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{{quote|''Not everyone in a regal situation is an airheaded whiny stuck-up bimbo. No, some of us are intelligent. Some of us pose an actual THREAT to you. Get me?''|'''Mulberry Sharona'''}}
Peter Paltridge, the host of [[Platypus Comix]], created '''''[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?seriesID=4 Mulberry]''''' in 2004. The title character, who has also become Platypus Comix's mascot, had previously [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot|appeared in the final strips of another comic]], ''Marin Meadow''
''Mulberry'' features Mulberry Sharona, a 16-year old heiress from Seven Springs, California, who has managed to avoid becoming an [[Upper Class Twit]] thanks to [[Parental Abandonment]]. Accompanied by [[Three Amigos|her friends]] Jack [[The One Guy]] and Tiff the [[Dumb Blonde]] housekeeper, this [[Non-Idle Rich]] girl makes adventures out of any scheme she comes up with.
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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: Mulberry accidentally lets [[Brad Pitt]]'s and [[Angelina Jolie]]'s children, left for her to babysit in "Heiress A Parent", overhear [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=6&seriesID=4 some invoked examples].
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|1=The [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&page=10 last] [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&page=11 three] [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&page=12 pages] of "Just Another Manic Monday".}}
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Some of the readers felt surprised to learn that ''Ambush Makeover'', which became [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=1&page=8&seriesID=4 spoofed] in "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview," actually exists.
* [[Animated Actors]]: Mulberry even has an account at the forum of Platypus Comix's parent site, Toon Zone.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Mulberry's struggles in "Heiress A Parent" to find something appropriate for the kids to watch include bypassing TV shows with "sex, violence, [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|violent sex]], violence", and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=4&seriesID=4 "Bob Saget"].
* [[Art Shift]]:
** "Mul/Kerry/Bush" shifts to brown-and-white sketches as Mulberry and her friends [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=2&page=22&seriesID=4 drop Dr. Badass out of the 2004 election].
** "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" became more realistic-looking for Mulberry's three-page [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=1&seriesID=4 recap] of the first season finale of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Mulberry will [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=5&page=9&seriesID=4 make you pay] [[Hypocritical Humor|if you call women overemotional]].
* [[Bottle Episode]]: The majority of "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Just Another Manic Monday]" occurs in a nondescript room of Mulberry's mansion.
* [[Brick Joke]]:
** Both of Mulberry's [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=10&page=2&seriesID=4 flashbacks] of meeting [[Britney Spears]] in "Death by Captain and Tenille" involve her holding a hideous creature (first a stray kitten, then [[Take That|Kevin Federline]]) and asking, "Look! Isn't it pretty?" Thirteen pages later, a terrorist expresses disgust at America's "uncovered women," prompting a scene of [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=10&page=15&seriesID=4 Spears mooning paparazzi] and repeating the question she asked Mulberry twice.
*** Mulberry meets Britney Spears again in the next issue, "Scary Berry." Spears [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=11&page=19&seriesID=4 shows off her shaved head] and [[Rule of Three|asks once again]], "Look! Isn't it pretty?"
** "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" began with Mulberry and her friends attending [[Veronica Mars]]' funeral following her show's cancellation. A fanboy suddenly entered and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=5 tried in vain] to bring her back to life. Near the end of the comic, he [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=21 encounters] [[Kristen Bell]], but she has taken on the form of Elle Bishop from ''Heroes''.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: "Scary Berry" ended with {{spoiler|Mulberry in rehab}}. Readers didn't learn the resolution until "Prison Broke" came 5 1/2 months later.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]:
** Joan of Arc, who had [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|risen from the dead]] in a two-part comic titled "Raiders of the Lost Arc," [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=14&page=6 makes appearances] in "Franken-Berry."
** [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson]], as portrayed in Paltridge's "True Believers," [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=17&page=9&seriesID=4 form part of a crowd scene] in "If Ya Don't Eat Your Mulberry, Ya Can't Have Any Pudding! How Can Ya Have Any Pudding If Ya Don't Eat Your Mulberry??"
** TeBOING!ss, the [[
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In "Artifacting," [[John Kricfalusi]] [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=19 makes prisoners endure lectures] about [[Small Name, Big Ego|why all animation sucks compared to his]] and disagrees with '''[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=20&seriesID=4 anything]''' they say. {{spoiler|1=Eventually, Mulberry [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=23&seriesID=4 forces] him to wear the [[Ren and Stimpy|Happy Hat]] and broaden his appreciations.}}
* [[Cool Loser]]: The other heiresses of Seven Springs may shun Mulberry for her refusal to do anything she considers embarrassingly stupid, such as getting high or drunk, but she's still smarter than any of them, and heiress to one of the world's most powerful monopolies, VGI.
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: {{spoiler|1=[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=14&page=13&seriesID=4 Tiff defeats a zombie Orville Redenbacher]}} in "Franken-berry".
* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: Mulberry presents one of ''[[Naruto]]'' in [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=1&page=4&seriesID=4 "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview"].
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''(Three page preview plays)''
'''Mulberry:''' Some complain that things like this destroy the original artist's vision. I say, who cares? The man's all the way back in Japan; how's he gonna find out?
'''Jack:''' And he probably doesn't have internet... }}
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: At the end of [http://www.platypuscomix.net/newbiestuff/mulberryintro.html the page] where Mulberry introduces herself, Jack, and Tiff to new readers, she claims the site has infected one of the reader's folders, and opening that folder would render the computer incapable of visiting any website other than the one for ''[[Dora the Explorer]]''.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: One of Pitt's and Jolie's children [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=11&seriesID=4 becomes corrupted] in "Heiress A Parent" after {{spoiler|playing an M-rated version of ''[[Cooking Mama]]''}}.
* [[A Day
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mulberry on occasion.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: In "Just Another Manic Monday," Jack overhears Mulberry [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&page=3&seriesID=4 speak some of her darkest secrets while sleeping].
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* [[Filler Strip]]: [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&pageType=index&seriesID=4 "Murphy's Lawn"] was written to tide Platypus Comix readers over as Paltridge spent extra time completing a four-part ''[[Electric Wonderland]]'' comic.
* [[A Friend in Need]]: Mulberry often acknowledges the importance of her friendships with Jack and Tiff, whether she or one of them is the one in need.
* [[Follow the Leader]]:
** "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=3&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Mulberry vs. Wal-Mart]" begins as Mulberry learns her companies are losing money to Wal-Mart. In response, she, Jack, and Tiff, then spend a few hours in one of their stores. At the end of the comic, Mulberry [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=3&page=13&seriesID=4 applies what she learned from the trip into opening her own store.]
** Mulberry finds herself resorting to this in "Mulberry's Lawn," while trying to turn [[Brittany Murphy]]'s last movie ([[The Asylum|Asylum Pictures]]' ''UFO vs. Killer Unicorn'') into a Hollywood blockbuster. [[Universal]] nearly rejects the film for not having enough [[Avatar (film)|blue people]], but she manages to get around that by [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=12&seriesID=4 promising] [[Visual Effects of Awesome|"4-D" special effects]] instead. Mulberry also broadens appeal by [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=13 changing the title] to ''[[Word Salad Title|The Feel Sandwich]]'', in hopes of earning a ''[[The Hurt Locker|Hurt Locker]]''-level of critical acclaim, and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=14&seriesID=4 turning Flava Flav's character] from a [[Dawson Casting|little boy]] to a [[Twilight (novel)|sparkly vampire]].
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* [[Global Ignorance]]: Mary attempts to attract tabloids in "Prison Broke" by landing herself in jail. However, things don't go as planned, so she [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=9&seriesID=4 asks Mulberry to come to Mexico and rescue her.] {{spoiler|1=It later turns out that Mary actually [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=15 ended up in her family's California hotel].}}
* [[Go Seduce My Arch-Nemesis]]: Mary Roach tells Mulberry that she treated her more nicely than usual in "Mulberry Sharona, Slayer of WASPs" in [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=9&page=10&seriesID=4 hopes that Mulberry will seduce a policeman] that wouldn't accept Mary's bribes.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]:
** In "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=16&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Obamadramarama]," Mulberry's scheme to take control of Sarah Palin's body goes awry when she and her friends obtain the wrong hair sample, giving {{spoiler|[[Hillary Clinton]]}} control over Mulberry's body.
** At one point in "Mulberry's Epic Yarn," Mulberry and Tiff [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=21&page=15&seriesID=4 find a room full of View-Masters] that allow users to see from the perspective of a celebrity, and also control what that person says and does. Incidentally, Mulberry briefly uses one to finally [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=21&page=16 control Sarah Palin].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=4&seriesID=4 Mulberry's reaction] in "Murphy's Lawn" to the news that [[Brittany Murphy]] died.
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'''Jack:''' I'm sorry...[[Understatement|This is really hitting you hard, isn't it?]]
'''Mulberry:''' This isn't like [[Michael Jackson]] or Patrick Swayze...I actually mean it this time! }}
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: In-universe, [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]] [[Hayden Panettiere]] doesn't react [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=11&seriesID=4 kindly] to Jack calling her, "[[Heroes (TV series)|Claire]]" in "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry".
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* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Mulberry realizes she's one in "Mulberry's Surrogate Family," as Jack and Tiff prepare to visit their families for Christmas, and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/kristmas/index.php?issue=7&page=2&seriesID=8 she confesses to them that her parents are never around.]
* [[Made of Iron]]: "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=10&seriesID=4 reveals] Hayden Panettiere to have as much invincibility as her ''Heroes'' character, Claire Bennet.
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: Fed up with all the [[Product Placement]] she must endure while watching Macy's [[Thanksgiving Day]] Parade in "If Ya Don't Eat Your Mulberry, Ya Can't Have Any Pudding! How Can Ya Have Any Pudding If Ya Don't Eat Your Mulberry??", Mulberry [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=17&page=7&seriesID=4 decides to unleash balloons of popular, completely random characters.] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|The characters end up having an epic battle, until]] [[Santa Claus]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|blows them up and makes candy rain down.]]
* [[Medium Blending]]: "Let's Scare Mary Roach to Death" [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=19&page=8 combines] character drawings with photographic backgrounds as Mulberry forces Mary to spend a night in the abandoned, decaying Dixie Square Mall.
* [[Missing Episode]]: Several, but the absence of "Suddenly Mulberry" sticks out the most. After its removal, "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=1&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview]" became the oldest comic in the ''Mulberry'' archive. A few obvious signs exist that something came before it: the cover reads, "the second one", and Mulberry acknowledges the comic's interrupting her ''actual'' first arc.
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** By the end of "Artifacting," {{spoiler|1=Mulberry has obtained the History Eraser Button before Indy and Lara, and even turned John Kricfalusi into less of an egomaniac. Unfortunately, she [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=24&seriesID=4 accidentally sits on the History Eraser Button], seemingly [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|erasing history]] in the process.}}
** At the end of "Heiress A Parent", Mulberry decides to directly remind Pitt's and Jolie's children that TV doesn't always accurately teach right from wrong, especially when sex and/or violence become involved. However, after the children assure Mulberry that they won't follow [[Barney and Friends|Barney]]'s pornographic-sounding [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=17 suggestion] for a Google image search, {{spoiler|Mulberry tells them, "Remember, this is the same TV that keeps telling you [[Santa Claus]] is real!" The children don't seem to react kindly to this.}}
* [[Non
** [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=15 John Kricfalusi], in "Artifacting," is drawn in the style of his cartoons as opposed to Paltridge's comics.
** In "Murphy's Lawn," [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=8&seriesID=4 Brittany Murphy] resembles [[King of the Hill|Luanne Platter]]. Paltridge once had plans to draw her like this more often.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** Mulberry tries to prevent Jack from hearing any more of her secrets in "Just Another Manic Monday" by [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=4&page=9&seriesID=4 asking him to check all of the mansion's smoke detectors, lest she make him face Smokey Bear "again".]
** When Mulberry asks Jack in "Prison Broke" why she didn't try to restrain her after [[Intoxication Ensues|Intoxication Ensued]], Jack explains that he felt scared that she would shoot him. She asks him to remember how many times she nearly shot him, so he [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=2&seriesID=4 reminds her that it happened five times.]
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* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Tiff has rarely done any housecleaning onscreen. Possibly justified if Mulberry's adventures leave her with not enough time to do her work.
* [[Punny Name]]: In "Mul/Kerry/Bush," Tiff remarks that if Mulberry were George W. Bush's daughter, [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=2&page=11&seriesID=4 her name would be "Mulberry Bush."] After combining Bush with John Kerry,[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=2&page=12&seriesID=4 Mulberry decides to name her creation "Mulkerrybush"] as a variation on the name.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Having raised the possibility on the third page of "Franken-Berry" that some zombies want to revisit their loved ones instead of eat brains, [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=14&page=8 Mulberry initially refuses the opportunity to fight zombies at a TV commercial studio.] She caves in two panels later.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: [[Non-Idle Rich]] girl Mulberry manages to pull off such schemes as messing with Presidential elections and staging a fight between Macy's [[Thanksgiving Day]] Parade balloons.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|1=Mulberry and her friends investigate [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=12&seriesID=4 Mexico] and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=13 Russia] while searching for Mary Roach in "Prison Broke", only to find that [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=15&seriesID=4 she and her kidnappers never left Seven Springs.]}}
* [[Shocking Swerve]]: Mulberry has to come up with [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=18 one] in-universe during "Murphy's Lawn," since Brittany Murphy's final movie originally had [[No Ending]]. When the movie comes out with her ending attached, all the viewers seem {{spoiler|1=[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=19&seriesID=4 amazed and satisfied]}} with the twist.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Some scenes in "Murphy's Lawn" parallel "Wings of the Dope" (which Paltridge has listed as one of his favorite ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episodes), such as Murphy showing Mulberry her new name tag ([http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=8 "Brittany Murphy's Angel"]) and Mulberry and Murphy [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=20 bouncing on a mattress as "Life in a Northern Town" plays].
* [[Skintone Sclerae]]
* [[Something Completely Different]]:
** "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=1&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview]" consists of Mulberry and Jack promoting mostly non-existent shows and commercials to the readers.
** "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=7&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Faces and Places]" has Mulberry inexplicably hosting her own talk show and interviewing an animation veteran.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=9&page=1 Mulberry gives one] in "Mulberry Sharona, Slayer of WASPs".
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'''Boy:''' Our ball just went over that fence! And it's our only ball!
'''Mulberry:''' Then I hope you've learned your lesson! This is what you get when you choose to play outside instead of sitting indoors playing video games!
'''Boys:''' We're sorry. It won't happen again! }}
* [[Start My Own]]: "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=10&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Death By Captain and Tenille]" (sic) has Mulberry try to skip over the tedious process of airport security by buying her own airplane.
* {{spoiler|[[Sympathetic Criminal|Sympathetic Criminals]]}}: Mulberry learns that Mary's kidnappers in "Prison Broke" only [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=17&seriesID=4 want] {{spoiler|1=better treatment while they work at the Roach Hotel. She decides to [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=18&seriesID=4 help them] fulfill this desire.}}
* [[Title Drop]]:
** "Year Six" is [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=9 explained] as referring to the sixth year of George W. Bush's presidency, the time Mulberry has predicted will mark the Democrats' largest effort to get him impeached.
** In "Death By Captain and Tenille," Mulberry exclaims the issue's title after an airport security guard explains that [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=10&page=3 he cannot allow vinyl records on the plane] because someone could behead others with them.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Mary refuses to thank Mulberry for saving her at [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=12&page=19 the end of "Prison Broke"], because {{spoiler|Mulberry decided to fulfill the kidnappers' desires first}}.
* [[Very Special Episode]]: "Murphy's Lawn" was promoted as one.
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