The BEST episodes of Drunk History

Every episode of Drunk History ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Drunk History!

Historical reenactments as narrated by inebriated history buffs as A-list comedy/acting talent perform their tale. (Based on the award-winning web series.)

Last Updated: 9/4/2025Network: Comedy CentralStatus: Ended
Landmarks
star
8.50
56 votes

#1 - Landmarks

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2016

Emily Roebling oversees construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; con-man Victor Lustig sells the Eiffel Tower; Shakespeare steals the Globe Theatre.

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Space
star
8.50
56 votes

#2 - Space

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/2015

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.

Directors: Derek Waters
Writer: Derek Waters
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Nashville
star
8.30
116 votes

#3 - Nashville

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2013

Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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Atlanta
star
8.20
145 votes

#4 - Atlanta

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/23/2013

John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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Chicago
star
8.00
203 votes

#5 - Chicago

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/16/2013

Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during The Haymarket Riot of 1886.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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The Wild West
star
8.00
87 votes

#6 - The Wild West

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/27/2013

Teddy Roosevelt makes a name for himself, hold-outs fight to the bitter end at The Alamo and Billy The Kid goes on the run from Lawman Pat Garrett.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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New York City
star
8.00
87 votes

#7 - New York City

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/8/2014

The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt mental institution.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Hollywood
star
8.00
87 votes

#8 - Hollywood

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/5/2014

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers William Randolph Hearst, animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create "Mickey Mouse" and Nancy Reagan convinces her movie star husband to enter politics.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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First Ladies
star
8.00
58 votes

#9 - First Ladies

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/2/2014

Frances Cleveland becomes the youngest first lady ever, Edith Wilson runs the country after Woodrow Wilson's stroke and Dolley Madison saves several artifacts from destruction.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Spies
star
8.00
56 votes

#10 - Spies

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2015

Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II (and becomes the first woman in the C.I.A) and children's books' author Roald Dahl serves as a debonair British spy.

Directors: Derek Waters
Writer: Derek Waters
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Journalism
star
8.00
56 votes

#11 - Journalism

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/2015

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race each other around the world, New York's newsboys go on strike, and a political cartoonist exposes a corrupt politician.

Writer: Derek Waters
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Hamilton
star
8.00
28 votes

#12 - Hamilton

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.

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Washington, D.C.
star
7.90
232 votes

#13 - Washington, D.C.

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/2013

Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud and Elvis crashes The White House to meet President Richard Nixon.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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Boston
star
7.80
116 votes

#14 - Boston

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/30/2013

Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist and the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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San Francisco
star
7.80
174 votes

#15 - San Francisco

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2013

Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear (and finds his unlikely first hit story) and Mary Ellen Pleasant supports abolitionists with her business earnings.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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The Roosevelts
star
7.70
84 votes

#16 - The Roosevelts

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2016

Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football; Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime; Eleanor Roosevelt becomes friends with a female Soviet sniper.

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Philadelphia
star
7.70
87 votes

#17 - Philadelphia

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/19/2014

Baron von Steuben helps train The Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other to be President and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington’s army.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Hawaii
star
7.70
87 votes

#18 - Hawaii

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/12/2014

British explorer Captain James Cook socializes with the natives in Hawaii, future Senator Daniel Inouye fights in World War II and surfer Eddie Aikau earns a reputation for riding big waves.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Montgomery, AL
star
7.70
87 votes

#19 - Montgomery, AL

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/1/2014

Percy Julian battles adversity to become one of the greatest scientists of all time, Claudette Colvin lays the groundwork for Rosa Parks and Joe Louis fights Max Schmeling.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Charleston
star
7.70
87 votes

#20 - Charleston

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/2014

Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Detroit
star
7.60
145 votes

#21 - Detroit

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2013

The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
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New Jersey
star
7.50
56 votes

#22 - New Jersey

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/2015

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.

Directors: Derek Waters
Writer: Derek Waters
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Oklahoma
star
7.50
56 votes

#23 - Oklahoma

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/13/2015

Kentucky Daisy claims land for the ladies, Gordon Cooper goes on a pioneering space mission, and former slave Bass Reeves becomes the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.

Directors: Jeremy Konner
Writer: Derek Waters
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Los Angeles
star
7.50
56 votes

#24 - Los Angeles

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/27/2015

The LAPD is formed to stop the city from devolving into chaos, Rin Tin Tin becomes a global superstar, and William Mulholland figures out how to bring water to Los Angeles.

Writer: Derek Waters
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Las Vegas
star
7.50
56 votes

#25 - Las Vegas

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/2015

Bugsy Siegel bets his life on a Las Vegas casino, while the Moulin Rouge breaks the color barrier, Sin City's origins are a popularity contest for J.T. McWilliams and William Clark.

Writer: Derek Waters
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