In Popular Culture
The fruit appeared in an episode of Friends; "The One Where Ross Dates a Student". In the episode "Awakened" in the second season of Charmed, it appeared as a carrier of the tsetse fly that bit Piper. In the 2012 movie The Dictator, the horned melon makes an appearance as mafroom, the national fruit of the fictitious country of Wadiya. In the episode "Soul Mates" in the third season of "Parks & Recreation," while shopping at Whole Foods Market look-alike "Grain & Simple", Andy Dwyer asks Chris Traeger, "WHAT'S THIS?" Chris replies, "A kiwano! Or horned melon!"
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