History ExtremeOmnivore / LiveActionTV

** Chandler and Ross also once bet Joey $50 to eat a book.

* The Tenctonese of ''Series/AlienNation'' have extremely robust gastrointestinal systems, preferring and being able to digest edibles unsuitable to humans, like [[AlienLunch raw road kill]]. They also get [[BizarreAlienBiology inebriated on spoiled milk]].

** A partial list of other things that James May has eaten or drunk: garlic wine, grape juice he squeezed with his own bare feet, wine he fermented in the boot of a Jag, a deep fried Mars bar, the contents of a spittoon in a wine bar which someone had stubbed out a cigarette in, a [[SniffSniffNom sample of a puddle of unknown fluid leaking out of a caravan]] (which turned out to be his own homebrew beer), a [[TemptingFate prawn sandwich on an aeroplane]] [[UpToEleven which he dropped on the floor]], snake whiskey, a bull penis, and fermented shark. Of those, the only things that he found objectionable were the garlic wine and the deep-fried Mars bar (which had been fried in fish-and-chip oil). He did claim that it was the prawn sandwich that made him "catastrophically ill" on the day of that interview, and not the weekend he'd spent in Dublin with his ''Series/TopGearUK'' mates. For extra hilarity, that fermented shark? Made Gordon Ramsay throw up.

* Muppet monsters in general are Extreme Omnivores, but special mention goes to The [[Series/TheMuppetShow Lunch Counter Monster]] and [[Series/MuppetsTonight Carl the Big Mean Monster]], whose sketches seem to revolve around the abnormal things they eat. Then there's Animal, who, among other things, once ate a TV set without unplugging it.

* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': When Polly criticizes her own cooking and says no one likes her stew, her youngest child William says he likes it. She responds with, "Thanks you William, but you eat mud." He then excitedly asks if they're having mud.

* Invoked and Subverted in the ''Series/ManVersusFood'' season 1 episode where Adam Richmond traveled to Minnesota. Encountering Andrew Zimmern (of ''Bizarre Foods''), Zimmern treated Adam first to roast suckling pig's head (which Adam didn't mind), and then to lutefisk (dried cod reconstitute with lye then soaked for weeks to remove the lye); Adam found the lutefisk absolutely ''disgusting'' and noted that it at least psyched him up for that episode's challenge (a meter-long bratwurst and two sides) because it couldn't ''possibly'' be any worse than eating lutefisk.

** Another episode saw him happily eating a space weevil. Although to be fair he thought it was a crunchy king prawn...

* ''Series/SesameStreet'''s Cookie Monster has been known to compulsively eat some rather odd things if cookies aren't available, including half a Volkswagen in TheMovie, ''Follow That Bird''. The Muppet Wiki has a [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Items_Other_Than_Cookies_Consumed_by_Cookie_Monster list]] of things Cookie Monster has eaten.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': In one episode, Klinger's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption attempt of the week]] to get a Section 8 discharge is to declare that he's going to eat a jeep. He is seen on screen consuming the windshield wipers and swallowing a bolt dipped in motor oil. (RealityEnsues quickly - he gets ''very'' sick.)

* What about ''Series/BizarreFoodsWithAndrewZimmern''? Hosted by the Travel Channel, the titular host goes places to sample the various local cuisines. Some of the more spectacular episodes include: insects galore, chicken testicles, rooster combs, not-quite eggs (an egg that was collected from the inside of the chicken before it grew its shell... as if eggs in general aren't squicky enough...), fermented pork, a hallucinogenic drink made by tribes in Africa where the women chew on the leaves of a plant for a while then spit the masticated glop into a big pitcher, and, the thing that actually beat the host, Stinky Tofu (tofu that is left basically to rot for days, gets fried up to make bread, and mushed together to make the filling). The host couldn't even choke back a single bite. He actually went and hugged the old lady who had cooked for him, and said, "You're the first chef to beat me." He claimed it tasted of raw sewage.
** He also couldn't eat the durian.
*** He ''can'' eat it. He just thinks it's absolutely atrocious and refuses to eat any more of it because of the smell. It's not surprising, considering just how pungent durian fruits are.

* Bernard from ''Series/BlackBooks'', has, over the course of the series, ingested a variety of things including a coaster, slug pellets, oven cleaner, coffee granules and a teacup. His assistant Manny attributes this to Bernard's alcoholism and chain-smoking having killed off most of his tastebuds.

* ''Series/TheOrville'' Moclans are known for this. Due to evolving on a fairly desolate planet, they can obtain nutrients from almost anything. It's a common joke in the mess hall to ask Bortus to eat random objects. He has been shown to eat a huge ball of wasabi, a napkin, an entire glass, and silverware with no ill effects. Accidentally ingesting part of [[BlobMonster Yaphit]] made him ill until the part was removed though.

* ''Series/TheOrville'' Moclans are known for this. Due to evolving on a fairly desolate planet, they can obtain nutrients from almost anything. It's a common joke in the mess hall to ask Bortus to eat random objects. He has been shown to eat a huge ball of wasabi, a napkin, an entire glass, and silverware with no ill effects. Accidentally ingesting part of [[BlobMonster Yaphit]] made him ill until the part was removed though.

* ''Series/TheOrville'' Moclans are known for this. Due to evolving on a fairly desolate planet, they can obtain nutrients from almost anything. It's a common joke in the mess hall to ask Bortus to eat random objects. He has been shown to eat an entire ball of wasabi, a napkin, an entire glass, and silverware with no ill effects. Accidentally ingesting part of [[BlobMonster Yaphit]] made him ill until the part was removed though.

* Muppet monsters in general are Extreme Omnivores, but special mention goes to The [[Series/TheMuppetShow Lunch Counter Monster]] and [[Series/MuppetsTonight Carl the Big Mean Monster]], whose sketches seem to revolve around the abnormal things they eat. Then there's Animal, who, amoung other things, once ate a TV set without unplugging it.

** He's also pretty indiscriminate in regards drinks, too. In the first episode of season 8 he mentions polishing off just about everything in the drinks cabinet, including advocaat, that "smeg-awful pink stuff" (windowlene- a kind of glass cleaner) and "that chartreuse green liquory thing" (swarfega- heavy-duty hand cleaner normally used to remove oil and grease).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]]: The Doctor sticks some soil in her mouth to determine their location, point in time, and the [=TripAdvisor=]-rating of a nearby alpaca farm (and giftshop!). She then continues eating soil, even offering some to her companions.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]]: The Doctor sticks some soil in her mouth to determine location, point in time, and the [=TripAdvisor=]-rating of a nearby giftshop. She then continues eating soil, even offering some to her companions.

* The Tenctonese of ''Series/{{Alien Nation}}'' have extremely robust gastrointestinal systems, preferring and being able to digest edibles unsuitable to humans, like [[AlienLunch raw road kill]]. They also get [[BizarreAlienBiology inebriated on spoiled milk]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]], the Pting will eat anything non-organic, which is a definite problem for the spaceship it's wound up on.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway It Takes You Away]], the Doctor sticks some soil in her mouth to determine location, point in time, and the [=TripAdvisor=]-rating of a nearby giftshop. She then continues eating soil, even offering some to her companions.