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{{quote|'''The Doctor''': Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!
'''Jack''': Why not?!
'''The Doctor''': Good source of potassium!
|''[[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 [[wikipedia:Satsuma (fruit)|satsuma]]. Often makes use of a [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]].
Compare [[The Snack Is More Interesting]].
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== Anime
* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|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]].
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth 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
** 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.
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*** The Audio Commentary doesn't explain it either, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp simply going "The banana!" and then moving on. Could be an [[Noodle Incident|inside joke]].
*** 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.
* 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 ''[[Horse 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 (film)|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
* Mr Smith in ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' really likes carrots. He munches on them. He quotes Bugs Bunny. He shoves one through a bad guy's skull...
* ''[[Young Einstein]]''; the title character used apples to help him think, and always seemed to have one handy.
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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.
== Live
* ''[[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.
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* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130715023017/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027073/page-6-enter-the-nitpicker/ really] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923085622/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027821/page-63-your-ideas-arent-as-cool-as-you-think/ seems] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923085412/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1028457/page-93-at-least-they-dont-have-to-sit-next-to-any-screaming-babies/ to] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923083552/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090283/page-304-i-hope-they-got-a-good-deal-at-least/ like] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923082900/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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