History Main / RazorApples

* In ''{{Candyman}},'' during her first exploration of the "shrine" to Candyman at Cabrini Green, Helen finds a small heap of chocolates on the floor; of of them is found to contain a razor blade.

* Although not particularly related to horror. In ''{{Mother 3}}'', Flint's son Claus gives him an apple with a file tool or something inside. It is actually used to help him break out of jail.

* [[InsaneClownPosse A couple of well-known rapping clowns]] seem to [[AuthorAppeal love]] this trope when mentioning Halloween. Check out "Mr. Rotten Treats" and "Halloween on Military Street" to name a couple.

It should be noted that there has ''never'' been a recorded non-fictional instance of this happening to apples given to children on Halloween; the WorldWarII example below aside, it is ''entirely'' an UrbanLegend.

* In the first arc of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Rena gives Keiichi a box of rice balls. The first one he bites into contains a sewing needle. [[spoiler:[[UnreliableNarrator But not really.]] It's actually Tabasco sauce, but Keiichi's paranoid delusions have started screwing with his ([[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and the viewer's]]) perceptions.]]

* In the first arc of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Rena [[spoiler:[[UnreliableNarrator apparently]]]] puts a needle in the rice balls she makes for Keiichi.
** [[spoiler:It's tabasco sauce in reality.]]

* Although not particularly related to horror. In ''{{Mother 3}}'', Flint's son Claus gives him an apple with a razor inside. It is actually used to help him break out of jail.
** Actually, wasn't it a nail file, the good old break out of jail cliche tool?

* In ''I Luv Halloween'', Finch fills an apple with razor blades after he and his friends were cheated out of their candy. He gives the apple to a cop. The result [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel isn't pretty]].

* There was an episode of ''The Commish'' where someone was giving out poisoned candy, so the title Commish had his son go out trick-or-treating, which they then tested one piece at a time as it was gotten. Turned out it was a neighbor of the Commish's.

* In ''I Luv Halloween'', Finch fills an apple with razor blades after he and his friends were jipped out of their candy. He gives the apple to a cop. The result [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel isn't pretty]].

* A ''CriminalMinds'' episodes had the psycho of the week place LSD and Rohypnol laced sweets into the bank candy bowl. Victims had psychotics episodes of rage, which they would subsequently have completely no memory of.

* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' has the police x-raying the kids Halloween candy and weeding out razor blades, syringes, etc.

* In the beginning of the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories," one of Zoe's war stories is about a time when the Alliance left a bushel of apples for the Independents' soldiers to find. Turns out they included grenades called Griswolds -- there were a few little pops, and "there's three guys just kinda end at the ribcage." The fact that she relates this story while sampling a crate of apples that Jayne got for the crew as a peace offering after the events of the previous episode "Ariel," which had [[spoiler:Jayne trying to turn in Simon and River to the Alliance]], is rather telling.

** Also, as a nod to this trope, [[spoiler: when Mr Kreacher falls down the stairs, they're littered with hypodermic needles, straight pins, shards of glass, razor blades and candy]].

* The WWII [=POW=] autobiography ''The [[TheAlcatraz Colditz]] Story'' relates how the clique of prisoners refered to as the '[[{{Determinator}} Men of Spirit]]' spent the little time they didn't devote to escape attempts stuffing the rotten vegetables in the kitchen waste full of old razor blades, since it was taken out of the camp to be used as pigswill in the surrounding farms. Since the German authorities regarded this as sabotage, punishable by death, this was a risky pastime.

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* Fear of this causes some communities to go to extremes like x-raying the kids' candy. Of course, some parents choose for a more low-tech solution like not letting t

* In the beginning of the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories," one of Zoe's war stories is about a time when the Alliance left a bushel of apples for the Independents' soldiers to find. Turns out they included grenades called Griswolds -- there were a few little pops, and "there's three guys just kinda end at the ribcage." The fact that she relates this story while sampling a crate of apples that Jayne got for the crew as a peace offering after the events of the previous episode "Ariel," which had [[spoiler:Jayne trying to turn in Simon and River to the Alliance]], is rather telling.
* In an episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', Sophie and Elliot are attempting to teach Parker the art of persuasion. She is told to persuade Elliot to give up his apple for her orange. She does so by claiming to have put a razor blade in the apple, just as Elliot takes a bite out of it, causing him to spit it out.
* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' has the police x-raying the kids Halloween candy and weeding out razor blades, syringes, etc.
* There was an episode of ''The Commish'' where someone was giving out poisoned candy, so the title Commish had his son go out trick-or-treating, which they then tested one piece at a time as it was gotten. Turned out it was a neighbor of the Commish's.
* ''{{Supernatural}}'' did an episode where a man dies from razor blades in Halloween candy, in [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel a supremely gory fashion.]]

* In the ''ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'', third book, Thomas bites into an apple with a razor blade in it.
* Although not particularly related to horror. In ''{{Mother3}}'', Flint's son Claus gives him an apple with a razor inside. It is actually used to help him break out of jail.
** Actually, wasn't it a nail file, the good old break out of jail cliche tool?
* RealLife example: the WWII [=POW=] autobiography ''The [[TheAlcatraz Colditz]] Story'' relates how the clique of prisoners refered to as the '[[{{Determinator}} Men of Spirit]]' spent the little time they didn't devote to escape attempts stuffing the rotten vegetables in the kitchen waste full of old razor blades, since it was taken out of the camp to be used as pigswill in the surrounding farms. Since the German authorities regarded this as sabotage, punishable by death, this was a risky passtime.

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* The horror film ''Night of the Demons'' featured a frame story of this. A cranky old man is angered by children, and comes home on Halloween with a bag full of apples and razor blades. The final scene involved the old man sitting down for a breakfast of apple pie made by his wife. He only asks her after taking a few bites where she got the apples...

*Sniffles is forced to eat one in HappyTreeFriends.