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: 2/12/2024Network: Comedy CentralStatus: Ended
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Atlanta
star
8.06
406 votes

#1 - 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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Nashville
star
8.01
297 votes

#2 - 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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Drunk Mystery
star
8.00
115 votes

#3 - Drunk Mystery

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2018

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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Civil Rights
star
7.99
113 votes

#4 - Civil Rights

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2018

A tribute to Suffragettes who fought for their rights with jujitsu; the Birmingham Children's March; disability rights activists.

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Space
star
7.96
223 votes

#5 - 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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Heroines
star
7.90
145 votes

#6 - Heroines

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2018

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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First Ladies
star
7.88
187 votes

#7 - 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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Chicago
star
7.88
522 votes

#8 - 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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New York City
star
7.87
262 votes

#9 - 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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Montgomery, AL
star
7.86
281 votes

#10 - 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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Hollywood
star
7.84
240 votes

#11 - 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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Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
star
7.84
117 votes

#12 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2019

Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, "Frankenstein."

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Underdogs
star
7.82
117 votes

#13 - Underdogs

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2018

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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Boston
star
7.82
349 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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Shit Shows
star
7.78
251 votes

#15 - Shit Shows

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2016

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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Charleston
star
7.78
223 votes

#16 - 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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Heists
star
7.78
89 votes

#17 - Heists

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/26/2018

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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Philadelphia
star
7.77
211 votes

#18 - 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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Fame
star
7.76
50 votes

#19 - Fame

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/2/2019

Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star.

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San Francisco
star
7.76
369 votes

#20 - 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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Journalism
star
7.74
191 votes

#21 - 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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National Parks
star
7.74
89 votes

#22 - National Parks

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2019

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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The Wild West
star
7.73
262 votes

#23 - 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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Sex
star
7.73
140 votes

#24 - Sex

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2018

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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Animals
star
7.73
91 votes

#25 - Animals

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/3/2018

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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