Cherry Berry

Cherry Berry is a female Earth pony with a hot pink coat, Naples yellow mane and tail, purple mountain majesty eyes, and a cutie mark of a pair of cherries. She is unnamed on the show, only being referred to as "Girl Pony" in the credits of the episode Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2, but she is named in merchandise. She shares her design with Berryshine. She has speaking roles in Luna Eclipsed, The Mysterious Mare Do Well, The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, Putting Your Hoof Down, and Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2. Her design is similar to the G1 pony Crunch Berry, named Cherry Berry in the U.K.

Depiction in the series
Cherry Berry is one of the more common background ponies, appearing in nearly two thirds of first-season episodes. She first appears as one of the first background ponies seen upon Twilight Sparkle's arrival in Ponyville in Friendship is Magic, part 1. In Over a Barrel, she appears in Appleloosa, wearing a light brown, brown-banded cowpony hat. In the latter episode, she sometimes appears with the same mane style as Applejack with freckles added on her face. In Hearts and Hooves Day, she hugs Cherry Fizzy in Ponyville Square.

She stands next to a stall in the marketplace in a couple episodes: in Griffon the Brush Off, it is a fruit stall full of apples, and in Call of the Cutie, she openly gestures to the wares in a vegetable stall.

In the episode Winter Wrap Up, she starts as a member of the plant team before switching to the animal team and back again to the plant team before the song begins. A duplicate of hers appears late in the song as a member of the animal team. Much later in the episode, in the ice-carving scene, she is part of the weather team. Also, during the song, a variant of her with a violet mane appears in a corner of the screen twice.

For Nightmare Night in Luna Eclipsed, she is dressed as a bumblebee. Her first spoken line is in this episode, explaining the spider-throwing game to Princess Luna. Her hair, with the bumblebee antennae of her Nightmare Night costume, is seen as a wig in One Bad Apple, during the Babs Seed song. In The Mysterious Mare Do Well, she plummets toward the ground in a ruptured Twinkling Balloon while wearing a pair of pilot's goggles. She gets whisked out of the balloon by the masked pony later dubbed the Mysterious Mare Do Well. Later in the episode, she apologizes after a flower pot drops from her window and almost hits Rainbow Dash. She has another line in The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 as one of Flim and Flam's customers, complaining about the taste of their cider.

During Putting Your Hoof Down, she laments that "showpony business is tough" and Sweetie Drops asks Cherry Berry to tell her one of her jokes, while the two haul cartloads of garbage away from Ponyville. (Her joke starts "a donkey and a mule are stuck on a desert island") She is later seen in line at Sugarcube Corner, and, along with all the others, moves behind Fluttershy after she threatens the line-cutting Shoeshine.

In A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, she appears as a crowd member. In The Crystal Empire - Part 1, she appears shortly after the opening of the Crystal Fair at the Crystal Empire.

In Magic Duel she appears in the crowd after Twilight wins her rematch against Trixie, cheers happily with the town for Twilight, and later watches Twilight's magic performance for the ambassadors for Saddle Arabia. In Sleepless in Ponyville she gets tangled together with Shoeshine and later appears in an argument with Comet Tail over an upturned produce cart.

In Spike at Your Service, she wears the same pair of goggles as in The Mysterious Mare Do Well and walks away with the Twinkling Balloon after Spike loses it, with an annoyed look on her face, implying that she is responsible for the balloon. She wears the goggles and handles the balloon a third time in Magical Mystery Cure.

Cherry Berry makes a brief appearance at the very beginning of My Little Pony Equestria Girls, walking alongside Shoeshine at the Crystal Empire train station.

In Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2, Cherry Berry makes another voiced appearance together with Comet Tail, and appears again later in the episode.

Appearances
Times stated below are approximate and taken from videos available online.

Merchandise
A female Earth pony with Cherry Berry's likeness was released as a mystery pack toy in January 2012. The toy uses the Pinkie Pie mold, but its cutie mark is similar to Cherry Berry's and it features Cherry Berry's color scheme, with the exception of the eye color, which is green in contrast to the show's grayish indigo. Her name comes from the card that accompanies the toy. According to the European toy package, Cherry Berry "is so cheerful". The U.S. mystery pack toy package has a longer description and reads, "CHERRY BERRY is so cheerful all the time!"

A "Royal Wedding" brushable toy named Cherry Berry was displayed in prototype form at the 2012 New York Toy Fair, and was released later in the same year, sometimes with a MiniDVD of Lesson Zero. This brushable toy has Cherry Berry's cutie mark and grayish indigo eyes, and its packaging uses the same design as the character in the show, but with the back portion of her mane duplicated. According to the package, Cherry Berry "thinks that breakfast, lunch and dinner should always be served with a cherry on top!"

She appears in the Comic Con 2011 promotional poster, wearing her aviator cap from The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Spike at Your Service, and Magical Mystery Cure while riding the Twinkling Balloon with Pipsqueak.

Quotes
"Try to land the sp-sp-spiders on the web."

- Luna Eclipsed

"Help! Help!"

- The Mysterious Mare Do Well

"Sorry!"

- The Mysterious Mare Do Well

"I can't get the taste off my tongue!"

- The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000


 * Cherry Berry: Showpony business is tough.
 * Sweetie Drops: Go ahead, try out one of your jokes on me! I laugh at everything!
 * Cherry Berry: Okay, okay, okay. A donkey and a mule are stuck on a desert island.
 * Fluttershy: Eh-hem! Excuse me, would you mind moving your carts so I can pass?
 * Cherry Berry: Yeah, yeah, in a minute, I just wanna finish up this story. And so the donkey says to the mule—
 * Fluttershy: Ahem! Can you move? You're blocking my path.
 * Cherry Berry: Yeah, yeah, in a minute! So, the donkey says to the mule, 'Why don't we build a boat and get off this island?'
 * Fluttershy: When somepony tries to block, show them that you rock!
 * Cherry Berry: And the mule says... Auh! Easy does it, lady! We're moving, okay?
 * Fluttershy: Good!
 * — Putting Your Hoof Down