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The Supersizers Eat

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The Supersizers Eat	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Supersizers Eat... 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 Fear Factor.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Periods covered include: The Restoration, Victorian London, The '70s, Regency England, The '50s, The '80s, Ancient Rome, The French Revolution, World War II...Giles and Sue ended the program to avoid Seasonal Rot and because the sheer amount of food and alcohol they had to consume was taking its toll.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 royal 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 The Good Life.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_1b73fada	type	The Dandy
The Supersizers Eat / int_1b73fada	comment	The Dandy: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
The Supersizers Eat / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: In the Regency episode, it is mentioned that the Enclosure Act prohibited anyone but the landowners from hunting on the land (anyone else becomes guilty of poaching), there were bad harvests and high taxation which lead to famines — a desperate time for the poor. The scene where Sue acts out her noblesse oblige and goes distributing leftovers to the poor reeks of condescension. Hard and uncomfortable to watch, but Sue's delivery is also funny as hell.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Supersizers Eat / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: 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). During the Wartime episode, Sue and the week's cook sing about cooking their way to victory.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Supersizers Eat / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Deliberately, and often hilariously. While Giles and Sue try to stay "period," their guests are modern, as are their means of transportation.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Supersizers Eat / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: 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 Petre. Since William Petre is dead, Sue and Giles ate at Ingatestone Hall with the current (18th) Lord Petre. This means that 18 generations later, Sir William Petre's descendant got to eat the same feast that he presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1561.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
The Supersizers Eat / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Supersizers Eat / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Giles and Sue Live The Good Life, in which they try their hands at self-sufficiency.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Supersizers Eat / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In the first part of the Roman episode, Giles and Sue speak Latin for a little bit.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Supersizers Eat / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: 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. The peach melba served from between the wings of a swan carved from ice.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Supersizers Eat / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Supersizers Eat / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Supersizers Eat / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
The Supersizers Eat / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: Discussed. 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
The Supersizers Eat / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: In the Restoration Episode, Giles woos a girl by quoting Restoration Era pickup lines (that are very lame). And yes, he is wearing full costume while the woman is in modern clothes... and still she is charmed by him. Then again, Giles is good-looking, cocky and funny.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Supersizers Eat / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: 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 he just declares sucess and the issue is never mentioned again.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Supersizers Eat / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Thanks to the BBC costumes department. They mostly look really wonderful.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_4067bd4d	type	Spirited Young Lady
The Supersizers Eat / int_4067bd4d	comment	Spirited Young Lady: In the Regency episode, Sue plays an upper-class young woman who has no dowry, although her brother is a rich land-owning gentleman. She must rely on her natural charms and accomplishments to secure a husband. She tries all the gorgeous period dresses and natural beauty remedies of the era. Sue's as snarky and charming as ever, but as the episode progresses, she grows more and more desperate and her playful flirting becomes rather too vehement. An unmarried gentlewoman without money had it tough.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Supersizers Eat / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In The Victorian Episode, Sue volunteers as a server at a Food Kitchen.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
The Supersizers Eat / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: 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 / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Supersizers Eat / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early Installment Weirdness: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Supersizers Eat / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: 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 Wartime Episode mentions that after Britain turned off the electricity, one woman was fined for having a visible light on her iron. 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_56a77d27	type	Beautiful Slave Girl
The Supersizers Eat / int_56a77d27	comment	Beautiful Slave Girl: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_57de4e72	type	Beauty Inversion
The Supersizers Eat / int_57de4e72	comment	Beauty Inversion: 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 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Supersizers Eat / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Supersizers Eat / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Supersizers Eat / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Each season is only six episodes, for a total of thirteen episodes including the first special.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_6ce4c7b0	type	Ascended to Carnivorism
The Supersizers Eat / int_6ce4c7b0	comment	Ascended to Carnivorism: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_6d9c238	type	Fake Food
The Supersizers Eat / int_6d9c238	comment	Fake Food: In the Wartime Episode, they eat "mock" food such as Mock Duck (made of sausage meat and carrots). During The Roaring '20s episode, a drunken Giles makes a mock peach melba, which Sue finds pretty gross. 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Supersizers Eat / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The Victorian episode explores a traditional Victorian Christmas, including a tree, crackers, and goose and pudding.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_7698d26d	type	Caffeine Bullet Time
The Supersizers Eat / int_7698d26d	comment	Caffeine Bullet Time: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_76dd20be	type	Bath Kick
The Supersizers Eat / int_76dd20be	comment	Bath Kick: During the Restoration episode, Sue takes a bath in wormwood and offers a comedic one of these.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
The Supersizers Eat / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: 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 it).
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The Supersizers Eat / int_7b459dff	type	'20s Bob Haircut
The Supersizers Eat / int_7b459dff	comment	'20s Bob Haircut: 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 / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Supersizers Eat / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: 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 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
The Supersizers Eat / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Both of them, but especially Giles, who always seems to be having just a little too much fun playing up the racism/sexism/class-ism of the historical time periods in focus.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_8956394f	type	Soul-Saving Crusader
The Supersizers Eat / int_8956394f	comment	Soulsaving Crusader: At one point in the Medieval episode, Giles participates in the first crusade for Jerusalem.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
The Supersizers Eat / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Supersizers Eat / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Sue and Giles usually play aristocrats, and unfortuately, 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_982037d0	type	Tickle Torture
The Supersizers Eat / int_982037d0	comment	Tickle Torture: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Supersizers Eat / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Unfortunately for Sue, this was the attitude of society in most of the eras they look at. Mentioned in the Restoration Episode when Giles visit a Cambridge college and Sue is denied access.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
The Supersizers Eat / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
The Supersizers Eat / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: 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 Gatsby-esque.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Supersizers Eat / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: During the Wartime episode, Sue and Giles are trading sarcastic barbs... Then the air raid sirens start. An unusually somber transition occurs, as Giles outlines some of the bombings during the war.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_b59e09cd	comment	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 Shakespeare comedy, is forced to adopt◊ male◊ drag◊. With delightful results.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_b761a11e	comment	Dyeing for Your Art: invoked Part of the costuming involved period-specific hairstyles. For the Twenties episode, Sue gets a '20s Bob Haircut.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_b7c574a3	comment	Dry Crusader: In The Victorian Episode, Sue joins the Temperance Movement and protests against the sale of alcohol.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_bb067aba	comment	Cool Mask: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
The Supersizers Eat / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Supersizers Eat / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: 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. 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
The Supersizers Eat / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: 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 and Giles both have difficulty with this.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_c0b6ded	type	Lie Back and Think of England
The Supersizers Eat / int_c0b6ded	comment	Lie Back and Think of England: Played for laughs during the Victorian episode. Sue has a Thousand-Yard Stare while eating lamb's head.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_c0c7a82e	type	Of Corsets Sexy
The Supersizers Eat / int_c0c7a82e	comment	Of Corsets Sexy: Sue is corseted in a couple episodes. Her reactions overlap with Of Corsets Funny.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_c309f9d1	type	Science Marches On
The Supersizers Eat / int_c309f9d1	comment	Science Marches On: 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 Gallbladder for Bubonic plague, etc. Likewise they avoid vegitables and milk in some eras because people in those times erroneously considered such foods to be unhealhy. Exaggerated in the Medieval Episode, when they spend a third of the episode trying to correct their humors.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Supersizers Eat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jane Austen is mentioned extensively in the Regency episode. Usually, Sue and Giles play a married couple, but here, they are brother and sister. Sue plays Giles' sister without fortune of her own who must rely only on her natural charms and accomplishments to find a husband before she is "left on the shelf".
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The Supersizers Eat / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
The Supersizers Eat / int_c867e57	comment	During The Roaring '20s episode, a drunken Giles makes a mock peach melba, which Sue finds pretty gross.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Supersizers Eat / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Giles and Sue both play these in The Eighties Episode... until the stock market crashes on Black Monday.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
The Supersizers Eat / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Not foreign in the geographical sense as in the chronological, but it still applies. Pickled testicles and rotten fish juice are very foreign food for Brits from the 21st century. One of the chefs holds her nose while she's preparing a dish.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
The Supersizers Eat / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: Sue is a lesbian, but doesn't seem to mind rolling around on the floor with Giles and sleeping in the same bed as him. Admittedly, they're usually both staggeringly drunk.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Supersizers Eat / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Even though Sue is a lesbian, she and Giles get a decent amount of UST between them, particularly in episode The Seventies. Sue and Giles are having fondue and she suggests that he snog her if his bread falls in the cheese. When it does, Giles gives her a full on kiss with no protest from her. Later on, they hook their arms and feed each other and a bit later they show them in bed, spooning.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
The Supersizers Eat / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: 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. 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_e3d5ba34	comment	Slippery Skid: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_efdb28f1	comment	Foreign Fanservice: The beautiful slave girl from Britannia, brought to Rome by patricians Giles and Sue. Blond women were "all the rage" in ancient Rome.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: 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.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_f5afa308	comment	Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Sue, after drinking the historically accurate (read: 10+ pints) amount of alcohol per day. 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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The Supersizers Eat / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: After taking a bath in wine and wormwood.
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The Supersizers Eat / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Giles does all of his vlog segments with a weird hat and a cup of alcohol.
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