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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Giles and Sue both play these in The Eighties Episode ... [[spoiler: until the stock market crashes]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Giles and Sue both play these in The Eighties Episode ... [[spoiler: until the stock market crashes]]crashes on Black Monday ...]]
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* SpecialGuest: Every. Single. Episode. Giles and Sue often invite Politicians, Celebrates, Lords, Historical Experts, and other veterans of an era to their historical meals.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Giles and Sue both play these in The Eighties Episode ... [[spoiler: until the stock market crashes]]
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* BeautifulAllAlong: In The Eighties Episode, Sue dyes her hair blond and Giles takes notice.
--> Giles: "I'm delighted to see you're a blond in this period. Finally you're my type."
--> Giles: "I'm delighted to see you're a blond in this period. Finally you're my type."
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* DisproportionateRetribution: In the Wartime Episode, Sue is told that she could have been thrown in jail for not eating everything on her plate. Justified in that Britain was at war and on rationing.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
** In the Wartime Episode, Sue is told that she could have been thrown in jail for not eating everything on her plate. Justified in that Britain was at war and on rationing.
** The Restoration Episode states that Poaching was punished with execution (either being shot-on-sight or hanged).
** The Roman Episode states that a Vestal Virgin who has sex before her oath expires is punished by being buried alive.
** In the Wartime Episode, Sue is told that she could have been thrown in jail for not eating everything on her plate. Justified in that Britain was at war and on rationing.
** The Restoration Episode states that Poaching was punished with execution (either being shot-on-sight or hanged).
** The Roman Episode states that a Vestal Virgin who has sex before her oath expires is punished by being buried alive.
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** Literally done in the Roman episode, where a common dinner entertainment is having a pretty slave parade around the dining room with some ''really'' exotic piece of cookery, which would then be thrown away untouched.
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** Literally done in the Roman episode, where a common dinner entertainment is having a pretty slave parade around the dining room with some ''really'' exotic piece of cookery, which would wuld then be thrown away untouched.
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* PatrioticFervor: In The Regency Episode, Giles shares a meal with The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, a club of British Men who preserve British Culture (specifically the British practice of eating steaks instead of minced meat).
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Sue is a lesbian, but doesn't seem to mind rolling around on the floor with Giles. Admittedly, they're usually both ''staggeringly'' drunk.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Sue is a lesbian, but doesn't seem to mind rolling around on the floor with Giles.Giles and sleeping in the same bed as him. Admittedly, they're usually both ''staggeringly'' drunk.
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* TheBeautifulElite: In The Twenties episode, Sue and Giles lead the life of the rich, the young and the beautiful. They go to the car racing, have dancing lessons, they go exploring Ancient Egypt, they have fancy dinner parties... Very [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque.
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* BadBoss: In The Fifties Episode, Giles plays a manager at a car manufacturer. He bans Tea Breaks to improve efficiency (recreating a measure managers actually took in The Fifties in the name of the bottom line), and when his employees strike [[PointyHairedBoss he just declares sucess and the issue is never mentioned again]].
* TheBeautifulElite: In The Twentiesepisode, Episode, Sue and Giles lead the life of the rich, the young and the beautiful. They go to the car racing, have dancing lessons, they go exploring Ancient Egypt, they have fancy dinner parties... Very [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque.
* TheBeautifulElite: In The Twenties
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* KavorkaMan: In the Restoration Episode, Giles woos a girl by quoting Restoration Era pickup lines. And yes, he was wearing full costume while doing this.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In The Victorian Episode, Sue volunteers as a server at a Food Kitchen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In The Roman Episode and The Regency Episode, Giles and Sue hand out bread to commoners. In the Roman Episode it is to get Giles reelected as Roman Senator, and in The Regency Episode it is to prevent the peasants from killing them in retaliation for kicking them off the (recently privatized) common lands.
* KavorkaMan: In the Restoration Episode, Giles woos a girl by quoting Restoration Era pickup lines. And yes, he was wearing full costume while doing this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In The Roman Episode and The Regency Episode, Giles and Sue hand out bread to commoners. In the Roman Episode it is to get Giles reelected as Roman Senator, and in The Regency Episode it is to prevent the peasants from killing them in retaliation for kicking them off the (recently privatized) common lands.
* KavorkaMan: In the Restoration Episode, Giles woos a girl by quoting Restoration Era pickup lines. And yes, he was wearing full costume while doing this.
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* MoralGuardians: In The Victorian Episode, Sue joins the Temperance Movement and protests against the sale of alcohol.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, Alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, Pomegranates and Gull Bladder for Bubonic plague, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy]]. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, Alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, Pomegranates and Gull Bladder Gallbladder for Bubonic plague, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy]]. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* KavorkaMan: In the Restoration Episode, Giles woos a girl by quoting Restoration Era pickup lines. And yes, he was wearing full costume while doing this.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, alcohol Alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, Pomegranates and Gull Bladder for Bubonic plague, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy]]. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Unfortunately for Sue, this was the attitude of society in most of the eras they look at.
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* BeautifulSlaveGirl: In the Roman Episode, there is a blond Britannian slave girl serving in the last feast. Giles mentioned in the narration that Roman Aristocrats considered Celt slaves an exotic possession around this time.
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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized:
** In the French Revolution Episode, Sue and Giles play Radical Revolutionaries on one of the days. During this, they eat a picnic while watching guillotine executions.
** In the Roman Episode, Sue briefly plays Boudica for a moment. In the narration, Giles briefly mentions how Boudica massacred three cities and killed a total of 70,000 people.
** In the French Revolution Episode, Sue and Giles play Radical Revolutionaries on one of the days. During this, they eat a picnic while watching guillotine executions.
** In the Roman Episode, Sue briefly plays Boudica for a moment. In the narration, Giles briefly mentions how Boudica massacred three cities and killed a total of 70,000 people.
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* SexSlave: In the Roman Episode, Sue makes overturns at a male slave during a feast. In the narration, Giles points out that slaves in this era were property who could be used by their masters for sex at any time.
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* AscendedToCarnivorism: The show often mentions that Sue is a vegetarian ... yet she has no problem eating sheep heads and cow tongues. She draws the line at Foie Gras though.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and as a result many of their activities involve being mean to peasants. A notable example is in the Regency episode, where Giles spends a day waiting in the field with a gun to shoot poachers (the land enclosure act meant the aristocrats owned all the wild game on their lands).
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and as a result many of their activities involve being mean to peasants. A notable example is in the Regency episode, where Giles spends a day waiting in the field with a gun to shoot poachers (the land enclosure act meant the aristocrats owned all the wild game on their lands).
* AscendedToCarnivorism: The show often mentions that Sue is a vegetarian ... yet she has no problem eating sheep heads and cow tongues. She draws the line at Foie Gras though.
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* BilingualBonus: In the first part of the Roman episode, Giles and Sue speak latin for a little bit.
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* GenerationXerox: They finish the Elizabethan Episode by recreating the first part of Elizabeth's tour of England, specifically her visit to Ingatestone Hall and the feast she ate with Sir William Peter. Since William Peter is dead, Sue and Giles ate at Ingatestone Hall with the current (18th) Lord Peter. This means that 18 generations later, Ser William Peter's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1861.
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* GenerationXerox: They finish the Elizabethan Episode by recreating the first part of Elizabeth's tour of England, specifically her visit to Ingatestone Hall and the feast she ate with Sir William Peter. Petre. Since William Peter Petre is dead, Sue and Giles ate at Ingatestone Hall with the current (18th) Lord Peter. Petre. This means that 18 generations later, Ser Sir William Peter's Petre's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1861.1561.
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* IncestSubtext: In the Regency episode, Giles and Sue play brother and sister. After the first meal in that episode, Sue accuses Giles of having incestuous feelings for her and intentionally fattening her up so nobody else can have her. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Giles responds by threatening to throw her in a mental asylum]] (something men in that era could do to their female relatives regardless of mental health).
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* ReducedToRatburgers: In the Wartime Episode, they have to eat Lord Woolton Pie for one of the meals (Woolton Pie being a pie with only vegetables as ingredients). Giles states that he would rather have eaten a "rat pie".
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** In the Wartime Episode, they have to eat Lord Woolton Pie for one of the meals (Woolton Pie being a pie with only vegetables as ingredients). Giles states that he would rather have eaten a "rat pie".
** In the Wartime Episode, they have to eat Lord Woolton Pie for one of the meals (Woolton Pie being a pie with only vegetables as ingredients). Giles states that he would rather have eaten a "rat pie".
* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy]]. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* TwentiesBobHaircut: Sue gets a bob haircut during her makeover as she usually wears somewhat sloppy short hair. When she first see herself in the mirror, she cries: "I look like an evil doll!" The truth is that twenties flapper look of "the young and beautiful elite" suits her perfectly.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Roman Episode ends with Sue and Giles being smothered to death by rose petals as punishment for their decadence. They don't even visit the doctor at the end to learn that their BMI increased 1%.]]
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* FakeFood: In the Wartime Episode, they eat "mock" food such as Mock Duck (made of sausage meat and carrots).
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and as a result many of their activities involve being mean to peasants. A notable example is in the Regency episode, where Giles spends the day waiting in the field with a gun to shoot poacher (the land enclosure act meant the aristocrats owned all the wild game on their lands).
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and as a result many of their activities involve being mean to peasants. A notable example is in the Regency episode, where Giles spends the a day waiting in the field with a gun to shoot poacher poachers (the land enclosure act meant the aristocrats owned all the wild game on their lands).
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* DisproportionateRetribution: In the Wartime Episode, Sue is told that she could have been thrown in jail for not eating everything on her plate. Justified in that Britain was at war and on rationing.
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* IncestSubtext: In the Regency episode, Giles and Sue play brother and sister. After the first meal in that episode, Sue accuses Giles of having incestuous feelings for her and intentionally fattening her up so nobody else can have her. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Giles responds by threatening to throw her in a mental asylum]] (something men in that era could do to their female relatives regardless of mental health).
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* ReducedToRatburgers: In the Wartime Episode, they have to eat Lord Woolton Pie for one of the meals (Woolton Pie being a pie with only vegetables as ingredients). Giles states that he would rather have eaten a "rat pie".
** Subverted in the Roman Episode, in which Sue and Giles ate doormice not to recreate famine but because rats were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.
** Subverted in the Roman Episode, in which Sue and Giles ate doormice not to recreate famine but because rats were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, etc. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy]]. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* GenerationXerox: They finish the Elizabethan Episode by recreating the first part of Elizabeth's tour of England, specifically her visit to Ingatestone Hall and the feast that Sir William Peter. Since William Peter is dead, Sue and Giles ate at ingatestone Hall with the current Lord Peter. This means that 18 generations later, Ser William Peter's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1861.
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* GenerationXerox: They finish the Elizabethan Episode by recreating the first part of Elizabeth's tour of England, specifically her visit to Ingatestone Hall and the feast that she ate with Sir William Peter. Since William Peter is dead, Sue and Giles ate at ingatestone Ingatestone Hall with the current (18th) Lord Peter. This means that 18 generations later, Ser William Peter's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1861.
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* GenerationXerox: They finish the Elizabethan Episode by recreating the first part of Elizabeth's tour of England, specifically her visit to Ingatestone Hall and the feast that Sir William Peter. Since William Peter is dead, Sue and Giles ate at ingatestone Hall with the current Lord Peter. This means that 18 generations later, Ser William Peter's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1861.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the sake of historical accuracy, Giles and Sue are only allowed to use historically-accurate remedies to make themselves feel better (even if said remedies are proven today to not work). Beef-Tea to cure indigestion, alcohol to cure insomnia, blood-letting to cure caffeine withdraw, etc. Taken UpToEleven in the Medieval Episode, when they have spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: For the Elizabethan episode, the hosts can have all the alcohol they want, but no tea or coffee (they haven't been discovered by Europeans yet), Sue was horrified.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: For the Elizabethan episode, the hosts can have all the alcohol they want, but no tea or coffee (they haven't been discovered by Europeans yet), Sue was horrified.and Giles both have difficulty with this.
* RealMenLoveJesus: In the Elizabethan Episode, Giles and Sue pray before meals. In the Medieval Episode, they go on a pilgrimage to Cantenbury and Giles goes on a Crusade. The Roman Episode involves a pagan example, as Sue tends a sacred flame of Vesta and sacrifices a chicken to Bacchus.
* RealMenLoveJesus: In the Elizabethan Episode, Giles and Sue pray before meals. In the Medieval Episode, they go on a pilgrimage to Cantenbury and Giles goes on a Crusade. The Roman Episode involves a pagan example, as Sue tends a sacred flame of Vesta and sacrifices a chicken to Bacchus.
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* AscendedToCarnivorism: The show often mentions that Sue is a vegetarian ... yet she has no problem eating sheep heads and cow tongues. She draws the line at Foie Gras though.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and as a result many of their activities involve being mean to peasants. A notable example is in the Regency episode, where Giles spends the day waiting in the field with a gun to shoot poacher (the land enclosure act meant the aristocrats owned all the wild game on their lands).
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* AxCrazy: In the French Revolution episode, Giles and Sue briefly play radical revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror (this involves eating a revolutionary picnic while watching executions). After the Reign of Terror ends, they play two Noblemen who survived the butchery (this involves kicking revolutionaries to death in retaliation).
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* MrViceGuy: For the sake of historical accuracy often drinks (his body weight with every meal), gambles (in one episode getting thrown in "debtors prison"), and reacts to slights with violence (in one episode he waits to shoot poachers and challenges someone to a duel, while in another episode he almost participates in a gladiator fight before Sue talks him out of ie).
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* SoulsavingCrusader: At one point in the Medieval episode, Giles participates in the first crusade for Jerusalem.
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* JabbaTableManners: Giles' doesn't have the best table manners when he's sober and they just get worse and worse as he gets drunker as each week goes on, with him slobbering and slurping his way through meals and deliberately making a mess for the cameras. Sue plays along, but she doesn't quite reach Giles' level.
* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUahrDwrwqHo41zQ1WyrV7qg&feature=player_detailpage&v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s wormwood.]]
* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUahrDwrwqHo41zQ1WyrV7qg&feature=player_detailpage&v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s wormwood.]]
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* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUahrDwrwqHo41zQ1WyrV7qg&feature=player_detailpage&v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s com/watch?v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s wormwood.]]
* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: In the Medieval episode, one of the historical topics discussed is Sue's Saxon damsel character's unwillingness to marry Giles's Norman knight character.
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''The Supersizers Eat...'' (2008-) is a BBC television series. Every week, comedienne Sue Perkins and food critic Giles Coren get a complete physical checkup, choose a period in British history, put on period costumes, rent a period house/manor/villa to live in, then proceed to eat (and booze) their way through every single popular dish from that time period, all followed by a doctor follow-up to assess the damage done after a week of gluttony.
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''The Supersizers Eat...'' (2008-) is a BBC television series. Every week, comedienne Sue Perkins and food critic Giles Coren get a complete physical checkup, choose a period in British history, put on period costumes, rent a period house/manor/villa to live in, then proceed to eat (and booze) their way through every single popular dish from that time period, all followed by a doctor follow-up to assess the damage done after a week of gluttony.
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''The Supersizers Eat...'' (2008-) is a BBC television series. Every week, comedienne Sue Perkins and food critic Giles Coren get a complete physical checkup, choose a period in British history, put on period costumes, rent a period house/manor/villa to live in, then proceed to eat (and booze) their way through every single popular dish from that time period, all followed by a doctor follow-up to assess the damage done after a week of gluttony.
''Much'' better than it sounds. Giles provides the knowledgeable tidbits and Sue provides the snarky running commentary. Not to mention that they engage in the cutest (and most sarcastic) {{UST}} in the history of documentary filmmaking. And the food is all authentic and heavily researched, which means they tend to alternate between looking wonderful and looking worthy of ''FearFactor''.
Periods covered include: TheRestoration, VictorianLondon, TheSeventies, RegencyEngland, TheFifties, TheEighties, AncientRome, TheFrenchRevolution, WorldWarII...
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* TheAlcoholic: Historically enforced mild alcoholism, as for most of European history, water is too contaminated to drink. Its debatable whether Giles and Sue were completely sober for ''any'' part of the show.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The state dinners hosted by Louis XVI. The the primary purpose of the food was for showing off (in fact Versailles used to sell tickets where the yokels can go and watch the King and Queen eat) and thus are so overprepared that they are practically inedible. After every state dinner, King Louis and Marie Antoinette would immediately retreat to their chambers, and have an actual dinner.
* TheBeautifulElite: In The Twenties episode, Sue and Giles lead the life of the rich, the young and the beautiful. They go to the car racing, have dancing lessons, they go exploring Ancient Egypt, they have fancy dinner parties... Very [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: During the Elizabethan episode, Giles and Sue go for a night on the town. As an Elizabethan lady couldn't be seen frequenting public houses and the like, Sue, in the tradition of many a [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare comedy]], is forced to [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag.jpg adopt]] [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag2.jpg male]] [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag3.jpg drag]]. With delightful results.
* BigEater: The aristocrats from centuries past, some of them would regularly sit down and eat 5000 Calories ''per meal'' (the daily recommended intake is 2500 Cal ''per day''). The favoured breakfast of George IV is a pie that has a steak, an egg, and an entire pigeon (among other things) baked in and all washed down with a bottle of champagne and laudanum.
* CaffeineBulletTime: In the Eighties episode, Giles has a stock market trader's breakfast of six double espresso shots. He doesn't think it's had much of an effect on him, but then he notices that one of his arms is involuntarily twitching.
* CostumePorn: Thanks to the BBC costumes department. They mostly look really wonderful.
* DyeingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Part of the costuming involved period-specific hairstyles. As mentioned below, for the Twenties episode, Sue gets a TwentiesBobHaircut.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the original one-off special, ''Edwardian Supersize Me'', the menu for each meal is just a generic voiceover, rather than the plummy, slightly sardonic voice of Roy Marsden used in the series proper.
* FoodPorn:
** Intentionally done, as cooking for an old-style aristocrat is primarily a method of showing off your wealth and power. Oneupsmanship among cooks can be fierce.
** Literally done in the Roman episode, where a common dinner entertainment is having a pretty slave parade around the dining room with some ''really'' exotic piece of cookery, which would then be thrown away untouched.
* ForeignQueasine: Not so much foreign in the geographical sense as the chronological, but it still applies. Pickled testicles and rotten fish juice anyone?
* GroinAttack: In an outtake in the closing credits for the Seventies episode, Giles is fooling around with a skateboard and stamps on one end. At which point it pivots up into the air and hits him straight in the crotch.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Sue, after drinking the historically accurate (read: 10+ pints) amount of alcohol per day. Possibly just Sue in general, if some of her [[TheNewsQuiz News Quiz]] anecdotes (including lapsing into a brief, Special Brew-induced coma during a theatrical showing of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') are anything to go by.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Sue is a lesbian, but doesn't seem to mind rolling around on the floor with Giles. Admittedly, they're usually both ''staggeringly'' drunk.
* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUahrDwrwqHo41zQ1WyrV7qg&feature=player_detailpage&v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s wormwood.]]
-->'''Sue:''' Last night, I dreamt that Lord Sebastian Coe took me to the Olympic Games site in East London to show me around the new stadiums. Whereupon he dug a hole in the ground, threw me in, and put a pastry lid on top.
* MustHaveCaffeine: For the Elizabethan episode, the hosts can have all the alcohol they want, but no tea or coffee (they haven't been discovered by Europeans yet), Sue was horrified.
* RunningGag: Giles does all of his vlog segments with a weird hat and a cup of alcohol.
* SlipperySkid: In the French Revolution episode, Giles and Sue are practising the "Versailles Glide", the way that the French nobility would walk around the palace, on a highly polished marble floor. At one point Sue slips over backwards, and there is a very audible thud as her head connects with the ground. Fortunately the very large wig she is wearing seems to absorb much of the impact.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Giles and Sue Live Series/TheGoodLife'', in which they try their hands at self-sufficiency.
* SpotOfTea: In the World War II episode, Sue and Giles have American soldiers visiting. They mention some real life advice Americans were given, for example that they shouldn't be complaining about coffee, because likewise, the British wouldn't be satisfied with tea made by Americans.
* TwentiesBobHaircut: Sue gets a bob haircut during her makeover as she usually wears somewhat sloppy short hair. When she first see herself in the mirror, she cries: "I look like an evil doll!" The truth is that twenties flapper look of "the young and beautiful elite" suits her perfectly.
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''The Supersizers Eat...'' (2008-) is a BBC television series. Every week, comedienne Sue Perkins and food critic Giles Coren get a complete physical checkup, choose a period in British history, put on period costumes, rent a period house/manor/villa to live in, then proceed to eat (and booze) their way through every single popular dish from that time period, all followed by a doctor follow-up to assess the damage done after a week of gluttony.
''Much'' better than it sounds. Giles provides the knowledgeable tidbits and Sue provides the snarky running commentary. Not to mention that they engage in the cutest (and most sarcastic) {{UST}} in the history of documentary filmmaking. And the food is all authentic and heavily researched, which means they tend to alternate between looking wonderful and looking worthy of ''FearFactor''.
Periods covered include: TheRestoration, VictorianLondon, TheSeventies, RegencyEngland, TheFifties, TheEighties, AncientRome, TheFrenchRevolution, WorldWarII...
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!!Provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Historically enforced mild alcoholism, as for most of European history, water is too contaminated to drink. Its debatable whether Giles and Sue were completely sober for ''any'' part of the show.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The state dinners hosted by Louis XVI. The the primary purpose of the food was for showing off (in fact Versailles used to sell tickets where the yokels can go and watch the King and Queen eat) and thus are so overprepared that they are practically inedible. After every state dinner, King Louis and Marie Antoinette would immediately retreat to their chambers, and have an actual dinner.
* TheBeautifulElite: In The Twenties episode, Sue and Giles lead the life of the rich, the young and the beautiful. They go to the car racing, have dancing lessons, they go exploring Ancient Egypt, they have fancy dinner parties... Very [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: During the Elizabethan episode, Giles and Sue go for a night on the town. As an Elizabethan lady couldn't be seen frequenting public houses and the like, Sue, in the tradition of many a [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare comedy]], is forced to [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag.jpg adopt]] [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag2.jpg male]] [[http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/Iris_Wildthyme/cuties/SueDrag3.jpg drag]]. With delightful results.
* BigEater: The aristocrats from centuries past, some of them would regularly sit down and eat 5000 Calories ''per meal'' (the daily recommended intake is 2500 Cal ''per day''). The favoured breakfast of George IV is a pie that has a steak, an egg, and an entire pigeon (among other things) baked in and all washed down with a bottle of champagne and laudanum.
* CaffeineBulletTime: In the Eighties episode, Giles has a stock market trader's breakfast of six double espresso shots. He doesn't think it's had much of an effect on him, but then he notices that one of his arms is involuntarily twitching.
* CostumePorn: Thanks to the BBC costumes department. They mostly look really wonderful.
* DyeingForYourArt: [[invoked]] Part of the costuming involved period-specific hairstyles. As mentioned below, for the Twenties episode, Sue gets a TwentiesBobHaircut.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the original one-off special, ''Edwardian Supersize Me'', the menu for each meal is just a generic voiceover, rather than the plummy, slightly sardonic voice of Roy Marsden used in the series proper.
* FoodPorn:
** Intentionally done, as cooking for an old-style aristocrat is primarily a method of showing off your wealth and power. Oneupsmanship among cooks can be fierce.
** Literally done in the Roman episode, where a common dinner entertainment is having a pretty slave parade around the dining room with some ''really'' exotic piece of cookery, which would then be thrown away untouched.
* ForeignQueasine: Not so much foreign in the geographical sense as the chronological, but it still applies. Pickled testicles and rotten fish juice anyone?
* GroinAttack: In an outtake in the closing credits for the Seventies episode, Giles is fooling around with a skateboard and stamps on one end. At which point it pivots up into the air and hits him straight in the crotch.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Sue, after drinking the historically accurate (read: 10+ pints) amount of alcohol per day. Possibly just Sue in general, if some of her [[TheNewsQuiz News Quiz]] anecdotes (including lapsing into a brief, Special Brew-induced coma during a theatrical showing of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') are anything to go by.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Sue is a lesbian, but doesn't seem to mind rolling around on the floor with Giles. Admittedly, they're usually both ''staggeringly'' drunk.
* MushroomSamba: After taking a bath in wine and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUahrDwrwqHo41zQ1WyrV7qg&feature=player_detailpage&v=gfm0Zf_l8Hg#t=278s wormwood.]]
-->'''Sue:''' Last night, I dreamt that Lord Sebastian Coe took me to the Olympic Games site in East London to show me around the new stadiums. Whereupon he dug a hole in the ground, threw me in, and put a pastry lid on top.
* MustHaveCaffeine: For the Elizabethan episode, the hosts can have all the alcohol they want, but no tea or coffee (they haven't been discovered by Europeans yet), Sue was horrified.
* RunningGag: Giles does all of his vlog segments with a weird hat and a cup of alcohol.
* SlipperySkid: In the French Revolution episode, Giles and Sue are practising the "Versailles Glide", the way that the French nobility would walk around the palace, on a highly polished marble floor. At one point Sue slips over backwards, and there is a very audible thud as her head connects with the ground. Fortunately the very large wig she is wearing seems to absorb much of the impact.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Giles and Sue Live Series/TheGoodLife'', in which they try their hands at self-sufficiency.
* SpotOfTea: In the World War II episode, Sue and Giles have American soldiers visiting. They mention some real life advice Americans were given, for example that they shouldn't be complaining about coffee, because likewise, the British wouldn't be satisfied with tea made by Americans.
* TwentiesBobHaircut: Sue gets a bob haircut during her makeover as she usually wears somewhat sloppy short hair. When she first see herself in the mirror, she cries: "I look like an evil doll!" The truth is that twenties flapper look of "the young and beautiful elite" suits her perfectly.
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