The ChewChat Gang (also referred to as the Screamin' Fruit Gang or Fruit Winders Gang) are a gang of delinquent fruit-themed mascots from the British Kellogg's snack brand "Fruit Winders" as well as the late spinoffs, "Fruit Spurters" and "Fruit Squidgers." The gang is known for processing smaller living fruit into the advertised fruit snacks through cartoon violence. The ChewChat gang were featured heavily in early to mid 2000's TV commercials and advertising material. The mascots stopped being used at some point in the early 2020's.
The term "ChewChat" refers to a language of characters that the fruit use to communicate (English is still used for text). Many characters are known to exist, and some seemingly were released in real life as merchandise before the brand's launch. The various characters in the ChewChat language are cartoon representations of objects, lifeforms, symbols, scenarios, idioms or phrases, and even the mascots. The names of the characters are unknown, so they will be given nicknames to represent them. There are more than 40 known ChewChat characters. The ChewChat language became less prominent over time.
"Fruit Winders" are long gummy fruit strips similar to Fruit by the Foot, eventually rebranded to becoming two smaller strips rather than a single big one. It's possible a precursor known as "Duo's" were released. They came in seven flavors before the doubles rebrand.
- Strawberry - 2001 - Launch flavor
- Blackcurrant - 2001 - Launch flavor
- Orange - 2001 - Launch flavor
- Apple - 2002
- Tropical - 2003 - The winning candidate of the 2003 flavor vote, its ingredients are grapefruit, passion fruit, and banana[1]
- Lemon - 2004 - One of the unsuccessful candidates from the 2003 flavor vote
- Raspberry - 2004 - One of the unsuccessful candidates from the 2003 flavor vote, the backing paper says its release was limited edition.
The doubles rebrand retained few of the original flavors. They also received new flavors, but they likely lack mascots.
- Strawberry - around 2005 - Retained.
- Blackcurrant - around 2005 - Retained, currently seems to only come with strawberry.
- Apple - around 2005 - Retained, currently seems to only come with strawberry.
- Raspberry -??? - Reintroduced and shrouded in mystery, produced and then discontinued at some point pre-2020's[2]
- Very Cherry -??? - Shrouded in mystery, produced and then discontinued at some point pre-2020's
- Mango - 2020's - Released during the rebrand.
"Fruit Squidgers" were crushed fruit in containers that you could squeeze out, similar to squeezable apple sauce pouches. They came in Strawberry, Blackcurrant, and Apple. They were launched in summer of 2003, but discontinued around spring of 2004.
"Fruit Spurters" were gummies shaped like screaming fruit, filled with juicy insides much like Fruit Gushers. They came with multiple flavors in one pack, Strawberry, Blackcurrant, Orange, and Apple. They were launched in fall of 2003.
Sorbabe[]
Sorbabe is a strawberry celebrity DJ character, processing fruit with the power of music. She has always "preferred life on the wrong side of the tracks," having been kicked out of her nursery for teasing others.
Sorbabe, like Max, has a taller, feminine, figure with visible breasts. Her body is red, and her hair is green, curving at the sides, bald at the back, three small tufts over the forehead, and a pedicle on top. She wears pink lipstick, and her eyes are oval shaped. She wears a pink cropped tank top that exposes her breasts' cleavage, pink pants, toeless and backless pink platform shoes, and both sets of her nails have magenta polish.
Sorbabe's eyes have an inconsistent number of eyelashes, and her face is depicted with and without achenes in different pieces of art.
Sorbabe has a lower-pitched, female voice. It is unknown if she has a voice actor or if her voice is made of stock sound effects.
Booster[]
Booster is a blackcurrant Tech head character, processing fruit through use of cartoony high-tech gadgets.
Booster has a violet body and green hair shaped like a four-sided star topped with a pedicle at the top. He has a smaller mouth, as well as round periwinkle glasses and large eyes. He wears a baggy zip-up yellow jacket and baggy yellow pants with white stripes on the sides of both, the jacket also features a collar and pockets. He also wears white shoes without laces that feature violet designs on the sides.
His glasses are notably square in the commercials, and his eyes are directly part of his glasses in his second model, even being able to pop off with his eyes inside.
Booster has a lower-pitched, male voice. It is unknown if he has a voice actor or if his voice is made of stock sound effects.
Blabber[]
Blabber is an orange character seeming to have a theme of entertainment, processing fruit using steamrollers, limousines, and through TV shows and theme parks. He's described as being the hyperactive boss of the ChewChat Gang. In some art, he is shown with a white cat.
Blabber's body is colored orange, his face has the texture of an orange, he has green eyebrows as well as green hair made of leaves. He has a large mouth with visibly large incisors, and small eyes. He wears a light-blue collared shirt with similarly colored pants and a tie with a citrus pattern. His shoes are orange and have what appear to be blue laces and have grey soles.
In the TV commercials, Blabber wears gloves.
Blabber has a high-pitched, male voice. It is unknown if he has a voice actor or if his voice is made of stock sound effects.
Max[]
Max is an apple character that enjoys roller skating, skiing, and running, processing fruit at high speeds.
Max's body is colored green and has orange tufts of hair coming from the sides. She wears grey-cyan goggles with a blue strap and an orange tint and wears red lipstick. Her pedicle is brown and separate from her hair. She wears a blue cropped tank top and a white backpack. Her pants are white, having two red stars the sides of both legs. Her shoes are blue and gray with white soles, and she wears gloves the same color as her shirt. On her shoes are red buttons that activate and deactivate her roller skates, made up of four wheels each.
In Fruit Winders flash material, her goggles' strap appears a reddish-brown.
Max has a high-pitched, female voice. It is unknown if she has a voice actor or if her voice is made of stock sound effects.
Voojuice[]
Voojuice is a grapefruit character that uses voodoo magic to process fruit. Unlike most other characters, Voojuice processes multiple fruit to create Tropical Winders, specifically grapefruit, passion fruit, and bananas.
His body has a marigold color to it. He has a large mouth, large eyes, and large green eyebrows. He wears a purple top hat with the top of the crown peeling off to reveal eyes and leaves with the brim decorated with what appears to be fruit dolls and/or corpses (two bananas, a passion fruit with visible eyes, and a sliced passion fruit). He wears a purple cloak that appears curled at the end alongside a purple top with a white portion around the neck that has a yellow gemstone on it. He wears white gloves and white torn pants whilst barefoot. His staff is also made of fruit dolls and/or corpses, with bananas making up the bottom portion and a cut-open passion fruit as the handle.
His model from the Call-In Flavor Vote Commercials has a few notable differences from his main art. Most notably, his pants are colored purple and his hat lacks leaves.
In the Tropical Test Commercial, his hat features fruit on the other side of the brim, mirroring the pattern seen in his art. His hat features around four or five leaves, all resembling the leaves of palm trees. He is shown wearing sandals, and his gums are visible.
Voojuice has a raspy, male voice. It is unknown if he has a voice actor or if his voice is made of stock sound effects.
Unidentified Lemon Character[]
This unidentified figure (Referred to as Jehose or Sadie on some sites) is a lemon genie character, not much is known about them, including their official name.
Their body is yellow, and their lemon-shaped head has long green hair tied up by a grey spiked band. Their eyes have long eyelashes and are decorated with pink-purple eyeshadow under green eyebrows. She wears magenta-colored lipstick and has noticeably large teeth. Her top has a purple-blue pattern, and the sleeves are mainly purple and droop down at the ends. Her pants are blue and appear to cover her feet.
Stealth[]
This character, possibly (but not confirmed to be) named "Stealth" or "Raspberry Stealth," is a raspberry secret agent character, who infiltrates fruits' shelter and processes them.
The color of the character's clothes is unknown, due to their only archived appearance being in monochrome comic strips. Their body is pink, and they have a green pedicle at the top of their head. They wear an eyeglass attached to their head by two straps. They also appear to be muscular and/or wearing a suit.
Etymology[]
Sorbabe is a combination of "sorbet" and "babe," in reference to her feminine appearance.
Booster refers to how he "boosts" machines.
Blabber refers to his large mouth and theme of entertainment and comedy.
Max seemingly refers to her interest in pushing herself to the "max," as she does in her known appearances.
Voojuice is a combination of "voodoo" and "juice."
Stealth is quite straightforward; espionage is their specialty.
Group Gallery[]
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Comics[]
The ChewChat gang often made appearances in seven-to-ten panel comics found on Fruit Winders papers and in comic books such as the Beano and the Dandy. There are six known series of comics. Most feature a single color (or none) used to color in fruit characters, but some, known to be featured in the Dandy, are more detailed and completely colored in.
Sorbabe - Comics that feature Sorbabe, confirmed to be seen in comic books. Nine red-colored smaller comics and eight full-color comics are known to exist.
Blabber - Comics that feature Blabber, confirmed to be seen in comic books. Eight yellow-colored smaller comics and seven full-color comics are known to exist.
Booster - Comics that feature Booster, confirmed to be seen in comic books. Nine grey-colored smaller comics and eight full-color comics are known to exist.
Max - Comics that feature Max, seemingly appearing in comic books. Only one green-colored smaller comic is known to exist.
Stealth - Comics that feature Stealth, appearing in Fruit Winders. Two rose-colored smaller comics are known to exist.
Double Trouble - Comics that feature Sorbabe, Booster, and Max in working together in twos, likely appearing in comic books, as well as Fruit Winders doubles up until the 2020's. Nine smaller comics are known to exist, notably more minimalistic than the others.
Its possible comics exist for other characters, but nothing is confirmed.
Sorbabe[]
Sky Windin' High Jinx!
Presumed to be the first comic due to being labelled as "episode 1" and the general format not being finalized. The ChewChat characters included are "Diamond," "1-Ton," and "Devil."
Boogie Frights
The ChewChat characters included are "Straight Notes," "Pants," and "Bean???."
Catwalk
The ChewChat characters included are "Saw," "Scissors," and "Crossbones."
Chillin' Out
The ChewChat characters included are "Chill" and "Faucet."
Club Flyer
The ChewChat character included is "Party."
Double Trouble
The ChewChat characters included are "Sorbabe," "Heartful," and "Shackle." This comic likely inspired the series featured in Doubles.
Fan-tastic
The ChewChat characters included are "Hot," "Chill," and "Blender."
Fruit Packin'
The ChewChat character included is "Unidentified Circular Thingy," if you know what this is, please replace the name or let us know.
Gate Crasher
The ChewChat character included is "Shooting Star."
Headline Grabber!
Health Kick
The ChewChat characters included are "Confusion," "Hamster Wheel," and "Demoness."
Juicy Film Roll
Note: a flash-animated adaptation seen on an archive of Stuart Harrison's portfolio site is referred to as Episode 8: Film Roll rather than Juicy Film Roll.
Roller Babe
The ChewChat characters included are "Winged Shoe," "Tragedy," and "Comedy."
Sitcom Surprise
The ChewChat characters included are "Smile" and "Heartful."
Ski Babe
The ChewChat character included is "Bull."
Snap Dragon
The ChewChat character included is likely "Straight Notes but could be a separate character due to its resemblance to a half note.
Snoopin' Snapper
The ChewChat character included is "Smooch."
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Blabber[]
Windy Wind-up!
Presumed to be the first comic due to being labelled as "episode 1" and the general format not being finalized. The ChewChat characters included are "Handcuffs" and "Chainsaw."
Balloonery!
The ChewChat characters included are "Handraise," "Drum," and "Gem."
Caberet Chaos!
The ChewChat character included is "Curved Notes."
Drag - tastic
The ChewChat characters included are "Pants" and "Crossbones."
Going Round
The ChewChat characters included are "Gift" and "Devil."
Horror Film
The ChewChat characters included are "Bowl" and "5-star."
Ice Scream
The ChewChat characters included are "Straight Notes," "Squiggly Notes," and "Bull."
Jammy Top
The ChewChat character included is "Chainsaw."
Poorly Pets
The ChewChat characters included are "Cat Heart," "Frown," and "Confusion."
Pukka Dish!
The ChewChat characters included are "Thumbs Up," "Star," "Pie," and "Drool."
Shoppin' Shocker
The ChewChat characters included are "Dollar Bag" and "Teeth."
Sumo
The ChewChat characters included are "Dumbbell" and "Bully."
Taken for a Spin!
The ChewChat character included is "Dollar Bag."
Water Caper
The ChewChat characters included are "Sheep," "Fish," and "Doofy."
Wish you were here
The ChewChat characters included are "Island," "Confusion," and "Tea."
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Booster[]
Wickedly Loopy Fruit Trap!
Presumed to be the first comic due to being labelled as "episode 1" and the general format not being finalized. The ChewChat character included is "Aaah."
Big Blubber'
The ChewChat characters included are "???," "Dish," and "Bull."
Boulderdash
The ChewChat character included is "Trophy."
Cyber-Attack
The ChewChat characters included are "Chill," "Confusion," and "Screen."
Down the Tubes
The ChewChat characters included are "Smile," "???," and "Chill."
Face Off
The ChewChat character included is "Unlocked Heart."
Faxtastic!
The ChewChat characters included are "Bell," "Lovestruck," and "Heartbroken."
Game On!
The ChewChat character included is "Bully."
Hip Hoppin'
The ChewChat character included is "Hammock."
Junk Pile Genius!
The ChewChat character included is "Happy Lightbulb."
Out for a Spin...
Pick Your Own
The ChewChat characters included are "Alien" and "Aaah."
Rockin' the Vote!
The ChewChat characters included are "Quivering Note" and "Chainsaw."
Space Scuttle
Sucker
The ChewChat character included is "Toaster."
Time Warped
The ChewChat characters included are "Hot Dog" and "Stressed Lightbulb."
Web Wind-up
In addition to the monochrome comics, eight full-color comics are known to exist.
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Max[]
Snow long suckers!
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Stealth[]
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Double Trouble[]
Action Packed
Audio Grab
It is unknown if the music note is meant to be the ChewChat character "Straight Quaver".
Bouncy
Cocktail for Two
It is unknown if the black cocktail is meant to be a ChewChat character.
Fair Grabs!
Hot Tub
Jungle Trail
Paper Chase!
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TV Commercials[]
The ChewChat gang also appeared in various TV commercials that aired from 2001-2006. The commercials' animation is credited to Leo Burnett. Commercials produced before the doubles rebrand were narrated by Sir Lenny Henry. It's possible that there are a couple more commercials but only a few resurfaced.
2001[]
Strawberry Fruit Winders[]
Features: Strawberries, Sorbabe, Blackcurrants, Oranges, Booster, and Blabber. (link)
At an aerodrome, Sorbabe ties a strawberry to an aeroplane's front wheel, and sticks it to the ground with cement. Two strawberries watch in horror as the plane takes off and the strawberry stretches. As the plane retracts its wheels, the strawberry winds up into a Winder. Ends with a group of fruit bouncing away in the city during the day, the strawberry in the middle is pulled back and winds up into a Winder in front of the ChewChat gang. The ChewChat characters included are "Chainsaw" and "Aaah."
Music: Unnamed Funky Track
Orange Fruit Winders[]
Features: Oranges, Blabber, Blackcurrants, Strawberries, Booster, Sorbabe. (link)
Two oranges stroll the city and run into a street sign with a steamroller on it, which confuses them both. They look both ways before one starts crossing the road, the other orange freaks out as they get steamrolled by Blabber. Blabber hops out of the steamroller and uses a trowel to scoop up and wind the flattened orange into a Fruit Winder, scaring off the other orange. Ends with a group of fruit bouncing away in the city during the day, the orange in the middle is pulled back and winds up into a Winder in front of the ChewChat gang. The ChewChat characters included are "Confusion" and "Devil."
Music: Unnamed Funky Track
2002[]
Strawberry Fruit Winders[]
Features: Strawberries, Sorbabe, Blackcurrants, Oranges, Blabber, Booster. (link)
A strawberry visits Sorbabe club, which is allowing "free entry for strawberries" for Sorbabe's rave. In front of a crowd of strawberries, Sorbabe beckons the new strawberry to enter the dance floor, and they start dancing while Sorbabe deejays. Sorbabe thinks that their dancing reeks, so she then pushes a button that turns the dance floor into a spinning press that squishes the strawberry against the ceiling. The other strawberries start leaving, and Sorbabe winds up the squished strawberry into a Fruit Winder. Ends with a group of fruit bouncing away in the city during the night, the orange in the middle is pulled back and winds up into a Winder in front of the ChewChat gang. The ChewChat characters included are "Hot Dog" and "Stinky."
Music: Unnamed Funky Track (Remix)
Blackcurrant Fruit Winders[]
Features: Blackcurrants, Booster, Blabber, Sorbabe. (link)
In some kind of building, a teary-eyed blackcurrant is seen chained up in front of a blackcurrant audience on a television screen with a counter counting down from ten. The camera pans down the show Booster putting down a box while holding a remote. The camera shows the blackcurrant is chained to two captive elephants. Booster uses the remote the open the box, unleashing a robotic mouse that scares the elephants into running around the room, scaring the audience and stretching the blackcurrant. The robotic mouse transforms, and collects the stretched Blackcurrant, winding it into a Fruit Winder. Blabber and Sorbabe clap before jumping down from high up and bounce off an elephant, joining Booster. The ChewChat characters included are "Bully," "Envelope," and "Nuts."
Music: Unnamed Funky Track
Apple Fruit Winders[]
Features: Apples, Max, Blabber, Booster, Sorbabe. (link)
In the desert, near a canyon, we see a lizard sitting atop rocks, then the camera zooms in on two apples waiting at a bus stop. One apple is wearing a backpack while the other wears a hat, glasses, has lips, and carries a camera. The backpack apple puts his face in a cowboy cutout and makes a doofy expression, and the other apple goes to take a picture. Max skates down the road at high speed and grabs the apple in the cutout (laughing as she does so), rides up a warning sign, and jumps off the canyon. Upon reaching the bottom, Max winds up the stretched apple into a Fruit Winder. Blabber, Booster, and Sorbabe are at the finish line (complete with Blabber looking up at the sky in a daze), Blabber holding a sign saying "new record," and Max holding a timer stopped at 14:11. The ChewChat character included is "Cheese."
Music: Unnamed Banjo Track
2003[]
Winders Keepers[]
Features: Oranges, Blackcurrants, Strawberries, Sorbabe, Blabber. (2002 ver link) (2003 ver link)
An Orange comes across a Fruit Winders wrapper during the Winders Keepers promotion and fantasizes about what they could win. The orange opens the pack and finds a game console and start imaging themselves playing a racing game with other fruits, but Sorbabe takes the imaginary console. The orange cheers up before being flattened by a limousine. Riding the limousine is Blabber, who takes the console, and the limousine then drives off.
Note: Multiple versions of the commercial exist with minor differences, one from 2002 that features a Playstation 2, and another from 2003 that features a Nintendo GameCube.
Music: Unnamed Droning Track (GameCube Variant 2003) / Unnamed Funky Track (Playstation 2 Variant 2002)
Call-in Flavor Vote[]
Features: Blackcurrants, Strawberries, Sorbabe, Oranges, Max, Apples, Raspberries, Grapefruit, Lemons. (link)
A montage of all previous Fruit Winders TV commercials with spooky music plays. An unknown fruit's eyes are shown in the dark while the narrator urges the viewer to call "freephone 0080090906060" to choose the next stretched fruit. The ChewChat gang chase after the mysterious fruit, revealing the backdrop to be some kind of Fruit Winders warehouse. Three fruit bounce in view from the side, a raspberry, a grapefruit with hair made of banana hands and glasses that look like passion fruit, and a lemon. The grapefruit hides behind the lemon, holding a "vote lemon" sign, before being nudged by the lemon. The lemon and raspberry hold signs that say, "vote raspberry" and "vote tropical" respectively. The commercial ends with all three jumping, urging the viewer to vote.
Music: Unnamed Spooky Music
Call-in Flavor Vote Update[]
Features: Oranges, Raspberries, Grapefruit, Lemons. (link)
Whilst eerie music plays, we see the three fruits trapped in a stadium of some kind, the grapefruit in some kind of straitjacket, the raspberry tied to a chair, and the lemon held in a vise, while an orange janitor cleans the bleachers in the background. The fruits are thrusted forward, and the narrator announces to the viewer that they can vote for what stretches the fruit. A piano, sumo wrestler, whale, garden roller, and steel drum band are shown on a conveyor belt above the fruit. The commercial ends with the fruits freaking out.
Music: Unnamed Eerie Music
Call-in Flavor Vote Results[]
Features: Apples, Blackcurrants, Oranges, Strawberries, Grapefruit, Raspberries, Lemons, Voojuice, Max, Booster, Blabber, Sorbabe. (link)
The camera shows a stadium lit by spotlights packed with fruit, some holding voting signs, and the camera zooms into the middle, where the three potential flavors are held. The five possible choices for stretchers appear along the conveyor belt, under spotlights. The camera and spotlights shift focus to the grapefruit, then the raspberry, and finally, the lemon. The spotlights shift around until landing on the grapefruit, and the narrator announces that Tropical is the new flavor as the grapefruit is moved to the middle and the others are moved to the back. The camera cuts to a shot of the apples from the 2002 apple ad in the audience, the one on the left jumping and the other with a camera. As the audience chants "Tropical," the camera shows Voojuice turning a dial to choose the steel drum band as the stretcher. The camera shows the band drumming and making odd expressions and the grapefruit yelling. Voojuice activates a switch that makes the conveyor retract, having the band flatten the grapefruit and drive into the exit. The grapefruit winds up in front of the ChewChat gang, Voojuice knocks them in a Fruit Winders wrapper with their staff as the gang laughs.
Music: Unnamed Dramatic Music
Fruit Squidgers[]
Features: Blackcurrants, Booster, Max, Sorbabe, Blabber. (link)
A blackcurrant attempts to avoid Booster and his flying scooter by hiding in an alley, only to find a dead end. The blackcurrant jumps into a garbage can, lighting up the area with a torch only to find more scared blackcurrants and walls closing in. Booster presses a button, and the machine compacts the currants, Booster then giggles. Blackcurrant juice is poured from the machine into a Fruit Squidgers container next to Max and Sorbabe, coloring the container as it fills up. Booster jumps off his scooter to test the Fruit Squidger. He then uses his remote to have it carried onto a truck by its' crane, Blabber sits in the driver's seat. Max stands near and Sorbabe lays near the new blackcurrant Fruit Squidger with its apple and strawberry counterparts.
Note: Blabber is barely visible because Fruit Squidgers never came in an orange flavor.
Music: Unnamed Chase Music
2004[]
Fruit Spurters[]
Features: Orange, Booster, Blabber, Max, Sorbabe. (link)[1]
An orange bounces down the street when it hears the phone ring in a phone booth. Two birds in a tree above the phone booth watch as the orange's insides gets sucked into the phone and goes down a tube into a container in a lab with Booster. Booster giggles before pulling a switch to to release the container onto a conveyor belt that puts it next to containers of the other three flavors. The fruity insides are sucked up in a tube to be put inside the Fruit Spurters, the filled shells coming to life with horrified expressions. Booster then presses a button for 'Quality Control' which causes a mechanical hand to squeeze one of the Orange Spurters and its insides come out, covering the screen. The commercial ends with Booster, Blabber, Max and Sorbabe watching the Spurters get bagged as they laugh with delight.
Music: Unnamed Frantic Music
Fruity Booty[]
Features: Orange, Strawberry, Sorbabe, Max, Blabber, Booster. (link)
Like in the original Orange Fruit Winders commercial, two oranges stroll down the street and stop at a sign. A strawberry walking by Club Sorbabe gets distracted by a poster of her, like in the 2002 Strawberry Fruit Winders commercial. One orange crosses the street and ends up ran over by a steamroller, but rather than being flattened, its fruit body transformed into a £5 banknote, much to the joy of the other orange. A limousine runs over the strawberry, transforming it into another £5 note. Max, Blabber, and Booster walk over to and stand next to a Fruit Winders wrapper. Sorbabe jumps onto the wrapper and a £5 note flies out of it. The ChewChat gang stands behind a Fruit Winders and a Fruit Spurters wrapper, with Sorbabe holding and fanning 5 £5 banknotes towards the fourth wall. The gang laughs.
Music: Unnamed Jolly Music
Other[]
Tropical Fruit Winders (Test)[]
Features: Grapefruit, Passion Fruit, Bananas, Pineapples, Voojuice. (link)
From a shot of a volcanic tropical island, the camera zooms in to show a grapefruit fishing at the end of a pier with their passion fruit and banana buddies, despite a "no fishing" sign appearing on a lifebuoy at the end of the pier, whilst a pineapple is seen at a stand with a "tropical" sign in the middle of the pier. The fruit trio fish up Voojuice's hat, who then appears from the hat in a puff of magic smoke and makes the hat levitate back on his head. Voojuice casts a spell into the sea, and the fruit trio watch in horror as a monster emerges from the ocean, the camera only showing the cephalopod-like shadow cast by the monster. The trio of fruit bounce up the pier to flee the sea monster, a green octopus with a single eye and misplaced mouth with sharp teeth rather than a beak, only to get squished by one of the monster's arms. As the pineapple watches from his stand, the monster smears the fruit across the pier, and Voojuice uses his staff to wind up the fruit. A Tropical Fruit Winders wrapper magically appears and floats in the air, and the Winder magically jumps up into it after being completely winded. The wrapper falls into the sand and causes a chair and parasol to pop out of the sand into position. Voojuice appears in the chair and stares at the camera.
Unlike other commercials, this commercial never seemed to air, and may not have been meant to, given the title of "FruitWinders Test Commercial." The animation style and models are quite different from the other commercials, likely done by the user who uploaded it on vimeo, Tony Lee.
This commercial was first referenced by u/Degeneration7 on reddit during early lost media investigation, they believed it was on Steve William's site and involved a boat, though these were foggy memories. The commercial was eventually discovered on 10/29/2023 (or 29/10/23).
The Tropical Screamin' Fruit Winders wrapper seen in the commercial differs from a design dug up from Kellogg's British websites, featuring solely a grapefruit with an expression that more closely resembles the Orange and Lemon packing with the Screamin' Fruit brand. It is unknown if this design was ever used elsewhere.
Music: Unnamed Catastrophic Music
Animations and Games[]
On the ChewChat/Screamin' Fruit site, animations (extended adaptations of the comics) and games featuring the characters were available to view, though most have been lost to time. Some have been found displayed on an older version of Stuart Harrison's portfolio page or from through archived URLs on the ChewChat or Screamin' Fruit site. These files can be found in the archive listed at the end of the page if you wish to view or play these yourself.
Animations[]
- Apple Max "Express" Animation (Actual comic strip not discovered) - In the desert, Max drags an apple out of a bus window, roller skates up a ramp into space, and reaches a finish line in the alpines.
- Sorbabe - Juicy Film Roll (Animated) - A crowd of strawberries gather around a limousine, one tries to talk to whoever's inside, but is shocked to find Sorbabe, who stretches, cuts, and winds them with the window, making them into a red carpet and dancing on them. This one is an adaptation of a monochrome comic, with a shortened name.
- Booster - Big Blubber' (Animated) - In the set for a reality TV show, a blackcurrant leaves to talk in a confession "moaning" room, and ends up winded by Booster offscreen in a chair. This one is an adaptation of a polychrome comic.
- Blabber - Shoppin' Shocker (Animated) - An orange with crooked teeth orders a "Teeth-O-Matic" off of Blabber's shopping channel, Blabber delivers it to them and uses it to wind them up.
Games[]
- PipStars - A music game where you use fruit as instruments (lost)
- Chewchase - It's a game where one player tries to squish fruit on a spinning Fruit Winder strip. This game takes place at the "Funfear" carnival. (found)
- You can play as Booster in his HoverBover, or Blabber in his steam roller.
- You have three lives, and you lose a life upon touching the end of the Winder strip.
- The final score is determined by multiplying the fruit squashed by the amount of lives left. You can also print out a high score certificate.
- ??? - A movie-making game (lost/unconfirmed)
- Terror Twister - It's a game where one or two players choose between the original ChewChat trio and control twisters, trying to collect all of the fruit across three grid-based levels before a minute passes. This game takes place at the "Funfear" carnival. (found)
- In single player, the goal is simply to collect all of the fruit (which match your character) in each level to progress further.
- In two player mode, the goal is to get more fruit than your opponent (which are a mix between the three original types), and the only failure condition is a draw.
- Winders FrightBall - It's a soccer-style game where two players choose between the original ChewChat trio and control twisters, trying to get oranges into the other player's goal before a minute passes. This game takes place at the "Funfear" carnival. (found)
- Fruit Test Dummies - It's a bowling-style game where you get to test out different fruit and different stretchers for the flavor vote. You'll need perfect aim and power to successfully stretch the fruit. (found, but broken)
- Fruit Fill Frenzy - It's a game where one player must use a juicing machine to suck up fruit juice to put inside Fruit Spurter shells on a conveyor belt underground. (found)
- If four shells in a row are filled up, you'll get a combo bonus.
- When juice is filled in an incorrect shell, the shell will upchuck the juice.
- In addition to the normal fruits, a few rare bonus fruit will appear.
- Chameleon fruit appear similar to blackcurrants and oranges, but have stripes the color of the four flavors. Their juice can be filled in any shell, and three nearby shells will also be filled, earning an automatic combo bonus.
- Spanner in the works fruit appear as oranges with hard hats. When sucked up, the shell conveyor will slow down, making it easier to fill shells. Their juice can be filled in any shell.
- Moldy fruit appear as a brown fruit with a mushy brown shape and a normal pedicle. When sucked up, the fruit will speed up, making it difficult to suck them up. Their brown juice cannot be filled in any shell.[2]
- Fruit Shoot - It's a whack-a-mole-style game where you have to splat fruit jumping out of a table by clicking to using a laser gun.
- The front fruit are worth 10 points, the middle fruit are worth 20 points, and the back fruit are worth 30 points.
- The percentage of shots that hit and the percentage of fruit splatted count toward bonus points.
- You have 10 super splats that can wipe out all fruit on screen, activated with the space bar.
- Each level lasts for a minute.
ChewChat Character Gallery[]
Miscellaneous Details, Tidbits, and Recollections (+Speculation)[]
There are many weird details or tidbits or whatever about the fruit world that the ChewChat gang inhabit and the real world. That and some speculation will be detailed here.
The Fruit World[]
In a flash animation found on an archive of Stuart Harrison's portfolio page, Max jumps into space with an apple, and the planet can be seen from below. The planet heavily resembles Earth, with landmasses that resemble certain continents or countries, but they appear to be separated by water even if their counterparts are connected or barely separated. The landmass Max jumps from heavily resembles the British Isles, but appears larger. This planet has been shown to have warmer deserts and alpines, and suggested to have tropical regions. It is unknown if the planet is just a stylized Earth or an equivalent.
Lifeforms[]
In addition to the living fruits, other lifeforms (mainly animals) seem to exist on this planet and beyond.
- Humans - In the Blabber comic strip, "Sumo," human sumo wrestlers appear. In the Booster comic strip, "Time Warped," a prehistoric human appears. A sumo wrestler reappears in the Call-In Vote TV Commercials, as a possible stretcher. A trio of steel drummers also appear in the Call-In Vote TV Commercials, they could be confused for humanoid coconuts, given they are shown near palm trees, but they have noses, indicating they're just insensitively designed humans.
- Cats - In one of Sorbabe's print ads, Blabber is shown with a white cat.
- Elephants - In the Blackcurrant Fruit Winders Commercial, two captive elephants are scared by a robotic mouse into stretching a blackcurrant. In the full-color comic strip "Poorly Pets," elephants appear, with Blabber using a winded orange as bandages for it.
- Rabbits - In the full-color comic strip, "Poorly Pets," a rabbit appears with its ears tied in a knot.
- Whales - In the full-color comic strip, "Down the Tubes," a Whale stretches a blackcurrant.
- Rhinoceros - In the full-color comic strip, "Poorly Pets," Blabber rides a rhino.
- ??? - Odd alien life-forms are shown piloting flying saucers in various material, such as the "Alien" ChewChat character. Depicted as cycloptic heads with two antennae, the example seen in a Booster print ad has visible tentacles and displays intelligence by communicating with Booster.
Bouncing Fruit[]
The fruit world is mainly inhabited by VeggieTales-style fruit characters that move by bouncing and can hold things without hands. These fruit are the target for the ChewChat gang's tricks and can be processed into fruit snacks in many ways.
- Oranges - Main target of Blabber - Round with orange peels, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Strawberries - Main target of Sorbabe - Cone-shaped with red skin and small yellow achenes, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Blackcurrants - Main target of Booster - Round with blue or purple bodies, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Apples - Main target of Max - Strangely-shaped with green skin, having brown pedicles (sometimes with leaves).
- Lemons - Main target of the Lemon Genie - Oval-shaped with yellow peels, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Raspberries - Main target of Stealth - Covered in magenta drupelets, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Grapefruit - One of the main targets of Voojuice - Round with yellow or marigold peels, having green and leafy pedicles.
- Passion Fruit - One of the main targets of Voojuice - Round with purple skin, having pink pedicles.
- Bananas - One of the main targets of Voojuice - Crescent-shaped with yellow peels, colored brown and green at the ends.
- Pineapples - Not a known main target of anyone - Oval-shaped and yellow, covered with spike-like leaves (one taking the place of a nose), and having a green crown.
Additionally, the Fruitopolis concept art features depictions of pears and star fruit, though there are no known appearances of them as living fruit.
Humanoid Fruit[]
The members of the ChewChat gang appear to be fruits, but are notably anthropomorphic compared to other fruit, having full bodies and limbs, as well as nails and breasts, though lack noses. It is implied by the presence of knickers on the floor in Sorbabe's house in the full-color comic "Snoopin' Snapper" that the humanoid fruit have humanoid genitals that must be covered. An archive of Stuart Harrison's portfolio page features flash animations of Sorbabe and Booster as babies, as well as Sorbabe as a teenager, the file names imply these were part of the characters' bios, confirming that the humanoid fruit develop like humans. The ChewChat gang members have been referred to as "mutant" by some sources, though exactly what "mutant" means in this context is unknown.
Nerdy Nana[]
On a Prezi page about the goals and history behind the ChewChat campaign, a picture of what was supposedly the ChewChat website in the early years appears, featuring an odd humanoid Banana character, even though Fruit Winders never directly came in a banana flavor.
Nerdy Nana
Not much is known about this character, but it may or may not be a physical item that holds Fruit Winders. If it IS a physical item and YOU own it, let us know.
Hey! Reader![]
The search for lost Fruit Winders media is still ongoing. If you have any old comics from Fruit Winders, or any old promotional material, please submit them to my user page (Koopla) for my archive, as more factual information about these characters needs to be recovered.
The comics are known to be found on the papers Fruit Winders came attached to, as well as in comic books such as the Beano and the Dandy during the early 2000's. If you have any old comics from the time period, let me know.
- Koopla, one of the only ChewChat nerds
Big Thank You To...[]
cerealmad - For providing images of single-color comics they have. The existence of Stealth and all of the flavor-based comics wouldn't be discovered without their help or their YouTube videos.
u/Degeneration7 on reddit - For providing images of full-color comics from old comic books, and for providing interest and fruitful leads.
u/Beesknees1009 on reddit - For providing images of full-color comics from old comic books.
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