The BEST episodes of Drunk History season 5

Every episode of Drunk History season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Drunk History season 5!

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: 6/8/2025Network: Comedy CentralStatus: Ended

8.00

115 votes

#1 - 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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7.99

114 votes

#2 - 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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7.90

146 votes

#3 - 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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7.83

117 votes

#4 - 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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7.78

89 votes

#5 - 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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7.73

142 votes

#6 - 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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7.73

91 votes

#7 - 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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7.72

123 votes

#8 - Game Changers

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2018

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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7.67

95 votes

#9 - Halloween

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/24/2018

A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town; one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween; Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.

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7.66

140 votes

#10 - Dangerous Minds

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2018

Taran Killam, Jerry O'Connell and Bob Odenkirk explore the lives of Jack Parsons, occultist cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Lab; W.C. Minor, the man who helped write the Oxford English Dictionary; Rasputin, adviser to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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7.64

98 votes

#11 - World War II

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/19/2018

A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops; a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps; Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.

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7.60

90 votes

#12 - The Middle Ages

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/10/2018

Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War; Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power; Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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7.46

96 votes

#13 - Death

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/17/2018

Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers; a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body; an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.

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