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The Beastie Boys compared their band's "flavor" to Fruit Stripe on their song "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" on the album Paul's Boutique.
In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Macaulay Culkin's character, Kevin, gives a bellboy (played by Rob Schneider) a piece of Fruit Stripe gum as a "tip."
In an episode of The Cleveland Show, Roberta's boyfriend states that he loves her more than Unicorns love Pixie Dust. The show cuts to a scene of a gay dance club filled with anthropomorphic horses and zebras, with an anthropomorphic horse coming out of the bathroom with a rainbow, sparkling dust coating his nose. He proceeds to ask an anthropomorphic black-and-white striped zebra if he has any Fruit Stripe gum.
In the King of Queens, Season 6, episode 6, "Affidavit Justice," Doug mentions that his shirt looks like a package of Fruit Stripe gum. A similar joke is made in an episode of That '70s Show by Donna regarding Eric's shirt.
The Peepers brand of reading glasses offers a colorful set of "Fruit Stripe Gum" frames.
In the Family Guy, Season 6, episode 10, "Play It Again, Brain", Peter says to Quagmire on the telephone, "Oh, you're more of a letdown than Fruit Stripe Gum", and the next part, you see Peter sitting on the sofa, trying Fruit Stripe Gum for the first time his reaction to the taste is "mmmmm", but one second later, Peter says "ooooh", suggesting that the flavour of the gum goes very quickly.
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