Mummy Nanny

A short-lived animated series from France about an Egyptian woman named Nile who, after one of her spells goes wrong, winds up trapping herself in a tomb as a mummy and waking up thousands of years in the future, where she befriends siblings Alex and Samantha and gets a job as their nanny.


 * Adorkable: Nile
 * Adults Are Useless: Except for Nile, to a degree.
 * As You Know: Every episode Uncle Ankh reminds Droop that a time portal will only open when a mortal from the future utters the name of the immortal pharaoh Whydontyousitdown.
 * Babysitter From Hell: The nanny the parents originally hired.
 * Bald of Evil: Mr. Big
 * Bare Your Midriff: Samantha Elsewhere
 * Big Bad: Mr. Big
 * Captain Oblivious: Mr. Big is always following the family because he thinks they know where the stolen mummy is, all the while he's oblivious to the fact that the nanny is the mummy.
 * Christmas Episode: "Mummy Marooned"
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Dorothy and Julius Elsewhere
 * Ditzy Genius: Dorothy Elsewhere
 * The Eeyore: Droopenkhamun after Nile accidentally steals his shadow.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Mr. Big and his dog.
 * The Faceless: In the first episode we only get small glimpses of parts of Nile's face while she's still human.
 * Failure Is the Only Option
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water: Nile
 * Foot Focus: The first episode has several close-up shots on Nile's big feet while she's human.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Dorothy Elsewhere
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: A lot of the English dub actors also worked on the English dub of Digimon Adventure.
 * Alex Elsewhere is Tai.
 * Samantha Elsewhere is Patamon.
 * Julius Elsewhere is Joe.
 * Uncle Ankh is Old Gennai.
 * Droopenkhamun is Tentomon.
 * Hollywood Thin: Mocked in "Super Model Super Mummy" when a group of fashion models become jealous of Nile's emaciated figure.
 * Hypno Fool: In "The 5000 Year Vacation!" Mrs. Elsewhere hypnotises herself.
 * Inept Mage: Nile
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: Averted. All 26 episodes are on DVD.
 * Lawful Stupid: Charlie and Charlie are quite possibly the dumbest cops ever created.
 * Left Hanging: The show was cancelled before Nile could return home.
 * Living Shadow: Droopenkhamun's shadow after it's seperated from him.
 * Lost in Character: Julius Elsewhere is a writer and a Running Gag has him dressing up as a character he's writing and getting ridiculously into character.
 * Mummy: Of course.
 * Mundane Object Amazement: Nile does a lot of this.
 * The Napoleon: Mr. Big
 * Oh My Gods: Nile often cries out names of Egyptian gods.
 * Once an Episode: Nearly every episode someone says the Trigger Phrase and Ankh and Droop go to the future to search for Nile, only to be dragged back into the past when it's said again.
 * One Steve Limit: Averted with Charlie and Charlie.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: No-one except Alex and Samantha can tell Nile is a mummy despite the rotting skin, bandages and lack of a nose.
 * The Pollyanna: Droopenkhamun was this until Nile accidentally stole his shadow.
 * San Dimas Time
 * Stock Sound Effect: The Elsewheres' doorbell chime is the same as The Jetsons'.
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Stretch and Stumpy
 * Title Theme Tune: The lyrics are just the title repeated over and over.
 * Trigger Phrase: A time portal appears every time someone says "Why don't you sit down."
 * Weirdness Censor
 * Youthful Freckles: Samantha and her mom.