| Fruity Yummy Mummy | |
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 Original Box with Missing Copyright Notice "Yummy Mummy makes your tummy go yummy! Heh, heh, heh!" | |
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Real Name |
Yummy Mummy |
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First Appearance |
Fruity Yummy Mummy Box - (1987) |
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Original Publisher |
General Mills Corporation |
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Created by |
Unknown |
Origin[]
Fruity Yummy Mummy is a goofy fruit-slinging vibrant mummy, adorned in colorful bandages. Yummy Mummy is based on Universal’s Imhotep, from The Mummy (1932).
Fruity Yummy Mummy was initially found in a tomb. This discovery took place when Count Chocula and Franken Berry accidentally broke through the side of a very non-Egyptian looking pyramid they were scaling.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Regeneration
- Control over Fruity Yummy Mummy cereal paired with a new gimmick dubbed “Monster Mallows.”
Public Domain Appearances[]
- General Mills Cereal Box (1987)
- Fruity Yummy Mummy TV Commercial (1987)
Notes[]
- The original 1971 commercial for Count Chocula and Frankenberry as well as the later commercials of Boo Berry, Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy were published without copyright notices, Making them public domain when they first aired. Which were required for pre-recorded programs on TV (including commercials) until at least March 1989 when notices were no longer required for commercials and pre-recorded media to gain protection and were only required on the master tapes. The original cereal boxes also contained no notices and are considered the first published appearance of the characters since they are considered printed material. The original box of Fruit Brute also did not have copyright notices.
- Fruity Yummy Mummy is still trademarked by General Mills, so the character’s name and appearance can only be used within the interior of a story, not to promote a brand.