History Main / FruitOfTheLoon

* In ''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]].

* In ''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]].

* In ''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]].

->-- ''DoctorWho'', "The Doctor Dances"

* ''DoctorWho'' is a frequent invoker of this trope:

* The perpetual midcarder Carlito (the "cool" Caribbean) is famous for always bringing an apple with him to the ring for his match (leading many to nickname him "The Bad Apple"). He will invariably punctuate each match by spitting chewed-up chunks of apple in the opponent's face. The gimmick of spitting fruit is puzzling enough, but if he's from the Caribbean shouldn't he be spitting a pineapple or a coconut?

* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Attack of the Clowns," Billy tries to protect himself from evil clowns by wearing as a hat a bowl of tangelos and stuffing two up his nose. When Mandy asks why he think tangelos will protect him, he points to a tangelo vendor whistling nonchalantly. [[BellisariosMaxim Why there's a tangelo vendor inside the school is never asked]], though it [[RuleOfFunny better that way]].

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* In [=~Raymond E. Feist~=]'s ''[[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.
* In ''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.
* In ''AnansiBoys'' by 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. 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 using it in a rather WackyMarriageProposal.
* One 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.
-->'''You''': As any idiot can plainly see, I'm taking my pulse.\\
'''Salesperson''': With an eggplant? Why don't you just squash your thumb against your artery like everybody else?\\
'''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.

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* ''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.
* Kirika in ''{{Eiken}}'' can often be seen [[EroticEating eating a banana]] in a way that is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything not at all suggestive in any way]].
* ''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 ''AliceInWonderland'' WholePlotReference episode of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', bananas play a role, possibly a reference to the running BananaPeel gag.
** A minor recurring character also has a strong thing for oranges.
* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]] has Principal Kunou who not only produces pineapples any time he can, but also has a small pineapple tree growing out of his head.
** Take note that some of these pinapples EXPLODE. He also seemed to have a thing for coconuts in his introductory story/episode.
* Evermary, who is more or less Haru's grandfather in ''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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--> -- ''DoctorWho'', "The Doctor Dances"

A character has a piece of fruit. There is no reason for him to ''have'' the fruit, he just does. Often, he is an eccentric character and will pull out the fruit whenever the moment is quite tense. It's a Fruit of the Loon, you see.

* In Disney's ''[[DisneyAnimatedCanon Mulan]]'', the good guys' plan to sneak into the palace and save the emperor involves the comic relief trio [[DisguisedInDrag dressing up as women]]. If them pulling fruit out of the front of their robes as a [[TheReveal reveal]] wasn't amusing enough, one of them pulls out a ''banana'' (and not TWO, for that matter).

* In Disney's ''[[DisneyAnimatedCanon Mulan]]'', the good guys' plan to sneak into the palace and save the emperor involves the comic relief trio [[BosomBuddies dressing up as women]]. If them pulling fruit out of the front of their robes as a [[TheReveal reveal]] wasn't amusing enough, one of them pulls out a ''banana'' (and not TWO, for that matter).

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* ''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.
* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Attack of the Clowns," Billy tries to protect himself from evil clowns by wearing as a hat a bowl of tangelos and stuffing two up his nose. When Mandy asks why he think tangelos will protect him, he points to a tangelo vendor whistling nonchalantly. [[BellisariosMaxim Why there's a tangelo vendor inside the school is never asked]], though it [[RuleOfFunny better that way]].
* In Disney's ''[[DisneyAnimatedCanon Mulan]]'', the good guys' plan to sneak into the palace and save the emperor involves the comic relief trio [[BosomBuddies dressing up as women]]. If them pulling fruit out of the front of their robes as a [[TheReveal reveal]] wasn't amusing enough, one of them pulls out a ''banana'' (and not TWO, for that matter).
* ''{{Family Guy}}'' had this with Mayor Adam West giving Quagmire a banana and cryptically telling him that "[[ChekhovsGun When the time is right, you'll know what to do with it]]". 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.

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* Not quite a fruit, but the Magic Items I sourcebook for ''{{GURPS}}'' includes the Mad Nut: a magical nut that causes anyone carrying it to treat it as their most valuable possession.

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* As a minor RunningJoke, CtrlAltDel's local nut Ethan was obsessed with a watermelon for a time, treating it as a character.

* In the 1968 version of ''TheProducers'', the character LSD pulls a banana seemingly out of nowhere after performing his audition and begins sucking his thumb. What this troper would really like to know is where the hell he hid that banana in those skintight pants.
** 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. Where the banana came from is best left unexplored.

** [[{{Toric}} This troper]] always thought he carried it in the first movie because he meant for it to be the first thing he ate once the curse was broken.

This works extremely well with bananas (because FreudWasRight, anyone can slip on a BananaPeel, and ''banana'' is an [[InherentlyFunnyWords Inherently Funny Word]]), but it also works with apples, oranges, kumquats, lemons, tangelos, pineapples and, in one case, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikan satsuma]]. Often makes use of a FundamentallyFunnyFruit.

*** Once it's turned purple he then eats the celery.

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

* Mr Smith in ''ShootEmUp'' really likes carrots. He munches on them. He quotes Bugs Bunny. He shoves one through a bad guy's skull...