History Series / AnotherPeriod

* 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.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Scott Joplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Music/KanyeWest and Kim Kardashian.

* TheDitz[=/=]WhatAnIdiot: Beatrice and Frederick. Though Beatrice is revealed to be a GeniusDitz who [[ObfuscatingStupidity hides her intelligence]].

* HiddenDepths: Beatrice is illiterate and is regarded as the least intelligent member of the household. However, she has a deeper understanding of math then the rest of her family, is a capable opera singer and flautist, and can be just as manipulative as Lillian. Certain episodes hint that Beatrice is simply ObsfuscatingStupidity (to a limited extent, since she is still TheDitz) either for Frederick's sake or simply for her own amusement.

* TheDitz[=/=]WhatAnIdiot: Beatrice and Frederick. Dear God, Beatrice and Frederick…

* GoldDigger: Chair, blatantly so.

* HiddenDepths: Beatrice is illiterate and is regarded as the least intelligent member of the household. However, she has a deeper understanding of math then the rest of her family, is a capable opera singer and flautist, and can be just as manipulative as Lillian. Certain episodes hint that Beatrice is simply ObfuscatingStupidity (to a limited extent, since she is still TheDitz) either for Frederick's sake or simply for her own amusement.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charles Ponzi, Mohandas Gandhi, Leon Trotsky, Thomas Edison and Harriet Tubman have popped up so far.

* MusicalEpisode: In "Rejects Beach," upon learning that Celery is going to induct her into the Clam Bake Club, Lillian breaks into a song and dance number with the servants.

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

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

** In "Rejects Beach," Beatrice snaps out of her EmotionalRegression state, to realize that she is starring in Thomas Edison's stag film [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "The Wizard]] [[IncrediblyLamePun of Ahhhhhh's"]] and escapes, crying [[MemeticMutation "There's no place like my house!"]]

* TantrumThrowing: Lillian has a ''massive'' TrashTheSet[=/=]FlippingTheTable meltdown in the opening moments of the aptly-named "Lillian's Birthday."

* AmbiguouslyBi: Several characters:

*** All three also qualify as DepravedBisexual.
* ArentYouGoingtoravishMe: Frederick desperately wants the priest (and Dodo's lover) to have his way with him sexually simply because he's used to priests doing that. It's meant to be a commentary on the preist abuse scandal.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: After offering Beatrice some comfort and advice, Hortense suggests that the two of them spend more time together, the two of them share a giggle before Beatrice responds with one of these.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lillian is horrified when Victor allows his entire family to be slaughtered. (She orchestrated it, but Victor only had to leave the Butternut Room to prevent the deaths.) He wanted the Butternut Room for himself, and did not mind if this cost a few lives.

** Beatrice and Frederick have both separately made comments, which imply that they were molested as children. Beatrice by an older neighbor, and Frederick by a priest.

* EveryoneHasStandards: As much as they all ignore basic human decency and common sense, the rest of the Bellacourt Family all express varying levels of disgusted and mortification whenever Beatrice and Fredrick remark upon or reveal their incestuous relationship.

* 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- or perhaps just that the Doctor has been sticking his manparts in Albert's mouth while he was comatose.]]

* RapeLeadsToPromiscuity: It is implied that Beatrice and Fredrick’s sexual relationship (and their individual hypersexuality) stems partly from being molested as children.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lillian is horrified when Victor allows his entire family to be slaughtered. (She orchestrated the slaughter it, but Victor only had to leave the Butternut Room to prevent the deaths.) He wanted the Butternut Room for himself, and did not mind if this cost a few lives.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Celery Savoy was only ''pretending'' to be Lillian's friend, before dumping her at "Rejects Beach."]]

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

A second season was greenlit in August 2015.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lillian is horrified when Victor allows his entire family to be slaughtered. She orchestrated the slaughter through a letter, but Victor only had to leave the Butternut Room to prevent the deaths. He wants the Butternut Room for himself, and does not mind if this costs a few lives.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Scott Joplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Music/KanyeWest and Kim Kardashian

** Subverted later on. It turns out that Beatrice was never fooled to begin with. She just was messing with Blanche for her own amusement.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Frederick is diagnosed as a homosexual, he and Beatrice lament the fact that his supposed homosexuality means that they cannot have sex. They ignore Frederick's clear physical attraction to Beatrice, a woman. The diagnosis was wrong.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peepers. He was abandoned by his "white alcoholic parents" en route to the California Gold Rush, adopted by an American Indian tribe, but talks like a constipated [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].

* 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- or perhaps just that the Doctor's been sticking his manparts in Albert's mouth while he was comatose.]]

** In "Senate," Hortense and Chef Chauncey Allistar recreate the blindfold-and-food scene from ''Nine and a Half Weeks.''

** In "Rejects Beach," Beatrice snaps out of her EmotionalRegression state to realize she's starring in Thomas Edison's stag film [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "The Wizard]] [[IncrediblyLamePun of Ahhhhhh's"]] and escapes, crying [[MemeticMutation "There's no place like my house!"]]

* 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 "double product of a rape."
** Beatrice and Fredrick have both separately made comments implying that they were molested as children by, respectively, and older neighbor and a priest.

** 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]].

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Totally averted. Every nasty flaw of the era, from inaccurate medical treatments to sexist opinions are shown without any sugarcoating. The show doesn't shy from representing racism, though it also has minority characters show up without race coming up sometimes as well, in order to have a diverse cast. LGBT characters also have it much easier than in reality (by season 2, Albert and Victor seem to just live at the estate as a couple without issue.)

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

* NouveauRiche: The Bellacourts. They're hillbillies with extravagant wealth, trying to live like kings, with only the faintest idea of how kings actually live.
* OfficerOHara: The two Irish American police officers who question Lillian when she tries to frame Victor for beating her and then insult are qualify as this trope.

* PaperThinDisguise: When Blanche impulsively tries on one of Beatrice's dresses, Beatrice thinks she's a different person entirely and declares Blanche her new BFF.
** It turns out Beatrice was never fooled to begin with, but just was messing with Blanche for her own amuseument.

** Very much like Donald Trump, Frederick was born rich and uncurious and is ignorant of basic economics. When running for the Presidency he doesn't actually care about the men he's addressing who are unemployed via the obsolescence of their profession, Dodo-hunting, but becomes popular with them and poor Garfield by promising them that they can easily get exactly what they want. He cements the allusion by over-vigourously pulling on their arms as he shakes their hands.

* LovableSexManiac: Hamish. He may be crude, filthy, and a hardcore lecher, but his TheLoinsSleepTonight moment with Lillian, rather than being a RageBreakingPoint, finds him chastened and apologetic. Then there's this bemused exchange as the servants discuss Garfield's "ravishing:"

* HiddenDepths: Beatrice is illiterate and is regarded as the least intelligent member of the household. However, she has a deeper understanding of math then the rest of her family, is a capable opera singer and flautist, and can be just as manipulative as Lillian. Certain episodes hint that Beatrice is simply ObfuscatingStupidity (to a limited extent, since she is still TheDitz) either for Fredrick's sake or simply for her own amusement.

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

* GayBestFriend: Albert is this to his wife Beatrice. He's the only one she trusts to do her hair and she often confides in him about her affair with Frederick.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lillian is horrified when Victor allows his entire family to be slaughtered by not leaving the room to stop the letter Lillian wrote orchestrating this from being sent, just so he can have the Butternut Room for himself.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Although it's a comedy, this trope features frequently in every episode. Racism, misogyny, and classism are ubiquitous, and everyone pretty much goes along with it.

** 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 under-butler.
* ComedicallyMissingThePoint: When Frederick is diagnosed as a homosexual, he and Beatrice lament the fact that his supposed homosexuality means that they cannot have sex- despite his clear physical attraction to Beatrice, a woman.

%%* 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. -- Who is gay and how is the trope played? This entry implies that the husbands are gay and the trope is being enforced for the purpose of the death being plausible, is this the case?

* BlackComedyRape: One time, a ghost had sex with Beatrice while she was asleep. It looked like Fredrick and it smelled like Fredrick and it was solid and not translucent at all- but it wasn't a ghost, it was Fredrick.

** Fredrick, when MistakenForGay calls the homosexual lifestyle "tempting". He 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 is definitely attracted to women (mostly his own sister).