History Main / CoconutMeetsCranium

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' and ''Superstars'' have a minigame called Coconut Conk, which consists on three players butt-slamming coconut trees to make the coconuts fall on the fourth person, who is rolling along the floor in a barrel. If the solo player is successfully hit in ''Superstars'', this will destroy the barrel entirely.

* It is often believed that Sir Isaac Newton developed his theory on gravity when an apple fell on his head.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': One of the job mini-games in both games has you collecting coconuts. If you're not careful or really unlucky, Travis can get hit on the head with them, dazing him for a few seconds. In the second game's version, he also has to dodge the numerous bees located in the coast, and the minigame now lasts four levels.

* One of the mini-games in ''VideoGame/TweetyAndTheMagicGems'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance involves WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]], WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, and Marc Antony in coconut trees, tossing coconuts at crabs. Red crabs are worth three points, and green crabs are worth five.

* An odd variant happened in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''. in the second segment, "Larry's Lagoon", (an obvious homage to Series/GilligansIsland) Bob had climbed a coconut tree to look for Larry (who had run away due to everyone blaming him for the boat crashing), and then The Professor (Dad Asparagus) shows off a catapult that he invented in the hopes of flinging everyone home and used a (sapient) coconut as a demonstration, and then it hit Bob in the head (more like his whole body), sending him falling out of the tree and into the house of the millionaire and his wife.

* In "WesternAnimation/SkunkFu", the episode "The Art of Endurance" has Fox fall victim to this trope, as a monkey throws a coconut at her head while walking on a tight-rope bridge. Luckily, skunk is able to save her from falling.

* Referenced by the page quote in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve", on a TV show that Patrick was watching. In the end, Patrick himself falls victim to this.

-->-- '''Patrick Star''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve"

* The [[https://images.neopets.com/caption/caption_1107.gif image]] for ''Website/{{Neopets}}''[='=]s Caption Contest #1107 featured a dapperly-dressed Hissi getting conked silly by a coconut while on Mystery Island while his just-as-dapperly-dressed Lupe friend panics. This particular caption contest gained [[MemeticMutation fandom notoriety]] due to the staff deciding to [[https://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=442 experiment with showing some of the rejected captions that users had submitted at random]], the results [[SturgeonsLaw predictably looking as if the unfortunate Hissi (a.k.a. "Mr. Sneky") had submitted them himself]].

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': One of the job mini-games in both games has you collecting coconuts. If you're not careful or really unlucky, Travis can get hit on the head with them, dazing him for a few seconds.

-->-- '''Patrick Star''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

BONK!!! '''Ouch.'''

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' and ''Superstars'' have a minigame called Coconut Conk, which consists on three players butt-slamming coconut trees to make the coconuts fall on the fourth person, who is rolling along the floor in a barrel. If the solo player is successfully hit in ''Superstars'', this will destroy the barrel entirely.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Sing it with me now! His coconut gun can fire in spurts! If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!

* Falling coconuts are a recurring obstacle in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' franchise. Falling coconuts that [[MadeOfExplodium inexplicably explode]] when they hit you or the ground.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty 3'' and ''Superstars'' has a minigame called Coconut Conk, which consists on three players butt-slamming coconut trees to make the coconuts fall on the fourth person, who is rolling along the floor in a barrel. If the solo player is successfully hit in ''Superstars'', this will destroy the barrel entirely.

* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' has a RunningGag where coconuts fall on Chingum's head whenever he shoots his gun in the air. This is played with in one episode where John the Don steals the gun and fires it, and is hit by a tomato instead of a coconut.

* The [[https://images.neopets.com/caption/caption_1107.gif image]] for ''Website/{{Neopets}}''[='=]s Caption Contest #1107 featured a dapperly-dressed Hissi getting conked silly by a coconut while on Mystery Island while his just-as-dapperly-dressed Lupe friend panics. This particular caption contest gained [[MemeticMutation fandom notoriety]] due to the staff deciding to [[https://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=442 experiment with picking some winners at random]], the results [[SturgeonsLaw predictably looking as if the unfortunate Hissi (a.k.a. "Mr. Sneky") had submitted them himself]].

Of course, coconuts are not the only fruits that can hit you on the head, apples are also most likely to bean you on the head in an homage to Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity[[note]]although nowadays there's a consensus that this is just an exaggeration of the official story, which says Newton simply observed as the apple fell, and his head never cushioned the fruit's fall[[/note]]. In Southeast Asia, it is possible sometimes for durians to be substituted for the coconuts - given their spiky shape, their potential for causing pain when falling off trees is quite comparable.

** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' has the boss Tropic Woods, a killer palm tree who attacks coconuts just as Whispy Woods attacks with apples.

* In ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersHiddenTreasure'', if Buster isn't careful, a raven enemy can drop an apple on his head. This is also played straight in the Game Over screen, where Montana Max throws an apple at Buster, hitting him in the back of the head.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Francine Frensky, Superstar", when Arthur is recounting all of the difficult roles that Francine had when in a play, one of the roles mentioned was when she played Sir Isaac Newton. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The results were predictable]].
* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch discover Mr. Peevly's scheme to spy on them with closed-circuit TV when one of the cameras falls from one of the zoo's palm trees and plunks Square Bear on the head.
* In the fourth part of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' serial "Bright Lights", Arabus fires a lightning bolt at the Flutter Ponies. He misses and the bolt hits an apple tree, causing apples to fall down and burst on his rat minions.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'': In "Shop Talk", Teddy blames Sweetheart for spreading rumors that he sleeps with a teddy bear. During his tirade, he bucks an apple tree in frustration, and all its apples rain down on him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Fall-Weather Friends", after Applejack shows up Rainbow Dash in a test of strength, AJ kicks the tree Dash is standing under, causing some apples to fall out of the tree and land on Dash's head (to the tune of ShaveAndAHairCut, no less).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible takes out a guard with a perfect head shot from over a hundred yards away.
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* VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield introduces Flapple. Its signature move, Grav Apple, causes the fruit to miraculously fall from a tree onto its opponent.

->''"That guy got hit in the head with a coconut!"''

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty 3'' has a minigame called Coconut Conk, which consists on three players butt-slamming coconut trees to make the coconuts fall on the fourth person, who is rolling along the floor in a barrel.

* The qualifies-for-the-WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery [=MGM=] cartoon]] ''Half-Pint Pygmy''[='s=] climax had the titular character set up a trap using one of these to bonk the heads of his pursuing hunters, followed by many gags with the coconut hitting more jungle animals (not usually on the head) until it comes back [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and hits]] ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard him]]'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard in the end]].