Bread Pudding is one of the main characters from Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City. The snooty, flamboyant, and fashionable manager of the Berryworks, he makes it his mission to keep the Berryworks trendy and chic at all costs.
General Information[]
He initially started out as an antagonist of the series, starting from the very first episode. As an opinionated, clipboard-carrying overseer of the day-to-day workings of the BerryWorks, Bread Pudding got off on the wrong foot with Strawberry Shortcake almost immediately. Later episodes showed him working with Raspberry Tart and Sour Grapes to ruin Strawberry Shortcake's business and her chances of staying in the Berryworks. However, over time Bread also began to develop more, especially in his first major focus episode "Bread Pudding's New BFF", where he admitted part of his controlling and mean behavior stemmed from being bullied when he was younger, and soon enough he stopped being an antagonist entirely. From the final few episodes of Season 1 onward, he was a part of the main cast and a member of the Berry Besties. He also became best friends with Lime Chiffon by bonding over their mutual love of fashion, with several episodes focusing on their friendship with each other.
In Season 2, Bread's mother, Figgy Pudding, was revealed to be the owner of The Berryworks, and the reason that Bread has the job in the first place. He largely drops his obnoxious and snooty behavior this season, with more emphasis being put on his responsibilities as Berryworks manager, his friendships with the other Berry Besties, and his interest in fashion.
In Season 3, he was not informed by his mother, Figgy Pudding, that the ownership of The Berryworks was changing hands. He now works with two even more strict and overbearing overseers and under a new owner, Crabapple Jam, and is incredibly anxious about the possibility of losing his job. Eventually, his fears came to light in Bake The World A Better Place, when Crabapple fired him along with the rest of the Berry Besties. Luckily, Strawberry Shortcake managed to keep everyberry's spirits high and they started anew in a different location. Eventually, he and the Berry Besties were able to confront Crabapple Jam and convince her to relinquish ownership of the Berryworks, reclaiming it and restoring the location to its former glory.
Appearance[]
Bread Pudding is a preppy boy with dull tan skin and caramel-colored hair. His hair has a gelled swoop, and he sports a side undercut. He has brown eyes. He wears a purple argyle sweater vest with a white long-sleeve collared dress shirt, brown corduroy pants, and typical brown men's dress shoes.
In winter episodes, Bread wears his usual outfit, adding a white trenchcoat with a purple argyle pattern on the sides of his waist, and brown gloves.
In summer episodes, Bread wears a white button-up t-shirt with a half placket, brown corduroy shorts, and purple-brown plaid slip-on shoes
Personality[]
In the beginning, Bread Pudding was quite stuck up and snooty. He is rude and strict as he bosses everyberry around. But he's also not very physically strong and can be whiny. He doesn't like to be inconvenienced and is easily frustrated. He seems to be insecure often. In "Bread Pudding's New BFF", it is revealed that he used to be shy and klutzy in the past, which got him bullied, and he found it easier to bully others before they could do the same to him, explaining why he was so mean and rude. He is implied to have inherited his mother's personality to appear more confident, as she is likewise just as controlling and stuck-up as he was. This has largely been toned down as he became more nice, though he still does carry an ego and fussy demeanor from time to time. He is still a bit awkward and clumsy sometimes.
Bread Pudding is fairly dramatic, often freaking out over anything that goes wrong in the Berryworks, such as when he became obsessed with following trends in Hot, Fresh & Trending, or whenever he has to deal with Huckleberry's antics.
Bread is a huge fashion enthusiast and cares heavily about his appearance. He even carries a comb around just to fix his hair in the event something messes it up. He is a huge fan of Fluffy Chiffon, and became best friends with Lime Chiffon due to them sharing a mutual love of fashion. Bread also shows himself to be pretty flamboyant on occasion, and considers himself an "aspiring fashion icon".
As established in episodes like Crabapple Jam, much of his self-worth is tied to his role as manager, with the possibility of losing his job being enough to send him spiraling into a self-doubt panic attack. He also immensely dislikes being bossed around by berries like the Purple Pieman or Crabapple Jam. His self-worth played a huge role in Strawberry Shortcake's Spring Spectacular, where he felt that he couldn't be a hero and help the others save the day, until Orange Blossom encouraged him by relaying how she's inspired to do good by Tangerine Smash, which managed to snap Bread out of his funk and join the Berry Besties in defeating the monstrous vines.
Relationships[]
Strawberry Shortcake[]
He did not get along with Strawberry when she first came in Berry in the Big City, he was also sabotaging Strawberry, along with Raspberry Tart and Sour Grapes. Despite this, Bread has been shown to enjoy Strawberry's baking, and Strawberry appeared to have the least hostile relationship with him out of the three Mean Berries. The two would eventually become friends after Season 1, and generally remain on good terms, with Strawberry sometimes giving Bread advice and even standing up for each other on occasion. A major moment between them was in Peculiar Purple Partner, when he bended the rules to allow Strawberry to continue working in the Berryworks, and rejecting Purple Pieman's attempts to get her to leave.
Figgy Pudding[]
Figgy is his mother. Bread loses his confident and uptight demeanor around her, and appears to be intimidated by her sheer presence, doing everything in his power to keep her satisfied. Figgy Pudding is incredibly critical of Bread and holds him to just as high a standard as a typical employee. Despite this, the two do clearly love each other. When Figgy planned on firing Bread due to her dissatisfaction with his management of the Berryworks, after Strawberry and the Berry Besties stood up for him, Figgy decided against it to avoid separating her son from his friends, and declared if they were satisfied with his management, then so was she.
It is likely that he inherited his uptight and fussy behavior from her.
Huckleberry Pie[]
Before we saw proper interactions between the two, they often appeared together in the background of the miscellaneous shorts. They had brief interactions in Huck's New Job. They would get their own episode in Season 2, "Deliveryberries". Bread at first thought that Huckleberry was easily distracted from his tasks and got annoyed by it, constantly reminding him of where to go. As he kept going to other places instead of the plan he made. It was only that after their task that he realized that Huck was not being distracted or ignoring his advice but was actually getting ingredients for Strawberry and Raspberry while also doing his delivery task.
Lime Chiffon[]
Bread and Lime have one of the closest friendships out of the entire main cast. At first, the two weren't close at all, with Lime Chiffon outright saying that she ignores Bread Pudding and regarded him with disgust.
Bread Pudding eventually grew to like Lime Chiffon's sense of style and fashion, especially since her father was famed fashion designer Fluffy Chiffon. Bread initially attempted to befriend Lime just to get in good graces with her so she'd get him her father's newly designed waistcoat, but he tried to buy her friendship through meaningless gifts with no thought put into them. However, when Strawberry confronted him over this and told him to be honest with his feelings, Bread realized he wanted to genuinely be friends with Lime Chiffon. The next time the two talked, Bread apologized for the terrible gifts and admitted the truth, but also decided he no longer cared about the waistcoat and cared more about getting to know Lime better. Lime ended up reciprocating, admitting she found Bread kinda funny whenever he wasn't being snooty, and still got him the waistcoat anyways, even having her father show up in-person to deliver it, as she overheard his conversation with Strawberry. From that day forward, the two became close friends. Eventually, the two began hosting weekly fashion brunches where they bonded over their shared love of fashion, gossiping over magazines featuring the latest clothing designs.
Raspberry Tart[]
He, Raspberry and Sour were in a friend group who would try to bully Strawberry out of the Berryworks, though he would be the least contributing to the group as he still had to manage the location. From what is seen in their various pranks and schemes, he was very cooperative in the ones he participated in. In Beat the Heat and onwards, him, Raspberry and eventually Sour would befriend Strawberry and reforms.
Raspberry had a short temper when it comes to Bread screwing up their schemes, but despite this the two got along well most of the time, and were often shown to be close friends.
Sour Grapes[]
He, Raspberry and Sour were in a friend group who would try to bully Strawberry out of the Berryworks. In Beat the Heat and onwards, him, Raspberry and eventually Sour would befriend Strawberry and reforms. He looks to be closer to Sour than he is with Raspberry, as they have more interactions together like putting little effort for Raspberry's birthday party. Though he did do a bit more than Sour did.
In Season 2, they have yet to make a proper interaction.
Crepe Suzette[]
When he and Lime first met Crepe, both were awestruck at her sense of fashion, considering her a "vision of style", and eagerly befriending her the first chance they got. The two invited Crepe to their fashion brunches, but Bread became insecure with how simplistic it was and felt it wasn't trendy enough for Crepe Suzette, and hastily began changing things to be more "avant-garde". However, when Crepe arrived, she was more concerned with whether or not Bread and Lime were comfortable with the changes, and told the two that she wanted to know their true selves. After resolving the situation, the three became friends and participated in the fashion brunches together.
Occasionally, Crepe will be seen hanging out with Bread and Lime in certain episodes.
Trivia[]
- Bread Pudding is the first South Asian character in the franchise.
- Bread Pudding is the first new male main cast member of a Strawberry Shortcake series since the original specials. The 1980s generation did attempt to have multiple male characters with Huckleberry Pie and Plum Puddin', however the latter was retconned into a girl after his toys underperformed.
- Bread Pudding is the third male villain in the franchise, after Purple Pieman and Licorice Whip.
- He's the first out of the three to have a permanent reformation and to not be an adult.
- He really enjoys Berryoke/karaoke.
- Ironically, Bread Pudding is the only member of the main cast to never be heard singing solo at least once. Every song Bread Pudding is in has him sing with the whole cast, or as a duet with another berry.
- He is revealed to be quite agile in Deliveryberries. However, that also contradicts how poorly he performed in Purple Protege. It is possible he simply learned this skill afterward.
- Bread Pudding received his first two cutaway segments in "Deliveryberries"
- He is the first male character in the franchise to wear a dress.
- He is the first character to have an undercut.
- He is the only member of the main cast to not have any fruit motif, being themed after a bread-based dessert.
- Bread Pudding, along with Lime Chiffon, Raspberry Tart, Strawberry Shortcake, and Sour Grapes are the members of the Berry Besties to be related to famous/influential people in Big Apple City, as his mother owns several popular locations, Lime's dad is a fashion designer, Raspberry's parents are world famous bakers, Strawberry's aunt is the city's chief of staff, and Sour's uncle is the celebrity Purple Pieman.
- In a tweet, Showrunner Mike Vogel joked that Bread Pudding is a distant cousin of Bitch Pudding, a parody character from Robot Chicken, and seemingly implies that Bread is partially based on her.[1]
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