The Best Episodes of Drunk History
Last Updated: Jun 15, 2019
Historical reenactments as narrated by inebriated history buffs as A-list comedy/acting talent perform their tale. (Based on the award-winning web series.)
#1 - Drunk Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 7
An investigation into Agatha Christie's disappearance; the anonymous letter writer who terrorized the town of Circleville; the mastermind behind America's only unsolved airplane hijacking.
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#2 - Civil Rights
Season 5 - Episode 5
A tribute to Suffragettes who fought for their rights with jujitsu; the Birmingham Children's March; disability rights activists.
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#3 - Atlanta
Season 1 - Episode 3
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.
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#4 - Baltimore
Season 2 - Episode 4
Newly elected President Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Griswold.
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#5 - Hamilton
Season 4 - Episode 10
Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.
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#6 - Heroines
Season 5 - Episode 1
A tribute to the first woman to fight in the Revolutionary War and receive a pension; a museum curator who saved art from the Nazis; Civil War hero Clara Bart.
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#7 - Underdogs
Season 5 - Episode 6
Fred Rogers and his fight for government-funded children's TV; the female journalist who helped take down John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly.
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#8 - First Ladies
Season 2 - Episode 10
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.
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#9 - New York City
Season 2 - Episode 2
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.
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#10 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Season 6 - Episode 1
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, "Frankenstein."
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#11 - Montgomery, AL
Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
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#12 - Boston
Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
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#13 - Nashville
Season 1 - Episode 7
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.
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#14 - Sports Heroes
Season 2 - Episode 9
Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Babe Didrikson breaks down gender barriers in sports and Jim Abbott achieves prominence as a pitcher despite having only one hand.
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#15 - Heists
Season 5 - Episode 9
An Italian handyman steals the Mona Lisa; the Santa bandits rob a bank in Texas; Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.
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#16 - Sex
Season 5 - Episode 4
A salute to Margaret Sanger's crusade for accessible birth control; the creation of the Kinsey scale; Gloria Steinem's undercover work at The Playboy Club.
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#17 - Charleston
Season 2 - Episode 5
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.
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#18 - Space
Season 3 - Episode 13
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.
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Season 5 - Episode 10
A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court; Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA; a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.
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#20 - Game Changers
Season 5 - Episode 3
The early history of Hip hop; Berry Gordy, the man known for inventing Motown; Nichelle Nichols's activism both on and off the TV screen.
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#21 - Chicago
Season 1 - Episode 2
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.
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#22 - Shit Shows
Season 4 - Episode 11
DJ Steve Dahl sparks an anti-disco riot; the Cherry Sisters emerge as the worst vaudeville act of all time; a rivalry between two actors turns violent.
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#23 - Hollywood
Season 2 - Episode 6
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.
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#24 - American Music
Season 2 - Episode 3
Disc Jockey Alan Freed plays rock and roll for the first time, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from Johnny Cash and music producer Sylvia Robinson assembles The Sugarhill Gang.
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#25 - National Parks
Season 6 - Episode 2
John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
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