Ms. McBrisk

**Ms. McBrisk** (French: Madame Dame) is a recurring character in *The Crumpets* and *Teen Crumpets*. She is voiced by Erica Schroeder in English and Marie-France Ducloz in French.

McBrisk is a single mother who is one of the two neighbors of the Crumpets, the other being her daughter Cassandra as they live in their house. She is the recipient of frequent disturbances from the Crumpet household and likes to complain or retaliate against the family of 145 members. Her marital status makes her a subject in some romantic plots in seasons one and two. She is a recurring supporting or villainous character.

In seasons one and two, she and Cassandra appeared frequently. In *Teen Crumpets*, McBrisk herself appeared less often while Cassie remained to be an important character.

## Biography

Ms. McBrisk was married to an unknown man. They split for an unknown reason, which was hinted to not deserve the couple a second chance to reconcile.

Unlike her daughter, McBrisk usually hates the Crumpets due to their next-door distractions like noise, odors, or even a dog house thrown at her. At one time, some allergies that she suffered could be attributed to the presence of a Crumpet. Either she merely complains on the "tribe of savages" or she takes action to eradicate them. One of her schemes to eliminate the Crumpets involved her cooperation with a like-minded Crumpet, Li'l One. It should be noted that she is friendly to the Crumpets in some episodes.

As the mother of Cassandra, she restricts her daughter's interactions with the Crumpets. McBrisk is cautious with Cassie's degenerate best friend Caprice, and she permits limited time for Cassie to hang out. It's implied from an old picture that McBrisk raised Cassie with strictness and formality, which she still does. McBrisk is also very hostile to Cassie's love interest and Caprice's brother Pfff because he's dumb and lazy, although when these attributes are reversed, Pfff earns McBrisk's respect..

Although she believes in order and a conservative lifestyle, McBrisk is prone to insanity. She had burglarized a lotto and rubbed the lottery ticket count with a chainsaw. Whenever an attractive service man visits her home, she may repeatedly try to have that man stay so she can date him. When King landed on her yard one night, she kept him as a son, named him Ghislain, and favored him as her child over Cassie, who had angrily shouted at McBrisk as she left for a bus trip earlier. She's also romantically obsessed with Caprice's cardboard cutout of the actor Cradley Booper.

Her hobbies are bird feeding and care and maintaining a collection of garden gnomes. She can get pretty attached to her gnomes. For instance, she slept in bed with one.

In seasons one and two, Cordless has a crush on McBrisk, which began in the episode "The Courting of Ms. McBrisk" ("Crum-Step" in episodic order). Despite of McBrisk rejecting him, Cordless persists on establishing a romantic relationship.

### Teen Crumpets

The *Teen Crumpets* episodes gave McBrisk less emphasis than before, as well as the boundaries she had placed on Cassie, making it appear that Cassie has more freedom with visiting the Crumpets and her friends. Few of those episodes also reveal that McBrisk can surprisingly give exceptions to her daughter's informal fashion choices, even though one instance occurred when Caprice is disguised as Cassie.

## Trivia

* Her first name is unknown as of seasons one-three.
* It's hinted that she is Christian or has a Christianity-like faith. She had mentioned Satan and the words "saint" and "heaven."
* She has a hypnotic pocketwatch that was passed down as an heirloom from a line of female ancestors (including her mother) all the way from her great-great-great-grandmother.
* She keeps her baby pacifier in a small box.
* She discovers a wrinkle on her face in "Save Granny".
* In the aftermath of giving birth to Cassandra, she had a psychosomatic condition which gave her a stress overload.
* She is not very good at using ladders.
* She keeps count of Cassandra leaving the lights on in their home.
* She works at a school.
* Her name in the Mandarin dub is "布里斯克夫人" (bu li si ke fu ren) which can be translated as "Lady Brisk", or "布里斯克" (bu li si ke), as "Brisk".
* Her English name is officially spelled "Ms McBrisk" in reflection of British spelling rules.

## Appearances

* "Sticks Stink"
* "**Crum-Step**"
* "**Croco-Deal**"
* "**The Courting of Ms. McBrisk**"
* "**Save Granny**"
* "**Booty For Beauty**"
* "**Ghosts in the Attic**"
* "**The Terrible Teens**"
* "Acne Dents Happen"
* "**Taxidermama**"
* "Lil Wrinkly One"
* "**Shake It Up**"
* "**No Pffuture**"
* "**My Family's Full of Losers**"
* "**Granny Strip**"
* "**Cheep Shot**"
* "**Family Secrets**"
* "**Hairifying**"
* "**Road Stories**"
* "**Addicted**"
* "**Greener Pastures**"
* "**Amnesia**"
* "**Family Be Gone!**"
* "**The Mix-Up**"
* "**Ice Lust**"
* "**Mum's Double**"
* "**Crumpity Pity**"
* "**Prehistoric Crumpets**"
* "**The Divorce**"
* "**Gentlemanly Modified Organism**"
* "Man Up!"
* "Li'l One All Alone"
* "Puppy Love"
* "**Pity The Prize**"
* "**Supernawak**"
* "**Girls on Holiday**"
* "**Sound The Alarm**"
* "**Auto-graff**"
* "**Troc de trucs**"
* "**Quasi Cassie**"
* "**50 nuances de Cassie**"
* "L'amour ça sert à rien"
* "Nu comme Hervé"
* "**Gentil choléra**"
* "Joyeux Noël..."

## References

1. ↑ "The Divorce"
2. ↑ "Addicted"
3. ↑ "Family Be Gone!"
4. ↑ "Croco-Deal"
5. ↑ "Lil Wrinkly One"
6. ↑ "Family Secrets"
7. ↑ "Gentlemanly Modified Organism"
8. ↑ "Booty For Beauty"
9. ↑ "Amnesia"
10. ↑ "Troc de trucs"
11. ↑ "Quasi Cassie"
12. ↑ "50 nuances de Cassie"
13. ↑ "Save Granny"
14. ↑ "Amnesia"
15. ↑ "Croco-Deal"
16. ↑ "Save Granny"
17. ↑ "Croco-Deal"
18. ↑ "Man Up!"
19. ↑ "Acne Dents Happen"
20. ↑ "Crumpity Pity"