The Annoying Orange is an American comedy series created by film student and MTV production assistant Dane Boedigheimer in 2009. It stars its creator as an anthropomorphic orange who annoys other fruits, vegetables, and various other objects by using crude-humored jokes. The show is centered on Orange who resides on a kitchen counter with other objects such as his best friend Pear, a Bartlett pear. Other fruits include Passion, a female passionfruit, a grapefruit, a tiny apple known as Midget Apple (though he prefers the name Little Apple), a small marshmallow, and an elderly lemon named Grandpa Lemon.