The WORST episodes of Drunk History

Every episode of Drunk History ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 8/24/2023Network: Comedy CentralStatus: Ended

6.86

254 votes

#1 - Bar Fights

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2016

Carry A. Nation vandalizes bars; Andrew Jackson gets involved in a shootout; Marsha P. Johnson stands up for LGBT rights.

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6.92

190 votes

#2 - New Mexico

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/3/2015

Popé leads the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers in 1680, Boy Scouts cofounder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, the true story of the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed.

Writer: Derek Waters

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6.99

231 votes

#3 - Food

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2016

Mayor La Guardia fights the mob over artichokes; Julia Child meets the love of her life while working as a spy; a molasses flood devastates Boston.

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7.03

254 votes

#4 - Scoundrels

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2016

Charles Ponzi hires a publicist to improve his image; Sadie the Goat becomes a notorious Hudson River pirate; a con man poses as a Scottish royal.

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7.09

44 votes

#5 - Behind Enemy Lines

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/23/2019

Marina Raskova forms an all-women air force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II; smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.

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7.11

229 votes

#6 - Siblings

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2016

Katharine Wright helps her brothers build an airplane; the Kopp sisters fight to protect their home; the Fox sisters stoke the spiritualism craze.

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7.21

57 votes

#7 - Love

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/2019

People going to extremes for love, including a student who tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a bank to pay for his wife's gender reassignment surgery.

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7.24

205 votes

#8 - Inventors

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/2015

Alexander Graham Bell beats Elisha Gray to the patent office for the telephone, Thomas Edison endeavors to launch a filmmaking monopoly.

Writer: Derek Waters

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7.26

58 votes

#9 - Good Samaritans

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/9/2019

Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire; Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.

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7.28

64 votes

#10 - Believe It or Not

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/2019

Larry Walters pilots a balloon-suspended lawn chair; Phineas Gage survives an iron rod to the brain; and the Greenbrier Ghost's testimony is used in court.

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7.33

181 votes

#11 - Cleveland

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2015

Wayne Wheeler leads the Prohibition charge, Dorothy Fuldheim paves the way for women in journalism, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War.

Directors: Derek Waters

Writer: Derek Waters

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7.34

252 votes

#12 - Games

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/6/2015

Milton Bradley jumpstarts the board game industry, Roger Sharpe fights for pinball legalization in 1970s New York City, and Bobby Fischer becomes the World Chess Champion.

Directors: Derek Waters

Writer: Derek Waters

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7.36

199 votes

#13 - 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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7.38

71 votes

#14 - Baseball

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2019

Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th-century MLB; the Chicago White Sox are accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series; the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own."

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7.40

284 votes

#15 - Legends

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2016

Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil; Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship; Buster Keaton takes his talents to the big screen.

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7.40

196 votes

#16 - 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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7.40

322 votes

#17 - Great Escapes

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2016

In the Season 4 premiere, LSD guru Timothy Leary breaks out of prison; a sailor attempts a bold rescue from Devil's Island; and a baker remains calm on the Titanic thanks to his whiskey habit.

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7.45

233 votes

#18 - New Orleans

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/2015

Pirate Jean Laffite helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend.

Directors: Derek Waters

Writer: Derek Waters

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7.45

244 votes

#19 - Miami

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/2015

Actor Clark Gable joins the U.S Air Force during World War II, Ponce de León quarrels with Diego Colón (son of Christopher Columbus) in the 1500s and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami in the 1970s.

Directors: Derek Waters

Writer: Derek Waters

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7.46

48 votes

#20 - Legacies

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/25/2019

Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music; John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported; Sam Cooke writes "A Change Is Gonna Come."

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7.46

61 votes

#21 - Trailblazers

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/2019

Bessie Coleman is America's first black woman pilot; the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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7.47

95 votes

#22 - 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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7.50

200 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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7.53

734 votes

#24 - 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

Writer: Derek Waters, Jeremy Konner

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7.55

75 votes

#25 - Drugs

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/2019

John F. Kennedy's doctor administers him meth for his back pain; Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.

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