Extreme Omnivore: Difference between revisions

[[File:Matter Eater Lad.jpg|link=Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|frame|Matter-Eater Lad, the [[Patron Saint]] of this trope.]]

 

 

 

Sometimes a [[Big Eater]], except that the Big Eater tends to have some standards of cuisine. The Extreme Omnivore will pretty much eat ''anything'' out of hunger or curiosity, so long as it looks like food. And sometimes when it [[Masochist's Meal|clearly doesn't]]. They don't fear the [[Lethal Chef]], and you will never hear them ask "[[I Ate What?]]".

* "The Human Dustbin" from ''[[Look Around You]]'' series 2.

* In the ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' episode "Who Pooped The Bed?", a forensic analyst ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|played by]] [[Dollhouse|Fran Kranz]]) dissects one of the poops in their quest to find out the episode's [[Driving Question]]. He determines that whoever did it was eating newspaper, as well as pieces of a credit card. It turns out that that still doesn't narrow it down from Frank and Charlie.

{{quote|'''Television Inspector:''' Aha! The old "eat the telly" trick!

'''Vyvyan (electric cord hanging from mouth):''' It's a toaster! }}

* Part of the mission of the chefs of [[Future Food]] is encouraging people to expand their definitions of what is edible.

* In the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch "The First Man to Jump the Channel", the titular character, played by Terry Jones, also intends to be "the first man ever to eat an entire Anglican cathedral". (He fails.)