clues decided to include it. I've never seen a pro-Christian equivalent in this show, which is otherwise areligious.