Modern Face the Bouncing Ball: Blue's Clues is Up Next (September 15, 2003-October 8, 2004)
This promo was used throughout the Play Along era. Now for my review on this somewhat "controversial" era.
What a great find! DVD quality of this era of Face!
Now if only someone has a promo with Modern Face announcing LazyTown and/or Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends…
Also, according to Nickstory Archives and the Nick Jr. Schedule (Week of October 4-8, 2004) on Internet Archives, on October 8, 2004 (Modern Face's last day) there was only ONE episode of Blue’s Clues that day (9:30am et) and there was no Blue at 12:00pm et, due to a mini Dora marathon from 11am-2pm right before Modern Face's retirement (the final usages of the Green Bouncy Ball, Orange Windowshade, Flower/Face says his own name in Spanish, "Cara", Purple Star with Face using two Spanish words, including "Hola", and…maybe a Dora version of Face the Yo-yo.) Had this promo been the one used on the 8th, the other ones, the yo-yo or window shade, would last appear on October 6 or 7.
There is currently no proof of which promo was used on October 8 (Ball, Yo-yo, Window-shade), but BOTH titles will say "October 8, 2004" anyway, no big deal!
And about Face saying Goodbye on October 8, 2004, I don’t think it happened. I think that he just disappeared on October 8, 2004 after announcing the 1:30pm show, and on Monday the 11th, he was surprisingly replaced with Piper (kinda like how Moose and Zee would disappear at 6:00am on March 1, 2012 and it was replaced with a new era, with NO goodbyes.)
When I said "controversial" I meant that there were some that liked and some hated the modern Face (there were a LOT of complaints on the Message Boards on nickjr.com back in the fall of 2003, and throughout the era, about it, as I read them via Internet Archives, something like "What happened to Face?" or "Attn Nick Jr. - NO ONE LIKES THE NEW FACE!")
Examples of messages with reviews, rants, complaints, etc. regarding the 2003-04 Face:
https://web.archive.org/web/200312301...
https://web.archive.org/web/200310172...
https://web.archive.org/web/200402260...
https://web.archive.org/web/200312172...
https://web.archive.org/web/200409020... (This one has a person who liked it and replies from people who disagree)
https://web.archive.org/web/200405041...
https://web.archive.org/web/200406171...
https://web.archive.org/web/200405040...
https://web.archive.org/web/200409060...
Not sure what they’d think of Piper, but those who hated Modern Face were probably VERY HAPPY when he retired.
In my opinion, what I find interesting about this incarceration of Face is how it starts with a black background, very different from the 1994-2003 Face. I also like how two people provided the voice for this Face, Jody Nazzaro did the voice acting while Jun Mizumachi did the sound effects (some assume it was Babi Floyd who voiced him, but I don’t think so because this information I’m about to link seems to be true), according to a 2004 article seen here: https://www.postmagazine.com/Publicat... (See "Giving 'Face' a Voice" and you’ll also see a picture of this Face in red background that looks ALMOST like this promo). I also love how he has a DJ rapper like voice and gets pretty excited. Pretty neat!
It’s kinda sad that most of this era is lost media.
LONG description, but this is just my review on the Face era from Sep 2003-Oct 2004.
Credit to @LarsensWiiStuff.