Plum decides to hold a dance recital at Strawberry's Café Cabaret stage and sends out a stack of invitations. She forgets, however, to check the sign-up sheet at the Café and schedules it for the same night as Blueberry is scheduled to read to the baby Berrykins. Strawberry tells Plum she cannot hold the recital in the Café on her chosen day because the Café is booked.
While at Orange's general store to pick up a package, Berrykin Bloom chats with Orange about the pogostick he gave her to help her reach the upper shelves. She is very appreciative. He ends up getting a package of special berry seeds he ordered, not the vacation magazine Orange thought he came for. He explains how the seeds were a better purchase because of all the benefits to the Berryworks but now he can no longer afford a vacation.
Strawberry is at Orange's store to mail a birthday card to a friend in Big Bitty City. Just after she drops the card into the mail slot, an ill postal carrier bee sneezes sending envelopes and post cards flying in all directions. The two girls help Jadeybug, a postal clerk, and Postmaster Bee gather up the strewn letters and the ill bee gets sent home from work.
Blueberry ordered some Zippy Gro daisy seeds and planted them in her garden. She is surprised that they've sprouted in less than a day despite their descriptive moniker. Strawberry comes by to admire them and Blueberry is reminded that the new cookbook Strawberry ordered has arrived. Strawberry is excited to try out the new corn muffin recipe, as its level of difficulty will be a challenge for her. Strawberry follows the muffin recipe, mixes the ingredients, and double checks it.
It's a busy day at Lemon's salon, a charming place that is more than just a hair salon it's one of favorite places for Strawberry and her friends to relax and socialize. All the girls are getting their hair done for the gala grand opening of Mr. Longface's new lawn-bowling and croquet club. They're spirited and laughing and chatting and having a great time, as Lemon runs from one of her friends to the next, doing hair and nails, serving tea and cookies.
Strawberry Shortcake's friends watch her with wide eyes as she everrrrr-so-gently squirts a layer of blueberry smoothie into a tall glass, trying to not disturb the five other multi-colored layers beneath it. It's her tenth attempt to create the world's first Rainbow Smoothie! She has even painted one wall of her café rainbow colors in honor of the soon-to-be new item on the menu. No one dares breathe for fear of spoiling the delicate touch of a master smoothie-squirter at work.
At the next Storytime, Strawberry is going to read a new poem. We see her at the podium as she finishes writing it, one afternoon when no one else is in the café except Custard and Pupcake. Strawberry clears her throat and reads the poem aloud. It's a simple, sweet rhyme about the magic of making wishes on falling stars. She tries a few different rhymes as she goes, noting them on her paper. She is startled to hear applause from Mr. Longface Caterpillar who has heard her recital.
Strawberry and Orange are dangling their legs in the stream when something tickles Orange's foot. She is sent squealing from the water, certain an eel is after her. Strawberry good-naturedly chuckles at her antics. But Orange gets her dander up and wades into the water to face her "attacker." When she looks down into the water, gazing up at her is the cutest, most adorable, puffy-cheeked fish she's ever seen. It's love at first sight. Orange has to take him home.
From the BerryWorks to Strawberry's Café, everyone is excited about who will win this year's Spring Flower Festival! Berry Bitty City is decorated with colorful banners proclaiming the big event. Lemon works the hardest. For weeks she has watered her violets by day and sung to them at night, doing everything she can to win first prize. With the contest just a day away, Lemon is at her garden early.
To convince the dance-averse Huckleberry to attend the big masquerade ball at the dog park, Blueberry promises she'll stay by his side the whole evening and make sure he doesn't have to dance. But as the day of the ball dawns, Blueberry awakens with a bad cold. She doesn't know how to tell Huck that she can't go to the ball. Lemon and Raspberry misinterpret her sniffles, thinking she's so heartbroken to be disappointing Huck that she's crying!
The girls plan a formal afternoon lawn party tea to inaugurate their new dog park. Plum is in charge of decorations, Cherry music, and Strawberry snacks. There's even a giant, dog-shaped ice sculpture. As the girls get dressed, Raspberry puts the finishing touches on the high-fashion hats that will accompany their beautiful gowns. At last everything is ready. But when the gate opens... the puppies back away!
The girls are driven to distraction by their frisky puppies frolicking all over Berry Bitty City! Full of energy and thinking that everything in town is a toy for them to play with, they cause comical mayhem wherever they go. Strawberry suggests the pups need a place of their own where they can play, a dog park! The girls decide to call in Huckleberry, who runs an animal hotel in Berry Big City, to help design the park.
Cherry Jam is being driven to distraction! She can't finish a song that she promised to write for a singing group, thanks to the earsplitting noise from Berrykin construction crews who are trying to find the sparkleberry juice blockage that has shut down the town's power. Strawberry can't cook in the café, Lemon's hair salon appliances are running out of control-life in Berry Bitty City is impossible!
Orange wants to spend the day teaching her puppy to fetch, but the frisky little gal doesn't seem to understand the "retrieve" part of the activity-as soon as she gets the ball, she runs out of sight and returns moments later without it. Orange gets a new ball and tries again, with the same results. Over and over, until Orange is out of balls. Puzzled and frustrated that she can't find where her pup has stashed them, she goes to enlist her friends to help her search.
Blueberry and Huck turn the Baby Berrykins' favorite fairy tale, "The Littlest Berrykin," into a comedy play. They pitch it to director Plum and the assembled cast and crew using a large storybook. As Huck and Blueberry narrate the story, we push in on the book and its illustrations transition into animation. In the story, the King and Queen of the Berry Patch (played by Huck and Blueberry) are retiring to the tropics.
The Baby Berrykins are enthralled by a fairytale that Blueberry reads to them for Story Time. Charmed by their reaction, Strawberry suggests that the girls do a "berrytale play" for the kids, sort of a "Story Time On Stage." Plum volunteers to direct it. She envisions a small, simple production-until she hears about a gigantic production of "Snowberry and the Seven Berrykins" that's a smash hit in Berry Big City.
When Huckleberry and Blueberry's Patti Persimmon-style mystery story is rejected by an online mystery magazine, Blueberry and Huck have to come up with a new way to raise support for Huckleberry's Hotel for Homeless Pets back in Berry Big City. Strawberry suggests they hold a big dog show! Plum makes over-ambitious plans to display talents that her dog does not quite have, trying to teach him complicated dance routines.
Blueberry is disappointed in the girls' lack of enthusiasm for the Patti Persimmon mystery novels, her favorite book series. She finds herself missing the company of her fellow Persimmon fan Huckleberry, and thinks up a great way to get him to visit. She invites Huck to co-write a story with her to submit to an online mystery magazine.. Huck eagerly accepts and comes for a visit.
Berrykins Ed and Earl report to Princess Berrykin and Strawberry that they are certain there is a monster in the berry patch! They saw something with many noses and many tails making weird noises in the bushes. But upon further investigation by Strawberry and her friends, it is discovered that friendly boy Huckleberry Pie was driving his pet-mobile of orphan dogs through the countryside, took a wrong turn and got stuck near Berry Bitty City.
It appears winter is finally coming to an end and Raspberry is planning a big fashion show to display her spring line. Her vision is to have the girls model her fashions in a parade past the town fountain. What she didn't realize is that the Berrykins are turning the fountain into a big water show. Every time the girls come to rehearse, they must comically dodge jets of fruit juice from the out-of-control fountain-the Berrykins are still working out the bugs.