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* TheAlcoholic: Historically enforced mild alcoholism, as for most of European history, water is too contaminated to drink. It's debatable whether Giles and Sue were completely sober for ''any'' part of the show.
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* TheAlcoholic: Historically enforced mild alcoholism, as for most of European history, water is too contaminated to drink. It's debatable whether Giles and Sue were completely sober for ''any'' part of the show.show except for the medieval episode, in which Giles admitted to the doctor at the end that he never successfully got drunk and thus was rather miserable.
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Sue and Giles reunited for a special called ''Giles and Sue's Royal Wedding'', wherein they don BBC costumes and look at the history of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin royal weddings]].
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Sue and Giles reunited for a special called ''Giles and Sue's Royal Wedding'', wherein they don BBC costumes and look at the history of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin royal weddings]].
weddings]]. They then followed this up with a series called ''Giles and Sue Live the Good Life'', where the two presenters examined what it would have been like to live the lives of the protagonists of the classic sitcom ''Series/TheGoodLife''.
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''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''.
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''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''.
''Series/FearFactor''.
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Played for laughs during the victorian episode.
-->Sue: [[ThousandYardStare *eating lamb's head*]]
-->Giles: "That's the face I remember from our lovemaking!"
-->Sue: [[ThousandYardStare *eating lamb's head*]]
-->Giles: "That's the face I remember from our lovemaking!"
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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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* 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).it).
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* TickleTorture: On the Restoration episode, Sue places a live snail on the tip of her big toe to demonstrate an old-fashioned method of removing corns. As the snail slowly makes its way down her sole, Sue has difficulty finishing her sentences and begins to stumble and repeat her words while stifling laughter. Sue admits to having ticklish feet and, once the snail reaches her arch dead center, she is unable to contain her laughter.
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* TickleTorture: On In the Restoration episode, Sue places a live snail on the tip of her big toe to demonstrate an old-fashioned method of removing corns. As the snail slowly makes its way down her sole, Sue has difficulty finishing her sentences and begins to stumble and repeat her words while stifling laughter. Sue admits to having ticklish feet and, once the snail reaches her arch dead center, she is unable to contain her laughter.
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* TickleTorture: On the “Restoration” episode, Sue places a live snail on the tip of her big toe to demonstrate an old-fashioned method of removing corns. As the snail slowly makes its way down her sole, Sue has difficulty finishing her sentences and begins to stumble and repeat her words while stifling laughter. Sue admits to having ticklish feet and, once the snail reaches her arch dead center, she is unable to contain her laughter.
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* TickleTorture: On the “Restoration” Restoration episode, Sue places a live snail on the tip of her big toe to demonstrate an old-fashioned method of removing corns. As the snail slowly makes its way down her sole, Sue has difficulty finishing her sentences and begins to stumble and repeat her words while stifling laughter. Sue admits to having ticklish feet and, once the snail reaches her arch dead center, she is unable to contain her laughter.
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* TickleTorture: On the “Restoration” episode, Sue places a live snail on the tip of her big toe to demonstrate an old-fashioned method of removing corns. As the snail slowly makes its way down her sole, Sue has difficulty finishing her sentences and begins to stumble and repeat her words while stifling laughter. Sue admits to having ticklish feet and, once the snail reaches her arch dead center, she is unable to contain her laughter.
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** 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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** 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 same episode mentions that after Britain turned off the electricity, one woman was ''fined'' for having a visible light on her iron.
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* RedScare : Mentioned during the Wartime episode. At the time, "communal" cafeteria-style restaurants sprang up. Winston Churchill changed the name to British Kitchens, to avoid "communal feeding centre" sounding too much like "communism."
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** During the Wartime episode, Sue and the week's cook sing about cooking their way to victory.
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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".
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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". Sue and Giles also argue about putting a squirrel into the pie, then Giles asks if they can find a seagull.
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* CoolMask: Actually kind of a creepy mask. During the Restoration episode, Sue wears a visage, held on via a button held between the wearer's teeth.
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* AnachronismStew : Deliberately, and often hilariously. While Giles and Sue try to stay "period," their guests are modern, as are their means of transportation.
* BritishBrevity : Each season is only six episodes, for a total of thirteen episodes including the first special.
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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 wuld then be thrown away untouched.
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** One of the chefs holds her nose while she's preparing a dish.
--> Sue: I've heard of nose to tail eating, but all I've eaten is noses and tails!
--> Sue: I've heard of nose to tail eating, but all I've eaten is noses and tails!
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** Also discussed in the Restoration episode, when the doctor notes the diet can cause kidney stones.
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* ChristmasEpisode : The Victorian episode explores a traditional Victorian Christmas, including a tree, crackers, and goose and pudding.
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** Ironically, during a couple of episodes, Giles and Sue ''lose weight'' (the Elizabethan episode, for example), due to the amount of protein they're eating being an appetite suppressant. The lack of processed foods contributes to this phenomenon, though the doctor points out the diet is unhealthy to maintain for very long.
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* TheDandy : Giles gleefully takes on the role of a "Regency dandy," a large part of the reason he chose that era for the show.
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* BeautyInversion : The normally nerdy-cute Sue tries on the "beauty" standards of Elizabethan times. This includes death-white face makeup (at the time, made of lead), pink rouge, and [[BritishTeeth blackened front teeth]], in honour of the sugar-loving Queen Elizabeth. She gives the camera a ghastly grin when she's all made up. Still pretty cute.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar : An in-universe version. Paps are an Elizabethan-era dessert, purportedly made to look like the Pope's hat. In reality, they're supposed to look like the lady of the household's breasts.
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** Subverted in a few episodes, as well. The only beverages anyone drank were ale and wine, because water was too polluted. Compared to historical times, Sue and Giles are lightweights, where the amount of alcohol consumed was normal rather than "hard-drinking."
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* UrineTrouble : During the Restoration episode, Giles pees in a bucket, with his back to the dinner guests.
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* NonNudeBathing : During the French Revolution episode, Sue offers a look at Marie Antoinette's love of baths. For modesty's sake, she (Marie Antoinette, not just Sue) wore a gown in the bath, and would chat with guests and crochet while in the tub.
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* BathKick : During the Restoration episode, Sue takes a bath in wormwood and offers a comedic one of these.
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** The peach melba served from between the wings of a swan carved from ice.
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** During the first episode, ''Edwardian Super Size Me'', they eat mock turtle soup with what appears to be pig's feet. During Edwardian times, turtles nearly went extinct due to the popularity of turtle soup, so "mock turtle soup" was created.
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* IAteWhat : Both Sue and Giles are up for the challenge of the stranger dishes. Then Sue, trying to supplement her wartime rations, bites into a crabapple and takes the head off a maggot.
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* MoodWhiplash: During the Wartime episode, Sue and Giles are trading sarcastic barbs... Then the [[HellIsThatNoise air raid sirens]] start. An unusually somber transition occurs, as Giles outlines some of the bombings during the war.
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** During TheRoaringTwenties episode, a drunken Giles makes a mock peach melba, which Sue finds pretty gross.
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* 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.
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* 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 [[Radio/TheNewsQuiz News Quiz]] anecdotes (including lapsing into a brief, Special Brew-induced coma during a theatrical showing of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') are anything to go by.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the World War II episode, Giles refuses to take shelter during an air raid. While they don't get hit, if they had then such a move would have been borderline-suicidal.
-->Giles: "No Hun is going to force me from my dinner!"
-->Giles: "No Hun is going to force me from my dinner!"
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Both Sue and Giles sometimes say then when discussing events that were recent in the time period they are testing yet already panned out by now.
