History Series / HorribleHistories

* {{Gasshole}}: In the aforementioned 'Real Live Cowboys' number, one of them farts a solo because of all the beans they eat.

* MumblingBrando: UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI, one of the most [[CorruptChurch corrupt]] popes ever elecyed, is portrayed as a "[[TheDon mafia boss]]" type of character in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9PqpG1FFY this sketch]], complete with his actor doing a Marlon Brando impression.

* DeadpanSnarker: Apparently, history was full of 'em. The talking rat has his moments too: "It's true! William the Conqueror really did explode at his own funeral... try finding ''that'' on the Bayeux Tapestry."

* MumblingBrando: Pope Alexander VI, one of the most [[CorruptChurch corrupt]] popes ever elecyed, is portrayed as a "[[TheDon mafia boss]]" type of character, complete with his actor doing a Marlon Brando impression.

** In Restoration Historical Wife Swap, the Cavalier husband asks the Puritan wife what her first name is, and when she tells him her first name is "Fight the Good Fight of Faith", he says "Mrs. Miserable it is!" Later, he asks her what the name of her baby is, and she says her name is "Silence Discipline Search-The-Scriptures", and says her husband chose it, with her commenting that she wanted to call her "If Christ Had Not Died Thou Hast Been Damned", which the Cavalier husband laughs at and calls "ridiculous".

* AnachronismStew: Much of the humour comes from the mesh of historical characters/situations with modern attitudes.

* DeadHatShot: The Tudor version of ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'' ends with with Thumbelina travelling to London in search of her prince. However, because this is Tudor era London, the streets are covered in human excrement, and Thumbelina, being just six inches high, sinks and drown. The final shot is her hat floating atop a pool of poo.

** From the Horrible Hearts Club Band song:
--->'''Cleopatra:''' I play this very nicely.
--->'''Lyre Player:''' Lyre?
--->'''Cleopatra:''' No, I can!

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Charles II claims to have this in his IAmGreatSong.
-->'''Charles II:''' I'm the King loved by everyone, my song is done.

* IWasQuiteTheFashionVictim: The Georgian period is given this treatment via a song about how to make yourself look beautiful and bag a man. This includes wearing poisonous lead paint, replacing your eyebrows with mouse fur, wearing large wigs stuffed with fruit and hanging a carrot on your ear.

** In a sketch with a Saxon husband and wife, the wife is the only one to realise that burning their crops will mean they strave.

* SadlyMythtaken: [[Downplayed]] but still present. Viking Heaven is shown as only [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] and Viking Hell (or Hel) is shown only as Náströnd (made out of Serpent's bones and the only drink is Goat's Urine) and called Viking Hell/Hel, ignoring the other parts of Hel(which is closer to [[Purgatory]] apart from Náströnd anyway) and Fólkvangr is never mentioned.

* HotScientist: The "Wonders of the Ancient Universe" host actually introduces himself as a "hot Egyptian scientist", "gorgeous Viking scientist" or "surprisingly handsome Anglo-Saxon scientist". Etc.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: In "Beastly Bodily Functions", two soldiers are standing outside a toilet (actually a secret communications room) while UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is discussing D-Day plans with UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. Only able to hear Churchill's side of the conversation, and believing it is an actual toilet, the soldiers think Churchill is talking to his poo.
-->'''Churchill:''' This is going to be the largest aquatic landing ever!\\
'''Soldier:''' I've never heard it called that before!

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jasper Maskelyne and General Peregrine Thoroughgood, in the same sketch. Bonus points for the former being [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Maskelyne an actual name]].

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Literally in an Incan Home Shopping Channel sketch... and played with shortly after in a sketch that basically just repeats the jingle "Stay calmer when you want to harm a llama, call a llama farmer!" over and over and ''over'' until someone offscreen finally yells "OH, SHUT UP!"