oh, okay thanks. It may not be the original, but as I was reading it, it seemed to contain much more information than your first post about it did. When you say that the pieman probably couldn't be Strawberry's biological father, I tend to disagree with you. It could be possible. I mean think about it, not to get too of topic here, but in Starwars, when Vader found out that Luke was his son. All of a sudden, there have been many shows and movies about different people fighting each other and trying to avoid conflict, have had no idea that the people that they were fighting, seemed to be their family members, no matter if it was a father, mother, brother, sister, cousin, aunt, etc. I may want to go even as far as to say that maybe Strawberry and Angel cake could be sisters since their last names have the word cake in them; even though Angel is just cake, but Strawberry's is shortcake. I may want to say that Pieman may be the father of both Strawberry and Angel only because(remember, this is just what I think)
1. Even though, we don't see him in a lot of episodes, he is always in Strawberryland and besides Sour grapes, is the only adult that we have ever saw(Licorice Whip doesn't count because he was only ever in one episode when Strawberry and her friends were "younger" and I don't think he was useful for anything except trying to show how good of a villain(yea right!) he could be.
2. (This could go with reason 1, but I thought it would fit here) Even though he is always *cough, cough* causing or *cough, cough* trying to cause mischief, it seems he always has to wait for Strawberry to be near or in the "damage site" if you get my meaning, because he always wants to "best her." Take for example when she visited Caramel Corn at her farm. After she gets there, Strawberry learns that the animals are "mysteriously disappearing" When we(the viewers) hear this, we assume that the pieman is responsible, which he is, he is glad on what he is planning and then later on when he gets informed by his berry birds and sourgrapes that Strawberry is "in town" he automatically gets a huge boost to his ego, even though we may not catch on to it. The boost to his ego may or may not become more obvious when he comes to where the 2 girls are and then in an attempt to buy the farm, he pulls out a big wad of cash. Okay, changing directions for a second, where did he get that much money, if it was in fact that much money to begin with. I mean, hello? He and his sister drive a horse around everywhere they go, so this leads me to believe that he doesn't have a job. Also, Porcupine peek isn't seen and unless it is hidden in a remote part of Strawberryland and we just never get to see it and he keeps some money in this "porcupine peek" there is no way he could get all of those dollar bills and unless all of those dollar bills were $1 bills, I don't know what is going on. However, getting back to the topic that I was talking about, when Strawberry convinces Caramel Corn to not sell her farm to the pieman, the pieman's ego takes a bad hit and he gets upset about it which causes him to steal more of the animals and, unbeknownst to him, Strawberry, Custard, and Pupcake. Much later on, When Strawberry puts up the signs that tell everyone to come to the farm and pieman changes them, he hopes no one will see, but of course, Huck notices and he informs everyone. When he and Strawberry go to change the signs back to the right directions. The pieman urges Caramel Corn to hurry up and sell her farm and when she tells him that she still is not going to sell it to him because that would be giving up, the pieman, instead of keeping up the urging to get her to change her mind, stays quiet. When he is called out on changing the direction of the sings, he becomes embarrassed and his ego boost disappears. He may have gone away disgruntled that he "failed again" but I tend to think that there is something inside of him that wants Strawberry to foil his plans even though he never shows it. In fact, here is what I think about the whole ordeal. Pieman wants his plans to succeed and they always fail. But what if, when he was trying to pull off his evil plan, what if it wasn't a plan at all? What if he was just testing Strawberry to see if she could overcome his plans and prove herself that she could outwit him in a sense. It's just like a Master teaching a student. The master may give the student obstacles to overcome, but the master's main purpose is to see whether the student can succeed or fail. For instance, pieman could be the master and Strawberry is the learner. If Strawberry bests him, his reaction is, that berry girl is always ruining my plan, but in his head he may be thinking, "She was able to best me again? I've never met someone who always ends up foiling all of my plans. I'll just have to keep thinking of ways to try to throw her off guard. If Strawberry fails, the pieman would be happy and say, "Yes! that berry girl has finally lost to me and I am going to celebrate. However, in his head, he might say, "How is it possible that she lost to me? That never happens. Another good example of this would be when the pieman stuck Strawberry on that island with peppermint fizz. What if the pieman wanted to see if Strawberry could get off the island or not. If she was not able to, then he would win and get all the berries. If she got back, which we all know that she did, he would be upset, but in the back of his mind, he would be glad. So in a way, it's his own little way of saying, "I'm checking up on you to see how you and your friends are doing, but I don't want to make it obvious, so I have to come up with something to try to ruin your day. Maybe one of these days, you won't be able to stop me, but until you are able to stop me, I will examine your strategies whenever you do foil me so that I can review and see what I am doing wrong.