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'''Tropes Found in the 1980s Version:'''
'''Tropes Found in the 1980s Version:'''
* [[Aren't You Forgetting Someone?]]: In ''Housewarming Surprise'':
* [[Aren't You Forgetting Someone?]]: In ''Housewarming Surprise'':
{{quote|'''Sour Grapes:''' With the world's greatest cookbook, I'll be famous! I can see it now, "Sour Grapes on the [[Punny Name|Merv Muffin]] Show!" Then, "[[The Hollywood Squares|Hollywood Pears]]..."<br />
{{quote|'''Sour Grapes:''' With the world's greatest cookbook, I'll be famous! I can see it now, "Sour Grapes on the [[Punny Name|Merv Muffin]] Show!" Then, "[[The Hollywood Squares|Hollywood Pears]]..."
'''The Peculiar Purple Pieman:''' Aren't you forgetting someone?<br />
'''The Peculiar Purple Pieman:''' Aren't you forgetting someone?
'''Sour Grapes:''' Of course not, Purpy. I could never forget my purple partner in crime. My warm, wonderfully wicked, nasty but charming... pet snake, Dregs. }}
'''Sour Grapes:''' Of course not, Purpy. I could never forget my purple partner in crime. My warm, wonderfully wicked, nasty but charming... pet snake, Dregs. }}
* [[Big Applesauce]] - Big Apple City, the eponymous place in the second special, ''Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City'', is a transparent N.Y.C. analogue, complete with <s>Greenwich</s> Spinach Village. Moreover, on the album ''Strawberry Shortcake Live'', she sings a cover version of "New York, New York". (As David Letterman joked years later in a "Dave's Record Collection" segment, "I think this is the real reason the city can't sleep.")
* [[Big Applesauce]] - Big Apple City, the eponymous place in the second special, ''Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City'', is a transparent N.Y.C. analogue, complete with <s>Greenwich</s> Spinach Village. Moreover, on the album ''Strawberry Shortcake Live'', she sings a cover version of "New York, New York". (As David Letterman joked years later in a "Dave's Record Collection" segment, "I think this is the real reason the city can't sleep.")