Strawberry Shortcake was actually the very first voice acting role for late voice actress Russi Taylor. Who would become best-known for voicing Minnie Mouse and Birdie the Early Bird.

I'll never understand why the trope is that they all "forgot" her birthday because they're preparing a surprise. They can still acknowledge the birthday existing. Also, why don't these people ever just assign one person whose job is to hang out with the friend and keep them away from the party??

My grandma used to have these old Strawberry Shortcake books based on this series, and I'm actually kind of upset that we got rid of them. I hope that at least whoever has them now is taking good care of them, I have a lot of fond memories from reading those old books...

I’ll always cherish this franchise (such a shame Angel Cake and Gingersnap aren’t in the main line anymore)

You wouldn't have the strawberry shortcake of today without the 80s version. You also need to give Strawberry her props because it was the first Strawberry Shortcake special episode that began the cartoon renaissance the 80s. Once toy makers saw how the cartoon caused a huge jump in Starwberry Shortcake toy sales, everyone wanted a cartoon to market their toys to kids. Its why you got MLP, G.I Joe, He-Man, She-Ra, Jem, Rainbow Brite, etc. All can trace their orgins back to the success of the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon.

The baby didn't have a name because they were selling a baby doll called "Baby Needs A Name" that you were supposed to name when you got her ---- this was around the time the Cabbage Patch Kids had just hit big. So this was Kenner's attempt at getting that sort of "adoption" play into the SSC line.

So I actually looked this up recently and orange blossom IS a dessert. Its a type of cake. Also, having grown up in the 80s I have a strong memory of Angel Food Cake's pet skunk being named Souffle, like the dessert. I wonder if it was in the tv show, I don't remember watching any specials or anything.

Im a baby of the 80s, and yeah, each of these episodes were or were going to be a toy tie-in. "I don't have a name" "It's okay, the little 80s girl who gets your doll will name you :D Oh look, an episode explaining why the dolls had scents to them. Her hair grows? Of course another toy idea, I'm sure. We children of the 80s LOVED to BRUSH TF outta our toys! I guess it's kinda cute to have episodes explain the toys better, since this was all 80s cartoons were meant for.

It's worth noting that most of these were created to promote new doll lines, such as the scented berrykins

In Brazil they changed all the names so they are associated with fruits instead of desserts. So, it was not Strawberry Shortcake, it was Little Strawberry. Lemon Meringue was Little Lemon, and so on.

I do like that they made Plum Pudding a boy in the current gen, since he was originally supposed to be one and it adds more male characters to the series. Say what you will about the current series but they added a lot more diversity to the brand, and modernized it well imo. The designs for the characters aren’t the strongest but the episodes are actually kinda fun to watch imo. Reminds me of watching shows like littlest pet shop and pound puppies on the hub.

About Orange blossom Google- Orange blossoms are edible, but they are not traditionally consumed raw due to their bitter, lingering aftertaste. The blooms are popularly distilled into water and incorporated into sweet and savory culinary dishes.

I love your continuous analysis on Strawberry Shortcake. Its interesting to know the origins of this show.

Cool how you talk about these nostalgic shows! I remember coming up with little fan fictions when I was younger and thinking of more fruits to base these characters off of.

I never understood the lore of strawberry shortcake. I just remember the dolls smelling amazing

"all these new weird terms, like *trans*es saying they feel what they are not-" Bruh we got blueberry from the EIGHTIES changing genders from one animation to the others and nobody said shait back then, we just accepted her😂

Every time I see the Purple Pie Man, I’m just convinced he’s related to Waluigi somehow

“You pathetic perverted peabrain.” I’ve gotta reuse that someday!

Tbh I think the 80s Strawberry Shortcake movies are quite cute and I'm not a fan of old movies. I think the voice acting and the jokes are so good and tbh, they fel more gender-neutral than the 2003 show so boys can enjoy them too. I still have to pick the 2003 show as a favorite because I grew up with it. But trust me, compared to most "kids" movies from that time, the Strawberry shortcake ones were quite cute.

I grew up with the 2000s and original Strawberry Shortcake and now vividly remember the movie formerly as a 6 year old. Very interesting you brought this up as I haven’t seen any mentions of the original but only that of the 2000s/2010s one. Thought the original was considered semi-lost media or something.

NGL I actually really love the art style in the 1982 special pets on parade! Even though the animation is a little more limited, I think they really got the facial proportions down to something adorable and squishy! The line widths makes me think this was probably done by a Japanese animation studio, but I haven't looked into it yet so don't quote me on that lol

Blueberry, the first trans cartoon person that was accepted by their people

I was bigger into Rainbow Brite, Unicorn and Care Bears. Also Transformers and GI Joe, which were the ones I got to keep getting as I got older. I was always jealous about my sisters getting more Rainbow Brite and to a much lesser degree, Strawberry Shortcake than I. I only had a purple pieman.

Thank you for going over the original specials I always wanted hear other people's thoughts on it.

Dude the animation on the Piemaker in the later specials is god tier.

5:50 someone really went above and beyond with the animation and posing of that character lol

The Pieman would explode if he was in the Smurfs

The burgers and pizza smell scheme was probably because the whole gimmick of the OG Strawberry Shortcake toys was that they smelled of the berries they named for.

Headcanons:80's version of blueberry is transgender lesbian and peach blush is her gf

I loved Strawberry Shortcake as a kid. I watched the cartoon, had a board game of it where you'd collect tokens of your character's belongings, and played a short SS CD game where you'd do quests and design her friends' houses by decorating cakes.

I've never watched SS. Never even owned a toy growing up. But I swear CUSTARD THE CAT that this old school hand drawn animation has me in an absolute chokehold. Why is it so p l e a s a n t

In france we called her, Charlotte aux fraises. (Charlotte with strawberry) a famous dessert, very convinient, so we can name stramberry charlotte.

Hey turns out that Orange Blossom Panna Cotta is an italian dessert

the baby with out a name does eventually get a name. it's in one of strawberry shortcake coloring books. It's Lulaberry

I have an old VHS recording of the last special that I used to watch on repeat at an embarrassing age and I still love it despite how little sense it makes. I feel like OG Strawberry Shortcake's world was much more expansive than it is nowadays and none of the adaptations since really have had the same type of charm

orange blossom is the name of a cocktail but I doubt that's what they had in mind

I don't know if this character exists but they should: pop idol in strawberry shortcake named cake pop

This was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. My sis and I had a strawberry shortcake bedroom. I did not get brands often but strawberry shorrcake seemed one of the exceptions (probably because of a grandparent) i do remember being obsessed with a babydoll of her, that if u squeezed she exhaled berry scented breath. Why that was a thing I have no idea. But yes I remember huffing those scented dolls...well...and markers and stickers! It was the 80s lol

You had the coolest teacher ever I’m so jealous 😭😭😭

Kinda unrelated, but does anyone remember a H2O animated series? I would be really happy if Negative decides to cover it. 😊

Orange blossoms are cookies. I googled it to make sure my memory was correct

i loved this show as a kid!! god. also orange blossom is actually a type of pastry (:

We support plum puddings transition

Apple Dumpling looks awfully big for a baby.

Congrats on ur transition, Plum Pudding

I never realised how accurate Futurama's Purpleberry Pond was to the original Strawberry Shortcake

The last episode makes sense purely as a toy commercial. OG (and some later) Strawberry Shortcake dolls were scented as their particular sweet/flavor and Berrykins also came with some dolls as little buddies.

i have very vague memories of watching the berrykins episode when i was super little and the image of all the kids stuck in that salt shaker has been stuck in my brain ever since, but i didn't know where it came from until now

I like how these videos came out after I looked up one of the characters for a cosplay idea like are you one of my brain cells??

Marshmallard is up there with Marzipanda as an amazing name

Because of your videos I realised that I actually have Huckleberry's dog as a plush from when I was a baby. Which I still have because no plush gets left behind.

My bedroom was Strawberry Shortcake themed and my sister and I had all the dolls. I do not remember this show at all 😂

14:57 OH this is what B!tch Pudding (adult swim) was parodying

8:34 Is that supposed to be "Yowie" or "Yaoi"? Because those two names give completely different connotations.

I vaguely remember watching all of them, and while my young kid brain was like wow! Colorful kids that are really nice! Me, fairly older now, think as time foes on the iterations get better with other parts of the show (I still feel like they're lacking some of the nostalgia of their previous iterations)

Why does his hair look nicer than mine😭😭😭

Omg I enjoy your video so much! It's what I truly look forward to! ❤

...wait, the skunks' name is Yaoi?

New to this channel, and I say this video is berry nice, also you got a sweet room in the background, and no I'm not appologizing for the puns

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate negative Legends style, it's just all the best parts of the 90s!

This was my favorite franchise as a kid, I watched all of these up until the Berrykins special when I was 8. I remember loving that one, even though it’s bizarre when you look back on it. Each girl (Huckleberry is absent) gets a baby to care for, and Strawberry and friends get their ultimate wish to “grow up” which is symbolized by them gaining long, luxurious hair overnight. Then they play that song about changing your style. It’s like a fever dream, but I loved it back then.

in my head as a kid the pie man didnt have superpowers he just bullshxted his way into convincing people of things.

The fact that I watched the 1980s strawberry shortcake as a kid makes this video all the more amusing

Burrito is in fact named after little donkey because it was meant to indicate it was a hard working food like a little donkey. So it actually is super cute🙂💜💙✌

All of a sudden I started to watch strawberry shortcake just recently and you made a video. Love my luck 😊❤

I remember these. I think these were for the crunchy/hippie families and so the pizza and candy being “bad” is cause you know only organic stuff.

Ugh my mom used to force me to collect these dolls and the carebears when all i wanted was ninja turtles

Yes you are so right! Speaking as a person who was a kid who watched it! ❤. But the other thing I used to do is sneak up out of bed at like 5am and I would watch he-man She-Ra and then Jem and the holograms.

This is how Strawberry Shortcake started, for better or worse.

Older shows were a lot scarier (ref tree crow) I just love older graphics and hand drawn cartoons etc, so much more chill than the CGI rubbish kids shows have these days 👵😂. I was a kid in the 90s but my mum raised me watching shows she'd have watched from the 70s (bagpuss, clangers, Mr Ben, Paddington ect).

I truly loved this, I am also a fan of Unico and more. Strawberry Short Cake Moves In was one of my favorite movie

As a tiny girl I loved this show. I will never forget Jem & The Holograms though.

i was drinking out of that exact same mug while watching this video lol, it’s so cute i love it

ANOTHER ONE?! THAN YOU SO MUCH

Orange Blossom is a type of angel food cake with mandarin oranges, so no worries, she's still named after a dessert ☺

Sour Grapes: You pathetic, purple -- me: pervert S.G.: -- pea-brain. Narrator and me, paraphrased: "pea-brain". yeah, right. (17:19-17:26)

2:32 NOOO that was the best part! Why did you cut off the scene where he eats the berry with such SPITE? I have seen this Clip being reblogged around Tumblr

I'd love to see you react to more older animated specials like this

I want to know what were the writers smoking and if it is ban in the country.

It was a commercial for scented dolls and when they wanted to put out a new product they added that product (pets and berries) to the commercial. It didn't have to make sense. It had to be about the dolls we had or wanted and it definatly checked those boxes.

👑 you are the king take the power you are given 🗝️

I saw the first 2 on one of my mom’s old DVD’s, and I found it fairly decent.

I remember it, didn’t really think the stereotypes were that offensive (of course that kind of stuff doesn’t fly now), but newer Strawberry is much better and far better written. The lore has way too many questions that are lingering for me and you just brought those up in my mind again. I always loved Strawberry and went as her to trick or treat when I was little. I also had a Strawberry doll that I loved because she smelled amazing!

It's been these many years until I found out today about Huckleberry Pie. In my coutry it was "Juanito Frutin" which roughly translates to Johnny Frutti or Fruity (something along those lines). Of course the original name makes more sense, I always wondered what he represented.

I wanted to create myself as a character in that world and named myself Emily Empanada

Strawberry Shortcake having a character with a eating disorder was not on my bingo card

I don't know why or how you ended up in my newsreel but dammit I can't stop laughing! I was a young kid when this came out. There were tons of toys and even my aunt gave me an interactive Strawberry Shortcake birthday card. Good job on this!

6:27 Maybe the dude was already having a hard time staying awake and just didn't wanna deal with whatever mess would happen.

I wonder if they had a name the character competition for the baby without a name?

The berrykins episode was the one I had on VHS and I LOVED it!! Fav one for my little deranged brain.

There has GOT to be an artist out there online that makes and sells strawberry shortcake animal plushies??? On Etsy??? Surely that’s a niche

I had to stop 10 seconds in to ask: WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT?!

I could watch you roast these desserts for hours

Yes, I grew up in the 80s with the original Strawberry shortcake and I didn’t even remember that scary tree❤

7:06 orange blossom water it's used in a lot of desserts and sweets, its like vainilla extract

I'd love it if you did more strawberry shortcake videos xhchb

Love this video. Would you ever consider making a video on the netflix series Unicorn Academy? I would love to watch it.

15:10 if it helps, Robot Chicken gave her one in a sketch

Pie Man really used to jump around like a spritly pixie

8:21 why you gotta call me out bruh😭