Line #110 Characters/AnotherPeriod


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5	!The Bellacourt Family
6	[[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bellacourtfamilyanotherperiod.png]]
7	%%* BigScrewedUpFamily
8	* IdleRich: The sisters spend their entire days doing as little as possible, to the point of making their servants carry them from room to room. Their mother spends the day using opium. And Frederick, well…
9	-->'''Frederick''': Oh Garfield, sometimes I feel as though I have nothing. I can't be with the woman I love, I have no career, I have absolutely '''nothing''' to do all day except eat, take naps, hunt, relax, take drugs, play sporting games, do all the leisurely activities that please me… can you imagine not being able to follow your dreams?
10	* NouveauRiche: They're hillbillies with extravagant wealth, trying to live like kings, with only the faintest idea of how kings actually live.
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12	[[folder:Lillian]]
13	!!Lillian [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Abigail Hitler]] Schmemmerhorn-Fish (née Bellacourt)
14	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_lillian.png]]
15	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/NatashaLeggero'')-]
16	->''"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful--hate me because I'm an awful bitch. I'm Lillian. Good things come in small packages. And by good things, I mean penises, and by packages, I mean me."''
17	-->-- In her own words
18	The Commodore's and Dodo's daughter. Married to Victor.
19	%%* AlphaBitch
20	* AttentionWhore: She will do pretty much everything that gets her attention, including, but not limited to faking her own kidnapping and staging a surgery that is supposed to show she has nearly a gallon of ejaculate in her stomach.
21	* CoolCrown: Lillian goes virtually nowhere without her signature tiara--worn slightly askew, appropriately.
22	* FemaleMisogynist: She's strictly against women's rights to vote and own property.
23	* GoldDigger: Lillian is not shy about wanting to marry a richer and more influential man in order to climb up in the Newport high society.
24	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-Universe, her life motto.
25	* TantrumThrowing: She is ''so'' prone to this.
26	[[/folder]]
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28	[[folder:Beatrice]]
29	!!Beatrice [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Tiffani Amber Thiessen]] Downsy (née Bellacourt)
30	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_beatrice.png]]
31	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/RikiLindhome'')-]
32	->''"I'm Beatrice. My name rhymes with sailboat. I like shiny objects, like diamonds and potatoes."''
33	-->-- In her own words
34	The Commodore's and Dodo's daughter. Married to Albert.
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36	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Frederick. Their relationship survived Beatrice's marriage, because her husband's gay, but Frederick's marriage threw a wrench in things.
37	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Albeit [[[ComicallyMissingThePoint played for dark laughs.]] But when Frederick declares that they must stop their incestuous affair as he is now engaged, Beatrice focuses entirely on Frederick saying that they must grow up and cannot be "babies forever". She regresses creepily into a child-like state and refers to herself as "Baby Bea" and tries to seduce Frederick as "Baby Bea" in front of his fiancee.
38	* DumbBlonde: She's dumber than her darker haired sister.
39	* FemaleMisogynist: Just like Lillian, she is very much opposed to women's rights.
40	* GeniusDitz: She's illiterate, but she knows math.
41	* HiddenDepths: She's actually a mathematical genius but [[ObfuscatingStupidity hides it]].
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43	[[/folder]]
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45	[[folder:Dodo]]
46	!!Dodo Bellacourt
47	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_dodo.png]]
48	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/PagetBrewster'')-]
49	->''"I'm Dodo. Being a matriarch means all my decisions involve what goes in and what comes out of my vagina. I've never met a child I didn't hate."''
50	-->-- In her own words
51	The Commodore's wife and matriarch of the family, Dodo is the mother of Hortense, Lillian, Beatrice, and Frederick.
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53	* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: A 46-year-old actress playing the mother to daughters played by 37- and 41-year-olds.
54	* FunctionalAddict: Dodo relies on a regimen of morphine injections to get through her day.
55	** She's also [[TheAlcoholic a bit of a lush]].
56	* JunkieParent: She's addicted to morphine. Though it has to be said she never actually parented her children.
57	* 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."
58	[[/folder]]
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60	[[folder:the Commodore]]
61	!!Harold "the Commodore" [[strike:Bellawitz]] Bellacourt
62	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_commodore.png]]
63	[-(''Portrayed by David Koechner'')-]
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65	An illustrious magnet magnate (he invented magnets), the Commodore is the patriarch and founder of Bellacourt clan. He's the husband of Dodo, and father of Hortense, Lillian, Beatrice, and Frederick.
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67	* AmbiguouslyJewish: It is implied he is actually Jewish, see below.
68	* SelfMadeMan:
69	-->'''the Commodore''': When I started, I was a simple fur trapper. Look at me now. My son will be married into the most powerful family on the eastern seaboard. Never again will they say, ‘You won't amount to anything, Harold Bellawitz’--[[VerbalBackspace I mean Bellacourt]].
70	[[/folder]]
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72	[[folder:Hortense]]
73	!!Hortense [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Jefferson Library]] Bellacourt
74	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_hortense.png]]
75	[-(''Portrayed by Artemis Pendabi (pilot), Creator/LaurenAsh (rest of Season 1), and Lauren Flans (Season 2)'')-]
76	->''"Lady Hortense is my eldest daughter. She suffers from a variety of ailments, from photosensitivity to thigh heft. One can only hope she'll live a mercifully short life."''
77	-->-- In her mother's words
78	Hortense is the eldest daughter of the Bellacourt clan. She's a teetotaler and a suffragette.
79	* EmbarrassingNickname: Everyone calls her "Hor", like "whore".
80	* OnlySaneWoman: By modern standards, she's the only character with a clue.
81	* TheOtherDarrin: She has been played by four different actresses.
82	* TheSuffragette: Is concerned with women's rights, though her pursuits are usually thwarted by her sisters.
83	* TheUnfavourite: Her mother thinks the best for her would be to die soon.
84	* WhiteSheep: In a family of fame-obsessed/narcissistic/straight-out horrible people, she stands out as the only one with actual morals.
85	[[/folder]]
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87	[[folder:Frederick]]
88	!!Frederick Bellacourt
89	[-(''Portrayed by Jason Ritter'')-]
90	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_frederick.png]]
91	->''"My name is Frederick and I bathe in duck fat. What I lack in brains, I make up for in incest."''
92	-->-- In his own words
93	The only son and heir of the Bellacourt clan. Twin to Beatrice.
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95	* AmbiguouslyBi: He spends an episode trying to get 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).
96	* ArrangedMarriage: Frederick and Celery are betrothed to each other, mostly so that their fathers can seal a business deal. They have no love for each other, as Frederick is still in love with Beatrice and Celery realizes that Frederick is an idiot.
97	* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]{{Twincest}}: With Beatrice. Their relationship survived Beatrice's marriage, because her husband's gay, but Frederick's marriage threw a wrench in things.
98	* TheDitz: He thinks rocks are alive. He's even stupider than his sister, and unlike her, he doesn't show any signs of having HiddenDepths.
99	* MistakenForGay: By Sigmund Freud. He was relieved to learn Frederick's actually straight for his sister.
100	* SkewedPriorities: Thinks that Beatrice dancing as a "Baby Bea" and kissing him is inappropriate as he is engaged. Celery has to bring up that they are siblings.
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103	[[folder:Albert]]
104	!!Albert Downsy, Jr.
105	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_albert.png]]
106	[-(''Portrayed by David Wain'')-]
107	->''"I'm Albert, and I like to party like it's 1899. I have gout of the penis."''
108	-->-- In his own words
109	Beatrice's husband, and Victor's lover.
110	%%* CampGay
111	* ConvenientComa: Albert goes into a coma after being injured by a tomahawk in the third episode. This was done because his actor David Wain was busy with other projects, allowing Wain to still appear on the show but not perform too much.
112	* 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.
113	-->'''Beatrice''': But I like Albert. He's the only one who can make my bangs fluffy.
114	[[/folder]]
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116	[[folder:Victor]]
117	!!Victor Schmemmerhorn-Fish V
118	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_victor.png]]
119	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/BrianHuskey'')-]
120	->''"I'm Victor. I don't like sport. I'm a prince in the streets, but a lady in the sheets."''
121	-->-- In his own words
122	Lillian's husband, and Alfred's lover. At least believed to be the father of Lillian's 8 daughters.
123	* AwfulWeddedLife
124	-->''"The marriage involves a dowry, which is quite valuable. It's almost like a prize you get for enduring something horrible, or something that makes you want to throw up."''
125	* BoomerangBigot: Is ''disgusted'' when Freud declares that Frederick is a homosexual.
126	%%* CampGay
127	* DepravedHomosexual: When Victor is in a coma, he ends up having sex with Dr. Goldberg ''on the bed with Victor's prone body''.
128	* HairTriggerTemper: Victor can fly into a rage at the drop of a hatpin.
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130
131	!Servants
132	[[folder:Peepers]]
133	!![[strike:Mitchell "Mitch" P. Spiritwalker]] Peepers
134	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_peepers.png]]
135	[-(''Portrayed by Michael Ian Black'')-]
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137	Mr. Peepers is the head butler in the Bellacourt household.
138	* BadBoss: Is this to the other servants. He docks them their pay for being sick, demands from Blanche to work just after she birthed her baby, and refuses to acknowledge the terrible working conditions.
139	%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: Don't insult Native Americans in front of Peepers.
140	* ExtremeDoormat: Now matter how terrible he is treated, Peepers will do anything for the Bellacourts, especially Dodo.
141	* ParentalAbandonment: His parents abandoned him during the goldrush on their way to California and he was subsequently adopted by Native Americans.
142	* YesMan: He will do anything the Bellacourts demand, no questions asked, no matter how stupid/unnecessary/humiliating, and expects the same job performance from all the other servants.
143	[[/folder]]
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145	[[folder:Blanche]]
146	!!Blanche
147	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_blanche.png]]
148	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/BethDover'')-]
149	->''"I have been diagnosed with hysteria, and because of that the state made Mr. Peepers my legal guardian. Which basically means he can throw me in the nuthouse just because goddamn feels like it."''
150	-->-- In her own words
151	Blanche is the head assistant housemaid in the Bellacourt household.
152	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She was the ''only'' patient at her mental institution that wasn't ravished. It really hurt her self esteem.
153	* HystericalWoman: She has only recently returned from the local insane asylum. The entire household (save Chair) takes great delight in scaring her into a screaming fit.
154	* MarriageOfConvenience: Has one with Dr. Goldberg after she gets pregnant.
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157	[[folder:Chair]]
158	!![[strike:Celine]] Chair
159	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_chair.png]]
160	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/ChristinaHendricks'')-]
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162	Chair is a servant in the Bellacourt household.
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164	* ButtMonkey: She often gets saddled with the worst job.
165	* {{Dominatrix}}: The Commondore and Hamish both like it.
166	* GoldDigger: She's very obviously only with the Commodore for his money.
167	* TheMistress: To the Commodore.
168	* ManipulativeBitch: Manipulates the other servants for her own ends. She manages to get Garfield fired and Blanche sent to the asylum before Peepers realizes what she is doing.
169	* MySecretPregnancy: Chair is pregnant with the Commodore's child.
170	* OnlySaneWoman: Is the only one shocked at the Bellacourt's treatment of their children, or servants...or anyone, really.
171	[[/folder]]
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173	[[folder:Garfield]]
174	!!Garfield Leopold [=McGillicutty=]
175	[-(''Portrayed by Armen Weitzman'')-]
176	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_garfield.png]]
177	->''"I'm not a slave, I make 8 cents a week. If this is indentured servitude, I hope I never earn a living wage."''
178	-->-- In his own words
179	* 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…
180	* BlindObedience: He blindly follows the rules and serves the Bellacourts, never even considering to question how he is treated.
181	* 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, and Hamish tells him that's what he gets for wearing "an inviting little valet uniform".
182	[[/folder]]
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184	[[folder:Hamish]]
185	!!Hamish
186	[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anotherperiod_hamish.png]]
187	[-(''Portrayed by Creator/BrettGelman'')-]
188	* LovableSexManiac: Hamish 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 is this bemused exchange as the servants discuss Garfield's "ravishing:"
189	-->'''Hamish:''' Hey, does this mean that I can ravish Blanche?\
190	'''Peepers:''' No.\
191	'''Blanche:''' Thank you for the thought, Hamish.\
192	'''Hamish:''' ''[courteously]'' Milady.

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