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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??"

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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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* [[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 Standard Character Design]]:

* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]:

** [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.

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* [[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.