Spot of Tea: Difference between revisions

However, these characters typically drink tea from an ornate china set, whereas in Real Life, such things are reserved for special occasions. In fact, there's a dying tradition of keeping a set of "best china" that's ''never'' to be used unless the Queen should suddenly turn up for a visit.

 

 

Compare with [[Must Have Caffeine]]. See [[Useful Notes/Tea and Tea Culture|Tea and Tea Culture]] for info about tea and the world's [[Real Life]] tea drinking habits, including proof that the British love for tea is [[Freakier Than Fiction]].

 

 

== Advertising ==

* Quintessential Englishman [[Stephen Fry]] brings his sheer... [[Shaped Like Itself|Stephen Fryness]]... to Twinings advertisments, which is often sent up on ''[[QI]]''.

** The same company's older adverts used a family of chimpanzees (using actual trained chimps dressed in clothes) from 1956 onwards, in the longest-running advertising campaign in history, lasting until the late '90s.

*** That was, until [[Moral Guardians]] stepped in complaining it was cruel.

* Just about every episode in ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' features the main character (she's a maid) making tea or people sitting down to have tea.

* ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'': Each and every episode Shinku demands that Jun make her tea. She does this so often that she is referred to as "Tea Bitch" by [[The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named]].

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'', both the Ushiromiya family and the witches really like their tea, and the things that happen in the 'tea party' segment of each Episode are often very important to the plot.

* Oddly, completely averted in ''[[Hellsing]]''. Despite the painstakingly detailed British setting there isn't a cup of tea to be seen - even in a scene taking place at a cafe the characters don't drink or eat a thing.

* Tea makes several prominent appearances in ''[[Sherlock]]'', although Sherlock does drink coffee in his first appearance. Mostly notably, he tries to poison John with contaminated sugar ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) in his tea. John doesn't take sugar, but drinks it anyway, as he thinks that Sherlock is actually trying to do something nice. In the second episode, a client makes Chinese tea with hundred-year-old tea pots. Finally, in The Reichenbach Fall, Moriarty and Sherlock drink tea while discussing crime and genius. Notably, this is the only time they're seen using "the best china."

* A [[Running Gag]] in [[The Two Ronnies]] sketch "Tinker, Tailor, Smiley, Doyle" involves George Smiley's fondness for tea.

 

 

* Exception: Quincy Archer, a ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' character who often tries to emphasize his Britishness, "fucking hate[s] tea."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA This] wonderful celebration of tea..

* [[N Tom 64]] of ''[[Hellfire Commentaries|Hellfire-Commentaries]]'' always drinks tea whilst recording commentaries.

* Mike J of ''[[That Guy With the Glasses]]'' has a slight breakdown when trying to review ''Jaws: the Revenge'' without his customary cup of tea.