History Series / JackOfAllTrades

* ParachutePetticoat: In the first episode, Jack rescues President Jefferson's niece from a French fort in Canada. To escape the fort, Jack and the girl jump off a high cliff. They are saved because Jack grabs on to her feet and her dress billows out to form a parachute.(Jack also gets an excellent view of her petticoats, and her bloomers are showing)

* ParachutePetticoat: In the first episode, Jack rescues President Jefferson's niece from a French fort in Canada. To escape the fort, Jack and the girl jump off a high cliff. They are saved because Jack grabs on to her feet and her skirt billows out to form a parachute. (Jack also gets an excellent view of her petticoats.)

A fun little series with a truly great (and, to the crew's surprise, Emmy Nominated) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyoFHc25Yo theme song]].

* FriendlyEnemy: Jack and Emelia's father were this during the Revolution. They repeatedly tried to kill each, but there was no real animosity; they even respected each other.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: As evidenced by her lifting of a wide platter of a roast, Emilia is definitely StrongerThanSheLooks.

Just ask the bloke right next ta ya—it’s… Jack!"\\''

''Jack of All Trades'' was an action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}'' as part of Creator/{{Universal}}/[[Creator/USANetwork Studios USA]]'s syndicated ''Creator/ActionPack''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of SteamPunk series like ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', starring Creator/BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.

* TheUnreveal: Captain Brogard once had the opportunity to rip off the mask of "the Daring Dragoon" and reveal his secret identity... except that Jack was wearing a ''second'' mask underneath the one Brogard ripped off!

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Fufu" Also subverted in that [[spoiler: the way she got it was pretty BadAss.]]

* TheNapoleon: The man himself. Played by Verne Troyer.

''Jack of All Trades'' was an action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of SteamPunk series like ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', starring Creator/BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: All over the place, naturally. But the biggest error was that the US [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonicWars was allied with Napoleonic France against Britain]] [[UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 most of the time]]. The rest of the time it was neutral.

''Jack of All Trades'' was an action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of SteamPunk series like ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', starring Creator/BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop NapoleonBonaparte and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.

** The series itself was an Antarctica for writer/producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. They had successfully show-ran ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', so they were made show-runners for the fifth season of ''XenaWarriorPrincess''. That season wound up being heavily criticized, and, fairly or not, they got the blame from all concerned. More than a few people noticed how they were off ''Xena'' before Season 5 ended and suddenly on this series.

* ShoutOut: one episode revolves around France's gift of the Statue of Liberty to the USA. It ends with a re-creation of [[PlanetOfTheApes one of cinema's best known examples of the]] TwistEnding.

* ShownTheirWork: You would think the US and France would have good relations in 1801, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both Britain and France at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more. The 1801 setting is also surprisingly appropriate for the ColdWar-esque nature of the Britain vs. France conflict in the show. It takes place during (technically, just prior to) the Peace of Amiens, a brief period when Britain and France were not actually at war with each other.

* {{Lad-ette}}: Kentucky Sue is a fairly exaggerated example, close to a female BoisterousBruiser.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: All over the place, naturally. But the biggest error was that Napoleonic France [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonicWars was allied with the US against Britain]] [[UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 most of the time]]. The rest of the time it was neutral.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Nardo da Vinci (Leonardo's great, great, great, great grandson) used to be [[HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Iolaus]].
** Catherine the Great, meanwhile, was [[XenaWarriorPrincess Ephiny]].