Line #120 Main/FruitOfTheLoon


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Even [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jake]] doesn't understand the point of the banana.[[note]]It's actually [[NauseaFuel demon poop]].[[/note]]]]
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4	->'''The Doctor:''' Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!\
5	'''Jack:''' Why not?!\
6	'''The Doctor:''' Good source of potassium!
7	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]"
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9	A character has a piece of fruit. There is no reason for them to ''have'' the fruit; they just do. Often, they are [[CloudCuckoolander an eccentric character]] and will pull out the [[StealthPun fruit]] whenever the moment is quite tense. It's a Fruit of the Loon, you see.
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11	This works extremely well with bananas (anyone can slip on a BananaPeel, and ''banana'' is an {{Inherently Funny Word\|s}}), but it also works with apples, oranges, kumquats, lemons, tangelos, pineapples and, in [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion one case]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_unshiu satsuma]].
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13	Compare TheSnackIsMoreInteresting.
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': When Spain lets Italy leave him during the Seven Years War, he pulls out a banana and says (how redundant), "nice bananas." Readers are still trying to figure out what that was about.
21	* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': The opening sequence features Hyatt [[EroticEating suggestively eating a banana]], having already thrown several peels on the ground, and Excel slipping on one of the peels. And the line of the theme song playing at that moment is even about slipping on {{banana peel}}s. This being ''Excel Saga'', all this is completely par for the course.
22	* ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
23	** In the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' WholePlotReference episode, bananas play a role, possibly a reference to the running BananaPeel gag.
24	** A minor recurring character also has a strong thing for oranges.
25	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Principal Kuno, who not only produces pineapples any time he can, but also has a small pineapple tree growing out of his head.
26	** Take note that some of these pineapples '''explode'''. He also seemed to have a thing for coconuts in his introductory story/episode.
27	* Evermary, who is more or less Haru's grandfather in ''Anime/RaveMaster'', breaks up a potential confession of love with the offer of an apple. Apples, in fact, are something Evermay loves so much that he once abducted a small child ([[spoiler:Gale]]) because the baby happened to have apple red cheeks.
28	* Kashitaro from ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' lives on the top of the mountain behind Juuren Village and has an apple tree he calls Saeko on there. He seems to be fond of apples, and RunningGag has him expressing his fetish to [[AssShove shove apples up the ass of women he likes]].
29	* [[AGodAmI God Eneru]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'' seems to be quite fond of fruit in general, including at one point eating an apple while he discuss with Nico Robin about the Golden Bell and its location. In ''Grand Adventure'', his taunt has him summoning an apple and noshing on it.
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33	* In Season 5 episode 22 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Headmaster Tele swears that if he sees weapons of any kind on the campus, he'll confiscate them. The frame then zooms out to show Kalo using his VoluntaryShapeshifting ability to turn his hand into a blade and... [[MundaneUtility slice a watermelon]] that he seemingly obtains from out of nowhere. Headmaster Tele, true to his word, then [[ExactWords literally confiscates Kalo]], along with his watermelon.
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37	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': The boys stuff their dresses with a variety of fruit, including... a banana.
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40	[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
41	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'': In the middle of chasing down the bad guys, the Hong Kong Cavaliers run through Buckaroo's lab. There is a watermelon in a vise. New Jersey stops, nonplussed, asks, "Why is there a watermelon there?" Reno replies, "I'll tell you later", and they immediately resume pursuit of the bad guys. It's never mentioned again.
42	** In the fanclub newsletter, it was revealed that (in story) they were developing watermelons which could be airdropped without parachutes into dangerous famine stricken areas. It was also hinted that the scene was filmed as a TakeThat directed at a meddling studio exec.
43	*** Further, in-story the effort was abandoned when someone at the Institute belatedly realized that watermelons that could be airdropped couldn't be cut open by anything short of industrial equipment.
44	** There is a direct ShoutOut to this scene in the ''[[TabletopGame/BattleTech [=BattleTech=]]]'' novel ''Warrior: Coupe''. In this case, the watermelon actually ends up accidentally saving a couple of researchers' lives by [[spoiler:triggering a loud alarm when vaporized by a stray laser shot and thus distracting their attacker for a couple of crucial moments. (Any significant disturbance would have done it -- the setup was originally intended as an object lesson to the overly curious.)]]
45	* ''Film/HorseFeathers'':
46	** In the Creator/MarxBrothers' classic, Harpo pulls a banana out of his pocket which has a zipper built into the peel. He eats a couple of bites; when called away, he re-zips the peel to save the rest of the fruit for later.
47	** Later on, he and Chico attend a class Groucho has commandeered - Chico leaves an apple on the desk, and Harpo leaves a watermelon. When Groucho breaks from his rambling nonsense lecture to ask if there are any questions, Chico asks "Yeah, when you gonna cut open the watermelon?"
48	* ''Film/LeonardPart6'' made a point of depicting the vegetarian villain look extra-crazy by having her always eating fruit while she ordered around her mooks and pursuing her wacky plans. Mind you, this is a food-obsessed movie anyway.
49	-->'''Medusa:''' Grape me!!
50	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
51	** Captain Barbossa is often seen carrying around and/or eating an apple (though his love of apples could stem from being unable to actually ''taste'' them for so long).
52	** In ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', when Jack is inspecting his new "crew" on the pier, he's holding a banana. It's never mentioned, it's not {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d or {{Hand Wave}}d, it's just... there.
53	*** The audio commentary doesn't explain it either, Creator/GoreVerbinski and Creator/JohnnyDepp simply going "The banana!" and then moving on. Could be an [[NoodleIncident inside joke]].
54	*** Sometimes a banana is just a banana.
55	*** Weirdly, as bananas as we now know them are NewerThanTheyThink (they were only produced by selective breeding in 1836) this is part of the AnachronismStew. Though hardly the most glaring.
56	*** Actually, the distinctive bright green 'Granny Smith' apple is even newer--1880s--though obviously apples generally have been around since ancient times.
57	* In the 1968 version of ''Film/TheProducers'', the character LSD pulls a banana seemingly out of nowhere after performing his audition and begins sucking his thumb. Where the banana came from in those skintight pants is best left unexplored. (To put things in a historical context, there was a rumor at the time that smoking banana peels had a hallucinogenic effect. LSD peeled the banana, threw the fruit away, and cuddled the peel like Linus with his blanket.)
58	* Mr. Smith in ''Film/ShootEmUp'' really likes carrots. He munches on them. He quotes Bugs Bunny. He shoves one through a bad guy's skull...
59	* Creator/WoodyAllen's futuramic ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' has him searching for food and coming across a farm where insanely large fruit is being grown. He picks a banana the size of a canoe, and when a guard runs up to catch him, the two slip repeatedly on the carpet-size banana peel.
60	* The Kobayashi Maru scene in ''Film/StarTrek2009'':
61	** Director's commentary reveals that Creator/ChrisPine "just looked so much cockier" whilst munching on an apple.
62	** This parallels a scene in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' where Kirk eats an apple as... he reminisces about the Kobayashi Maru. Apparently this was a complete coincidence.
63	* ''Film/TheMaidenHeist'': Creator/ChristopherWalken's character, Roger, is seen talking on the phone to one of his co-conspirators while holding a lemon for absolutely no reason. The directors' commentary states that Walken simply informed them, "I'm gonna do this scene holding a lemon" and they just went with it.
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67	* In Creator/RaymondEFeist's ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Riftwar]]'' sagas, the magician Nakor often pulls out an orange from his pack and offers it to people. Searches always find his bag empty, but he can pull out an orange anytime he wishes. This is later explained, but when you meet him, he appears to be a strange crazy man who offers you an orange, or if he doesn't like you, sits there eating one while ignoring or mocking you.
68	** For a period, he pulls apples instead. It's not by choice - it turns out his bag contains a permanent portal to the bottom of one of a specific fruit seller's bins. Though he seems fine with the free apples.
69	* In ''[[Literature/ASongofIceandFire A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Stannis Baratheon, parlaying with his younger brother Renly during the War of the Five Kings, sees him place his hand inside his cloak. Stannis goes for his sword only for Renly to reveal...a peach, which he then offers to Stannis. A confused Stannis refuses, to which Renly advises him to enjoy life's pleasures.
70	** Even after [[spoiler: Renly's death]], Stannis continues to be haunted by the memory of the peach.
71	-->Stannis: Renly offered me a peach. At our parley. Mocked me, defied me, threatened me, and offered me a peach. I thought he was drawing a blade and went for mine own. Was that his purpose, to make me show fear? Or was it one of his pointless jests? When he spoke of how sweet the peach was, did his words have some hidden meaning? Only Renly could vex me with a piece of fruit.
72	* In ''Literature/TheStand'', it's used for horror: When a woman tries to assassinate Randall Flagg, she finds that her concealed knife has turned into a banana.
73	* In ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, the protagonist, Fat Charlie, arrives on a small Caribbean island with no luggage, and as a result ends up checking into his hotel with nothing but a lime (after he tried too hard to sound interested in small talk). This leads to him being universally known on the island as "the man with the lime"; he ends up carrying it around constantly, and eventually [[spoiler: uses it instead of an engagement ring in an unusually dramatic WackyMarriageProposal.]]
74	* One Creator/DaveBarry column explained one way to take your pulse: get so drunk you can hear your pulse pounding in your head, and then go out and buy a stopwatch. If you find you're in a grocery store which doesn't sell stopwatches, an eggplant is fine, too.
75	-->'''You''': As any idiot can plainly see, I'm taking my pulse.\
76	'''Salesperson''': With an eggplant? Why don't you just squash your thumb against your artery like everybody else?\
77	'''You''' (''with great dignity''): If I wanted a squash, I would have selected a squash, wouldn't I? I'll take this eggplant, and make it snappy.
78	* The Eighth Doctor, in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novels, had a GuileHero double-act with his PluckyGirl {{sidekick}} Sam. One of their tricks invoked this trope -- he'd rush at an armed antagonist shouting, "Bangbangbangbangbang!" and waving a banana, pretending to fully and genuinely believe it's a gun (complete with Film/DirtyHarry reference -- "Well, to tell you the truth I think I’ve lost count, sorry about that. So you’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky... sir?"). While said antagonist boggled at his antics, Sam would steal said antagonist's gun.
79	--> He aimed the banana carefully, then raised it to his lips and blew across its barrel before peeling it.
80	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'';
81	** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna Lovegood]] usually wears earrings made of what look like orange radishes. They're actually Dirigible Plums, but still, fruits. On a more vegetative matter, it seems (at the Hog's Head) that her cocktail of choice includes a small onion attached to the stirrer.
82	** In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince sixth book]], while searching for a note she pulls out a Gurdyroot (a plant resembling a green onion) from her bag. Which she then gives to Ron.
83	* Alcatraz Smedry's [[Literature/AlcatrazSeries autobiography]] features a variant of this. Alcatraz inserts the word "rutabaga" into random places in the narration as part of his general campaign to persuade us that he's an evil person.
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87	* In ''Series/TheComicStripPresents'' episode "Strike", in the [[ShowWithinAShow spoof movie within the episode]], 'Meryl Streep' is seen peeling oranges in every one of her shots.
88	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a frequent invoker of this trope (see also under "Literature"):
89	** The Fifth Doctor consistently wore a piece of celery as a corsage. In this case, though, it had practical reasons, as explained in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "The Caves of Androzani"]]:
90	--->'''Peri:''' Why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?\
91	'''The Doctor:''' Why? Does it offend you? \
92	'''Peri:''' No, just curious.\
93	'''The Doctor:''' I'm allergic to certain gases in the Praxsis range of the spectrum.\
94	'''Peri:''' How does the celery help?\
95	'''The Doctor:''' If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.\
96	'''Peri:''' Then what do you do?\
97	'''The Doctor:''' I eat the celery. If nothing else, I'm sure it's good for my teeth.
98	** The Doctor had a banana in his pocket in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]]. It was never commented on by any of the characters, it was just there. Then again, the story was very much about vegetarianism...
99	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], the Doctor gives Jack a banana. There's no reason for him to have a banana, but since his pockets are bigger on the inside, he could conceivably have carried one around just waiting for a chance to use it.
100	** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], the bathrobe that Jackie Tyler put on the Doctor has a satsuma in the pocket. The Doctor uses the satsuma as a weapon.
101	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]], the Tenth Doctor also carries a banana and manages to invent the banana daiquiri 100 years too early.
102	* On Creator/PennAndTeller's show ''[[Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs Fool Us]]'', a magician, while waiting for Penn and Teller to guess how he did his trick, munched on a banana. That the magician's name was Piff the Magic Dragon, and was dressed in a dragon costume, made it funnier.
103	* An early episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' features an inexplicable pineapple appearing in the apartment after a wild night of boozing. [[WhatDidIDoLastNight At least it's tastier than a traffic cone...]]
104	* In ''Series/{{Life\|2007}}'', Charlie Crews has an obsession with fruit, but it makes a kind of sense, since there practically ''was'' no fruit in prison. Still, he likes handling various strange and unusual fruits, which his partner Dani comments on.
105	** It's a personal pineapple!
106	** "You're not really here to box the kumquat, are you?" - ItMakesSenseInContext.
107	** "It's an horned melon, also known as a jelly melon, or African horned cucumber. They're mostly ornamental, but you can eat them too."
108	* In a delightful inversion, one ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch features John Cleese as a self-defense instructor teaching a course on How To Defend Yourself Against Someone Who Attacks You Armed With a Piece of Fresh Fruit. After inducing one of his students to attack him with a banana, Cleese pulls out a gun and shoots him.
109	* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl's friend Frank has been moved to a halfway house, and has not been eating because the food is spiked with tranquilizers. Since he is very hungry, Randy feeds him an apple slice he had in his pocket. Earl looks at Randy, who then explains, "Oh, I've been keeping apple slices in my pocket for awhile now."
110	* In the first few episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s second season, Joel would pop a grape every time the Commercial Sign lit up. This was supposed to signify a Pavlovian response (lampshading Joel's status as a lab rat), but the writers got sick of having to remember doing it every time (and Joel got sick of the grapes), so it was quickly dropped.
111	** In at least a few episodes, it is quite clear that Joel's hand is empty and he is only pantomiming putting something into his mouth.
112	*** FridgeBrilliance - it really is Pavlovian! He's popping and he doesn't even have any grapes!
113	* Shawn Spencer of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has an obsession with pineapples that has become a RunningGag.
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117	* Music/CheapTrick: Bun E. Carlos pulls a banana out of his pocket while looking for the piece of paper with his speech on it in the "Dream Police" video.
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121	* The perpetual midcarder Carlito (the "cool" Caribbean) was famous for always bringing an apple with him to the ring for his match (leading many to nickname him "The Bad Apple"). He invariably punctuated each match by spitting chewed-up chunks of apple in the opponent's face. The gimmick of spitting fruit was puzzling enough, but if he was from the Caribbean shouldn't he have been spitting a pineapple or a coconut?
122	** Both are items that it's rather hard to take a nonchalant bite out of, unless you've got the jaws of a pit bull...
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126	* In a sketch on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Fozzie played a western outlaw whose weapons were all fruits and vegetables. Leads to the line "I didn't know the pickles were loaded". (It was a case of [[GunsAkimbo Gherkins Akimbo]], you see.)
127	** Another episode had Fozzie doing the "banana in the ear" gag with Avery Schreiber.
128	* Several Ernie and Bert sketches from ''Series/SesameStreet'' involve bananas and other fruits:
129	** In episode 4, Ernie pretends that a banana is a telephone. This sketch was remade for episode 3941.
130	** In episode 179, Bob reads "The Magic Apple", with Ernie as a farm boy and Bert in drag as a princess.
131	** In episode 292, Cookie Monster can't decide whether or not to eat one of Ernie's four apples, so Ernie draws and crosses out an endless series of alternating 4s and 3s on his paper.
132	** In episode 674, Ernie eats the inside of a banana and gives Bert the peel.
133	** In episode 747, Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie solve an apple mystery.
134	** In episode 1037, Ernie ate Bert's chocolate ice cream, so Ernie mashes a banana, puts ice cubes on it and covers it with beef gravy.
135	** In episode 2487, Ernie counts fruit in a bowl; just when Bert thinks Ernie is done, Ernie counts all of the fruits he does ''not'' have.
136	** In episode 2558, Ernie holds a banana in his ear, supposedly to keep the alligators away. When Bert retorts that there are no alligators on Sesame Street, Ernie says, "Right. It's doing a good job, isn't it, Bert?"
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140	* Not quite a fruit, but the Magic Items I sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' includes the Mad Nut: a magical nut that causes anyone carrying it to treat it as their most valuable possession.
141	* One print of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s Lure had a dryad holding an apple.
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145	* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Chapter 2 has the infamous gag of Queen telling Kris to "Get The Banana" that randomly appears while driving through the streets of Cyber City. Another banana appears during the "Acid Tunnel of Love" sequence in Queen's palace.
146	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', there's Drebin, a shady weapons dealer who often has an apple for no apparent reason. In his first appearance, he uses a white handkerchief to make an apple out of a hand grenade.
147	* In ''VideoGame/EricTheUnready'', you officially start on your heroic adventure by being the only one able to draw the legendary banana out of a stone.
148	* It should be noted that in ''VideoGame/UrbanDead'', "banana" is one of the few words that can be spelled using only the letters in the [[CypherLanguage Zombese]] alphabet.
149	** However, zombies [[ImAHumanitarian don't eat fruit]], so it's usually used as a euphemism.
150	* Overhead space shooter ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'' somehow features an entire wacky cult that revolves around fruit, which started off as weird attempt to justify (lampshade?) the random pieces of fruit that some enemies drop in video games such as this one. Fruit begins to show up more and more as you go through the game. First, enemies drop some strawberries. Then you start finding powerful subweapons codenamed for cherries and tangerines. Then you stumble across a purchasable ship that is a giant carrot that mounts fruit weapons like the [[SphereOfDestruction Banana Bomb]]. [[spoiler: The fruit-cult eventually becomes central to the plot, to the point where the last enemies you fight in the final episode are just huge bunches of deadly fruit. Not only are these fruit bosses portrayed as a credible threat, they ''are''.]] It's that kind of game.
151	* ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} Armageddon'' also has banana bombs. When the bomb is dropped, it explodes into a cloud of bouncing bananas, which are also explosive. (Of course, that game also has carpet bombing with actual carpets, and flying Super Sheep.)
152	* ''VideoGame/StarTropics'' features a running gag about having bananas in your ears.
153	* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''has a mook with a pineapple on his corpse.
154	* Subverted with the Yiga Clan in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. They are an unhinged cult of assassins devoted to serving [[EldritchAbomination Calamity Ganon]] and killing anyone that serves Hyrule, and its members always drop a pair of Mighty Bananas when defeated. In this setting, it's not unreasonable for people traveling Hyrule to be carrying food on them. However, it's also shown that Mighty Bananas are the ''[[TrademarkFavoriteFood only]]'' thing the Yiga eat. The guards in their hideout can be [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy easily distracted by dropping a pair on the floor]], and they like to put them in places such as treasure chests.
155	* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' features a gun that fires [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] bananas as a [[JokeItem joke weapon]]. Or maybe it's [[LethalJokeItem not so funny]]: as the only projectile affected by gravity, you can use it to bomb enemies from the safety of an elevated platform. If you deliver the last blow to the final boss with it, then the boss will have a banana balanced on their nose in the closing cutscene, for no reason at all.
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159	* In Creator/AGnosis webcomics, Dionysos almost always has some grapes with him, as decoration in his hair, or elsewhere. As he's both the god of wine, and a bit eccentric, that's to be expected.
160	* As a minor RunningJoke, ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'''s local nut Ethan was obsessed with a watermelon for a time, treating it as a character.
161	* In ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'', Ichabod [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027073/page-6-enter-the-nitpicker really]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027821/page-63-your-ideas-arent-as-cool-as-you-think seems]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1028457/page-93-at-least-they-dont-have-to-sit-next-to-any-screaming-babies to]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090283/page-304-i-hope-they-got-a-good-deal-at-least like]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1228030/page-363-artfully-passing-the-buck apples]]. He always seems to have one waiting in his pocket, [[HammerSpace whether there's room in there or not]].
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165	* It doesn't get much stranger than [[http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson168.html this.]]
166	* [[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn "Put a banana in your ear..."]]
167	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEQzEizgSY Citrus fruits are not subject to inter-dimensional causality.]]
168	* [[https://www.youtube.com/GameChap GameChap]]'s friend Bertie often carries a slice of watermelon around with him.
169	* Both the original "children's book" and animated remake of ''The WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest'' involves the contestants trying to hold an ever-growing pile of giant grapes courtesy of [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the Grape Fairy]]. Whoever's left after everyone else drops theirs or gets crushed by them wins.
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173	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "Mathter and Fervent," Kim and Ron walk in on Hego singing in his underwear with a banana. He quickly puts his clothes on, but keeps the banana, stammering out how it's a good source of potassium.
174	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Attack of the Clowns," Billy tries to protect himself from evil clowns by wearing a bowl of tangelos as a hat and stuffing two up his nose. When Mandy asks why he think tangelos will protect him, he points to a tangelo vendor whistling sheepishly. [[BellisariosMaxim Why there's a tangelo vendor inside the school is never asked]], though it's [[RuleOfFunny better that way]].
175	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had this with Mayor Adam West giving Quagmire a banana and cryptically telling him that "[[ChekhovsGun When the time comes, you'll know]]". Later, when Quagmire's being chased by an angry Cleveland, he remembers the Mayor's advice and throws the banana at Cleveland. It bounces off harmlessly, they stop, look expectantly at the banana on the ground, and after a few seconds, the chase resumes.
176	* Candace has a famous line with this trope on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', referring to a previous scene where she used a banana to practice calling up her crush, Jeremy.
177	--> '''Candace:''' "I'm calling mom! ...And I am ''not'' using the banana this time!
178	** When Carl is hit by Dr. Doofenshmirtz's MirrorMoralityMachine and turns evil, he sends his robots of the Flynn-Fletchers to find Perry. As they're getting on a jet, Carl scans them with a metal detector. For no discernible reason, the robot of Lawrence is holding a pineapple.
179	** A RunningGag that occurs whenever something happens that causes [[CrowdPanic a group of people to run around in a panic]], there's always one person in the crowd carrying a watermelon above their head and crying out, "My watermelon!"
180	* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny classic ''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville'', Bugs makes a fruit salad on Elmer's head. Where Bugs got the fruit is irrelevant.
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184	* A game presentation/conference after E3 2012 included a clip of Creator/{{Nintendo}} president Satoru Iwata holding a bunch of bananas, staring at it for a few seconds before putting it down. This was given no explanation. It was later parodied in later Nintendo Directs, once with Bill Trinen staring at a tangerine the same way, and later with [[ArtShift Lego version of Iwata]] staring at a carrot.
185	* Creator/JosephineBaker wore a banana skirt during her stage act as part of her JunglePrincess persona. This despite the fact that this type of dress has never been worn by any African woman in the jungle.
186	* Carmen Miranda famously wore a TuttiFruttiHat while dancing. Very impractical, though it did look sexy.
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