The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange


The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange is an American comedy television series based on the characters from the web series The Annoying Orange, created by Dane Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove, which is made for the television by Boedigheimer himself with Tom Sheppard for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Boedigheimer's company Annoying Orange, Inc., alongside management company The Collective and the studios 14th Hour Productions. A preview aired on May 28, 2012, and the official premiere was on June 11, 2012.
The show ended on March 17, 2014 with two seasons and sixty episodes, with a total of thirty episodes per season.

Plot

The show follows the lives of Orange and his friends: Pear, Passion Fruit, Midget Apple, Marshmallow, Apple, Grandpa Lemon, and the antagonistic Grapefruit. The show diverges from the YouTube series in that the Fruit Gang live on a fruit stand in a supermarket called "Daneboe's" rather than in Dane Boedigheimer's kitchen.
A reoccurring character from the Annoying Orange YouTube series called Nerville now runs the supermarket, and is the only human who can talk to the fruit.

Episodes

Characters

Main

Boedigheimer confirmed that he had started producing a TV series based on The Annoying Orange in April 2010. Boedigheimer finished the script for the first 6 episodes of the show in October of that year. When Boedigheimer began filming the pilot episode of the TV show in February 2011, he discussed with Cartoon Network about airing it on the station, which was picked up in November 18 of that year. The pilot episode had been completed in about 6–7 months.
There were originally intended to be 6 episodes of the show, but the Season 1 episode order was eventually increased to 30 segments. Subsequently, the show was green-lit for a 30-episode second season. The second season premiered on May 16, 2013.
The show was produced by Boedigheimer, Conrad Vernon and Tom Sheppard, co-executive-produced by Spencer Grove, Kevin Brueck, Robert Jennings and Aaron Massey, and produced with Gary Binkow, Michael Green and Dan Weinstein.
Most of the visual effects, compositing, off-line, on-line, audio, RED Camera footage, graphics, and animation were done at Kappa Studios in Burbank, California. The episodes were completed in six days using the Adobe Creative Suite, with each episode having 47,000 frames over stabilization. 3D software such as Cinema 4D and Lightwave were also used since in the show's second season. Production for Season 2 was completed in October 2013. Despite having a lot of live action, the show is still considered a cartoon.

Cancellation

On December 5, 2014, Boedigheimer confirmed publicly the cancellation of the series on Daneboe Exposed #22.
On April 24, 2015, Boedigheimer claimed that one of the main cause of the series cancellation was the shutdown of his studio, due to Collective Digital Studio closing their film and television division, and subsequently Collective was acquired by ex-Kirch media company ProSiebenSat.1 Media.

Broadcast

Country / regionSeries premiereNetwork
May 28, 2012Cartoon Network
June 6, 2012Cartoon Network Latin America
July 15, 2013Cartoon Network Australia
September 9, 2013Cartoon Network
September 26, 2013Teletoon
October 15, 2013Arutz HaYeladim
October 1, 2013RTP1
September 7, 2015Kix

DVD releases

Reception

A sneak peek was aired on May 28, 2012, and the series officially premiered on June 11, 2012, as Television's #1 Telecast of the Day Among Boys 6–11. In its first two weeks, the show averaged nearly 2.5 million viewers.
The series was critically panned, but praised by fans of the original web-series and new viewers.