History Series / AnotherPeriod

** Fredrick, when MistakenForGay calls the homosexual lifestyle "tempting," and spends an episode trying to get [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe a former priest to have sex with him,]] and has male servant Garfield wash his genitals- but he's definitely attracted to women (mostly his own sister).
** Beatrice is involved in a decades long affair with her twin brother, and has expressed an attraction to at least two other men, but she also has reciprocal oral sex with Eleanor Roosevelt, semi-regularly has Blanche get her off, and acts very flirtatiously with people of both sexes.
** The Doctor molests Albert in his coma, has an affair with Victor, and stares at Flobelle's face to get aroused. He states that if anything, he's "pansexual."

** The Commodore and Dodo display this trope in spades as well. They rarely ever show any affection towards their children, routinely insult them, and are glad when they're not around. By the end of the first season, the Commodore has disowned Lillian and Beatrice and kicked them out of the mansion.
* AbuseMistake: Peepers assumes that Garfield being forced to do "basement bubbles" by his former orphanage's matron was a euphemism for... [[CountryMatters something]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil unspeakable.]] [[spoiler: It wasn't- she literally meant making bubbles in the basement by cleaning it.]] Garfield's sobbing while telling Peepers of this probably helped him assume so. [[spoiler: Too bad Peepers killed her before asking for clarification.]]

What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television--much less the Internet--was invented? That's the premise of this RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians,'' which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.

It's 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Newport, Rhode Island--which doesn't stop social-climbing sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, greedy, 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 who serve their every deranged whim.

* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]{{Twincest}}: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with twin brother Frederick.

** Garfield's CompanionCube "Towel" becomes this in "Doggy Dinner Party," when Chair--whose attempts to seduce Garfield into giving her the key to Dodo's morphine cabinet--gets her revenge by informing Peepers that one of the household towels has gone missing. When Peepers discovers that Garfield has the missing towel, he fires the underbutler.

* EmbarrassingNickname: At Beatrice's urging, new maid Celine is promptly (and arbitrarily) dubbed "Chair" by [[HypocriticalHumor Dodo]]. In a later episode, Peepers threatens to rename her "Water Closet" if she doesn't toe the line.

* PetTheDog: Chair is the only character to believe Garfield about his rape and assures him that it isn't his fault, before giving him a towel to comfort him.

* 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.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Fredrick, when MistakenForGay calls the homosexual lifestyle "tempting," and spends an episode trying to get [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe a former priest to have sex with him,]] and has the same-sexed servant Garfield wash his genitals- but he's definitely attracted to women (mostly his own sister).

* EmotionalRegression: Beatrice starts acting like a little girl after learning that Frederick is engaged to another woman (and can no longer have BrotherSisterIncest with her). Accompanied by her MadnessMantra "I can stay a baby forever…

* Expy: Scott Joplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

* EmotionalRegression: Beatrice starts acting like a little girl after learning that Frederick is engaged to another woman (and can no longer have BrotherSisterIncest with her). Accompanied by her MadnessMantra "I can stay a baby forever…"

What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television--much less the Internet--was invented? That's the premise of this RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians,'' which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Totally averted. Every nasty flaw of the era, from inaccurate medical treatments to sexist opinions are shown without any sugarcoating.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Blanche's ego grows tremendously in "Switcheroo Day", when she impersonates a wealthy woman and new friend of Beatrice's, even forcing Chair to feed her.

* TheAlcoholic: Mark Twain gets drunk a lot.

* FunWithAcronyms: Hortense's suffragette group is called the Newport Association of Gal Spinsters--N.A.G.S. for short.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charles Ponzi, Mahatma Gandhi, Leon Trotsky, and Thomas Edison have popped up so far.
* HollywoodHistory: in the episode "Senate" the Commodore says that Senator Ambrose Burnside has died and that Fredrick will replace him… even though Burnside died in 1881 and the show is set in 1902.

* RapeAsBackstory: While detoxing from morphine, Dodo looks up at the photos of her children and says they're all products of rape, with Beatrice and Frederick being the product of a "double rape."

** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of--not blood, but ''feces''--on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}.

* YourCheatingHeart: Victor is heartbroken when Albert is hit with a tomahawk and goes into a coma, but soon begins having an affair with the handsome young physician who arrives to treat Albert. The season finale shows [[spoiler: Albert waking up from his coma and seeming to already be aware that Victor has been cheating on him.]]

What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television -- much less the Internet -- was invented? That’s the premise of this RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians,'' which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.

It’s 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Newport, Rhode Island -- which doesn’t stop social-climbing sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, greedy, 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 who serve their every deranged whim.

* 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."]]

* AmbiguouslyJewish: In "Modern Pigs," the Commodore tells the ConfessionCam "Never again will they say, 'You won't amount to anything, Harold Bellawitcz' -- [[VerbalBackspace I mean, Bellacourt]]," with an embarrassed look -- which suggests that his family aren't actually blue-blood [=WASPs=], as everyone else in Newport high society are.

-->'''Lillian:''' Apparently Beatrice has been sold into white slavery -- and what's worse, she's acting!

** Garfield's CompanionCube "Towel" becomes this in "Doggy Dinner Party," when Chair -- whose attempts to seduce Garfield into giving her the key to Dodo's morphine cabinet -- gets her revenge by informing Peepers that one of the household towels has gone missing. When Peepers discovers that Garfield has the missing towel, he fires the underbutler.
* CompanionCube: Garfield has two (so far): the towel that Chair gave him [[ShapedLikeItself named "Towel"]], and [[ICallItVera a mop called "Eileen"]] -- who he urges "Towel" not to be jealous of…

* 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."]]

* 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 BelligerentSexualTension between the two. Which then leads to a RollInTheHay. Which (unfortunately for Hamish) ''then'' leads to TheLoinsSleepTonight. (And ultimately leads to Lillian declaring "I had the worst day. Get me a poultice, a dildo, and a soft French cheese!")
* FunWithAcronyms: Hortense's suffragette group is called the Newport Association of Gal Spinsters -- N.A.G.S. for short.

** Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day RollInTheHay -- until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore [[ADateWithRosiePalms finishes himself]]. It goes on for minutes.

** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of -- not blood, but ''feces'' -- on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}.

->''"I had the worst day. Get me a poultice, a dildo, and a soft French cheese!"''
-->--'''Lillian Bellacourt'''

* 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 BelligerentSexualTension between the two. Which then leads to a RollInTheHay. Which (unfortunately for Hamish) ''then'' leads to TheLoinsSleepTonight. (And ultimately leads to the page quote…)

* Nouveau Riche: Thre Bellacourts. They're hillbillies with extravagant wealth, trying to live like kings, with only the faintest idea of how kings actually live.

* DumbBlonde: Beatrice. She can't read, thinks her name rhymes with "sailboat", and likes shiny objects like diamonds and potatoes. Then again, see HiddenDepths.

* EmbarrassingNickname:
** At Beatrice's urging, new maid Celine is promptly (and arbitrarily) dubbed "Chair" by [[HypocriticalHumor Dodo]]. In a later episode, Peepers threatens to rename her "Water Closet" if she doesn't toe the line.

* FunctionalAddict: Dodo relies on a regimen of morphine injections to get through her day.
** She's also [[TheAlcoholic a bit of a lush]].

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Hortense (upstairs) and Chair (downstairs).

* AlphaBitch: Lillian. Beatrice to a lesser extent.

* ButtMonkey: Chair.

* CoolCrown: Lillian goes virtually nowhere without her signature tiara -- worn slightly askew, appropriately.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: It's not made obvious within the show, but the Bellacourt daughters all have them.
** Lillian Abigail [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] Bellacourt Schmemmerhorn-Fish
** Beatrice [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Tiffani]] [[Series/SavedByTheBell Amber]] [[Series/WhiteCollar Thiessen]] Bellacourt Downsy
** Hortense [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson Jefferson Library]] Bellacourt

** Hortense's name gets shortened to "Hor" by Lillian and Beatrice for the obvious homonym.

* HairTriggerTemper: Victor can fly into a rage at the drop of a hatpin.

What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television -- much less the Internet -- was invented? That’s the premise of this RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as Series/DowntonAbbey[=/=]Series/UpstairsDownstairs [[XMeetsY meets]] Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians, which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.

-->''"I had the worst day. Get me a poultice, a dildo, and a soft French cheese!" - Lillian Bellacourt''

What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television – much less the Internet – was invented? That’s the premise of this RealityTV {{Mockumentary}}, self-described as Series/DowntonAbbey[=/=]Series/UpstairsDownstairs [[XMeetsY meets]] Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians, which premiered on Creator/ComedyCentral in June 2015.

It’s 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Newport, Rhode Island – which doesn’t stop social-climbing sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, greedy, 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 who serve their every deranged whim.

* 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."]]

* AmbiguouslyJewish: In "Modern Pigs," the Commodore tells the ConfessionCam "Never again will they say, 'You won't amount to anything, Harold Bellawitcz' - [[VerbalBackspace I mean, Bellacourt]]," with an embarrassed look - which suggests that his family aren't actually blue-blood [=WASPs=], as everyone else in Newport high society are.

-->'''Lillian:''' Apparently Beatrice has been sold into white slavery - and what's worse, she's acting!

* BrotherSisterIncest: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with brother Frederick. Also {{Twincest}}.

** Garfield's CompanionCube "Towel" becomes this in "Doggy Dinner Party," when Chair - whose attempts to seduce Garfield into giving her the key to Dodo's morphine cabinet - gets her revenge by informing Peepers that one of the household towels has gone missing. When Peepers discovers that Garfield has the missing towel, he fires the underbutler.
* CompanionCube: Garfield has two (so far): the towel that Chair gave him [[ShapedLikeItself named "Towel"]], and [[ICallItVera a mop called "Eileen"]] - who he urges "Towel" not to be jealous of...

* CoolCrown: Lillian goes virtually nowhere without her signature tiara - worn slightly askew, appropriately.

* TheDitz[=/=]WhatAnIdiot: 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."]]

* EmotionalRegression: Beatrice starts acting like a little girl after learning that Frederick is engaged to another woman (and can no longer have BrotherSisterIncest with her). Accompanied by her MadnessMantra "I can stay a baby forever..."
* EyeScream: During the climactic brawl in "Senate," Beatrice stabs one of the suffragettes in the eye with the stem of a broken champagne flute. (Doubles as an InJoke; see the [[Trivia/AnotherPeriod Trivia]] page to find out why...)

* 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 BelligerentSexualTension between the two. Which then leads to a RollInTheHay. Which (unfortunately for Hamish) ''then'' leads to TheLoinsSleepTonight. (And ultimately leads to the page quote...)

* FunWithAcronyms: Hortense's suffragette group is called the Newport Association of Gal Spinsters - N.A.G.S. for short.

* HollywoodHistory: in the episode "Senate" the Commodore says that Senator Ambrose Burnside has died and that Fredrick will replace him...even though Burnside died in 1881 and the show is set in 1902.

** 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 RollInTheHay - until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore [[ADateWithRosiePalms finishes himself]]. It goes on for minutes.

* {{Pixellation}}: Used in "Funeral," "Doggy Dinner Party," and "Rejects Beach" to suggest that Beatrice...er...[[GoingCommando forgot to wear her bloomers]].

** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of - not blood, but ''feces'' - on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}.

* StiffUpperLip: Celery, upon meeting the Bellacourts for the first time. Dodo mistaking her for a urinal? Beatrice acting like a five-year-old and grinding on Frederick? Lillian's frantic attempts to become her best friend? No biggie...

* BrotherSisterIncest: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with brother Frederick.