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Fruit of the Loon
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A character has a piece of fruit. There is no reason for them to have the fruit; they just do. Often, they are an eccentric character and will pull out the 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 Banana Peel, and banana is an Inherently Funny Word), but it also works with apples, oranges, kumquats, lemons, tangelos, pineapples and, in one case, a satsuma. Compare The Snack Is More Interesting. |
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Bioshock Infinitehas a mook with a pineapple on his corpse. | |
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"Put a banana in your ear..." | |
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Subverted with the Yiga Clan in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. They are an unhinged cult of assassins devoted to serving Calamity Ganon and killing anyone that serves Hyrule, and its members always drop a pair of Mighty Bananas when defeated. In this setting, it's not unreasonable for people traveling Hyrule to be carrying food on them. However, it's also shown that Mighty Bananas are the only thing the Yiga eat. The guards in their hideout can be easily distracted by dropping a pair on the floor, and they like to put them in places such as treasure chests. | |
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Shawn Spencer of Psych has an obsession with pineapples that has become a Running Gag. | |
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Horse Feathers: In the Marx Brothers' classic, 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?" |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Stannis Baratheon, parlaying with his younger brother Renly during the War of the Five Kings, sees him place his hand inside his cloak. Stannis goes for his sword only for Renly to reveal...a peach, which he then offers to Stannis. A confused Stannis refuses, to which Renly advises him to enjoy life's pleasures. Even after Renly's death, Stannis continues to be haunted by the memory of the peach. |
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Harry Potter; Luna Lovegood usually wears earrings made of what look like orange radishes. They're actually Dirigible Plums, but still, fruits. On a more vegetative matter, it seems (at the Hog's Head) that her cocktail of choice includes a small onion attached to the stirrer. In the sixth book, while searching for a note she pulls out a Gurdyroot (a plant resembling a green onion) from her bag. Which she then gives to Ron. |
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In Eric the Unready, you officially start on your heroic adventure by being the only one able to draw the legendary banana out of a stone. | |
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Excel♡Saga: The opening sequence features Hyatt 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 peels. This being Excel Saga, all this is completely par for the course. | |
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Several Ernie and Bert sketches from Sesame Street 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. When Bert retorts that there are no alligators on Sesame Street, Ernie says, "Right. It's doing a good job, isn't it, Bert?" |
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In a sketch on The Muppet Show, 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 Gherkins Akimbo, you see.) Another episode had Fozzie doing the "banana in the ear" gag with Avery Schreiber. |
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The Kobayashi Maru scene in Star Trek (2009): Director's commentary reveals that Chris Pine "just looked so much cockier" whilst munching on an apple. This parallels a scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Kirk eats an apple as... he reminisces about the Kobayashi Maru. Apparently this was a complete coincidence. |
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On My Name Is Earl, Earl's friend Frank has been moved to a halfway house, and has not been eating because the food is spiked with tranquilizers. Since he is very hungry, Randy feeds him an apple slice he had in his pocket. Earl looks at Randy, who then explains, "Oh, I've been keeping apple slices in my pocket for awhile now." | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, there's Drebin, a shady weapons dealer who often has an apple for no apparent reason. In his first appearance, he uses a white handkerchief to make an apple out of a hand grenade. | |
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StarTropics features a running gag about having bananas in your ears. | |
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In 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. It's a personal pineapple! "You're not really here to box the kumquat, are you?" - It Makes Sense in Context. "It's an horned melon, also known as a jelly melon, or African horned cucumber. They're mostly ornamental, but you can eat them too." |
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Kashitaro from Gamaran lives on the top of the mountain behind Juuren Village and has an apple tree he calls Saeko on there. He seems to be fond of apples, and Running Gag has him expressing his fetish to shove apples up the ass of women he likes. | |
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Candace has a famous line with this trope on Phineas and Ferb, referring to a previous scene where she used a banana to practice calling up her crush, Jeremy. When Carl is hit by Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Mirror Morality Machine and turns evil, he sends his robots of the Flynn-Fletchers to find Perry. As they're getting on a jet, Carl scans them with a metal detector. For no discernible reason, the robot of Lawrence is holding a pineapple. A Running Gag that occurs whenever something happens that causes a group of people to run around in a panic, there's always one person in the crowd carrying a watermelon above their head and crying out, "My watermelon!" |
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Evermary, who is more or less Haru's grandfather in Rave Master, breaks up a potential confession of love with the offer of an apple. Apples, in fact, are something Evermay loves so much that he once abducted a small child (Gale) because the baby happened to have apple red cheeks. | |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: In the middle of chasing down the bad guys, the Hong Kong Cavaliers run through Buckaroo's lab. There is a watermelon in a vise. New Jersey stops, nonplussed, asks, "Why is there a watermelon there?" Reno replies, "I'll tell you later", and they immediately resume pursuit of the bad guys. It's never mentioned again. In the fanclub newsletter, it was revealed that (in story) they were developing watermelons which could be airdropped without parachutes into dangerous famine stricken areas. It was also hinted that the scene was filmed as a Take That! directed at a meddling studio exec. Further, in-story the effort was abandoned when someone at the Institute belatedly realized that watermelons that could be airdropped couldn't be cut open by anything short of industrial equipment. There is a direct Shout-Out to this scene in the BattleTech novel Warrior: Coupe. In this case, the watermelon actually ends up accidentally saving a couple of researchers' lives by 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.) |
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In Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, 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 (after he tried too hard to sound interested in small talk). 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 uses it instead of an engagement ring in an unusually dramatic Wacky Marriage Proposal. | |
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In the Bugs Bunny classic Rabbit of Seville, Bugs makes a fruit salad on Elmer's head. Where Bugs got the fruit is irrelevant. | |
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It should be noted that in Urban Dead, "banana" is one of the few words that can be spelled using only the letters in the Zombese alphabet. However, zombies don't eat fruit, so it's usually used as a euphemism. |
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Alcatraz Smedry's autobiography features a variant of this. Alcatraz inserts the word "rutabaga" into random places in the narration as part of his general campaign to persuade us that he's an evil person. | |
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Kim Possible: 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. | |
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In the Alice in Wonderland Whole-Plot Reference episode, bananas play a role, possibly a reference to the running Banana Peel gag. | |
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In the first few episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000's second season, Joel would pop a grape every time the Commercial Sign lit up. This was supposed to signify a Pavlovian response (lampshading Joel's status as a lab rat), but the writers got sick of having to remember doing it every time (and Joel got sick of the grapes), so it was quickly dropped. In at least a few episodes, it is quite clear that Joel's hand is empty and he is only pantomiming putting something into his mouth. Fridge Brilliance - it really is Pavlovian! He's popping and he doesn't even have any grapes! |
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This parallels a scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Kirk eats an apple as... he reminisces about the Kobayashi Maru. Apparently this was a complete coincidence. | |
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Mulan: The boys stuff their dresses with a variety of fruit, including... a banana. | |
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Deltarune: Chapter 2 has the infamous gag of Queen telling Kris to "Get The Banana" that randomly appears while driving through the streets of Cyber City. Another banana appears during the "Acid Tunnel of Love" sequence in Queen's palace. | |
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In The Curse of the Black Pearl, when Jack is inspecting his new "crew" on the pier, he's holding a banana. It's never mentioned, it's not lampshaded or Hand Waved, it's just... there. The audio commentary doesn't explain it either, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp simply going "The banana!" and then moving on. Could be an inside joke. Sometimes a banana is just a banana. Weirdly, as bananas as we now know them are Newer Than They Think (they were only produced by selective breeding in 1836) this is part of the Anachronism Stew. Though hardly the most glaring. Actually, the distinctive bright green 'Granny Smith' apple is even newer—1880s—though obviously apples generally have been around since ancient times. |
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Iji features a gun that fires exploding bananas as a joke weapon. Or maybe it's not so funny: as the only projectile affected by gravity, you can use it to bomb enemies from the safety of an elevated platform. If you deliver the last blow to the final boss with it, then the boss will have a banana balanced on their nose in the closing cutscene, for no reason at all. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: 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. | |
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In The Stand, it's used for horror: When a woman tries to assassinate Randall Flagg, she finds that her concealed knife has turned into a banana. | |
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One print of Magic: The Gathering's Lure had a dryad holding an apple. | |
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In the 1968 version of The Producers, 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.) | |
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Leonard Part 6 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. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean 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 Curse of the Black Pearl, when Jack is inspecting his new "crew" on the pier, he's holding a banana. It's never mentioned, it's not lampshaded or Hand Waved, it's just... there. The audio commentary doesn't explain it either, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp simply going "The banana!" and then moving on. Could be an inside joke. Sometimes a banana is just a banana. Weirdly, as bananas as we now know them are Newer Than They Think (they were only produced by selective breeding in 1836) this is part of the Anachronism Stew. Though hardly the most glaring. Actually, the distinctive bright green 'Granny Smith' apple is even newer—1880s—though obviously apples generally have been around since ancient times. |
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Doctor Who is a frequent invoker of this trope (see also under "Literature"): The Fifth Doctor consistently wore a piece of celery as a corsage. In this case, though, it had practical reasons, as explained in "The Caves of Androzani": The Doctor had a banana in his pocket in "The Two Doctors". It was never commented on by any of the characters, it was just there. Then again, the story was very much about vegetarianism... In "The Doctor Dances", 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. In "The Christmas Invasion", the bathrobe that Jackie Tyler put on the Doctor has a satsuma in the pocket. The Doctor uses the satsuma as a weapon. In "The Girl in the Fireplace", the Tenth Doctor also carries a banana and manages to invent the banana daiquiri 100 years too early. |
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In a delightful inversion, one Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch features John Cleese as a self-defense instructor teaching a course on How To Defend Yourself Against Someone Who Attacks You Armed With a Piece of Fresh Fruit. After inducing one of his students to attack him with a banana, Cleese pulls out a gun and shoots him. | |
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Cheap Trick: Bun E. Carlos pulls a banana out of his pocket while looking for the piece of paper with his speech on it in the "Dream Police" video. | |
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The Eighth Doctor, in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, had a Guile Hero double-act with his Plucky Girl sidekick Sam. One of their tricks invoked this trope — he'd rush at an armed antagonist shouting, "Bangbangbangbangbang!" and waving a banana, pretending to fully and genuinely believe it's a gun (complete with Dirty Harry reference — "Well, to tell you the truth I think I’ve lost count, sorry about that. So you’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky... sir?"). While said antagonist boggled at his antics, Sam would steal said antagonist's gun. | |
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Worms Armageddon also has banana bombs. When the bomb is dropped, it explodes into a cloud of bouncing bananas, which are also explosive. (Of course, that game also has carpet bombing with actual carpets, and flying Super Sheep.) | |
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In The Comic Strip Presents episode "Strike", in the spoof movie within the episode, 'Meryl Streep' is seen peeling oranges in every one of her shots. | |
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Both the original "children's book" and animated remake of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest involves the contestants trying to hold an ever-growing pile of giant grapes courtesy of the Grape Fairy. Whoever's left after everyone else drops theirs or gets crushed by them wins. | |
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Mr. Smith in Shoot 'Em Up really likes carrots. He munches on them. He quotes Bugs Bunny. He shoves one through a bad guy's skull... | |
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Overhead space shooter Tyrian somehow features an entire wacky cult that revolves around fruit, which started off as weird attempt to justify (lampshade?) the random pieces of fruit that some enemies drop in video games such as this one. Fruit begins to show up more and more as you go through the game. First, enemies drop some strawberries. Then you start finding powerful subweapons codenamed for cherries and tangerines. Then you stumble across a purchasable ship that is a giant carrot that mounts fruit weapons like the Banana Bomb. The fruit-cult eventually becomes central to the plot, to the point where the last enemies you fight in the final episode are just huge bunches of deadly fruit. Not only are these fruit bosses portrayed as a credible threat, they are. It's that kind of game. | |
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The Maiden Heist: Christopher Walken's character, Roger, is seen talking on the phone to one of his co-conspirators while holding a lemon for absolutely no reason. The directors' commentary states that Walken simply informed them, "I'm gonna do this scene holding a lemon" and they just went with it. | |
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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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Family Guy had this with Mayor Adam West giving Quagmire a banana and cryptically telling him that "When the time comes, you'll know". 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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In Far Out There, Ichabod really seems to like apples. He always seems to have one waiting in his pocket, whether there's room in there or not. | |
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An early episode of How I Met Your Mother features an inexplicable pineapple appearing in the apartment after a wild night of boozing. At least it's tastier than a traffic cone... | |
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In the sixth book, while searching for a note she pulls out a Gurdyroot (a plant resembling a green onion) from her bag. Which she then gives to Ron. | |
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In Season 5 episode 22 of Happy Heroes, Headmaster Tele swears that if he sees weapons of any kind on the campus, he'll confiscate them. The frame then zooms out to show Kalo using his Voluntary Shapeshifting ability to turn his hand into a blade and... slice a watermelon that he seemingly obtains from out of nowhere. Headmaster Tele, true to his word, then literally confiscates Kalo, along with his watermelon. | |
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