Epic and Apple Are Fighting Over A Naked Banana (Agent Peely)

Epic vs Apple has just entered its second week and with it comes to my personal favorite leak of the entire court proceedings, the naked banana discussion.

Apple decides to cross-examine a screenshot of the in-game lobby of Fortnite that included Agent Peely, which is basically a banana in a tuxedo. Here's the hilarious breakdown of the discussion from The Verge.

Apple attorney: We have in front of us a new set of images, and what is this screen showing?

Weissinger: This is your matchmaking lobby.

Attorney: And we have a large yellow banana here, don’t we? In a tuxedo?

Weissinger: Yes. That is Peely.

Attorney: And that’s Peely, did you say?

Weissinger: Yeah.

Attorney: And in fact, in the tuxedo, he’s known as Agent Peely, correct?

Weissinger: That’s correct.

Attorney: We thought it better to go with the suit than the naked banana, since we are in federal court this morning.

the “naked banana” line could have possibly been a funny joke by Apple's attorney however last week, Apple claimed Epic hosted porn by allowing users to install Itch.io which includes "so-called adult games” whose descriptions were “not appropriate for us to speak in federal courts,” calling them “both offensive and sexualized.” Firstly, I personally don't see how Epic is accountable for another storefront just because it's accessible via their store. Also, they're using a banana to prove their point, it’s both ironic and hilarious.

Epic’s attorney, later on, decided to revisit Peely during her own questioning of Weissinger:

Epic attorney: A little bit of a digression. We talked about Peely? Our banana? Remember that?

Weissinger: I do.

Attorney: And there might have been an implication that to show Peely without a suit would have been inappropriate. Do you recall that?

Weissinger: Yes.

Attorney: Is there anything inappropriate about Peely without a suit?

Weissinger: No, there is not.

Attorney: If we could just put on the screen a picture of Peely — is there anything inappropriate about Peely without clothes?

Weissinger: It’s just a banana, ma’am.

Epic Vs Apple is one of the biggest lawsuits to happen in the world of gaming and it's shining a light on some of the shady tactics some of these companies use but it also has two companies argue over a naked banana, to quote Weissinger from the proceeds.

It’s just a banana, ma’am.