The BEST episodes of Horrible Histories (2009)
Every episode of Horrible Histories (2009) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Horrible Histories (2009)!
Sketches, cartoons and quizzes liberally splattered with blood and gore, based on the books published by Scholastic.
#1 - Aztec Home Cooking and Victorian Manners
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2011
Meet an annoying French prankster from the Middle Ages, witness bizarre Aztec food on Historical Masterchef, see what happens when Queen Elizabeth I needs the toilet, and learn how not to impress a woman in Victorian times -a painful lesson in manners. The truth about Dick Turpin in song; certainly no New Romantic.
#4 - Episode 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2011
Some medieval knights discover the most disgusting way to attack a castle, the Saxons demonstrate the stupidest way to lose a battle, a Georgian goes shopping in a modern pet shop, and the kings and queens of England demonstrate how to remember them all, through the power of song.
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#5 - Song Special
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/22/2013
Some of history's greatest characters serenade us with tales of their lives. Featuring the all-conquering Alexander the Great, the cash-loving Crassus, the feisty Joan of Arc, the brilliant but miserable Charles Dickens, and the very determined Rosa Parks.
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#6 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2009
A pirate captain worries about an early bedtime, a soldier from World War I struggles to cook with fake food and the four King Georges form a boy band.
#7 - Episode 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2011
A confused World War I soldier spends his first day in the trenches, William Wallace launches his music career as a rock rebel, Lady Jane Grey wins a frankly terrible competition, and the Welsh women of Fishguard defeat a French invasion without even trying.
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#8 - Episode 13
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/4/2012
A compilation of the songs from the season, featuring We're the Thinkers, Mary I, William Shakespeare & the Quills, It's a New World (Pilgrim Fathers), Luddites!, Victoria & Albert: A Love Ballad, Mary Seacole, Natural Selection, and The Few.
#9 - Episode 13
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/9/2009
A lazy aristocrat invents the sandwich, the Romans host their own revolting cookery show and William Shakespeare is haunted by the ghost of King Richard III.
#11 - Episode 7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/2009
There is a terrible smell in the Houses of Parliament, Cinderella struggles with the Blitz, and Helen of Troy reveals her complicated love life.
#12 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2009
A priest makes a piano from live pigs, Emperor Caligula declares war on the sea, and there are some disgusting beauty tips from Ancient Egypt.
#17 - Episode 6
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/4/2013
Queen Victoria's coronation doesn't go quite as planned, George IV pulls out all the stops to impress his guests on Historical Come Dine With Me, ancient Greek bighead Alexander the Great refuses to stop conquering things, and the HH Sport team report live from the horrible pirate races.
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#18 - Episode 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/2/2011
An unusual Stuart highwayman doesn't always steal cash, a modern detective struggles to solve a series of murders in Emperor Caligula's house, HHTV goes undercover to prove allegations of cheating in Middle Ages jousting tournaments, and King George IV meets his dead relatives.
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#19 - Episode 9
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/11/2012
King Edward III gets married in a building site, Julius Caesar reveals his secret tips on hiding baldness, we learn the tricks of the criminal trade on the Real Victorian Hustle and we meet Renaissance Italy's most corrupt family: the Borgias.
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#21 - Episode 11
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/25/2009
Queen Victoria learns that her British comforts are not very British, a Viking warrior won't stop talking in rhyme, and on 'Axe Factor', the contestants try to become executioners.
#22 - Episode 6
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2012
A confused Christopher Columbus declares he has found India and a Georgian woman reveals her very Stupid Death. Also, Victoria and Albert attend the Great Exhibition and Tsar Peter III brings a very weird case to the Court of Historical Law.
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#23 - Episode 9
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/11/2009
A Victorian inspector checks that school is suitably cruel, HHTV News reports live from the Great Plague, and Thumbelina drowns unpleasantly.
#24 - Episode 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/31/2010
A prank-loving emperor hosts a dinner party on Roman Come Dine with Me, the Durham Home Guard injure themselves while learning first aid, and the Viking rock band paint the town red... literally.
