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A blatant sign that you are not in an ordinary place any more: a table which, in addition to being often overly long, is covered with much more cutlery than in Average Joe's home. More precisely, each plate has at least two glasses, two spoons, three forks and knives around it, all looking different and for a different purpose (soup or ice-cream spoon, fruit or oyster fork, dinner or steak knife, etc). In fiction, due to the Rule of Funny, it's common to increase the cutlery's number to the absurd, in the range of more than ten of each.note In formal aristocratic dinners there really can be this many—though not on the table all at the same time except on cruise ships Said place settings are either found in three-star restaurants, in a billionaire's house, or in a royal palace. It's usually a quick way to establish that the owner of the house is wealthy — and maybe a bit of snob (and it's visually easier to spot than the precious metal the cutlery is made of.) The other common use is for comedic effect when the main character is absolutely not used to such a place setting, due to being a neophyte in regards to fancy dinner tables. Usually, it's because he or she has suddenly made a fortune. Other reasons are because the hero pretends to be rich or impersonates a wealthy person, or he was invited to dine with the rich for whatever reason. In these situations, their awkwardness will make their Nouveau Riche status obvious to other guests. In the case of an impersonation, it can be a way to Spot the Imposter for said guests. The most common mistake for the hero is to grab any piece of cutlery, but the latter is never placed in an illogical order: there is an unspoken rule of using cutlery which is mostly just from the outside in. This rule of thumb may be told to the person. This is a Luxury Trope, as a single set of cutlery is enough to eat with on a daily basis — having more for each kind of course is a sign of refinement. Often overlaps with Table Space and Fancy Dinner. |
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Kilala Princess. Kilala once enter a "Cinderella girl contest" and fails it, notably during table manners test: she not only uses her soup spoon the wrong way but picks any cutlery in sight. | |
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Daughter of the Lilies: Featured (with gold cutlery, no less) at a particularly stultifying formal dinner where some social elites have a casual chat about Drath summoning. | |
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One episode of Cheers had Woody invited to Kelly's father's house. He brings Sam with him and the following exchange occurs: | |
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The Simpsons. In the episode The mansion family, the Simpsons look after the house of Mr. Burns during his absence. At dinner time, they use all the cutlery available, despite Marge thinking it's overly-elaborate for sloppy joes—she knows what all but one of her forks are. The one she doesn't know is very long and, in her husband's opinion, it's apparently a good butt-scratcher. A flashback in "The Way We Weren't" shows Marge's time in an all-girls' etiquette camp, where she and her friends are learning to eat with 33 forks. |
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In Titanic (1997), Jack is rather confused by the array of silverware when he has dinner in first class. He whispers to Molly Brown "Are all of these for me?" and she replies "Just start on the outside and work your way in." | |
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In the third installment of The Mighty Ducks the team is dining at an upscale restaurant and Cowboy Dwayne is confused by all the forks, especially the "itty-bitty one." | |
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Discussed in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Vivienne is from a Deadly Decadent Court and Varric is trying to do some research on table etiquette in Orlais. When asked whether choosing the wrong fork is worse than death or merely social suicide, Vivienne admits she doesn't know, because if someone does choose the wrong fork they will probably be stabbed to death with the right one. | |
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One Dilbert book, which was a parody of manners guides, explained that your finer restaurants will provide an extra fork for defending your plate against grabby tablemates. | |
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The dinner scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show gives everyone between four and seven of each utensil for a meal with only one dish. | |
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Sofia the First. Sofia's first dinner at the palace embarrasses her so much that the little girl take all the forks at once in her hands. Princess Amber notices it-and make fun of her new stepsister 's table manners at school the very next day. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: This trope is brought up by Chief O'Brien as one of the reasons he dislikes officer's parties so much. | |
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Barbie in the Princess and the Pauper. Erika, who's impersonating princess Anneliese, is being taught in a song that "To be a princess, is to know which spoon to use." | |
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Kaeloo: In one episode where Kaeloo invites her friends over for a tea party, she sets out a huge number of forks for different kinds of food. | |
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The Gates of Sleep: Madame Arachne deliberately invokes this after she has Marina dragged off and turned over to her. The "humiliate Marina" objective fails because one of the servants manages to subtly point out which utensil should be used to eat each course. | |
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In Regular Show, the waiter of a exclusive fancy restaurant took advantage from this to unmask Muscleman -Who was trying to impress his girlfriend's parents- as a filthy paesant. Muscleman simply couldn't figure out what spoon is used to eat crème brûlée without the help of Mordecai and Rigby. | |
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In The Princess Diaries, all meals have a huge amount of cutlery. Queen Clarisse once discretely reminds Mia she's supposed to eat fruit with a fork and a knife instead of using her hands. | |
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In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Eggsy is invited to join Swedish royalty for a dinner where each place setting has at least 11 utensils. His girlfriend, the Swedish princess, tries to give him a crash course to help him Meet the In-Laws, but his Tuxedo and Martini spy training included a section on dinner etiquette — including those elements that only apply in the presence of a monarch. | |
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In The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood go out to eat at a fancy restaurant and make a show of eating with the worst possible table manners. At one point Elwood holds out his glass for more wine; the waiter tells him 'Wrong glass, sir,' but Elwood gestures for him to pour it in anyway. Possibly a more pragmatic issue than most examples; the water glass Elwood is holding will hold more wine than a normal serving, which will: a) give an already unruly patron excessive alcohol; and b) give a patron who looks (and smells) like he may not be able to pay a larger-than-normal serving of an extremely expensive wine. |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Wrong Fork, Rarity attends a high-class charity dinner. She's surprised to find that Princess Celestia, of all ponies, has trouble recognising which fork to use for which course. | |
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In Pretty Woman, Vivian is prepared for a formal dinner by Barney who explains the difference between the salad fork (the only one she's able to recognize) and meat fork, by counting prongs.note Yet at the three-star restaurant Mr. Morse, despite his comfortable situation, confesses he never understood which fork was used for what. | |
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Erfworld: Briefly brought up in a conversation between Jillian and Prince Ansom where Jillian elaborates to Ansom how was the princess of a hidden nation big on class and culture, and that her father wanted a son like himself instead of her... | |
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In Mia and Me, female students have, during a manners class, to remember exactly the photo of a table arrangement, then recreate it without forgetting a single fork. | |
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Barbie as the Princess and the Popstar. Keira, princess Tori's look-alike, pretends to be her and is embarrassed when she does not know which spoon to choose to eat ice-cream. Fortunately, Tori's pet dog, of all people, shows Keira the proper one with her paw.note Probably a spoof of the trope. Keira clearly don't need the three forks, knife and three spoons she was given just to have tea and ice-cream. Plus even the freaking dog has several utensils to eat from her dish-with no hands/fingers/thumbs. | |
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Nomads of Gor: Tarl and his friend Kamchak, both Warriors, are the special guests at a banquet held in a grand hall by the leading Merchant of the city-state Turia. Tarl is confounded by all the special eating implements and multiple courses served, while Kamchack digs in heartily. Ultimately Tarl is offered a simple large steak to eat instead of the finery being offered, which he accepts. | |
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