フライングタマ
A [[meme]] wherein a character appears [[dancing]] in a split and hollowed out object (usually a [[fruit]], [[vegetable]], or other [[food]]), standing in the bottom half, and holding the upper half [[carrying_overhead|over their head]] in a "[[\o/]]" sort of pose.

This is [[parody|]]ing the end of the opening sequence of the long-running anime [[Sazae-san]], which since April 1971 has featured [[Fuguta Sazae|Fuguta Sazae's]] cat [[Tama (Sazae-san)|]] popping out of an fruit and dancing in this manner.  She and her whole family would also do so.  

The featured foods would also vary over time and with the seasons (e.g. a [[tomato]] and [[peewah]] for spring; [[watermelon]] and [[melon]] for summer; [[persimmon]] and [[chestnut]] for autumn; and an [[apple]] and [[mikan]] for winter).  An irregular version of the gag where Tama pops out early has been dubbed "フライングタマ" / "Flying Tama" in Japan.

An example of this gag in the OP with the family popping out of an apple and Tama popping out of a mikan can be seen "here":[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUgxKutV_p0]. An example from April 1971 before the standardized seasonal fruit were set can be seen "here":[https://youtu.be/BW1XgYm_AiM?t=8], with Tama and the family both popping out of [[strawberry|strawberries]].

h4. External links

* "An article describing the Opening Gag (in Japanese)":[https://premium-goma.com/sazae-flyingtama/]
* "Initial appearance of the 'Flying Tama' variant of the gag in the Sazae-san opening":[https://twitter.com/Sazaesan_survey/status/1127562860714848261]
sazae-san food gag (meme)