'' was a children's show shown on Kids' WB http://www.animatedbliss.com/news.asp?TID=2663 and premiered on July 2, 2007http://www.mediaincanada.com/articles/mic/20070612/teletoon.html on TELETOON. It was named after one of the creator's brothers. It takes place on an island inhabited exclusively by fruit. The residents enjoy their own tropical paradise without a care in the world. However, they must share their peaceful utopia with the joyfully strange Coconut Fred: a whimsical, blissfully foolish coconut with the special ability to materialize anything he thinks about. The plot revolves around the adventures of Fred and his friends, as his boundless imagination springs to life while his friends struggle to cover up the collateral.
- An eccentric . '''Super Strength'''-Makes Captain Nut to pick up any object. He can lift up a plastic table, Mr. Greenrind's sand castle Cabana , and even Fruit Salad Island! The power has little to no effect on killing Fruit Flies . '''Sea Telepathy to Animals of the Sea'''-Can Speak to sea creatures for help. Captain Nut usually talks to a Dolphin named Larry.
- and '''Slide''': 'country' Banana brothers. Less intelligent than the rest of the cast; they often take things a little too seriously. They're in a band with Fred called "Coconut Fred's All-Body Sound Band", & their music consists mainly of bodily sounds (burping, rude armpit noises, gargling, etc.). In the episode, "The Ripley Van Ripend Book of World Records" they had the record for the biggest tin foil ball. In the episode "Sir Nutalot", they were dressed up as the Mario Brothers . They were also superheros of '''Captain Nut''' or Coconut Fred. They were both Power Fruits in "Captain Nut and the Power Fruits". Slide's powers were '''Mashed Potato Vision'''-Can shoot a mashed potato beam out of the eyes, the beam is very edible to eat, can also shoot other foods out of the eyes, Green Beans , Yams , and even a roasted Turkey ! The Power can't harm Blendar. Slip's power is '''Auto Tying Shoes Power'''-Can help tying someones or owners shoe automatically, sometimes the power make a copy of the user and ties the shoes, other times the power can automatically tie the shoes.
- : a Watermelon . Most commonly assisted by Bingo, Mr. Greenrind routinely attempts to keep order on the island with his chart of rules; rules usually broken by Fred & Co. by the end of each episode. Fred has a tendency to get on Mr. Greenrin's nerves, and sometimes stress him out from all of his antics, though on some occasions, he was able to show friendliness towards Fred (which wouldn't last long). In the episode "Sir Nutalot", he was dressed up as Princess Peach who was suppose to marry Butchy. He was also a parody of Donkey Kong in the same episode during the supposed ''Bonus Level''. In the episode, "The Ripley Van Ripend Book of World Records" he had the record for using the most sunblock.
- : A Lemon who works as a sailor. Ended up on Fruit Salad Island due to Fred's intervention. Spends a great deal of time talking to "Betty", the wooden Figurehead . Often fabricates plans to escape from the island, most of which are usually foiled by Fred's antics. In the episode "Sir Nutalot", he was dressed up as Princess Peach in the supposed ''Bonus Level''.
- : A mute Wild Strawberry . Bunga communicates exclusively in snarls and snorts. Despite this, everyone is still able to understand what he is saying (at least Fred does), and is docile enough to interact with other islanders calmly.
- : A Gravenstein apple. Well known as the island's bully. Once frightened Bingo, hardly frightens Fred. In the episode "Sir Nutalot", he was dressed up as Sephiroth in Final Fantasy 7. In that episode several spoofs about Sephiroth include the armor Butchy was wearing to a giant flaming apple above Butchy's castle which resembles meteor.
- : A famous singer on Fruit Salad Island. Everybody likes her music except for Mr. Greenrind. In the episode, "The Ripley Van Ripend Book of World Records" she had the record for most off-key singer to be ever to perform in public. It was also her last appearance on the show (except for the title song along with '''B.L. Tomato''' and '''Rusty Candoo''').
- : An outcast Tomato that feels to live nowhere. He's also trying to find if he's a fruit or a vegetable (although, a tomato is actually a fruit). In "Captain Nut and the Power Fruits", he joined Blendar, Captain Nut's arch-enemy, and turned to the dark side with a new name, the '''Tomatonator'''. After the episode, he never appeared again (except for the title song).
- : Fred's friend. He's a can of fruit. His only appearances are the title song and the episodes: "Hocus Pocus Lack of Focus and Amuse-Otel". After Amuse-Otel, he never appeared again (except still for the title song).
- : A fruit bat bent on eating Fruit Salad Island inhabitants. He's afraid of the light. His name is from the Slurpee , the popular 7-11 beverege.
- : Mr. Greenrind's perky niece. Likes to enforce rules even more than her uncle, and carries around a very noisy chalkboard.
- '''Vic the and ramming into Asteroids , he aborted the invasion and Fred crashed the ship into Mr. Greenrind's sand castle Cabana . They all survived the crash. This was the first and last appearance of Vick on the show. The episode, he was in was "Turn On Your Nut Light".
- : The token little old lady of the island. She hates Mr. Greenrind. Favorite line: "Oh dear."
For some reason everything Coconut Fred imagines turns into reality. Some of the more prominent things were the Doggiecopter, mango phone, man-e-corn, Melvin the volcano, resident monsters, the snack serpent, a rainbow bottom fruit monkey, the fashion model bear, and the giggling fruit moose.
- In times of trouble, Fred goes to the nut hut and asks the 'wise' slot machine tiki what to do.
- There is a Squeeky board which Mr. Greenrind constantly has Bingo writing on that contains Fruit Salad Island's Rules. Once, when the board was wiped clean, the inhabitants took advantage of it and began doing the things that Mr. Greenrind forbade until Bingo rewrote all the rules back onto the board.
- This show is not on the fall schedule for Kids' WB! when The WB and UPN merge to form The CW , and is presumably cancelled. Beginning June 17 , 2006 it was replaced with Spider Riders . The show was last seen in the Pillow Head Hour, but was no longer an official part of the lineup.
# No News is Good News / Master of Disaster
# Hocus Pocus Lack of Focus / Amuse-Otel
# Fruit Canal / Lemon Overboard
# Fred Rules! / Monster Island
# A Bad Case Of The Fruitcups / Fruity Booty
# Nutcase / One Bad Apple
# Bananas For Golf / Fruit Ball Heroes
# A Cold Day On Fruit Salad Island / Five Nuts And A Baby
# Banana Cabana / Coconut Freds
# Captain Nut and the Power Fruits / Part 1 and 2
# Monkey Business / Sir Nutalot
# One Fruit's Trash is Another Fruit's Treasure / Turn on Your Nut Light
# The Ripley Van Ripend Book of World Records / Frozen in Time
After the last episode, the show was cancelled, as were a few others on Kids' WB! .
The show has been dubbed in Irish (although the title and most names remain in English), and is currently (as of January 2007 ) showing on TG4 .
In 2006, the series was nominated for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program at the 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards .
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