It's all fun and games until a pin goes missing

The pin of a grenade is the smallest piece of mettle that will bring a person's life in to focus for the shortest period of time that seems like the longest. I remember an episode of MASH where a patient had a grenade and every one had to look around for the pin. I remember a show where Japanese soldiers killed themselves by activating pinless grenades and holding on to them too long. There was an episode of the Simpsons where a soldier died because he monologued too long. In True Lies, Arnold's character pulls the pin on a grenade and then lets the 'spoon' fly before he throws it. I had learned about spoons before this. It was nice to get that little detail in a major picture. The best movie grenade line was in Spies Like Us where Chevy's character holds on to a grenade too long, but then throws it at the bad guys. It lands in a box of grenades, so there is no hope of throwing it back. That is still a funny scene.

Apple, pickle, tomato, popper, there have been many names. They all go boom.