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!!Extra Credits
* The PAX episode. Go watch it, and come back here, and tell me you didn't have a warm fluffy feeling with a straight face.
* At the end of the [[http://youtu.be/dGJCTOsbqNI Ludus Florentis video]], Daniel says "If you're at GDC, say hi to James! Also, make sure he stops to eat something. He never eats at these things..." Okay, now is that adorable or what?
* At the end of the [[http://youtu.be/l8FVoqv0Z14 Games You Might Not Have Tried #3]] video, Daniel says that if people see James at Pax East, to "run up and HUG him without warning. He loves that."
* The end of the "Gamifying Education" video contained a marriage proposal. Dawww! And she said yes!
* If you haven't teared up a little at the end of [[http://youtu.be/s1Yojrf8sJM ''A Season of Hope'']], the Child's Play episode, you are TheStoic indeed.
* Don't pretend that you didn't get a little bit misty eyed watching [[http://youtu.be/diq2zNi04Pw this]].
* There's something strangely adorable about James hugging a cyberpunk heart in Games You Might Not Have Tried: Cyberpunk.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQuannq308 This]] episode talks about how to share your love of gaming with someone so that it's fun for both parties.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-gw5fS6jw local multiplayer]] episode reminds so many people that, for all the toxicity in games, playing together was one of the ways it brought people together.
* For the show's 300th Episode, they instead put up an open letter to James' nephews on the importance of never giving up and how games taught him that mentality. It's sweet to hear some motivating words, and it'll likely resonate with many other viewers despite not being the intended recipient.
* ''Because Games Matter'': a trilogy of videos where Dan reads others' personal stories of how video games changed their lives
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6xz58O4xq8 A Better Vision]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1vHXEG2L8 Light in the Dark (Souls)]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569XsBCxkCE& How Video Games Saved My Life]]
* In the So You Want to Be A Producer episode, Dan encourage twice people who are watching from a development studio to go and hug their producer. The second time, the artist for the episode, Lee Lee Scaldaferri, is seen hugging the producer. As it transitions into the end credits, she's hugging James.
* The video "Unpleasant Design" discusses how hostile architecture can be used to drive the homeless out of public spaces. It also shows that, once they are made aware of it, [[RousseauWasRight the public]] will often protest or even destroy hostile architecture.

!!Extra History
* Alison is back... it's just for a lesson on the Punic Wars but let's savor this.
* Dan's fanboying over Justinian.
** Though since James does the writing, this is really more ''James's'' fanboying over Justinian. It's especially noticeable during the ''Lies'' segment for this period set, he makes no effort to hide that he'd love to come back to this period and finish Justinian and Theodora's story.
** Belisarius' loyalty. To explain, he is a (Eastern) Roman General and an unparalleled one. For centuries, men such as him had staked their claim on the Imperial Throne. Some had even won it. But throughout his life, Belisarius never wavers. Even when he is recalled from duty, even when Theodora takes his wealth away when ''others'' are clamouring for him to take the throne, he never abandons his old friend and Emperor, Justinian.
* Hiawatha, Jigonsaseh, and the Peacemaker working their hardest to bring peace to the five Iroquois nations...and ''succeeding''. Too often history is written with the point of a sword, but in this case common humanity and the desire for peace actually ''won''.
* [[TheStrategist Admiral Yi]] ''finally'' getting the respect he deserved from Korea after more or less single-handedly saving the country multiple times and a lifetime of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the government practically going out of its way to screw him over.]]
** The Chinese Admiral upon realizing Yi's HeroicSacrifice cries and exclaims that "Even after death, you saved my life!" He also authored the Eulogy for Yi.
** Even better, his former enemies the Japanese consider Yi a WorthyOpponent. IJN Admiral Heihachiro Togo, who himself was considered the "Nelson of the East" for his own skill in the years following the Meiji Restoration, put Yi above both of them:
-->"It may be proper to compare me with Nelson, but not with Korea’s Yi Sun-sin, for he has no equal."
* The "Seminal Tragedy" series is obviously depressing, but there are a few moments of kindness.
** After the Archduke was nearly blown up in a parade, he insisted on visiting people who were injured in the attack meant to kill him.
** Tsar Nikolaj and Kaiser Wilhelm, in one last bid to prevent the war, address each other not as rival emperors, but as cousins and old friends.
* Otto von Bismarck is portrayed as an amoral chessmaster, but he gets a humanizing moment during the episode on the Franco-Prussian War: after hearing his son has been shot dead, Bismarck [[PapaWolf immediately rides his horse to the front lines]]...only to happily discover his son still alive, albeit with a wounded leg.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGz4QvDVlM episode 4 of the 1918 Flu Pandemic]], the efforts people went through during the Philadelphia outbreak.
** Doctors and nurses stayed at their post, even as their coworkers died around them, to help those who could still be helped. Private practitioners made as many as 60 calls a day.
** The church stepped in several times, both to help the sick and the dead. When the number of dead got so high that the morgues and graveyards couldn't accommodate them, the church hired construction crews to dig out mass graves, and they catalogued the precise location of each buried body. Priests would stay out to late at night to recite prayers and give the dead their last rites.
* The short, two-part episode on Mary Seacole, a Jamaican woman who nursed and comforted soldiers during the Crimean War. The final part of the story remarks that while her name wasn't as well known as Florence Nightingale or other nurses, she was the type of role model the world needed in order to make it a better place.
** Mary Seacole had to declare bankruptcy after the Crimean War and she didn't have the heart to go collecting debts from all the boys she had looked after over there. When they learned of her financial crisis, Britain decided to start a fund just to ensure Mother Seacole wouldn't live her days out broke.
* The [[AmicableExes relationship]] between Grigory Potemkin and UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat; after the parade of tragedies that was her love life, the simple fact that their breakup was so tame that the two remained TrueCompanions is rather heartening.
* The entire [=WW1=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlPNWDvk-c Christmas series]], which is about the famous Christmas Truce of 1914. It verges into tearjerker territory where Dan notes that no such event will ever be seen again [[CycleOfRevenge as the horrors of war took hold]].
* At the end of the Broad Street Pump videos, after mentioning how John Snow (yes, [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the joke]] ''was'' [[ObligatoryJoke used]]) thought that his name might be forgotten by the time his research actually caught on and cholera outbreaks were a thing of the past, Dan says this:
-->"It is because of the tireless sleuthing of John Snow that that day is here. History has not forgotten you. You ''do'' know something, John Snow"
* The stories of Christian bishops fighting against the Crusaders to protect Jewish communities.
* At the end of the videos on the Irish Potato Famine, the video states that Ireland is now one of the top producers of food aid in the world. To quote the video, Ireland turned its own mental scars into a call to action.
** The fact that Native Americans and enslaved people, despite their own dire straits, still sent aid to help the Irish is this and TearJerker.
* The ending of the Warsaw Uprising video. Though the Nazi regime tried to level the city, kill its people, and destroy its countless historic monuments, they failed. It required years of rebuilding, but decades after the Third Reich itself fell to dust and ruin, Warsaw still stands.
* The first episode of the Extra History of the Hundred Years War opens with James and Matt sending Rob off on paternity leave so he can bond with his newborn daughter, congratulating him on the new addition to his family.
* One episode is a love letter to Edward Jenner, the man who cured smallpox and promoted vaccination. Even in his own time, Jenner was celebrated by so many people. He received one particularly congratulatory letter in 1806.
--> Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome small-pox has existed and by you has been extirpated. Accept my fervent wishes for your health and happiness and assurances of the greatest respect and consideration.
--> Thomas Jefferson
* During the Haitian Revolution, rebels would often show mercy to overseers [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe who treated them fairly]] and help women and children escape the violence.
* In the second D-Day video, Alan Turing is drawn with a rainbow ribbon, a small detail that acknowledges both his homosexuality and his autism, details that many historical sources are keen to avoid.
** Churchill insisted on giving the landing beaches proper codenames (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword and Juno), instead of something silly like "Bunnyhop Beach", because he didn't want some poor mother to hear about how her precious son gave his life on "Bunnyhop Beach".
* From the 3rd Century Crisis, Diocletian's famous cabbage: quote. "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your Emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace [[CallToAgriculture the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed]]."
* In the Harlem Hellfighters video, South Carolina businesses refuse to serve the titular black soldiers. White soldiers at the training camp boycott those businesses in solidarity.
* Bartolomé de las Casas, a former slave owner, did one of the toughest things a human being can do: He [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]. Las Casas is even drawn [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone crying]] after reading the bible quote that made him change his ways.
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[[folder: He that sacrifices a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous, and the gift of unjust men are not accepted. The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked. Whoever brings an offering of the goods of the poor, does as one that killed the son before the father's eyes. The bread of the needy is their life. He that defrauds them of it, is a man of blood. ]]

-->-Ecclesiasticus 34:18
* Surprisingly, the mad monk Rasputin is shown in a far more positive light in their video series on him. He may not have been able to cure Alexei's haemophilia, but the series shows how he became a close friend to the royal family, comforted Alexei and his mother when they Alexei lay dying, and Matt even suggests that Rasputin's confidence in the young prince's recovery (as well as the fact that he prevented the doctors from prescribing Alexei aspirin, which would only make the problem worse) really did make the difference in his recovery.
** There are also minor moments showing Rasputin as a man who, deep down, was kind and generous. He urged the czar to stay out of the first Balkan war, because he feared the death and misery a conflict could cause (ironically he predicted the first world war in the process), and one night when a poor woman was waiting for him outside to assassinate him, he assumed she was a beggar and took out his wallet to give her money.
* In the "Discovery of Insulin" mini-series, the four men who helped develop safe insulin are depicted as having an [[TeethClenchedTeamwork acrimonious relationship]], often fighting over issues like funding and credit. But all four of them never lost sight of victims of diabetes and made sure never to patent the discovery so that anyone can get the life-saving medicine they needed.
* The “Road to Pearl Harbor” has a few:
** While the Japanese government was insincere in its apology over the attack on the Panay, many Japanese officials and citizens were genuinely mortified over what the army had done and offered compensation.
** There were Japanese officials, like Admiral Nomura, who wanted peace but were sadly undermined by the militarists who brushed them aside.

!!Extra Mythology
* The Extra Mythology episode on Sedna ends with Matt wishing series writer Jac well on their decision to leave Extra Credits to take a job at the CDC to help with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, before going back to school to study environmental GIS in the fall. The final shot of the episode includes all the EC staff surrounding Jac and wishing them all the best in the future.

!!Bonus Episodes
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllXsM5X4QE The History Of Zoey]] is a short MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon detailing the history of Zoey, Matt's adorable black cat and co-host, a relaxing and heartwarming glance behind the scenes into how Matt adopted Zoey as a rescue kitten and taking her to a new apartment big enough for her. Best of all, the episode happened because fans donated quite some thousands beyond the team goal during a charity stream on Matt's birthday as part of a mental health care donation drive.
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