History Main / SmashingWatermelons

* Another variation can be seen from time to time on the [[https://www.youtube.com/@KentuckyBallistics Kentucky Ballistics]] Website/YouTube channel, which features a former Kentucky state trooper shooting all kinds of CoolGuns at various targets. One of the channel's signature segments sees the host interrupted by an alarm clock whose face reads "Watermelon Time", immediately followed by a cut to a slow-mo video of him saying "It's watermelon time!" and shooting watermelons with the featured weapon. One example starts at the 9:35 mark of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsX23WuqP2U this video]].

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'', [[MsFanservice Layer]] gets a bikini alternate skin. One of her standard attacks is called "Water Melon Slice", which is basically the same as her normal one but with [[MakingASplash water elemental damage]]. She actually smashes a watermelon in her character selection animation, and funnily enough, you can also give a watermelon skin to Chill Penguin as a boss to take it to even more literal levels.

* In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' [[http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?action=view&t=pic&id=1496&pid=35604 the watermelon]] says [[CatchPhrase "Don't open it!"]]

Not to be confused with the band Music/TheSmashingPumpkins — but it ''is'' the stunt that dead-ended Creator/{{Gallagher}}'s comedy career.

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* In the JustifiedTutorial in ''Call of Duty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', you must smash a watermelon with your knife as part of melee training.

* A variation can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMoSAy3PdI this video]] on the WebVideo/HydraulicPressChannel, in which the creator Lauri Vuohensilta rigs a hydraulic press to create a jet of water that easily tears through a watermelon.

* A variation can be seen from time to time on the [[https://www.youtube.com/@KentuckyBallistics Kentucky Ballistics]] Website/YouTube channel, which features a former Kentucky state trooper shooting all kinds of CoolGuns at various targets. One of the channel's signature segments sees the host interrupted by an alarm clock whose face reads "Watermelon Time", immediately followed by a cut to a slow-mo video of him saying "It's watermelon time!" and shooting watermelons with the featured weapon. One example starts at the 9:35 mark of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsX23WuqP2U this video]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''. In episode 8 of Gelato Beach, you can smash giant watermelons for coins.

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* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'': The Karin-dou four hold one at their PocketDimension beach after Tamaryu gives a watermelon to Seren as a peace offering. For some reason, they hand the bat to [[SuperStrongChild Tamaryu]], who promptly [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength rends the watermelon into a fine pink mist]].

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* In the Ova of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' where The Academy students go to a beach for their summer trip, along with Siesta, Henrietta, and Agnès. [[DirtyOldMan Headmaster Osmond]] asks the girls to put on the "traditional uniforms for the ritual for the spirit of water". The girls change into one piece swimsuits, then bikinis, as they perform the "rituals": one of them is smashing watermelon.

* ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'': While Yuuto and Haruka try to teach Shiina to swim at the school pool, the side characters suddenly turn up for no reason and act like they're at the beach. A watermelon is produced, NinjaMaid Hazuki is blindfolded and given a baseball bat, and she promptly breaks the bat trying to hit Yuuto.

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In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanworks that feature the resident oni ''Suika'' Ibuki, sometimes with a pun about going to smash or fight Suika.

* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'': 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 too bad it was the one sitting next to Kaname, [[OhCrap spraying her with watermelon juice even though she chose her swimsuit specifically to show off to him]]. She's [[BatterUp not]] [[SparklingStreamOfTears amused]].
** In the first ''FMP'' series HandsomeLech Kurz Weber starts hitting on Kaname at the beach whereupon Melissa Mao forcibly plants a watermelon on top of his head. Then Kyoko comes up and [[HumiliationConga hits it with a stick]].

* ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'': During the BeachEpisode, Shinichi is roped into doing this, and while blindfolded Hana decides to mess with him by giving him videogame codes rather than directing him properly. [[LaserGuidedKarma It backfires on her]] when Shinichi, fed up with her antics, tries to reach out with his hands (still blindfolded) and [[SuggestiveCollision falls on top of her]], [[ThanksForTheMammary getting a handful of]] [[GagBoobs a different kind of melon]].

%%* ''VideoGame/FruitNinja''

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime''; in the "Slime Diaries" spinoff's BeachEpisode, Rimuru sets up a melon and has Shion take the first swing. Shion uses an extra sense she normally uses to detect Rimuru when he's in slime form, then summons her {{BFS}} before making the strike. The result is a massive crater where the melon used to be and all the others covered in small bits of melon while Shion looks around in confusion.

[[folder:Fan Works]]] in ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' fanworks that feature the resident oni ''Suika'' Ibuki, sometimes with a pun about going to smash or fight Suika.

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#Someone else (usually the UnluckyEverydude) is buried up to his neck in sand, and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck the watermelon is placed next to him]].

* In ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort'', it's part of the Speed Splice level.

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* [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts?page=1&tags=suikawari++ibuki_suika+ A common gag]] in ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' fanworks that feature the resident oni ''Suika'' Ibuki, sometimes with a pun about going to smash or fight Suika.

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** Ranma was once forced to participate in a [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Watermelon Splitting]] contest, in which the participants must race to the finish line with their watermelon intact to win, while trying to break each others watermelons with a bokken.
** Tatewaki Kuno once turned this game into TrainingFromHell. He stood under a waterfall on the originally named Watermelon Island, and smashed every watermelon that fell off the waterfall towards him. A watermelon to the head gave him EasyAmnesia, but the training worked - whenever he saw a watermelon, his speed and strength would increase tenfold, allowing him to easily defeat his rival Ranma, who was unfortunately wearing a watermelon-print bathing suit. His new watermelon-slicing skills also made him a hit with ladies. He retained the skill afterward, but his training is a subliminal conditioning to destroy ''watermelons''. [[CongruentMemory It's absolutely useless unless his opponent is holding or otherwise resembling a watermelon]], something that Ranma is well aware of. In fact, Kuno himself '''knows''' that the Watermelon Island training is useless for combat -- he never intended for it to be any use in combat (being so egotistic that he already considers himself unbeatable): he wanted to upgrade his talents at slicing watermelons in order to impress girls, particularly Ranma's girl-form.

* In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' there is actually a story where Lum, Ataru, Mendo and Shinobu try to acquire a watermelon to play the game, only the townsfolk of the town they are in refuses to sell them due to their fear of the wrath of the local Watermelon God. The group wind up pissing off the Melon God anyway, and it turns out that its terrible wrath is [[BulletSeed spitting watermelon seeds at the people who angered it]].

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%%* ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}''.

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* The game was played backstage at The Ice 2012 and filmed by Alex and Maia Shibutani for their vlog channel. Variation 3 occurred when Creator/YuzuruHanyu cleaved the melon in half in one hit. While he's a LivingLegend figure skater rather than a master swordsman, Website/YouTube commenters pointed out that his great spatial awareness enabled him to do this.

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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', Chien-Po actually uses a pair of watermelons for "breasts" to complete his disguise. He then takes the two watermelons out and smashes it against a pair of the Huns' faces.
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* One of the minigames of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesHajimariNoKiseki'' is this trope with the men of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Class VII]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki SSS]] splitting the watermelon at the beach of Mishelam while the rest of the crowd all cheer on.

** Tatewaki Kuno once turned this game into TrainingFromHell. He stood under a waterfall on the originally named Watermelon Island, and smashed every watermelon that fell off the waterfall towards him. A watermelon to the head gave him EasyAmnesia, but the training worked - whenever he saw a watermelon, his speed and strength would increase tenfold, allowing him to easily defeat his rival Ranma, who was unfortunately wearing a watermelon-print bathing suit. His new watermelon-slicing skills also made him a hit with ladies. He retained the skill afterward, but his training is a subliminal conditioning to destroy ''watermelons''. It's absolutely useless unless his opponent is holding or otherwise resembling a watermelon, something that Ranma is well aware of. In fact, Kuno himself '''knows''' that the Watermelon Island training is useless for combat -- he never intended for it to be any use in combat (being so egotistic that he already considers himself unbeatable): he wanted to upgrade his talents at slicing watermelons in order to impress girls, particularly Ranma's girl-form.