 And the main symptom of mumps is that your face kind of swells up, like your cheeks swell up and around your jaw. So you have this chipmunk-like appearance. And so kids who got mumps just look like these, like, you know, cute little chipmunks. Which meant the mumps was great for things like the plot line in The Brady Bunch. The doctor thinks I may have the mumps. And in Good Times. Some old German cartoon. There's a coaster song.