Now Playing on a Computer Near You: A Fruit With an Obnoxious Streak

April 26, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Annoying Orange has been kind to Dane Boedigheimer. But not to anyone else.

“Annoying Orange” is an animated fruit who stars in YouTube videos, where he sits on a kitchen counter and taunts whatever vegetable, fruit or other unlucky edible gets set down near him. He hectors the other guy with questions, cracks lame jokes and cackles at them in his shrill voice, until the fun ends, tragically, when a human hand slices his new friend with a knife.

Schoolchildren love it. And Mr. Boedigheimer makes a living off it.

The series has been viewed about 108 million times on YouTube. Mr. Orange has half a million fans on Facebook.

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