History Main / FruitOfTheLoon

* ''Anime/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.

* Carmen Miranda famously wore a tutti-frutti hat on her head while dancing. Very unpractical, though it did look sexy.

* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny classic ''Rabbit of Seville,'' Bugs makes a fruit salad on Elmer's head. Where Bugs got the fruit is irrelevant.

** In episode 2558, Ernie holds a banana in his ear, supposedly to keep the alligators away.

* Queen from ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' and her love of bananas.

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 one case, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_unshiu satsuma]].

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]]

* Queen from ''VideoGame/Deltarune'' and her love of bananas.

* 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.)
** Another episode had Fozzie doing the "banana in the ear" gag with Avery Schreiber.

* Several Ernie and Bert sketches from ''Series/SesameStreet'' involve bananas and other fruits:
** In episode 4, Ernie pretends that a banana is a telephone. This sketch was remade for episode 3941.
** In episode 179, Bob reads "The Magic Apple", with Ernie as a farm boy and Bert in drag as a princess.
** 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.
** In episode 674, Ernie eats the inside of a banana and gives Bert the peel.
** In episode 747, Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie solve an apple mystery.
** 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.
** 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.
** In episode 2558, Ernie holds a banana in his ear, supposedly to keep the alligators away.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], where the page quote originates, 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.

[[caption-width-right:350:Even Jake doesn't understand the point of the banana.[[note]]It's actually [[NauseaFuel demon poop]].[[/note]]]]

* In ''Series/{{Life}}'', 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.

* In the Creator/MarxBrothers' classic ''Film/HorseFeathers'', 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.

** 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.

* 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.

* The Kobayashi Maru scene in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. Director's commentary reveals that Creator/ChrisPine "just looked so much cockier" whilst munching on an apple.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'': 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.

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 one case, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_(fruit) satsuma]].

* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' has Principal Kunou, who not only produces pineapples any time he can, but also has a small pineapple tree growing out of his head.

* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': The boys stuff their dresses with a variety of fruit, including... a banana.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'': 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.
* In the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' WholePlotReference episode of ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', bananas play a role, possibly a reference to the running BananaPeel gag.

* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' has Principal Kunou who not only produces pineapples any time he can, but also has a small pineapple tree growing out of his head.

* Evermary, who is more or less Haru's grandfather in ''Anime/RaveMaster'' breaks up a potential confesion of love with the offer of an apple. Apples, in fact, are something Evermay loves so much that he once abducted a small chiled ([[spoiler:Gale]]) because the baby happened to have apple red cheeks.

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** 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.)]].
* 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.

* In the Creator/MarxBrothers' classic ''Film/HorseFeathers'', 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.
** 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?"

* 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...
* ''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.
--> '''Medusa:''' Grape me!!

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* On Creator/PennAndTeller's show ''Series/FoolUs'', 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.

* The Kobayashi Maru scene in the new ''Film/StarTrek'' film. Director's commentary reveals that Creator/ChrisPine "just looked so much cockier" whilst munching on an apple.

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, other FundamentallyFunnyFruit and, in one case, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_(fruit) satsuma]].

->'''The Doctor''': Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!\\
'''Jack''': Why not?!\\
'''The Doctor''': Good source of potassium!

A character has a piece of fruit. There is no reason for him to ''have'' the fruit; he just does. Often, he is [[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.

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 one case, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_(fruit) satsuma]]..

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-->'''Peri:''' Why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?\\