History YMMV / AncientAliens

-->'''Tsoukalos:''' Now, I'm not saying it was aliens, [[ByNoIMeanYest but it was]] aliens!

-->'''Tsoukalos:''' Now, I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens!

** Dish Network used him in a commercial, showing him being consulted by the military to ask him if Dish's new receiver is alien technology.

%%* UnfortunateImplications:
%%** When one strips away the various pieces of ''flat-out wrong'' information produced on the show, it can fall into this: a great deal of the "alien" artifacts or human sites built "with alien assistance" are from pre-Columbian civilizations or sub-Saharan Africa, the implication being that these civilizations were [[http://drmsh.com/2014/07/05/the-racism-of-the-ancient-astronaut-theory/ too backward or stupid to create such impressive structures.]] For instance, the show once claimed that Puma Punku, a fifth century Aymara site in the Bolivian Andes, was "the only site created directly by extra-terrestrials". At the same time as Puma Punku was constructed, the Romans were building equally-if-not-more complex stone structures...but ''of course'' those stupid Amerindians couldn't build anything white people could, they ''must'' have been helped by aliens![[note]]On the other hand, the show erroneously claimed Puma Punku is over ten thousand years older than it actually is, so there's that.[[/note]] It's not hugely far-removed from the 19th century theories that Great Zimbabwe was built by "southern Jews". All of this gets more and more downplayed as the series goes on, however, since their need to reach farther and farther afield has caused them to claim many European people, places, and things were influenced by aliens too.
%%** As WebVideo/QuintonReviews points out, with the exception of Stonehenge the show rarely ever covers anything built by white people as being made by Aliens, leading to the double whammy of implying that unlike practically every other culture on Earth, white people never were "too primitive", and the second implication that, if one takes the show at face value - white people aren't interesting enough for Aliens to bother interacting with, as apparently Aliens are super into helping every non-European culture on Earth. As he also points out, it doesn't take an archaeologist to realize that these "alien myths" are glaring [[InnocentBigot cultural misunderstandings]] at best and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain flat-out racist lies]] at worst.
%%*** This gets watered down in later seasons, as their need to find new topics to discuss leads to them speculating on the alien origins of several European sites. Though it seems that more often than not, ancient European sites are ''inspired'' by alien visitors, rather than built by or with aliens.

* UnfortunateImplications:
** When one strips away the various pieces of ''flat-out wrong'' information produced on the show, it can fall into this: a great deal of the "alien" artifacts or human sites built "with alien assistance" are from pre-Columbian civilizations or sub-Saharan Africa, the implication being that these civilizations were [[http://drmsh.com/2014/07/05/the-racism-of-the-ancient-astronaut-theory/ too backward or stupid to create such impressive structures.]] For instance, the show once claimed that Puma Punku, a fifth century Aymara site in the Bolivian Andes, was "the only site created directly by extra-terrestrials". At the same time as Puma Punku was constructed, the Romans were building equally-if-not-more complex stone structures...but ''of course'' those stupid Amerindians couldn't build anything white people could, they ''must'' have been helped by aliens![[note]]On the other hand, the show erroneously claimed Puma Punku is over ten thousand years older than it actually is, so there's that.[[/note]] It's not hugely far-removed from the 19th century theories that Great Zimbabwe was built by "southern Jews". All of this gets more and more downplayed as the series goes on, however, since their need to reach farther and farther afield has caused them to claim many European people, places, and things were influenced by aliens too.
** As WebVideo/QuintonReviews points out, with the exception of Stonehenge the show rarely ever covers anything built by white people as being made by Aliens, leading to the double whammy of implying that unlike practically every other culture on Earth, white people never were "too primitive", and the second implication that, if one takes the show at face value - white people aren't interesting enough for Aliens to bother interacting with, as apparently Aliens are super into helping every non-European culture on Earth. As he also points out, it doesn't take an archaeologist to realize that these "alien myths" are glaring [[InnocentBigot cultural misunderstandings]] at best and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain flat-out racist lies]] at worst.
*** This gets watered down in later seasons, as their need to find new topics to discuss leads to them speculating on the alien origins of several European sites. Though it seems that more often than not, ancient European sites are ''inspired'' by alien visitors, rather than built by or with aliens.

*** This gets watered down in later seasons, as their need to find new topics to discuss leads to them speculating on the alien origins of several European sites. Though it seems that more often than not, ancient European sites are ''inspired'' by alien visitors, rather than built by or with aiens.

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* MisaimedFandom: A lot of people watch the show to have a good laugh at the insanity the hosts try to present as valid scientific inquiry.

** As WebVideo/QuintonReviews points out, with the exception of Stonehenge the show rarely ever covers anything built by white people as being made by Aliens, leading to the double whammy of implying that unlike practically every other culture on Earth, white people never were "too primitive", and the second implication that, if one takes the show at face value - white people aren't interesting enough for Aliens to bother interacting with, as apparently Aliens are super into helping every non-European culture on Earth. As he also points out, it doesn't take an archaeologist to realize that these "alien myths" are glaring [[InnocentBigot cultural misunderstandings]] at best and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain a flat-out racist lies]] at worst.

** As WebVideo/QuintonReviews points out, with the exception of Stonehenge the show rarely ever covers anything built by white people as being made by Aliens, leading to the double whammy of implying that unlike practically every other culture on Earth, white people never were "too primitive", and the second implication that, if one takes the show at face value - white people aren't interesting enough for Aliens to bother interacting with, as apparently Aliens are super into helping every non-European culture on Earth. As he points out, this is a gigantic cultural misunderstanding at best and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain a flat-out racist lie]] at worst.

** As WebVideo/QuintonReviews points out, outside of Stonehenge the show rarely ever covers anything built by white people as being made by Aliens, leading to the double whammy of implying that unlike practically every other culture on Earth, white people never were "too primitive", and the second implication that, if one takes the show at face value - white people aren't interesting enough for Aliens to bother interacting with, as apparently Aliens are super into helping every non-European culture on Earth.