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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
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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].
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** [[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 [[Kesha (Music)|Kesha]] caricature from the ''[[Scrambled Eggs (Webcomic)|Scrambled Eggs]]'' comic "It's Square to Be Hip," [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=21&page=12 smokes a bubble hookah] in "Mulberry's Epic Yarn."
* [[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.
* [[Couch Gag]]: Ever since 2005, issues have used old, unusual-looking comic book covers instead of covers that bear direct relevance to the story. Some of them have Mulberry photoshopped into the scenes, but issues from October 2008 onward depict the covers unaltered.
* [[Criminal Amnesiac]]: {{spoiler|1=[[George W Bush]]'s daughter [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=43 Barbara]}} in "Year Six."
* [[Crossover]]: "Artifacting" has Mulberry race [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=13&seriesID=4 against] [[Indiana Jones]] and [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] in a quest for [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|Ren and Stimpy]]'s History Eraser Button.
* [[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"].
{{quote| '''Mulberry:''' Through the magic of editing, [[Four Kids Entertainment|4Kids Productions]] has turned a ninja cartoon into a depiction of daily American school life! ''Naruto'' is now known here as ''Larry and His Socially Conscious Adventures'', and it's being hailed by critics as "''[[Doug]]'' for the 21st Century! Here's a peek!"<br />
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{{quote| '''Mulberry:''' [[Gainax Ending|Wait, now I'm even more confused!]]}}
* [[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].
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Mulberry abuses [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=9&page=11 one] in "Mulberry Sharona, Slayer of WASPs". She then finds out lots of heiresses in her town [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=9&page=13&seriesID=4 desire him] because of his high social status.
* [[Disney Death]]: [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=3&seriesID=4 Two] in the [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=4&seriesID=4 recap] at the beginning of "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry".
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* [[Does Not Like Men]]: [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=23&page=4&seriesID=4 Jezebel] in "Jeboozled".
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Barbara Pierce Bush}} loses her memory in "Year Six" during a terrorist attack, and regains it after {{spoiler|1=[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=53&seriesID=4 Tiff pushes her out of Mulberry's helicopter right before she can stab them]}}.
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: In "Mulberry's 2009 Fall TV Preview", Mulberry tricks a writer for [[The CW]] into [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=18&page=10 publicly broadcasting his beliefs] that [[Viewers
* [[Fake
* [[Faking the Dead]]: To protect themselves from terrorists and [[George W Bush|their father]]'s haters, {{spoiler|Jenna and Barbara Bush}} resort to this at the end of "Year Six." {{spoiler|1=The girls' father [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=49 refused their kidnappers' demands to pull troops out of Iraq], leaving them in danger of beheading, and [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=56 the building where they were being held hostage exploded.]}}
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: "Mulberry Sharona, Slayer of [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|WASPs]]" lands Mulberry at a [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=9&page=5&seriesID=4 country club gathering of airheaded heiresses.]
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'''Jack:''' I'm sorry...[[Understatement|This is really hitting you hard, isn't it?]]<br />
'''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)|Claire]]" in "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry".
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Mulberry, Tiff, and Jezebel [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=23&page=3 insist] in "Jeboozled" that men always refer to females as "women" instead of, "girls", although women can call each other girls.
* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha]]: Mulberry's battle with Hayden Panettiere in "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&page=19&seriesID=4 includes some robots].<ref>Mulberry controlled the silver and purple 'bot, while Panettiere used the gray and green one.</ref>
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: The contents of [[Paula Abdul]]'s [[American Idol|Coke glass]] [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=11&page=6&seriesID=4 have this affect on Mulberry] in "Scary Berry."
* [[Invisible Parents]]: Apparently, Mulberry's parents have spent so little time with her, she has forgotten what they look like. (Once, [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=2&page=10&seriesID=4 she nearly fell for] [[George W Bush]]'s attempt to pull a [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] on her) Jack and Tiff have admitted to having parents, but they do not live on the Sharona estate.
* [[
* [[Laser
* [[Last Second Word Swap]]: After Mulberry fails in "Heiress A Parent" to convince the President of Television to lessen the amount of programs children can't watch, she exclaims, [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=9&seriesID=4 "Go to...a field of daisies!"] after noticing one of her wards standing near her.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: As a result of her interactions with Mulberry in "Year Six," {{spoiler|Jenna Bush}} becomes more defiant and {{spoiler|1=[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=50&seriesID=4 beats up terrorists who try to kill her sister]}}.
* [[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 [[Useful Notes/Thanksgiving Day|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
* [[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.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** 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 (TV)|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.}}
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** When Mulberry meets Brittany Murphy's angel in "Murphy's Lawn", Mulberry exclaims that she's not crazy. [http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=7&seriesID=4 Murphy then corrects her by saying Mulberry really was crazy the last seven times she saw her angel.]
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Everything Mulberry did to {{spoiler|1=[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=16&page=29 ruin HillaryClinton's life]}} in "Obamadramarama".
* [[Paper
* [[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
* [[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.
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