Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade

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| writer = Romeo Muller

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| director = Fred Wolf
Kohsei Ohtani{{Cite episode |title=Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City |credits=Wolf, Fred (director); Muller, Romeo (writer) |network=Syndication |airdate=April 9, 1982}}

| starring = Romeo Muller
Russi Taylor
Robert Ridgely

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| theme_music_composer = Mark Volman
Howard Kaylan
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| language = English

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| producer = Romeo Muller
Fred Wolf
Tomoh Fukumoto

| editor = Rich Harrison

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| runtime = 23 minutes

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Those Characters from Cleveland (uncredited)

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Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade is an American animated television special from 1982, made by Romeo Muller, Robert L. Rosen and Fred Wolf, and the third featuring the American Greetings character, Strawberry Shortcake.

Synopsis

Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade tells of Strawberryland's Second Annual Grand Old Petable Pet Show and Pet Parade. Strawberry and her cat, Custard, are its judges. The Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes try to enter their pets and frame her for cheating.

Cast

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Russi Taylor	Strawberry Shortcake	rowspan="5"\|
Robert Ridgely	Peculiar Purple Pieman
Joan Gerber{{#tag:ref\|Credited as Joanie Gerber.\|group=nb}}	Soufflé the Skunk
Julie McWhirter	Angel Cake / Custard
Romeo Muller	Mr. Sun / Narrator

Release

Pets on Parade premiered on April 9, 1982 in 100 U.S. cities. It aired on WCBS in New York City and on KTLA in Los Angeles. It was the last Strawberry Shortcake special Muller/Rosen produced.

Reception

In the 1996 edition of Ballantine Books' Video Movie Guide, Mick Martin and Marsha Porter gave the special two and a half stars out of four.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbrO9eGg1GkC&q=Strawberry+Shortcake+-+%22Pets+on+Parade%22|last1=Martin|first1=Mick|last2=Porter|first2=Marsha|title=Video Movie Guide 1996|chapter=Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade|page=215|isbn=0-345-39783-5|year=1995|access-date=October 11, 2010|publisher=Ballantine Books}}