History WesternAnimation / MagicAdventuresOfMumfie

* SaturdayMorningCartoon: "Mumfie's White Christmas" originally aired in America on December 23, 1995, and was the only episode to do so. Creator/NickJr UK also aired the episodes on Saturdays at 8:30AM for a while, as well as TVOKids in Canada, which aired the show at 9:00AM on Saturdays.

* 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.

* TooDumbToLive: Has [[TooDumbToLive/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie its own page]].

* 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]]

[[caption-width-right:304:From left to right: Scarecrow, Pinkey and Mumfie]]

''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 runs 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 who doubles as a passenger ship.

* {{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 [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Ridiculously Cute Critters]] 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.

''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 runs 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.

[[http://www.zodiakmedia.com/press_detail.php?id=700 A fourth season was announced]] on July 2, 2015, to be produced by Zodiak Kids, the creators behind MarathonMedia's shows, as well as ''WesternAnimation/ZackAndQuack'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess''. Michael Carrington, the executive producer of the eighteenth season of Thomas and Friends as well as the Thomas movie "The Adventure Begins", worked on the series.

''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.

[[http://www.zodiakmedia.com/press_detail.php?id=700 A fourth season was announced]] on July 2, 2015, to be produced by Zodiak Kids, the creators behind MarathonMedia's shows, as well as ''WesternAnimation/ZackAndQuack'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess''. Michael Carrington, the executive producer of the eighteenth season of Thomas and Friends as well as the Thomas movie "The Adventure Begins", will be working on the series.

** Napoleon: "Au reviour!"

* 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!

** In Pinkey's First Winter, Scarecrow says he want to spend winter under the covers after Mumfie tells him that winter came.

* 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.

** Averted in "The Lonely Cloud" with the CharacterOfTheDay Fluffy, where said cloud [[PottyFailure leaks all over Scarecrow's chair]], and with Scarecrow (see the Bowel Breaking Bricks and Bring My Brown Pants entires for these examples).

** [[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.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Has [[TooDumbToLive.MagicAdventuresOfMumfie its own page]].

* RealMenWearPink: Mumfie wears a pink jacket.

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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, as well as TVOKids in Canada, which aired the show at 9:00AM on Saturdays.

* 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]].

* LotusEaterMachine: In the Mumfie's Quest movie, Mumfie lands in a beautiful meadow after [[spoiler: jumping from the Queen of Night's umbrella]]. However, this is really [[spoiler: a trick by the Black Cat, who actually wants to take him to the Secretary of Night so that he could lock him up in the Secretary of Night's holding cell.

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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).

** The beginning of "Bristle's Blues" has Bristle reading rules before bedtime. The only ones he reads out loud reference the songs "Shaking the Blues Away", "Film/SingingInTheRain", and "[[BruceSpringsteen Dancing in the Dark]]".

** In the Japanese dub, Eel has "のよ"m (which means "of" in Japanese) as her verbal tic, usually using it every other sentence.

*** 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 ComicStrip/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]].

* {{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.

* CutSong: The song "I Must Have My Night" was made for the film, but a sequence was never animated for it.

* 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.

--> Mumfie: The Guide To Elegant Dancing by FredAstaire. Am I supposed to read this, Scarecrow?

** A reference to StephenKing, of all things, can be found the end of the episode, when [[spoiler: Scarecrow refuses to be king after being OfferedTheCrown. This scene is a reference to a scene in ''TheEyesOfTheDragon'' where Thomas does the same thing. Even the wording of their reactions is similar: Thomas says “No, I don't want to be King, I won't be King. I . . . I refuse! I UTTERLY REFUSE!”, while Scarecrow says "No! I don't want to be king! I don't want to be king! I don't want to go to the palace, I-I want to stay here! Don't let him take me! I don't want to live with The Queen!"]].

*** A reference to StephenKing, of all things, can be found the end of the episode, when [[spoiler: Scarecrow refuses to be king after being OfferedTheCrown. This scene is a reference to a scene in ''TheEyesOfTheDragon'' where Thomas does the same thing. Even the wording of their reactions is similar: Thomas says “No, I don't want to be King, I won't be King. I . . . I refuse! I UTTERLY REFUSE!”, while Scarecrow says "No! I don't want to be king! I don't want to be king! I don't want to go to the palace, I-I want to stay here! Don't let him take me! I don't want to live with The Queen!"]].

*** A reference to StephenKing, of all things, can be found the end of the episode, when [[spoiler: Scarecrow refuses to be king after being OfferedTheCrown. This scene is a reference to a scene in ''TheEyesOfTheDragon'' where Thomas does the same thing. Even the wording of their reactions is similar: Thomas says “No, I don't want to be King, I won't be King. I . . . I refuse! I UTTERLY REFUSE!”, while Scarecrow says "No! I don't want to be king! I don't want to be king! I don't want to go to the palace, I-I want to stay here! Don't let him take me! I don't want to live with The Queen!]].