Strawberry Shortcake Main Character Index
Original Series (1980s) | Classic Series (2003) | Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures (2009) | Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City (2021)
Original Series (1980s) | Classic Series (2003) | Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures (2009) | Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City (2021)
Left to right: Plum Pudding, Blueberry Muffin, Orange Blossom, Strawberry Shortcake, Cherry Jam, Raspberry Torte, and Lemon Meringue
The character page for Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures. This page covers the main cartoon, the IDW comics, and the YouTube webseries.
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Title character
Strawberry Shortcake
Voiced by: Anna Cummer (2009-2015); Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (2018)
Singing voice: Tracey Moore (2009-2015)
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Strawberry has long pink hair, when her previous incarnations had yarn red hair in the 1980s, then messy orange hair in 2003, straight dark pink hair in 2007.
- Alliterative Name: Strawberry Shortcake.
- Always Someone Better: In every generation, she’s considered a superior baker to the Purple Pieman, both in baking talent, and for her kind nature compared to Pieman’s scheming ways.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: She's the Redhead to Lemon Meringue's Blonde and Orange Blossom's Brunette.
- Cheerful Child: She generally has an upbeat attitude and positive outlook on things.
- Girliness Upgrade: She’s much more feminine compared to her previous incarnation, who was more tomboyish.
- Girly Girl: She’s feminine, caring and loves to bake.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Strawberry's usual pet is Custard the cat.
- Magnetic Hero: It's Strawberry's world, and we're all just living in it. She manages to befriend almost everyone in the series.
- Meaningful Appearance: Her hat is shaped like a strawberry.
- Nice Girl: She is a sweet girl with a 'berry' big heart.
- Pink Means Feminine: Strawberry’s a lot more of a Girly Girl in this series and has long pink hair. Almost all of her outfits have pink in them.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She is a girl with pink wavy hair who is sweet, welcoming, and caring.
- Supreme Chef: She is a girl with a love for baking in every generation.
- Strawberry Shorthand: Extraordinarily sweet, adorable, and kind, Strawberry is the Trope Namer for a reason.
- Sweet Baker: She's a talented baker, and very nice.
- Turn the Other Cheek: She always tries to see the best in people, even if they continue to antagonize her.
- Youthful Freckles: Has these on her nose.
Main Cast
Orange Blossom
Voiced by: Janyse Jaud (2009-2015); Amanda J. Barker (2018)
Orange Blossom’s 2009 design
Strawberry’s best friend, Orange Blossom is the friendly shopkeeper of the Orange Mart general store in Berry Bitty City.- Adaptational Dye-Job:
- Hair: She had black hair in the 1980s and 2003 generations, brown hair in 2009, and orange hair in 2021.
- Eyes: Her eyes were black in the 1980s, brown in 2003 and 2009, and purple in 2021.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: She’s very friendly and runs the Orange Mart general store.
- Nice Girl: She’s a kind and helpful person
- Race Lift: Her skin was drastically lightened in Berry Bitty Adventures official art, though she is given slightly darker skin in the cartoon series.
- Token Black Friend: Is the only black character in the series, and Strawberry’s best friend..
Raspberry Torte
Voiced by: Ingrid Nilson (2009-2015)
- The Fashionista: Along with Lemon Meringue. Raspberry even runs a fashion boutique.
- Girliness Upgrade: In the 2003 version, Raspberry is a sporty and athletic tomboy who owns a gym and isn't very well mannered, but doesn't mind getting dressed up for tea parties. Here, she is changed into a girly girl who is a fashionista and a tailor who works with Lemon Meringue in her boutique.
- Pink Means Feminine: She has pink as her theme color.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She’s a nice girl with magenta hair.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Is the Girly Girl to Plum Pudding’s tomboy.
Plum Pudding
Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball (2009-2015)
- Abled in the Adaptation: Unlike her other incarnations, Plum doesn't wear glasses and has no signs of vision problems.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: She has purple hair like her prior incarnation, while her original incarnation had blue hair.
- Adaptational Job Change: Rather than being a nerdy scientist, she's a dancer.
- Adaptational Name Change: Downplayed. Her last name is changed to simply "Pudding" from the previous "Puddin'"
- Alliterative Name: Plum Pudding.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She is a ballerina with purple hair, a purple tutu, and purple ballet shoes.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Raspberry Torte's Girly Girl.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She’s the most tomboyish out of her friends, due to her sporty nature, but she enjoys dancing ballet and wearing fancy tutus.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her usual hairstyle.
Lemon Meringue
Voiced by: Andrea Libman (2009-2015)
- Adaptational Job Change: Lemon is a hairdresser like her previous incarnation, when her original incarnation was a model.
- The Ditz: Just like Raspberry Torte's Berry Bitty counterpart, this Lemon Meringue is one.
- The Fashionista: She loves to style hair, and runs the Lemon Salon.
- Girly Girl: She’s generally one of the more feminine characters.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She’s blonde, and very nice.
Blueberry Muffin
Voiced by: Britt McKillip (2009-2015)
- Blue Is Heroic: Her signature color is blue.
- Bookworm: She is a girl who loves to read, she even owns and lives in a bookstore.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Blueberry can be a little rude whenever she is agitated, and she does behave like a Know-It-All at times, due to being known as a smart girl and a bookworm, but she cares about her friends very much and is still a nice girl.
- The Smart Girl: She is known as a smart girl, the bookworm, and the most mature girl in the group for generations.
- Translator Buddy: She acts as this to Mr. Longface, being the only one who understands his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
- True Blue Femininity: She is feminine and always wears blue.
Cherry Jam
Voiced by: Shannon Chan-Kent (2009-2015)
Singing voice: Victoria Duffield (2009-2015)
Cherry Jam’s 2009 design
A pop singer with a Southern accent who traveled to Berry Bitty City to sing at the grand opening of the Berry Bitty Market, deciding to settle down there as a music teacher to live a simpler lifestyle away from celebrity riff-raff.- Celebrity Is Overrated: Cherry Jam feels this way.
- Girly Girl: She is a very feminine character.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Though she is very popular and talented, Cherry Jam does show shades of this. See Celebrity Is Overrated.
- Idol Singer: She is a girl with a hobby for singing.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Cherry Jam's southern drawl seems to come and go.
- Punny Name: Her last name is "Jam". As in, Jam session, since she's a musician.
Huckleberry Pie
Voiced by: Adian Drummond (2013-2015)
- Adaptational Job Change: Originally a fisherman, he became a skater in 2003, and is now a dog caretaker
- Blue Is Heroic: He’s a friendly and kind boy, and always wears blue in his outfits.
- Expy: His appearance is basically a young Justin Bieber.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Huck runs a dog shelter, and he has a pet dog named Tom-Tom.
- Nice Guy: He is a very nice kid in every generation.
- The One Guy: Once again, Huck is the only boy in the main cast.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Strawberry's pink and Huckleberry's blue.
- Sixth Ranger: Huckleberry joins the main cast in Season 3.
Sour Grapes
Voiced by: Diana Kaarina (2015); Laurie Hymes (2018)
- Adaptational Nice Girl/Adaptational Heroism: Unlike her prior incarnations, she isn’t a villain, but she is still kinda a jerk.
- Age Lift: Prior incarnations were middle aged, but this Sour Grapes is the same age as Strawberry and the others.
- Anti-Hero: She's quick to bicker but still supports her sister and friends deep down.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Sour starts off cold and sarcastic, but slowly warms up to the other girls over time.
- Final Season Casting: She debuts in the final season of Berry Bitty Adventures along with her sister Sweet Grapes.
- In Name Only: Sour Grapes has little in common with her previous incarnations except the name.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite coming across as mean and rude, she does hide a more pleasant side of her which shows itself from time to time.
- Mobile Kiosk: Berry Bitty Adventures Sour Grapes runs a food truck alongside her sister, Sweet Grapes, though she prefers to make non-sweet dishes.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sour's blue to Sweet's red, due to Sour being more introverted and Sweet being extroverted, welcoming, and well...sweet.
- Sweet and Sour Grapes: Sour is a girl who is brash but still trying to be nice, while Sweet is always nice to everyone she meets. Their names are Sweet and Sour Grapes, so they perfectly match this trope, not only because of their names, but also their personalities!
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is the most tomboyish character, due to her sarcastic personality and lack of interest in baking and fashion. Especially in comparison to her twin, Sweet Grapes, who is a Girly Girl who loves to help Strawberry with her baking business.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's the most tomboyish out of the rest of the cast, but she enjoys pretty outfits as long as they don't look the same as whatever Sweet wears, as Sour stated to Strawberry in the IDW Comics/2018 web series.
Sweet Grapes
Voiced by: Andrea Libman (2015); Kaylin Lee Clinton (2018)
Sour Grapes' nicer twin sister.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She has yet to appear in the 2021 series, and it's unknown if she's still related to Sour Grapes.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She is graceful and kind and is purple with some shades of pink in her hair.
- Meaningful Name: She's one of the nicer characters in "Berry Bitty Adventures", especially compared to Sour Grapes.
- Mobile Kiosk: Sweet Grapes runs a food truck alongside her sister, Sour Grapes, though she prefers making sweet dishes.
- Nice Girl: Her name really matches with her personality.
- Pink Means Feminine: She is girly and full of pink with some shades of purple in her hair.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sweet's extrovert Red to Sour's introvert Blue.
- Sweet Baker: She and Sour have their own baking business, and Sweet sometimes helps Strawberry bake recipes in her cafe as well.
- Sweet and Sour Grapes: Sweet and her sister Sour are Sweet and Sour Grapes, and Sweet is a sweet girl while Sour is a brash girl that is still learning to be sweet. Their names match the name of this trope!
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The sweet and lovable girly girl to Sour's sarcastic and moody tomboy.
Apple Dumplin'
Voiced by: Rebecca Shoichet (2015)
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Her previous incarnations are redheads, but Apple is blonde in this series.
- Age Lift: Prior incarnations were always younger than Strawberry and Friends. This Apple Dumplin’, however, is the same age as them.
- Final Season Casting: She was the last new main character introduced in Berry Bitty Adventures, first appearing after Sweet and Sour Grapes' introduction in the second episode of the final season.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: She’s Strawberry’s cousin, when her previous 2003 incarnation is Strawberry Shortcake's younger sister.
- Tomboyness Upgrade: In the 2003 version, Apple is sweet, giggly, naive, and loves baking with Strawberry, but this version is a teenage girl who loves to travel.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Apple is an active adventurer while Strawberry is a feminine baker.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Apple is pretty tomboyish and has hobbies for traveling, but enjoys helping Strawberry Shortcake and Sweet Grapes bake in the bakery.
- Walking the Earth: She's a world traveler and adventurer.
Supporting, Minor, and One-Off Characters
Mr. Longface Caterpillar
Voiced by: Paul Dobson
The Mayor of Berry Bitty City who owns a mini golf course.
- Non-Indicative Name: His name refers to expressions of sadness or gloom, yet he's usually a happy guy.
- Smart People Speak the Queen's English
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He tends to speak like this and his speech usually translated into regular speech by Blueberry Muffin.
Princess Berrykin and the Berrykins
Voiced by: Andrea Libman (Princess Berrykin), Scott McNeil, Janyse Jaud, Andrea Libman, Shannon Chan-Kent, Paul Dobson, Kathleen Barr, Diana Kaarina, and Samuel Vincent (Berrykins)(2009-2015)
Princess Berrykin
The Berrykins
Berry-like creatures led by Princess Berrykin, who live in Berry Bitty City.- Adaptational Job Change: 1980s Berrykins maintained the fruits around Strawberryland. 2009 Berrykins have relatively regular jobs you would see in a city, like construction work.
- Adaptational Mundanity: The original Berrykins were magical beings who helped create the scents of fruits. These Berrykins are more like regular civilians. They even have regular names like "Ed" or "Bill".
- Adaptational Species Change: In the original 1980s series, they're humanoid beings who wear fruit-shaped clothing. In Berry Bitty Adventures, they're instead fruit-shaped creatures with no human-like features.
- Age Lift: These Berrykins are mostly adults, compared to their previous incarnation who were all childrens.
- Princesses Rule: Applies to Princess Berrykin, the ruler of the Berrykins as there’s no sign of a Queen.
Jadeybug
Voiced by: Nicole Oliver
A clerk at the Berry Bitty City post office. She is the cousin of Katiebug and Sadiebug.
The Ladybug Twins
Voiced by: Ingrid Nilson (Katiebug), Janyse Jaud (Sadiebug)
Sadiebug (left) and Katiebug (right)
Known as Katiebug and Sadiebug, they are two ladybug cousins of Jadiebug, the mail bug. While they don't live in the city itself, they do visit often and usually get into lots of mischief.
- Jerkass Ball: In Good Citizens Club, Plum Puddin' does not get her membership pin for the titular club and thinks that she has an inherent flaw. Katiebug and Sadiebug seize this as their chance turn her into their personal slave.
- Palette Swap: Are identical aside from their colors.
- Those Two Guys: Are rarely seen without each other.
- Valley Girls: Complete with Totally Radical dialogue.
Postmaster Bumblebee
Mavis Maraschino
Voiced by: Kathleen Barr
A ladybug fashionista journalist who hosts the fashion TV shows "Fashion Further Forward" and "Berry in the Know".
Bosley Bookworm
Voiced by: Paul Dobson
Blueberry Muffin's assistant at her bookstore. He sometimes acts as a consultant to Blueberry when she needs advice.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is nowhere to be seen in Season 4. He does return in the IDW comics, though.
One-Shot Characters
In General
- One-Shot Character: All of them only appear once.
Doctor Hazel Nutby
Voiced by: Nicole Oliver
A doctor squirrel in Berry Bitty City.
Toad Simmons
Voiced by: Paul Dobson
The editor of the "Berry Bitty Mysteries" magazine.
Clem Cricket
Voiced by: Scott McNeil
A resident of Acorn Acres.
- The Voice: He never appears onscreen, only his voice is heard.
Talent Scout
Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball
A talent scout in Berry Bitty City.
Ladybug Lois
Voiced by: Ingrid Nilson
A worker at the Berry Bitty Dale Berry Sporty Sports Store.
Animals
Custard
Strawberry Shortcake’s pet cat..
- Demoted to Extra: Rarely appears in Berry Bitty Adventures.
- Non-Human Sidekick: She is a cat but still a part of the fun on Strawberry's adventures.
Pupcake
Strawberry Shortcake’s pet dog.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He was originally Huckleberry Pie’s pet dog, but this Pupcake is Strawberry’s pet, just like his prior incarnation.
- Decomposite Character: Tom-Tom the dog, Huckleberry's pet, essentially fills Pupcake’s original role as Huckleberry Pie’s pet, even having Pupcake’s original design.
- Punny Name: His name is a portmanteau of "puppy" and "cupcake".
Marmalade
Orange Blossom's pet dog.
- Adaptational Species Change: Was originally a butterfly, but became a dog in Berry Bitty Adventures
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is absent in the 2021 series, having been replaced by Pupcake as Orange Blossom's pet.
Puppies
Tom Tom
(left to right) Cinnapup, Marmalade, Chiffon, Scouty, Pitterpatch, Henna, Pupcake
The puppies adopted by the main cast.
- Adaptational Species Change: Marmalade was a butterfly in previous incarnations, but is a dachshund in Berry Bitty Adventures.
- All Dogs Are Purebred: None of them have any indication they're mixed breeds.
- Canine Companion: All of them serve this role.
- Pupcake is a Beagle whose owner is Strawberry Shortcake.
- Marmalade is a Long-Haired Dachshund whose owner is Orange Blossom.
- Henna is a Cocker Spaniel whose owner is Lemon Meringue.
- Scouty is a Border Collie whose owner is Blueberry Muffin.
- Pitterpatch is a Parson Russell Terrier whose owner is Plum Pudding.
- Chiffon is a Chihuahua whose owner is Raspberry Torte.
- Cinnapup is a Dalmatian whose owner is Cherry Jam.
- Tom Tom is a Coonhound whose owner is Huckleberry Pie.
- Canon Foreigner: Henna, Scouty, Pitterpatch, Chiffon, Cinnapup, and Tom Tom are completely new to the franchise, though Tom Tom is based on the original Pupcake.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Cinnapup completely disappears from the show in Season 4. Chiffon doesn't appear, but is mentioned by Apple Dumplin' in "The Berry Best Biscuit". Both make a proper return in the IDW comics.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of their colors corresponds to their owners with the exception of Pupcake and Tom Tom.
- Decomposite Character: Tom Tom and Pupcake.
- Demoted to Extra: Almost all of them have severely reduced roles in Season 4. Marmalade and Henna only appear for a few seconds in one episode, Scouty only appears as a representative of a fictional character in Apple Dumplin's story from "The Berry Bitty Great Race", Pitterpatch only appears in the final two episodes, and Tom Tom only appears in "Doggie Dance No-Show".
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Four malesnote and four femalesnote .
- Heroes Love Dogs: Everyone in the main cast adopted them.
- Heroic Dog: Naturally.
- Mythology Gag: Tom Tom has a similar color scheme to the original incarnation of Pupcake, and serves the same role as Huckleberry's pet dog.
- Precious Puppy: All of them are adorable dogs who everyone in the main cast adores.
Tea Time Turtle
Tad/Butch/Stuart/Todd
A frog who Orange Blossom adopts after catching him in the episode "Fish out of Water". After causing a disturbance around town, Orange releases him back to his pond.
- Apathetic Pet: Despite Orange going out of her way to take care of him, he shows no signs he cares about her, and doesn't even bother to say goodbye when she releases him. Justified, as Tad wasn't happy about being taken from his home in the first place.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He grows in size throughout the episode and causes havoc in Berry Bitty City.
- I Have Many Names: Is given multiple names over the course of the episode. First "Butch", then "Stuart", then "Todd", and finally "Tad", which is what the characters stick with for the rest of the episode.
- Noisy Nature: His loud croaking irritates the other residents throughout the episode.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Fish out of Water".
- Troublesome Pet: His entire role is to become Orange Blossom's pet, annoy the residents, have Orange learn An Aesop about pet responsibility, then be released at the end of the episode.
Durt
Raisin Cane's pet worm.
- Odd Name Out: Is the only pet to not be named after a food, unless you still count dirt as food for worms.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: His name is a mispelling of the word "dirt".
Antagonists
Steve Piemanne/The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak
Voiced by: Dylan Jones (2018)
- Adaptational Dye-Job: He had white hair in the original 1980s special and the 2003 series, then he had dark blue hair in the Berry Bitty Adventures IDW comics and 2018 webseries.
- Adaptational Name Change: His name is now “Steve Piemanne”, with the “Purple Pieman” moniker now simply being an alias.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He's a far cry from his previous incarnations in terms of vileness, and is at worst an annoyance.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak.
- Ambition Is Evil: Downplayed, Steve will gladly cheat to be successful, but he isn’t outright evil.
- Anti-Villain: He’s much less of a villain than his other versions, but would still act as an antagonist.
- The Cameo: A picture
◊ of him appears in the 2009 series' Dress-Up Dreams app. - Cheaters Never Prosper: Whenever Steve tries to cheat during a competition or sabotage Strawberry, it usually comes back to bite him.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Despite being a fairly skilled baker, he still resorts to cheating to stay ahead of the game.
- Dastardly Whiplash: Very downplayed compared to his prior incarnations, but certain elements are still present.
- Poke the Poodle: Even compared to his other incarnations, his actions are at worst a minor inconvenience.
- Pragmatic Villainy: While he does have a bit of an ego, whenever he gets in over his head he knows the best thing to do is to just swallow his pride and ask Strawberry for help.
- Thin Chin of Sin: Downplayed compared to other incarnations, as his chin is much more average size and at worst he cheats in competitions, but compared to the other characters in the series, it’s still fairly thin and it is one of the more despicable acts depicted.
Raisin Cane
Voiced by: Kaylin Lee Clinton (2018)
- Adaptational Jerkass: In her original incarnation, she legitimately wanted to be friends with Strawberry. In the IDW comics, she’s self-centered and condescending to Strawberry and willingly works with Steve Piemanne in his schemes. She is slightly nicer in the webseries, though that comes from being a Composite Character of the other girls.
- Canon Immigrant: Initially starting as an obscure comic character from the 1980s, she was eventually brought over to Berry Bitty Adventures in the comics, and eventually the 2018 webseries as a main cast member.
- It's All About Me: In 2018, she is so focused on her followers on social media that she becomes very self centered and thinks she's right about everything.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the 2018 web series, she is a snobby and selfish social media star. However, she does think of specific ways to help Orange Blossom in many ways, like how she can sell fans to people in Berry Bitty City, and who can be the best person to help with Orange Blossom's family reunion.
- Punny Name: Her name is a pun on “raising canes”, which means to cause mayhem.
