Annoying Orange

Annoying Orangeis an American live-action/animated comedyweb seriescreated byDane Boedigheimer(known online as DaneBoe). The series follows ananthropomorphictalkingorangewho annoys fruits, vegetables and various other objects and even people and creatures by telling crude jokes and puns and making annoying noises until their demise. TheAnnoying OrangeYouTubechannel has 13 million subscribers as of 2024.
The original web series has also expanded to multiple separate series, such asThe Adventures of Liam The Leprechaun,The Misfortune of Being Ned,The Marshmallow Show, the television seriesThe High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and a gaming channel,Annoying Orange Gaming, where they uploadLet's Playvideos.
The channel uploads biweekly episodes including a variety of mini-series, each dedicated to covering different themes of typical YouTube genre tropes such asAsk Orange,How2,Storytime,The Juice,Foodsplosion, andAnnoying Orange vs, as well as challenge videos. The channel also frequently re-uploads older videos as parts of larger compilations, as seen with their weekly compilation mini-seriesSaturday Supercut.
The show is centered on Orange (voiced byDane Boedigheimer), who lives in a kitchen with other foods and objects such as his irritable and skeptical "best friend", Pear (also voiced by Boedigheimer). Other fruits includePassion Fruit, who is commonly associated as Orange's love interest (voiced byJustine Ezarik), an arrogantGrapefruit(voiced by Bob Jennings; later Jon Bailey), a tiny but hot-bloodedRed Delicious appleknown as Midget Apple (though he prefers the name Little Apple), a happy-go-lucky and slightly eccentricMarshmallowwho always sees everything filled with enthusiasm (both also voiced by Boedigheimer), and an elderlylemonnamed Grandpa Lemon (voiced by Kevin Brueck).
The formula for most episodes consists of the titular orange annoying other characters via jokes,burping,breaking wind, repeatedly calling them names, or making noises with his tongue and mouth. At the end of each episode, the targeted character meets a sudden, gruesome end, usually being killed ormutilatedby achef's knife(although implements used to maim them range from ablenderto a toypinwheel). Orange usually tries to warn them by crying out the weapon-in-use, such as "Knife!".
Orange has recurring mannerisms; he often begins an episode by repeatedly calling for a character's attention until the character responds. He also sometimes refers to the character as something playing on the object's name or appearance (such as calling Grapefruit "Apefruit"). If an object behaves in a way that Orange dislikes, he will often call that object an "apple" (the food equivalent to "asshole"), even if the object is not an apple.
Despite the contentions of other fruits and objects, Orange generally cannot control his quirks and rarely tries to annoy others on purpose; he usually means well for most fruits and objects. In the episode "It Takes Two to Mango", a life coach namedMangosuggests that Orange is using his annoying nature to cope with the demise of the fruits he tries to befriend. Regardless of his outward anti-social behavior, Orange almost always finds comfort in the company of his friends and sometimes makes new ones.
The first 4 Annoying Orange episodes, released from October 9 to December 23, 2009 on the Dane Boe YouTube channel. From 2010 to 2022, the Annoying Orange channel has uploaded two or three videos a week. As of late 2023, the channel uploads regular videos biweekly.
BeforeAnnoying Orange, Boedigheimer had done many talking food videos for their channel and other sites includingJibJab. Theysaid in an interview that the idea forThe Annoying Orangewas a combination of the talking food videos,punsandspecial effectsthey came up with and did before.The original video was planned to be titledThe Annoying Apple, but when they started animating the video they found it easier to put features on orange than an apple and make it clearer.
The first Annoying Orange video initially was meant to be the only one on YouTube. However, viewers requested more videos,and after the 4th one, Boedigheimer decided to make a full-time series. Following the success of the series, they created aYouTubechannel dedicated to the franchise under the same name on January 11, 2010.
The series was rated as the most viewed web series of February and March 2010 byMashable, 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 12 million subscribers.
Despite the popularity of the web series with sections of the public, it has received generally unsavory, critical reviews, many citing its rude humor, obnoxious characters and poor special effects. Liz Shannon Miller considered the show to be "annoying for many reasons".In the web series columnPass 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 Orangeseries 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 onNew Media RockstarsTop 100 Channels, ranked at #32.
The success of the series had received attention from H2M, a Fargo, North Dakota advertising agency, which in 2006 created its own "talking orange" character to be the spokesman for a North Dakota Department of Transportation ad campaign. Both characters were anthropomorphic oranges with ties to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The Annoying Orange was looked into by H2M's attorneys as an intellectual property matter. Boedigheimer stated they had not watched H2M's talking orange videos before being informed about the disagreement, and also believed that the characters were not very similar.Boedigheimer and Grove were later sued by H2M in May 2013 for allegedly copying the character.The case wasdismissed with prejudiceApril 6, 2015 byChief Judge Ralph R. Erickson.
On December 23, 2014, Dane Boedigheimer announced thatThe Annoying Orangehad not been funded byCollective Digital Studiossince November 2014. This led Boedigheimer to take legal action to get paid.
Since late 2011,The Collectivehas produced manyaccessories,toysandclothingwith toymaker The Bridge Direct and clothing retailers such asJCPenney,Shopkoandrue21.The Collective also announced a partnership in December of that year with costume manufacturer Rubie's Costume Company to produce children and adultHalloween costumesand accessories featuring characters such as Orange, Pear, Marshmallow, and Midget Apple from the web series.
In 2020, Annoying Orange partnered with Warren James, LLC and has produced Memory-foam plushie toys depicting every major character. The inventory of plush toys includes Orange,Pear,Midget Apple,Marshmallow,Grandpa Lemon,Grapefruit,and Passion Fruit.The toys can be purchased on the official website individually, or in a bundle of seven.
For a limited time in late 2014, Annoying Orange-themedadult toys- such asdildos,vibratorsandanal beads- were produced and sold insex shopsin Greece, The Netherlands, and the United States. There was also Annoying Orange-themed condoms - orange in colour and scent - that were sold in the United Kingdom during summer 2015, with the tagline "ORANGE CONDOM STYLE!" - a reference to Annoying Orange's song "ORANGE NYA NYA STYLE", a parody ofGangnam Style. However, it was pulled off the market within 3 weeks due to negative reception. There was also a promotional video to promote the condoms and it aired on YouTube adverts, but it got taken down within 1 week due to complaints from parents. Since then, it has becomelost media.
A series of Annoying Orange comics were published byPapercutz.
Because of its rising popularity,The Annoying Orangegot a TV series onCartoon Network, and it ran from 2012 to 2014 with two seasons and a total of 60 episodes.
A video game developed by Bottle Rocket Apps under the nameKitchen Carnagewas released for theiPod TouchandiPhoneon April 7, 2011. The game was later released inHDfor theiPadon May 6, 2011, and forAndroiddevices 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 game aims to throw different items across the kitchen into a series of blenders before the time runs out. The player is givenapplesandbananasat the start. When the second level is reached,tomatoes(replaced bybaseballsfor the 64-bit version) are added. Level 3 addscantaloupes, level 4pineapples, level 5strawberriesand level 6 adds Fred FiggleCorns.Kitchen Carnagewas renamed toCarnagein 2021.
Annoying Orange: Splatter Upis the second game by the Annoying Orange, afterCarnage. 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 theCarnagegame, the only one that does not appear in this game but appear inCarnageis Fred Figglecorn.
Skewerzis the most recent Annoying Orange game. The player is given fruits and vegetables to collect and they need to catch them in the skewer. When collected, the player can send them to a blender called the Froomba.