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Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Drunk History Season 4 Episode 10 - Shitshows
    9.2/10(343 votes)

    #1 - Shitshows

    S4:E10

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Drunk History Season 6 Episode 1 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
    8.8/10(267 votes)

    #2 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?

    S6:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 1 - Heroines
    8.5/10(195 votes)

    #3 - Heroines

    S5:E1

    Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 5 - Civil Rights
    8.4/10(136 votes)

    #4 - Civil Rights

    S5:E5

    British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.

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  5. Drunk History Season 6 Episode 16 - Bad Blood
    8.4/10(89 votes)

    #5 - Bad Blood

    S6:E16

    Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra’s younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 7 - Drunk Mystery
    8.3/10(132 votes)

    #6 - Drunk Mystery

    S5:E7

    Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Drunk History Season 2 Episode 10 - First Ladies
    8.2/10(167 votes)

    #7 - First Ladies

    S2:E10

    Frances Cleveland uses her public image for good, Edith Wilson acts as president after her husband has a stroke, and Dolley Madison saves American artifacts from destruction.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 11 - Inventors
    8.2/10(133 votes)

    #8 - Inventors

    S3:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 6 - Underdogs
    8.2/10(104 votes)

    #9 - Underdogs

    S5:E6

    Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Drunk History Season 2 Episode 1 - Montgomery, AL
    8.1/10(169 votes)

    #10 - Montgomery, AL

    S2:E1

    Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling. Featuring Jordan Peele, Terry Crews and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Drunk History Season 2 Episode 2 - New York City
    8.1/10(181 votes)

    #11 - New York City

    S2:E2

    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. Featuring Laura Dern, Taran Killam, Juno Temple and Matt Walsh.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 7 - Oklahoma
    8.1/10(125 votes)

    #12 - Oklahoma

    S3:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Drunk History Season 1 Episode 3 - Atlanta
    8.0/10(257 votes)

    #13 - Atlanta

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Drunk History Season 1 Episode 6 - Detroit
    8.0/10(218 votes)

    #14 - Detroit

    S1:E6

    The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals.

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  15. Drunk History Season 1 Episode 7 - Nashville
    8.0/10(211 votes)

    #15 - Nashville

    S1:E7

    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.

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  16. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 3 - New Orleans
    8.0/10(145 votes)

    #16 - New Orleans

    S3:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 8 - Journalism
    8.0/10(122 votes)

    #17 - Journalism

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 2 - Dangerous Minds
    8.0/10(103 votes)

    #18 - Dangerous Minds

    S5:E2

    Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 9 - Heists
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #19 - Heists

    S5:E9

    An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.

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  20. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 10 - Animals
    8.0/10(93 votes)

    #20 - Animals

    S5:E10

    A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.

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  21. Drunk History Season 6 Episode 6 - Drugs
    8.0/10(112 votes)

    #21 - Drugs

    S6:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Drunk History Season 6 Episode 9 - Believe It Or Not
    8.0/10(77 votes)

    #22 - Believe It Or Not

    S6:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Drunk History Season 1 Episode 5 - San Francisco
    7.9/10(247 votes)

    #23 - San Francisco

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 1 - New Jersey
    7.9/10(151 votes)

    #24 - New Jersey

    S3:E1

    Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 9 - Los Angeles
    7.9/10(123 votes)

    #25 - Los Angeles

    S3:E9

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Shitshows" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History". It scored 9.2/10 based on 343 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/6/2016. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Are You Afraid of the Drunk?".