Apple and Sour have a little prank war and end up in trouble, which turns into the two girls becoming friends, much to everyone's relief until Apple starts behaving mean like Sour.
Episode Review[]
At the café, Sweet and the cousins are doing an assembly line of dog biscuits preparation. Apple comments they look more like cookies. Strawberry chuckles agreeing with her cousin. She explains though that these dog biscuits are safe for people to eat as well; the only difference is that the biscuits are not sweet but savory-flavored, since that's what dogs like. Sweet chimes in saying that the icing is made from sweet potato, without sugar. Apple decides to have a taste, just as Sour enters. It wasn't a minute before Sour decides to mock Apple for eating a dog biscuit. Embarrassed, Apple covers her face and shuts down as her cousin tells Sour that there is nothing wrong about eating those as they are made out of all the same ingredients of a sweet potato cracker. She further explains that she and Sweet also tasted them and she offers Sour to have a taste. Disgusted at the idea of eating dog food... like some people she knows, Sour's mockery increases as she passive aggressively declines Strawberry's offer while panting at both cousins. Having enough with Sour's nonsense Strawberry assigns the former to take a package to the post office as she tells her off for taking it too far. When told to apologize, Sour gives Apple a rude apology as she leaves the cafe, snickering mockingly, much to the cousins' dismay.
At Blueberry's store, Blueberry, Lemon, Cherry, and the twins discuss a mystery book. Apple enters, bringing muffins and spiced hot cider from Strawberry. Sweet thanks her, but as Apple is asking if she can pour some of the cider for them, Sour does a dog imitation and pants and barks at her. Sweet facepalms while Apple grows silent. Meanwhile the other girls have no idea why Sour is behaving this way: Cherry asks her if she is turning into a werewolf. Sour reveals that Apple ate dog food, humiliating the latter while her sister explains to the other girls that Apple only tried a sweet potato dog biscuit. Sour bursts into rude laughing. Blueberry scolds Sour for her rudeness and warns her if she doesn't cut the act, she will be asked to leave. Again, Sour "apologizes". Apple angrily leaves. The four girls just as disgusted, glare at Sour.
Next morning, Apple is practicing her French Horn with Cherry. Apple stops playing when she sees Sour passing by, and barks at her. Cherry chides Sour for interrupting the lesson. Sour "apologizes" and leaves. Apple, fed up by Sour's mockery, explains to Cherry that back when she visited the Berry Big Outback, after being insulted three times - you have to defend your honor. Cherry comments she is unsure if it applies to Berry Bitty City. Nonetheless, Apple leaves the music lesson, planning to pay Sour back.
Later on, Sour, Orange, Cherry, and Apple are in Lemon Salon. Lemon washes Sour's hair, while the other girls wait for their turn. Apple snickers while she pretends to read her magazine. Sour compliments Lemon on the new shampoo. Lemon is confused, for she has been using the same shampoo for weeks. She smells the bottle and frowns: it smells like sandalwood, but is supposed to be lavender! Apple snickers even more. Lemon takes another bottle with a dog label on it, smells it, then asks how did dog shampoo get into the bottle she has just used to wash Sour's hair. Knowing who could have done that, Cherry glares at Apple suspiciously. Apple breaks out laughing and sneers that Sour likes to have her hair washed with dog shampoo - followed by a good dusting of flea powder! Sour gasps and screams in rage.
What is Sour up to?
That night, Sour does something with a saw. She chuckles slyly as she finishes.
The next morning, Apple comes to the café, asking for her usual. Sweet points at the table. Strawberry says that Sour prepared a special table, and that was nice of her only to find out she was sadly mistaken. As Apple sits, a hand puppet comes out of the plate. Apple recoils in fear and falls off the chair. Sour emerges from under the table, the puppet on her hand, laughing at Apple. Apple glares at Sour as she lifts the plate whose bottom is missing, revealing a hole in tablecloth, much to Strawberry's shock. As Strawberry lifts the tablecloth she sees a revealing matching hole in the table, and is enraged at the damages Sour caused to her property.
Splash!!
Next day, the annual croquet tourney is held. Sour is competing with Sweet, Orange and, Plum. The other girls, several Berrykins and Princess Berrykin watch the game. The Queen of Berryvania sits next to the Princess. Apple emerges from behind a bush. She connects a barrel to the watering system, then presses a switch on the control panel... one of the sprinklers emerges from the ground and sprays what is meant for Sour, but also at Sweet, with Sparkleberry goop. Apple is so smug that her prank worked, that she leans her hand on the panel, unintentionally turning the pressure knob to maximum. As a result, the other sprinklers come out of the ground and spray the goop all over the field. When Apple realizes what she did, she tries to shut off the sprinklers, but it is too late: all the girls and Berrykins get soaked, including the royal guest. Before Apple is done turning off the sprinklers, she ends up getting busted.
Sometime later, Sour and Apple are put on trial. Strawberry announces the charges, and the other seven girls officiate as jury. Strawberry thanks the princess and the queen (who are busy wiping their faces) for their testimony how they got covered with the goop at the croquet, then describes what happened at the croquet, and the damaged table at the Cafe - all due to the prank war between Apple and Sour. Strawberry asks the jury if they reached a decision. Cherry declares the verdict: Apple and Sour will spend the weekend camping at Berry Beautiful Meadow... alone, together, much to the two culprits' horror.
Strawberry and Sweet take their respective relatives to the meadow with Plum and Orange joining them. Once the girls reach the meadow, Strawberry tells Sour and Apple they cannot come back earlier than sunset, and Sweet begs them to try get along, before all four girls leave the culprits to their devices. Sour and Apple are reluctant by this, and mark a line in the ground as a border, each stays in her part. Later, Sour fixes herself a meal, while Apple has nothing better to eat than a snack bar. Sour has difficulties setting up her tent and blowing her mattress, while Apple does it easily. Next morning, Apple's stomach rumbles, while Sour can feel her back cracking.
At evening, Sour cooks dinner, when a rustling in nearby flowers frighten her. In fear, she accidentally throws the meal on the ground. Apple approaches from a different direction, without any mischievous look. Sour blames her. Apple apologizes. Sour shrugs and makes another meal. Apple wants to say something but hesitates. Once Sour encouraging her impatiently to speak up, Apple finally suggests a bargain: she will set up Sour's tent and blow her mattress if Sour makes a meal and dessert for her. Sour gladly agrees. They eat separately, but compliments each other. Later they sit by the campfire, speaking about the mutual pranks. Sour takes responsibility for starting the feud and apologizes - this time, sincerely. They agree that they should make up for the damage they caused the other girls - by not playing any more pranks.
Apple and Sour return. Strawberry, Sweet and Cherry, who have been waiting for them, are surprised and delighted to see them walk together, giggling. Strawberry comments that getting the two to spend time together worked better than she thought.
Next day, Apple comes to the cafe. She apologizes to Sweet and Strawberry for not being around to help with the dog biscuits, and for the troubles she caused. Strawberry is glad that she and Sour worked things out. Apple says Sour is cool, wishing she could cook like her. Strawberry suggests that Apple helps them by baking her own biscuits. Sweet say they will help Apple with the basic recipe, and she can add whatever ingredients she wants that dogs will like.
Apple gives Tea Time a carrot-flavored biscuit that she made herself, her own recipe. That night, Apple packs biscuits for Scouty, Marmalade and Chiffon, she notices Tea Time walking outside. She follows him and watches how he drops the biscuit into a hole. Next morning, she tells Sour tearfully what happened, that she must be a terrible cook, and cannot gives the pups the biscuits she made for them - they probably won't like them either. Sour offers to give her crash cooking lesson, but she must follow orders and pay attention. At first Apple fumbles with the cooking, Sour keeps chiding her (later Apple chides herself), but finally manages to cook tasty biscuits. Sour compliments her "you are a natural chef". Though Apple may not be aware of that, she is taking Sour's instruction quite literally by copying her attitude, such as her discontentment "Oh, great! Just great!" and contentment "I knew it! I'm brilliant!".
At the book club meeting, Sweet asks "How could sweet Pat Primrose be so... so beenish?". Sour says that people always have a dark side. Lemon comments that Sweet does not have a dark side, and they smile at each other. Apple arrogantly enters, bringing a cider and a basket of popovers, which is similar to how Sour would enter a room. She asks in a tone that sounds suspiciously like Sour's "Who done it?". Sour answers that they are only at chapter four, and some people do not like to skip to the end. Blueberry frowns at the quip that was meant for her. Apple sassily asks that the big mystery is: why do they sit every week wondering about it, instead of finishing the book at home? The girls look at her puzzled, and Sour bursts out laughing "Ouch! That was pretty good!". Apple offers Cherry a popover, declaring she made it herself with Sour's help, who taught her everything she knows. Sour looks smug to hear that. When Cherry reaches to take one, Apple pulls the basket back and says "Psych", laughing to Cherry's astonished face. Then she says "Just kidding" and give Cherry a popover. Cherry eats
and compliments Apple. Apple exclaims "I knew it! I'm brilliant!". After making several more snide comments, she leaves. The girls look accusingly at Sour, much to her discomfort. Sweet whispers to Lemon that she was right about the dark side. Lemon demands Sour an explanation of what she taught Apple. Sour says she only gave Apple a cooking lesson, and she has natural talent. Blueberry says there was nothing natural about Apple's recent attitude. Sweet tells Sour that Apple is acting like a "Sour Apple."
At Lemon's salon, Sour rudely complains her nail polish chipped in one day. Lemon reminds Sour that she told her to wait till it was dry, but she was too impatient. After glancing over at what Sour's doing, Apple gives Lemon the same attitude, much to her horror. Strawberry and Cherry are just as stunned and disgusted, while Sour approves of this. Strawberry asks her cousin what has gotten into her. In the most arrogant way possible, Apple answers that she learned to cook in one day, but Lemon needs to go back to beauty school for like... forever! To add more insult to the injury, Apple calls Lemon's salon a chop shop and leaves. Sour realizes what she turned Apple into as she chuckles nervously, knowing she's in hot water.
Later on, Apple gets a call from Lemon, offering her a free make-over. Apple haughtily agrees and heads back to the salon. The makeover Apple will be getting is a reality check. The girls tell Apple that they liked how she was before, sweet and nice. Apple admits she acted rudely to get Sour to like her more. Sour reveals that she also misses the old Apple and she really doesn't want Apple to act like her... just cook like her. Sour even jokingly states that one meanie at Berry Bitty City is enough and maybe the old Apple can give her a crash course... in friendliness. Apple realizes her mistakes and she hugs Sour. Everyone is glad that Apple is back to her normal self.
As the twins and the cousins exit the salon, Apple sees Henna and Marmalade bury the biscuits she made for them. She is sad, thinking the pups dumped the biscuits because they did not like them, like Tea Time did. Sweet and Strawberry assure her the pups bury the biscuits for later - and that means they like them, which is the best compliment dogs can make. Sour adds that Tea Time likes Apple's cooking, even before Sour showed her everything she knows, and the girls laugh.
Quotes[]
(at the Book Club meeting, Sour mocks Apple again by making a dog imitation. Cherry, Blueberry and Lemon have no idea why Sour acts that way)
Cherry: Sour, are you turning into a werewolf?
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(Cherry is teaching Apple to play a French horn)
Cherry: That's coming along nicely, Apple. Once more, please.
(Apple continues playing. Sour stops her scooter nearby. When Apple notices her, she plays a wrong note, lowering her gaze)
Cherry: That's OK, try and relax.
(Cherry turns backwards to Sour)
Cherry: Hi, Sour. Can we help you?
(Sour makes barking sounds, then bursts out laughing)
Cherry: (glaring) Sour! Stop your teasing. Can't you see we're having a lesson?
Sour: (sarcastically) Sorry! (normally) Just kidding!
(Sour continues on her way)
Apple: (angrily) That's the last pineapple!
Cherry: You mean "the last straw"?
Apple: Uh, yeah, sorry, on Berry Bountiful Island, they say "last pineapple," but straw... pineapple... whatever! It's on, now!
(Apple packs her belongings and starts walking away)
Cherry: Apple, where are you going? You were doing so well with your arpeggios.
Apple: My arpeggios can wait. In the Berry Big Outback, if someone insults you three times, you're required to defend your honour!
(Apple walks away fuming)
Cherry: Uhh...I'm not sure what is required in Berry Bitty City, but I don't think it's that.
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(Cherry gasps)
Apple: (Chuckles for a bit) Didn't you all know? Sour likes to wash her hair with dog shampoo, followed by a good dusting of flea powder.
(Sour gasps before screaming in rage)
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Apple: (whimpering) He doesn't like my biscuits. I must be a terrible cook. What'll I do? I can't give the other pups biscuits I made them. They won't like them either.
Sour: What if... I gave you a crash course in cooking?
Apple: Really? Would you Sour?
Sour: But you have to be serious and pay attention and follow orders.
Apple: I promise!
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(Sour gives Apple a cooking lesson)
Sour: First, a cup of flour.
(Sour pours the flour into a bowl)
Sour: Then, a teaspoon of salt.
(Sour pours salt on the teaspoon)
Apple: (memorizing aloud) Cup of flour, teaspoon of salt.
(Sour turns her head backwards. The salt shaker slips from her hand into the bowl, its entire contents is spilt)
Sour: (angrily) Oh, great! Just great!
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Apple: Cup of oil... (pours oil into a bowl) ...teaspoon of paprika... (pours powdered paprika into a bowl). ...teaspoon of lemon juice... (squeezes slice of lemon and it slips from her fingers) oh, great! Just great!
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Sour (tastes a soup she made): I knew it! I'm brilliant!
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Apple (tastes a brownie cake she made): I knew it! I'm brilliant!
(Sour also tastes it)
Sour: Mmmm! You are! You are a natural chef Apple!
Apple: Really Sour?
Sour: But I thought you everything you know!
(Apple and Sour burst out laughing)
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(at Blueberry's Books)
Sweet: Oh no. I mean... How could Sweet Pat Primrose be so... so... fiendish!
Sour: People always have a dark side Sweet.
Lemon: Sweet doesn't have a dark side.
(Apple enters into a bookstore)
Blueberry: Hi Apple!
Lemon: Glad to see you!
Apple: Whatever. Brought you cider. So who done it?
Sour: Who knows. We are only at chapter four. Some people don't like to skip to the end.
Apple: You wanna know the real mystery? Is that you all sit here every week wondering about it instead of finishing the book at home.
Sour: Hahaha! Ouch! That was pretty good!
Apple (to Cherry): Have a popover. I made them myself. Sour helped me. She taught me everything I know.
(Sour smiles smugly. As Cherry reaches for the basket, Apple pulls it back)
"Psyche!"
Apple: Psyche! (bursts out laughing in Cherry's astonished face) No, here, just kidding (giving Cherry a popover)
Apple: I knew it! I'm brilliant! (puts the basket on the table) Catch you later. Gotta go visit with my REAL friends.
(Apple walks away chuckling)
Lemon: See you!
Apple: Not if I see you first!
(Apple leaves. Lemon, Sweet, Cherry and Blueberry look accusingly at Sour)
Sour: What?
Sweet: (whispers to Lemon) You were right about the dark side.
Lemon: (to Sour) What did you do to her?
Sour: Just gave her a cooking lesson. And she is a natural.
Blueberry: There was nothing natural about that! Nothing naturally... Apple.
Sweet: (points at Sour) She's acting like... like you! Oh no! She's a... Sour Apple!
(Everyone but Sour looks at each other with shock)
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(at Lemon's salon)
Sour: You know, the last time Lemon my polish chipped in one day. Maybe a free makeover is in order?
Lemon: (talks to Sour while applying polish on Apple's fingernails) Well, I did want you to wait to dry, but you rushed out of here.
Sour: I don't have time for slow-drying polish.
Lemon: (sighs) It's normal drying but...
Apple: Hey! Beauty Betty! Are you paying attention to what you're doing?
Lemon: Wh... what did you say?
Apple: You got polish on my fingertip. Do you think you can keep it on the nail or do we need to get you connecting dots?
(Lemon gasps, horrified, and speechless at Apple's attitude)
Sour: (smiles) Wow...
Strawberry (disgusted): Apple, what's gotten into you?
Apple: What's gotten into ME? Hmmm, I think I learned to cook in one day, but Lemon needs to go back to beauty school for like... forever.
(Lemon is even more shocked. Even Sour is shocked.)
Sour: Apple...
Apple: I've had it with this chop shop. Good luck, good riddance and goodbye!
(Apple leaves. Sour chuckles nervously)
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Sour: (laughing) Don't you think one meanie in Berry Bitty City is enough?
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(the final scene: the cousins, and the twins exit the salon. They see Marmalade and Henna burying biscuits in the ground)
Apple: Hey! That's what Tea Time did with my biscuit. (saddened) He didn't like it.
Strawberry: Ho, no. They're saving them for later.
Sweet: To a pup, that's the highest compliment.
Apple: You mean...?
Sour: Yup. Tea Time loves your cooking, just the way it was, even before I taught you everything you know.
(the girls burst out laughing)
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Lessons[]
Apple's idea to pay Sour back only made things worse, similarly to what happened in "Too Cool for Rules", and it caused great inconvenience to the other girls and the Berrykins too. She should have asked the other girls to make Sour stop taunting her.
Apple learns that people like her for who she is and she doesn't need to change for anyone.
Sour sees her own behavior mirrored in Apple's behavior. At first she likes it, but when Apple insults Lemon badly, Sour realizes how bad of an influence she was, and helped the other girls make Apple return to her normal self. Sour learns that her behavior can be offensive and hurt other people's feelings, and that prompts her to improve her behavior, as seen in the next episode.
The final appearance of Princess Berrykin, Henna, Marmalade, and Tea Time Turtle.
The only Season 4 episode in which Henna and Marmalade appear.
The only time that Sour and Apple ride scooters.
That makes Sweet the only Berry girl who does not have a scooter.
Sour and Apple agreed to make up for their deeds by refraining from performing any further pranks. That was not enough: making up for damage must be an active deed, not passive avoidance from doing more damage. They should have thought of a way to compensate the ones they hurt: Strawberry - for the damage to her property, the other Berry girls, Berrykins and the royal guest - for the public embarrassment at the croquet field. It is unknown if they compensated too.
The first time that Berry girls are put on trial.
The only episode in which Apple plays music.
It is Tea Time's fifth and last appearance in Season 4.
He appears in this season more times than all the other pets, who appear only in two episodes at most, or not at all.
Goofs[]
In view of Apple's rudeness, Sweet whispers to Lemon "you were right about the dark side." Actually, it was not Lemon but Sour who commented earlier that "people always have a dark side." Sweet should have said "Sour was right about the dark side."
In the final scene, Sour tells Apple that she was wrong about Tea Time - burying the biscuit Apple made for him did not mean he didn't like it. Why didn't Sour explain that to Apple before, when the latter first told her what happened?
