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Apollo Bars are candy bars featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in fifth episode of the first season.
History
In 1989, Emma and some children from her group home visit a movie theater in Minnesota to watch the Disney film, The Sword in the Stone. As Emma walks in while the movie is playing, she sees an Apollo candy bar sticking out of another person's jacket pocket. She steals it and goes to take a seat when an usher confronts her by telling her not to do "it." She begins apologizing for stealing, but he points out that he is actually referring to something else. ("The Dark Swan")
In 2001, Emma and her boyfriend, Neal, shoplift at the Pay-Rite Market in Portland. Neal is stealing an Apollo bar from the counter just as a customer notices him and tries to raise the alarm. Emma manages to save them by feigning labor pains, which buys them enough time to run away. ("Tallahassee")
Ten years later, when Henry arrives for one of his therapy session with Archie, the boy shows Archie a flashlight and some Apollo bars he plans to bring with him to the mines while searching for proof of the Dark Curse. Having been given orders by Regina to make Henry give up on his obsession or risk losing his job, Archie puts a stop to Henry's plans, bluntly telling him that he believes in as a "delusion." This crushes Henry's spirits and he runs away from the office in a distraught state. Shortly after as Emma is confronting Archie for what he did, the two receive news that Henry is nowhere to be found as a horrified Archie realizes the boy ventured into the mines. His suspicions are confirmed when he arrives there and finds one of Henry's candy bars outside the mine entrance. ("That Still Small Voice")
At the Dark Star Pharmacy, Nicholas and Ava Zimmer attempt to steal food by putting it into Henry's backpack, with one of the stolen goods being an Apollo bar. They frame Henry for the theft when they are caught by Mr. Clark, who calls Regina. She arrives, and upon noticing up the Apollo bar, states that Henry does not eat candy and knows better than to steal, which makes her confident that Henry is being framed by the two orphans. ("True North")
As an upcoming storm is due to arrive soon, Mary Margaret goes shopping for supplies at the pharmacy. Kathryn, David's wife, is also there as she is accompanied by Regina. After Mary Margaret grabs an Apollo bar off the shelf and puts it in her item basket, the two women bump into each other and their items spill onto the floor. Kathryn stoops down to help Mary Margaret collect the items and returns the Apollo bar to her. ("7:15 A.M.")
Worried about Henry's state, Emma rushes an unconscious Henry to the hospital, where she attempts to work out a cause for why he fainted. She empties out Henry's backpack, and an Apollo bar falls out along with his storybook. ("A Land Without Magic")Henry steals dynamite from the mines and heads to the wishing well to blow it up, in the hopes it will eliminate magic for good. When Regina finds him at the well, Henry is in the middle of trying to light the explosives, while his backpack is lying on the ground with an Apollo bar on top of it.[1] ("Welcome to Storybrooke")
In Neverland, Devin is approached by Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina, who ask for a message to be delivered to Henry. When Regina offers him an Apollo bar she conjured, he takes it and inhales the sweet scent, but then proceeds to chuck it into the jungle as he scoffs at them. ("Good Form")Trivia
Production Notes
- The Apollo bars was created by Hopewell Works, a custom fabrication studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]
- The Apollo bars in "7:15 A.M." were real candy bars wrapped up in prop paper. While filming the scene where Mary Margaret is out shopping, Ginnifer Goodwin wanted some dark chocolate and went through every one of the Apollo bars looking for it, but they all turned out to be milk chocolate.[3]
- Mckenna Grace kept the candy-bar wrapper from the episode "The Dark Swan" as a souvenir of her first episode.[4]
Lost
- Apollo bars are a fictional brand on Lost, another show that Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis worked on.
Popular Culture
- The typeface style used for the Apollo brand is similar to the Wonka bars in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The golden oracle bars are also similar to Wonka's golden tickets. ("That Still Small Voice" et al.)
Appearances
Once Upon a Time: Season One | ||||||||||
"Pilot": | "The Thing You Love Most": | "Snow Falls": | "The Price of Gold": | "That Still Small Voice": | "The Shepherd": | "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter": | "Desperate Souls": | "True North": | "7:15 A.M.": | "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent |
"Skin Deep": | "What Happened to Frederick": | "Dreamy": | "Red-Handed": | "Heart of Darkness": | "Hat Trick": | "The Stable Boy": | "The Return": | "The Stranger": | "An Apple Red as Blood": | "A Land Without Magic": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
"Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Three | ||||||||||
"The Heart of the Truest Believer": | "Lost Girl": | "Quite a Common Fairy": | "Nasty Habits": | "Good Form": | "Ariel": | "Dark Hollow": | "Think Lovely Thoughts": | "Save Henry": | "The New Neverland": | "Going Home": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"New York City Serenade": | "Witch Hunt": | "The Tower": | "Quiet Minds": | "It's Not Easy Being Green": | "The Jolly Roger": | "Bleeding Through": | "A Curious Thing": | "Kansas": | "Snow Drifts": | "There's No Place Like Home": |
Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
"The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |
"Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
"Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Mentioned | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
"A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
"Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
Absent | Absent | Archive | Absent | Absent | ||||||
"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
Note: In "Welcome to Storybrooke," an Apollo bar is lying on top of Henry's backpack next to the wishing well.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:217Stop!.png
- ↑ Once Upon A Time Apollo Chocolate Bar Set. iCollector (August 17, 2019). Archived from the original on January 18, 2023. "These types of bars first appeared in the fifth season [sic] and were created by Hopewell Works, a custom fabrication company in Vancouver where the show was filmed."
- ↑ Ginnifer Goodwin on the Season One Blu-ray/DVD Audio Commentary for "7:15 A.M."
- ↑ Once Upon A Time Season 6 Episode 20 Review w/ McKenna Grace | AfterBuzz TV. YouTube (May 7, 2017).