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* The catch phrase is used on ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' by Aphrodite as she wreaks havoc with a golden apple that causes the holder to be a love magnet. Hercules [[Meaningful Echo|echoes]] this line when he uses the same apple to solve the problem.
* The catch phrase is used on ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' by Aphrodite as she wreaks havoc with a golden apple that causes the holder to be a love magnet. Hercules [[Meaningful Echo|echoes]] this line when he uses the same apple to solve the problem.
* The opening titles of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' use an apple motif. A giant one with the show's name written on it falls on Adam (in the painting shown at the beginning) and the four main characters are shown catching apples at the end. Much of the show's promotional material also makes use of the motif.
* The opening titles of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' use an apple motif. A giant one with the show's name written on it falls on Adam (in the painting shown at the beginning) and the four main characters are shown catching apples at the end. Much of the show's promotional material also makes use of the motif.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Eleventh Hour", the Doctor persuades Amy to trust him by showing her the apple she gave him as a child.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Eleventh Hour", the Doctor persuades Amy to trust him by showing her the apple she gave him as a child.
** In the [[Tom Baker]] story ''The Pirate Planet'', the Doctor told Romana that he had dropped the apple on Sir Isaac Newton's head(see Real Life below). Newton's response was to tell the Doctor to get out of his tree, so the Doctor explained it all over dinner.
** In the [[Tom Baker]] story ''The Pirate Planet'', the Doctor told Romana that he had dropped the apple on Sir Isaac Newton's head(see Real Life below). Newton's response was to tell the Doctor to get out of his tree, so the Doctor explained it all over dinner.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'''s opening prominently features hero Takumi Inui biting into one.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'''s opening prominently features hero Takumi Inui biting into one.
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** Some have also proposed the passionfruit. On the one hand, it just ''sounds'' so much more tempting than a plain old apple. On the other, it makes a clever call forward to Jesus, who had to basically [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] in the garden.
** Some have also proposed the passionfruit. On the one hand, it just ''sounds'' so much more tempting than a plain old apple. On the other, it makes a clever call forward to Jesus, who had to basically [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] in the garden.
* Idunn's golden apples in [[Norse Mythology]] granted one immortality. For a while, anyway. If the gods don't continue munching those apples, they get old. This aspect was explored in a tale involving Loki and the frost giant Thiazi.
* Idunn's golden apples in [[Norse Mythology]] granted one immortality. For a while, anyway. If the gods don't continue munching those apples, they get old. This aspect was explored in a tale involving Loki and the frost giant Thiazi.
* Greek myth has all food in the underworld serve similar to Biblical [[Forbidden Fruit]], and of course only fruit become story-relevant. Eating it dooms you to never being able to leave; Hades tricks Persephone into becoming his wife this way. She ate between three and seven pomegranate seeds and has to spend that same number of months out of the year with Hades, the rest she spends above ground with her [[Overprotective Dad|Overprotective]] <s>dad</s> Mom--who ''[[Just So Story|causes winter]]'' every year out of grief when her daughter's gone. (Note that not only does 'pome-granate' mean 'seeded apple', but considering [[Freud Was Right|other]] Greek myths, this is probably some kind of euphemism.)
* Greek myth has all food in the underworld serve similar to Biblical [[Forbidden Fruit]], and of course only fruit become story-relevant. Eating it dooms you to never being able to leave; Hades tricks Persephone into becoming his wife this way. She ate between three and seven pomegranate seeds and has to spend that same number of months out of the year with Hades, the rest she spends above ground with her [[Overprotective Dad|Overprotective]] <s>dad</s> Mom--who ''[[Just-So Story|causes winter]]'' every year out of grief when her daughter's gone. (Note that not only does 'pome-granate' mean 'seeded apple', but considering [[Freud Was Right|other]] Greek myths, this is probably some kind of euphemism.)
* Chinese myth, in ''[[Journey to The West (Literature)|Journey to The West]]'', features ''peaches'' of immortality, but they take several centuries to ripen.
* Chinese myth, in ''[[Journey to The West (Literature)|Journey to The West]]'', features ''peaches'' of immortality, but they take several centuries to ripen.
* The poisoned apples in "[[Snow White (Literature)|Snow White]]".
* The poisoned apples in "[[Snow White (Literature)|Snow White]]".
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* In ''[[Question Duck (Webcomic)|Question Duck]]'', [http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1009463/065/ the duck naturally asks a question having nothing to do with the orchard or apples.]
* In ''[[Question Duck (Webcomic)|Question Duck]]'', [http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1009463/065/ the duck naturally asks a question having nothing to do with the orchard or apples.]
* In ''[[Erstwhile (Webcomic)|Erstwhile]]'', [http://www.erstwhiletales.com/fcd-08/#.T2-C6dm6SuI the king stops for an apple.]
* In ''[[Erstwhile (Webcomic)|Erstwhile]]'', [http://www.erstwhiletales.com/fcd-08/#.T2-C6dm6SuI the king stops for an apple.]
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (Webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-01.html September can't have them], a [[Snow White]] [[Shout Out]].
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (Webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-01.html September can't have them], a [[Snow White]] [[Shout-Out]].




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== Real Life ==
== Real Life ==
* And of course there's the apocryphal story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Apple_analogy Isaac Newton] either witnessing the fall of an apple or (in some versions) being hit on the head with it, inspiring the theory of gravity.
* And of course there's the apocryphal story of [[wikipedia:Isaac Newton#Apple analogy|Isaac Newton]] either witnessing the fall of an apple or (in some versions) being hit on the head with it, inspiring the theory of gravity.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed Johnny Appleseed]. What most people don't realize is that the apples he grew weren't fit to eat, and were instead used to make hard cider, which was very valuable in the frontier, where its high alcohol content made it easy to store and safer to drink than water in many cases.
* [[wikipedia:Johnny Appleseed|Johnny Appleseed]]. What most people don't realize is that the apples he grew weren't fit to eat, and were instead used to make hard cider, which was very valuable in the frontier, where its high alcohol content made it easy to store and safer to drink than water in many cases.
* Apple Computer is so named partly to be ahead of Atari in the phone book, and partly because of the long association of the fruit with intelligence and rational enquiry (from Eve through to Newton). Before Apple came along, however, the fruit had something of a negative association in computing, as a cyanide-laced apple was Alan Turing's chosen means of death (he was a fan of Snow White).
* Apple Computer is so named partly to be ahead of Atari in the phone book, and partly because of the long association of the fruit with intelligence and rational enquiry (from Eve through to Newton). Before Apple came along, however, the fruit had something of a negative association in computing, as a cyanide-laced apple was Alan Turing's chosen means of death (he was a fan of Snow White).
* The "other" company to use Apple, [[The Beatles]]' Apple Corps, was inspired by a [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=herrajuntero.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2Faurevoirlejeudemourre.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F04%2Fgranny-smith-rene-magritte-etcetera%2F Rene Magritte painting], and the name was [[Just for Pun]] ("apple core").
* The "other" company to use Apple, [[The Beatles]]' Apple Corps, was inspired by a [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=herrajuntero.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2Faurevoirlejeudemourre.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F04%2Fgranny-smith-rene-magritte-etcetera%2F Rene Magritte painting], and the name was [[Just for Pun]] ("apple core").
* Bringing a whole new meaning to giving an apple to a teacher, physicist and "father of the atomic bomb" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer] (unsuccessfully) tried to poison his tutor with an apple covered in toxic chemicals.
* Bringing a whole new meaning to giving an apple to a teacher, physicist and "father of the atomic bomb" [[wikipedia:J. Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] (unsuccessfully) tried to poison his tutor with an apple covered in toxic chemicals.
* Apples are ofted used as academic symbols at many schools. This is why stereotypically a teacher will have an apple on their desk.
* Apples are ofted used as academic symbols at many schools. This is why stereotypically a teacher will have an apple on their desk.


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