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'''The Doctor''': Good source of potassium!|''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Doctor Dances"}}

* 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 {{spoiler|uses it instead of an engagement ring in an unusually dramatic [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]].}}

* One [[Dave Barry]] 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''' (''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. }}

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

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

** 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.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' had this with Mayor Adam West giving Quagmire a banana and cryptically telling him that "[[Chekhov's Gun|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.

* 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.

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