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Jack of All Trades (2000)
What history books are they reading?
The 'Trivia' notes for this series states that all historical figures were, in fact, alive and active at the time of the series' setting. Well, let's see, the series is set in 1801. Blackbeard, portrayed in two episodes, died in 1718. Catherine the Great died in 1796, Ben Franklin in 1790, George Washington in 1799, the Marquis de Sade is hardly depicted as the 64-year-old he was in 1801, while Lewis and Clark are depicted as old and decrepit though they were 27 and 31... What history books were the people who wrote those 'Trivia' notes reading? The premise of a period comedy starring Bruce Campbell was intriguing enough for me to waste my money and buy this set. I still think the idea could have been an effective comedy. However, 'Jack of All Trades' is 8th-grade-boy humor with a tiresome overkill of sexual innuendo. Each successive episode is increasingly predictable and it is little wonder the show was canceled.