Season 1 Episodes
The Most Unhinged Olympic Race in Human History
A beat-by-beat breakdown of how heat exhaustion, strychnine shots, and absolute cheating created history's wilder sports disaster.
The Day Hundreds of Rabbits Defeated Napoleon!
Exposing the emperor's most embarrassing tactical defeat through ruthless rubber-hose bunny slapstick.
When Renting a Pineapple Made You a God!
Exposing the absurd vanity of 18th-century European high society through Napoleon's desperate attempt to flex a rented, rotting pineapple at a royal gala.
The Day Pepsi Bought a Submarine Fleet
Exposing how currency restrictions turned a soft drink company into the world's 6th largest naval military overnight.
Napoleon Accidentally Invented Canned Food?!
Exposing how a military supply crisis forced Napoleon to fund the invention of food preservation using champagne bottles and sealing wax.
The Fake Word That Sneaked Into the Dictionary!
A forensic, hilarious breakdown of how a misplaced index card created 'Dord' (meaning density), sitting undetected in official dictionaries for 5 years.
The Army That Won a War by Making Friends!
A micro case-study in how total lack of hostility and taking an Italian liaison officer along resulted in negative casualties during the Austro-Prussian War.
When Pepsi Became the 6th Largest Navy!
Exploring how a currency crisis forced the Soviet Union to pay for fizzy cola syrup with actual naval battle fleets.
The Time an Army Lost a Real War to Birds!
Exposing how military hubris and heavy artillery were completely outmaneuvered by bird guerrilla tactics in outback Australia.
The Tsunami of Beer That Drowned London!
Exposing how a massive industrial disaster turned into a surreal, chaotic street spectacle where citizens scooped fermenting porter from gutters while courts blamed 'God'.
The Pig That Almost Caused World War 3!
Illustrating how a farmer defending his potatoes from a stray pig escalated into a major military standoff between global empires.
The Newspaper That Convinced Everyone Bat-People Lived on the Moon!
Exposing how a slow news week in 1835 turned into the most outrageous astronomical scam in print history.
The Pig That Almost Triggered World War III!
Reenacting a real-world 1859 border standoff where a single dead hog almost launched an Anglo-American war.
The Time a Pig Was Put on Trial for Murder!
Exposing the surreal era of medieval animal trials by putting Napoleon in charge of prosecuting a literal pig with extreme legal seriousness.
The Blimp Duel That Shocked Paris!
Exposing the utterly absurd 1808 aristocratic duel fought in hot air balloons over Paris using blunderbusses.
The Holy Roman Empire's Most Violent Window Exit!
Reenacting the sparking event of the Thirty Years' War through extreme rubber-hose slapstick and miraculous survival theories.
The Emperor's Most Expensive Flower!
Treating high-stakes 1637 tulip speculation as a desperate military campaign using absurd rubber-hose bargaining.
The Medieval Village That Danced Itself to Death!
Treating a compulsive medieval dancing epidemic as an illegal mutiny that Napoleon tries to suppress with military discipline.
The Great Victorian High-Tea Debacle
Napoleon approaches an elite 1850s London afternoon tea party as a high-stakes tactical siege, treating pinky-curling and scone-buttering like battalion maneuvers.
The Day French Cuisine Fought a Frog Mutiny!
Napoleon treats a massive turn-of-the-century Parisian frog shortage and swamp uprising like a full-scale Prussian invasion.
The Great Parisian Silk Hot-Air Invasion!
Napoleon treats the world's first hot-air balloon demonstration in 1783 Paris as an illegitimate airborne siege by civilian aristocrats.
The Great Flour Riots of the Powdered Wig Era!
Napoleon treats a national flour shortage and the 1795 British hair powder tax as an illegal economic siege against high-fashion warfare.
The Great High-Wheel Cavalry Catastrophe!
Napoleon treats the 1890s penny-farthing bicycle boom as an illegal high-speed cavalry modification that threatens imperial dominance.
The Day Paris Firefighters Invaded the Olympics!
Napoleon mistakes the bizarre 1900 Paris Olympic Tug-of-War match—where a team of local firefighters was drafted last-minute—for an international siege tactic.
The Great Roman Gladiator Union Strike!
Napoleon attempts to conquer an ancient Roman gladiatorial arena using modern military tactics, only to be completely stymied by absurd ancient Roman gladiator labor contract laws and union steward referees.
The Opera Siege of Venice!
Napoleon treats a opera performance in 1797 Venice as a hostile acoustic siege, attempting to direct orchestra pit musicians using military tactical formations.
The Great Powdered Wig Siege of Versailles!
Napoleon treats navigating a lavish, ultra-tall Versailles court wig through low archways and near open candelabras as a high-stakes tactical military operation.
The Great Tulip Market Siege!
Napoleon attempts to conquer 17th-century Amsterdam's stock exchange using infantry formations to force down the price of high-end floral bulbs.
The Day London's River Thames Tried to Murder Parliament!
Napoleon attempts to lay military siege to Victorian London in July 1858, only to be utterly routed by the legendary Thames sewage emergency.
The Great Venetian Gondola Parking Ticket War!
Napoleon attempts to execute a grand naval invasion of Renaissance Venice using land-warfare artillery doctrines, only to be completely derailed by rigid 16th-century gondola traffic laws and maritime toll officers.
The Emperor's Illegal Royal Elephant Tax!
Napoleon attempts to militarize a gifted exotic elephant in Renaissance London, only to be crushed by ridiculous Tudor livestock zoning laws.
The Emperor's Most Ridiculous Flower Siege!
Napoleon attempts to conquer the 1637 Amsterdam futures market using rigid infantry maneuvers, only to be utterly ruined by floral auction laws.
The Great Boston Molasses Tsunami!
Napoleon treats a sticky 35-mph wave of boiling molasses as an invading foreign army that must be defeated using strict cavalry charges.