Tropes In The True Story of Strawberry Shortcake

All Tropes In The True Story of Strawberry Shortcake

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 Sherbert) and Appleberry Fairy (Apple Dumplin'). In the episode version, Angelberry Fairy was 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 was replaced with new character Tangerineberry Fairy (Tangerina Torta).

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 develops into this in the final season
 * 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

 * Devil Crud and Crusader are split personalities of Angel Cake

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

Animal Stampede

 * The Gliders in the Sweet Dreams Movie as they damage the villains' equipment.
 * 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 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

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

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 Woodsman reflects the spell with his 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.

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. 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.

Becoming the Mask

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

Beleaguered Assistant

 * Cola Chameleon to Peppermint Fizz
 * Sour Grapes I, II, Sweet Grapes, Raisin Cane, Licorice Whip, Captain Cackle, and Foreman Poke 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 them 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."
 * 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.

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 and Blueberry Muffin radiate these during their kiss in "The Sweet Dreams Movie."

In season 1...

 * Fragaria, Redberry, and several unnamed people are killed in Satan’s purge in How it All Began. 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, 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 him to death in Revolution.
 * 5) All of Satan’s Minions are destroyed by God’s army in The Fate of All Strawberryland. In the same episode, Satan is obliterated by Strawberry Shortcake’s blast. Queen Fruit Punch bleeds out from a machete wound, and 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 happiness and joy from 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.

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.

Country Music

 * This is the genre 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"

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.

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 All Strawberryland, Strawberry weeps silently following King Sugar Cube's death.

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.

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)

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 kids miss their chance to see a flower that blooms once every decade but learn that all that matters is that they had fun.

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".

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 when he sternly demanded Halo not be around him.
 * In "Recovery", Apple Dumplin is forgiven by Strawberry for wetting the bed out of a severe fear of using the bathroom due to being too scared to do so because of the war.
 * Angel Cake's mother Mrs. Christ knows that Angel Cake 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".

Everything's Louder with Bagpipes

 * Cranachan so happens to play them.

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..."

First Kiss

 * Cranberry Clover and Blueberry Muffin have theirs with each other at the end of "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.

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.

Gender Flip

 * The Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion have their roles filled by Ginger Snap, Peppermint Fizz, and Orange Blossom.

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.

Gone Horribly Right

 * See Didn't Think This Through.

Graduate from the Story

 * The series finale, Bitter and Sweet.

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."

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.

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).

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 bond with his parents to help Strawberry rescue the animals in "Down On The Farm"
 * 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, 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."

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 kills him (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 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)

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"

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.

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

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

Killed off Screen

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

Knight Templar Parent

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

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.

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.
 * 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"
 * 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 Scotland the Brave.

Negative Continuity

 * In the first 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 every villain 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 Now, Kiddo

 * Apple Dumplin' gets this sometimes.

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 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 chaos she caused, these somehow erupt in giant waves that spill onto the floors, given that she bawls into her pillow.

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.
 * 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 Strawberry Land 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 ten minutes 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.
 * Satan gets this just before his death.

Official Couple

 * Strawckleberry (Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Pie)
 * Orangicken (Orange Blossom and Fried Chicken)
 * Clueberry (Blueberry Muffin and Cranberry Clover)
 * GlazeBrew (Pink Glaze Donut and Dark Brew)
 * Annent (Annie Oatmeal and Power Ent)
 * Rambah (Rambo and Sarah)
 * Ranlo (Randolph and Halo)
 * SugarPunch (Sugar Cube and Fruit Punch)

Once Per Episode

 * At least two songs are sung almost every episode.

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!

Our Fairies Are Different

 * The Berry Fairies.

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"

Paint the Town Red

 * The result of Devil Crud's ambush, as all of Porcupine Peak is covered in blood.

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." 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 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.

Pep-Talk Song

 * In "Recovery", Cranberry Milkshake sings "You're Gonna Be Okay" by Brian & Jenn Johnson.

The Perfectionist

 * Despite her Hair of Gold, 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.

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 "Down On The Farm" has the 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 video.

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".

Puppy Love

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

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.

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 in Revolution.

Related in the Adaptation

 * Angel Cake's father is Jesus and her grandfather is God. Her mother also appears.
 * Strawberry Shortcake now has an older sister: Cranberry Milkshake.
 * Lem n' Ada are now Lemon Meringue's younger sisters.

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.

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.

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.

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 while 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

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.

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 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.

Tagalong Kid

 * Apple Dumplin'. Even though everyone else is a kid, she is a lot younger than they are and often comes along on adventures.

Tagline

 * Glorious as Strawberryland

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

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)

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

 * Angel in Season 4, depending on the episode, to the point of even playing the villain in "Sleeping Beauty" and having a 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 Berry Blossom Festival. 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 in Revolution.

Unexplained Recovery

 * In the Berry Brick Road special, Sour Grapes 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.

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...

Wham Line

 * 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 point out, who'd want their own daughter to be seen with a colt who has a shin 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 3
 * Around the Berry Big World is Around the World in 80 Days, The Chipmunk Adventure, and World Wars I and II.
 * Cinderella, Super Berry 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.

Wicked Witch

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

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 would follow in Revolution while carrying the now Dastardly Duo out of the wasteland they spent most of their lives.

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 since she is so young.