Annoying Orange is an American live-action/animated comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer (known online as DaneBoe).

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.

The first 4 Annoying Orange episodes, released from October 9 to December 23, 2009 on the Dane Boe YouTube channel.

Before Annoying Orange, Boedigheimer had done many talking food videos for their channel and other sites including JibJab.

They[a] said in an interview that the idea for The Annoying Orange was a combination of the talking food videos, puns and special effects they came up with and did before.

Following the success of the series, they created a YouTube channel dedicated to the franchise under the same name on January 11, 2010.

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.

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.

[23] On December 23, 2014, Dane Boedigheimer announced that The Annoying Orange had not been funded by Collective Digital Studios since November 2014.

[26] 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,[27] Pear,[28] Midget Apple,[29] Marshmallow,[30] Grandpa Lemon,[31] Grapefruit,[32] and Passion Fruit.

[34][35] For a limited time in late 2014, Annoying Orange-themed adult toys - such as dildos, vibrators and anal beads - were produced and sold in sex shops in Greece, The Netherlands, and the United States.

Because of its rising popularity, The Annoying Orange got a TV series on Cartoon 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 name Kitchen Carnage was released for the iPod Touch and iPhone on April 7, 2011.

The game is based on baseball, and the player slides a finger while a fruit enters the home plate.