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{{quote|'''The Doctor''': Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!<br />

'''Jack''': Why not?!<br />

'''The Doctor''': Good source of potassium!|''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "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 [[Cloudcuckoolander|an eccentric character]] and will pull out the [[Stealth Pun|fruit]] whenever the moment is quite tense. It's a '''Fruit of the Loon''', you see.

This works extremely well with bananas (because [[Freud Was Right]], anyone can slip on a [[Banana Peel]], and ''banana'' is an [[Inherently Funny Words|Inherently Funny Word]]), but it also works with apples, oranges, kumquats, lemons, tangelos, pineapples and, in one case, a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_:Satsuma (fruit) |satsuma]]. Often makes use of a [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]].

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': 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 ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' [[Whole-Plot Reference]] episode of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', bananas play a role, possibly a reference to the running [[Banana Peel]] gag.

* ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2½]]'' 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 pinapplespineapples EXPLODE''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 ''[[Rave Master]]'', 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 chiledchild ({{spoiler|Gale}}) because the baby happened to have apple -red cheeks.

* ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth8th 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 visemassive hydraulic press. 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.

** There is a direct [[Shout -Out]] to this scene in the ''[[Battle Tech|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.)}}.

*** Actually, the distinctive bright green 'Granny Smith' apple is even newer -- 1880s -- though obviously apples generally have been around since ancient times.

* Woody Allen's futuramic ''[[Sleeper]]'' has him searching for food and coming across a farm where insanely large fruit is being grown. He picks a banana the size of a canoe, and when a guard runs up to catch him, the two slip repeatedly on the carpet-size banana peel.

* In the [[Marx Brothers]]' classic ''[[HorsefeathersHorse Feathers]]'', 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.

* The Kobayashi Maru scene in the new ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'' film. 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 (Film)|Star Trek II theThe Wrath of Khan]]'' where Kirk eats an apple as... he reminisces about the Kobayashi Maru. Apparently this was a complete coincidence.

* Mr Smith in ''[[Shoot 'Em Up (Filmfilm)|Shoot Em Up]]'' really likes carrots. He munches on them. He quotes Bugs Bunny. He shoves one through a bad guy's skull...

* In [[Raymond E. Feist]]'s ''[[The Riftwar Cycle|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 ''[[Anansi Boys (Literature)|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 {{spoiler|uses it instead of an engagement ring in an unusually dramatic [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]].}}

{{quote| '''You''': As any idiot can plainly see, I'm taking my pulse.<br />

'''Salesperson''': With an eggplant? Why don't you just squash your thumb against your artery like everybody else?<br />

* 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 -- hetrope—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 [[Refuge in Audacity]] and wondered [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|what the Doctor was on]], Sam would steal said antagonist's gun.

{{quote| He aimed the banana carefully, then raised it to his lips and blew across its barrel before peeling it.}}

* In the [[Harry Potter]] books, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] usually wears earrings made of ehaywhat look like orange radishes. They´re actually Dirigible Plums, but still, fruits.

** Both are items that it's rather hard to take a nonchalant bite out of, unless you've got the jaws of a pit bull...

* One print of [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Lure]] had a dryad holding an apple.

* 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.

* Overhead space shooter ''[[Tyrian (Video Game)|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 [[Sphere of Destruction|Banana Bomb]]. {{spoiler|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.

* ''[[Star TropicsStarTropics]]'' features a running gag about having bananas in your ears.

* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' 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 sheepishly. [[Bellisario's Maxim|Why there's a tangelo vendor inside the school is never asked]], though it [[Rule of Funny|better that way]].

{{quote| '''Candace:''' "I'm calling mom! ...And I am ''not'' using the banana this time!}}

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