History WebVideo / EpicMealTime

** "Fast Food Meatloaf" starts off with the boys "rescuing" a trio of {{Ms Fanservice}}s (including {{Lights}}) from some "[[UsefulNotes/McDonalds hamburglers]]".

** Fast Food Meatloaf: Prince Atari swings around an [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Energy Sword]] in one of the cutaway gags. {{Lights}} even uses it to cut the meatloaf.
*** {{Lights}}: "STOP!! [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds HAMBURGLER]]!!!"

** With synthpop singer/songwriter {{Lights}} in "Fast Food Meatloaf".

** With FPSRussia in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMyPD1VKk60 Russian Meal Time]]", "Meat Shield", and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpttwk4-FA Meat Ice Cream Party (Russian Meal Time Part 2)]]." (He also has a non-speaking role in "Crispy Tauntaun")

** MistakenNationalit: More than a few first time viewers assume the cast are American. No guesses as to why.

With the audacity to call themselves an "online cooking show", the first efforts soon expanded into meat sculptures, questionable uses of {{bacon|Addiction}}, "meat glue", [[TrademarkFavoriteFood bacon]] and [[UpToEleven five birds in a pig]] - and [[OverlyLongGag bacon]].

* BaconAddiction: Because everything's better with bacon strips. And bacon strips. And bacon strips. [[RunningGag And bacon strips]]. And sometimes, even ''big, deep-fried slabs'' of bacon.

* NutritionalNightmare: They live off this trope, routinely cooking gigantic dishes with tens (sometimes hundreds) of thousands of calories and thousands of grams of fat. Expect to see [[BaconAddiction a lot of bacon]] in their meals.

* SeriousBusiness: The one time they ''don't'' drink alcohol is "Maximum Protein Experience", which is (vaguely) themed on staying in shape, and filmed in a gym. Doesn't stop them from [[WorldOfHam hamming it up]], and using lots of [[BaconAddiction bacon strips and bacon strips]] [[OverlyLongGag and bacon strips...]]

->'' "So many chunks of bacon!"''
-->--'''Muscles Glasses''', in ''Maximum Protein Experience''.

* AffectionateParody - "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBCWZue57M Vegan Meal Time]]", while containing no meat or animal products, has a vegan dish that can only be described as epic. Oh, and [[ShoutOut seaweed strips]].

* TheAlcoholic - The guys cook with, and drink, plenty of booze while in the kitchen. Jack Daniel's is one of their mainstays, particularly for Harley and Muscles Glasses.
* AlcoholHic - In "Breakfast of Booze":

* AllThereInTheManual - The (nick)names of most of the cast are only seen on their respective Website/{{Facebook}}[=/=]Website/{{Twitter}} pages:

* AndADietCoke - During Harley and Sterling's appearance on The Jay Leno Show, they and Jay make a shepherd's pie together, during which Jay says, "You know what goes good with this? A Diet Coke."
* AnyoneCanDie - Muscles Glasses[[note]]It was a throwaway joke for an unused intro to "The Double Kill". It was revealed during the first Deleted Scenes video, and rumors took off from there, leading to his "reappearance" on "Maximum Protein Experience".[[/note]]

** BackFromTheDead - Muscles Glasses
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking - Harley, after ordering a Baconator and fries in a Wendy's drive-thru, is told the drink would only be twenty cents more.

* AscendedFanboy - Paolo, a student from Queen's University, emailed them asking for advice on how to do his own epic meal. The cast of Epic Meal Time road-tripped to Kingston, Ontario and cooked with him and his crew.
* AwesomeMcCoolname - '''Muscles Glasses'''

* BadassBeard - Harley's grew in during the run of the series.

* BaconAddiction - Because everything's better with bacon strips. And bacon strips. And bacon strips. [[RunningGag And bacon strips]]. And sometimes, even ''big, deep-fried slabs'' of bacon.
%% Do not read Beyond the Impossible. There is nothing impossible about sticking butter into peanut butter. There is nothing impossible about adding bacon to everything. No Real Life Examples Please.
* BigDamnHeroes - At the start of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDxTNiCpWM Fast Food Meatloaf]]"

* BigEater - This shouldn't require an explanation.

* BigNo - One of the crew in the background at the end of "The Sloppy Roethlisburger", when Harley slams his bottle of Jack Daniel's on the counter, causing the bottom to break and spill the contents.
* BilingualBonus - The text on the title card of "Fast Food Sushi"[[note]]"ファストフードのお寿司ぶっかけ", which roughly translates to "Fast food sushi bukkake"[[/note]].

* BlatantLies - In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdIT9A8g1v8 Bacon Bacon Truck]]", a girl "swears she's 21" before a group does some prison shots. After Harley (wisely) cards her, she leaves.

* BreakoutCharacter - Muscles Glasses. As if it wasn't apparent in the videos, he's the only cast member in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJsDAap4a0 WebVideo/EpicMealTime LIVE]]" to receive ''his own introduction sequence''.

* BucketHelmet - One person wears one in "Air, Sea and Landsagna".
* CallBack - "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrbv81SBHg Maximum Mac and Cheese]]" featured macaroni and cheese variants of no less than five previous dishes.

* CanadaEh - Muscles Glasses' dad is a lumberjack for crying out loud.
** MistakenNationality - More than a few first time viewers assume the cast are American. No guesses as to why.

* CatchPhrase - "What'you know about ''x''?!"

* ChainsawGood - Harley uses one in "Meatball Deathstar":

* ChewingTheScenery - 100% chewy monologue. SPREAD THAT SAUUUUZZE!
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome - The two girls who were recurring characters on the show (beginning with "Massive Meat Log") haven't appeared in the videos anymore. "Fast Food Meatloaf" even had different girls play the roles that would normally be filled by them.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Arguably, Tyler; Prince Atari has shades of this, too, depending on the episode.
* TheComicallySerious - Cousin Dave, who uses utensils to eat as calm and composed as possible, while the rest of the guys just gorge themselves with the food.

* CoolShades - Harley in "Fast Food Pizza" and Muscles Glasses afterward.

* CostumePorn - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mDKBzTZwk&feature=g-all-u Steampunk Meal Time]]

* CrossOver, SpecialGuest - With [[Creator/FreddieWong Freddie]] "[[http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew freddiew]]" [[Creator/FreddieWong Wong]] in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWPW8yJtgM Epic VFX Time]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayi_FUlsqX0 West Coast Burger Pile]]" (alongside WebVideo/CorridorDigital).

* CrowdSong - In "[=EpicMealTime=] LIVE":

* CulturedBadass - Yes, Harley may spend most of his time hamming up new dinners in every possible sense of the word, but he also knows, on a scientific level, exactly why he does what he does with food, and exactly why that makes it taste better: humans are programmed by evolution to like fatty foods.

* DeepFriedWhatever - Especially in beer batter.

* DoubleEntendre - In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxO3Y-wOrM Tequila Taco Night]]":

* DrinkOrder - Jack Daniels, mother''([[SoundEffectBleep caw!]])''!!
* DrugsAreBad - In "Sausage Fest", while making eggs, Harley states they're "Crackin' eggs like we crack smoke." He then suggests "Smoke crack?", but immediately answers "No, that's bad."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness - "Fast Food Pizza" sees Harley not nearly as hammy (or rehearsed); it's just him and Muscles Glasses (who doesn't even keep his signature shades on most of the time and actually talked) eating a pizza loaded with hamburgers, chicken wings, fries, etc.

* EroticEating - Played straight with the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzzx2OolfI Massive Meat Log]]".

* {{Fanservice}} - You like to watch girls eating? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzzx2OolfI You]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXjxHQQxcLw do]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKcl0Qg13o now]]. Straight female vorehounds? This is your mecca.
* FlatWhat - The usual response from fast-food outlets from whom they order in bulk in the drive-thru. There's no way that listening to their confusion ''wouldn't'' be the best bit of doing ''Epic Meal Time''.
* FoodPorn - But not the kind of soft, loving and tender porn you're used to. No, this is the manly, bacon-filled, made-of-meat food porn...for you perverts out there.

* FriendToAllChildren - Harley, who draws the line at dead baby jokes and gives apple pie to kids.
** Just as an FYI, the man used to be a middle school. Social Studies teacher.

* FunWithSubtitles - On the title card for most episodes.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent - During ''Peanut Butter and Jelly Archetype'', there's a sequence where Harley shows all of the food they've made for the episode, complete with calories counters. While he's doing this, Muscles Glasses is standing right next to him, eating from a jar of Nutella in his pocket with a mixing spoon.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - In "The Ostrich Nest":

* GiantFood: Every now and then they make a huge version of something, usually a burger. Then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLYGM1MtMw Mega Oreo]].
* GingerbreadHouse - "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUEpmbdZLw OF MEAT AND CHEEZ WHIZ]]! Merry Christmas."
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgCE8ohwDs Candy Castle]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-dyHWrM-Qk Breakfast Log Cabin]].
* AGodAmI - Invoked in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGw5ip2EokY Puzzle of the Lambs]]", where they play God and make a "[[EldritchAbomination culinary abomination]]".
* GodwinsLaw / HitlerAteSugar - "You know who else didn't like too much bacon? Hitler. And you don't want to be Hitler, do you? No. [[spoiler: He's got stupid hair]]."

--> '''Harley''': "For all you flub-sucking dark-gargling Tom Henry mother-father short-stains - This is a family restaurant."

* GunsAndGunplayTropes - "Russian Meal Time" provides examples of:
** AKA47 - {{Lampshaded}} and averted by [=FPSRussia=]:

** EveryoneIsArmed - Played with: Muscles Glasses makes mashed potatoes while holding a submachine gun.
** PistolWhipping - Harley, Muscles Glasses and [=FPSRussia=] take turns tenderizing meat, the latter using a Desert Eagle to do it.
** SpentShellsShower - Sort of: [=FPSRussia=] dribbles bullets out of his mouth at the end.
** SwissArmyGun - Harley uses a rifle + bayonet as a skewer for around half a dozen hamburgers.
** TriggerHappy - Invoked by [=FPSRussia=] during the shooting range segment against users of this trope. Harley starts to turn guilty when a Desert Eagle wounds up in his hand, but slightly subverted when he asks [=FPSRussia=] if it's alright to pull the trigger after the latter inspects the gun first.
** WallOfWeapons - At the gun store
* HilariousOuttakes - Five collections of outtakes have been released so far, but one scene was included as [[TheStinger a stinger]]:

* HotBlooded - The beginning of "Candy Pizza" confirms Harley as this.

* ImprovisedClothes - A bacon bikini in the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tew4MAepQso Gentleman's Episode]]".
* InsistentTerminology - How Harley justifies the ProductPlacement during the meals: "We didn't sell out--''they'' bought ''in''."
* InsultBackfire - Their official website links to a lambasting from [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]] in their About section, indicating they may be proud of having pissed them off.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY - In "Candy Poutine", Cousin Dave corrects Harley's mixing-up of 'ganache' and Grenache brand caramel. When Harley does it again, saying "carmel" and Dave corrects him, he drops a PrecisionFStrike on Dave.

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname - Alex "Muscles Glasses" Perrault
* LandSeaSky - "Air, Sea and Landsagna"
* LargeHam - Harley's one and he [[{{Pun}} proceeds to cook truckloads]].
* {{Malaproper}} - Harley opens with one in "Tequila Taco Night":

* MaleGaze - There's a lot of cleavage in "The Black Legend".
* MasochistsMeal - As tasty as a lot of these dishes look, consider their high fat content and calorie counts.

* MathematiciansAnswer - In "Meat Building 101", Paolo asks Tyler what kind of meat they used to build the Slaughterhouse. Tyler stumbles over his answer, but essentially tells him, "[[HowManyAllOfThem All of the meat]]."
* MundaneMadeAwesome - They do for meat what [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] did for [[MemeticMutation potato chips]].

* MsFanservice - The girl from "[[DoubleEntendre Massive Meat Log]]":

* NeckLift - Muscles Glasses to two thieving thugs in "Fast Food Meatloaf".

* OncePerEpisode - "[[OnTheNext Next time]], we eat ''x''!" where ''x'' is something outlandish or impossible to eat.

* OverlyLongGag - Bacon in general.
* PetTheDog - Harley and his crew are vulgar, crude, and gluttonous but they and their fellow [=YouTube=] celebrities helped people out in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hOtanUz7w&feature=plcp# Soup Kitchen]]
* PrecisionFStrike - In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7Ogcc67gY Spam Fries Four Loko]]", Cousin Dave shouts one out when someone tells him there's an automatic can opener after he finishes opening a couple of canned goods with a manual can opener.

* ARareSentence - During Epic Christmas Carol:

* RatedMForManly[=/=]TestosteronePoisoning - Debatable on which trope the show really follows; regardless, both come along with clogged arteries.

* {{Recut}} - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qDwK-kUY40 The Director's Cut of "Zombie Meal Time"]], one of the most controversial episodes gets a brand new opening, the cooking narration absent in the original, new scenes of the guys talking while in makeup and is streamlined from 7.5 minutes to 4 minutes.
* RedBaron - In "Fast Food Sushi", Harley dubs himself the "Sauce Boss".
** IHaveManyNames - Taken further in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUku7zAXVE Candy Sushi]]":

* RefugeInAudacity -

* RelaxOVision - "Fast Food Fondue Mixology" features "Your Weekly Bacon Moment," set to soft music while Harley talks quietly.

* RousingSpeech - Most of the video intros; take "84 Egg Sandwich" for example:

* SelfDeprecation - Invoked in "Tequila Taco Night":

* SerialEscalation - It started with a dish that anyone could make, then other culinary mashups. As more episodes rolled in, the dishes involved long and complex preparation methods, vegetables and require an entire dinner table of people to finish.

* ShoutOut - [[WordOfGod According to the crew]], the Epic Meal Time logo is derived from the Series/{{Jackass}} logo. Naturally, Harley admits the show's really "Series/{{Jackass}} [[RecycledINSPACE in the kitchen]]".
** Massive Meat Log - "We took a break out of destroying noobs on ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' to destroy your arteries on Youtube."

** Slaughterhouse - They made a Meat Boy. However, on the fat and calorie counter it's listed as...a [[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]].
** The Black Legend - [[ShockSite 2 girls, 1 crepe]]
** Epic Eggroll - "General Tao. [[http://www.kfc.ca/ Colonel Sanders]], salute your chicken superior."
** Meat Salad - "[[http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Cooking Without]] [[{{NGO}} Borders]]...unless those borders are bacon."

** Tequila Taco Night - "Next time, we eat [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki's]] [[SoundEffectBleep (meow~)]]."
** Deleted Scenes 1 - "Rap shows! Fur coats! Raccoons! Glasses! Video games! Pulls! Metal! Wood! [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Heart!]]"
** Maximum Protein Experience - When Muscles Glasses "rejoins" the crew, he does the Film/{{Predator}} handshake.
** [[SilenceOfTheLambs Puzzle of the Lambs]] - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_Chop%27s_Play-Along Lamb Chops Slay-A-Long]]

** Maximum Mac and Cheese - One of the two guys in the beginning of the episode [[DirtyWork presses "G8" on the jukebox, when he meant to press "G7"]].
** Cheesy Grilled Cheese Tower - Now that's a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda familiar looking shield and sword]] mounted on the wall...
** Candy BBQ - "[[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Hater, you're Augustus Gloop. Call us Willy Wonka when we temper that chocolate]]."

** Fast Food Meatloaf - Prince Atari swings around an [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Energy Sword]] in one of the cutaway gags. {{Lights}} even uses it to cut the meatloaf.

** Epic Stockyard Burger - "Next time, we eat the [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Cosmic Cube]]."
** Russian Meal Time - "Camouflaging our bacon from thermal vision. Ain't you seen Film/{{Predator}}?"

** [=EpicMealTime=] LIVE - "What up now, Creator/StanLee?"
** Ostrich Nest - "An Ostrich Nest ain't an Ostrich Nest without ostrich meat, am I right, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]]?"

** Sausage Fest - "[[CrocodileDundee THIS is a knife]]!"

** West Coast Burger Pile - "Dont drink the [[LimpBizkit hot dog-flavored Jack Daniels, you chocolate starfish]]!"
** [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Meat Cthulhu]] - [[Music/{{deadmau5}} Meatmare5]]
** Super Pastry Cake - Big pile of WebVideo/{{smosh}}

** Meat Garden - "Next time, we eat [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls skooma]]!"

** Filthy Reuben - Shart Week Day 4: [[Franchise/MortalKombat Friendship...Friendship....Friendship]]

** Frakenpig - [[Series/AreYouAfraidoftheDark "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Bacon Soceity..."]]

** Fish and Chips Filet - "The bacon has landed on the strip; [[StarWars execute order 66.]]"
** Ultimate Club Sandwich - "Take a look at [[SoundEffectBleep (caw)]]in' [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Doctor Wily]] and Doctor Doom doing (caw) in the kitchen."
** 11-Layer Megaton Dip - "Next time, we eat [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos the necronomicon]]."

* SoundEffectBleep - Nearly every curse word is censored via a crow's call. At least one instance of the word "vegetables" was censored, too.

* ThePowerOfFriendship - The (intangible) thing that the guys run off of. [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Tea Gardner]] would be very pleased indeed.

* TheStoic - Aside from "Sugar Shack," Muscles Glasses will get in ''maybe'' two lines of dialogue during a couple episodes; most of the time he'll remain quite and/or communicate with strong glares at the camera.

* StuffedInTheFridge - The guys take it to a literal meaning by stuffing Jamie Oliver in the fridge so they can feed him the Fish and Chips Filet.
* SwissArmyAppendage - Played with in "Russian Meal Time":

* TakeThat - "What you doin'? Hatin'? '''STOP HATIN'!!!''' BLEND YOUR OWN BACON!!!"

** TheLeader - Harley, who invented and hosts the show.
** TheLancer - Sterling, who, although is seen rarely in episodes, is not just the cameraman, but the video editor.
** TheBigGuy - Muscles Glasses and Epic Mook, who does most of the cooking. As of this writing this post is filled by Ameer Atari, who is both a big guy and is now the head cook.
** TheSmartGuy - Tyler, who does the fat and calorie counter (although his on-screen character is as dumb as a post), and Cousin Dave, who eats like a gentleman.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood - Bacon, though Harley has a soft spot for macaroni and cheese. To a slightly lesser extent, Jack Daniels Whiskey.
* {{Troll}} - Although the guys may band together to create an epic meal, there are certain times when one of them can't help but either insult, snark or outright jinx each other. In "The Ostrich Nest", for example, when Epic Mook starts dicing up some onions:

** Also, Harley at the VideoGame/MassEffect3 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UyYFHDrBQ launch]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight - Muscles Glasses snapping two thieves' necks isn't given anything more than a simple "Yup, he's doing it again..." from Tyler.
* UpToEleven - Their holiday specials, the "[=TurBaconEpic=] Thanksgiving" and "The Slaughterhouse".

* VerbalTic - "Sauce" is (nowadays) always pronounced "SA-OOOS"

* WhamLine - From "Fast Food Pizza Cake":

*** You had to go to ThatOtherWiki to learn Muscles Glasses' real name: Alex Perrault.

Next time, we eat [[TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]]!

** Tequila Taco Night - "Next time, we eat [[JerseyShore Snooki's]] [[SoundEffectBleep (meow~)]]."

* GenreSavvy - In "84 Egg Sandwich", Harley goes and orders close to 100 breakfast sandwiches from [=McDonald's=]. The employee manning the drive-thru station (correctly) guesses it's for an Epic Meal Time project.
** One of the drive-thru clerks does the same thing in "Fast Food Lasagna".

--> '''Harley''': "[[GenreSavvy We all know]] that no one wants to see a douchebag eat a corn-dog, so we brought a little girl in for all you perverts!"

Their [[http://epicmealtime.com/ website]] is at last up and running. They have made an appearance on [[TheTonightShow Jay Leno]], where they made a shepherd's pie that was also a car.

** RegularOrdinarySwedishMealTime, which ups the LargeHam factor so much that it somehow makes Harley Morenstein and Co. look subdued and professional in comparison.

** Frakenpig - [[AreYouAfraidoftheDark "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Bacon Soceity..."]]
** Hot Dog Casserole ends with Harley acting like [[MisterRogersNeighborhood Mister Rogers]].

** [[StarWars Meatball Deathstar]]
*** Harley: "Next time, we eat KevinBacon!"

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjhG09X9YA Turbaconepicentipede]]. Just like the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ TurBaconEpic]], except ten of them...[[TheHumanCentipede sewn anus to mouth]].

** [[TheHumanCentipede Turbaconepicentipede]]

** With ''Series/Chopped'': Prince Atari (also billed under his real name) appeared on an October 2016 episode that featured stars of online cooking shows. He was eliminated in the Appetizer round.

* AllThereInTheManual - The (nick)names of most of the cast are only seen on their respective FaceBook[=/=]{{Twitter}} pages:

** [[TheAnnoyingOrange Annoying Orange]] - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9Pu6ixZ3o Epic Peel Time]].

** With SethRogen and Creator/JamesFranco in "Korean BBQ Lasagna."

** With ''CutthroatKitchen'': Epic Mook (billed under his real name) appeared in the November 2015 "Superstar Sabotage" charity tournament. He went out in the first round, but won $2,500 for his charity, Autism Speaks.

** [[CthulhuMythos Meat Cthulhu]] - [[Music/{{deadmau5}} Meatmare5]]

* YouHaveToHaveJews: Would you believe the show that cooks more pig meat than an all-you-can-eat rib joint has at least three Jews at the helm (Harley, Epic Mook, and Cousin Dave)? ''Epic Meal Empire'' shows that their families aren't any better about keeping kosher.

** TheBigGuy - Muscles Glasses and Epic Mook, who does most of the cooking.

** Deleted Scenes 1 - "Rap shows! Fur coats! Raccoons! Glasses! Video games! Pulls! Metal! Wood! [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Heart!]]"

** Super Pastry Cake - Big pile of {{smosh}}

** With the {{SMOSH}} duo in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2MUYs9mw9o Super Pastry Cake]]".