History Main / ProducePelting

* Tomatoes are used in ''Film/AyoyDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' London as means of cultural education.
-->'''Mother''': (handing her son a tomato to chuck at [[LetsDuet Johann and Lolita]]) Good taste has to be taught during childhood.

-->'''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!

* In ''Series/BlackadderTheThird'', 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.

** In the "Nightmares" episode, Willow, in her forced-to-sing nightmare, backs off a stage where the booing patrons are throwing tomatoes.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. 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.

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' 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.

* ''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.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': The Tar Valon citizens throw vegetables at Logain as he's paraded through the streets.
* In ''Series/{{The Witcher|2019}}'' 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.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'', this happens to Kootie Pie and Big Mouth during their song in "Dadzilla". It's so bad that the nearby ice cream and souvenir stands outright give their merchandise to onlookers to pelt them. At one point some guys throw a desk using a palm tree as a catapult before throwing ''the palm tree itself''. In reponse, Dadzilla throws the spectators into the ocean as revenge for their pelting.
* Tummi Gummi actually fell victim to this at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode, "The Fence Sitter". After the Gummis successfully got the Gummiberry-eating bird to switch its diet to blackberries, this leads to a brief discussion about what the fate of the bird's babies is going to be. Tummi even chimes in that they would have to let the baby birds vote too. This led to him getting pelted by blackberries from the other Gummis in response.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E37TheNuisance The Nuisance]]", the Wattersons thwart the Mayor of Elmore's plan to sell the town by destroying most of it so its value goes down. The other citizens aren't aware of why they did this and are understandably upset with the town being destroyed, so the episode ends with them [[StockPunishment locked in stocks]] and having tomatoes thrown at them.
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In the CircusEpisode, Shake tries to win the crowd's favor by impressing them with his obviously fake ThirdEye, getting bottles and trash tossed at him.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
** Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen lead a mob that pelts Franchise/{{Superman}} with tomatoes after he declares himself king in "Battle of the Superheroes!"
** Negative Man gets pelted with tomatoes while performing as a sideshow freak in "The Last Patrol!"
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bernard}}'', monkeys throw fruit at Bernard. When he retaliates, he discovers it was a distraction so they could steal the fruit he already had.
* Exaggerated as an OverlyLongGag in the ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'' episode "Am I Blue?" with a school audience throwing tomatoes.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
** "WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace" ends with a caricature representing UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's face being hit by a tomato, which then trickles to form the words "TheEnd".
** Happens near the end of "WesternAnimation/DonaldsDilemma" when Daisy manages to get Donald's squawky voice back while he's crooning for his audience.
* Invoked by ''WesternAnimation/DirtyDawg'' in one episode. He enters Ratso in a talent show, who proceeds to bomb on-stage. When the audience starts pelting him with food, Dirty collects them off-stage to eat later.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'''s realization that Patty is a terrible singer (yet can't bring himself to tell her the truth because he isn't willing to risk hurting her feelings), he imagines her attempt at singing in a theater, and then the audience members proceeding to pelt produce at her, and she's still singing even when she is up to her waist in a pile of rotten food.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** In "Boys in the Band", [[WeNeedADistraction to stall for time]] while Timmy and Wanda free Chip Skylark from Vicky's clutches, Cosmo [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether gets his old band, "The Fairies", back together]]. However, without them even playing, the audience throws tons of tomatoes at them.
--->'''Cosmo:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Hey, they like us! They really like us!]]
** In "Foul Balled", Chester gets garbage tossed at him after a baseball game when [[EpicFail he gets nine innings of outs in one swing.]]
** In "Cosmo Con", when the fairies get upset that Britney Britney isn't showing at the fairy convention as promised (because her appearance would blow Timmy's secret), Cosmo tries to cover it by being a OneManBand, only for the fairies to break out the tomatoes. Fortunately, this turns out to be a good thing as Mr. Crocker barges in just as they start throwing, blinding him and preventing him from seeing anything magical.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Lois Kills Stewie", after Stewie [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]], he makes it the law that anyone who sees Peter must throw apples at him.
* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': In "The Stranger", Rudy throws a tomato at Fat Albert, only for Albert to dodge and the tomato hit the principal instead.
* In the episode "One False Movie" of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', this happens to Bloo at the screening for his movie when [[spoiler:the film is interrupted by an episode of ''Lauren Is Explorin''' that Eduardo taped over the end of the movie.]]
-->'''Bloo''': No, please! I'm allergic to tomatoes! And rejection!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s Zoidberg does a stand-up routine which sucks; Leila and Bender pelt him with tomatoes, which Zoidberg happily eats.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' Garfield discusses and invokes this trope. He talks about going on the Comedy Diet where you can only eat what people throw at you. He then goes on stage and tells bad jokes until the audience hits him with vegetables.
** In the episode, "All About Odie", a man from the audience asks Garfield what Odie does with with a car he catches, Garfield responds that Odie buries it in the backyard (which turns out to be true as shown at the end), the audience think he's crazy and start to insult him. An irritated Garfield then makes a remark about the audience, which leaves everyone booing at him and throwing produce. It is done very comically though.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Irrational Treasure", Grunkle Stan gets in trouble during the town's "Pioneer Day" festival (where the town celebrates their heritage by dressing and acting like pioneers), and is promptly thrown in the stocks. Gideon then comes by, holding a bag of tomatoes, and proceeds to [[ContrivedClumsiness "accidentally" drop them on Stan's face]].
* Heathcliff once got hit with tomatoes thrown by the neighborhood pets in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon ''Sno' Fun'' has the magpies as mounties facing the outlaw Powerful Pierre. The boys hide inside a single overcoat and throw virtually every fruit and vegetable at Pierre, to no effect.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when [[ButtMonkey Samy]] tries to perform, he inevitably runs into this trope.
* Done in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' when Ron is on stage at Camp Wannaweep, lampshaded in typical Kim Possible fashion he wonders a few times where all this fruit is coming from.
* ''WesternAnimation/LarryBoyTheCartoonAdventures'': [=LarryBoy=], in disguise as a yodeler (despite the fact he can't yodel), gets pelted with produce -- [[https://youtu.be/xhJrQSvj9jA and one of the projectiles is actually Bob the Tomato]].
-->'''Bob:''' HEY!!! I don't ''CARE'' how bad he is, we do ''not'' throw ''tomatoes'' in this town!
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** A similar gag in ''What's Cookin' Doc?'' has WesternAnimation/BugsBunny campaining for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward... [[RefugeInAudacity at the awards banquet]]. The audience throws assorted fruit, burying Bugs, who emerges briefly wearing a Carmen Miranda fruit hat, before getting clobbered with what he thinks is an Oscar, but turns out to be a [[MedalOfDishonor booby prize]].
** ''WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening'': The poor protagonist offers Free Admission (and later Free Beer) to the debut of the Singing Frog (before he was known as Michigan J. Frog). All the crowd gets to see is the little green thing croaking in place. Cue the loud continuous booing... and, of course, the onslaught of fruits and vegetables in the man's face while the curtain is covering everything else.
** In "WesternAnimation/ShowBizBugs", Daffy has carefully trained some pigeons to do a little circus act. They fly away when he lets them out of their cage, getting smacked with a tomato when he tries to exit the stage.
** In "Daffy's Inn Trouble", [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] [[DisguisedInDrag disguises in drag]] as as a can-can girl to attract customers for his inn, complete with a record of "The Latin Quater", which he [[ThatSyncingFeeling lip synchs to]]. Unfortunately, the record experiences a RepetitiveAudioGlitch, blowing Daffy's ruse and resulting in him experiencing this trope.
--->'''Daffy''': Boy! What a bunch of soreheads! ''(A final tomato hits him in the face)''
** In Tex Avery's "[[https://youtu.be/BB5r_2eeW04?t=5m7s Hamuture Night]]", a fox is trying to dramatically recite Hamlet's soliloquy. Everytime he finishes the line someone throws a tomato.
--->'''MC''': The balcony scene from "Romeo and Jule....t" ''(He gets hit by a tomato.)''
* Done a lot in classic cartoons -- notably in Tex Avery's ''WesternAnimation/MagicalMaestro'', where an opera singer's costume is repeatedly transformed by the magician/conductor. An irate audience member hurls a huge pile of fruit at the stage, just in time for the singer to get turned into Carmen Miranda.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In [[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS2E10GettingEnergized "Getting Energized"]], this happens to Carlos (twice) while attempting to entertain an impatient crowd.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' In "Pace Makes Waste", after the race cars leave the track and Zack hastily tries to take over as announcer, the announcer's booth is pelted with rotten vegetables by disgruntled race fans. Zack [[LampshadeHanging wonders where they got the vegetables]], and it cuts to [[JerkAss Bradley]] selling "expired vegetables to throw at lame announcers!"
* This shows up in the third act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode [[Recap/MrBogusS2E8BogusToTheRescue "Bogus to the Rescue"]], though the tomatoes were actually thrown at his superhero office rather than at him.
-->'''Bogus:''' [[LampshadeHanging Not nice to throw tomaties!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'':
** A RunningGag is Fozzie getting hit by rotten tomatoes whenever he tells a bad joke. Which gets ''interesting'' when they did a parody of ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes''.
** Then there's the Death Tomato, from the episode where they do ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'': In "Upside Down Day", the babies briefly have the tomatoes from the garden fall on them. Fozzie comments that he usually has to tell a joke for that to happen, alluding to the aforementioned RunningGag from the original 1984 series.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': “See No Evil”, When Jenny eschews her new pair of eyes that Mrs.Wakeman gave to her because it made her look ridiculously freaky, she then flies around town sightless and ends up crashing into a movie theater and tears the screen, causing outraged moviegoers to pelt bags of popcorn and soda cups at Jenny, which land into her empty eye sockets.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': During the song segment in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple "One Bad Apple"]], Babs Seed throws tomatoes and milkshakes at the [[PowerTrio Cutie Mark Crusaders]] while [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara]] and [[BetaBitch Silver Spoon]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown roll with laughter.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Out of Toon": After the boys turn their older sister Candace into a villain for their cartoon, people began throwing tomatoes at her. The boys managed to cheer her up by telling her that it meant [[BlatantLies they liked her and she was a good villain]].
-->'''Candace:''' Maybe I'll go feel the love! (''gets hit by tomatoes'') Love feels a lot like tomatoes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PJSparkles'', when the Cloak turns people hateful with his Malice Mist, they pelt PJ and Blaze with tomatoes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Randall is pelted with the rest of the student body's lunch contents in "Stand Up Randall" after he tattles on another kid at the beginning.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Under the Hood", an audience member throws a tomato at Muscle Man's head when he yells that the crowd doesn't understand comedy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes", when Jerry finally announces that Pluto is not a planet, he gets things thrown at him by the audience.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The Springfield baseball stadium has a "tomato day", when people are given free tomatoes with which to pelt a representative of the Springfield Communist Party.
--->"Oh well, this is better than Dart Day..."
** Used again in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture Bart to the Future]]" where Bart and Ralph perform a cheap rip-off of "Margaritaville" and get pelted with beer bottles -- which hit a laser grid force field.
** And earlier in a redneck bar, when the owner announces that drink service will be suspended for a few minutes, he has to duck several bottles, a chair and a ''live pig.''
** Season eight's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E11TheTwistedWorldOfMargeSimpson The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]" where Marge tries to sell her pretzels at a ballgame, but the sports fans end up hurling them at Whitey Ford.
** In the Season 9 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E10MiracleOnEvergreenTerrace Miracle on Evergreen Terrace]]", the residents of Springfield throw food at the Simpsons' house when they discover they've been scammed by the family.
--->'''Lisa:''' I think they're running out of tomatoes.\\
(''loud smash'')\\
'''Bart:''' Yeah, but they still got plenty of pumpkins.
** In the season 21 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E17AmericanHistoryXCellent American History X-cellent]]", Moe is selling throwing stuff at the crowd gathered to watch Mr. Burns being carted away to jail. "Get your throwing stuff here! Turn a protest into a riot!"
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E13SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaAnnoyedGruntcious Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]", Krusty the Clown was doing a show at the Apollo Theater called "Krusty Komedy Klassics". When he sees the sign behind him, he realizes in shock that the first letters also [[UnfortunateImplications spell out the acronym for the "Ku Klux Klan"]] in a theater filled primarily with a black audience before giggling nervously and saying [[OhCrap "Not good..."]], which likewise resulted in the audience pelting things at him. They did something very similar later on in the (in-universe) show, where Krusty tries to do a skit called "Mad About Shoe" (where he makes out with an oversized shoe to the style of the sitcom ''Series/MadAboutYou''), obviously not finding the joke funny. Krusty also took note of this and warned them that they certainly won't like the [[Series/NYPDBlue NYPD Shoe]] skit, as it's overall the same thing.
** Happens to Bart in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]" when he is pelted with garbage and beer cans when he loses the Little League Championship. Considering how ti drives bart to suicide, it's [[PlayedForHorror Played for Horror]]
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E3SleepingWithTheEnemy Sleeping with the Enemy]]", Nelson's long-missing father was trapped in a circus freakshow where people were ''told'' to continuously throw peanuts at him (so his allergic reaction wouldn't subside and show them he's completely normal and capable of speech).
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In the episode "Culture Shock", the audience boos Squidward during his segment on the Krusty Krabs' talent show and throw tomatoes from the free salad bar at him. Mr. Krabs, spotting a business opportunity, immediately starts charging for the salad bar. When Spongebob comes in to clean up the mess, the audience acutally likes it (Squidward goes on trying to mimic Spongebob, only to be hit with another tomato).
--->'''Fred:''' It's worth every penny.
** In the episode "The Smoking Peanut", Patrick is accused of throwing a peanut at a trained giant clam, causing it to scream. He's tied up and pelted with peanuts as retribution. [[{{Unishment}} Patrick just catches them in his mouth]].
** In "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=] and the Worm", when everyone at the Krusty Krab is arguing on how to protect themselves from the Alaskan bull worm, Mr. Krabs suggests that they all buy a Krabby Patty. They react by pelting him with bottles of ketchup and mustard.
** In the end of the episode "Little Yellow Book", Squidward gets locked in the stocks by the police as punishment and was pelted by the angry crowd that are throwing tomatoes at him as payback for reading [=SpongeBob=]'s diary and making him cry and humiliated.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E8BombadJedi "Bombad Jedi"]], Jar Jar's attempt to communicate with the creatures in the Rodian swamp is met with several fruit being hurled at him and C-3PO. Jar-Jar dodges, but the protocol droid isn't as quick.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E15TheNewTrooper "The New Trooper"]], the Colossus residents protesting the First Order's presence in the marketplace pelt the stormtroopers with fruit. Kaz uses this to get away from the troopers twice while disguised as one of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E5DeweyWins "Dewey Wins"]], Mayor Dewey's insensitive remarks about Lars [[spoiler:being stranded in space]] leads to Mrs. Barriga (Lars' mother) throwing a tomato at him. Much to Dewey's chagrin, [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube it ends up on TubeTube]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', The heroes would often defeat King Koopa by hurling vegetables at him and his minions. Justified in that the cartoon was largely based on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''; vegetables were the only weakness of Wart, the BigBad of that game.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** In "A Ditch In Time", Plucky tricks the prehistoric ancestors of the show's cast into thinking he is their new leader. When Buster and Babs tell the truth about Plucky to them, they toss their fruit and vegetables at him when he returns.
--->'''Plucky:''' Yesterday's leader, today's tossed salad.
** Montana Max does this to Buster in "Animaniacs!" at the beginning of the Acme Looniversity Film Festival. Fortunately, Buster dodges the vegetables, grabs one of the carrots ([[TrademarkFavoriteFood obviously so he can eat it later]]), and catches a watermelon with his ears and [[TheDogBitesBack tosses it back at Monty]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIIForgiveAndForGwen Aftermath II: Forgive and for Gwen]]", Geoff and Bridgette choose to only show DJ's confessional in which he's unapologetic about the many benefits of his illegal alliance with Chef and refuse to show another confessional that would clear his name. Not one to let her son's name be tarnished, DJ's mother throws a full cabbage and a tomato at Geoff to get him to change his mind, which he wisely does.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'': In "[[Recap/TotalDramaRamaS3E15TP2JudgementBidet TP2: Judgement Bidet]]", Sewer Mike's performance goes well enough with the audience bribed and all, but the moment it's revealed that he's not a human but an alligator, the crowd turns against him. A little boy has a stall with tomatoes ready for pelting and he finds a lot of eager customers amongst the theater's attendees.
* Has happened twice in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': Once in Sam's ImagineSpot (of herself doing the tango) in "Head Shrinker Much?", the second to Jazz Hands when he was playing the accordion in "Mime Your Own Business".
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', The Gobbowl spectators aren't shy with this. With tomatoes, old shoes, calliflowers, rubber chickens, carrots, etc.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Black Beetle is pelted with tomatoes during a fight in a Lexcorp factory farm as a distraction for a more lethal (but just as ineffective) attack.
-->'''Black Beetle:''' Seriously? The ''fruit'' hurt more.
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* At the end of the final race in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' movie, Chick Hicks gets hit with tires from the crowd [[spoiler: for violently ramming The King and sending him into a horrible wreck.]]

* In Creator/BusterKeaton's ''Film/TheHauntedHouse.'', a traveling opera company gets this treatment after making a hash of ''Theater/Faust''.

* 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.

* In Stephen Manes' ''The Obnoxious Jerks'' 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]].

* [[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.

** Similarly, 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]]

* 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!" Little did he know...

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* ''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 TierInducedScrappy Jigglypuff from an upset fan.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': “See No Evil”, When Jenny eschews her new pair of eyes that Mrs.Wakeman gave to her because it made her look ridiculously freaky, she then flies around town sightless and ends up crashing into a movie theater and rips of the screen, causing outraged moviegoers to pelt bags of popcorn and soda cups, which land into Jenny’s empty sockets.

''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' “See No Evil”, When Jenny eschews her new pair of eyes that Mrs.Wakeman gave to her because it made her look ridiculously freaky, she then flies around town sightless and ends up crashing into a movie theater and rips of the screen, causing outraged moviegoers to pelt bags of popcorn and soda cups, which land into Jenny’s empty sockets.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}} and the Magic Carpet'', once Cacofonix has no voice to sing, the angered crowd throws onions and tomatoes at him.

** In the episode "Culture Shock", the audience boos Squidward during the talent show and throws tomatoes from the free salad bar. Mr. Krabs, spotting a business opportunity, immediately starts charging for the salad bar. They do this to everyone onstage, except Spongebob, who cleans up the mess, and the audience acutally it when Sponegbob does that.

** In the episode "The Smoking Peanut", Patrick is accused of throwing a peanut at a trained clam. He's tied up and pelted with peanuts as retribution. [[{{Unishment}} Patrick just catches them in his mouth]].

* 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 DorkAge.

* 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 case of NamesTheSame -- 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.

* The Wiki/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.

* In ''Film/AKnightsTale'', Chaucer puts in an attempt at ShamingTheMob to protect William, but only gets three words in before the crowd silences him with a volley of rotten vegetables.

%%* Happens to a traveling opera company that makes a hash of ''Faust'' in Creator/BusterKeaton's ''Film/TheHauntedHouse.''

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In the CircusEpisode, Shake tries to win the crowd's favor by impressing them with his obviously-fake ThirdEye, getting bottles and trash toss at him.

* 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]].

* 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]].

* The Penguin, the VillainWithGoodPublicity from ''Film/BatmanReturns'', trots out the above quote ([[HangingALampshade 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.