Posh people having extremely polite arguments over dinner while the staff do all the actual work downstairs.
Fun fact: Highclere Castle, the real filming location, was once home to the discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Been going so long now that the utopian future it promised feels further away than when it started.
Fun fact: NASA named its first Space Shuttle Enterprise after 400,000 fans wrote in demanding it.