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19->''"Why is there always someone who brings eggs and tomatoes to a speech?"''
20-->-- '''The Penguin''', ''Film/BatmanReturns''
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22A displeased crowd is throwing stuff at speakers and artists according to the RuleOfFunny. Eggs, lettuce and vegetables are generally favored, with tomatoes an all-time favorite. Originates from way back in the 19th century, when audiences and working-class theatergoers would often carry these things into the (very rowdy by our standards) theaters, and chuck them (or chairs and such) at bad performances. Look for an HonestJohn-type character to have a cart filled with said rotten vegetables for sale for this particular purpose. Usually followed by a VaudevilleHook yanking the bad performer off-stage.
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24See also StockPunishment and DefiantStoneThrow. Related to {{Egging}}, PieInTheFace and FoodSlap. A subtrope of FoodFight and EdibleAmmunition.
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26Compare {{Projeggtile}}.
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31* ProducePelting/WesternAnimation
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39* PlayedForDrama in ''Art/TheProblemWeAllLiveWith'', where a presumably racist protester (from the viewer's point of view) throws a tomato at Ruby Bridges walking to school.
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43* A TV commercial for the radio duo of Steve Dahl & Garry Meier showed a billboard advertising them being hit with a giant tomato. There was also a real Steve & Garry billboard with a tomato attached, as well as Steve & Garry t-shirts.
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47* In the first episode or movie of any adaptation of ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' all the students gather around Tsukushi and nail her with rotten eggs and other stuff. The Korean adaptation even added a flour BucketBoobyTrap to deliver some extra humiliation for the PluckyGirl.
48* ''Manga/FoodWars'': During the CookingDuel against Ikumi Mito, Soma reveals that to compete against her incredible expensive high-grade beef, he got some BrandX cutlets he bought from a common supermarket. The audience becomes so infuriated at his audacity that they begin to pelt him with litter, which he blocks with his frying pan.
49* In ''Manga/KajiRyuusukeNoGi'', this happens to Ryuusuke when he angers a crowd of farmers.
50* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': In "Labor Daze", a Cappy throws a tomato at Tiff, while she’s protesting outside Dedede’s factory, due to its poor working conditions.
51* This was also used in Episode 12 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime. Lulu and the others did this to a picture of Wilbur's butler that was drawn on the side of the clubhouse, after he snobbishly put them off the activities that they normally did.
52* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' ([[ItMakesSenseInContext really]]): [[spoiler:Homura's own familiars pelt her with tomatoes after she successfully [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty imprisons Madoka in the universe]]. [[SelfInflictedHell It's implied the familiars are acting out Homura's true desires]]...[[IntendedAudienceReaction and at least some of the audience would want to do that to her, too]].]]
53* At one point in ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Ataru]], grieving about how messed up his life has become since Lum decided they were married, asks the readers if he really deserves such torment. He is immediately covered in a pile garbage as off-panel voices declare "NO, YOU IDIOT! You deserve more!"
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57* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In episode 184, the wolves are mad at Wolffy and throw several objects at him, including a few tomatoes.
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61* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a Mitch Hedburg comedy bit.
62-->'''Mitch:''' I'm worried about doing bad on a performance, and people, throwing tomatoes. But then I think "Who'd bring a tomato?"
63* Before they were stars, Creator/TheMarxBrothers did a tour of England, where the tradition was to throw pennies at bad acts. After getting pelted Groucho said, "we came all the way from the United States to perform for you. Could you at least throw shillings?"
64* Given in Portuguese egg is "ovo", the conflation between that and applause is the basis for a joke:
65-->'''Friend''': How did it go, did you get a standing ovation?\
66'''Artist''': A standing ovation, tomatation, and oranjation.
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70* In "Masked Mayhem" of the ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeGraphicNovels'', Ice King's palace gets egged and Marceline gets a pie in the face.
71* ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}}'':
72** In ''Asterix and the Great Divide'', both Majestix and Cleverdix get a tomato to the face when they try to entreat the other's followers.
73** In ''Asterix and the Magic Carpet'', once Cacofonix has no voice to sing, the angered crowd throws onions and tomatoes at him.
74* ''ComicBook/{{Beetlejuice}}'' gets bombarded with rotten sandworm eggs in "Get Me to the Church on Slime".
75* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': After Phoney's scheme to rig the cow race is ousted, the villagers tie him to a pole and toss hundreds of eggs at him.
76* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
77** In a WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck comic, [[ButtMonkey poor Donald was once at the receiving end of this]]. Various types of fruits were thrown at him - including a ridiculously huge ''[[ExaggeratedTrope watermelon]]''!
78** In one-page comic starring [[SelfMadeMan Scrooge McDuck]], he gains some money with this. Step 1: Perform a purposely bad performance in a talent show. Step 2: Catch all vegetables thrown at him. Step 3: Sell them. Step 4: PROFIT!!
79** In an Italian story, Donald finds out that in one occasion he was at the receiving end of this because ''Scrooge was there selling rotten vegetables''.
80** In "The Pauper's Glass", Scrooge has lost his memory and begun taking over his own companies. The Duck nephews try to find him by visiting the remaining factories, only to arrive after the amnesiac Scrooge has taken ownership. As such, the Ducks end up getting barraged by whatever the company was making, such as getting pelted by walnuts, globbed with yogurt, and covered in tar. Eventually, Donald chooses the next factory solely on whether they make something painful.
81* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'', the audience entrance of a talent show has a barrel of free rotten vegetables.
82* In ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'' the Yancey Street Gang hack their way into getting all the tickets for Darla Deering's concert and pelt her with vegetables and eggs because they think she's trying to replace Ben Grimm.
83* Happens to a political candidate in the Oklahoma album of ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''. He's actually happy getting so many vegetables for free.
84* A two page Fozzie Bear strip in ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'' with a PictorialSpeechBubble gimmick:
85-->'''Waldorf''': <picture of tomatoes>?\
86'''Statler''': <picture of the bag he's holding>\
87'''Fozzie''': !
88* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': 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.)
89* In an issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', [[spoiler: Anti-]]Tails pelts a turtle with tomatoes. Later on, an angry Knothole Village mob scapegoats Sonic and the Freedom Fighters and proceeds to throw produce at them.
90* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: In #32 Wonder Woman stops some hecklers who are throwing old vegetables as some street musicians whose instruments aren't tuned and who are playing off key.
91* ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': In one short history, Zipi y Zape become musicians to feed their family due to the eye-watering prices of the former. All goes well, until one of the chords of the violins they're playing brokes and everyone discovers they had a hidden cassette player. Both are pelted with edible vegetables that carry back home, much to the happiness of their mother.
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95* It's a running gag in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the cat likes to perform at the fence. Once he was pelted with a pillow, an alarm clock and a flowerpot in short order. He took the stuff with him and was happy.
96** Other things that he's been pelted with include a watermelon, a basket (which is what they threw at him when they ran out of fruit), and a giant stone wheel (he told a scout troop from Booga-Booga that the only thing they were allowed to throw was money. Apparently, that's the only form of currency in Booga-Booga).
97** Garfield [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2022/08/07 once]] dodged every fruit the audience tried to pelt him with and [[TemptingFate asked what they'd do]]. Someone hits him with a smartphone that has a virtual banana.
98* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': [[LoserProtagonist Charlie Brown]] has been pelted with baseball props by his Little League team out of anger over many a lost match.
99* ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'': [[http://shermanslagoon.com/comics/november-23-2000 When Fillmore does a musical performance of his poetry]], Thorton throws an olive at him because it's the only vegetable he had.
100* In one ''Thimble Theater'' strip, Mr. Kilph tricks Franchise/{{Popeye}} into signing up for a boxing match with a full-grown gorilla. Worried for the sailor, the children Popeye tells stories to go to Kilph's house and lob ripe tomatoes at him.
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104* ''Fanfic/AlexMovieVillain'': Marceline (from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'') gets thrown with rotten tomatoes after her opponent, Alex, exposes what she did in "What Was Missing". She even lampshades it.
105-->'''Marceline:''' Why is it that people have a tendency to throw tomatoes at anyone they're displeased at?
106* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6009806/1/The-Arrangements The Arrangements]]'' students throw house elf-supplied eggs at the new Charms professor after he's fired for sexually harrassing Harry and being a poor teacher.
107* 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.
108* ''Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves'' has this happen to Trixie when she [[TheAtoner attempts to make a public apology to Ponyville]] for the Ursa incident. Justified, as the pelting was performed by the BigBad, [[spoiler:[[CainAndAbel Trixie's sister]]]] [[TheSociopath Checker Monarch]], who came with the expressed intention of publicly humiliating her. Checker tries again at Trixie's charity play, but is blocked by Twilight.
109* Creator/HansVonHozel:
110** The ''Series/{{Glee}}'' club gets pelted by bananas.
111** ''Series/HannahMontana'' gets pelted by tomatoes in another of his fics.
112* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4608235/13/It-All-Started-With-A-Visit-To-Gringotts It All Started With a Visit to Gringotts]]'' the Malfoys are hit with rotten eggs and tomatoes when they visit Diagon Alley after Voldemort's defeat.
113* In ''[[http://ficwad.com/story/176885 Jedi Potter]]'' people in Diagon Alley throw rotten fruit at Dumbledore after he's revealed as a dark lord in disguise.
114* In ''Fanfic/KnowledgeIsPower'' an irate crowd covers Minister Fudge in conjured tomatoes.
115* In ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', [[BrokenPedestal Princess Celestia]] is overthrown when [[EvilNephew Prince Jewelius]] manipulates the entire Canterlot into blaming her for the Changeling invasion [[VillainHasAPoint by pointing out that her putting her trust in the wrong ponies directly contributed to said invasion occurring]]. One week later, as Celestia waits for [[spoiler:her PublicExecution to commence]], she gets an egg thrown in her face by a filly whose her parents were attacked by the Changelings and are still in the hospital. While thankfully nothing else but insults are thrown, the crowd is still unsympathetic toward Celestia [[spoiler:until she manages to dispel the public hatred towards her with a remorseful apology speech where she takes full responsibility for her failures]].
116* 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 people can throw fruit and veggies at it]].
117* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13989851/1/One-Dreaded-Curse One Dreaded Curse]]'' Dumbledore spends his afterlife in chains and being pelted with tomatoes because he cursed Harry and Hermione to ignore their soulmate bond for thirty years.
118* PlayedForDrama in the final episode of ''Fanfic/PrincessTrixieSparkle''. When the stage musician Trixie is [[MindRape forced to experience nothing but insults and accusations]] by [[spoiler:Astelle]], one of the scenes shows her on stage. She's being pelted with tomatoes while being mocked with things like "Nopony likes you" and "You aren't even talented".
119* 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.
120* ''Fanfic/WitchingHour'':
121** When Gaz is at Bloaty's Tavern and a kitchen worker named Nick accidentally bumps into her and makes her spill her drink, she has him [[StockPunishment locked in a pillory]] and forces everyone to throw rocks at him.
122** [[LaserGuidedKarma Later]], when Gaz is assumed to be a witch due to being caught in the middle of what looks like a Satanic ritual surrounded by slaughtered animals, the villagers lock ''her'' in a pillory and throw rocks, rotten fruit, and vegetables at her.
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126* Happens to Tanya Mousekewitz in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', even though she has a BeautifulSingingVoice. Mama Mousekewitz just scoops the produce off the walls and into a skillet to prepare the dinner, and Papa jokes that she should keep singing so that the hecklers (who just hear it as musical squeaking) will literally throw in dessert as well.
127* In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Manny receives this abuse from the fly hecklers who don't like his mystical spiel.
128* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie'', one sign of the Spirit turning people hateful is when they attack the Bears and Cousins with tomatoes.
129* At the end of the final race in the first ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' movie, Chick Hicks gets hit with tires from the crowd [[spoiler: for violently ramming The King and sending him into a horrible wreck.]]
130* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', [[spoiler:Ernesto de la Cruz gets this reception after being outed as a murderous fraud via EngineeredPublicConfession]].
131* Happens to Davey in ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' when the crowd disapproves of his officiating at a youth basketball game.
132-->'''Davey''': You don't like that? How about you throw something at me? I dare you!\
133'''Spectator''': With pleasure! ''(he and the crowd throw concessions at Davey)''
134* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Done for a RuleOfThrees in the BadGuyBar, with the fruit being quickly followed by everything else they can get their hands on, including daggers. The villainous customers then ready more objects to throw at the next performer, but the curtains open to reveal a [[ParentService hot singer/stripper]] who quickly has them eating out of her hand moments before the [[BarBrawl Bar Brawl]] breaks out.
135* A [[PlayedForDrama non-comedic example]] happens to [[{{Tearjerker}} an unlucky Quasimodo]] in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. They finally stop when Esmeralda frees Quasimodo and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls Frollo out for his abuse and racism]].
136* After the climactic BattleOfTheBands of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', once the Dazzlings [[spoiler:have lost their magical voices]], the Canterlot High students reward their last attempt at singing with booing and throwing fruits and sandwiches at them.
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140* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', in the scene where the Deltas are vetting prospective pledges in a slide show, the members throw fruits or drinks at the screen when the socially-inept Kent "Flounder" Dorfman appears. When Otter stands up to defend him (with Dorfman being a legacy after all), the other Deltas pelt ''him'' with empty beer cans.
141* The Penguin, the VillainWithGoodPublicity from ''Film/BatmanReturns'', trots out the above quote ([[LampshadeHanging which is a pretty good question, in fact]]) when his former supporters start throwing eggs and tomatoes at him after Batman exposes him for what he is by means of an EngineeredPublicConfession. This example also comes with a rare retaliation as he opens fire on them with his umbrella machine gun.
142* 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 more to the crowd's liking (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.
143* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', when the hero is rolled in for his execution, the raving crowd throws vegetables at him.
144* This is ultimately how the US soldiers stationed in Italy end up having to drive Captain America off stage in a USO tour gone sour in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (that, as well as a soldier mooning him). [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Fortunately he's got his shield to block the vegetables]], but the humiliation is another matter, inspiring Cap to stop acting as a propaganda symbol and start being the OneManArmy he's meant to be.
145* In ''Film/{{Colette}}'', friends of Missy's ex-husband begin throwing peanuts at Colette and Missy during their performance at the Moulin Rouge. This then escalates to bottles and furniture.
146* Tomatoes are used in ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHydeAyoy'' as means of cultural education.
147-->'''Mother:''' ''[handing her son a tomato to chuck at [[LetsDuet Johann and Lolita]]]'' Good taste has to be taught during childhood.
148* At the end of ''Film/DuckSoup'', Firefly, Chicolino, and Pinky do this to Trentino after they capture him. After Trentino surrenders and Mrs. Teasdale triumphantly sings the Freedonia national anthem (''[[RunningGag again]]''), they start throwing fruit at ''her''.
149* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' has the titular alien get drunk and toss one of his beer cans at the TV screen after seeing [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry scorching Tom's tail]] in a cartoon.
150* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' has this happen to a play depicting Lincoln, but the audience is throwing cabbage as they're too poor for fruit.
151* In Creator/BusterKeaton's ''Film/TheHauntedHouse.'', a traveling opera company gets this treatment after making a hash of ''{{Theatre/Faust}}''.
152* In ''Film/AKnightsTale'', William is put in the stocks where the crowd pelts him with rotten vegetables. Chaucer puts in an attempt at ShamingTheMob to protect him, but only gets out three words before the crowd starts pelting him too.
153* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'' Mrs. Banks, preparing for a suffragette meeting, has the maid pack rotten eggs in her bag for this purpose.
154-->'''Mrs. Banks:''' After our meeting at the Albert Hall, we're all going down to Downing Street to throw things at the Prime Minister!
155* Although technically a FoodFight, the fact that the uptight teacher was constantly being hit by food, almost a gang up, in the movie ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' makes it more comparable to this trope.
156* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'', Daniel (as Mrs. Doubtfire) throws a lime at his ex-wife's new boyfriend when said boyfriend calls him a loser. When he turns around, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Mrs. D claims to have witnessed the whole thing.]]
157-->'''Mrs. Doubtfire:''' Oh sir! I saw it... some angry member of the kitchen staff, did you not tip them? Oh... the terrorist ran that way, it was a run-by fruiting!
158* In ''Film/MySummerStory'', Mrs. Parker goes to the movies every week, because they're giving away dishes, but there's a screw up, and all they ever have is gravy boats. Finally, as the MC is once again trying to assure the crowd the other dishes are coming, Mrs. Parker throws her gravy boat at him. Cue the other women in the audience following suit.
159* Implied in a song in ''Film/{{Newsies}}'':
160-->''And the world will know that this ain't no game\
161That we got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim''
162* In ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', the bad-guy opera singer tries to steal the good-guy opera singer's thunder and is pelted. When he angrily objects to apples thrown at him, Groucho explains "Well, watermelons are out of season!"
163* ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' had the audience, when becoming fed up with Stokes' interruption of their play due to their ruining a Klan rally and their being convicts, start pelting food at him after his microphone is shut off by the recording studio. It gets worse for him later when they decide to run him out of town on a rail.
164* In Mel Gibson's ''Film/ThePatriot2000'', 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."
165* ''Film/PrehistoricWomen'': After Queen Kari orders the slaves food tipped on to the ground, the rebellious slave girl picks up a cooked chicken and hurls it at her.
166* In the MinorKidroduction of ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', Dastan throws a fruit at the soldier who socks the other boy for making his horse balk.
167* This happens to Sylvester (Creator/BobHope) in ''Film/ThePrincessAndThePirate'' when he performs his variety act at a BadGuyBar.
168* In ''Film/{{Regeneration}}'', an unsatisfactory violinist is driven off a vaudeville stage by a hail of garbage from the audience.
169* After Robin ''loses'' an archery contest in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', everyone gets pelted.
170-->'''Blinkin:''' Oh, good. They opened up the salad bar.
171* In ''Film/SilentTongue'', the MedicineShow is run out of town by a pack of unappreciative townsfolk pelting them with stones.
172* In ''Film/{{Skippy}}'', cute little kids Skippy and Sooky are putting on a little backyard variety show, but mean-spirited kid Sidney brings an array of produce which he starts flinging at the performers. Skippy takes care of this by getting his own tomato, throwing it from backstage, and nailing Sidney right in the face.
173* In ''Film/TinMen'', Tilley does this to BB, and BB has him arrested for assault. The cop typing out the complaint feels embarrassed when he has to enter "eggs and tomatoes" as the weapon used.
174* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. During Frederick and the monster's performance. Definitely a parody of the trope, as the posh, well-to-do looking men pull the rotten cabbages ''straight out of their dress suits''.
175* ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'': One item the people of Babylon drop on the zombies below is watermelons.
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179* In ''Literature/BeyondTheWesternSea'', Horatio Drabble performs Shakespeare on the Liverpool streets and gets produce thrown at him.
180* In ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'', a particularly bad {{pun}} would be met with a shower of peanuts.
181* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
182** In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', Glod tries to catch the fruit they throw at him. Musicians have got to eat, ya know.
183** Discussed about the ''Mended Drum'' (The Librarian in particular has to be pleased).
184** In ''Literature/SmallGods'', a character recalls a crowd working through a whole list of things with which to pelt a missionary from a neighboring nation led by a CorruptChurch.
185** ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' mentions Librarian has firm opinions about what makes good theatre, and a very ''accurate'' way with high-velocity peanuts, so it's generally agreed that putting a slapstick scene in a dramatic tragedy is better than your lead actor being deaf in one ear.
186* Discussed and averted in the second book of the ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' series. When the protagonists and their captured Viking allies are brought into New Tenochtitlan as prisoners of the Aztecs, they are instead pelted with ash, bones, and feces. [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]] surmises from this (and the malnourished frames of the people doing the throwing) that the people are starving and so they throw what they can. It's this that leads the heroes to realize [[ImAHumanitarian what awaits them after they are executed]].
187* A bit character who brings Pel some useful information in ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'' makes a living cleaning the footwear of stage actors who, being routinely cast as the villain, regularly get subjected to this trope. It's a disgusting dead-end job that pays starvation wages, but he lives for the theater and wouldn't dream of quitting.
188* Jack Finney's ''From Time to Time'' mentions a vaudeville performer called Sparrow who actually makes this the focus of his act by tossing oranges and other soft foods into the audience and inviting it to throw them back at him so he can try to catch them on the fork in his mouth. Trouble is, some of the people who've seen it before bring their own produce and throw harder things like turnips.
189* Played seriously in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology -- two men inciting a riot in an already-angry crowd start by screaming for justice and throwing produce. Once the mob is pelting the building with food, they introduce rocks. After that's been going on for a while, they throw a grenade into the crowd and get out of there.
190* In ''Literature/HuckleberryFinn'', the villagers take rotten veggies to the theater after realizing that the Duke and the King's play is a scam.
191* In ''Literature/MeWhoDoveIntoTheHeartOfTheWorld'', protestors from [[AnimalWrongsGroup Clean Seas]] shout "Killer!" at Karen, who owns a tuna fishery. One of them throws a tomato, which hits her in the eye.
192* In ''Literature/MrRevereAndI'', American colonists throw dead fish and vegetables at the redcoats.
193* In Stephen Manes' ''Literature/TheObnoxiousJerks'' four of the Obnoxious Jerks enter the school talent show. Instead of the act they auditioned with, they play a deliberately-bad kazoo rendition of [[FootballFightSong "Roll On, Griswold"]]. At a prearranged point, several other Obnoxious Jerks in the audience throw tomatoes at them, followed by [[PieInTheFace lemon meringue pies]].
194* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, in Ellie the Electric Guitar Fairy's book Rachel and Kirsty pelt goblins with rotten fruit to make them drop the magic guitar.
195* ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'': [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the novelization of ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'': James explains to Gorath that this is done to speakers who the audience doesn't like, and being a dark elf FishOutOfWater in human civilization, Gorath thinks it's insane.
196* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': when [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen universally hated Queen]] Cersei Lannister]] is forced to [[spoiler:walk through the streets naked as punishment for her crimes]], the smallfolk of King's Landing ComeToGawk and pelt her with garbage, rotten food, human and animal refuse, and at least one ''[[NauseaFuel dead cat]]''.
197* Happens several times in Creator/PGWodehouse stories.
198** The Literature/JeevesAndWooster story "The Metropolitan Touch", where the finale of a show is supposed to involve the chorus throwing balls of wool (representing oranges) to the audience. On the night, the villain of the piece substitutes real oranges, and the show promptly devolves into an all-out fruit fight with the audience caught in the middle.
199** ''[[Literature/{{Ukridge}} Ukridge's Accident Syndicate]]'' ends with the traitorous Teddy Weeks being at the receiving end of a perfectly-timed tomato to the face.
200* Mentioned in ''Literature/{{XWing|Series}}: Starfighters of Adumar''. When reflecting on their massive drop in popularity, one pilot of Red Flight says that at least the Adumari haven't erected statues of them to throw rotten produce at. Another pilot says to give them a couple days.
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204* In the ''Series/TwoTwoSeven'' fantasy episode "Low Noon", Rose's character is subjected to this when she tries to entertain the saloon's customers by singing opera. When she meekly asks if they always do that, the saloon's owner tells her "If they like you, they throw ''money''", prompting her to put on a very sassy act instead.
205* In ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'', Edmund invites Prince George to star as the title character in his new play: ''Thick Jack Clot [[StockPunishment Sits in the Stocks]] and Gets Pelted with Rancid Tomatoes''. George, of course, readily agrees.
206* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
207** A flashback to the time before Anya became a vengeance demon shows a bunch of villagers attacking Olaf by throwing "fruits and various meats" at him.
208** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", Willow, in her forced-to-sing nightmare, backs off a stage where the booing patrons are throwing tomatoes.
209* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]", a drunk decides to throw his salad at the alien hunter Tzim-Sha while telling him that YourCostumeNeedsWork. [[BullyingADragon This ends badly for the drunk]].
210* In the "Everybody Hates Elections" episode of ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'', Chris is running for class president and finds himself in a debate against his opponent (the biggest bully on campus). Chris is really liking how his opponent is winning over the crowd, so he starts emulating him. One line Chris likes is "_____ now, _____ tomorrow and _____ forever." Problem is, he fouls up and ends up saying "Detention now, detention tomorrow and detention forever.". Cue about 200 pounds of mainly lettuce and tomatoes, with lots of other fruit and veggies mixed in, being tossed right at him.
211* ''Series/TheGoodies'':
212 ** In "The Goodies Rule -- OK?" it's revealed that Music/TheBeatles stole their songs and look from an early attempt by The Goodies to break into the music business as ''The Bootles'', which ended when the audience threw produce at them. When the Beatles become famous the Goodies attempt to do the same, only for the Beatles audience to turn on The Goodies in outrage and throw more food at them. This starts a gag of The Goodies coming up with soon-to-be famous songs only to be pelted with produce. In the end they get pelted before they've even started singing.
213** Happens to the xylophone player after he is tossed on to the scrap heap in the episode "Snow White 2".
214** And in "Rome Antics" it becomes a HoYay moment when, among the other produce, an unseen heckler throws a suggestively shaped vegetable at the Emperor.
215--->'''Emperor:''' WHO THREW THAT? Cheeky!
216* The first episode of ''Series/GetKrackin'' with a live studio audience ends with the audience (and the warm-up guy) pelting the Kates with lollies and then storming out.
217* ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': In "Honey, the Play's the Thingie", the audience are searched at the door in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent this.
218%%* Happened to Livia in ''Series/IClaudius''.
219* ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'' called this "getting the bird", presumably because it involved things flying at you. In one episode, Bertie is nervous to see people in the audience passing around produce while he's singing "Sonny Boy." One of his friends is able to calm them down, but the vegetables in question still fly for [[ButtMonkey Tuppy Glossop]] and [[spoiler:Cora Bellenger. In fact, the reason for this is that "Sonny Boy" was performed twice before Bertie arrived]].
220* Played with on an episode of Wayne Brady's version of ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'': A contestant got zonked with a ton of rotten tomatoes, and Brady offered the contestant cash if she could hit the announcer, Jonathan Mangum (who was standing onstage next to the Zonk) with a tomato.
221* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': In "The One with the Baby Carrot", Lucifer comes to Dan's stand-up comedy routine armed with a bunch of tomatoes, which he gleefully -- and unapologetically -- throws at Dan, despite the whole thing being a set-up to lure out a killer.
222* The Brazilian show ''Series/MachoMan'', about a gay man who becomes straight after being hit on the head by a shoe, has one episode in which he has to visit his birthtown, which openly approves of homosexuality. One HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday moment later, all the townsfolk were pelting tomatoes at him.
223* ''Series/Merlin2008'' spends a lot of time in Camelot's stocks getting pelted by the local children with lettuces and anachronistic tomatoes. In something of a subversion, he takes it with remarkable cheer, and everyone else seems to view it as good clean (if slightly mean-spirited) family fun.
224* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Jones gets pelted with tomatoes while he is is undercover in a cult in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E4 The Oblong Murders]]".
225* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': In "The Bicycle Trip", Mr. Gulliver (Terry Jones), due to a head injury, assumes the personalities of singer Clodagh Rodgers, then Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky, and then chanteuse Eartha Kitt -- while in a performance in post-revolutionary Russia, his personality abruptly changes to then-PM Edward Heath, angering the audience of commissars who pelt him with produce. Another blow to the head reverts him to his old self.
226* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
227** In the Danny Kaye episode, Statler and Waldorf bail quite early on and are replaced by Floyd and Janice from the Electric Mayhem. It's revealed that they were concealing a bag of fruits and vegetables, which are speculated to be part of a plan to throw a party.
228--->'''Janice:''' Well this much food won't go very far.\
229'''Floyd:''' Well they only wanted to throw it as far as the stage!
230** Played straight during the Diana Ross episode where the crowd was unruly, being riled up by Statler and Waldorf grading the acts (poorly, as usual)- they tossed rotten vegetables at Gonzo, cutting his act before it even began.
231* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The vaudeville episode "The Keystone Constables" features this. Crabtree, Higgins and a young W.C. Fields are among the targets.
232* Mexican comedy show ''Puro Loco'' had the sketches about the leader of a worker syndicate known as the [[FunWithAcronyms OGT]]. They always ended with him revealing that his "great news" or "great proposals" are anything but and he gets booed off the podium under a rain of lettuce, along with his bodyguards and occasionally hostesses and [[GuiltByAssociationGag whatever worker walked onstage to ask questions]].
233* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': In "[[ProWrestlingEpisode The Golden Angel]]," the audience boos and throws lettuce at a {{heel}} when he walks into the arena.
234* In a RunningGag on ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'', whenever the horror host makes a [[{{Pun}} particularly bad joke]], he gets pelted with rubber chickens.
235* A scene in the bio-pic Creator/VH1 did for Music/MeatLoaf has Jim Steinman perusing the script to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. Jim's reaction is "This movie's so terrible, people are gonna throw things at the screen!" [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]]...
236* ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': When Mitchell is accused of being a thief in "The Lost and Found Boy", he made is made to sit in the corridor with a sign around his neck inviting to the students to pelt him with produce. Naturally they do so.
237* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Tar Valon citizens throw vegetables at Logain as he's paraded through the streets.
238* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': TheBard Jaskier is introduced getting pelted with pieces of bread by an unappreciative audience, which he gathers up and stuffs down his pants for later.
239* In the ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' episode on "Generosity", Jill Stanley is pelted with tomatoes because the audience didn't like her solo.
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243* Akon was hit by a water bottle thrown by a teen while performing a concert. He retaliated by having the audience bring him to the stage where he [[DisproportionateRetribution physically picked him up and threw him off.]]
244* 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 Dinner," 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 there instead.
245* Music/TheBeatles song "With A Little Help from my Friends" originally started "What would you do if I sang out of tune? / Would you throw ripe tomatoes at me?". Despite their intention to not do any live concerts in the near future, Ringo (who sings the song) still requested that the line be changed lest fans take it as an cue to actually throw tomatoes at him.
246* In one fabled incident, someone threw a live chicken onto the stage at an Music/AliceCooper gig. Cooper picked it up and, [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying thinking it would fly away]], launched it back over the audience. It fluttered down into the crowd, which promptly tore it to pieces.
247* The Music/FooFighters stopped playing "Big Me" for a while because of this. And HilarityEnsues when [[http://www.fooarchive.com/gpb/stuff05.htm Dave Grohl has a desire to burn the Mentos...]]
248-->"[[http://web.archive.org/web/20040503202840/http://www.foofighters.com/archives/dictionary.php Mentos - That fun little hard candies that people tend to chuck at the band during shows due to the 'Big Me' Video. Please don't do it, if you like foo don't throw stuff at them.]]"
249* Music/TobyKeith recreates the chicken-wire-as-pelting-preventer bar setup in "I Love This Bar".
250* Traditionally, the first band on Monsters of Rock at Donnington Park gets pelted off the stage. Fans really go all out -- one year, an entire stale Christmas cake was thrown. The Comic Strip made use of this, putting their fictional band ''Bad News'' on first and filming them getting pelted.
251* Music/{{Nickelback}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w_3TU-hFjg was stoned (as in actual stones were thrown)]] during a festival in Portugal, forcing them to cut their performance short.
252* Music-hall song "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth":
253-->''They jeered me, they queered me\
254And half of them stoned me to death\
255They threw nuts and sultanas, fried eggs and bananas\
256The night I appeared as Macbeth.''
257* Also in the UK, Reading Festival traditionally has lots of people tossing fruit or bottles, no matter who played. [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco Brandon Urie]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YHLPjEQL0A was downright KO'd by a bottle once]]. A Music/TwistedSister documentary, which highlights their 1982 performance where people actually stopped for a while because Dee Snider called out on the pelting feeling the audience in the front would be hit rather than the stage, downright describes every Reading concert as "40,000 people, 10,000 rocking out and 30,000 throwing stuff".
258* Spooner (the band in which [[Music/{{Garbage}} Butch Vig and Duke Erikson]] played in the 1980s) was scheduled to precede the Greg Kihn Band in the 1981 Summerfest in Milwaukee. A cancellation put them before Music/IronMaiden. The metalhead audience was not receptive to the New Wave band and showered them with beer cups.
259* Music/TheStooges live album ''Metallic K.O." has Music/IggyPop being pelted with beer bottles thrown by the angry truckers he invited to the final Stooges show.
260* Music/TearsForFears: InUniverse in the song "Sowing the Seeds of Love", this is how angry protesters express their dissatisfaction towards a politician: "There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes".
261* Occurs in-universe in a German Volkslied. The ''other'' (i.e. not the children song) musicians from Swabia who are so [[Main/DreadfulMusician inept]] that this treatment is actually mild: "Laurels were too costly, oak foliage we didn't get, they threw rotten eggs and tomatoes in our face."
262* Before Music/WeirdAlYankovic's career took off, he opened for Music/MissingPersons in 1982. He was pelted by "anything that wasn't nailed down" for 45 minutes.
263* The Vocaloid song Apotropaism by umbraticforest and GHOST) had its name abruptly changed to “apple the pagan’s son” sometime after release.[[note]]This is not uncommon for songs GHOST has worked on, and the names are almost always unrelated to the songs, such as “[[DoNotAdjustYourSet COLORBARS]]” being changed to “[[Memes/{{Undertale}} Megalovania]]” and then again to “bar”.
264* 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]] (it 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!]]
265* When the art design team Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} were coming up for the design for the Music/{{Yes}} album ''Yes Tor'', someone either in the band or from Hipgnosis themselves ([[RashomonStyle depending on who's telling the story]]) threw a tomato at the painting with the design. The effect was [[ThrowItIn incorporated into the artwork]] and the album was dubbed ''Tormato''.
266* 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 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]].
267* Music/JustinTimberlake got water bottles, muffins and other random trash chucked at him during his performance at a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Canadian_Rocks_for_Toronto 2003 benefit concert in Toronto.]] [[Music/JustinBieber Another Justin]] was also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unNvbrlPgLc&t=0m10s infamously pelted with water bottles.]]
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271* Fred Flintstone does this in the "Water Buffalo" mode of ''Pinball/TheFlintstones'', although his weapon of choice is a ''bowling ball.''
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275* Multi time champion of the North American divisions Sucio Dutch Mantel was so reviled in the Puerto Rican CSPWWC promotion that random people would throw trash at him even when he wasn't at shows and was just walking the street. At the shows enterprising fans made a business of selling things to throw at him and similarly hated {{heel}}s such as Ox Baker.
276* Ray Gonzales was among the native islanders infamous for being pelted with produce in CSP/WWC, particularly in a match with Carlos Colon where Gonzales [[DirtyCoward stalled]] for two straight minutes, leading fans to attempt to "push" him back into the ring.
277* Fans threw garbage at Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Wrestling/BobbyHeenan as they approached the ring at Wrestlemania 3.
278* During their mask vs mask match in September 1990, [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL's]] 57th Anniversary on "Super Friday", Cien Caras at one point gained an obvious advantage over Rayo de Jalisco Jr. and continued to press his attack as pieces of trash from the audience bounced off of him.
279* Wrestling/HulkHogan got pelted with trash after his shocking [[FaceHeelTurn heel turn]] at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Bash at the Beach 1996'', wherein he turned into Hollywood Hogan of the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder.
280** This was a frequent theme in WCW, where ''Nitro'' crowds often threw trash at the NWO at the end of almost every episode. Other notable instances of trash pelting include Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} defeating Hogan for the WCW Championship, the FingerpokeOfDoom, and Creator/DavidArquette winning the title on ''Thunder''.
281* This incident touched off a trend of WCW fans throwing stuff at the ring. Classless at the best of times, the fad arguably reached its nadir on the 1 December 1997 edition of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', when referee Randy Anderson got hit in the eye with a golf ball [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCdZ7bx0CeE during a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustbBvxpJ4E match]] between Wrestling/CurtHennig and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage.
282* The fans threw garbage in the ring in protest at the end of the ''New Blood Rising'' [=PPV=] in August 2000.
283* Wrestling/{{Ivory}} got this after ''Tough Enough III'' during a bikini contest at a house show, which she competed in to show fans stripping wasn't anything special and that the hardworking kids from the contest deserved to be on shows more than the no talent "divas" who could only appeal to people by being half naked. Ironically, Ivory's HeelFaceTurn would occur not long after she managed to get so much heel heat from an unexpected source.
284* Wrestling/RingOfHonor had this happen on a few occasions. Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness and the Age of the Fall frequently drew so much ire with their victories that fans threw empty bottles and whatever else was on hand into the ring.
285* ROH fans had a ''[[LoveToHate special]]'' hatred for Jimmy Rave, and showering him with toilet paper in place of streamers usually thrown at wrestlers they like. This really came into play when ROH officially banned toilet paper from its shows and fans continued to sneak it in anyway.
286* Wrestling/AustinAries started throwing his popcorn at the number one contender to his title belt, [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]], when it looked like he was going to beat Aries's Generation Next stablemate Wrestling/RoderickStrong.
287* Fighting Spirit trainee Kris Rex got trash thrown at him after his very first appearance in Valkyrie Women's Pro (the fans weren't too interested in seeing a man, much less one that wanted to hijack the show)
288* Hijo del Dos Caras got hit with a paper towel the second time he interfered with the 2015 WWC ''Lockout'' match between Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio and Ray Gonzales.
289* Happened when Wrestling/BigShow defeated Wrestling/RobVanDam for the ECW Championship during a ''WWE ECW'' broadcast, just before the latter was suspended for his DUI bust. That was bad enough, but Wrestling/PaulHeyman ''turned heel'' to help Show win. That it happened at ECW's hometown in Philadelphia didn't help at all, with Wrestling/JoeyStyles remarking how the arena was descending to near-riot conditions as trash was being thrown at a celebrating Heyman and Show.
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293* Used in ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' episode "The Great Spon Plague" during a conversation between Neddie Seagoon and "Mate".
294-->'''Mate:''' I saw you last week at Coventry. 'Ere, you do all right for fruit, don't you?
295* A radio broadcast from Glastonbury about an annoying girl duo Daphne & Celeste being pelted with absolutely everything that came to hand: fruit, vegetables, mud, bottles, refilled bottles. They didn't seem to mind, saying the audience had been lethargic before and "they woke up to hate us!"
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299Sports fans can fall into this, especially if there's some controversial call against them made by the referees. Oftentimes they can move up from soft edible stuff to stuff more solid and painful, like iceballs, bottles, and D-cell batteries.
300* During Game 7 of the 1934 World Series, angry Detroit Tigers fans pelted St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Joe "Ducky" Medwick with food, bottles, seat cushions, etc., bringing the game to a halt and forcing the sport's then-commissioner to bench Medwick for his own safety. (At that point, the Tigers were losing 10-0 and Medwick had spiked one of their players sliding into a base the previous inning).
301* April 30, 1988: During a Cincinnati Reds game, umpire Dave Pallone learned the hard way that throwing Pete Rose out of Riverfront Stadium was like throwing the President out of the White House. Fans immediately littered the field with garbage, and they continued when Pallone tried to take the field again. Pallone had to be escorted off the field for his own safety so the game could continue.
302* August 10, 1995, St. Louis Cardinals visiting the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers held a promotion that day where they gave away free souvenir baseballs to fans before the game. Some innings, lots of beer, several close calls against the Dodgers, and two ejections later, fans showed their displeasure by throwing thousands of said baseballs onto the field. Play was initially suspended so that the balls were cleaned up before being resumed, but then one fan threw another ball to center field and the umpires immediately forfeited the game to the Cardinals - as of 2022 this was the last forfeit in Major League Baseball. (The Dodgers have given away baseballs since, but now it's ''after'' the game.)
303* 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, 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. [[FanNickname The Dawg 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.
304* Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series. The Chicago Cubs had not even made the World Series since 1945, a drought popularly attributed to the Curse of the Billy Goat, but in 2003 they were up in the best-of-seven series three games to two, and Cubs fans could smell their ticket to the World Series and the end of the curse that night after the Cubs were up 3-0 against the Florida Marlins with one out in the top of the 8th inning. Then came Luis Castillo's pop-up foul ball to the edge of left field, which Cubs fan Steve Bartman inadvertently knocked away from Cubs left fielder Moises Alou, who otherwise had a good chance of catching it for the second out of the inning. The Marlins proceeded to score eight runs that inning, and angry fans in the vicinity began chanting "Asshole!" and death threats, blaming him for the team's sudden collapse. They eventually graduated to throwing beer, bratwursts, pizza, pretzels, and other debris as Bartman had to be led away by security for his own safety. The Cubs lost the game 8-3, and lost Game 7 the next night as well - it wouldn't be until 2016 when the Cubs returned to (and won) the World Series.
305* 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 (the season opening game had a player killing a rat in the dressing room before scoring two goals, including the game winner, which was coincidently the year of the Rat on the Chinese Zodiac calender) -- reaching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnHpaVW53SM absurd levels]] in 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.
306* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_GY-WurDI For cases of objects thrown in protest]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NCSZxZ6zGo there's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sZ72n-UYA always]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe150wwn-8 jerseys]], while in 2010 the Toronto Maple Leafs warranted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47knIsGbWu8 waffles]].
307* Fans throwing money has become a protest means if the grievance is over the millions, possibly billions, being sent around as sports has become such a massive industry.
308** During TheNineties there were [[https://youtu.be/eEH1hT2rKtY?t=1m a couple of incidents in the NHL]] with fans of the Quebec Nordiques[[note]]who would move to become the Colorado Avalanche a couple years later[[/note]] and later the Florida Panthers.
309** The era of free agency and massive contracts means players following the money over other things like loyalty have become more common, though that didn't stop Johnny Damon from being intensely vilified by Boston Red Sox fans in 2006 after signing a four-year, $52 million contract with [[TheRival the hated New York Yankees]].[[note]]His departure was especially galling, since Damon had previously made several statements professing his loyalty to the Red Sox.[[/note]] When he went to take his position in center field on the Yankees' first trip to Boston that year, several fans threw paper currency onto the field - the TV commentators saw at least one $20 bill.
310** In 2015, with FIFA President Sepp Blatter having to resign over the huge corruption and bribery scandal stemming from the bidding process of the 2018 and 2022 UsefulNotes/FIFAWorldCup, one comedian managed to get into a FIFA press conference and threw money at him before security could intervene.
311* During the 1960s and 1970s, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, fans would often throw oranges onto the football field after the first Nebraska touchdown of the game. Unlike most other examples on this page, this was a form of applause; at the time, Nebraska was part of the Big 8 conference, and the Big 8 champion always played in the Orange Bowl. Oranges on the field were a way of saying "We're going to the Orange Bowl!" Oranges on the field also caused a mess, especially after Nebraska installed artificial turf in 1970, and for at least half the season were likely to be frozen solid (thanks to Nebraska weather) before they were thrown, with obvious risks. The university finally managed to convince fans to just stick with the traditional balloon release to celebrate the first touchdown.
312* ''The Guardian'' [[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/shortcuts/2018/feb/05/power-play-do-philadelphia-eagles-fans-really-throw-batteries-on-the-field remembered many cases of this]] starting with how Philadelphia Eagles fans are infamous for throwing batteries (although their real OnceDoneNeverForgotten act was [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/philadelphia-fans-boo-santa-claus/ hurling snowballs at Santa Claus]]).
313* The rivalry between Colgate University and Cornell University ice hockey teams often ends in this. Visiting Colgate ice hockey players are often pelted with toothpaste[[note]]It's not a coincidence -- this "Colgate" refers to founders of ''that'' Colgate.[[/note]]. Likewise, visiting Cornell ice hockey players often get Big Red gum thrown at them, with "Big Red" being that school's athletic nickname.
314* After a disappointing performance in the 2014 Usefulnotes/FIFAWorldCup, the South Korean team arrived at the airport and a disgruntled fan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcHvoFIzQs tossed toffee at them]], referencing [[https://www.koreaexpose.com/yeot-sweet-taffy-nasty-aftertaste a local insult]].
315* Lane Kiffin got this with golf balls when his Ole Miss team played UT at Neyland Stadium. Clearly, Vol fans haven't forgotten how he took only a year to start their team's post-Fulmer AudienceAlienatingEra.
316* January 16, 2022: After the Dallas Cowboys were controversially eliminated by the San Francisco 49ers in an NFL Wild Card game, fans threw trash onto the field. Dak Prescott, the Cowboys' quarterback, criticized fans who did this because of the risk of hitting somebody. Upon being told that the fans were aiming for the referees, Prescott said "Credit to them, then." [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He eventually took it back]] and was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.
317* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball: Prior to the 1998 AFL Qualifying Final between Essendon and North Melbourne, Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy referred to two North Melbourne staff as "marshmallows", meaning they were soft. North Melbourne won, and their fans pelted Sheedy with marshmallows after the game.
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321* There's a longstanding gamer meme that anyone who annoys or angers the group too much risks being pelted with thrown dice. [[DontTryThisAtHome This is only a meme, not an actual practise among gamers]].
322* ''Stormbringer'' supplement ''Demon Magic: The Second Stormbringer Companion'', adventure "The Velvet Circle". If the customers at the House of Melodac don't like the singer's performance, they end it in a shower of fruit and vegetables.
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326* ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'' references this in an extra verse of "Together Wherever We Go":
327-->''When the audience boos,\
328We don't drop our cues.\
329We always can use what they throw.\
330The fruit may fly, but why complain?\
331Tomato sauce goes great with chow mein.''
332* Alluded to in the song "The World Will Know" from ''Theatre/{{Newsies}}'':
333-->''And the world will know\
334That this ain't no game\
335That we got a ton of rotten fruit\
336And perfect aim.''
337* In ''Theatre/SomethingRotten'' the Bottoms are implied to be so poor that Bea went to a public shaming to scavenge the cabbages the crowd was throwing.
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341* ''Toys/NexoKnights:'' An episode where the knights are impersonated by Jestro's monsters has the real knights subjected to this whenever they turn up after their imposters have been and gone. [[BigEater Axl]], at least, doesn't mind, since he likes the food that gets thrown at them.
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345* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'': In the ''Repentance'' expansion, one of the new items introduced is the Rotten Tomato. It gives Isaac a chance to fire a special tear that "marks" an enemy, which causes the other enemies to start attacking it. Oddly enough, it seems that Isaac does this by [[NauseaFuel putting the rotten tomato itself inside his mouth]] and firing pieces of it.
346* This happens in the Tiny battle in the remake of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy''; if you try hiding in the corner during the lion charge section, the audience pelts Crash with cheese, which can be hazardous if Crash slips on one and falls into a lion. After Tiny is defeated, the audience starts throwing tomatoes at him.
347* A rather bizarre subversion of the trope happens in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': in the final phase of Sally Stageplay's fight, the public (who think [[AllPartOfTheShow this whole fight has been a play]]) start cheering and throwing roses on the stage. However, the roses ''will'' damage you if you touch them.
348* ''VideoGame/FutureCopLAPD'' intro: After a barrage or rockets and machine-gun fire a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCD5E9kYoE single ripe tomato is thrown.]]
349* The ''VideoGame/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' LicensedGame for the NES had a genetically altered tomato as one of Gizmo's weapons.
350* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', some failure animations in studying subjects or practicing non-academic skills have the protagonist being pelted with tomatoes by the audience for their poor performance.
351* ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'': The Neighbor will throw tomatoes at you, [[InterfaceScrew which will cause your vision to blur and turn red.]]
352* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': When Aloy arrives at Mother's Heart for the Proving, a representative of the Carja steps forward and tries to read a greeting from his tribe. Since the Carja had, up to that point, a reputation as murderous slave-takers, the assembled Nora tribesfolk begin pelting him with tomatoes. Before they can escalate to rocks and spears, Erend talks them down.
353* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': In the first xeno wrangling competition, Cal complains about animal cruelty and throws [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables watatoes]] at the rodeo participants.
354* One of the many silly weapons in ''VideoGame/JetsNGuns'' is the Tomator Deluxe, a cannon that fires tomatoes at a very high rate of fire. The FlavorText states it was originally used by disgruntled ex-fans of an in-universe rock band to express their displeasure with the band's new sound.
355* In ''VideoGame/{{Kangaroo}}'', the monkeys throw apples at your mother kangaroo, which you must avoid.
356* One puzzle in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVI'' requires you to get a minor character to throw a rotten tomato at another one.
357* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals'': If Larry doesn't dance on stage, the crowd gets annoyed with him and starts chucking tomatoes and green vegetables at him, which results in Larry dying of embarrassment.
358* ''VideoGame/MegaManRockForce'' has Charade Man's stage, with two areas that resemble a stage with performing mooks. The second of these has a constant stream of ''exploding'' fruit that is thrown on-screen at your character.
359* Happens a few times to Johnny Cage in the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series:
360** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', a booing crowd throws fruit, bottles, and cans at him during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85B-L5O3wU0 his ending]].
361** One of his new Fatalities in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' has him tear his opponent's torso off, then do a (bad) ventriloquist/stand-up comedy impression with it, with the end result being tomatoes being flung at him, with one of them hitting the corpse in the face.
362* ''VideoGame/PajamaSam3YouAreWhatYouEatFromYourHeadToYourFeet'': After a failed failed attempt at comedy, Mickey Hollandaise gets a pumpkin tossed his way.
363* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the battles take place on a theater stage. If you're doing badly (or if the crowd is just feeling mean), then they'll start throwing rubbish at you. You can counter this by going into the crowd and smacking them with a hammer, but be careful, since they can also give you helpful items. Or, you could wait until they throw the rubbish at you and switch characters. This will prevent damage done AND keeps your audience count the same, even though you would lose just 1 doing it otherwise (and usually that one is quickly replaced). This is a less viable option if a bunch of X-Nauts decide to throw rocks at you at once--and they do so often enough for it to be a concern. If your character up front has already went though, you'll have to finish selecting an attack or smack them. Luckily, you can find a badge to switch without losing a turn. The baby Yoshi qualifies with flinging eggs at those who chuck things on the stage.
364* In the PointAndClickGame ''VideoGame/PinkPantherPassportToPeril'', Pink Panther has to give a performance in a Chinese opera. However, if [[WhatTheHellPlayer the player makes him walk onto the stage]] without the required costume and/or make-up, the audience will start throwing tomatoes at him.
365* In the ''VideoGame/{{Pinocchio}}'' LicensedGame for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, in the third level, Pinocchio must copy the dance moves of the puppets in Stromboli's puppet show by pressing the right button combinations. If he succeeds, the audience will cheer and throw money and power-ups, and if he doesn't, the audience will jeer and throw tomatoes, which drain his health.
366* During the Title Defense match with Aran Ryan in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' Wii, he taunts you between rounds -- and then gets pelted with garbage. He turns in his seat [[AxCrazy and starts threatening the crowd.]] Super Macho Man gets pelted as well, but he takes it in his stride and {{Pec Flex}}es the tomato stuck on his chest off. It happens due to the former being a [[CombatPragmatist dirty cheater]] and the latter a [[SmugSnake weapons-grade douchebag.]]
367* ''VideoGame/TheRainsdownePlayers'' is a casual RPG about a struggling theater troupe, and naturally one of the minigames involves having to dodge things thrown by an unruly audience, including (but not limited to) tomatoes, bottles, and dead fish.
368* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'' allows the ''player'' to do this to monsters. As an attack. It's more useful if you throw status-effect-causing food, rather than ordinary crops, though.
369* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has several areas where you can throw rotten tomatoes at things. For example, in Botany Bay, while bot using players were on trial, other players could hurl tomatoes at them.
370* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsVirtualBart'' has a level where Bart must throw tomatoes (and later eggs) at his classmates so he will look good in the class photo by comparison. The game ends when he runs out of tomatoes (or eggs), runs out of time, or hits one of the adults (though he can hit Principal Skinner when he is crouching).
371* In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'', Sims in the [[StockPunishment stocks]] can have tomatoes and eggs thrown at them (if the Sim you're playing is on the receiving end of this treatment, it increases the negative buff they get from the stocks).
372* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' players can attempt to beat the game with The Eggplant: ridiculously fragile and weak against all enemies [[spoiler: except Yama, whose head turns purple and dies instantly to one hit]].
373* ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventures'' games:
374** In ''Babs' Big Break'' for the Game Boy, each playable character has their own unique food to throw. Buster tosses carrots in an arc, Plucky tosses pineapples that bounce off the floors and/or walls, and Hamton bowls using watermelons.
375** In the western level of ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBusterBustsLoose Buster Busts Loose]]'' for the SNES, the Coyote Kid (from the TV series episode, "High Toon") tosses tomatoes at Buster.
376** In ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersHiddenTreasure Buster's Hidden Treasure]]'' for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, there are several enemies that toss food at Buster, including Ravens that drop apples, and Trolls (from the short, "Day for Night" from the TV series episode, "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits") that toss tomatoes.
377* In ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'', the title characters can use tomatoes which can either be thrown or launched from a slingshot at Earthlings. Chickens can also shoot tomatoes at you and there is a present that can cause tomatoes to rain from the sky. There's even a spin-off game, "Ready, Aim, Tomatoes!", which is one of the six games included in the cartridge that comes with the Sega Menacer peripheral. This game involves using the peripheral to shoot tomatoes at the enemy Earthlings.
378* In ''VideoGame/WarioWareTouched'', 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.
379* ''Videogame/WeWhoAreAboutToDie:'' If the crowd gets bored or pissed off, they'll start tossing produce and assorted garbage at you and the other gladiators, aiming for whoever's the most boring or hated. The hits don't do much other than distract, but it's a sign you're not gonna get much Favor at this rate.
380* 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.
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384* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': PlayedForHorror 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]].
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388* In Episode 70 of ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', [[spoiler: this happens to Deandra after her cringingly-bad singing performance. She actually takes it pretty well.]]
389* ''WebAnimation/MyStoryAnimated'': [[AlphaBitch Jenny]], from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hBcS6vVZ8 "I Was Born In The Forest, I've Never Seen People Before"]], starts throwing eggs and tomatoes at protesters, although we only see the eggs.
390* ''WebAnimation/OverSimplified'':
391** In "The War of the Bucket", the townspeople of Bologna pelts a visiting Bishop with fruits and vegetable after he remarks that their beloved bucket "is just a bucket".
392** In "The First Punic War", the Carthaginians are panicking due to the Romans besieging them, and that they're being starved to death. Their leader tries to tell them that everything will be okay because he still has some food... [[ItsAllAboutMe for himself]]. Angry, the citizens throws tomatoes at him, but the leader simply eats them all.
393--->'''Carthaginian Leader:''' Whoa! You're wasting your tomatoes! And you idiots wonder why you're starving?! OH WELL, IT'S JUST MORE FOOD FOR ME!
394* 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]].
395* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "alternate universe", Strong Bad interrupts Old-Timey Strong Bad's magic act at a bad time, resulting in both Strong Bads getting pelted with "shades of grey tomatoes".
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399* In one ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' modern arc strip, Arthur tells Kay he's got a role in the church play. Kay says he'll be sure to bring tomatoes, and Arthur comments that the admission fee might actually be a donation to the food drive.
400* When Malachi organizes a talent show in ''Webcomic/CampWeedonwantcha'', a group of "ropes course" campers bring along a bunch of tomatoes in preparation for this. Subverted in that the "tomatoes" are actually ''rocks'' that have been painted red. [[spoiler: Also subverted in that all of the performances gain applause from the rest of the audience, so they leave dejectedly.]]
401* 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 lengthy title, 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.
402* Geminiman from ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'' ends up getting hit with tomatoes when he puts on a concert to pay for the rent, leaving him to wonder where everyone got them. Turns out that Void was selling them, resulting in them making a net profit.
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406* 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 incredibly lame {{pun}}. At the very least, his tomato-plastered menu portrait sporting a DreamworksFace smirk shows it was totally WorthIt.
407* ''Website/RottenTomatoes'' is named after this.
408* The Website/SCPFoundation brings us [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-504 SCP-504]]; tomatoes that launch ''themselves'' toward poor attempts at comedy. The amount of force used is proportional to how bad the joke is.
409-->'''Item:''' One mature SCP-504 tomato\
410'''Subject:''' A portable computer playing a pre-recorded engineering joke.\
411'''Transcript:''' "2009 is going to be a complex year. We already know the real part; we still have to find the imaginary part".\
412'''Result:''' Supersonic blast detected; computer was completely vaporized by the tomato's kinetic energy. Sensor readings indicate an approximate speed of 3500 km/h (2174 mph).
413* ''Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}'' reports that throwing produce is merely a more primitive version of the [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Staple_gun Staple Gun]].
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417* The practice of throwing things at despised public figures dates back further than anyone can remember. According to the ancient Roman biographer and historian Suetonius, when Emperor Claudius had some trouble supplying Rome's granaries at one point (when famine and storms disrupted their supply lines), an angry mob of hungry Romans gathered and furiously pelted him with stale bread crusts. In response to this crisis, he immediately enacted laws insuring grain ships against loss and granting the suppliers with various tax advantages in order to [[RepressiveButEfficient keep the supply lines flowing]]. Suetonius goes on to say those laws remained in force forever afterward to his own time.
418* The term [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery "peanut gallery"]] originates from audience members who heckled performers by throwing exactly that.
419* [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7783325.stm Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist]] who expressed his hostile opinion of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush by throwing his shoes at him (Bush dodged both). He was arrested and tortured for that, though many of Bush's enemies in the Middle East and the West alike hailed him as one of their heroes (the sources for the "torture" claims are questionable at best, however). The practice of throwing shoes as a form of heckling (common in Arabic and similar Middle Eastern cultures, as the bottom of one's foot is considered the most ritually and physically unclean part of one's anatomy) preceded and followed him. Numerous people around the world have thrown shoes at people they despised from Israel to Taiwan. Perhaps somewhat fittingly, some of al-Zaidi's critics threw shoes at ''him'' too.
420* Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had a statuette of Milan Cathedral thrown at his face, which broke his nose and two of his teeth.
421* A heckler once threw a cabbage at US President UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley while he was giving a speech. [=McKinley=] caught it and said, "it seems that one of my detractors has lost his head," [[DeadpanSnarker without missing a beat.]]
422* During the worst days of TheGreatDepression, President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover had to endure people aiming ''anything'' (often rotten fruits and vegetables) at him (or his vehicle) at almost a daily basis, especially during his re-election campaign in '32.
423* Many renaissance faires feature a tomato-throwing game, where one can pay to throw squishy old tomatoes at an actor dressed like a medieval crook, typically in the stocks.
424* Two actors from cast of ''Film/LemonadeJoe'' (1964) represented the film at a festival in Eastern Germany. The film was widely lauded and received several festival awards, but that particular German audience did not like it at all, and Kveta Fialova (TheChanteuse Tornado Lou) and Josef Hlinomaz (TheGunslinger Grimpo) reminisced how they had got empty bottles and cans thrown at them.
425* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger had an egg thrown at him during one of his campaign speeches. He [[ActuallyPrettyFunny took it in good humor]], saying that the person who threw the egg now also owes him bacon, because you cannot have eggs without bacon.
426* The website "Tomato Casual" [[http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/02/07/the-history-of-throwing-rotten-tomatoes explores the history]] of pelting people with tomatoes.
427* Allegedly, one Brazilian politician claimed that the economical situation has significantly improved during his term, because he used to be pelted with rotten tomatoes and eggs, but now his clothes were full of stains from considerably more expensive and fresh food.
428* During France's 2017 Presidential Election, not one but '''two''' controversial candidates - Manuel Valls and François Fillon - had cups of flour thrown at them. A third, the ultimately successful Emmanuel Macron - had an egg thrown at him. Creator/JohnOliver joked on ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' that he doesn't know if the French people are any closer to picking a President, but they're halfway through making a decent crêpe.
429* In the wake of the 2019 shootings in New Zealand, controversial UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}n senator Fraser Anning stated that the victims "deserved it" for being Muslims. The following day, an upset teenager smashed an egg on Anning's head for his racist comment; Anning responded by ''punching'' the teen in the eye. Australians still shocked from the shootings came out in support of the teen for standing up to racism, leading to the hashtags [=#Eggboy=] and [=#EggANazi=] gaining popularity on Twitter. Anning would lose his seat two months later.
430* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36QGssyvzgs&feature=youtu.be&t=10 player Hungrybox got pelted with a whole, raw crab]] after a victory with HighTierScrappy Jigglypuff from an upset fan.
431* Similar to the New Zealand egging incident mentioned above, "milkshaking" has emerged as a protest tactic against the far right, with figures such as Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and Carl Benjamin all being splattered by milkshakes. A protest by the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Proud Boys]] in Portland, Oregon, had the far right planting false rumors about antifa activists putting [[WetCementGag quick-drying cement]][[note]]Even concrete marketed as 'quick-drying' still takes a couple hours to set up, because the world doesn't run on CartoonPhysics[[/note]] in milkshakes, which were then repeated verbatim by the Portland police and then picked up by the mainstream media.
432* The ''New York Post'' reported, and the NYPD Commissioner repeated, a story that paper coffee cups filled with concrete had been found near a protest site, [[InsaneTrollLogic clearly evidence that protesters were trying to disguise concrete as chocolate-chip ice cream and throw it at cops]]. Sharp-eyed readers quickly identified the cups, and the notes written on them, as samples of decorative concrete from a construction site.[[note]]The paper cup is used because it can be easily torn away to examine a cross-section of the concrete, and because there's usually plenty of coffee in the office trailer.[[/note]]
433* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Sisters Cherry Sisters]] did a notoriously bad vaudeville routine during the late 1890s. Throwing of eggs, tomatoes & etc. was so common that they eventually had to erect a wire mesh screen during performances.
434* A ''positive'' example with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Yue_(poet) Pan Yue]], a poet from the Western Jin dynasty known for being [[PrettyBoy incredibly handsome]]. He was reportedly pelted with fruits by women as a gesture of admiration for his beauty.
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