The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (2012) Review 🍊

“Orange You Glad This Show Got Cancelled?”


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Lets start by showing y’all the theme song shall we?

Theme Song

The horrors!


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Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

Back in 2009, Dane Boedigheimer uploaded a silly YouTube video: a talking orange with human eyes and teeth heckling an apple. It was dumb, it was loud, it was two minutes long — and it went viral. Merch followed, millions of views piled up, and by 2012, Cartoon Network decided: let’s give this orange a 22-minute TV show.

Enter The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. Each episode throws Orange and his friends into random “adventures” — pirate ships, haunted houses, superhero parodies — while Orange cracks puns and screams until the joke dies. It’s basically a stretched-out YouTube gag turned into a sitcom.


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Character Rundown

Orange – Loud, screechy, pun-obsessed. His entire personality is shouting “knife!” or “hey!”

Pear – The straight man, trying (and failing) to be the voice of reason.

Marshmallow – A hyper, gender-ambiguous sugar cube who’s… just there for chaos.

Passion Fruit – The “love interest” (because apparently an orange needs one).

Grandpa Lemon – Falls asleep constantly. His “joke” is narcolepsy.

Apple / Other Fruits – Exist solely for Orange to annoy until something eats, slices, or blends them.


The cast feels like someone raided a grocery store and said, “Yeah, let’s slap faces on these.”


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Pacing / Episode Flow

Episodes run about 22 minutes, which is at least 20 minutes too long. The pacing is frantic — jokes are shouted, visual gags fly nonstop, and plots are paper-thin. On YouTube, this worked because the videos were two minutes long. On TV, it’s exhausting.


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Pros

If you’re under the age of eight, maybe the loud colors and random humor could entertain you.

It proves viral fame can translate into TV… even if it really, really shouldn’t.



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Cons

Uncanny visuals — fruit with human mouths and eyes are nightmare fuel.

Dragged out gags — what was tolerable for two minutes on YouTube becomes unbearable at 22 minutes.

Orange himself — he’s not “funny annoying,” just plain annoying.

Corporate greed vibes — it feels like a boardroom said “viral = $$$” without asking if this should exist.



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Final Thoughts

The YouTube shorts were silly, dumb fun — fine for 2009 internet. But this TV show? It’s the definition of content that should’ve stayed online. It’s a product of its time, yes, but even then it was scraping the bottom of the fruit basket. I still dont know how this show came to be, the concept alone was questionable.


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Rating

0/10
Not even “so bad it’s good.” Just bad.


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Spoiler Warning

⚠️ From here on, spoilers for individual episodes ⚠️


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Spoilers

There’s a pirate episode where Orange and friends sail the seas. Spoiler: it’s not funny.

They parody superheroes, haunted houses, even time travel — every plot feels like filler sketches that got rejected elsewhere.

Crossovers happen (yes, the fruits meet other food and objects). It doesn’t add anything.

Every episode ends the same: Orange screams, someone gets sliced/blended/blown up, credits roll.