History YMMV / StrawberryShortcake

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some people aren't fans of Lemon Meringue becoming a tomboy with short hair after being a GirlyGirl in previous incarnations.

* UncannyValley: The Berrykins and Mr. Longface are tiny critters with too-human faces, and even the main cast can fall into this at times, with their wide-apart eyes, tiny noses, and realistic lips.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Strawberry's voice actress is Russi Taylor, who would later become famous for (among many, ''many'' other characters) voicing [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Huey, Dewey and Louie]], and would be the official voice actress for WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse from 1986 until her passing in 2019 (Strawberry's voice basically ''is'' Minnie Mouse).

** Some fans of the earlier versions of Sour Grapes were disappointed to see her being made into one of the kids as apposed to the wicked old lady she was prior.

* UnfortunateImplications: This generation has had this criticism about treatment of gender expression: it removes tomboy characters, and tomboy tendencies in those that remained are erased in order to turn them stereotypically feminine.

* WhatAnIdiot: Strawberry Shortcake's friends in the third special. Let's review the situation: Strawberry is prone to bursting into tears at the mere ''thought'' that someone might not like her or think badly of her. Also, most of her behavior is motivated by a desire to constantly make others smile and be happy, and she's perpetually friendly and loving. Meanwhile, the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak previously attempted to flood the land and later attempt to cheat someone out of a gazebo, and every time he ever appears he's always up to no good. But when the Pieman claims that Strawberry helped him rig a pets on parade contest in his favor, Strawberry's friends jump to the conclusion that Strawberry's a cheater because he said so.

* DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot: The Brambleberry Fairy crashes the party to thirst her fury over not getting an invitation. Any reasonable person would have listened for some shouting outside of his house, which the Brambleberry Fairy ignored. And she [[NeverMyFault has the gall to say that]] [[UninvitedToTheParty nobody invited her]].

* {{Woolseyism}}: Since most of the desserts that the characters are named after aren't eaten outside of the US and Britain, some foreign versions of the cartoons and toys change the characters' names to desserts that are more familiar to their country but still based on the same fruit. For example, Strawberry Shortcake is called Charlotte aux Fraises in France.

* LesYay: Strawberry befriending Orange Blossom in the second special has them swinging on swings together, praising each other's skills, sharing every interest they have, holding hands, and ending with walking down the street together while singing how "we're a we, and we're friends."

* UnfortunateImplications: This generation has had this criticism about treatment of gender expression: it removes tomboy characters, and any tomboy tendencies in those that remained are erased in order to turn them stereotypically feminine.

** Orange Blossom having straight hair was not taken well.

!!The 2019 series
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Reactions to the new designs have not been kind to say the least. Apparently the reboot seems to have been canned or delayed at best as nothing new has surfaced about the new continuity; a soft reboot of the 2009 rendition, with the animated series done in 2D in a similar vein to the 2003 series, was released in its place.
* UncannyValley: Going by the [[https://i.imgur.com/snSai0o.png promo image]] ''every'' character can fall into this.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: A troll claiming to be the niece of someone who works at [=DiC Entertainment=] (the same one listed under ''Misattributed Song'' above) spread plenty of these during the waning years of the 2003 series, ranging from "future episodes" to fake recaps, and using manipulated audio clips as proof.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Happened to some during the Berrykins' song in "Sky's the Limit!". The fast, pitch shifted voices singing sounded incoherent to some viewers, and resulted in strange lines like "Do we have a very nice butt?". It didn't help that the closed captioning was flashing by at too fast a rate to be comprehensible without pausing, either.

* HilariousInHindsight: With his tall, wiry build, Dick Dastardly mustache, ThinChinOfSin and infinity for the color purple, the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine (especially in the 1980s version) looks eerily like a prototype for [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Waluigi.]]

* LesYay: In "Happily Ever After," Angel Cake gets very upset and angry when she thinks that Rainbow Sherbet's "very best friend" is Strawberry and not her. She threatens to leave the sleepover saying to have her sleepover without her "since they are such good friends," sounding as if she caught Rainbow cheating on her.

* LGBTFanbase:
** Plum Pudding has a fanbase amongst trans people for her gender {{retcon}}. She was originally male before later being turned into a female character.
** Strawberry and Orange Blossom are very easy to read as a couple in the 80's series, especially since boy characters are few and far between.

* TalkingAnimal: Custard, Strawberry's pet cat.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Franchise/CareBears'', ''WesternAnimation/RosePetalPlace'', ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'', ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' (particularly G1 and G3 fans) and ''WesternAnimation/TheGetAlongGang''.

* LGBTFanbase: Plum Pudding has a fanbase amongst trans people for her gender {{retcon}}. She was originally male before later being turned into a female character.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Franchise/CareBears'', ''WesternAnimation/RosePetalPlace'', ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'', and ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', particularly G1 and G3 fans.