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{{quote|''"Online cooking show! Got the magnum of Jack Daniels, about to change the game! [[Catch Phrase|What'you know about cooking]]? Breakfast! Wake up -- WAKE THE [[Sound Effect Bleep|(caw!)]] UP!"''|'''Harley Morenstein''', host, in ''Breakfast of Booze''.}}
 
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With the audacity to call themselves an "online cooking show", the first efforts soon expanded into meat sculptures, questionable uses of [[Bacon Addiction|bacon]], "meat glue", [[Trademark Favorite Food|bacon]] and [[Up to Eleven|five birds in a pig]] - and [[Overly Long Gag|bacon]].
 
Their YouTube channel is at [httphttps://epicmealtimewww.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime websiteEpicMealTime] is at last up and running. They have made an appearance on [[The Tonight Show|Jay Leno]], where they made a shepherd's pie that was also a car.
 
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]] - All the time:
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* [[Affectionate Parody]] - "[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 [[Shout-Out|seaweed strips]].
** [[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]], which ups the [[Large Ham]] factor so much that it somehow makes Harley Morenstein and Co. look subdued and professional in comparison.
** A team of mild-mannered Brits give us "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQmXmHg1fE Pathetic Meal Time]", a thorough de-hamming (only in the acting sense-- insense—in terms of the meal created, they are indeed hamming it up) of EMT's brand.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJLL-DNu3P4 Epic Cupcake Time] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0JahhFkts Epic Pie Time], which take the show and filter it through the lens of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|ponies]].
** [[The Annoying Orange|Annoying Orange]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9Pu6ixZ3o Epic Peel Time].
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* [[Anyone Can Die]] - Muscles Glasses
{{quote|'''Harley''': "And, uh, we got [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}62f6_1Dn_Es some glasses]...as a little commemoration to, uh, one of our lost members. He is dead now. No joke, he's actually dead."}}
** [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] - Muscles Glasses
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Harley, after ordering a Baconator and fries in a Wendy's drive-thru, is told the drink would only be twenty cents more.
{{quote|"Your drink will be?" "[[Funny Moments|Fresca]]."}}
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]] - '''Muscles Glasses'''
** To a lesser extent, Cousin Dave's "Mean Muggin, the Egg Crackin' Kraken".
** Harley Mortenstein, aka [[Not That Kind of Doctor|the Doctor of Dressing]], aka [[Ancient Egypt|the Pharoah of Flavour]], aka [[The Men of Downing Street|the Minister of Mixture]], aka [[French Cuisine Is Haughty|the Connoisseur of Condiments]], aka [[The Don|the Don of the Drippin']], aka the [[Jeff Goldblum]] of [[Overly Long Gag|the Internet]], [[I Have Many Names|aka]] [[Funetik Aksent|the Sawce Bawce]].
* [[Badass Beard]] - Harley's grew in during the run of the series.
* [[Bacon Addiction]] - Because everything's better with bacon strips. And bacon strips. And bacon strips. [[Running Gag|And bacon strips]].
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{{quote|'''Harley''': "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}VHPB7v_dp2k Four-cheese ravioli, Chef Boyardee Ravioli in ravioli, trifecta-liqour-meat sauce, cheesy-meat jolly balls] and four of the hungriest mother[[Sound Effect Bleep|(caw!)]]s that ever ate on the internet!"}}
* [[Big No]] - One of the crew in the background at the end of "The Sloppy Roethlisburger", when Harley accidentally slams and cracks the bottom of a bottle of Jack Daniels.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]] - The text on the title card of "Fast Food Sushi".<ref>"ファストフードのお寿司ぶっかけ", which roughly translates to "Fast food no sushi bukkake"</ref>.
** In "Epic Indian Experience", the waiter translates Harley's description of the dishes.
* [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode]] - "Drunken Mess", where the cast just bombs around Montreal partying it up and hanging out with random people.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yttA7YkWdr0 Zombie Meal Time]" (though that actually has cooking in it...of animal brains)
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ITsGZJustI Meat Cthulhu]"
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* [[Canada, Eh?]] - Muscles Glasses' dad is a lumberjack for crying out loud.
** [[Mistaken Nationality]] - More than a few first time viewers assume the cast are American. No guesses as to why.
* [[Catch Phrase]] - "What'you know about ''x''?!"
** "[[The Stinger|Next time]], [[Every Episode Ending|we eat]] ''[[The Stinger|x]]''".
** "Next level ''x'' maneuver/technique!"
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** Note that one of the men is a trained chef. Think about that for a while.
* [[Friend to All Children]] - Harley, who draws the line at dead baby jokes and gives apple pie to kids.
* [[Funny Background Event]] - 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.
* [[Genre Savvy]] - 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.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - In "The Ostrich Nest":
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{{quote|'''Harley''': Changin' the game!
''(Harley slaps down a bottle of Jack Daniels...which is accompanied by a crack.)''
'''Off-camera voice''': ''(as booze starts leaking)'' [[Oh Crap|OHHH!]]<br />
''(Harley picks up the bottle, just as the bottom of the bottle falls out.)''<br />
'''Harley''': Oh ''([[Sound Effect Bleep|caw!]])''...<br />
'''Off-camera voice''': NOOOOO! }}
* [[Hot-Blooded]] - The beginning of "Candy Pizza" confirms Harley as this.
* [[Hypocritical Humor|Hypocritical Humo]][[Canada, Eh?|u]][[Hypocritical Humor|r]] - Harley calls the audience perverts for wanting to watch a girl eat the "Massive Meat Log" -- then—then the reverse angle shows him and all of his friends doing the exact same thing.
* [[Improvised Clothes]] - A bacon bikini in the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tew4MAepQso Gentleman's Episode]".
* [[Insistent Terminology]] - How Harley justifies the [[Product Placement]] during the meals: "We didn't sell out--''they'' bought ''in''."
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** In "12 Gauge Hot Dog", Harley says "Next time, we eat blood!" and in the next video, "Zombie Meal Time", Muscles Glasses takes a shot of Jack Daniels and blood.
** Averted in the first video, which ends with Muscles Glasses (sans glasses) raising his arms in the air triumphantly after eating.
** At the end of French Fry Salad:
{{quote|"Next time, we eat sell outs. Next time, we eat while selling out... Netflix.com/bacon."}}
** Subverted in "Candy Sushi":
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* [[The Other Darrin]] - Played with: in "Maximum Protein Experience", Muscles Glasses is replaced with someone having a similar body build and trademark sunglasses. When Epic Mook notices Muscles Glasses working out at the gym where they're filming at, Harley tells the extra they don't need him anymore.
** Played with again in "Epic Stockyard Burger": Harley's absent to do the video intro, so Tyler fills in for him...until Harley walks out from the store and tells Tyler to go out, buy lunch and do his proper job.
** In "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkELLcoYSbQ Meat Mummy]", Muscles Glasses wears a costume that turns him into... a random black guy. The rest of the guys (sans Harvey/"[[Toy Story (franchise)|Beard Lightyear]]" and Cousin Dave as "Tony Hawk") wind up dressing up as Muscles Glasses.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Muscles Glasses drops out of sight for several episodes (March-MayMarch–May 2012). Harley and the gang mention him in passing, and he is briefly seen hitchhiking along a back road. They offer up a sacrifice to prepare for his return ("Fastfood Sacrifice"), then cook him a bacon-stuffed cheeseburger after he shows up and helps them defeat a gang of vegan zombies ("Zombie Vegan Attack!"/"Boss Bacon Burger").
* [[Overly Long Gag]] - Bacon in general.
* [[Playing to The Fetishes]] - 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.
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** Totally averted with "Candy BBQ" and "Candy Poutine".
{{quote|'''Harley''': "Well I guess you can say that this is the "no-meat" episode...but don't you [[Sound Effect Bleep|(caw!)]]ing say it."}}
* [[Re CutRecut]] - [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.
* [[Red Baron]] - In "Fast Food Sushi", Harley dubs himself the "Sauce Boss".
** [[I Have Many Names]] - Taken further in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUku7zAXVE Candy Sushi]":
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* [[Take That]] - "What you doin'? Hatin'? '''STOP HATIN'!!!''' BLEND YOUR OWN BACON!!!"
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB_vHVFM_8 Meat Salad]". Seriously, just listen to some of Harley's dialogue in the video:
{{quote|"What'you know about health? "Salad"? '''[[Sound Effect Bleep|(caw!)]] SALAD'''!!!"<br />
"Epic Meal Time showing you how to make a ''real'' salad! [[Sound Effect Bleep|(caw!)]] your lettuce!"<br />
"Oh, you didn't know? [[Non Sequitur|Carrots are for]] [[Double Entendre|ugly people]]!" }}
** They gave a very scathing F-U on their Facebook page to the people who were hating on "Drunken Mess".
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'''Epic Mook''': "I'm very careful with this."
'''Cousin Dave''': "I know you are...but it'll happen."
[([[Beat]]])
'''Epic Mook''': "...Don't be a prick." }}
** Also, Harley at the [[Mass Effect 3]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UyYFHDrBQ launch]
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