Muffy Crosswire

Mary Alice "Muffy" Crosswire is a fictional character in the Arthur books and TV series. She is the richest girl in Elwood City, and lives in a huge mansion. Muffy first came to Lakewood Elementary in the second grade ,which is shown in the episode Arthur and the True Francine. This is when she met Arthur and his friends and quickly became best friends with Francine Frensky. Like Arthur, she is 8 years old and in the third grade, but she is very wealthy. She is often called a snob and spoiled because of her wealth, attitude and selfishness shown in the episode Spoiled Rotten.

Appearance
Muffy is a light skinned anthropomorphic monkey. In the earlier seasons, she was shown with buck teeth. However in the later seasons, the teeth seem to have disappeared. Her usual outfit is a purple dress over a long white blouse and finished with light brown Mary Janes with long white socks. Muffy's hairstyle is two long braids with a matching pair of purple bows. She is often seen with this hairstyle in most of the episodes, but she sometimes changes her hairstyle for a formal event or when she has to. In some of the episodes she is seen with different haristyles such as Francine's Bad Hair Day, Muffy's Art Attack, Lights, Camera, Opera!, The Lousy Week, Don't Ask Muffy and The Election

Family
Even with a huge mansion, Muffy's family is quite small. She lives with her Father (Ed Crosswire), her mother (Millicent Crosswire) and her butler (Bailey). Muffy has a brother named Chip who was first referred to in "Arthur's Perfect Christmas", but did not appear until "Matchmaker, Matchbreaker".

Friends

 * Francine Frensky - She is Muffy's best friend. Though they maybe different in a lot of ways, they always manage to find something to do together. Such as the episode Muffy's New Best Friend. Francine and Muffy met when Muffy moved to Lakewood when they were both in second grade. They got to know each other better when they found out that they had the same middle name "Alice".


 * Fern Walters - Although in the earlier episodes, Muffy and Fern did not hang out as much, they are often seen hanging out whenever Muffy hosted a sleepover. One episode that Muffy and Fern got along with is Phony Fern, they are seen hanging with each other by watching a movie and talking to each other on the cellphone constantly.


 * Prunella Deegan - Muffy and Prunella are seen together when they either want to shop (for clothes, mainly), a sleepover and when there is a event at school or anything formal. (School pictures, opera, etc.)

Muffy is also friends with Arthur, Buster, Brain, Binky, Jenna and Sue Ellen. It is not known if Muffy is friends with George. After all, Muffy did make fun of George in Vomitrocious! and he is often forgotten by the main group of friends.

Muffy is also close to her butler, Bailey. After all, he does everything she says and gives her advice too.

Quotes
"Vomitrocious!"

"Don't walk, run to Crosswire Motors!"

"Anyone who doesn't come to my party can't be my friend anymore!"

"Well,I can't stand snobby people. By the way Arthur, who picked out your swim suit? It's so tacky!"

"Look at all these stuff! I'll be rich! I Mean Richer!"

"Ewwww! Change his name to 'Stinko' "

Trivia

 * Muffy's first appeared in the episode Arthur's Eyes
 * Her speaking debut was also in Arthur's Eyes and her first line was "How do you get in trouble with the nurse?"
 * Muffy had two front buck teeth from the episode Arthur's Eyes to Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper . It was also shown in the episode The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club!, but sometimes would disappeared in some scenes.
 * Muffy's first different hairstyle was seen in Francine's Bad Hair Day. Her hairstyle was called "Prom Queen".
 * Muffy had at least 4 different cell phones. You can see her very 1st one in season one, her second cellphone in the episode Fernfern and the Secret of Moose Mountain, her 3rd phone in the 1st part of Phony Fern and her 4th one (Portalex 360) in also Phony Fern
 * All her cellphones are flip phones
 * It has been said that Muffy takes dance classes after school. She takes tap and ballroom dancing.
 * Muffy's quote "Vomitrocious", was first heard in the episode "Poor Muffy"
 * There is at least 8-9 episodes that the title starts with Muffy.
 * If you listen carefully, you can tell Muffy's voice sounds different. In the later seasons, Muffy's voice seems more higher than the earlier seasons ,but she is still voice by the same voice actress.