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3->''The test will gauge whether you're an informed, engaged, productive citizen of the world ... The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions which when taken together, make your life ''yours''. And everything-- '''everything'''--will be on it.''
4--> '''Creator/JohnGreen''', "The Agricultural Revolution"
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6[[https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse Crash Course]] is a ''Website/YouTube'' channel hosted by the ''WebVideo/VlogBrothers'' [[Music/HankGreen Hank]] and Creator/JohnGreen, which brings EdutainmentShow content to web video. The two set off to give comprehensive 'courses' in subjects that they're knowledgeable about, with more staff and professional production than the video blogs that they're primarily known for.
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8[[folder:Subjects Covered]]
9[[AC:by Creator/JohnGreen]]
10* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 World History]], from the agricultural revolution to present day, cowritten with John's actual high school history teacher
11** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M World History Part 2]], started to cover some of the ''many'' things they couldn't fit in previously.
12* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOeEc9ME62zTfqc0h6Pe8vb English Literature]]. Works discussed include:
13** ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''
14** ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''
15** ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''
16** The poetry of Creator/EmilyDickinson
17* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s History of the United States]], from pre-Columbian America to the presidency of Barack Obama
18* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPpJ_phd9ifNDRCKhCOunOO Literature]]. Works discussed include:
19** ''Literature/TheOdyssey''
20** ''Theatre/OedipusRex''
21** ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''
22** ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''
23** ''Literature/JaneEyre''
24** ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''
25** ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''
26** ''Literature/ThingsFallApart''
27** ''Literature/{{Beloved}}''
28** The poetry of Creator/SylviaPlath
29* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU Navigating Digital Information]]
30* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMsMTfmRomkVQG8AqrAmJFX European History]]
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32
33[[AC:by Music/HankGreen]]
34* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4&list=EC3EED4C1D684D3ADF Cell, Organismal, Evolutionary, Behavioral, and Chemical Biology]]
35* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNdTKZkV_GiIYXpV9w4WxbX Human and Animal Ecology]]
36* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr Chemistry]]
37* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOPRKzVLY0jJY-uHOH9KVU6 Psychology]]
38* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOAKed_MxxWBNaPno5h3Zs8 Anatomy and Physiology]]
39* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A_CAkYt3GY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=1 Philosophy]]
40* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNppY8ZHMPDH5TKK2UpU8Ng History of Science]]
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42[[AC:by other hosts]]
43* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMczXZUmjb3mZSU1Roxnrey Big History]]: Hosted by both Green brothers with Emily Graslie of WebVideo/TheBrainScoop, this is the scientific history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present; think of it as the Crash Course version of ''Series/{{Cosmos}}''.
44* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPAJr1ysd5yGIyiSFuh0mIL Astronomy]]: Hosted by Phil Plait of ''Bad Astronomy'' fame, this introductory course covers a variety of topics ranging from celestial bodies, astrophysics, and space exploration to the history of astronomy, stargazing, and constellations.
45* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOfse2ncvffeelTrqvhrz8H US Government & Politics]]: Hosted by Craig Benzine of WebVideo/WheezyWaiter fame.
46* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwV2btpcij8S3YohW9gUGN Intellectual Property]]: Short series hosted by longtime Crash Course producer/editor Stan Muller.
47* Kids Science: Hosted by Sabrina Cruz of Nerdy and Quirky fame, this course, covering US fifth grade science standards, includes a variety of topics from various disciplines of natural science. It was launched alongside WebVideo/SciShow Kids as part of Website/YouTube Kids, a mobile app containing pre-approved, comment-less videos aimed at children.
48* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ez10ADR_gM Economics]]: Hosted by Adriene Hill (a reporter for the [[Creator/{{NPR}} public radio]] economics program ''Marketplace'') and Jacob Clifford (a high-school economics teacher); Hill covers the topic in its direct human element while Clifford explains the more academic aspects.
49* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8ECpBuQYE&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN0ge7yDk_UA0ldZJdhwkoV&index=1 Physics]]: Hosted by Dr. Shini Somara
50* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPqR2wOs8WI&index=1&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPTrc_yg73RghJEOdobAplG Games]]: Hosted by [[WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd Andre Meadows]]
51* "Human Geography" launched in October 2016 but was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFStAP7Uko put on hiatus]] after the pilot (which was since unpublished by the authors) to fix some major problems with the script that the viewers have immediately pointed out.
52* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNCG9Vq7vdvJytS-F-xGi7_ Mythology]]: Hosted by Mike Rugnetta from WebVideo/PBSIdeaChannel, this one discusses the origin, history, and implications of many of the world's pantheons and religions, in all their ancient, confusing, and often {{Squick}}y yet no less fascinating glory.
53* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN-Bd-H_TGq72CN50Fpv_JX Film History]]: Hosted by Craig Benzine of WebVideo/WheezyWaiter fame, only this time looking at the history of cinema and moving pictures.
54* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPnisE6CrrLO00Qoe67TDpx Film Prodution]]: Hosted by Lily Gladstone
55* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOCicti5dwLAKuesMQVi7hw Film Criticism]]: Hosted by Michael Aranda
56* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo Computer Science]]: Hosted by Carrie Anne Philbin
57* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMJ-AfB_7J1538YKWkZAnGA Sociology]]: Hosted by Nicole Sweeney
58* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNcAJRf3bE1IJU6nMfHj86W Study Skills]]: Hosted by Thomas Frank
59* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNM_Y-bUAhblSAdWRnmBUcr Statistics]]: Hosted by Adriene Hill
60* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtONXALkeh5uisZqrAcPKCee Theater and Drama]]: Hosted by Mike Rugnetta
61* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY Media Literacy]]: Hosted by Jay Smooth
62* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtO4A_tL6DLZRotxEb114cMR Engineering]]: Hosted by Dr. Shini Somara
63* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMBsfP-lP28IFvfkISqJofM Business Soft Skills]]: Hosted by Evelyn From The Internets
64* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtO65LeD2p4_Sb5XQ51par_b Artificial Intelligence]]: Hosted by Jabril
65* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNamNKW5qlS-nKgA0on7Qze Business Entrepreneurship]]: Hosted by Anna Akana
66* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtONguuhLdVmq0HTKS0jksS4 Organic Chemistry]]: Hosted by Deboki Chakravarti
67* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtP5mp25nStsuDzk2blncJDW Linguistics]]: Hosted by Taylor Behnke
68* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtO85Sl24rSiVQ93q7vcntNF Geography]]: Hosted by Alizé Carrère
69* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNRgJI4gHRLFtOD_r4hfJaF Zoology]]: Hosted by Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
70* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNYJO8JWpXO2JP0ezgxsrJJ Black American History]]: Hosted by Clint Smith
71* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPkACD-BkU-oM6PUotjdCEk Outbreak Science]]: Hosted by Dr. Pardis Sabeti
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75
76See also the ''ComicBook/TheCartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'', which covers more or less the same territory as the World History course, with a similar if different perspective.
77
78The discussion thread is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14775600240A95500700&page=1#2 here]].
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81!!Tropes:
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83* AccidentalTruth: From the Seven Years' War video:
84-->'''John''': Now the Seven Years' War lasted for... how long? Anyone? Anyone?\
85'''John From The Past''': Oooh oooh Mr. Green, Mr. Green! Was it... 23 years?\
86'''John''': I hate you, Me From The Past, but you're not necessarily wrong.
87* AlwaysMale: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_known_as_The_Great Historical figures being called "The Great"]][[note]]except UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat[[/note]].
88* AmericanEagle: The ''US Government & Politics'' mini-series' host WebVideo/WheezyWaiter has on his desk a rubber figure of a soaring bald eagle, which he occasionally strokes or punches clean off the table (depending on whether he especially likes or dislikes a particular aspect of the US political system, respectively).
89* ArchEnemy: Creator/{{Aristotle}} to John, as he claims so himself in the "Slavery" episode of [=US=] History. He also complains about Aristotle, for much the same reasons, in the "Atlantic Slave Trade" episode of World History, though he doesn't identify him as his arch-enemy in that case.
90* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Encountering this in RealLife in relation to the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar was apparently what caused Me-From-The-Past to be struck speechless for the first time
91--> '''Mr. Fleming, High School History Professor:''' A state's rights to ''[[ASlaveToTheIndex what]]'', sir?
92* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In the "Big History" section, Hank mentions that bonobos are peaceful and "like hippies" because they are female-led when compared to the violent male-led chimpanzees. However, the studies Hank is referencing dealt with bonobos in captivity. Bonobos in the wild are just as violent as chimpanzees.
93* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
94** In the US History series, John repeatedly claims that Creator/NathanielHawthorne was the only author of note in UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica, completely ignoring such writers as Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/HermanMelville, or even Creator/WashingtonIrving, not to mention all of the transcendentalist writers that he actually brings up in those same episodes just to mock. This is particularly strange, because not only is John a writer himself, but he also hosts Crash Course Literature.
95** Despite what is said in the Protestant Reformation video, Martin Luther didn't come up with the first vernacular Bible.
96** John apparently believes that military history consists solely of discussing the fighting. The ''reasons'' people are fighting, the logistics that support the combat forces, and what it's like to actually be a soldier in the field are all apparently irrelevant.
97* BlackAndWhiteMorality: In the case of World War II, John makes it clear [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler who]] was the driving force behind the Axis. He even puts a disclaimer on his video on the resource-taking side of World War II that the traditional "Good Vs Evil" narrative is not false, even if it lacks nuance.
98* BlatantLies:
99** The term [[{{Catchphrase}} "DFTBA"]] was apparently coined by Queen Elizabeth I.
100** Egyptian men wear make-up inspired by 80's metal bands.
101* BrickJoke:
102** In the episode discussing the Dark Ages, John finds a pair of champagne poppers in the secret compartment, but is confused as to why they are there. Later in the episode, he mentions that the Chinese invented gunpowder, leading to the development of explosives. Then he realizes why the poppers were in there.
103** At the end of US Government and Politics, Craig, whose RunningGag is to punch a small plastic eagle on his desk, gets punched out by a man in an eagle suit.
104* ButtMonkey: John from the past suffers a lot of abuse from present John.
105* CaptainObvious:
106** A throw-away sight gag in World History #4: "DID YOU KNOW? Fish live in water."
107** "DID YOU KNOW? <name of historical figure> is dead."
108* CatchPhrase:
109** John has "Best wishes!"
110** John's "As they say in my hometown, don't forget to be awesome!"
111** Unless you're, wait for it, the Mongols! *mongoltage plays*
112** And "Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity."
113** Gah, stupid history, always disappointing me!
114** In ''Crash Course Computer Science'': "Another level of abstraction." *cue jingle*
115* CatharsisFactor: Mike discusses this idea in the Grand Guignol episode of the Theatre series, wondering why patrons would want to go to plays [[{{Gorn}} notorious for their bloody and grotesque imagery.]]
116-->"What do we do with this? Do we laugh? Do we scream? Do we feel purged of our pity and terror and ready to rejoin democractic society as rational and engaged citizens with absolutely no desire to stab eyeballs or sear face parts? [[TooBleakStoppedCaring Or do we feel just really, really bad?]]"
117* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Used [[http://youtu.be/2h4DkpFP_aw?t=7m38s here]] to make John feel a little better about the fact that Americans rarely deal with the problems the country faces.
118* CulturalCringe: The US History series goes out of the way to avoid the typical Type I {{Eagleland}} style of American History taught in elementary and middle school and points out a lot of atrocities committed throughout US History or how women and minorities rarely benefited from major US events:
119-->"People are all like 'Why aren't you more celebratory of American History?' Well, why isn't there more to celebrate?"
120* DontTryThisAtHome
121-->‎"...if you were to, like, blenderize a live sea sponge and then leave the sponge smoothie to settle overnight, you'd wake up the next morning to find the surviving cells had found each other and were reforming themselves into a sea sponge again. Try doing THAT with any other animal, actually NO DO NOT TRY DOING THAT WITH ANY OTHER ANIMAL"
122* DumbassHasAPoint
123-->'''past!John:''' "Why do you think people know so little about Islamic history?"
124-->'''present!John:''' "Did you just ask an interesting, non-annoying question, me-from-the-past?"
125%% * EdutainmentShow: The whole point.
126%% * EnforcedPlug: When [[Literature/TheFaultInOurStars Hazel and Augustus]] appear in ''Romeo and Juliet Part 1''.
127* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Thrown in here and there in some videos. Especially the ''Psychology'' series, from [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] munching on his cookie in one video to a Corgi walking on a lamp, among other examples.
128* FunWithSubtitles: If you turn on the captions, you'll find some extra snark courtesy of Meredith the Intern. [Usually through brackets.]
129* TheGhost: Stan, the camera man who is oft-referred to, but never seen... until World History 2(07), ''Humans & Energy'', in which Stan subs in for John. Stan then hosts the Intellectual Property series (released Spring-Summer 2015).
130* GoodNameForARockBand: In the ''Mythology'' series the terms "Angry Mother Goddess" and "Big Bad Creator Dad" are coined, the presenter suggests trademarking them with a band name among the possible uses.
131* GoshDangItToHeck: In ''Literature'', John replaces obscenities with the names of his favourite authors (or his least-favorite politicians, in the case of John C. Calhoun). Unless he's quoting something from an actual novel. Then it's okay to swear.
132* GrandpaGod: The animated segments of "Christianity from Judaism to Constantine" use God's design from the Art/SistineChapel, bearded and covered in flowing red robes, with the only major difference is that the animation allows them to show God's beard constantly shaking with power. Taking from the Sistine Chapel's depiction, probably the most famous image of God, helps to immediately show visual learners what's being discussed and also prevents distracting from the lesson with any of the creator's own unique theological visions of the divine.
133* HeroicBSOD: John has a brief one in the Slavery video when he "learns" that John C. Calhoun was considered a respected statesman who achieved high office, including the Vice-Presidency, in his own time, rather than being relegated to the lunatic fringe, because of his pro-slavery views, which were extreme even by the standards of UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica.
134* HypeBacklash: InUniverse. John thinks the Crusades are highly overrated.
135* IHatePastMe: How John feels about his teenaged self.
136-->'''present!John''': Look, Me-From-the-Past, it's difficult for me to isolate what I hate about you because there is so much to hate.
137* MeasuringTheMarigolds: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Hank's science lectures, Crash Course Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, and Psychology taking a more targeted approach at various scientific disciplines. Part of what makes it work is Hank's obvious enthusiasm.
138* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Teenage!John (aka Mefromthepast) is somehow one of Present!John's students. The latter is mostly irritated by the former's shortsightedness and stupid comments. Stan uses a similar dynamic with his past self in the Intellectual Property series.
139* NoodleIncident:
140** Present!John's message to College!John (for long time WebVideo/VlogBrothers fans, however, it's a CallBack):
141--->'''present!John:''' "...and DO NOT GO TO ALASKA WITH A GIRL YOU'VE KNOWN FOR TEN DAYS!!!"
142* NotHyperbole: John offhandedly mentions a couple times that there are only three Shakers left today. This sounds like a joke, but it's actually not. There's only one remaining Shaker community in the world (Sabbathday Lake in Maine) and it does indeed have three members.[[note]]Or ''did'', rather - Sister Frances Carr died on January 2, 2017.[[/note]] Seriously. Their names are Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr. Their church banned marriage and reproduction, with this result.
143* OhCrap: John's reaction in the "Capitalism and Socialism" episode when Mefromthepast changes into....Mefromcollege!
144* {{Pun}}: Almost every episode contains one or two. Occasionally develops into a [[HurricaneOfPuns hurricane]].
145* RubberHoseLimbs: The art style used by Thought Cafe, the studio that creates every animated segment throughout the Crash Course series.
146* RunningGag:
147** From the history videos, we have John-from-the-Past, and "unless you are the Mongols." This gag was actively set up as such in the first video:
148--->"By the way, over the next forty weeks you will frequently hear generalizations followed by 'Unless you are the Mongols'."
149** There's also John mispronouncing words (occasionally consulting an online pronunciation program to determine the correct pronunciations), and him making cracks about how tyrannical UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin is, only to immediately retract them out of fear of being imprisoned.
150** The mispronunciation gag is why John claims he waited a significant amount of time before doing an episode on Russia, as he took Russian in college and therefore can't mispronounce Russian words.
151** John referring to sex as "skoodilypooping".
152** Since the episode about embryonic development, "unless you are a sea sponge" has begun to head in this direction, albeit a little less frequent than the Mongols.
153** "It's not cursing if you're talking about donkeys."
154** Whenever barbarians are involved: "'''[[TheUnintelligible BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR.]]'''"
155** Using his college girlfriend as a picture for various unflattering things.
156** In US History, the so-called "Libertage" has essentially become this, either following any [[PatrioticFervor mock-patriotic]] comment on American history, or being used to open the episode in some way. This has also crossed over into John's mental_floss videos on occasion.
157** John's hatred of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the philosophy of Aristotle.
158** The backstage writers switching the teleprompter script to make John 1) embarrass himself, 2) praise Canada (Thought Cafe, the company that provide the graphics, is based in Toronto).
159** The US Government ones have Craig punching or knocking from the table a small plastic bald eagle toy
160*** The eagle punching continues in the series on Film.
161** In the Intellectual Property videos, Stan always refers to a Magic 8-Ball as a "liquid filled die agitator containing a die having raised indicia on the facets thereof" (a quote from its patent application).
162** In the World History videos, pointing out that [[GiverOfLameNames historians are terrible at naming things]].
163** In the Mythology series we have "Just ask (god), the (place/civilisation) God of (concept).
164* SelfDeprecation: In John's videos, there's a character called Me-From-The-Past. He's [[CaptainObvious John from the past]], and John puts him down and takes jabs at him every chance he gets. Stan does the same thing in the Intellectual Property series.
165* SeriesMascot: The Economics series uses Easy Squeezy, an anthropomorphic bottle of lemonade. He's often used as a stand-in for the corporate world.
166** The Theatre series features Yorick, a skull typically held up with wires and often using props related to the topic of the episode.
167* StealthPun:
168** In the Christianity Episode, right after John talks about circumcision it shows Abraham's family and a man cutting what turns out to be a log.
169** In the War & Expansion episode, Green introduces the show by saying they would be seeing how America got its two biggest states: "Texas and ... California." Me-From-The-Past says, "Isn't the state you're looking for... Alaska?", a pun on John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska".
170* StockFootage:
171** The shot that accompanies the "unless you are the Mongols" RunningGag is from the 1963 film ''Hercules Against the Mongols''. In "The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation," John mentions that the footage comes from "a racist Hercules movie from Italy in the 1950s."
172** When John dismisses the idea of the Jews building the Pyramids in the "Ancient Egypt" episode, it cuts to footage from the 1923 silent version of ''[[Film/TheTenCommandments1923 The Ten Commandments]]''.
173* SynchroVox: Used when notable historical figures are being quoted, set over a statue, portrait or photograph.
174* TakeThat: Creator/KimKardashian and [[Series/JerseyShore The Situation]] get dissed on throughout the Alexander the Great episode. This seems to come out of John's scorn for shallow, self-centered people rather than any sense of rivalry or jealousy, however.
175** "This video may be watched in some glorious future when Kim Kardashian and The Situation have mercifully disappeared from public life...Kim Kardashian is a professional famous person who initially rose to notoriety by [[UnusualEuphemism scoodlypooping]] with someone named Ray Jay, and Mike "The Situation" I-Forgot-His-Last-Name is a professional stupid person with big muscles...The Situation is really good at picking up girls (of a certain type), and Kim Kardashian is good at...Stan, what is Kim Kardashian good at?"
176** The whole "Battles of the Civil War" episode is pretty much a Take That at people who wanted more military history. John spends the whole episode listing major battles in chronological order and then declares at the end that we didn't learn anything. As some commenters have pointed out, we could have learned something if he had discussed the tactics and strategies of both sides rather than spewing a seven-minute bloc of contextless information.
177** Crash Course Astronomy got in on the act with the title card showing a picture of [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]] holding a book titled "Crash Course Astronomy" upside down and scratching his head. The topic of that particular episode was ''tides'', mocking O'Reilly's previous statement characterising oceanic tides as some inexplicable, mysterious phenomonon.
178* TheUnintelligible: Points out that this is the real reason why barbarians get called that. '''BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR.'''
179* UnusualEuphemism:
180** "Scoodilypooping" has nothing to do with poop and everything to do with scoodling. The term comes from John and Hank's grandmother.
181--->'''John Green:''' What? I call it scoodilypooping, I'm not going to apologize.
182** A running gag on the US History course involves John invoking John C. Calhoun's name as a swear.
183* ViewersAreGeniuses: Although they're obviously teaching the stuff (so the audience therefore doesn't know it), they still assume that you're all very smart and can handle university level information. The fact the [=YouTube=] videos can be paused and rewatched at will means they go pretty fast, with the knowledge that their students can review if they feel lost. Hank's videos especially invokes this, as they end with him reviewing what he had previously talked about and providing links to sections of the video if you do want to go back.
184* WarIsHell: In the History courses, almost every time war is mentioned it's accompanied by an image of guns or swords squaring off against empty, pleading hands and slaughtering them.
185* WrittenByTheWinners: Discussed for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5zUK2MKNY Vikings]], as the Old Norsemen themselves had a very limited literal culture, and their reputation as brutal and bloodthirsty is based in part on accounts by victims of their raids, usually Christian monks who was very well-versed in writing things down.
186-->'''John Green:''' So history isn't always written by the winners, but when it's written by the losers, they're really bitter about the winners.

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