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* The people and environments in ''[[Monty Python]]'s The [[Life of Brian]]'', mostly likely due to the practices of the Ancient Romans, and even one of the characters mentioned how sanitation and hygiene have improved since the Romans have been in charge. The fact that it's set in the warm, dry Middle East as opposed to squalid, damp and muddy old England also helps things a bit. Of course, the majority still live in disgusting, tiny hovels, begging lepers are a common sight (unless Jesus comes along) and people are executed horribly for minor offenses.
* [[Keira Knightley]]'s Guinevere in ''[[King Arthur]]'' was immaculately manicured despite the fact that the audience is told that she had had her fingers broken while in captivity -- during a closeup on her perfect nails.
* In the film of ''[[Eragon (
* Played straight in ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]''; our heroes travel to -- and pick up hitchhikers -- from ancient Greece, ancient Mongolia, and medieval Europe (among other eras), yet any and all unpleasant hygienic issues are ignored.
* ''[[A Kid in King
** Some [[Truth in Television]], surprisingly -- noblewomen were indeed taught the basics of combat and siege defense, in the case the enemy attacked when their husbands weren't around. Passive princesses were the ideal of a later age.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* [[The Pyrates]] is set firmly in a [[Ye Goode Olde Days]] version of [[The Cavalier Years]]. [[George Macdonald Fraser|The Author]] lampshades this immediately following the idyllic introduction, saying that historians would no doubt point out the complete lack of sanitation, hygiene, or social services. He concludes that the historical characters, "happy conscienceless rabble that they were," likely wouldn't care, and urges the reader not to, either.
{{quote| "There wasn't even a London School of Economics, which is remarkable when you consider that Locke and Hobbes were loose about the place."}}
* Averted in [[
* ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Ancient Japan seemed awfully tidy in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', although there is a degree of accuracy here; cleanliness and hygiene were both quite advanced and socially important in Japan. Of course the punishments for failing to uphold the proper level of cleaning etiquette could be pretty draconian.
* The film version of Irish Potato Famine novel ''Under the Hawthorn Tree'' featured three starving, destitute orphans walking the width of Ireland to reach their aunts' home. For malnourished vagrants, their skin and hair were immaculate.
* Several years ago a British reality programme tried to get people to live as an Iron Age tribe. Virtually the first thing they did was to elect a woman leader. There are at least two things wrong with that sentence<ref>Try "elect" and "woman leader". Yes, Boudicca was a female ruler, but she inherited her husband's power. And the Romans weren't happy about it.</ref>.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
* The ''[[Outlander]]'' series by Diana Gabaldon. The protagonist is sent back in time to 1745 Scotland from 1945 post-war Scotland. She's generally horrified by the sanitation and hygiene of the day (not to mention the morality), but she does admit that they're better off in some respects than she might have thought. (Judicious use of leeches to ease bruising, for example; Claire would have suspected them of being used for fevers.)
* Otto Bettmann's (non-fiction) book ''The Good Old Days -- They Were Terrible!'' is dedicated to debunking this trope, in regards to American society in the late 19th/early 20th century. Child-labor sweatshops, streets filled with manure and trash, malnutrition amongst frontiersmen, etc.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[
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