"Nothing to Fear but Berries themselves" is an episode of Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures.
Summary[]
A Galumphalot frightens Orange during a blackout at Berry Bitty City. While waiting for the lights to come back on, her friends attempt to prove to her that it isn't real.
Episode Review[]
Blueberry is telling a scary story to the baby Berrykin about the Galumphalot. It doesn't scare them, they find it amusing. Orange Blossom joins them, having come to pick up something from the Cafe. Strawberry, who was making the food in question suggests that she stick around to hear the rest of the story. Orange hesitates before quickly taking off.
BB City at night.
Later that night, the girls are at Lemon's salon to have a hair party. Suddenly, all of the power in town goes out. Orange starts to panic and Strawberry theorizes that she may know the cause of it. She heads out to the Berry Works to investigate, and the Berrykin express that one of the power sections must have an error. Mr. Longface comes to help the Berrykin check everything.
Back at the salon, Blueberry suggests they head outside to see if they can help. But Orange is too frightened. She attempts to hide it and Lemon comforts her when she notices. The girls are surprised that she's scared, because normally she is very brave. Orange admits that it was Blueberry's story that scared her, leading Blueberry to apologize. The book came from the fiction section though, it isn't real. This doesn't help Orange feel any better and she refuses to budge. Raspberry tries to assure her that everything is okay- because she's been in the dark a lot of times and has yet to see one. Blueberry remarks on the silliness of the whole thing, and suddenly they hear a loud sound that startles them.
The sound is revealed to be the cause of a Berrykin with a giant screwdriver. When the sound stops, Blueberry assures her friends that everything is fine, just for another strange sound to start.
BB City at night (w/Mr. Longface).
Back at the Works, Mr. Longface suggests they bring in the big bolt remover.
By now the girls are beginning to worry that a Galumphalot is approaching, causing them to seek a hiding spot.
Strawberry returns to the Works to ask them for an update. Mr. Longface claims they will need to remove the entire thing, then rebuild it. Strawberry mentions that the Berrykin might not need his help with that, until she sees how sad he looks, causing her to suggest that he updates everyone about the power outage. He agrees and takes off, and the Berrykin quickly realize that the issue is a segment that needs to be fixed. Once they get it opened, they pull out a strawberry that somehow fell in. It was jamming the Works.
Back at the salon, the power is still out because the light switch was flipped down. Raspberry asks if the Galumphalot plans to come there next when Plum wonders if it could be hungry. Orange starts to get worried it might eat food that tastes like them but Blueberry scoffs at the idea. She's never read anything like that. She ends up getting scared however, recalling that she's also never read anything that said Galumphalots DON'T eat food that tastes like them.
Just then they hear a commotion outside, a trap that landed on Mr. Longface. The girls realize it came from Orange's store and they observe through the window on the salon door. They need to stay there to defend it; although, Plum suggests that it might be smarter to run and hide. Blueberry determines that they should set up some booby traps for the monster. Plum gets a bucket of water and opens the door just slightly to put the bucket on top of it. Blueberry suggests that they knock the Galumphalot off balance, and Lemon realizes she has a mixture perfect for the job, so she starts smearing it on the floor. The girls then determine a way to get rid of the Galumphalot by releasing a very tightly pulled rope made of their hair elastics.
They watch as the monster approaches, and Lemon panics after the monster addresses her. Mr. Longface barely manages to free himself from Orange's trap and he steps into the salon, causing the bucket to fall onto his head. He slips on the gel layering the floor and the girls manage to throw him outside. The girls cheer triumphantly, but then Orange asks what they should do when it returns.
Strawberry wonders why her friends haven't shown up yet, considering things are fixed now. Mr. Longface reappears with a bucket over his face, and he trips on a tool he couldn't see. He explains that a Galumphalot was at Lemon's, not realizing it was him the girls mistook for the monster. The Berrykin try to assure him it's not real, but he claims it was. They need to do something to save the others, and he asks if anyone has a plan. The Berrykin fetch their butterfly nets, but Mr. Longface disapproves of because they are too small. They run off and get slightly bigger nets, which he does approve of. With that they head off in search of the monster.
Meanwhile, Raspberry is listening when she hears the Berrykin making noises, causing the girls to worry that there might be more than one Galumphalot. Strawberry arrives to calm them down and the girls realize what they heard were the Berrykin. She ask why the Salon's lights were off and reveals that everything is fine now. Lemon realizes that someone must have turned the light switch down and Orange apologizes, feeling that she is to blame for causing everyone to get frightened. Strawberry assures Orange that Galumphalot isn't really there by saying that if its not there in the light, it won't be there at night. If she can imagine the Galumphalot being scary, then she can imagine it being funny too.
The girls return inside of the salon and Lemon offers to continue with their plans, only for her to accidentally bump the light switch. Everyone panics momentarily and she quickly turns it back on and apologizes.
The next day everyone is shown hanging out together at the Gazebo and a small montage occurs with a song. The episode ends with everyone heading to the Berry Works.
Quotes[]
- Orange: I'm afraid of the things that might be out there in the dark.
- Lemon: Things? What things? Uh, like the moon and stars?
- Orange: Things like... well... Galumphalots!
- Raspberry, Lemon, Plum, Blueberry: (gasp) Woogie, woogie, woogie! Woogie, woogie, woogie!
- (Orange is scared)
- Blueberry: Okay guys, stop, she's serious!
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- Raspberry: Out there...
- Plum: Outside...
- Orange: In the... dark!
- Blueberry: Oh c'mon, this is silly!
- (they scream when they hear squeaking)
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- (the girls hear strange noise from outside - the noise made by the Berrykins who are fixing the power)
- Lemon: Do you think... t-t-that's one of... them?
- Orange: Uh-huh!
- Blueberry: Now wait a minute! How can we be sure that's a Galumphalot?
- Plum: Yeah! I thought they'd sounded more like... woogie, woogie, woogie!
- Orange: Well, w-whatever it is, let's keep it outside and... and... and us inside!
- Blueberry: Wait!
- (it becomes quiet)
- Blueberry: See, it stopped. Galumphalot...(sneers) there's no such thing!
- (the strange noise sounds again. The girls are frightened)
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- (the Berrykins fail to open the pipe)
- Mr. Longface: Oh. Stubborn, eh? Well, nothing left to do but disassemble this entire juice pipe junction and rebuild it from the ground up.
- (the Berrykins seem to disapprove of the idea)
- Strawberry: You know, Mr. Longface, the Berrykins might be able to find the way to get the pipe open on they're own.
- Mr. Longface: (slightly offended) Without my leadership? But then... what will I do?
- Strawberry: I have another job that is berry important.
- Mr. Longface: (gasps) You don't say? At your service, Ms. Shortcake. How can I help?
- Strawberry: We need someone to tell everyone in Berry Bitty City that the Berrykins are working on the problem, and the power will be out for a bit longer. You are just the caterpillar to deliver the news.
- Mr. Longface: That I am! I'm on my way! (leaves)
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- Plum: Let me handle it. I'm a pro at this.
- (Plum grabs a bucket)
- Plum: First, get one bucket of water
- (Plum fills the bucket with soap water. Then she opens the door)
- Lemon, Orange, Blueberry, Raspberry: NO!!!
- Plum: It's the only way!
- (Plum grabs a chair and puts the bucket of water on top of the door)
- Plum: When the Galumphalot comes in... whammo!
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- Raspberry: Aha!
- Orange: Whatcha got?
- Raspberry: A headache, I think I'm thinking too hard...
- Orange: Wait, I have it! Anyone have a hair elastic?
- Lemon: I do!
- Raspberry: Right here!
- Plum: I got a couple!
- Blueberry: I got one!
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- Mr. Longface: Lemon, are you in there?
- Lemon: It knows my name!
- Lemon, Raspberry, Plum, Blueberry: GALUMPHALOT!
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- Strawberry: WAIT! What's going on? (looks at Lemon's Salon) Lemon, why are the lights in your salon still out? The Berrykins fixed the juice pipe junction a while ago!
- Lemon: The power's back on? (turns on the lights in her salon) Oh, bitter berries, I had the lights switched off. Sorry girls!
- Strawberry: What is this all about?
- Plum: There was a Galumphalot.
- Raspberry: And we booby trapped it.
- Blueberry: But it came back!
- The Berrykins: No! That was us!
- Mr. Longface: (clears his throat) And um... me, I'm afraid!
- Strawberry: But it's just a story!
- Berrykin #1: Woogie, woogie, woogie!
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- Strawberry: The Galumphalot story! You should stick around to hear the end.
- Orange: Ah, n-no thank you. The beginning and the middle are enough for me.
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- Orange: On the count of three. One... two...
- Blueberry: On three? Or after you say three?
- Raspberry: Oh! You know I was wondering the same thing.
- Lemon: Me too. I'd hate for you to run out on three, and I was left waiting here for you to say three.
- Plum: Maybe we can go out on four. Four's a good number.
Lessons[]
Orange learns that not all stories are true and that she shouldn't let her imagination get the best of her. She also learns that talking to someone is usually all it takes to feel better, and she shouldn't have assumed the others would make fun of her.
Trivia[]
- Plum wore her hair down almost the entire episode, except for the ending.
- The episode title is a pun on the idiom "There is nothing to fear but fear itself".
Goofs[]
- When the Berrykin remove the bucket from Mr. Longface's head, his hat isn't on. A moment later, the hat is on his head.
External links[]
- Nothing to Fear But Berries Themselves at the Internet Movie Database