History WebVideo / EpicMealTime

* TheTeam
** TheLeader: Harley, who invented and hosts the show.
** TheLancer: Sterling, who, although is seen rarely in episodes, is not just the cameraman, but the video editor.
** TheBigGuy: Muscles Glasses and Epic Mook, who does most of the cooking. As of this writing this post is filled by Prince Atari, who is both a big guy and is now the head cook.
** TheSmartGuy: Tyler, who does the fat and calorie counter (although his on-screen character is as dumb as a post), and Cousin Dave, who eats like a gentleman.

So [[CanadaEh a Montreal high school substitute teacher and his friends]] decided one day to put a ton of fast food items onto a pizza shell, cover that in cheese and cook it. Then, surprisingly, it got hits. Now, they've turned their gluttony into a weekly series devoted to the most high-calorie and fattening dishes imaginable: Epic Meal Time. The show started in October 2010 [[LongRunner and is still ongoing]], with new episodes every Tuesday.

* CanadaEh:
** Muscles Glasses' dad is a lumberjack for crying out loud.
** MistakenNationality: More than a few first time viewers assume the cast are American. No guesses as to why.

--->'''[=FPSRussia=]''': "Okay, this is the [=MP5K=]. "K" stands for "Kompact" in German, don't give me bullshit; I know what the gun is."[[note]](Actually stands for ''Kurz,'' or 'Short' in German)[[/note]]

* HotBlooded: The beginning of "Candy Pizza" confirms Harley as this.

* SharpDressedMan: The whole cast in "The Gentleman's Episode".

* SophisticatedAsHell: "Here at Epic Meal Time, we value presentation, ''bitch''."

* TastesLikePurple: or Crazy Alcohol Rainbow Pig

* GunsAndGunplayTropes:
** "Russian Meal Time" provides examples of:
** AKA47: {{Lampshaded}} and averted by [=FPSRussia=]:
--->'''[=FPSRussia=]''': "Okay, this is the [=MP5K=]. "K" stands for "Kompact" in German, don't give me bullshit; I know what the gun is."[[note]](Actually stands for ''Kurz,'' or 'Short' in German)[[/note]]
** ArtisticLicenseGunSafety - Parodied in one bit despite all the other proper uses: Tyler tries to demonstrate skinning potatoes, but accidentally grabs a grenade instead. Harley immediately stops him.
** EveryoneIsArmed: Played with: Muscles Glasses makes mashed potatoes while holding a submachine gun.
** PistolWhipping: Harley, Muscles Glasses and [=FPSRussia=] take turns tenderizing meat, the latter using a Desert Eagle to do it.
** SpentShellsShower: Sort of. [=FPSRussia=] dribbles bullets out of his mouth at the end.
** SwissArmyGun: Harley uses a rifle + bayonet as a skewer for around half a dozen hamburgers.
** TriggerHappy: Invoked by [=FPSRussia=] during the shooting range segment against users of this trope. Harley starts to turn guilty when a Desert Eagle wounds up in his hand, but slightly subverted when he asks [=FPSRussia=] if it's alright to pull the trigger after the latter inspects the gun first.
** WallOfWeapons: At the gun store

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Tyler at the beginning of "New Years Hangover Cure"

* ChainsawGood: Harley uses one in "Meatball Deathstar":
--> '''Harley''': '''EVERY TUESDAY: EPIC MEAL TIME!''' Comin' at you with a chainsaw and a big pile o'meat! If you ain't down with that...'''THEN YOU AIN'T DOWN WITH COOKING!!!'''

* DeepFriedWhatever: Especially in beer batter.
* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Eat Cthulhu?]] - "Meat Cthulhu"

* FunWithSubtitles: On the title card for most episodes.

* GodwinsLaw / HitlerAteSugar: "You know who else didn't like too much bacon? Hitler. And you don't want to be Hitler, do you? No. [[spoiler: He's got stupid hair]]."

* BigEater: This shouldn't require an explanation.
--> '''Harley''': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPB7v_dp2k Four-cheese ravioli, Chef Boyardee Ravioli in ravioli, trifecta-liqour-meat sauce, cheesy-meat jolly balls]] and four of the hungriest mother[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]s that ever ate on the internet!"

* CargoShip:
** Harley is more than a bit fascinated by the cinnamon roll that serves as the bun on the cinnaburger supreme; to quote: [[invoked]]
---> I'm genuinely aroused right now over this cinnamon roll. I wanna roleplay with it. I wanna do things in public with it. I wanna be in it, and I want it to be in me.

* CausticCritic: Every judge on ''Epic Chef''.

* CostumePorn: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mDKBzTZwk&feature=g-all-u Steampunk Meal Time]]

---> '''Harley''': "For all you flub-sucking dark-gargling Tom Henry mother-father short-stains. This is a family restaurant."

* GunsAndGunplayTropes: "Russian Meal Time" provides examples of:

-->'''[=FPSRussia=]''': "Okay, this is the [=MP5K=]. "K" stands for "Kompact" in German, don't give me bullshit; I know what the gun is."[[note]](Actually stands for ''Kurz,'' or 'Short' in German)[[/note]]

---> '''Harley''': "And we got these custom sauces, 'cause I'm the 'Doctor of Dressing', aka the 'Pharaoh of Flavour', aka the 'Minister of Mixture', aka the 'Connoisseur of Condiments', aka the 'Don of the Drippin', aka the 'Creator/JeffGoldblum of the Internet', aka... [dramatic zoom on the sauces] ...the ''Sauce Boss''.

* RedBaron: In "Fast Food Sushi", Harley dubs himself the "Sauce Boss".

* FoodPorn: But not the kind of soft, loving and tender porn you're used to. No, this is the manly, bacon-filled, made-of-meat food porn...for you perverts out there.

* FriendToAllChildren: Harley, who draws the line at dead baby jokes and gives apple pie to kids.

* GingerbreadHouse: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUEpmbdZLw OF MEAT AND CHEEZ WHIZ]]! Merry Christmas."

--> '''Harley''': "For all you flub-sucking dark-gargling Tom Henry mother-father short-stains. This is a family restaurant."

* {{Hypocritical Humo|r}}[[CanadaEh u]][[HypocriticalHumor r]] - Harley calls the audience perverts for wanting to watch a girl eat the "Massive Meat Log" -- then the reverse angle shows him and all of his friends doing the exact same thing.

* LandSeaSky: "Air, Sea and Landsagna"

* MasochistsMeal: As tasty as a lot of these dishes look, consider their high fat content and calorie counts.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: They do for meat what [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] did for [[MemeticMutation potato chips]].

* MsFanservice: The girl from "[[DoubleEntendre Massive Meat Log]]":
--> '''Harley''': "We all know that no one wants to see a douchebag eat a corn-dog, so we brought a little girl in for all you perverts!"

* [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Bacon Pirate Zombie Bacon Robot -- Bacon Edition]]
** Lampshaded in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9cTjFFWow Mother's Day Special]]:
--> '''Harley''': "Some say we're the spawns of evil, meat-demon cyborgs. Well, we're not: we've got mother(caw!)ing moms...that are the spawns of evil, meat-demon cyborgs!"

* OncePerEpisode: "[[OnTheNext Next time]], we eat ''x''!" where ''x'' is something outlandish or impossible to eat.

--> "Next time we eat bacon. [[EvilLaugh Mweheheh]]."

--> "Next time, we eat ice cream." (Cue all the girls cheering)

--> "Next time, we eat sellouts. Next time, we eat while selling out. ({{Beat}}) Netflix.com/bacon."

--> "Next time, we eat. We have to, or we'll die."

* OverlyLongGag: Bacon in general.

--> '''Harley''': "Well I guess you can say that this is the "no-meat" episode...but don't you [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]ing say it."

** IHaveManyNames: Taken further in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUku7zAXVE Candy Sushi]]":
--> '''Harley''': "And we got these custom sauces, 'cause I'm the 'Doctor of Dressing', aka the 'Pharaoh of Flavour', aka the 'Minister of Mixture', aka the 'Connoisseur of Condiments', aka the 'Don of the Drippin', aka the 'Creator/JeffGoldblum of the Internet', aka... [dramatic zoom on the sauces] ...the ''Sauce Boss''.

* SelfDeprecation: Invoked in "Tequila Taco Night":
-->'''Harley''': "If you don't marinate your meat in a Ziploc bag, you think too highly of yourselves."

* SerialEscalation: It started with a dish that anyone could make, then other culinary mashups. As more episodes rolled in, the dishes involved long and complex preparation methods, vegetables and require an entire dinner table of people to finish.

* ShoutOut: [[WordOfGod According to the crew]], the Epic Meal Time logo is derived from the Series/{{Jackass}} logo. Naturally, Harley admits the show's really "Series/{{Jackass}} [[RecycledINSPACE in the kitchen]]".

* SoundEffectBleep: Nearly every curse word is censored via a crow's call. At least one instance of the word "vegetables" was censored, too.

* TheStoic: Aside from "Sugar Shack," Muscles Glasses will get in ''maybe'' two lines of dialogue during a couple episodes; most of the time he'll remain quite and/or communicate with strong glares at the camera.

* TakeThat: "What you doin'? Hatin'? '''STOP HATIN'!!!''' BLEND YOUR OWN BACON!!!"

--> "What'you know about health? "Salad"? '''[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] SALAD'''!!!"
--> "Epic Meal Time showing you how to make a ''real'' salad! [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] your lettuce!"
--> "Oh, you didn't know? [[NonSequitur Carrots are for]] [[DoubleEntendre ugly people]]!"

* {{Troll}}: Although the guys may band together to create an epic meal, there are certain times when one of them can't help but either insult, snark or outright jinx each other. In "The Ostrich Nest", for example, when Epic Mook starts dicing up some onions:
--> '''Cousin Dave''': "One of these days, I'm going to witness you lose a finger."
--> '''Epic Mook''': "Why?"
--> '''Cousin Dave''': "It's just going to happen."
--> '''Epic Mook''': "I'm very careful with this."
--> '''Cousin Dave''': "I know you are...but it'll happen."
--> [{{Beat}}]
--> '''Epic Mook''': "...Don't be a prick."

* VerbalTic: "Sauce" is (nowadays) always pronounced "SA-OOOS"

* XOnAStick: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT78iih9cws Epic Meal Sticks]]

* AffectionateParody: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBCWZue57M Vegan Meal Time]]", while containing no meat or animal products, has a vegan dish that can only be described as epic. Oh, and [[ShoutOut seaweed strips]].

** BackFromTheDead: Muscles Glasses
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Harley, after ordering a Baconator and fries in a Wendy's drive-thru, is told the drink would only be twenty cents more.
--> "Your drink will be?" "Fresca."

* BigDamnHeroes: At the start of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDxTNiCpWM Fast Food Meatloaf]]"

* BilingualBonus: The text on the title card of "Fast Food Sushi"[[note]]"ファストフードのお寿司ぶっかけ", which roughly translates to "Fast food sushi bukkake"[[/note]].

* BlatantLies: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdIT9A8g1v8 Bacon Bacon Truck]]", a girl "swears she's 21" before a group does some prison shots. After Harley (wisely) cards her, she leaves.

* CallBack: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrbv81SBHg Maximum Mac and Cheese]]" featured macaroni and cheese variants of no less than five previous dishes.

* CanadaEh: Muscles Glasses' dad is a lumberjack for crying out loud.

* CargoShip: Harley is more than a bit fascinated by the cinnamon roll that serves as the bun on the cinnaburger supreme; to quote: [[invoked]]
--> I'm genuinely aroused right now over this cinnamon roll. I wanna roleplay with it. I wanna do things in public with it. I wanna be in it, and I want it to be in me.
* CatchPhrase: "What'you know about ''x''?!"

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The two girls who were recurring characters on the show (beginning with "Massive Meat Log") haven't appeared in the videos anymore. "Fast Food Meatloaf" even had different girls play the roles that would normally be filled by them.

* CookingDuel: ''Epic Chef''.
* CoolShades: Harley in "Fast Food Pizza" and Muscles Glasses afterward.

* CrossOver: With [[Creator/FreddieWong Freddie]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew freddiew]]" [[Creator/FreddieWong Wong]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWPW8yJtgM Epic VFX Time]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayi_FUlsqX0 West Coast Burger Pile]]" (alongside WebVideo/CorridorDigital).

* CulturedBadass: Yes, Harley may spend most of his time hamming up new dinners in every possible sense of the word, but he also knows, on a scientific level, exactly why he does what he does with food, and exactly why that makes it taste better: humans are programmed by evolution to like fatty foods.

--> "Myth/{{C|lassicalMythology}}erberus, the tri-head that guards the underworld."

* DoubleEntendre: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxO3Y-wOrM Tequila Taco Night]]":
--> '''Harley''': "Taco night is when we lay some beef in a pink taco...drip some guacamole...make her sour cream..."

--> '''Harley''': "...we're gonna give your sweet tooth a sexual root canal."

--> '''Harley''': "Canucks love their Kraft Mac & Cheese...and bacon, and igloos, and maple and beavers. (Snicker) Maple beavers..."

--> '''Harley''': "Next time, we eat a cat burglar...or a pussy thief."

--> '''Harley''': "SA-OOOSAGES! Some are big, some are small. All of them are nice and juicy...not to sound gay or anything..."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Fast Food Pizza" sees Harley not nearly as hammy (or rehearsed); it's just him and Muscles Glasses (who doesn't even keep his signature shades on most of the time and actually talked) eating a pizza loaded with hamburgers, chicken wings, fries, etc.

-->'''Harley''': "Gosh, we used to be so damn polite. But the bacon made us crazy!! And by crazy, I mean smart!!"

* EroticEating: Played straight with the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzzx2OolfI Massive Meat Log]]".

* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Gluttony Has Standards]] - In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKpVz8hRcs The Ostrich Nest]]", Harley gives a saddened, gloomy expression due to the elephant birds of Madagascar being extinct.
** [[PragmaticVillainy Pragmatic Gluttony]] - Or perhaps he was simply ''disappointed'' that he couldn't eat an elephant bird egg ''because'' they're extinct?
*** Or perhaps he gave it because he ''IS'' the reason they went extinct.

* RatedMForManly[=/=]TestosteronePoisoning: Debatable on which trope the show really follows; regardless, both come along with clogged arteries.

-->--'''Harley Morenstein''', host, in ''The "Last Episode" of Epic Meal Time''.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Harley calls the viewers out on it in "Tex-Mex Indian", telling them to "wash all that penis off your hands".

* AwesomeMcCoolname: '''Muscles Glasses'''
** To a lesser extent, Cousin Dave's "Mean Muggin, the Egg Crackin' Kraken".
** Harley Mortenstein, aka [[NotThatKindOfDoctor the Doctor of Dressing]], aka [[AncientEgypt the Pharoah of Flavour]], aka [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet the Minister of Mixture]], aka [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty the Connoisseur of Condiments]], aka [[TheDon the Don of the Drippin']], aka the Creator/JeffGoldblum of [[OverlyLongGag the Internet]], [[IHaveManyNames aka]] [[FunetikAksent the Sawce Bawce]].