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1* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Fox}} was in love this show. It lasted '''six years''' on Creator/FoxKids and then [[Creator/{{Freeform}} Fox Family]], only getting the axe when Fox Family was brought out by Disney. Justified in the fact that [[Creator/SabanEntertainment Haim]] Creator/{{Saban|Brands}} (who was one of the people behind Fox Kids at the time) and Britt Allcroft had a very close relationship.
2** Not to mention that it aired in Norway up until Lionsgate got the rights to the series in the middle part of TheNewTens.
3* BannedInChina: Apparently not an outright ban, but the channel that was going to air the show in Malaysia, [=NTV7=], backed off after learning that there's ''a flying pig'' in the show. [=NTV7=]'s CEO seems to have an ongoing hatred for pig characters. Sadly, tho, no other channels have offered to air the show after that.
4* {{Bowdlerise}}: The Norwegian dub mutes out any time Mumfie sneezes, probably because it sounds more like farting than sneezing. There's an odd exception to this: the episode "Lighter Than Air".
5* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: This show has so many people who have gotten details incorrect about it that [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer.MagicAdventuresOfMumfie it got it's own page for this trope]].
6* CriticalBacklash: Tons of people hated the fact that the Mumfie's Quest movie removed a few scenes. This has resulted in the IMDB rating for both the show and the movie being lowered
7* CrossDressingVoices: All the characters are voiced by the same person who narrates the story, so all the girls (except The Queen of Night and The Queen of Light, who are voiced by the series' creator, Britt Allcroft) have these. Averted with the songs, however.
8** In the Japanese dub, Mumfie is voiced by a girl. It's clearly noticeable during the songs.
9* CutScene: A few scenes were cut from the original TV versions of Mumfie's Quest to make the movie. Here are a few of them:
10** The Beginning of Things: Scarecrow tries to break up a fight between two pigs and Pinkey, telling them that they shouldn't bully her due to her wings.
11** A Whale Of Discovery: An adorable scene where Mumfie plays in the water, Mumfie accidentally calling Whale a mountain and explaining part of his backstory to the gang and a scene where Mumfie doesn't know how to sleep in a hammock were cut.
12** Pinkey's Mysterious Island: A scene where Mumfie trips in the forest after hearing a scary noise and hums "The Beginning of Things" to calm down, part of "Gotta Dance, Gotta Whistle, Gotta Sing", and a longer scene where the tree sucks him in.
13** Sparks In The Dark: Anytime Eel mentions jam jars.
14** Friendship Is A Circle: The title song got cut.
15* CutSong: The songs "I Must Have My Night" and "Admiral's Song" were recorded for the Mumfie's Quest arc, but a sequence was never animated for it.
16* DiedDuringProduction: Why the Japanese dub was CutShort after 13 episodes: Kei Tomiyama, the voice of Scarecrow, scumbed to pancreatic cancer not long after it finished its run in the country.
17* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ask anyone who their favorite character is from this show, and 95% of the time, they will say that Scarecrow's their favorite. He's so liked that almost nobody hates him!
18* EstrogenBrigade: There are a lot of Scarecrow fangirls out there.
19* HeAlsoDid: Britt Allcroft was the person who brought ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' to television. Kate Barris and Jill Golick, two of the show's writers, also worked on another program that had British roots, ''Series/TheNoddyShop''.
20* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Averted-for a while, only a few episodes were released on tape, including the pilot movie, the Christmas special, and four volumes containing episodes from the TV series, two of which are very difficult to find. After Britt got the rights back from Hit, she eventually released them onto DVD and they're available to watch on Hulu, Amazon Instant Video and Netflix (the later only has up to "Let's Go Fly A Kite").
21** Currently, 17 episodes are missing from Hulu and Amazon Instant Video-see MissingEpisode below.
22* MemeticMutation: The term "what-iffer", originally used for Scarecrow, is commonly used for people who worry a lot. It also helps that Scarecrow's the EnsembleDarkhorse.
23* MissingEpisode: The Hulu and Amazon Instant Video run skips the 13 episodes that made up the Mumfie's Quest movie to not confuse people. Four other episodes are missing because Britt Allcroft [[OldShame didn't think they were good enough]].
24** The Music Of Spring: Mumfie and Scarecrow help a deer find her lost flute.
25** Lighter Than Air: Bristle uses a potion on cookies that makes people float.
26** Flying Fever: The Admirals come over to play golf with Mumfie and Scarecrow, but the balls they throw keep on getting in the way of Napoleon and Fifi.
27** Aiming For The Moon: The Lighthouse Keeper meets a scientist who turns his house into a rocket.
28* NonSingingVoice: All the characters have this.
29* OutOfOrder: The episode "The Album" reveals the order in which the episodes after Mumfie's Quest happened. This reveals that they originally aired out of order. The order they are supposed to go in is as follows:
30** Captian Jellybean's Treasure Hunt (the fourth aired)
31** The Black Cat Disappears (the sixth aired)
32** Things That Go Bump (the eighth aired)
33** A Grouper's Teeth (the seventh aired)
34** The Lonely Cloud (the twenty-third aired)
35** The Guest (the twenty-second aired)
36** Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise (the third aired)
37** Scarecrow's New Best Friend (the fifth aired)
38** Mumfie and the Wellwisher (the first aired)
39* PeripheryDemographic: A lot of older people like this show for the same reasons Thomas is liked. Britt even addresses these people on her website.
40* TheMerch: There were tons of Mumfie merchandise back when the show was still airing, and on the heels of the recent re-launch of the series and [[UnCancelled the upcoming uncancellation of the show]], there are plans to release more of it. The first items will be t-shirts, plush toys and books.
41* UnCancelled: Britt is currently working on the fourth season of this series.
42* VanillaEdition: The 2014 Lionsgate release of Mumfie's Quest has no bonus features, but starts with ''WesternAnimation/LeapFrog'' and {{Toys/Lalaloopsy}} trailers.
43* ViewerGenderConfusion: Many sellers of Mumfie merchandise believe that Mumfie is a girl, because of the character's pink jacket. Mumfie is a boy.
44** One Website/YouTube comment on the episode "Sparks in the Dark" said "A cross-dressing male eel. Nice." Eel is actually a girl. The commenter might have been confused as a result of her [[CrossDressingVoices cross-dressed role]].
45* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was originally supposed to be done with puppets and have an artstyle similar to the Katherine Tozer books. [[OldShame Britt Allcroft hated the results of this and gave us the show we have today]].
46** Paramount was to have released VHS and DVD of the show over a 15-year period beginning in 2000-2 videos were to be released each year excluding the first, which brought out three titles. Only three of these releases ever saw the light of day.
47** Mumfie's Quest was supposed to be released in theaters in 1996, but went to pay-per-view instead. However, a few libraries have screened the film.

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