Characters / Blue's Clues: Yellow House Residents

aka: Blues Clues Spice Family

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Yellow House (Human Hosts)
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The Yellow House

The house where everything happens, and most importantly, where our friends live. It's the first place in Storybook World we see ourselves when the book opens, and usually the last thing we see before an episode ends.

Apparently small on the outside, the house fits a whole world inside. Inside the house there are 4 main rooms, the orange one where the living room is located (where Sidetable lives), the purple one that covers the corridors of the house and the host's bedroom (where Tickety lives), the pink one where the bathroom is located (home to Slippery) and the yellow one where the kitchen, pantry (home to the Spice Family) and the laundry room are located, although new locations such as an attic, a lanai enclosure, and well as several secret passages may occasionally appear. Outside, there is a frontyard where Mailbox lives and announces our entrance, and a large backyard which is where Shovel and Pail live.

In General

From the right to the left: Tickety Tock, Sidetable Drawer, Paprika, Sage and Ginger, Cinnamon, Blue, Josh, Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Shovel, Slippery Soap, Mailbox and Pail

Tropes that apply to the house as well as its residents.

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• Bigger on the Inside: The house looks like a tiny cartoon house on the outside, but is much bigger on the inside, with a living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Occasionally, new rooms and doors appear in the house, which confuses the human hosts that have no idea of how the house works. Invoked by Miranda on "Shy", who says with all words that the house looks a lot bigger inside than outside.
• Bookends: Both figuratively and literally.
  • Since most of the original episodes—if not all of them—take place in a book, each episode begins with the book opening and ends with it closing.
  • In-Universe. Each episode begins with the "Friend" arriving at the house for today's story and then ends with them leaving.
• Color-Coded Characters: The residents of the Blue's Clues House make up the whole spectrum, with each character having a different main color. Pail: red, Sidetable: orange, Shovel: yellow, Steve: green, Blue: blue, Slippery: lavender, Mailbox: purple, Tickety: pink, Paprika: light brown, Cinnamon: dark brown, Mrs. Pepper: gray, Mr. Salt: white. When Joe debuted, he changed the colors of his shirts, breaking the spectrum rule a bit. Later, Joe would be associated with purple (originally orange), Josh with blue, Sage with light green and Ginger grayish brown.
• Cool House: Although it looks like an ordinary cartoon house, it is bigger on the inside than on the outside, can create new rooms when convenient, has several portals and secret passages, not to mention the sentient objects who are more than happy to help.
• Family of Choice: Although most of them are not biologically related and have their own individual family members, they still consider themselves to be one big family, and are more than happy to add new members. Handwaved by Tickety in Blue's Big City Adventure.
  Mrs. Pepper: Of course not. Your family is always there for you.
  Tickety Tock: And Josh and Blue are our family!
• Storybook Opening: The intro of the Steve-era episodes start off with a book opening revealing the house, amongst a pile of other classic children's books. Joe-era episodes instead have Blue taking the book off of a bookshelf (though it's still surrounded by the same books).

Title Character

Blue

Blue Puppy

The Blue Puppy

^{Click to see Blue in the original series}

^{Click to see Blue before leaving her book.}

^{Click to see Blue in the flash games}

^{Click to see Blue in the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Blue in Blue's Room}

^{Click to see Blue in Blue's Big City Adventure}

^{Click to see Blue in the reboot illustrated books series}

Location: Yellow House, Blue's Room (Temporarily)
Voiced by: Traci Paige Johnson (Main Series)
Blue's Room: Victoria Pontecorvo
Series: 3 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 2

The title character, a blue spotted puppy. She communicates with her owners by leaving trails of paw print clues, can travel between worlds and medias, being a little and friendly reality warper.

As revealed on season 05, Blue is literally a puppy that is only born once a blue moon. She was born in a dog farm book during a blue moon night, being blessed with a key and the ability to escape from her book. Being Steve's favorite book character, who escaped the book in search of a friend, but ended up finding a family.

On the series Spin-Off, Blue's Room, after encountering the moon fairy, Moona, during a blue moon night, Blue finds a music box, which is her way of accessing her room, in the world of Blue's room she gains the ability of walk on two legs and more importantly, to talk.

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• The Ace: It's very difficult to find one thing Blue isn't good at, she's very intelligent, a great artist, a talented sportswoman, good at solving mysteries and riddles, and even better at creating them.
• Ageless Birthday Episode: Blue has had at least two on-screen birthdays but it's never revealed how old she is.
• The Ageless: She's been a puppy for over 20 years. Handwaved in that she's a book character come to life.
• Afraid of Needles: She was a bit afraid to get her injection in one episode.
• All-Loving Hero: Blue appears to be virtually incapable of being hostile towards anyone, even when she is frustrated. She is kind, friendly, forgives others easily and always puts the happiness and comfort of her friends ahead of her own wants.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Blue is a blue dog and the current trope picture. Not only that, but she is probably the Trope Codifier too.
• Animal Superheroes: Her super persona: Super Blue, is a superhero puppy.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: In Blue's Room, she's capable of speaking and stands on two legs.
• Artistic License – Animal Care: Blue has consumed chocolate at least twice; one episode states her favorite snack is chocolate milk, and has chocolate ice cream with Magenta on one occasion. In real life, chocolate is extremely toxic to dogs.
• Blue Means Smart One: As her name suggests, she is the canine personification of the color blue and is a very wise, intellectual animal who stood out among the other puppies on the farm for not acting like a regular puppy. Nowadays Blue evolves even further and often acts as an advisor and mentor to her friends, rarely giving wrong answers and usually knowing things before others do.
• Boring, but Practical: All her super persona, Super Blue, can do is fly, compared to the flashier powers the other characters have, but it is actually quite useful during the confrontation against Villain Ice as it helped the team locate the villain.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Exaggerated. Blue is a character who escaped from a book into a TV show (which also takes place in a storybook), and may occasionally interact with characters from other shows and media.
• Canine Confusion: She eats chocolate and grapes, is blue, and has a stamp-like paw, which doesn't apply to real dogs. Justified, since she's a book character come to life.
• Cartoon Creature: Blue fur aside, she seems to be an ambiguous-looking breed of dog.
• Cartoon Dog Breed: With her long ears, short frame, spots, and blue fur, she doesn't resemble any real-world dog breed very strongly. Even In-Universe, she's a storybook character born once in a blue moon, so that may explain her ambiguous traits.
• Character Catchphrase: Typically, she doesn't have one due to being unable to speak. However, in Blue's Room she often says "Hi, you! It's me, Blue!" and "Bu-Bu-Bu-Bu-Blue's Room! Let's play!".
• Character Tics: Runs in place when happy sometimes.
• Character Title: Blue's Clues, Blue's Big Musical Movie/Game, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You!, Blue's Big City Adventure, the list goes on.
• Characterization Marches On: She tended to be less humanoid in the early episodes, acting much more like an ordinary puppy rather than the Intellectual Animal we know and love.
• Civilized Animal: Although she doesn't wear clothes, Blue stood out from the other puppies on her farm by acting like a human being instead of a puppy. She eats with utensils, can eat human food, paints, studies, uses the bathroom like a human being and basically acts like a human child would.
• Color Character: Her name is Blue, her fur is blue and she was born on a blue moon. No prizes for guessing what color she was based on.
• Color Motif: She is the canine incarnation of this trope, being a blue dog, born under the blue moon and literally named Blue, which is one of the hardest colors to obtain in nature, all this to symbolize how special she is.
• Cool Big Sis: For Sprinkles. She is a loving, supportive sister who always encourages him to try new things.
• Cosmic Motifs: The blue moon. She was born during a blue moon, is blessed by the blue-colored moon fairy, and learned to speak during a blue moon.
• Cowardly Lion: While she will venture out freely in ways that an ordinary puppy could not, she will occasionally demonstrate fears related to much simpler things, such as shadows, an owl standing in the window, or her school's new drying rack, although she usually outgrows it in the meantime of an episode.
• Cuddle Bug: Blue is an extremely affectionate puppy, not only with her owners but also with anyone that she feels comfortable enough with. She will lick, caress and hug anyone she is friends with without any problems, sometimes without them even noticing her arrival.
• The Empath: Implied Trope. Blue to some extent seems to be able to predict the actions and feelings of those around her before they even have the opportunity to express them. Some examples are how she already knew that Josh was the one who "stole" her masterpiece in "Night at Blueseum" just seconds after finding out that she was missing or how she already knew how Sidetable wanted to sing along with her before she expressed her will in “Blue's Big Musical”, among many other times where the game of Blue's Clues inexplicably had answers that Blue would normally have no way of knowing.
• Eccentric Artist: Blue is an incredible artist in multiple areas, especially choreography, but she tends to make things more complicated than they need to be in her attempts to teach her friends lessons, like playing Blue's clues to figure something out when they're clearly short on time. Luckily her methods always work out in the end.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Blue's paw print leaves sparkles when she first marks it on the screen to start the game of Blue's Clues on Blue's Clues & You!.
• The Fashionista: Despite not normally wearing clothes (she's an animal), Blue is a very stylish puppy when she wants to be. She collects different types of clothes and is constantly seen wearing very beautiful clothes in special situations.
• Female Feline, Male Mutt: Inverted, Blue is a female dog and is close friends with the male kitty Periwinkle.
• For Happiness: Blue is a force of good, kind, intelligent and well-intentioned, whose only motivation is to make the people around her happy, which is what makes her happy.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Unlike the other characters (except other puppies) she has 4 fingers, this is justified, as she is a puppy. Weirdly, she has more fingers than most of the characters.
• Free-Range Pets: Her caregivers let her roam free without problems not only on her home grounds, but even on other skidoo worlds, which is justified, as not only are the worlds quite safe but also because Blue is less likely to get into trouble than they are.
• Friend to Bugs: Like Steve, Blue loves insects and arachnids, especially butterflies, and is normally not afraid of these types of animals.
• Friendless Background: Blue used to be a friendless puppy on the farm where she was born when she was still in her book, her reason for escaping the book was that none of the other puppies could understand her and she wanted someone who could have fun the same way she did.
• Funny Animal: A puppy that acts exactly like a human would act, but cannot speak, can play instruments, eat with cutlery and is much more intelligent than an average human, but has the mind of a small child. Deconstructed, as being a funny animal made her feel isolated when around the other dogs, as no one was able to understand her before she met Steve.
• The Gadfly: Blue's caregivers are very naive men who are easy to deceive and she has a lot of fun playing tricks on them.
• Genki Girl: Blue is an enthusiastic and vibrant Puppy who is rarely not smiling and who tends to see situations from an optimistic point of view.
• Hammerspace: Somehow, she takes the handy-dandy notebook out of the host's pocket while they sing "To Play Blue's Clues" and is able to return it at the same speed.
• Heroic Dog: Blue is a magical puppy who loves to help, protect, and advise others, and is an overall gentle force of good without a bad bone in her.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Downplayed. In the first episodes, in addition to traveling between worlds, her skidoo powers also allowed her to shrink in size. It's unclear if she can still do this or if it was a case of First Installment Weirdness.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Able to jump "skidoo" into and out of pictures and leave blue paw prints on everything with no explanation as to how.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Promotional material for Blue's Big City Adventure portrays her with blue eyes, which she strangely does not have in any other form of media.
• Innocent Prodigy: Blue is probably the smartest character in the entire series, but she has the mental age of a small human child, making her quite naive and innocent.
• Intellectual Animal: Despite being a dog (and mentally a child) Blue is probably one of the most intelligent characters in the series, even though she occasionally has the same limitations as a child and/or a pet.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: She cannot speak, but her friends understand her pretty well.
• Intrepid Fictioneer: She, like her companions, can "skidoo" anywhere (books, TV shows, other places in the neighborhood, etc) as long as she has a photo/portal for that place.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Her motivation for escaping from her book years ago is because she felt lonely among the puppies, as she was an Intellectual Animal, while they were common dogs. Steve was the first person who really made Blue feel included and that's why she never left the yellow house to return to her book.
• Like Brother and Sister:
  • With Periwinkle. Blue acts as a big sister figure to the little kitten, often comforting him and acting as his protector/advisor.
  • With Sprinkles. In his debut episode, he and Blue act like this, with her comforting him when he's scared and helping him to learn new things like the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, etc. It turns that they're actually brother and sister, as revealed by the gold clues
• Living Drawing: According to "Blue's First Holiday", she was a character from a picture book Steve got for Christmas who came to Storybook World after she skidooed out of her book.
• Lovable Jock: Blue is a talented sportspuppy, in football, kickball, car racing, obstacle races, basketball among other things, and is incapable of hurting a fly.
• Loved by All: Blue is loved by everyone around her and even strangers. Which is fair, as she's a trustworthy heroine who's nothing but kind to everyone.
• Magnetic Hero: Blue attracts attention in a positive way wherever she goes and tends to make the people around her more pleasant just by being in an environment. Everyone who interacts with Blue is quick to consider her a friend, even if they haven't known her for more than a few minutes.
• Marionette Master: Blue's pawprints can temporarily animate objects they mark, often being used as a way to troll the host.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is blue, not only because her fur is blue, but also because she was born during a blue moon.
• Messianic Archetype: She is a special puppy, and that has nothing to do with being blue. She is the target of a prophecy, born during an important cosmic event, announced by a divine winged being (Moona), appeared on Christmas Day, is a Reality Warper born and raised around common puppies, is constantly accompanied by her True Companions, is an empath and an All-Loving Heroine who gives advice to people close to her.
• Nearly Normal Animal: It's unknown where she fits on the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism. She can understand English, use the human toilet, eat human food, brush her teeth, and go to school, but she walks on all fours and can't talk.
• Non-Standard Character Design: In the original series she was the only main character to be completely articulated, while the other characters had limited animation. In the reboot she, Magenta and Rainbow Puppy are animated with 3D animation in contrast to the 2D animation of the other characters.
• Pawprint Stamping: In each episode Blue plays the eponymous game by putting her paw prints on three different items for the host to write down in his handy-dandy notebook and deduce what it is she wants when he sits down in the Thinking Chair. Blue indicates she wants to play it by putting her paw print on the screen, too.
• Pals with Jesus: Implied. See Messianic Archetype above. Blue is a good friend to the people of Storybook World, who never question her powers, the fact that she is the subject of prophecies or that her face is printed on the place's money.
• Perspective Magic: Implied Trope, the only explainable way for the way in which some clues work, to give you an idea, she has already put clues in the sky, in clouds, in water, an extremely large clue on the roof of the house, extremely small and individual clues on straws and the list just goes on and on and even her owners seem to question how Blue is capable of committing such acts.
• Pets as a Present: Zig-Zagged. Steve's Christmas present was supposed to be a book, not a puppy, but Blue was mysteriously able to skidoo out of the book to spend some time with Steve, however, "The Legend of Blue Puppy" implies that it was always Moona's (the moon fairy) intention for Blue to leave the book.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A puppy that barely reaches her owners knees and who apparently can lift things much bigger than herself (including the Thinking Chair with Steve on it in one promotional art).
• Plucky Girl: Blue is a happy and adventurous puppy, usually the one who starts adventures while her friends follow her, always trying new and different things and encouraging her friends to do the same.
• Portal Book: She came out of a book portal, and can use books as portals to other places.
• Precious Puppy: Blue is a magical, adorable and quirky little dog whose main goal in life seems to be to make the people around her happy. Her very presence in New York City during the movie seems to be enough to calm the people who lived there, as two drivers fighting during "On Our Way" could testify.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's been alive since Joe was a child, which makes her at least 40 years old on human age at the time of the reboot, but as she ages differently you wouldn't tell just by looking.
• The Reliable One: Everyone seems to trust Blue a lot to answer questions and make the best decisions (which to be fair, she usually does), with almost every episode being about Blue giving advice to her friends about what to do.
• Screen Tap: She can touch the fourth wall, whether by placing pawprints or licking. Which she usually does at least once per episode.
• Sick Episode: In the book "Blue's Sniffly Day", she catches a cold.
• Silent Snarker: Blue can't talk like people talk, but that doesn't stop her from making snarky remarks when she sees as necessary.
• Smart Animal, Average Human: While her caretakers are certainly not stupid, they usually act like confused cloudcuckoolanders or simply need help with reasoning, Blue's role is to guide both her owners and the viewer to find the answers they need.
• The Smart Guy: She is probably the most intelligent and creative character in the entire series, often demonstrating an almost supernatural and inexplicable wisdom.
• Suddenly Speaking: Gains the ability to talk verbally in Blue's Room. Some of the later book releases also depict her as talking freely to the other characters in normal English.
• Super Cute Superpowers: The "puppies" in general seem to have the ability to put adorable (and almost sentient) Pawprints around, with some magical skills like animating objects they touch and changing their shapes, which Blue uses in almost every episode to play Blue's Clues.
• Superpower Lottery: Among the things that Blue can do are: be a Reality Warper, possess Perspective Magic, shrink in size, travel between different worlds, including fictional ones, teleport, break and touch the fourth wall, is super intelligent, is physically strong, ages slowly, can create semi-sentient magical pawprints that can act as either a shapeshifter or a Puppeteer Parasite, depending on the skidoo world she can fly... The list only grows as the series goes on.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The huge girl for Periwinkle and Sprinkles tiny guys.
• Token Flyer: For the Thinking Squad. Her power when she is in super city is to fly.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Blue is the tomboy for Magenta's Girly Girl, but since Blue has both moments where she acts like a girly girl and moments where she acts like a tomboy It's a little Downplayed in comparison to Green Puppy.
• Town Girls: While Green Puppy is a tomboy, and Magenta is a girly girl, Blue can be both or neither depending on the moment.
• True Blue Femininity: Downplayed. She's not particularly feminine, but the fact that she's a blue girl could be seen as revolutionary or at least surprising to some fans.
• A Wizard Did It: Well, a puppy did it! Blue performs feats considered inexplicable even by the standards of the cloudcuckooland that is Storybook World. Even as her origins were explored in seasons four and five, we still didn't get an explanation as to where Blue's powers came from, other than the fact that she was born on a blue moon.

Human Hosts

In General

Joe, Josh and Steve

Blue's caretakers and owners, the only human members of the yellow house and the three owners of the yellow house. Designed not to be "Adults", but rather big brother figures who need frequent help from their "friends" (the audience). They are quirky, silly, and a little anxious, but also kind and incapable of intentionally hurting anyone. Blue had three caregivers in the main timeline (Steve, Joe & Josh) who are members of the same family, although at least three more are known from international versions (Kevin, Duarte and HyunSup Shim).

To know more about them, visit the their character page.

House Talking Objects

In General

Tropes shared by the talking objects.

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• The Ageless: With the exception of the children of the Spice family and Mailbox, none of them seem to actively age. Tickety, Slippery, Shovel and Pail appear to be older than Joe, but act and look like late children. Mr. Salt and Ms. Pepper were adults during Steve's childhood, but they don't seem to have aged a day since then. Probably justified; since they are magical objects, they probably don't age the same way humans do.
• Animate Inanimate Object: They are all objects that would normally be found in the places they inhabit. In the front yard a mailbox, a living room drawer, a family of kitchen spice dispensers, a bathroom soap, a bedroom alarm clock and a pair of sandbox toys.
• Older Than They Look: With the exception of the Spice children, everyone in the household is at least older than Joe, meaning they are at least 40 years old, but because they are sentient objects (and a magical puppy), they don't age in the same way that human beings do.
• Really 700 Years Old: They look like children (or young adults in Mailbox's case) but in human terms, they are over 40 years old. The Spice couple, on the other hand, are even older than that.

Mailbox

Mailbox

Mailbox

^{Click to see Mailbox in the original series}

^{Click to see Mailbox in the flash games}

^{Click to see Mailbox in the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Mailbox in Blue's Big City Adventure}

Location: Yellow House frontyard
Voiced by: Michael Rubin (original), David Burger (Blue's ABC Time Activities and Blue's Birthday Adventure PC games), Doug Murray (reboot)
Series: 3 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

The mailbox who lives in front of the Blue's Clues House and delivers letters to the host in most episodes. He moves around on a rubbery "extendo" arm. He loves to crack jokes and wants to be a comedian when he grows up. In the original show, he talks with a thick Brooklyn accent.

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• A Cappella: Before the host realizes that Mailtime has arrived, a choir of four voices can be heard. It is a band of four different Mailboxes, including ours, singing.
• Animate Inanimate Object: Is a talking mailbox.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Unlike Josh, Blue, and Magenta, Mailbox doesn't need a helmet to breathe in space, probably because he's a living object.
• Birthday Episode: "Mailbox's Birthday", the third episode of the entire series, is about Mailbox turning 10 years old.
• Character Catchphrase: "Here's ya letter!", "You got an e-mail!" and "You're welcome!", both said while exaggerating his Brooklyn accent.
• Cheery Pink: He's bright purple with a pink flag, and he's very cheerful.
• Courier: Basically his role in the house. Mailbox is responsible for making any deliveries, whether letters or packages, announcing emails and, in some cases, delivering/pointing clues to the hosts. Regardless of where they are or what's happening in the time, nothing will stop Mailbox from doing his job.
• A Day in the Limelight: Twice, once in the original series "Mailbox's Birthday" and once again in the reboot episode "Mailtime Mystery" which ends with a tribute song to him sung by Steve, Joe and Rainbow Puppy.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A mailbox named "Mailbox".
• Dub Name Change: "Postbox" in the UK adaptation.
• Flying Postman: Downplayed. While he doesn't actually fly, he rather reaches anywhere with his extended arm, but because we can't see his entire length, we get the impression that he is flying.
• The Gadfly: Mailbox, like the other members of the house, likes to tease the naïve hosts from time to time while delivering their letters, although in his case, it is mainly due to his interest in comedy and jokes.
• Image Song:
  • There's a little chant that repeats the phrase "mail time" to indicate his arrival. This is followed by the host singing a little ditty that ends with the word "MAIL!" shouted in a Pee-Wee Herman impression.
  • Then Steve sings "We just got a letter", while Josh sings "We just got an e-mail" afterwards.
• Impeded Messenger: In "Josh and Blue's Ice Cream Shopee", where he is unable to deliver the invitation that the other members of the house sent to Josh, thus causing the episode's problem.
• Inexplicably Awesome: His extendo arm allows him to zoom anywhere in a split second, even when it makes no sense and shouldn't be able to stretch nearly that much.
• Leitmotif: He tends to be represented by the music used for the game of musical chairs during his birthday party in "Mailbox's Birthday". "Blue's Birthday" added lyrics for when it was used for "Pin the Flag on Mailbox".
• Mailman vs. Dog: Subverted. He is the delivery man from the house and gets along very well with Blue.
• Not Allowed to Grow Old: Downplayed. He doesn't look much different than he did when he was 10 but due to the change of voice actor, his voice seems deeper in the reboot in addition to the fact that he has dent marks to create the impression that, like the Hosts, he has gotten older over time.
• Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Mailbox likes to whistle, especially when he is hiding information from someone.
• Palette Swap: All of the other house mailboxes seen in the series are basically Mailbox recolors.
• Poor Communication Kills: In the only episode where he can't deliver a letter at time, "Josh and Blue's Ice Cream Shopee", Mailbox accidentally makes Josh believe that his friends want to be away from him and almost makes him give up on his plan to deliver ice cream to his friends.
• Pungeon Master: As a local amateur comedian, Mailbox will always be ready to tell a joke, which the hosts will rarely understand before he explains it. An example is when Josh is talking about the alphabet and he hands him a letter, a big E, as a sign that he has received an email.
• Purple Is Powerful: He's purple and when the song says he never fails, it's not an exaggeration, Mailbox is unstoppable. Regardless of the time, weather, conditions, location, or even the galaxy you are in, if Mailbox needs to reach you to deliver a letter, he will.
• Singing Telegram: In "Josh's Crummy Day", when none of Josh's friends send him a letter or email, Mailbox decides to deliver a sung telegram wishing his friend's day to get better.
• Vocal Dissonance: He is ten years old, yet has the voice of a middle-aged man.
• Unstoppable Mailman: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor meteor showers will stop Mailbox from delivering a letter.

Shovel and Pail

Shovel and Pail

Pail (Right) and Shovel (Left)

^{Click to see Shovel and Pail in the the original series}

^{Click to see Shovel and Pail in the the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Shovel and Pail in the the flash games}

A pair of sandbox toys who live in the backyard. Whenever a game of Blue's Clues goes outside, they will accompany the hosts (usually helping them to interact like some kind of animal). They are interested in all kinds of plants and wildlife, and they want to be veterinarians when they get older.

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• The Ageless: They are the same age (or older) as Joe but haven't changed much in almost 20 years.
• Animal Lover: They love all of the animals they find outside, and are close friends with many of the animals that live close to the house, to the point that they wish to become veterinarians one day.
• Animate Inanimate Object: A Shovel and a Pail.
• Brother–Sister Team: The adventures that involve them often bring the two together to the point that Josh always talks about the two of them as if they were a single friend and panics when they are not talking to each other.
• Caring Gardener: Because of their nature as sand box objects, they usually help in the garden and seem to love everything related to nature.
• Divergent Character Evolution: They have similar personalities, but from the third season onwards, they form their own traits. Shovel is more shy, scared and naïve, while Pail is more down to earth and outgoing.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Their names are Shovel and Pail. No prizes for anyone who guesses what objects they are supposed to be.
• Dub Name Change: In the UK adaptation, their names are changed to Spade and Bucket, since those terms are far more common in British English.
• Friend to Bugs: As animal lovers, they are friends with various insects and invertebrates that circulate near the house.
• Invisible Anatomy: They are sometimes shown to pick up and hold items even without hands.
• Living Toys: Shovel and Pail are two sandbox toys that live in the backyard while the other characters are objects that Steve would have to use on a daily basis.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Downplayed. They are both quite androgynous and act similarly, but Pail is more adventurous and rational while Shovel is more timid and sensitive.
• She's a Man in Japan: In the Brazilian dubbing of the original series, their genders are switched in the first three seasons, as the word for Shovel in Brazilian Portuguese (Pá) is feminine and the word for Pail (Balde) is masculine.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Shovel and Pail are occasionally shown talking to (and understanding) non-anthropomorphic animals, and they were already able to talk to Gopher before he was revealed to be able to talk.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The two completely avoid this to the point that their genders are unclear to a portion of the public.

Tropes that apply to Shovel

Location: Backyard
Shovel's voice: Stephen Schmidt (original, seasons 1-3), Jonathan Press (original, Blue's Big Musical Movie and seasons 4-5), Thomas Sharkey (original, season 6), Leo Orgil (reboot)
Series: 3 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

• Cowardly Yellow: He is yellow and in the first seasons, he is more cowardly than his sister, tending to be more shy and easily scared. This is completely abandoned in the reboot.
• The Fashionista: Stated to have an interest in fashion in the reboot, although generally, all he does is say that the things Rainbow Puppy likes are very fashion.
• Hidden Depths: When not on adventures in the backyard, Shovel is quite artistic and is revealed to have an interest in fashion in "Rock On, Rainbow Puppy!".
• Ironic Fear: An Animal Lover who can talk to animals, but who used to be afraid of dinosaurs, a kind of animal that has become extinct.
• Palette Swap: Shovel has Spatula, a minor character who works in the Neighborhood bakery, with the colors white and pink with the main difference being the color palette.

Tropes that apply to Pail

Location: Backyard
Pail's voice: Marshall Claffy (original, seasons 1-4) Olivia Zaro (original, Blue's Big Musical Movie and A Playdate With Blue CD), Julia Wetherell (original, seasons 4-5), Nicole Gibson (original, season 6), Heather McLeod (Blue's Kindergarten PC game), Jordana Blake (reboot)
Series: 3 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

• Innocent Flower Girl: She (along with her brother) is the gardener of the house, and often decorates herself with flowers. She is also a Cheerful Child, incapable of hurting anyone on purpose.
• The Lad-ette: Of the main cast, she is the least traditionally feminine girl, being extremely androgynous, brave, likes to play outside, studies bugs and doesn't minding getting dirty.
• Outdoorsy Gal: Pail lives with her brother in the backyard, and is usually seen on adventures outside the house, usually involving animals and plants, which makes sense since she's a sand toy.

Sidetable Drawer

Sidetable Drawer

Sidetable Drawer

^{Click to see Sidetable in her "inanimate" form}

^{Click to see Sidetable in the Original Series}

^{Click to see Sidetable in the flash games}

^{Click to see Sidetable in the illustrated books}

Location: Living Room
Voiced by: Aleisha Allen (Original), Liyou Abere (reboot season 1), Shazdeh Kapadia (reboot present)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

The keeper of the Handy Dandy Notebooks, who lives in the house living room. The hosts visit Sidetable before each game of Blue's Clues. She is shy and soft-spoken, and has a hidden talent for singing. In the original series, she was also the keeper of Steve's telephone.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: She's a talking side table.
• Armless Biped: Sidetable has no arms (or at least no visible arms) but does have a pair of legs that she uses for running and playing sports. Justified since she is an object.
• The Artifact:
  • In the original series, she stood out for being an incredible musician, with her incredible singing voice being the most notable point about her, but Blue's Clues and You was much more focused on the artistic and musical side, introducing new talented singer characters such as Rainbow Puppy and leaving Sidetable a little behind. The writers got around this as they began to focus on her being an adventurous and lively girl, and a creative jokester, although she occasionally shows her artistic side.
  • Her job as the one carrying the host's handy-dandy notebook was also somewhat diminished in the reboot, since Josh's notebook is also a cell phone, making it necessary for him to carry it around much of the time, and making it unnecessary for him to go to her to get the notebook during some episodes.
• Ascended Extra: In the first season, her only dialogue in every episode is either "Blue's Clues, I'm so excited!" or "I just love Blue's Clues!". She started to get more dialogue beginning in the second season. The in-universe explanation for this was the fact that she was too shy to get together with her friends. Finally in Blue's Big Musical Movie, she has an arc where she learns to overcome the problems of shyness and begins to express herself more, interacting with people other than Steve and Blue and being open about her singing ability.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Blue's Big Musical Movie shows that she's a very talented singer (which becomes a major part of her personality from that point on), and several characters comment on it.
• The Blank: When she's not talking, she switches to an "inanimate form" with no face. She is the only one of the main characters who does this, despite how most of them are also talking objects like her, although some secondary characters, like Firetruck, have the same quirk.
• Character Catchphrase: "Blue's Clues, I'm so excited!". Lampshaded in the game Blue's Birthday Adventure.
  Sidetable: I always say that, don't I?
• Character Development: In Blue's Big Musical Movie, she reveals that the reason she never participated in the adventures before the movie is because she was too shy to ask to join the group. As the film goes on, she becomes more self-confident and open about how she feels, losing her shyness and being able to sing in front of the whole neighborhood in the Big Musical Show.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gets a major role in her own subplot of Blue's Big Musical Movie where she learns to overcome her shyness.
• Extreme Doormat: She always wants to be a part of the action, but she's a complete pushover. In the movie, she really wants to be Blue's partner in the show, but she's too afraid to say anything and accepts the menial job of ticket-collector.
• Fatal Flaw: Her shyness. Sidetable is very talented, whether in singing or sports, but she rarely had the courage to express herself to her friends. As she herself comments, being shy is difficult because it disrupts her life and prevents her from joining her friends. Luckily, Blue helps her get through it.
• The Gadfly: Like Mailbox, Sidetable seems to take pleasure in trolling hosts and seeing them confused. Being seen pranking them frequently and and having fun with their reactions.
• Genki Girl: Even before her Character Development, Sidetable was already a lively girl having a lot of fun at Steve's expense and even her Character Catchphrase was "I'm so excited!". After Blue's Big Musical Movie, this side of her becomes more visible, with her becoming increasingly more cheerful and expressive.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Eventually revealed to be a really good singer in Blue's Big Musical Movie. This becomes a major part of her character beginning with the fourth season.
  • She is quite athletic, being seen performing some risky stunts as the series goes on.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Sidetable is shown to be very talented at whatever they are playing with that day, but usually prefers to stay in the corner and just keep the host's notebook while the others go on adventures. This is deconstructed in Blue's Big Musical Movie, where she feels depressed and left behind because she doesn't have enough courage to express that she wants to sing along with everyone else. Without her being able to vocalize her thoughts, Steve just assumes she's happy just being an assistant.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her first name is either spelled as one word (in-series and in the merchandise and books) or two words (like in the credits).
• In-Series Nickname: The hosts usually just call her "Sidetable". Although Josh calls her by her full name more often.
• Invisible Anatomy: In "Nature", she holds a pair of binoculars and then puts them on her table despite not having any arms.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: In "The Wrong Shirt", Bob's opposite magic accidentally causes her body to stretch to the point that she becomes taller than Steve. She doesn't seem too bothered, but Steve seems deeply disturbed, which amuses her.
• Meaningful Name: Played for Drama. As Steve comments, her name is Sidetable, so he believes she is happy being a side character and acting as an assistant to the rest of the group during the big musical show.
• Mister Strangenoun: Her name is three words.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Sidetable is the most physically active character of the house members, and is more than happy to show that. She displays a love for sports and gaming in general, and is seen performing some athletic feats as the series goes on.
• The Prankster: Sidetable likes to occasionally prank the hosts by giving them random objects instead of their handy-dandy notebook or crayon, without them realizing it.
• The Quiet One: In the first three seasons of the series, she would usually only have one or two lines at the beginning of the episode before switching to an "inanimate form" for the remainder of the episode. Less so after she overcomes her shyness in Blue's Big Musical Movie. Interestingly, in the original series, she was the character who spoke in the most episodes, speaking in all episodes except 3.
• Satellite Character: For most of the first season, she only interacted with Steve. She eventually gained a more fleshed-out personality and relationships with the rest of the cast.
• Shrinking Violet: Best shown in Blue's Big Musical Movie, where she wants to sing, but is too nervous to ask.
• Vibrant Orange: She's an orange Genki Girl who often acts as a friendly Prankster. Her Character Catchphrase is "I'm so excited!" and she is also a Passionate Sports Girl.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice gets lower and more mature in season six.
• Wake-Up Call: Being the answer to the Blue's Clues game in the big musical is the first step she needed to take in becoming more open about how she feels to her friends. Previously, she was mostly only able to interact with Steve, but after that she opens up to the rest of the group.
• Walking Spoiler: Much of the discussion about her character will eventually spoiler the plot of Blue's Big Musical Movie, where she is basically the protagonist alongside Steve. Her Shrinking Violet personality, her Beautiful Singing Voice, and the fact that she is the answer to Blue's Clues game of the movie.

Slippery Soap

Slippery Soap

Slippery Soap

^{Click to see Slippery in the original series}

^{Click to see Slippery in the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Slippery in the flash games}

^{Click to see Slippery in Blues Big City Adventure}

Location: Bathroom
Voiced by: Cody Ross Pitts (original, seasons 1-3), Patrick Van Wagenen (original, season 4-6), Sean Hanely (original; season 6 in "Legend of the Blue Puppy" only), Evan Dorfman (original; singing voice), Jacob Soley (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

Tickety's best friend, a bar of soap who lives in the bathroom sink. He is very clumsy and tends to slide around wherever he goes. He dreams of becoming the captain of a boat when he grows up.

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• Advertised Extra: Downplayed. During Steve's era, he was supposed to be a member of main cast, but he was actually the one with the least participation among the talking objects in the house, especially after Sidetable became an Ascended Extra, only having his personality truly explored in the Reboot and not having A Day in the Limelight until the fourth season of Blue's Clues & You. This is probably due to the fact that he was the most difficult character to the host record takes with on green screen, as he was constantly moving, with Steve Burns stating that Slippery was the character he least liked to interact with, as it was difficult to stay focused without knowing where he should be.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Sometimes the other members of the house just call him "Slip", a short version of Slippery.
  • His cousin affectionately calls him Slippy.
• Alliterative Name: Slippery Soap.
• Always Someone Better: Although he is not petty about it, he feels inferior to his cousin, Slick, as he considers himself less skilled than him. He improves after they win the Big Blue Derby together.
• Bubble Gun: One of his equipments as a "Smell Buster". The bubbles he releases are capable of cleaning anything they touch in a matter of seconds.
• Bubble Shield: As Super Soap when he is in the super city. Here, Slippery expands his bubble-making ability to create tough shields.
• Character Catchphrase: "Whoaaaa!"
• I Meant to Do That: As the resident clumsy guy, Slippery often causes trouble by accident. At these moments, he is quick to pretend that everything is fine and claim that things are going according to plan, although he is unconvincing in most cases.
• Innocently Insensitive: Along with Steve, in Blue's Big Musical Movie, he doesn't seem to be able to realize that he is hurting Sidetable's feelings by offering her the job of carrying hats.
• In-Series Nickname: Sometimes gets called just "Slippery".
• The Klutz: He is extremely clumsy and can't get around without slipping and sliding. He usually takes his clumsiness in stride, with the exception of Blue's Big Musical Movie, in which his slipping almost ruins the show and makes him want to give up. Slippery's friends sing a song, "Don't Give Up", to help him feel better and go on with the show.
• Meaningful Name: Is a bar of soap and he often slips on himself.
• Mister Strangenoun: His name is an adjective and a noun.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The blue boy to Tickety's pink girl.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Downplayed. He is the sensitive guy to his cousin Slick's manly man, being less arrogant and more gentle in the way he acts.
• Slippery Soap: If it wasn't obvious from the start. As his name suggests, he is a talking bar of soap. He's very clumsy and slips around a lot (so much that it almost ruins the gang's musical show in Blue's Big Musical Movie). His catchphrase is "Whoaaa!" and the show's intro sequence features him sliding into the window on a trail of bubbles.
• Unknown Rival: Slick doesn't even seem able to recognize that Slippery harbors some resentment towards him for constantly bragging about his skills.

Tickety Tock

Tickety Tock

Tickety Tock

^{Click to see Tickety in the original series}

^{Click to see Tickety in the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Tickety in the flash games}

^{Click to see Tickety in Blue's Big City Adventure}

Location: Host Bedroom
Voiced by: Kathryn Avery (original, seasons 1-4), Kelly Nigh (original, Blue's Big Musical Movie, A Playdate With Blue CD, and seasons 4-6), Stephanie Searson (Blue's ABC Time Activities and Blue's Birthday Adventure PC games), Ava Augustin (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 2

The alarm clock who wakes the residents of the Blue's Clues House each morning and lives in the hosts' bedroom. She is very number-oriented, likes to keep schedules, and often helps the host out with basic math. She lives on Blue's nightstand.

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• Advertised Extra: Doesn't exactly have a role in Blue's Big City Adventure other than accompanying Mr. Salt with Slippery, but she appears in the films' promotional artwork more than Slippery does.
• Alliterative Name: Tickety Tock.
• Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient clock.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Gender-Inverted. She is tiny as expected of an alarm clock, and is usually positioned above Sidetable Drawer, who is the second largest girl in the house.
• Cheery Pink: She's partially colored pink and very sweet and cheerful.
• Clock King: As the house clock (formerly Steve's alarm clock), Tickety's job is to organize the house's schedule and alert others about the times accurately (although sometimes she needs the viewer's help for It).
• Cue O'Clock: She has the ability to display a symbol related to whatever's happening in the episode in the 12 position.
• Cute Machines: A rare non-robotic example. Tickety is an animated clock, who acts the same way a young girl would act, has a cute design, a passion for following a schedule and a captivating personality.
• A Day in the Limelight: Twice, once in “Tickety's Favorite Nursery Rhyme”, where Steve tries to find out what her favorite Nursery rhyme is, and the second time in "Tickety's Big Musical Morning”, where we see her organize the house's schedule.
• "Down Here!" Shot: In the episode “Tickety's Big Musical Morning”, she is the one who welcomes the viewer because everyone is sleeping. As she is much smaller than Josh, it takes some time for the viewer to notice her presence.
• Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: Her grandfather is a large grandfather clock almost as tall as Joe, while Tickety is a tiny alarm clock, implying that Tickety may or may not grow taller than she is now.
• Good with Numbers: As the house clock (and previously Steve's alarm clock), Tickety needs to be good with numbers to do her job.
• In-Series Nickname: Sometimes gets called just "Tickety".
• Irony: In season one's "The Trying Game", it turns out Tickety, a clock, does not know how to tell time until Steve and the viewers help her. Additionally, despite her status as Good with Numbers, she had difficulty reading numbers greater than 12 according to Steve in "Steve Goes to College"
• Lost Voice Plot: The conflict that generates the plot of Blue's Big Musical Movie is when Tickety loses her voice while practicing for the titular music show, leading Sidetable Drawer to step in as Blue's new singing partner.
• Meaningful Name: Was named that because clocks go "tick-tock".
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The Pink Girl for Slippery's Blue Boy.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her super persona Clock Girl has the limited ability to slow down time, and before she uses this ability, a purple aura surrounds her body.
• Random Species Offspring: She is the granddaughter of a grandfather clock, but is an alarm clock.
• Strong Family Resemblance: With the Grandfather Clock of the original series. Even though they are different types of Clocks, they have the same color palette.
• Time Master: As the Clock Girl in Super City. Here, Tickety can slow down time for a short period.

The Spice Family

In General

From right to left: Cinnamon, Sage, Mrs Pepper, Ginger, Mr. Salt and Paprika

A family of spice shakers who live in the kitchen. Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are the parent figures of the house, who are always prepared to help Blue with some advice or a snack. They have four kids: Paprika, Cinnamon, and two baby twins named Sage and Ginger. The extended family includes Mrs. Pepper's mother, Grandma Cayenne, Mr. Salt's father, Grandfather Thyme, and an aunt named Aunt Nutmeg.

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• Accents Aren't Hereditary: Neither the children of the Spice family, nor the extended family have a French accent like Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper. Although there is evidence that Mr. Salt's accent is not natural
• Animate Inanimate Object: A family of spice shakers.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Subverted. Though they follow an Edible Theme Naming, they actually are animated spice containers rather than seasoning types.
• Edible Theme Naming: With Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper, their last names are to do with food, with the kids and the extended family it's their first names.
• Family Theme Naming: All members of the family are named after types of spices.
• Lilliputians: Downplayed. Unlike most cases, the Spice family are not humanoids, but rather animated containers of spices. They live in small houses, have objects adapted for their use (like Paprika's phone) and can lift things several times their size.
• Supreme Chef: Like Josh mentions, all of the Spice family members (including their kids) are incredible cooks, both alone and in groups, which is natural since they are kitchen appliances.

Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper

Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper

Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper

^{Click to see Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper in the the original series}

^{Click to see Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper in illustrated books}

^{Click to see Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper in the flash games}

^{Click to see Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper in Blue's Big City Adventure}

The parents of the Spice family and also the parental figure for most of the members of the house. In "Blue's First Holiday", it is shown that Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are also the owners of the house.

The flashbacks reveal that they raised Steve and Joe themselves.

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• Caring Gardener: Mrs. Pepper works in the garden frequently and is the kind and patient Team Mom, as well as Mr. Salt whose favorite hobby is gardening.
• Dance of Romance: Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper love this trope as they love dancing together, they do it in the opening of "Blue's Clues & You!'', in the games, during songs and even when giving advice to the hosts.
• Divergent Character Evolution: The Shaker couple started out having similar behaviors and acting like The Dividual, but as the series went on, their unique peculiarities became more highlighted. Mr. Salt turned out to be more immature and a little absent minded, in the same way as the hosts, his interest in cooking evolved into him working at the neighborhood bakery. While Mrs. Pepper is a more adventurous lady, her personality is more mature and she is interested in the vegetable aspect of cooking.
• Gratuitous French: They both exclaim excerpts in French every so often.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Both are the oldest members of the entire household, having been the adults in charge of the household since the others were small children, and are always happy to participate in whatever adventures the others are taking part in. One of the episodes even reveals that Mr. Salt considered Mailbox (who was 10 years old at the time) to be his best friend.
• Look-Alike Lovers: They are identical except with their colors changed, which is justified because they are the same type of objects, and they are a couple who love each other very much.
• Manchild: Mr. Salt can be as mature as the three hosts are at times. But still acts as the voice of reason when their quirks get out of hand.
• Not Allowed to Grow Old: Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper have stayed the same age as they are since the flashbacks in "Blue's First Holiday", with no hints of getting older.
• Palette Swap: Both use the same model, with different colors.
• Parental Substitute: To Steve and Joe. Their parents are never revealed, and even during childhood flashbacks Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are the ones shown to be responsible for the siblings.
• Simple-Minded Wisdom: They are The Ditz, as per Storybook World standard, but they are good teachers and great giving advices to the rest of the house.

Tropes that apply to Mr. Salt

Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by: Nick Balaban (original and Blue's Big City Adventure), Brad Adamson (reboot)
Series: 3
Episodes: 123 ^note  77 (Blue's Clues), 1 (Blue's Room), 45 (Blue's Clues and You)

• Ambiguous Situation: Some moments imply that Mr. Salt is not actually French or at least not fluent in the language, as he is seen mixing up words even after being corrected and his father has an American accent.
• Cool Plane: Mr. Salt is revealed to have one in the movie which has the ability to skiddo to the real world. Interestingly, Mrs. Pepper stated in one episode that her dream was to be a pilot.
• The Klutz: Mrs Salt despite being an incredible cook has the delicacy of an elephant and is prone to causing accidents while using cooking materials.
• Mr. Imagination: Subverted. Mr. Salt, has a lot of difficulty using his imagination even though he is happier playing with the other characters. Even after being taught how to use it he still has some difficulty, but at least he tries.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Mr. Salt, small as he is, seems to be able to lift objects that even his human hosts find difficult with extreme ease.
• Real Men Cook: Mr. Salt's role in the house appears to be the cook and he sometimes works at the neighborhood bakery.
• Supreme Chef: Mr. Salt is a good cook, who can cook almost anything in a short period of time.
• Sweet Baker: Mr. Salt is revealed to be working at the neighborhood bakery in the reboot episode "Blue's Big Neighborhood Adventure" and is a (ironically) sweet husband , a caring father for all his children and a patient Parental Substitute to Steve and Joe.
• Team Dad: Mr. Salt is supposed to be the only adult man in the house, and acts as a parental figure to all the house residents. He helped raise Steve and Joe from a young age, encouraged Josh to achieve his dream, and acted as a protective father to him, driving to New York just to meet him. All this without neglecting his actual children.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mr. Salt is Josh's biggest moral supporter during the movie "Blue Big City Adventure" he naturally gives him such a speech when Josh gives up on becoming a Broadway singer after losing his audition with Rainbow Puppy

Tropes that apply to Mrs. Pepper

Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by:Penelope Jewkes (original, season 1), Spencer Kayden (original, seasons 2–6), Gisele Rousseau (reboot)
Series: 3
Episodes: ??? ^note  68 (Blue's Clues), 1 (Blue's Room), ??? (Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 2

• Clean, Pretty Childbirth: She was already in her usual mood right after giving birth to Paprika and Cinnamon, without any sign of worry or pain.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Although she appears to be more intelligent, she is also more imaginative than her husband, and her imagination can get out of control from time to time, causing her to overreact to silly things.
• Family Theme Naming: Like her mother and eldest daughter, she is based on spices involving peppers, she is a black pepper.
• Only Sane Woman: She is a little less The Ditz than her husband, better at using her imagination and more likely to think before acting, although she occasionally has her moments of being silly.
• Pepper Sneeze: It never happens in the series, but at some points it is mentioned that pepper makes people sneeze, and it is even a hint that she is the second clue twice.
• Pregnant Reptile: Mrs. Pepper as the name suggests, is a pepper shaker, and gave birth to two children (in the case of Sage and Ginger it is a bit ambiguous).
• My Secret Pregnancy: She was already pregnant with Paprika for most of the first season (her model was a little wider), but this was only revealed to the audience (and Steve) in the last episode of the first season on the same day she gives birth to Paprika.
• Team Mom: Mrs. Pepper along with her husband is supposed to be "The only adult figure in the house", and acts as a parental figure to all the residents of the house. She helped raise Steve and Joe when they were children, encouraged Josh to follow his dreams, and supported her husband on his trip to New York to find Josh. All this without neglecting her actual children.

Paprika

Paprinka

^{Click to see Baby Paprika}

^{Click to see toddler Paprika}

^{Click to see toddler Paprika in the illustrated books}

^{Click to see Teen Paprika in the illustrated books}

Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by:Jenna Marie Castle (original, baby), Corrine Hoffman (original, toddler), Aleisha Allen (singing voice in Blue's Big Musical Movie), Shechinah Mpumlwana (reboot)
Series: 3
Episodes: ???
Movies: 2

The eldest daughter of the Spice family and also the oldest child. Paprika was born in the first season of Blue's Clues

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• Age Lift: Both she and Cinnamon are significantly older in the reboot series, ‘‘Blue's Clues & You!’’. Paprika is now a teenager.
• Baby Talk: Paprika speaks in primitive grammar when she was a baby. She started to speak in complete sentences as a toddler.
• Cheerful Child: She was often lively as a baby, moreso as a toddler.
• Cool Big Sis: The oldest sister of the Spice family, who named her brother Cinnamon and is often seen babysitting her baby siblings, even though she sometimes gets a little overwhelmed and needs help, she tries to make it clear that she still loves her younger siblings above all.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. In the original series Paprika as the first baby of the Spice family had a lot of focus, had her own minigames in the series' licensed games, and her own arc about becoming a big sister. On the reboot however, while she is still there, she is probably the friend with the least focus, with most of her scenes being focused on her family, while the other shakers have their own scenes where their family does not appear or are mentioned. As of 2024, Paprika and Sidetable are the only members of the yellow house to not have their own focus episode on Blue's Clues and You.
• * Family Theme Naming: daughter and eldest grandaughter, she is based on a kind of spice involving peppers, she is named after paprika, ground pepper mix.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Paprika is a healthy example of this trope, she is always seen with her Graham cracker phone or some type of technology and loves taking photos and videos, but is not dependent on technology and usually uses her phone to have fun with other members of the house.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Paprika has been aged up to a teenager in the reboot. In the original, Paprika aged up from a baby to a toddler by season four.
• Third-Person Person: Paprika sometimes spoke in third person as a baby.
• Vibrant Orange: Paprika's body is dark orange, almost brown, and she is a cheerful girl.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon

^{Click to see baby Cinnamon}

^{Click to see Cinnamon in illustrated books}

^{Click to see his super persona}

Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by: Annalivia Balaban (original), Jaiden Cannatelli (reboot, season 1), Niko Ceci (reboot, season 2)
Series: 3
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1

The second child of the Spice family and also the oldest boy. Cinnamon was born during the fourth season of Blue's Clues.

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• Age Lift: Cinnamon is significantly older in the reboot series, ‘‘Blue's Clues & You!’’. Now Cinnamon is a young boy whose cap now resembles a baseball hat.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Implied by Paprika in "A Tale of Shovel and Pail" though never directly demonstrated on screen, where she says that even though they conflict sometimes she still loves him. Considering he has an entire episode where he torments the other members of the house like a super villain it's not hard to believe.
• Badass Adorable: His super persona, Villain Ice/Ice Spice, has powers that would be easily scary outside of a kids show setting, almost freezing the supercity and anyone in it, but he's still a lovely young boy with and without the uniform.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Surprisingly he appears to be a fairly competent villain with an ability that can easily be deadly. He almost freezes super city while wearing the uniform of 'villain ice'. It's reassuring that he just wanted to play villain and hero with the Thinking Squad, instead of being really evil.
• Blue Is Heroic: Subverted, his super villain persona "Villain Ice" is associated with the color blue, as Blue Means Cold. When he becomes the heroic "Ice Spice" he is once again associated with brown.
• Blue Means Cold: His super persona has ice powers and is associated with the color blue.
• Cartoonish Supervillainy: He was the first real villain of the entire series, but was initially as harmless as all the other characters, doing silly little acts like freezing Pawprint or Josh's pants. Even when his plans lead him to do something that seems diabolical (freezing an entire city), it is still treated with the same seriousness as freezing a pair of pants.
• Crossdressing Voices: In the original show, Cinnamon was voiced by Nick Balaban's daughter, Annalivia Balaban.
• The Diaper Change: Cinnamon has his diaper changed and it was a plot point in "The Baby's Here".
• Harmless Freezing: Fortunately when he freezes someone they don't seem to have many problems, being conscious all the time and able to communicate, the only real effect is the limitation of mobility. Try not to think too much about the implication.
• An Ice Person: When in Super City, Cinnamon super persona Villain Ice/Ice Spice gains the ability to freeze anything.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: In the episode “Return of the Thinking Squad” he uses a mecha uniform the size of a human child to become his super persona: Villain Ice/Ice Spice.
• Last-Minute Baby Naming: Paprika named Cinnamon on the first day of his life, after deciding that "he looks like a Cinnamon".
• Musical Theme Naming: In "Return of the Thinking Squad", he plays the role of "Villain Ice". After he's reformed, he changes it to "Ice Spice", both names derived from rappers.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Cinnamon is now a small child in the reboot, with his shaker cap sporting a backwards flap to reflect the age.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Inverted. As a villain he was associated with shades of blue, while his heroic persona is associated with the color brown (which is a shade of orange).
• Superpowered Evil Side: Cinnamon AKA "Villain Ice" has the honor of being the first canonical villain of two series, a spin off, 10 seasons and 2 movies. Wearing a robot suit that gives him ice powers. Downplayed because he's not really evil, he just wants to be the villain for Thinking Squad's hero story.
• Walking Spoiler: It's a little difficult to talk about him in Blue's Clues & You without talking about his super persona, even if it only appeared for one episode.

Sage and Ginger

Sage and Ginger

^{Click to see Sage and Ginger in illustrated books}

Location: Yellow House (Kitchen)
Voiced by: ???
Series: 1
Episodes: ???
Movies: 1

The youngest children in the Spice family, a baby boy and a baby girl. Sage and Ginger are fraternal twins and debuted in the first season of Blue's Clues & You!.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: They are canonically one year old, making them the youngest characters in the series.
• Green Means Natural: Sage is green and is named after a type of herb.
• Half-Identical Twins: Sage and Ginger are fraternal twins, but use the same character model, with the only difference from each other being their colors, Sage is green and Ginger is brown.
• Random Species Offspring: Although their names can be justified by them being condiment dispensers rather than spice types, Sage and Ginger are still different types of dispensers from the rest of the family, being bottles rather than shakers, implying that they may be adopted.
• Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Assuming that they were born to Mrs. Pepper, Sage and Ginger are a boy and a girl, respectively.
• Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about them without revealing that Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper had new children and the answer to Blue's clues from their introductory episode

Minor House Residents

Freddy and Felicia Felt

Freddy and Felicia ^note formerly Fifi Felt

Felicia (Right) and Freddy (Left)

Location: Yellow House Felt Frame
Freddy Voice: Cody Ross Pitts, Taylor McKelvie (The Grow Show!) Dante Altobello, Calleb Bellavance
Felicia/Fifi Voice: Kathryn Avery, Brittney Goncalves, Gracen Daly
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 2

Two Felt Friends who live in the felt paintings scattered around the house. While there are other felt friends, these two are the ones that appear most frequently. Technically, they are members of the Blue's Clues house, but for some reason, they are never considered that way.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Felicia was originally called Fifi, having her name changed to Felicia in one of the games and remaining that way on the series reboot, Blue's Clues & You!. However, a cameo on Blue's Big City Adventure still refers to her as Fifi.
• Brother–Sister Team: Freddy and Felicia are always seen together.
• Constantly Curious: They are always curious and happy to learn new things. Luckily, the hosts are there to help them (and be helped).
• The Gadfly: They are more than happy to tease the hosts and temporarily hide clues to mess with them.
• Living Toys: Both are part of a kind of sentient felt dolls.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Freddy is more sensitive and easily scared, while Felicia is more adventurous and playful.
• Out of Focus: Although they appear in the background of every episode, from the third season of the original series onwards, they gain less focus compared to the other members of the house.
• Trickster Mentor: They are often seen hiding clues and laughing at their hosts' confusion, but are generally kind and well-intentioned.

Snail

Snail

The Snail

^{Click here to see the snail in the reboot}

Location: Yellow House
Voiced by: Nick Balaban (original) ??? (reboot)
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 2

A snail that loves to hide in various areas throughout Storybook World as an Easter Egg.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Was female in the original (although had the voice of a male opera singer whenever she sings), but is referred with masculine pronouns in the reboot. The explanation for this is that in real life, snails are hermaphrodites.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed compared to the other characters in the series, but in the reboot and in the 2022 film, she is recognized by the other characters, has an entire planet based on her and is the answer to Blue's Clues in one episode, complete with talking for the first time in the franchise outside of a musical number.
• Easter Egg: Snail can be seen hidden in various places three times throughout the episode. She's easy to find, but sometimes, she would hide in places where you'll have to look very closely to see her.
• Left the Background Music On: In Blue's Big City Adventure, when Steve questions where the saxophone riff is coming from whenever he says "a mystery". When he looks at his shoulder, he realizes it was the snail the whole time.
• Rule of Three: She has cameoed Once per Episode three times throughout.
• The Quiet One: She doesn't speak a word throughout most of her appearances.
• Vocal Dissonance: Whenever she does have lines, she has a surprisingly deep male voice, especially when singing a line during one of the musical numbers of Blue's Big Musical Movie. She also spoke in "Blue's New Pet", also in a masculine voice.

Turquoise

^{Click to see Turquoise in the reboot}

^{Click to see the second Turquoise}

Location: Yellow House
Voiced by: N/A
Series: 2 (Blue's Clues, Blue's Clues & You!)
Movies: 1

Blue's pet turtle.

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• Team Pet: She was the first pet in the yellow house, maintaining her status for a long time.