For the diner, see Granny's Diner. For the character, see Granny. |
Granny's Bed and Breakfast is a Storybrooke location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the first episode of the first season.
History
Two outsiders, Kurt Flynn and his son, Owen, are camping in the woods when a storm passes through the area. In the morning, they walk into a mysterious town, Storybrooke, that is seemingly not plotted on the map. Storybrooke mayor Regina Mills is less than pleased to have people wandering into the town. They are looking for a place to stay for the night, and Granny, who runs the bed and breakfast, gladly assists them in checking into a room. ("Welcome to Storybrooke")
The mayor's son, Henry Mills, runs away to Boston to bring his birth mother, Emma Swan, back to the town of Storybrooke with him. She makes the decision to stay in Storybrooke for a week, and goes to the bed and breakfast looking for a place to crash. While she is checking in and booking a room, Mr. Gold arrives to collect the rent from Granny. ("Pilot")
Emma is concerned about Henry's imaginative mind in thinking everyone in town is a fairy tale character. She goes to see Henry's therapist, Dr. Hopper, and he willingly hands over Henry's patient file to her. Unbeknownst to her, he violated doctor-patient confidentiality on Regina's orders. Emma goes back to her room at the bed and breakfast to flip through the file when Sheriff Graham bursts into to arrest her. He claims Dr. Hopper told him Emma stole the patient file. Later, Granny kicks Emma out of her room due to their rules of not allowing felons to stay in the bed and breakfast. ("The Thing You Love Most")
One night, Emma and Henry see a stranger ride into town on a motorcycle. He stops in front of them on the street and asks if there is a place to stay in town, and Emma points him in the direction of the bed and breakfast. Later, Emma prods the stranger for more information about who he is and why he is in Storybrooke. She learns he is a writer named August Booth. In actuality, his real identity is a former Enchanted Forest resident, Pinocchio, and it's his duty to make Emma believe in the curse so she can break it. Since she entered into Storybrooke, the curse has been weakening, and since that moment, August has been slowly but surely turning back into wood, and will not revert unless Emma breaks the curse. ("True North," "7:15 A.M.," "The Stranger," "An Apple Red as Blood")
Seeking answers, Mr. Gold takes matters into his own hands and breaks into August's guest room at the bed and breakfast. He is stunned to find a drawing of his magic dagger. ("The Return")
Emma fails to see the current state of August's wooden leg because she doesn't believe in magic. After this failure, he quickly becomes bedridden due to his rapid physical changes. ("The Stranger," "An Apple Red as Blood")
Henry runs to August for help at his guest room at the bed and breakfast because Emma wants to leave town. August is unable to chip in now that he is almost completely wooden, and it is up to Henry to make Emma believe. Surprisingly, Emma comes to him after Henry takes a bite of a poisoned apple turnover and falls under the Sleeping Curse. He is relieved to know she can finally see his wooden state, but Emma doesn't know how to save everyone without his help. Before he turns completely back to wood, August tells her he believes she can save Henry. ("An Apple Red as Blood," A Land Without Magic")After Emma breaks the curse, August regains full mobility while still wooden, but has not changed back to his normal appearance. He sends a postcard to Emma's ex-boyfriend of many years ago, Neal. As per a promise they made, August gave his word he would send a postcard to Neal if Emma managed to break the curse. August's father, Marco, learns from Henry where August is and goes to the bed and breakfast searching for him, but he is already gone. With no way to revert to his original non-wooden form; not even after asking Mother Superior, August retreats into the woods and hides in an old trailer. ("Broken," "We Are Both," "Selfless, Brave and True")
Mr. Gold's true love, Belle, wakes from a nightmare in which Mr. Gold becomes power hungry for magic as he did in the past. She gets fed up with what secrets Mr. Gold is hiding, and what he doesn't trust her enough to tell her about. Belle decides to leave Mr. Gold and goes to think things over at the diner. There, she meets the waitress, Ruby, who offers her a room at the bed and breakfast until she gets her own footing. ("The Crocodile")
A man crashes his car into the town border, and is rushed to the hospital's emergency room. For the first time, the residents have to choose between saving the unknown man's life and risk exposure of magic to outsiders, or let him die so no word gets out about the town. The man's life is saved, and with a little amateur sleuthing by breaking into the stranger's phone, he appears to be a normal and average person named Greg Mendell. After he is fully healed and rested up from his car crash wounds, Greg is released from the hospital and checks into an inn room for the time being. ("The Outsider")
Emma learns that her ex-boyfriend Neal is Mr. Gold's son, Baelfire. He goes back to Storybrooke with Emma and Henry, and steers a ship into the town harbor. He takes a room at the bed and breakfast, and tells Emma he invited his fiancée, Tamara, so she could meet her and Henry. After a bit of light conversation, Emma and Henry leave, and Neal tries to explain to Tamara the truth about who he really is by showing her Henry's storybook, but she perceives Neal is attempting to drive her away so he can be with Emma. Tamara leaves his room angrily, but they later make up after she sees August being magically transformed into a young boy. Recognizing Greg as the young boy, Owen, who she adored, Regina shows up at his inn room for a chat. While she wants to reminisce about the past, he demands answers about his missing father, Kurt. She claims he left town, but Greg isn't buying it. Later, Tamara meets up with Greg in his room and they have a secret rendezvous. ("Selfless, Brave and True")
In Greg's inn room, he and Tamara look over a map of Storybrooke. On it, Greg has pinpointed all the locations where he witnessed magic. He is wary that Neal will find out about them and asks her to leave, but she asks about the ongoing search for Kurt. Thus far, Greg has not had success, but believes his father is in Storybrooke somewhere. Refocusing on their current objective, he questions Tamara about "the package" they will be utilizing soon. She reassures him that it'll be in town by tonight. ("Lacey")
Unable to forget August's last words before he reverted to Pinocchio, in which he named a person called "her" who had harmed him, Emma begins to suspect Tamara. Henry joins her on a new mission to sleuth for evidence in Neal and Tamara's shared guest inn room. After Emma pickpockets her way in, she has Henry stand guard outside and instructs him to start kicking the door if someone approaches. Soon, he is so distracted that he almost doesn't see Neal coming back to the room. While trying to fake an excuse for his presence, Henry kicks the door, which Neal recognizes as a trick he once taught Emma. Bursting in, Neal confronts Emma, who admits her suspicion about Tamara. Despite his own disbelief, he allows her to search the floorboards. Surprisingly, she finds nothing out of the ordinary. Neal, perceiving she still hasn't moved on from him, apologizes, but Emma brushes it off and leaves with Henry. ("The Evil Queen")
In the morning, Neal awakens to see Tamara is getting ready to go jogging. He wants her to sleep in, but she reminds him that her training is necessary since the marathon is in three weeks. Neal jokes that he could give her a workout in bed, but she simply laughs and kisses him goodbye. Later on, Emma storms into the inn room questioning him about Tamara's whereabouts as she believes Regina's sudden disappearance has to do with her. Suddenly, she sees sand on the floor; proving Tamara has been on the beach rather than her jogging path near the forest. Emma goes to look for her as Neal follows. ("Second Star to the Right")
After returning from Neverland, Emma picks up the storybook in Neal's room and takes it to Henry, who is in the diner. ("The New Neverland")An amnesiac Henry, who remembers nothing of his life in Storybrooke due to Regina erasing and implanting new memories, is brought to town based on Emma's claim that it's job related. While staying temporarily in an inn room, he notices Emma has been out all night. She returns in the morning with breakfast and interests him into going fishing with Leroy for the day. Seeing through her lies, Henry talks about the way the townspeople have whispered around him as if there's something he doesn't know. When he asks for the truth, Emma promises to tell him when the time is right. ("Quiet Minds")
During one morning, Regina meets with her new love interest, Robin Hood, before heading off to regroup with David, Emma and Mary Margaret. As she walks into the room, Mary Margaret notices her unusually "glowing" demeanor. Though they are waiting for the last member of their party, Hook, to show up, Regina urges the meeting to go ahead without him. They discuss recreating the effects of the last curse in order to break the current one. Emma recalls believing in magic right after touching the fairytale storybook and then giving Henry true love's kiss, which broke the first curse. Theorizing that Henry must believe in magic this time around, they hurry to the search for the book in Mary Margaret's loft. Henry notices them leave and prods Emma once again about what she is hiding from him. However, she shuts down the conversation quickly; prompting Henry to back off. He ask for her set of keys to access their inn room, which she obliges. Instead of going to the inn, Henry secretly intends to use Emma's car to drive himself to the nearest bus stop. ("A Curious Thing")As Ashley raises Alexandra, she starts a group, Mommy & Me, for mothers to meet up at the inn and spend quality time with their babies. Among the attendees are Aurora and her son Phillip as well as Mary Margaret and her son Neal. During one get-together, they finish the session by singing a song to their babies and Ashley announces she has made CDs for everyone so they can learn new songs for their next meeting. When Emma arrives to pick up Neal for babysitting, Ashley gives her a welcoming hug. She advises, if Neal has trouble falling asleep, Emma can tell him that he's going to turn into a pumpkin by midnight, which will put him right to sleep. Emma asks if the meetings are for learning baby tips, but Ashley explains it's also a support group of sorts since it's not easy being a first-time mother. Emma is perturbed by this, since Mary Margaret is learning everything for the first time despite that Neal is her second child, but she attempts to sympathize with her mother's circumstances. Instead, Emma's jealousy comes out in the form of magic when she unknowingly causes Neal's milk bottle to boil. Ashley, Aurora and Mary Margaret are shocked by this, but Emma sputters that it's just magic she's been practicing. ("The Snow Queen")
Visitors
Guests
- Kurt and Owen Flynn: Granny offers a room for both Kurt and his son. They are the first people to stay at the bed and breakfast. ("Welcome to Storybrooke")
- Emma Swan: First person to stay at the bed and breakfast in years. She decides to spend a week in Storybrooke because Henry Mills wants her to prove he is not crazy and the curse is real. After being arrested and bailed out by Mary Margaret Blanchard, she is evicted by Granny on Regina's reminder of a no-felons policy. ("Pilot," "The Thing You Love Most")
- Regina Mills and Graham Humbert: They meet in one of the rooms during one of their rendezvous meetings. ("The Price of Gold")
- David Nolan: Rents a room when he makes up his mind to leave his wife, Kathryn. ("The Shepherd")
- August Booth: Arrives to town via motorcycle and stays there for his entire duration in town until the curse breaks. ("True North" – "We Are Both")
- Belle: After leaving Mr. Gold's house, Ruby offers her a room to stay in. She eventually moves into the apartment above the library. ("The Crocodile")
- Greg Mendell: Moves into a room at the bed and breakfast after being released from the hospital. ("Selfless, Brave and True")
- Neal Cassidy: Stays there after coming to Storybrooke on Hook's ship with Emma, his son and father. ("Selfless, Brave and True," "The Evil Queen," "Second Star to the Right")
- Tamara: Moves in with her fiancé, Neal, into a room next to Greg's. ("The Evil Queen," "Second Star to the Right")
- Hook: Stays there after his return to Storybrooke.[1]
- Henry Mills: Temporarily stays in a room with Emma Swan after being brought back to Storybrooke. ("Quiet Minds," "A Curious Thing")
- Aurora and Phillip: Aurora live there after being reverted from flying monkey to human and giving birth to a boy. ("The Snow Queen")
- The Count of Monte Cristo: Briefly stays in a room after being transported away from the Land of Untold Stories by Mr. Hyde. ("A Bitter Draught")
- Henry Jekyll: Stays in a room after coming to Storybrooke ("Strange Case")
Other Visitors
Trivia
On-Screen Notes
- The address is number 910.[2] ("Pilot")
- The inn is located just around the corner from Granny's Diner.[3] The lounge of the inn is connected to the diner via a door.[4] ("The Thing You Love Most" et al., "Selfless, Brave and True")
- In addition, a sign in the hallway of the diner points to the lobby at the inn.[5] ("Snow Falls," "Tiny")
- According to Emma, the mattresses at the inn are so uncomfortable that she "would not wish them on her worst enemy." ("A Bitter Draught")
Disney
- One of the babies during the 'Mommy and Me' class is wearing a Mickey Mouse outfit.[6] ("The Snow Queen")
Fairytales and Folklore
- Granny running a bed and breakfast is a reference to the fairytale of "Little Red Riding Hood," where the titular character's ailing grandmother is lying in bed and the titular character brings her food.
Lost
- Emma's room number is 4.[7] This is a reference to John Locke's number on Lost.[8] ("The Thing You Love Most")
- Neal and Tamara's room number at is 8,[9] the second Lost number. ("The Evil Queen")
Props Notes
- The room keys have swans engraved on them,[10] as do the room keys to the Underbrooke version.[11] ("Pilot," "Souls of the Departed")
- Granny's entrance key to the diner has the same design.[12] ("Birth")
- The swan key in the Pilot episode[10] was created by Hopewell Works, a custom fabrication studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.[13]
- The couch sitting in the lounge[14] also appears in Jacinda and Sabine's apartment in Season Seven.[15] ("Selfless, Brave and True," "Witch Hunt," "A Curious Thing")
Set Dressing
Artwork and comments | Room(s) |
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Pierre-Joseph Redouté Famous nineteenth century Belgian painter and botanist | |
Ellebore Oeillet from the book Choix des plus belles fleurs (link to digitized edition) (The most beautiful flowers and fruits) from 1827 (link to page). Ellebore is an alternate name for the hellebore plant.[16] | In the corridor outside Emma's room.[17] ("The Thing You Love Most") |
Rosa Centifolia: Rosier à cent feuilles, from the same book (link to page). Rosa × centifolia is another name for the hybrid known as cabbage rose. | In Emma's room, but only seen from far away.[18] ("The Thing you Love Most") |
Rosa Multiflora carnea, from the second volume of his work Les Roses (The Roses) (link to page), published between 1817 and 1824.[19] Rosa multiflora Carnea is a type of rambling rose.[20] | In August's room, but only seen from far away.[21] ("The Return") |
Roger Tory Peterson Twentieth century ornithologist and artist | |
Magnolia Time, a lithograph from 1942[22] | Next to the bed in Emma's room[23] and over the bed in August's room.[21] ("The Thing You Love Most," "The Return," "The Stranger") |
Max Streckenbach German painter who lived from 1863 to 1936 and is known for his still life and landscape paintings[24] | |
Unnamed floral painting | On the right side of August's bed.[25] ("The Stranger," "A Land Without Magic," "We Are Both") |
William E. Powell English[26] watercolor painter and illustrator who lived from 1878 to 1955[27] | |
Gladioli[28] | Over the bed in August's room[29] and over the commode in Neal and Tamara's room.[30] ("We Are Both," "Second Star to the Right") |
John James Audubon American ornithologist and painter | |
"Fork-Tailed Flycatcher," from the first section of Audobon's book The Birds of America (link to page), first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838. | Greg's room.[31] ("Selfless, Brave and True") |
"White-winged Crossbill," from the third section of The Birds of America (link to page). | Greg's room.[31] ("Selfless, Brave and True") |
"Yellow-breasted Chat," from the fourth section of The Birds of America (link to page). | Greg's room.[31] ("Selfless, Brave and True") |
- A ship painting seen in Emma's room at the inn in "The Thing You Love Most,"[32] and in the room where Sheriff Graham meets Regina in "The Price of Gold,"[33] can also be seen in Edwin's home in the Once Upon a Time in Wonderland episodes "Down the Rabbit Hole"[34] and "Who's Alice."[35] It can also be seen behind the bar at Æsop's Tables in "A Wondrous Place,"[36] and in Henry's apartment in "Hyperion Heights,"[37] "A Pirate's Life"[38] and "The Girl in the Tower,"[39] but with a different frame.
- Another ship painting, seen in the lounge in "A Curious Thing,"[40] can also be seen in Emma's room in "The Thing You Love Most,"[32] although in the latter episode, it is too far away to make out any details.
- The rooms at the inn have wallpaper from Wallquest:
- Emma's room[41] has Rose Bunch Cottage Prints VC53104 wallpaper.[42] The same wallpaper is in Graham and Regina's room.[43] ("The Thing You Love Most," "The Price of Gold")
- This wallpaper is also in the hallway of Granny's Diner.[44] ("Lacey")
- David's room[45] has the same wallpaper, but with a different color palette (VC53107).[46] ("The Shepherd")
- The hallways[47] have Acanthus Trail Cottage Prints VC51514 wallpaper.[48] ("The Thing You Love Most")
- This wallpaper is also in the hallway of Granny's Diner.[44] ("Lacey")
- August's room[21] has Bird Heart of Provence PV10503 wallpaper.[49] ("The Return")
- The lounge[50] has Toile Cottage Prints VC50904 wallpaper.[51] ("Selfless, Brave and True")
- Greg's room[52] has Damask Cottage Prints VC50207 wallpaper.[53] ("Selfless, Brave and True," "Lacey")
- Neal and Tamara's room[54] has Rose Trail VC50105 Cottage Prints wallpaper.[55] ("The Evil Queen," "Second Star to the Right")
- Emma's room[41] has Rose Bunch Cottage Prints VC53104 wallpaper.[42] The same wallpaper is in Graham and Regina's room.[43] ("The Thing You Love Most," "The Price of Gold")
- On the front desk you can see, among other figurines, one that holds a card with a red heart. It is the only colored one.[56] ("Pilot")
- The stained glass-window in the corridor outside Emma's room in "The Thing You Love Most,"[47] and August's room in "The Stable Boy"[57] and "The Return,"[58] is the same as the stained glass window outside the entrance to Mary Margaret's apartment in "The Return."[59] It can also be seen on the entrance to The Rabbit Hole."[60]
- Like many other Storybrooke locations, the inn contains several nods to the Enchanted Forest: There are two sets of floral wallpaper at the inn, one in the bedrooms[61] and one in the hallway,[62] and a flower-printed couch with matching armchairs in the lounge.[63] There are two forest paintings in the room where Greg Mendell stays.[64] ("The Thing You Love Most" et al., "Selfless, Brave and True," "Witch Hunt" et al.)
- A miniature rudder on the mantelpiece in the lounge[65] is also on the counter inside the pawnshop in "The Shepherd"[66] and "True North."[67] ("Witch Hunt")
- The lounge of the inn is decorated with bird figurines,[68] including two porcelain figurines of a swan — a small one[63] and a big one.[69] ("Witch Hunt," "A Curious Thing," "The Snow Queen")
Filming Locations
- The exterior scenes at Granny's Bed and Breakfast were filmed at Haswell Residence, a heritage building in North Vancouver. It was built as a home for a timber broker in 1910.[70]
- One of the rooms at the inn is a set in the old Lynn Valley Library in Vancouver, British Columbia.[71]
- The scenes in the hallway and Greg's room in "Selfless, Brave and True were filmed in a television studio.[72]
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": |
Appears | Appears | Mentioned | Appears | Absent | Appears | Mentioned | Absent | Mentioned | Mentioned | Appears |
"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 | Mentioned | Mentioned | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | 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 | Appears | Absent | Mentioned | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Mentioned | 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 | Mentioned | Absent | Absent | Absent | Mentioned | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | 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 | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Mentioned | 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": |
Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Four | ||||||||||
"A Tale of Two Sisters": |
"White Out": |
"Rocky Road": |
"The Apprentice": |
"Breaking Glass": |
"Family Business": | "The Snow Queen": |
"Smash the Mirror": |
"Fall": | "Shattered Sight": |
"Heroes and Villains": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Darkness on the Edge of Town": |
"Unforgiven": | "Enter the Dragon": | "Poor Unfortunate Soul": |
"Best Laid Plans": | "Heart of Gold": | "Sympathy for the De Vil": |
"Lily": | "Mother": | "Operation Mongoose Part 1": |
"Operation Mongoose Part 2": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Six | ||||||||||
"The Savior": | "A Bitter Draught": | "The Other Shoe": | "Strange Case": | "Street Rats": | "Dark Waters": | "Heartless": | "I'll Be Your Mirror": | "Changelings": | "Wish You Were Here": | "Tougher Than the Rest": |
Absent | Appears | Absent | Mentioned | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Murder Most Foul": | "Ill-Boding Patterns": | "Page 23": | "A Wondrous Place": | "Mother's Little Helper": | "Awake": | "Where Bluebirds Fly": | "The Black Fairy": | "The Song in Your Heart": | "The Final Battle Part 1": | "The Final Battle Part 2": |
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": | ||||||
Archive | Archive | Archive | Absent | Archive | ||||||
"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
Archive | Archive | Absent | Absent |
Other Appearances | ||||||||||
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Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.