This is the only episode to have Steve receive a letter from Mailbox with a drawing, which was Slippery Soap and the only episode of Season 1 to not have the kids shout "Blue's Clues!" during the theme song, making it the first episode of the entire series that it happened.
In the credits, a tune of "We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues", "We Just Got a Letter", "We Just Got An Email", and "We Are Gonna Play Blue's Clues", alongside "We Are Looking for Blue's Clues" on tubular bells played.
This is the sixth episode in which the letter in the Mailtime segment doesn't end with "Bye, Steve!" from "Blue's Story Time", "Adventures in Art", "Blue Wants to Play a Game", "What Story Does Blue Want to Play?", "Blue Wants to Play a Song Game", "What Game Does Blue Want to Learn?", "Blue's Senses", and "What Did Blue See?".
In the original script, Paprika was originally going to be born in between episodes and Steve would walk by and notice that Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper had a baby. But in a table read, Steve knew that this would be a big deal and wanted it to be its own episode.
During the scene where Mr. Salt is pacing all over the kitchen countertop, Nick Balaban, the VA of Mr. Salt, is bantering in an unplanned recording. Angela and a few other cast members kept shouting out spice names and Nick improvised the whole scene, and that was how Paprika got her name.