History Series / WorstJobsInHistory

* BodyHorror: On top of being castrated and rendered incapable of leading a normal lifestyle, Castrati also ran the risk of being quite horribly disfigured by the lack of certain chemicals in their body.

* CaptainObvious: Tony, during the Castrati segment, asking if the procedure hurt.

* GroinAttack: The Castrati were a natural recipient of this.

* ThrowTheDogABone: The job of Tudour Spitboy; long, monotonous and back-straining though it was, it allowed Tony to sample some of the chickens roasting on the spit. He even said that it was his first decent experience in the entire program.
** While not enthusiastic about the taste of Umble Pie (the medieval cook's christmas treat), Tony remarked that it was still "the nicest thing I've smelt all day."

* PrecisionFStrike: While playing the part of a Guillemot Egg Collector and making a very perilous climb down a cliff, an unexpected stumble makes Tony yell "Oh shite!"

* DangerousWorkplace: Quite a few of the workplaces visited or discussed during the show. The Bryant & May match factory was aguably the worst, due to the combination of NoOSHACompliance and white phosphorus.

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Tony Robinson, of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' and ''Series/TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the worst jobs in history: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], TheMiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to be Heights]]: Tony has acrophobia, and nearly every episode has a worst job that involves him either climbing or dangling off a tall building, all while being visibly terrified.

Tony Robinson, of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' and ''Series/TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the worst jobs in history: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], TheMiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

Tony Robinson, of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' and ''Series/TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the worst jobs in history: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], MiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

Tony Robinson, of ''{{Blackadder}}'' and ''TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the worst jobs in history: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], MiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

Tony Robinson, of ''{{Blackadder}}'' and ''TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the WorstJobsInHistory: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], MiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

There were two book spin-offs, ''The Worst Jobs in History'', and a book aimed at younger readers which focused on ChildLabor ''The Worst Children's Jobs in History''.

* TheCastShowoff: Used in the Georgian episode, when the musical expert brought in to explain the Castrati demonstrates his countertenor singing voice- the nearest thing to the Castrati tone available today. In the same segment, Tony briefly displays a very high and surprisingly pleasant singing voice.

Tony Robinson, of ''{{Blackadder}}'' and ''TimeTeam'' fame, introduces us to the WorstJobsInHistory: occupations that are dangerous, unhealthy, boringly monotonous, disgusting, immoral or otherwise terrible from throughout most of British history. The show has aired two seasons, the first of six episodes, each focusing on the worst jobs in a given era ([[AncientRome Roman]] and [[TheLowMiddleAges Anglo-Saxon]], MiddleAges, [[TheRenaissance Tudors]], [[TheCavalierYears Stuarts]], [[TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] and [[VictorianBritain Victorian]]), a ChristmasEpisode, and then a second season of five episodes, each describing the remaining awful jobs in five different fields (urban, royal, industrial, maritime, and rural).

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to be Heights]]: Tony has acrophobia, and nearly every episode has a worst job that involves him climbing something tall and being scared.

* ScavengerWorld: Victorian London; because it produced so much rubbish, various classes of scavengers could earn semi-regular wages by finding saleable items among the waste. The Victorian episode examined a few of these kinds of scavengers, from near destitute cigarette-end collectors and Mudlarks[[hottip:*: hunted the banks of the river Thames for bits of copper or coal]], to the premier league examples like Bone-Gubbers[[hottip:*: scavenged bones that could be sold in order to produce manure and soap]], Dustmen[[hottip:*: gathered ashes and dust from houses, sold for use in making bricks]], and Toshers[[hottip:*: roamed the sewers, looking for lost valuables, coins, and other saleable goods accidentally swept down the drain]].

* DangerousWorkplace: Quite a few of the workplaces visited or discussed during the show. The Bryant & May match factory was aguably the worst, due to the combination of NoOSHACompliance and white phospherous.

* ScavengerWorld: Victorian London; because it produced so much rubbish, various classes of scavengers could earn semi-regular wages by finding saleable items among the waste. The Victorian episode examined a few of these kinds of scavengers, from near destitute cigarette-end collectors and Mudlarks[[hottip:*: hunted the banks of the river Thames for bits of copper or coal]] Thames, to the premier league examples like Bone-Gubbers[[hottip:*: scavenged bones that could be sold in order to produce manure and soap]], Dustmen[[hottip:*: gathered ashes and dust from houses, sold for use in making bricks]], and Toshers[[hottip:*: roamed the sewers, looking for lost valuables, coins, and other saleable goods accidentally swept down the drain]].

* DarkestHour: The very ''Worst'' jobs of the episode, reserved for the very end of each episode and concerning only the most boring, dangerous or just plain revolting out of all the already terrible jobs reviewed: Tony's least favourite out of all of these was the Tanner- for ''very'' good reason.

* OhCrap: Commonly uttered during the more perilous worst jobs; Guillemot Egg Collecting sees Tony deliver quite a few, particularly when he loses his shoes off the edge of the cliff.