Tropes In The True Story of Strawberry Shortcake

All Tropes In The True Story of Strawberry Shortcake

A Wild Rapper Appears!

 * Fried Chicken in a few of the songs.

Accidental Hand-Hold

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in Piece of Cake.

Adaptational Karma

 * Self-inflicted example. The Brambleberry Fairy is quite depressed seeing the results of her malevolent work and regrets what she did.

Adaptation Name Change

 * "Sleeping Beauty":
 * The Sleeping Beauty is called "Princess Strawberry Rose", probably because she and Strawberry Shortcake herself look similar.
 * The Prince is called "Prince Huckleberry".
 * Maleficent the fairy is called the "Brambleberry Fairy".
 * "Berry Brick Road": The Munchkins are renamed the "Berrykins", taking their new name from a combination of their old one and "berry"

Adaptational Nice Guy/Gal

 * Ginger Snap, Orange Blossom, and Blueberry Muffin accidentally apply this to Cinderella's wicked step-family, until Angel Cake defies it.

Adapted Out

 * In the book version of "Sleeping Beauty", the Berry Fairies consisted of Gingerberry Fairy (Ginger Snap), Angelberry Fairy (Angel Cake), Orangeberry Fairy (Orange Blossom), Rainbowberry Fairy (Rainbow Sherbet) and Appleberry Fairy (Apple Dumplin'). In the episode version, Angelberry Fairy is absent due to Angel portraying the Brambleberry Fairy instead of Blueberry Muffin like in the book; because of this, her role as a Berry Fairy is replaced with new character Tangerinaberry Fairy (Tangerina Torta).

Affectionate Nickname

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin have these for each other: his nickname for her is True Blue, and her nickname for him is Lucky.

Always Chaotic Evil

 * Every main villain in the series.

All Of The Other Reindeer

 * Randolph is brutally discriminated by everyone (except his parents and love interest Halo) for not just the red glow in his body, but also for not being in league with the Nazis.

The Aloner

 * Coco Calypso and Banana Candy, at first.

Alpha Bitch

 * Peppermint Fizz tends to be the mean, bossy one in the first seasons, but she outgrows it.
 * Angel Cake, despite being the daughter of Jesus Christ, develops into this in the final season and takes a huge level in jerkass to the point where she has a split personality called Devil Crud.
 * Lime Light is introduced as an egotistical movie star.
 * In "Back in the Saddle", Lemon Meringue takes on the role as the snooty popular one at the dude ranch. She and Banana Candy give Plum Puddin' a hard time for her clumsiness (though they do find Cranberry Clover's joke funny) and say rude things behind her back (at Power Ent's expense).

Alter Ego

 * Certain Strawberrylanders and other characters take on different roles in some episodes:
 * Strawberry Shortcake
 * Strawberella in "The Play's the Thing"
 * Queen Pink of Berry Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Princess Strawberry Rose in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Maid Strawberry in "A Princess Named Rap" and Purple Palm Pie
 * Captain Strawberry in "Lights... Camera..."
 * Apple Dumplin'
 * Queen Apple in "The Play's the Thing"
 * Queen Yellow of Dumpling Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Appleberry Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Cranberry Milkshake
 * Super Syrup in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Ginger Snap
 * Ginger Snapzella in "The Play's the Thing"
 * Queen Ginger of Cookie Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Ginger Scarecrow in "Toto's Tale" and "Where the Gem Berries Grow"
 * Gingerberry Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Angel Cake Christ
 * Fairy Godmother before the interruption in "The Play's the Thing"
 * Wicked Stepmother afterward in the same episode
 * Queen Lilac of Neo Dark Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Brambleberry Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Third Mate Angel in "Lights... Camera..."
 * And her split personalities, Devil Crud and Crusader.
 * Orange Blossom
 * Orange Blosstasia in "The Play's the Thing"
 * Queen Orange of Blossom Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * PTSD Lioness in "Toto's Tale" and "Where the Gem Berries Grow"
 * Orangeberry Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * First Mate Orange in "Lights... Camera..."
 * Huckleberry Pie
 * Prince Charming in "The Play's the Thing"
 * King Green of Briar Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * The Wizard in "Toto's Tale" and "Where the Gem Berries Grow"
 * Prince Huckleberry in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Squire Huckleberry in "A Princess Named Rap" and Purple Palm Pie
 * Blackberry Bun
 * King Black of Gadget Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Prime Minister Tart in "Sleeping Beauty"
 * Burglar Blackberry in Purple Palm Pie
 * Guardian Blackberry in "Lights... Camera..."
 * Root Beer
 * The Wellerman in Lights... Camera...
 * Peppermint Fizz
 * The Coachwoman in The Play's the Thing
 * Queen Red of Fizz Land in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * The Tin Woodsgirl in Toto's Tale and Where the Gem Berries Grow
 * The Prime Minister's Supervisor in Sleeping Beauty
 * Cranberry Clover
 * Super Scarlet, Hero of the Muffin Kingdom, in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * The Duke of Hazzard in Sleeping Beauty
 * Second Mate Cranberry in Lights...Camera...
 * Blueberry Muffin
 * Not-so-Wicked Stepmother before the interruption in The Play's the Thing
 * Fairy Godmother afterward in the same episode
 * Princess Blue of the Muffin Kingdom in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * The Duchess of Hazzard in Sleeping Beauty
 * Second Mate Blueberry in Lights...Camera...
 * Rainbow Sherbet
 * Rainbowberry Fairy in Sleeping Beauty
 * Princess Rap in A Princess Named Rap and Purple Palm Pie
 * Tangerina Torta
 * Tangerinaberry Fairy in Sleeping Beauty
 * Cranachan
 * King's Piper in Sleeping Beauty
 * Almond Cookie
 * Guardian Almond in Lights...Camera...
 * Banana Candy
 * Royal Page in Sleeping Beauty
 * Pink Glaze Donut
 * Castle Guard Commander in Sleeping Beauty
 * Plum Puddin'
 * Good Witch Glinda in Toto's Tale and Where the Gem Berries Grow
 * Shoofly Frog
 * King Green's frog form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Apple Ducklin
 * Queen Yellow's duck form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Raven
 * King Black's raven form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Marmalade
 * Queen Orange's butterfly form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Cola Chameleon
 * Queen Red's chameleon form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Chocolate Chipmunk
 * Queen Ginger's chipmunk form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Pupcake
 * Queen Pink's dog form in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Tom-Tom
 * Gary Puppa, the boss of Briar Land (World 1) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Chiffon
 * Horton Puppa, the boss of Dumpling Land (World 2) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Cinnapup
 * Mandy O. Puppa, the boss of Gadget Land (World 3) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Kumquat
 * Jiggy Puppa, the boss of Blossom Land (World 4) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Scouty
 * Joy Puppa, the boss of Fizz Land (World 5) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Henna
 * Remy Puppa, the boss of Cookie Land (World 6) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Pitterpatch
 * Pitterpatch Von Puppa, the boss of Berry Land (World 7) in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Custard
 * Royal Guardian in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Vanilla Icing
 * Bloom Bloom, boss of the following levels in Super Berry Bros. 3:
 * Enter Bloom Bloom! (Round 1)
 * Double-Decker Duckling (Round 2)
 * Pick a Door, Any Door! (Round 3)
 * Sunken Stronghold (Round 4)
 * Flame Force (Round 5)
 * Lava Leak (Round 6)
 * Deadpan Dreadnought (Round 7)
 * Hollow Headquarters (Round 8)
 * Cookie Coaster (Round 9)
 * Slip and Slide (Round 10)
 * Conveyor Capers (Round 11)
 * Suspicious Citadel (Round 12)
 * Pipe Peril (Round 13)
 * Biblical Brigade (Round 14)
 * Mighty Marines (Round 15)
 * Pitch-Black Predicament (Round 16)
 * Lamb Locks (Round 17)
 * Last Line of Defense (Round 18, Final Round)
 * Purple Pie Man
 * Purple Palm Pie in the episode of the same name
 * Purple Pirate in Lights...Camera...
 * Sour Grapes I
 * Disguises as Rita Rutabaga in Everybody Dance
 * Gladys in Toto's Tale and Where the Gem Berries Grow
 * Professor Grapes in A Princess Named Rap and Purple Palm Pie
 * Scallywag Sour Grapes in Lights...Camera
 * Fragaria
 * Queen Tulip in Sleeping Beauty
 * Redberry
 * King Berry in Sleeping Beauty
 * Jesus Christ
 * Anonymous Deity in Super Berry Bros. 3

And I Must Scream

 * The Tin Woodsgirl, just like the original, gets immobilized. Fortunately, Strawberry Shortcake lubricates her joints with the can of oil that she found nearby, freeing her from her immobilized state.

And There Was Much Rejoicing

 * The Gliders and other animals of Porcupine Peak find Lord Purple's body and celebrate the death of their oppressor in spite of Strawberry defeating The Purple Pie Man, Sour Grapes I, and the Captain of PIE-sis AGAIN.

Animal Stampede

 * The Gliders in the Sweet Dreams Movie as they damage the villains' equipment before it explodes.
 * The war in "Around the Berry Big World" has countless stampedes, the salt on the wound is the surviving porcupines fleeing, only to be kidnapped by police and shipped back to Porcupine Peak.
 * In "Down On The Farm", The Pieman and Sour Grapes I are attacked by Carmel's sheep twice: First time before the fair starts, and again during the musical number. The injuries secure their defeat and lead to Randolph's humiliation.
 * The fire started by Foreman Poke has all the animals flee Porcupine Peak in The Escape

Arc Words

 * The phrase, "Growing/Getting better everyday/all the time." could be seen as this.

Artistic License – Physics

 * Two instances in "Angel Cake in the Outfield":
 * Despite her apparent distance from them following her outburst, Angel Cake still hears her friends.
 * Afterwards, the kids somehow manage to send their ball bouncing into the river despite being far from it.

Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence

 * Even in death, Gruffy, Strawberry's parents, and Jesus and Mrs Christ are able to communicate to the others.

Aside Glance

 * Cranberry Clover does this after Peppermint Fizz taunts the villains in The Sweet Dreams Movie.

Ask a Stupid Question

 * In "Horse of a Different Color," when Honey Pie Pony encounters the kids trapped in the middle of a river:
 * Honey Pie: My word! What are you all doing out there?
 * Huck: Not much.
 * Honey Pie: Don't go anywhere!
 * Huck: We weren't planning on it!
 * Fry: Do you even think we gon' go somewhere dude? Not in a situation like this!

Attack Reflector

 * In "Around the Berry Big World" Pink Glaze Donut reflects a porcupine's quill attack during the final ambush.
 * "Berry Brick Road" has this where the Wicked Witch of the West fires a spell at the heroes, but the Scarecrow gets an idea where the Tin Woodsgirl reflects the spell with her own body. It works, and Taken for Granite ensues where the Wicked Witch and her flying monkey get trapped in stone.

Bad Boss

 * The Wicked Witch of the West mistreats the Berrykins in her first appearance in Berry Brick Road.
 * The animals of Porcupine Peak overthrow Lord Purple and the other villains.

Badass Princess

 * Angel Cake, while in her Crusader persona, calls herself one despite not being a princess.

Beach Episode

 * The Mystery of Seaberry Shore and The Legend of The Lost Treasure

Because You Were Nice to Me

 * Happens in "Everybody Dance" to Sour Grapes I. She disguises herself as a dance instructor to keep the kids busy so she and the other villains can take over the world, but she enjoys teaching them so much and their dancing is so extraordinary she cannot bring herself to do it, and with Strawberry's encouragement, she begins a change of heart.
 * Happens with Licorice Whip in "Horror of the Horses" after Mocha Chiffon and Blackberry Rose save him. He fights in the war on Strawberry's side in "Around the Berry Big World."

Becoming the Mask

 * Sour Grapes I briefly in "Everybody Dance", when she enjoys Strawberry and her friends' dancing so much that she can't bring herself to betray them.

Being Evil Sucks

 * Randolph.

Beleaguered Assistant

 * Cola Chameleon to Peppermint Fizz
 * Sour Grapes I, II, Sweet Grapes, Raisin Cane, Licorice Whip, Captain Cackle, Foreman Poke, and the Gliders to the Purple Pieman, and Raven to Licorice Whip. These put-upon sidekicks are more sensible than their bosses but are made to go along with their schemes.
 * Custard tends to feel she is in this position for Strawberry Shortcake.
 * Polly N. Saturated averts this, because Cranberry Clover views him/her as an equal.

Berserk Button

 * Do not insult and/or injure Blueberry Muffin by any means. If Cranberry Clover finds out you did, he won't hesitate to hurl an insult at you. Angel Cake learns this the hard way in "Lights... Camera."
 * Peppermint Fizz snaps at the villains in "The Sweet Dreams Movie" after they kidnap the Sandman, which reveals that the Dastardly Duo are the children of Adolf Hitler.
 * Just before she turns into Devil Crud, Angel Cake just about loses it in when she thinks about the minors of Porcupine Peak being killed in "A Weeping Angel."

Berserker Tears

 * These spray (as lava) out of Devil Crud's eyes as she annihilates the Purple Pie Man.

Big Brother Instinct

 * Sour Grapes wishes that all the male villains followed this trope for her.

Big "NO!"

 * Followed by a Rapid-Fire "No!" when Huckleberry is offered to play Prince Charming in, "The Play's The Thing". He changed his mind when they offered to bake him some pies.
 * Foreman Poke has this in "The Sweet Dreams Movie." while the villains' super weapons and equipment used to rule the world literally explode, securing their defeat.

Blood-Splattered Warrior

 * Devil Crud is slowly covered in blood as her rampage progresses.

Bloody Horror

 * This is what Devil Crud leaves behind before the holy water splashes her.

Blush Sticker

 * The characters on the show have permanent blush stickers, except for the animals and villains.

Bowdlerise

 * In Strawberry's variation of "Sleeping Beauty", instead of the antagonist casting a spell where the princess pricks her finger and dies, she will just disappear forever.

Brave Scot

 * Cranachan.

Breath of Fire

 * Devil Crud can spew out long streams of violet fire which is one of her powers.

Broken Aesop

 * Probably several episodes, but two particularly blatant examples quickly come to mind:
 * Win Some, Lose Some: Yes, Strawberry, Cheaters Never Prosper. Especially if your definition of "cheating" doesn't include deliberately withholding a competitor until the final event. A final event which she and the others have to be reminded of after the fact! In their defense, though, most of the previous events were too dangerous for a one-year-old like Apple Dumplin' to participate in, subverting this.
 * The Good Mayor: It really goes without saying that a pest infestation which could cause a mass plague AND the apocalypse is NOT AT ALL the time to start asking nicely unless it helps with the situation. Unlike the original, the bugs are burnt by Almond Cookie, and Foreman Poke, who released them to pave the way for global catastrophe, falls into the river when the log is pushed in.

Brother–Sister Team

 * The Pieman and Sour Grapes are a villainous version.

Bull Seeing Red

 * A possible reason why Angel Cake, as Devil Crud, attempted to hurt Cranberry Clover, or it could be because of his grudge against her.

Butt-Monkey

 * Every Purple Pieman defeat takes this to the extreme:
 * How It All Began: He is the son of Adolf Hitler, who commits suicide, then he sneaks into planet Strawberryland and SOMETHING gets him and his sister, along with anyone related to him exiled to Porcupine Peak.
 * Sweet Dreams: His super weapons explode, his army is injured, his plans are ruined, and he is captured and exiled.
 * Around The Berry Big World: A final ambush from Pink Glaze Donut secures the defeat of Porcupine Peak. While in his ultimate form, he is later defeated by Strawberry in a final battle between the two. He is exiled back to Porcupine Peak again and the wastelands are walled up so that he can't take over the world.
 * Down On The Farm: He, Sour Grapes I, and Lord Purple are trampled by sheep twice. Randolph, the son of Nixon, one of his horses, runs away.
 * A Weeping Angel: He is the most injured victim of Angel Cake's attack on Porcupine Peak while she's Devil Crud, he gets beaten into a walking bloody pulp by the furious teenager.
 * The Escape: The children he has controlled are led to freedom by Foreman Poke. His Pie Tin Palace is then raided and destroyed by Pink Glaze Donut and the SWAT Team, and then Foreman Poke, his own porcupine friend, sets the land on fire.
 * Revolution: Dobbin, his own prized shire stallion, leads all of the animals of Porcupine Peak (with the help of Strawberry Shortcake) in a rebellion to take him down once and for all. His only friend, Lord Purple, is then killed, and he and Sour Grapes I are taken out of Porcupine Peak by the survivors.

Cain and Abel

 * Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes, particularly highlighted in multiple episodes. Sour Grapes (as the Wicked Witch of the West) gets a temporary switch to Cain in the Berry Brick Road episodes with Plum Puddin' (as Glinda the Good Witch) as her Abel.

Canon Foreigner

 * Countless new characters were made for the purpose of extension.

Cardiovascular Love

 * Cranberry Clover's heart beats out of his chest the picosecond he lays eyes on Blueberry Muffin in "Cranberry Clover's First Love"
 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin radiate these during their kiss in "The Sweet Dreams Movie."

Casting Gag

 * The Angry Animals (excluding Ham and Bacon) are voiced by those from the Angry Birds duology.

In season 1...

 * How it All Began...
 * Fragaria, Redberry, and several unnamed people are killed in Satan’s purge
 * The king before Sugar Cube took the throne is bludgeoned to death by one of Satan's minions as revenge for banishing the Hitlers.
 * Gruffy dies of old age, and he is the only one to do so.

In the Sweet Dreams Movie...

 * 1) Several Berry Birds and Porcupines are killed in the war for the Land of Dreams. Several dead corpses are seen in the Hitler siblings ruined garden
 * 2) Several minions are killed by tons of causes

In season 4...

 * 1) Most of Porcupine Peak’s army is killed during the war in Around The Berry Big World
 * 2) Several Berry Beetles are burnt by Almond Cookie's Flame Stone in The Good Mayor
 * 3) Senor Mula is said to have died on an unknown illness years prior to Back In The Saddle
 * 4) Lord Purple is trampled by the Gliders, one of them crushes his skull in Revolution.
 * 5) All of Satan’s Minions are destroyed by God’s army in The Fate of All Strawberryland.
 * 6) In the same episode, Satan is obliterated by Strawberry Shortcake’s blast.
 * 7) Queen Fruit Punch bleeds out from a machete wound.
 * 8) King Sugar Cube succumbs to his injuries, but not before revealing that the empire now belongs to Strawberry.

Cheaters Never Prosper

 * Peppermint learns this in "Win Some, Lose Some" following her Pyrrhic Victory.
 * The earlier episode "Peppermint's Pet Peeve" has a moment where she is accused of cheating by some of the other kids, who chew Fizz out for it. This causes Fizz to lose.

Cheer Up Episode

 * "Recovery" has Strawberry and Cranberry Milkshake trying to restore the happiness and joy in a severly traumatized Apple Dumplin' after the eighty day long "Berry Big World War."

Cheer Up Song

 * In "The Sweet Dreams Movie", after Rainbow Sherbet unknowingly makes Cranberry Clover cry, his girlfriend Blueberry Muffin sings "We Can Touch The Sky" by Kenya Hathaway, from The Trumpet of the Swan.
 * In "Red Flag", after Randolph was bullied by the other children of the Gliders, his love interest Halo sings "I'm Still Standing" by Elton John to lift his spirit.
 * Two songs occur in "Recovery." Strawberry sings "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter, while Cranberry Milkshake sings "You're Gonna Be Okay" by Brian & Jenn Johnson.

Cheerful Funeral

 * The animals of Porcupine Peak celebrate their freedom and Lord Purple's death.

Cheering Them Up with Laughter

 * Strawberry and Cranberry Milkshake do this with Apple Dumplin' to help her overcome her PTSD in "Recovery".

Christmas Carolers

 * Strawberry runs into some while shopping for presents in "Berry Merry Christmas".

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

 * Dregs, Sour Grapes I's snake, appeared in only one episode here never to be seen again. The remake gives him bigger roles.

Cinderella Plot

 * In "The Play's the Thing", everyone makes fun of Strawberry's raggedy raincoat. Then, they put on a Cinderella play and learn about how it's the inside that makes you beautiful, not what you wear. Strawberry plays Cinderella. Blueberry Muffin plays the stepmother, but is recast as the Fairy Godmother. Orange Blossom and Ginger Snap play the stepsisters. Angel Cake plays the Fairy Godmother but is recast as the Wicked Stepmother (thanks to Cranberry Clover). Huckleberry Pie plays the Prince.

Coming of Age Story

 * The following episodes: God's Luck, Goodbye Strawberryland Elementary, When The Rivers Run Red, Middle School, Makeover, Spring Berry High, Supreme Sixteenth, The Big Date, and Bitter and Sweet (the finale).

Cool Down Hug

 * Blueberry Muffin gives Cranberry Clover this to help cheer him up.
 * Apple Dumplin gets a few from her sisters throughout Recovery.

Country Music

 * This is Cotton Candy's preferred genre.

Crush Blush

 * Most of the girls when near their boyfriends.
 * Cranberry Clover, upon first sight of Blueberry Muffin in "Cranberry Clover's First Love"

Crush Filter

 * Cranberry Clover gets this in Cranberry Clover's First Love. Unlike most examples, he sees Blueberry Muffin as she is.

Cry Into Chest

 * A war-traumatized Apple Dumplin does this to Cranberry Milkshake in Recovery, while Angel Cake cries into her mother's chest in A Weeping Angel.

Cuddle Bug

 * Baby Strawberry would always do this to Gruffy.
 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin are berry affectionate toward each other. In fact; if the two of them are in an episode together, you can expect them to hug each other at least once.
 * Nixon, expecting to shake hooves with Randolph after he comes back, is nuzzled by his son.

Da Chief

 * Pink Glaze Donut claims to lead the police force.

Dead Person Conversation

 * Strawberry has spoken with the spirits of her parents and Gruffy, and Angel Cake with her parents (Jesus and Mrs. Christ) as well as her grandfather (God)

Death Is a Sad Thing

 * Near the end of How It All Began, Cranberry Milkshake helps Strawberry as she grieves over Gruffy's passing.
 * In The Fate of Strawberryland, Strawberry weeps when King Sugar Cube dies. What sells the scene is the lack of music, the background rain, and the only verbal sounds coming out of Strawberry while she cries being labored breathing.

Defeat Equals Explosion

 * Fried Chicken blows up the super-weapons with the snap of his finger.

Defeat Means Friendship

 * Queen Lilac in Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Foreman Poke near the beginning of The Good Lord's Salvation.

Demonic Possession

 * The Anonymous Deity finds out his daughter, Queen Lilac, was possessed by the Neon Demon in Super Berry Bros. 3.
 * Guess what happens in A Weeping Angel?

The Diaper Change

 * Anytime Gruffy needs to change Baby Strawberry and Cranberry Milkshake, with the help of God's angels of course (albeit offscreen).
 * When Baby Ginger Snap needs hers changed in "Baby Takes the Cake" in Apple Dumplin's Imagine Spot, Apple first tells her to do it, then realizing it's not going to happen, does it herself offscreen.
 * Apple: Please, Baby Ginger Snap, don't ever do that again.

Didn't Think This Through

 * The Brambleberry Fairy planted brambleberries around her house to protect her stuff. This also created a delivery dead-zone, so she couldn't get the invitation that the Page was trying to deliver her.

Dislikes the New Guy

 * Peppermint toward Rainbow in "The Costume Party" due to seeing her as "different" than everyone else.

Distant Duet

 * "The Best Pet Yet" from "Peppermint's Pet Peeve", as Strawberry and the gang are getting their pets ready for the pet show.

Downer Ending

 * Subverted in "Strawberry's Big Journey" where the girls miss their chance to see a flower that only blooms once every decade but learn that all that matters is that they had fun.

Easily Forgiven

 * In "Win Some, Lose Some," Peppermint Fizz is easily forgiven by Strawberry Shortcake for cheating in the games. Of course, it does help that Strawberry was never really mad at her, just sad at her failure to understand that the important part of playing games is having fun. Generally true for other cases where someone does something wrong as well.
 * Defied hard by Cranberry Clover in "Piece of Cake." After Blueberry Muffin is insulted one too many times by Angel Cake, Cranberry Clover ends his friendship with Angel.
 * Near the end of "Red Flag", Nixon forgives Prankster for not realizing that Randolph was already having a bad day from being bullied when he sternly demanded Halo not be around him due to his red glow.
 * In "Recovery", Apple Dumplin is forgiven by Strawberry for intentionally wetting the bed out of a her terrible fear of using the bathroom due to the trauma she developed from her sisters in the war.
 * In "A Weeping Angel", Angel Cake's mother Mrs. Christ knows that Angel Cake, who hours earlier terrorized Porcupine Peak, just wanted to get her bad feelings out, and understands Cranberry Clover's grudge against her daughter, and decides to give him a chance to put it to rest, which he accepts.
 * After Randolph comes home in "Lights... Camera..." Nixon forgives his son for running away, knowing he did so out of guilt after the events of "Down On The Farm".

Embarrassing Damp Sheets

 * Apple Dumplin confesses to this in Recovery, though this can be justified as her PTSD is keeping her from going to the bathroom.
 * Angel Cake completely soaks the bed while crying in "A Weeping Angel".

Eternal Engines

 * Cookie Land, in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Everything's Louder with Bagpipes

 * Cranachan so happens to play them, doing so in her first scene in A Festival of Friends.

Expressive Ears

 * Honey Pie Pony has these, and so do the other equines. Pupcake has them too.

Facepalm

 * Grown-up Apple Dumplin', after first seeing Strawberry as a baby and after the baby versions of Strawberry and her friends refuse to take a nap in "Baby Takes the Cake."
 * Pink Glaze Donut does then when Angel Cake blames Blueberry Muffin for hiding the scripts in "Lights...Camera..."

Fear Song

 * Scaredy Little Me in Ginger Snap's No-Light Night of Fright

Final Battle

 * "Super Berry Bros. 3" has Super Scarlet vs. Queen Lilac. This is the only instance where the villain pulls a Heel-Face Turn.
 * The Sweet Dreams Movie has God, the kingdom of Heaven, Jesus, the Land of Dreams, and the world of Strawberryland VS. Porcupine Peak and the Fourth German Reich.
 * One last ambush is launched to beat back Porcupine Peak near the end of the war in Around the Berry Big World.
 * The Fate of Strawberryland multiplies this by infinite and it's everyone VS. Satan.

Final Boss

 * Queen Lilac in Super Berry Bros. 3

Finishing Each Other's Sentences

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin have one instance in Piece of Cake:
 * Blueberry Muffin: And you're gonna need...
 * Cranberry Clover: ...some flour, too, right?

First Kiss

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin have theirs with each other at the end of "Cranberry Clover's First Love"
 * Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Pie have this near the end of "Supreme Sixteenth"

First Love

 * Strawberry and Huck when they first meet in "Meet Strawberry Shortcake"
 * As the episode's name implies, Cranberry Clover has this in "Cranberry Clover's First Love."

First Time in the Sun

 * Most of the minors from Porcupine Peak have never felt the sun until Foreman Poke led them into freedom in "The Escape".

Five Stages of Grief

 * Peppermint hits all five beats throughout "The Costume Party" during Rainbow Sherbet's arrival: she's unwelcome over her because she's different (Denial), lashes out at Strawberry and her friends for such which hurts Rainbow's feelings (Anger), her actions eventually cause Rainbow to consider moving away (Bargaining), is upset when she doesn't get what she wants when the girls play a costume party prank where everything's the same (Depression), and finally accepts Rainbow for what she is and becomes a good friend (Acceptance).

Foe-Tossing Charge

 * Lord Purple is grabbed by Devil Crud and gets this as he is rammed through a dead tree and crashes into the Gliders' old barn.

Forced Sleep

 * The Brambleberry Fairy ends up putting Princess Strawberry Rose to sleep thanks to the Apple Fairy.

Foreboding Fleeing Flock

 * The Gliders flee in The Escape as Porcupine Peak is engulfed in flames. They they come back in Revolution for unfinished business.

Forever War

 * Actually an Eight-Year Grudge, but Cranberry Clover has this against Angel Cake.

Four-Girl Ensemble

 * Ever noticed how many episodes star four of the girls? Who the four girls are varies, but Strawberry Shortcake herself is always among the group.

Friendly Pirate

 * Fried Chicken refers to Rainbow as one when he meets her in The Costume Party.

Gadgeteer Genius

 * Ginger Snap is always working on some handy contraption. Blackberry Bun has also made devices of his own.

Gender Flip

 * The Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion have their roles filled by Ginger Snap, Peppermint Fizz, and Orange Blossom. The True Story version makes Orange Blossom into an actual lioness.

Girliness Upgrade

 * Inverted with Strawberry and Raspberry. They were girlier in the '80s version but are more tomboyish here.
 * Played straight with the Season 4 redesigns. Almost everyone has a more feminine-looking design. Overlaps with Used to Be a Tomboy, to a degree.

Girlish Pigtails

 * Ginger Snap has these.
 * Angel Cake, before the Season 4 redesign.

God Is Displeased

 * With the villains shenanigans. He captures them at the end of the Sweet Dreams Movie and reports them to the king for exile.

Gone Horribly Right

 * See Didn't Think This Through.

Gosh Dang It To Heck

 * Cranberry Clover never uses any profanity.

Graduate from the Story

 * The series finale, Bitter and Sweet, has the gang graduating from Spring Berry High.

Green Aesop

 * A line in the song "Friendship Grows" reminds us to "treat the good Earth with respect".
 * The entire plot of "Where the Gem-Berries Glow."

Green Hill Zone

 * Super Berry Bros. 3
 * Briar Land (Grassy Briars), with a bit of Lost Woods
 * Gadget Land (Gadget Grove), with Palmtree Panic and a bit of Under The Sea
 * Blossom Land (Blossom Meadows) with Macro Zone
 * Fizz Land (Fizz Rivers)
 * Berry Land (Berry Fields), with Pipe Maze

Groin Attack

 * The Purple Pieman recieves one from Devil Crud in A Weeping Angel.

Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold

 * Angel Cake and Lemon Meringue are both kind-hearted blondes, although Angel Cake takes a level in jerkass in the final season. Peppermint Fizz evolves into one later.

Happy Birthday to You!

 * A Berry Happy Birthday, performed near the end of Meet Strawberry Shortcake and briefly reprised and used as a score in Supreme Sixteenth.

Happy Rain

 * Following Lord Purple's death in Revolution, Porcupine Peak is engulfed in a heavy rainstorm that could seriously damage the land.

Hated Hometown

 * The villains hated living in Porcupine Peak.

Head Crushing

 * Lord Purple is killed by one of the Gliders this way in Revolution. The horse responsible is never revealed, but it may have been either Dobbin (who arranged the final revolution) or Nixon (who knew that Lord Purple ruined his son's life).

Headbutting Heroes

 * Cranberry Clover and Angel Cake, from Piece of Cake to A Weeping Angel.

Heel–Face Turn

 * Queen Lilac of Neo Dark Land, played by Angel Cake, in "Super Berry Bros. 3" goes through this after her battle with Super Scarlet, played by Cranberry Clover.
 * Unlike the original, Periwinkle goes through this in "The Legend of Sherry Bobbleberry"
 * Licorice Whip's assistant, Raven, in "The Festival Of The Fillies". Licorice Whip himself goes through one in "Horror of the Horses".
 * Randolph risks his relations with his friends and family to help Strawberry bring back the animals in "Down On The Farm."
 * As the Gliders leave Porcupine Peak, they go through this as they realize they're on their own.
 * Foreman Poke takes six episodes to turn good as he decides to leave Porcupine Peak and bring all the youth with him (Pie Man's Fury-The Good Lord's Salvation)
 * Most villains in the series except the Pieman and Sour Grapes I turn good. Those two turned good in "Lights... Camera..."
 * Sugar Cube, despite not being a villain, goes through this during his final bittersweet moments with Strawberry, revealing that the empire's now hers before his death in "The Fate of Strawberryland."

Held Gaze

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in The Sweet Dreams Movie, during and after Blueberry's song.

Heroic BSoD

 * Cinderella suffers this when her wicked stepmother (Angel Cake) tears the dress that Cinderella picked so she could go to the ball. Fortunately, the Fairy Godmother (Blueberry Muffin) helps out.
 * Strawberry Shortcake gets one in "A Festival of Friends" when she concludes that the party is hopeless after Angel Cake ruins her cake (whose remains form a river that flows out of her factory) on accident.
 * Strawberry Shortcake has another one in The Sweet Dreams Movie after Sandman is captured by Lord Purple and the Pie Man.

Heroic Sacrifice

 * The most notable one is in The Fate of Strawberryland where Sugar Cube draining the last of Satan's powers before Strawberry finishes the devil off. (this results in Sugar's death).

"The Hero Sucks" Song

 * "Not Like Me" from "The Costume Party" is sung by Peppermint Fizz, dissing Rainbow Sherbet.

High-Pressure Emotion

 * Cranberry Clover, twice.
 * In "Piece of Cake," right before he ends his friendship with Angel Cake.
 * In "Lights...Camera," complete with teakettle whistle.
 * Peppermint Fizz loses her temper following the Sandman's capture in the Sweet Dreams Movie, which results in the villains' plans being exposed.

Historical Villain Upgrade

 * Lord Purple and The Terroristic Trio (Purple Pieman, Sour Grapes I, and Licorice Whip)

I Shall Taunt You

 * Peppermint Fizz taunts the villains when it is found out that the war destroyed Strawberry's garden and Porcupine Peak's chances of taking over the world.
 * Peppermint: And you know what you all are for the mass destruction? You are all Peculiar Purple Pieces of Nazi Porcupine SH-(BLEEP) (donkey noises go on in the background as she taunts the villains while smacking her backside, with Cranberry Clover doing an Aside Glance with a "WTF?" expression)

Incredible Shrinking Man

 * Strawberry and Ginger Snap have to shrink in order to get to the Berry Fairy Fields

Ineffectual Loner

 * Peppermint Fizz.
 * Then there's Banana Candy, although in actuality she dislikes being one and only does it to keep Strawberry and company stuck in her town so she's not alone.
 * Then Raspberry Torte nearly turned into one in the episode "Mind Your Manners".
 * Coco Calypso.

Inelegant Blubbering

 * Cranberry Clover has this for a split second right before he bursts into tears in "The Sweet Dreams Movie"

Intertwined Fingers

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in A True Blue Thanksgiving, the first book in the Clueberry series.

It's All About Me

 * Angel has this on occasion, most notable in "Angel Cake in the Outfield". Sometimes she can be bossier than Peppermint.
 * Peppermint originally had this in her early appearances but outgrew them as of her redesign.
 * Lime Light. She even has a whole song about it.

It's Okay to Cry

 * Strawberry tells this to Apple Dumplin' while she lets it out in the earlier parts of "Recovery."
 * Mrs. Christ comforts Angel Cake when after the latter realizes she worsened the purge of Porcupine Peak while she was Devil Crud, she loses it and bawls into her pillow.

Jabba Table Manners

 * Raspberry Torte has these in "Mind Your Manners" at first. Thanks to Strawberry Shortcake, she overcomes this flaw.

Jerkass Ball

 * Angel Cake ends up on both ends of this trope. The first episode where she had this, "Angel Cake in the Outfield", has her suffer bouts of It's All About Me and storm off when she fails. In "The Play's The Thing", she takes offense to how Blueberry Muffin, Ginger Snap, and Orange Blossom applied Adaptational Nice Guy to their characters and gives them this to get the story back on track, though an angry Cranberry Clover tells her to switch characters with Blueberry Muffin.

Kick Them While They Are Down

 * This is how Devil Crud injures Raisin Cane who attempts revenge for her father's injuries.

Killed Offscreen

 * Lord Purple's skull is crushed by a Glider near the end of Revolution.

King Koopa Copy

 * Queen Lilac in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Knight Templar Parent

 * Professor Grapes is this for Rapunzel in A Princess Named Rap.

Know When To Fold 'Em

 * Cranberry Clover may have a grudge against Angel Cake, but when she becomes Devil Crud, he doesn't antagonize her.

Last-Minute Hookup

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin become a couple at the end of Cranberry Clover's First Love.

Laughing Mad

 * Strawberry's fields are a mess when the villains find their plans to take over Earth destroyed and most of their minions dead, Peppermint makes fun of the villains for this.

Lethal Lava Land

 * The Hand Traps in Neo Dark Land, in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Let's Duet

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin sing "In My Frog Suit", from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, to introduce their play in Super Berry Bros. 3.

Lightning Glare

 * Cranberry Clover and Angel Cake in Piece of Cake.

Lost Woods

 * Briar Land, in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Love Confession

 * Cranberry Clover confesses this to Blueberry Muffin near the end of Cranberry Clover's First Love.
 * CC: I mean every word of my haiku, to the letter. I get this warm, cozy feeling whenever I'm near you. You're berry beautiful, Blue; so beautiful, I just can't look away! It took me a few minutes, but I realized what that feeling was. I love you, Blueberry Muffin!
 * Power Ent confesses this to Annie Oatmeal on the evening before the trail ride.
 * Ent: This afternoon, it came to me, and I finally knew what I was feeling. You probably wonder what made me so willing to be around you more recently. It was because… you are my true love and I just really want to spend the rest of my life with you. What I’m trying to say is… Annie Oatmeal… do you love me?

Love Letter

 * More of a Love Haiku in Cranberry Clover's First Love:
 * You're so beautiful, that just being around you, makes my heart flutter. Signed, Your Secret Admirer

Macro Zone

 * Blossom Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Malicious Misnaming

 * Cranberry Clover in Lights...Camera...
 * CC: She knows a lot more than you do, Angel Crud!

Man Bites Man

 * Devil Crud clamps down gruesomely on the Pie Man's left thigh.

Memorial Statue

 * God reveals statues of King Sugar Cube and Queen Fruit Punch during the finale in Bitter and Sweet.

Mighty Roar

 * Devil Crud lets out many at several points during her attack on Porcupine Peak.

Minion with an F in Evil

 * In one episode, Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are putting on a play of Cinderella. Strawberry as Cinderella cries when the evil step-relatives say she can't go to the ball. Blueberry Muffin (the stepmother) and Ginger Snap and Orange Blossom (the stepsisters) feel bad and say she can go after all until Angel Cake (the fairy godmother) gets the story back on track.

Mirror Character

 * Raspberry Torte and Sour Grapes. Both are pessimists by nature, both are quite loyal to one person (Lemon Meringue and Purple Pieman, respectively), and both had the same abandoned dream.

Motor Mouth

 * Ginger Snap has a penchant for fast-talking.

My God, What Have I Done?

 * Peppermint Fizz at first celebrates her victory following the games in "Win Some, Lose Some", but it ends up a Pyrrhic Victory when she sees Strawberry Shortcake giving Apple Dumplin' a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech, which ends up making Peppermint Fizz come clean and call herself out.
 * Rainbow Sherbet has this after she hurts Cranberry Clover's feelings and makes him leave the clubhouse crying.
 * Prankster in "Red Flag" realizes that he let his judgement cloud his mind when he told Halo to not be with Randolph, who was already having a bad day after he was bullied, so he goes out to confess to Nixon about what he did.
 * Angel Cake has this when it is revealed that she severely worsened the already gruesome battle raging on in Porcupine Peak while she was Devil Crud in "A Weeping Angel"
 * The animals of Porcupine Peak, while satisfied with Lord Purple's death, realize that Adolf and Sheila's lives are already worse than when they were first exiled.
 * Randolph seems to not regret running away, but when he sees the girls approaching the cart in "Lights... Camera..." he and his friends stampede to not only stop Strawberry and her friends, but to also save his dad (who is pulling the cart), and stop the Pie Man from kidnapping Blackberry Bun.

National Anthem

 * "Glorious As Strawberryland" is the national anthem of the planet of Strawberryland, set to the melody of Scotland the Brave.

Negative Continuity

 * In the second episode, "Meet Strawberry Shortcake," Apple Dumplin' is tasked with mixing the pot while making her birthday cake. However, in "Baby Takes The Cake," Strawberry and her friends tell her that she is too little to help them bake.

New Jobs As The Plot Demands

 * This is used to great comic effect in "Strawberry's Big Journey." When the group meets Banana Candy, she is working as a mechanic. They ask if there's somewhere that they can get food and she directs them to a local cafe and offers them a taxi... which turns out to be driven by her. When they get to the cafe, Banana Candy is making the meal, leading them to wonder just how the car is going to get fixed.
 * Banana Candy: Small towns like this, you need a few jobs to make ends meet.

Never My Fault

 * The Brambleberry Fairy blames her exclusion from the party on everyone else when it was really her own Idiot Ball (the Brambleberry fence and ignorance of the invitation) that resulted in her exclusion. This gets toned down later on when she realizes what this made her become and starts to regret what she did. Prince Huckleberry tells her that she needs to listen to get the full message, cementing her Heel–Face Turn.
 * Nixon reveals that the villains' defeat in "Down On The Farm" was not caused by Randolph, who believed he caused it, given why he ran away at the end of the episode.

No-Holds-Barred Beatdown

 * Devil Crud does this to everybody who tries to attack her during her attack on Porcupine Peak.

No One Could Survive That!

 * Given how Queen Lilac's arena was a brick floor over a giant pit, she somehow survives her fall.
 * Almost everyone in Porcupine Peak is attacked by Devil Crud. Her final move is destroying the Purple Pieman himself with the goal of taking the fatheaded Hitler son's life.
 * Guess who survives, only to have his crummy base raided destroyed by Pink Glaze Donut in the following episode?

Non-Human Sidekick

 * Many of the pets.

Not Me This Time

 * Cranberry Clover in A Weeping Angel:
 * CC: Fry, I had nothing to do with whatever happened to Angel Cake, I swear!

Not Now, Kiddo

 * Apple Dumplin' gets this sometimes, but never from Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin.

Ocular Gushers

 * In "Baby Takes the Cake," all of the babies in Apple Dumplin's Imagine Spot in which she's an adult wail and cry these when she gets angry and tells them that they can't help her. She then starts crying these herself and, seeing this, they stop and calm down.
 * After Rainbow Sherbet says his patched-together raincoat looks silly on him, Cranberry Clover has these as he leaves the Friendship Clubhouse.
 * Apple Dumplin has these again in "Recovery" when she vents about how terrifying the Berry Big World War was and how close the world was to being taken over by the diabolical tyrannic ruler of Porcupine Peak.
 * In "A Weeping Angel," Angel Cake has this twice: First time as Devil Crud which technically still counts since her eyes can shoot fire like her mouth does. Second time after realizing the terror she caused as Devil Crud, these somehow erupt and spill out onto the floors, given that she bawls into her pillow.

Official Couple

 * Strawckleberry (Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Pie)
 * Orangicken (Orange Blossom and Fried Chicken)
 * Clueberry (Blueberry Muffin and Cranberry Clover)
 * BlackSnap (Blackberry Bun and Ginger Snap)
 * GlazeBrew (Pink Glaze Donut and Dark Brew) (technically not since Pink has more of a de-facto crush on Dark Brew)
 * Annent (Annie Oatmeal and Power Ent)
 * Rambah (Rambo and Sarah)
 * Ranlo (Randolph and Halo)
 * AngelBread (Angel Cake and Unleavened Flatbread)
 * SugarPunch (Sugar Cube and Fruit Punch)
 * Other couples include Fragaria and Redberry, Nixon and Randolph's mother, as well as Jesus and Mrs Christ.

Oh, Crap!

 * Peppermint Fizz gets one when her competitors find that her lizard was just lip-syncing instead of singing much to their ire in "Peppermint's Pet Peeve".
 * The entire gang gets this when they get the idea that an abomination (which they call "the Blueberry Beast") is occupying a house. Turns out, it's just Blueberry Muffin doing her things at home, as Strawberry Shortcake finds out the next day.
 * Huckleberry Pie, Rainbow Sherbet, Coco Calypso, and Seaberry Delight simultaneously get this when tears start to well up in Cranberry Clover's eyes.
 * Strawberry gets this in "Around The Berry Big World" when she realizes that the ship that two persons offered for her and Peppermint Fizz's trip back to Strawberry Land isn't going in the right direction. (Strawberry watched the stars at night.) Fizz doubts it... until Strawberry realizes that the land that they are approaching does not match Central Strawberryland at all. Fortunately, one of their friends who lives there helps them get back. The Porcupine Peak Army gets this when they hear Pink Glaze Donut's voice before the final ambush that gets them kidnapped and secures Strawberry winning the war with ONE SECOND left.
 * The Purple Pie Man, Sour Grapes I, and Lord Purple before the sheep trample them in Down On The Farm. Randolph also gets this when he finds out he was spotted helping Custard and Pupcake leading the animals back to Carmel's Farm.
 * The Wicked Witch of the West gets this when the Tin Woodsgirl reflects her spell back in her direction with her own body and she (along with the monkey who was flying her) turns to stone as a result.
 * The Purple Pie Man realizing that his father, Adolf Hitler was revived in Pie Man's Fury.
 * All of Porcupine Peak as an absolutely furious Angel Cake (In her Devil Crud alter ego) sets foot in the wasteland in an explosive manner.
 * Lord Purple just before the animals of Porcupine Peak attack him and the other adults.
 * Randolph when he senses that his father is in danger when the girls approach the wagon in "Lights... Camera..."
 * Satan gets this just before his death.

Once Per Episode

 * At least two songs are sung almost every episode.
 * Blueberry Muffin and Cranberry Clover hug each other at least once in every episode they appear in together.

One-Episode Fear

 * Cranberry Clover's cynophobia, in his debut episode, Introducing Cranberry Clover.
 * Ginger Snap's nyctophobia, in Ginger Snap's No-Light Night of Fright.

One, Two, Skip a Few

 * Not quite a straight example, but in the "Not Too Little" song from "Baby Takes the Cake," Apple Dumplin' sings that she can count to ten.
 * Apple: 1, 5, 9, 6, 10!

One True Love

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin are this to each other.

Only I Can Kill Him

 * Strawberry Shortcake is the only one able to deliver the killing blow to Satan.

Our Fairies Are Different

 * The Berry Fairies.

Overly Long Hug

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in Around The Berry Big World.

Overly Long Name

 * The Purple Pie Man's full name is Adolphus Steven Hitler Junior The Peculiar Purple Piemanne of The Exile Wastelands of Nazi Porcupine Peak of The Fourth German Reich

Overprotective Dad

 * Prankster sternly orders Halo to not be around Randolph in "Red Flag" due to his glow.

Paint the Town Red

 * The result of Devil Crud's ambush, as by the time she's done, all of Porcupine Peak is covered in blood.

Palmtree Panic

 * Gadget Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Papa Wolf

 * Gruffy raises Strawberry Shortcake and Cranberry Milkshake. Should somebody threaten either baby, the old canine will not be having it.

Paper-Thin Disguise

 * "Everybody Dance" has Sour Grapes in disguise as a dance instructor named "Rita Rutabaga", which she uses to take advantage of Strawberry and her friends' love of dancing and distract them so that Porcupine Peak can overthrow God and take over the world of Strawberryland.
 * "Around the Berry Big World" has the four Porcupine Peak Leaders in a paper-thin disguise as a ship crew, offering to take Strawberry Shortcake and Peppermint Fizz home to Strawberryland, but actually out to sabotage them so that they can win the war.
 * Played with in "Down on the Farm." During a few heists Randolph, Crasher's twin sons, Halo, and Dobbin's niece disguise themselves as deer. Later on, Strawberry Shortcake, Pupcake, and Custard disguise themselves as sheep and hide among the sheep of Caramel Corn's farm to discover who's been stealing her animals. Caramel Corn finds their disguises less than convincing, but Strawberry says that by the time it's dark they won't notice anything. When the Purple Pie Man and Sour Grapes come to take the sheep, Sour Grapes I asks if they should take the "funny-looking" ones as well. Pie Man, being a jerk, says that he doesn't care what they look like. Randolph uses his disguise to help sneak the animals back to Caramel's farm.

The Perfectionist

 * Despite her Hair and Heart of Gold personality, Angel Cake has this flaw. She has a bad habit of calling out those who aren't perfect. Contrast Huckleberry Pie, who's a bit messy.

Pet the Dog

 * Even after ending his friendship with Angel Cake, Cranberry Clover still lets Polly N. Saturated talk to Vanilla Icing and Souffle Skunk.

Petty Childhood Grudge

 * Cranberry Clover has this against Angel Cake from Piece of Cake to A Weeping Angel.

Pipe Maze

 * Berry Land, in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Playground Song

 * In "Strawberry's Big Journey," Orange Blossom leads several rounds of "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt." Angel is irritated by such.
 * The True Story version of the episode "Down On The Farm" has the classic song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" playing as a montage shows us what goes down on Carmel's farm on a daily basis. There is a second version used as a bonus music video.

Post-Kiss Catatonia

 * Cranberry Clover, after he and Blueberry Muffin share their fourth kiss (which is the longest [at that point] and the most passionate) in My Lucky Valentine, the third book in the Clueberry series.

Public Domain Soundtrack

 * Almost the music uses classical songs with a bit of "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole", "Night on Bald Mountain", "The Nutcracker Suite", "William Tell Overture", "Flight of the Bumblebee", "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Ride of the Valkyries", "Ode to Joy", "Hungarian Dance No. 5", "Violin Concerto in E Minor", "Swan Lake Suite", "New World Symphony", "The Rite of Spring", "Solveig's Song", "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", and even "Korobeiniki".
 * Part of Back in The Saddle has a medley score of "Dixie's Land", "Chicken Reel", and "Turkey in the Straw"

Puppy Love

 * Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Pie.
 * Blueberry Muffin and Cranberry Clover, starting in "Cranberry Clover's First Love".
 * Fruit Punch and Sugar Cube.

Race Against the Clock

 * The Anonymous Deity (Jesus) races against the clock to save his daughter, Queen Lilac (Angel Cake) before she gets hurt in Super Berry Bros. 3.

Rage-Breaking Point

 * In the episode A Weeping Angel, it is revealed that Angel Cake insulting Blueberry during the episode Piece of Cake was Cranberry Clover's breaking point, causing him to develop a grudge against Angel (who claims that it is one against the Christ empire).

Raised by Wolves

 * With the deceased parents unable to take care of Strawberry and Cranberry, Gruffy, being the wise beast he is, takes up the responsibility of caring for the young ones.
 * A mammoth mule by the name of Sènor Mula is said to have trained Annie Oatmeal to be successful with her ranch.

Rebel Leader

 * Dobbin leads an ambush to end Lord Purple in Revolution.

Redemption in the Rain

 * The animals of Porcupine Peak reconcile with one another as they are soaked by a heavy rainstorm near the end of Revolution following Lord Purple's death.
 * It slowly begins to rain during Sugar Cube's last breath in The Fate of Strawberryland.

Related in the Adaptation

 * Angel Cake's father is Jesus and her grandfather is God. Her mother who is Jesus’s wife also appears.
 * Vanilla Icing is the daughter of the Lamb of God.
 * Jesus is married to who becomes Mrs. Christ
 * A deep purple filly said to be Dobbin's niece makes several appearances.
 * Strawberry Shortcake and Apple Dumplin' now have an older sister: Cranberry Milkshake.
 * Lem n' Ada are now Lemon Meringue's younger sisters.
 * Adolf Hitler is said to have sired Adolf Jr and Sheila, who go on to become the Purple Pie Man and Sour Grapes I

Remilitarized Zone

 * Neo Dark Land (Castle of Christ), in "Super Berry Bros. 3", with a bit of Lethal Lava Land.

Rich Bitch

 * The Sea Beast and Lime Light. Margalo borders this, but they all reform.

Road-Sign Reversal

 * In "Down on the Farm," the Purple Pie Man reverses the arrows on the signs that Strawberry Shortcake made for the country fair to save Caramel Corn's farm. However, Huckleberry Pie spots it (picking up hints from Randolph) and they reverse the arrows in time to hold the fair.

Roaring Rampage of Revenge

 * This describes Devil Crud's attack on Porcupine Peak

Running Gag

 * Custard getting continually pounced and surprisingly uninjured by Pupcake.
 * Angel Cake quoting the Bible.

Santa Claus

 * Strawberry Shortcake and Honey Pie Pony meet him and talk with him up at the North Pole in Berry, Merry Christmas.

Scare Dare

 * In "The Blueberry Beast," Huckleberry Pie issues a scare dare to go into some spooky woods. Strawberry replies that dares are silly, so he makes it a double dare, and Strawberry counters that double dares are double silly. He ups it to a Triple Scoop Dare with a strawberry on top and Strawberry says that he's on.

Sealed With A Kiss

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in Cranberry Clover's First Love.

Selfless Wish

 * In Berry, Merry Christmas, when Santa Claus asks Strawberry what she wants for Christmas, she sobs because she's worried that she won't be able to find a gift for Huckleberry. After reassuring her that things will be alright with Huck, he asks her just what it is that she wants, but she can't come up with anything other than that she wants to make sure all of her friends get good gifts. To further drive home the point, most kids have a Christmas list of things they want for Christmas. What Strawberry calls her "Christmas list" is actually her list of things she plans to buy for her friends.
 * All that Randolph wants his whole life is the world at peace. His dreams are to put an end to the curse of Porcupine Peak and expose Satan's plans while proving the innocence of the Hitler siblings.

Shaking The Rump

 * Peppermint Fizz taunts the villains this way after they find their plans ruined near the end of the Sweet Dreams Movie. This creeps Cranberry Clover out.

Shifting Sand Land

 * Dumpling Land (Dumpling Desert), in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Shout-Out

 * To literature, film, theatre, folklore, and video games.
 * One of the episodes is called "Angel Cake in the Outfield," which is referential to the film Angels in the Outfield.
 * A store in Holidayland is run by the Sugar Plum Fairy.
 * The North Pole is the same from the Rankin/Bass characters and features the whole gang, including Slyly and Leonard from the 1998 Goodtimes' Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
 * Some episodes reference fairytales, like Cinderella and Rapunzel.
 * One episode references Super Mario Bros. 3
 * The Angry Animals are based on the Angry BIrds.

Slippy-Slidey Ice World

 * Cookie Land (Cookie Compounds), in "Super Berry Bros. 3", plus Eternal Engines

Snow Means Love

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin share their third kiss under the mistletoe in A Clueberry Christmas, the second book in the Clueberry series.

Spared by the Adaptation

 * Bowser smashes the floor and falls to his death in Super Mario Bros. 3. Guess what happens just before Queen Lilac of Castle of Christ plummets?
 * The original Maleficent died in the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. The Brambleberry Fairy pulled a Heel–Face Turn, helping her friends revive Princess Strawberry Rose.

Speak In Unison

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in Piece of Cake:
 * BM and CC (simultaneously): Vanilla? (both blush again)

Start a New Life

 * The Strawberrylanders help the children of Porcupine Peak settle in with the help of a redeemed Foreman Poke in The Good Lord's Salvation.

Stealth Pun

 * Cola Chameleon is a lizard who can sing in the style of lounge singers like Frank Sinatra; a real "lounge lizard". Or, at least, he's good at lip-syncing to it anyway.

Supernaturally Marked Grave

 * Gruffy's body stays in the cave where he died. The rose bush that Strawberry plants to honor him grows to mark the grave.

Surprisingly Realistic Outcome

 * Strawberry decides to get Huck snowballs for Christmas. As soon as she gets home, the snowballs melt, ruining every single gift she's bought up to that point.

Sweetheart Sipping

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin in the bonus song "It's Off to Work."

Tagalong Kid

 * Apple Dumplin'. Even though she is a lot younger than the others are, she often comes along on adventures.

Tagline

 * Glorious as Strawberryland.
 * Strawberries will never be the same.

Taken for Granite

 * This is what happens when the good guys reflect the spell that the Wicked Witch of the West fired in their direction back at her, and she and her flying monkey minion get trapped in stone.

Tank Goodness

 * Two levels in Neo Dark Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3":
 * Biblical Brigade, right at the start
 * Last Line of Defense, as the name implies, is the last line of defense protecting Queen Lilac and her castle.

The Chosen One

 * Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Pie are the secret heirs to the throne of Strawberryland, which they don't know until Sugar Cube's death.

The Dark Side

 * Devil Crud is the demon form of Angel Cake.

The Dragon

 * In "Super Berry Bros. 3"
 * Pitterpatch Von Puppa is the last beast fought before Neo Dark Land.
 * Bloom Bloom, played by Vanilla Icing, is this to Queen Lilac, to the point of being the last line of her defenses.

The Exile

 * In "How It All Began" accusations from Satan (who committed the several murders) cause this to happen to Adolf Jr and Sheila, plus all their partisans (Sweet Grapes, Sour Grapes II, and Raisin Cane)

The Great Fire

 * Foreman Poke lights Porcupine Peak on fire before leading the children to the refuge base.

The Lad-ette

 * Angel Cake's Crusader persona.

The Reveal

 * Queen Lilac is revealed to have been possessed by the Neon Demon in Super Berry Bros. 3

The Talk

 * The plot of "When The Rivers Run Red". While it focuses on a guidance angel talking to the girls about it, the boys are left to find out what they mean by the "rivers that run red" which will happen to Strawberry first. It's only the night before that happens when the boys finally find out what it means.
 * Huck: Turns out that God meant...
 * (beat, then the boys all exclaim thing such as "WHAT?!" and "OH, MAN!" and "OH, MY GOD!" and having various looks on their faces, ranging from cringed to shocked to disgusted)

There Are No Adults

 * While the occasional adult shows up, usually as a villain, none of the main characters have parents (if one doesn't count Fragaria, Redberry, Jesus, Mrs Christ, or Gruffy)

This Is Unforgivable!

 * In Piece of Cake, after one insult too many toward his girlfriend Blueberry Muffin, Cranberry Clover outright refuses to forgive Angel Cake for doing so and ends his friendship with her.
 * In Red Flag, Randolph at first refuses to accept forgive Prankster for not letting Halo befriend him because of his red glow.

To The Tune Of

 * Glorious as Strawberryland is set to Scotland the Brave.
 * Heifer of Strawberryland is set to Flower of Scotland.

Tomboy

 * In "Super Berry Bros. 3", Queen Red of Fizz Land, played by Peppermint Fizz, is the only queen to not wear a feminine outfit.
 * While there is a fair helping of tomboys, the athletic Raspberry Torte is the biggest example.

Tomboy and Girly Girl

 * The close friendship between Raspberry Torte (Tomboy) and Lemon Meringue (Girly Girl).

Took a Level in Jerkass

 * The Purple Pieman has been made into the bloodthirsty, vicious, diabolical, murderous son of the late Adolf Hitler, who attacks Strawberryland for blood and genocide and is a ruthless crook showing no pity to those who get in his way. This results in countless defeats.
 * Angel Cake in Season 4, depending on the episode, to the point of even playing the villain in "Sleeping Beauty" and having a vicious demon persona called Devil Crud.
 * Angel Cake tells Ginger Snap and Orange Blossom to do this for the Cinderella play after she catches them acting Out of Character, defying Adaptational Nice Guy for Cinderella's wicked stepsisters (whose role Ginger Snap and Orange Blossom are playing) in "The Play's The Thing". She tries to tell Blueberry Muffin to do this, but an angry Cranberry Clover tells Angel Cake to switch roles with Blueberry.

Train Problem

 * In "Queen For a Day", Sour Grapes and Strawberry are competing to be the Queen of the World. As part of the competition, they are asked numerous questions by Purple Pieman, who is rigging the quiz. Pieman asks Strawberry a very difficult train question, which is so complicated that he eventually just skips it altogether.
 * Pieman: If a train leaves the station at 3:48 in the afternoon, headed west, going 43 miles an hour for the first hour, 56 miles an hour for the second half hour, then stops at 5:11 to pick up 3 passengers, but 12 passengers get off, and one hour later 5 passengers get off and 5 get on, but not the same five, then stops three times in one hour and arrives at 9:28 PM?

Trivial Title

 * "The Costume Party". The title has almost nothing to do with the episode’s plot, as it revolves around Rainbow’s arrival and Peppermint dismissing her for being different, but it comes from the prank Strawberry and the gang pull on her in the climax to teach her a lesson.

Turned Against Their Masters

 * The animals of Porcupine Peak do this to Lord Purple in Revolution.

Under The Mistletoe

 * See Snow Means Love

Under The Sea

 * A few levels in Gadget Land in "Super Berry Bros. 3"

Unexplained Recovery

 * In the Berry Brick Road special, Sour Grapes I and her flying monkey assistant got turned into stone, but are back for part 2.

Unstoppable Rage

 * Devil Crud's most notable trait which helps in her rampage across Porcupine Peak

Victorious Roar

 * Devil Crud lets out a long one after annihilating the Purple Pie Man (assuming that she killed him), this is short lived when Ginger Snap splashes her with Holy Water.

Violently Protective Boyfriend

 * Cranberry Clover is this to Blueberry Muffin, exemplified in Around The Berry Big World:
 * CC: If the Pie Man wants to harm you, True Blue, he'll have to get past me first!

Wanting Is Better Than Having

 * The point of the "Waiting for the Fun to Start" song.
 * My favorite part of ridin' ain't the sweet sensation/The exhilaration when you feel your beating heart/My favorite part of ridin' is the preparation/While you're waitin' for the fun to start...

We Used To Be Friends

 * Cranberry Clover has a falling out with Angel Cake after she insults Blueberry Muffin one too many times in Piece of Cake. His grudge against Angel lasts until A Weeping Angel.

Wham Line

 * When Scarlet gets World 7's message in Super Berry Bros. 3:
 * Oh no... Scarlet, I deeply apologize that this is happening, my daughter has... gone bad to say the least. Princess Blue has gone missing, and I have a feeling something is up...  An Anonymous Deity
 * In "Piece of Cake":
 * Cranberry Clover: From this day on, Angel, you're no longer my friend!


 * In "Red Flag":
 * Prankster: Now if there's one thing I'd like to make very plain, no filly of mine is going to be seen with a colt who has a shiny red glow!

When the Clock Strikes Twelve

 * Changed to When the Clock Strikes eight in "The Play's the Thing", as Strawberella has to be home by 8:00 instead of midnight, which is past her bedtime.

Whole-Plot Reference

 * The Super Berry Bros Trilogy is based on Super Mario Bros 1, Lost Levels, and Super Mario Bros 3
 * Around the Berry Big World is Around the World in 80 Days, David Seville in The Chipmunk Adventure, and World Wars I and II.
 * Cinderella, Super Mario Bros. 3, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and The Wizard of Oz all got entire episodes built around them.
 * Angry Animals is based on Angry Birds.

Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?

 * Cranberry Clover has had a berry severe case of Cynophobia (fear of dogs) since his fifth birthday, as revealed in his debut episode, "Introducing Cranberry Clover." He conquers this fear at the end of the episode.
 * If "Ginger Snap's No-Light Night of Fright" is anything to go by, Ginger Snap has Nyctophobia, which explains why she was willing to skip Strawberry Shortcake's campout and brought a bunch of lights upon being dragooned. Blackberry Bun helps her with this.

Wicked Witch

 * In the Wizard of Oz special Sour Grapes took this role, with Plum Puddin' as Glinda.

Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises

 * Cranberry Clover, at first sight of Pupcake in Introducing Cranberry Clover.

You Can't Go Home Again

 * Foreman Poke does this as he leads all of the minors out of Porcupine Peak in "The Escape".
 * The Gliders, following Lord Purple's demise, would follow him in "Revolution" while bringing the other animals (their relatives and friends) and carrying the Hitler siblings out of the wasteland they spent most of their horrible lives.
 * (The Gliders are hooked up to the cart by Strawberry while the injured Pie Man and Sour Grapes I, along with all injured animals, climb aboard.)
 * Patriot: So what's the plan?
 * Crasher: It's over after this guys. Once we're out of this wasteland, we are not coming back.
 * Dobbin: But somebody's going to find us and tell the police that we have Adolf and Sheila! We're gonna have to leave them here to die!
 * Dixon: We're not going to. It doesn't matter. We're leaving, and we're doing what it takes to find freedom.
 * Crasher: We only have one chance to leave Porcupine Peak once and for all.
 * Dobbin: I know how you feel, is everyone still on the wasteland gathered around?
 * Prankster: Well not Halo, she set out to find where Randolph is.
 * Dobbin's niece: You mean Nixon's glowing bloke of a son? (she and the other young horses laugh)
 * Nixon: You guys better stop that! (the others stop laughing) Alrighty, let's head out. I sure wish Randolph was here, he'd be so happy we're choosing to find greener pastures. He's probably enjoying himself.

You, Get Me Coffee

 * In "Festival of the Fillies," Raven is eager to help Licorice Whip; Licorice orders him to get him lunch.

You No Take Candle

 * Apple Dumplin' speaks like this as a baby since she is so young.