21 times blue made people smile in pop culture

Nickelodeon was in its bag when they introduced Blue’s Clues to preschool audiences via their Nick Jr. programming block in 1996. Steve Burns led the show for six seasons before ultimately passing the torch in 2002 to Joe. Since then, the show has been ingrained into the zeitgeist, with Burns returning to the public eye in recent years to heal millennials’ hearts.

One cannot hear the words “blue” and “suede” in the same sentence and not start singing Elvis.

Every Disney princess has a signature color, and while some others might wear blue ensembles here and there, Cinderella owns that blue dress.

It only took a few years for The Smurfs to go from a Belgian comic series to TV when the show debuted in 1961. The original run lasted several seasons before returning with a bang in the ‘80s, and later Smurfs films in the ‘10s.

LL Cool J was in his element in this scary shark tale.

NYPD Blue started in 1993 and ran for an impressive 12 seasons — a true small-screen institution.

Robin Williams walked into that recording booth at Disney and truly made magic as Genie in 1992's Aladdin and is still regarded as one of the best animated characters ever.

Boomers everywhere still like to toss out a “Here’s your sign” or a “You might be a redneck” every once in a while because of the four comedians that helped place this downhome style of comedy on the map in a mainstream way.

Blue was LeAnne Rimes’ major debut album and her first single to chart. It was the world’s introduction to what would be one of country music’s most iconic prodigies, as Rimes was only 14 at the time.

The world would be a better place if everyone could have just an ounce of Gonzo's swag.

“I don’t want your life. I just want to watch Varsity Blues for the rest of mine.” Is that the line?

Dorothy’s whole outfit is forever etched into history that it’d be a crime to omit it from this list.

Sonic the Hedgehog was SEGA’s answer to Mario, and it worked! The games soon spawned a series and, many years later, a hit movie franchise starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, and the legendary Jim Carrey.

Nevermind is one of the most recognizable album covers in music. It also happens to feature a lot of blue.

Saturday Night Live has spawned some of the worst movies, but also some of comedy’s best, like 1980’s The Blues Brothers.

If one thing has been proven to be true, it’s that a blue dog will garner success. Blue’s Clues walked so the Australian show Bluey could eventually run and become an international phenomenon with children and their parents!

Everyone has an aunt on Facebook who swears Blue Bloods is the best show ever created.

So there’s a certain age range in which the color blue is associated with one of the most ridiculous songs ever created. The ‘90s truly let anything be a hit, which is why that decade was great.

Who wouldn’t want this creature from space as part of their family?

James Cameron could have walked away from Hollywood after Titanic, but he decided to keep on going. In 2009, he dropped a movie that made a bajillion dollars (rough estimate) because people were impressed by the technology he used to make blue people come to life.

Dory taught the world to just keep swimming in 2003 and has since become one of Disney’s most popular characters. Finding Nemo spawned a ride at Disneyland in 2007, and Dory got a sequel in 2016.