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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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Best Episodes Summary

"Shitshows" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History". It scored 9.2/10 based on 330 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?".

  • Shitshows
    9.2/10330 votes
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    #1 - Shitshows

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2016

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    Director: N/A

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  • Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
    8.7/10249 votes
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    #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.”

    Director: N/A

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  • Heroines
    8.4/10186 votes
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    #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."

    Director: N/A

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  • Civil Rights
    8.3/10132 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

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  • Drunk Mystery
    8.3/10126 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • First Ladies
    8.2/10164 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Montgomery, AL
    8.1/10166 votes
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    #7 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • New York City
    8.1/10177 votes
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    #8 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Inventors
    8.1/10128 votes
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    #9 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Underdogs
    8.1/1099 votes
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    #10 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bad Blood
    8.1/1081 votes
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    #11 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Atlanta
    8.0/10252 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Detroit
    8.0/10213 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • New Orleans
    8.0/10142 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Journalism
    8.0/10116 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dangerous Minds
    8.0/1099 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heists
    8.0/1091 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • San Francisco
    7.9/10242 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nashville
    7.9/10208 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • New Jersey
    7.9/10146 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Los Angeles
    7.9/10118 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Space
    7.9/10127 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

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  • Animals
    7.9/1089 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

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  • Drugs
    7.9/10106 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Believe It Or Not
    7.9/1075 votes
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

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