Apples

"Zelena: Red apples are so sickly sweet, don't you think? People tend to like something... a little sharper. Regina Mills: And green apples are just... bitter."

- Zelena and Regina

Apples are a fruit featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in first episode of the first season.

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * When Emma and Regina first come to see Mary Margaret at school, Mary Margaret receives a pear from one of her students instead of an apple. This was added because Snow White was poisoned by an apple and does not like them.
 * A back headline in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror says "Sonnet Hill Orchard Park Apple Tree Threatened by Prune Beetle S [four illegible characters] ".
 * Storybrooke's coat of arms is an apple tree.
 * When Mary Margaret is on the phone with Emma talking about Mr. Gold's condition, she is nervously playing with a red apple, a reference to the fruit she was poisoned with.
 * When Zelena is in Regina's office, planning to take over her job, the apples on the table are green instead of Regina's red ones.
 * The apples in the mayor's office in the Underbrooke Town Hall are black instead of Regina's red ones.
 * According to the sign by the Storybrooke Town Hall, apple trees were planted at the property by the Storybrooke Improvement Society. The men planted the apple trees on the north and women planted the apple trees to the south.


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Production Notes

 * During the filming of the scene with Regina and Mr. Gold in the former's office in "The Stable Boy", Robert Carlyle was hesitant about throwing the apple at Lana Parrilla because he was afraid that someone would get hurt, but Lana Parrilla pointed out that her father was a professional baseball player and assured him that she could catch it.


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Props Notes

 * There is a Coral Bowl 14" fruitbowl from Maison Bertet (currently out of stock) in the mayor's office. Regina is seen taking an apple from the bowl in "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree", while Mr. Gold does the same in "The Stable Boy".
 * Regina has the same bowl in the secret hideout in her mausoleum.
 * This fruitbowl is also featured at the Vampire Authority meeting table in the fifth season of the television drama series True Blood.
 * In "Page 23, there is a different fruitbowl on the table, which Regina uses as a weapon against her serum counterpart. After the Final Battle is won and everything returns to normal in "The Final Battle Part 2", Regina can be see taking an apple from the same bowl.
 * The apples of Hesperides from the Labors of Hercules are pictured on one of Hercules' medals.
 * There is a red glass apple in Mr. Gold's pawnshop, which the Serum Queen picks up when she drops by the shop.

Set Dressing

 * A cookie jar in the shape of a red apple is sitting on the kitchen counter in Emma's Boston apartment.
 * Emma's son Henry has a figurine of a green apple on the kitchen shelf in his Seattle apartment.


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Goofs

 * In "The Thing You Love Most", Regina claims to Emma that her apples are from a Honeycrisp tree. However, the apples in the basket, on the tree, and everywhere else that apples are used in this episode are Red Delicious, which have a totally different shape and color from Honeycrisp apples. Honeycrisp apples were not commercially available until 1991, and must be specifically bred.