1906 Encyclopedia Britannica

From The Extended Group

The 1906 Encyclopedia Britannica volumes are a series of infamous almanacs residing in the Peter family basement. The anachronistic information in the books, along with lengthy passages describing racial stereotypes at the time are often read aloud, with typically hilarious results. The content of the encyclopedias also feeds into stock character assumptions that the Peters are ex-Nazi Party members quietly living in suburbia.

Memorable Passages

• African brain size being compared to that of great apes
• Scent of African men being described as similar to "a buck goat"
• Eskimos seldom "intentionally" coming into contact with water
• The practice of Eskimo children being licked by their parents, then placed into a sack of feathers
• Arabs being described as "crafty," untrustworthy
• Australian Aborigines described as having a tendency to sneak up on whites to shout words like "Wow!", with the proper response of quieting them being "Shh".
• Phrenology charts