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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300:"We make your dreams come true, and then we eat them."]] |
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| 4 | ->''"This is Epic Meal Time: the only cooking show with no rules, no controls, no boundaries, no borders. And it's on every motherf*caw*ing Tuesday. It's been on every motherf*caw*ing Tuesday for the last five years, and it's gonna be on for the next five years. I promise you that. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Harley Morenstein''', host, in ''The "Last Episode" of Epic Meal Time''. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | So 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. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | With the audacity to call themselves an "online cooking show", the first efforts soon expanded into meat sculptures, questionable uses of bacon, "meat glue", [[TrademarkFavoriteFood bacon]] and ''five birds in a pig'' - and [[OverlyLongGag bacon]]. |
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| 11 | Their [[http://epicmealtime.com/ website]] is also live. They have made an appearance on [[Series/TheTonightShow Jay Leno]], where they made a shepherd's pie that was also a car. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ''Epic Chef'', a CookingDuel between two contestants who have their meals judged by Harley and two guest judges, premiered in December 2012. New episodes are posted every Friday in addition to the regular ''Epic Meal Time'' episodes every Tuesday. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | In addition to the above, Epic Meal Time's "online cooking show" status is now validated every Saturday with ''Handle It'', an instructional video series using the Epic Meal Time Sellout Kitchen Arsenal. Here, the Epic Meal Time crew teaches you the tricks of their trade with all of the classic character antics of the normal show. |
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| 17 | !!This series provides examples of: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: All the time: |
| 20 | ** "Epic Meal Time dessert eDItion." |
| 21 | ** "Bacon STRIPS." |
| 22 | ** "Jack Dagnel's [=SAU=]ce." |
| 23 | ** "Ahwahtup, [=McMuhfain=], MOUWN-TAIN!" |
| 24 | ** "[=SAU=]ce [=BAU=]ss" |
| 25 | * AffectionateParody: |
| 26 | ** "[[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]]. |
| 27 | ** ''WebVideo/RegularOrdinarySwedishMealTime'', which ups the LargeHam factor so much that it somehow makes Harley Morenstein and Co. look subdued and professional in comparison. |
| 28 | ** A team of mild-mannered Brits give us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQmXmHg1fE Pathetic Meal Time]]", a thorough de-hamming (only in the acting sense-- in terms of the meal created, they are indeed hamming it up) of EMT's brand. |
| 29 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJLL-DNu3P4 Epic Cupcake Time]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0JahhFkts Epic Pie Time]], which take the show and filter it through the lens of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]]. |
| 30 | ** [[WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange Annoying Orange]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9Pu6ixZ3o Epic Peel Time]]. |
| 31 | ** [[http://YouTube.com/CarpeClunes Carpe Clunes]] had his Norwegian [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWlqn1-enfA Episk Måltid]] which doubled by having bilingual edition involving [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q25D9n_8_6c thick Norwegian accents]]. |
| 32 | * AKA47: {{Lampshaded}} and averted by [=FPSRussia=]: |
| 33 | -->'''[=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]] |
| 34 | * TheAlcoholic: The guys cook with, and drink, plenty of booze while in the kitchen. Jack Daniels is one of their mainstays, particularly for Harley and Muscles Glasses. |
| 35 | * AlcoholHic: In "Breakfast of Booze": |
| 36 | --> '''Harley''': "Next time, we eat a ''cult''. ... *hic!*" |
| 37 | * AllThereInTheManual: The (nick)names of most of the cast are only seen on their respective Website/{{Facebook}}[=/=]Website/{{Twitter}} pages: |
| 38 | ** Sterling Toth, the cameraman (was with Harley on Leno). |
| 39 | ** Tyler Lemco, who ate the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCROpchUjQI Meatball Deathstar]]". |
| 40 | ** David "Cousin Dave" Heuff, who ate the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9iz3KVT0Y0 Epic Eggroll]]". Tends to eat with utensils. |
| 41 | ** Josh "Epic Mook" Elkin, who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB_vHVFM_8 tossed the meat salad]]. |
| 42 | ** Ameer "Prince Atari" Atari, who ate the second "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlN4Ho50abA Meat Car]]". |
| 43 | *** You had to go to Website/ThatOtherWiki to learn Muscles Glasses' real name: Alex Perrault. |
| 44 | * AlterEgoActing: In almost all appearances outside of the show, Harley seems to have the same attitude, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl0DNfRLyGg this video]] looks like the other appearances were simply his personality notched up to eleven to maintain the on-screen character. |
| 45 | * 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. |
| 46 | * AndADietCoke: During Harley and Sterling's appearance on The Jay Leno Show, they and Jay make a shepherd's pie together, during which Jay says, "You know what goes good with this? A Diet Coke." |
| 47 | * AnyoneCanDie: Muscles Glasses[[note]]It was a throwaway joke for an unused intro to "The Double Kill". It was revealed during the first Deleted Scenes video, and rumors took off from there, leading to his "reappearance" on "Maximum Protein Experience".[[/note]] |
| 48 | --> '''Harley''': "And, uh, we got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62f6_1Dn_Es some glasses]]...as a little commemoration to, uh, one of our lost members. He is dead now. No joke, he's actually dead." |
| 49 | %%** BackFromTheDead: Muscles Glasses |
| 50 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 51 | ** Harley, after ordering a Baconator and fries in a Wendy's drive-thru, is told the drink would only be twenty cents more. |
| 52 | ---> "Your drink will be?" "Fresca." |
| 53 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYffV7qhvTc 84 Egg Sandwich]]" ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and a blueberry muffin]]) |
| 54 | ** "Fast Food Lasagna" features them buying 15 [=McDonald's=] Big Macs, a liter of Big Mac Sauce, fifteen Wendy's Baconators, fifteen A&W Teen Burgers (no vegetables!), and four orders of onion rings...and an apple pie...make that four apple pies (Harley gave the apple pies to a mother for her kids). |
| 55 | * AscendedFanboy: Paolo, a student from Queen's University, emailed them asking for advice on how to do his own epic meal. The cast of Epic Meal Time road-tripped to Kingston, Ontario and cooked with him and his crew. |
| 56 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 57 | ** At the start of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDxTNiCpWM Fast Food Meatloaf]]" |
| 58 | ** Another time, just as Harley and the gang are cornered by zombie vegans, [[spoiler: Muscles Glasses comes in and saves the day.]] |
| 59 | * BigEater: |
| 60 | ** This shouldn't require an explanation. |
| 61 | ---> '''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!" |
| 62 | ** As one [=YouTuber=] said: "When these guys die, it will be from a heart attack that will take out half a block with them." |
| 63 | ** Completely subverted in "$1000 for French Toast." The gang cooks their smallest meal to date: a single oversized piece of French toast, using outrageously expensive ingredients that total $2,646. |
| 64 | * BigGuy: They are ALL very tall, but Muscles Glasses fits this trope the best due to his physique. |
| 65 | * BigNo: One of the crew in the background at the end of "The Sloppy Roethlisburger", when Harley slams his bottle of Jack Daniel's on the counter, causing the bottom to break and spill the contents. |
| 66 | * BilingualBonus: |
| 67 | ** 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]]. |
| 68 | ** Extra points if you know what bukkake means. |
| 69 | ** In "Epic Indian Experience", the waiter translates Harley's description of the dishes. |
| 70 | * BlatantLies: |
| 71 | ** 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. |
| 72 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DdIT9A8g1v8#t=324s She sneaks back into the huddle]] after taking off her noticeable red hoodie and letting down her hair. "(caw!)in' smart", indeed. |
| 73 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: From Candy Taco Night: |
| 74 | -->'''Harley:''' Epic Meal Time reminding you to keep your teeth clean, stay in school, keep off drugs and murder all your enemies. I murder all my enemies. |
| 75 | * BreakoutCharacter: Muscles Glasses. As if it wasn't apparent in the videos, he's the only cast member in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJsDAap4a0 WebVideo/EpicMealTime LIVE]]" to receive ''his own introduction sequence''. |
| 76 | * BrickJoke: "Candy BBQ" begins with "Call up your dentist! Tell him he's a little bitch!" Roughly eight months later, in "Candy Taco Night", Harley drops the line "Call up your dentist! You probably owe him an apology." |
| 77 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumaazVb0pM The World's Spiciest Burger (Valentines Day 2018)]]. He came up with a bite-for-bite challenge (they made two). Prince Atari can't handle more than two or three. Harley managed to finish all of his, but at a price; at one point it shows his eyes sullen and sunken, and parts of his face have turned ''purple'' from the spice. |
| 78 | * BucketHelmet : One person wears one in "Air, Sea and Landsagna". |
| 79 | * CallBack: |
| 80 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrbv81SBHg Maximum Mac and Cheese]]" featured macaroni and cheese variants of no less than five previous dishes. |
| 81 | ** "Meat Cthulhu" not only brought back Music/{{deadmau5}}, but the episode used the song "Cthulhu Sleeps", one of two songs previously used in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJgcEgvx4U Cheesy Grilled Cheese Tower]]". |
| 82 | ** To mark their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqhVhlEzZbw one-year anniversary]], the guys bought over 150 White Castle hamburgers and used it as pizza toppings to create a "Fast Food Pizza Cake", just like their first meal "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz2SxGNy-Mw Fast Food Pizza]]", except bigger and using new cooking tricks they learned over the year, such as deep-frying and bacon weaves. |
| 83 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA Turbaconepicentipede]]. Just like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ TurBaconEpic]], except ten of them...[[Film/TheHumanCentipede sewn anus to mouth]]. |
| 84 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKkWrczlcng WE GETTIN' DRUNK OFF CEREAL!]]" |
| 85 | ** "Rest in Pizza," the 2014 Halloween episode, features the guys cooking miniature versions of 10 of their earliest meals. |
| 86 | ** "Candy Taco Night" heralds the creation of a candy burrito with "el gigante!", exactly how it was used in "Tequila Taco Night". |
| 87 | ** "Tex-Mex Indian" mentions the line "Call up your plumber. Tell him he's a little bitch." in another reference to "Candy BBQ." |
| 88 | * CargoShip: Harley is more than a bit fascinated by the cinnamon roll that serves as the bun on the cinnaburger supreme; to quote: [[invoked]] |
| 89 | --> 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. |
| 90 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 91 | ** "What'you know about ''x''?!" |
| 92 | ** "[[TheStinger Next time]], [[EveryEpisodeEnding we eat]] ''[[TheStinger x]]''". |
| 93 | ** "Next level ''x'' maneuver/technique!" |
| 94 | ** "[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]ing SMART!" |
| 95 | ** "Ah, what up, ''x''?!" |
| 96 | *** "Haters" and variants usually gets injected at random intervals. |
| 97 | ** "Drip-drop drippin'!" |
| 98 | *** "Drippin' that [X]!" |
| 99 | ** "You wanna [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] this or what?!" |
| 100 | ** "Fingering/Fisting those chicks [eggs]." |
| 101 | ** "...and then you put it in the oven, and then you win!" |
| 102 | ** "Website/YouTube money!" |
| 103 | ** More recently: "''Epic Meal Time'' online cooking show every Tuesday!" (said by Harley to start each episode, once the gang is in the kitchen). |
| 104 | ** "Gosh, we used to be so polite, but the bacon made us crazy!" |
| 105 | ** "Mother maple tree tit syrup!" |
| 106 | ** From ''Handle It'', "Remember, you don't need to know [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] about cooking, to know how to cook. You just need to know how to X." |
| 107 | ** ...and bacon strings, and bacon strips, and bacon strips, and bacon strips. |
| 108 | * ChainsawGood: |
| 109 | ** Harley uses one in "Meatball Deathstar": |
| 110 | ---> '''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!!!''' |
| 111 | ** Another one is used in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcdkRxJcLrI Meat Shield]]" against a dummy dressed in bacon, pot roast, pepperoni and ribs. |
| 112 | * ChewingTheScenery: 100% chewy monologue. SPREAD THAT SAUUUUZZE! |
| 113 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: |
| 114 | ** 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. |
| 115 | ** And then one of them (later revealed to be named Sarah, who has her own Twitter page) returned in the "Angry French Onion Soup" episode. This was also one of Muscles Glasses's last episodes. |
| 116 | *** [[TheBusCameBack He returned]] [[NoodleIncident after being at the gym for 2 months]]. [[JustifiedTrope Given that his last episode before this he drank]] [[BingeMontage many,]] MANY bottles of liquor [[SerialEscalation (in addition to the booze he drank in previous episodes]], and eating more than the rest of the cast), he probably needed to rest before destroying his liver. |
| 117 | ** Tyler left the show too as of 2013, [[http://newmediarockstars.com/2013/08/former-members-of-epic-meal-time-cite-poor-treatment-and-broken-promises-as-reasons-for-leaving/ due to an argument.]] |
| 118 | %%* CausticCritic: Every judge on ''Epic Chef''. |
| 119 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Arguably, Tyler; Prince Atari has shades of this, too, depending on the episode. |
| 120 | * TheComicallySerious: Cousin Dave, who uses utensils to eat as calm and composed as possible, while the rest of the guys just gorge themselves with the food. |
| 121 | %%* CookingDuel: ''Epic Chef''. |
| 122 | * CoolShades: |
| 123 | ** Harley in "Fast Food Pizza" and Muscles Glasses afterward. |
| 124 | ** The chefs and the waiter in "Epic Indian Experience". |
| 125 | * CordonBleughChef |
| 126 | %%* CostumePorn: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mDKBzTZwk&feature=g-all-u Steampunk Meal Time]] |
| 127 | * CrossOver: |
| 128 | ** 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). |
| 129 | ** With DJ/producer Music/{{deadmau5}} in "Cheesy Grilled Cheese Tower" and "Meat Cthulhu". |
| 130 | ** With synthpop singer/songwriter Music/{{Lights}} in "Fast Food Meatloaf". |
| 131 | ** With Creator/FPSRussia in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMyPD1VKk60 Russian Meal Time]]", "Meat Shield", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpttwk4-FA Meat Ice Cream Party (Russian Meal Time Part 2)]]." (He also has a non-speaking role in "Crispy Tauntaun") |
| 132 | ** With professional skateboarder Tony Hawk in "Fast Food Pizza Cake". |
| 133 | ** With the ''WebVideo/{{SMOSH}}'' duo in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2MUYs9mw9o Super Pastry Cake]]". |
| 134 | ** No fewer than six Youtube celebrities in "Turbaconepicentipede", both recurring and newcomers. |
| 135 | ** With the ''[[WebVideo/{{React}} Kids React]]'' cast in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X66_tkXMQM Happy Meal Time]]". |
| 136 | ** With Creator/GabrielIglesias in "Fast Food Fluffy Cake." |
| 137 | ** With Chris Hardwick (The Nerdist Channel) in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVX0YR0ri2A Crispy Tauntaun.]]" |
| 138 | ** With ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' in "Meat America." |
| 139 | ** With the League of STEAM in "Steampunk Meal Time." |
| 140 | ** With [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Oliver Jamie Oliver]] in "Fish and Chips Filet." |
| 141 | ** With Creator/KevinSmith in "The Burly Beaver Sandwich." |
| 142 | ** With Creator/StanLee in "Fastfood Scarecrow." |
| 143 | ** With Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in "The Steak & Egger Sandwich" and "Kaiserschwarzenegger Protein Tank." |
| 144 | ** With Jay Leno in "The Pouter Toolbox." |
| 145 | ** With the Series/TrailerParkBoys ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Randy]]) in "The Trailer Park Sandwich". |
| 146 | ** With Creator/SethRogen and Creator/JamesFranco in "Korean BBQ Lasagna." |
| 147 | ** With the fathers of Harley, Cousin Dave, and Epic Mook in "Daddy Meal Time." |
| 148 | ** With ''Cutthroat Kitchen'': Epic Mook (billed under his real name) appeared in the November 2015 "Superstar Sabotage" charity tournament. He went out in the first round, but won $2,500 for his charity, Autism Speaks. |
| 149 | *** He has also served as a regular judge on ''Cooks vs. Cons'', another Food Network competition show. |
| 150 | ** With ''Series/Chopped'': Prince Atari (also billed under his real name) appeared on an October 2016 episode that featured stars of online cooking shows. He was eliminated in the Appetizer round. |
| 151 | * CrowdSong: In "[=EpicMealTime=] LIVE": |
| 152 | --> '''Harley''': "When I say "Muscles", you say "Glasses! '''MUSCLES'''!!"\ |
| 153 | '''Crowd''': "'''GLASSES'''!!!"\ |
| 154 | '''Harley''': "'''MUSCLES'''!!!"\ |
| 155 | '''Crowd''': "'''GLASSES'''!!!" |
| 156 | * CulturedBadass: |
| 157 | ** 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. |
| 158 | ** From "Puzzle Of The Lambs": |
| 159 | ---> "Myth/{{C|lassicalMythology}}erberus, the tri-head that guards the underworld." |
| 160 | %%* DeepFriedWhatever: Especially in beer batter. |
| 161 | %%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "Meat Cthulhu" |
| 162 | * DoubleEntendre: |
| 163 | ** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxO3Y-wOrM Tequila Taco Night]]": |
| 164 | ---> '''Harley''': "Taco night is when we lay some beef in a pink taco...drip some guacamole...make her sour cream..." |
| 165 | ** Also in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1_04GLrPs Candy BBQ]]": |
| 166 | ---> '''Harley''': "...we're gonna give your sweet tooth a sexual root canal." |
| 167 | ** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_n2ZHbbtRg Sausage Fest]]": |
| 168 | ---> '''Harley''': "Canucks love their Kraft Mac & Cheese...and bacon, and igloos, and maple and beavers. (Snicker) Maple beavers..." |
| 169 | ** At TheStinger for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKb1IeovH60 Bacon Tree]]": |
| 170 | ---> '''Harley''': "Next time, we eat a cat burglar...or a pussy thief." |
| 171 | ** Played straight at first in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYhDthbBrrU Meatzza]]", but then subverted at the last second: |
| 172 | ---> '''Harley''': "SA-OOOSAGES! Some are big, some are small. All of them are nice and juicy...not to sound gay or anything..." |
| 173 | * DrugsAreBad: In "Sausage Fest", while making eggs, Harley states they're "Crackin' eggs like we crack smoke." He then suggests "Smoke crack?", but immediately answers "No, that's bad." |
| 174 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 175 | ** "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. |
| 176 | ** Lampshaded in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HahGxIMlNFM Candy Poutine]]" with a CallBack to the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQX2kC1jUB8 Angry French Canadian]]" (which had poutine): |
| 177 | --->'''Harley''': "Gosh, we used to be so damn polite. But the bacon made us crazy!! And by crazy, I mean smart!!" |
| 178 | ** Even moreso in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_AqTuKBIA Triple Baconator Video]], made three years prior to the series, showing a skinny![[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Harley eating a triple Baconator]], somewhat politely set to Film/TheTerminator theme. |
| 179 | * EroticEating: |
| 180 | ** Played straight with the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzzx2OolfI Massive Meat Log]]". |
| 181 | ** And again with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKcl0Qg13o The Black Legend]]". |
| 182 | ** Combined with SpaghettiKiss in "Tequila Taco Night", where [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two girls]] share a strip of bacon. |
| 183 | ** Exaggerated in "Maximum Mac and Cheese" with no fewer than ''sixteen'' young attractive women participating in a massive banquet of over-the-top macaroni dishes. |
| 184 | ** Played for laughs in the second deleted scenes video, where Harley strokes and kisses the Sloppy Roethlisburger. |
| 185 | ** "Sausage Fest" |
| 186 | ** [[LateArrivalSpoiler And, naturally, there is no lack of male erotic eating]]. |
| 187 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: 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. |
| 188 | * EveryoneIsArmed: Played with: Muscles Glasses makes mashed potatoes while holding a submachine gun. |
| 189 | * EverythingsDeaderWithZombies[=/=]ZombieApocalypse - Whichever trope "Zombie Meal Time" falls under depends on how you look at it: within the context of the episode, it appears to be the latter full-blown. However, when taking this episode in the context of the whole series, it's merely an example of the former. |
| 190 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Though it's only limited to the "next time, we eat x" stinger at the end of each episode, where x usually isn't an edible object (see "The Sloppy Roethliesberger"'s "next time, we eat Cabbage Patch Kids", or sometimes even physically exist ("Tex-Mex Indian"'s "next time, we eat thug life"). |
| 191 | * FailedASpotCheck: In "Fast Food Dim Sum," the guys don't even notice that Harely dyed his hair and beard blonde. |
| 192 | * {{Fanservice}}: You like to watch girls eating? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzzx2OolfI You]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXjxHQQxcLw do]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKcl0Qg13o now]]. Straight female vorehounds? This is your mecca. |
| 193 | * FlatWhat: The usual response from fast-food outlets from whom they order in bulk in the drive-thru. There's no way that listening to their confusion ''wouldn't'' be the best bit of doing ''Epic Meal Time''. |
| 194 | * FoodPorn: |
| 195 | ** 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. |
| 196 | ** Note that one of the men is a trained chef. Think about that for a while. |
| 197 | ** In "Ultimate Pizza Sandwich", Epic Mook takes it a bit too seriously, and suggests he's going to use a freshly-microwaved pizza pocket in place of a Fleshlight. |
| 198 | * FriendToAllChildren: |
| 199 | ** Harley, who draws the line at dead baby jokes and gives apple pie to kids. |
| 200 | ** Just as an FYI, the man used to be a middle school social studies teacher. |
| 201 | * FunWithHomophones: One episode ends with Harley saying they'll eat a tire/attire, only specifying the other won't be eaten. |
| 202 | %%* FunWithSubtitles: On the title card for most episodes. |
| 203 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: During ''Peanut Butter and Jelly Archetype'', there's a sequence where Harley shows all of the food they've made for the episode, complete with calories counters. While he's doing this, Muscles Glasses is standing right next to him, eating from a jar of Nutella in his pocket with a mixing spoon. |
| 204 | * GiantFood: Every now and then they make a huge version of something, usually a burger. Then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLYGM1MtMw Mega Oreo]]. |
| 205 | * GingerbreadHouse: |
| 206 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUEpmbdZLw OF MEAT AND CHEEZ WHIZ]]! Merry Christmas." |
| 207 | ** There's also the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgCE8ohwDs Candy Castle]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-dyHWrM-Qk Breakfast Log Cabin]]. |
| 208 | * AGodAmI: Invoked in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGw5ip2EokY Puzzle of the Lambs]]", where they play God and make a "[[EldritchAbomination culinary abomination]]". |
| 209 | * GoshDangItToHeck: Lampshaded in "Maximum Mac and Cheese": |
| 210 | --> '''Harley''': "For all you flub-sucking dark-gargling Tom Henry mother-father short-stains. This is a family restaurant." |
| 211 | * GrossOutShow: Some people may be disgusted by what they serve up. Viewers beware. |
| 212 | * HilariousOuttakes: Five collections of outtakes have been released so far, but one scene was included as [[TheStinger a stinger]]: |
| 213 | -->'''Harley''': Changin' the game!\ |
| 214 | ''(Harley slaps down a bottle of Jack Daniels...which is accompanied by a crack.)''\ |
| 215 | '''Off-camera voice''': ''(as booze starts leaking)'' [[OhCrap OHHH!]]\ |
| 216 | ''(Harley picks up the bottle, just as the bottom of the bottle falls out.)''\ |
| 217 | '''Harley''': Oh ''([[SoundEffectBleep caw!]])''...\ |
| 218 | '''Off-camera voice''': [[BigNo NOOOOO!]] |
| 219 | * 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]]." |
| 220 | %%* HotBlooded: The beginning of "Candy Pizza" confirms Harley as this. |
| 221 | * HypocriticalHumor: 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. |
| 222 | * IdeaBulb: "Breakfast Pizza" starts with Harley getting out a frozen pizza for breakfast, then seeing a more traditional plate of breakfast food on the kitchen island. He compares them, then a bulb appears and illuminates over his head. Tyler promptly notices and lampshades it. The scene provides the trope's page quote. |
| 223 | -->'''Tyler:''' Harley? What the (''[[SoundEffectBleep caw]]'') is that? |
| 224 | * IHaveManyNames: Taken further in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUku7zAXVE Candy Sushi]]": |
| 225 | --> '''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''. |
| 226 | * ILikeMyXLikeILikeMyY: Harley likes his cheddar like he likes his women; old and oily. He laters corrects his statement, saying he likes them hot and wrapped in bacon. |
| 227 | * ImprovisedClothes: A bacon bikini in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tew4MAepQso Gentleman's Episode]]". |
| 228 | * InsistentTerminology: How Harley justifies the ProductPlacement during the meals: "We didn't sell out--''they'' bought ''in''." |
| 229 | * InsultBackfire: Their official website links to a lambasting from [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]] in their About section, indicating they may be proud of having pissed them off. |
| 230 | * JabbaTableManners: Usually when they eat their creations, they tear off chunks with their bare hands and wolf it down with crumbs falling right off the food. |
| 231 | * KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Alex "Muscles Glasses" Perrault |
| 232 | %%* LandSeaSky: "Air, Sea and Landsagna" |
| 233 | * LargeHam: Harley's one and he [[{{Pun}} proceeds to cook truckloads]]. |
| 234 | * {{Malaproper}}: Harley opens with one in "Tequila Taco Night": |
| 235 | --> '''Harley''': "I've been sippin' on that green and smokin' that liquor all day." |
| 236 | * LongList: In the ''Pizza Plane'' episode, Harley goes into a long list of all the pizza related episodes they've done over the years. |
| 237 | * MaleGaze: There's a lot of cleavage in "The Black Legend". |
| 238 | * MasochistsMeal: |
| 239 | ** As tasty as a lot of these dishes look, consider their high fat content and calorie counts. |
| 240 | ** Also in "Maximum Mac and Cheese" and "Sausage Fest". |
| 241 | * MathematiciansAnswer: In "Meat Building 101", Paolo asks Tyler what kind of meat they used to build the Slaughterhouse. Tyler stumbles over his answer, but essentially tells him, "[[HowManyAllOfThem All of the meat]]." |
| 242 | * MooseAndMapleSyrup: |
| 243 | ** Muscles Glasses' dad is a lumberjack for crying out loud. |
| 244 | ** MistakenNationality: More than a few first time viewers assume the cast are American. No guesses as to why. |
| 245 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: |
| 246 | ** They do for meat what [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] did for [[MemeticMutation potato chips]]. |
| 247 | ** In Discount Meal Time, Muscles Glasses gets into a rap battle. Instead of his own counter rap...he just gives him the finger and everyone loses their minds like he just gave the biggest diss ever! |
| 248 | * MsFanservice: |
| 249 | ** The girl from "[[DoubleEntendre Massive Meat Log]]": |
| 250 | ---> '''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!" |
| 251 | ** They use another girl for "Fast Food Sushi"; they ''both'' come back for "The Black Legend". |
| 252 | ** They, plus a horde of other hot girls, appear in "Maximum Mac and Cheese", "Drunken Mess" and "Sausage Fest". |
| 253 | ** "Fast Food Meatloaf" starts off with the boys "rescuing" a trio of {{Ms Fanservice}}s (including Music/{{Lights}}) from some "[[UsefulNotes/McDonalds hamburglers]]". |
| 254 | %%* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Lampshaded in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9cTjFFWow Mother's Day Special]]: |
| 255 | %%--> '''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!" |
| 256 | * NeckLift: Muscles Glasses to two thieving thugs in "Fast Food Meatloaf". |
| 257 | * NobleWolf: Muscles Glasses' father has a pet wolf...who loves bacon. Beacon is a pleasure that crosses species boundaries. |
| 258 | * NonSequitur |
| 259 | ** "SUSHI! FAST FOOD! SEX!" |
| 260 | ** "'''WE 'BOUT TO GET DRUNK OFF PANCAKES!!!'''" |
| 261 | ** "We're about to die for this. What'you know about dyin'?" |
| 262 | ** "What up, meat sauce?" |
| 263 | * NotTheIntendedUse: In "$1000 for French Toast," they make one piece of French toast and serve it on an Apple iPad Pro instead of a plate. |
| 264 | * NutritionalNightmare: They live off this trope, routinely cooking gigantic dishes with tens (sometimes hundreds) of thousands of calories and thousands of grams of fat. Expect to see a lot of bacon in their meals. |
| 265 | * ObjectCeilingCling: In the "Mac Burgers" Handle It video Epic Mook throws a handful of macaroni onto the ceiling in a variation on the "if your pasta sticks to the wall it's ready" cooking trope. |
| 266 | * OncePerEpisode: |
| 267 | ** "[[OnTheNext Next time]], we eat ''x''!" where ''x'' is something outlandish or impossible to eat. |
| 268 | ** Subverted in "The Slaughterhouse": "Next time, we eat ''dessert''!" Sure enough, the following week was "The Black Legend": two girls eating a gigantic crepe. |
| 269 | ** Also subverted in "Epic H'our D'oeuvres": |
| 270 | ---> "Next time we eat bacon. [[EvilLaugh Mweheheh]]." |
| 271 | ** [[RuleofThree Yet another subversion]] for "Sausage Fest": |
| 272 | ---> "Next time, we eat ice cream." (Cue all the girls cheering) |
| 273 | ** In "12 Gauge Hot Dog", Harley says "Next time, we eat blood!" and in the next video, "Zombie Meal Time", Muscles Glasses takes a shot of Jack Daniels and blood. |
| 274 | ** Averted in the first video, which ends with Muscles Glasses (sans glasses) raising his arms in the air triumphantly after eating. |
| 275 | ** At the end of French Fry Salad: |
| 276 | ---> "Next time, we eat sellouts. Next time, we eat while selling out. ({{Beat}}) Netflix.com/bacon." |
| 277 | ** Subverted in "Candy Sushi": |
| 278 | ---> "Next time, we eat. We have to, or we'll die." |
| 279 | * OutOfFocus: Muscles Glasses drops out of sight for several episodes (March-May 2012). Harley and the gang mention him in passing, and he is briefly seen hitchhiking along a back road. They offer up a sacrifice to prepare for his return ("Fastfood Sacrifice"), then cook him a bacon-stuffed cheeseburger after he shows up and helps them defeat a gang of vegan zombies ("Zombie Vegan Attack!"/"Boss Bacon Burger"). |
| 280 | %%* OverlyLongGag: Bacon in general. |
| 281 | * PetTheDog: Harley and his crew are vulgar, crude, and gluttonous but they and their fellow [=YouTube=] celebrities helped people out in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hOtanUz7w&feature=plcp# Soup Kitchen]] |
| 282 | * PistolWhipping: Harley, Muscles Glasses and [=FPSRussia=] take turns tenderizing meat, the latter using a Desert Eagle to do it. |
| 283 | * PrecisionFStrike: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7Ogcc67gY Spam Fries Four Loko]]", Cousin Dave shouts one out when someone tells him there's an automatic can opener after he finishes opening a couple of canned goods with a manual can opener. |
| 284 | * ProductPlacement: For Hormel Black Label bacon. All the time. At least they're honest about it. |
| 285 | * ARareSentence: During Epic Christmas Carol: |
| 286 | --> '''Harley''': "Ain’t no surprises here, we throw in more bacon, but we don’t wanna compromise the whole integrity of this rice crispy snowman. Now that’s a sentence I can guarantee no other human being has said except for me just now." |
| 287 | * RealMenEatMeat |
| 288 | ** Subverted for {{Fanservice}} instead in "Massive Meat Log". |
| 289 | ** Invoked in "Sugar Shack" by Muscles Glasses' lumberjack father. |
| 290 | ** Totally averted with "Candy BBQ" and "Candy Poutine". |
| 291 | ---> '''Harley''': "Well I guess you can say that this is the "no-meat" episode...but don't you [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]ing say it." |
| 292 | * {{Recut}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qDwK-kUY40 The Director's Cut of "Zombie Meal Time"]], one of the most controversial episodes gets a brand new opening, the cooking narration absent in the original, new scenes of the guys talking while in makeup and is streamlined from 7.5 minutes to 4 minutes. |
| 293 | * RedBaron: |
| 294 | ** In "Fast Food Sushi", Harley dubs himself the "Sauce Boss". |
| 295 | ** And in Fast Food Shepherds' Pie, he refers to himself as the "Shepherd of [[MultipleReferencePun Grease/Greece]]." |
| 296 | * RefugeInAudacity |
| 297 | ** All of them, really, but it doesn't get much more audacious than [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ putting five birds into a pig]]. Then they crank it up and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA ten times more]]. |
| 298 | ** The "gay bacon strips" were taken to their logical conclusion in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDwvqrSi92Q Candy Pizza]] episode. |
| 299 | --->'''Harley:''' Whaddup, playa? In the kitchen, no candy missin'! We got gay bacon strips. We got gay sour worms.[[note]]gummi worms in the same neon rainbow coloring as "gay bacon strips"[[/note]] We got candy [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] rings.[[note]]just gummi [=LifeSavers=][[/note]] And we got some candy fruit! Not a big deal. *deep inhale* Smell that? We've got real bacon, too! And we candied it! |
| 300 | * RelaxOVision: "Fast Food Fondue Mixology" features "Your Weekly Bacon Moment," set to soft music while Harley talks quietly. |
| 301 | * ResetButton: Happens during "Dirt Pie." Harley and the gang show up neatly dressed in golf shirts and khakis and cook a vegetarian dish of rice and soy-based meat substitutes. When he throws the whole thing in the trash, they revert to their normal slovenly selves and proceed to cook and eat a massive "Meat Block." The reset is lampshaded with a second title card. |
| 302 | * RousingSpeech: Most of the video intros; take "84 Egg Sandwich" for example: |
| 303 | -->'''Harley''': "Oh, you wanna change the game? Well, if you wanna change the game, you gotta stay ahead of it! And how do you do that? You eat a well-balanced [[VerbalTic brookfast]] of eggs, bacon, sandwiches and '''''liquor'''''! Rise and shine, you tired-ass mother[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]s." |
| 304 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 305 | ** Invoked in "Tequila Taco Night": |
| 306 | --->'''Harley''': "If you don't marinate your meat in a Ziploc bag, you think too highly of yourselves." |
| 307 | ** And again, when Harley (in [[PaperThinDisguise disguise]]) appears on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i7h-0lQkVI an episode of]] ''The Gentlemen's Rant'' about Epic Meal Time. |
| 308 | * SerialEscalation: |
| 309 | ** 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. |
| 310 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCxFn3sAw68 Then they broke the 100,000 calorie barrier]]. |
| 311 | *** "And because we're (caw!)ed up, we garnished the whole thing with Baconators!" |
| 312 | ** "French Fry Week": during the week of October 3, 2011, the guys released one episode per day with french fries as the central ingredient. They ended off the week with a 15-pound poutine. |
| 313 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA Turbaconepicentipede]]": the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ TurBacon Epic Thanksgiving]]" times ten, for a grand total of '''802,420 calories'''. |
| 314 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzuQTppd66E The Million Calorie Lasagna]]" finally eclipses the one million calorie marker. So dense and heavy that it takes 5 guys to carry it to the standing oven. |
| 315 | * SeriousBusiness: The one time they ''don't'' drink alcohol is "Maximum Protein Experience", which is (vaguely) themed on staying in shape, and filmed in a gym. Doesn't stop them from [[WorldOfHam hamming it up]], and using lots of bacon strips and bacon strips [[OverlyLongGag and bacon strips...]] |
| 316 | %%* SharpDressedMan: The whole cast in "The Gentleman's Episode". |
| 317 | * ShoutOut: |
| 318 | ** [[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]]". |
| 319 | ** Massive Meat Log: "We took a break out of destroying noobs on ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' to destroy your arteries on Youtube." |
| 320 | ** [[Franchise/StarWars Meatball Deathstar]] |
| 321 | *** Harley: "Next time, we eat Creator/KevinBacon!" |
| 322 | ** Slaughterhouse: They made a Meat Boy. However, on the fat and calorie counter it's listed as...a [[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]. |
| 323 | ** The Black Legend: [[ShockSite 2 girls, 1 crepe]] |
| 324 | ** Epic Eggroll: "General Tao. [[http://www.kfc.ca/ Colonel Sanders]], salute your chicken superior." |
| 325 | ** Meat Salad: "[[http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Cooking Without]] [[{{NGO}} Borders]]...unless those borders are bacon." |
| 326 | ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roethlisberger The Sloppy Roethlisberger]] |
| 327 | *** Harley: "Next time, we eat Toys/CabbagePatchKids!" |
| 328 | ** Tequila Taco Night: "Next time, we eat [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki's]] [[SoundEffectBleep (meow~)]]." |
| 329 | ** Deleted Scenes 1: "Rap shows! Fur coats! Raccoons! Glasses! Video games! Pulls! Metal! Wood! [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Heart!]]" |
| 330 | ** Maximum Protein Experience: When Muscles Glasses "rejoins" the crew, he does the Film/{{Predator}} handshake. |
| 331 | ** [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Puzzle of the Lambs]]: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_Chop%27s_Play-Along Lamb Chops Slay-A-Long]] |
| 332 | *** Look closely at what's [[VideoGame/RavingRabbids standing in front of the microwave]] when Muscles Glasses takes a swig of Jack Daniels mixed with a bacon-flavored drink tab. |
| 333 | ** Maximum Mac and Cheese: One of the two guys in the beginning of the episode [[Film/DirtyWork presses "G8" on the jukebox, when he meant to press "G7"]]. |
| 334 | ** Cheesy Grilled Cheese Tower: Now that's a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda familiar looking shield and sword]] mounted on the wall... |
| 335 | ** Candy BBQ: "[[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Hater, you're Augustus Gloop. Call us Willy Wonka when we temper that chocolate]]." |
| 336 | *** 100-Pound Chocolate Bar: "Augustus Gloop is turning over in his grave! Wait, is that little bastard even dead? He's so fat..." |
| 337 | ** [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle Soup]] |
| 338 | ** Fast Food Meatloaf: Prince Atari swings around an [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Energy Sword]] in one of the cutaway gags. Music/{{Lights}} even uses it to cut the meatloaf. |
| 339 | *** Music/{{Lights}}: "STOP!! [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds HAMBURGLER]]!!!" |
| 340 | ** Epic Stockyard Burger: "Next time, we eat the [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Cosmic Cube]]." |
| 341 | ** Russian Meal Time: "Camouflaging our bacon from thermal vision. Ain't you seen Film/{{Predator}}?" |
| 342 | *** Harley: "Epic Meal Time ain't Epic Meal Time unless we drizzle all over it, am I right, [[Website/YouTube Cosmic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda Panda]]?" |
| 343 | *** Harley: "Look at that, WebVideo/ShaneDawson!" |
| 344 | ** [=EpicMealTime=] LIVE: "What up now, Creator/StanLee?" |
| 345 | ** Ostrich Nest: "An Ostrich Nest ain't an Ostrich Nest without ostrich meat, am I right, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]]?" |
| 346 | ** [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Meat Shield]] |
| 347 | ** Sausage Fest: "[[Film/CrocodileDundee THIS is a knife]]!" |
| 348 | *** Prince Atari: "[[VideoGame/KillerInstinct C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER]]!!!" |
| 349 | ** West Coast Burger Pile: "Dont drink the [[Music/LimpBizkit hot dog-flavored Jack Daniels, you chocolate starfish]]!" |
| 350 | ** [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Meat Cthulhu]]: [[Music/{{deadmau5}} Meatmare5]] |
| 351 | ** Super Pastry Cake: Big pile of WebVideo/{{smosh}} |
| 352 | ** [[Film/TheHumanCentipede Turbaconepicentipede]] |
| 353 | *** If you listen carefully during the episode, you can hear Prince Atari make some "[[MemeticMutation nom nom nom]]" sounds when they make a [=TurBaconEpic=]. |
| 354 | ** Meat Garden: "Next time, we eat [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls skooma]]!" |
| 355 | ** Harvey dresses up as Buzz Lightyear in a Halloween video. |
| 356 | ** Shart Week: Shark Week |
| 357 | ** Filthy Reuben: Shart Week Day 4: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Friendship...Friendship....Friendship]]. |
| 358 | ** They had two episodes dedicated to X-COM and Assassin's Creed. |
| 359 | ** Frakenpig: [[Series/AreYouAfraidoftheDark "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Bacon Society..."]] |
| 360 | ** Hot Dog Casserole ends with Harley acting like [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mister Rogers]]. |
| 361 | ** Fish and Chips Filet: "The bacon has landed on the strip; [[Franchise/StarWars execute order 66.]]" |
| 362 | ** Ultimate Club Sandwich: "Take a look at [[SoundEffectBleep (caw)]]in' [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Doctor Wily]] and Doctor Doom doing (caw) in the kitchen." |
| 363 | ** 11-Layer Megaton Dip: "Next time, we eat [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos the Necronomicon]]." |
| 364 | %%* SophisticatedAsHell: "Here at Epic Meal Time, we value presentation, ''bitch''." |
| 365 | * SoundEffectBleep: |
| 366 | ** Nearly every curse word is censored via a crow's call. At least one instance of the word "vegetables" was censored, too. |
| 367 | ** If you listen carefully in certain episodes, they do forget to edit out some curse words. |
| 368 | ** Averted in the first half of "[=EpicMealTime=] LIVE". |
| 369 | ** Their episode with the Trailer Park Boys has the EMT crew still bleeped while Julian, Ricky, Bubbles and Randy are uncensored. |
| 370 | ** SpentShellsShower: Sort of. [=FPSRussia=] dribbles bullets out of his mouth at the end. |
| 371 | * StandardHeroReward: Parodied in "Fast Food Meatloaf": |
| 372 | --> '''Lights''': "Holy crap, my burgers! How can I ever repay you?"\ |
| 373 | '''Harley''': "I dunno...maybe [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]ing share with us, you greedy [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches]]?" |
| 374 | * SuperNotDrowningSkills: Tyler at the beginning of "New Years Hangover Cure" |
| 375 | * SwissArmyGun: Harley uses a rifle + bayonet as a skewer for around half a dozen hamburgers. |
| 376 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: The (intangible) thing that the guys run off of. [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Tea Gardner]] would be very pleased indeed. |
| 377 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Epic Meal Empire television show adds a girl named Natalie to the cast. Officially her purpose is to track down clients for the guys to make epic meals for, but certain scenes make it fairly obvious that she's only there because ExecutiveMeddling demanded that [[TokenMinority the main cast include a female]]. |
| 378 | * TheStoic: |
| 379 | ** 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. |
| 380 | ** Well that, or the universal language of [[FlippingTheBird the middle finger]]. |
| 381 | * SwissArmyAppendage: Played with in "Russian Meal Time": |
| 382 | --> '''Harley''': "Muscles Glasses has a detachable penis, that also happens to be a combat knife." |
| 383 | * TakeThat: |
| 384 | ** "What you doin'? Hatin'? '''STOP HATIN'!!!''' BLEND YOUR OWN BACON!!!" |
| 385 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB_vHVFM_8 Meat Salad]]". Seriously, just listen to some of Harley's dialogue in the video: |
| 386 | ---> "What'you know about health? "Salad"? '''[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] SALAD'''!!!"\ |
| 387 | "Epic Meal Time showing you how to make a ''real'' salad! [[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]] your lettuce!"\ |
| 388 | "Oh, you didn't know? [[NonSequitur Carrots are for]] [[DoubleEntendre ugly people]]!" |
| 389 | ** They gave a very scathing F-U on their Facebook page to the people who were hating on "Drunken Mess". |
| 390 | ** A vegetarian of 4 years was pressured into eating a bacon strip in "Bacon Bacon Truck". |
| 391 | %%* TastesLikePurple: or Crazy Alcohol Rainbow Pig |
| 392 | * TheTeam |
| 393 | ** TheLeader: Harley, who invented and hosts the show. |
| 394 | ** TheLancer: Sterling, who, although is seen rarely in episodes, is not just the cameraman, but the video editor. |
| 395 | ** 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. |
| 396 | ** 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. |
| 397 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bacon, though Harley has a soft spot for macaroni and cheese. To a slightly lesser extent, Jack Daniels Whiskey. |
| 398 | * 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. |
| 399 | * {{Troll}}: |
| 400 | ** 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: |
| 401 | ---> '''Cousin Dave''': "One of these days, I'm going to witness you lose a finger."\ |
| 402 | '''Epic Mook''': "Why?"\ |
| 403 | '''Cousin Dave''': "It's just going to happen."\ |
| 404 | '''Epic Mook''': "I'm very careful with this."\ |
| 405 | '''Cousin Dave''': "I know you are...but it'll happen."\ |
| 406 | [{{Beat}}]\ |
| 407 | '''Epic Mook''': "...Don't be a prick." |
| 408 | ** Also, Harley at the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UyYFHDrBQ launch]] |
| 409 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Muscles Glasses snapping two thieves' necks isn't given anything more than a simple "Yup, he's doing it again..." from Tyler. |
| 410 | * VerbalTic: |
| 411 | ** "Sauce" is (nowadays) always pronounced "SA-OOOS" |
| 412 | ** As "Sausage" is pronounced "SA-OOOSAGE" |
| 413 | ** "Jack Daniels'" is now "Jack Dagnels" |
| 414 | ** "Breakfast" as "brookfast". |
| 415 | * VerySpecialEpisode: EMT celebrates the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl each year with a meal named after one of the quarterbacks. They've done "The Sloppy Roethlisberger" (a 50-pound bacon cheeseburger with custom bun; the first single item to break 100,000 calories), "Dirty Manningwich" (a large sloppy joe with clam chowder) and "Flacco Taco" (a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gigantic taco]]). They are 2-for-3 as of [=SB XLVII=] in predicting the winner. |
| 416 | -->'''Harley:''' Mother[[SoundEffectBleep (caw!)]]er, sports! |
| 417 | %%* WallOfWeapons: At the gun store |
| 418 | * WhamLine: From "Fast Food Pizza Cake": |
| 419 | --> '''Harley''': "We'll have a hundred and fifty." |
| 420 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: Throwback Thursday, which now has [[https://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealThrowback its own YouTube channel]]. They air the videos ''Series/PopUpVideo''-style, and garble Muscles Glasses any time he speaks. |
| 421 | %%* XOnAStick: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT78iih9cws Epic Meal Sticks]] |
| 422 | * YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Epic Christmas Carol." The Sauce Boss treats his friends like shit until he is visited by the Ghosts of Bacon, Booze, and Bitches. |
| 423 | |
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| 425 | Next time, we eat {{Website/Wikipedia}}! |
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