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The franchise got another reboot in 2009, with Strawberry living in Berry Bitty City, and no villains in sight (at least not at this time...). This franchise has so far spawned a 2010 TV series (which is not available in some parts of Asia due to the cable providers not wanting to carry Boomerang), three movies, and a iPhone game that is [[No Export for You|only available in the US.]]
Now has a [[Strawberry Shortcake
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=== Tropes Found in Two or More Versions: ===
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* [[Disney Acid Sequence]] - The "Berry Talk" song in ''The World of Strawberry Shortcake''. Also, much of the songs in the 2003/2007 continuity (which is produced by [[Di C]] - pretty says it all).
* [[Edible Theme Naming]] - The Ur example.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Feather Boa Constrictor]] - Sour Grapes wears her pet snake like this.
* [[Festival Episode]]
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* [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]]: And how!
** 1980s: ''Strawberry Shortcake's Musical Match-Ups'' for the ''[[Atari 2600]]''
** 2003/2007: Tons of them - Four titles (including one GBA Video cartridge and one Europe-exclusive title) for the [[Game Boy Advance]], two titles for the [[Nintendo DS]], and a title for the [[Play Station 2]], which was ported over to the PC and then not released outside Europe. And then there's the Plug-and-play dance mat. Also, three PC titles (including said Europe-only port of the [[
*** [[Edutainment Game|Edutainment Games]]: ''Amazing Cookie Party'' and ''Berry Best Friends'' (two of the aforementioned PC titles) are this.
** 2009: The game for the iPhone, iPod and iPad, which is currently only available in North America.
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* [[No Antagonist]]: Much of the 2003 episodes (many viewers just don't see Peppermint Fizz as an antagonist) except ''The Festival of Fillies'', up until the reintroduction of the Pie-Man and Sour Grapes. Played straight again with the 2009 CGI series.
* [[No Export for You]]:
** The 2003 series: A somewhat convoluted version - ''Ice Cream Island Riding Camp'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and the PC port of ''The Sweet Dreams Game'' for the [[
** The 2009 series: The iPhone app is exclusive to only the US. Also, the 2009 series is this to Malaysia, since the show, like [[Care Bears]]: Adventures in Care-A-Lot, ended up on Boomerang, which is not available in Malaysia. And it doesn't help that the video clips and full episodes on The Hub's website are region locked and cannot be accessed from outside the US.
* [[The One Guy]] - Huckleberry Pie, most of the time. (The first two 1980s specials had another male character in Plum Puddin', but he didn't have a corresponding doll. The character was reintroduced as a female in 1984, and finally got represented as a toy this way.)
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* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Sailor Earth]] - Food themed names, eh? That's limitless.
* [[Screwed
* [[Season Fluidity]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] - It's idealist.
* [[Smart People Speak the Queen's English]] - Both T.N. Honey from the first series and Mr. Longface Caterpillar from the 2009 series fit this trope. The twins Lem and Ada seem to avert it, though, as they are no more intelligent or stupid than the other characters.
** Honey Pie Pony from the 2003 series also has a British accent, and is also quite street smart. However, she's the only pony on the show who could talk, and she does have [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]] moments too.
* [[Snarky Non
* [[Something Person]] - Pie Man/Pieman. (Official material has his name written both ways, so the way it is written out does not matter.)
* [[Sour Grapes Tropes|Sour Grapes]] - Obviously, for the obvious and for the other villains.
* [[Species Surname]]
* [[Spell My Name
** AGC and Hasbro has released a 30th Anniversary doll set, with Raspberry's last name restored to ''Tart'' in that version. Given that it's targeted at adults who're nolstagic tho...
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Spinoff Babies]] - The "Berry Baby" [http://www.strawberryshortcakelane.com/berrybabies.html merchandise] in the 1980s version, and the "Strawberry Shortcake Baby" line of the 2003 version.
* [[Painting the Frost
** In ''Spring For Strawberry Shortcake'', Old Man Winter and the young girl Spring are responsible for bringing their respective seasons to Strawberryland.
** "When The Berry Fairy Came to Stay" reveals that the Berry Fairies are responsible for giving the Strawberryland berries their size and color.
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'''Tropes Found in the 1980s Version:'''
* [[
{{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 />
'''The Peculiar Purple Pieman:''' Aren't you forgetting someone?<br />
'''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.")
* [[Character Name and
* [[Clear My Name]] - Strawberry is framed for taking a bribe in ''Pets on Parade''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Blueberry Muffin, especially in the first special.
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* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Ginger Snap, Peppermint Fizz, Rainbow Sherbet, Coco Calypso, and many others. Inverted in that unlike the later Cherry Jam character from the 2009 franchise, these characers also appeared in the toyline.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Honey Pie Pony's final appearance was among the audience in ''It Takes Talent / Playing To Beat The Band'', with no lines and no plot. She was then shoved onto the bus.
* [[Dummied Out]]: The NTSC/UC version of ''The Sweet Dreams Game'' for the [[
* [[Edited for Syndication]] - The first four specials are available in, aside from the 45-minute unedited version licensed to local home video producers, either 22-minute edits (in which the special loses half their songs and story content) or split into 2-parter episodes (in which a big glaring "To Be Continued" appears at the end of the first part) from the syndication office. Additionally, the DVD releases of subsequent episodes includes an additional prologue, bridge, epilogue and an additional music video that adds scenes to join two episodes together.
* [[Fable Remake]] (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, The Wizard of Oz)
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Peppermint Fizz in the first seasons, but she outgrows it. Angel Cake develops into this in the final season, and Lime Light is introduced as this. Lemon Meringue is an alpha bitch in one episode of the final season.
* [[Mind Screw]] - Angel Cake was always dramatic. However, puberty hit her... a little too viciously.
* [[Minion
* [[Motor Mouth]] - Ginger Snap.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]] - Banana Candy introduces herself this way in ''Strawberry's Big Journey''.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]] - Custard.
* [[Non Lethal Bottomless Pits]]: In the Sweet Dreams Game for the [[
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Stated yet debatable. In ''Queen For A Day'':
{{quote| '''The Peculiar Purple Pieman:''' Ms. Grapes, what time do you get up in the morning?<br />
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* [[Not So Different]] - Raspberry Torte, the young jaded tomboy, and Sour Grapes, a bitter and feminine woman, touched on this in ''The Sweet Dreams Movie''. 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. The younger established her role as [[Anti-Hero]] and the elder as [[Anti-Villain]], roles they continued afterward.
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]] - The Berry Fairies
* [[Put
* [[Remember the New Guy?|Remember The New Girl]] - Peppermint Fizz makes her first appearance in "Peppermint's Pet Peeve" (from the "Best Pets Yet" DVD) without any formal introduction, and treats her as though she had always been one of Strawberry's friends.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]] - Purple Pieman never had dreams. For this, and for his literal thinking causing him to actually try to literally snatch Strawberry Shortcake's dream away from her, he storms the Land of Dreams, deceives its inhabitants, basically boots out the Sandman, takes over the dream factory, holds the main Dream Builder hostage ''in a cage dangling over a black hole'' to blackmail the other dream factory workers, announces that dreams will no longer be shipped out, and ''then'' mentions that he never dreamed. After all of this, he continues ruining everything for the Land of Dreams, but he sure finished up a lot of revenge before explaining himself.
* [[Rich Bitch]] - Sea Beast and Lime Light. Margalo borders this. {{spoiler|All reform.}}
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* [[Running Gag]] - Custard getting continually pounced and surprisingly uninjured by Pupcake throughout the 2003 series and in the movie.
* [[Slice of Life]] - The first three seasons and a few episodes of Season 4 that does not star the Pie-Man and Sour Grapes, which caught the attention of the ''Education Programming Connoisseur'' [[Periphery Demographic]].
* [[Short Run in Peru]] - Season 4 aired in Europe two months before it aired in Asia. For the fate of the show in the US, see ''[[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]'' and ''[[Screwed
* [[The Other Darrin]] - Huckleberry Pie and Custard's voice actors were replaced after the first season. The former because the voice actor had passed away in an accident, the latter for the more conventional reason of being no longer interested in playing the part.
* [[Ten
* [[There Are No Adults]] - While the occasional adult shows up (usually as a villain), none of the main characters have parents.
* [[Tomboy]] - While there is a fair helping of tomboys, [[The Ladette|Raspberry Torte]] is the biggest example. You wouldn't know it to see the 2009 remake.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] - The close friendship between Raspberry Torte and Lemon Meringue.
* [[Visionary Villain]] - The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak. This being targeted to a certain age group, he is still a [[Harmless Villain]] and suffers the consequences thereof.
* [[What Happened to
** For that matter, all of the characters pets disappeared, with the exception of Custard and Pupcake after the 2007 redesign.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]] - ''Around the Berry Big World'' is ''Around the World in 80 Days''.
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* [[Celebrity Is Overrated]] - Cherry Jam feels this way.
* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: When Strawberry meets Cherry Jam for the first time, she apparently doesn't recognize her. The problem however, is that Cherry was wearing the same outfit as in the "music video" seen earlier in the episode. This makes it clear that it was only done in order to move the story along. One would think Strawberry would have recognized her immediately...
* [[Decided
* [[The Ditz]] - Lemon Meringue
* [[Fantasy Helmet Enforcement]] - ''Pupcake'' is wearing a helmet while riding in Strawberry's scooter.
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