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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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'': The opening sequence features Hyatt [[Erotic Eating|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 Peel|banana peels]]. This being ''Excel Saga'', all this is completely par for the course.
* Kirika in ''[[Eiken]]'' can often be seen [[Erotic Eating|eating a banana]] in a way that is [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|not at all suggestive in any way]].
* ''[[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.
** A minor recurring character also has a strong thing for oranges.
* ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma ½]]'' 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 pineapples ''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 child ({{spoiler|Gale}}) because the baby happened to have apple-red cheeks.
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** 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 ''[[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.)}}.
* 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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* 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 ''[[Horsefeathers]]'', 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: theThe Wrath of Khan (Film)|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.
* 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...
 
 
== Literature ==
* 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.
** For a period, he pulls apples instead. It's not by choice - it turns out his bag contains a permanent portal to the bottom of one of a specific fruit seller's bins. Though he seems fine with the free apples.
* 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.
* 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]].}}
* 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.
{{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 />
'''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 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 ehay look like orange radishes. They´re actually Dirigible Plums, but still, fruits.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' is a frequent invoker of this trope:
** In "The Doctor Dances", where the above quote originates, 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 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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== Tabletop Games ==
* 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.
* One print of [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Lure]] had a dryad holding an apple.
 
 
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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 [[Cypher Language|Zombese]] alphabet.
** However, zombies [[I'm a Humanitarian|don't eat fruit]], so it's usually used as a euphemism.
* 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.
* ''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.)
* ''[[Star TropicsStarTropics]]'' features a running gag about having bananas in your ears.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* As a minor [[Running Joke]], [[Ctrl +Alt +Del]]'s local nut Ethan was obsessed with a watermelon for a time, treating it as a character.
* In ''[[Far Out There]]'', Ichabod [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027073/page-6-enter-the-nitpicker really] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027821/page-63-your-ideas-arent-as-cool-as-you-think seems] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1028457/page-93-at-least-they-dont-have-to-sit-next-to-any-screaming-babies to] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090283/page-304-i-hope-they-got-a-good-deal-at-least like] [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1228030/page-363-artfully-passing-the-buck apples]. He always seems to have one waiting in his pocket, [[Hammerspace|whether there's room in there or not]].
 
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