History Main / ProducePelting

* During a tour in London in their vaudeville days, the Creator/MarxBrothers were booed and pelted with pennies. Groucho allegedly asked the audience to throw shillings instead.

* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', the Blues Brothers perform in a country bar to a crowd that doesn't appreciate their normal style of music, which they express by throwing empty beer bottles at them and booing. The band then changes their style to something the crowd likes (the ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'' theme and Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man"), which they express by cheering -- and throwing more beer bottles. Thankfully, the band is protected by a chicken-wire fence, indicating this is a normal occurrence.

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': [[PlayedForHorror Played for Horror]] when [[MiscarriageOfJustice Monokuma wrongfully executed and]] [[MetronomicManMashing brutally tortured Kaede to death by hanging by her by a rope and smashing her entire body rapidly]] on a big spiky thorny piano, bruising her to death, [[DeaderThanDead and destroying her mutilated corpse afterwards]].

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': [[PlayedForHorror Played for Horror]] when [[MiscarriageOfJustice Monokuma wrongfully executed and]] [[MetronomicManMashing brutally tortured Kaede to death by hanging by her by a rope and smashing her entire body rapidly]] on a [[big spiky thorny piano, bruising her to death, [[DeaderThanDead and destroying her mutilated corpse afterwards]].

* A [[PlayedForDrama non-comedic example]] happens to [[{{Tearjerker}} an unlucky Quasimodo]] in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.

* "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth":

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4612714/8/Knowledge-is-Power Knowledge Is Power]]'' an irate crowd covers Minister Fudge in conjured tomatoes.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12876801/1/Nothing-Stays-The-Same Nothing Stays The Same]]'' after [[BrokenPedestal Dumbledore's misdeeds are posthumously discovered]], his portrait is set up in one magical area after another [[LastDisrespects so that people can throw fruit and veggies at it]].

* Week 14 of the 2001 NFL season, the 6-6 Cleveland Browns hosted the 4-8 Jacksonville Jaguars trying to stay alive for a playoff spot. Late in the 4th quarter, the Browns are down 15-10 but were driving for the go-ahead touchdown. On a 4th-and-2 at the Jacksonville 12, Browns QB Tim Couch throws a three-yard pass to WR Quincy Morgan for an apparent first down, then the Browns hurry to spike the ball and stop the clock as Morgan had been tackled in-bounds. Couch spikes the ball, but then the head referee Terry [=McAulay=] announces that the catch to Morgan was being reviewed by instant replay.[[note]]Under NFL rules, once the next play has taken place, under no circumstances can any previous play be reviewed (in the case, Couch's spike would have been "the next play"), but [=McAulay's=] explanation was that he was buzzed by the replay official (the only one allowed to initiate a replay review with less than 2:00 left in the 4th quarter) before Couch's spike.[[/note]] Upon further review the call was overturned, and the Browns turned the ball over on downs. TheDawg Pound was incensed by the apparent jobbing by the refs and threw plastic beer bottles and other objects onto the field, causing the refs to declare the game over for safety reasons with 48 seconds left - NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue overrode the decision and brought the teams back out for two Mark Brunell kneel-downs to make the game official about 20 minutes later, still under a hail of debris from angry Browns fans.

* Subverted in general when it comes to ice hockey -- hats are traditionally thrown onto the ice out of respect by fans after a player scores his third goal in a game (i.e. a hat-trick). And let's not forget [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Octopus the octopus in Detroit]] (which Nashville followed with [[http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nhl/predators/2017/04/17/predators-catfish-return-bridgestone-arena-nhl-playoffs-blackhawks/100568588 catfish]], given their logo is [[PantheraAwesome a sabretooth tiger]]). Though ever since the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_trick "Year of the Rat"]], where Florida Panthers fans used to throw toy mice on ice with each goal (since the opening game had a player killing a rat on the dressing room before scoring two winning goals) -- reaching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnHpaVW53SM absurd levels]] on the finals -- the NHL was forced to change the rules regarding debris onto the ice, which could even ensure in penalties for the home team.

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* For a while, it was a tradition in music festivals set in Brazil -- most notable case being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzusee-rHcg Carlinhos Brown being pelted with water bottles]] at 2001's Rock in Rio III, both for [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible his music]] not pleasing the audience and Brown asking the organizers to stop spraying said audience with hoses (a solution to counter the scorching summer weather), [[LaserGuidedKarma leading to an increasingly disgruntled and sweaty crowd to take their rage on who made their experience worse]].

* In a RunningGag on ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'', whenever the horror host makes a [[IncrediblyLamePun particularly bad joke]], he gets pelted with rubber chickens.

* In the Volume 2 opener of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Team RWBY and JNPR are eating together and Nora Valkyrie is throwing grapes for Yang Xiao Long to catch in her mouth. After Yang gives the truly atrocious pun "I always start my semester off with a ''Yang''!", Nora throws a tomato which hits her square on the nose. [[FoodFight Things escalate from there]]. [[MundaneMadeAwesome A lot]].

* In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', as the team heads to the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Northern Crater]] to confront Sephiroth, Cloud announces that they will "make Sephiroth's dream of becoming a god his... ''final fantasy''. He is immediately attacked with tomatoes for such an IncrediblyLamePun. At the very least, his tomato-plastered menu portrait sporting a DreamworksFace smirk shows it was totally WorthIt.

* In ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'', Drew gets pelted with food twice: once in "No Business Like Show Business", when the boys throw food at him during his Shakespearean soliloquy, and once in "Campfire Emblem Awake-ening", when his teammates pelt him with marshmallows.

* ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'' reports that throwing produce is merely a more primitive version of the [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Staple_gun Staple Gun]].

* In ''[[http://deluded-musings.fanficauthors.net/The_Band/The_Band The Band]]'' Ron and Harry start a band. At their first and only school performance they're showered with conjured fruit.

* In Mel Gibson's ''Film/ThePatriot'', Benjamin Martin tests the suitability of potential recruits by walking into a rough tavern and shouting "God Save King George!" The patrons immediately hurl things at him (including a giant knife). Martin says, "This is the place."

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': In "Joker's Wild" the fans at the Gotham Giants football game start throwing their drinks and food at the Jumbotron when Joker has the hacker he kidnapped hack in so he can disrupt the game while delivering his demands to the city. (For the curious weather or not Gotham has a pro-football team is up to the writers' whims, though they always have a baseball team, the Knights.)

* Woodstock 99, one of the [[TroubledProduction most troublesome festivals ever]], had many cases of flying bottles -- which were one of the things making people angry, given the place was scorching hot and yet water cost $4. Reportedly, it started with Music/KidRock asking the crowd to start tossing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcGePEaf8o#t=150s anything "that can't hurt each other" as his show ended]] (says something that once things start flying, Joe C. yells "what the fuck?"), and are very visible in Music/TheOffspring's concert, as just after calling out how bad people are behaving, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvUtICNugM#t=180s the singer is hit in his face!]]
* Music/{{Yes}} keyboardist Music/RickWakeman was so displeased with Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}' album art proposal for the upcoming ''Yes Tor'' album, that he threw a tomato at the artwork. The effect was [[ThrowItIn incorporated into the artwork]] and the album was dubbed ''Tormato''.

* Music/BarenakedLadies had this problem in their live performances of "If I Had a Million Dollars"; during the verse "We wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinners," audience members would throw boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese at them. The band would discourage this practice by placing donation boxes for local food banks at their concerts and encouraging fans to place their Kraft Dinners instead.

* Music/BarenakedLadies had this problem in their live performances of "If I Had a Million Dollars"; during the verse "We wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinners," audience members would throw boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese at them.

* In ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare Touched!]]'', after thwarting a chase by her musical rival Vanessa, Mona performs at a concert only to run off when she remembers she has pizzas to deliver. Vanessa takes the opportunity to dress as Mona and get on stage claiming to be her, but the audience isn't fooled because of her green hair and purple outfit and throw garbage at her.
* in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', random [=NPCs=] will throw rotten fruits at your character the first time you visit Stormwind or Orgrimmar as a Death Knight.
** The advent of the Brawler's Guild in ''Mists of Pandaria'' allowed players to become the pelters. Throwing cheap vendor bought objects at other players as they fought, or at [=NPC=] spectators, complete with achievements for pelting rowdy spectators.

* In a ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' [[http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2003-06-03 filler strip]], Dan, feeling sick, decides to phone-in a comic update. According to the very LongTitle, the readers get enraged by the extremely low quality and throw fruits and vegetables at him. Ironically, this ends up providing him with the nutrition to recover but also some ends up going up his nose resulting in going on sick leave for 6 months.