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* FakedKidnapping: In "Switcheroo Day," Lillian - jealous that a kidnapped baby is getting all the local headlines - hires Hamish to do this to her. Which leads to a RollInTheHay. Which (unfortunately for Hamish) then leads to TheLoinsSleepTonight. (And ultimately leads to the page quote...)
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What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this Creator/ComedyCentral RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as Series/DowntonAbbey[=/=]Series/UpstairsDownstairs [[XMeetsY meets]] Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians, which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.
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* HystericalWoman: Blanche, who's last known address was the local insane asylum. The entire household (save Chair) takes great delight in scaring her into a screaming fit.
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* AbusiveParents: Both Lillian and Beatrice have numerous offspring - all of whom have been fobbed off on the maids to raise. Chair is horrified to discover that "putting the children to bed" translates into "feeding them morphine drops." This works on all but the eldest child, who admits [[ImmuneToDrugs "I've built up a tolerance."]]
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* FunctionalAddict: Dodo relies on a regimen of morphine injections to get through her day.
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* EyeScream: During the climactic brawl in "Senate," Beatrice stabs one of the suffragettes in the eye with the stem of a broken champagne flute.
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* HellIsThatNoise: Asked to feign grief ("Funeral") or sing ("Pageant"), all Beatrice can muster is a bizarre squawck. (Subverted in "Pageant" when, after some prompting, she proves to have an opera-quality singing voice.)
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* HellIsThatNoise: Asked to feign grief ("Funeral") or sing ("Pageant"), all Beatrice can muster is a bizarre squawck.squawk. (Subverted in "Pageant" when, after some prompting, she proves to have an opera-quality singing voice.)
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What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this Creator/ComedyCentral RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as [[XMeetsY/LiveActionTV ''Downton Abbey[=/=]Upstairs, Downstairs''-meets-''Keeping Up With the Kardashians'']], Series/DowntonAbbey[=/=]Series/UpstairsDownstairs [[XMeetsY meets]] Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians, which premiered in June 2015.
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The show pokes fun at period-accurate attitudes regarding race, class, and sexuality, and somehow CrossesTheLineTwice in every single scene.
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* CampGay: Victor and Albert. Despite being the ''de facto'' husbands of Lillian and Beatrice, respectively, they are carrying on a very visible affair with one another. No one else in the household bats an eyelash.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Victor can fly into a rage at the drop of a hatpin.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Eldest sister Hortense was played by Artemis Pebdani in the pilot, then replaced by Lauren Ash from episode 1.02 onward.
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* TheDitz: Beatrice and Frederick. Dear God, Beatrice and Frederick...
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* IdleRich: The sisters spend their entire days doing as little as possible, to the point of making their servants ''carry'' them from room to room.
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What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this Creator/ComedyCentral RealityTV Mockumentary, {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as [[XMeetsY/LiveActionTV ''Downton Abbey[=/=]Upstairs, Downstairs''-meets-''Keeping Up With the Kardashians'']], which premiered in June 2015.
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What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this Creator/ComedyCentral RealityTV Mockumentary, self-described as [[XMeetsY/LiveActionTV ''Downton Abbey[=/=]Upstairs, Downstairs''-meets-''Keeping Up With the Kardashians'']], which premiered in June 2015.
It’s 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Providence, Rhode Island – which doesn’t stop sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, self-centered, petty, and mean-spirited as possible to each other and everyone else. Then again, the entire household is pretty much batshit insane from top to bottom, from the extended Bellacourt clan to the army of butlers and chambermaids.
The show pokes fun at period-accurate attitudes regarding race, class, and sexuality, and somehow CrossesTheLineTwice in every single scene.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Lillian.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with brother Frederick.
* BuryYourGays: In the aptly-named episode "Divorce," the sisters concoct a scheme to lose husbands Victor and Albert: they will be paid several million dollars to disappear, be declared legally dead, and allow the sisters to remarry. The husbands "disappear" only as far as the guest house, then accidentally show up during their own funeral.
* ButtMonkey: Chair.
* CampGay: Victor and Albert. Despite being the ''de facto'' husbands of Lillian and Beatrice, respectively, they are carrying on a very visible affair with one another. No one else in the household bats an eyelash.
* ChekhovsGun: "Pageant" begins with Dodo practicing her blow-dart expertise on a passing American eagle. Later, when Lillian is in danger of losing the beauty pagent to Beatrice, she uses the dart gun to sedate her sister mid-song.
* TheDitz: Beatrice and Frederick. Dear God, Beatrice and Frederick...
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Garfield the valet is traumatized after being "ravished" by visiting dowager Pussy Von Anderstein. The rest of the household dismiss his plight; Peepers, in fact, insists Garfield should be ''proud'' of his ravishing. Only Chair takes pity on him, giving him a hand towel to dry his tears - [[ShapedLikeItself which he promptly names "Towel."]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: New maid Celine is promptly (and arbitrarily) dubbed "Chair" by [[HypocriticalHumor Dodo]]. In a later episode, Peepers threatens to re-dub her "Water Closet" if she doesn't toe the line.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The Bellacourt daughters dress to the nines, and ''still'' manage to look trashy.
* HellIsThatNoise: Asked to feign grief ("Funeral") or sing ("Pageant"), all Beatrice can muster is a bizarre squawck. (Subverted in "Pageant" when, after some prompting, she proves to have an opera-quality singing voice.)
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Ponzi have popped up so far.
* HystericalWoman: Blanche. The entire household (save Chair) take great delight in scaring her into a screaming fit.
* TheImmodestOrgasm:
** In "Senate," Sigmund Freud diagnoses the Bellacourt women as suffering from "hysteria," and prescribes that their...lady bits...be stimulated with feathers. By the maids. Played straight with Lillian and Beatrice; subverted by Dodo, who barely reacts.
** Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day roll in the hay - until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore [[ADateWithRosiePalms finishes himself]]. It goes on for minutes.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thirteen actors comprise the main cast. Serving-staff extras probably double that count.
* MistakenForGay: Frederick, while being prepped to become a senator. By Sigmund Freud, no less. Who then catches Frederick and Beatrice in bed together:
-->'''Dr. Freud:''' Frederick, look at you. You are cured. The Masculinity training must have done the trick. I officially declare you a non-homosexual.\\
'''Beatrice:''' Oh, Frederick, I'm so proud of you.\\
'''Frederick:''' You're not concerned at all with the fact that I'm having sex with my sister?\\
'''Dr. Freud:''' Seems perfectly natural to me. Carry on.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Chair is pregnant with the Commodore's child.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Chair:''' [patting belly, to camera] I hope it's an heir. ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) [[VerbalBackspace I mean boy.]]]]
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Lillian and Beatrice (and Dodo, to a lesser extent) pretty much ''live'' this trope.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Hortense (upstairs) and Chair (downstairs).
* TheOtherDarrin: Eldest sister Hortense was played by Artemis Pebdani in the pilot, then replaced by Lauren Ash from episode 1.02 onward.
* SecretKeeper:
** Chair. Hamish knows her as [[spoiler:the former prostitute who swindled him]]; to the Commodore, she's [[spoiler:his mistress and the mother of their illegitimate child-to-be]].
** Peepers, unbeknownst to the Bellacourts, was adopted by a family of American Indians.
* ShoutOut:
** In "Senate," Hortense and Chef Chauncey Allistar recreate the blindfold-and-food scene from ''Nine and a Half Weeks.''
** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of - not blood, but ''feces'' - on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It takes ''serious'' money to be this mean, lazy, and selfish.]]
What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this Creator/ComedyCentral RealityTV Mockumentary, self-described as [[XMeetsY/LiveActionTV ''Downton Abbey[=/=]Upstairs, Downstairs''-meets-''Keeping Up With the Kardashians'']], which premiered in June 2015.
It’s 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Providence, Rhode Island – which doesn’t stop sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, self-centered, petty, and mean-spirited as possible to each other and everyone else. Then again, the entire household is pretty much batshit insane from top to bottom, from the extended Bellacourt clan to the army of butlers and chambermaids.
The show pokes fun at period-accurate attitudes regarding race, class, and sexuality, and somehow CrossesTheLineTwice in every single scene.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Lillian.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with brother Frederick.
* BuryYourGays: In the aptly-named episode "Divorce," the sisters concoct a scheme to lose husbands Victor and Albert: they will be paid several million dollars to disappear, be declared legally dead, and allow the sisters to remarry. The husbands "disappear" only as far as the guest house, then accidentally show up during their own funeral.
* ButtMonkey: Chair.
* CampGay: Victor and Albert. Despite being the ''de facto'' husbands of Lillian and Beatrice, respectively, they are carrying on a very visible affair with one another. No one else in the household bats an eyelash.
* ChekhovsGun: "Pageant" begins with Dodo practicing her blow-dart expertise on a passing American eagle. Later, when Lillian is in danger of losing the beauty pagent to Beatrice, she uses the dart gun to sedate her sister mid-song.
* TheDitz: Beatrice and Frederick. Dear God, Beatrice and Frederick...
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Garfield the valet is traumatized after being "ravished" by visiting dowager Pussy Von Anderstein. The rest of the household dismiss his plight; Peepers, in fact, insists Garfield should be ''proud'' of his ravishing. Only Chair takes pity on him, giving him a hand towel to dry his tears - [[ShapedLikeItself which he promptly names "Towel."]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: New maid Celine is promptly (and arbitrarily) dubbed "Chair" by [[HypocriticalHumor Dodo]]. In a later episode, Peepers threatens to re-dub her "Water Closet" if she doesn't toe the line.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The Bellacourt daughters dress to the nines, and ''still'' manage to look trashy.
* HellIsThatNoise: Asked to feign grief ("Funeral") or sing ("Pageant"), all Beatrice can muster is a bizarre squawck. (Subverted in "Pageant" when, after some prompting, she proves to have an opera-quality singing voice.)
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Ponzi have popped up so far.
* HystericalWoman: Blanche. The entire household (save Chair) take great delight in scaring her into a screaming fit.
* TheImmodestOrgasm:
** In "Senate," Sigmund Freud diagnoses the Bellacourt women as suffering from "hysteria," and prescribes that their...lady bits...be stimulated with feathers. By the maids. Played straight with Lillian and Beatrice; subverted by Dodo, who barely reacts.
** Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day roll in the hay - until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore [[ADateWithRosiePalms finishes himself]]. It goes on for minutes.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thirteen actors comprise the main cast. Serving-staff extras probably double that count.
* MistakenForGay: Frederick, while being prepped to become a senator. By Sigmund Freud, no less. Who then catches Frederick and Beatrice in bed together:
-->'''Dr. Freud:''' Frederick, look at you. You are cured. The Masculinity training must have done the trick. I officially declare you a non-homosexual.\\
'''Beatrice:''' Oh, Frederick, I'm so proud of you.\\
'''Frederick:''' You're not concerned at all with the fact that I'm having sex with my sister?\\
'''Dr. Freud:''' Seems perfectly natural to me. Carry on.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Chair is pregnant with the Commodore's child.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Chair:''' [patting belly, to camera] I hope it's an heir. ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) [[VerbalBackspace I mean boy.]]]]
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Lillian and Beatrice (and Dodo, to a lesser extent) pretty much ''live'' this trope.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Hortense (upstairs) and Chair (downstairs).
* TheOtherDarrin: Eldest sister Hortense was played by Artemis Pebdani in the pilot, then replaced by Lauren Ash from episode 1.02 onward.
* SecretKeeper:
** Chair. Hamish knows her as [[spoiler:the former prostitute who swindled him]]; to the Commodore, she's [[spoiler:his mistress and the mother of their illegitimate child-to-be]].
** Peepers, unbeknownst to the Bellacourts, was adopted by a family of American Indians.
* ShoutOut:
** In "Senate," Hortense and Chef Chauncey Allistar recreate the blindfold-and-food scene from ''Nine and a Half Weeks.''
** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of - not blood, but ''feces'' - on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}.
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