Pupcake is a recurring pet in the Strawberry Shortcake franchise. He is always a friendly, energetic, and playful dog.
General Information[]
1980s[]
Pupcake was originally the pet dog of Huckleberry Pie.
2003[]
Pupcake was now the pet dog of Strawberry Shortcake, alongside her cat Custard. He was portrayed as being her pet from the start of the series, but in Season 2 an episode, Here Comes Pupcake, was dedicated to explaining how Strawberry adopted him. However, this ended up being incredibly contradictory, as Strawberry's friends are present in the episode but the series premiere showed that they met when Pupcake was already Strawberry's dog.
Pupcake is shown to almost always be happy, playful, and energetic, though this would sometimes lead to trouble as he could tend to be unintentionally destructive. Custard is especially annoyed by his antics but she does still care for him deep down, and the two share a sibling-like relationship. A running gag in the series involves Pupcake tackling Custard as a sign of affection.
Berry Bitty Adventures[]
Pupcake remains Strawberry's pet dog, but no longer has his crazy energy and is now just a friendly and curious pup, but still very playful. He is portrayed as always having been Strawberry's pet from the start. His friendship with Custard is also more friendly, and the two get along well, though this is in large part because Custard no longer had a nihilistic and sarcastic personality. He would appear infrequently, but gained a larger role in Season 3 with the addition of other puppies as the main cast's pets. In Season 4 the puppies, and Pupcake, had drastically reduced appearances, with Pupcake only appearing twice.
Another dog, Tom Tom, would be introduced into the series in Season 3. He is the pet dog of Huckleberry Pie, and essentially fills the role of pet dog to the character in place of Pupcake, even having his original design.
Berry in the Big City[]
Pupcake is now the pet dog of Orange Blossom. He is still energetic and playful. His friendship with Custard is mostly friendly like their previous incarnation, though there are rare times when she does get annoyed by him. He is often seen hanging out with Orange Blossom at the Citrus Slice Smoothie Cart in the Berryworks, and there are several episodes that focus on him and the other Berryworks pets.
Appearance[]
1980s[]
He is a brown dog with green and white striped ears, tail and a patch on the right side of his body. His appearance, like the other pets, is similar to a stuffed animal as stitches cover his body and his ears seem to be made out of the same patterned fabric that is also Huckleberry's scarf. He has a brown patch sewn over one eye. He has a short tail.
2003[]
Pupcake gained a complete makeover, looking more like an actual dog than a stuffed animal. has white fur, a blue tail and ears, and blue spots all over his body. His eyes are brown. The spot on his right eye is in the abstract shape of a strawberry. He wears a green-and-white striped collar with a red strawberry-shaped tag that matches his eye spot.
Berry Bitty Adventures[]
Pupcake[]
He mostly resembles his prior incarnation, but with all the blue replaced with green, he now sports only two visible green spots one his back and right eye. His eye spot has a much clearer strawberry shape, and his green ears have green-and-white stripes on the inside.
Tom Tom[]
Tom Tom, while not the same character as Pupcake, shares much of his design with the 1980s incarnation of Pupcake. He is a coonhound with brown fur, brown eyes, a light brown belly, muzzle, and paws, a large dark spot over his right eye, and green-and-white striped ears, though Tom Tom looks more like a real dog rather than a stuffed animal.
Berry in the Big City[]
Pupcake gained a complete change in design. He now has orange fur, brown ears and tail, and a light orange muzzle, belly, paws, and the spot on his back. His back spot is lower and closer to his tail, He is implied to have curly fur, as his forehead has a noticable curly patch, and his tail and ears are also curly as well. His tail is orange at the base, but becomes brown at the end. He has purple eyes. His design is somewhat similar to that of the Berry Bitty incarnation of Marmalade, who was also an orange dog who belonged to Orange Blossom. Pupcake wears a blue bandana with an orange slice pattern that matches his owner's headband.
Trivia[]
General[]
- Pupcake has had three different owners across four continuities, originally belonging to 1980s Huckleberry Pie, then 2003 and Berry Bitty Strawberry Shortcake, then Berry in the Big City Orange Blossom.
1980s[]
- Pupcake was named for the unusual way that Huckleberry Pie first met him, concealed in a large fake cake on Huckleberry's birthday by The Peculiar Purple Pieman. The Pieman thought that an unwanted stray would be a hilarious prank, little realizing that a dog was exactly what Huckleberry wanted for his birthday. The name is also an obvious wordplay on the word "cupcake."
- Pupcake had a crush on Eclair.
2003[]
- On the DVDs, intro scenes often had Strawberry alone with Pupcake and Custard. Pupcake and Custard would usually have some problem that related to a story about Strawberry and her friends, thus leading into the actual episodes.
- Despite all the human characters aging several years by season 4, Pupcake remains a puppy. It is possible he's supposed to be older but retained his original design, like Blueberry Muffin.
- Early in the 2003 series, Pupcake's speech was mainly that of a regular dog, with someone like Custard translating for him. Later on, Strawberry seemed to know what he was saying, or a voice-over would narrate for Pupcake for the audience.
Berry Bitty Adventures[]
- He is one of the few examples of characters retaining their previous design. Other examples include The Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes having the same design in the 1980s and 2003 Series, and Cheesecake with her 2003 and Berry in the Big City designs.
Berry in the Big City[]
- He is the first incarnation of the character to belong to neither Huckleberry or Strawberry, instead being Orange Blossom's pet. This is likely to reflect how Custard and Pupcake are always close friends, much like how Orange is always Strawberry's best friend.
- In Meet the Pets!, he tackles Custard as a sign of affection in a reference to his 2003 incarnation, who would do that as a running gag.
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