Annoying Orange
Annoying Orange is an American animated comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer. Set in a world of anthropomorphic food, the series follows its titular protagonist, 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 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 the Annoying Orange, who lives in a house's kitchen with other anthropomorphic foods and objects. The formula for most episodes consists of Orange annoying other characters, hence his title. He can accomplish this by telling jokes, 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 and gruesome end, usually being killed 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 also sometimes refers to the character as something playing on the object's name or appearance. If an object behaves in a way that Orange dislikes, he will often call that object an "apple".
There are other characters that company Orange, such as his irritable and skeptical best friend, Pear, 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, 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
Main
- ' – An orange and the namesake of the series who tries to find any and every excuse to annoy someone. He can spit seeds from his mouth and has a passion for flatulence, TNT, kazoos, making noises and touching his tongue to his eye. Orange enjoys making lots of puns and jokes, usually punctuated with his signature laugh. Despite this crude and antisocial behavior, Orange usually means well and is generally good-hearted, trying to warn the other fruits of their imminent demise, while also sticking close to his friends.
- ' – A Bartlett pear. The only fruit who puts up with Orange, and is arguably his best friend, although he rarely admits it. Other foods regard Pear as a bore, owing to his passion for reading; he is often the butt of puns and jokes throughout the series.
- Little Apple – A small and fittingly short-fused Red Delicious apple who prefers to be called "Little Apple", as he hates the appellation "Midget Apple" for being insensitive to fruits his size, and a running gag is that he will correct anyone who calls him "Midget Apple". He owns a monster truck and is often ridiculed for his height, mostly by Orange. He is also ridiculed for being illiterate, which he constantly denies.
- Marshmallow – A cute, enthusiastic, eternally upbeat, squeaky-voiced, and cheerful marshmallow who is almost always very happy. They are given to say "Yay!" a lot and have an audacious giggle. They love unicorns, rainbows, cuddly animals, and all things cute. A running gag involved questioning their gender, which Marshmallow refused to disclose for personal amusement. It was later revealed they were non-binary.
- ' – A sweet, sassy passion fruit who is Orange's love interest, although Orange is embarrassed to show his true feelings towards her. Passion does, ironically, get along pretty well with Orange, being one of his closer friends. In 2025, Passion's life was put on the line as she was the final Orcrux Orange had to destroy in order to stop the reign of Analog Orange, but was saved after his defeat.
- Grandpa Lemon – An elderly lemon who constantly falls asleep and mishears words. Despite his old age, he drives a stunt-optimized motorcycle.
- ' – A brawny grapefruit who has a short temper - and who others often call fat, much to his displeasure. He has a bodybuilder's personality and likes to impress others, particularly female foods, although he usually fails at this due to his foul luck. Following Jon Bailey's recast as his new voice actor, running gags of him wanting his old voice back and saying "I'm walking here!" due to his New York accent were started.
Recurring
- Apple – A feisty and earnest apple that is often the victim of Orange. He tries to give himself peace when he can and gets fed up when anyone – mostly Orange – triggers him. Despite dying from a knife in the first episode, he has reappeared in several later episodes. This is because Apple's not an individual fruit, but rather a set of clones sent to the kitchen one after another after a clone's death.
- Sis – Orange's equally annoying sister, she was originally only a one-time character but was turned into a recurring character due to popularity and likely the noticeable lack of female main characters, and Passion's less frequent appearances in later episodes.
- Corey - Midget Apple's literal "half-brother", Corey is a golden delicious apple who managed to survive a knife attack, although losing his backside in the process, which he constantly talks about or tries to replace in his very frequent appearances. He tends to be over-the-top and rather oblivious or dopey at times, since the knife injury also appears to have damaged his brain.
- Knife – A chef's knife who often kills various foods against his will. He is extremely terrified both by the fact that he is used for mutilating food and by a cruel knife sharpener who seems to enjoy Knife's suffering.
- Liam the Leprechaun – A short-tempered leprechaun who is always losing his pot of gold, and ever since first encountering Orange, has become among his most bitter enemies. In the episode "Leprechaun Flu", Liam dies after getting a serious case of the Leprechaun Flu, where he burps bunnies, sneezes rainbows, and explodes in coins. As such, and with Bob Jennings' departure from the series in 2021, Liam was retired as a character.
- Zoom, Zip and Zoop – A trio of highly caffeinated canned energy drinks.
- Squash – A nervous butternut squash who invariably falls onto various foods by mistake and, to his horror and disgust, crushes them to death. Squash does not intend to hurt anyone and hates it when it happens.
- Copper Lincoln – A miniature copper Abraham Lincoln statue who enjoys break dancing and was birthed by an ordinary penny after being swallowed and coughed up by a magic oyster. With Bob Jennings' departure from the series in 2021, Copper has been retired as a character.
- Dr. Bananas – A banana mad scientist whose inventions have been known to be incredible achievements or to have caused certain death. Although sliced by Knife in his debut, he managed to reconnect his two halves with an invention and the side effect that electricity surges through his stitching, although this side effect appears to have gone away in later appearances.
- Nude Dude – An apple who became permanently naked after being put into an electric peeler. Some episodes depict him with a censor bar over his groin area, despite him having no visible genitalia.
- Captain Obvious – A sea captain onion who fittingly always points out the obvious, much to the annoyance of others.
- Lou the Tick – A conspiracy theorist tick who lives in a tinfoil tent, always worrying about aliens possibly taking over the Earth. His name and species are a play on the word "lunatic".
- Baby Orange – Orange's nosy, disobedient, mischievous baby cousin who is often looked after by the rest of the main cast. Since he is just a baby, he doesn't know what danger lurks around and usually repeats "Why?" whenever someone warns him of it.
- Limburger Cheese – A block of stinky limburger cheese and a friend of Sis.
- Gaming Grape – A grape who loves to play video games, much to the chagrin of his mother and Game Ball, his sports-fanatic older brother. He mostly appears on the Annoying Orange Gaming channel.
Episodes