History UsefulNotes / JohnnyAppleseed

-->--'''Johnny Appleseed'''

* In the episode "Johnny Applesauce, the titular character of the show ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' wants to become a folk hero just like Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket and Norman Monkeybars. He names himself Johnny Applesauce and gives applesauce to the children who have had to endure the Brussel sprouts the lunch lady has at the cafeteria. All goes well until the lunch lady goes a little crazy and tries to attack Johnny, resulting in Brussel sprouts and applesauce being flung every where. At that point, everyone gets sick of applesauce and the Principal Pal tells Johnny things would have been easier if he'd just started a petition. The episode also claims that Johnny Appleseed was mauled to death by badgers, which didn't happen in real life.

* In the episode "Johnny Applesauce, the titular character of the show ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' wants to become a folk hero just like Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket and Norman Monkeybars. He names himself Johnny Applesauce and gives applesauce to the children who have had to endure the Brussel sprouts the lunch lady has at the cafeteria. All goes well until the lunch lady goes a little crazy and tries to attack Johnny, resulting in Brussel sprouts and applesauce being flung every where. At that point, everyone gets sick of the applesauce and Brussel sprouts and the principal demands they had better compromise to put an end to this. The episode also claims that Johnny Appleseed was mauled to death by badgers, which didn't happen in real life.

* In the episode "Johnny Applesauce, the titular character of the show ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' wants to become a folk hero just like Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket and Norman Monkeybars. He names himself Johnny Applesauce and gives applesauce to the children who have had to endure the Brussel sprouts the lunch lady has at the cafeteria. All goes well until the lunch lady goes a little crazy and tries to attack Johnny, resulting in Brussel sprouts and applesauce being flung every where. At that point, everyone gets sick of the applesauce and Brussel sprouts and the principal demands they had better compromise to put an end to this.

* Johnny Appleseed {played by singer Roger Miller) appeared in an episode of the series ''Series/DanielBoone'', in which he averted an Indian war.

Johnny Appleseed is an American legend. Wearing a pan on his head, he traveled across the northern fledgling United States, planting apple trees left, right, and center for the American people to enjoy. Taking no money for himself, he did it entirely out of the kindness of his heart. He dedicated his life to wandering about the land, continuing this work for the benefit of all.

* One of the shorts of ''Disney/MelodyTime'' is dedicated to retelling his story.

The majority of the apple trees he planted, incidentally, were of the crab-apple variety, mostly used in the production of hard apple cider. Hence a large part of his popularity during his lifetime came from the fact that he helped bring alcoholic drinks to the frontier, rather than the apple trees themselves, or their fruit.

In reality, Appleseed (born John Chapman, 1774-1845), was a horticulturist, shrewd businessman, and a missionary for the Swedenborgian Church,[[note]]A kind of hippieish Christian new religious movement founded in the mid-18th century by the Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg after a series of strange dreams. We told you it was hippieish.[[/note]] who traveled across what is now Ohio and Indiana. He specifically left apple tree nurseries in the care of other farmers, and later returned to collect the profits of the tree sales. As he was frequently willing to accept barter goods or credit instead of money, he was never very monetarily wealthy; most of his wealth was in the frontier land that he had claimed as his own. And he owned ''a lot''. His will left over 1200 acres of land to his sister, and had he pursued the legal rights, he could have owned even more.

* Invoked in Literature/ThePostman, when Gordon contemplates if delivering mail to people makes him the new legend of the new frontier. He's also fully aware unlike Chapman he will rather get himself killed in the process with no profit whatsoever. He decides to continue anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' parodied him, with Jon playing the role of Johnny Ragweedseed while Garfield played his faithful cat, Roosevelt. Every town formed an angry mob and chased them out whenever they planted ragweed, because as we all know, [[CaptainObvious ragweed makes people sneeze]].

* Invoked in Literature/ThePostman, when Gordon contemplates if delivering mail to people makes him the new legend of the new frontier. He's also fully aware unlike Chapman he will rather get himself killed in the process with no profit whatsoever. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming He decides to continue anyway]].

In reality, Appleseed (born John Chapman, 1774-1845), was a shrewd businessman and a missionary for the Swedenborgian Church,[[note]]A kind of hippieish Christian new religious movement founded in the mid-18th century by the Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg after a series of strange dreams. We told you it was hippieish.[[/note]] who traveled across what is now Ohio and Indiana. He specifically left apple tree nurseries in the care of other farmers, and later returned to collect the profits of the tree sales. As he was frequently willing to accept barter goods or credit instead of money, he was never very monetarily wealthy; most of his wealth was in the frontier land that he had claimed as his own. And he owned ''a lot''. His will left over 1200 acres of land to his sister, and had he pursued the legal rights, he could have owned even more.

In reality, Appleseed (born John Chapman), was a shrewd businessman and Swedenborgian missionary, who traveled across what is now Ohio and Indiana. He specifically left apple tree nurseries in the care of other farmers, and later returned to collect the profits of the tree sales. As he was frequently willing to accept barter goods or credit instead of money, he was never very monetarily wealthy; most of his wealth was in the frontier land that he had claimed as his own. And he owned ''a lot''. His will left over 1200 acres of land to his sister, and had he pursued the legal rights, he could have owned even more.

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!!Tropes associated with Johnny Appleseed:
* BarefootPoverty[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: [[http://indianamuseum.org/data/webcontent/2084/files/johnny_appleseed.pdf This PDF]] about Johnny's history explains that "Johnny went barefoot most of the time because shoes were hard to come by and seldom fit his tough, gnarled feet."
* FillItWithFlowers: Trees variant.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: To the point of supposedly putting out his own campfires to avoid harming mosquitoes.
* TheMissionary: He was one, of a smaller Christian sect known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Church Swedenborgianism]].
* ProBonoBarter: In some of the stories. In reality, barter was more common, so this trope doesn't really apply there.
* SelfMadeMan: One of the earlier examples in American history.

* WalkingTheEarth: A RealLife case of this. While he was hardly the only one doing so at the time, he was certainly the best known.

!!Works in which Johnny Appleseed appears:

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->''"I could not enjoy myself better anywhere-I can lay on my back, look up at the stars and it seems almost as though I can see the angels praising God, for he has made all things for good."''