9.2/10329 votesLoading...
8.7/10249 votesLoading...#2 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2019
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “Frankenstein.”
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8.4/10186 votesLoading...#3 - Heroines
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2018
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."
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8.3/10132 votesLoading...#4 - Civil Rights
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2018
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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8.3/10126 votesLoading...#5 - Drunk Mystery
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2018
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.
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8.2/10164 votesLoading...#6 - First Ladies
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/2/2014
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.
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8.2/1080 votesLoading...#7 - Bad Blood
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 8/6/2019
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.
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8.1/10166 votesLoading...#8 - Montgomery, AL
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/1/2014
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.
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8.1/10177 votesLoading...#9 - New York City
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/8/2014
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.
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8.1/10128 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
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8.1/1099 votesLoading...#11 - Underdogs
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2018
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.
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8.0/10252 votesLoading...#12 - Atlanta
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/23/2013
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.
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8.0/10213 votesLoading...#13 - Detroit
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2013
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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8.0/10142 votesLoading...#14 - 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.
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8.0/10116 votesLoading...#15 - Journalism
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/2015
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.
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8.0/1099 votesLoading...#16 - Dangerous Minds
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2018
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.
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8.0/1091 votesLoading...#17 - Heists
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 6/26/2018
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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7.9/10242 votesLoading...#18 - San Francisco
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2013
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.
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7.9/10208 votesLoading...#19 - Nashville
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2013
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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7.9/10146 votesLoading...#20 - New Jersey
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/2015
Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.
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7.9/10118 votesLoading...#21 - 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.
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7.9/10127 votesLoading...#22 - Space
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/2015
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science, and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.
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7.9/1089 votesLoading...#23 - Animals
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 7/3/2018
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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7.9/10105 votesLoading...#24 - Drugs
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/2019
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.
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7.9/1075 votesLoading...#25 - Believe It Or Not
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 3/12/2019
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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The Best Episodes of Drunk History
Every episode of Drunk History ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Drunk History!
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...
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Network:Comedy Central
Best Episodes Summary
"Shitshows" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History". It scored 9.2/10 based on 329 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/6/2016. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Are You Afraid of the Drunk?".