Well, it just happened again! I was watching an episode of "Man, Woman, Wild" on netflix (Season 2 Episode 11). The show was located in Croatia. Spectacularly beautiful, but rugged, country. The two main characters picked a bunch of really nice looking purple ones, and they were passing fig trees left and right toward the end of the show.
...That's two TV fig sightings in two weeks for me. I should have started this off as a contest!
Jim