Mr. Salt

**Mr. Salt** is a main character on *Blue's Clues* and *Blue's Clues & You!*.

## Description

Mr. Salt is the father figure of the Blue's Clues house. He lives in the kitchen with his wife Mrs. Pepper and his children, Paprika, Cinnamon, Sage and Ginger. He speaks with a French accent and works as a chef. He is sometimes clumsy and often needs help from Steve or Joe after making a mess in the kitchen. His favorite food is toast with cheese, and cookies are his wife favorite thing to bake. Mr. Salt is one of Mailbox's best friend, and they like each other because their personalities are so different.

Aside from cooking, Mr. Salt's hobbies include dancing and tending to the garden outside of the Blue's Clues house. He and Mrs. Pepper are the oldest residents of the house; as seen in "Blue's First Holiday," they were adults while the others were all babies. It is assumed that he is one of the owners of the house.

## Looks

Mr. Salt is an off-white color with a silver-colored cap. There are three black-colored holes on the top of his cap. He has a pink mouth and black eyes. His arms are short and black with three fingers on the ends of each one. In the series, he is made to look like he was created with construction paper cut-outs.

## Appearances

Mr. Salt appears in nearly every episode of *Blue's Clues*, counting the opening and credit sequences. He is only seen in the credits of the "Bugs!" episode. His first appearance was in the pilot episode, "Blue Prints." His last appearance in an episode of *Blue's Clues* was in the series finale, "Bluestock." He makes additional appearances in the *Blue's Room* episode "Meet Blue's Baby Brother" and in the "Behind the Clues" special.

### Blue's Clues

* Snack Time
* Mailbox's Birthday
* Blue's Story Time (Cameo)
* What Does Blue Need?
* Blue Goes to the Beach
* A Snowy Day
* Blue Wants to Play a Game (Cameo)
* The Grow Show
* What Does Blue Want to Make?
* Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme
* What Is Blue Afraid Of?
* Magenta Comes Over
* Blue's News
* Steve Gets the Sniffles
* What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try? (Cameo, no lines)
* What Was Blue's Dream About?
* Blue's ABCs
* Math!
* Blue's Birthday
* What Does Blue Want to Do with Her Picture?
* What Does Blue Want to Do on a Rainy Day?
* Blue's Surprise at Two O'Clock (Not appear until after playing Blue's Clues)
* What Game Does Blue Want to Learn?
* Nurture!
* Blue Is Frustrated
* Art Appreciation
* Weight and Balance
* What's That Sound?
* Thankful
* Animal Behavior!
* Occupations
* Anatomy
* Blue's Big Musical (Beginning)
* Pool Party
* Nature
* Inventions
* What's So Funny? (Cameo)
* Blue's Big Mystery
* Environments
* Blue's Big Pajama Party (Beginning, after find the 1st clue)
* Blue's Big Holiday
* Words
* Blue's Collection (Beginning)
* The Wrong Shirt (Beginning)
* Café Blue
* Imagine Nation
* Superfriends
* The Baby's Here!
* Blue's New Place
* What's Inside?
* Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day
* What's New, Blue?
* Making Changes
* Something To Do Blue (Beginning)
* Rhyme Time
* Let's Plant
* Steve Goes to College
* The Boat Float (Drawing/Credits)
* Can You Help?
* The Snack Chart
* Playing Store
* Blue's Big Band
* Joe's Surprise Party
* Contraptions!
* Numbers Everywhere!
* Blue's Predictions (No Lines)
* Our Neighborhood Festival
* The Scavenger Hunt
* Animals in Our House?
* Morning Music (found our 1st clue)
* Blue's First Holiday
* 100th Episode Celebration
* Love Day
* Blue's Wishes
* The Legend of the Blue Puppy
* Bluestock

### PC Games

1. Blue's Birthday Adventure
2. Blue's Treasure Hunt: A Learning Adventure
3. Blue's ABC Time Activities
4. Blue's 123 Time Activities
5. Blue's Art Time Activities (Cameo Sticker)
6. Blue's Reading Time Activities
7. Blue's Clues: Preschool
8. Blue's Clues: Kindergarten
9. Blue's Big Musical (video game)

## Trivia

* Mr. Salt was the 1st clue in the final episode of Season 1, "Blue's News."
* In What Experiment Does Blue Want to Try?, it is revealed that Mr. Salt is/was a lifeguard. He appears as a lifeguard again in the episode Pool Party.
* In "Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day," a photo shows Mr. Salt as a child planting a garden.
* In several episodes, Mr. Salt appears by himself without Mrs. Pepper. Examples include What's So Funny? & Magenta's Case of the Giggles.
* Throughout the first three seasons, Mr. Salt is one of the only four characters to appear in the credits along with Mrs. Pepper, Tickety, and Blue.
* Mr. Salt's voice actor, Nick Balaban, also worked as one of the two main music composers on the series.
* Until the events of "Imagine Nation" (original series) and "Blue's Big Imagination" (reboot), Mr. Salt had never used his imagination.
* Mr. Salt was mentioned in the 25th episode of Nickelodeon Animation Studio's podcast series on December 16, 2016.
* Mr. Salt was originally given a Brooklyn accent instead of being French.
* Mr. Salt may have been inspired by the mâitre d’-turned-candelabra named Lumiere from Disney's *Beauty and the Beast* in which both characters are French and love to serve food and guests.
* This character should not to be confused with Veruca Salt’s father from the 2005 film, *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.*
* A possible reference to Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper is featured in Episode 11 of the 2022 Korean drama series, *Extraordinary Attorney Woo*. When Young-woo learns about a divorce case with her colleagues, they use containers of salt, pepper and soy sauce as people involved in the case, with the salt referred to as "Mr. Salt" and the pepper referred to as "Mrs. Pepper".