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Worm in an Apple
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Unlike its fellow infested food tropes, such as Fly in the Soup and Ants at the Picnic, a worm in an apple stands out because it isn't beholden to a singular setting or context. This is largely courtesy of the apple aspect. An apple is a natural product that is picked instead of a dish that needs to be prepared. This means that a worm in an apple can show up everywhere and that the worm may be considered the apple's proper owner because it was there first. Apples also just so happen to be fruits that have both nutritional and religious connotations. The worm aspect may overlap with the Literal Bookworm, strengthened by the fact that apples have their own link with education in Apple for Teacher. The simplest usage of a worm in an apple is as a Stock Joke, where someone takes a big bite out of a juicy, shiny, and usually red apple, only to violently spit it out after a few chews of diminishing conviction upon spotting a worm wriggling around inside. In a worse scenario, the worm is part of the initial bite. In a worse-worse scenario, the protagonist gets the Incredible Shrinking Man treatment or finds themself Trapped in Giant World, in which case any apple is a potential lion's den. Other times, the human element is taken out. This is firstly done by making the worm the focus character and the apple their home, sometimes complete with windows and doors. The second take is to invoke Anthropomorphic Food and make the apple the focus character. It's rich ground for Body Horror, but more often the apple and the worm function as The Symbiote. The worm then takes the role of assistant, pet, or limb, and may altogether never actually be in the apple. The usual distinction between a living apple and a worm having a healthy relationship or not is that in the latter scenario there'll be a bite out of the apple too. Worms in apples are based on apple maggot larvae and various caterpillars, but rarely do the fictional worms look like either. If the "worm" isn't meant to be an earthworm, which don't crawl into apples in real-life, it'll usually be some sort of generic green caterpillar, the latter contrasting nicely with the red of the apple. None of the real-life apple pests are green, though critters like the hornworm may go for apples if nothing more suitable is available and inchworms eat the leaves of apple trees. Furthermore, between improved pesticides and modern food grading processes, finding pests in one's fruit has become a rarity in real-life. A fair question to ask is why worms in apples became a motif as opposed to any other combination of a pest and a fruit (or veg). The immediate answer is that apples were a superfood going from the 19th Century to the 20th Century. Apples had been getting a good rep for some time in the West and when the temperance movement hit it big in the United States, orchard owners and marketing wisely shifted away from cider apples to wholesome edible apples. An increase in apple eating naturally led to an increase in encountering infested apples. An indirect answer is that there's an ancestor motif that requires understanding that neither "worm" nor "apple" (and their translations in various languages) entirely mean today what they used to mean. "Worm" has a history of being in use for any legless and elongated creature, including dragons and eels, and "apple" used to be roughly synonymous with "fruit" before becoming one specific kind of fruit. Several old stories that weren't about a specific fruit have thus become about apples. This linguistic fluidity puts the worm in an apple in the path of the Serpent in the Garden of Eden, Ladon in the Garden of the Hesperides, and the (silk)worm in the tale of Haftvad. Presuming apples, the latter actually is an Older Than Print example of a worm in an apple. Sister Trope to Fly in the Soup, Literal Bookworm, Tempting Apple, Apple of Discord, and Apple for Teacher, several of which Worm in an Apple may overlap with. |
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There are two instances in Adventure Time: "Tree Trunks" opens in Tree Trunks's apple orchard, where Finn and Jake are chopping up apples with their swords. A green worm eagerly approaches one of the apples, only for it to be halved right before the critter reaches its intended meal. In "The Real You", Finn and Jake attend the Worm College. Worm College is located in a giant rotten apple. It doesn't last long because the fingers of the duo are mistaken for truants and attacked by the worm-students. |
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"Langtree's Lament" in the "Schooltown Follies" episode Over the Garden Wall is a heartache song disguised as an educational song that starts with ""A" is for the apple that he gave to me, but I found a worm inside." | |
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Awful Hospital: Referenced when talking about worms: In "What are Worms?", on the fifth, a.k.a second to last◊, page, with a worm coming out of an apple with X-type dead Wingding Eyes. In Balmer's "Worms... WORMS!"◊: |
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A strip on The Far Side has two worms in a half-bitten apple watching in horror at the human child eating their home. One worm exclaims "Egad! It's got Uncle Jake!" | |
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Om Nom collects apples in his yard in "Wormy Apple!" of Om Nom Stories. A worm threatens the harvest, which Om Nom takes issue with. The worm tricks Om Nom into getting into a fight with a dog and Om Nom himself angers a muscular civilian while chasing the worm. The worm eventually enlists the dog to save Om Nom from the irate civilian, after which Om Nom gives the worm all the apples it can eat.note Incidentally, the apple-eating worm uses the same model as the Literal Bookworm in "Bookworm". | |
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Parks and Recreation: In "The Pawnee-Eagleton Tip-Off Classic", the snooty Ingrid de Forest is disgusted by Pawnee apples, claiming that they're full of pesticides. Leslie attempts a rebuttal: | |
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In a The Flintstones Fruity Pebbles commercial, Fred decides to get back at Barney for always stealing his cereal by disguising himself as Barney's elementary school teacher and threatening to send him to the principal's office. When it seems like the trick works, Barney hands him an apple which turns out to have a giant monstrous worm inside of it that scares Fred's disguise off and the cereal out of his hands. | |
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Apple from Apple & Onion doesn't like worms because they're his natural predator. There's one living inside him that he's unable to get out. In "Falafel's Fun Day", Apple imagines himself as being homeless and the worm eating him bit by bit. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "A Tale of Two Kitties", Tweety steals an apple Catstello was enjoying to eat the worm hidden inside. He swallows it whole and throws away the apple before Catstello realizes he's been robbed. | |
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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: In "An Adventure in Color", Ludwig Von Drake does a demonstration how there is no color without light by holding up a round object that, when the lights are turned on, is revealed to be a red apple. He takes a bite of it, and is shocked to find a worm living inside. | |
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"The City Worm and the Country Worm" is a Sesame Street story in which Slimey visits his country cousin Squirmy. Squirmy lives inside an apple with an acorn as mailbox. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Isaac Newton got the idea for gravity after stealing it from an apple worm (depicted as an earthworm with glasses, in a tree). | |
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The Disney short "Planning for Good Eating" starts with discussing animal eating habits. When addressing the animals that live on fruit and/or vegetables, an enthusiastically chewing worm pops out of an apple. | |
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In Sesame Street, a segment on the words "over", "under", "around", and "through" shows a worm named Willy who moves in all directions around an apple, then eats his way through it. | |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield: Applin is a worm-like Pokemon that burrows into an apple as soon as it's born. It's also Dragon-type, which means it's also a wyrm in an apple. | |
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In The Berenstain Bears book "The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Strangers", Mama Bear, who is talking to Sister Bear, compares strangers to apples, saying that some apples may look bumpy on the outside, but then cutting the bumpy apple she brought out and revealing the inside is fine. Then she brings out an apple that isn't bumpy, but has a bunch of worms inside when sliced; Sister is disgusted, and so is Brother when he enters the room. The lesson Mama is teaching here is that some strangers may be "bad apples" that look friendly on the outside but actually aren't. | |
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Homestuck: The meteors that destroy the kids' houses contain structures related to the special items that allowed them to enter the game. At John's house, a biomechanical tree grows a fruit-shaped capsule. This apple is guarded by robot sentry worms that can blast lasers from their mouths. | |
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In one Donald Duck comic story, Donald and his nephews are sent to find one of Scrooge's gold ships after it goes missing, and discover that the crate of apples he sent them is infested with worms. | |
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In the Shivers (M. D. Spenser) book The Awful Apple Orchard, one of the first pranks from the ghosts haunting said orchard involves having Sara seeing a worm in an apple she just bit into. She promptly freaks out and drops the apple, but after picking up and re-examining the apple again, the worm had somehow disappeared. | |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: An apparently carnivorous green caterpillar lives in the apple on Mrs. Fowl's desk, which becomes a bit of a problem when she accidentally gets hit by Jimmy's shrink ray. The Post-Credits Scene shows that she managed to tame it, named it "Mr. Wiggles", and now uses it as her fearless steed. | |
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In The Legend of Kyrandia's third game, Malcolm can steal and eat apples that always reveal a worm inside. While trying to eat the worm will make Malcolm joke that he's "not that hungry yet", these apples are found in an area inhabited entirely by Fish People that like worms better than apples. | |
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One of the items in Neopets is a "Wormy Rotten Apple"; it's one of the foods that will make your pet sick if they eat it...except for the birdlike Pteri, where the item will fill it's hunger to full and cure it of any disease. | |
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The worm is a minor character in Donkey Kong 64 who resides in a large green apple (that is depicted as having a door and window, almost like a house) in Fungi Forest. | |
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In the opening of Society, Billy takes a bite out of an apple while in his therapist's office - only to find the apparently pristine fruit rotten and writhing with literal worms. As it happens, this is an early bit of foreshadowing that something very nasty is going on behind the polished facade of Beverly Hills. | |
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When Shazam! finally comes face-to-face with Mister Mind for the first time, he nearly misses him anyway because he doesn't know what the villain looks like and the miniature laboratory he's supposed to reside in is empty. A civilian finds his lunch box open nearby and wants to eat the apple he'd brought along, which just so happens to be Mister Mind's makeshift hiding place. It is then that Shazam learns that Mister Mind is a worm. In Issue 14 of the 1973 volume of Shazam, Georgia Sivana discovers a worm in her apple, and is about to squash it when she is stopped by her father, who has recognised the worm as Mister Mind. |
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In Pikmin 2, a red apple is a treasure, and is referred to as the "Insect Condo" as a reference to this trope. The treasure returns both as a fruit in Pikmin 3, where the Koppaites express concern that this is the name their ship generated for them (as the treasure was originally found by someone else), and as a treasure in Pikmin 4, where Louie's notes advise checking for worms before taking a big bite. | |
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Card Force Infection: Occurs a few times throughout the story. Richter shows that he can manifest card subjects in real life by summoning a Sinner's Apple and giving it to Donovan... but after he bites the apple, Richter manifests his cursed card, Worm Infestation, in the apple, to Donovan's disgust. On a more lighthearted note, during the Tournament Arc, one of the food vendors sells caramel apples with gummy worms in them. Fletcher buys one, but he finds that the tastes don't blend together very well. Later chapters suggest that they're a big Love It or Hate It flavor. Alicia and Thuy encounter a painting of Adoraborb pecking at a worm in an apple. Yuu begins analyzing the painting, coming up with a bunch of nonsense to keep Alicia and Thuy distracted while Aron escapes undetected. When Dion plays the card Revapplenote a magical apple that can revive Units. to resurrect Powcreatur Rivormnote a worm, Rivorm first materializes inside the apple, briefly mimicking the worm in an apple motif. The Wormy Apple card is a simple worm in an apple. Apple Worm Hydra, a much stronger card that draws its power from Wormy Apple, is a giant apple that sprouts more worms the stronger it gets. Each new worm raises the card's stats and allows it to make one more attack each turn. One opening to the in universe anime Card Force Rebellion features a scene with several rotting apples, all filled with worms. Aron at one point has a nightmare where he is dining with the Devil. The Devil offers him an apple, which turns out to be filled with worms. |
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In one Rugrats comic strip, Tommy and Angelica are under an apple tree. Angelica says to Tommy, "I wouldn't eat those apples, they could have worms." Phil and Lil overhear and try to climb the tree so they can eat the worms. | |
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In "Worm Circus" of Toopy and Binoo, an entire worm circus is located inside an apple. Toopy and Binoo join the clown act by juggling. | |
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The villain of "LarryBoy and the Bad Apple" of VeggieTales is Temptation Apply, an apple who seeks to control people by making them lose themselves to temptation. Her one henchman is Curly the Worm, who spies on her prospective victims to figure out what they're sensitive to. Curly gets captured by LarryBoy and arrested, but Temptation escapes. | |
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Solar Opposites: The clerk at the Wooden City's apple store (not a phone store, a literal apple store) is a giant worm. | |
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The Very Quiet Cricket: The cricket encounters a worm eating through an apple saying "Good Day". | |
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The Happy Harmonies short "The Early Bird and the Worm", the titular worm and his mother live in a nicely furnished apple wedged between the roots of the apple tree amidst many more apples. | |
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In the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Washington Applesauce", a voracious earthworm devours an apple orchard down to the apples on the farmer's boxer shorts. The worm's presence threatens the upcoming Applefest and Timon and Pumbaa volunteer to catch the worm for free as long as they can eat it. The worm, however, has grown and continues to grow rapidly from eating the many apples around town and eats the duo instead. Not to be outdone, Timon and Pumbaa eat their way out of that problem. | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped, the Flim Flam Brothers have a tradition of sabotaging each Harvest and Cider-Making Party held by the Apple Family. The previous year, they gifted Apple Bloom a pet worm. Apple Bloom happily named it Colonel Wigglesworth. Colonel Wigglesworth ended up inviting all his friends to eat every last apple harvested by the Apple Family. | |
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SpongeBob and Patrick try to raise an abandoned clam (the equivalent of birds in the setting) in "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" of SpongeBob SquarePants. Ignorant of what a clam eats, they unsuccessfully present it with an apple. However, a worm that talks and claims to be visiting from Apple World pops out from the fruit. The duo feeds the worm to the clam instead, despite the worm's threat that "[w]e will bury you!" | |
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In Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, one of the outcomes that can happen if you land on a space where you lose both Happy Points and Bells is you and your friends picking apples, only to find that all of the apples have worms in them, and having to pay to recycle the spoiled apples. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Sleepless in Ponyville", Applejack tells Scootaloo that she appears "more nervous than a worm in an apple on cider making day." | |
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Super Mario Galaxy: In the mission "The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows," if Mario ground pounds a stump on an apple planet, a giant caterpillar comes out and burrows into a nearby apple planet, acting as a makeshift bridge for Mario. | |
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An American Tail: As Fievel escapes from the cat's throat, he passes by a worm in an apple slice that is about to be digested. | |
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The tale of Haftvad, mostly known for the version in The Shahnameh, starts with Haftvad's one daughter, who takes a break from spinning to eat an apple. Inside, she finds a small worm (interpreted but not identified as a silkworm) which she keeps with her the rest of the day. From that day on, she spins more and finer thread than ever before, making her family rich and powerful. The worm is well taken care of and becomes huge. Eventually, Haftvad draws the attention of Ardashir I, the future Sasanian emperor, who wants to break his power. He succeeds by pretending to be a travelling merchant and killing the worm by feeding it molten lead. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In the title card of Joys of Seasons episode 7, Paddi is scared off by a worm he finds in an apple he was eating. | |
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In an episode of Eureeka's Castle, Bogge is about to eat an apple, when he finds a worm in it. He says that worms make apples even sweeter. | |
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In the Little Bear episode "Applesauce", Little Bear and Emily are picking apples so they can make applesauce. One of the apples they pick has a worm inside it. | |
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In The Longest Journey, April has to distract Captain Nebevay away from the compass aboard his ship. Her course of action is to catch a wheat worm, stick it inside an apple, and show the infested apple to the captain as "proof" that the barrel might be infested and needs to be checked up on. | |
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H.M.S. Pinafore invokes this as a metaphor for Hidden Depths in the first spoken dialogue. In response to the Boatswain calling her "the rosiest, the roundest, and the reddest beauty in all Spithead," Little Buttercup says: | |
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In one path of SPY Fox 2: Some Assembly Required, an informant named Lenny emerges from a candy apple to give Spy Fox a clue he wrote on a leaf. When the exchange is done, Lenny asks Fox to dump the apple in the trash - while still half-burrowed in the apple. | |
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At the end of "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium" of The Scooby-Doo Show, Scooby bites into an apple and encounters an angry worm. The worm then eats the whole apple. | |
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Huckleberry's Mechaworm is a Mad Scientist worm wearing an apple-shaped battle armor. He also had an apple-shaped laboratory. | |
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Hey Arnold!: In "Student Teacher", Helga tries to get Olga sick by leaving an apple with a worm inside on her desk. A very unfortunate Mr. Simmons is the one who picks it up instead. | |
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Antz: While in Insectopia, Z and Bala join several other bugs in riding on a worm as it slithers through through multiple holes in an apple, akin to riding a rollercoaster. | |
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Blood Witch Gretta from the The Witchwood portion of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is depicted holding an apple with worms sticking out from it and several of her lines are to get the player to eat the apple. Her hero power is Blood Red Apple, a passive ability that makes spells drain health instead of mana. | |
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