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Another Period	comment	What did spoiled, trust-fund attention whores do before television—much less the Internet—was invented? That is the premise of this Reality TV Mockumentary, self-described as Downton Abbey meets Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which aired for three seasons (2015–18) on Comedy Central.It is 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Newport, Rhode Island—which doesn't stop social-climbing sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome) from being as lazy, greedy, self-centered, petty, and mean-spirited as possible to each other and everyone else. Then again, the entire household is pretty much batshit insane from top to bottom, from the extended Bellacourt clan to the army of butlers and chambermaids who serve their every deranged whim.The show pokes fun at period-accurate attitudes regarding race, class, and sexuality, and somehow Crosses the Line Twice in every single scene.
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Another Period / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Another Period / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Scott Joplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Very much like Donald Trump, Frederick was born rich and uncurious, and he is ignorant of basic economics. When running for the Presidency, he doesn't actually care about the men he is addressing. They are unemployed via the obsolescence of their profession, Dodo-hunting, but Frederick 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.
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Another Period / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
Another Period / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: An in-universe example. Lillian and Beatrice (and Dodo, to a lesser extent) pretty much live this trope. Driven home in the Season 1 finale when, after being banished from Bellacourt Manor, they are recognized by Newport's lower-class citizens as the "Modern Pigs" of newspaper infamy and treated like the celebrities they always wanted to be.
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Another Period / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Another Period / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: The two Irish American police officers who question Lillian when she tries to frame Victor for beating her and then insult her, qualify as this trope.
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Another Period / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Another Period / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Bellacourts obviously count as an example.
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Another Period / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Another Period / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The two Irish American police officers.
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Another Period / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
Another Period / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: The Bellacourts. They are hillbillies with extravagant wealth, trying to live like kings, with only the faintest idea of how kings actually live.
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Another Period / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Another Period / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: And how. Usually centered around historical attitudes towards class, race, gender, and sexuality.
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Another Period / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Another Period / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: "Pageant" begins with Dodo practicing her blow-dart expertise on a passing American eagle. Later, when Lillian is in danger of losing the beauty pageant to Beatrice, she uses the dart gun to sedate her sister mid-song. Garfield's Companion Cube "Towel" becomes this in "Doggy Dinner Party," when Chair—following 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.
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Another Period / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Another Period / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Garfield has two (so far): the towel that Chair gave him named "Towel", and a mop called "Eileen"—who he urges "Towel" not to be jealous of…
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Another Period / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Another Period / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: In "Modern Pigs", the Commodore tells the Confession Cam "Never again will they say, ‘You won't amount to anything, Harold Bellawitcz’—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. When Hamish delivers the deluded "Baby Beatrice" to Thomas Edison for appearance in pornographic films, he begs-off an extended conversation with Edison because he's got "[…]an early Shabbat." to which Edison replies "Sholem aleichem", thereby possibly indicating that he were Jewish as well, though it might have been simple politeness on his part.
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Another Period / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Another Period / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: 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 Obfuscating Stupidity (to a limited extent, since she is still The Ditz) either for Frederick's sake or simply for her own amusement.
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Another Period / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Another Period / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: At Beatrice's urging, new maid Celine is promptly (and arbitrarily) dubbed "Chair" by Dodo. In a later episode, Lillian threatens to rename her "Water Closet" if she doesn't toe the line.
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Another Period / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Another Period / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: 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.
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Another Period / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Another Period / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Blanche, whose last known address was the local insane asylum. The entire household (save Chair) takes great delight in scaring her into a screaming fit.
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Another Period / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Another Period / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Lillian's attempts to curry favor with Celery Savoy include plans to make a fur cape for Celery's dog Dumpling. A dog-fur cape, that is. Cut to the kitchen, where Garfield is trying to get some puppies to stick their heads through tiny hangman's nooses.
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Another Period / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Another Period / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: Peepers assumes that Garfield being forced to do "basement bubbles" by his former orphanage's matron was a euphemism for... something unspeakable. It was not- she literally meant making bubbles in the basement by cleaning it. Garfield's sobbing while telling Peepers of this probably helped him assume so. Too bad Peepers killed her before asking for clarification.
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Another Period / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Another Period / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with her twin brother Frederick.
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Another Period / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Another Period / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: When Blanche impulsively tries on one of Beatrice's dresses, Beatrice thinks she is a different person entirely and declares that Blanche is her new BFF. Subverted later on. It turns out that Beatrice was never fooled to begin with. She was just messing with Blanche for her own amusement.
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Another Period / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Another Period / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: One time, a ghost had sex with Beatrice while she was asleep. It looked like Frederick, and it smelled like Frederick, and it was solid and not translucent at all- but it wasn't a ghost, it was Frederick. Garfield being "ravished" by Pussy Vom Anderstein. Blanche returns from the asylum pregnant, claiming she and another patient fell in love, but this is just something she told herself after he "had her way with her".
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Another Period / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
Another Period / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: As befits 1902 high society Newport. Subverted by the Bellacourt daughters, who dress to the nines and still manage to look trashy.
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Another Period / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Another Period / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: 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." Beatrice and Frederick have both separately made comments that imply that they were molested as children. Beatrice by an older neighbor, and Frederick by a priest.
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Another Period / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Another Period / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Frederick, while being prepped to become a senator. By Sigmund Freud, no less. Who then catches Frederick and Beatrice in bed together:
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Another Period / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Another Period / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Frederick is confused and dismayed when the priest (and Dodo's lover) makes it plain that he has no desire to “have his way” with Fredrick sexually, simply because the priests Fredrick had known as a child had molested him. He spends the rest of the episode trying to “seduce” the priest into assaulting him by acting childish. In the Pilot, Blanche mentions with embarrassment that she was the only female patient who wasn’t “ravished.” In a later episode, when Hamish asks Peepers if he (Hamish) is allowed to ravish Blanche, she outright beams, and thanks Hamish for the thought after Peepers answers in the negative.
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Another Period / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Another Period / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: Used in "Funeral", "Doggy Dinner Party", "Rejects Beach" and "Joplin" to suggest that Beatrice… er …forgot to wear her bloomers.
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Another Period / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
Another Period / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	My Secret Pregnancy: Chair is pregnant with the Commodore's child. In the season finale, Blanche returns from the insane asylum after having been released by Peepers, and pushes Chair down a flight of stairs as revenge for having had her committed to the asylum again. The first season ends with Chair unconscious and the fate of her and the baby inconclusive.
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Another Period / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Another Period / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Lilian's "mickface" Minstrel Show in "Pageant"
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Another Period / int_614a4e11	type	Do You Want to Copulate?
Another Period / int_614a4e11	comment	Do You Want to Copulate?: This awkward exchange between Ma and Pa Bellacourt.
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Another Period / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Another Period / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Asked to feign grief ("Funeral") or sing ("Pageant"), all Beatrice can muster is a bizarre squawk. (Subverted in "Pageant" when, after some prompting, she proves to have an opera-quality singing voice.)
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Another Period / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Another Period / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: At Mark Twain's lawn party, Mahatma Gandhi jokes "I'm just here for the white women." In the episode "Senate", Hortense has a sexual fling with (and loses her virginity to) the Commodore's African-American chef friend, who spent the episode beforehand flirting with her.
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Another Period / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Another Period / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: In "Senate," Sigmund Freud diagnoses the Bellacourt women as suffering from "hysteria," and prescribes that their…lady bits…be stimulated with (severally) feathers, a primitive vibrator (that is period-accurate), and a large, bicycle-powered, machine by (respectively) the maids, Dr Freud, and a ferociously-pedalling Garfield. Played straight with Lillian and Beatrice; subverted by Dodo, who barely reacts. Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day Roll in the Hay—until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore finishes himself. It goes on for minutes.
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Another Period / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Another Period / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Victor Schmemmerhorn-Fish and Albert Downsy. Despite being the de facto husbands of Lillian and Beatrice, respectively, they are carrying on a very visible affair with one another. No one else in the household bats an eyelash.
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Another Period / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
Another Period / int_73f51de7	comment	Jerkass Ball: Blanche's ego grows tremendously in "Switcheroo Day", when she impersonates a wealthy woman and new friend of Beatrice's, even forcing Chair to feed her.
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Another Period / int_788130a2	type	Emotional Regression
Another Period / int_788130a2	comment	In "Rejects Beach," Beatrice snaps out of her Emotional Regression state, to realize that she is starring in Thomas Edison's stag film "The Wizard of Ahhhhhh's" and escapes, crying "There's no place like my house!"
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Another Period / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Another Period / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Horse-and-buggy edition. A drunk Dodo rewards Peepers with a blow job for impersonating the Commodore at Mark Twain's party. The next day, she has no memory of the event, merely vowing never to drink absinthe again.
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Another Period / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Another Period / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Chauncey Alistair thinks bigger is better. For this reason, he thinks Hortense is more beautiful than Lillian or Beatrice, shocking all three sisters.
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Another Period / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Another Period / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Totally averted. Every nasty flaw of the era, from inaccurate medical treatments to sexist opinions, is depicted without any sugarcoating. The show doesn't shy from representing racism, though sometimes minority characters show up without race coming up as a topic, 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 facing problems.
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Another Period / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Another Period / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Mark Twain gets drunk a lot, and so does Dodo.
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Another Period / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Another Period / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: 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.
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Another Period / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Another Period / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Lillian's reaction to learning that Beatrice has been sold to Thomas Edison to star in a stag film.
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Another Period / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Another Period / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Celery Savoy. Lampshaded by Ms. Savoy herself.
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Another Period / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Another Period / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Peepers. His origin story is that he was abandoned by his "white alcoholic parents" en route to the California Gold Rush, and adopted by an American Indian tribe. His accent resembles a constipated Inspector Clouseau.
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Another Period / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Another Period / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Celery, upon meeting the Bellacourts for the first time. Dodo mistaking her for a urinal? Beatrice acting like a five-year-old and grinding on Frederick? Lillian's frantic attempts to become her best friend? No biggie…
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Another Period / int_8de2e803	type	Confession Cam
Another Period / int_8de2e803	comment	Confession Cam: As befits a reality-TV parody. Even one set in 1902. Lampshaded by Beatrice upon escaping the set of Thomas Edison's stag film:
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Another Period / int_963c6133	type	Promiscuity After Rape
Another Period / int_963c6133	comment	Promiscuity After Rape: It is implied that Beatrice and Fredrick’s sexual relationship (and their individual hypersexuality) stems partly from being molested as children.
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Another Period / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Another Period / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Hortense, as the Only Sane Woman, usually scolds her sisters for their horrible behavior, but in "Harvard" she too laughs at Blanche crying.
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Another Period / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Another Period / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: The Beatrice and Blanche plot in “Switcheroo Day“ takes on a different light after The Reveal that Beatrice knew exactly who Blanche was and only played along. In particular, goading Blanche into mistreating (and so angering) the other servants and admitting that she’s kept Blanche’s sister locked in a box under her bed for years.
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Another Period / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Another Period / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Blanche and Dr. Goldberg. Since Blanche is pregnant and Dr. Goldberg is a Canadian immigrant, marriage solves both of their problems.
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Another Period / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
Another Period / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: Celery Savoy was only pretending to be Lillian's friend, before dumping her at "Rejects Beach."
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Another Period / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Another Period / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: Hamish. He may be crude, filthy, and a hardcore lecher, but his The Loins Sleep Tonight moment with Lillian, rather than being a Rage-Breaking Point, finds him chastened and apologetic. Then there is this bemused exchange as the servants discuss Garfield's "ravishing:" Lillian qualifies in the Really Gets Around category.
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Another Period / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Another Period / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Chair. Hamish knows her as the former prostitute who swindled him; to the Commodore, she is his mistress and the mother of their illegitimate child-to-be. Peepers, unbeknownst to the Bellacourts, was adopted by a family of American Indians. Subverted, in that it would mean nothing to them except, perhaps, an excuse to pay him even less.
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Another Period / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Another Period / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: During the climactic brawl in "Senate," Beatrice stabs one of the suffragettes in the eye with the stem of a broken champagne flute. (Doubles as an In-Joke; see the Trivia page to find out why…)
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Another Period / int_a5fa9313	type	Faked Kidnapping
Another Period / int_a5fa9313	comment	Faked Kidnapping: In "Switcheroo Day," Lillian—jealous that a kidnapped baby is getting all the local headlines—hires Hamish to do this to her. Which leads to Belligerent Sexual Tension between the two. Which then leads to a Roll in the Hay. Which (unfortunately for Hamish) then leads to The Loins Sleep Tonight. (And ultimately leads to Lillian declaring "I had the worst day. Get me a poultice, a dildo, and a soft French cheese!")
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Another Period / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Another Period / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Although it is a comedy, this trope features frequently in every episode. Racism, misogyny, and classism are ubiquitous, and everyone pretty much goes along with it.
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Another Period / int_ac2ce0c	comment	Crossesthe Line Twice: Blanche’s marriage with the doctor is so horrific that it meets this qualification. Immediately upon doing a favor to Dodo and impregnating and marrying Blanche, he absolves himself of all responsibility for raising the kid. It crosses over into ridiculousness when Dodo and the doctor make extreme demands of Blanche’s working schedule when she’s the only one to meet the baby’s basic needs.
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Another Period / int_ad3e13c5	comment	Hamish. He may be crude, filthy, and a hardcore lecher, but his The Loins Sleep Tonight moment with Lillian, rather than being a Rage-Breaking Point, finds him chastened and apologetic. Then there is this bemused exchange as the servants discuss Garfield's "ravishing:"
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Another Period / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Both Lillian and Beatrice have numerous offspring—all of whom have been fobbed off on the maids to raise. Chair is horrified to discover that "putting the children to bed" translates into "feeding them morphine drops." This works on all but the eldest child, who admits "I've built up a tolerance." The Commodore and Dodo display this trope in spades. They rarely ever show any affection towards their children, routinely insult them, and are glad when they are not around. By the end of the first season, the Commodore has disowned Lillian and Beatrice and kicked them out of the mansion.
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Another Period / int_b1c8e04e	comment	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."
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Another Period / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
Another Period / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: 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. Also Chair after Blanche pushes her down the stairs.
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Another Period / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: As much as they all ignore basic human decency and common sense, the rest of the Bellacourt Family all express varying levels of disgust and mortification whenever Beatrice and Fredrick remark upon or reveal their incestuous relationship.
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Another Period / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Another Period / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Lillian has a massive Trash the Set/Flipping the Table meltdown in the opening moments of the aptly-named "Lillian's Birthday." It's apparentally the norm for her birthday.
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Another Period / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Another Period / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't insult Native Americans in front of Peepers.
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Another Period / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Another Period / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Three characters, all of whom also qualify as Depraved Bisexual. Frederick, when Mistaken for Gay calls the homosexual lifestyle "tempting". 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). Beatrice is involved in a decades-long affair with her twin brother, and has expressed an attraction to at least two other men, but she also has reciprocal oral sex with Eleanor Roosevelt, semi-regularly has Blanche get her off, and acts very flirtatiously with people of both sexes. The Doctor molests Albert in his coma, has an affair with Victor, and stares at Flobelle's face to get aroused. He states that if anything, he is "pansexual."
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Another Period / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Another Period / int_bf1255fa	comment	Lillian qualifies in the Really Gets Around category.
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Another Period / int_c0b6ded	comment	Lie Back and Think of England: Lillian and Beatrice have to have sex with their husbands Victor and Albert every now and then, and dread it. Beatrice even has to be chloroformed to participate. Since their husbands are gay, they hate it as much as their wives.
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Another Period / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Hortense's suffragette group is called the Newport Association of Gal Spinsters.
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Another Period / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: 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. Only Chair takes pity on him, giving him a hand towel to dry his tears—which he promptly names "Towel."
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Another Period / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: After offering Beatrice some comfort and advice, Hortense suggests that the two of them spend more time together, and the two of them share a giggle before Beatrice responds with one of these.
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Another Period / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Senate," Hortense and Chef Chauncey Allistar recreate the blindfold-and-food scene from 9½ Weeks. In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of—not blood, but feces—on her head, a la Carrie. In "Rejects Beach," Beatrice snaps out of her Emotional Regression state, to realize that she is starring in Thomas Edison's stag film "The Wizard of Ahhhhhh's" and escapes, crying "There's no place like my house!" Several to Hamlet, ironically by Frederick. In "Senate" he says "To be queer, or not to be queer, that is the question," and in "Lillian's Wedding" he directly cites a quote from Hamlet when he sends Beatrice away: "Get thee to a nunnery!"
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Another Period / int_c7839568	type	Nice Jewish Boy
Another Period / int_c7839568	comment	Nice Jewish Boy: Averted: Dr Goldberg is affable with anyone at his level or above, but not at all nice, and gets important matters of Jewish law dead wrong, most notably a doctor's duty to attend to a woman giving birth's supervening all Sabbatical restrications. (Also, not even Orthodox Jews are not supposed to have sex through holes in sheets, let alone with a non-Jew, and sex with a third person present is considered very wrong as well.) He is also not nice in the sense of not having particular vices, being up for just about any vice on-offer. Hamish and the Commodore are most likely Jewish, and about as far from nice as one can get short of routine murder.
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Another Period / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Another Period / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: When Lillian claims that her husband hit her and should be arrested, the police officers ask her bluntly and via various euphemisms if she was having her period when she was hit.
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Another Period / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Another Period / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: The sisters spend their entire days doing as little as possible, to the point of making their servants carry them from room to room.
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Another Period / int_e01c3d03	type	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
Another Period / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: In a fit of rage, Lillian kills Mayor Cutie for stealing her limelight.
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Another Period / int_e10cdc1c	comment	Gay Best Friend: Albert is this to his wife Beatrice. He is the only one who she trusts to do her hair, and she often confides in him about her affair with Frederick.
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Another Period / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: 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. In "Lillian's Wedding" Beatrice and Frederick break into a song.
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Another Period / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Another Period / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Beatrice and Frederick. Though Beatrice is revealed to be a Genius Ditz who hides her intelligence.
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Another Period / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Chair, blatantly so. Lillian also blatantly wants to marry a richer and more influential man.
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Another Period / int_f912a750	comment	Both Lillian and Beatrice have numerous offspring—all of whom have been fobbed off on the maids to raise. Chair is horrified to discover that "putting the children to bed" translates into "feeding them morphine drops." This works on all but the eldest child, who admits "I've built up a tolerance."
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Another Period / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Another Period / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Provides the plot of an episode, but the characters are incompetent at keeping their secret. In the aptly-named episode "Divorce," the sisters concoct a scheme to lose their respective husbands Victor and Albert: the men 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.
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Another Period / int_fb4dbbf6	comment	Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day Roll in the Hay—until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore finishes himself. It goes on for minutes.
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Another Period / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Frederick is (mis)diagnosed as a homosexual, he and Beatrice lament the fact that his supposed homosexuality means that they cannot have sex, ignoring Frederick's clear physical attraction to Beatrice, a woman.
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Another Period / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Manipulative, gold-digging Chair is the only character to believe Garfield about his rape and assures him that it isn't his fault, before giving him a towel to comfort him.
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