Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island

Premise

Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island! takes place on an island inhabited exclusively by fruit. The residents enjoy their own tropical paradise without a care in the world; they must share their peaceful utopia with Coconut Fred, a whimsical, blissfully foolish coconut with the ability to materialize anything he thinks about. The plot revolves around the adventures of Fred and his friends, as his imagination springs to life while his friends struggle to cover up the collateral damage.

Characters

Main

Coconut Fred (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is a happy-go-lucky and energetic coconut with a very strange imagination. Fred is able to turn whatever he imagines into reality. He can often be heard saying, "Yay, me!" and "Now you're talking, coconut!"

Slip and Slide D'Peel (both voiced by Eric Bauza) are hillbilly banana brothers. They are much less intelligent than the rest of the cast, and often take things too seriously. They are in a band with Fred called Coconut Fred's All-Body Sound Band, whose music consists mainly of bodily sounds (burping, armpit noises, gargling, etc.).

Bingo Cherry (voiced by Tracey Moore for the first two episodes and by Britt McKillip for the remainder of the series) is a shy and timid cherry. Bingo usually hangs out with his friends Fred, Slip and Slide and Bunga Berry. He is easily terrified, something that Fred does not know and usually provokes.

Mr. Mel Greenrind (voiced by Michael Donovan) is a very strict watermelon. Most commonly assisted by Bingo, Greenrind routinely attempts to keep everything and everyone in order on the island with his chart of rules known as the squeaky board very seriously.

Wedgie (voiced by Brian Drummond) is an accident-prone lemon who works as a sailor. He ended up on Fruit Salad Island due to Fred's intervention. Wedgie spends a great deal of time talking to "Betty", a wooden figurehead. He often fabricates plans to escape from the island, all of which are foiled by Fred's antics, either directly or indirectly.

Bunga Berry (voiced by David Kaye) is a wild strawberry who communicates exclusively in grunts and growls. Despite this, everyone is still able to understand what he is saying, and Bunga is docile enough to interact with other islanders calmly.

Recurring

Butchy (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a gravenstein apple. He is well-known for being the island's resident troublemaker and bully and his pride in said fact. He really enjoys bullying and antagonizing others, especially Bingo.

Black Berry (voiced by Brian Drummond) is a blackberry and Butchy's secretary. His name is a pun on the name of the BlackBerry Personal digital assistant.

Tiffany Pears (voiced by Britt McKillip) is a pear singer whose music is liked by everybody except Mr. Greenrind. She is a parody of Britney Spears.

B.L. Tomato (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) is an outcast tomato wondering if he is a fruit or a vegetable. His most prominent role is in the Season 2 episode "Captain Nut and the Power Fruits", where he joins Blendar, Captain Nut's archenemy, and turns to the dark side as the Tomatonator.

Rusty Candu (voiced by David Kaye) is one of Fred's friends. He is a can of fruit. His only appearances are in the intro, "Hocus Pocus Lack of Focus", "Amuse-Otel", and "Fred Rules!" (in a cameo).

Slurpy (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a fruit bat who is bent on eating Fruit Salad Island inhabitants. He is afraid of light.

Melonie Greenrind (voiced by Kelly Sheridan) is Mr. Greenrind's perky niece. She likes to enforce rules even more seriously than her uncle and carries around a very noisy chalkboard.

Vic (voiced by Garry Chalk) is an alien from Loft Lost 57 in the Sasaft Quadrant in the depths of other space who appears in "Turn on Your Nut Light" as the main antagonist. Originally planning to invade the island with his spaceship fleet, he was mistaken as a tourist to Fred and the island, and due to him and his friends playing in his ship and almost destroying it by going into black holes and ramming into asteroids, he aborted the invasion, causing Fred to crash the ship into Mr. Greenrind's sand castle cabana.

Reception

Despite some critics praising the animation and creativity, as well as some elements of the comedy, the series has been criticized for its often loud, over-the-top humor, with many unfavorably comparing it to SpongeBob SquarePants. Joly Herman of Common Sense Media posted a review of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island on Disney's Go.com. The review describes the show as "the TV equivalent of sugary cereal, and nothing more", and gives the show 2 stars out of 5.

Episodes

Each episode was directed by Matt Danner.