Films

The Highwaymen

Woody Harrelson eats an apple before dropping it in a pot plant and going off to hunt Bonnie and Clyde

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860242

300

Leonidas crunches on an apple after winning a battle. Looks delicious, but was it computer generated like the background; or was it real like Gerard Butler's physique?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAst4vp6ULQ

Saving Private Ryan

Vin Diesel has his pick of upturned apples before being shot at by a sniper

True Grit

Little Blacky the Pony is fed an apple by Mattie.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones (and the Temple of Doom) brings his lady friend an apple because she doesn't like chilled monkey brains but she won't put out, so he eats it himself.

Quantum of solace

Domenic Greene eats a green apple before meeting a dictator

Star Trek (new version)

The new version of Kirk eats an apple at 0.57 of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDg674aS-F4

Harry Potter

An apple is eaten in a number of Harry Potter films by a number of different characters. Is it the same apple in each? You'll have to wait til the last film to find out.

Tell no one

one of the bad guys eats an apple while they're waiting in the park for the good guy

let the right one in

the old man is heard but not seen eating an apple in his house

1991: The Year Punk Broke

Thursten Moore leaves the scene while being interviewed, remaining in shot his wife Kim Gordon eats an apple without talking

Jumper

Hayden Christensen eats an apple at some point but it's not very interesting.

Fahrenheit 451

in the opening scene the book owner eats an apple as he runs away from his house. Also, a fireman takes a bite from one before it is slapped from his hand

The Campaign

22 minutes into this Will Ferrell / Zach Galafinakis vehicle, a character introduces himself by popping up in the back of a car, and saying, 'I'm your campaign manager. I'm here to make you not suck.' Then he eats an apple.

The Dark Knight Rises

'A word of advice: don't steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.' Says Cat Woman to a kid, before biting an apple (the kid had stolen an apple from someone he couldn't outrun).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pux5O0-C8

Achorman 2

Another Will Ferrell/ Apple moment. Picks an apple off a tree whilst going into a house. Takes a hearty bite, attempts a 'Dad-Eating-An-Apple-Throw', fumbles apple and continues as if nothing happened.

Room

Ma (Brie Larson) takes a bite of an apple and her tooth falls out - Elizabeth

Neverending Story

Bastian eats an entire apple including the core whist absorbed in reading the eponymous The Neverending Story. When we were kids my brother and I were outraged by this. - Simon

A Few Good men

Tom Cruise is eating an apple when he goes to Demi Moore's office, fairly early on. I also seem to remember he has a really stylish way of wiping his hands on a tissue afterwards, but that may be another scene or film. - Dan

You've Got Mail

I’m pretty sure Meg Ryan eats an apple in You’ve Got Mail - Beth

Apples

The 2020 Dutch / Greek film Apples. The guy eats apples almost throughout! - Izzy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10110614

TV Programmes

Orange Is The New Black

In a later episode of this Netflix Original Series (maybe the third last episode) the nasty prison guard with the moustache (known as Porn Tash) swaggers into the kitchen, intimidates Red, the fearsome Russian cook. He eats an apple in an intimidating manner. The apple was one of those big squarish dark red ones they favour in America. The apple stole the scene.

Threesome

In episode 4 of Comedy Central's first original UK commission, the gay one eats an apple whilst interrupting an argument between the two straight ones. 'I'll leave you to it,' he says, with a bit of apple in his mouth. At about 17min in.

The IT Crowd

Chris Morris's character eats an apple at his own funeral. Two bites, well delivered

Any Human Heart

About half way through episode 1 of Any Human Heart, the main character, Logan Mountstewart, throws an apple in the air a couple of times before scoffing it down. He's walking through a field at the time, or possibly a garden. I can't remember.

The Killing

Somewhere in one of the middle episodes, Danish politician Troels Hartmann rejects his main opponent's offer of a truce before scoffing an apple and leaving the room Danishly.

Camelot

18 minutes into the first episode of Camelot, Merlin (Joseph Fiennes) eats an apple. He does it slowly, using a knife to cut it up into little bits. He looks quite shifty throughout.

Luther

Detective Chief Inspector John Luther (Idris Elba) eats an apple at the close of episode one, series two of this psychological crime show whilst talking to a sexy psychopath in a mental hospital. He doesn't play by the rules.

Battlestar Galactica

Ellen Tye eats an apple while discussing cylons with a number 8

Whistle and I'll come to you

The eccentric protagonist, Professor Parkins, slices an apple with an knife and eats it on the beach

Band of Brothers

Ross from Friends eats an apple whilst being an unpopular officer in Episode 1 just before Easy Company are shipped off to England

futurama

Leela eats an apple while on the garden of eden planet in In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela

Breaking Bad

Series 3 episode 5 - A character eats an apple while something gruesome happens in the background

Mad Men

Series 1 episode 5 - someone eats an apple, I can't remember who it was though

Game of thrones

Series 2 episode 7 - Theon Greyjoy ate an apple while a lady takes all her clothes off

Man Down

Series 1 Episode 1 - in the opening scene of the series, Greg Davies wonders whether apple farts are capable of generating lift

This Way Up

Aisling Bea eats an apple while receiving some bad news on the phone

Near Misses

Incorrectly thought to be apples

Contributors

• Pete Harris
• JonyDep08
• KenHom
• Sam Ward
• Elizabeth Bower
• Simon Philipson
• Dan Crane
• Beth Morrey
• Izzy Mant
• Ella Gannon