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Strawberry Shortcake started life as a greeting card character in the early 1980s, but soon spawned a line of popular dolls and other merchandise, accompanied by six TV specials. In these specials she and her friends lived in a berry patch called Strawberryland, raising berries and taking care of the occasional villiany concocted by The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak.

In 2003, she came back again, this time with a series of DirectToVideo specials, a few of which were split up into a TV series. In this incarnation, she still lived in Strawberryland, but her friends lived in their own lands, and for a while there were no villains, just life lessons to be learned. 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...).
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'''Tropes Found in Two or More Versions:'''
* AlternateContinuity
* AnAesop
* BeautyEqualsGoodness - Subverted in the '80s series and in the early seasons of the 2003 series, but started appearing as of episodes created after the 2007 redesign, and played straight in the 2009 series.
* BoringInvincibleHero - Most of the time. Few episodes actually show Strawberry upset at one point. Of course, things became all better again by the time the story comes to a close.
* BraggingThemeTune - 2003 and 2009.
* CharacterTitle
* ContinuityReboot - Once in 2002 and again in 2009.
* EdibleThemeNaming
* {{Egopolis}} - Strawberry and all her friends live in Strawberryland.
* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=] - The Berry Princess in the 80's, the constant {{FableRemake}}s in the 2003 series, and Princess Berrykin in the 2009 version.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It had and has a strong following in Mexico, among both first-generation fans and girls who watch the remake. It may have even contributed to the slang "fresa" [strawberry] being synonymous with posh and over cute, or "ValleyGirl."
** It also has a berry, berry strong following in South East Asia...
* GirlinessUpgrade
* HarmlessVillain - The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak.
** YourMileageMayVary - Some people find the things the villain does, such as flooding Strawberryland and locking people up in cages, disturbing.
* IDyeGrass - In ''Strawberry Shortcake Meets The Berrykins'', The Berry Princess and her Berrykins are in charge of giving the berries of Strawberryland their scent.
** 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.
* TheIngenue - Strawberry Shortcake.
* KindheartedCatLover - Strawberry's usual pet is Custard the cat.
* {{Lilliputians}} - The 1980s and 2009 Strawberry and friends are tiny people living in a berry patch.
* MerchandiseDriven - Yes--all this is to sell scented dolls!
* TheOneGuy - Huckleberry Pie.
* PimpedOutDress - Much of TheMerch recently.
* PlanetOfHats
* ThePowerOfFriendship
* RedHeadedHero
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent - Sour Grapes' pet is a snake named Dregs; the turtle exception applies to the good guys.
* SeasonFluidity
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - It's idealist.
* SpeciesSurname
* SpringIsLate: In a book from the 1980s, ''Strawberry Shortcake and the Winter That Would Not End'', and the 2003 DVD ''Spring For Strawberry Shortcake''.
* StrawberryShorthand - Do we even ''have'' to explain it?
* SugarBowl - Only RainbowBrite and the CareBears are as known for this, at least in the U.S. (The U.K. theatrical release of ''The Care Bears Movie'' ran ''Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins'' as a pre-movie bonus; both were Nelvana productions.)
* SupremeChef - Strawberry Shortcake.
* TalkingAnimal
* TastesLikeDiabetes
* TeamMom - Strawberry Shortcake.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - ThisTroper has been told that when the 2003 version started, this was how some (and I stress ''some'') of the older fans felt about it. Further, those same fans (including those only familiar with the 2003 version) may or may not feel the same way about the more recent (2009) rendition.
** This troper thought the change from the 80s version to the 2003 version was awesome. But then they have to bring back the Pie Man, turn them into teen, and now, the 2009 relaunch- this troper can't stand the 2009 relaunch.
* TitleThemeTune - 2003 and 2009 version.
* TurnTheOtherCheek - Strawberry, especially in the 2003 series.
* VagueAge
* VerbalTic - Berry Talk. Especially strong in the 1980's version, but shows up to some degree in all three versions.
** When the Pie Man mentions himself, he always says it as dramatically as possible, then follows with a quick song and dance. According to the movie he even includes this ''in his signature''.

'''Tropes Found in the 1980s Version:'''
* BigApplesauce - The eponymous city in the second special, ''Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City'', is a transparent N.Y.C. analogue, complete with [[strike:Greenwich]] 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.")
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase - "Strawberry Shortcake and [[NoNameGiven the Baby Without a Name]]."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Blueberry Muffin, especially in the first special.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment - Strawberry occasionally threatens the Peculiar Purple Pieman with "berry talk," which he can't stand. In fact, in ''Housewarming Surprise'', Strawberry teaches his pet birds a song full of berry talk, knowing it would annoy him enough to make him return a bunch of recipes he stole from her.
* DisneyAcidSequence - The "Berry Talk" song in ''The World of Strawberry Shortcake''.
* TheFaceOfTheSun - Mr. Sun, who serves as the {{Narrator}} and interacts with Strawberry and the others. This is especially pronounced in the first special ''The World of Strawberry Shortcake'', in which he provides a DeusExMachina "magic wish" when the kids need to rescue Apple Dumplin' from the Pieman's palace. It's worth noting that in the first three specials he was voiced by the ''scriptwriter'', Romeo Muller (best known for his work with RankinBassProductions).
* HalfIdenticalTwins - Lem and Ada.
* HeelFaceTurn - The Pieman did this at the end of ''The World of Strawberry Shortcake'', but by the following year's ''Big Apple City'', he reverted to his old ways due to his "evil conscience", as he explains to the frustrated Strawberry.
* HelloNurse - The Berry Princess has this effect on The Peculiar Purple Pieman.
* HeyItsThatVoice - Russi Taylor, best known now as Minnie Mouse, as Strawberry Shortcake. This is actually her earliest listed voiceover credit at [=IMDb=].
* LethalChef - The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak. This is a big plot point in ''Big Apple City'', in which he and Strawberry are pitted against each other in a Bake-Off -- since he knows he can't ''honestly'' win, he comes up with plan after plan to keep things from getting to that point.
* LonersAreEvil
* NoNameGiven - Baby Needs-a-Name.
* RecycledPremise - Strawberry's toy company Kenner swapped out fruit/food for flowers to create the characters and setting of the similar (and scented) toy line Rose-Petal Place in 1984, which spun off two animated specials.
* TwinBanter - Lem and Ada to a small extent.

'''Tropes Found in the 2003 Version:'''
* AnnoyingPatient - Honey Pie Pony in ''Get Well Adventure''.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong - Used in ''The Costume Party'' and ''Mind Your Manners''.
** Based on that logic, one could say that this trope also applies to Custard in the whole of the 2003 version.
* FableRemake (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, The Wizard of Oz)
* GadgeteerGenius - Ginger Snap.
* GenreSavvy - Sour Grapes in the 2002 series.
* IneffectualLoner - Peppermint Fizz.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan - Strawberry and Ginger Snap have to shrink in order to get to the Berry Fairy Fields.
* MotorMouth - Ginger Snap.
* NonHumanSidekick - Custard.
* ThereAreNoAdults
* WholePlotReference - "Around the Berry Big World" is "Around the World in 80 Days".

'''Tropes Found in the 2009 Version:'''
* AmbiguouslyBrown - One of the complaints against the new version of Orange Blossom.
* TheDitz - Lemon Meringue
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: ''Pupcake'' is wearing a helmet while riding in Strawberry's scooter.
* TheHyena - Plum Pudding
* FriendOrIdolDecision
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - Mr. Longface Caterpillar, usually translated into [[LaymansTerms regular speech]] by Blueberry Muffin.
* SkySurfing - The girls ride the tops of daisies to fly in the air.
* TheSmartGuy - Blueberry Muffin
* [[WasntThatFun Wasn't That Fun?]] - In the movie "Sky's the Limit!", the girls survive a crazy ride down a hill on a leaf, whereupon Blueberry Muffin is the first to admit how much fun it was.
* WeSellEverything - In "A Berry Grand Opening," the Berrykins ask for something "sparkling" and "orange," and Orange Blossom pulls out everything from a glittery vase to a tablecloth to Orange Brand laundry detergent (to get your clothes sparkly clean).

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