The Annoying Orange is an American comedy web series created by former Minnesota film student and MTV production assistant Dane Boedigheimer in 2009. It stars its creator as an anthropomorphic orange who annoys other fruits, vegetables, and various other objects by using jokes, which are sometimes crude.
The show was popular, later leading to it becoming the subject of a TV series, a video game, a range of toys, backpacks, couches, pillows, blankets, lunchboxes, drink bottles, mattresses, towels and a T-shirt line. Other accessories, such as costumes of the series' characters, have also appeared on the market for the company. Despite the popularity of Annoying Orange it earned an overwhelmingly negative reception.
Since its inception, the Annoying Orange YouTube channel has amassed over 6 million subscribers.
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Plot
The show is centered on Orange (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer), who resides on a fruit cart display in a kitchen with other objects such as his best friend, Pear, an irritable Bartlett pear (also voiced by Boedigheimer). Other fruits include Passion, a sensible passion fruit and Orange's love interest played by iJustine, an arrogant grapefruit (voiced by Robert Jennings), a tiny miserable and frustrated but hot-blooded apple known as Midget Apple (though he prefers the name Little Apple), a happy-go-lucky and slightly eccentric marshmallow of ambiguous gender, and an elderly lemon named Grandpa Lemon, all of whom were not main characters until later episodes.
Most episodes consist of Orange heckling other characters until they meet a sudden and gruesome end, usually by evisceration with a chef's knife (although the implements used to cut them up range from a blender to a toy pinwheel). Usually, Orange tries to "warn" them before it happens, blurting out the weapon-in-use, such as "Knife!"
Orange has several recurring mannerisms. He often begins an episode by repeatedly yelling "Hey, (name of character)!" until the character responds. Orange also often refers to the character as something that plays on the object's name or appearance (such as calling Grapefruit "Apefruit"). If he does not like an object, he will often say "You're an apple!", even if the object is not (e.g., a tomato). Orange uses various tactics, such as telling rude and offensive jokes, burping and making childish noises with his tongue, to get attention.
Despite what other fruits and objects think, Orange often cannot control his tendency to be "annoying," and rarely intentionally tries to spite others; he usually means well for most fruits and objects. In one episode of the web series, a "life coach," Mango, suggests that Orange uses his annoying nature to try to cope with the destruction of the fruits he tries to make friends with.
Regardless of his seemingly anti-social behavior, Orange can almost always find comfort in the company of his friends and sometimes makes new ones.
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Characters
Main Characters
- Orange: The main character who is an orange and is incredibly annoying, he appears in every episode and never dies.
- Pear: A pear who is the only fruit who puts up with Orange, and is arguably his best friend.
- Midget Apple: A miniature apple who prefers to be called "Little Apple". He is Marshmallow's best friend.
- Marshmallow: A marshmallow who talks in a squeaky voice and is always happy. Though having been referred as male in multiple occasions, a running gag has many fruits asking if Marshmallow is a boy or a girl. He/She is often seen with Midget Apple.
- Passion Fruit: A passion fruit who Orange is in love with though she is oblivious to this.
- Grapefruit: A jock who is in love with Passion. He died in his first appearance but was brought back to life in "Frankenfruit".
- Grandpa Lemon: An elderly lemon who constantly falls asleep. He died in his first appearance but was brought back to life in "Frankenfruit".
Minor Characters
- Knife: A knife who often kills the fruits (only when Orange says "Knife!") even though he doesn't want to.
- Liam the Leprechaun: An angry leprechaun.
- ZOOM: An energy drink.
- Squash: A nervous squash who always ends up inadvertently killing the fruits.
- Copper Lincoln: A penny of Abraham Lincoln.
- Dr. Bananas: An insane mad scientist banana.
- Nude Dude: A naked apple. It is revealed in "Barewolf" that he is a werewolf.
- Captain Obvious: An onion who always points out the obvious.
- Lou the Tick: A tick who lives in a shelter, always worrying about aliens possibly taking over Earth.
- Sissy: Orange's sister who is just as annoying as him.
- Gaming Grape: A grape who loves to play videogames on his PS4 and other game consoles.
Videos
The first Annoying Orange episode was aired on October 9, 2009. Since then the Annoying Orange YouTube channel has uploaded 2-3 videos per week.
Spoofs
The Annoying Orange has spoofed many popular web shows, viral videos and memes. These include:
- Epic Peel Time (Epic Meal Time)
- Talking Twin Baby Oranges (Talking Twin Babies)
- Epic Rap Battles of Kitchenry (Epic Rap Battles of History)
- Orange After Dentist (David After Dentist)
- Nyan Nya Orange (Nyan Cat)
- Sneezing Marshmallow (Sneezing Baby Panda)
- Charlie The Unicorn: Annoying Orange (Charlie the Unicorn)
- Equals Annoying Orange (Equals Three)
- The Eggspendables (The Expendables)
- Man Of Peel (Man Of Steel)
- Too Many Fruits (Too Many Cooks)
- Donald Trunk (Donald Trump)
- Sailor Spoon (Sailor Moon)
- Watch Me Whip/Nya Nya (Watch Me Whip)
- Orange Nya Nya Style (Gangnam Style)
- Annoying Ways To Die (Dumb Ways To Die)
- WWEat (WWE)
- Ask Orange #30: Super Annoying Orange! (Superman)
Other channels
- All of the main characters in Annoying Orange have their own Facebook profile.
Annoying Orange Gaming
- On Annoying Orange's Gaming channel, everybody else does gaming videos. (original launch: Midget Apple)
AO Kids
An Annoying Orange channel made for young kids who want to learn things. (original launch: Passion Fruit)
Pear
- On Pear's channel, he does extreme challenges that end in failure, disaster or horror.
Marshmallow
- On Marshmallow's channel, he/she shows 10 min. videos and outtakes from "The Marshmallow Show".
Grapefruit
- On Grapefruit's channel, he shows art and now he shows gaming videos.
Grandpa Lemon
- On Grandpa Lemon's channel, he does a show called "Grinds My Rind", and he also does some gaming videos.
Squash
- On Squash's channel, he shows himself squashing things called "Squashing Things with Squash".
Other series
The Juice
The Juice is a series of four shows that ran from July 8, 2013 to December 9, 2013. A special show of The Juice was aired October 14, 2013. In each show, Orange, Midget Apple, Marshmallow, Pear and Grapefruit discussed a question sent in from the audience. The questions were:
- Episode 1 - What do you want to be? Vampire, Werewolf, or Ghost?
- Episode 2 - If everyone from the kitchen was on a deserted island and there was nothing to eat, who would you eat first?
- Episode 3 - Which of your fruit friends would you like to be for a day?
- Episode 4 - If you could be any supper hero, who would you be? Note that a supper hero is a food version of a super hero.
- Halloween Special - What is your biggest fear?
Foodsplosion
Foodsplosion is a parody game show that lasted for nine shows that ran from September 2, 2013 to March 13, 2015. In the game, a fruit is a contestant and Orange, who is the host, asks him/her a question and they have ten seconds to answer. Regardless if the contestant gets the question right or wrong, although always the contestant gets it wrong, they still win the game. The prizes on the show are typically hazardous materials to fruits such as knives, blenders, and chainsaws. In the end, the contestant gets shredded, cut, or exploded. Then, there is an instant slow motion replay of the destruction.
Ask Orange
Ask Orange is a series of thirty-six Annoying Orange episodes where people got to ask questions which were answered by Annoying Orange. The show originally ran for eight months, with an episode coming out every month. Four additional Ask Orange videos were also aired. The first aired on September 26, 2011, with Ask Orange #10 being aired on January 24, 2014; Ask Orange #11 on May 31, 2014; and Ask Orange #12 on August 1, 2014. There was also a special episode of Ask Orange called Ask President Marshmallow #1, which aired on November 19, 2012. There are currently 36 episodes of Ask Orange as of November 2017. 3 Christmas episodes were aired in December 2014 - 2016. There are even two Halloween episode in October 2016 - 2017.
The Misfortune of Being Ned
The Misfortune of Being Ned is based on a character called Ned, voiced by Steve Zaragoza, who repeatedly finds himself in misfortunate situations. The show debuted on October 9, 2013 as part of Annoying Orange "Shocktober". 20 episodes have been produced, spanning 2 seasons. The main characters are Ned, Greg, voiced by Kevin Brueck, and Wendy, voiced by Megan Camarena.
Season one of the series ran from October 9, 2013 to December 18, 2013 with ten episodes in the season. On December 18, 2013 Daneboe announced that The Misfortune of Being Ned would be renewed for a second season. Season 2 premiered February 19, 2014, with the series finale being on April 23, 2014. Season 2 also had ten episodes in total. At the end of the final episode, Ned was rubbed out and Orange announced that the Marshmallow Show would replace The Misfortune of Being Ned.
The Marshmallow Show
The Marshmallow Show was on the Annoying Orange channel and has Internet celebrities on it. Released on June 4, 2014, and ended on August 27, 2014, it airs every Wednesday. Marshmallow is the main character of the show. Other characters that appear in the show are Mushroom (aka Shroom) and Joe the Coffee Mug. The guests who have appeared on The Marshmallow Show are:
- Episode 1 - Steve Zaragoza
- Episode 2 - Felicia Day
- Episode 3 - Miranda Sings
- Episode 4 - Flula
- Episode 5 - Mikey Bolts
- Episode 6 - Weird Al
- Episode 7 - Chester See
- Episode 8 - Brittani Louise Taylor
- Episode 9 - Hannah Hart
- Episode 10 - Rhett and Link
- Episode 11 - iJustine
- Episode 12 - The Eh Bee Family
- Episode 13 - Daneboe
In the final episode, Daneboe revealed that the show would be ending but Marshmallow would also be going on an intergalactic mission back to his/her home planet.
Trailer Trashed
Annoying Orange Trailer Trashed is a series of many episodes in which Orange, Pear, Midget Apple, Marshmallow, and Grapefruit watch a movie trailer and comment on it: all in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is generally regarded as theam trashing the trailer, hence the name Trailer Trashed.
Movie trailers:
Video game trailers:
- Clash of Clans: Flight of the Barbarian
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3
- Five Nights at Freddy's 4
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- FNaF World
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Orange Through Time
Orange Through Time is a series of four episodes in which Orange travels in time at the older years. The series started on March 4, 2011 and ended on October 10, 2011.
HOW2
HOW2 is a series of many episodes in which Orange and Pear teach everyone to do anything, which is both education and comedy. It was released on January 27, 2016 (2016-01-27) with How To Tie a Tie, and despite that Orange ends so many videos by surviving an explosion of TNT - in How to Make a Halloween Costume on October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11), Pear ended the video with TNT due to Orange going overboard with terms of cows, which has become a running gag since How to be a Rapper on August 2, 2017 (2017-08-02). As of February 14, 2018 (2018-02-14), there have been 100 HOW2 episodes. There were 3 Christmas/New Year specials in 2016, 4 in 2017 and 8 Halloween/Shocktober-themed episodes, four in 2016/2017 each.
Emoji Raps
The Emoji Raps star Orange rapping about several things using emojis, including himself. The first rap was released on July 3, 2017 (2017-07-03). As of December 18, 2017 (2017-12-18), there have been eleven raps. The eighth rap was a Halloween-themed rap, which was on October 12, 2017 (2017-10-12), the ninth rap was Marshmallow rapping instead, which was on November 6, 2017 (2017-11-06) and the eleventh one was Christmas-themed, which was on December 18, 2017 (2017-12-18).
Annoying Orange Challenges
On September 18, 2017 (2017-09-18), Orange released a series of challenges from the fans' comments and made a series about it that are very extreme, such as the 3am challenges. As of February 4, 2018 (2018-02-04), there are seven challenges.
X-Massacre
From November 24, 2017 (2017-11-24) until December 22 2017, the X-Massacre series was released. The series is about different types of food being killed and served for a Christmas dinner.
- Limp Biscuit (November 24, 2017 (2017-11-24)) (Item Crossed Out: Crescent Rolls)
- Orange Beans (December 1) (Item Crossed Out: Green Bean Casserole)
- Nutcracking the Code (December 8) (Items Crossed Out: Chestnuts and Egg Nog)
- Figgy Pudding (December 15) (Item Crossed Out: Figgy Pudding)
- Pig Out (December 22) (Items Crossed Out: Ham and Carrots)
Storytime
On September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22), a new series was released where Pear tries to read classical children stories, only for Orange to destroy his books and make up his own versions, which started with the second episode on January 5, 2018 (2018-01-05).
Annoying Orange Gaming channel
The Annoying Orange has his own gaming channel, simply known as Annoying Orange Gaming. The Annoying Orange gang upload Let's Play videos to this YouTube channel.
Minecraft
Annoying Orange has his own Minecraft server, mc.orangecraft.net (Orangecraft). The Annoying Orange uploads one video per week documenting the happenings on the server. Most of the main characters on Annoying Orange have visited the server.
Annoying Orange has also uploaded other videos about Minecraft, including:
- Wazzup Minecraft
- Block Party (Song)
Minecraft has also been revealed to be one of the Annoying Orange's favorite video games.
Background
Before The Annoying Orange, Boedigheimer had done many talking food videos for his channel and other sites including JibJab. He said in an interview that the idea for The Annoying Orange was a combination of the talking food videos, puns and special effects he came up with and did before. The original video was planned to be titled The Annoying Apple, but when he started animating the video he found it easier to put features on an orange than an apple and make it clear.
The first Annoying Orange video was initially meant to be the only one on YouTube. However, many viewers requested more videos, and after the 4th one, Boedigheimer decided to make a full-time series. Following the success of the series, he created a channel dedicated to The Annoying Orange under the name "Annoying Orange" on January 11, 2010.
Reception
The series was rated as the most viewed web series of February and March 2010 by Mashable, with over 52 million views. On April 26, 2010, the series had over 108 million views on YouTube. In June 2010, the channel had received 137 million views. By August 13, 2010, it had received 1 million subscribers. In June 2011, the channel was ranked as the eighth most subscribed and 30th most viewed, with more than 2,000,000 subscribers. On January 13, 2012, the series hit 1 billion channel views and 2.3 million subscribers. The Annoying Orange YouTube channel currently has over 6 million subscribers.
Despite the show's popularity with sections of the public, it has received generally unfavorable reviews from critics. Liz Shannon Miller considered the show to be "annoying for many reasons." In the web series column Pass the Mustard, Ned Hepburn called the show "pure, pure unfunny, highly concentrated, in droplet form, just purely nonsensical riffing from an Annoying Orange." Hepburn concluded, "the Annoying Orange series is one of the few that I had a physically bad reaction to. It was horrible." 411mania.com called the show "idiotic" and "creepy as hell", while other publications have referred to it as "third grade humor."
In 2014 The Annoying Orange YouTube Channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #32.
Lawsuit
The success of the series had received attention of Fargo advertising agency H2M, who, in 2006, created its own "Talking Orange", which is the spokesman for an ad campaign for the North Dakota Department of Transportation. Both of the two characters were two anthropomorphic oranges with ties to the Fargo-Moorhead area. Despite only slightly resembling the "Talking Orange", the Annoying Orange was looked into by H2M's attorneys as an intellectual property matter. Boedigheimer stated he had not watched the "Talking Orange" videos before he was told about the disagreement, also believing that the characters weren't very similar. Boedigheimer and Grove were later sued by H2M in May 2013 for allegedly copying the character. No source has been released stating whether the case has been disclosed or is still going on.
Merchandise
Since late 2011, The Collective has produced many accessories, toys and clothing with toymaker The Bridge Direct and clothing retailers such as JCPenney, Shopko and rue21. On November 10, 2011, GeekDad announced a giveaway for an Annoying Orange T-shirt from JCPenney and a toy from Toys R Us. GeekDad started taking entries through Friday at 11:59 PM. The Collective also announced a partnership in December of that year with costume manufacturer Rubie's Costume Company to produce children and adult Halloween costumes and accessories featuring characters such as Orange, Pear, Marshmallow, and Midget Apple from the web series.
Comics
Annoying Orange comics are published by Papercutz.
- Secret Agent Orange (December 11, 2012)- Note: Reference to James Bond. Parody of Special Agent Oso.
- Orange You Glad You're Not Me? (May 28, 2013)- Note: This is a reference to the joke that ends in the punchline orange you glad... ? and has other endings depending on the joke, like "that I didn't say 'apple'?".
- Pulped Fiction (August 27, 2013)- Note: Parody of Pulp Fiction.
- Tales of the Crisper (January 14, 2014)- Note: Parody of Tales from the Crypt.
- Fifty Shades of Orange (April 8, 2014)- Note: Parody of Fifty Shades of Grey.
- My Little Baloney (August 5, 2014)- Note: Parody of My Little Pony.
Television series
The Annoying Orange got a TV series on Cartoon Network, that ran from 2012 to 2014.
Movie
Annoying Orange: Movie Fruitacular is a compilation of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange as it follows Orange and his pals as they travel in their magical fruit cart through adventures straight off the silver screen.
Games
Kitchen Carnage
A video game developed by Bottle Rocket Apps named Kitchen Carnage was released for the iPod Touch and iPhone on April 7, 2011. The game was later released in HD for the iPad on May 6, 2011, and for Android devices on October 14, 2011. The Christmas version of the game was released in December 2011 and the free version of the game, Kitchen Carnage Lite, was released March 2, 2012.
The aim of the game is to throw a different items across the kitchen into a series of blenders before the time runs out. The player is given apples and bananas at the start. When the second level is reached, tomatoes are added. Level 3 adds cantaloupes, level 4 pineapples, level 5 strawberries and level 6 adds Fred FiggleCorns.
Splatter Up
Annoying Orange: Splatter Up is the second game by the Annoying Orange, after Kitchen Carnage. The game is based on baseball, and the player slides a finger while a fruit enters the home plate. The faster the player slides, the farther he gets. The game sprites are the same as the Kitchen Carnage game, the only ones that don't appear in this game but appear in Kitchen Carnage are Red Raspberry and Fred Figglecorn.
Pay withdrawal lawsuit
On December 23, 2014, Dane Boedigheimer announced that The Annoying Orange has not been funded by Collective Digital Studios since November 2014. This has led Daneboe to take legal action to get paid. The outcome of the web series because of this is unknown.
TV series
References
External links
- The Annoying Orange official website
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