Kunami

Kunami (koo-nah-mee) is the name of a fictional fruit presented in the Portuguese show Gato Fedorento.

Usage

This fruit is only presented in a sketch from season 2 (the Season "Meireles"), named "Fresh Kunami". This sketch became very popular in YouTube and among Gato Fedorento fans. That sketch was later presented in Gato Fedorento's live acting in Coliseu. Gato Fedorento, who made its first 3 seasons for SIC, started working for RTP, and they done commercials for Gato Fedorento's coming to RTP with old Gato Fedorento sketches - the Kunami sketch was used, where they presented the actors in the sketch talking about moving to RTP.

The kunami sketch is also mentioned in one of the commercials that Gato Fedorento made for PT Comunicações. In this commercial the four authors of the show are seen in a set with cameras, talking to the commercial director, presenting some ideas they had based on earlier sketches (like "The Hillbillies' Rap", "The Man Who Seems To Had Happened Something to" and "General, Political Expert and Guy from Alfama"), where it was said "We got fresh costumer's help number!" (mirroring the catchline of the Kunami sketch, "we got fresh kunami!")

Kunami is said by the greengrocer who sells it that it's a very rare and delicious tropical fruit- it's actually old rotten fruit. In the original sketch it's plums, in the live acting it's grapes, and in the RTP commercial it's tangerines.

The sketch features a greengrocer (played by Ricardo Araújo Pereira) that supposedly sells very rare tropical fruits, like Kunami, who are in fact dirty fruit (it was mencioned that the producers of the show caught them in the nearest trash cans). The fruits were Farfalhi (old lettuce), Kunami (rottem plum), Funini (rotten pears), Katuki (rotten tangerines) and Maracaté (rotten peaches) - words not used in Portuguese language. He then debates against a man (played by Miguel Góis) who was sent by his wife to complain about the kunami she bought.

Etymology

As Ricardo Araújo Pereira, one of the Gato fedorento authors, had claimed in an interview for RTP, their inspiration comes from things like watching TV, reading the paper and playing videogames, as Kunami is actually named after Konami.

In the sketch, the greengrocer says that Kunami is named like that because it tastes like Kunami ("It tastes like Kunami, therefore the name, Kunami.")

"Kunami", or any of the other words that designed supposedly exotic fruit, do not exist in the Portuguese dictionary.

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