History YMMV / DrunkHistory

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode on Typhoid Mary became this in 2020 as most of America was put into quarantine to stop the spread of [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic coronavirus]], precisely because the disease had an abnormally high amount of asymptomatic carriers. The pandemic was also a factor in the show's cancellation.

** Jane Levy and Creator/MaeWhitman discuss Chicago's Murderess Row, get hammered and get very cuddly with one another. And then this happens:

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode on Typhoid Mary became this in 2020 as most of America was put into quarantine to stop the spread of [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic coronavirus]], precisely because the disease had an abnormally high amount of asymptomatic carriers.

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode on Typhoid Mary came out days before before most of America was put into quarantine to stop the spread of [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic coronavirus]], precisely because the disease had an abnormally high amount of asymptomatic carriers.

---> '''Derek Waters:''' ...What? *laughs*

---> '''Kyle Kinane:''' Don't test me on Music/{{Sublime}} songs! The song is called "Please Caress Me More."[[note]]It's actually called "Caress Me Down"[=,=] which Derek got right.[[/note]]

---> '''Mae Whitman:''' So he says to her, "I need you to bring me something juicy as hell!" Really get excited about it! Say something sexy! ::starts sucking Jane Levy's fingers:: Yeah, you know what I mean!
---> '''Jane Levy:''' ::knowing smirk to camera::

---> '''Lin-Manuel Miranda''': ::giggling:: So, [[CastingCouch what do I have to do to get a part in this movie?]]

* WTHCastingAgency: An example where Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad; more than a third but less than half the fun is seeing which actor they get for what role, because said actors will almost certainly be totally inappropriate (and in the case of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, is always cast as a racial or sexual group that Hitler would have hated.)

** Music/WeirdAlYankovic as '''''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''''' and Adolf Eichmann.

** Jane Levy and Mae Whitman discuss Chicago's Murderess Row, get hammered and get very cuddly with one another. And then this happens:

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Colin Hanks playing Mr. Rogers in the "Underdogs" episode, soon after it was announced his father Tom Hanks [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/29/tom-hanks-mr-rogers/1075815001/ would be playing him in a biopic.]]

* WTHCastingAgency: An example where TropesAreNotBad; more than a third but less than half the fun is seeing which actor they get for what role, because said actors will almost certainly be totally inappropriate (and in the case of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, is always cast as a racial or sexual group that Hitler would have hated.)

** Creator/StephenMerchant as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Usually averted as many of the actors in the reenactments have some successful work already. The first web episode though could be seen as this for Jake Johnson as this was near the start of his acting career and a few years before his breakthrough role in Series/NewGirl.

---> '''Kyle Kinane:''' Don't test me on Music/Sublime songs! The song is called "Please Caress Me More."[[note]]It's actually called "Caress Me Down"[=,=] which Derek got right.[[/note]]

---> '''Kyle Kinane:''' Don't test me on Sublime songs! The song is called "Please Caress Me More."[[note]]It's actually called "Caress Me Down"[=,=] which Derek got right.[[/note]]

* HoYay:

* HoYay: A surprising number of male guests get really touchy-feely with Derek when they're drunk. He's even been kissed on the mouth and invited to share a bathtub.
--> '''J.D. Ryznar:''' I got at least two bathing suits. Should we put them on and get in the tub?
--> '''Derek Waters:''' Really?
--> '''J.D. Ryznar:''' You don't have the balls to get in the tub with me with a bathing suit, do you?
--> '''Derek Waters:''' ...What? *laughs*
** Averted with Kyle Kinane:
--> '''Kyle Kinane:''' Don't test me on Sublime songs! The song is called "Please Caress Me More."[[note]]It's actually called "Caress Me Down"[=,=] which Derek got right.[[/note]]
--> '''Derek Waters:''' Oh, okay.
--> '''Kyle Kinane:''' No! I don't want to re-enact Sublime songs on my kitchen floor!

** Music/WeirdAlYankovic as '''''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'''''.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Colin Hanks playing Mr. Rogers in the "Underdogs" episode, soon after it was announced his father Tom Hanks [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/29/tom-hanks-mr-rogers/1075815001/ would be playing him in a bopic.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: At least one per episode. Justified, as not only are the stories themselves often about famous or influential figures emerging triumphant or forgotten yet important moments, but the influence of alcohol leads to them getting told in a very emotional (if incoherent) fashion. Derek Waters stated that part of the process was that the storytellers actually picked the stories that they wanted to tell and found most interesting from a list of topics.
-->'''Mark Gagliardi''': You know what, Reeves was the inspiration for ''Radio/TheLoneRanger''.\\
'''Derek Waters''': How come more people don't know Bass Reeves is who inspired ''The Lone Ranger''?\\
'''Mark''': Because he's black.\\
'''Derek''': That's sad. Well, we're changing history now.
** Creator/PagetBrewster having a genuine heartfelt meltdown over the story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
** Creator/LinManuelMiranda telling Christopher Jackson, [[Series/TheWestWing "Long as I got a job, you got a job."]] In fact, that entire phone call in general.
** Pretty much the entirety of the history of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. From the creation of the show, to ten thousand people showing up at Boston fundraiser to support it, to Fred Roger's famous speech at the congressional budget hearings that not only saved the Corporation for Public Broadcasting but ''increased'' its budget, it's just one CMOH after another.
---> '''Solomon Georgio:''' "If it wasn't for what Mr. Rogers did that day, there would have been no ''Series/SesameStreet'', there would have been no ''Lambchop's Playalong'', there would have been no ''Series/ReadingRainbow''. The list just goes on and on and on and on!"

---> '''Solomon Georgio:''' "If it wasn't for what Mr. Rogers did that day, there would have been no ''Series/SesameStreet'', there would have been no ''Lambchop's Playhouse'', there would have been no ''Series/ReadingRainbow''. The list just goes on and on and on and on!"

** Creator/LinManuelMiranda telling Christopher Jackson, "Long as I got a job, you got a job." In fact, that entire phone call in general.

** Creator/JohnCho as Creator/WilliamShakespeare.

** [[Series/That70sShow Topher Grace]] as Creator/MiltonBradley.

* WTHCastingAgency: An example where TropesAreNotBad; more than a third but less than half the fun is seeing which actor they get for what role, because said actors will almost certainly be totally inappropriate (and in the case of AdolfHitler, is always cast as a racial or sexual group that Hitler would have hated.)

* HoYay: A surprising number of male guests get really touchy-feely with Derek when they're drunk. He's even been kissed and invited to share a bathtub.