History Main / SmashingWatermelons

* The [[http://www.melonfest.com.au/ Melon Fest]] in Chinchilla, Australia, includes a number of melon-related games, including melon smashing. A regular fixture is an attempt by a local to smash as many melons as he can with his head in a minute (he holds the Guinness World Record in this regard).

* In the BeachEpisode of ''{{Bleach}}'' (episode 228), everyone fights a NaughtyTentacles monster, but it turns out that the monster is made of watermelon, and was part of a surprise watermelon smashing game.

A party game, usually in the BeachEpisode of Japanese media, where someone is blindfolded, given a large stick (possibly a wooden sword), and directed to smash/crack a watermelon.

* ''FullMetalPanic Fumoffu'': Sousuke's classmates try to set this up for him. He marches off some distance away, discards the wooden stick, and blows the watermelon away with a shotgun, [[ImprobableAimingSkills hitting it dead on]] but ComicallyMissingThePoint. As in, he not only complains that it's too simple, he also [[OhCrap sprays Kaname with watermelon juice even though she chose her swimsuit specifically to show off to him]]. She's [[BatterUp not]] [[SparklingStreamOfTears amused]].

* ''AzumangaDaioh'': In the first BeachEpisode, they don't have a stick and Tomo tries to split it with a karate chop. She never manages to hit it. The second time around, Tomo ignores that they have a bat, and Kagura takes the bat and splits the watermelon before Tomo can put everyone through the karate chop debacle again. Tomo whines about it for a bit afterwards, and Kagura tells her to grow up. In the manga's third one, they don't have a watermelon, and Tomo hunts desperately for ''something'' to smash.

* The [[http://www.melonfest.com.au/ Melon Fest]] in Chinchilla, Australia, includes a number of melon-related games, including melon smashing. A regular fixture is an attempt by a local to smash as many melons as he can with his head in a minute (he holds the Guinness World Record in this regard).

* Done in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', to show how utterly great is PrincessClassic Nia at everything.

* ''{{Air}}''

A party game, usually in the BeachEpisode, where someone is blindfolded, given a large stick (possibly a wooden sword), and directed to smash/crack a watermelon.

Similar to hitting a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinata pinata]] in Western culture, except without any goodies other than sandy watermelon.

* ''FullMetalPanic Fumoffu'': Sousuke's classmates try to set this up for him. He marches off some distance away, discards the wooden stick, and blows the watermelon away with a shotgun, [[ImprobableAimingSkills hitting it dead on]] but CompletelyMissingThePoint. As in, he not only complains that it's too simple, he also [[OhCrap sprays Kaname with watermelon juice even though she chose her swimsuit specifically to show off to him]]. She's [[BatterUp not]] [[SparklingStreamOfTears amused]].

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* ''HanaukyoMaidTai'' episode 9. Taro and the maids forget to play this during their BeachEpisode, so they do it while most of the mansion's maids have gone home on vacation. Security chief Konoe does a #3 multiple times.

Not to be confused with the band TheSmashingPumpkins, or one of the staple bits of Gallager's comedy act.

* Done several times in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]''.

* ''FruitNinja'': The TropeCodifier.

* ''FullMetalPanic Fumoffu'': Sousuke's classmates try to set this up for him. He marches off some distance away, discards the wooden stick, and blows the watermelon away with a shotgun, [[ImprobableAimingSkills hitting it dead on]] but CompletelyMissingThePoint.

* One of Sakura's power attacks in ''Pocket Fighter'' is to try this, with her opponent in the way.

Not to be confused with the band TheSmashingPumpkins.

* How could a page on smashing watermelons exist and ''not'' mention Gallagher and his Sledge-O-Matic?