How do you like them apples
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How do you like them apples?, also shortened to, How you like them apples?[citation needed] or how bout that., sometimes spelled dem apples[citation needed] or those apples, is a phrase used to gloat or to express bemusement or vexation.[1] In all senses, the phrase acts as a rhetorical question. In World War I, something called a Stokes gun fired mortars resembling apples with a stick in them, so they were often referred to as Toffee Apples.
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[edit] Film
The first known use in a film was Howard Hawks' The Big Sky starring Kirk Douglas in 1952[citation needed]. Walter Brennan's character Stumpy in Rio Bravo uses the line while throwing sticks of dynamite.[2] Jack Nicholson's character in Chinatown also uses this line. It appeared in the M*A*S*H episode "Henry Please Come Home". Bill Paxton's character says it in the 1987 film Near Dark. Homer Simpson uses this line in The Simpsons episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", which aired in 1991, after winning an argument against Bart Simpson. The phrase was used by Matt Damon in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting. Amy Gardner (Mary-Louise Parker) says it a few times in season 3 of The West Wing. Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) uses the line twice in 2 Fast 2 Furious. The phrase has been also used on South Park season 12 episode 11 called "Pandemic 2". In Spongebob SquarePants season 6, episode number 121, Sand Castles in the Sand. In Stargate SG-1, season 2 episode 12 "The Tok'ra: Part 2", Jack O'Neil says it to Jacob Carter after he sees the Stargate turn on for the first time. Santa says the phrase to Michael in the 2003 film Elf. In "Gilmore Girls" Season 7 Episode 1 - Sookie says to Michele after winning an arm wrestling match. The phrase also got used in Season 1, Episode 4 (Applebuck Season) of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - the difference is only that it was used literally and as an homage to the ones mentioned above. The phrase was used once more in the "The Sopranos" episode "Two Tonys", Tony Soprano says it to Carmella Soprano after he relates the fact of Furio Giunta having coffee with Carmella to the coffee maker's bad coffee.
[edit] Game
This phrase can also be frequently heard in the FPS-game Far Cry, when mercenary characters throw grenades at the player character (while playing the single-player campaign.) It is also said by the Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum. This phrase is also used commonly by enemy Claptraps in the Borderlands expansion pack Claptrap's New Robot Revolution.
[edit] Radio
- UK poet Christopher Pepper embellished upon the idiom during a BBC Radio 4 warm up set before the topical news comedy The Now Show, saying: "How would one signify favour for the Malus domestica in question"?
