The Amazing Mumford



The Amazing Mumford is a talented magician, but his magic tricks sometimes go awry. His characteristic magic words are "A la peanut butter sandwiches!" After saying this, there is a puff of smoke usually accompanied by either a "poof" noise or magical tinkling sounds, and then after clearing, it reveals how the trick has gone wrong.

Grover often appears as Mumford's over-eager assistant.

Trivia

 * Mumford's voice is based on that of the famous comedian W. C. Fields.
 * The CTW archives' program summaries for Episode 0305 and Episode 0322 refer to Mumford as "the Amazing Ralph."
 * In some of Mumford's scenes in the direct-to-video special A Magical Halloween Adventure, the character was performed on-set by John Kennedy with dialogue looped later by Jerry Nelson. However, one brief bit of dialogue remains unlooped in the final product: a scene in which Mumford speaks on the phone with his friend Gilda the Great.
 * On Sesamstrasse, the German co-production, Mumford is named "Mumpitz", which means nonsense or balderdash.
 * According to The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook, Mumford lives in a castle, next door to the castle owned by Count von Count.

Filmography

 * Sesame Street
 * Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
 * The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
 * Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting
 * Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
 * Imagine That
 * Cinder Elmo
 * A Magical Halloween Adventure
 * A Celebration of Me, Grover

Book appearances

 * The Amazing Mumford and His Amazing Subtracting Trick (1972)
 * More Sesame Street Finger Puppets (1972)
 * The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
 * Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
 * See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil (1975)
 * The Sesame Street A to Z Coloring Book (1976)
 * The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)
 * The Sesame Street Cookbook (1978)
 * The Amazing Mumford Forgets the Magic Words! (1979)
 * The Amazing Mumford Presents All About Bones (1980)
 * The Count Counts a Party (1980)
 * The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
 * The Amazing Mumford Presents the Magic Weather Show (1981)
 * I Have a Friend (1981)
 * Prairie Dawn's Upside-Down Poem (1981)
 * Put & Play Magic Show (1981)
 * The Sesame Street Sun (1981)
 * Which One Doesn't Belong? (1981)
 * Big and Little Stories (1982)
 * A Sesame Street Christmas (1982)
 * The Sesame Street Word Book (1983)
 * There's No Place Like Home (1983)
 * Big Bird's Book of Rhymes (1985)
 * I Can Count to Ten and Back Again (1985)
 * ABC (1986)
 * A My Name Is Annabel (1986)
 * Sesame Street ABC (1986)
 * Colors (1987)
 * The New Who's Who on Sesame Street (1989)
 * Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad (1992)
 * Imagine... A Million Kittens for Elmo (1993)
 * Knock, Knock! Who's There? (1994)
 * B is for Books! (1996)
 * The Counting Carnival (2003)
 * Abby Cadabby's Rhyme Time (2007)
 * Color Carnival (2008)

Character merchandise

 * Sesame Street Beans