History Webcomic / Mulberry

* MonochromeCasting: The alternate ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' casting ideas Mulberry shares in "My Fat Lady" don't include any women of color.
-->Even if they'd had the sense to cast Creator/TinaFey, Creator/AmyPoehler, Creator/AlisonBrie, and Creator/AubreyPlaza as Janine, we STILL would have had [=McCarthy=] thrown in there!
** [[spoiler:This also applies to the last page's selection of new male Ghostbusters, including Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, James Franco, and the aforementioned Kristen Schaal.]]

* ArtifactOfAttraction: In "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=28&page=0 A Terrible Fate]]", a ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 3DS}} XL stolen from Mulberry becomes craved by seemingly every Nintendo fan in the vicinity of Seven Springs.

* CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's daughter [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=6&page=43 Barbara]]]] in "Year Six."

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* HypocriticalHumor: At the end of "Mulberry's Wraparounds", Taffy asks how they can avoid obnoxious commercials if they turn up everywhere. Jack answers, "[[ProductPlacement Let's use our]] [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows WINDOWS PRODUCTS]] to find the answer!"

* AWinnerIsYou: "My Fat Lady" ends with the "Conglaturation!!!" screen of Creator/{{Activision}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] game appearing in the sky, with its typos intact.

* AIIsACrapshoot: "[[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Enpoopification (Taylor's Edition)]]" has Burger Food restaurants equip their drive-thrus with an AI that sounds like Music/TaylorSwift. Despite their tendencies to misunderstand orders, the original AI quickly grows smarter with additional customer data, [[spoiler:and swears to somehow replace the real Taylor Swift]].

* {{Bowdlerise}}: "[[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Enpoopification (Taylor's Edition)]]" censors [[https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ the more profane term for "poop"]] in its title and {{Title Drop}}s. [[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&page=5&seriesID=4 This page]] even writes it in a different color than the rest of the word.

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: "[[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&page=21&seriesID=4 The last page]] of "Enpoopification (Taylor's Edition)" [[spoiler:begins with a news report of Taylor Swift releasing a new hit song based on her encounter with the AI]].

* WaxingLyrical: "Enpoopification (Taylor's Edition)" has the AI [[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&page=18&seriesID=4 repeat]] a spoken portion of "[[Music/{{reputation}} Look What You Made Me Do]]" [[spoiler:while shooting at Taylor Swift]].

* {{Bowdlerise}}: "[[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&pageType=index&seriesID=4 Enpoopification (Taylor's Edition)]]" censors [[https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ the more profane term for "poop"]] in its title and {{Title Drop}}s. [[http://platypuscomix.com/mulberry/index.php?issue=29&page=5&seriesID=4 This page]] even writes in a different color than the rest of the word.

* RepurposedPopSong: One part of "Mulberry's Wraparounds" has Mulberry lament (by quoting Website/ThisVeryWiki) that Music/{{Blondie}}'s "One Way or Another" gets used in advertising so often, she can't hear it without thinking of one of the many moronic commercials that played it. This segues into a collection of other examples of {{Repurposed Pop Song}}s, at least some of which actually happened.[[note]]A 1977 Halls commercial with Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", a 1986 laxative commercial with Music/TheBeatles' "Revolution", a 1996 Mountain Dew commercial with Music/{{Queen}}'s "Bohemian Rhapsody", a 2006 Circuit City commercial with Music/TheCars' "Just What I Needed", and a 2013 {{Ridiculously Loud| Commercial}} Chevy commercial with Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit".[[/note]]

* CoolLoser: 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.

** [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson]], as portrayed in the Platypus Comix miniseries ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'',[[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??"

** Peter announced [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/store/mulberryandsonic.html two fake ones]] as a prank: a video game titled, ''Mulberry and Franchise/{{Sonic| The Hedgehog}} [[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames at the Olympic Games]]'', and a graphic novel titled, ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher Meets Mulberry''.

* MirrorMatch: Mulberry witnesses one in "My Fat Lady", when she watches the movie ''Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. [[SendInTheClones Batman]]''. [[spoiler:To her disappointment, the Batmen spend their confrontation boasting how Crazy Prepared they are to face each other, and a "To Be Spread Out Over Six Movies" card appears before they actually start fighting.]]

* {{Homage}}: Mulberry [[http://platypuscomix.net/top154.jpg meets]] Comicbook/ScottPilgrim.

** Mulberry offering [[http://platypuscomix.net/top132.jpg a code]] for 100 free Disney Movie Rewards points and explaining, "I, myself, will never buy enough teenybopper garbage and ''Series/HannahMontana'' pantyhose to earn the one worthwhile item offered in this program, the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' movie DVD."

** Mulberry finds herself resorting to this in "Mulberry's Lawn," while trying to turn Creator/BrittanyMurphy's last movie ([[Creator/TheAsylum Asylum Pictures]]' ''UFO vs. Killer Unicorn'') into a Hollywood blockbuster. Creator/{{Universal}} nearly rejects the film for not having enough [[{{Film/Avatar}} blue people]], but she manages to get around that by [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=12&seriesID=4 promising]] "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 ''[[WordSaladTitle The Feel Sandwich]]'', in hopes of earning a ''[[Film/TheHurtLocker 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 [[DawsonCasting little boy]] to a [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkly vampire]].