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The Best Episodes of Adam Ruins Everything Season 2

Every episode of Adam Ruins Everything Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Adam Ruins Everything Season 2!

Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
Genres:ComedyDocumentary
Network:truTV

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Adam Ruins Having a Baby" is the best rated episode of "Adam Ruins Everything" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 153 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/11/2017. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Adam Ruins Weight Loss".

  • Adam Ruins Having a Baby
    7.5/10153 votes

    #1 - Adam Ruins Having a Baby

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2017

    Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Weight Loss
    7.7/10143 votes

    #2 - Adam Ruins Weight Loss

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/18/2017

    Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins the Hospital
    7.9/10143 votes

    #3 - Adam Ruins the Hospital

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/25/2017

    Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reckless prescription of antibiotics is making them worthless, and you might not need a mammogram.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Dating
    7.1/10133 votes

    #4 - Adam Ruins Dating

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2017

    Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Art
    7.8/10136 votes

    #5 - Adam Ruins Art

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/8/2017

    Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit. He then exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
    7.8/10129 votes

    #6 - Adam Ruins What We Learned in School

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/15/2017

    Adam shows that Columbus didn't discover America, King Tut was a dud and the rules of grammar are not as ironclad as people think.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins College
    7.6/10125 votes

    #7 - Adam Ruins College

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/22/2017

    Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Emily Ruins Adam
    7.9/10143 votes

    #8 - Emily Ruins Adam

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/29/2017

    Emily takes over to “ruin” Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the “backfire effect.”

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins His Vacation
    7.4/10122 votes

    #9 - Adam Ruins His Vacation

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/2017

    Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen Native American land, Vegas slot machines are purposely designed to be addicting, and a whole lot more!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins the Suburbs
    7.4/10136 votes

    #10 - Adam Ruins the Suburbs

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/2017

    Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing you. Plus, the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins The Economy
    7.7/10121 votes

    #11 - Adam Ruins The Economy

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/2017

    Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provide the whole story. Plus, American manufacturing can't come back because it was a fluke to begin with.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
    7.5/10137 votes

    #12 - Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/10/2017

    Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a false theory.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Spa Day
    7.3/10120 votes

    #13 - Adam Ruins Spa Day

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/17/2017

    Pricey “detoxifying” treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is undeserved. Plus, the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Halloween
    7.1/10118 votes

    #14 - Adam Ruins Halloween

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/24/2017

    Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums and séances have a long history - of being fake.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Science
    6.0/10114 votes

    #15 - Adam Ruins Science

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/31/2017

    Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures, and there's no money in reproducing results, even though it's essential in proving findings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins the Future
    5.5/10105 votes

    #16 - Adam Ruins the Future

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 11/7/2017

    Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement. Plus, Adam's girlfriend Melinda proves that even with research, the future is unpredictable.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
    5.7/10111 votes

    #17 - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/2018

    Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution with startling facts about George Washington, Paul Revere's overrated ride, and the tale of a slave who helped America win.

    Director: Juston Gordon-Montgomery

    Writer: Greg Tuculescu

  • The First Factsgiving
    5.8/10105 votes

    #18 - The First Factsgiving

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/27/2018

    The Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves! There was no romance between Pocahontas and John Smith, and cities in the New World rivaled London in scale before their “discovery.”

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mutually Assured Ruination
    5.2/1095 votes

    #19 - Mutually Assured Ruination

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/2018

    Adam reveals that the United States kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis; a lone female politician stands up to Joseph McCarthy; a bureaucratic mistake brings down the Berlin Wall.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • An Ancient History of Violence
    5.5/10100 votes

    #20 - An Ancient History of Violence

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/10/2018

    Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents, and tells the story of a Celtic woman who brought the Roman Empire to its knees. Plus, the brave “300” Spartans numbered closer to 7000.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Copernican Ruin-aissance
    5.3/1089 votes

    #21 - The Copernican Ruin-aissance

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/17/2018

    Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, who was actually supported (NOT persecuted) by the Catholic Church. Plus, a rogue dwarf revolutionized what we know about anatomy, and just wait until you hear about Tulip Mania!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • 100 Years Ago Today
    5.3/1091 votes

    #22 - 100 Years Ago Today

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/24/2018

    Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land. Plus, one man fought to keep food from killing us, while the Spanish Flu killed more Americans than all 20th century wars combined!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Guns
    7.1/10151 votes

    #23 - Adam Ruins Guns

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/27/2018

    Adam gets a shot at both sides of the gun debate by reviewing the science evidence of the effectiveness of gun regulation including stating that a ban on assault weapons would be ineffective, showing how the NRA has evolved over the years and influenced how the country interprets the meaning of the Second Amendment, and that both sides of the gun debate ignore how guns and gun regulation affect minorities.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Sleep
    7.4/10117 votes

    #24 - Adam Ruins Sleep

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 12/4/2018

    Adam states that the mattress industry was always a huge scam, that cheap school systems created sleep-deprived teenagers, and how "safe" sleep medications may actually be harmful.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Adam Ruins Tech
    7.0/1074 votes

    #25 - Adam Ruins Tech

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 12/11/2018

    Adam logs in to dulge into monopolistic tech companies by stating how Amazon's monopoly over online shopping harms consumers; how consumers do not fully own their technology devices because of corporate abuse of copyright law; and that tech companies not only routinely evade taxes, but also downright eradicate competition and harm society by abusing their monopoly power.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A