Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles is a television series written and performed by the comedian Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins is an Irish comedian. She was a principal actor/writer of the RTÉ production Naked Camera, as well for her own show Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles....

 and her sister, Lilly.

The series is set and filmed in Lilly's homely, country kitchen and each episode involves the sisters preparing food dishes or "vittles" for a themed party.

Throughout each episode Maeve shares her ideas and humorous anecdotes which are dramatized in short sketches. Maeve talks directly to the camera. The show also contains lots of archive footage of Ireland in the past and features short clips of stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animation.

Episodes

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Series 1

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|1 || "Have Those Girls We Went To School With Over" || Maeve and Lilly cook for some old schoolfriends.
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|2 || "Impress The Boys" || The girls cook a salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...

for their boyfriends.
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|3 || "Party Hard" || The sisters throw a childrens' party and re-live some childhood memories.
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|4 || "Remember That Dog" || The girls host an anniversary dinner for their dead dog, Rippie. Memories of late pets are remembered.
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|Christmas Special || "Maeve Higgins' Yuletide Fancy Vittles"|| Maeve and Lilly make Yuletide treats for a Christmas gathering of friends.
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