Ditzy Crumpet

**Ditzy** (French: Tetenlair) is a recurring character in *The Crumpets* and *Teen Crumpets*. She is voiced by Erica Schroeder in English and Rosalie Hamet in French.

Ditzy is one of the 142 children of Ma and Pa Crumpet. She is an optimistic, philosophical, and scatterbrained girl with a detachable floating head with a string attached like a balloon.

## Biography

Ditzy is a bright girl with a rather poor judgement on some things she contemplated. She said phrases which were self-contradicting or ridiculous to believe in. As examples, she told Caprice that love is complex and simple at the same time, and when Granny was allegedly pregnant, she exclaims that "life is present in even the most arid deserts".

In spite of this, she has signs of intelligence like knowing the different concepts of afterlife between religions and reading a book. She also knows the secrets of her siblings, which they shared to her in "Family Secrets".

She was sometimes seen near her parents. She provides a contrast to Ma as she has spiritual beliefs but Ma does not. Ultimately, she shares more values with Pa, who was also interested in spiritualism and living with nature.

After Ma dispatched Ditzy into find divine beings in the sky, the latter saw none and concluded that she doesn't know if they really exist. She believes that ghosts exist and thought she encountered them in the house's attic with Caprice. She also does yoga on her bed.

In "The Terrible Teens", Ditzy is the one who connects Pa's abnormal personality to getting electrocuted by a lightbulb he tried to replace, after she and her siblings witness Pfff going through the same process. She leads the kids cornering Pa to the lightbulb in an attempt to return him to his normal personality. In "Family Secrets", she creates a rumor of Pa having a mistress due to a mysterious letter she had read.

In "Nez à nez", she develops a crush on Caprice's love interest Marylin while being inexperienced with romance. It was also at this time that Larry tries to please Ditzy with his balloons.

## Description

Ditzy's head resembles and functions like a balloon. It's usually seen with a string attached from the bottom, and the string is used to secure her head to her body. It's not uncommon, on the other hand, for her head to separate from the body. Rubber stretching and wind sounds are heard when her head floats. Her body can float to the air by holding the string. Her head can eat or drink even while being detached. Her head can lift Bother and Blister together.

According to her description on TV5Monde, her head is light as a balloon. But in "Family Secrets", it's revealed her head can suddenly become heavy and lose the ability to float, which occurs twice because she learned too much secrets of her family and her siblings catch her for blabber-mouthing. For the first recovery, she discovers that sharing secrets of her family to her neighbor Cassandra allows her head to refloat. The second recovery is never depicted. It's implied that her body can store items, as Lil' One peeked inside it when searching for Granny's laptop.

Ditzy's balloon head can also function as a weapon. She choked Caprice with her string and knocked King to the air with her head. Caprice once threw her head like a bowling ball at Li'l One and the twins.

As of seasons one-three, there is no explanation for why her head is a balloon, nor if there is anyone else with this ability. However, Aunt Harried once implied that Ditzy's balloon head is a defect, because she mentioned that sewing her head to her body is "preventative medicine".

## Trivia

* The concept of her head being a balloon can relate to the term *airhead*, meaning a foolish person.
* Her French name was derived from "tête en l'air", or "head in the air."
* Her height is the same or close to that of Triceps.
* If her string (as shown in "Prehistoric Crumpets") is counted as part of her height, she is the tallest Crumpet, if not any human character in the show. However, the Gentle Giant is also a contender for the show's tallest human.
* During the show's early development, she had a shorter height.
* She believes watching clouds in the sky is better than watching the telly, despite that she sometimes does the latter.
* She is a viewer of Cradley Booper's *Ice Lust* TV show.
* She plays with dolls.
* The family of her French voice actress Rosalie Hamet also provided the voices of other characters. Rosalie also voiced Blister, her father Luq voiced Uncle Hurry and is the voice director, her mother Emmanuelle voiced Ma, her brother Léonard Hamet voiced Pfff, and her brother Siméon voiced Ohoh and Bother.
* In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, she is known as Luna and is voiced by Camila Masri.
* Her name in the Mandarin dub is "小古怪" (xiao gu guai) which can be translated as "little weird."

## Appearances

(incomplete)

* "Ransoming Dad"
* "Crum-Step"
* "Going Viral"
* "The Courting of Ms. McBrisk"
* "**Belief Relief**"
* "Save Granny"
* "**Ghosts in the Attic**"
* "**The Terrible Teens**"
* "Lil Wrinkly One"
* "Octosquito"
* "Shake It Up"
* "Dried Water"
* "My Family's Full of Losers"
* "Granny Strip"
* "Cheep Shot"
* "**Family Secrets**"
* "**Murder Everywhere**"
* "Hairifying"
* "Road Stories"
* "Addicted"
* "Family Be Gone!"
* "Ice Lust"
* "Crumpity Pity"
* "Li'l Wonder"
* "**Prehistoric Crumpets**"
* "Man Up!"
* "Li'l One All Alone"
* "Pity The Prize"
* "Puppy Love"
* "Supernawak"
* "Insectator"
* "Bulles de palme"
* "Auto-graff"
* "Le commère-âge"
* "**Nez à nez**"
* "Rat de marée"
* "Crumperchés"
* "Quasi Cassie"
* "**Les sur-vivants**"
* "Nom de code"
* "Amenez-zique !"
* "Dans tes dents"
* "Va te catcher vilain !"
* "L'impffossible choix"
* "Love à faire"
* "La capuche mortelle"
* "Nu comme Hervé"
* "**Meilleure meilleure amie**"
* "Music-hall thérapie"

## References

1. ↑ "Belief Relief"
2. ↑ "Ghosts in the Attic"
3. ↑ "Ghosts In The Attic"
4. ↑ "Murder Everywhere"
5. ↑ "Addicted"
6. ↑ "Rat de marée"
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ "Save Granny"
9. ↑ "Family Secrets"
10. ↑ "Nom de code"
11. ↑ "Booty For Beauty"
12. ↑ [2]
13. ↑ "Prehistoric Crumpets"
14. ↑ "Nez à nez"
15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=949138268452702&set=a.205758559457347&type=3