Annoying Orange is an American live-action/animated comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer (known online as DaneBoe). Set in a world of anthropomorphic food, the series follows its titular character, Orange, who always annoys others by telling crude jokes and puns and making annoying noises until their certain demises. The Annoying Orange YouTube channel has 13.8 million subscribers as of 2026. The original web series has also expanded to multiple separate series, such as The Adventures of Liam the Leprechaun, The Misfortune of Being Ned, The Marshmallow Show, the television series The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and a gaming channel, Annoying Orange Gaming, where they upload Let's Play videos. The channel uploads biweekly episodes including a variety of mini-series, each dedicated to covering different themes of typical YouTube genre tropes such as Ask Orange, HOW2, The Juice, Foodsplosion, Shocktober, and more. The channel also frequently re-uploads older videos as parts of larger compilations, as seen with their weekly compilation mini-series Saturday Supercut.
Plot
The series is centered on Orange, who lives in a house's kitchen with other anthropomorphic food and objects with human faces. The formula for most episodes consists of Orange annoying other characters, hence his title. He can accomplish this by telling jokes and puns, usually punctuated with his signature laugh, burping, breaking wind, repeatedly calling them names or making noises with his mouth. Despite this, he usually means well towards others and tries to keep them safe. At the end of each episode, the targeted character meets a sudden, certain, and gruesome demise, usually being killed and/or mutilated by – most often – a chef's knife. Orange 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 can spit seeds from his mouth and has a passion for flatulence, TNT, kazoos, making noises (such as "nya, nya" and a motorboat engine) and touching his tongue to his eye. He also sometimes refers to the character as something playing on the object's name or appearance (such as calling a grapefruit "Apefruit"). If an object behaves in a way that Orange dislikes, he will often call that object an "apple" (the food equivalent of "asshole"). There are other characters that company Orange, such as his irritable and skeptical best friend, Pear (also voiced by Boedigheimer), although he rarely admits it. Other fruits include Passion Fruit, who is commonly associated as Orange's love interest; the arrogant Grapefruit, a tiny but hot-blooded Red Delicious apple known as Midget Apple (though he prefers the name Little Apple), the happy-go-lucky and slightly eccentric Marshmallow who always sees everything filled with enthusiasm, and an elderly lemon named Grandpa Lemon. In seasons 15–17, an evil, corrupted version of Orange, dubbed Analog Orange, began to take over the channel. Whenever he is nearby, the screen gets an eerie glitch filter and he unleashes chaos in the kitchen. He first appeared in Shocktober 2023 episodes before getting an arc dedicated to him in 2024. It follows Pear and Grapefruit as they travel though Analog's home realm to try and destroy the seven orcruxs – the seven things Orange loves more than anything – in order to save the real Orange, who is trapped in a glass jar by Analog's dark magic, defeat Analog once and for all, and return the kitchen to its former glory. They succeed by the halfway point of season 17, but the kitchen is now inhabited by many clones of Orange with different personalities that were also freed following Analog's defeat.
Characters
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