Horrible Histories: 10 Best Episodes (According To IMDb)
A show created for the British children's TV channel, CBBC, Horrible Histories quickly grew to become a cult classic among audiences worldwide. Its simple premise of satirizing actual historical events, and adding true facts to its parodies delighted both child and adult audiences alike. The show used the same main cast of comedic actors who all worked well together to make the show very amusing.
Its regular sketches, such as the teleshopping adverts for crazy historical products and services, historical Wife Swap, historical Top Chef, and historical parodies of modern-day songs, made the show a success. And despite being very funny, the show was also very historically informative.
10 Season 5, Episode 11 (8.4)
During World War II, British prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill had to put their heads together to come up with a plan of how to get rid of Hitler. So they did what any sane person would do in the 1940s, and went online to chat about it in a chatroom.
Then, in a parody of the reality TV show, Don't Tell The Bride, a hapless husband has to plan his wife's funeral in Don't Tell The Corpse. A comedy show about the grim realities of history, Horrible Histories makes use of a lot of very dark humor.
9 Season 5, Episode 6 (8.4)
In this episode, Jim Howick, in one of his funniest sketches on the show, does the "Shouty Man" commercial. The advert is a satire of a classic British ad for a cleaning product, Cillit Bang. The advert was popularized nationwide because of the shouty man screaming into the camera.
Shouty Man does the same, beginning every advert with the phrase, "I'm a shouty man!" In this episode, Shouty Man advertises a new product, "New Roman Dog, the trust companion who puts the fur in multi-furfose. Simply mix some wee wee from New Roman Dog with some mud, apply to the affected abomination, and your wart will disappear - meaning urine great shape!"
8 Season 7, Episode 3 (8.4)
In this episode, a medieval German is in love with a local barmaid and would love to talk to her and ask her to a picnic. His friend scoffs at such a stupid idea and teaches him that the best surefire way to get any woman he wants is to conjure up a demon.
All he needs to do is take a dove, drain it of its blood, and draw a woman's face using the blood of the dove on the skin of a female dog's skin. Then he needs to write the name of the demon on the dog drawing and burn some myrrh and saffron to fumigate it and, finally, hang the dog skin over his neck. Simple!
7 Season 2, Episode 1 (8.5)
Of all the British monarchs, Horrible Histories loves to satirize Queen Elizabeth I the most. In particular, they poke fun of Queen Elizabeth's biggest insecurity, which was her looks. When she commissions a portrait of herself, she is delighted that the artist makes her look incredibly beautiful, by capturing "her good looks."
In fact, the Queen had ordered the artist to make an exact replica of the only painting of herself that she ever liked. In essence, Queen Elizabeth was using her artists to catfish future historians.
6 Season 4, Episode 1 (8.5)
In this episode, an artist has to paint a portrait of the historical spoilsport and fun-hater, Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell does not believe in vanity and asks that he be painted exactly as he is. A few wart puns later, and a few dramatic close-ups of Cromwell's warts later, Cromwell orders the artist to paint him "warts and all," a phrase which the leader actually coined.
At the dawn of a new era, the Bronze Age, a reporter for "Early News" reports live at the beginning of the Stone Age, in a parody of the hype of the release of Apple products.
5 Season 5, Episode 15 (8.5)
Historical MasterChef, an obvious parody of MasterChef, sees Ernie, a World War One soldier who has to prepare his own meal from his rations. But Ernie's story is just depressing, because, rather than cook, he is more concerned with using the fire to heat his feet because he has been stuck in the freezing cold of the trenches for months.
Ernie also brings lice from the trenches into the studio and teaches everyone the joy of eating lice when there is no other food around to eat, much to the disgust of the show's hosts.
4 Season 4 Episode 2 (8.6)
Besides Queen Elizabeth I, Horrible Histories loved to satire King Henry VIII because his real life was so ridiculous. Using a parody of the popular British antique show, Cash In The Attic, the show created Cash In The Abbey to poke fun of Henry's corruption, especially how he sold items in all the churches in the country to line his personal pockets.
King Henry VIII also sold off all the land which the monks owned to his rich friends, going so far as to dismantle the abbeys and sell the bricks to local peasants to make sure that he made as much money from robbing the monks as possible and leaving them destitute.
3 Season 7, Episode 13 (8.6)
Every series of Horrible Histories featured a Savage Songs Special. Season seven uses a "Glaston-Smelly" theme for its special. In it, Al Capone guest stars, singing a parody of Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk. Capone sings about his criminal activities during prohibition years and how he bribed police officers to make sure he was untouchable.
In another sketch, Peter Freuchen is trapped in the snow in Greenland back in 1912, with no way to escape. Using human ingenuity, he deduces that if he could "just squeeze out a poo," he could use his frozen poo to chisel his way out.
2 Season 5, Episode 12 (8.8)
Bob Hope, reporter for HHTV (Horrible Histories TV) News, brings the news of key historical events in his customary over-the-top, manic manner. This time, he brings a report of the space race between the U.S. and Russia following the decades after WWII.
Hope reports on how Yuri Gagarin's achievement as the first man in space would cause a lot of envy in the United States. Soon, John F. Kennedy would announce in 1961 that the U.S. planned to put the first-ever man on the moon.
1 Season 7, Episode 1 (9.2)
This season honored the life and work of William Shakespeare in an ode to, and satire of, British history. A saucy tabloid magazine, Oh Yeah (parody of British tabloid magazine, Hello!) tries to find juicy dirt on Shakespeare's early life before he became a famous playwright. However, there are very few historical facts, so the Shakespeare edition is a snooze fest.
In a parody of Singin' In the Rain, Singin' In Urine, an Elizabethan man declaring his love for his sweetheart takes a disgusting turn when he realizes that he is not singing in the rain, but singing in number one and number two. Elizabethan's threw their bedpan waste out the windows every morning, preventing the man from declaring his love in more sanitary conditions.
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