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Sour Grapes is a character who was first introduced in the 1980s Series. The character initially appeared as the Purple Pieman's old partner-in-crime. She was introduced as Purple Pieman's sister in the 2003 series.

Personality[]

1980's[]

Sour Grapes is very confident in her abilities as a villainess and enjoys being evil. She is significantly smarter than Pieman and has mentioned her many successes in robberies and other feats many times to belittle him. She constantly thinks about getting rich and famous from her plans was not hesitant at all to sell Fig Boot in "Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name", almost all of her plans have a motive of earning money. She comes up with plans and schemes but they fail mostly due to Pieman, Strawberry and her friends stopping her or out of luck.

She treats Pieman unfairly and poorly, not wanting to share her future riches to him and treating him like a servant. When her plans fail she will blame all of its shortcomings on him and punishes him with a yodeling noise. She is capable of emitting a loud, yodeling noise that annoys the Pieman greatly. She uses it mostly to irritate and punish him and is aware about how he feels about her using that yodeling noise. When she isn't yodeling that noise and is instead singing, she's shown to be quite good at it though.

2006[]

Sour Grapes was reintroduced as the Purple Pieman's sister. In a number of ways, her personality stayed as it had been before. As in the '80s, she chided the Pieman for his ridiculousness. Unlike her '80s form, however, Sour Grapes had a greater sense of morality this time around. Also changed was her position in the crimes; whereas before she had suggested schemes herself and often talked the Purple Pieman into them, this time she was the follower, and it can be argued that she followed out of affectionate familial devotion.

Despite her shortcomings witnessed in the episode "Queen For a Day" and despite her initial reactions to the children, she was repeatedly shown to be quite maternal and intelligent. She shows a lot of sympathy for the children and becomes sad when having to hurt them in certain instances. When excited, her personality often changed from that of a bitter adult to a playful young girl. Though irritable, to emotionally reach her for the better was not at all a hard task. An allergy to strawberries, a susceptibility to headaches and hints to poor physical health in general further added to her depth of character.

Main article: Sour Grapes (Young Girl)

Appearance[]

1980's & 2003[]

Sour Grapes has a warm skin tone and dark purple hair and light purple highlights. She has lesser hair highlights in the 2003 cartoon. She wears very dark purple lipstick (light pink in "Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins") and earrings that look like bunches of grapes. She has a beauty mark near her left eye. She wears a pink evening gown that has a purple grape pattern on it with a short lavender cape. She wears light green gloves and purple high heels. She is often seen with her pet snake wrapped around her arms like a boa. This appearance was kept in the 2003 series without the snake.

Main article: Sour Grapes (Young Girl)

Trivia[]

  • Her pet snake is possibly a boa constrictor, which would explain why she wears it like a boa.
  • She has a niece, Raisin Cane, that only made an appearance in a comic book.
  • It is implied she had a heavy change in appearance, since The Purple Pie Man didn't recognize her when he first saw her in Pets On Parade, only recognizing her due to her signature yodel.
  • In "Queen For a Day" She says her birthday is April 1st
  • She doesn't get up any earlier than noon according to the same episode
  • Surprisingly her favorite food isn't grapes, it's pickled cabbage.
  • Much like Pieman she has alter egos and costumes she uses to trick the girls. A few being her dressing up as the Berry Princess, an old beggar, and Madame Rita Rutabaga.

Pets[]

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Sour Grapes has a pet snake named Dregs who appeared in the 1980s. In 2003, her snake debuted in the episode "Queen For A Day". In the 1980s series he premiered in "Pets on Parade"

Gallery[]

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