Not everyone in a regal situation is an airheaded whiny stuck-up bimbo. No, some of us are intelligent. Some of us pose an actual THREAT to you. Get me?
Aluminum Christmas Trees: Some of the readers felt surprised to learn that Ambush Makeover, which became spoofed in "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview," actually exists.
Animated Actors: Mulberry even has an account at the forum of Platypus Comix's parent site, Toon Zone.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Mulberry's struggles in "Heiress A Parent" to find something appropriate for the kids to watch include bypassing TV shows with "sex, violence, violent sex, violence", and "Bob Saget".
"The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" became more realistic-looking for Mulberry's three-page recap of the first season finale of Heroes.
Both of Mulberry's flashbacks of meeting Britney Spears in "Death by Captain and Tenille" involve her holding a hideous creature (first a stray kitten, then Kevin Federline) and asking, "Look! Isn't it pretty?" Thirteen pages later, a terrorist expresses disgust at America's "uncovered women," prompting a scene of Spears mooning paparazzi and repeating the question she asked Mulberry twice.
"The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" began with Mulberry and her friends attending Veronica Mars' funeral following her show's cancellation. A fanboy suddenly entered and tried in vain to bring her back to life. Near the end of the comic, he encountersKristen Bell, but she has taken on the form of Elle Bishop from Heroes.
Cliffhanger: "Scary Berry" ended with Mulberry in rehab. Readers didn't learn the resolution until "Prison Broke" came 5 1/2 months later.
Cool Loser: 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.
Couch Gag: Ever since 2005, issues have used old, unusual-looking comic book covers instead of covers that bear direct relevance to the story. Some of them have Mulberry photoshopped into the scenes, but issues from October 2008 onward depict the covers unaltered.
Mulberry: Through the magic of editing, 4Kids Productions has turned a ninja cartoon into a depiction of daily American school life! Naruto is now known here as Larry and His Socially Conscious Adventures, and it's being hailed by critics as "Doug for the 21st Century! Here's a peek!"
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Mulberry: Some complain that things like this destroy the original artist's vision. I say, who cares? The man's all the way back in Japan; how's he gonna find out?
Jack: And he probably doesn't have internet...
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: At the end of the page where Mulberry introduces herself, Jack, and Tiff to new readers, she claims the site has infected one of the reader's folders, and opening that folder would render the computer incapable of visiting any website other than the one for Dora the Explorer.
A Day at the Bizarro: "Mulberry's Epic Yarn" starts out as a parody of Kirby's Epic Yarn, then becomes progressively stranger, until they reveal that Mulberry wrote the issue herself, apparently warping hers and Tiff's reality.
Dirty Old Man: Mulberry abuses one in "Mulberry Sharona, Slayer of WASPs". She then finds out lots of heiresses in her town desire him because of his high social status.
Disney Death: Two in the recap at the beginning of "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry".
Fake Out Opening: "Jack the Ripper" begins by showing a fire-launching, silhouetted person exploring a village, but it turns out the person is just a character Jack is playing in an online game.
In "Obamadramarama," Mulberry's scheme to take control of Sarah Palin's body goes awry when she and her friends obtain the wrong hair sample, giving Hillary Clinton control over Mulberry's body.
At one point in "Mulberry's Epic Yarn," Mulberry and Tiff find a room full of View-Masters that allow users to see from the perspective of a celebrity, and also control what that person says and does. Incidentally, Mulberry briefly uses one to finally control Sarah Palin.
Insistent Terminology: Mulberry, Tiff, and Jezebel insist in "Jeboozled" that men always refer to females as "women" instead of, "girls", although women can call each other girls.
Invisible Parents: Apparently, Mulberry's parents have spent so little time with her, she has forgotten what they look like. (Once, she nearly fell forGeorge W. Bush's attempt to pull a Luke, I Am Your Father on her) Jack and Tiff have admitted to having parents, but they do not live on the Sharona estate.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Early on in "Obamadramarama," Mulberry explains that whoever she will switch brains with later will not remember anything she did while in Mulberry's body, and instead assume she went unconscious for the duration of the switch.
Last-Second Word Swap: After Mulberry fails in "Heiress A Parent" to convince the President of Television to lessen the amount of programs children can't watch, she exclaims, "Go to...a field of daisies!" after noticing one of her wards standing near her.
Made of Iron: "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mulberry" reveals Hayden Panettiere to have as much invincibility as her Heroes character, Claire Bennet.
Medium Blending: "Let's Scare Mary Roach to Death" combines character drawings with photographic backgrounds as Mulberry forces Mary to spend a night in the abandoned, decaying Dixie Square Mall.
Missing Episode: Several, but the absence of "Suddenly Mulberry" sticks out the most. After its removal, "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview" became the oldest comic in the Mulberry archive. A few obvious signs exist that something came before it: the cover reads, "the second one", and Mulberry acknowledges the comic's interrupting her actual first arc.
By the end of "Artifacting," Mulberry has obtained the History Eraser Button before Indy and Lara, and even turned John Kricfalusi into less of an egomaniac. Unfortunately, she accidentally sits on the History Eraser Button, seemingly erasing history in the process.
At the end of "Heiress A Parent", Mulberry decides to directly remind Pitt's and Jolie's children that TV doesn't always accurately teach right from wrong, especially when sex and/or violence become involved. However, after the children assure Mulberry that they won't follow Barney's pornographic-sounding suggestion for a Google image search, Mulberry tells them, "Remember, this is the same TV that keeps telling you Santa Claus is real!" The children don't seem to react kindly to this.
When Mulberry asks Jack in "Prison Broke" why she didn't try to restrain her after Intoxication Ensued, Jack explains that he felt scared that she would shoot him. She asks him to remember how many times she nearly shot him, so he reminds her that it happened five times.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Tiff has rarely done any housecleaning onscreen. Possibly justified if Mulberry's adventures leave her with not enough time to do her work.
Shocking Swerve: Mulberry has to come up with one in-universe during "Murphy's Lawn," since Brittany Murphy's final movie originally had No Ending. When the movie comes out with her ending attached, all the viewers seem amazed and satisfied with the twist.
Sympathetic Criminals: Mulberry learns that Mary's kidnappers in "Prison Broke" only want better treatment while they work at the Roach Hotel. She decides to help them fulfill this desire.
"Year Six" is explained as referring to the sixth year of George W. Bush's presidency, the time Mulberry has predicted will mark the Democrats' largest effort to get him impeached.
In "Death By Captain and Tenille," Mulberry exclaims the issue's title after an airport security guard explains that he cannot allow vinyl records on the plane because someone could behead others with them.
We Could Have Avoided All This: Eventually during "Jack the Ripper," Mulberry informs Jack that he could have avoided getting pursued by the government if instead of downloading an illegal patch for Planet of Warcraft, he just asked her for $64.95 to buy an upgraded version.
Wolverine Publicity: Peter Paltridge has announced that once his books reach the point where he created Mulberry Sharona, each volume will contain her name in the title.
in 2004. The title character, who has also become Platypus Comix's mascot, had previously appeared in the final strips of another comic, Marin Meadow. Mulberry features Mulberry Sharona, a 16-year old heiress from Seven Springs, California, who has managed to avoid becoming an Upper Class Twit thanks to Parental Abandonment. Accompanied by her friends Jack The One Guy and Tiff the Dumb Blonde housekeeper, this Non-Idle Rich girl makes adventures out of any scheme she comes up with.
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