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In the game Portal 2, GLaDOS's A.I. was embedded into a potato-battery-run computer.

In the NCIS Season 7 episode "Power Down", Forensic Tech Abby Sciuto uses lemons to power her stereo.

In the Bones Season 6 episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard," Angela and the other "squints" build a massive potato battery array in an attempt to power a cell phone. Illustrating the pathetically low output of such a system, it is successful for only a handful of seconds while using dozens of potatoes.

In the third episode of Series X of Red Dwarf called "Lemons", the crew travel 4,000 miles from Britain to India in 23 AD in order to get lemons to build a lemon battery to power up their time machine's returner remote.

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