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Strawberry Shortcake is the main protagonist of the Strawberry Shortcake franchise. She is stated to be the "unofficial princess" of 'Strawberry-land' and is often seen wearing a pink hat with a strawberry design. Strawberry Shortcake is a cartoon character originally used in greeting cards but was later expanded to include dolls, posters, and numerous products, then she appears in TV specials, and two very popular television series. In the 1980s version of the franchise, she lives in a shortcake, while in the 2003 version, she lives in a strawberry home.

She shares her berry bungalow with her baby sister Apple Dumplin', her sarcastic cat Custard, and her mischievous dog named Pupcake. In the 1980 series, Strawberry was an only child and Apple Dumplin' was just one of her friends, while Pupcake was owned by Huckleberry Pie. In the 2009 version, Strawberry calls Apple her cousin and they are the same age. Many of Strawberry Shortcake’s days are spent in the simple pleasures of tending Strawberry berry vines, and making strawberry themed treats. Strawberry is known to be an excellent baker. Strawberry also likes to spend time with her friends, so she frequently visits nearby lands. Strawberry is always cheerful and is ready for helping her friends at any time. In 2009 she owns her own cafe and bakery, and in 2021 she runs a baked goods food truck.

In the 1980s, Strawberry was 6 years old. She was independent but rather soft and sensitive and frequently cried about problems since she was relatively young. She seems to be around 8-11 in the 2003 series. In the 4th Season of the 2003 series, the show fast forwards to show her as a 16-year-old who can drive and starts to think about career paths. In the 2009 version, she looks around 17-20 years old and has a full-time job, but enjoys activities that a tween girl would like. In the 2021 version, she looks 12-14 years old. She, alongsides the other characters can all drive cars but they still seem young, similar to the 2003 series.

Strawberry Shortcake is voiced by Russi Taylor (1980s), Sarah Heinke (2003-2008), Anna Cummer with Tracey Moore as her singing voice (2009-2015), Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (2018-present) and Ana Sani (2021).

Personality[]

"Strawberry Shortcake is a sweet but spunky little redhead with enough optimism to fill a strawberry field. She really believes things are growing better all the time and as the unofficial berry princess of Strawberryland, she puts her heart and soul into seeing that things improve for everyone she meets. Strawberry is also quite adventurous, so it's no surprise that she has friends from other lands both near and far." - Description from the official 2003 website.[1]

1980s[]

Strawberry is a bright and perky young girl. She is kind, friendly, supportive, and always ready to help a friend in need. She loves strawberries and baking. She has some spunk but is very soft as well and sensitive, she cries often which can be expected by her age.

1991[]

Unknown much about her personality due to the fact, not producing an animated series but from the official art, it seems as though Strawberry enjoys dancing much more than her usual interest in baking.

2003[]

Strawberry Shortcake is athletic and enjoys playing sports or riding horses, but is also a creative baker at the same time. She also likes gardening, which is why there are a handful of large strawberries around her house. She generally is both a tomboy and girly girl who is usually outside, but every once in a while enjoys dressing up or pretending to be a princess. She loves her sister and not failing to share equal love towards both her pets. Whenever there is a big event in Strawberryland, you can bet that Strawberry Shortcake was the one who had the idea. Despair almost not appeared in her dictionary, and when it does, it does not take long for her to gain back her optimism. She likes music (singing and dancing), and she always does both whenever she has the chance. She is also an intelligent girl who can quickly find the right solution whenever a problem arises. She's also curious, eager to try something new, go to a place completely new for her, and make friends with a full stranger. By the time of Year 4, her personality has matured, which is implied by her taking a part-time job and considering what her future career will be.

2009[]

Strawberry is fun and feminine, and she loves hanging out with her friends in Berry Bitty City. She loves to help her friends out of tough spots and is supportive and helpful. While she runs her Berry Café, she's always preparing to lend a helping hand or go on an adventure. Her optimism is communicable and she always sees big possibilities in everything. She is kind and patient but can occasionally get frustrated and when things don't go her way. She's a hard worker and is often busy.

2021[]

Strawberry is a determined young baker who moved out from her home back in Berryville and into Big Apple City to achieve her goal of wanting to become the world's best baker with the help of her Aunt Praline and her friends. She's energetic, hyper, giggly, and perky. She's quirky and fun. She's girly but not afraid to be tough. She works really hard and her energy helps keep her on her feet.

Strawberry always sees the best in everyberry she meets, which can lead to trouble as selfish berries like the Purple Pieman and Crabapple Jam take advantage of her kindness to get her into trouble.

Strawberry does tend to suffer from bouts of anxiety, and has a tendency to doubt her skills in the face of discouragement. But she always picks herself back up, and sets off to do everything with confidence.

Appearance[]

The characters of the Strawberry Shortcake franchise have undergone several design changes. Strawberry was created in 1980, but THQ changed her in 1991. Strawberry's 1991 appearance was altered drastically in 2003. It changed again in Year 4 of the DIC series' run and 2009 with the Berry Bitty City story arc.

1980s[]

Strawberry resembles a stuffed rag doll with freckles. Occasionally, Stitches can be seen on her and Custard. She wears a bonnet with a strawberry design. Her eyes are brown, her hair is naturally red and her hair is styled in ringlets. She has a section of blunt bangs on her forehead. She wears a red maiden dress with three green diamonds on the white cloth and kisses running down the cloth. She wears white and green striped stockings and white doily bloomers. She wears brown shoes. She is six years old.

1991[]

Strawberry does not wear a hat. She wears a pink formal dress. She also has a headband and ballerina shoes. This is her only design that depicts her with blue eyes. Her hair is auburn and long and wavy. She looks similar to the 80's version but has more realistic looking hair (less like yarn) and looks more human like. She has several 'real life' outfits that can be seen in official art, as this character version travels from the real world to strawberry land.

2003[]

Strawberry's appearance is that of a preteen, older than in the 80s, and more mature acting. Her ranges from 8 to 11. She has messy auburn hair and a flickrd, short haircut. She now wears a white long-sleeved shirt with red stripes (which appear dark red in Year 3). with a pair of cuffed, loose, blue jeans. Official art and merchandise show her having a green, pink, and red thin striped shirt. A red sweater is tied to her waist. In place of her muffin-looking bonnet, She wears a pink sun hat with a strawberry design and a red band with a strawberry on a green and white striped ribbon. She wears brown mary janes or loafers. Sometimes they look like boots.  Strawberry Shortcake has been seen in different outfits depending on the episode. In the summer when she goes swimming, Strawberry Shortcake has a pastel pink swimsuit that reveals her stomach. As a mermaid, she has a hot pink tail. At night, Strawberry Shortcake wears a pink long-sleeved nightgown with a frilly collar that somewhat looks like flower petals.

2007[]

Strawberry wears a pink and white striped hoodie with a pink T-shirt underneath. She wears the same blue jeans, but now usually added more detail showing the zipper and pockets on the sides. Her hair has grown out, it is long with flipped out ends, and is a darker, slightly less natural-looking color, more magenta and less of a real life red-head color that would be used in later designs. Her hat design has not changed, but the hat band now matches the bow's color and pink Mary Jane shoes. She is at least 16 now because in season 4, she can drive. She wears different outfits like formal wear.

2009[]

Strawberry's cap resembles a strawberry with a green visor design and a leaf on the top. She has bright red magenta colored hair, similar to 2007 but more saturated. She wears a short-sleeved white crop top with green diamonds and a strawberry design and a pink high-waist skirt with a red polka-dot design. Her tights are white and green striped. She wears red Mary Jane shoes. Strawberry's age is debatable in this show but she is at least a teenager.

2018 prototype design[]

This design is 3d rendered. Strawberry has apricot skin, green eyes, and chin-length slightly unkempt strawberry pink hair cut in a bob. She has no visible eyebrows. Her eyes are very round and childlike. She almost appears more like a pixie or trolls type character and less human. She wears a red knitted hat, a sleeveless white dress that has a strawberry design on it, and strawberry-colored straps. She also wears white and green knee-high socks and red sneakers with white trim.

2021[]

Strawberry has a more casual look, she wears her magenta long hair down and has a strawberry beanie on. She's wearing a white tee dress with a strawberry design on the middle of the dress and a denim jacket on top of it. Strawberry is wearing green and white striped leggings underneath the dress and has red sneakers that have a strawberry logo on the side of them. She carries around with her a strawberry-shaped purse that is on her shoulder. Episodes taking place with summer weather may put her in a white top and jean shorts. She usually has blue shorts, but she has pink shorts in Find Your Voice. She wears her hair in a ponytail for a fancy dinner with Lime.

Pets[]

1980[]

Custard[]

She had her cat Custard, who only talked in one special, and was very lazy.

Lucky Bug[]

Lucky Bug is a ladybug who hovers close to Strawberry Shortcake at all times. True to her name, Lucky Bug brings good fortune to Strawberry. Lucky Bug is rather philosophical by nature and although she can't speak, she listens with great patience to Strawberry and her friends. Lucky has few insect friends and as a result, fancies herself as Strawberry Shortcake's peer. She is an often forgotten friend.

2003[]

Custard[]

Custard is Strawberry Shortcake's sarcastic, tomboyish pet cat who is now able to talk. Though she has a tendency to see the glass as half-empty, she's very clever, funny, and an affectionate pet who loves her owner. She has an affinity for tuna and enjoys peace and quiet. She often gets mad at Pupcake but deep down they are like loving siblings.

Pupcake[]

Pupcake is a dog Strawberry adopted. Pupcake is a panting, tail-wagging whirlwind of innocent energy that often accidentally turns destructive. This dog is a mess or mishap just waiting to happen. Good thing he's so lovable!

Honey Pie Pony[]

She is more of a companion than a pet, but Strawberry is her rider. Honey Pie is no ordinary pony. First of all, she talks. Secondly, she's been almost everywhere. Thirdly, she rarely stops talking about where she's been. She's a bit prone to exaggeration, too, so some of her stories get to be a bit incredible.

2009[]

Custard[]

Custard once again is a silent animal, but unlike in the 1980s, she shows no personality besides being 'cute'. She is very well-behaved and placid, not acting temperamental like other cats, or herself in previous generations.

Pupcake[]

Like custard, Pupcake also lost his personality. No longer having crazy energy, he is now just a friendly and curious pup. He now sports green spots and less of them too. An interesting detail is the one over his eye is strawberry shaped.

2021[]

Custard[]

Custard remains her pet once again, and just like her previous incarnation, cannot speak. However, Custard is much more sapient, and has several episodes where she plays a major role.

Trivia[]

General[]

  • Strawberry’s eye color has changed over the time. she originally had brown eyes,then it got changed to blue, back to brown, and currently has green eyes.
    • Her hair color has also changed, going from a deeper red yarn to ginger, to dark red, to a bright red, and now pink. Other versions of her have dark brown hair, light pink hair, and light brown hair.
  • Strawberry loves to read, her favorite genre is Fairy Tales. She is also a fan of picture books in 2009.
    • Her favorite books specifically are Cinderella and Around the World in 80 Days.
  • Strawberry Shortcake only likes sweetened tea, she hates herbal teas. In fact, it is the only food she has ever shown disgust towards.
  • In international dubs for Strawberry Shortcake, certain characters names were changed to similar sweets or an alliterative name with the native word for their fruit motif that were more familiar to other countries. Strawberry herself has been called "Rosita Fresita" in Mexico, "Charlotte aux Fraises" in France, "Emily Erdbeer" in German, "Moranguinho" in Brazil/Portugal, and "Eperke" in Hungary.
    • However, some countries didn't translate the names and left them as is, such as Indonesia.
  • She is said to have an allergy to two flowers: hibiscus flowers and purple puff petals
  • A fine art piece by famous African American painter Amy Sherald references Strawberry Shortcake, They Call Me Redbone but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake. Features a young light skinned black girl who is called that slang term but wishes to be Strawberry Shortcake. [2]
  • Her first appearance was technically in a 1973 greeting card. Back then she was only known as "Girl With Daisy".

1980s[]

  • The original 1980s series is the only series where Strawberry Shortcake is not the first (or tied for first) character seen. Instead, Mr. Sun is the first character seen; Strawberry Shortcake herself is tied with Custard for the second character to be seen, where they are shown sleeping in their house. In fact, he is the one who introduces them to the audience.
  • Sanrio created a pastel variety of Strawberry with pink hair and a bonnet.Template:Cite
  • There have been many parodies of Strawberry Shortcake over the years. The most well-known are Robot Chicken (where she is portrayed as is, but also has a parody version named Raspberry Parfait) and Peanuts (minor character Tapioca Pudding was created as a harsh critical parody of the character and franchise for being merchandise-driven).
    • Other notable parodies include Paula Poundcake from Fairly Oddparents, two appearances in MAD ("Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine" and "Tater Tots & Tiaras"), an appearance in South Park episode "Imaginationland Episode II", and Strawberry Sweetcake from Drawn Together.
    • Infamously, webcomic Penny Arcade also made a parody strip depicting an "adult" Strawberry Shortcake, intended to make fun of the game "America McGee's Alice" rather than the franchise itself. American Greetings ended up taking offense and issued a cease-and-desist, and the comic was taken down. Several follow-up comics have been made by the creators expressing their indignation, such as portraying the receptionist at American Greetings as a Nazi, and later making another comic where they did the exact same thing but with Rainbow Brite.
  • Strawberry Shortcake dolls were featured many times on the show The Goldbergs.
  • This Strawberry is the only version of the character whose appeared in animated media to not have a 3D-animated version.

1991[]

  • This incarnation and the 2003 incarnation are the only versions of Strawberry to not have her signature green-and-white leggings.
  • This incarnation is the only version where Strawberry doesn't have a strawberry-themed hat, instead having a bow in her hair with a strawberry on it.
  • She is the shortest-lived incarnation of the character, lasting less than a year.
    • She is also the only incarnation to not have an animated depiction or a voice actor.

2003[]

  • Strawberry is shown to have copious amounts of raincoats (“The Play's The Thing”) ("It Takes Talent").
  • This incarnation and the previous 1991 incarnation are the only versions of Strawberry to not have her signature green-and-white leggings.
  • This Strawberry is the only version to age significantly within the show, going from a child to pre-adolescent tween in the first 3 seasons to late teens in Season 4.

2009[]

  • In the Berry Bitty Adventures intro, the main Berry Girls (including Strawberry Shortcake herself, but except Cherry Jam) and Mr. Longface are all tied for the first character seen.
  • Apple Dumplin nicknamed her "Strawbs".
  • In the Berry Bitty Adventures pilot she's said to be a published cookbook author.
  • This Strawberry is the longest lasting incarnation, existing for nine years from 2009 to 2018.
  • This is possibly the oldest version of Strawberry's character.

2021[]

  • This Strawberry is the first incarnation to have confirmed parents, as previous series never mentioned any family members outside of Apple Dumplin' in the 2003 series and Berry Bitty Adventures.
  • Orange Blossom in 2021 nicknames her "Shortcakes".
  • In Berry in the Big City it's said she comes from a long line of bakers.

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