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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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  1. 9.1/10(339 votes)

    #1 - Shitshows

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  2. 8.7/10(255 votes)

    #2 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?

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    S6:E1

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

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  3. 8.4/10(189 votes)

    #3 - Heroines

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    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."

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  4. 8.4/10(131 votes)

    #4 - Civil Rights

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    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. 8.2/10(164 votes)

    #5 - First Ladies

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    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.

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  6. 8.2/10(129 votes)

    #6 - Inventors

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    S3:E11

    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. 8.2/10(127 votes)

    #7 - Drunk Mystery

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    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.

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  9. 8.1/10(177 votes)

    #8 - New York City

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    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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  10. 8.1/10(98 votes)

    #9 - Underdogs

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    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.

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  11. 8.1/10(91 votes)

    #10 - Heists

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    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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  12. 8.1/10(84 votes)

    #11 - Bad Blood

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    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.

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  13. 8.0/10(214 votes)

    #12 - Detroit

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    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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  14. 8.0/10(167 votes)

    #13 - Montgomery, AL

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    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.

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  15. 8.0/10(142 votes)

    #14 - New Orleans

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    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.

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  16. 8.0/10(116 votes)

    #15 - Journalism

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    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.

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  17. 8.0/10(98 votes)

    #16 - Dangerous Minds

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    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.

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  18. 7.9/10(254 votes)

    #17 - Atlanta

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    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.

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  19. 7.9/10(208 votes)

    #18 - Nashville

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    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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  20. 7.9/10(146 votes)

    #19 - New Jersey

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    S3:E1

    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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  21. 7.9/10(118 votes)

    #20 - Los Angeles

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    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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  22. 7.9/10(127 votes)

    #21 - Space

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    S3:E13

    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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  23. 7.9/10(88 votes)

    #22 - Animals

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    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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  24. 7.9/10(106 votes)

    #23 - Drugs

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    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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  25. 7.9/10(103 votes)

    #24 - Femme Fatales

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    S6:E7

    Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago’s infamous Murderesses’ Row, and Mata Hari goes from exotic dancer to double agent during World War I.

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  26. 7.9/10(75 votes)

    #25 - Believe It Or Not

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    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Shitshows" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History". It scored 9.1/10 based on 339 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/6/2016. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Are You Afraid of the Drunk?".