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| “ | Stop fooling around! The rock band and Pickles the Clown have been booked for months! | „ |
| ~ Muffy in Arthur's Birthday. |
| “ | Vomitrocious! | „ |
| ~ Muffy's famous catchphrase. |
Mary Alice "Muffy" Crosswire (born May 25th 1988) is the secondary tritagonist from the book series and TV show, Arthur. She is a rich girl who is good friends with Arthur, Francine's best friend and is part of the main group. She is vain, rude, arrogant, selfish, stuck-up, and quite spoiled by those who care for her. But despite her actions, she still is part of the team and always has a place in her heart for everyone.
She is voiced by Melissa Altro who also voiced Pippi Longstocking from the animated musical adaption and its spin-off TV series of the same name in the cartoon. In the Living Books Arthur games, she is voiced by Kelly Greenley, Mariana Evans, Toni Dono, Bernadette Windsor, Mary Kay Bergman, and Nicki Rapp. In the movie Arthur's Missing Pal, she is voiced by Nichole Blanchard.
Appearance[]
Muffy is an anthropomorphic monkey with cream-yellow skin. She has long, auburn hair which she usually has tied into twin braids with purple bows. In early books and episodes, she was depicted with buck teeth; however, these were removed soon afterward in the series and later books. Her usual outfit consists of a purple, frilled jumper dress with a lavender belt, with a white, long-sleeved blouse underneath, white knee-high socks, and brown Mary Janes.
She wears a purple and white nightgown with a lavender robe and pink slippers for pajamas.
Because she is rich, she owns a variety of formal and semi-formal outfits which she has worn throughout the series.
Like her collection of formal outfits, she frequently has her hair styled differently as well, including a bob, bouffant, pigtails, or even just letting it down.
Personality[]
Like most of the main characters (including Arthur), she is 8 years old and in third grade. However, unlike most of her friends, she tends to be snobbish and arrogant, likely attributed to her family's wealth. She believes that money, her butler Bailey, or her father can solve nearly every problem. Despite her negative side, she regularly helps and gives advice to her friends (usually if it involves money or fashion) as well as learns and respects moral lessons learned throughout their adventures.
Like Arthur's sister D.W., she can sometimes be quite authoritative.
In "The Cherry Tree", Muffy is shown to have feelings for trees and the environment after her beloved cherry tree is sawed down after her father makes a land swap with a neighbor so that she can install a huge bouncy castle and a tennis court.
Muffy can be seen as a girly girl, as she is into lots of girly things. However, she does still like doing some masculine things, as her best friend is Francine, who is quite tomboyish, along with her and Francine being the only two girls in their main friend group (Arthur, Buster, Brain, and Binky being the boys). Muffy is also sometimes quite good at some sports and sometimes likes playing them. In the episode "Do You Speak George?", she is seen happily playing soccer with Francine and Sue Ellen (two tomboys). Muffy could be described as a girly girl with a tomboyish streak.
Background[]
Muffy moved to Elwood City while Arthur and Francine were in second grade. There she was assigned to their class and gradually became friends with them. Initially, Francine believed she was nothing more than a spoiled brat when she got caught cheating on a test. Muffy soon began to feel guilty after getting her friend into the mess and apologized by telling their second-grade teacher Mr. Marco that she was the one who created the cheat sheets. The two reacquaint and become friends afterward. Soon afterward, she becomes friends with Arthur and his friends as well.
It is revealed in "Arthur's Birthday" that she and Arthur share the same birthday: May 25. Initially, they are shocked to learn this and argue about which party all their friends should go to, but not long afterward, they agree to hold their parties cooperatively from that year onward.
Trivia[]
- Muffy and Arthur are the only characters in Arthur that share the same birthday.
- Muffy and Francine are the only characters in Arthur that have the same middle name, Alice.
- Muffy's birthday is May 25.
- Muffy, Francine, Molly, Binky, George, Prunella, and Ladonna are the only ones of Arthur's schoolmates that have siblings.
