Princess Power (Western Animation)

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Princess Power is a Netflix CGI preschool show based on the book Princesses Wear Pants and its follow-up Princesses Save The World (both written by Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, who are also executive producers) that came out on January 30, 2023. It was developed for television by Elise Allen and produced by Flower Films and Atomic Cartoons.

The show follows four young princesses from fruit-themed kingdoms called fruitdoms. The main four princesses are artist, fashionista, and musician Rita Raspberry from the Raspberry Fruitdom (voiced by Trinity Jo-Li Bliss), animal lover Kira Kiwi from the Kiwi Fruitdom (voiced by Dana Heath), scientist Penny Pineapple from the Pineapple Fruitdom (voiced by Luna Bella Zamora), and sporty tomboy Bea Blueberry from the blueberry fruitdom (voiced by Madison Calderon) alongside Penny’s cat Miss Fussywiggles (voiced by Alanna Ubach). Whenever a situation arises, the four princesses ring their charm alarms, gather at The Punchbowl Treehouse on Punchbowl Island, and go to wherever they’re needed to help the fruitizens out.

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Absent-Minded Professor: While Penny is very brilliant and has decent social skills, she can sometimes get wrapped up in how she feels or not always think things through.
Absurdly Long Stairway:
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the staircase going up to Delia's tea terrace is rather long. It's at least three long flights of stairs if Penny and Bea's comments are any indication.
- While not as long, the staircase that Rita runs up in during the travel song winds around the entire tree.
Absurd Phobia: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" shows how each of the four princesses has some kind of odd fear:
- For Bea, she develops equinophobia, the fear of being around horses. It's due to how she finds Bernie the horse to be big and intimidating even though he's rather calm.
- For Kira, she has kinemortophobia, the fear of zombies.
- For Penny, she has arachibutyrophobia, the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of her mouth.
- For Rita, she definitely has the more absurd fear of running out of glitter.
Academy of Adventure: While only seen through Rita's pictures, Princess Adventure Academy is considered this. Some of the pictures show off out there science experiments and hybrid animals, suggesting something more about the school.
The Ace: This can definitely apply to all the princesses given how they're incredibly skilled at their special abilities. It's very pronounced in episodes like "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", with Rita's fashion skills repeatedly helping everyone get through the various scenarios in the avocado fruitdom (like wearing light up outfits in the Cave Of Avocadoom).
Ace Pilot: Penny is definitely this given how she's capable of flying her plane with relative ease when doing complex maneuvers. Notably, she's able to do sky writing quickly in the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee".
Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", Rita shows quite the ego in helping Sena with soccer through rigging the game, and doesn't listen to her friends.
Action Fashionista: Rita is the main fashionista of the group, and she's always ready to help others in need with her friends while looking good. In "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", she even says how her fashionistas are fantabulous and functional.
Actionized Adaptation: The show is this to an extent. While still largely down to earth and slice of life like the books, it also adds in some more adventurous stories, notably the Crystal Key Quest arc in season 3.
Actually Pretty Funny: In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", when King Barton and Sir Benedict are too sick to take part in the Blueberry Harvest Hullabaloo, they talk about it in rhyme. Bea initially finds it annoying, but she later finds it funny, though she doesn't want to show it at first.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the books, the Princesses were pretty content with their lifestyles, and were generally pretty optimistic. The show has a much stronger emphasis placed on their self doubt and wondering if they can truly be there for others. It's particularly shown with episodes like "Princess Suggestion Box" and "The Missing Princess", with Penny and Rita in the respective episodes focusing too much on how they failed.
Adaptational Badass: Kira, Rita, and Bea given didn't do much in the original book. In this show, they're much more proactive in taking on any situation, and do a good job in doing so.
Adaptational Comic Relief: Penny is made a bit more scatterbrained and eccentric when compared to the books while Rita is often prone to being overdramatic.Kira, Bea, and even Great Aunt Bussyboots are also given more comical moments.
Adaptational Diversity: The original book mainly focused on Penny, who's a white girl. The sequel book adds more princesses, but outside of Kira being black, they're mostly fair skinned like Penny. In the show, Penny is given a Race Lift due to the pineapple fruitdom being inspired by Puerto Rico. With the kiwi fruitdom being inspired by Brazilian culture, this makes Kira half black and half Hispanic. Rita is from the raspberry fruitdom, which is inspired by South Korean culture. She also later gets a second mom in the form of Queen Olivia, who's from the Indian inspired orange fruitdom. Bea is still a white girl, but she also wears a leg brace (thus making her disabled) and has two dads.
Adaptational Intelligence: While Penny was described in the original book as having some interest in science, she was mainly known for her fashion and didn't show off knowledge all that much. In this series, she explicitly specializes in science and is often prone to showing off what she knows.
Adaptational Location Change: In "Princesses Wear Pants", the princesses gather at Penny's kingdom to talk about the mission at hand. In this show, everyone gathers at Punchbowl Treehouse, a location made for the show.
Adaptational Nice Girl: Great Aunt Bussyboots. In the original book, she showed quite the adherence to old-fashioned values, and thought that Penny wasn't a proper princess if she wore pants. Here's, she's a lot more progressive than her book counterpart and is much nicer as a result.
Adaptation Dye-Job:
- Penny in the books primarily wore pink clothes with some yellow. In the show, it's reversed, where she primarily wears yellow while having pink as a secondary color.
- Kira in "Princesses Save The World" primarily wore green. In the show, she primarily wears purple, but with some pink clothing.
- Rita in "Princesses Save The World" mainly wore reddish pink clothes. While still associated with pink, she also has green as a secondary color.
- Bea in "Princesses Save The World" wore a blue and green outfit. Here, she wears a blue outfit that has some purple.
- Great Aunt Bussyboots wore light purple in the book, while in the show, she wears yellow and green.
Adaptation Expansion: With this being a TV show based on a 2 book series, there would naturally be plenty of new characters and settings introduced. Key among them include other princesses such as Karina, Lila, and Delia, as well as any family members for the fruitdoms created for the show.
Adaptation Personality Change:
- Rita in the series is very energetic and over the top, unlike her book counterpart being more down to earth.
- Similarly, Bea is more impulsive and gung ho about always moving, unlike her book counterpart not being known for being active.
- Kira's book counterpart mainly just stood around, and didn't do much. With this show, she's more mature, down to earth, and very active.
Adapted Out:
- While Penny is mentioned to have parents in the book, they're nowhere to be seen in the show, only vaguely alluded to. She's shown only living with Great Aunt Bussyboots. As for her younger brother Felipe, while he is present, he doesn't live with Penny. He lives on the pineapple farm.
- Outside of Kira, Rita, and Bea, none of the other princesses from the book appear in the show. This affects the show in a few ways:
  - The general plot of "Princesses Save The World" (which has Sabrina Strawberry dealing with crops that aren't growing and getting bees from Penny) is given to Rita in the episode "The Princesses And The Bees".
  - In the episode "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", the person that shows up from the apple fruitdom is Queen Alana Apple, a character created for the show, rather than Princess Alura Apple.
  - Kira in the book had some kind of motorized scooter as her main mode of transportation. In the show, she instead has a motorboat for the sea and her horse Maisie on land.
- The book 5 Minute Princesses is a book that shows condensed versions of various episodes. The adaptions of "Princess Lights Out" and "Princesses Soccer Spectacular" shorten the openings to the point of excluding Karina and Bea's dads respectively.
Adorably Precocious Child: All four main princesses display a certain level of maturity and wisdom mixed with a childlike excitement.
Advertised Extra: Jermaine Fowler voices Kira's father Sir Kaue, and is advertised prominently alongside the other big name actors, indicating a big role. In the actual show, he only has 2 speaking appearances, one of which is a cameo.
Affectionate Nickname:
- Rita is often called "Rita Bear" by her mother Queen Ryung.
- Since Bea calls Sir Benedict "Dad", she calls King Barton "Pop".
- Kira sometimes calls Mr. Scrumples "My teenykin!".
Affectionate Parody: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" is a parody of Scooby-Doo as it's a mystery horror story that's kept fairly lighthearted, but also isn't afraid to get intense. It features a Scooby-Dooby Doors sequence playing during a chase sequence, an elaborate trap, and a monster unmasking that's right out of a classic series episode. The characters are also pretty similar to the Scooby Doo gang. Kira acts like a leader similar to Fred while also being smart like Velma. Penny is also smart like Velma while also acting as The Heart like Scooby. Rita takes after the What's New, Scooby-Doo? incarnation of Daphne in how she's a proactive fashionista who has something ready at hand. Bea fills a similar role to Shaggy in being a bit of comic relief who knows when to take things seriously. Fussy and Mr. Scrumples both take turns in being lovable animal mascots like Scooby.
Ageless Birthday Episode: "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" takes place during Fussy's birthday while "Princess Surprise Party" takes place a week before Bea's birthday, but we don't find out how old either of them are.
Age Lift: In the original book, Penny's younger brother was more obviously a younger boy. In the series, he looks more like a preteen boy.
Aging Would-Be Hipster: King Barton has a moment of this in "Princess Babysitter's Club". He tries too hard to make Bea look great in front Oraida and Oliver by acting like a hip teenager. They both act annoyed by this.
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Captain Reginald reprograms Penny's robot Hermie to serve him. While he has sometimes made things worse in other episodes, it's usually from Penny not fully thinking things through when she programs him to do something. Things only get worse when Hermie's danger zone dial is activated, and he starts shooting out pineapples.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Rita sees that she didn't treat Sena as a real person in "Princess Soccer Spectacular", she acts very desperate when asking her friends for help on how to fix it.
All Girls Like Ponies: Both Kira and later Bea are shown to be pretty fond of their horses, Maisie and Bella, respectively.
Alliterative Name: Many major characters have their first and last names starting with the same letter.
Alliterative Title: Every word in "Princess Processional Professional" starts with the letter P.
All-Loving Hero: All four princesses display a great deal of empathy and compassion towards many of the people that they help.
All There in the Script: The episode "Princess Suggestion Box" shows off four kids who are not named in the episode, but are in the credits. They are Ariana, Camilla, Jayden, and Sebastian. While it's easy to tell who are Ariana and Camilla are ^note , it's not easy for Jayden and Sebastian. ^note
Aloof Ally: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia does try to work with Penny and Rita to stop the monster, but isn't much of a team player since she still bosses them around. She later comes around after hearing about Kira and Bea being in danger.
Alpha Bitch: Delia Dragonfruit definitely embraces this attitude in her debut appearance in "Princess Eco-Chase" with how she smugly says that she's better than the princesses and keeps asserting authority over the grape triplets.
Altar the Speed: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Queen Ryung tells Rita and Omera that the wedding between her and Queen Olivia would either have to be tomorrow or next month given how Olivia is going on tour with her band in a few days that would last a month. They then choose to have it the next day.
Alternate Catchphrase Inflection:
- Generally speaking, whenever Rita excitedly says "Oh oh oh!", it's usually because she's happy about something. In "Princess Soccer Spectacular ", she says it in a more worried tone when she sees that she didn't treat Sena that well when rigging the game in her favor.
- When Queen Ryung calls Rita by the Affectionate Nickname Rita Bear, it's because of how she's proud of her or acting very sweet. In "Princess Royal Wedding", when Rita inadvertently says how Omera ruined everything and sends her off crying, she then calls her Rita Bear in a more solemn tone as she tries to help her calm down and make things right.
Alternate Rainbow: Crossed with Rainbow Lite. In "Princesses Seas The Day", when the girls put their pinkies into the Princess Pathfinder that lights the way to Princess Adventure Academy, it creates a rainbow beam of light composed of their fruitdom colors, pink, purple, yellow, and blue.
Ambiguously Absent Parent:
- Among the main princesses, Penny is the only one whose parents we don't see.
- Delia Dragonfruit doesn't seem to have any parental figures given how she's the only known ruler in the Dragonfruit fruitdom.
Ambiguously Related: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" has Delia talking to an adult woman that looks a lot like an older version of her, implying she's her mother. However, nothing is elaborated on further since they speak formally with each other.
Amphibian Assault: "Princess Garden Party" shows a more lighthearted example of this trope. A bunch of frogs unexpectedly jump onto the balcony of Karina's garden party, and start making a huge mess. After gathering the frogs, Kira says how animals usually only do this when a storm is nearby, which happens right afterwards.
Amusing Injuries: There have been times when Bea goes through some kind of slapstick misfortune, but she comes out of it unscathed. Notable examples include "Princess Processional Professional" (where Bella bucks her off, and she lands on her legs gracefully) and "Princess Bon Voyage" (where she lands on Rita after being launched into the air by a goat, and feels fine).
Anachronism Stew: The technology level in the show is interesting. The existence of news reporter Susie Seedplanter would imply that there's some kind of media involved, either television or radio. However, we never see either of them. The only kinds of technology shown are record players and projectors, with the latter only being used twice to show flashbacks. It seems like the technology is old-fashioned given how characters paint portraits instead of taking pictures. At the same time, the first short in this video has Rita moving some kind of camera that we never see.
And Knowing Is Half the Battle: While morals in the show aren't subtle given the target audience, it's more specifically pronounced in the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", where Kira tells Mr. Scrumples and the audience near the end that she learned how difficult it is to care for an animal.
And the Adventure Continues: Princesses Seas The Day ends with Kira, Penny, Rita, and Bea sailing off for new adventures at Princess Adventure Academy.
Animal Lover: Kira is incredibly compassionate towards animals, often treating them as equals on par with her best friends.
Animals Driving Cars: The short at 2:28 has Fussy and Mr. Scrumples drive Kira's motorboat while she and the other princesses are listening to what Penny is saying.
Animate Inanimate Object: "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" offers a rather unusual take on this. It's about the girls going to the avocado fruitdom as part of the Crystal Key Quest arc. It's there where they meet three inhabitants named Ariel, August, and Azul who each have an avocado named Abe, Ally, and Phil. Even though they're literally just avocados with faces drawn on them and have no body parts, they're somehow capable of moving on their own. Abe takes Bea's hang glider while Ally takes her zipline zapper. It gets really absurd during the climax when Abe flies in, and he literally just touches the giant rock in order to get rid of it.
Animation Bump: While always good from the start, seasons 2-3 would show brighter colors and more fluid shots not seen in season 1. It's particularly shown in scenes when Penny is flying her plane, like in "Princess Bon Voyage", where it moves really fast and smooth while still retaining its aerodynamic look.
Annoying Younger Sibling: "Princess Royal Wedding" shows this in 2 interesting ways:
- While Rita and her soon-to-be younger sister Omera get along pretty well, she does get a bit annoyed by her. It's usually from how Omera's well-intentioned help during the wedding often makes things worse.
- As the girls try to comfort Rita, and gently tell her how she should make things right with Omera after accidentally yelling at her, Kira tells Rita how she was like this with Karina when she was younger. She would unintentionally annoy her in her attempts to be like her due to how much she loved her.
Anthropomorphic Food: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" is about Penny trying to create a big pineapple with a growth spray so that she can win a baking contest. Unfortunately, the pineapple comes to life and starts trying to take the food before eventually becomes huge.
Anti-Villain: This can describe Delia Dragonfruit in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" since she genuinely wants to help her fruitdom, but thinks that working with others is a sign of weakness. The most antagonistic thing she does is smugly send the princesses away through a trap door. Thankfully, we see that she was genuinely trying to help her fruitizens, and despite rough patches, becomes a better person by working with the princesses.
Arc Words: During the Crystal Key Quest arc, the phrase "Sparkle Up" is often said by the girls as they talk about wanting to live up to their full potential as princesses.
Artistic Age: While the princesses look young, around 10-13 years old, and are all voiced by actresses who were under 18 years old when the show started, they definitely seem to be treated as a bit older given the emphasis on them being seen as responsible rulers, their modern attitudes, and how they can do far more than what's expected of them.
Arts and Crafts Episode: The plot of "Princess Creation Station" is about Rita getting help from her friends to make friendship bracelets for all the raspberry fruitdom kids. When seeing that it's too much, she eventually sees that spending personal time with them is better, and creates Royal Raspberry Friendship Day as a way to make them with everyone.
Art Shift: Whenever we see a visualization of Penny and Rita's ideas, which usually involves showing off the girls' heads and some items or locations, they are shown in a 2D picture book style.
Ascended Extra: In "Princesses Save The World", Kira, Rita, and Bea were more just minor characters that didn't contribute much. This series makes them co-protagonists alongside Penny.
Asian and Nerdy: While Rita's intelligence isn't on the same level as Kira and Penny, she can still be seen as this given how she's very good with fashion, and has sometimes used more unconventional knowledge of fashion to help out on adventures.
Assembly Line Fast-Forward: In "Princess Pie Surprise", Penny builds a special conveyor belt oven to help Bea make 50 pies quickly but efficiently. It starts out simply enough, but then it speeds up a lot when Fussy accidentally presses one of the buttons.
As You Know: "The Princesses And The Beanstalk" starts this way as Penny talks to Great Aunt Bussyboots about the four fruitdom drought.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" has a giant pineapple almost as tall as Punchbowl Treehouse cause trouble.
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Fussy can sometimes get distracted by shiny objects. A good example comes from "The Perfect Princess Welcome", where she actually pounces Rita when she sees the berries on her dress glittering.
Attention Whore: Rita does show quite a bit of this in "Princess Soccer Spectacular" with how she's very insistent on trying to make the game easier for Sena moreso to fuel her own ego and be the center of attention in her eyes. She thankfully gets over this.
Author Avatar: As admitted here, Susie Seedplanter is executive producer Savannah Guthrie basically playing herself, a journalist who's always trying to find the right scoop.
Autopilot Artistry: Rita shows this at the beginning of "Princess Campout Stakeout", where she paints a picture while barely looking at the canvas. She says how artists are proud of their work since it often turns out well, even in unexpected ways.
Awesome Moment of Crowning: "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" ends with the four girls getting new crowns as they're now official coronated princesses due to finding sparkleseeds to save the fruitdoms.
Awkward First Sleepover: "Princess Slumber Party" definitely follows this trope given how Bea is afraid to admit that this is her first sleepover.
Babysitter Friendship: "Princess Babysitter's Club" shows how the princesses have a good time looking after Queen Olivia's niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver. Sure, the kids do cause some problems, but they do also genuinely like being around them.
Babysitting Episode: "Princess Babysitter's Club" has Bea and the princesses taking care of Queen Olivia's niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver while she's busy putting on a musical with King Barton.
Back for the Finale: All the princesses' family members appear in "Princesses Seas The Day" ( though Karina is the only one to play a major role) as they see the girls go off to Princess Adventure Academy.
Badass Adorable: The four main princesses are all cute and fashionable, but when trouble arises, they leap into action.
Bad "Bad Acting": Both "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" and "Princess Surprise Party" follow the princesses trying way too hard to hide surprise parties from Fussy and Bea in the respective episodes. For the former, it mainly shows up in the beginning. For the latter, it's most of the whole episode.
Bad Liar: In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Bea is afraid to ride the horse Bernie. In order to get out of doing it, she tries convincing her friends that they should build a horse transport vehicle. She tries really hard to make this sound like a bad idea, but they point out the holes in her logic before asking what's the matter.
Badly Battered Babysitter: In "Princess Babysitter's Club" the princesses ended up being in trouble with Queen Olivia's niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver due to how hyperactive they are.
Bait-and-Switch:
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has two of these:
  - It seems like Penny won't help out with the Hullabaloo when she tells everyone to go back to the blueberry fruitdom without her. She then says how she's still helping out, but just needs to go back home to get the blueberry blaster.
  - Near the end, it looks like Bea is backing out of the parade again when she tells everyone to wait. She only said this so that she can put on her helmet.
- In "Princess Processional Professional", it looks like Bella is being disobedient again at the end when she throws Bea off her back. However, this is actually an elaborate performance for the crowd from both of them since Bea is able to easily land on her afterwards.
Balloonacy:
- One short has Penny and the princesses make floating treats that actually float. When they're too high to reach, they try different methods before going with fruit balloons.
- At the beginning of "Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", Kira uses balloons so that she can more directly help out the kiwi fruitizens prepare for the tricentennial.
- In "Princess Farmer's Market", the girls attempt to get the fruit crates from Punchbowl Island to their fruitdoms by inflating some of the fruit balloons to carry them off.
- In "Princess Bon Voyage", Rita brings the other princesses to the raspberry fruitdom for a floa-tea party, which is a tea party where you sit on balloons.
- In "The Perfect Princess Welcome", Penny attempts to help attract some business for Cyrus's cafe with a science demonstration. She makes pineapple fruit balloons, but then she and Cyrus end up floating into the air.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Penny attempts to make pineapple balloons to float to the top of the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets, but it pops.
- In "Princesses Seas The Day", the girls again use fruit balloons to send supplies to the cranberry fruitdom after finishing the adventure.
Banana Peel:
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", when the girls arrive on the island where the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets is, they come across bananas (though they don't know what they are yet). Everyone tries it, and likes it. Fussy then immediately slips on a banana peel afterwards.
- In "Princess Eco-Chase", if you choose to do the challenge at the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets on your own, your teammates have to deal with slippery banana peels. The Grape triplets are the victims of this due to Delia not wanting to work with them.
Bat Signal: When any of the girls rings her charm alarm, the other princesses come to help when they see a fruit signal in the sky.
Beach Episode: While various episodes use beaches as a primary setting, the episode "Princess Fun In The Sun" puts more of a specific focus on it. It's about Penny getting help from the princesses to clean up Pineapple Beach during a hot day so that Great Aunt Bussyboots can kick off volunteer week.
Bear Hug:
- At the end of "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", you can briefly see Kira lifting Rita off the ground for a hug, which they both clearly enjoy.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", Omera greets Rita by hugging her tightly. While overwhelmed, she appreciates it.
- In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Rita briefly lifts Penny off the ground when hugging her, and they both also enjoy it.
Bedsheet Ghost: In "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy", a ghost dress seemingly pops out of the drawer, which instantly scares everyone. It turns out to be the recurring pelican, who just got lost and crash landed.
Benevolent Boss: Bea becomes this in "Princess Eco-Chase". After learning to work with her friends during the event, she works hard to help them overcome the last two challenges. She asks for their advice, and is willing to incorporate their ideas in getting the sparkleseeds down from the cave wall in The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets.
Bespectacled Cutie: Lila Lemon from "How To Be A Princess" stands out as the only princess in the show to wear glasses. She still looks cute nonetheless.
Beta Bitch: The Grape triplets from "Princess Eco-Chase" are pretty friendly girls despite following Delia Dragonfruit around. They ditch her when they have enough of her behavior that cost them all the win.
Beware the Nice Ones: In "Princess Nest Pest", when it looks like the prism feathered pterodex is about to attack the main characters, but they just can't properly express that they want Kira to stay, Bea is seen making some kind of karate pose, reading to strike.
Beyond the Impossible:
- In "Practice Makes Princess", Bea is so bad at playing the triangle that she somehow turns it into a square.
- In "How To Be A Princess", the girls try to teach Lila Lemon how to be a princess in time for her Princess Promise Ceremony. However, she keeps messing up due to not being confident in herself. Even though we don't see, she's apparently such a bad dancer that she somehow gets the girls tangled up in the giant string ball from "Princess Creation Station ".
Be Yourself: As stated in this interview, much of the show revolves around the princesses trying to stay true to who they are as people when helping others.
Big Anime Eyes: In "Princess Nest Pest", Fussy and Mr. Scrumples make their eyes bigger and cuter in front of Kira so that she'll give them treats. Even though she doesn't need to, she does it without hesitation.
Big Beautiful Man: Kira's father, Sir Kaue, has a developed build, and looks quite handsome.
The Big Board: The beginning of "Princess Friends Un-Forever" has the Princess Pack looking at Penny's whiteboard, which contains a map of the other fruitdoms that tell them where to go.
Big Book Of Everything: The Book Of Sparkleseed Secrets acts this to the leads due to how it contains information on all sorts of fruits that they've never seen before.
Big Damn Hug: In "Princess Bon Voyage", Kira hugs Karina as she comes to accept that Karina is leaving for her Princess Study At Sea program.
Big Damn Kiss: "Princess Royal Wedding" unsurprisingly has this given how it ends with Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia reaffirming their life long love with a kiss.
Big Fancy Castle: All the princesses live in big, fancy castles at the center of their fruitdoms.
Big "NO!": In "Princess Fun In The Sun", Bea attempts to bring back a glacier from the blueberry fruitdom to Pineapple Beach. Unfortunately, the sun melts it into just a tiny ice cube that lands in Fussy's drink. Cue Penny, Kira, and Rita screaming "No!"
Big Red Button: While it doesn't involve a button, the general idea still applies. For some reason, Penny has a danger zone function, which is red, on Hermie's dial, where things inevitably go wrong whenever it's used. Rita even asks her in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" why he still has it.
Big Sister Instinct: Rita shows this in "Princess Royal Wedding" with how she tries to cheer up Omera near the end because of her behavior from earlier.
Big Sister Worship:
- Kira looks up to her older sister Karina, most notably in episodes like "Princess Garden Party" and "Princess Bon Voyage".
- "Princess Royal Wedding" introduces Rita's younger sister Omera, who looks up to her, and wants to be like her.
Birds of a Feather: Penny and Rita are a non-romantic example. Both are known for thinking outside the box and being rather creative with their ideas despite specializing in science and arts respectively. It's best shown in episodes like "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" and "Princesses And The Beanstalk" with how they effortlessly combine ideas to create things like leaf copters and gloves with sticky resin.
Birthday Episode: "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" is about the girls trying to celebrate Fussy's birthday, but are continually called for help. She then does the tasks all on her own, initially to get back to the party quickly, but then she genuinely wants to help people.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, it seems like Delia becoming nicer and finally letting the princesses help her out. She then sends the princesses down a trapdoor and smugly says how she'll help her fruitizens on her own, and that they won't get into Princess Adventure Academy.
Bittersweet Ending: It's more sweet than bitter, but the ending to "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" qualifies. The snow in the kiwi fruitdom doesn't melt despite turning off Snow Hermie. Kira is initially sad about this until she decides to hold the tricentennial in the snow.
Bizarre Instrument: "Practice Makes Princess" shows that the main instrument of the blueberry fruitdom is the guitarpsichord, which is an unusual hybrid between a guitar and a harpsichord.
Bizarre Taste in Food: In "Princess Punchbowl Feastival", the girls try to make the Feastival a success by combining their fruitdom dishes into one. Bea gets a pot roast, to which Kira puts cocadas, Penny puts plantain and taro dough, and Rita puts chocolate. They're very proud of their dish. The fact that the girls would think that the adults would like it makes them understandably confused and weirded out.
Blame Game: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia blames the princesses for being the monster terrorizing her fruitizens. Bea then blames her for being the monster with how she just so conveniently appeared after the monster disappeared.
Blinded by the Light:
- Two scenes in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" show that the monster is afraid of bright lights. The first scene comes from a light from Kira's lantern accidentally reflecting off of Bea's tiara. The second scene comes from Penny and Delia shining moonlight off multiple tiaras in order to get the monster into a trap.
- The book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" shows this with Binky the bunny. As Rita says how she would like to adopt her, she actually keeps trying to avoid her. Kira then tells Rita how Binky doesn't like bright lights given the sparkly outfit she wears.
Blind Obedience: In "A Prince In The Princess Pack", the girls try to help Penny see that she shouldn't have yelled at Felipe. When she snaps at Rita despite being right, Kira brings up how they would blindly follow each other if they were lemmings, but says how they're not like that.
Blowing a Raspberry: The song "Tiara Teamwork Forever" from "Princess Friends Un-Forever" has Rita, who's from the raspberry fruitdom, stick out her tongue at the monster so that she can have said monster follow her into a trap.
Blow That Horn: In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Headmistress Miranda Melon asks Rita to blow the legendary Guacan-spiel, which she does quite loudly.
Blue Means Cold: The blueberry fruitdom can be considered this given how it's described to have mountains, icebergs, and (as shown in "Princess Fun In The Sun") giant ice cubes . There's also a plot point in "The Missing Princess" about everyone wearing mittens since it's cold there.
Boarding School: Princess Adventure Academy seems to be one even though it's never seen outside of Rita's pictures. It's described as being at the far edge of the fruitdoms, meaning that you'd have to have at least a boat to get there. The princesses ultimately end up getting to the school in the Punchbowl Seahouse boat, which confirms this.
Bookworm: While both Kira and Penny are smart and read a lot, one can definitely see Kira as more of the bookworm. One of the shelves in the crown and crafterie has her kiwi pillow surrounded by books. She's also shown giving a bunch of books away in "Princess Donation Distress". She's also shown reading the Book Of Sparkleseed Secrets whenever the Princess Pack goes to a new location.
Borrowed Catchphrase:
- In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", when Kira talks about a snowstorm hitting the kiwi fruitdom, Rita (who initially sees it as a positive), says that it's fantabulous. Kira then also says fantabulous when she's talking about how this isn't a good thing.
- In "Little Shop Of Horrors", when King Barton asks Kira and Karina how they're going with making their scones, Karina outright says "As Kira would say, "Teenykin-tastic!".
Borrowed Without Permission: In "Princess Crown Coverup", Rita is tempted to wear the crown jewels even though she's supposed to bring them to her mother for an important event. She decides to wear them without telling her, and then they break.
"Both Sides Have a Point" Remark: The conflict of "Princess Friends Un-Forever", where the girls debate over whether or not to work with Delia Dragonfruit in order to save her fruitdom from a monster, has pretty valid points from both sides. As pointed out by Kira and Bea, Delia is someone who actively refuses help from anyone, and thus would be more difficult to work with. At the same time, Rita and Penny bring up a good point about how she has skills that can help them out, and she knows the fruitdom better than them.
Bottle Episode: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" is interesting in how it takes place entirely on Punchbowl Island, but we never get a scene inside Punchbowl Treehouse. It takes place entirely outdoors in the garden and courtyard, making this the only episode to not have an appearance from the treehouse.
Boyish Short Hair: Headmistress Miranda Melon has a notably shorter haircut then the other adult women in the show.
Braids of Action: Looking at Bea's hair shows that she has small braids on the side. She's also the most action packed of the princesses due to how she's willing to jump into anything.
Brainless Beauty: It's averted with the princesses, who are all beautiful and smart in their own way. While Kira and Penny are explicitly intelligent, Rita and Bea are smart in their own way.
Brainy Brunette: Penny is a smart girl with brown hair.
Brats with Slingshots: It's downplayed with Rita. She's a Nice Girl who usually uses a rope during some of the more intense situations. However, there are some episodes where she actually does use a slingshot, such as in "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", and "I Dig Being A Princess".
Braving the Blizzard: The plot of "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" is about Kira and the princesses trying to save the kiwi fruitdom from a freak snowstorm that was accidentally caused by Penny's robot Hermie. It's shown to be quite a dangerous adventure given how Hermie shoots snow from inside an inactive volcano.
Breaking Old Trends: Among the episodes in the Crystal Key Quest arc, "Princesses And The Beanstalk" stands out for being the only episode to not go beyond 20 minutes, as well as not going to any locations that require taking the Punchbowl Seahouse.
Break the Cutie:
- If one of the princesses really messes up or can't seem to get something right, she would definitely be quite sad over it. It's shown in episodes like "Practice Makes Princess" (with Bea being bummed out over how she can't seem to play any instrument right), "The Missing Princess" (with Rita feeling down over how she doesn't think she's a good leader), "Princess Freaky Fruit Day" (with Penny being overwhelmed over how she has too much to do, and can't do everything), and "Princess Nest Pest" (with Kira deflecting her friends' attempts to cheer her up after she couldn't befriend the giant bird).
- Omera shows this in "Princess Royal Wedding", where she runs off crying when Rita accidentally said how she just gets in the way and ruins everything.
- Lila Lemon shows this in "How To Be A Princess", where she messes up too many times, and runs off while covering her ears. She almost cried during this moment.
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the girls get into a heated argument over whether they should work with Delia or not in order to help her fruitdom. When Penny and Rita are insistent on working with Delia while Kira and Bea think the opposite, they get into an argument and split into two groups. It's only when they realize that roaming around a place they don't know means being an easy victim for the monster do both parties see that they have to work together.
Brick Joke: In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Bea questions how avocados like Abe can move on their own when one of them seemingly takes her hang glider. This moment is played for laughs, but pays off in the climax when he helps everyone gets the Guacan-spiel unstuck from the giant rock.
Bright Castle: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Rita's picture of Princess Adventure Academy shows how it's a bright pink castle on the edge of a hill.
Broad Strokes: The two books based on the series, "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" and "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", can be considered this. While the characterization and writing style is pretty similar to the show itself, some details don't completely line up. The former book has an animal shelter that's never been seen in the show before. The latter book has Bea's dads own a male horse named Bernie even though they own a female horse named Bella in the show itself.
Broken Ace: The episode "Princess All Nighter" and the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" show Bea being unable to show her insecurities (sleeping away from home for the first time and riding a horse respectively) since she feels that she shouldn't show any kind of vulnerability that would make her friends think less of her.
Broken Treasure: The plot of "Princess Crown Coverup" is kicked off by Rita accidentally breaking her mother's crown jewels just before an important gala when she takes it without asking.
Brother–Sister Team: Penny and Felipe act pretty in sync when working together in "A Prince In The Princess Pack" and "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors".
Bubble Blowing of Whimsy: Penny seems to have a thing for bubbles given how she proudly shows off her bubble wand in "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses" and "Princess Freaky Fruit Day". In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation ", she actually makes more bubbles to surround her as she floats to the stage inside one.
Bumbling Dad: It's averted with Kira and Bea's fathers, who are pretty good at parenting despite goofy moments. It's played straight with Minji's dad. While not seen, she mentions in "The Missing Princess" how he's somewhat prone to forgetting where his things are, like his keys.
Bunnies for Cuteness: The book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" definitely follows this trope given how the girls can't stop gushing over how cute Binky the bunny is.
The Bus Came Back: Kira's older sister Karina returns in a major role in "Princesses Seas The Day", where she helps them out on their final quest.
Butt-Monkey:
- Fussy often fills this role given the misfortune she goes through. It's seen in episodes like "A Whale Of A Princess Tale" and "Princess Lights Out", where she's usually minding her own business and gets hit with something like sand or water. "Princess Donation Distress" also shows quite a bit of this with how she can't get rid of an old collar that's seemingly after her.
- This happens with Queen Alanna in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses". Because of Fussy's meddling due to following Great Aunt Bussyboots' orders, she ends up with glitter in her face, having to juggle spiky pineapples, and get hit by Bea's hang glider when she's being served tea.
Camping Episode: There are 2 examples of this, both involving Rita:
- "The Missing Princess" involves Rita taking Ara and Minji on a hiking trip through the blueberry fruitdom woods when she accidentally gets them lost.
- "Princess Campout Stakeout" involves Rita and the other princesses holding a stakeout to see who keeps stealing the raspberries.
Cannot Spit It Out: Bea shows this on two separate occasions:
- In "Princess All Nighter", she's afraid to admit that this is her first sleepover, and tries keeping everyone up all night. This keeps up for a good chunk of the episode.
- In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", she's afraid to tell her friends that she's scared of riding her dads' horse Bernie. Unlike the above example though, she tells them halfway through the book.
Canon Foreigner: Due to both books primarily focusing on Penny, the other princesses get family members created for the show.
Caretaking Is Feminine: Given how the show has an Improbably Female Cast, and the princesses are all about helping others, it's not a surprise that this trope would be in effect. It's most pronounced with Rita given how she's the most feminine of the princesses, shows the most enthusiasm in helping kids, and has the most established relationship with young kids.
Caring Gardener: Penny's younger brother Felipe is a rare male example, but he's shown to be rather knowledgeable about plants and all sorts of agriculture.
Carrying a Cake: The second half of "Princess Pie Surprise" has the princesses attempt to get a large pie into the kiwi palace. It doesn't work when Fussy accidentally lands in the pie when she's scared by the recurring pelican. Things do go better when the girls give everyone teacups full of pie instead.
Cast as a Mask: The monster from the episode"Princess Friends Un-Forever" had vocal effects done by Fred Tatasciore (albeit uncredited). The monster turns out to be Headmistress Miranda Melon, who's voiced by Drew Barrymore .
Casual Danger Dialogue:
- In "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", while Kira does acknowledge the danger of being stuck inside in a floating bubble, she's otherwise pretty calm inside it. She lets out some silly lines, and even plays with the things that fall inside the bubble.
- In "Princess Nest Pest", the prism feathered pterodex finds Kira in the kiwi fruitdom. Although still treated seriously, some quippy comedy comes from this. We have Rita complimenting their feathers while Bea says how they're grumpier than she is when waking up from a nap.
Casting Gag: News reporter Susie Seedplanter is basically Savannah Guthrie playing herself, since she's also a news reporter.
Catchphrase:
- The girls have Pinkie Tea Promise, where they say "We Pinkie Tea Promise to help those in need. With our Princess Power, we'll always succeed." before going out on a mission.
- For Rita, she has multiple catchphrases, including, but not limited to "Bedazzlous!", "Ruffles!", "Polka dots on plaid!", "Oh oh oh!", "Rita-riffic!", and "This is a disaster/catastrophe of (insert adjective here) proportions!"
- For Kira, she has "Teenykin-tastic!", "Bee stings!", "Maisie Awaysie", and "Try fail try. That's how we fly."
- For Penny, she has multiple catchphrases, including, but not limited to "Pineapple positivity!", "Pineapple perfection!", starting sentences with "True story" or "Hypothesis", "Science Snag", and some variation of "Lock that doom in another room."
- For Bea, she has "Gutterball!", "Score!", and a tendency to treat things like a scoreboard (like in "The Princess's Speech ", where she says "Princesses 1, Hiccups 0").
Catchphrase Interruptus: This has happened with Kira on two occasions:
- In "The Princess's Speech", Kira attempts to say "Teenykin-tastic" until she gets interrupted by one of her hiccups.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", Kira attempts to finish the Pinkie Tea Promise, but she gets interrupted by Omera accidentally opening the drawers. She pushed the big fruit button, and wanted to see what it does. She then starts again when Rita explains this to Omera.
Cats Are Lazy: Fussy often exhibits this trope given how often she lounges around, usually eating fruit or sitting in her chaise.
Cats Hate Water: While Penny's cat Fussy doesn't hate being in water, she doesn't like being splashed with it unexpectedly. This is best shown in "A Whale Of A Princess Tale", where she didn't like accidentally getting splashed by Whaley.
Cat Up a Tree: One part of "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" has Joon ask the princesses for help in getting his cat out of a tree. Fussy, who is a cat, goes ahead with the task.
The Cavalry Arrives Late: A more lighthearted example happens in "Princess Nest Pest". After keeping everyone safe in the kiwi fruitdom, Penny, Rita, and Bea run back to help Kira tame the wild bird that seemingly attacked everyone. However, she already tamed the bird and befriended them.
Cerebus Rollercoaster: While still kept lighthearted overall, whenever the show has a special episode, they're not afraid to get more emotional and intense.
Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Episode titles that follow this include"Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" and "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure ".
Character Tics:
- Oftentimes, whenever Penny feels nervous or guilty about something, she usually touches her left arm.
- Whenever Rita is overly excited, she tends to either move her body in a confident manner or bounce up and down.
- Bea usually snaps her fingers when she's confident.
- Kira often puts her hands on her cheeks when she's excited.
Chariot Pulled by Cats: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" offers an interesting take on this trope. When Bea attempts to hide her fear of horses from her friends, she says how it would be a good idea to make a horse transport vehicle that would pull Bernie. At the end of the book, she has Bernie pull her on her skateboard, which is seen as even more unusual.
Charity Ball: "I Dig Being A Princess" is about the girls trying to find a treasure that they think will help out their animal charity ball. It's a map revealing that there are other fruitdoms , which is definitely quite the treasure.
Cheery Pink: Many of Rita's outfits heavily utilize a reddish pink color, and she's very sweet and energetic.
Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Rita is doing arts and crafts with Ara and Minji, where they make fairy wings. They also see the Crystal Key Quest box fly in with wings. This pays off in the climax, where Rita makes fairy wings so she and her friends can fly from the third to the fourth island in the avocado fruitdom.
Chekhov's Volcano: The source of the freak snowstorm in "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" turns out to be because of Snow Hermie accidentally flying into a dormant volcano and making it snow from inside.
Cherry Blossoms: Fitting with its South Korean inspired influence, many of the trees in the raspberry fruitdom have cherry blossoms.
Chewing the Scenery: Captain Reginald from "Princesses Seas The Day" definitely embraces this with how he often tries to make his points known through shouting.
Childish Bangs: Bea has her hair extend onto her head, and she's usually the most childishly impulsive of the group.
Childish Villain, Mature Hero: By the time "Princesses Seas The Day" comes around, the girls have developed considerably into being mature and compassionate heroes. They greatly contrast with Captain Reginald, who's much more of a goofy, immature villain.
Child Prodigy: This applies to all the princesses, but it's very prominent in Penny and Kira given how they're both really smart and think outside the box in various situations.
Children Are Innocent: While this can apply to many of the younger children in the show, it's very specifically pronounced with Rita's younger sister Omera in "Princess Royal Wedding". She's genuinely trying to help out, but often messes up due to being too excitable, such as bringing in the pelican that often causes trouble. In fact, when Rita yells at her for how things went wrong, you have Kira and Penny try to comfort her as Bea tells Rita to be easier with her since she didn't know that the pelican could cause trouble.
A Child Shall Lead Them: The princesses, especially Kira, take on this role regularly with how they can lead other people to do what's needed.
The Chosen Many: At first, the series would just show the four main princesses, with Karina, who's Kira's older sister, being the only other princess shown. Then seasons 2-3 would introduce other fruitdoms as well as Princess Adventure Academy, all of which have princesses that also try to help those in need.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: This definitely describes the main princesses with how they always attempt to help others even if it could inconvenience them in some way. It's noticeable in "Princesses Seas The Day", where Kira tries to leave the group when Karina is stranded on an island , and says how she doesn't want to hold anyone back from getting into Princess Adventure Academy because of this. They then say no to her because of how they're all in this together and with how much they care for her.
Class Princess: All the girls in the Princess Pack are extremely wealthy, successful, and adored by everyone. They're also very selfless, and will do anything to help out their fruitizens no matter what.
Class Trip: The beginning of "Princess Friends Un-Forever" shows some shades of this. Kira shows some kids around the beach as she educates them on whales.
Clingy Child: While not actually her child, Mr. Scrumples is rather childlike. At 2:28 in this short, he attempts to ask Kira to go on a boat ride with him, much like a child asks his mother for something. She then says how she has to help Penny with a mission.
Collective Death Glare: In "Princess Donation Distress", Rita inadvertently tells the dignitaries to take her friends' things just so that she won't have to give away her things. They're understandably not happy with this. You have Kira and Penny giving her a look that's best described as disappointment mixed with anger while Bea gives her a look that's borderline furious.
Color-Coded Characters: Each of the princesses in the Princess Pack has one primary color and one secondary color that makes them easy to identify.
- Kira is primarily associated with purple, with pink as a secondary color.
- Rita is primarily associated with pinkish red, with green as a secondary color.
- Penny is primarily associated with yellow, with pink as a secondary color.
- Bea is primarily associated with blue, with purple as a secondary color.
Come with Me If You Want to Live: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", when Kira and Bea are surrounded by the monster, Delia comes in with her own zipline zapper and handles to rescue them. Despite their earlier distrust of her, they go with her.
Comical Overreacting: Mr. Scrumples gets a moment of this in "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors". When Kira and Karina wonder where their scones and princess hat are (not knowing that the sentient pineapple took them), he runs across the table while screaming.
Companion Cube:
- In "Princess Donation Distress", Rita says that when she was younger, she would have her teddy bear, Mr. Bedazzle Bear, help her get through stormy nights.
- In "Princess Bon Voyage", Kira is shown cuddling a teddy bear while she's talking with her friends about not wanting Karina to move. This bear is sometimes shown in her room.
- Cyrus has his spatula named Spatchy, who just has a face drawn on him. He carries him around everywhere.
- King Barton has his lucky whisk that he often brings everywhere.
Company Cross-References: Some of the drawings in the Crown And Crafterie look like Treena and Wren.
Competition Freak: Bea shows this in "Princess Eco-Chase", where she's so determined to win that she thinks that she can do everything for her friends. She then sees that she has to work together with them when they get pelted by blueberries.
Compressed Adaptation: "The Princesses And The Bees" largely adapts "Princesses Save The World" pretty faithfully, but changes things up quite a bit. Every princess that isn't Penny, Rita, Kira, and Bea is absent, and everything takes place over 1 day, not several.
Concert Episode: "Princess Babysitter's Club" is kicked off by Bea volunteering to babysit Queen Olivia's niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver when she and King Barton put on a performance of Fruitloose: The Musical.
Confession Cam: A number of the fourth wall breaks in the show play out like the princesses talking to a camera crew. It's best shown in the first short here, where Rita seems to move a camera as she talks to the audience.
The Confidant: The beginning of "Princess Farmer's Market" shows Rita talking only to Kira about her issues at the raspberry fruitdom given how Penny and Bea didn't know about it until they were told.
The Conscience: Kira often acts as this to the other princesses given how she can give advice on how to handle a situation. Some examples include trying to help Rita see how annoying but well meaning younger siblings can be around older siblings in "Princess Royal Wedding" and helping Penny see that she should change up how she helps the pineapple fruitizens in "Princess Suggestion Box".
Conscience Makes You Go Back: In "A Prince In The Princess Pack", Penny snaps at Felipe for still not wanting to stay at the pineapple fruitdom, and goes off to the treehouse. She also snaps at Rita as well when she tries to say she's wrong for doing that. Kira and Bea then say how she shouldn't have done that since she still loves Felipe as well as vice versa, and shouldn't end his last visit like this. She then feels bad for what she said, and tries making it up to him.
Consolation Prize: "Princess Eco-Chase" offers an interesting take on this. Delia Dragonfruit completes all three challenges before the Princess Pack, and gets a trophy for it. However, she doesn't get the actual prize, the Key Of Teamwork. Unlike Bea and her friends, she didn't work with her team. As such, this technically impressive item doesn't mean much.
Conspicuous Consumption: With Rita really being into fancy things, it's not a surprise when she sometimes shows off something that looks cool, but doesn't have much of a practical purpose. A good example comes from the episode "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", when she and Queen Ryung make scones, and they put things like edible jewels and flowers. Even though it looks great, neither King Barton nor Fussy are sure how to eat it.
Constantly Curious: Penny is someone who's often curious about the world around her because of how she wants an answer for everything.
Continuity Cavalcade: Various episodes from seasons 2-3 callback to numerous episodes. Some examples include "I Dig Being A Princess" (which contains callbacks to Princess Fun In The Sun, Princess Lights Out, and Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses) and "Princess Friends Un-Forever" (which contains callbacks to Princess Creation Station, The Missing Princess, and Princess Eco-Chase).
Continuity Creep: The series would develop this as it went on. Season 1 was mostly episodic with some continuity. The first half of season 2 keeps this intact, but then becomes more continuity heavy after "I Dig Being A Princess". Come season 3 with the introduction of the Crystal Key Quest arc, continuity is taken much more seriously.
Cooking Duel: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" involves a baking contest to see who can make the best desserts and win harvest help for their fruitdoms. When Penny doesn't have enough pineapples, she tries to make a pineapple that she does have much bigger through science, to disastrous results.
Cool Big Sis: Karina is shown to be pretty nice towards Kira with how she helps her out at times.
Cool Bike: While not seen, the idea is brought up in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade". Kira reminds Bea about the extreme things she's good at riding, which includes a dirt bike.
Cool Board: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" shows that Bea likes riding around on a skateboard. She uses said skateboard as part of the horse hullabaloo.
Cool Boat: The Punchbowl Seahouse is definitely this given how it's basically a giant rainbow ship mixed with a giant tea cup.
Cool Chair: The girls have beanbag chairs at Punchbowl Treehouse and their homes that they regularly lounge around in.
Cool Crown: Each of the princesses' crowns have sparkly jewels that resemble the fruits of their fruitdoms.
Cool Helmet: Bea wears a sharp looking helmet whenever she goes hang gliding. Kira also wears a good looking helmet in "The Princess's Speech" when Bea tries helping her out.
Cool Horse: Kira's horse Maisie is pretty sweet and gentle. However, whenever Kira needs her during an intense situation, she's ready to jump into action. Notable examples include escorting Kira and Rita on her back when helping get Karina's crown back in "Princess Garden Party", helping Kira calm Bella down and get fruitizens out of the way in "Princess Processional Professional", and helping Kira get the prism feathered pterodex away from the kiwi fruitdom in "Princess Nest Pest".
Cool Key: The Crystal Key Quest arc is about the girls collecting six keys in order to unlock their curio cabinet and get into Princess Adventure Academy. They would naturally fall into this. "Princess Eco-Chase" is about the Key Of Teamwork. "Princess Nest Pest" is about the Key Of Tenacity. "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" is about the Key Of Community. "Princesses And The Beanstalk" is about the Key Of Ingenuity. "Princess Friends Un-Forever " is about the Key Of Unity". "Princesses Seas The Day" is about the Key Of Selflessness.
Cool Plane: Penny has a four seater plane that she flies to Punchbowl Treehouse and other faraway locations.
Cool Shades: Fussy and Mr. Scrumples sometimes wear sunglasses when they want to act cool and confident. It's seen at the beginning of "The Missing Princess" and "Princess Nest Pest", with Kira mentioning a mystery afoot.
Corpsing: An in-universe example happens in "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy". The girls are trying to pretend that they forgot Fussy's birthday so that they can surprise her with a party. Rita attempts to help out by saying how there's a problem with the raspberries in the raspberry fruitdom. However, as she has trouble making up the excuses, Penny, Kira, and Bea can't hold back their laughter with her increasingly ridiculous words, and just show off the surprise party.
Costume Porn: Many of Rita's outfits have quite the extravagance to them. Even her shoes have quite a bit of glitter to them as mentioned in "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee".
Couldn't Find a Tissue: In "Princesses Seas The Day", after Captain Reginald pulls a Heel–Face Turn and thanks the princesses for saving him and his crew , he then uses his cat Mr. Fuzzywoogles as a tissue to blow his nose rather than the tissue he gives him. While no actual snot is seen, Kira and Rita are still understandably disgusted by this.
Could Say It, But...: Kira's behavior in "Princess Creation Station" seems to imply this. When Rita first says how it'll take too long to make bracelets for all the raspberry fruitdom kids, Kira's slightly sly change in her voice as she says to make something else seems to imply that she knows this is an impossible situation, but wants Rita to realize this on her own. Another scene near the end supports this given how Rita still thinks that she can only make the kids happy with the bracelets, to which Kira more bluntly but still gently asks that if this is the only way they'll be happy. Once Rita has a realization, you see Kira smiling, as if she's proud of Rita for coming to the conclusion on her own.
Cracks In The Icy Façade: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", as Penny and Rita try telling Delia how she needs all their help to stop the monster, she looks away, but is also shown reluctantly making a sad face before angrily saying how they're right. This shows how she does want the company of others, but doesn't want to admit it until her Heel–Face Turn later in the episode.
Crazy Enough to Work: In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Bea overcomes her horse fear by tying a skateboard to Bernie and having him pull her. Despite how unusual this is, it ultimately works out.
Crazy-Prepared: Rita definitely embraces how she's good at creating fashions rather quickly. Here are some notable examples:
- In "Princess Fun In The Sun", she's able to quickly make a canopy before her friends can say "Super Fantabulously Bedazzlously Beautacious!"
- In "Princess Crown Coverup ", she brags to Bea about how she can make all their gala dresses in 2.6 minutes.
- In "The Perfect Princess Welcome", she shows great confidence in using her rope to rescue Cyrus.
- "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" definitely leans into this with how she always has a fashion solution to the trials. Even near the end, when she shows doubt when Azul accidentally launches the big catapult without them, she bounces back quickly by remembering the fairy wings she made with Ara and Minji at the start of the episode.
Creator Thumbprint: Showrunner Elise Allen previously co-created Rainbow Rangers and was story editor on Abby Hatcher . Much like those shows, this series is a CGI girl centric series about good natured girls being some kind of hero that wants to help others.
Creepy Cave: "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" has The Cave Of Avocadoom, which has a seemingly creepy creature. It's actually a frog, and the creepy sounds are croaks bouncing off the walls.
Cruel to Be Kind: While not the stated message of "Princesses Soccer Spectacular", this trope is in effect. With Rita blatantly rigging the game in Sena's favor, and inflating her own ego, Kira and Bea are very open in calling her out for treating Sena this way. We later see that they're more calm when talking to Rita in private. This shows how you sometimes need to be firm with your friends and be vocal when voicing your disapproval, but still know how to gently lead them on the right path afterwards.
Crystal Landscape: The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets is made up of all kinds of gems, geodes, and crystals. Penny educates everyone on what they are as a way to immerse everyone in the environment.
Cucumber Facial: In "Princess Royal Portrait", Queen Ryung has cucumbers on her eyes as Rita prepares her for her royal portrait.
Cue O'Clock: In "Princess Freaky Fruit Day", when the princesses and Great Aunt Bussyboots hear a mysterious sound, she wonders if it's tea o'clock.
Cue the Rain: In "Princess Garden Party", Penny and Kira see that Fussy and the frogs are acting weird. Kira then says how animals usually only act this weird when there's a storm. Rita then asks if a storm is coming. It then immediately comes afterwards.
Cunning Like a Fox: "Princess Campout Stakeout" is the proper introduction to Velvet, and he's shown to be quite the fennec fox with how he sneaks around and takes many of the raspberries without being seen.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Lila Lemon is a sweet, cute girl that's also very accident prone.
Cute Kitten: "Princess Lights Out" has Kira take care of an adorable kitten that she's named Princey.
Cuteness Proximity: In "Princess Lights Out ", the girls continuously fawn over how cute Princey, a wild cat that Kira found, is. Fussy is not amused with this.
The Cutie: Many of the younger kid characters fall into this, but these two stand out:
- Ara from the raspberry fruitdom definitely embraces this because of how she's very optimistic and cheerful.
- Rita's younger sister Omera is definitely this given how energetic and idealistic she is.
Daddy's Girl: Bea is shown to have a very good relationship with both of her fathers, King Barton and Sir Benedict, and will do anything to please them.
Darker and Edgier: Although the specials keep the same lighthearted tone of the show, they're not afraid to show more moments of the characters being in peril and heavier emotional moments. Key examples include, but are not limited to:
- In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", the girls attempt to save the kiwi fruitdom from a freak snowstorm accidentally caused by Penny and Bea when they inadvertently mess with Hermie. They find him in an inactive volcano, but Fussy accidentally flips the plane the girls are in, sending them falling right into to it from many feet high. There's also great focus on Kira feeling like she doesn't do enough for her fruitizens, particularly when the snow won't melt until three days later, which is after the tricentennial is over.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", the girls try to find the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets to solve the seed shortage in the fruitdoms. They sail off to find it, but come across rough waters that strand them on an island, and they almost get trapped in a cave.
- In "Princess Nest Pest", Kira's attempts to appeal to a giant bird result in said bird lashing out at her and her friends violently. They almost become bird food were it not for them flying off. The bird ultimately turns out to be a baby, and thus didn't know any better, but still.
- "Princess Friends Un-Forever" deals with the girls getting into a heated argument with each other while a monster is terrorizing the Dragonfruit fruitdom. Said monster turns out to be Headmistress Miranda Melon trying to help the girls out, but it's still very intense.
- "Princesses Seas The Day" shows quite a bit more peril given how the girls deal with a pirate who, while largely comical, is also quite the master thief with how he takes everything from the fruitdoms, and isn't afraid to get a bit more brutal.
A Day in the Limelight: "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" and "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure" are the only episodes to focus more on the pets.
Deadly Rotary Fan: "Princess Fun In The Summer Sun" offers an interesting take on this trope. Penny creates a solar powered fan so that she and her friends can stay cool while cleaning Pineapple Beach. However, the sun is so strong that it violently flies away, which everyone unsurprisingly dodges.
Deadpan Snarker: Snarky comments in the show are pretty rare, making the few times they pop up stand out more. A few examples include:
- In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", when Rita cheers for Sena making the goal even though she obviously missed it, Kira says this in a rather annoyed tone:
Kira: Is there a chameleon goal I'm not seeing?"
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses ", Penny shows off Queen Bussyboots' tea party for Queen Alana, which is rather boring. While Kira and Rita's comments are rather quick, Bea bluntly says this because of how bored she is:
Bea: I'm sleeping with my eyes open.
Declaration of Protection:
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Kira briefly tries to get the others to not eat the bananas since, not knowing what it is, she doesn't know if it's safe for any of them to eat.
- In "Princess Nest Pest", Kira shows this twice. The first instance comes when the girls all encounter the giant prism feathered pterodex that's rather violent. After initially trying and failing to connect with the bird, she immediately tries to protect her friends as she tells them to not get close. Later on, when the bird finds her in the kiwi fruitdom, she immediately says that they have to protect her people.
- Kira is on the receiving end of this in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" in two instances. The first instance comes from when Bea tells her to run so that she doesn't get attacked by the monster. The second instance comes from the ending, where she's about to unmask until Delia stops her since she doesn't want her to get hurt.
Decomposite Character: In The original book, Penny was a Jack of All Trades. In this series, her artistic characteristics and love of music and dancing are transferred to Rita, her love of animals is pronounced more in Kira, her sporty side is transfered to Bea, and she herself is solely a scientist.
Decon-Recon Switch: "Princesses Seas The Day" acts as this for the show's themes about doing good for others. At the beginning, when the girls find out that Kira's older sister Karina was kidnapped by pirates, they drop everything on their Crystal Key Quest to help her. When taking on the pirate, they're shown to be rather inexperienced at going up against a foe who, while comical, isn't afraid to get more brutal with his methods against others since their attempts to do things nonviolently results in them being captured. However, the second half reconstructs why doing good even when it's not easy is a good thing given how the girls don't hesitate to save Captain Reginald and his crew. This then motivates him to pull a Heel–Face Turn and help return everything he stole. The girls then get the final key to get them into Princess Adventure Academy.
Defeat Means Friendship: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever" and "Princesses Seas The Day", both Delia Dragonfruit and Captain Reginald pull a Heel–Face Turn when the princesses, especially Kira, show them kindness and friendship.
Defrosting Ice Queen:
- Delia Dragonfruit initially starts out as a smug rival who thinks that working alone is the best. In her second appearance, she starts out as this, but a combination of her actions indirectly putting others into danger and working with the princesses helps her become a better person.
- Hilda herself becomes a bit nicer at the end of "The Princesses Get A Roommate", particularly when she helps the princesses stop the blueberry fruitdom dam from bursting.
Delicious Distraction: "Princess Campout Stakeout" has the girls bake a raspberry cake in order to find out who's taking raspberries from Rita's bushes while making sure they don't get away.
Denser and Wackier: While the show is still somewhat grounded in reality, compared to the books, there's more of a push towards comedy, and is not afraid to go for more out there moments. Stuff like seemingly sentient avocados in "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" or Kira getting a projector to flashback to other episodes would definitely not be in the books.
Deserted Island: The plot of "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure" is about Fussy and Mr. Scrumples accidentally getting stranded on a deserted island when the raft built for them by Kira and Penny floats off while they're asleep. Said island is full of sand, trees, and coconuts.
Detrimental Determination: "The Missing Princess" has Rita trying hard to make sure Ara and Minji are safe without them finding out that she got them lost. Things keep getting worse, and she eventually injures her ankle in the process.
Didn't See That Coming: In "Princess Fun In The Sun", Penny makes a solar fan to help everyone cool down while cleaning the beach. Unfortunately, it's so hot that the sun makes the fan spin faster before it eventually flies off. Kira then asks "Was it supposed to do that?".
Didn't Think This Through: Kira gets a few moments of this even though she's generally pretty smart:
- In "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", as Mr. Scrumples flies out the chimney in the giant bubble, she goes over to hug him. She then ends up inside the bubble, not really thinking about how her touching the bubble means she would end up inside it.
- In "I Dig Being A Princess", when the recurring pelican makes off with Fussy, she has Rita give her a slingshot so that she can sling it to the pelican and let her go. She didn't take into account that Fussy would fall from the sky when he lets her go, and she even admits that she didn't think this through. At least this situation turns out better when Bea rescues her with her glider.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", she attempts to use Bea's zipline zapper to get some of the sparkleseeds down even though she's never used it. Unfortunately, this shows given how ur bounces everywhere, and she accidentally dislodges a giant crystal that blocks the cave entrance.
Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "Princess Punchbowl Feastival", as Bea comes down the treehouse with her zipline zapper, she briefly sings some lyrics from the recurring travel song.
Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain: Captain Reginald from "Princesses Seas The Day" shows this attitude. Whereas the princesses work hard to try and save their fruitdoms even with Kira taking more of the lead, he initially just tries to get his crew to do what he wants.
Dinner Order Flub: An interesting variation happens at the beginning of "Princess Nest Pest". Cyrus attempts to give Kira and Penny some lemon tarts. When he opens his tray, it's instead a Crystal Key Quest box, thus kicking off the plot of the episode.
Dirty Coward: Captain Reginald from "Princesses Seas The Day" shows a moment of this halfway through. He tells his pirate crew to take care of the princesses while he "supervises" from atop the ship.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Bea has a leg brace here, something that her original book counterpart didn't have.
Disabled Snarker: In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", Sena, a blind girl, doesn't like Rita rigging the game in her favor. While she tries keeping a level head, she eventually can't take it, and says
Sena: Okay, even I don't think that's right.
Disaster Dominoes:
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", everything goes very wrong at the end before things get better. It starts with Kira struggling to move the giant beehive on her own when she accidentally trips on a rock. The hive bumps into Hermie, activating his danger zone dial, causing him to bump into Penny and accidentally suck up the raspberry bushes again as the bees come out. As the bees get out, Hermie then accidentally sends Seung on a ride just as Bea finds him, and he's chased by bees. The girls understandably call Rita for help.
- In "Princess Suggestion Box", everything devolves into complete chaos with how much things go wrong. It starts with Ariana's soccer ball going out of bounds, eventually culminating in Fussy being launched off the seesaw and into the air as scared horses and runaway book carts run rampant.
- From the perspective of the princesses, this happens in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" when it's actually because of Fussy simplifying the tea party for Great Aunt Bussyboots. It starts with Rita's glitter cannon hitting Queen Alana, Kira's animal friends losing their coordination and causing Queen Alana to juggle spiky pineapples, Penny's pineapple and apple cake rolling all around, and Bea crashing into Queen Alana in her hang glider as she tries pouring her tea.
Distaff Counterpart: Captain Reginald's crew in "Princesses Seas The Day" consists of Mr. Fuzzywoogles, Ms. Scrunchles, and pelican. The first two are obviously opposite sex counterparts to Miss Fussywiggles and Mr. Scrunchles. The pelican could be female given how the recurring pelican that the princesses know is usually referred to with male pronouns.
Distress Call: Whenever one of the girls faces a situation, she presses the charm alarm that sends out a fruit signal in the sky to alert the other members of the Princess Pack.
Dogs Are Dumb: There are two examples of this trope that don't involve actual dogs, but the idea is brought up:
- In "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", Penny's sentient pineapple acts like an excitable dog with not much common sense. Kira even calls them a pineapple puppy.
- In "Princess Surprise Party", as Bea's dads tell the princesses to keep her surprise party a secret until later, Kira says how she'll be as distracted as a dog with a stick.
"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The theme song is sung by the princesses themselves.
Don't Look At Me: Bea is prone to this in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade". She either covers her tear filled eyes or looks sadly at the ground because she doesn't feel good for showing her insecurity about not being able to ride horses.
Don't Split Us Up:
- "A Prince In The Princess Pack" has Penny trying to get her younger brother Felipe to stay at the palace instead of the pineapple farm so that they can more directly help out the people of the pineapple fruitdom. She does get snippy towards him later on for not wanting to stay, but comes to see that she should let him live how he chooses.
- The plot of "Princess Bon Voyage" is about Kira trying to get Karina to stay in the kiwi fruitdom so that she won't leave for the "Princess Study At Sea " program. She tries doing so by getting help from her friends to show why she should stay and help the fruitdoms. She eventually sees that Karina should leave when she talks about how she was inspired by Kira and her friends to make an impact on others.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", when the princesses split up due to being conflicted over whether they should work with Delia or not, Kira (who's against working with Delia) takes Mr. Scrumples with her while Penny (who wants to work with Delia) takes Fussy with her. Both pets are very distressed over this, and are happy when they reunite later on.
Don't Wake the Sleeper: Bea briefly mentions in "Princess Nest Pest" how she shouldn't unexpectedly be woken up so early in the morning, or she'd be grumpy.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", while Kira is genuinely trying to help Hilda since there's no room for her at the palace due to her house being covered in snow, she also thinks that she's a defenseless old lady who can't take care of herself. As such, Hilda acts rather critical towards her and the princesses when they try too hard to impress her.
Double Aesop: In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", both Penny and Great Aunt Bussyboots learn about not trying to force their ideas when trying to impress someone, but in different ways. Great Aunt Bussyboots sees that trying too hard to make everything simple for the sake of impressing Queen Alana nearly gets her hurt and almost crushes Penny's self esteem. Penny sees that she should've thought things through more by consulting Great Aunt Bussyboots first before getting across her ideas.
Dramatic Irony: "The Missing Princess" is about Rita accidentally getting lost with Ara and Minji in the blueberry fruitdom woods, and calls her friends for help. Of course, since they didn't know that she was in the woods, the bulk of the episode is about them trying to find her based on the limited knowledge that they have as we cut back to Rita trying to keep things under control.
Dramatic Unmask: Since "Princess Friends Un-Forever" takes plenty of cues from the Scooby Doo franchise, it's not a surprise that this would happen. Kira unmasks the monster, who's revealed to be Headmistress Miranda Melon.
Dreadful Musician: Bea is not exactly the best musician. "Practice Makes Princess" best shows this as she either plays instruments off key or somehow breaks them without trying.
Dressed to Heal: The intro shows Kira wearing a labcoat and stethoscope as she checks on some animals around her, including Minji's cat. She would later use that same stethoscope in "A Whale Of A Princess Tale" when checking on Whaley. She would also wear the same labcoat in "The Princesses And The Bees" when helping Penny create a scent that can attract bees.
Drink-Based Characterization: The fact that Fussy often drinks pineapple smoothies whole lounging is a good indicator of how she's often lazy.
Dropped Glasses: Queen Olivia invokes this trope in "Princess Crown Coverup". She pretends to have lost her glasses in order to help Rita and the others get into the palace without Queen Ryung seeing them. Bea says how she doesn't have glasses until Kira says how Queen Ryung doesn't know that.
Early-Bird Cameo:
- Hilda briefly shows up in "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" before properly debuting in "The Princesses Get A Roommate".
- Queen Lillian makes a silent, unnamed cameo in "How To Be A Princess" before her formal introduction in "Princess Donation Distress".
Early-Installment Weirdness: "Princess Shooting Stars", the seventh episode, stands out quite a bit when it comes to Rita. Music is a major part of her character, as seen in later episodes like "Practice Makes Princess", "Princess Crown Coverup", "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", and "Princess Royal Wedding". Yet here, she's not one of the princesses who thinks that music will bring fruitizens together. Instead, it's Kira and Penny who do this while she thinks that putting together a carnival will help bring fruitizens together.
Earn Your Happy Ending: "Princesses Seas The Day" ends with the princesses getting the final Crystal Key after all their hard work, thus earning them the right to get into Princess Adventure Academy.
Ear Worm: "Princess Crown Coverup" has the princesses, Rita especially, singing "Gathering Together" multiple times, which they say is very catchy.
Eating Solves Everything: It's subverted in "The Princess's Speech". Penny tells Kira to have some honey as a way to cure her hiccups, which is true to real life. However, she eats some honey, and still has the hiccups.
Eat That: It's subverted in "Princess Donation Distress". As Kira says how she was going to give Mr. Scrumples some teenykin treats, they're almost eaten by one of the lemon dignitaries. When she says how they're only appropriate for teenykins, he then says how the lemonite teenykins will love them.
Edutainment Show: While not the main focus on the show, some episodes do educate viewers on certain subjects. You see this in episodes like "The Princesses And The Bees" (with Kira educating everyone about how bees work), "Princess Nest Pest" (with Kira educating everyone on birds and their habits), and "Princesses And The Beanstalk" (with Penny telling everyone about water vapor and Rita telling everyone about how fabric can filter saltwater).
Elegant Classical Musician: Rita can be considered this given how she's the princess that specializes in music, she's the most conventionally attractive of the princesses, and she's not afraid to play more lighthearted, elegant music.
Endearingly Dorky: Whenever any of the princesses shows strong interest in showing off their passions, the others tend to find it adorable. It's shown in "Princess Nest Pest" (where Rita smiles after Kira corrects her about where birds live) and "Princess Friends Un-Forever" (where Rita jumps with joy when Penny talks about how vinegar makes invisible ink).
Ending Theme: The end credits to almost every episode is a reprise of the show's theme song. The only exception is "Princess Surprise Party", which instead plays a birthday song over the end credits.
Endless Winter: "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" kicks off with snow falling on the normally hot kiwi fruitdom. When Kira tells the other princesses about this, Penny and Bea confess to accidentally causing it when trying to make an ice sculpture with Hermie the robot for the Kiwi Tricentennial.
Establishing Character Moment: "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses" starts with Penny giving Fussy a manicure, Great Aunt Bussyboots coming in and telling her to clean her room even though she doesn't demand perfection, and Penny making an invention to help everyone in the fruitdoms clean up. These few short minutes before the charm alarm is used help show how Penny is a smart, well meaning girl who doesn't always think straight, and Great Aunt Bussyboots as someone who's stern but also fair.
Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Fussy sometimes shows frustration when the princesses greatly mess up, such as Kira mindlessly hugging the bubble Mr. Scrumples is in without regards as to what could happen.
Even the Girls Want Her: In both "Princess Eco-Chase" and "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Rita is shown to be rather fond of Delia Dragonfruit. Despite her smug attitude, she still tries reaching out to her, much moreso in the latter episode.
"Everybody Laughs" Ending: We have a few examples of this:
- At the end of "Princess Lights Out", as the princesses wonder where Princey the cat is, we see that he's cuddling with Penny's cat Fussy and Kira's hamster Mr. Scrumples. It then has them all finding this adorable before they start laughing with joy as the camera zooms out.
- At the end of "Princess Fun In The Sun", when Fussy gets startled by the recurring pelican, everybody then laughs at how funny this is.
- The ending of "Princess Nest Pest" has the princesses laugh after getting tarts from Headmistress Miranda Melon.
Every Episode Ending: While it's sometimes happened in other episodes, it's best shown in the Crystal Key Quest arc, where all the episodes are right next to each other. Every episode here ends with the girls giving a Pinkie Tea Promise.
Everyone Has Standards:
- While the princesses are best friends, and will do anything to help each other out, there's still a limit as to how far that will go. It's noticeable in the episode "Princess Soccer Spectacular", with Kira and Bea openly expressing outright annoyance at Rita blatantly rigging the game in Sena's favor just because she's blind.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", even though Delia has issues with the princesses, which includes sending then out with a trapdoor, she doesn't hesitate to rescue Kira and Bea when Penny and Rita bring up how the monster could get them since she doesn't want to see them hurt.
Everyone Loves Blondes: Headmistress Miranda Melon is a blond haired woman who's loved by everyone in universe.
Everything's Better with Rainbows: While only involving the colors of the four main characters, rainbows show up quite a bit in the show. Each room in the Punchbowl Treehouse has the girls' colors to some extent. The Punchbowl Seahouse has their colors make up much of the base. "I Dig Being A Princess" briefly shows a rainbow light coming from the treasure chest, which shows the map to other fruitdoms. When the girls finally get accepted to Princess Adventure Academy in "Princesses Seas The Day", a rainbow light forms when the girls put their pinkies into the Princess Pathfinder.
Everything's Better with Sparkles:
- Both Penny and Rita show this in "A Prince In The Princess Pack" and "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" respectively with the same object, a glitter cannon. Penny uses it in the former episode so that she can please poet Gabriella Goldenrod. Rita uses it in the latter episode so she can help Penny please Queen Alana Apple.
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Rita put a sparkly tiara on Bea's riding helmet. As she puts it: "Everything is better with a tiara!"
Evil Is Bigger: Among the show's antagonists, both Penny's pineapple puppy from "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" and Captain Reginald from "Princesses Seas The Day" tower over the girls.
Exact Words: There are a few notable instances of this:
- In "Princess Donation Distress", Rita doesn't want to give her things away during a giveaway. As such, she tells the lemon fruitdom dignitaries to take anything that's not on her table. The intention is for them to get things from her friends' tables. Unfortunately, since she didn't specify that, they also take personal belongings not on the tables, like Penny's plane, Kira's kiwi kit, and Bea's zipline zapper.
- In "Princess Babysitter's Club", Penny attempts to give Oraida and Oliver a baking lesson by teaching them how to make pizza. She tells them to toss the dough, the intention being to toss it into the air. Unfortunately, she didn't specify that, and as such, they toss it to each other in a food fight.
- In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", Kira is surprised at Karina wanting to adopt Binky the bunny given how Queen Katia said no to another pet. She then clarifies and says that Kira couldn't get another pet, but Karina can since she doesn't have a pet.
Exhausted Eye Bags: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the girls take all day to get to the Dragonfruit fruitdom. By the time they get there, they're too tired, as evidenced by how the bags under their eyes are somewhat saggy. Rita actually shows a bit of this as she yawns.
Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy: In "Princess All Nighter", because Bea is afraid to admit that this is her first sleepover, she has the princesses stay up all night. This causes a problem when an iceberg floats towards the blueberry fruitdom, but they aren't on their A-game to take on the situation due to being too tired. Among other things, Kira accidentally brings her kiwi pillow instead of her kiwi kit, Bea accidentally brings the recurring pelican instead of her kit, Penny says the nonsensical phrase "Put a pelican on pretty powerful skis, then provide portable pennant flags" as a solution, and Rita somehow thinks that a squeeze horn could solve the problem.
Expy :
- Headmistress Miranda Melon seems to share a similar personality (albeit a bit more subdued) to The Silver Queen . Both are characters who are all seeing and all knowing, and genuinely care for the protagonists, but aren't afraid to put them through hardships in order to get them to develop into better people.
- Rita is similar to Nancy Clancy in how both are young girls that embrace their feminity, have a love for fashion and flair, and can be a bit vain and self absorbed. They differ in how Nancy is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who's 6-7 years old while Rita is a Nice Girl who's a bit older.
- Penny shows similarities to Eureka , another brilliant inventor who does what she can to help others, but is prone to stubbornness.
- There are 2 to Action Pack , another Netflix preschool show that the Perception Institute worked on:
  - Kira is similar to Treena in how both are black girls that have a deep care for the natural world around them.
  - Bea is similar to Watts, another well meaning, yet impulsive hero character with orange hair that's associated with the color blue.
- Delia Dragonfruit acts very similarly to Tammy Bounceaway , another Alpha Bitch character who acts as the negative foil to the main characters by being just as good as them, but also more selfish.
Extra-Long Episode: While most episodes are 11 minutes long, 9 of the show's episodes are specials. "Princesses And The Beanstalk" is 18 and a half minutes long. "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", "Princess Eco-Chase", "Princess Nest Pest", "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Princess Friends Un-Forever", and "Princesses Seas The Day" are all 23 minutes long. "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" and "Princess Royal Wedding" are 31 minutes long.
Extremely Short Timespan: It's not uncommon for episodes to have major events take place over the course of a short timespan. The events of "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", which involves traveling to a faraway cave, start out in daytime and finish at sundown the next evening. The events of "Princess Royal Wedding", which involves Rita and Omera preparing a wedding for their respective mothers with the rest of the Princess Pack, takes place over the course of 1 day. The Crystal Key Quest arc takes place over the course of a little over one week.
Eyepatch of Power: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Captain Reginald reprogrammed Hermie to serve him, as evidenced by his eye patch. He's shown being quite the threat with how he ties up the princesses.
Eye Take: Penny shows this on three notable occasions:
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", she tries to get Hermie to help her harvest the raspberries. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, he ends up sucking up the bushes. Her eyes widen as she freaks out.
- In "Practice Makes Princess", when Bea is outside, and plays the guitarpsichord very badly, the girls spin around and cover their ears. Penny's eyes widen as she spins around.
- In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Penny is described as being wide eyed and excited when Bea says that she'll be riding a horse.
The Face: Kira seems to fill this role given how she's The Leader of The Princess Pack. It's particularly shown in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", where she's the first to speak to Susie Seedplanter about what they'll all do after being coronated. She's also the first to speak during the coronation ceremony at the end.
Facepalm : Bea does this in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation ". When Penny's first pineapple balloon pops and she doesn't have more fruit to get the sparkleseeds down, Bea hits her own forehead.
Face Plant:
- In "Princess Bon Voyage", Bea attempts to use a seesaw to jump above goats in order to stop them from eating too much. She instead lands face first on the ground, with Rita's body being used as a cushion.
- In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Rita falls head first onto the ground when she thinks that she failed the quest.
- In "Princesses Seas The Day", when Rita thinks that they won't be able to find the last Crystal Key Quest box, she falls head first onto the floor of Punchbowl Treehouse.
Face Your Fears: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Bea learn to ride her fathers' horse Bruce with help from her friends due to how she's scared of riding someone as big as him.
Failed Attempt at Scaring: In "The Princess's Speech", Bea attempts to scare Kira's hiccups by taking her on a surprise hang-gliding trip. However, she instead finds it exciting.
Failures on Ice: In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", Fussy and Great Aunt Bussyboots are shown struggling to stand still on the ice at the end of the episode. This is in stark contrast to Penny, who skates on the ice flawlessly .
Fainting : With Rita being rather dramatic and over the top, it's no surprise that she would be susceptible to this, though she can recover quickly. These are notable examples:
- In "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", when seeing that Kira is safe, Rita faints in her plane seat since she's relieved that she's alright.
- In "A Prince In The Princess Pack", when things keep going wrong at the tea party for Gabriella Goldenrod, Rita talks about how this is a disaster and faints, with Kira catching her.
- In "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure", when finding out that the pets are gone, Rita panics and faints. Kira picks her up a few seconds later.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", when Susie Seedplanter reports about the seed shortage, Rita faints from this, and both Kira and Penny catch her.
Fairytale Wedding Dress: Rita talks about this in "Princess Royal Wedding", where she envisions Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia wearing 10 fancy wedding dresses. The dresses that they later wear in the wedding itself are pretty lavish, though not to the extent Rita thought.
Fake-Out Opening: The short at 2:28 makes you think it's a regular clip given how it starts out like the travel song with Kira coming by on her motorboat. However, rather than also showing the other princesses right away, she then immediately enters the dock, cluing the viewers in that this is something else entirely.
Fancy Camping: "The Missing Princess" follows this somewhat. At one point, Rita brings out a picnic for Ara and Minji that is decked out with all sorts of fancy treats.
Fancy Dinner: "Princess Garden Party" briefly shows a big dinner feast at the end.
Fanfare : It's subverted in "Princess Suggestion Box". Rita attempts this at a few points, but she can't do it due to having too many activities to do.
Fanservice: It's an extremely downplayed example given the show's target audience, but episodes that have a fashion show like "Princess All Nighter" will have Rita wear outfits that have more of a glamour to them.
Fantastic Fireworks: "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" ends with fireworks shaped like kiwis flying through the sky.
Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: It's played with. The fruits that the girls discover are fruits that are regular to us, but not to the characters. For example, in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", the girls stumble on bananas, but Kira is initially hesitant to eat it since none of them know what it is.
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: While the places themselves are fictional, much of the inspiration for the four main fruitdoms is inspired by real-life cultures. The raspberry fruitdom is based on South Korea. The pineapple fruitdom is based on Puerto Rico. The kiwi fruitdom is based on Brazil. The blueberry fruitdom is based on Norway.
Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: Bea wears a helmet whenever she hang glides. Oddly enough, she wears a helmet while horseback riding in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" but doesn't wear one in the show itself.
Farm Boy: Penny's younger brother Felipe lives on the pineapple farm. This is in stark contrast to the books, where he lived at the palace with her.
Fashionable Asymmetry: "Princess Lights Out" has Rita accidentally put on mismatched clothes due to the all fruitdom power outage. She initially thinks it's bad, but quickly embraces how good she looks.
Fashion Show:
- Per Rita's request, the princesses have a sleepover fashion show in "Princess All Nighter".
- Rita tries one out in "The Perfect Princess Welcome", where she and the other princesses go down the red carpet in fancy outfits as a way to get people to come to Cyrus's Lemon Cafe.
- The short at the 1 minute mark has Penny and Bea act as announcers to a fashion show, with Rita and Kira as the models. Despite doing a great job, the recurring pelican wins instead.
Fast-Forward Gag: "The Princesses And The Bees" shows this. As Rita talks about all she did to help the dying raspberry crops, Penny says how this will take too long. She then uses a remote to literally fast forward through what she's saying.
Fear Is Normal: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has the other princesses tell Bea that it's okay to be afraid since everyone has fears.
Feathered Fiend: The bird shown in "Princess Nest Pest" is shown to be very tall and dangerous given the emphasis on them nearly hurting the princesses. It's subverted at the end when it turns out that the giant bird was just a baby, and thus didn't know better. When Kira manages to befriend them, they become nicer.
Fell Asleep Driving: In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", Penny sets her plane on autopilot with Fussy inside as the princesses try to climb down into the volcano to go Kira then off Snow Hermie. Unfortunately, she falls asleep, and accidentally gets the plane moving as she moves around, sending the princesses down into the volcano.
Females Are More Innocent: It's downplayed, but still noticable with Delia Dragonfruit and Captain Reginald. Granted, both go through a Heel–Face Turn, but the narrative definitely shows more sympathy for the former. Delia ultimately still wants to help her fruitdom, but just places great pride in doing things on her own even if she does some questionable things like sending the princesses down a trap door. At worst, she's just a jerky rival. Contrast with Captain Reginald, where he's more a card carrying villain for most of his appearance, with the bad things he did, stealing from the other fruitdoms, being more severe.
Feminine Women Can Cook: While not on Rita's level, Penny is someone who embraces her feminity, and she's good at baking.
Femininity Failure: In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon tries doing traditional princess things like wearing a dress or pouring tea, but she keeps messing up.
Feud Episode: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" is about the girls being at odds with each other over if they should work with Delia to help her fruitizens out. Kira and Bea are against working with her while Rita and Penny are for working with her.
Fiery Redhead: Bea is a downplayed example given how she's usually laid back and friendly, but can become this when pushed far enough. To give an example , in "Princess Processional Professional", she becomes very stubborn and impatient when dealing with Bella not wanting to be ridden.
Final Exam Finale: "Princesses Seas The Day" serves as the finale to the Crystal Key Quest arc, with the girls utilizing all they've learned to overcome the odds and get into Princess Adventure Academy.
Final Season Casting: Season 3 introduces Headmistress Miranda Melon, the character who shifts the show from mostly episodic to story driven as she tests the princesses to see if they can get into Princess Adventure Academy.
Fireman's Safety Net: While it doesn't involve firefighting, nets have helped save fruitizens from falling out of the sky:
- In "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", the giant pineapple kidnaps King Barton. Kira and Bea act as a distraction from above while Rita, Penny, and the other contestants use a net she made to catch them.
- In "Princess Bon Voyage", Kira tells Rita to let go of the spinning windmill while she and Karina use one of her nets while riding their horses to catch her. While she's hesitant to do it at first, she lets go, and is caught.
- In "Princess Babysitter's Club", Kira's attempts to teach Omera and Oliver result in Fussy flying into the sky. Rita, Penny, and Bea catch her with a net.
Five-Token Band: The four main girls are Rita Raspberry (who's Asian, and later gets 2 moms), Kira Kiwi (who's black), Penny Pineapple (who's Latina), and Bea Blueberry (who's white, disabled, and has 2 dads).
Flashback-Montage Realization: There are two examples of this:
- In "Princess Creation Station", Rita pulls up a projector in order to go back to the beginning of the episode to see what she should do to solve her dilemma over how to make the kids happy. She decides that she needs to spend time with the Raspberrian kids and make bracelets with them.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Kira pulls up a projector to show clips from not just this episode, but also "Princess Eco-Chase", as she talks about who the culprit is.
Floating in a Bubble: There are a few notable examples of the characters being in/on bubbles, but they never pop:
- The first comes from "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses". Penny uses her special bubble formula to help Kira her Mr. Scrumples down from the chimney. Unfortunately, the bubble traps Kira, Mr. Scrumples, and Miss Fussywiggles, and can only be popped by Fussy.
- "Princess Freaky Fruit Day" has Rita, Kira, Bea, and Great Aunt Bussyboots (acting as princess for the day) somehow be able to ride on top of bubbles with blueberry bushes inside them.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Rita, Bea, Kira, and Penny float onto the stage inside bubbles as they become coronated princesses. Bea even does some acrobatics in hers.
- The 1:38 point in the video has Kira seeing that Rita, Penny, and Bea are trapped inside bubbles that don't pop. Fussy then pops them with her claws.
Flowers of Romance: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia's wedding is is kicked off by Hermie spurting out flower petals before Rita and the other princesses walk down the aisle with flower bouquets.
Flying on a Cloud: In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon uses her tinkering skills to change up a teapot so that it can create lemon tea bubbles clouds that pick things up. The first time it's used, Mr. Scrumples is shown floating on a cloud while he relaxes. Later, while Lila is rescuing a woman stranded at sea, she uses the same solution to make a cloud for the raft that they're both standing on in order to float above water.
Foil: Delia Dragonfruit is designed to be a foil to each of the princesses in some way:
- Delia is similar to Rita in how she's able to conjure up unusual fashions very quickly. She takes pride to it similar to Rita, but without the humility or selflessness she usually has since it's not for helping others.
- Delia is similar to Kira in how she acts as a strong leader who thinks she's right. Unlike Kira, she thinks that only her way is right, and doesn't like listening to others.
- Delia is similar to Penny in how she's very smart, stubborn, and isn't afraid to show it off. Unlike Penny, she isn't willing to listen to others when they try to help her out and say she's wrong, at least until her second appearance, where she does develop into a better person.
- Delia is similar to Bea in being incredibly athletic and stubborn and thinking that things have to go her way. Unlike Bea, she thinks that showing she can do everything, and won't listen to others, at least until her second appearance, where she does develop into a better person.
Food and Animal Attraction: In "Princess Pie Surprise", Kira and Bea are gathering blueberries to make pies for the All Fruitdom Treat And Greet. Unfortunately, they also attract the attention of birds who want to eat them.
Food as Bribe:
- In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Fussy doesn't want to swing to the next avocado island with the princesses. She only does so when Kira offers her a whole bottle of teenykin treats.
- In "Princesses Seas The Day", Kira offers Captain Reginald's crew teenykin treats if they stop working for him. They initially do so, but then when offered fruit smoothies, they go back to him. Even she says how fresh fruit can't be beat.
Food Fight: In "Princess Babysitter's Club", Oraida and Oliver throw pizza dough at each other when accidentally misinterpreting Penny's words to toss the dough.
Formally Named Pet: Kira and Penny's respective pets are Mr. Scrumples and Miss Fussywiggles, which helps show off how they're animal royalty.
Formula-Breaking Episode: Episodes that usually involve another princess in a main role will usually have them share the spotlight with one of the main princesses (such as Kira and Karina sharing the spotlight in "Princess Garden Party"). With "How To Be A Princess", the focus is squarely on Lila Lemon, with the rest of the princesses being there to specifically help her out.
For Science!: In a way, this can describe Penny. She is a genuinely nice person who wants to use her science to make things better for the fruitdoms. It's just that she doesn't usually think about the potential consequences, and can often get caught up in her own ambition. It's best shown in the episode "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", where she attempts to use some growth spray on a pineapple for the baking contest when she doesn't have an extra one. When Felipe asks Penny if this is cheating, she says how it's not cheating since baking is science.
Four-Fingered Hands: It's averted with the human characters, who each have hands with five fingers. It's played straight with Fussy though, as well as the other animal characters that have fingers.
Four-Girl Ensemble: The show definitely follows this given that the premise involves four girls from four different fruitdoms being best friends and helping those in need.
Free-Range Children: The four main princesses are generally allowed to go anywhere they want without much worry about adult supervision. Notable examples include going into an inactive volcano in "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", going off on their own to find the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation ", and going to all sorts of islands and mountains during the entire Crystal Key Quest arc, particularly in "Princess Friends Un-Forever".
Frequently Full Moon: Anytime night is shown in the series, there's always a full moon. It's best shown in "Princess All Nighter" and "Princess Friends Un-Forever". The latter episode even has a moment of showing that it's many hours later by having the moon move to the opposite side, but the moon is still full.
Friend-or-Idol Decision: "Princess Eco-Chase" shows Bea being rather determined to do everything for the princesses on her own during the Eco-Chase despite the penalty they could endure. It's best shown during the second challenge, where she has to choose to get the flags on her own or with her friends. She chooses the latter.
Friendship-Hating Antagonist: This can actually describe Delia Dragonfruit in both "Princess Eco-Chase" and "Princess Friends Un-Forever" in a sense given how she doesn't like working with others, and thinks she should do everything herself. In the former episode, she's so focused on doing things herself that she costs her team the Key Of Teamwork. In the latter, she comes to see at the end that working with others is better when her fruitdom is in danger.
Friendship-Straining Competition: "Princess Shooting Stars" has the princesses compete against each other to see who can put together a better event for the comet. Kira and Penny think that music will work while Rita and Bea think a carnival is better.
Friendship Trinket: The girls' charm alarms act as reminders of how this team of princesses are best friends who will always support each other no matter what.
The Friends Who Never Hang: The show tends to have episodes that focus on either one of the princesses or all the princesses due to the show focusing more on the group and how to integrate everyone. As such, there wouldn't be an episode focusing on a specific dynamic. Even still, certain dynamics are favored more than others. While Kira has had notable interactions with all the princesses, that's not always the case with others. Bea tends to have more focus scenes with Kira and to a lesser extent Rita than she does with than Penny while Penny and Rita have notable interactions either with each other or with Kira.
Friend to All Children: While the princesses are pretty friendly to children overall, this especially applies to Rita due to a number of instances:
- She's regularly helpful towards the raspberry fruitdom kids Ara and Minji.
- She's very gentle in telling Penny that she shouldn't have snapped at her young brother Felipe in "A Prince In The Princess Pack".
- The activities she does to help Penny out in "Princess Suggestion Box" include babysitting kids by playing soccer and doing a music parade.
- She's very excited to help Lila become a princess in "How To Be A Princess".
- She acts protective towards Cyrus during moments of danger in "The Perfect Princess Welcome" and "Princess Nest Pest".
- In "Princess Donation Distress", what ultimately gets Rita to give away her things is seeing a young girl happy with her teddy bear.
- She gives Oraida and Oliver the Affectionate Nickname "fledging fashionistas" in "Princess Babysitter's Club".
- She tries her hardest to be nice to her soon to be younger sister Omera in "Princess Royal Wedding", and tries her hardest to make her happy when she makes her cry.
Friend to All Living Things: Kira is incredibly compassionate towards animals. She even says in "Princess Nest Pest" how no animal is just mean as she tries befriending a large bird.
Friend to Bugs: Kira is understandably this given how she loves all animals. She doesn't mind being around bees in "The Princesses And The Bees", and doesn't mind using a spider web in "Princess Royal Wedding".
From Stray to Pet: The book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" ends with Kira's older sister Karina adopting Binky, the bunny that Kira found.
Funny Background Event: In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", as Penny tries to apologize for things going wrong, there's a brief cutaway to Rita trying to keep Penny's cake from hopping off.
Fun with Homophones: "Princess Bon Voyage" offers an interesting variation on this trope involving a real word and a made up word. As the princesses help Kira make sure that Karina stays home, Rita offers her a chance to help out with the floa-tea party at the raspberry fruitdom. Karina thinks she means floaty when she actually means floa-tea, as in having a tea party while sitting on floating balloons.
Gadgeteer Genius: Penny makes all sorts of inventions that, for the most part, do actually work in trying to help others out.
Games of the Elderly: It's averted with Hilda in "The Princesses Get A Roommate". Bea thinks she'll want to play board games since she thinks that all grandmothers like this. When Hilda then says how it's a stereotypical grandma thing, Bea then immediately throws it to the side.
Gasp! : In "The Princesses And The Bees", Kira, Penny, and Bea let out a collective gasp when Rita shows them the shriveled up raspberry plants.
Genki Girl:
- Rita is the most excitable of the princesses, often being rather bouncy and over the top when something great happens.
- Rita's younger sister Omera definitely fits with this with how she's energetic and always eager to help.
Genre Shift: The first season mainly focused on slice-of-life situations with pretty simple stories, like making sure a party goes as planned. Seasons 2-3 would still keep things simple and lighthearted for the target audience, but they would also add in more action and peril, both in specials and even more regular episodes, along with an overarching narrative to boot.
Gentle Giant:
- Whaley is a giant whale that's also very gentle and sensitive.
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Bernie the horse. He's described as being very big, but also friendly.
- The giant prism feathered pterodex from "Princess Nest Pest" ultimately becomes this when Kira bonds with them and sees that they're just a baby that doesn't know better.
Giant Flyer: In "Princess Nest Pest", after Kira tames the prism feathered pterodex and becomes their friend, she's briefly shown flying on them next to the Punchbowl Seahouse as she and the other princesses bring them back to Banana Island.
Giant Food: The second half of "Princess Pie Surprise" has Rita tell Bea to show off a giant pie instead of 50 pies for the All Fruitdom Treat N Greet.
Giant Poofy Sleeves: Rita's 2 primary outfits both have poofy sleeves. They're either green or pink depending on the primary color of her outfit.
Girlish Pigtails: Penny wears her hair in pigtails, and is quite spunky.
Girls Love Chocolate: This definitely applies to Rita, as seen in "The Great Princess Punchbowl Feastival" (where she goes all in on talking about how great the raspberry chocolate volcano cake is) and "Princess Surprise Party" (where, in order to get Bea away from her birthday cake in the kitchen, she screams about chocolate lava).
Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Each of the princesses have stuffed animals in their rooms. There's also plenty in Punchbowl Treehouse.
Girl's Night Out Episode: "Princesses All Nighter" is probably the closest episode to take on this idea given how it focuses on the princesses trying to have a night of fun at their sleepover.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Rita is the most feminine of the princesses given how she's really into fashion and all sorts of fancy activities. At the same time, she's not afraid to do tasks and activities that are more physically demanding, such as playing soccer or running around with her friends.
Girly Skirt Twirl: In "Practice Makes Princess", as Bea asks why they're all wearing their dresses for guitarpsichord practice, Rita says how it's because they look fantastic. She then shows off her skirt by twirling and prancing around.
Glamorous Single Mother:
- Queen Ryung has no problem raising her daughter Rita on her own, and lives quite the luxurious lifestyle. It's later subverted when she marries Queen Olivia.
- While not a mother, Queen Bussyboots doesn't really have a problem raising Penny on her own, and also lives a good lifestyle.
The Glomp: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Karina frees the princesses when they get tied up. Fussy attempts to thank her with a hug. Unfortunately, she tackles her while doing so, getting Captain Reginald's attention.
Go-Getter Girl: While this can describe all the girls given how skilled they are and loved by everyone, and thus place high expectations on themselves to do well, it's very pronounced in Kira and Penny.
- The beginning of "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" shows how Kira goes out of her way to help her fruitizens get ready for the tricentennial, and really breaks down when things go horribly wrong. She does at least try to fix things, but the effects are still shown quite a bit.
- One of Penny's catchphrases is "For every princess problem, there's a princess solution". This means that she'll push herself to find the solution to any problem regardless of how she can manage it.
Go Mad from the Isolation: This can describe all the avocado fruitizens (Ariel, Azul, and August) in "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water". They talk to their avocados as if they're real (which they technically are despite them not being sentient, which shocks Bea), and act genuinely surprised when seeing the princesses.
Good Feels Good: The girls get great satisfaction from simply doing good things for others. A few examples stand out:
- In "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy", Fussy initially tries doing the princesses' good deeds just so she can get back to her birthday. However, she actually likes doing them the longer she does them, and puts the party on hold to do more good deeds.
- A very notable instance happens in "Princesses Seas The Day", where the princesses seemingly fail at completing their Crystal Key quest due to helping get everything back for the fruitdoms. Kira says that she felt good just doing what's right.
"Good Luck" Gesture: In "Princess Pie Surprise", Bea crosses her fingers as she hopes that the giant pie made it onto the kiwi fruitdom balcony.
A Good, Old-Fashioned Paint Watching: While it's not actually shown, the idea is brought up in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation". When the adults say that the princesses can't help out with the seed shortage situation since they're not coronated yet, they're understandably not happy with this. Rita is unsurprisingly very anxious, and equates not doing anything about it to the equivalent of watching paint dry, which she says is really really hard.
Good Parents: All the parental figures in the show are shown to be friendly and supportive towards the princesses.
Good-Times Montage: "Princess Royal Wedding" has the song "Sister Love". It's sung by Rita as she and Omera do all sorts of activities together as a way to make up for her earlier behavior.
Gosh Dang Ito Heck: One of Rita's catchphrases, "Oh my bangles!", can basically be considered a more child friendly way of saying "Oh my god!", usually when she's excited.
Go-to-Sleep Ending:
- In "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy", Fussy falls asleep in her cake because she spent all day helping others.
- Due to staying up all night and having to stop an iceberg from hitting the blueberry fruitdom, "Princess Slumber Party" ends with the four princesses falling asleep as they lean on each other's shoulders.
Gotta Catch Them All: The whole Crystal Key Quest arc is built on this, with each episode about the girls obtaining a specific key.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Kira, Karina, and Queen Katia all wear purple to signify their nobility.
Grandma's Recipe: In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", Penny attempts to please Hilda with a pineapple tart recipe that she learned from her grandmother. She's not pleased with this.
Gratuitous Animal Sidekick:
- Kira's hamster Mr. Scrumples is usually there to provide comedy for the show, but is given moments of contributing to the story, usually in getting into unusual places the princesses can't get to.
- Penny's cat Fussy is also like this given how she's usually there to drive the comedy, but also has moments where her carefree attitude can unintentionally inspire the princesses with an idea.
Gratuitous Princess: In "Princess Shooting Stars", Kira gives the recurring pelican a tiara so that he can be a princess, and help those in need. In this case, it's rescuing Mr. Scrumples when accidentally he gets launched into the air.
Green Aesop: "Princesses And The Beanstalk" has Penny and the girls try to figure out how to water the tiny sparkleseed without using the limited amount of freshwater that's left due to a drought. The solution involves literally climbing to the clouds to get water vapor from the clouds to make it rain before later making water towers for everyone to use.
Green-Eyed Monster: Fussy tends to show off her flaws quite a bit, including jealousy. Adding to this trope is how she actually has green eyes. She shows this twice:
- In the episode "Princess Lights Out", there's a running gag where Fussy gets jealous when Princey, a kitten that Kira found, causes all the girls to fawn over him a lot. She then tries doing what she can to get back that attention.
- In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", Fussy gets jealous when she has to share a cat bed with Binky, a bunny that Kira found. She even plops her off her cat bed.
Group Hug: Various episodes, such as "The Princess's Speech" and "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure", show this whenever the girls show more outwardly affectionate support. The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" also shows this given how the final picture is of everyone hugging Bea for facing her fear.
Growing Wings: The Crystal Key Quest boxes normally just show up in odd places. However, there are two instances in which the boxes come to the princesses by sprouting wings. The first instance comes from "Princess Eco-Chase", where Bea rides on Bella, and she jumps off of her in order to catch it. The second instance comes from "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", with a box flying to Rita, and she tries jumping for it.
Growling Gut: It's averted in "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy". Everyone hears a mysterious sound, and Bea thinks it might be her stomach since she likes birthday cake. It's actually a "ghost" (in actuality, the recurring pelican trapped in a dress).
Grows on Trees: Punchbowl Island has trees and bushes home to the fruits of the four main fruitdoms.
Throughout "Princess Royal Wedding", Omera says "Fruit-a-loot-a-lacious" whenever she gets excited.
Grumpy Old Man: Well, grumpy old woman in this case, but Hilda still qualifies. In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", she's rather critical over the girls' overzealous attempts to befriend her.

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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Lila Lemon has blond hair, and she's a Nice Girl like the other princesses who just wants to help others.
Hair-Trigger Avalanche: In "Princess Freaky Fruit Day", Queen Bussyboots (who's taking Penny's place as princess for the day) is having a great time riding on a bubble. Unfortunately, she doesn't hear Kira and Rita telling her to stop, and accidentally slams into the mountain, causing an avalanche.
Half-Arc Season: Both seasons 2-3 follow this format in their own ways:
- Season 2 has plenty of standalone episodes, but also goes for a slight arc during its second half in introducing the idea of other fruitdoms that visit the four main fruitdoms.
- The second half of season 3 does this again with the remaining half of the season being devoted to the Crystal Key Quest arc so that the girls can get into Princess Adventure Academy.
Half-Identical Twins: Minji and Joon tend to act similarly cheerful, and look pretty similar. The only real physical difference between them is that Minji's hair is shorter.
Hammerspace : The fruit kits generally have what you expect to carry in something like them, such as arts and crafts supplies and animal treats. Penny's kit seems to be the odd one out given how she can pull out a large chemistry set.
Handicapped Badass: Bea has a leg brace, and yet still proves to be quite the badass with how she's quick to jump into action without hesitation.
Handshake Substitute: In "Princess Royal Wedding", we see how close Rita and Queen Olivia are when they greet each other with a fist bump, and sing a high note.
Hand Signals: "Princesses Seas The Day" has Kira use her hands to silently tell the princesses what to do in order to get back the stolen treasures from Captain Reginald.
Handy Helper: In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", Rita attempts to be this for Sena by guiding her around the field during the game since she sees this as helping her out. Her friends are not convinced by this.
Happily Adopted: Bea has 2 dads who show up sometimes. Rita herself becomes this as of "Princess Royal Wedding", when her mother Queen Ryung marries Queen Olivia.
Happily Married: Kira, Rita, and Bea's parents are all shown to be in happy relationships with each other.
Happy Dance:
- In "Princess Shooting Stars", when Rita and Bea declare themselves the winners even though Kira says they can't do that, they both gloat about it and dance in place.
- In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", Rita does a boastful victory dance by closing her eyes and waving her fingers after Sena "makes a goal" when she actually missed it.
- In "Princess Crown Coverup", when Bea fixes Queen Ryung's crown with rubber bands, Rita is so overcome with joy that she dances on the Crown And Crafterie table. Unfortunately, she accidentally drops it and breaks it again.
- In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", Kira and Mr. Scrumples have a race to see who can finish cleaning up the gazebo. Just as she's about to win, she gets distracted by a rabbit. This allows Mr. Scrumples to finish first. He then does a victory dance.
Happy Rain: In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", Penny uses Weather Hermie to make it rain on the other fruitdoms. Given how they were suffering from a drought, it's not a surprise that they were happy to see this.
Hard Truth Aesop: "Practice Makes Princess" shows how there are some things you aren't good at, and that's okay. It's demonstrated by how Bea keeps messing up playing the guitarpsichord no matter how hard she tries, but everyone says how she still has other great attributes that can make others happy, especially the audience.
Hard Work Hardly Works: In "Practice Makes Princess", Bea says how she's tried practicing the guitarpsichord many times but keeps failing at it. Rita then says that she probably doesn't have the feel for it. She then proceeds to play it flawlessly despite having never seen one before. This understandably makes Bea frustrated as Rita says in a calm and reassuring tone that she's practiced playing music for years.
Hard-Work Montage: In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Kira outright calls for a construction montage as she and the other princesses build the Punchbowl Seahouse in order to get to the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets.
Hates Being Touched: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" plays with this. Rita wiggles her fingers on Delia's shoulder when showing excitement for the Dragonfruit festival. While she looks visibly weirded out by this, she also doesn't try to stop her.
Head Pet: Mr. Scrumples sometimes sits on Kira's head.
The Heart: While all the girls show this with their determination to make the others happy, it's very pronounced with Kira. Episodes like "Princess Suggestion Box" and "Prinxess Royal Wedding" show how she's good at maintaining peace within the group with all sorts of inspirational speeches and good advice.
Heartfelt Apology: Any episode that involves showing more of the characters' flaws will emphasize the apology more. It's best shown in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", with Kira being most upfront in apologizing for not trusting Delia.
Heart Symbol:
- Kira's chest pocket is shaped like a heart.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Rita shapes her hands like a heart as she and the other princesses leave the Dragonfruit fruitdom as a way to show that they're friends with Delia.
Heat Wave: The conflict of "Princess Fun In The Sun" is about cleaning the beach during a very big heat wave as the girls trying cooling themselves off.
Heel–Face Turn: Both Delia Dragonfruit (who's more a smug rival rather than being evil) and Captain Reginald initially try to oppose or one up the princesses, but eventually come to see how they should be better people. For Delia, it's during her second appearance in "Princess Friends Un-Forever". For Captain Reginald, it's for his one and only appearance in "Princesses Seas The Day".
Heel Realization: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the seeds for Delia's Heel–Face Turn are set up when Penny says how the monster still roaming the fruitdom means that Kira and Bea are in danger. She immediately goes to try and help them.
Help, I'm Stuck!:
- Halfway through "Princess Crown Coverup", Minji is shown stuck in a tree. She's initially nervous to come down until Kira and Bea catch her with their pillows.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", Omera's well meaning mistakes result in her accidentally tripping, setting off a chain reaction that ends with Rita's first mother, Queen Ryung, getting stuck in a tree.
- "Princess Bon Voyage" has Rita getting stuck on a moving windmill as she tries getting string out.
Hero Academy: While not physically seen outside of Rita's pictures, the second half of season 3 is devoted to the girls getting into Princess Adventure Academy in order to learn to be better princesses for their fruitdoms.
Heroic Self-Deprecation:
- Penny shows this in "Princess Suggestion Box". After she takes on too many suggestions and things fall into chaos, she feels that she's not cut out to be a leader. Rita tries reassuring her that she's a great leader, but Penny focuses more on how she made things worse and didn't give her people what they wanted. It takes Kira telling Penny to think outside the box for her to see that she can be a good leader.
- Rita shows this in "The Missing Princess". The episode is about her taking Ara and Minji on a hiking trip through the Blueberry fruitdom woods so that they can get their Raspberrian Ranger patches. However, she ends up getting them lost, and calls her friends on the charm alarm for help. Even though she did get them lost, she still keeps them safe, fed, and entertained. Despite this, after they're all rescued, she feels down on herself because she feels she failed as a leader by asking for help. It takes reassurance from her friends, as well as Ara and Minji, to see that she is a good leader because she asked for help and kept everyone safe.
- Kira shows this in "Princess Nest Pest". After she fails to get the crystal key and tame the giant bird, she feels down on herself for not handling the situation. Even though her friends say how she was able to save them from being bird food, she still criticizes herself and thinks she's not Princess Adventure Academy material. It takes more reassurance from her friends saying how her making sure that they were all safe is Princess Adventure Academy material to get her to snap out of it.
- Lila Lemon from "How To Be A Princess" shows this. She doesn't see the worth behind the great things she did to help the princesses with her tinkering. She instead focuses more on her mistakes.
Hiccup Hijinks: Less than halfway through "The Princess's Speech", Kira gets hiccups when she's nervous about giving her first speech. She tries out Penny's suggestion to drink tea with honey, but it doesn't work. She then goes hang gliding with Bea to scare them away, but she finds it exciting. She then loses her hiccups when she gets scared from nearly falling out of the sky. She also briefly gets hiccups again while giving her speech near the end when her nerves get to her.
Hidden Depths: Fitting her intuitive demeanor, "The Missing Princess" reveals that Kira loves mysteries.
Hide the Evidence:
- In "The Princesses And The Bees", Rita doesn't want to show her mother how the raspberry plants are shriveled up. As such, she hides them in dresses that she quickly made.
- There are various instances throughout "Princess Surprise Party" where the girls try hiding the preparations for Bea's surprise party from her:
  - They hide the bouncing cakes when she looks in the kitchen.
  - Rita tries to quickly pop her balloons that sing "happy birthday ".
  - Kira has the pelicans act as a distraction while Rita and Penny tell the birthday musician to hide her instruments.
High-Class Gloves: Given how Rita favors fancy things, it's not a surprise she would have some glammed up gloves. It's best shown in "Princesses And The Beanstalk", where she happily makes Penny some fancy mittens with sticky resin to climb the beanstalk.
The High Queen: All the queens in the show (Queen Bussyboots, Queen Ryung, Queen Olivia, Queen Katia, Queen Alana, and Queen Lilian) are shown to be perfectly well meaning and reasonable rulers who want the best for others.
Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: In "The Missing Princess", Kira uses Mr. Scrumples to measure the size of footprints. She remarks how the bigger footprints are 2 and a half Scrumples long while the shorter ones are 2 Scrumples long.
Holding Hands: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Rita's mothers, Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia, make a silent cameo, where they hold hands as the girls leave for Princess Adventure Academy. The same episode shows a brief moment of Kira and Bea doing this as the girls send special items to the cranberry fruitdom.
Home Base: The Punchbowl Treehouse serves as the main headquarters of the series where the girls meet up to either talk about what adventure they're going on, or to just simply hang out.
Homemade Inventions:
- With Penny being a brilliant scientist, she can make all sorts of inventions with whatever she has lying around her room or in the area. A good example comes from "Princess Fun In The Sun", where she makes little solar fans using nothing but palm leaves and wooden debris lying around the beach.
- In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon is capable of making all sorts of inventions with whatever is lying around. A good example comes from how she's able to make lemon tea bubbles to clean up the mess she made using lemons, tea, and liquid soap.
Homoerotic Subtext: The show definitely shows how the girls' friendship with each other is the most important relationship. They're always willing to compliment each other and be much more openly affectionate with each other. It's very pronounced in "Princesses Seas The Day", where the girls go off to Princess Adventure Academy together. Bea says how this'll be the best since they're all together. Rita follows this up by saying how they'll all be together no matter what. Kira and Penny also agree as all four girls do the Pinkie Tea Promise to stay together.
Honesty Aesop: "Princess Crown Coverup" is an episode that definitely fits this. It's about Rita accidentally breaking her mother's crown on the day that the orange fruitdom queen is coming to visit. She tries to fix it with help from her friends, but it eventually results in super sticky glue getting her and Penny stuck to the crown while Kira and Bea have pillows glued to their hands. She then eventually tells Queen Ryung the truth, who's a bit disappointed, but also wishes that she told her since she would've understood.
Horseback Heroism: Kira is shown doing heroic deeds when she rides her horse Maisie. Here are some examples:
- In "Princess Suggestion Box", she rides Maisie as she calms her everyone down when q chaotic chain reaction occurs.
- In "Princess Processional Professional", she's able to get some goats out of the way with treats rather quickly so that they don't run into Bella.
- In "Princess Nest Pest", she's able to quickly get a young boy back to his mother while avoiding the prism feathered pterodex.
Hot Drink Cure: In "The Princess's Speech", the way Penny helps Kira get her voice back is to give her a teacup filled with warm water and pineapple mixed together.
How Is That Even Possible?: In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Bea is legitimately surprised at how Abe, an avocado, could take her hang glider despite not having any appendages.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Kira is shown to be somewhat tiny compared to the baby prism feathered pterodex, who's very huge.
Human Snowman: In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", Rita comments about how good Fussy looks in wearing her dress that's made of snow.
Humble Hero: The princesses are beloved by everyone, but are content with just simply doing the right thing and making people happy. Even Rita, who tends to be quite vain, doesn't act egotistical (the only notable exception being Princess Soccer Spectacular, but she overcomes it).
Hypocritical Humor: During "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure", Kira shows constant worry for Fussy and Mr. Scrumples' safety. At the end of the episode, when they finally reconnect, she says how she wasn't worried at all until Bea has to lightly tease her into admitting the truth.
I Am Very British:
- In "Princess All Nighter", Rita briefly dons a British accent when complimenting Kira during the sleepover fashion show.
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", Bea briefly dons a British accent when she asks Penny for tea from the sky. She likewise also dons a British accent when saying yes.
"I Can't Look!" Gesture: In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", Fussy's meddling in the tea party for Queen Alana because of Great Aunt Bussyboots eventually results in Bea on her hang glider crashing into Queen Alana. We are thankfully spared some of the harsher parts of this moment given how we see Penny covering her eyes and Kira and Rita looking away.
Ideal Hero: All the princesses in the Princess Pack are brave, altruistic heroes that everyone looks up to in times of need.
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode title has the word "princess" in it.
Idiot Ball: Azul from "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" holds this. As Rita makes a basket and catapult to get the princesses to the next atoll, she tells Azul to cut the rope to get them across. Unfortunately, she cuts the rope before the princesses get into the basket. As Bea calls her out for this, she says how Phil the avocado told her to.
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" has The Cave Of Avocadoom, a cave with some kind of monster inside it. The deep, ominous vibrations don't help out. It turns out that the sounds were all because of a frog's croaks bouncing off the cave walls.
If My Calculations Are Correct: Penny says this in the book Princesses Bea's Pony Parade as she improves on Bea's idea.
Ignored Epiphany: During the halfway mark of "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", it looks like Bea has enough courage to ride Bernie and overcome her fear of horses. However, when Fussy accidentally activates the blueberry blaster, which she scares Bernie, she not only becomes scared again, she becomes even more meek and apologizes for backing out.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Captain Reginald says how he became a pirate because he felt like he didn't belong anywhere, and thought that stealing things would help him make friends. He then pulls a Heel–Face Turn when the princesses save him and his crew, and he helps them return what he stole.
Ill-Timed Sneeze: In "I Dig Being A Princess", Rita is painting a picture of Kira's pet hamster Mr. Scrumples for an upcoming charity ball, but then he starts to sneeze. He tries holding it in, but then he sneezes, and ends up flying into a vase.
Imagine Spot: "The Princesses And The Bees" briefly shows this, with Kira visualizing Fussy as a bee in order to talk about pollination.
Imagine the Audience Naked: While it doesn't involve anyone getting naked, there are two examples of this idea in the show, one played straight and the other inverted:
- The second half of "The Princess's Speech" follows this idea straight. When Kira is still nervous about giving her speech, Bea says how she should imagine everyone in the audience as being singing and dancing teenykins as a way to calm down.
- The inversion comes from "How To Be A Princess". Lila isn't comfortable with the big gown that she has to wear for her Princess Promise Ceremony. Rita says to do what she does, and imagine herself wearing fantabulous pants.
I'm Not Doing That Again: In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", Rita suggests that Penny repurpose Hermie to make him snow again since she did it before in "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco". She initially considers it until Fussy and Mr. Scrumples say otherwise. There's even a flashback to that episode to show why she wouldn't want to do it again since it's too risky.
I'm Not Here to Make Friends: This is what Delia Dragonfruit is like in both of her appearances. She wants to help her fruitdom, but she doesn't want to befriend others and work together. She grows out of this during her second appearance.
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: In "Princess Lights Out", Rita accidentally wears a mismatched outfit due to hurriedly grabbing green and purple clothes with blue raspberries during the power outage. She initially thinks it's not good, but comes to like it.
Imprinting : In "Princess Nest Pest", the prism-feathered pterodex that Kira initially thought was a threat was actually a baby that was trying to copy her. They saw her as their parent since she was the first person to interact with them, and imprints her.
Improbable Hairstyle: Queen Katia's hairdo looks like a standard afro, yet it's also very tall and very angular.
Improbably Female Cast: The series definitely falls into this due to how princesses and women in general seem to run almost everything. It's best seen in how the few prominent royal male characters in the show (King Barton, Sir Benedict, Sir Kaue, Cyrus, and Felipe) don't show up as much as the queens and female civilians.
Improvised Parachute: In "Princess Royal Wedding", a series of disastrous events results in Queen Ryung getting stuck at the top of a tree, and she can't get down. Kira sees some special spider webs, and gets the idea to make a parachute. Rita, Penny, and Bea fix it up so that she can get down.
Improvised Zipline: In "Princess Creation Station", Rita questions how Bea and Kira were able to zipline back up into the treehouse. Bea then says how Penny made a motorized handle for them to get up. Said handle is basically a more elaborate hanger.
Inconsistent Episode Lengths: This doesn't apply to regular episodes, which are always 11-12 minutes long. It is however played straight with the specials, which can range anywhere from 18 minutes (The Princesses And The Beanstalk) to 22-23 minutes (some examples including The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco and Princess Eco-Chase) to over 30 minutes (Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation and Princess Royal Wedding).
Incredibly Lame Fun:
- In "Princess Shooting Stars", the adults try to come up with fun activities to do. This includes things like an essay contest, silent opera, royal spelling bee, and a weather forecasting contest. The princesses obviously find them boring.
- "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" has the princesses find Queen Bussyboots' incredibly simplistic tea party for Queen Alana very boring. It's most pronounced with Bea given how she barely hides her boredom.
Incredibly Long Note: In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", the way the princesses get out of The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets is by Rita singing some long notes that can break the large crystal blocking the entrance.
I Need to Go Iron My Dog:
- In "Princess Surprise Party", the girls are trying to keep Bea's surprise party a secret, which is a problem when her birthday balloons are in plain sight. In order to distract Bea, Kira and Penny play leap frog with her while Rita pretends to get rid of a grass stain.
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Bea being hesitant to ride her horse Bernie. She then excuses herself by saying how she needs to get his helmet from the stable even though Kira says she looked there. Bea knew this, but just simply made an excuse to somewhat get out of the situation.
Inescapable Net: It's subverted in "Princess Processional Professional". As Kira attempts to help Bea tame Bella the horse when she runs off, Rita and Penny try to help out by stopping her with a net. She then jumps over it.
Infodump : Some of Kira's animal knowledge goes into this with how extensive she can be. The same goes for Penny whenever she drops scientific knowledge. Of course, it's done in a way where it helps move the plot along in an organic way.
Injured Limb Episode: The second half of "The Missing Princess" becomes this due to how Rita accidentally injures her ankle when she tries getting her glitter glue back from a goat.
Innocently Insensitive:
- Kira gets moments of this in "Princess Garden Party" where she doesn't exactly listen to Karina wanting to keep her party simple even if she's genuinely trying to help her.
- The other princesses get a moment of this in "Princess Creation Station". They are trying to make their light of their situation, being trapped in a giant string ball, though it's no surprise Rita sees this as being rude given the stress that she's under to please the kids.
- Penny and Rita each get a moment of this in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade":
  - As Bea tries to admit how she's afraid of horses, Rita says how this should be easy for her since she's pretty brave. She's being genuinely encouraging, but just doesn't know that she's feeling conflicted over this.
  - When Bea admits how she's scared of riding her dads' horse Bernie in the hullabaloo, Penny shows the most surprise by saying how she's not afraid of anything. This causes Bea to feel even worse about herself, causing Penny to immediately apologize and say that she didn't mean it like that.
- Rita shows this in "Princesses Soccer Spectacular", where she's rather insistent on rigging the game in Sena's favor, not really paying attention to her feelings.
Innocuously Important Episode: "I Dig Being A Princess" at first just seems like a fun little treasure hunt episode. Then the end of the episode reveals that there are other fruitdoms , which impacts many of the episodes afterwards.
Insane Troll Logic: In "Princess Donation Distress", Penny suggests that Rita gives away one of her paintbrushes. She's reluctant to give the one she's holding away since it reminds her of the time she painted her mother's portrait in "Princess Royal Portrait". When Penny brings up a second paintbrush, which looks identical to the first one, she just says how that paintbrush reminds her of the first one, and doesn't want to give it away either. Penny can only show a confused look on her face in response.
Insomnia Episode: The short at 12:54 has Kira and Mr. Scrumples being unable to go to bed despite doing their usual bedtime routine. She then decides to have a bit of a dance party, which does tire them out.
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: The episode "Princess Soccer Spectacular" introduces a raspberry kid named Sena, who's blind. Rita thinks that, since she's blind, she needs to be given special treatment and rig the game in her favor. In an interesting take on this trope, it's only Rita that tries to do this given how the other princesses, notably Kira and Bea, treat her as an equal and actually call out Rita for her behavior. Sena herself also acknowledges that she needs some help in knowing where to kick the ball, but also wants to be given a say in the matter.
Insufferable Genius: It's averted with Kira and Penny, who are both proud of being smart, yet also humble about it. A good example comes from "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", with Kira getting something wrong, and Penny gently correcting it.
Interspecies Friendship:
- Kira and Penny, who are human girls, are friends with Fussy (the latter) and both Mr. Scrumples and Maisie (the former).
- Rita manages to befriend Velvet the fennec fox.
- Bea manages to strike a friendship with Bella the horse.
- Hilda, a human adult, gets along pretty well with Fussy in both "The Princesses Get A Roommate" and "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation".
Intertwined Fingers:
- A non-romantic example happens In "The Princess's Speech", where Rita correctly guesses what Kira is trying to say on the first try, and they clasp each other's hands and giggle.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia clasp each other's hands before telling Rita and Omera that they're planning on getting married.
In the Blood: "The Princesses Get A Roommate" shows how each of the four princesses took up their favorite interests/hobbies largely because of their grandmothers.
In Touch with His Feminine Side: In "Princesses Seas The Day", after Captain Reginald pulls a Heel–Face Turn, Rita gives him a tiara so that he can be a princess. He then says that he looks stunning.
Intrepid Reporter: In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Susie Seedplanter, voiced by Savannah Guthrie herself, specifically seeks out the princesses as she asks them what they'll do after being coronated.
Invisible Writing: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the girls get a message written in invisible ink, which says where their next Crystal Key Quest is. This is shown by Fussy smelling vinegar, which Penny says is used to make invisible ink. She then uses juice from a red cabbage to decode the message.
I Resemble That Remark!: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia rescues Kira and Bea from the monster, and brings them back to the palace. Bea finds this unusual given how she sent all of the princesses down a trapdoor earlier. Delia then outright admits in a nonchalant manner that she has trust issues.
Ironic Name: Delia is a name that's Greek for noble, yet Delia Dragonfruit is not a noble person given her smug persona. It eventually becomes a Meaningful Name when she pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes more noble towards the princesses.
Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: The idea is brought up in "Princess Royal Wedding". Kira tells Rita about how, when she was younger, she would often unintentionally annoy Karina when copying her because of how much she looked up to her.
Island of Mystery: The avocado fruitdom from "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" looks normal enough, but the people are friendly yet really strange, and there's seemingly sentient avocados that they treat as friends.
It's All About Me: Delia Dragonfruit mainly looks out for herself, and often tries doing things for others for her own ego.
It's All My Fault: It's not uncommon for the princesses to blame themselves for anything bad that happens, especially if they somehow had a hand in it. A notable example comes from "Princess Nest Pest", with Kira continually blaming herself for the adventure at Banana Island going wrong.
It's Okay to Cry: In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", we get a few descriptions of Bea crying because of how she feels bad for having afraid to ride horses since she's normally not afraid of anything. Everyone else takes this in stride and says how it's okay for her to be this way.
I've Heard of That — What Is It?: Bea has moments where she says that she knows what something is before immediately asking what it is:
- In "Princesses And The Bees", when Kira says how Rita's raspberry crop needs pollination, she says that she knows what pollination is before asking Kira what it is.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", when Rita says how they've all been nominated for Princess Adventure Academy, she calls this amazing before later asking what it is.
I Work Alone: Delia Dragonfruit definitely embodies this with how she prefers to do every event by herself in "Princess Eco-Chase". This becomes her undoing given how, while she wins the event, she doesn't get the Key Of Teamwork, unlike Bea, who did work with her friends. She's still shown to be this in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" with how she actively refuses help from the princesses despite the monster terrorizing her fruitizens. Unlike in that episode, she sees that she should work with the princesses and apologizes for her behavior.
Jack of All Trades: Delia Dragonfruit is shown to be great at all the skills that the princesses specialize in (fashion, science, animals, and athletics).
Jaw Drop:
- Both Rita and Penny show this in "Princess Eco-Chase" when they're absolutely shocked at Delia making a kitty cabana and making a mega heat blaster quickly.
- While not seen, Kira gets a moment of this the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", where her jaw drops because of how she's genuinely surprised that Karina adopted Binky given what Queen Katia said about not adopting her.
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has a moment of Rita, Kira, and Penny being quite quite pleasantly at Bea's new idea for the Blueberry Hullabaloo, which partially includes their mouths being wide open.
Jerkass : Both of Delia's appearances show her to be rather cynical and smug towards the princesses. She drops this after pulling a Heel–Face Turn in her second appearance.
Jerkass Ball: The last few minutes of "A Prince In The Princess Pack" give this to Penny. When she finds out that Felipe still wants to stay at the pineapple farm despite liking helping out at the pineapple fruitdom, she gives him the cold shoulder and bluntly says "Okay! If that's what you want, fine!" Later, when Rita tries to gently tell her she was wrong to do this, she outright snaps and says "Wait what?! You can't say that! You're my friend! You're supposed to be in my side!". Fortunately, everyone else calms her down and says how she and Felipe still love each other, and she shouldn't lose that bond. She then gives him a genuine apology afterwards.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- While Fussy tends to be rather vain and egotistical, she also genuinely tries to help the princesses out and support them when they need it.
- For as grumpy as Hilda gets in "The Princesses Get A Roommate", she does care for the princesses. She does care about them enough to know what the specialize in, and use that to stop a dam from bursting.
Jet Pack: One of Rita's drawings of Princess Adventure Academy in "Princess Royal Wedding" shows Penny wearing some kind of bubble powered jetpack.
Juggling Dangerously: Two examples of this happen in the show, both involving spiky pineapples:
- In "Princess Punchbowl Feastival", one of the events involves Penny and Great Aunt Bussyboots making arts and crafts and juggling pineapples while skiing on leaves. Unfortunately, Great Aunt Bussyboots accidentally ends up hurting her hands because of how they're too spiky. She says how they're usually supposed to be cut when doing something like this.
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", as Kira is doing an animal show, Fussy tries stopping the show by giving them treats. Through a chain reaction, Queen Alana catches pineapples, and she ends up accidentally juggling them and hurting her hands since they're too spiky.
Just in Time:
- In "The Princess's Speech", Kira and Bea fall out of the sky from the latter's hang glider due to a sudden change in the wind. Fortunately, Penny and Rita catch them in the former's plane before they fall into the ocean.
- During the wedding ceremony in "Princess Royal Wedding", Omera asks Fussy, Mr. Scrumples, and Velvet for the wedding rings. They then nervously show one since they lost the other. The recurring pelican then comes in time to spit the ring out of his month. Everyone is confused by this, but they just roll with it.
Kick the Dog: "Princess Processional Professional" shows how Bella can sometimes be stubborn for no reason given how she kicks Penny's robot off even though he was trying to help Bea.
Kid-Appeal Character: Characters like Ara and Minji, while only appearing sometimes, are there to help bring some lighthearted and silly moments during some more intense situations.
Kid Detective: Kira can be considered this given the general excitement she shows for mysteries in episodes like "The Missing Princess", "Princess Campout Stakeout", the beginning of "Princess Nest Pest", and "Princess Friends Un-Forever". She's particularly prone to showing her more intellectual side here.
Kiddie Kid: The princesses are treated much like authority figures by other people, but also display behavior more common in young kids, such as still having stuffed animals, hanging out in a treehouse (albeit a really fancy one), and having an arts and crafts room in said treehouse more built for young kids due to things like low tables and safety scissors.
Kiddy Coveralls:
- One of Rita's mission outfits involves a pair of suspenders with a bit of glamour. This highlights how she can act somewhat immature at times, yet can bounce back gracefully.
- Lila Lemon's outfit has suspenders on it that aren't too glamorous, but still look nice. This shows how she's meek and humble and also quite sweet.
The Kids Are American: Queen Olivia spots a British accent while the family members we see (her niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver, and her daughter Omera) have American accents.
Kids Are Cruel:
- It's definitely averted here as the young kids are typically very sweet and well meaning, such as Omera. She does sometimes cause problems, but it comes from a place of love.
- Bea briefly mentions how she was like this in "Princess Babysitter's Club". When she was looked by her nannies when she was younger, she would sometimes cause problems, and would need some outlet for her behavior, hence the obstacle course bedroom.
Kids Driving Cars: Kira and Penny can respectively operate a motorboat and airplane on their own even though that's something usually done by older people.
Kindhearted Cat Lover:
- Penny shows a caring side to Fussy even if she's often rather prickly.
- Kira shows a maternal love towards Princey the cat in "Princess Lights Out".
Kindly Vet: Kira, the resident animal lover, sometimes takes on this role. She's shown being very nurturing and patient when helping Whaley feel better in "Whale Of A Princess Tale". She also shows some of this in the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" with how she tries to make sure that the shelter animals are cleaned up without making them uncomfortable.
Knows the Ropes: Episodes like "The Perfect Princess Welcome" and "Princess Garden Party" show Rita being good at using her rope in more intense situations.
Know When to Fold 'Em: In "Princess Eco-Chase", Bea attempts to get the flags from the tops of the windmills even though it's against the rules to do the challenge on her own. Seeing her friends get pelted by blueberries combined with her inability to go all the way to the top on her own helps her see that she needs to work with others.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Kira and Penny wear lab coats in "The Princesses And The Bees" as they perform ab experiment to see which scents bees like.
Laborious Laces: The short at 3:50 has Ara telling Rita how she has trouble tying her shoes. She then teaches her a trick her mother taught her to help her out.
The Lad-ette: Bea is a downplayed example since she's into more physical activities and challenges than her friends, but she also has plenty of sensitive moments and likes doing feminine activities.
A Lady Rides Aside: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" describes Rita, the most feminine princess, sitting fancily on Bea's horse Bruce.
The Lancer: Bea can be considered this when she and Kira work together. It's best shown in "Princess Processional Professional", with Kira being more of the mindful princess that knows how to take action (using her smarts when helping people steer clear of Bella) while Bea is the more action oriented princess that knows how to think (she's initially more aggressive with Bella before becoming more mindful of how to go about her actions).
Large Ham:
- Rita is often prone to acting dramatic and over the top.
- Captain Reginald from "Princesses Seas The Day" is a comedic villain voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. Naturally, he falls into this given how he's incredibly over-the-top, egotistical, and prone to treating everything like he's at center stage.
Large-Ham Announcer: The short at the 1 minute mark shows Penny and Bea being quite enthusiastic about announcing the fashion show that Kira and Rita are modeling for.
Laser-Guided Karma: In "Princess Eco-Chase", Delia gets the trophy for winning the Eco-Chase, but not the Key Of Teamwork. Given how she actively refused to work with the grape triplets and didn't care what happened to them, it's well deserved.
Last Episode, New Character: The season 1 finale, "A Prince In The Princess Pack", introduces Penny's brother Felipe and the pineapple fruitdom poet Gabriella Goldenrod.
The Last Straw: An off screen example happens in "Princess Suggestion Box". Penny says how she wants more fruitizens to put more suggestions into the titular box. When Mr. Scrumples brings it to her later in the episode, she's surprised to see how full it is given how a bunch of cards were apparently stuffed into it.
Latino Is Brown: It's averted with Penny and Great Aunt Bussyboots, who have fairly light skin, but played straight with other pineapple fruitizens, like Gabriella Goldenrod.
Lava Surfing: While not seen, the idea is brought up in "Princess Royal Wedding". When Rita says how she has good news, Bea thinks she's talking about surfing on hot lava. The fact she says this with excitement shows that she's really eager to do this.
The Leader: While Word of God says how there's no official leader due to focusing more on the group, Kira often fills this role given how she's usually the princess that leads many missions.
Leeroy Jenkins:
- Bea often tends to act before thinking. In "Princess Soccer Spectacular", she outright says "It's my brand to keep moving."
- Penny can also be considered this, but more for how she always goes for a scientific solution without thinking of the consequences.
- Omera from "Princess Royal Wedding" is genuinely a nice, well meaning girl, but she often acts before thinking. A good example comes from how she immediately attempts to get ducks for Rita without telling her.
"Lesson of the Day" Speech: Episodes will have some speech near the end that will either set up a moral or discuss what everyone learned. "Princess Suggestion Box" is a good example of this, with Kira helping Penny see that she should think outside the box when giving everyone what they want.
Lethal Chef: Bea shows a bit of this in "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors". She and Sir Benedict accidentally burn their scones. Fussy even tries to eat one, but accidentally breaks it, and it sounds like a breaking rock.
Let's Split Up, Gang!: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", when the girls get into an argument over whether they should work with Delia or not to save her fruitdom, they split up into pairs. Kira and Bea investigate on their own while Penny and Rita try to convince Delia to accept their help. Things to downhill when they each encounter the monster.
Light Is Good: The princesses wear brightly colored outfits, and are very good people.
Light Is Not Good: The prism feathered pterodex from "Princess Nest Pest" is primarily bright yellow, yet is also very brutal given how they don't hesitate to come at the princesses. It's then averted at the end when it's discovered that they just acted aggressively due to imprinting on Kira, and not knowing their environment. They then become friendlier.
Like a Son to Me: It's not uncommon for the royal families to treat the other princesses like they're part of the family. A good example comes from the ending to "The Princesses And The Beanstalk", where the girls solve the drought problem, albeit through unconventional means , and Kira's parents hug both her and Penny for a job well done even though they're not related to the latter.
Limited Social Circle: The princesses are mainly shown hanging with each other, and no one else. While other princesses sometimes help out, it takes until "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the penultimate episode, to officially add another princess, Delia Dragonfruit , to The Princess Pack. Even still, that's the last time she appears.
Lipstick Lesbian: This can describe Rita and Omera's respective mothers, Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia, given how they're both very comfortable in their feminity, and both end up marrying each other.
Literal-Minded: "Princess Fun In The Sun" shows 2 moments of this, both involving Bea on different ends of it:
- Bea suggests scrunching the pineapple fruitizens under Fussy's umbrella in order to cool them off. When Kira says that it's a great idea, she's surprised and says how she was joking since she doesn't think it would work. Kira then clarifies and says how a cool shade would help them out.
- Bea then says how she wishes she could snap her fingers in order to make everyone cool. She then does so, which initially confuses Rita since nothing happened. She then says how she snapped her fingers since she came up with an idea, to bring a giant ice cube from the blueberry fruitdom over.
Long List: Rita attempts this in "The Princesses And The Bees", where she goes over all the things she did to try and keep the raspberry crop alive. Penny says how it's too long and fast forward through what she says. We don't know what else she did, but the end result shows her being physically exhausted, implying much more.
Look Behind You: In "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", the sentient pineapple wants Rita and Queen Ryung's cake, but they won't allow it. They then tap them both in their shoulders so that they'll look behind, allowing them to take the cake.
Loophole Abuse: Great Aunt Bussyboots shows quite a bit of this in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses". Since she's sick, Penny and her friends volunteer to have the tea party with Queen Alana in her place. The condition here is that she can't leave the room. Since she's worried about things getting too complicated, she has Fussy check in and eventually interferes with things. She's technically not leaving the room.
Lost at Sea: There are two notable examples of this:
- In "How To Be A Princess", as Lila Lemon sits around sadly, she sees a woman stranded in the middle of the sea on a raft, and goes to help her.
- Most of "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure" has the titular characters being stuck in the middle of the sea on the dock piece Kira and Penny were making.
Lost Voice Plot: "The Princess's Speech" starts out this way, with Kira losing her voice since she's nervous about giving a speech. When telling the other princesses, Penny gives her a throat relaxer to help her out. This works pretty quickly, and she's cured. Of course, since this happened very quickly, see Hiccup Hijinks above.
Lost Wedding Ring: "Princess Royal Wedding" has Fussy, Mr. Scrumples, and Velvet accidentally lose the wedding rings, and they have to get them back.
Lotus Position: In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", Kira briefly crosses her legs as she breathes in and out slowly.
Lovable Jock: Bea is into sports and challenges of any kind, yet she's also a Nice Girl who tries to be there for her friends and others.
Lovable Nerd: While Lila Lemon is socially awkward and clumsy, she's also very sweet and endearing.
Love Be a Lady: While this can technically apply to all the girls, it's very specifically pronounced in Rita. It's particularly shown in "Princess Royal Wedding" with how much she gushes over the idea of her mother getting married, and is often connected to hearts in some way.
Love Bubbles: A more literal example happens in "Princess Royal Wedding". Rita makes wooden ducks that release heart shaped bubbles during Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia's wedding.
Loved by All: Everyone in universe shows great admiration for the princesses.
Loyal Animal Companion:
- Kira's horse Maisie and hamster Mr. Scrumples are incredibly loyal to her. Notably, in "Princess Nest Pest", they actually want to stay with her in order to calm down the prism-feathered pterodex, and they only leave when she explicitly says how she wants them to be safe and doesn't want them to be hurt.
- Fussy, while often rather prickly, also does what she can to help the princesses. Most notably, she shows a more openly supportive side to Penny when she feels stressed from doing a lot in "Princess Freaky Fruit Day".
Luminescent Blush:
- In "Princess Crown Coverup", when Queen Ryung asks Queen Olivia to perform for the raspberry fruitdom, her cheeks turn slightly red, an early sign of their eventual romantic relationship.
- Bea gets a moment of this in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", albeit it's only mentioned and not shown. When Penny inadvertently makes Bea feel worse about herself, she's described as feeling embarrassed as her face turns warm and she looks down in shame.
MacGuffin: Each episode in the Crystal Key Quest arc has the girls get a box that gives them special objects that serve as a hint on where to go.
MacGyvering: Some solutions in the show are done in unusual, but effective ways. Here are two notable examples:
- In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", Penny is able to solve the four fruitdom drought by making a squeeze horn that can spray water vapor before later repurposing Hermie to rain water on the fruitdoms.
- In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Bea is able to overcome her fear of riding horses by tying a skateboard to Bernie, who has new horse equipment, and having him pull her.
Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Bea's dads, King Barton and Sir Benedict, follow this trope. The former is more sensitive, and has an interest in things like baking. The latter has a more pronounced build, and is sporty just like Bea.
Master Archer: "Princess Eco-Chase" has Georgina tell the Princess Pack how she's the best with a bow and arrow. Unfortunately, the audience doesn't see this since Delia keeps doing everything for the group.
Matriarchy: Unsurprisingly, the four main fruitdoms all have women in primary positions in power. While the blueberry fruitdom is ruled by a man, King Barton, it's revealed by Bea in "Princess Punchbowl Feastival" that it was founded by a woman.
Meaningful Name:
- Kira has various meanings in other languages that fit with the show's Kira. In Sanskrit and Japanese, it roughly translates to "a beam of light", which fits with how Kira in the show tries to be a light in other people's lives when they're down. In Slavonic, it means "strong woman", fitting with how Kira is a strong willed character.
- Delia is Greek for noble, and Delia Dragonfruit becomes a more noble hero when she pulls a Heel–Face Turn, and selflessly helps her fruitdom with the other princesses.
- The name Rita is associated with Saint Rita of Cascia, an Italian Catholic saint known for her charity and devout faith. It's fitting for Rita in this show given how she's incredibly charitable and selfless.
- Penelope is a Greek word that's associated with cleverness. It's fitting for Penny given how she's very smart.
Meaningless Villain Victory: While she's more a smug rival rather than a villain, this does happen with Delia Dragonfruit in "Princess Eco-Chase". Even though she did all three events quickly, and gets the trophy for it, she doesn't get the first crystal key, the Key Of Teamwork. As one can see, it's because she didn't work with her team, unlike Bea and her friends, who did ultimately work together more.
Merit Badges for Everything: "The Missing Princess" shows all sorts of patches that the Raspberrian Rangers can earn, such as picnicking and nature badges. At the end of the episode, Rita thanks her friends for rescuring them by giving them best friend badges that she made.
Messy Hair:
- In "Princess Lights Out", Bea's hair has branches in it because of how she bumped into a tree while trying to help out the blueberrians during the power outage.
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", Queen Ryung's hair ends up with leaves and branches stuck in it because of how she helped the princesses get things back to normal.
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" offers an interesting take on this trope. When Bea says how her middle name is "Save The Day", Kira says how she thought it was Ingeborg. Bea then says that Ingeborg actually does mean "save the day" as she tells the audience to go look it up.
Mid-Battle Tea Break: A rare, non-antagonistic version happens in "Princess Farmer's Market". After Rita puts dresses on the fruits to help them ripen faster, the girls pass the time by having a bubble room tea party.
Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: The short at 7:17 is this. It mainly focuses on the animals, who can't talk, having a party at Punchbowl Treehouse. The only dialogue that comes in is at the end, when Kira comes in and asks why she wasn't invited to the party.
Minion with an F in Evil: While Delia Dragonfruit isn't a villain, she's nonetheless an antagonistic rival to the princesses. She has the grape triplets to boss around, but they're perfectly nice to everyone.
Minor Living Alone: Delia Dragonfruit is around the same age as the preteen/young teenage princesses, but she doesn't have any known parents, and seemingly rules the Dragonfruit fruitdom on her own.
Mirror Routine: It doesn't involve a mirror, but "Princess All Nighter" makes a reference to the idea. Kira, Rita, and Bea put some face makeup on Penny so that she looks like Fussy. She says how it's like she's looking in a mirror as the two of them copy each other.
Mix-and-Match Critters: In "Princess Royal Wedding", one of Rita's pictures for Princess Adventure Academy has Kira interacting with animal hybrids, such as a mammoth with bunny ears and a polar bear with a unicorn horn and fairy wings.
Modest Royalty: Queen Olivia stands out for being the only queen in the show without a crown. She says in "Princess Crown Coverup" that she tried finding it, but eventually gave up, and didn't see it as a big deal.
Monster Is a Mommy: It's actually inverted with the prism feathered pterodex mother in "Princess Nest Pest". Only her shadow is seen, but she still covers everyone with her shadow. Much like her baby, almost everyone is worried, but Kira is rather calm since the baby is also calm.
Monster of the Aesop: Two interesting examples of this pop up in the show:
- In "Princess Nest Pest", the giant bird that was after Kira didn't want to hurt her. They just wanted to copy her since she imprinted on them. Being a baby, they couldn't comprehend that. It's all to teach her a lesson on not judging others without getting to know them.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Headmistress Miranda Melon disguises herself as a monster in order to get the Princess Pack to work together with Delia, and save the Dragonfruit fruitdom.
Mood Whiplash: "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" starts out as this. We have the cheery song "Celebrate Like A Kiwi" interrupted by a freak snowstorm, which is seen as unusual given how it doesn't snow in a warm place like the kiwi fruitdom.
Most Writers Are Adults: While the main characters have plenty of childish tendencies, there's also plenty of moments where they're written as older than they are. They're often Free-Range Children who can go just about anywhere on their own, and you have moments in episodes like "Princess Donation Distress" and "Princess Freaky Fruit Day", where Penny can casually talk to adults on an equal level.
Mr. Fixit: Penny is a gender flipped version of the trope in how she often has some kind of invention or gadget to fix any situation.
Ms. Exposition: Kira and Penny, being the smart characters of the show, often fill in the characters and the audience on all kinds of knowledge they'd be unfamiliar with by being this.
Multinational Team: The show definitely lives up to the idea given how the girls come from four fruitdoms inspired by real life cultures, and come together to help those in need. We have Rita from the South Korean inspired raspberry fruitdom, Kira from the Brazilian inspired kiwi fruitdom, Penny from the Puerto Rican inspired pineapple fruitdom, and Bea from the Norway inspired blueberry fruitdom.
Multipurpose Monocultured Crop: This can apply to the fruitdoms themselves given how just about every major dish in them is primarily made with these fruits. It's only after "I Dig Being A Princess", which shows that there are other fruitdoms, do the fruitdoms expand to use other fruits.
Musical Episode: While some episodes have more than one song, both "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" and "Princess Royal Wedding" can be considered this given how they have multiple (albeit mostly short) songs that are either sung by the characters or played in the background. Given how they tell bigger-than-life stories with a sense of elegance, it's justified.
Musicalis Interruptus: In "Princess Crown Coverup", Penny makes special glue to help Rita fix Queen Ryung's crown jewels. As the girls sing "Join In The Harmony" again as a way to celebrate, the song gets interrupted when Penny gets her hand stuck on the crown because of the glue.
Musical World Hypotheses: The musical numbers in the show fall between flavor 1 and flavor 2. It's not uncommon for songs in the show to play in the background while something happens on screen, much like with episodes like "Princess Eco-Chase". However, songs can be sung by the characters, like in "The Princess's Speech" and "Princess Crown Coverup" for the former. There's also episodes that can feature both, "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" having "Lean On Your Friends" sung by the princesses on screen while "Celebrate Like A Kiwi" plays in the background.
My God, What Have I Done?:
- In a nutshell, whenever the girls mess up, and it negatively affects others, they feel regret for what happened. Notable examples include Rita feeling bad for indirectly saying to Omera how little sisters ruin everything in "Princess Royal Wedding" and Penny feeling bad for all the chaos she inadvertently caused in "Princess Suggestion Box ".
- Penny's Great Aunt Bussyboots gets this in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", where she sees that her overzealous attempts to simplify the tea party for Queen Alana almost hurt her and nearly crushed Penny's self-esteem.
- Delia Dragonfruit shows this in Princess Friends Un-Forever when she sees how her behavior nearly got others hurt.
My Greatest Failure: Kira shows this in "Princess Nest Pest", where she feels down on herself for failing to befriend the giant bird and nearly putting her friends in danger.
My Hair Came Out Green: At the beginning of "Princess Lights Out", Penny's hair is pink instead of brown because of how she got hit by her experiment that was supposed to turn pineapples pink.
Mystery Box: The short at 0:55 has Rita show off special mystery gifts that she and the other princesses plan to give to visiting fruitizens.
Mystery Episode:
- "Princess Campout Stakeout" involves everyone trying to figure out who keeps stealing the raspberries from the bushes at night.
- The plot of "Princess Friends Un-Forever" is about the princesses going to the Dragonfruit fruitdom to help out a reluctant Delia Dragonfruit take down a mysterious monster terrorizing her fruitizens. Kira tries finding out who's behind it all, and it turns out to be Headmistress Miranda Melon trying to help the girls work together.

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Nature Lover: While Kira is mainly known for being an animal lover, she does show appreciation for nature from time to time. In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", she tells Bea to not pour saltwater on the sparkleseed since saltwater can hurt some plants.
Needlework Is for Old People: In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", Rita attempts to bond with Hilda by teaching her how to make scarves, much like what she did with her own grandmother. She's not amused given how the kiwi fruitdom is hot.
Neglected Garden: It's subverted in "The Princesses And The Bees". Rita actually did all she could to care for the raspberry crops. She just didn't realize that she needed bees to help them grow until Kira explained what pollination is.
Nervous Wreck:
- Kira shows quite a bit of this in "The Princess's Speech" due to how nervous she is in giving her first speech. The first instance comes from when she gets her voice back, and she immediately gets hiccups when Rita reminds her about giving her speech. The second instance comes from how she tries rehearsing it, but can't remember it. The last instance comes near the end, where she attempts to give her speech for the first time in front of an audience, but she says nothing at first before later getting hiccups again, and running off the stage.
- Lila Lemon definitely shows this in "How To Be A Princess" with how she's constantly worried about messing up what she has to do for the Princess Promise Ceremony.
Never Mess with Granny: "The Princesses Get A Roommate" shows that Hilda's old age doesn't stop her from helping others out. She jumps out of Penny's plane and helps the princesses repair the blueberry fruitdom dam.
Never My Fault: In "Princess Eco-Chase", even though Delia Dragonfruit completed all three events quickly, and got a trophy, she didn't get the Key Of Teamwork since she didn't work with her team. Despite this, she blames the other princesses for costing her the true victory. This keeps up in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", where she's still very judgmental towards them.
Nice Girl: All four princesses are sweet and caring, being very devoted to helping people out and being there for each other.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Episodes like "Princess Eco-Chase" show how sometimes doing good things can backfire. In that episode, Bea attempting to do everything on her own so that the Princess Pack can win results in her friends getting penalized by getting hit with fruit.
Nightmare Fetishist: Kira shows a bit of this in "Princess Friends Un-Forever". Although she's just as scared of the monster as her friends, she also takes quite the delight in solving the mystery despite the danger.
No Antagonist: The show does not have any kind of long-running antagonist. While animals and creatures sometimes cause problems, such as the giant pineapple in "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" and Grumpy Gills the shark in "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", they're tamed at the end of the episode. Human characters that more openly oppose the princesses, such as Delia Dragonfruit and Captain Reginald pull off a Heel–Face Turn rather quickly (the former during her second appearance in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" and the latter during his only appearance in "Princesses Seas The Day").
No Hugging, No Kissing: Given the show's target audience, it's understandable that romance wouldn't really be a big part of it. Even the episode "Princess Royal Wedding", which features a wedding and an explicitly romantic kiss as major elements, is still primarily an episode about Rita's family dynamic with her younger sister.
No Name Given: The recurring pelican character is just called "Pelican", and nothing else. It's best shown in "Princesses Seas The Day". When Captain Reginald shows off his pirate animal crew, which also includes a pelican named "Pelican", Bea says "Pelican" in a surprised tone until she sees that their pelican is also just called "Pelican ".
Non-Malicious Monster: The monster in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" was Headmistress Miranda in disguise, who was helping the princesses work with Delia Dragonfruit. She never hurt anyone despite the monster's menacing presence.
Noodle Incident: "Practice Makes Princess", "Princess Farmer's Market", "Princess Suggestion Box", and "Princess Royal Wedding" have Rita mention how she's horrible at cross stitching due to some kind of tragic incident that we never know about.
No Sense of Direction: In "The Missing Princess", part of the reason that Rita gets herself, Ara, and Minji lost in the woods is because she can't read the compass or tell which way to go at certain points.
No Sense of Personal Space:
- A brief moment during "Princesses And The Bees" has Kira getting very close to Rita as she's talking about how the bees can help out.
- The beginning of "Princess Royal Wedding" shows how Omera is a well meaning girl, but can be quite impulsive. She is considerate in asking Rita if she can hug Velvet. However, he's also rather visibly uncomfortable with how she keeps spinning him around, which she doesn't see. This is shown again later at Punchbowl Treehouse, where she immediately hugs Penny's cat Fussy, much to her discomfort.
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: "Princesses Seas The Day" has a major status quo change that ends with the girls going to Princess Adventure Academy.
Not Me This Time: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia tells Bea how she didn't cause any trouble. She's right about this given how Headmistress Miranda Melon was the monster.
Not So Above It All: Although Kira is the most mature and level-headed of the princesses, she can also be just as flawed and silly as them.
Not-So-Forgotten Birthday: "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy" starts out like this. Fussy tries to remind Penny that it's her birthday, but she seemingly forgets. In actuality, she did remember her birthday and worked with her friends to put together a party at Punchbowl Treehouse. The facade is dropped when Rita tries too hard to pretend that there's a disaster in the raspberry fruitdom, and the girls can't stop laughing before telling the truth.
Obviously Not Fine: The princesses display this in more than one occasion. To give a few examples:
- For Penny, she shows it in "Princess Suggestion Box", where she still wants to do everyone's suggestions despite it being overwhelming. Her response is to give a big fake smile to the audience.
- For Bea, she shows this in "Princess All Nighter". As she talks to us about her insecurities about sleeping away from home for the first time, she then says how she's not afraid while simultaneously getting a bit more frantic.
- For Rita, she shows it in "Princess Donation Distress". She obviously doesn't want to give her things away, and shows it by giving a double thumbs up and forced smile to the audience.
Oddball in the Series: As opposed to seasons 1-2 mainly having 11 minute episodes, season 3 is the only season to primarily have specials.
Odd Friendship: Cats and hamsters aren't generally known for getting along in real life, yet Fussy and Mr. Scrumples get along really well.
Odd Name Out:
- Among the names of the grape triplets from "Princess Eco-Chase", Georgina stands out. Unlike Gracie and Georgie, her name does not end with the letter E.
- Among the named avocados shown at the avocado fruitdom in "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", both Abe and Ally's names start with A while Phil's name starts with P.
Offering a Hand:
- In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", Rita extends her hand and helps the others (especially Kira) get back up as she encourages them to keep going and make the best of the kiwi fruitdom being covered in snow.
- Bea's character development in "Princess Eco-Chase" is about learning to work with her friends during the titular competition. It's symbolized during the second challenge, where she stretches out her hand to help the other princesses up the windmill.
Offscreen Teleportation: Headmistress Miranda Melon is particularly known for this trope given how she's able to pop in and out of any place without being seen. It's repeatedly lampshaded by Rita, who often asks how she's able to come in and out undetected.
Older and Wiser: In both "The Princesses Get A Roommate" and "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Hilda uses her past experience as a kiwi explorer to help the princesses, especially Kira, on the adventures.
The Olympics: "Princess Eco-Chase" involves two teams of princesses competing in the titular event as part of the chance to get into Princess Adventure Academy. The three events are horseback riding to find a pink coconut, getting flags from a windmill, and rescuing pets from inside a cave after getting sparkleseeds from the wall.
Once per Episode:
- Outside of "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure", "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", and "Princesses Seas The Day", the recurring travel song is played in every episode.
- All the episodes in the Crystal Key Quest arc have at least one song in it.
One-Episode Fear: "Princess All Nighter" is the only episode which shows Bea being afraid of sleeping away from home.
One-Gender School: Princess Adventure Academy, while not physically seen, is definitely this given how only princesses are known to attend the academy.
The One Guy: Among the young royals shown in the series, Penny's younger brother Felipe is the only prince.
One of the Kids: While all the adults have childish moments, it's more specifically pronounced in Gabriella Goldenrod. In "Princess Suggestion Box", Penny thought she was building a seesaw for a young kid when she was actually making it for her. She then says how adults and children aren't so far apart. Both of them then have fun on the seesaw. Later at the end, Gabriella attempts to use the book cart to surf, another childish activity.
Only-Child Syndrome: It's subverted with Bea. Among the princesses, she's the only one without a sibling (although she jokingly refers to Bella the horse as her younger sister in "Princess Royal Wedding"). Although she can be impulsive and stubborn, she's also a nice girl who doesn't crave attention or act entitled due to not having a sibling.
OOC Is Serious Business:
- With how Kira is generally pretty calm, mature, and down to earth, her behavior at the beginning of "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", where she gets legitimately angry at Penny, Bea, and Fussy for accidentally causing the snowstorm at the kiwi fruitdom, is quite the surprise.
- Rita is a generally cheerful and energetic person who usually tries maintaining her composure when she feels negatively about something. As such, the way she blows up at Omera in "Princess Royal Wedding" for making things worse is quite the shock. Even Kira and Penny, who were comforting Omera at the moment, are visibly shocked by this.
- While Bea is fairly energetic, and she sometimes has stubborn or angry moments, she either doesn't let it get to her too much or at least doesn't try to take it out on others that don't deserve it. That's not the case in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", which has the scene where Delia accuses the princesses of being the monster terrorizing her fruitizens. For a brief moment, you can actually see Bea 'clenching her fists' as she makes quite the angry look, as if she really wanted to do something bad to her. Even though this takes place after the events of "Princess Eco-Chase", and thus some animosity was expected, this is still quite a shock coming from her.
Open-Minded Parent: While this can describe all the parents, it's best shown with Queen Ryung at the beginning of "Princess Creation Station". She lets Rita go off on her own even though she doesn't explain why she's doing this. She's open minded enough to see that she's doing something good even if she doesn't know what it is.
Outdoorsy Gal: Bea can be rather excited about activities that takes place outdoors. A good example comes from "Princess Campout Stakeout", where she's very excited to do the stakeout.
Out of Focus: Outside of Bea's dads, human male characters don't get much focus. To go into more detail:
- Kira's dad Sir Kaue and Penny's younger brother Felipe only have 2 speaking roles each while the rest of their appearances are in silent cameos.
- Among the raspberry fruitdom kids, Joon tends to get the least focus. Ara and Minji tend to appear more often, whether by themselves or together.
- Cyrus has a somewhat major role in 2 episodes before later getting a silent cameo.
- For an example not related to male characters, Headmistress Miranda Melon appears in a prominent supporting role in "Princess Royal Wedding" and "Princess Eco-Chase". For the remaining episodes of the Crystal Key Quest arc, she only shows briefly at the end. "Princess Friends Un-Forever" is technically an exception since she appears prominently as the monster.
Overly Long Gag: "Princesses And The Beanstalk" has a moment where the princesses are waiting for Rita's fabric to filter the drop of salt water. It lasts a good 10 seconds, and focuses on everyone trying to pass the time. Penny is even shown nodding off to sleep while waiting.
Overly Long Name: Bea's full name is Beatrice Gertrude Ingeborg Blueberry.
Painful Rhyming: In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", Hilda expresses her annoyance at the girls rhyming, and hopes that they don't do it all the time while she's here at Punchbowl Treehouse. The girls, especially Kira, are confused by this while Fussy silently agrees with her.
Pajama-Clad Hero: Due to it happening during the sleepover, the second half of "Princess Slumber Party" has the girls attempt to stop an iceberg from hitting the blueberry fruitdom while still in their pajamas.
Parents as People: While not Penny's parent, Great Aunt Bussyboots does show this in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses". While she loves Penny, she also wasn't exactly fond of how she made things overcomplicated without consulting her. She asks Fussy to make things simpler in order to guarantee that Queen Alana says yes to giving apples to the pineapple fruitdom, but it unfortunately comes across as sabotage due to everything going wrong. Seeing Penny's self esteem nearly be crushed convinces Queen Bussyboots that she went too far.
Parents for a Day: With Kira being an animal lover, she would naturally act like a parent towards any lost animals. Here are two examples:
- In "Princess Lights Out", she talks about how she's taking care of a lost cat named Princey before she returns him to the wild.
- In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", she acts very affectionate towards a bunny that she names Binky, and doesn't want to give her up. She does get help from the princesses to help find her a home, with her older sister Karina ultimately adopting her.
Paying It Forward: In "Princesses Seas The Day", the girls saving Captain Reginald and his crew inspires him to do a Heel–Face Turn, and help others rather than take from them. As Bea puts it, "Princesses do things to help people. It's how we roll.
Pelican Package Pouch: The recurring pelican has a mouth big enough to put small things in it. It's best shown at the beginning of "The Princess's Speech", where Kira has Mr. Scrumples go inside his mouth to take out a straw that he accidentally swallowed.
Pep-Talk Song: "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" has the song "Lean On Your Friends". It initially starts out sad before Rita encourages everyone to keep going despite the snow still covering the kiwi fruitdom.
Perfection Is Impossible: While "Princess Royal Wedding" doesn't focus on the idea of perfection, it's still a major element given how Rita wants the wedding to be perfectly planned out and executed.
Performance Anxiety:
- "A Princess Dad Dilemma" deals with Bea being nervous about giving her first speech for the opening of the blueberry arboretum. She says it's not really her thing, and initially tries avoiding doing it.
- "The Princess's Speech" deals with Kira being nervous giving her first speech in public in order to ban plastic straws from the kiwi fruitdom. Unlike with Bea in the above episode, she's more willing to try and do this, but is too nervous in trying to appear strong and confident in her points.
- "How To Be A Princess" has Lila Lemon struggle to learn how to be a princess because of how she's nervous about showing off her princess skills to everyone. She particularly struggles when she tries practicing giving a speech given how she mixes up her words.
Pesky Pigeons: Kira invokes this trope, albeit with pelicans instead of pigeons, in "Princess Surprise Party". In order to divert Bea's attention away from her birthday musician, she secretly has pelicans swarm them so that she'll have to fly off in the opposite direction.
Pet Baby Wild Animal: The plot of the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" is about Kira finding a baby bunny that she names Binky. She tries to keep her until her mother Queen Katia says that she already has two pets, and a third one would be too much. She then asks her friends to adopt her, but Bea's bunny allergy, Rita's incredibly shiny outfit and fruitdom, and Penny's cat Fussy not liking her put a stop to this. She then decides to turn the jubilee into the Kiwi Adoption Jubilee so that she and the other shelter animals can find a home. She eventually ends up being adopted by Kira's older sister Karina.
Pet Dress-Up: While it doesn't involve any of the main character's pets, the opening to "Princess Soccer Spectacular" shows this. Bea attempts to leave to help Rita even though she's needed for a family portrait. As such, she gets a goat that pops up in the background sometimes to take her place, and gives her a tiara.
Pets as a Present: In "Princess Campout Stakeout", it's revealed that the animal that was running around and taking the raspberries is a fennec fox that Queen Olivia planned to give to Rita and Queen Ryung as a gift. Rita then names him Velvet.
Pet the Dog: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the seeds for Delia's Heel–Face Turn are set up in the scene where she tries reassuring one of her fruitizens that she's got the situation under control and says to hold the festival at the palace. Since she didn't see that Penny and Rita were watching her, we see that her intentions in wanting to help out those in need are indeed genuine.
Picture Day: The plot of "Princess Royal Portrait" is about Rita wanting to paint her mother's royal portrait. However, since Queen Ryung has to do 3 royal duties, Rita gets her friends to do them while she paints the portrait at Punchbowl Treehouse.
Pie in the Face: It's subverted in "Princess Pie Surprise". While pie does get everywhere because of Fussy accidentally speeding up Penny's invention, none of it hits the princesses.
Pimped-Out Dress: Two of Rita's dresses, the ones with raspberries, are definitely this given how they have more of a glittery fanciness to them.
Pineapple Ruins Pizza: It's averted with Penny here, which makes sense since she's from the pineapple fruitdom. In "Princess Babysitter's Club", she tries teaching Oraida and Oliver how to make pineapple pizza, which nobody objects to.
Pink Heroine: Unsurprisingly, Rita embraces this given how she has outfits with lots of pink on them.
Pink Means Feminine: While all the girls embrace their feminity, Rita definitely fits this the most given how most of her outfits are reddish pink, much like the raspberry fruitdom itself, and she takes great pride in fashion and creativity.
Pinky Swear: The Pinkie Tea Promise is definitely this given how it's basically a promise for the girls to not give up whatever mission they're doing.
Pirate Episode: While they don't become pirates, the plot of "Princesses Seas The Day" involves the princesses trying to complete their Crystal Key Quest when they find out about Captain Reginald, a pirate that steals valuable artifacts from the fruitdoms.
Pirate Girl: One of Captain Reginald's crew members is Ms. Scrunchles, a gender flipped counterpart to Kira's hamster Mr. Scrumples.
Platonic Kissing: In "Princess Royal Wedding", as the girls walk down the aisle before the brides, Great Aunt Bussyboots blows a kiss towards Penny.
Playful Cat Smile: Fussy is a more literal example given how she actually is a cat. Episodes like "The Princesses Get A Roommate" will show her smiling mischievously or sarcastically when she's trying to get a point across, usually to Penny.
Plot Allergy: The book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee" reveals that Bea is allergic to bunnies.
Plucky Comic Relief: Fussy and Mr. Scrumples are Kira's hamster and Penny's cat respectively, and are behind some of the show's sillier moments.
The Pollyanna: This definitely describes the girls with how they try looking on the bright side of things. It's best seen with Penny with how she always has inspirational catchphrases like "Lock that doom in another room."
Poor Communication Kills:
- In "Princess Freaky Fruit Day", Penny doesn't elaborate further on the duties she has to take up as temporary queen by asking questions. As such, she does everything at once, eventually becoming overwhelmed. While she does complete them all, Great Aunt Bussyboots later tells her how she prepares for these things in advance, and doesn't do everything at once.
- In "Princess Royal Wedding", Rita says how there aren't any ducks at her mothers' wedding. As such, Omera decides to get a substitute. Unfortunately, she didn't hear the part about Rita saying that she has wooden ducks made for the occasion. She likewise didn't tell Rita that she was going to get something to help out. The result is Omera coming back with the recurring pelican (who she's never met before), and chaos unsurprisingly happening.
Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title:
- "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure" is one to both Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Barbie: Princess Adventure.
- "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" is unsurprisingly one to Little Shop of Horrors.
- "Princesses And The Beanstalk" is definitely based on "Jack And The Beanstalk".
- "Princess Freaky Fruit Day" is this to Freaky Friday (2003) .
- "Princess Babysitter's Club" is this to The Baby-Sitters Club .
Pounds Are Animal Prisons : It's averted in the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee". The animal shelter is shown to be well maintained, and the animals are happy. At worst, it's just noisy and overcrowded sometimes.
The Power of Friendship: This is what many of the episodes are fueled by, with the four princesses working together and talking things out to overcome any challenge. It's noticeable in episodes like "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", where the combination of Rita's fashion skills combined with Kira's empathy and animal knowledge, Penny's intelligence and spunk, and Bea's determination help them overcome all the challenges and inspire that avocado fruitizens to work together.
The Power of Sisterhood: Due to Improbably Female Cast and male characters usually being Out of Focus, the show leans quite heavily on this trope. The princesses are as close as sisters who lean on each other for support, and the adult authority figures that usually impart wisdom are queens.
Power Outage Plot: The plot of "Princess Lights Out" is about the princesses trying to bring back the power to their fruitdoms when it goes out. As it turns, the goats that live on the outskirts of the blueberry fruitdom were throwing rocks that block the hydroelectric dam that gives everyone their power.
Predators Are Mean: "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" plays with this. The episode introduces a shark named Grumpy Gills, who's, well, a grump. Rita thinks he's going to eat them all until Kira says how sharks don't eat people. He's still not someone to be messed with given how he's still rather grumpy from not having enough room to swim.
Pretty Princess Powerhouse: The princesses become this over the course of the Crystal Key Quest arc, where they're still as feminine as ever, but are able to handle themselves during more intense situations.
Pride: Rita shows quite a bit of pride in "Princess Soccer Spectacular" with how she thinks that she knows best in helping Sena out with soccer.
Princess Classic: "How To Be A Princess" is definitely an episode that follows this idea. It's about the girls teaching Lila Lemon how to be a proper princess in time for her Princess Promise Ceremony. She has to learn traditional princess activities like tea parties, wearing a ball gown, giving a speech, and dancing.
Princesses Prefer Pink: Rita definitely shows this given how many of her outfits have various shades of pink in them.
Princesses Rule: While the four main princesses are Free-Range Children, they do still have some kind of parental figure. When it comes to Delia Dragonfruit, it's a different story. From what's shown of the Dragonfruit fruitdom in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", she seems to be the only ruler, with no mention of any kind of parental figure.
Prized Possession Giveaway: "Princess Donation Distress" has Rita being reluctant to give away her things during a lemon fruitdom giveaway. She eventually decides to give away her things when making a young girl happy with her bear Mr. Bedazzle Bear.
Produce Pelting: "Princess Eco-Chase" offers an interesting take on this trope. During the second challenge, if you choose to work alone instead of with others, your remaining teammates get pelted with blueberries that seemingly fall from the sky out of nowhere.
Prohibited Hero Saves the Day: "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" has the kings and queens tell the princesses that they can't help with the seed shortage since they're not coronated yet. They then decide to save the day anyway due to wanting to act now before things get worse.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: When the girls wear their skirts, they also wear tights underneath as a way to signify their status.
Proud Peacock: Rita is a Nice Girl, but can be full of pride at times. As such, it's not a surprise that she and Queen Ryung are said to have adopted a peacock of a similar personality in the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee".
Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: One can definitely see the girls' friendship with each other in this light given how affectionate and supportive they are of each other, and how they're willing to drop whatever they're doing to help each other out.
Psycho Pink: Delia Dragonfruit can be considered a more toned down version of this. She wears dark reddish pink, and, while just a Jerk Jock rival, is one of the few antagonistic characters in the show. She averts this trope in her second appearance when she pulls a Heel–Face Turn near the end.
Purple Is Powerful: Kira is associated with the color purple, and she's the princess with the most take-charge attitude.
Pushed in Front of the Audience: In "The Princess's Speech", Bea pushes Kira onto the stage as a way to encourage her to give her speech even though she's incredibly nervous.
Put on a Bus: Kira's older sister Karina goes on the "Princess Study At Sea" program as of "Princess Bon Voyage". Other than silent cameos in "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" and "Princess Royal Wedding", she doesn't return in a major role until "Princesses Seas The Day".
Putting the "Pal" in Principal: Headmistress Miranda Melon is in charge of Princess Adventure Academy, and she's shown to be pretty a friendly and reasonable person.
Quarter Hour Short: Most episodes are 11-12 minutes long.
Queer Colors: With Bea having 2 dads, it's not a surprise that she'd wear clothes that reflect LGBTQ representation. She wears blue and purple, which are more prominently shown in the bisexual flag.
Queer Establishing Moment: "Princess Crown Coverup" shows how Queen Ryung is a lesbian when she's shown being attracted to Queen Olivia when first meeting her.
Race Against the Clock: In "Princess Pie Surprise", the girls have 3 hours to help Bea make 50 pies in time for the All Fruitdom Treat And Greet.
Race Lift: Penny Pineapple, who's a white girl in the source material, is made into the show's equivalent of a Puerto Rican girl.
Rage Breaking Point: Throughout "Princess Royal Wedding", Rita tries maintaining her composure when Omera keeps making mistakes. However, she loses it due to her mistakes causing Queen Ryung to get trapped in a tree. She blows up at her for causing too much trouble. She even says, albeit without knowing that Omera was listening, that she just gets in the way and ruins everything.
Raised by Dudes: Bea is definitely this given how she lives with 2 dads, with one of them (Sir Benedict) being very athletic just like her. The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" adds to this given how her fathers have a male horse named Bernie (in contrast to the show, where she has a female horse named Bella).
Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: The show very much averts this. The girls all embrace their feminity in their own ways, including the tomboyish Bea, and are portrayed as very good at being heroes. Even when wearing something like their mission pants, they still look great.
Reasonable Authority Figure:
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", even though Queen Alana was subject to quite a bit of misfortune, she doesn't take it out on Penny and Queen Bussyboots. She sees that they had good intentions in pleasing her that just went too far, and allows them all to have fun together while letting the pineapple and apple fruitdoms share each other's fruits.
- Headmistress Miranda Melon falls into this. She can recognize that people make mistakes, and will give them the benefit of the doubt if they truly learn from their mistakes and make up for what they did. You see this in "Princess Royal Wedding", where seeing Rita's attempts to make up with Omera convinces her that the four princesses are worthy of trying out for Princess Adventure Academy. You see this again in "Princess Eco-Chase", where she gives the Key Of Teamwork to Bea and her friends instead of Delia and her team since they actually worked together. Despite that, she still wants them to try out for Princess Adventure Academy next time.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delia delivers one to Penny and Rita in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" when she thinks that they're only trying to help her fruitdom just to get a Crystal Key.
Delia: Oh like you helped me lose my shot at Princess Adventure Academy. Or that you want to help my fruitizens just to get a Crystal Key. Just leave me alone, and stop ruining everything for me!
Record Needle Scratch: It's rather subtle, but you can hear this briefly in "Princess Friends Un-Forever". When the princesses offer Delia an invitation to come to a tea party at Punchbowl Treehouse, and she initially thinks it's a trick, the classical music playing during the scene is replaced with a needle scratch. The classical music then resumes when they say how they were being sincere.
Red Is Heroic:
- Rita is from the raspberry fruitdom, which is pinkish red, and is one of the heroes.
- Delia Dragonfruit becomes this in her second appearance since she's from the Dragonfruit fruitdom and becomes more outwardly caring towards others.
Red Is Violent: The monster from "Princess Friends Un-Forever" wears a red robe, and is quite aggressive when chasing after everyone.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kira and Rita have the most interactions within the Princess Pack, with Kira being a more down to earth and mature character to contrast with Rita being more over the top and energetic.
Repression Never Ends Well:
- Bea shows this in two notable instances:
  - In "Princess All Nighter", Bea attempts to bottle up her feelings of insecurity over how this is her first sleepover since she doesn't want to be seen as weak. Unfortunately, due to everyone staying up all night, they're quite tired, meaning they can't properly save the day, and she doesn't talk about her feelings until after the adventure.
  - In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Bea is afraid to ride her fathers' horse Bernie because he's so big. She attempts to hide the truth from her friends because they see her as fearless. She can't take it anymore, and confesses her feelings.
- Throughout "The Missing Princess", Rita keeps trying to hide the fact that she accidentally got herself, Ara, and Minji lost in the woods despite the stress she feels. This eventually backfires when she accidentally sprains her ankle and has to confess.
Retired Badass: "The Princesses Get A Roommate" shows that while Hilda is no longer an active kiwi explorer, she's still pretty tough. Most notably, she jumps out of Bea's plane with ease when dealing with the blueberry fruitdom dam being cracked.
Reused Character Design: The young blueberrian girl that shows up in episodes like "Practice Makes Princess" and "Princess Donation Distress" looks similar to Ara from the raspberry fruitdom. She just has a different hair color and clothes.
The Reveal: "I Dig Being A Princess" reveals the existence of other fruitdoms.
Reveling in the New Form: While only briefly shown, Rita shows off how much she likes the light up dresses in "Princess Shooting Stars", "Princess All Nighter", and "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" by briefly doing model poses.
Rhymes on a Dime:
- Many of the catchphrases that Penny says are all in rhyme, and she says it smoothly all the time. A few examples and include "Lock that doom in another room." and "Take that worry and tell it to scurry." She's also the one most willing to start the Pinkie Tea Promise (We Pinkie Tea Promise to help those in need. With our Princess Power, we'll always succeed.)
- Gabriella Goldenrod, the pineapple fruitdom poet, is definitely this given how she uses rhyming for everything she says. A good example comes from "A Prince In The Princess Pack", where she drinks tea that's too spicy and says "Dire! Dire! My mouth is on fire!"
The Rival: "Princess Eco-Chase" introduces Delia Dragonfruit, a character who has the same skills as the princesses, yet is also more smug.
Robot Buddy: Penny's robot Hermie is pretty friendly and helpful as long as you don't accidentally turn his dial to danger zone.
Roll Out the Red Carpet: In "A Prince In The Princess Pack", Rita tells Penny how she'll put out a red carpet to help welcome poet Gabriella Goldenrod. Through unfortunate circumstances, she accidentally ends up dropping it.
Romance Arc: Queen Ryung (Rita's mother) and Queen Olivia (Omera's mother) meet each other in "Princess Crown Coverup", and fall in love. They're briefly shown dating in "Princess Campout Stakeout" before eventually marrying in "Princess Royal Wedding".
Royal Brat: Delia Dragonfruit tends to act like a smug jerk who always expects things to go her way.
Royal School: While only seen in pictures, Princess Adventure Academy is definitely this given how it's a school where the girls learn to be better princesses.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" is all about this trope given how the princesses go to the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets in order to solve the seed shortage instead of just waiting for the adults to talk things out without them.
Rube Goldberg Device: The first short in this video has Penny build an elaborate alarm clock of sorts out of things in her room. It's set up very elaborately so that a chain reaction will happen, and she can wake up to a teddy bear hitting her face.
Runaway Hideaway: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Omera runs off when Rita inadvertently says how she just ruins everything. After a talk from her friends, Rita then goes off to find her and apologize. Seeing as how Omera wanted to be just like Rita earlier in the episode, she then deduces that she hid in her sailboat.
Running Gag: Almost every episode has a fourth wall break.
Sacred Hospitality: In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", Kira insists that she and the others let Hilda stay at Punchbowl Treehouse for awhile. Even though she's rather crabby, Kira says how she doesn't have anywhere for her to stay since her house is being fixed.
Same-Sex Triplets: The grape triplets seen in "Princess Eco-Chase" are all girls that wear the three main colors of grapes.
Save the Princess: The ending to "Princess Bon Voyage" has Kira and Karina rescue Rita when she gets trapped at the top of a moving windmill.
Save the Villain: In "Princesses Seas The Day", the princesses save Captain Reginald and his crew from getting pelted with pineapples and sugar cubes from reprogrammed Hermie despite the fact that he captured the princesses. Bea says how princesses always do the right thing, even for people who aren't nice. This kick-starts his Heel–Face Turn.
Scaling the Summit: "Princess Nest Pest" has Kira lead her friends up a mountain on Banana Island in order to complete the next part of the Crystal Key Quest.
Scarf of Asskicking: While not seen, the idea is brought up in "Princess Surprise Party". Rita mentions how her birthday present for Bea, the most action oriented member of the Princess Pack, is a special scarf.
Science Hero: Penny is a scientist who uses her science to try and make the fruitdoms a better place to live. Lila Lemon is also this given how she loves tinkering and helping others.
Scooby-Dooby Doors: During the song "Tiara Teamwork Forever" from "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the girls are seen going through various doors in Delia's palace as they get the monster to chase them.
"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The plot of "Princess Friends Un-Forever" is about the girls traveling to the Dragonfruit fruitdom to help a reluctant Delia Dragonfruit stop a monster that's terrorizing the fruitizens. In a rare heroic take on this trope, the culprit turns out to be Headmistress Miranda Melon, who wanted to help the girls work together and overcome disagreements in order to get the Key Of Unity.
Scout-Out: Ara and Minji are part of the Raspberrian Rangers, as shown in "The Missing Princess" and "Princess Campout Stakeout".
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: In "The Missing Princess", when Kira sees that a goat has Rita's tiara that she left earlier, she asks if they saw her. The result is the goat running off with the crown in order to keep it.
Sculptures: Azul from "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" is an artist. As such, she likes making sculptures, including one of her friend Phil the avocado.
Secretly Selfish:
- Penny shows quite a bit of this in "A Prince In The Princess Pack". She's genuinely sympathetic when it comes to her love of her younger brother Felipe, but she does have somewhat selfish motives in thinking that he can only help out at the pineapple palace. She thankfully overcomes this after a conversation with her friends.
- Kira does show a bit of this in "Princess Bon Voyage". Although she is genuinely sympathetic with how she loves Karina and doesn't want to lose her, there's also a feeling in how she wants her around to help out others in only her way. It's most notable during the second half of the episode, where she says "What?! After all this, you're still leaving me!?". She then overcomes this when Karina said how she's leaving because she was inspired by the princesses to help others more.
Secret Test of Character: This is what the Crystal Key Quest arc for season 3 ultimately is. It's all about testing the girls to see how selfless they are in order to earn special keys to grant them admission into Princess Adventure Academy.
Security Cling: Penny seems to be the recipient of quite a few security clings. To give some examples:
- In "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", Felipe jumps into Penny's arms when the pineapple that she sprayed with her growth formula becomes sentient.
- In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", when Bea is too scared to go into the Cave Of Avocadoom, she holds onto Kira's arm.
- Penny and Rita have three of these, all in back to back episodes:
  - In "Princess Eco-Chase", when Rita is surprised by Headmistress Miranda randomly popping up at the end of the episode, she immediately jumps into Penny's arms.
  - In "Princess Nest Pest", Rita clings onto Penny's arms 'three' times. The first time has them both holding each other in fear when the giant bird flies to the kiwi fruitdom. The other two times come near the end when the bird seemingly attacks the princesses, and Rita holds onto her arm.
  - In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Rita lifts Penny up for a hug, which they both like. Later in the episode, when Bea is trying to get a statue from the bottom of a lake while dealing with Grumpy Gills the shark, Kira holds onto Penny's shoulders while Rita holds onto Penny's waist.
Sensory Overload: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Bernie the horse get jumpy whenever he hears loud noises. Kira says how horses often act like this to anything unfamiliar. Rita eventually comes up with a solution to give him a bonnet that will make the noise less loud.
Sequel Episode: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" acts as a followup to "Princess Eco-Chase", not only because of continuing the Crystal Key Quest arc but also because of the return of Delia Dragonfruit, who still has a grudge against the princesses.
Sequel Hook: "Princesses Seas The Day" ends the show with the girls going to Princess Adventure Academy, meaning more potential for stories.
Serial Escalation: The specials in The Crystal Key Quest arc can be described as this. Things start out pretty simple with the titular competition in "Princess Eco-Chase", which has some intensity, but is largely low key. Afterwards, the specials would get a bit more intense and feature heavier emotional moments, such as with the giant, seemingly terrifying but ultimately harmless bird in "Princess Nest Pest" and the more heated conflict of "Princess Friends Un-Forever".
Series Continuity Error: The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", where Bea has to learn to ride a horse, ends up becoming this due to the author having not worked on the show. It came out July 23, 2024, meaning long after the episode "Princess Processional Professional", where she learned to ride a horse, and has since ridden said horse in other episodes. Also, the horse in the book is Bernie while the horse in the show is Bella.
Severely Specialized Store: Given how Cyrus is from the lemon fruitdom, it's not a surprise that he runs a cafe that only serves lemon treats.
Share Phrase: The Pinkie Tea Promise is said by the princesses at the beginning of each episode, with one of the girls initiating it before they all say it.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Lila Lemon from "How To Be A Princess" wears clothes that are plain, but cute. When she tries on a princess gown, she looks more sophisticated.
Sheet of Glass: While it involves a billboard, not glass, the idea is shown somewhat in "Princess Processional Professional". When Bella runs off with Bea on her back, they almost run into some incidental characters carrying a fragile billboard. Bea tells them to get out of the way so that they don't get caught in the crossfire.
Ship Tease: Even though Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia are only shown interacting in 2 episodes before getting married in "Princess Royal Wedding", one can definitely see that the writers were teasing the idea of them getting together. To go into more detail:
- "Princess Crown Coverup" has quite a few notable interactions between them:
  - Olivia helps Rita slip past Ryung despite barely knowing her.
  - Olivia does a bit of playful teasing when interacting with Ryung by really getting into pretending that she lost her glasses even though she doesn't have any. Despite Ryung not knowing her yet, she puts her hand on her shoulder and goes out of her way to help her despite still not having the crown jewels that would make her more confident.
  - When Olivia then pretends that she forgot them at home, Ryung doesn't take it too hard.
  - When Queen Olivia officially introduces herself to Queen Ryung, as Rita expresses her surprise at this, the two of them hold hands for a good five seconds.
  - The two of them dance near each other during the ending song.
- In "Princess Campout Stakeout", we see that the fennec fox that was roaming around the raspberry fruitdom was a gift from Queen Olivia for the royal family, which can very much be seen as a romantic gesture. Adding to this, the scene where it's revealed is when the two of them are eating breakfast together alone at the pagoda, which is most definitely a date.
Shock-and-Switch Ending: In "Princesses Seas The Day", at first, it looks like the girls failed to complete the final Crystal Key Quest when they don't get to the cranberry fruitdom before sunset. As it turns out, they did complete it when Headmistress Miranda Melon says that putting the safety of the fruitdoms first qualifies as completing it.
Shoddy Shindig: A brief moment of this happens in "Princess Royal Wedding". As Rita prepares to do mehndi, Headmistress Miranda tells her how there isn't anything for the guests to do. She then proceeds to start singing to get everyone dancing.
Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Penny briefly mentions a school project in "Princess Suggestion Box", but it's never seen. This would seem to imply that the girls go to school, but it's not shown. This would then be averted during season 3 since the focus of the second half is explicitly about the girls getting into Princess Adventure Academy.
Shout-Out:
- In "A Whale Of A Princess Tale", Penny says "The rain today comes mainly from...my plane!”. This is a nod to the quote "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" from My Fair Lady .
- In "Princess Bon Voyage", one of the books that Kira gives away is "The Little Hamster That Could", which is a nod to The Little Engine That Could .
- In "Princess Babysitter's Club", Queen Olivia and King Barton are putting on "Fruitloose: The Musical", which is a nod to Footloose.
- In "Princess Nest Pest", when Kira accidentally wakes up the prism feathered pterodex, a yellow bird, Rita says That's a Big Bird!. ^note
The Show of the Books: The series is definitely this given how it's based off of the Princesses Wear Pants book series.
Shrink Ray: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" has Penny make a shrinking formula so that she can bring the giant, sentient pineapple down to size.
Sick Episode: While not the focus, there have been some stories that have this play role:
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", since Great Aunt Bussyboots is sick, Penny says how she and her friends can have the tea party with Queen Alana in order to get the apples needed for the pineapple parade.
- The book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade" has Bea be in charge of the Horse And Harvest Hullabaloo since her dads are sick.
Signature Headgear:
- Headmistress Miranda Melon has a flower in her hair.
- Mr. Scrumples sometimes wears a top hat, whether he's showing off to others or tries looking good for Kira or some kind of special event.
Silent Snarker:
- Given how Fussy is a cat that only meows, she shows off sarcastic comments this way. In "The Princesses Get A Roommate", when Hilda expresses annoyance at the girls rhyming a lot, Fussy raises her eyebrow to the camera as if she's saying "She's got a point." .
- Bella shows quite a bit of this in "Princess Processional Professional". She just brushes off Bea in an annoyed manner when she tries way too hard to impress her.
Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: This is definitely subverted in "Princess Royal Wedding". When Rita says how her mother Queen Ryung is marrying Queen Olivia, they're all ecstatic, and see this as a great thing.
Silver Fox: Both Hilda and Queen Lillian (who's the mother of Lila Lemon) are attractive women with gray hair.
Single-Minded Twins:
- Oraida and Oliver, who are Queen Olivia's niece and nephew, basically act as the same character in how they're well meaning, but somewhat mischievous and impulsive kids.
- The Grape triplets basically act as one person split into three. Georgina is known for being good at archery, but that's the only thing known about any one of them.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In "Princess Crown Coverup, one of the reasons that Rita's mother, Queen Ryung, becomes attracted to Queen Olivia is when seeing how she's good with kids.
Sinister Silhouettes: The monster that shows up in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" sometimes shows up in creepy shadows when going after the main characters.
Sinister Sweet Tooth: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", the monster terrorizing the Dragonfruit fruitdom is shown to like eating fruit tarts. It's subverted with the reveal that the benevolent Miranda Melon wa behind all this.
Sinking Ship Scenario: In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", when the girls land in rough waters, Rita attempts to get the Punchbowl Seahouse back on track. Unfortunately, she trips, and accidentally touches Hermie's danger zone dial (which she calls out Penny for). This causes the boat to become more unstable, and eventually falling apart as the girls make it to shore.
Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: In a moment that's played for laughs, "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" has Bea sarcastically tell Penny how she's sleeping with her eyes open when seeing Great Aunt Bussyboots' boring tea party.
Sleepyhead : In "Princess All Nighter", because Bea kept herself and her friends up all night, they keep dozing off. Notably, Kira, Penny, and Rita sleepily put their heads on each other's shoulders while looking through a telescope.
Sliding Scale of Continuity: Season 1 starts the show out at level 2. There's a little continuity, but many of the episodes are standalone. Season 2 would move the show to level 3, with episodes still being standalone, but more continuity is integrated into each episode with callbacks galore. New elements like the fruitdom map and characters like Queen Olivia would be introduced that would become major later on. Season 3 would move the show to level 4. While episodes still tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end, there's also an overarching narrative about the girls trying to get into Princess Adventure Academy, with continuity becoming much more prominent than before.
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The show definitely leans on the idealistic side of things. While things can go wrong for the characters, and there's occasionally more heated conflicts, there's great emphasis on the characters caring for each other, doing what's right, and things always end on a good note.
Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic: The show can be described as unusual. While things are kept relatively realistic and the conflicts are largely grounded, there can sometimes be some out there or flat-out bizarre gags. There are fourth wall-breaking mechanics that would be impossible to do in a more realistic setting, such as Penny and Kira using remotes to literally fast forward the plot in "Princesses And The Bees" and "Princess Campout Stakeout" respectively, or the seemingly sentient avocados in "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water".
Slow and Steady Wins the Race: "Princess Eco-Chase" follows an interesting take on this idea. Even though Delia Dragonfruit completed all three events faster than the Princess Pack, and even gets a trophy for it, she doesn't get the Key Of Teamwork due to not working with the Grape triplets. Even though Bea and her friends were slower in completing the events, because she took the time to work with her friends in completing them, they ultimately get the key.
Slumber Party: "Princess All Nighter " is about the girls having a sleepover at Punchbowl Treehouse, with Bea being nervous about her first time sleeping away from home.
Small Role, Big Impact:
- Queen Olivia has 3 speaking appearances, yet she's responsible for various changes to the show. These include the idea of other fruitdoms , establishing a romantic relationship with Queen Ryung, and introducing the idea of Princess Adventure Academy.
- In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", Susie Seedplanter only appears at the beginning and end of the episode. However, she kicks off the episode's conflict by telling the girls about the seed shortage in the seed silo, thus motivating them to go to the Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets.
- Hilda only has a prominent role in two episodes, "The Princesses Get A Roommate" and "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", but she's responsible for two major events. In the former episode, she helps establish the idea of Kiwi Explorers, who helped other people out much like the princesses. In the latter episode, she tells the princesses about The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets, which helps establish sparkleseeds, and thus the idea of a world beyond the four main fruitdoms.
The Smart Guy: Both Kira and Penny hold this title, albeit for different reasons. Kira tends to be knowledgeable on animals while Penny is knowledgeable on science, though they can overlap.
Smug Smiler: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Kira unmasks the monster, revealing it to be Headmistress Miranda Melon. She then lets out one of these, but not for any selfish reason. She instead does it because of how her plan to get the princesses to work together worked out.
Smug Snake: This definitely describes Delia Dragonfruit given how she's incredibly overconfident and egotistical, treating her own teammates and the other princesses with quite the scorn.
Sneeze Interruption: In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", Bea attempts to tell Kira how they'll find a home for Binky the bunny, but then she sneezes.
Soapbox Sadie: Kira can be considered this given her general level headedness, how she's the princess most willing to give inspirational speeches, and how she has a deep care for animals and the world around her that she will stand up for. Of course, the series also knows when to show that she isn't always right about everything, making her a more respectful take on this trope.
Socially Awkward Hero:
- Lila Lemon is quite the Nice Girl even though she has a hard time presenting herself publicly.
- After her Heel–Face Turn: Delia Dragonfruit shows this with how she genuinely tries being friendly to the princesses despite slightly stumbling up her words.
So Much for Stealth:
- In "Princess All Nighter", the girls play hide and seek during their sleepover, but they keep giving each other away. Kira finds Rita because she accidentally giggled while hiding behind a tree. Penny exposed herself since she hid behind a flower that doesn't cover her pigtails. Bea accidentally exposed herself since she yawned while she was hiding under the bridge.
- Fussy inadvertently ruins some of the girls' attempts to be stealthy in "Princesses Seas The Day". The first moment comes from how Kira attempts to silently tell everyone to take back the stolen treasures, but she accidentally exposes them when trying to get fruit. The second time comes later, when Karina frees the girls. Fussy jumps to her for a hug, and accidentally makes noise that alerts Captain Reginald.
Song of Courage: "Princess Nest Pest" has the song "Rise To The Top". It plays as Kira rides Maisie in order to get the prism feathered pterodex out of the kiwi fruitdom while she helps anyone in need.
So Proud of You:
- Among the parental figures in the show, Great Aunt Bussyboots often says this the most to Penny. She says how she's proud of her for all she and her friends have done in episodes like "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" and "Princesses And The Beanstalk".
- In "How To Be A Princess ", you briefly see an unnamed Queen Lilian smile as Lila gives her speech at the Princess Promise Ceremony. It helps show how she's proud of Lila for doing things her own way as a princess.
Space Whale Aesop: The morals on the show are pretty well executed, though can sometimes involve things that are a bit out there in order to reach them. For example, the moral of "Princesses And The Beanstalk" is about being a true scientist by always trying again and not being afraid to fail even when it seems impossible. Penny learns this by climbing up the beanstalk, and gathering water vapor from a cloud with a squeeze horn. She and her friends later give water towers shaped like teapots to the other fruitdoms in case they have another drought. Yeah, cartoon logic definitely applies with the execution of this moral rather than real world logic.
Speak in Unison:
- The Pinkie Tea Promise follows this during the second half. The first line (We pinkie tea promise to help those in need) is spoken by one of the girls (usually Kira) before all four girls say the second line (with our princess power, we'll always succeed).
- "Princess Royal Portrait" has Kira, Penny, and Bea say "We have to talk to Rita" at the same time when they accidentally cause chaos.
Speaks Fluent Animal: Kira is definitely this given how she can sense animal behavior and know how to deal with it. She even makes animal sounds when being more personal with them, like with the giant bird in "Princess Nest Pest".
Spiritual Antithesis: "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" can be considered this to "Princess Garden Party". They're both episodes directed by Katya Rosario Bowser that involve a conflict between one of the princesses and an older family member over the best way to throw a party. Both episodes end with the characters learning a lesson about not going too far with their ideas on what's best. They differ in execution though. "Princess Garden Party" focuses on the dynamic between Kira and her older sister Karina while "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" is about the dynamic between Penny and Great Aunt Bussyboots. The garden party in the former episode is for the kiwi fruitdom while the tea party in the latter episode is to impress one person, Queen Alana Apple. In addition, things going wrong in the former episode is due to unforeseen circumstances, and it happens during the middle. Contrast with the latter, where things go wrong near the end due to Great Aunt Bussyboots trying too hard to make sure things go well.
Split-Screen Reaction: There are a few instances where the screen shows reactions from all four princesses at the same time, usually when something goes wrong:
- In "Princess Garden Party", the girls show shocked concern at the same time when the wind blows Karina's crown off her head.
- In "Princess Suggestion Box", the girls show shocked concern at the same time when everything devolves into chaos due to Penny's well meaning, but misguided intentions.
Spoiled Sweet: This definitely applies to Rita. While she's often prone to vanity and has selfish moments, she has a huge heart of gold and tries her hardest to help those in need.
Sportsmanship Aesop: "Princess Eco-Chase" follows this quite a bit due to the heavy emphasis on being there for your friends. Bea is so focused on winning and beating Delia Dragonfruit that she keeps leaving her friends behind. Fortunately, she comes to see that she should focus more on trying to work with her friends, not doing the challenge for them. This pays off during the second half of the episode given how, while Delia wins the trophy, she doesn't get the Key Of Teamwork. Bea and her friends get it since they worked together and acted like good sports.
Squad Nickname: The characters sometimes call themselves The Princess Pack, such as Rita in "Princess Donation Distress". A notable instance occurs in "Princess Friends Un-Forever ", where Bea tells Delia that she's part of The Princess Pack.
Squee : Kira briefly shows this in "Princess Creation Station" as she hops up and down in excitement over getting tree sap since she likes being one with nature like a flying squirrel.
Stairwell Chase: The song "Tiara Teamwork Forever" from "Princess Friends Un-Forever" has the girls running around staircases in the Dragonfruit fruitdom.
Stargazing Scene: Given how "Princess Shooting Stars" involves trying to see a meteor shower, it unsurprisingly ends with everyone looking up at the stars in the sky.
Staying with the Suffering: In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", Penny tells Miss Fussywiggles to stay with Great Aunt Bussyboots and help her recover while she and the other princesses get the tea party ready for Queen Alana Apple.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Headmistress Miranda Melon is capable of popping in and out of unexpected places without people noticing right away. A running gag is Rita wondering how she keeps doing that.
Sticky Situation:
- "Princess Creation Station" has Rita making a big long bracelet with the other princesses so that she can give them to the kids. Said bracelet gets stuck to the floor since the glue is made of tree sap. Bea suggests pulling it off, but then it flies off, and all the girls get stuck in it.
- "Princess Crown Coverup" shows this. Penny creates super sticky glue to help Rita fix Queen Ryung's crown. The two girls accidentally get one of their hands stuck to it. Kira and Bea attempt to pull them out, but they get their hands stuck to the fruit pillows.
Stock Beehive: The beehive shown in "The Princess's Speech" is a standard yellow beehive that looks like donuts stacked on top of each other.
Stock Footage: The travel song plays in almost every episode and goes the exact same way, where it starts with Kira in her speed boat, Penny in her plane, Rita in her sailboat, and Bea on her hang glider all coming to the treehouse. The only variations come from when extra characters are added (such as with Lila Lemon in How To Be A Princess and Omera in Princess Royal Wedding), switched out (such as Great Aunt Bussyboots taking Penny's place in Princess Freaky Fruit Day or Bea's dads taking her place in Princess Surprise Party), or taken out (such as Rita in The Missing Princess, where the episode is about finding her).
Stopped Clock: The first sign of a four fruitdom power outage in "Princess Lights Out" is when Kira discovers that her alarm clocks aren't working even though she plugged them in and set them up last night.
Story Arc: In a rarity for a preschool cartoon, the last 6 episodes of season 3 form an arc where the girls go on the Crystal Key Quest, where the girls must find special keys so that Headmistress Miranda can allow them to attend Princess Adventure Academy.
Strange Minds Think Alike: Two examples of this show up:
- The "Princess's Speech" starts with Kira losing her voice since she's nervous about giving her speech on banning plastic straws. She attempts to tell her friends this via charades. Penny and Bea both make incorrect guesses while Rita figures out exactly what Kira was saying on the first try. She just passes it off as being really good at charades.
- "The Perfect Princess Welcome" starts with Kira asking the audience what happens when you cross a lemon with a kiwi. During the later scene at Punchbowl Treehouse, when she explains the situation, Bea also calls this a lemon mixed with a kiwi.
Stronger Than They Look: There are two notable examples of this:
- Hilda from "The Princesses Get A Roommate" is shown to be this. Kira and the other princesses think that she's just an old woman who doesn't do much and would like things typical of people her age. In actuality, she's a former Kiwi explorer who was ready to leap into action. She mentions wrestling a shark of all things. We see that she's still this given how she slips into her own pants, rides Bea's hang glider, and leads the princesses during a disaster that happens in the blueberry fruitdom.
- Great Aunt Bussyboots shows this in "Princess Freaky Fruit Day", where she impresses the other princesses by lifting a blueberry bush with one arm. She apparently got this strength from cheersing at royal tea parties.
Stubborn Mule: When Bea's horse Bella is introduced in "Princess Processional Professional", she's shown to be rather snobby and confrontational, not really wanting Bea to ride her. She only calms down near the end when she says that she's part of the family.
Stuck in a Chimney: In "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", Bea attempts to climb up the fireplace in order to help Kira get Mr. Scrumples back. However, she gets stuck when he runs up further. She then gets out when Penny tells Rita to use her rope to get her down.
Stuff Blowing Up: There are 2 instances of this:
- In "Princess Punchbowl Feastival", the girls combine their fruitdom dishes into one. After Penny pours vinegar into it, it starts to shake. Bea then throws it out of the treehouse just before it explodes.
- While not actually seen, the short at 2:28 briefly brings up the idea. Penny tells the princesses how she's in charge of the pineapple pickling party. However, one of the pineapples exploded, and she's not sure why.
Stylish Protection Gear: In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", when Kira says how it snowed in the kiwi fruitdom, which is unnatural given its warm environment, Rita breaks out stylish looking coats and mittens for them all to wear. Later in the episode, when the kiwi family says how the kiwis need to be protected, Rita makes special scarves to keep them warm. Penny improves on them by making them electric heat warmers.
Subverted Catchphrase: Penny shows this in two notable instances:
- In "A Prince In The Princess Pack", after the princesses gently tell Penny that she shouldn't have snapped at Felipe, she feels bad for what she did. She's about to say something with the word pineapple, but instead says that this is swedish.
- In the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade", Fussy accidentally sleeps on the blueberry blaster, startling Bea and Bernie. Unsurprisingly, Penny scolds her. Rather than saying some variation of "Science Snag", she instead says "Stinky bug!".
Suddenly Voiced: The short shown at 4:47 shows that Mr. Scrumples has a surprisingly good singing voice.
Sugar Bowl: The series can definitely be considered this. The characters, even with occasional disagreements, get along pretty well. There's a strong sense of optimism and altruism through all the fruitdoms with how the girls just want to help others. There's not much in the way of antagonists, with it usually being an animal that's tamed at the very end. Even the two human antagonists that show up later on, those two being Delia Dragonfruit and Captain Reginald , pull a Heel–Face Turn quickly.
Summon Backup Dancers: The ending of "The Princess's Speech" has Rita ask Penny and Bea to help her be backup singers and dancers for Kira so that she can be confident in giving her speech to the audience.
Supermodel Strut: Both "Princess All Nighter" and "The Perfect Princess Welcome" have Rita put on a fashion show while the princesses show off their coolest poses.
Surprise Party: "Princess Surprise Party" offers an interesting take on this idea. It doesn't actually take place on Bea's birthday, but the week before. However, it still fits due to the plot being about her dads wanting to throw her a surprise party a week in advance, and they ask the other princesses to distract her until it's ready since she's good at guessing when it is.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco shows this 2/3 of the way through. Even though the girls turned off Snow Hermie, the kiwi fruitdom is still covered in snow. As Penny tells Kira, it'll take at least 3 days to melt. Even the best efforts to undo something don't always go as planned.
- In "The Missing Princess", Rita tackles a goat to get her tiara back, and accidentally injures her ankle. As she puts it, she did not have the proper shoes that would've made the impact less painful.
Swapped Roles: The plot of "Princess Freaky Fruit Day" is about Penny switching places with Great Aunt Bussyboots so that the former can practice being queen while the latter can have the princess adventure she's always wanted.
Sweet Baker: Penny can be considered this trope given how she's a Nice Girl like her friends, and associates baking with science. She even made a great-looking apple and pineapple bouncing cake in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses".
Sweet Tooth:
- Rita can be considered this given how she's shown to really love raspberry chocolate volcano cake in "Four Fruitdom Feastival" and "Princess Surprise Party". She also gushes over Penny's apple and pineapple bouncing cake in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses".
- Rita's fennec fox Velvet can also be considered this given how, in his debut in "Princess Campout Stakeout", he really wanted to try the raspberry cake put out for him. Plus, Queen Olivia says how he likes eating anything with oranges.
- Penny can be considered this given how she's a baker. It's best shown at the beginning of "Happy Princess Birthday Fussy", where she says how she's tried making cake for breakfast a regular thing.
Sympathy for the Devil: Both Penny and Rita show quite a bit of sympathy towards Delia in "Princess Friends Un-Forever" in thinking that she's someone they should work with when helping her fruitdom.
Tagalong Kid: Omera fills this role in "Princess Royal Wedding", where she helps Rita and the other princesses get everything ready for the wedding between Queen Ryung and Queen Olivia.
Take It to the Bridge: The climax of "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water" involves Rita and the princesses creating bridges connecting the isles so that Ariel, Azul, and August can help them out without running into Grumpy Gills the shark.
Take Me Instead: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", when Kira and Bea are cornered by the monster, Bea tells Kira to go since she doesn't want her to get hurt. Kira then says that she doesn't want that since they're in this together.
Tastes Like Friendship: In "Princess Nest Pest", after Kira formally befriends the prism feathered pterodex , Penny gives some lemon scones as a sign that things are alright between them all. Granted, she's a bit nervous while doing so, but it's still a good gesture.
Tea Is Classy: It's not uncommon for tea parties to be a time when the princesses get to interact with high profile guests. Key among them include poet Gabriella Goldenrod in "A Princess In The Princess Pack", Queen Lillian in "Princess Donation Distress", and Queen Alana in "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses".
Team Mom: Kira often fills this role given her general maturity and willingness to give advice to those in need.
Team Pet: Kira's pet hamster Mr. Scrumples and Penny's cat Fussy fill this role for the team due to how they help out on adventures. Bea's horse Bella and Rita's fennec fox Velvet are introduced later, and sometimes help out on adventures.
Team Spirit: It's not uncommon for episodes to reinforce the message of teamwork, whether as the direct focus or just part of the story. It's best shown during the "Tiara Teamwork Forever" song "Princess Friends Un-Forever", where the girls ultimately catch the monster by working together.
Tearful Smile: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Kira briefly smiles while crying small tears after she rescues the pirate pelican.
Tempting Fate:
- In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon keeps messing up with princesses activities. Rita says that at least she can do well with dancing, and that nothing could go wrong with dancing. Cut to a few seconds later, where Lila is apparently so bad at dancing that she gets the main princesses stuck in the giant string ball from "Princess Creation Station".
- In "The Perfect Princess Welcome", Bea tells Kira how she doesn't need to practice her bakery obstacle course since she's so skilled and asks what could possibly go wrong. We then cut to a few seconds later, with tables fallen down and desserts everywhere. Penny then says this: "True story. If you want something to go right, never ask what could possibly go wrong."
Terrible Artist: Kira briefly mentions in "Practice Makes Princess" that she's not the best artist given how her hamsters just look like blobs.
"Test Your Strength" Game: One of Rita's carnival ideas in "Princess Shooting Stars" is a game like this, where players use a bejeweled mallet to test their strength by hitting the bell.
Textile Work Is Feminine: With Rita being the most fashion oriented of the princesses, it's not a surprise that she's into sewing. It's best shown in "Princess Crown Coverup" with how she brags about how quickly she can sew.
That Came Out Wrong: In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon is practicing her speech, but she accidentally flubs her words by saying how she's nervous out loud.
Themed Party: The first short in the video has the girls trying to decide what party to throw. Kira and Penny want a tea party with animals. Rita and Bea want a beach party with water sports. They then decide to combine them all.
Those Two Guys: As Joon fell Out of Focus, Ara and Minji from the raspberry fruitdom became this. They would generally provide some occasional comments or cute moments when hanging out with Rita.
Threatening Shark: "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water " shows off Grumpy Gills the shark, who's grumpy because of how he doesn't have enough room to swim in his lagoon since he's grown too big. Rita thinks that he's going to eat them all until Kira rightfully points out that sharks very rarely attack people unless they think that there's a seal. He then becomes much friendlier at the end when the Guacen-spiel has enough power to clear the rocks blocking his swimming path.
Thrill Seeker:
- Bea is definitely this given how she's not afraid to take on any challenge, and get some kind of thrill from it. This is best shown in how her bedroom looks like an obstacle course, which allows her to take on challenges at any time.
- "Princess Suggestion Box" shows this with the minor character Kamilla. When a series of disasters goes off, Kira's horse Maisie ends up running off due to being frightened. Kira tries to stop Maisie, but Kamilla says how she's having a good time.
Through His Stomach: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Penny and Rita attempt to appeal to Delia's good side with a basket of all their fruits. It doesn't work given how she chews them out afterwards, but it does get the ball rolling for her Heel–Face Turn later in the episode.
Time-Passes Montage: "Princesses And The Beanstalk" has a scene of the girls waiting for Rita's fabric to filter the saltwater into fresh water. While it's unknown how long it took, it was apparently long enough for Penny to fall asleep to.
Time Skip: "Princesses Seas The Day " is explicitly said to take place a few days after the events of "Princess Friends Un-Forever " due to mentioning how the girls still haven't found the last crystal key.
Title Drop: The final song of the show, "Princess Power", plays during the final few minutes of "Princesses Seas The Day ", as the girls help Captain Reginald return everything they stole while also sending sacks to the cranberry fruitdom.
Token Mini-Moe: Ara can be considered this given how she's a cute girl who often brings out Rita's better side.
Token White: Bea is the only princess in The Princess Pack who's white.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Within the Princess Pack, the more feminine Rita and the more tomboyish Bea have this dynamic, being elegant and action oriented respectively whenever they work together.
Tomboyness Upgrade: Bea in "Princesses Save The World" didn't have much of a defined personality. In this show, she's a tomboy with a love for extreme activities.
Tomboy Princess: Bea definitely embraces this due to how she's the princess who's always up for any physical challenge.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Bea is the most tomboyish of the princesses given her love of extreme sports. However, she also enjoys wearing fancy dresses and having tea parties just like her friends.
Took a Level in Kindness: Delia Dragonfruit becomes a better person at the end of "Princess Friends Un-Forever" when she works with the princesses, and apologizes for her behavior.
Toon Physics: Some of the humor occasionally crosses into this territory. Examples include Rita somehow pulling up a projector while she's tied up in "Princess Creation Station" in order to look at footage from the beginning of the episode, Penny fast forwarding Rita with a remote in "Princesses And The Bees", and Kira using that same remote to turn day into night in "Princess Campout Stakeout ".
Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: In "Princess Nest Pest", after seemingly failing the Crystal Key Quest, the girls gather at Cyrus's lemon cafe in the kiwi fruitdom. Fussy attempts to give Kira some tarts until she says that she's not in the mood to eat something.
Totally Radical: Bea briefly does this in "Princess Nest Pest". When the prism feathered pterodex seemingly attacks Kira, but she was playing with them , she says "Yo bird creature! Step away from our friend!"
To Win Without Fighting: In "Princesses Seas The Day ", the girls defeat Captain Reginald, but not by trying to stop him with brute force. They instead defeat him by saving his crew when they're in danger with no hesitation, which initiates his Heel–Face Turn.
Trap Door: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", when Delia Dragonfruit says how she doesn't want the princesses' help in getting rid of the monster terrorizing her fruitizens, she forces them out of her palace with a trap door. After she pulls a Heel–Face Turn later in the episode, she uses the same trap door on the monster.
Travel to Projectile: Bea's zipline zapper serves this purpose, where she's able to move around and attach herself to anything high above her.
Treasure Hunt Episode: "I Dig Being A Princess" is about the girls finding some kind of treasure map that could potentially be useful for an upcoming charity ball they're hosting. The end of the episode reveals the existence of a map that shows other fruitdoms, which is seen as very valuable.
Treehouse of Fun: Punchbowl Island is home to Punchbowl Treehouse, where the girls will convene for whatever they're going to do. It has things like a science center, arts and crafts room, a balcony, and a tea room.
Tricked-Out Gloves: In "Practice Makes Princess", Penny makes electric gloves so that Bea can practice playing the guitarpsichord before her big performance. The gloves will be used by Rita so that she can mimic her perfect playing during practice. It starts out pretty well, but then Fussy plays with the gloves, causing Bea to move around without her consent.
Trickster Mentor: This can describe Headmistress Miranda Melon in a way. She genuinely looks out for others, and values people who put others first. With that said, she isn't afraid to really challenge the characters to see the lengths they go to in order to help out others. You see this in "Princess Eco-Chase", with how she has things like raining blueberries and coconut obstacles that act as a penalty to the main characters.
True Beauty Is on the Inside:
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", Rita tries making her mother Queen Ryung look great for her royal portrait, and has her friends do her royal duties. Unfortunately, when things devolve into chaos because of Rita telling everybody to deal with it, she regrets masking things worse, and helps fix them. This results in Queen Ryung getting leaves and branches in her hair. Rita then sees that she should paint her portrait this way because of how she wants to show what a true queen is, someone who helps others even when it's messy. She wants her inner beauty as a person to shine through regardless of outer beauty.
- Queen Olivia brings up this idea in "Princess Crown Coverup". When Rita notices how she doesn't have crown jewels on her head, she says how she couldn't find them, but doesn't mind. She tells Rita how she doesn't mind not wearing the crown jewels for the same reason that she helped her, with said reason being that she could tell how she's a good person on the inside.
True Blue Feminity: Bea plays with this trope. She embraces her feminity just as much as her friends. However, she's also a Tomboy Princess who likes taking on any physical challenge.
True Companions: The four princesses are definitely best friends for life with how they always stick together and support each other no matter what.
Trying Not to Cry: In "Princess Bon Voyage", after Kira says how she'll miss Karina when she leaves, the other princesses call this moment beautiful and nearly cry. Fussy is almost shown crying, but she tries to play it off as nothing too big.
Turned Against Their Masters: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Captain Reginald reprograms Penny's robot to serve him, and attack the princesses.
Turn the Other Cheek: A very common element to the show is that characters can do bad things, but if there's a sense of good intentions, or if they at least make up for it, then all is forgiven:
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", despite Queen Bussyboots asking Fussy to simplify the tea party, which results in complete chaos, everyone forgives her. This is a better example than most given how she does apologize to Penny for interfering, and shows genuine regret.
- In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", nobody has any negative feelings towards Headmistress Miranda Melon for posing as the monster terrorizing the Dragonfruit fruitdom given how she wanted to help the princesses connect, and nobody got hurt.
Twisted Ankle: In "The Missing Princess", Rita accidentally sprains her ankle when she jumps after a goat to get her glitter glue back.
Twofer Token Minority: Rita eventually becomes this given how she's an Asian girl (with the raspberry and orange fruitdoms being the show's equivalent of South Korean and Indian cultures) with two mothers.

U-Z

Uncle Pennybags: While this can describe the princesses overall, it's more shown with Rita. She's very wealthy and loves the rich lifestyle, yet is also friendly and approachable.
Undying Loyalty: The princesses are shown to be incredibly loyal to each other, and will do anything to help each other out. It's best shown in episodes like "The Missing Princess" (where they do whatever is possible to find Rita) or in "Princesses Seas The Day" ( where they put the crystal key quest on hold to help Kira find Karina because of how they see her as a sister).
Unexpected Kindness: In "Princesses Seas The Day", Captain Reginald is confused by the princesses trying to save his crew despite being captured by them. As Bea says, princesses do things to help people no matter what. This sets up his Heel–Face Turn later on.
Unexpectedly Dark Episode: "Princess Friends Un-Forever" leans into this more given the heated interpersonal conflict within the Princess Pack, as well as the threat of a rampaging monster.
The Unintelligible: Mr. Scrumples only speaks in squeaks, which Kira understands.
Uninvited to the Party: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia says that while the princesses can stay at her fruitdom for the night, they can't come to the Dragonfruit Festival. She then invites them to the party when they save her fruitdom from the monster.
Universal Remote Control: Remotes in this world are capable of doing a lot, such as Penny and Kira using them to literally move the plot along in "The Princesses And The Bees" and "Princess Campout Stakeout", Rita using it to turn on a song in "Princess Royal Wedding", and both Penny and Delia using one to trap the monster in "Princess Friends Un-Forever".
Unlimited Wardrobe: With Rita being a fashionista, she would naturally have plenty of beautiful clothes. Among the regular outfits she's shown using, there are 2 mission outfits with pants, 1 outfit for the beach, and 2 gowns with raspberries in different positions.
Unmanly Secret: A gender flipped variant happens with Bea in the book "Princess Bea's Pony Parade". She tries hiding from her friends that she's afraid of riding Bernie the horse since she doesn't want to be seen as a coward given how she's usually brave about taking on any challenge. After confessing, they then tell her that it's okay to be afraid since everyone has fears, and that doesn't make her weak.
Unsuccessful Pet Adoption: In the book "Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee", Kira tries to adopt a bunny named Binky, but Queen Katia says that she can't keep her since she already has 2 pets. She then tries to give Binky to her friends, but Bea is allergic to bunnies, Rita's sparkly outfits scare her, and Penny's cat Fussy is jealous of her. She's finally adopted by Karina.
Unusual Euphemism: Kira says "Bee Stings!" whenever she's not happy with something bad or unfortunate that happened. It's basically "Dang it!".
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A few examples show up at times:
- At the end of "Unstoppable Unpoppable Princesses", Great Aunt Bussyboots sees all the princesses in Penny's room, which is even messier than ever. Despite this, she doesn't find this too unusual. The only thing she takes issue with is the pelican sitting on Penny's boots with his boots on.
- Kira gets three notable moments with this:
  - In "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors", when the sentient pineapple makes their presence known, she actually fawns over them due to thinking that they're adorable.
  - In "The Perfect Princess Welcome", Kira welcomes a young chef named Cyrus to the kiwi fruitdom. He's shown to have a spatula named Spatchy, who's just a spatula with a face drawn on him. She just takes it in stride and greets him anyway.
  - In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", when Ariel introduces her avocado, Abe, this understandably makes Bea confused while Kira just says how there's an avocado that needs help.
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", Queen Alana acts slightly surprised at seeing dancing animals, but doesn't do anything other than show amusement.
Vacuum Mouth: Penny's robot Hermie can either suck up or blow out all sorts of large objects, as shown with these two examples:
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", when she accidentally turns his dial to danger zone, he sucks up some of the raspberry bushes.
- In "Princesses And The Beanstalk", when she tries getting him to water the sparkleseed from above, one of the things he blows out is a table.
Vague Age: It's a bit hard to tell how old the princesses are. They seem to be written to be like young teenagers given the extra emphasis on responsibility for others and the witty fourth wall-breaking that's not usually seen in preschool shows. Comments from some of the characters, like Rita (where she says how she doesn't want to let the Raspberrian kids down in Princess Creation Station) and Penny (where she says how she's practically still a kid in Princess Babysitter's Club) seem to add to this. The attitudes of characters like Kira (who often tends to be rather mature) and Bea (who has the energy of a sporty teenager) also add to this. However, you also get episodes like Princess All Nighter (which has Bea being nervous about going to her first sleepover, something usually shown more for younger kids) and "The Princess's Speech" (where Kira is nervous about giving her big speech, something also usually shown more with younger kids). Not helping things is this interview with showrunner Elise Allen, where she outright calls the princesses kids. It's particularly noticeable in an episode like "Princess Royal Wedding" (which she wrote), where Rita says how she has the authority as a princess to marry her mother Queen Ryung, and her soon-to-be mother Queen Olivia.
Very Special Episode: "Princess Soccer Spectacular" deals with Rita trying to make a blind girl named Sena more inclusive in a football game, but she acts rather insensitively towards her.
Vibrant Orange: The children that are related to Queen Olivia (her daughter Omera, and her niece and nephew Oraida and Oliver) are definitely this given how they're all from the orange fruitdom, and are very energetic and sweet.
Vine Swing: In "Princess Bridge Over Troubled Water", Rita uses her vine like ropes to help everyone move to each atoll.
Vine Tentacles: The sentient pineapple from "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" has vines extending from their body that lets them grab anything.
Virtuous Bees: Buzzby, a bee that Kira befriends in "The Princesses And The Bees", is helpful towards the girls in sniffing out good scents.
Visual Pun: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Rita asks Velvet to make a dress, which he does. Rita then says "Polka dots on plaid!", which she usually says when something bad has happened. It's quite literal here since he genuinely made a polka dotted dress with plaid, and isn't too pleased with it.
Vocal Dissonance: Kira's hamster Mr. Scrumples has high pitched squeaks, but he has a deep singing voice.
Vocal Evolution: Some of the voice actresses' performances for the princesses definitely sound different from the start of the show until the end:
- It's noticeable with Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, the voice of Rita. Since she was born in 2009, and thus the youngest of the main cast, her voice was definitely more high-pitched early on. While still high energy, her voice does deepen a bit later on, around the time of "Princess Royal Wedding". It's more pronounced through the younger character Minji, who she also voices, with her voice during her final 2 speaking appearances sounding rather similar to her early performance as Rita.
- Madison Calderon, the voice of Bea, is on the opposite end. Since she's the oldest of the show's voice cast, being born in 2006, Bea already sounded more like an older kid. By the time of "Princess Babysitter's Club", she sounds a bit deeper, more like a young teenager.
The Voice:
- Two shorts in this video do this to the princesses due to mainly focusing on the pets. In the first short, we only hear Bea's voice as she acts like an announcer due to Fussy trying to get a tart from the top shelf. Penny briefly shows up at the end. In the second short, which is at 1:39, we only hear Penny and Kira's voices as they talk about how Fussy and Mr. Scrumples differ from each other.
- "Princess Eco-Chase" briefly does this with Headmistress Miranda, where only her voice is heard in The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets as she announces the final event.
Walkie-Talkie Gag, Over: "How To Be A Princess" has Lila using a shoe boomerang as a walkie talkie so that she can throw it and get the princesses to help her save someone stranded in the ocean.
Wall Crawl: In "Princess Eco-Chase", when Bea asks Kira how she can use her animal skills to get the sparkleseeds down from the cave wall in The Cave Of Sparkleseed Secrets, she says how Mr. Scrumples can grab them since he's good with climbing.
Was Too Hard on Him: In "Princess Royal Wedding", Kira and Penny gently tell Rita how she was a bit too hard on Omera when she accidentally vents out how she ruined everything.
Watch for Rolling Objects:
- In "Princess Royal Portrait", Kira attempts to roll Rita's giant beehive from "Princesses And The Bees" by herself. Unfortunately, it ends up rolling away and causing problems when she accidentally trips on a rock.
- In "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses", Great Aunt Bussyboots asks Fussy to secretly simplify Penny's tea party for Queen Alana. One way she does that is by sabotaging Kira and Mr. Scrumples' teenykin dance show. The result is him rolling on a pineapple on the table.
Wedding Episode: "Princess Royal Wedding" is about the wedding between Rita's mother Queen Ryung, and her soon-to-be mother Queen Olivia.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: It's not uncommon for episodes to primarily focus on the princesses trying to please their parents, like Bea pleasing her fathers in "Practice Makes Princess" or "Princess Processional Professional".
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Headmistress Miranda genuinely wants the Princess Pack to succeed at getting into Princess Adventure Academy, but she can sometimes do so in extreme ways. "Princess Friends Un-Forever" best shows this with how she poses as a monster to get the girls to work with Delia.
We Need a Distraction:
- In "Princess Surprise Party", the girls try to keep Bea's early birthday party a surprise from her until it's ready. This becomes a problem when they have to rescue someone stranded on a boat in the ocean, which turns out to be the birthday musician. In order to buy some time for Rita and Penny to hide her, Kira has Mr. Scrumples throw some teenykin food into the air in order to get pelicans to stop Bea to see what's going on.
- "Princess Crown Coverup" has Queen Olivia distract Queen Ryung by pretending to lose her glasses (which she doesn't have) so that Rita and the others can sneak into the palace undetected and get the glue off.
What Are Records?: It's averted here. Episodes like "Princess Punchbowl Feastival" and "Princess Surprise Party" show the characters openly using records without questioning what they are.
What Is This Feeling?: In "Princess Friends Un-Forever", Delia becomes friendlier after her Heel–Face Turn, and is quite surprised about how good she feels working with others.
What's Up, King Dude?: The princesses don't mind interacting with the regular fruitizens on a more personal level. It's best shown through Rita, with how she's regularly there for Ara and Minji in episodes like "Princess Creation Station" and "Princess Campout Stakeout".
What the Hell, Hero?: A few instances of this stand out:
- In "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco", when Kira finds out that the freak snowstorm that happened in the kiwi fruitdom was because of an accident caused by Penny, Bea, Fussy, and Hermie, she's absolutely shocked at this. She yells at them for undermining all the hard work of the Kiwi-ans. Given how she tends to be rather mature and level-headed, this stands out.
- In "Princess Donation Distress", Rita is reluctant to give away her things during a lemon fruitdom giveaway. She intends to alleviate the situation by telling the dignitaries to take anything from the island that's not from her table. She meant that they should take things from her friends' tables, but they, unfortunately, take things that aren't from the tables, such as Penny's plane, Kira's kiwi kit, and Bea's zipline zapper. They are understandably upset at this.
When She Smiles: When Delia Dragonfruit is first introduced in "Princess Eco-Chase", she maintains a smug and haughty attitude when smiling because of her pride. When she shows up again in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", it's initially the same, but then she genuinely becomes a better person and pulls a Heel–Face Turn. Her last scene shows her smiling warmly because of how she has friends now.
When Trees Attack: "Little Shop Of Princess Horrors" follows this idea. Penny creates a growth spray to make a pineapple grow so that she can make more pineapple dishes for the baking contest. The result is a giant, sentient pineapple that goes around causing quite the disturbance.
Who Is Driving?: In "Fussy And Scrumples Princess Adventure", the girls hug each other when they see a sign about where their pets are. However, Kira then asks who's steering the Punchbowl Seahouse boat. Seeing that no one is steering it, it goes out of control.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: "The Princesses And The Bees" and "The Princess's Speech" show that Bea is very nervous around bees.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: While it's generally true for the princesses, both Rita and Penny show this in "Princess Friends Un-Forever", where they think that Delia is still worth working with despite her smug behavior.
Wild Teen Party: The short at 7:15 shows this. Fussy, Mr. Scrumples, and all sorts of animal characters are having a dance party at Punchbowl Treehouse at night. Kira comes in, and it looks like she's about to scold them for breaking the rules. She actually comes to ask why she wasn't invited before telling Fussy to start up the music again.
Wimp Fight: A one sided example happens from Fussy's end in the episode"Princess Farmer's Market". The recurring pelican, who's friendly and harmless yet also incredibly dimwitted, tries to get some of the fruits from the net on Penny's plane. As such, Fussy tries to slap him away.
Windmill Scenery: All the fruitdoms have windmills, but they're shown more in the blueberry fruitdom.
Winds of Change:
- In "Princess Garden Party", Karina still attempts to have the garden party despite Kira telling her about the upcoming storm. Things take a turn for the worse when a sudden wind gust blows her crown off her head. As if that wasn't enough, that's her and Kira's great grandmother's crown that she's supposed to wear when she becomes queen in the future.
- In "The Princess's Speech", Bea attempts to cure Kira's hiccups by scaring her with a hang gliding trip, but she finds it exciting. She's then cured of her hiccups by an unexpected gust of wind that makes them fall off, which gave her a good enough scare.
Wise Beyond Their Years: While all the princesses show this to an extent due to being seen as legitimate authority figures by others, it's more prominent in Kira due to how she's usually the one to give advice when others need it, and generally acts very mature about it.
World Tour: The remaining episodes of season 3 have the girls traveling to other locations, whether new locations in familiar places or other fruitdoms, to complete the Crystal Key Quest.
Worth It: During the second part of the competition in "Princess Eco-Chase", Bea tries really hard to get the flags from the windmill despite the penalty for not working together. She says it would be worth it to get them anyway, and that the penalty would be for a bit. Of course, she later sees that she should work with her friends when she struggles to get them on her own.
"X" Marks the Spot: The first clue from the treasure map in "I Dig Being A Princess" involves trying to find an X in the blueberry fruitdom mountains. Bea eventually sees it when she's on her hang glider since the X is made of rocks that can only be seen from above.
Yellow Is Cheerful: Penny is definitely this given how she's from the pineapple fruitdom, and is often in a good mood.
You Are Not Alone: At the beginning of "Princesses Seas The Day", Kira thinks about leaving the final Crystal Key Quest because of Karina being in danger, and she doesn't want to hold her friends back from getting into Princess Adventure Academy. They then say that they're with her all the way because of all they've been through and how Karina means a lot to them too.
You Are Not Ready: The plot of "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation" has the princesses try to prove that they can take on more responsibility and be coronated princesses when they're told by their parents to not help out in dealing with the seed silo damage.
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
- In "How To Be A Princess", Lila Lemon runs off because of how she messed up too many times. Unfortunately, she accidentally leaves the princesses trapped in the giant string ball. Kira says how that at least Fussy can get them out of this. When seeing that she's asleep, she and Bea both let out annoyed facial expressions.
- Fussy has this reaction in "Princesses And The Beanstalk". Since she doesn't want to go with the princesses up the beanstalk, Penny says how she can stay behind and clean up the mess that was made. Seeing that she's generally lazy, and this would be a lot of effort, her reaction is that of annoyance.
You Just Had to Say It: Penny basically says this in "The Princesses And The Beanstalk". She and Rita are in the giant teacup while trying to help Hermie water the sparkleseed. Unfortunately, he malfunctions, and causes a big mess. As Rita wonders what he'll do next, he then lets out a table, promoting Penny to say "You just had to ask."
You Mean "Xmas": The Kiwi Tricentennial from "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" feels very much like Christmas. The decorations, while purple, look similar to Christmas decorations in real life. There's strong emphasis on good will towards others and caring for those in need, which Kira very much embodies. Plus, with the kiwi fruitdom still snowed in, it looks like a literal white Christmas. The girls finding the kiwis still being despite the cold shows the sense of good will from the fruitizens, much like a Christmas miracle. The ending also shows a parade similar to a real life Christmas parade.
Young and in Charge: This can definitely apply to the four main princesses given how they're often tasked with responsibilities and tasks usually associated with adults. Episodes like "Bussyboots And The Four Princesses" and "Princess Royal Wedding" show how Penny and Rita respectively can take on tasks like hosting tea parties and officiating ceremonies.
Young Entrepreneur: Cyrus can be considered this given how he's a kid that runs the lemon cafe in the kiwi fruitdom.
Your Makeup Is Running: The beginning of "Princess Lights Out" has Karina tell Kira that she couldn't put her makeup on properly since the power went out. Kira doesn't really see much problem with her appearance, but still tries being considerate.
You Wake Up on a Beach: In "Four Fruitdom Princess Coronation", the girls land on a beach when the Punchbowl Seahouse gets caught in some pretty rough waters. Kira is the first to wake up, and immediately asks if everyone else is okay.

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