Mr. Spats

Mr. Spats
Biographical Information
Died	Presumably in a fire
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Relationships
Family Members	Carmelita Spats (daughter) Bruce (possible sibling)
Love Interests	Mrs. Spats † (wife)
Affiliation
Loyalty	Spats Family
Behind the Scenes
Appearances	Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (mentioned) The Slippery Slope (mentioned)

Mr. Spats is one of the parents of Carmelita Spats, and the husband of Mrs. Spats.

Biography

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Mr. Spats is briefly mentioned in a letter addressed to him and his wife by Vice Principal Nero. They apparently sent him an article from The Daily Punctilio on the dangers of allowing students to read certain books. Nero used this information to fire a teacher named Ms. K (implied to be Kit Snicket). Ms. K responded by grabbing two students by the ankles and running away with them. Nero assures him that neither of the two children is their darling daughter Carmelita.

Nero describes Mr. and Mrs. Spats as "busy parents," and he thanks them for bringing the article to his attention.

The Slippery Slope

The Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard mention all the fortunes they will secure from the Snow Scouts' families. One such fortune named is the "Spats fortune," implying that Mr. Spats will be killed so Carmelita can inherit the fortune, and then somehow obtained by the villains. Quigley Quagmire tries to warn her about this eventuality, to no avail. 

TV Series Divergent Canon

In the TV series, Nero mentions Carmelita has two living parents. Carmelita says that they let her do anything she wanted. 

After kidnapping Carmelita, Count Olaf fails to ransom her back to her parents. When he wonders why Carmelita can't be sent back to her parents and Esmé Squalor mentions to Olaf that they "burned down their house with them inside." 

Family

Jerome Squalor

Esmé Squalor

Mr. Spats †

Mrs. Spats †

Carmelita Spats

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Absent	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Absent
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Absent	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Absent
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Mentioned
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Absent	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Mentioned
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Absent
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent