Produce Pelting / Western Animation

Produce Pelting in Western Animation.

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Examples:

• In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, 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 Adventures of the Gummi Bears 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.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: In "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 locked in stocks and having tomatoes thrown at them.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In the Circus Episode, Shake tries to win the crowd's favor by impressing them with his obviously fake Third Eye, getting bottles and trash tossed at him.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen lead a mob that pelts 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 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 Overly Long Gag in the Class of 3000 episode "Am I Blue?" with a school audience throwing tomatoes.
• Classic Disney Shorts:
  • "Der Fuehrer's Face" ends with a caricature representing Adolf Hitler's face being hit by a tomato, which then trickles to form the words "The End".
  • Happens near the end of "Donald's Dilemma" when Daisy manages to get Donald's squawky voice back while he's crooning for his audience.
• Invoked by Dirty Dawg 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 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.
• In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "If It Smells Like an Ed", the Eds suffer this at the end of the episode at the hands of the neighborhood kids for ruining Friendship Day and binding and gagging Jonny, when in fact, they were trying to find the real culprit responsible. They ended up with this punishment rather than making out with the Kanker Sisters after they were lured into a shed, supposedly where the perpetrator was hiding out, but wasn't, since said perpetrator led them right into a trap. The real perpetrator behind everything was Jimmy after Eddy wedgied him earlier.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • In "Boys in the Band", to stall for time while Timmy and Wanda free Chip Skylark from Vicky's clutches, Cosmo gets his old band, "The Fairies", back together. However, without them even playing, the audience throws tons of tomatoes at them.
    Cosmo: Hey, they like us! They really like us!
  • In "Foul Balled", Chester gets garbage tossed at him after a baseball game when 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 One-Man Band, 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 Family Guy episode "Lois Kills Stewie", after Stewie takes over the world, he makes it the law that anyone who sees Peter must throw apples at him.
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: 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 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, this happens to Bloo at the screening for his movie when 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!
• Futurama's Zoidberg does a stand-up routine which sucks; Leela and Bender pelt him with tomatoes, which Zoidberg happily eats.
• In an episode of Garfield and Friends 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.
• Gravity Falls: 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 "accidentally" drop them on Stan's face.
• Heathcliff once got hit with tomatoes thrown by the neighborhood pets in an episode of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats.
• The Heckle and Jeckle 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 Jimmy Two-Shoes, when Samy tries to perform, he inevitably runs into this trope.
• Done in Kim Possible 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.
• LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures: LarryBoy, in disguise as a yodeler (despite the fact he can't yodel), gets pelted with produce — 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!
• Looney Tunes:
  • You Ought to Be in Pictures ends with Porky Pig throwing a tomato at Daffy Duck in response to the latter trying to get him to quit again.
  • A similar gag in What's Cookin' Doc? has Bugs Bunny campaining for an Academy Award... 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 booby prize.
  • One Froggy Evening: 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 "Show Biz Bugs", 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", Daffy 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 lip synchs to. Unfortunately, the record experiences a Repetitive Audio Glitch, 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 "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 Magical Maestro, 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.
• The Magic School Bus: In "Getting Energized", this happens to Carlos (twice) while attempting to entertain an impatient crowd.
• Milo Murphy's Law: 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 wonders where they got the vegetables, and it cuts to Bradley selling "expired vegetables to throw at lame announcers!"
• This shows up in the third act of the Mr. Bogus episode "Bogus to the Rescue", though the tomatoes were actually thrown at his superhero office rather than at him.
  Bogus: Not nice to throw tomaties!
• Muppet Babies (1984):
  • A Running Gag is Fozzie getting hit by rotten tomatoes whenever he tells a bad joke. Which gets interesting when they did a parody of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!.
  • Then there's the Death Tomato, from the episode where they do Star Wars.
• Muppet Babies (2018): 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 Running Gag from the original 1984 series.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: In "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.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: During the song segment in "One Bad Apple", Babs Seed throws tomatoes and milkshakes at the Cutie Mark Crusaders while Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon roll with laughter.
• In one episode of The Oddball Couple, Spiffy and Fleabag's vaudeville act results in this. Spiffy is mortified, but Fleabag is ecstatic about getting free food.
• Phineas and Ferb, "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 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 PJ Sparkles, when the Cloak turns people hateful with his Malice Mist, they pelt PJ and Blaze with tomatoes.
• 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 Regular Show 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 Rick and Morty 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.
• The Simpsons:
  • 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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 spell out the acronym for the "Ku Klux Klan" in a theater filled primarily with a black audience before giggling nervously and saying "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 Mad About You), obviously not finding the joke funny. Krusty also took note of this and warned them that they certainly won't like the NYPD Shoe skit, as it's overall the same thing.
  • Happens to Bart in "The Boys of Bummer" when he is pelted with garbage and beer cans when he loses the Little League Championship. Considering how it drives Bart to the point of suicide, it's Played for Horror.
  • In "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).
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • 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. 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.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "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.
• Star Wars Resistance: In "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.
• Steven Universe: In "Dewey Wins", Mayor Dewey's insensitive remarks about Lars being stranded in space leads to Mrs. Barriga (Lars' mother) throwing a tomato at him. Much to Dewey's chagrin, it ends up on TubeTube.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The heroes would often defeat King Koopa by hurling vegetables at him and his minions. Justified in that the cartoon was largely based on Super Mario Bros. 2; vegetables were the only weakness of Wart, the Big Bad of that game.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • 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 (obviously so he can eat it later), and catches a watermelon with his ears and tosses it back at Monty.
• Total Drama: In "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.
• Total DramaRama: In "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 Totally Spies!: Once in Sam's Imagine Spot (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".
• At the beginning of the Ultimate Spider-Man episode, "The Incredible Spider-Hulk", Spider-Man is pelted with tomatoes for being in his underwear, despite being in his suit.
• In Wakfu, The Gobbowl spectators aren't shy with this. With tomatoes, old shoes, calliflowers, rubber chickens, carrots, etc.
• Young Justice (2010). 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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