Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures is an American animated children's television series based on the Strawberry Shortcake franchise and functions as the third iteration of the franchise overall, following the 1980s specials, and the second television series after its 2003 relaunch. Produced by American Greetings with animation provided by Splash Entertainment, the series follows the adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends who live in the fictional land of Berry Bitty City, a tiny, miniature world located beneath a strawberry patch.
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Characters
Main
Strawberry Shortcake (speaking voice by Anna Cummer and singing voice by Tracey Moore): The main protagonist of the series and the leader of the Berry girl group in pink and green, she is a chef and the owner of Berry Bitty Café, where she creates delightful dishes and drinks for her customers. She is always ready to lend a helping hand and tends to bring peace with the others in Berry Bitty City.
Orange Blossom (voiced by Janyse Jaud): A store clerk and owner of the Orange Mart store, she is clever, brave, energetic, and athletic, but also tends to jump ahead without thinking things through and she is so extremely organized that she has a hard time accepting help at times.
Lemon Meringue (voiced by Andrea Libman): A hairstylist and the owner of the Lemon Salon, she is creative, stylish, feminine, and loves to gossip. She is a quick thinker who can fix any hair problem, such as a bad hair day, although she can be very dramatic.
Blueberry Muffin (voiced by Britt McKillip): A librarian, bookseller, and the owner of the Blueberry Books bookstore, she is smart, intelligent, diligent, and believes things should be done by the book. Despite her good manners, she can be obsessive, stubborn, bossy, and occasionally temperamental.
Raspberry Torte (voiced by Ingrid Nilson): A fashion designer and the owner of the Fresh Fashions Boutique, she is fashionable, friendly, polite, and cares a lot about her fashions as much as her best friend Lemon.
Plum Pudding (voiced by Ashleigh Ball): A dance instructor and the owner of the Sweet Beats Studio, she is active, charming, humorous, rowdy, kind-hearted, and believes that there is something to dance about. Her competitive nature, however, forces her to overcome her temper.
Cherry Jam (speaking voice by Shannon Chan-Kent and singing voice by Victoria Duffield): A musician and singer who joins the cast in the second season. With Strawberry being her biggest fan, she decides to take a vacation to Berry Bitty City to escape from her superstar popularity, and eventually decides to stay instead of returning to Stardom. She likes to sing duets with the other girls.
Huckleberry Pie (voiced by Aidan Drummond): A pet adopter who was introduced in the third season, he owns a pet adoption centre in Berry Big City, and travels to Berry Bitty City in his Pup Mobile, getting dogs adopted. Most of the girls have adopted their puppies from Huckleberry. He is very socially awkward but enjoys good mysteries like Blueberry.
Sweet Grapes (voiced by Andrea Libman): Introduced in the fourth season with her older twin sister Sour Grapes, she is a chef who hails from a faraway place and was hired by Strawberry to work at the Berry Bitty Café. She has a kind personality and likes creating sweet goods.
Sour Grapes (voiced by Diana Kaarina): Introduced in the fourth season with her younger twin sister Sweet Grapes, she is a chef who hails from a faraway place and was hired by Strawberry to work at the Berry Bitty Café. She has a tart, rude, competitive and sardonic personality who can erupt at any given moment, but she is ultimately a good friend, and prefers to make "spicy" goods. She often thinks her sister can be annoyingly pleasant at times.
Apple Dumplin (voiced by Rebecca Shoichet): A world traveler and engineer from Strawberryland who arrives at Berry Bitty City to visit her older cousin Strawberry before deciding to stay there permanently. Though kind and willing to lend a helping hand, she can be boisterous and impulsive.
Recurring/Minor
Princess Berrykin (speaking voice by Andrea Libman and singing voice by Shannon Chan-Kent): A Strawberry Berrykin who is the ruler of Berry Bitty City.
Berrykin Bloom (voiced by Paul Dobson): A Strawberry Berrykin who is the oldest resident in all of Berry Bitty City. He likes attending gardens, growing fruit, and is not fussy over anything.
Baby Berrykin (voiced by Andrea Libman): An infant Strawberry Berrykin who appears with other Baby Berrykins, he is usually curious about his surroundings. In one episode, he is seen to be quite troublesome and has the power to change colors.
Berrykin Becky (voiced by Kathleen Barr): A Strawberry Berrykin who handles mechanical engineering and painting, she first appears in the series' second season.
Berrykin Bill (voiced by Paul Dobson): A Plum Berrykin who handles construction work, he first appears in the series' second season.
Berrykin Bruce (voiced by Sam Vincent): A Blueberry Berrykin who specializes in mechanism engineering, he first appears in the series' second season.
Berrykin Bertram: A Plum Berrykin who works as Mavis Maraschino's assistant, although she treats him the same way as she does with everyone else.
Berrykin Ed (voiced by Scott McNeil): A Plum Berrykin who specializes in mechanism engineering, carpentry and construction, he can be quite loud and confident.
Berrykin Earl (voiced by Sam Vincent): A Blueberry Berrykin who always works with Berrykin Ed. Compared to him, he is quite cowardly and is also quite shy and hesitant.
Berrykin Bonnie (voiced by Shannon Chan-Kent): A young Strawberry Berrykin who appears in two episodes of the third season.
Film
The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit is a 2009 film that began the series. It is also known as the pilot for the Berry Bitty Adventures series.
Merchandise
To coincide with the relaunch of the franchise, a toy line was produced by Hasbro and later The Bridge Direct, which were both known simply as "Strawberry Shortcake".
Broadcast
The series first premiered outside of the United States (as with The Twisted Whiskers Show). In February 2010, American Greetings pre-sold the series to Playhouse Disney and M6 in France, Cartoonito in the UK, Hop! Channel in Israel, and Playhouse Disney in Canada and Latin America.
In Latin America, the series aired first on Disney Junior (formerly "Playhouse Disney") from September 2010 until around 2013 and later on Discovery Kids from November 2014 until around 2017.
The series made its English debut on The Hub (currently known as Discovery Family) in 2010. It also aired in Spanish on Discovery Familia. The series was previously shown in Canada on Family Jr., but was removed from the channel's lineup in 2020.
Streaming-wise, it is available on Paramount+, and for free on places such as Pluto TV and Tubi.
Home media
In the United States, as with the 2003 series, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment also distributed DVDs of this series. Season 2 is the only season completely released on DVD, as the rest of the seasons are all missing an episode. Later DVDs also included digital download codes.
In France, M6 Video released the series onto DVD, including complete series boxsets.