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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mumfie's reaction in the Mumfie's Quest arc when [[spoiler: the Black Cat fools him into being prisoner in the holding cell]], as well as when making time reverse in "Time Waits For No Mumfie".
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* DontExplainTheJoke: This happened in "It Won't Be Alright On The Night" when Mumfie did not know why the others were laughing after he misheard "acts" as "ax", so he laughed along without them explaining his mistake.
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* BringMyBrownPants: When Scarecrow runs away from a shark in "A Grouper's Tooth", you'll see a blink-and-you-miss-it puddle underneath him while he's running that is not the same color as the sand he ran across.
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* NeverSayDie: The Secretary of Night uses "destroyed" instead of "killed" in the Mumfie's Quest arc. Averted in "Days Without Night", when Scarecrow says that plants are turning brown and dying from having too much sunlight.
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* StockScream: Scarecrow has one done by his voice actor, as well as a stock yawn heard in episodes such as "The Guest" and "Scarecrowella", and a gasp he does in quite a few episodes.
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*** Another joke involving a show that aired on [=CiTV=]: one episode involved a weasel who stole plants and sounded exactly like the one from the USAcres segments of GarfieldAndFriends.
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* AuthorAvatar: Britt Allcroft's Creator Avatar is the Queen of Night.
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* [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt In Case You Forgot Who Created It]]: The show is often listed or billed officially as ''Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie''.
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* [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque Wrong Turn At Montreal]]: This is how Goose wound up at Mumfie's house in "Scarecrow's New Best Friend".
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* [[spoiler: DeniedFoodAsPunishment: When the Secretary of Night has Mumfie imprisoned, he orders this punishment for him, but Mumfie escapes almost right away.]]
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*** In some episodes, Scarecrow looses straw like the Oz Scarecrow and stuffs it back into his shirt, but the only difference is it coming from his behind and that he does it himself all the time instead of someone stuffing it back in. On one instance, he used the phrase "Knocked the stuffing out of me" like in the dark forest scene of Oz, and on another instance, he ripped his hair and stuffed it into his shirt.
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* {{Animesque}}: When the series returned to Hulu and Netflix in TheNewTens, many people unfamiliar with the series called it an anime when it was actually British. And it's not hard to see why they would say that-the characters look like they've come from a Studio Ghibli film, there are lots of RidiculouslyCuteCritters in the show, Mumfie's winking using the 0_< style, the characters having WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises when they are shocked in "The Amazing Scarecrow", a villian who predates shojou anime villians such as [[Anime/YumeNoCrayonOukoku the Grim Reaper]] and [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Zakkena]], and Scarecrow occasionally using a ]_[ style of eyes when smiling or sleeping. The first and second seasons were actually animated in Canada, and the most anime-esque season, the third, was animated in Spain.
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* [[ActorAllusion Songwriter Allusion]] At a couple of points in Mumfie's Quest, Mumfie whistles, a nod to the musical AnyoneCanWhistle, which Larry Grossman also wrote the music for.
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* ShoutOut: A lot of elements in this story are quite similar to Literature/TheWizardOfOz. Both have someone who is bored of their everyday life going on an adventure (Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, although [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]], the titular character of Mumfie) a scarecrow, a character who wants to go home (Dorothy in Wizard Of Oz, Pinkey in Mumfie), [[NightmareFuel scary villains]] trying to prevent the protagonists from reaching their goal (The Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, The Secretary in Mumfie), and the characters journeying to a fantastical land ruled by a powerful person (Emerald City who is run by The Wizard Of Oz in the titular novel/movie, and the palace owned by The Queen of Night in Mumfie).
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* ShoutOut: A lot of elements in this story are quite similar to Literature/TheWizardOfOz. Both have someone who is bored of their everyday life going on an adventure (Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, although [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]], the titular character of Mumfie) a scarecrow, a character who wants to go home (Dorothy in Wizard Of Oz, Pinkey in Mumfie), a character whom the characters have to free from an object (Dorothy had to free Scarecrow from a nailed cross in Oz, and Mumfie and Scarecrow had to get a boat out from underneath Whale's belly), [[NightmareFuel scary villains]] trying to prevent the protagonists from reaching their goal (The Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, The Secretary in Mumfie), and the characters journeying to a fantastical land ruled by a powerful person (Emerald City who is run by The Wizard Of Oz in the titular novel/movie, and the palace owned by The Queen of Night in Mumfie).
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** Scarecrowella has many Disney/{{Cinderella}} shout-outs. The ball is called the Royal Ball, Eel is called the [[FairyGodmother Fair-Eel Godmother]], The Queen of Night yells "But I don't even know your name!", and there's a reference to the scrapped scene where Cinderella overhears her sisters talking about the mysterious girl at the ball.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: In one episode, it's revealed FredAstaire is a relative of Mumfie's, and Whale mentions the U.S. constitution in the movie. Add the fact that the North Pole is near Canada and that they know a goose from there, it's safe to say the show is set in either one of the Dakotas or Nebraska.
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** At the end of "Mumfie's White Christmas", [[spoiler: the unseen narrator tells the viewers "Happy Christmas, everyone!"]]. Also, at the end of Mumfie's Quest's original televised version, he asks viewers [[spoiler: "But what happened then, what do you think?"]]
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* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: "Scarecrowella", being a spoof of Cinderella, has this.
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* SaturdayMorningCartoon: "Mumfie's White Christmas" originally aired in America on December 23, 1995, and was the only episode to do so. NickJr UK also aired the episodes on Saturdays at 8:30AM for a while.
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** The beginning of "Bristle's Blues" has Bristle reading rules before bedtime. The only ones he reads out loud reference the songs "[[RuthEtting Shaking the Blues Away]]", "Film/SingingInTheRain", and "[[BruceSpringsteen Dancing in the Dark]]".
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** In "Luck Or No Luck", a book was called "The Guide To Elegant Dancing", and it was written by FredAstaire.
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The films ''Mumfie's White Christmas'' and ''Mumfie's Quest: The Movie'' were issued for the first time on DVD in 2013 and 2014 respectively, to general acclaim.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The first few minutes of the movie may make it seem innocent and fluffy...until the gang goes to Pinkey's island. Averted with the post-movie episodes.
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* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Mumfie believes in and lives out this trope. What do you expect from a show with "Magic Adventures" in it's title?
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* TooDumbToLive: Has [[TooDumbToLive.TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie its own page]].
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->''"Who can you rely on when the chips are down?\\
Call on Mumfie when you need defending,\\
Braver than a bulldog, brighter than a clown,\\
Here comes Mumfie with a happy ending!\\
With his faithful friend, the Scarecrow,\\
He's got dreams enough to share,\\
So, if you want adventure, this is where to start,\\
If you need a hero, who can play the part?\\
The little pachyderm with a great big heart!"''
''Magic Adventures of Mumfie'' is a 1990's animated series/movie created by Britt Allcroft of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' fame. It centers around Mumfie, a special elephant who lives alone in a cottage in the woods. Every morning he would run to his letter box hoping for an adventure tied up in a parcel. One day, Mumfie realizes that this is not possible and sets off to find one. Along the way, Mumfie meets a lot of friends, such as Scarecrow, Pinkey the Flying Pig, and a whale with a whole room for visitors inside his body.
The films ''Mumfie's White Christmas'' and ''Mumfie's Quest: The Movie'' were issued for the first time on DVD in 2013 and 2014 respectively, to general acclaim.
!!This series contains examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Perils of Pearl" for Eel, "Bristle's Blues" for Bristle, "Scarecrowella" for Scarecrow.
* ADogNamedDog: Scarecrow, Whale and Mole fall under this trope.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Averted with "Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise" where he turns one (according to Mumfie in the episode "The Album").
** We also had "It Won't Be Alright On The Night", which was about the cast preforming a talent show for The Queen of Night. Her age isn't revealed. Three years earlier, there was a story in the Mumfie annual called "A Present For The Queen" about The Queen's birthday.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: "Mumfie's Lost Button", "Scarecrowella"]].
* AntiChristmasSong: "Let Off Steam" in "Mumfie's White Christmas".
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "If Wishes Were Pancakes", Mumfie wishes to have mashed banana pancakes all day long. [[spoiler: He gets tired of eating them, and after having not had food for a whole day, he becomes sick and weak. The spell is reversed, though.]]
* BerserkButton: Bristle will wake up when anyone says his name.
* BowelBreakingBricks: Whenever Scarecrow falls from a high distance, he "poops" straw.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Scarecrow does this multiple times:
*** In "Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise", he told the audience that he and Mumfie always had tea together every morning.
*** In "Isle of Lost Things", he tells them that he wished that he would have studied geography in the farmer's field.
*** In "Scarecrowella", he turns to the audience to tell them about how great the night he had was.
*** Scarecrow sometimes unintentionally does this, like when he told himself "Mumfie says we'll be fine!" in "The Black Cat Dissapears" and a majority of "A Foggy Day".
** In the episode "Making A Stand", Mumfie turns to the audience and tells them that he thinks Scarecrow doesn't want to play with him anymore.
* CanadaEh: Canada Goose.
* CatchPhrase: A few characters have these:
** Mrs. Admiral: "Lo' love you!"
** Napoleon: "Au reviour!"
** You-Are: "Did someone say taxi?"
* CharacterOfTheDay: This show has quite a few:
** Fluffy from "The Lonely Cloud"
** Mumfie's pet goldfish from "A Fishy Tale"
** [[spoiler: Imogene]] from "A Foggy Day"
** Spike the dog from "Reigning Cats and Dogs"
** The Pack-Rats from "The Sock Snatchers"
** Vincent Van Brushes from "Sunrise, Sunset"
** The Starduster from the episode of the same name.
** The gooseberry imp from "It Won't Be Alright On The Night".
** Scarecrowella [[note]]Scarecrow in a fancy tuxedo and wearing a top hat[[/note]] from the episode of the same name.
** Kingsley from "The Amazing Scarecrow".
* ChristmasEpisode: "Mumfie's White Christmas"
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Mumfie is told to dust The Secretary's bottle collection after disturbing Bristle.
* [[AuthorAvatar Creator Avatar]]: Britt Allcroft's Creator Avatar is the Queen of Night.
* CueTheFlyingPigs: One of the main characters, Pinkey, is a flying pig, and ironically, Mumfie and friends are lucky many times on their journeys. There's also a musical number named "Pigs Can Fly", which is a "you're special just the way you are" duet with Scarecrow and Pinkey. (However, in Mumfie's White Christmas, Napoleon and Mumfie also sing some verses.)
* CutSong: The song "I Must Have My Night" was made for the film, but a sequence was never animated for it.
* DancesAndBalls: "Scarecrowella"
* DontGoInTheWoods: The moral of "Pinkey's Mysterious Island", also known as the forest scene in the Mumfie's Quest movie.
* EarlyBirdCameo: A rare example done with music for a show-all the songs after Ocean of Sleep came out on CD and cassette before they aired on TV!
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The animators of Mumfie's Quest do not know how to draw Bristle correctly, and Mumfie's sneeze is represented by a squeaking noise rather than the fart-esque sound we hear in later episodes.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Many episodes have a happy ending-the theme song even states this.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The pirate song has the pirates mention that they put on a shirt and tie before visiting their mother.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Quite a few episodes end with this.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Quoted above.
* FairyGodmother: "Scarecrowella" has the Electric Eel as Scarecrow's Fair-Eel Godmother.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The series started with thirteen 10-minute episodes (5 20-minute episodes in America) of how Mumfie met many of the primary characters from the series. Afterwards, the episodes were combined into a PilotMovie.
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Mumfie.
* FunnyAnimal: Mumfie.
* FreudianSlip: "Mumfie Can't Say No" is all about this trope.
** Also, in "Scarecrowella": "Can you really do that, Eel-um, I mean Fair-Eel Godmother?"
* {{Gasshole}}: Canada Goose burps in "The Goose and I" after eating Pinkey's dessert.
* GentleGiant: Whale.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Whenever someone tells Scarecrow to come inside, Scarecrow says that he'd rather not.
** Whenever Mumfie says "Sssh..." to someone, it sometimes sounds like he's swearing. Bristle even did this a few times in the episode "A Fishy Tale".
** In the episode "Bristle's Blues", one of the clothes Mrs. Admiral gives Bristle is a barrel, and it appears that Bristle has no clothes on underneath from what we can see (or maybe just his underwear).
** In Pinkey's First Winter, Scarecrow says he want to spend winter under the covers after Mumfie tells him that winter came.
** In "If Wishes Were Pancakes", when Mumfie covers his face from pancakes, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it looks sort of...akward.]]
** Bristle cuts his finger and we can see what's implied to be blood in "Mind Over Manners".
** In "French Lessons", when Mumfie and Scarecrow try to say cat in French, it sounds like the same swear word it sounds like Mumfie is saying when he shushes someone.
* GoingCommando: A few episodes, like "Sea of Surprises", "Mumfie's White Christmas" (though you'd only find it in these two if you pause it when Mumfie is going to bed), "Cabin Fever" (another hidden frame when Mumfie climbs on top of a chest) and "Upside-Down Magic" reveal that Mumfie doesn't wear underwear. WordOfGod says that the animators didn't feel like drawing it on because it would be considered as [[PeopleSitOnChairs not doing anything notable to the plot]].
* GratuitousFrench: Napoleon Jones often speaks French. There's an episode where he even teaches Mumfie and Scarecrow French.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Bristle turns good at the end of the movie/episode "A Treasure Beyond Price", but in the series, he still likes rules and is sometimes strict.]]
** [[spoiler:Davy Jones also reformed himself towards the end of the movie]]
* HitchhikerHeroes: Characteristic 1 applies to this show.
* HonorableElephant: Mumfie's the main character, and according to the theme song, he's brave as well.
* HumiliationConga: After the song "The Chase" in "Mumfie's Quest", [[spoiler: the pirates are captured by Whale. They then are told by Napoleon Jones that they have to sail the seven seas for 7 years and have to look after the royal boating pond.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Whale's character in its entirety. His mother warned him as a baby, no matter how friendly he is, all the land and sea creatures would fear him [[SeaMonster because of his immense size]]. His mother informed him [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch he'll always find welcoming companions with his own kind]]. Whale deliberately misinterpreted her advice that [[FriendToAllLivingThings there'd always be a welcome inside him.]] Thus he converts his vast interior into a hotel so he can travel alongside land-dwellers.
** Mumfie could also be this, as this is why he set off on his voyage.
* InkSuitActor: The Queen Of Night bears a striking resemblance to Britt Allcroft, and is even voiced by her!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bristle may be bossy, but he ''does'' mean well.
* JesusTaboo: In the song "Just A Waste of Your Time", Napoleon calls himself "just a Jonah", referencing the bible story where Jonah was in the belly of a whale. Also, Mrs. Admiral's catchphrase is "Lo' love you!", a shortened form of "Lord love you!".
* {{Ladyella}}: "Scarecrowella"'s episode title is this.
* LimitedWardrobe: All the characters have this
** This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Scarecrowella". Mumfie said he was going to wear his special pink jacket to the Queen's ball, and Scarecrow said that all of his jackets were pink, but Mumfie said the special pink one was for special occasion.
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Most of the cast are animals, but there's an inanimate object that acts like a human, a whale cruiseliner, a lighthouse keeper, a bald man who lives in a well, pirates, an old couple who lives underwater, a starduster, a flying vaccum pet, a painter, two beautiful queens...and a midget obsessed with rules.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Bristle is described as a "tiny man", and is only a few inches taller than Mumfie. He works for the main villain as well.
* MacGuffin: Two actually in the film! The first was [[spoiler: The Queen of Night's jewel]] , which [[spoiler: Mumfie uses for the sick tree by his cottage]] and [[spoiler: The Queen of Night's magic Cloak of Dreams, which is used to defeat TheBigBad.]]
* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Scarecrow has "What if (insert bad event that might happen here)?", usually done with 3 different scenarios at a time.
* MagicMusic: The episode "The Music Of Spring" is about how there's a magic instrument a deer uses that helps bring spring to the forest near where the Queen of Night lives.
* MathematiciansAnswer: In "Friend Or Foe?", Mumfie gives "Yes!" as an answer to the Secretary of Night when he asks for his name.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mumfie gets separated from his friends many times as a result of silly mistakes.
* NobodyPoops: "Upside Down Magic" has Mumfie falling into rose bush when Pinkey scared him. When he gets up and rips his pants, there is no underwear on underneath, unlike other cartoons where this happens, meaning he isn't potty trained. However, fabric covers his private areas later in the same episode. We can also see no underwear when he wears his nightgown. The creator says that she thinks making characters use the bathroom would be considered not-plot relevant.
** Nobody needs the bathroom after eating or drinking too much, and instead get nightmares.
** Averted in "The Lonely Cloud" with the CharacterOfTheDay Fluffy, where said cloud [[PottyFailure leaks all over Scarecrow's chair.]]
** In "Bristle's Blues", [[spoiler: we can assume that the Black Cat pooped out Bristle's rule book, since the same pillow Napoleon Jones lifts on Bristle's bed to find the rule book is the same one the Black Cat sat on before disappearing.]]
* OfferedTheCrown: Scarecrow is crowned king in "Scarecrowella", [[spoiler: but refuses due to the strict rules. It also turned out to be AllJustADream]].
* OffModel: Four words: "[[http://oi62.tinypic.com/15f3fgx.jpg Well! That explains everything!]]"
** Speaking of "Mumfie's Quest", pay attention to the scene where [[spoiler:Bristle appears at the ceremony in the garden. He looks more adorable than he normally does, and his jacket color is wrong]].
** Another off-model error in the same arc-Scarecrow bobs his head in a bizarre manner when Mumfie meets the pirates.
** Any far off shot on the show will be like this. For example, the episode "Regining Cats and Dogs" had a scene where Mumfie and Scarecrow are cleaning up a mess and talking to each other. Instead of the camera zooming in on the characters, the camera shows it from an angle where you can see the kitchen and Mumfie and Scarecrow [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2wp43l3.jpg look like they have button eyes]].
** Whenever Scarecrow blows something, like in [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2qapzbp.jpg this screenshot]], his cheeks look like those of a chipmunk.
** The episodes made by D'Ocon Films are the most common victims of this trope. Here are a few examples:
*** In "Scarecrowella", the titular character [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2ak0208.jpg looks like a dog during far off shots]], and during [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper the hat match-up scene]], Bristle looks nothing like how he's supposed to look.
*** It's easier to count the times this didn't happen in "Time Waits for No Mumfie" than the times this did happen.
*** In "Pop Goes The Weasel", [[http://oi61.tinypic.com/zuiefo.jpg Scarecrow has a random shocked face]] when speaking normally.
** When Pinkey sits down and the focus isn't on her in the Phoenix Animation episodes, she looks like a jellybean.
** For some random reason, Scarecrow opens his mouth two times or more in some episodes such as "Davy Jones' Story" and "Small for a Day" and says nothing.
** In "Mumfie's White Christmas", Mumfie disappears for no reason during one part of "The Feeling That We Call Christmas", but later reappears.
* PottyFailure: See NobodyPoops.
* PrisonEpisode: There's around 2 minutes of material set in a prison-like setting.
* PunnyName: You-Are the reindeer, and the Fair-Eel godmother from "Scarecrowella".
* RakeTake: Poor Scarecrow has this happen to him in "Pop Goes The Weasel".
* RealMenWearPink: Mumfie wears a pink jacket.
* SaturdayMorningCartoon: "Mumfie's White Christmas" originally aired in America on December 23, 1995, and was the only episode to do so. NickJr UK also aired the episodes on Saturdays at 8:30AM for a while.
* ScaryScarecrow: Averted with Scarecrow, as his scary faces in the show are ActuallyPrettyFunny.
* ShoutOut: A lot of elements in this story are quite similar to Literature/TheWizardOfOz. Both have someone who is bored of their everyday life going on an adventure (Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, although [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]], the titular character of Mumfie) a scarecrow, a character who wants to go home (Dorothy in Wizard Of Oz, Pinkey in Mumfie), [[NightmareFuel scary villains]] trying to prevent the protagonists from reaching their goal (The Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, The Secretary in Mumfie), and the characters journeying to a fantastical land ruled by a powerful person (Emerald City who is run by The Wizard Of Oz in the titular novel/movie, and the palace owned by The Queen of Night in Mumfie).
*** In some episodes, Scarecrow looses straw like the Oz Scarecrow, but the only difference is it coming from his behind. On one instance, he accidentally pulled his hair and put it in his shirt!
** The title of the episode "Reindeers Keep Dropping On My Head" alludes to that popular song by B. J. Thomas, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from the movie Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid.
** A RunningGag has Pinkey being called [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "Porky"]] by Davy Jones, with her responding "I'm Pinkey!" each time. This could be because at the time, Looney Tunes and Mumfie both aired on [[Creator/{{CITV}} the same network]] in the show's home country of the United Kingdom.
*** Another joke involving a show that aired on [=CiTV=]: one episode involved a weasel who stole plants and sounded exactly like the one from the USAcres segments of GarfieldAndFriends.
** There are also two references to HMSPinafore in the movie. First, Whale says "Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!" when he is freed, referencing the song "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen", and Mumfie whistles "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" [[spoiler: before he gets taken to the holding cell]].
** The beginning of "Bristle's Blues" has Bristle reading rules before bedtime. The only ones he reads out loud reference the songs "[[RuthEtting Shaking the Blues Away]]", "Film/SingingInTheRain", and "[[BruceSpringsteen Dancing in the Dark]]".
** Napoleon, the French raven, may have been named after Napoleon Bonaparte.
** In "Luck Or No Luck", a book was called "The Guide To Elegant Dancing", and it was written by FredAstaire.
* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: Whale converted the inside of [[RibcageStomach his body]] into a mobile hotel.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fans sometimes write Pinkey the Flying Pig's name down as Pinky, and Hulu's subtitles on some episodes spell it as Pinkie. An official Fox Kids magazine spelled it this way as well. According to the official website, the former spelling is correct.
** Mumfie's name is also spelled sometimes by fans as "Mumfie", "Mumphy", "Mumfi", or "Mamfie".
* SpoilerOpening: The opening contains the line "Here comes Mumfie with a happy ending", spoiling the fact that most episodes in this show will have happy endings.
* SpotOfTea: A lot of episodes have mentions of tea in them, due to the show being from the UK. In fact, it's Scarecrow's favorite drink.
* StockAnimalDiet: In a crossover story in an old Fox Kids magazine, Mumfie gives the other Fox Cubhouse characters peanuts to give to [[RimbasIsland Rimba]]. Mumfie never ate peanuts in the real series.
** As mentioned on the page for this trope, elephants also love sugar. In the actual series, Mumfie likes cake.
* StockScream: Scarecrow has one done by his voice actor, as well as a stock yawn heard in episodes such as "The Guest" and "Scarecrowella", and a gasp he does in quite a few episodes.
* [[spoiler: TakenForGranite: The Secretary of Night turns into a stone inkwell at the end of the episode "A Treasure Beyond Price".]]
** [[spoiler: This also happens in the Mumfie annual story "Mumfie's Magical Rainbow", where The Secretary was revived after Scarecrow broke the inkwell whilst playing ball.]]
* ThemeTuneCameo: There's a piece of commonly played background music that's an instrumental of the theme song.
** Mumfie whistles the theme song in the episode "Cabin Fever" while reading a book, much to Scarecrow's annoyance.
* TooDumbToLive: Has [[TooDumbToLive.TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie its own page]].
* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: "Scarecrowella" did this with a hat.
* TheSmartGuy: Scarecrow is this.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mumfie loves mashed potatoes and in the D'Ocon series, mashed banana pancakes.
** Also, Mumfie often brings cake with him to eat, usually in the form of crumbs.
** Bristle is often seen making chocolate, and usually [[spoiler: someone winds up spilling the bowl of chocolate.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Everyone treats the non-human characters like normal everyday occurrences, except for Mumfie.
* ValleyGirl: Irmegard the bat talks like this.
* VerbalTic: The Black Cat starts and ends her sentences with purring.
* VillainSong: "I Must Have My Night".
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Scarecrow acts very much like a human being.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: "Scarecrowella" has Eel's magic lasting until twelve.
* [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque Wrong Turn At Montreal]]: "Scarecrow's New Best Friend"
* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Irmegard the bat gets grounded at the end of "A Foggy Day" by her mother, who thought she was at the mall.]]
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: The CutSong "I Must Have My Night" always has a "You know what they say..." line in each chorus before "But I must have my night!"
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[[caption-width-right:304:From left to right: Scarecrow, Pinkey and Mumfie]]
->''"Who can you rely on when the chips are down?\\
Call on Mumfie when you need defending,\\
Braver than a bulldog, brighter than a clown,\\
Here comes Mumfie with a happy ending!\\
With his faithful friend, the Scarecrow,\\
He's got dreams enough to share,\\
So, if you want adventure, this is where to start,\\
If you need a hero, who can play the part?\\
The little pachyderm with a great big heart!"''
''Magic Adventures of Mumfie'' is a 1990's animated series/movie created by Britt Allcroft of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' fame. It centers around Mumfie, a special elephant who lives alone in a cottage in the woods. Every morning he would run to his letter box hoping for an adventure tied up in a parcel. One day, Mumfie realizes that this is not possible and sets off to find one. Along the way, Mumfie meets a lot of friends, such as Scarecrow, Pinkey the Flying Pig, and a whale with a whole room for visitors inside his body.
The films ''Mumfie's White Christmas'' and ''Mumfie's Quest: The Movie'' were issued for the first time on DVD in 2013 and 2014 respectively, to general acclaim.
!!This series contains examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Perils of Pearl" for Eel, "Bristle's Blues" for Bristle, "Scarecrowella" for Scarecrow.
* ADogNamedDog: Scarecrow, Whale and Mole fall under this trope.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Averted with "Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise" where he turns one (according to Mumfie in the episode "The Album").
** We also had "It Won't Be Alright On The Night", which was about the cast preforming a talent show for The Queen of Night. Her age isn't revealed. Three years earlier, there was a story in the Mumfie annual called "A Present For The Queen" about The Queen's birthday.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: "Mumfie's Lost Button", "Scarecrowella"]].
* AntiChristmasSong: "Let Off Steam" in "Mumfie's White Christmas".
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "If Wishes Were Pancakes", Mumfie wishes to have mashed banana pancakes all day long. [[spoiler: He gets tired of eating them, and after having not had food for a whole day, he becomes sick and weak. The spell is reversed, though.]]
* BerserkButton: Bristle will wake up when anyone says his name.
* BowelBreakingBricks: Whenever Scarecrow falls from a high distance, he "poops" straw.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Scarecrow does this multiple times:
*** In "Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise", he told the audience that he and Mumfie always had tea together every morning.
*** In "Isle of Lost Things", he tells them that he wished that he would have studied geography in the farmer's field.
*** In "Scarecrowella", he turns to the audience to tell them about how great the night he had was.
*** Scarecrow sometimes unintentionally does this, like when he told himself "Mumfie says we'll be fine!" in "The Black Cat Dissapears" and a majority of "A Foggy Day".
** In the episode "Making A Stand", Mumfie turns to the audience and tells them that he thinks Scarecrow doesn't want to play with him anymore.
* CanadaEh: Canada Goose.
* CatchPhrase: A few characters have these:
** Mrs. Admiral: "Lo' love you!"
** Napoleon: "Au reviour!"
** You-Are: "Did someone say taxi?"
* CharacterOfTheDay: This show has quite a few:
** Fluffy from "The Lonely Cloud"
** Mumfie's pet goldfish from "A Fishy Tale"
** [[spoiler: Imogene]] from "A Foggy Day"
** Spike the dog from "Reigning Cats and Dogs"
** The Pack-Rats from "The Sock Snatchers"
** Vincent Van Brushes from "Sunrise, Sunset"
** The Starduster from the episode of the same name.
** The gooseberry imp from "It Won't Be Alright On The Night".
** Scarecrowella [[note]]Scarecrow in a fancy tuxedo and wearing a top hat[[/note]] from the episode of the same name.
** Kingsley from "The Amazing Scarecrow".
* ChristmasEpisode: "Mumfie's White Christmas"
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Mumfie is told to dust The Secretary's bottle collection after disturbing Bristle.
* [[AuthorAvatar Creator Avatar]]: Britt Allcroft's Creator Avatar is the Queen of Night.
* CueTheFlyingPigs: One of the main characters, Pinkey, is a flying pig, and ironically, Mumfie and friends are lucky many times on their journeys. There's also a musical number named "Pigs Can Fly", which is a "you're special just the way you are" duet with Scarecrow and Pinkey. (However, in Mumfie's White Christmas, Napoleon and Mumfie also sing some verses.)
* CutSong: The song "I Must Have My Night" was made for the film, but a sequence was never animated for it.
* DancesAndBalls: "Scarecrowella"
* DontGoInTheWoods: The moral of "Pinkey's Mysterious Island", also known as the forest scene in the Mumfie's Quest movie.
* EarlyBirdCameo: A rare example done with music for a show-all the songs after Ocean of Sleep came out on CD and cassette before they aired on TV!
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The animators of Mumfie's Quest do not know how to draw Bristle correctly, and Mumfie's sneeze is represented by a squeaking noise rather than the fart-esque sound we hear in later episodes.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Many episodes have a happy ending-the theme song even states this.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The pirate song has the pirates mention that they put on a shirt and tie before visiting their mother.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Quite a few episodes end with this.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Quoted above.
* FairyGodmother: "Scarecrowella" has the Electric Eel as Scarecrow's Fair-Eel Godmother.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The series started with thirteen 10-minute episodes (5 20-minute episodes in America) of how Mumfie met many of the primary characters from the series. Afterwards, the episodes were combined into a PilotMovie.
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Mumfie.
* FunnyAnimal: Mumfie.
* FreudianSlip: "Mumfie Can't Say No" is all about this trope.
** Also, in "Scarecrowella": "Can you really do that, Eel-um, I mean Fair-Eel Godmother?"
* {{Gasshole}}: Canada Goose burps in "The Goose and I" after eating Pinkey's dessert.
* GentleGiant: Whale.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Whenever someone tells Scarecrow to come inside, Scarecrow says that he'd rather not.
** Whenever Mumfie says "Sssh..." to someone, it sometimes sounds like he's swearing. Bristle even did this a few times in the episode "A Fishy Tale".
** In the episode "Bristle's Blues", one of the clothes Mrs. Admiral gives Bristle is a barrel, and it appears that Bristle has no clothes on underneath from what we can see (or maybe just his underwear).
** In Pinkey's First Winter, Scarecrow says he want to spend winter under the covers after Mumfie tells him that winter came.
** In "If Wishes Were Pancakes", when Mumfie covers his face from pancakes, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything it looks sort of...akward.]]
** Bristle cuts his finger and we can see what's implied to be blood in "Mind Over Manners".
** In "French Lessons", when Mumfie and Scarecrow try to say cat in French, it sounds like the same swear word it sounds like Mumfie is saying when he shushes someone.
* GoingCommando: A few episodes, like "Sea of Surprises", "Mumfie's White Christmas" (though you'd only find it in these two if you pause it when Mumfie is going to bed), "Cabin Fever" (another hidden frame when Mumfie climbs on top of a chest) and "Upside-Down Magic" reveal that Mumfie doesn't wear underwear. WordOfGod says that the animators didn't feel like drawing it on because it would be considered as [[PeopleSitOnChairs not doing anything notable to the plot]].
* GratuitousFrench: Napoleon Jones often speaks French. There's an episode where he even teaches Mumfie and Scarecrow French.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Bristle turns good at the end of the movie/episode "A Treasure Beyond Price", but in the series, he still likes rules and is sometimes strict.]]
** [[spoiler:Davy Jones also reformed himself towards the end of the movie]]
* HitchhikerHeroes: Characteristic 1 applies to this show.
* HonorableElephant: Mumfie's the main character, and according to the theme song, he's brave as well.
* HumiliationConga: After the song "The Chase" in "Mumfie's Quest", [[spoiler: the pirates are captured by Whale. They then are told by Napoleon Jones that they have to sail the seven seas for 7 years and have to look after the royal boating pond.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Whale's character in its entirety. His mother warned him as a baby, no matter how friendly he is, all the land and sea creatures would fear him [[SeaMonster because of his immense size]]. His mother informed him [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch he'll always find welcoming companions with his own kind]]. Whale deliberately misinterpreted her advice that [[FriendToAllLivingThings there'd always be a welcome inside him.]] Thus he converts his vast interior into a hotel so he can travel alongside land-dwellers.
** Mumfie could also be this, as this is why he set off on his voyage.
* InkSuitActor: The Queen Of Night bears a striking resemblance to Britt Allcroft, and is even voiced by her!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bristle may be bossy, but he ''does'' mean well.
* JesusTaboo: In the song "Just A Waste of Your Time", Napoleon calls himself "just a Jonah", referencing the bible story where Jonah was in the belly of a whale. Also, Mrs. Admiral's catchphrase is "Lo' love you!", a shortened form of "Lord love you!".
* {{Ladyella}}: "Scarecrowella"'s episode title is this.
* LimitedWardrobe: All the characters have this
** This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Scarecrowella". Mumfie said he was going to wear his special pink jacket to the Queen's ball, and Scarecrow said that all of his jackets were pink, but Mumfie said the special pink one was for special occasion.
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Most of the cast are animals, but there's an inanimate object that acts like a human, a whale cruiseliner, a lighthouse keeper, a bald man who lives in a well, pirates, an old couple who lives underwater, a starduster, a flying vaccum pet, a painter, two beautiful queens...and a midget obsessed with rules.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Bristle is described as a "tiny man", and is only a few inches taller than Mumfie. He works for the main villain as well.
* MacGuffin: Two actually in the film! The first was [[spoiler: The Queen of Night's jewel]] , which [[spoiler: Mumfie uses for the sick tree by his cottage]] and [[spoiler: The Queen of Night's magic Cloak of Dreams, which is used to defeat TheBigBad.]]
* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Scarecrow has "What if (insert bad event that might happen here)?", usually done with 3 different scenarios at a time.
* MagicMusic: The episode "The Music Of Spring" is about how there's a magic instrument a deer uses that helps bring spring to the forest near where the Queen of Night lives.
* MathematiciansAnswer: In "Friend Or Foe?", Mumfie gives "Yes!" as an answer to the Secretary of Night when he asks for his name.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mumfie gets separated from his friends many times as a result of silly mistakes.
* NobodyPoops: "Upside Down Magic" has Mumfie falling into rose bush when Pinkey scared him. When he gets up and rips his pants, there is no underwear on underneath, unlike other cartoons where this happens, meaning he isn't potty trained. However, fabric covers his private areas later in the same episode. We can also see no underwear when he wears his nightgown. The creator says that she thinks making characters use the bathroom would be considered not-plot relevant.
** Nobody needs the bathroom after eating or drinking too much, and instead get nightmares.
** Averted in "The Lonely Cloud" with the CharacterOfTheDay Fluffy, where said cloud [[PottyFailure leaks all over Scarecrow's chair.]]
** In "Bristle's Blues", [[spoiler: we can assume that the Black Cat pooped out Bristle's rule book, since the same pillow Napoleon Jones lifts on Bristle's bed to find the rule book is the same one the Black Cat sat on before disappearing.]]
* OfferedTheCrown: Scarecrow is crowned king in "Scarecrowella", [[spoiler: but refuses due to the strict rules. It also turned out to be AllJustADream]].
* OffModel: Four words: "[[http://oi62.tinypic.com/15f3fgx.jpg Well! That explains everything!]]"
** Speaking of "Mumfie's Quest", pay attention to the scene where [[spoiler:Bristle appears at the ceremony in the garden. He looks more adorable than he normally does, and his jacket color is wrong]].
** Another off-model error in the same arc-Scarecrow bobs his head in a bizarre manner when Mumfie meets the pirates.
** Any far off shot on the show will be like this. For example, the episode "Regining Cats and Dogs" had a scene where Mumfie and Scarecrow are cleaning up a mess and talking to each other. Instead of the camera zooming in on the characters, the camera shows it from an angle where you can see the kitchen and Mumfie and Scarecrow [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2wp43l3.jpg look like they have button eyes]].
** Whenever Scarecrow blows something, like in [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2qapzbp.jpg this screenshot]], his cheeks look like those of a chipmunk.
** The episodes made by D'Ocon Films are the most common victims of this trope. Here are a few examples:
*** In "Scarecrowella", the titular character [[http://oi62.tinypic.com/2ak0208.jpg looks like a dog during far off shots]], and during [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper the hat match-up scene]], Bristle looks nothing like how he's supposed to look.
*** It's easier to count the times this didn't happen in "Time Waits for No Mumfie" than the times this did happen.
*** In "Pop Goes The Weasel", [[http://oi61.tinypic.com/zuiefo.jpg Scarecrow has a random shocked face]] when speaking normally.
** When Pinkey sits down and the focus isn't on her in the Phoenix Animation episodes, she looks like a jellybean.
** For some random reason, Scarecrow opens his mouth two times or more in some episodes such as "Davy Jones' Story" and "Small for a Day" and says nothing.
** In "Mumfie's White Christmas", Mumfie disappears for no reason during one part of "The Feeling That We Call Christmas", but later reappears.
* PottyFailure: See NobodyPoops.
* PrisonEpisode: There's around 2 minutes of material set in a prison-like setting.
* PunnyName: You-Are the reindeer, and the Fair-Eel godmother from "Scarecrowella".
* RakeTake: Poor Scarecrow has this happen to him in "Pop Goes The Weasel".
* RealMenWearPink: Mumfie wears a pink jacket.
* SaturdayMorningCartoon: "Mumfie's White Christmas" originally aired in America on December 23, 1995, and was the only episode to do so. NickJr UK also aired the episodes on Saturdays at 8:30AM for a while.
* ScaryScarecrow: Averted with Scarecrow, as his scary faces in the show are ActuallyPrettyFunny.
* ShoutOut: A lot of elements in this story are quite similar to Literature/TheWizardOfOz. Both have someone who is bored of their everyday life going on an adventure (Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, although [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]], the titular character of Mumfie) a scarecrow, a character who wants to go home (Dorothy in Wizard Of Oz, Pinkey in Mumfie), [[NightmareFuel scary villains]] trying to prevent the protagonists from reaching their goal (The Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, The Secretary in Mumfie), and the characters journeying to a fantastical land ruled by a powerful person (Emerald City who is run by The Wizard Of Oz in the titular novel/movie, and the palace owned by The Queen of Night in Mumfie).
*** In some episodes, Scarecrow looses straw like the Oz Scarecrow, but the only difference is it coming from his behind. On one instance, he accidentally pulled his hair and put it in his shirt!
** The title of the episode "Reindeers Keep Dropping On My Head" alludes to that popular song by B. J. Thomas, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from the movie Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid.
** A RunningGag has Pinkey being called [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "Porky"]] by Davy Jones, with her responding "I'm Pinkey!" each time. This could be because at the time, Looney Tunes and Mumfie both aired on [[Creator/{{CITV}} the same network]] in the show's home country of the United Kingdom.
*** Another joke involving a show that aired on [=CiTV=]: one episode involved a weasel who stole plants and sounded exactly like the one from the USAcres segments of GarfieldAndFriends.
** There are also two references to HMSPinafore in the movie. First, Whale says "Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!" when he is freed, referencing the song "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen", and Mumfie whistles "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" [[spoiler: before he gets taken to the holding cell]].
** The beginning of "Bristle's Blues" has Bristle reading rules before bedtime. The only ones he reads out loud reference the songs "[[RuthEtting Shaking the Blues Away]]", "Film/SingingInTheRain", and "[[BruceSpringsteen Dancing in the Dark]]".
** Napoleon, the French raven, may have been named after Napoleon Bonaparte.
** In "Luck Or No Luck", a book was called "The Guide To Elegant Dancing", and it was written by FredAstaire.
* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: Whale converted the inside of [[RibcageStomach his body]] into a mobile hotel.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fans sometimes write Pinkey the Flying Pig's name down as Pinky, and Hulu's subtitles on some episodes spell it as Pinkie. An official Fox Kids magazine spelled it this way as well. According to the official website, the former spelling is correct.
** Mumfie's name is also spelled sometimes by fans as "Mumfie", "Mumphy", "Mumfi", or "Mamfie".
* SpoilerOpening: The opening contains the line "Here comes Mumfie with a happy ending", spoiling the fact that most episodes in this show will have happy endings.
* SpotOfTea: A lot of episodes have mentions of tea in them, due to the show being from the UK. In fact, it's Scarecrow's favorite drink.
* StockAnimalDiet: In a crossover story in an old Fox Kids magazine, Mumfie gives the other Fox Cubhouse characters peanuts to give to [[RimbasIsland Rimba]]. Mumfie never ate peanuts in the real series.
** As mentioned on the page for this trope, elephants also love sugar. In the actual series, Mumfie likes cake.
* StockScream: Scarecrow has one done by his voice actor, as well as a stock yawn heard in episodes such as "The Guest" and "Scarecrowella", and a gasp he does in quite a few episodes.
* [[spoiler: TakenForGranite: The Secretary of Night turns into a stone inkwell at the end of the episode "A Treasure Beyond Price".]]
** [[spoiler: This also happens in the Mumfie annual story "Mumfie's Magical Rainbow", where The Secretary was revived after Scarecrow broke the inkwell whilst playing ball.]]
* ThemeTuneCameo: There's a piece of commonly played background music that's an instrumental of the theme song.
** Mumfie whistles the theme song in the episode "Cabin Fever" while reading a book, much to Scarecrow's annoyance.
* TooDumbToLive: Has [[TooDumbToLive.TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie its own page]].
* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: "Scarecrowella" did this with a hat.
* TheSmartGuy: Scarecrow is this.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mumfie loves mashed potatoes and in the D'Ocon series, mashed banana pancakes.
** Also, Mumfie often brings cake with him to eat, usually in the form of crumbs.
** Bristle is often seen making chocolate, and usually [[spoiler: someone winds up spilling the bowl of chocolate.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Everyone treats the non-human characters like normal everyday occurrences, except for Mumfie.
* ValleyGirl: Irmegard the bat talks like this.
* VerbalTic: The Black Cat starts and ends her sentences with purring.
* VillainSong: "I Must Have My Night".
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Scarecrow acts very much like a human being.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: "Scarecrowella" has Eel's magic lasting until twelve.
* [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque Wrong Turn At Montreal]]: "Scarecrow's New Best Friend"
* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Irmegard the bat gets grounded at the end of "A Foggy Day" by her mother, who thought she was at the mall.]]
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: The CutSong "I Must Have My Night" always has a "You know what they say..." line in each chorus before "But I must have my night!"
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