"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!" ― Muffin[source]
"Cow... boy... hat!" ― Muffin[source]
Muffin Cupcake Heeler is a secondary character that appears in multiple episodes of Bluey. She is one of Bluey and Bingo's cousins, the eldest daughter of Stripe and Trixie, and the older sister of Socks.
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Muffin is Bluey and Bingo’s tantrum-prone cousin who finds her R's quite “twicky”.
Muffin loves to join in and play with Bluey and Bingo but is still learning how to take turns and play nicely and sometimes finds herself in timeouts, or even in the cone of shame!
Muffin has a little sister, Socks, and her mum and dad are Aunt Trixie and Uncle Stripe. Muffin is no stranger to chaos and has no problem speaking her mind, especially when she has skipped nap time.
Granny Gladys (played Muffin) is impatient, stubborn and doesn’t put up with backchat – she’s classified as a “Grouchy Granny”. She wears fabulous black granny glasses and a lovely brown shawl and is friends with Janet and Rita.
Gladys employs a helper she affectionately refers to as “Bugalugs”, who pushes her around on her mobility scooter when its battery runs out, and puts up with her handbag wallops and general bossiness.
Gladys is highly respected in the granny world (particularly by Doreen, the Heelers’ neighbour) for her phenomenal sales skills; as an extremely hard negotiator, she manages to outplay a REAL Grouchy Granny and fetch a very high price for a mobile scooter. She’s also known to moonlight as another type of granny… the aptly named “Super Granny”.
Bluey’s non-stop cousin. Always speaks her mind.
Biography
Muffin is Bluey's non-stop cousin who always speaks her mind. She is the daughter of Stripe and Trixie, the older sister of Socks, the cousin of Bluey and Bingo, the niece of Chilli, Bandit, and Rad, and the granddaughter of Bob and Chris.
Appearance
Muffin is a White Heeler with white, blueish-white, grey, black, and light grey fur. She has white feet, hands, and muzzle, bluish-white legs, arms, tail stem, torso and head, grey spots on her legs, arms, and top right head, light pink inner ears and a black tail tip, ears, black spots on torso, and a big spot on her head. She also has a black nose and is stubbier than the average four-year-old heeler.
Personality
Muffin is a very loud and energetic child, no matter what mood she is in, sometimes she can also act spoiled and aggressive, but she is still yet to learn this. Due to her young age, she often has trouble understanding things like how to play charades the proper way or sharing (Library). Muffin can also be a bit stubborn, especially when she doesn't get her way. She sometimes can be selfish and bratty, like when she refused to give Socks a turn drawing on the Faceytalk. Despite it all, she has a good heart, knowing others' plights, and she loves her family and loves playing with her sister and cousins. Muffin seems to like more girly things compared to her cousins, such as princesses, ballerinas, collecting Moonlight Unicorns and the colour pink; but is also by no means dainty.
Appearances
- S01E07 - BBQ (debut)
- S01E09 - Horsey Ride
- S01E11 - Bike
- S01E28 - Grannies (pictured)
- S01E32 - Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound
- S01E36 - Backpackers
- S01E39 - The Sleepover
- S01E43 - Camping (cameo plus an offscreen voice as future-self)
- S01E52 - Verandah Santa
- S02E06 - Stumpfest
- S02E11 - Charades
- S02E21 - Escape (pictured)
- S02E30 - Library
- S02E37 - The Quiet Game (mentioned)
- S02E43 - Muffin Cone
- S02E45 - Handstand (deleted scene)
- S02E47 - Ice Cream
- S02E51 - Christmas Swim
- Short6 - Humpty Dumpty
- Short17 - Honk
- S03E01 - Perfect (drawing cameo)
- S03E14 - Pass the Parcel
- S03E19 - Pizza Girls
- S03E24 - Faceytalk
- S03E33 - Granny Mobile
- S03E49 - The Sign
Nicknames
The following is a list of nicknames used for or by Muffin throughout the series.
| Sheila | The Sleepover |
| Bububabu | The Sleepover |
| Muffles | Muffin Cone |
| Gladys | Granny Mobile |
Trivia
- Her favourite colour of capsicum/bell pepper is red.
- She sometimes hogs items to herself.
- She is frequently referred to by Stripe and Trixie as "Muffy" or "Muffles" respectively.
- She easily gets very delirious if she misses her daytime nap.
- Her nickname in some games is “Sheila."
- The name "Sheila" also generally refers to these:
- An Aussie word meaning "woman".
- A name of Irish/Latin origin.
- During the restaurant-game in "The Sleepover", she called herself as "Bububabu" due to her fatigue induced brain fog.
- The name "Sheila" also generally refers to these:
- Her older self can be heard at the very end of Camping.
- Muffin is shown to have temper tantrums, as most notably in Bike, Charades, and Faceytalk when things don’t go her way or when she wants something. This is also acknowledged in The Quiet Game.
- As seen in Muffin Cone and Charades, for being only three years old, Muffin demonstrates a passion and talent for ballet dancing.
- The cone that she wore in Muffin Cone was similar to a medical cone that animals wear to avoid touching their plugs. In the case of Muffin, it was to make her stop sucking her thumb.
- She is male in the Arabic dub of Bluey. She has a male voice in the Latin American Spanish dub, but is still female.
- Her birthday is on the 12th of an unknown month, as confirmed in Pass the Parcel.
- Muffin has made the most appearances out of the secondary cast, appearing in approximately more than 20 episodes.
- Her middle name was revealed to be “Cupcake” in Faceytalk.
- Muffin is the second character to have their middle name revealed, the first one being her cousin Bluey.
- Coincidentally, Bluey's middle name was revealed in the episode prior to Faceytalk.
- Muffin appears to have a fluffier tail than her mother but stubbier than her sister.
- Muffin has difficulty pronouncing 'L' and 'R' sounds, sometimes replacing them with a 'W' sound. These are referred to as lambdacism and rhotacism, respectively.
- For example, "Sowwy Dad" or "It was a vewociwaptow."
- Muffin is the first character to get sent to a timeout.
- Until Stripe corrected her, she believed "special" meant "exempt from rules", due to Stripe having driven through a yellow/orange light and then tried to defend himself by calling it a "special case".
- As shown in "Granny Mobile", she dislikes playing characters who are too "grouchy".
- On Disney Plus, the subtitles mistakenly named her 'Mittens' in the episode, Verandah Santa, once.
- She has a video channel called "Muffin's Toys" as seen in "Muffin Unboxing."