Strawberry Nightmare is the 20th episode in airing order of Season 2 of Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City. It premiered on October 29th, 2022.
Summary[]
Strawberry Shortcake has always dreamed of being the best baker in Apple City, but what if her dream becomes her nightmare?
Plot[]
The episode begins as Strawberry Shortcake cleans the counter of her food truck, but gets startled from behind before she can finish. Orange Blossom, the one who startled Strawberry Shortcake, asks her about the latest additions to the Peculiar Purple Pieman's menu. Strawberry Shortcake guesses that it's all purple, only to be startled when she sees that the Peculiar Purple Pieman got his new additions by modifying everything that she and the other girls sell. Outraged, Strawberry Shortcake goes to the Pieman's shop to have a talk about the new additions, and in response to her questions, he tells lies about the stunt being "exactly the way to treat other berries," suggesting that Strawberry Shortcake should betray her friends to come out on top.
Later, Strawberry Shortcake shares her grievances regarding what the Purple Pieman said with her friends. Orange Blossom tries to distract her so Lemon can show off her cloaking device, which makes things invisible. Unfortunately, Lemon just so happened to misplace it, so she asks for help. Strawberry Shortcake declines as she needs to cool down. While Lemon, Blueberry, Lime, and Orange leave to find the device, Strawberry Shortcake mulls over how the Peculiar Purple Pieman responded to her question. However, Strawberry Shortcake falls asleep, only to, apparently, snap awake not too long after.
After her sudden snapping awake, Strawberry Shortcake decides heads out, believing to have dozed off, but when she steps out, she is put off by the landscape before her, as Big Apple City has suddenly become pink, but she gets used to it, only to hear a masculine voice. As she struggles to comprehend who spoke, Strawberry Shortcake sees that all of the food carts have been replaced with duplicates of her food truck, much to her surprise, at which point the voice claims that "[she] happened," and that "[she] was an overnight success story." Now outraged, Strawberry Shortcake questions the mysterious voice's location. Just a second or two later, she spots Bread Puddin' and calls to him, asking him what is happening. Bread suddenly falls apologetically on his knees and goes to work as she struggles to comprehend what he is doing. Strawberry Shortcake then bumps into one of the duplicates of her food truck, where Blueberry Muffin pops out, with a Strawberry Swirl flavor that she promises is better. Strawberry Shortcake is more concerned about the copy of her hat that is sitting on Blueberry's head, at which point Blueberry gets worried that she is wearing it wrong. Strawberry Shortcake, weirded out by Blueberry's behavior, backs away, after which she and Orange Blossom (who is also wearing a copy of Strawberry Shortcake's hat) bump into each other. Orange shows her strawberry smoothies, at which point Strawberry Shortcake asks if this is a joke. At another copy of Strawberry Shortcake's truck, Lime and Lemon (who are also wearing copies of Strawberry Shortcake's hat) are creating a glass of strawberry lemonade. As her friends close in, Strawberry Shortcake hears the mysterious voice, now coming from a being that looks like the sun, proclaim that she is the boss.
Shortly after, Strawberry Shortcake gets teleported to what looks like the Pieman's factory, but pink and with a strawberry instead of a pie being displayed on the sign at the top and her face on the billboard at the front but with the Pieman's signature mustache. After she sees the factory and criticizes, Strawberry Shortcake asks to learn who caused the changes. The sun-like being then responds that "she" did, correcting his statement to say that Strawberry Shortcake did. Strawberry Shortcake is then alerted to the doors opening as a copy of her wearing the Pieman's outfit and having the Pieman's signature mustache appears. The doppelgänger asks for her real counterpart's criticism, to which Strawberry Shortcake replies by revealing that she is concerned, not just about the factory, but also regarding the mustache that her duplicate has. The clone then reveals that she betrayed the other Berry girls and stole said Berry girls' businesses and ideas, crushing the others' dreams in the process. As the Strawberry Shortcake doppëlganger laughs, the real Strawberry Shortcake screams that what her doppelgänger did is not the only way and that "this is not who she is." The scene around her changes a few seconds later back to the room in which she shared her grievances with her friends earlier, and Strawberry Shortcake realizes that she was dreaming.
Bursting out of the room, Strawberry Shortcake shares her relief with her friends that everything is back to normal, her friends are not wearing her hat, their food carts are normal, and she doesn't need to wax her upper lip. Strawberry Shortcake then confronts the Peculiar Purple Pieman, calling him out for lying. Strawberry Shortcake promises to support her friends' ideas and businesses and that she will not grow a mustache. Lemon then finds the cloaking device that she was looking for, attached to whatever object upon which the Pieman sat when Strawberry Shortcake denied his lies. Lime caps off the episode by claiming that she has no idea what's going on.
Cast[]
- Ana Sani as Strawberry Shortcake, Purple Strawberry
- Bahia Watson as Orange Blossom
- Andrea Libman as Lemon Meringue
- Margarita Valderrama as Lime Chiffon
- Diana Kaarina as Blueberry Muffin
- Chirag Naik as Bread Pudding
- Ian Hanlin as Purple Pieman
- Brian Drummond as Mysterious Narrator aka Sun
Trivia[]
- This episode is the first depiction of a mean/evil Strawberry Shortcake, albeit in a dream sequence.
- The Strawberry Shortcake-shaped ice cream cone Blueberry made in the dream is the same one she briefly had in Mission Unfrostable.
References to Past Series[]
- Mysterious Narrator/Sun is heavily based on Mr. Sun from the 1980s specials, who served a similar purpose as a narrator.
Errors[]
- Purple Pieman should not have been able to sit on the invisibility machine Lemon made due to how small it is. It is possible that the machine was making a chair invisible, but this is never clarified.
Video[]
Gallery[]
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