I loved the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon as a young girl. I had all the dolls too!
The Purple Pie maker was such a meanie for a villain!!!

Just for curiosity sake, what was the point or plot of Miss Shortcake? I never watched the show or anything. My parents only let me watch C-SPAN.

Uh...Well, she said 'berry' instead of 'very' a lot. As in, 'What a berry, berry nice day!'

The villain of the piece, the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak, really, really hated all the 'berry talk'. Several adult reviewers pointed out that this actually made him pretty sympathetic, as villains go. Anyhow, he routinely tried to stifle the berry sweet little heroine from spreading good cheer among her equally pastel friends (Blueberry Muffin, Huckleberry Pie, Raspberry Tart [really] etc.)

Wasn't Strawberry Shortcake another cartoon based upon a toy line? Or was this one actually a cartoon first that spawned a toy line? (I don't mean for that to sound as sarcastic as it may; I really just don't know.)

There was indeed a toy line first. My sister had (has) the whole collection. (I'm not sure if she still has those dolls) ANYWAY, each doll had it's own scent. Strawberry Shortcake smelled like strawberries, Blueberry Muffin smelled like blueberries, etc.

There was also an Atari 2600 Strawberry Shortcake game where you could mix & match the heads & bodies of the characters.

Yes, to the former. (I had several. I was deeply into pink at one point in my preteen career. Don't ask.)

They were basically little collectible dolls scented - and named, and dressed - to match various fluffy dessert foods. (This was back when scratch'n'sniff was still a novelty phenomenon; anybody remember the trading stickers?) In addition to the ones I mentioned above there were Lemon Meringue, Apple Blossom, Cafe Ole and about a dozen more I can't remember just now.

This was all in the mid-80s, the toy-to-toon heyday. But Kenner, the manufacturer, recently reintroduced Strawberry and - I think - a couple pals in more modern, ie. less frilly dress, and I admit to a couple nostalgic twitches. Now, if they'd only bring back the Rose Petal Princesses...

Yeah, but "Cow Pie Clyde" didn't sell very much.

[sigh] [eyeroll] Boys...

Pink???
(Oops! You said not to ask!)

Dare we ask what Raspberry Tart smelled like??

I do remember my sister bugged the hell out of me watching Strawberry Shortcake when I wanted to watch something better on tv.

Strawberry Shortcake was so cutesy-poo it was nauseating!

Dare we ask what Raspberry Tart smelled like??--Adam

Uh...raspberry?

Whew!

John, you should be ashamed of yourself!

T'was a bit of twisted humor on my part.

(If you're a "regular" at Nitcentral, you should be used to it by now)

Yeah, Molly, he has lots more stuff to be ashamed of than that!

Which show was more sickeningly sweet, Strawberry Shortcake or My Little Pony?

You're goin' to the moon, Kerriem!

Rainbow Bright and Poochie were the greatest!!

The scariest thing about this cartoon is that there are people who actually watched it!

IIRC, the main bad guy also had a side kick named Sour Grapes, did he or am I just remembering wrong? I only vaugley remember the cartoon.

Weren't the Sour Grapes part of The Banana Splits? (If people aren't old enough to remember Strawberry Shortcake, I doubt they'll even know about The Banana Splits, unless of course they watch reruns on Boomerang.)

The only good thing about the Banana Splits was the Tom Sawyer(?) cartoon which mixed live-action and animation...and don't forget those Space:1999 moonbuggies the Banana Splits drove around in!

I thought the Tom Sawyer cartoon was its own series... I'd seen a couple of eps recently on Boomerang. (Maybe it got its start on Banana Splits.)

Its amazing how this topic has grown!!

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (as it was known}, was originally a part of The Banana Splits Hour. It was actually one part live action, one part animation. (Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but with far inferior art.) It was okay. But the best Banana Splits segment was the serial, Danger Island. I used to be sooo in love with the girl who played Leslie (Ronne Troupe) in those eps.

"Uh oh! Chongo!"

Rainbow Brite was given a "less spunky" makeover a couple of years ago.