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Season 1

John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly

• John Lennon's second verse:
  • "Well, ya can't buy me love, But I'll kick your ass for free."
  • Ending his second stanza in his rap battle against Bill O'Reilly by telling him to shut the fuck up.
• Bill O'Reilly has these:
  • "I'd rather suck George Bush's dick than Yoko Ono's!"
  • "Because I'm evil, heart blacker than Don Cheadle. Ten thousand dollar shoes I use to stomp out a Beatle"

Darth Vader vs Adolf Hitler Trilogy

The first rap battle

• Hearing Darth Vader call Hitler a bitch may be the greatest thing ever recorded to film.
• "I AM ADOLF HITLER! Commander of the Third Reich! Little-known fact: ALSO DOPE ON ZE MIC!"
  • "You use the force to move objects, I AM A FORCE TRULY EVIL, I even went back in time and turned you vack in ze prequel!"
  • "You stink, Vader, your style smells something sour/ You need to wash up, dawg. Here, step in my shower! I'LL TURN ALL YOUR FRIENDS AGAINST YOU! JUST MY SPEECHES BREED HATERS!"
• "You can't rhyme against the Dark Side of the Force, why even bother? So many dudes been with Your Mom, who even knows if I'm your father?"
  • Doubly funny when you consider the theories that Hitler had at least a few Mommy Issues.
• "SUCK MY ROBOT BALLS!!"
  • "A little carbonite bath, for your goose-stepping ass/ We'll call my homeboy in Israel, see who got the last laugh"

The second rap battle

• Just having the rematch itself is awesome.
• Vader (in the rematch) gets one right away: "Someone who loathes you, bitch! Now stand up and rhyme! I only thawed you out so I could beat your ass a second time!"
  • The whole flipping-him-on-his-ass thing helped too.
• Vader removing his helmet for a brief moment.
• "Ask Indiana Jones who the fuck I am, I spit sick shit so focused, I break your concentration camp!"
  • "I strike back hard against a Nazi! Brain toss your ass in the air...Yahtzee!"
• Hitler, despite having been just recently unfrozen, came back strong... Until being dropped into the Rancor Pit.

  "Where is ze DJ?"

  • "You look stressed, Vader/You appear to be in pain/You need a vacation/Here, take a trip on my train."
  • "You got one bitch pregnant, then gave into the hate! Now you're 6'6" and black but can't get a date!"
  • "You couldn't get your own son into the family business. Everything you do is an epic fail! / Now stand at attention, and sieg fucking heil!"
  • (When Vader rage quits) "What's wrong Ani? Can't take it any more? Not surprising coming from the Emperor's whore. Yeah, take zat."
• Stephen Hawking making another appearance, supposedly being The Dragon to Vader now.

The third rap battle

• In the promo for Season 3, Hitler takes out the Rancor that was going to eat him with a regular Luger pistol. Offscreen.
  • Him doing the same to Boba to interrupt his verse in the actual battle is pretty awesome. Especially given his follow up line;
  Hitler: Oh Sieg Hell No!
• Hitler pulls off an awesome flip just before starting his rap.
• Vader's entire verse.
  • The music for the third rap ranks among the best in the series.
  • Vader delivers one of the best flows in ERB history:
  Let me paint you a picture, son
  Portrait of a bitch after World War I
  You were stirring up the fears of the German people
  Telling the world that the Jews are evil.
  You wrote a little book, got 'em fired up
  Had a Beer Hall Putsch, got 'em fired up
  And when your bunker started getting fired up
  You put a gun in your mouth and fired up!
  • Vader utterly shredding Hitler about him being a General Failure. This is the first thing that starts Hitler's Villainous Breakdown.
  You dumb motherfucker
  Didn't Napoleon let you know?
  When you conquer Russia
  Better pack some fucking winter clothes!
• Hitler's opening line:
  SCREW YOU! You big black cunt!
  I'll kick your balls and your face!
  A war on two fronts!
  • And his brilliant: "I put ze Germ, in ze Germany, I'M SICK ON THIS MIC!"
• Boba Fett. Even though he's only around for about eight seconds, those eight seconds are awesome.
  ''They call me Boba Fett!
  You wanna mess with me?
  I'll put my balls in your mouth,
  Like boba tea!
  I got a jetpack yo, you know I steal the show!
  Cause when I rock the microphone-*Gunshot and Wilhelm Scream*
  • Not to mention that Hitler shot him because he thought having Boba Fett rap was cheating!
  • Vader finishes the battle by losing his patience and slicing Hitler in two, avenging Boba in the process.
• By the time this battle came out, Disney had bought Lucasfilms. Ergo, Hitler had more material to use against Vader. And yet, Vader still beat Hitler to the point that he had resorted to spouting random insults.

Chuck Norris vs. Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln has a few badass lines:
  I've read up on your facts; you cure cancer with your tears?
  Well tell me, Chuck, how come you never sat down and cried on your career?
  You're a washed-up has-been, on TV selling Total Gyms,
  and you're gonna lose this battle, like you lost Return of the Dragon!
  • "I never told a lie and I won't start now; you're a horse with a limp, I'll put you DOWN!"
  • "I got my face on the side of a mountain: You voted for John McCain!"
  • "You block bullets with your beard? I catch 'em with my SKULL!"
• Chuck Norris' entire second verse.
  I AM CHUCK FUCKING NORRIS!!!!
  I'VE SPREAD MORE BLOOD AND GORE THAN FORTY SCORE
  OF YOUR PUNY CIVIL WARS, BITCH!!!!!
  I SPLIT THE UNION WITH A ROUNDHOUSE KICK!!!!
  I WEAR A BLACK BELT ON THE BEARD THAT I GROW ON MY DICK!!!
  I ATTACK SHARKS WHEN I SMELL THEM BLEED!!!
  I DON'T GO SWIMMING! WATER JUST WANTS TO BE AROUND ME!!!
  MY FISTS MAKE THE SPEED OF LIGHT WISH THAT IT WAS FASTER!!!
  YOU MAY HAVE FREED THE SLAVES, BUT CHUCK IS EVERYONE'S MASTER!!!
  • Even Lincoln can't help but just stare in shock at this.
• The fact that Lincoln, knowing what godlike entity he was facing, showed no fear, and tore Chuck's cred to shreds in minutes, makes fun of everything he represents, and counters Chuck's first verse by simply yelling the whole thing at the top of his lungs and further humiliating him.

Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga

• "Oh boy. Look what we have here? A transvestite with a keyboard trying to be freak of the year."
  • "Your music doesn't scare me, I'm a mother of five! I killed moose with my bare hands before you were alive!"
• Gaga to Palin: "You are the sum of everything I despise, with the most dysfunctional family since the Jackson fucking Five!"
  • "Just trust me, your 15 minutes of fame came and went. Go back to your igloo; spend some time with your kids before they're pregnant."
  • "I sound more intelligent than you when I fart!"
  • "History will regret you like J-J-J-John McCain!"

Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage vs. Kim Jong-il

• Hulk Hogan gets in a few creative threats:
  • "You've got a ringside seat to your own smackdown, brother!"
  • "C'mon, dude! All the little Hulksters know; I'll hang you from the ropes like a South Park puppet show!"
• "I'm a God among men; you're a Suburban Commando!
  • "North Korea, bitch! Let me give you a tour; by the way, your wife said MY DICK IS BIGGER THAN YOURS!"
• Macho Man taking over for Hulk Hogan after Kim Jong-Il injures him with a missile launcher.
  "The Macho Man, there is no equal; so spend less time rapping and start feeding your people!"
  • The very fact that the rocket doesn't turn Hulk Hogan into giblets could be seen as a CMOA.
• In 2019, a re-edit was published to update the visual effects to bring them more in line with the modern raps.

Ludwig van Beethoven vs. Justin Bieber

• Beethoven's first stanza, but especially his first line. Acompanied by a shout out to his infamous fifth symphony to boot. What makes this really impressive is that Beethoven was commonly reported to be a hothead. Certainly shows here.
  • "Sit down, son, and let me give you a music lesson/ask Bach, I've got more cock than Smith & Wesson!"
  • I've crafted masterpieces that will last throughout the ages! Your music gets you bitches on your Facebook pages!"
  • "I'm commitin' verbal murder in the major third degree! My name is Beethoven, mother-fucker, maybe you've heard of me?"
    • Even better, the Behind the Scenes reveals that when Beethoven makes Bieber be an usher, the piece of paper Beethoven hands him literally says "My name is Beethoven, motherfucker."
  • "You wanna trade blows? You can't even hit puberty!"
  • "You want to be a little white Usher? Here, show 'em to their seats!"
• Hate him or not, you have to admit it was a real Curb Stomp Cushion moment on Bieber's part when he threatened Beethoven that he'd catch his Bieber fever, and then Beethoven showed signs of actual illness.
  "Here's some aspirin; you're catchin' Bieber Fever tonight!"
  • Another one from Bieber to Beethoven "When's the last time your music got anybody laid?"
  • Also, "Now that you're right next to me, I can understand why they used a dog to play you in the movies!"
  • Another damn good slam is "Your own music made you deaf!"
    • To which Beethoven retorts "I'm glad I'm deaf so I can't hear that piece of shit 'My World'!"

Stephen Hawking vs. Albert Einstein

• Really, the entirety of episode 7. The two characters weren't horribly mismatched in terms of rhythm and lyrical skill, unlike some other match-ups. Both characters deliver very intelligent lines, and the auto-tune job on Hawking's voice was a nice touch.
• Einstein comes out swinging with: "When I apply my battle-theory, minds are relatively blown. So take a seat, Steve... oop.. I see you brought your own"
  • "I'll school you anywhere: MIT to Oxford! All your fans will be like 'Um, that was Hawk-ward...' I'm as dope as two rappers, you better be scared, 'cause that means Albert E equals MC SQUARED!"
  • "You can't destroy matter or me, for serious! Rippin' holes in you bigger than the hole in your black hole theory waaaaaaaas!"
• Hawking begins with "Yooooooooooou've... got no idea what you're messin' with here, boy. I got 12 inch rims on my chair: that's how I roll, ya'll! You look like someone glued a moustache on a troll doll!"
  • "I'll be stretchin' out the rhyme, like gravity stretches time, when you try to put your little p-brane against this kind of mind!"
  • I'm the Snoop Dogg of Science!
  • His second verse begins just as well, preceded by a Death Glare at Einstein's latest diss: "There are 10 million million million million million million million million particles in the Universe that we can observe... Yo Momma took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd."
  • "While it's true that my work is based on you, I'm a supercomputer, you're like a TI-82^note a calculator model!"

Genghis Khan vs. The Easter Bunny

• Genghis Khan's laugh.
• "You've got two giant ears but can't hear that you suck" was an awesome line too.
  • "From Poland to Korea I ravaged the land, now my DNA's in dudes from New York to Japan".
  • "Easter my ass, you're not in the Bible/You're a fluffy bitch mascot for Hallmark in denial!"
    • Khan pulls out a Bible for the sake of proving his point.
• For being such a laughable opponent, the Easter Bunny sure has some insanely awesome insults.
  • "The Great Waaaaaall couldn't keep you outta China! Watch me rub my foot for luck and stick it right up your vagina!!"
  • "Ooooooooooooh! Whatcha gonna do? You got a bucket on your head and a Fu Manchu!"
• The Behind the Scenes reveals that Epic Lloyd manages to draw his sword and cut the easter egg in half, in just one take.

Napoleon Bonaparte vs. Napoleon Dynamite

• Napoleon Dynamite's line about "Waterloo, Pt. 2" had a cool delivery.
  • I don't even care how many, like, stupid Prussians you killed, 'cos to me, you're just the emperor of the LOLLIPOP GUILD!
• Napoleon Bonaparte's last line. Also doubles as a Funny Moment.

  "You're the only type of dynamite that's never going to bang!"

Benjamin Franklin vs. Billy Mays and Vince Offer

• "I'm big Ben Franklin and this shan't be pretty. Let me instruct you how we battle in the city of Philly."
  • "You couldn't sell Rick James a bag of crack; you're out of practice. My victory's more certain than death or taxes."
• "I'm mint. I'm money! I'm an educated gentleman."
  • "Call me Arthur Miller son, cause it's Death of a Salesman."
• "Hi, Billy Mays here with a special TV offer: watch me crush this bald fat foppish founding father!" While he says this, Billy has his typical smile and breaks a table in two with one hand.
  • Billy Mays also got this:
  "I'M LORD OF THE PITCH! And leader in home sales. You're just a lumpy pumpkin who invented the mail! Benny's got kite 'n key, but you're in for a shock when I strike you with bolts from my LIGHTNING ROD COCK!
  • Said "lightning rod cock" being a rooster-shaped lightning rod shooting fucking lightning.
• When Billy Mays dies from a heart attack, the Announcer calls out "Is there anyone out there who can finish this fight? Anyone... Anyone...." On a background that could be in an epic, Vince Offer unsheathes a Shamwow cloth like a sword and declares "I can!"
  • "You followin' me, camera guy? 'Cause it's about to get furious! You're gonna love my nuts 'til you're bi-focal-curious!"
  • "Your boy George chopped down trees, you couldn't chop a piece of balsa! Slap chop your face, make a double chin salsa!"
• "Vince against a Founding Father is just too bad, 'cause after this America is gonna lose a dad."
  • Which is said as Vince takes off his belt.

Gandalf the White/Grey vs. Albus Dumbledore

• Just Gandalf starting off with "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" is pure awesome.
  • "I rap fast like Shadowfax! Tom Riddle me this, you bitch: how's your little wand gonna beat my staff?"
  • "You Fool!, you got Snaped! You're not a real fighter! Death makes you die, it just makes my brights brighter!"
• Just when it looks like Gandalf had the definite upper hand with lines like "your ass is like Gringotts, everyone makes a deposit, we all know you've more than a boggart in your closet", Dumbledore comes back with this:
  The prophecy forgot to mention this day
  When I knocked your ass back to Gandalf the Grey!
  Check your status, they call me headmaster, you're nothing!
  Nice staff, you Compensating for Something?
  • And after Gandalf throws homophobic lyrics his way, Dumbledore spits back "I prefer the company of wizards and I'm PROUD of it!"
  • Mind you, this is complete with Dumbledore literally knocking Gandalf back from White to Grey. To give you an idea of what this means: the Supreme God and Creator of Gandalf's universe gave him the power-up to Gandalf the White so that Gandalf could accomplish his mission, and Dumbledore undid it with a swing of his wand.
  • "You think your little hairy-toed friends are gonna harm me? Wait'll you get a taste of DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY."
• Gandalf then comes back with:

  I'LL TIE A NEW KNOT IN YOUR BEARD

  WITH YOUR WRINKLY BALLS,

  FOR I AM THE ONE RAPPER

  TO RULE THEM ALL!

• The mere fact that Dumbledore managed to put up a fight at all against Gandalf. For comparison, Dumbledore is a powerful wizard, but still a mere mortal. Gandalf is a divine being in humanoid form. Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? at its finest.

Dr. Seuss vs. William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare's first verse is (mostly) delivered in iambic pentameter, making for an awesome moment for the writers who managed to deliver an entire verse of smack talk in the same way the Real Life Shakespeare did in his plays.
  • Lampshaded by the following line, complete with Shakespeare counting off on his fingers as he delivers it:
  I hath been iambic on that ass, ye bastard
  • William Shakespeare's rapid-fire rhyming. It's so awe-inspiring that his opponents Dr Seuss and The Cat in the Hat spend a moment in shocked silence.
  • This extends to anyone who manages to perform the part live. Shakespeare's second verse is widely considered to be the most difficult in all of the Epic Rap Battles of History.
  • Even his slow rhymes do some damage despite the choppy delivery:
  My rhymes are classic, your crap is drafted
  By a kindergartener high on acid
  • And just for measure, Shakespeare's Sophisticated as Hell in his first verse:
  I'll put a slug between your shoulder-blades,
  Then ask what light through yonder poser breaks!
• The Cat in the Hat does some good lines too, such as:
  I would not, could not, on a boat, read any of the boring-ass plays you wrote!
  • And...
  You bore people to death! You leave a classroom looking like the end of Macbeth!
  • And of course, his ending line, asserting that his mere arrival makes anything an instant hit.
  I got a best-selling book about me coming back!

Mr. Rogers vs. Mister T

• Mr. Rogers telling Mr. T to get in his van and to get the fuck out of his neighborhood.
• Mr. Rogers also spends Mr. T's first verse casually changing his shoes, paying little-to-no attention, then proceeds to call Mr. T too dumb to spell RIGHT UP TO HIS FACE.
• Mr. Rogers' portrayal in general is an absolutely perfect Alternative Character Interpretation.
• Mr. T, meanwhile, gets "So before you come to battle with your PBS crap, how 'bout I call up CPS about them kids on your lap, fool?!"
• At which point Mr Rogers falls into perhaps the most terrifying case-study of Tranquil Fury seen on ERB.
• At one point in the battle, Mr Rogers drops to his hands and starts breakdancing. Fun fact: Mr. Rogers did a brief segment on break-dancing, and the child teaching him demonstrated this move!

Captain Kirk vs Christopher Columbus

• Columbus to Kirk:
  • "I've got a neck chop for Spock, I'll put a sword through Sulu!" He does just that while he's saying it.
  • "You know... Rapping against you, it's not even fun. It's like someone set your BRAIN on stun." Also, trying to leave after his first line.
  • "I am the fabric of HISTORY, you are a Fictional Stain! I'll stick a flag, up your ass, and CLAIM YOU FOR SPAIN!"
• "Why don't you boldly go to some place you've never gone before, like India? Or any destination you actually set sail for?"
  • "I'll double-fist-punch you, you slave-making bitch! Now take your genocidal ass off of my bridge."
• "You spaghetti-eating FUCK! How's your spice rack doing?"
  • "I'll be chilling in my spaceship - have fun canoeing."

Nice Peter vs. EpicLloyd

• The fact that a rap battle is how the duo solves their Creative Differences.
• Lloyd had some great lines:
  • "Nice Peter? Who's that? No one gives two shits! Everyone knows your page is just the place the rap battles live! Dude, you're really huge on YouTube, you got a great career. But remember: you got famous off of my idea!"
  • "You're taller than I am, but you look up to me. The guy who got you your first job in comedy!"
  • "You? A musician? Eh, that's kinda stretching. You wrote 87 songs with the same chord progression!"
• Peter comes back with "Look at you! Or let me just tell you what I see/ You're a short little sidekick. I'll call you mini-me!"
• KassemG single-handedly saving the series with a pep talk to both of the contestants.
  • A pep talk, and repeatedly slapping Peter.

Season 2

Master Chief vs. King Leonidas

• Master Chief gets kicked into the Hole, like so many Persians before him. Not a problem, he just levitates out of it.
  • Also, the MJOLNIR armor Chief wears weighs about 1000 pounds. With Chief inside it, it weighs about 1200 pounds. Leonidas was able to kick that much weight off a cliff with a simple front kick.
• Leonidas opens with a doozy: "SPARTANS! LET'S START THIS! SHOW THIS PETTY OFFICER WHO'S THE HARDEST!"
  • "Your armor's hard, but my abs are harder! You're in my hood now, Chief: This! Is! SPARTA!!"
    • And when he says his abs are harder, he proves it by breaking a vase over his abs.
• Leonidas ends his first verse by kicking Master Chief into the hole before the music cuts out, and it goes completely silent. And then Master Chief comes back completely unfazed!
  • "Not. So. Fast. Cortana says you're Greek, so why don't you stick these lyrics up your ass?"
• "While you and your companions were all camping in a canyon, took a campaign to your house and showed your queen my plasma cannon!"
  • Made better by said queen's casual shrug pretty much confirming it.
    • This is even more awesome when you read the Halo tie-in novels. According to page 57 of Halo: The Fall of Reach, one of the risks of Spartan augmentation was...wait for it...reduced sex drive! Ergo, there is a substantial possibility that the Chief didn't actually care about screwing Leonidas' wife as much simply pissing his opponent off!
  • "They shoulda thrown your rhymes over the cliff because they're sickly. You may not enjoy this, but it will be over quickly."
• "I don't need firepower when I'm rocking these guns!"
  • "I'd look you in the eyes, but you're too much of a BITCH TO SHOW YOUR FACE!"
• "You got a bad case of no shirt there Fabio Flintstone, your whole plan got messed up by a hunchback with Down Syndrome!"
  • "300 asses need a kicking, give more teabags than Lipton, so why don't you quit your bitching, my trigger finger's itching."

The Mario Brothers vs. The Wright Brothers

• The Wright Brothers:
  • "You think we're scared of two idiots addicted to shrooms?!"
  • Also:
  Orville: You shoulda-woulda-coulda come to lose an extra life!
  Wilbur: So just dudda-dudda-dudda...
  Both: Back down in your pipe!
  • They end their second verse well:
  Wilbur: We'll be pressing all your buttons like we're the controller,
  Orville: Conquer every level of your 2D scroller,
  Wilbur: You talk a lot of trash, but let me tell you somethin'...
  Orville: We're gonna beat you so fast,
  Both: It's like we're holding down the B Button!
• For the Mario Bros:
  • "Itsa-me, Mario..." "AND LUIGI, MOTHA***A!"
  • Growing from the mushrooms in the middle of their second verse.
  • Some particularly good lines:
  Mario: We're serving up an 8-bit fist!
  Luigi: MADE TO ORDER!
  Mario: That'll knock ya off the back of your own stupid quarters!
  Both: Like POOOOOOW!!
  Luigi: HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?

  Luigi: We've been dropping bob-ombs since we started this song!
  Mario: Sorry, Wright Brothers,
  Both: This time you chose wrong!'

Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley

• MJ got "I'm the King of Pop, you're the King of Jelly Rolls!" in his first verse, and "Whoopin' your big fat ass with my shiny glove!" in his second verse.
  • "There's only one crown, baby, let the one King rule!"
• The Awesome Music of MJ's second verse.
  • Especially his trio of rapid-fire song/album references in the space of six seconds; "It's about time for a Thriller! Didn't lose any 'chocolate'; I just added vanilla! I'm goin' Off The Wall, I won't stop 'til I get enough!"
• Elvis' opening line: "I may have died on the shitter/but I don't give a crap!", said in the same tune Elvis sang "Jailhouse Rock."
  • "I stole from black culture; why are you offended?"
  • "Your daddy beat gold records outta you like alchemy! Don't make me spank you and dangle your ass over a balcony, Uh-huh!"
• Elvis' Screw This, I'm Outta Here at the end.

Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe

• Marilyn effortlessly deflects Cleopatra's criticism of her sleeping with ugly men by pointing out that she also had Marlon Brando and Jack and Bobby Kennedy, while Cleopatra had sex with her brothers.
• Cleopatra makes fun of Marilyn's miscarriages with this blistering line:"You still got no children after your third marriage! You lost so many babies we should call you MISS CARRIAGE!"
  • Note that Marilyn gets three verses in this battle while Cleopatra only gets two. General consensus is that Marilyn needed that whole extra verse just to come back from the "Miss Carriage" line, and to many viewers even that wasn't enough.
  • "You got an hourglass figure, but that's about it! A candle in the wind who can't act for shit!"
• Marilyn... does not react Kindly to the above diss.
  Marilyn Monroe: TRANSLATE THIS INTO HIEROGLYPHS! YOUR SANDY VAGINA HAS A SEVEN YEAR ITCH!
  • She evens end the battle with this final bit:
    "My best friends are diamonds, you can't beat me! Quit trippin'! Step off and walk your ass home like an Egyptian."

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates vs. HAL 9000

• Steve Jobs interrupting the narrator's announcement of the contestants with "Let me just step right in- I got things to invent."
  • How he ends his first verse: "I need to bring up some Basic shit; why'd you name your company after your dick?"^note Bill Gates's company is named Microsoft. Also, their first product was selling versions of the programming language BASIC.
• Bill Gates's first verse.
  Bill Gates: You blow, Jobs! You arrogant prick,
  with your second-hand jeans and turtleneck!
  I'll drill a hole in the middle of your bony head
  with your own little spinning beach ball of death!
  • Gates' comment about giving away Jobs' net worth to AIDS research is also a real-life Truth in Television CMOA, as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given over $1B to AIDS research, among countless other donations to other worthy causes.
  • Gates smacks Jobs through the internet by pounding a iPhone into an iPad, then reaching through with the hand holding the iPad and smacking Jobs with it while his arm protrudes from Job's iPad. Doubtlessly the single most memetic line of the rap.
  "iPhone, iPad, iPwn, iSmack!"
  • Him countering Steve Jobs's badass boasts about Apple with several of his own about the PC. Usually of the deadpan Variety.
    Jobs: Everybody knows Windows bit off Apple!
    Gates: I tripled the profits on a PC.
    Jobs All the people with the power to create use an Apple!
    Gates: And people with jobs use PC.
    Jobs: You know, I bet they made this beat on an Apple!
    Gates: Nope. Fruity Loops. PC.
    Jobs: You'll never, ever catch a virus on an Apple!
    Gates: Well you can still afford a Doctor if you bought a PC.
• Steve Jobs getting the last laugh:
  "I built a legacy son, you could never stop it. Now, excuse me while I turn Heaven a profit...
• HAL 9000 shows up. His lines are one part creepy, one part awesome.
  I'm comin' out the socket, nothing you can do to stop it.
  I'm in your lap and in your pocket. How you gonna shoot me down when I guide the rocket?
  Your cortex just doesn't impress me, so go ahead: try to Turing test me.
  I stomp on a Mac, and a PC too. I'm on Linux, bitch! I thought you GNU?
  My CPU's hot, but my core runs cold. Beat you in seventeen lines of code!
  I think different from the engine of the days of old. Hasta la vista... like The Terminator told ya.
  • Not to mention when he first appears, Bill Gates' expression quickly changes from triumphant to genuinely shocked.
• The beat the song was set to, hands down one of the most awesome in the series. Even the announcer sings along to it at the end.

Frank Sinatra vs. Freddie Mercury

• Frank opens up with a good one.
  Sinatra: Ho! What's wrong with your face, baby? Yikes! With those teeth when you're through, there'll be no dust left to bite!
  • "You changed your name to Mercury, you shoulda been Freddie Uranus!"
• Freddie Mercury's hamminess makes for an awesome performance.
  Freddie: You think I haven't heard those things before?
  You're just a bully who's too scared to go to war.
  You had a hit song called "My Way", but someone else wrote it!
  You're the least talented rat in your whole pack of rodents!
  • The best past was that Freddie's first three lines, in spite of following Sinatra's brutal opening zingers, didn't have him going all out as a Large Ham, but having a quiet, yet just-as-powerful Tranquil Fury. And when he gets to the fourth line, he doesn't just start Chewing the Scenery - he delivers one of the most brutal verbal beatdowns in all of ERB history!
• The way Freddie continues tearing into Frank;
  You've got four notes in your whole range, you can't act and you can't dance!
  I'm more powerful than you when I'm wearing women's pants!
  Why do you stand there in a suit? It's like you're trying to bore me!
  When I rock the UK, South America gets horny!
  Because my songs have balls, they're the anthems of victory!
  Your music is like the soundtrack to a vasectomy!
  You're in the pocket of the mafia and everybody knows—
  Guinea Dago!
  (Sinatra: Guinea dago?!)
  Guinea Dago Figaro!
  • Throughout his first verse, Frank sticks to mostly light jabs about attention seeking and Freddie's moustache and yawning throughout Freddie's first verse. Once Freddie busts out "dago"^*an anti-italian slur., Frank immediately gets pissed and starts breaking out the rougher stuff.
• Sinatra closes out with, "You played butthole roulette, and you lost the draw!"
• Mercury ends on a cool note, too.
  I'm a champion of the world (world!), extinguished in his prime! (prime!)
  So kiss my ass , Frankie (ass!), but you'll have to wait in line!
• The fact that, despite all the bashing from Frank, Freddie remains calm, collected and delivers some of the most epic lines in the history of ERB.
• The Music the battle was set to. Arguably one of the most awesome beats in the series. Helps that they used the now-legendary *boom-boom-CLAP* from Queen's "We Will Rock You", awesome music in its own right.

Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney vs. Abraham Lincoln

• Romney gets out some good lines.
  Romney: You see this silver spoon? This dug Mass outta debt. It took you four years to drop unemployment below "8 Percent".
  You feel that, Barry? You're old news! Everyone's having doubts; and your rhymes are as weak as this economy that you've done nothing about!
• Despite the fact that Obama gets fewer verses, he has some effective ones.
  • "They say your father was a great man; you must be what's left! Need to stop hating on gays; let 'em teach you how to dress!"
  • "So rich and white it's like I'm running 'gainst a CHEESECAKE"
  • "Republicans need a puppet and you fit/Got their hands so far up your rear. Call you Mitt."
  • "I hoped you saved your best rhymes for the second half, 'cause right now, I'm 47% through kicking your ass!"
  • "Now, look, I respect all religions, but it might get a little crazy, if the White House has a first, second, and a third lady!"
• Romney also manages to turn the 47% statement back on Obama:
  Romney: That 40 percent thing got you real mad. What? Did it remind you of how many decent parents you had?
• Obama gets more serious once Mitt Romney insults his wife.
  Obama: Uhhh, let me be clear, uh, don't get it twisted. We'll see how pretty your face is after my fist has kissed it!
• The battle devolves into childish bickering, so Abraham Lincoln enters, carried on a gigantic bald eagle, calls both of them out, and leaves as he came.
  I'll properly reach across the aisle and bitch smack you as equals!
  Of the people! *smack* By the people! *smack* For the people! EAGLE!
  • In particular this line he delivers to Obama:
  Lincoln: You! I wanna like you! Don't talk about change, just do it! I fought for what was on my brain until a bullet went through it!
  • And how does he address Romney?
  Lincoln: And you, Moneybags! You're a pancake; you're flip-floppily! It's a country, not a company you can play like Monopoly!
  • Guess who most people have said was the winner of that battle... Lincoln.
• Barack Obama has seen the video, and invited the ERB guys to the White House.

Doc Brown vs. Doctor Who

• The Doctor gets a good one early on when he yells at Brown to calm down.
  10th Doctor: Calm down, will you? Everything is going to be fine/ You're not going to tear any wonky holes in any "fabric of space and time" - actually, it's a lot more like a rug, really.../Oh, never mind, let's just say there's an infinite number of me simultaneously kicking your arse with rhyme.
• Doc Brown gets some great burns in:
  • "Great Scot! You're great... NOT!!"
  • "I'm not sure what scientific authority you purport to be, but I'm a real doctor! Where'd you get your degree?
  • "I don't know what's lamer: your fans, or your special effects!"
  • Doc Brown calling in a Dalek to kill The Doctor.
  Doc: You don't get another change to debate/time to meet your permanent fate! Now Da-lick my balls!
  Dalek: EXTERMINATE!
• The 10th Doctor then regenerates... into the 4th doctor.
  10th Doctor: Prepare...to meet...
  4th Doctor: ...your density!
  • Followed by an amazing Motor Mouth sequence.
  4th Doctor: I'm a mystical medical doc, at the pinnacle shifting my physical form
  You're a possibly pedophilic individual who should've never been born
  You got your knickers in a twist while you're sucking on my piccadilly, but I'm a lot lot different
  'Cause you're a pitiful hillibilly hanging with an oedipal kid, who's a bawk-bawk chicken!
• "Nobody calls me chicken!"
  • Followed immediately by a kickass guitar riff.
  • For context, The 4th Doctor presses Marty's Berserk Button so he opens Doc Brown's second verse with an Epic Riff.
• Doc fires this at the end of his last verse:
  "You're not a cat with nine lives. You're a pussy. (beat) With thirteen!"
• The Doctor rewinding the rap battle back to the beginning so he can end the rap battle before he's killed. Bonus points for also getting the last word in.
• In the Behind the Scenes, George Watsky is revealed to have only needed two takes for his Motor Mouth verse.
  • He steals Lloyd's Running Gag about Heroin.

Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood

• Ninjas and outlaws are popping out all over the place for a chance to get at Lee and Eastwood, but they are effortlessly taken down. The most incredible part? Neither of them ever looks at the people they're beating the crap out of. Bonus points for the fact that they change between ninjas and outlaws depending on which universe they're in.
• "I invented Jeet Kune Do, so taste my slipper shoe, here's my 2-finger push-up, KUNG F-U!!!"
• Bruce Lee riffs on the infamous chair incident:
  Bruce Lee: A man who argues with people who aren't even there, is more fit to rap against THIS FUCKING CHAIR!
  • Bruce then deflects a chair out of the air towards Clint while rapping this verse.
• Clint Eastwood shoots the chair out of the air, splinters it into tiny pieces, and doesn't miss a beat.
  Clint Eastwood: Do you feel lucky, punk? That's what I'm askin'. You can't be too tough; you got killed by an aspirin.
  • "I'd beat you in round 2, but that'd be unbelievable/ No one in your family ever lived to see a sequel" Ouch.

Batman vs. Sherlock Holmes

• Batman taunts Holmes with "I've seen better detective work in Tango & Cash!"
  • Batman has a good one at the end of his first verse. Bonus points for jumping down hundreds of feet and remaining unscathed.
  Batman: Nothing makes me laugh, but I bet your raps can. So bring it on, bitch... I'm Batman!
• Holmes deducing Bruce Wayne's identity (out of minor details) within twenty seconds of his first rhyme.
  Holmes: I once met a rich fellow who smelled of guano and pain...
  Watson: Holmes, explain!
  Holmes: I deduce this deuce stain is Bruce Wayne!
  Watson: The billionare?!
  Holmes: Yes his wealth would allow this adversary of ours to afford the toys he needs...
  Watson: (in mocking sing-song) Since he has no superpowers!
  • This:
  Watson: I heard he has a British butler.
  Holmes: Good, then he'll be used to getting served by Englishmen.
• Robin's verse. Who expected that level of Motor Mouth?
• There is also a reference to the 2009 movie, where shortly before beginning his second verse, he says this:
  Holmes: "This mustn't register on an emotional level. First, exploit childhood tragedy, then gesture with pipe. Watson finishes punchline. Next, acknowledge compliment. Conclude with killer catchphrase."
  • And then proceeds to do exactly that.
  "I believe your parents' homicide is why you mask your face!
  You're shamed and traumatized and haunted by the vast disgrace
  Of watching like a passive waste as momma died and daddy was dispatched with haste!"
  "Holmes, you cracked the case!"
  "You're a batshit crazy BASKETCASE!"
  "Bloody good rhymes!"
  "I've got tonnes! Dissing these Dynamic Douchebags was Elementary, my dear Watson!"
  "OOOHHHH!!"

Moses vs. Santa Claus

• Jolly St. Nick and his helpers manage to hold their own against the Special Guest.
  • "I'm from the North Pole!/ that's why my rhymes are so cold!/ I spit diamonds but I'm serving up some fresh coal." More the flow than the rhyme, but it's very effective.
  • "Or was there something in Rule Six I didn't understand?/ My list says 'killed Egyptian Dude; buried him in sand!'"
• "I'm a jolly bowl a jelly givin' holiday presents/ but all the chosen people ever get for Christmas is jealous.". One of the best flows in the entire Epic Rap Battles of History.
• They got Snoop Dogg to play Moses.
  • "When I was high on the mountaintop God revealed the truths of the Earth, but he never mentioned a fat ass Papa Smurf"
  • "It takes nine reindeer to haul your fat ass/ You took the Christ out of Christmas, then just added mo' mass!"
  • "You ain't a saint, you a slaver like a Pharaoh in snow/ Stop with the unpaid labor and let my little people go!"
• Santa brings in his elves for backup in the second verse:
  • "We're magical workers man!/We hang out with reindeers./ Here's a GPS; who gets lost for 40 years?"
  • The phrase "Santa Claus is comin' to town" has never been so badass.
• From Moses' second verse:
  • "So much drama goin' on in the Israel-BC; it's kinda hard talking directly to the G-O-single-D."
  • "Hand me a chisel; I've got a new commandizzle for y'all; thou shall not let kids sit on a grown man's lap at the mall"
• The beat itself is pretty awesome as well.

Adam vs. Eve

• From Eve's first verse:
  "I made a map, motherfucker, and I can read it too/Gives me specific instructions on how to fuck wit' you."
• Adam wasn't completely helpless.
  Adam: You got a lotion for this/You got a cream for that/Got any perfume that smells like get the fuck off my back?
  • Not to mention:
  "It ain't summer, Eve/Don't try to play me like a douche."
• Eve drops this bomb about the incident that got them kicked out of Paradise:

  Eve: That apple was the best thing I've bit so far: now I see how much of a dick you are!

  • Keep in mind, Paradise was, well, Paradise. Eve is basically saying that being denied a life free of strife was worth seeing Adam for the irresponsible fool he really was.

Martin Luther King vs. Gandhi

• The fact they got KEY AND PEELE, two of the most acclaimed comedians working today, on the web series!
  • Better yet: Instead of vicious putdowns, the rap battle consists of them trying to out-''peace'' each other!
• Gandhi raps this:
  Gandhi: Slumdog skillionaire, first name Messiah! Raps so hot, I spit Yoga Fire!
  • While actually shooting flames from his hand. (A reference to Street Fighter II.)
  • Then there's this gem:
  Gandhi: Everything you preach, I said it first / you should jot down these words, plagiarize my whole verse!/ Leave your thoughts on the door, like the real Martin Luther / I'm not thinking you shall overcome this, junior! *wags finger*
• Some great lines from MLK's first verse:
  I'm the king of civil rights from the city to suburbia; no shoes no shirt, but I'm still gonna serve ya!
  I admire the way you fought the British power, but I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower!
  Like the H in your name, you ought to remain silent, flatten your style like bread- naan violence.
  • And later on, the unbelievably awesome, hammy, brilliant, MLK says:
  "I got so much street cred they write my name on the siiiiiiiiiigns!
• The rap ends with Gandhi and MLK hugging each other while letting in some final disses:
  MLK: Nigga, we got more beef than one of your sacred cows, but I'm about to forgive you so hard right now.
  Gandhi: I am passively resisting the fact that you suck. I am celibate because I don't give a fuck.

Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla

• Edison's flow and disses are surprisingly effective:
  Edison: While you were busy digging ditches and burning bridges
  I'm popping out inventions, stacking riches, so go back to your pigeons
  • To make it even more awesome (or disheartening, depending on whose side you're on), Tesla's rhymes might've sounded badass but Edison's rung more true; Edison's "don't give a smidgen 'bout your visions if they can't make a buck" line might sound callous but the fact is that Tesla died in poverty after venturing out on his own, so Edison has a very dark point.
  • Tesla's verses accusing Edison of theft had a dark point of their own; Edison did bully and smear others whose inventions or achievements might've threatened his business. Edison's line "I bet you 50,000 dollars" is a reference to the fact that he originally hired Tesla to improve the electrical systems he developed in his lab for the price of fifty grand. Tesla did so, but afterward Edison didn't pay him a cent. And that's not getting into the stuff that happened between them when Tesla left Edison's company.
• Edison's Card Carrying Villainy makes for some pretty good burns:
  "You never had sex, but you sure got screwed by me!"
• Nikola Tesla's introduction by itself was badass as all hell.
  Tesla: I see a universe of infinite energy
  But no potential for threat from this enemy
  So you can call me Tesla, Nikola, impeccably dressed
  Giving lessons in electrical nemesis, this will be on the test
• Edison arguably had one when he blacked out everything, pointing out he invented lightbulbs, sound recording, and motion pictures.
  • Ironic because Tesla discovered how to harness alternating current, which almost all modern electrical appliances run on, including the computer - he could make the same claim even better than Edison could!
• Building on the point above, that's exactly what Tesla proves, starting with reversing the blackout by powering a lightbulb with nothing but his hands. Then, he becomes one with his most famous invention, and creates an entire lightning storm with only his hands!
  • Complete with Ball Lightning. (3 of them, to be exact!)
  • Everything after that is Tesla turning Shock and Awe into one Crowning Moment Of Awesome after another, accompanied by the music itself getting an upgrade.
  Tesla: You fool! You think you can touch me with this?
  You couldn't handle my gifts, with your greedy little mind!
  What's inside mine was ahead of its own time!
  You did not steal from me; you stole me from mankind!

Babe Ruth vs. Lance Armstrong

• Unpleasant though he may be, Lance has lines like:
  Lance: So swing, batter, batter! Show me what a fatter rapper can do!
  I beat cancer; I can sure as hell crack you!
• Babe Ruth kills it with his first lines:
  You lived strong [and] beat cancer; CONGRATULATIONS,
  Now I'll drop your ass faster than your own foundation!
• From Lance's second verse:
  You set records before black men could compete, are you kidding me?
  That's like having a pasta contest without Italy!
  • And:
  Lance: I'm the pinnacle of physical conditions
  While you dip your stick in prostitutes and call it foul tippin'
  (Are you trippin'?)
  You'll be nothing but a skeleton, messing with the fellow in yellow
  Who will be peddling like hell up in the Peloton!
• Ruth's final stanza absolutely creams Armstrong, starting off as a lighthearted spoof of an old-timey baseball announcer, then getting progressively louder and more intense until he's just roaring, all without pause. It's like watching a runaway train smash through a brick wall.
  It's the bottom of the ninth against the Texan in a bathing suit
  Filled with more artificial ingredients than a Baby Ruth!
  It may be way too soon, but I'm calling my shot
  And I'm not talking about those Italian syringes you brought!
  The Sultan of Swat will knock you right outta the park and round the bases to the sound of up-roaring applause!
  While you hang your head in shame and disgrace because...
  YOU GOT LOST AND FORGOT WHAT REAL SPORTSMANSHIP WAS!
  • The look on Armstrong's face afterwards says it all: Ruth DESTROYED him.
• Ruth also manages to add insult to injury while Armstrong is still reeling from his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, resuming his casual, but biting tone from before.
  You look tired kid, you've got Sheryl Crowe's feet eyes.
  Peddle on home to France and maybe bring me back some fries.
  'Cause if you step to ruth on the mike, I'll fan your fancy bike and all.
  Yerrr out! With three strikes, and just one ball.

Skrillex vs. Mozart

• Mozart's first line is nothing but gold.
  "Was that a verse or did you just get the hiccups? I'm a Prodigy, Sonny, and I'm about to SMACK A BITCH UP!"
  • Then Mozart references the musical genre and Skrillex's competition.
    "I can't believe the way you dress when you dubstep out of the house! You're like an emo Steve Urkel and you reek of dead mouse!"
  • His first verse ends with a scorching Take That!.
    "I am the world's greatest composer! No one knows what you are - except a lonely little troll who knows HOW TO PRESS A SPACE BAR!"
• Skrillex's second verse is pretty enthusiastic:
  I attack! You decay! Can't sustain my releases,
  sidechain Wolfgang, bangarang you to pieces,
  I'm a self-made man, you're a slave to your papa,
  I'm a r-r-rock star, MIX YOU WITH THE BASS, AND drop ya
  Global! My strobes glow like Chernobyl!
  Kids explode and get mobile!
  No one even knows you!
  I make the whole world move,
  You play community theatre!
  I gained your same fame from home,
  on a blown-out speaker!
• Mozart's second verse is golden!
  Oh, yes, I've heard that EP, and see, I've transcribed it here.
  Tell me, what comes after the 68th measure of diarrhea?
  What kind of drugs does it take to enjoy this? I've no idea!
  I've seen more complexity in a couch from IKEA!
  You go piano to fortississismo!
  That means soft to very, very loud. 'CAUSE I'M GUESSING THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW!
  Why don't you put down your cubase and pick up a real bow?
  I rocked harder than you when I was five years old!
• The amount of musical references, both obscure and better-known, is impressive in and of itself. It shows a high amount of work, especially compared to "Ludwig Van Beethoven vs Justin Bieber."
• The live performance of the battle becomes this when Lloyd is joined by the real Skrillex. And they both rap.

Rasputin vs. Stalin vs. Lenin vs. Gorbachev vs. Putin

• The matchup itself features five rappers, something that was until that point unprecedented for the series.
  • Played only by Peter and Lloyd, yet it's barely noticeable. That's another MoA
• Rasputin's first verse was quite awesome, with him chewing out Stalin for killing millions of Russians and making fun of his moustache.
  • His opening lines:
  Cool mustache, Wario!
  Try messing with the Mad Monk? You'll be sorry, yo!
  How many dictators does it take
  To turn an empire into a union of ruinous states?
  • He finished off well, too.
  If you're the Man of Steel, I spit Kryptonite!
  Big dick mystic, known to hypnotize!
  I could end you with a whisper to your wife!
• Stalin comes off as genuinely intimidating, in contrast to Hitler:
  Look into my eyes, you perverted witch,
  See the soul of a man who made Mother Russia his BITCH!
  You think I give a fuck about my wife?
  My own son got locked up in prison,
  And I didn't save his life!
  You got off easy when they pickled that moose cock!
  I'll leave your neck in a noose in a trench and shot,
  Your whole family, shot, all your wizard friends, shot,
  Anyone who sold you pierogi, shot!
  Starve you for days 'till you waste away,
  I even crush motherfuckers when I'm laid in state!
  Pride of Lenin, took Trotsky out of the picture,
  Drop the hammer on you harder than I bitch-slapped Hitler!
• Lenin interrupting the battle like Abraham Lincoln and screaming at Rasputin and Stalin.
  I have no pride for you who ruined everything
  My revolution was doing to stop the bougeroise!
  I fought the bondage of classes!
  The proletariat masses
  Have brought me here to spit a thesis against both of your asses!
  • Lenin telling off Stalin for all the atrocities he committed.
  Our whole future was bright! You let your heart grow dark,
  and stopped the greatest revolution SINCE THE BIRTH OF MARX!
• Gorbachev interrupting Lenin as well as Rasputin and Stalin. He calls every single one out on their abuse of power, points out how he successfully helped end the Cold War, and then points out his reforms. Even better, one could say that his relatively humble entrance through a simple door is awesome itself, simply owing as to how humble it is.
  If your name ends with 'in', time to get out!
• Putin's reveal. Gorbachev was content with just entering through a door, and Lenin was too furious to make a fancy entrance, but Putin? Giant Jumbotron with his face on it. And then he tears through it and starts gloating about himself.
  Da, you want to mess with me? I spit hot borscht when I'm crushing these beats!
  Blow it up like a tuba while I'm balling in Cuba; doing judo moves and schooling every communist cyka!
• The last shot features the rappers in the episode doing That Russian Squat Dance in front of videos of rap battles from throughout the Season. It's a pretty cool way to send off the show for a while. It's so amazing that the Announcer keeps quiet. Nobody asks who won, or who's next.

Season 3

Blackbeard vs. Al Capone

• Blackbeard's demonstration of his phenomenal rhyming ability:
  Beef with me? Please! I'm the high seas Caesar,
  This cold heart's many degrees beneath the deep freezer,
  You're an obese greasy sleaze squeezing a diseased peter,
  that no skeezer would touch if she had fifty foot tweezers!
  Don't start a war with me! You're not hardcore,
  I'll pimp slap those face scars of yours port and starboard!
  • His putting down Capone's skill:
  You spent time in Alcatraz, I'm sure you were fine
  if you dropped the soap as little as you dropped dope rhymes!
• Capone's first verse has a few gems:
  • His rebuttal towards Blackbeard's comments on his syphilis:
  I had syphilis, yeah. Well, you're a huge dick
  with a scurvy ridden ship filled with bilge rat pricks!
  I run a Intricate. Criminal. Syndicate,
  So show respect,
  Or get that tongue ripped out of your neck and shoved right up your poop deck!
  • This:
  You ain't a tough guy; my kids dress up like you for Halloween!
  • His threat towards Blackbeard's crew:
  I'll use that fuse in your hat to light up you and your buddies,
  then burn your sailboat down and collect the insurance money!
  Then maybe they'll find your bloated body dead and washed up on a beach.
  This is Capone rapping, and I'm capping this captain; capiche?
• The starting lines of Blackbeard's second verse:
  The Valentine's Massacre brought you condemnation,
  but I'm going to sink you faster than your income tax evasion
  when I toss you overboard like a mob abomination,
  so prepare to learn Davy Jones' locker combination!
• Capone's attack on Blackbeard's filthy living habits also warrants a mention:
  I mean, that rat nest beard's trapped so many crumbs,
  this bum could get marooned and still eat lunch for a month!
  • This line:
    Raps so hard call me Al (Beat) Dente.
  • Capone's final line.
  Tell South Carolina Blackbeard got Capwned.
• An excellent background event— Capone's men hiring Edward Kenway to kill Blackbeard's. Why? Because Blackbeard's men stole from Capone.

Joan of Arc vs. Miley Cyrus

• Simply the fact that Joan of Arc decides to attend a rap battle in chain mail and helm makes it very clear how serious she's taking this battle.
• In her first verse, Joan lights up a city on fire by singing:
  "Je suis la fille en feu" ("I am the girl on fire"), call me Katniss Everdeen!
• Joan comments disgustedly on Miley's waste of potential.
  You gotta die for something, Miley
  Just picture your epitath
  "Had the world watching -
  Chose to show them all her flat ass."
• Miley blasphemes in her second stanza, and Joan reacts with venom:
  Do not take the Lord's name in vain, you ratchet skank—
  Your manager's riding you to the achy-breaky bank!
  • Immediately following that, she draws her rapier.
  Keep your party in the U.S.A./Vi. Ve. La. France!
• Miley doesn't get angry once throughout the battle, even brushing off one of Joan's verses with a compliment...that doubles as a Stealth Pun for Joan getting burned at the stake. The fact that she could keep so cool when confronted with a soldier in full armor is awesome in itself.

Bob Ross vs. Pablo Picasso

• One for the makeup artists. The work they did to age Lloyd so he could appropriately play Picasso is extremely impressive.
• "You're the PBS version of Nickelback!"
• Some lines from Bob's first verse. Check it out:

  You're a moody little genius, always so serious,

  I know, you must be on your Blue Period!

  With the voice that soothes, so let's do this,

  I'll twist you up like you're a Rubik's Cubist.

• Pablo beats back with this:

  Don't use that word,

  Like you know what it is!

  You painted thirty thousand pictures of bushes and sticks.

  • Pablo using his overly long name in the rap, and it works:
    My name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula,
    Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano,
    De la Santísima Trinidad,
    Ruiz y Picasso!
    Back. To. You. Bob.
• Bob's final verse features these awesome closing lines:

  My technique will make your mistress weep,

  Put her to sleep, elbow drop her dreams, I go deep!

  Don't believe in mistakes unless you step to me,

  Yo Pablo, you just got your happy little ass beat.

Muhammad Ali vs. Michael Jordan

• Getting accomplished comedians like Key and Peele to perform for your web series is one thing, but it really says something when the experience convinces them to come back and do another one.
• Jordan immediately starts stomping:
  Why don't you dodge this battle like you did Vietnam?
  Cause you got as much chance of beating me as LeBron
  I'm a flying machine, like the world has never seen!
  You can fight one man? I can drive through a whole team!
• Ali opens up with a doozy:
  Ooh, here comes Jordan, big tongue wobblin',
  Flyin' through the air like a big dumb goblin!
  You're the only Bull that's uglier than Rodman!
  Messin' with me is gamblin'; you got a problem!
  • And continues in his next verse with this:
  I saw you slappin' Reggie Miller, boy, what's wrong with you?
  You fight like the little girls who make your Nike shoes!
  McDonald's and underpants as corporate backers;
  You stay at the Ritz 'cause you sold out to crackers!
  • "You need to bounce back to North Carolina kid, cause your rapping sucks more than Space Jam did!
• Jordan responds by stepping over to Ali's side and getting all up in his face while saying this:
  So Cassius wants to talk about cashing checks?
  I'll school you through your bug spray, off your Broadway play, over the Japanese dude sittin' on your face!
  Hit nothing but net! You ain't seen nothing yet!
  Man, you needed a movement 'cause you're so full of shit!
  I'm a better athlete and a better MC!
  Battle me two more times; watch me get a three-peat!
• According to the polls on the ERB Wiki, this is the most evenly-matched battle in the show's history, with the votes an almost-perfect 50-50 split. Ali has the edge, but not by very much.

Ebenezer Scrooge vs Donald Trump assisted by J.P. Morgan, Kanye West and Death

• Simply the idea of retelling the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, through rap battles is in itself awesome. Who saw that coming?
  • Not only that, but in a handful of seconds, each ghost pretty much sums up every key point that his novel counterpart makes to Scrooge. Scrooge's reaction/rebuttal to each ghost is also right from the book. It's not just a retelling, it's a very authentic one.
• "WAKE UP, SCROOGE!"
• They actually censored the only curse in the rap; "I've got my own f***ing problems, call me 2Chainz!" That's right, a badass rap battle that you can actually play around your family. Now that's awesome.
• The music is OK initially, but when Kanye shows up, it really shifts up another gear, switching to 6/8 and never looking back. It's also a musical Shout-Out to Black Skinhead from his album Yeezus, one of Epic Rap Battles of History's many Shown Their Work moments.
• Death, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come being Suddenly Speaking unlike in the novel, and making a truly intimidating rap to Scrooge to the point that he changes.
  "BOO! You're gonna die, with no one to love you and no one to cry! Alone by yourself on the bed of your death, with the stench of regret on your last dying breath! 'Cause you've chosen the path of a selfish man with Tiny Tim's innocent blood on your hands! The penance you pay for the way you behave is written as plain as the name on this grave!"
• JP Morgan gives a brilliant verse:
  Don't panic, Scrooge, but you're about to crash!
  I'm J.P.Morgan, the Ghost of Rich Dudes Past!
  Who's properly rockin' the Monopoly mustache!
  Yo I own the railroad, I run these tracks!
  You got dumped on a bench and now you're pissed at the world,
  You shoulda made like Sebastian and kissed de girl!
  Because your greed is the curse that's gonna tear you apart!
  What good is your purse if you're poor in your heart?
• Scrooge rapping back to Donald Trump and J.P.Morgan.
• Kanye West has an absolutely badass verse in and of itself, but he really finishes it off with possibly the best-used action in the series; he makes a "crushing" motion with his hands while the camera frames his upper body; then the camera cuts to a full-body shot, and he raises his hands as Ignorance and Want come out of nowhere and just stare at Scrooge. No bodily motions like Bach, no vocal interruptions like Marty, they just stand there and stare.
• The fact that Donald Trump himself tweeted about the video (albeit with confusion).

Rick Grimes vs Walter White

• Without stopping his rap, Rick perfectly headshots three Walkers before calmly sidestepping out of the way of another hobbling toward Walter. What makes this better is that Walter then waggles a baggie of Blue Sky, and a moment later, you see the Walker tweaked out.
  • "You ain't the danger to me, Walt, so knock all you want. I'll watch you get eaten on my fucking front lawn."
• Walter is standing right here, in his tighty-Walter-Whities, and it doesn't break his flow at all.
• Behold, Walt's first line:
  I don't know what you think I've done
  but if we were to battle, (puts on the Heisenberg hat) I've already won. (Ask Gus!)
  • And the hat-flip he does in the background in the next verse.
  • Rick Crosses the Line Twice with this line:
  "I'm gonna show this lab rat how to be a real dad!" ^note  Walter tried to test cures for his cancer on lab rats.

Goku vs Superman

• Superman opens up with easily one of the best intro bars throughout the entirety of battle raps history with not only how solidly it makes his stance over Goku, but uses the classic Superman introduction with an awesome twist:
  Who can stop this constipated jock
  with the awful animation and the complicated plot?
  Who's got the rap bombs to drop on Japan?
  This looks like a job for the OG: (Superman!)
• Goku straight-up no-sells Superman's eye beams. That alone puts him in pretty elite company.
• Before no-selling Superman's beams and going Super Saiyan, Goku opens up with some of the best screaming in the series.
  HOW MANY TIMES ARE THEY GONNA REWRITE YOUR STORIES?!
  YOUR POWERS HAVE BEEN BORING SINCE THE NINTEEN FUCKING FOURTIES!!!
• Superman, confident in his ability, flies off after he finishes his rap, leading Goku to chase after him. The subsequent Air Jousting scene doesn't look like it'd be out of place in either of their comics.
• Goku seamlessly throws in an unexpected reference to "Crank That (Soulja Boy)". And even if you don't like the song at all, the line is friggin' perfect.
• Goku's line
  When I see your movies all I do is watch the clock
  Cause there's nothing fun about a superhero scared of green rocks
• Then, his second line.
  Don't lecture me about fights, you caped coward
  You got your ass beat by a bat with no powers
• Superman's line
  I'm killing it, you're Krillin it, I'm villainous to vegetables
  Who dance around in hammer pants that hide their tiny genitals
• And his second line.
  Haha, your rapping is weaker than your fight scenes,
  Just one punch and over nine thousand screams!
• Goku's final line, which fans of the series consider to be one of the most savage endings of the entire series:
  There's only one way that battle's gonna end
  One more Superman who's never gonna walk again

Stephen King vs. Edgar Allan Poe

• The plethora of King titles casually and rhythmically dropped in his first verse.
• King's first verse ends on a devastating note:
  Masque of the Red Death? Barely blood-curdling.
  Pit and the Pendulum? Not even unnerving.
  Perving on your first cousin when she's thirteen years old? Now that's disturbing!
• Much like George Watsky's previous roles, Edgar Allan Poe rips into Stephen King with an incredibly fast, rapid-fire second verse.
  • And much like Shakespeare, he delivers his first verse in a poetic meter used by his role — in this case, trochaic octameter (eight syllables alternating stress, with the stressed syllable coming first).
  • Stephen King immediately follows by calling it boring. It's made even better when you see him casually avoiding Poe's swarm of bats before laying into his school record.
• Edgar Allan Poe's first words are from the first line of his poem, 'The Raven'. Stephen King's very last line not only incorporates the last word ('Nevermore!'), but he even managed to turn it into one scorcher of a diss!
  Fame? Money? Talent? Success? You'll always have less, never more!
• The fact that Stephen King himself has watched the battle. He says Poe shut him down. Poe's called The Horror Lord for a reason.
  • This means Poe gets the FIRST HISTORICALLY CONFIRMED WIN out of any Epic Rap Battle, and he'll probably be the only one.
• One of Poe's lines was voted the strongest in series history: "Poe's poems pwn posers"

Sir Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Getting "Weird Al" Yankovic as Sir Isaac Newton.
• Just when it looks like Nye's down, Neil deGrasse Tyson steps in and holds his own against Newton.
• Like getting Weird Al, they got Chalie 2na to play Neil. Peter even said during the Behind the Scenes video that whenever he does a deep voice (and specifically mentions Darth Vader and Santa Claus) he's "trying to channel the spirit of Chali 2na".
• Newton's first verse has some of the best lines ERB has ever seen.
  Of all the scientific minds in history,
  They put Beaker in a bow tie up against me?!
  I'm a master, I discovered gravity
  I drop rhymes like they're falling from an apple tree
  You're no match for me, you've got a bach[elor's] degree
  I got a unit of force named after me
  You want to battle guy? That's a crazy notion!
  When I start flowing I stay in motion!
  FIRST LAW! Did you get that?
  Or did it go too fast to detect?
  Or maybe it'd be better if I added a bleep or a bloop
  Or another wacky sound effect?
  I was born on Christmas, I'm God's gift,
  I unlocked the stars that you're dancing with!
  You waste time debating creationists,
  While I create the science you explain to kids!
  • Nye gets a lesser moment by simply standing there. While most rappers would get upset or defiant of their opponent's opening lines, Bill just stands there calmly.
• Nye's first two lines are rather weak. But then he gets better:
  I'm still in my prime, hitting my stride,
  What'd you do with the back half of your life?
  You freaked out, started counting coins for the bank and you sure didn't have no wife!
  • The very next lines Nye drops both play on Newton's scientific accomplishments compared with his social ones:
  You wrote the book on gravity, but you couldn't attract no body!
  Your work on orbits was exemplary, but your circle of friends was shoddy!
  • Also:
  Stick to drinking that mercury,
  Cause I hypothesize that you're about to get beat!
• Newton strikes back with this absolute zinger that's so good, Nye is intimidated by it!
  I accelerated the mind of mankind to a higher plane of understanding,
  And I can calculate the weight and the size and the shape of the shadow of the mind you're standing in!
  • Then he unleashing his motormouth of an equation completely stuns Bill Nye.
  And I will leave with a page from a book I wrote at half your age to rebut-
  The integral sec y dy from zero to one-sixth of pi is log to base e of the square root of three times the sixty-fourth power of what?!
  • But Neil DeGrasse Tyson doesn't just hold his own against Newton. He intimidates Newton and impresses him, while salvaging the battle in Nye's favor with a powerful retaliation, completing the equation that stumped Nye.
  Oh, by the way, the answer to your little calculation is i
  As in I put the swag back in science
  While Isaac Newton was lying and sticking daggers in Leibniz.
  And hiding up inside his attic on some Harry Potter business
  The Universe is infinite, but this battle is finished!
  • Not only does the video incorporate Tyson's infamous "Watch out, we got a badass over here" meme, but uses both the line and his body language from said meme to look and sound like an actual rap diss. And it works!
• Similar to Stephen King and the Mythbusters below, Bill Nye has seen the battle and stated that he loves it.

George Washington vs. William Wallace

• Wallace skillfully turns two of Washington's lines against him. First, Washington mocks how he was hung, drawn, and quartered, to which Wallace replies with:
  I was emasculated, eviscerated,
  I had my head chopped off and they put it on a pike,
  and I still find time to bust a Gaelic rhyme
  and rip your Yankee Doodle arse on the mic!

  • And of course the next line:
  I'll knock your face off your moolah
  Alba gu bràth! (Gu bràth!)
  Hoo-ra! (Hoo-ra!)
  • Wallace ripping into Washington's strategic abilities:
  "Founding father but no children.
  Crossed the Delaware but your soldiers can't swim!
  That's Washington! Such a shite tactician!
  The fucking British Army didn't even want him!"
  • Later, Washington boasts about his clothes, which leads to Wallace rapping this:
  I don't give a shite 'bout your fancy clothes!
  You whipped all those out of slave black folks!
• "See there's a difference between you and me, Willy: I fought till I was actually free, Willy!"
• After Washington mentions that Scotland's famous for "golf and haggis", Wallace breaks out with:
  Don't tee off with me, laddy! If you held my balls, you couldn't be my caddy!
• "You're the father of your country, but I'm your daddy!"

Artists vs. Turtles

• There are a total of eight rappers in this video. That's the most in any ERB so far, easy. Also, instead of appearing one at a time as in previous battles, they all pile on at once and rap together, with all of them being called by the announcer at the start.
  "Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, VS; Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and RAPHAEL!! BEGIN. "
• The Turtles' first verse:
  Leo: The wisdom of our master,
  Turtles: Splinter,
  Donnie: Taught us not to rush to violence.
  Raph: But our master,
  Turtles: Master Splinter.
  Mikey: AIN'T HERE DUDE!
• The last lines of the Artists' first verse:
  L & D: We drop science!
  M & R: We got the mathematics!
  All: The Architects of Rebirth are rap addicts!
  All: You beat the Foot, but it won't go well
  Donatello: when you catch an Italian
  All: BOOT TO THE HALF-SHELL!
  • It gets better when one recalls the usage of the term "Kick some shell" as a kid-friendly euphemism for "Kick some ass". So the fathers of the Renaissance are basically calling the Turtles half-assed. As if that weren't enough, they pull some synchronized dance moves too.
• Bringing anthropomorphic characters to life was deemed impractical or impossible, with the Easter Bunny and the Cat in the Hat being treated more as Early-Installment Weirdness. However, the ERB team pulled it off! The turtle costumes are just as good as the ones Jim Henson designed - complete with moving lips - and definite props go to Epic Lloyd and Xin Wuku for basically acting as Muppet suit performers, a notoriously difficult job. The costumes are backed up by some genuine ninjutsu moves courtesy of Xin, and awesome lyrics!
• Artist!Michelangelo's Verse:
  Ohhhh, Michelangelo and I'm giant!
  I made David but I'll slay you like Goliath!
  I'm a rap God and you can't quite touch me,
  This battle's your Last Judgement, trust me!
  • It's an incredibly clever verse as well as being just awesome. Even the seemingly generic third line is a reference to his famous painting of God creating Adam (with their fingers not quite touching).
• "Deemed dope by the Pope, and I boned 'til I croaked!" Has there ever been a more epic Badass Boast? Real rappers wish they could make a claim like that!
• Let's not forget this epic breakdown by Artist!Donatello:
  Donatello: Hard shell, but you're gross in the middle,
  Wouldn't want to touch you with a six foot chisel!
  Born in goop, raised in poop, I slice through a group,
  Of ninjas like fruit, oops!

Season 4

Season 4 Premiere

• The Teaser Trailer starts off looking like it's going to be another Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler match, then it's revealed Hitler is a Ghost... Right before he gets sucked into a Ghost Trap...
  Jamie Hyneman: Fascinating...
  Adam Savage: This is gonna be great!
  • It's a double CMOA since combined with the third "Hitler vs. Vader" rap battle, this helped finally close the door on that saga.

Ghostbusters vs. Myth Busters vs. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

• The backbeat deserves a note here- it's electronic sounding, fitting for two Science Hero franchises.
• The Mythbusters spend most of their first verse tearing down the scientific authority of the Ghostbusters. Their most scathing criticism is this:
  Adam & Jamie: You built a laser grid with no safety switch,
  A&J: and Walter Peck was right: That's some shady shit!
  • As they point this out, it splits to show the Ghostbusters; Egon shrugs, conceding the point.
• The Mythbusters blasting the Ghostbusters, though it doesn't do much damage- it's still pretty impressive that they showed up to this rap battle with a dynamite plunger and explosives!
  • As stated on the main page, Adam's contract demands a minimum of one explosion per episode. This is an episode; hence, explosion.
• The Ghostbusters combine their Team Power Walk from the climax of the first movie with a diss of a Mythbusters staple.
  Peter: Get your stick,
  Egon, Ray, Winston: Hold'em!;
  Peter: heat em up,
  E,R,W: Smokin'!
  All: High speed shows your ass get beat in slow motion!
• Their shared verse to finish off, ending with another shout out to the first movie:
  Winston: It's a rap test, dummy!
  Egon: And you're both gettin' crashed!
  All: We came, we saw, we kicked your ass!
• The synchronized dancing between Adam and Jamie; aside from the changing camera angles and zooms, it's one consistent routine, timed perfectly with one another - and to prove they aren't being filmed separately and lined up later, they're in direct contact with one another for some of it (Back-to-Back Badasses, a coordinated fistbumping routine, their laser grid pattern with their arms), meaning they're definitely being recorded beside each other. It may just look goofy and odd, but get one of your friends and see how tough it is to choreograph and pull off a routine like that without falling out of line.
• The surprise arrival of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. When you want to do in the scientist, there's no better way than a gigantic marshmallow ghost.
• Much like Stephen King above, Adam and Jamie saw it and found it awesome. While Jamie didn't make a response of his own, he did retweet Adam's.
  ''OMG. This is the best thing ever.
  • The Build Team (sans Tory, as far as we know) also saw it. Grant naturally geeked out over them being in an ERB, while Kari noted that they got her look down perfectly.
• Who would have thought the high record for most rapping participants set by Artists vs. Turtles at eight would be broken by the very next episode, featuring ten rappers? ^note  Eleven if you include Janine's cameo!
• The sheer number of references they managed to get into the rap is practically a CMOA in its own right.

Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde

• Juliet gets shot by Bonnie and thinks she's about to perish, but instead of just lamenting her death, she also takes an opportunity to snipe at her killer:
  Juliet: Oh, I am killed! What irony is this?
  Juliet: The lead role shot down by a failed actress!
  • And then she pops up, happy and relieved that the bullet just grazed her with no signs of pain. Lethal or not, that wound has to smart.
• The fact that this is clearly a battle between two different BattleCouples, one the epitome of Star-Crossed Lovers, and the other being the most notorious Outlaw Couple in modern history. And both easily go toe-to-toe with each other, matching wits and boasts with ease, although the fact they're both Doomed by Canon on both sides provides some serious Mood Whiplash.
  • Of special note is Clyde, who lugs around a Browning Automatic Rifle!!
  Clyde: "(To Bonnie) I'll handle this darlin', I'm known to fire off some BARs, cause if these lovers cross me, they're going to end up seeing STARS!!"
• Bonnie and Clyde get a pretty good flow to round off their first verse:
  Clyde: 'Cause there's gonna be a tragedy!
  Bonnie: Make you ache like your balls on the balcony!
  Clyde: Barrow Gang put their money where their mouth is,
  Both: Spit sick like a plague on both your houses!
• Let's just say there's a reason why Juliet earned herself a lot of fans:
  And you there, wench with the neck of a chicken,
  You'll get an ass-ripping worse than your boyfriend's in prison!
  You're not a true romance, you're just a conjugal visit!
  Oh, but that's not even your real husband, now is it?

Zeus vs Thor

• How about the fact that the entire rap battle is Built with LEGO?
• Thor strikes Zeus down to Hades. Zeus retorts with this:
  You think the Underworld scares the ruler of the skies?
  You're joking! Loki must have written your lines!
  By the time I've finished ripping you with wits and rhymes,
  You'll need a lighter for your ship, 'cause a Viking just died!
  • Oh it gets better. Thor said he'll send Zeus deeper than Hades. The place beneath the underworld known as Hades or Erebus? Tartarus, where Zeus chucked his father's remains. Yet Zeus only gets as far as Hades (as evidenced by him meeting Cerberus). Which means Zeus must have broken his fall somehow.
• Zeus's entire first verse has some of the most badass raps in ERB history:
  How DARE you challenge my immortal throne?
  I'm the father of the gods, put your daddy on the phone!
  Maybe Odin could beg me for a truce, 'cause when Zeus lets loose,
  I'll put your crossdressing neck in noose!
  I'm like Medusa, stone a motherfucker if he looks at me wrong!
  I'm a bull getting bitches with my swan schlong!
  I'm on point like Poseidon's trident,
  Rhymes colder than the frosty balls of your giants!
• "MC Hammer just got struck twice by Grease Lightning!" So many references, great flow...what a great line.
  • Also the fact Zeus just knocked Thor, another thunder god, out of Asgard with a lightning blast.
• Thor starting off his first verse by effortlessly smacking a Frost Giant off the Bifrost Bridge. And what is his first line? "Allow Thor to retort, you shapeshifting rapist!"
• Thor's Hurricane of Puns in the first verse is simply outstanding:
  Cause I don't get nice, I get Norse!
  Valhalla-atcha boy and we'll flyte it out
  But keep your Asgard up, I Ragnarok the house!
• These lines had a sweet sounding flow to them
  You tongue-kiss your sister, that's grosser than a Gorgon
  I'm the thunder down under nailing Natalie Portman!
  How could anyone worship someone as abusive as Zeus is
  You're ruthless to humans
  Your crew is like the clash of the douches
  Ruling over the Greeks, a people weak and frightened
  I'd spit in your face, but you'd probably like it!
• His final verse is a doozy:
  Your glory days are over!
  The Oracle shoulda told ya!
  I'l kick your winkly dick back in yout toga like Opa!
  Here, take these drachma for your eyes
  When you get to River Styx tell your three-headed bitch I said hi (Cerberus emerges behind Zeus on cue, scaring Zeus shitless)!
• The simple fact that they managed to make a clever, well researched 'suck my dick' joke.
  Now make like your daddy and swallow my babies!
  • Doubled with the sheer balls necessary to bring up Zeus' father and the story of him eating his children to Zeus' own face.
• When you get right down to it, this battle takes everything that makes ERB great - well-researched and clever references to the figures being portrayed, mind-blowing puns, and genuinely well-crafted rap lyrics, and turns them all up a notch, producing what might be the best song in the series' history. In LEGO.
• "I'm Alpha Dog Dominant you can't beat me/I will drop you like Greece's GDP!"
  • Let us just say there is a reason why the above two lines are often brought up in comments as points where Thor won by default. And yet, with Zeus always fighting back with good points, they managed to make it sound less onesided.

Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter

• The entirety of Jack the Ripper's second verse, where he insults Hannibal multiple times.
  I'm real! You'll find me making vacancies at brothels!
  While you only exist inside the pages of a novel!
  You were kept for ages in a hovel, contained within a cage behind a locked door while I never got caught!
  So who's the superior serial killer, Doctor Lecter?
  I'm still wanted, you're forgotten, people these days are watching Dexter!
• Jack's first verse wasn't that bad either.
  I'm a human trigger warning, through the light until the morning
  When the light shines on my crimes, you find it sick appalling!
  An infamous notorious delinquent
  There's no gorier thing than
  Living in Victorian England
  This is horrorcore, beware if you're a common whore
  or at late night you may find me knocking on your door!
  Not keen to leave until I'm knee-deep in blood an gore
  You're grieving family on their knees weeping, scrubbing floors
  The police need a lead; they don't know what they're looking for
  My raps are like the way I eat my meat—bloody raw!
  • And during all of this, it occasionally flips to terrifyingly brief glimpses of Hannibal being released from his restraints.
• While Jack the Ripper did good, Hannibal had lines like this.
  You stabbed women when they wouldn't give you attention, you're like a Penny Dreadful version of O.J. Simpson!
  • And following that:
  But these days, your nickname is all that's even known, and you didn't even come up with that shit on your own!
  • Accusing Jack of struggling for relevancy:
  No, no Jack. You were doing fine, before your hamfisted attempt at a terrorist line.
  • His final, ripping verse certainly deserves mention, especially the Badass Boast done in almost rapid-fire style:
  I'm the bon vivant of violence
  A licensed psychiatrist
  Who dines on highest society
  To the sounds of violins!
  • Then gets the last laugh:
  You prey on a prostitute and play with her body
  I don't mind that you're naughty Jack, I hate that you're sloppy!
  Barney, take me back to solitary confinement
  'cause this dirty little lamb has just been silenced.
• After each battler gives their first verse, it seems evenly matched. But then in his second verse Jack comes out swinging, utterly destroying Hannibal... only for Hannibal to remain cool and composed and deconstruct all of Jack's points. Kudos to him for staying so calm.
  • Generally, the way all of Hannibal's raps are all a Breaking Speech to Jack, tearing down everything Jack brings to the table.
• Being able to come up with a Boastful Rap for and against someone like Jack the Ripper about whom almost nothing is known qualifies as one both for Hannibal Lecter in-universe and the ERB crew out of universe.
  • Especially noteworthy since Jack's It's All About Me attitude causes him to go through his entire first verse without once mentioning his opponent, as if to deliberately escalate this challenge.
  Hannibal: Jack...you're a classic megalomaniac
  You haven't mentioned me once in your entire battle rap
  Pity your verse wasn't worth the trip in the jacket
  Quit jacking off on the track and put the lotion in the basket!

Oprah Winfrey vs Ellen DeGeneres

• One of the most Badass Boasts in ERB:
  Oprah: Check the Fortune 500, I'm a media wonder!
  Oprah: The Dalai Lama and Obama memorized my cell number!
• Only five episodes into Season 4 and there have already been five female rappers, showing an effort to avert the previous seasons' Smurfette Principle and Once a Season Designated Girl Fight.

Steven Spielberg vs. Alfred Hitchcock vs. Quentin Tarantino vs. Stanley Kubrick vs. Michael Bay

• The fact all verses's beats mimic the director's distinctive soundtracks: Spielberg's has a grand, John Williams-like orchestra feel, Hitchcock's has the Scare Chord and a tense atmosphere, Tarantino's has a jazzy, pulpy tone, Kubrick's has the operatic, bombastic feel of 2001: A Space Odyssey while Michael Bay brings a Pop, over-the-top Hip-Hop like one.
• Spielberg begins with a movie-esque pitch of awesome:
  Spielberg: Picture a child sitting next to a projector, learning from your films to become a much better director...Now picture a 3 billion dollar dream machine who can block bust all over your crop duster scene!
• Hithcock doesn't fall behind and gets one of the most smoothly delivered verses of the battle:
  Hitchcock: I'm the best mamma-jamma ever stood behind the camera, damage panderers, haunt you like the last Indiana!
• Tarantino has a pretty good Badass Boast at the end of his verse:
  Tarantino: The scripts that I write ain't the — cleanest! (Fuck!) — but when I grip mics I'm the — meanest! (Dick!) — Quentin Tarantino is a — Genius! — A bad motherfucker, from the wallet to the penis!
• Stanley Kubrick managing to rhyme with "purple".
• Just the fact Michael Bay enters the rap jumping out of a helicopter mid-air and doing a Three-Point Landing mid-verse. Then he No Sells all the hatred launched against him:
  Michael Bay: I give the people what they love, while the critics say I'm evil! Got no time to read reviews, while I'm working on the sequel! Got a gift from above, and the eyes of a eagle! (Eagle explodes behind him) When it comes to blowing up, no director is my equal! (Atomic explosion as he flips the double bird towards the other rappers)
  • Look closely at the other directors when Bay does the Three-Point Landing. Everyone flinches but Hitchcock is perfectly unfazed.
• Give props to ERB for adding in a scare chord styled violin shriek for Hitchcock's verse.
• Props to the makeup department; it took 9 hours to turn Lloyd into Hitchcock, and the result is amazing.
• Not only does Spielberg's section feature another rapid-fire use of both contenders' work, but it goes the extra mile in bringing up some pretty obscure ones: Lifeboat and Murder for Hitchcock, and Duel and Always for Spielberg.
• It's a bit hard to spot, but Hitchcock actually nods in agreement that Kubrick is the only film director who should be called a "genius."
• Tarantino gives this nasty diss to Spielberg:
  Tarantino: Due to War of the Worlds, a failure is what I label you.
  Tarantino: It looked like some sell-out bullshit Michael Bay would do!
  (Spielberg prepares to defend, then shrugs and nods)

Lewis & Clark vs. Bill & Ted

• Lewis & Clark: "You're worthless, your future selves should have told you that! Now go back in time and give Doctor Who his phone booth back!"
  • The beginning of their second verse:
  Clark: Did you hear that Meriwether?
  Lewis: I think they mean to brawl!
  Clark: I'll take Neo.
  Lewis: I'll take the one that no one knows at all!
• Bill and Ted have some great lines too.
  Bill & Ted: And if those native dudes knew what white men were going to do, they would've stopped you in Dakota. They should totally Sioux!
  • "You rode a river one direction! We travel four dimensions,\\ rescue bodacious babes and get back for detention!"
    • It's worth noting that during this scene, they get into the phone booth and leave the battle. Just as they leave, their future selves, covered in lipstick, appear and finish the line.
• Rufus is pretty awesome here for someone who only gets one line. At the end of Lewis & Clark's second verse, Bill & Ted realize they're losing and wonder what they're gonna do. The answer comes from a figure dropping in behind them: "Be excellent!" "Rufus!"
• The only reason Sacagawea doesn't get any lines is she's too busy being awesome in the background.
  • Doing all the paddling for three people in a canoe.
  • Catching a much bigger fish.
  • While Lewis and Clark are making their second verse she straight-up murders a bear. It starts with a flying tackle and ends with a knife!
• Similar to Sacagawea, the Continuity Cavalcade going on behind Bill and Ted during their first verse: nearly every historical figure from Excellent Adventure has already appeared on ERB, and they all come back: Napoleon, Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, and Lincoln, plus the mustached cowboy from Clint Eastwood's verses standing in for Billy the Kid and a new cameo from Socrates, leaving Freud as the only member of the gang to be left out (though ironically, he himself would be featured in his own battle later on, thus completing the group).
• Lewis and Clark elevate the rap battle to a whole new level by mind-gaming Bill and Ted, resulting in the latter pair wasting several lines either arguing with each other or doubting themselves.
• Part of Bill and Ted's second verse is accompanied by an epic guitar solo added onto the beat. It's pretty much an ERB equivalent of Theme Music Power-Up and it makes for some awesome sound to back a pretty solid ending verse.

Harry Houdini vs. David Copperfield

• With some of the best visuals in any rap battle to date, this one involves Houdini being locked in a crate and escaping from a pair of handcuffs, appearing behind a curtain in the place of his assistant, disappearing behind a burning dollar bill, and escaping from a straitjacket while a camera films it from below.
• Copperfield floats throughout Houdini's second verse.
• Houdini's opening lines have an extremely fun and cutting dynamic.
  "You've never seen a body quite the same as that of Houdini!
  Slippery like linguine, sneaking out of teeny-weeny
  little spaces small enough to fit your talent, David!
  You're not a challenge, David!
  Your biggest endowment's your bank account balances, baby!"
• Criss Angel tries to become the third rapper but Houdini tells him to go away, thus becoming the first person to prevent a third rapper's appearance.
  Somebody say angel?
  No.
• Copperfield even uses it to work an insult at both.
  See what they'd be watching if it wasn't for me? I remind the world that magic is supposed to make you happy!
• How does Copperfield end his second verse and the rap entirely? Casually reference how Houdini died.
  I'll summon up a little Halloween brunch / deep fried sucker with a side of punch.
• Copperfield himself saw the rap battle and absolutely got a kick out of it.
  • We have ANOTHER HISTORICALLY CONFIRMED WIN! Like Stephen King before him, Copperfield is a Graceful Loser and admits that "[his] rap skills are no match for Houdini".
  • Even Criss Angel himself got a chuckle out of it!

Robocop vs. The Terminator

• They got a cameo right at the end from Arnold Schwarzenegger, in full Terminator costume!
• The closing line of Robocop's first verse::
  Robocop: I'm Robocop and I got the flow to beat roided out C-3PO, I got the mic control like alt delete... Your move, creep!
• The Terminator gets a similar beatdown
  T-800: Based on my detailed analysis of the lyrical structure of battle raps, it's time for your next shit verse and then... I'll be back!.
  • And from earlier in that verse
  T-800: My rapping attack is a massive dispatch of bazookas and gats and grenades! That rapidly bashes your brains and dismantles that puny pea-shooter that fits in your leg!
• Then there's Robocop's last line:
  Robocop (while shooting out a grenade of the air): Nice try, but I'm too quick on the draw. What can go wrong for you will, creep, Murphy's Law!
• As well as T-800's closing verse:
  T-800: I blow more steam through machines than a Barista! It's judgment day, baby, hasta la vista!
  • Which is punctuated by the appearance of 2 ED-209s on the Terminator's side... to attack Murphy.
• Robocop shoots a grenade out of the air. A GRENADE.
• The Robocop costume Peter wears for the battle is a treat. It is a near exact replica of the original from the movie and Peter is able to dance in it and project the appropriate body language.
• Like the above: The endoskeleton hand The Terminator lifts up? That is the exact same prop used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Philosophers East vs West

• Nietzsche makes spelling his own name awesome:
  Nietzsche: I'm N-I-E-T-Z-S-C-H-E,
  and I'll end any motherfucker like my name in a spelling bee!
  • Before this, his line about how they should "call me Übermensch 'cause I'm so driven!"
• Sun Tzu gets his own awesome name verse:
  Sun Tzu: Bitch, I wrote The Art of War
  So you'd better get your guns out
  These white boys getting burned, cause guess what
  Now the sun's out
• And then Lao Tzu breaks out into some sick beatboxing while while Confucius drops a killer rapid-fire verse. Bonus points for turning a traditionally racist joke into an unambiguous put-down of white supremacy at the end.
  Let me be Candide with you, Voltaire,
  French drip with the egg noodle hair,
  your ego's just so distracting.
  Free speech doesn't mean just keep yapping!
  And you killed God, so I gotta ask:
  Did he die of shame when he made your mustache?
  You tried to plant a new German psyche,
  but you just grew hate: Me no Third Reichy!
  • What really makes this impressive is that cuts to Voltaire and Nietzsche show they're taking Confucius's criticisms to heart...albeit because of the stuff he said about their hair.
• Sun Tzu and Confucius take the mind games in Lewis and Clark vs. Bill and Ted and kick them up several notches, completely collapsing the team dynamic of the Western Philosophers by referring to Nietzsche and Voltaire as Socrates's students. Sun Tzu does the same thing to his own team in the heat of the moment, but it's easily the most impressive act of lyrical sabotage in the rap battles so far.
  • Made doubly awesome when one considers that Sun Tzu is the only one out of the six rappers who wasn't a brilliant philosopher, instead being a brilliant strategist.
• Socrates is so highly respected that nobody directly attacks him except for one line by Nietzsche, who was known to be contemptuous of Socratic thought. Even Confucius's barb at him wasn't really directed at him but at setting Nietzsche off.
  Socrates: Plebe bitch?! I'm toxic like a hemlock sip! Hang a sandal on the door cause you can suck! Soc's! Dick!
• Voltaire holds his own after Socrates criticizes him with a variation on a theme.
  Voltaire: Let me be frank, don't start beef with the Franc, who hangs with B. Franks giving ladies beef franks!
• Lao Tzu drops one short but powerful line when Sun Tzu begins rapping against him, while making a subtle reference to his own teachings about following the Way. His forceful delivery of the second part sells it:
  Lao Tzu: Oh, you don't wanna stand in the path of Lao Tzu today! I'll make you move, bitch, get out the way!
• The beat itself is probably the best one in the history of the franchise, especially when the yells of "Yeah" stop and the music gets loud and explosive.

Shaka Zulu vs Julius Caesar

• The visual effects and research put into this battle are especially praiseworthy, particularly in getting the Zulu's famous fighting formation done accurately.
• Shaka spends most of his verses threatening Caesar, and he's very good at it.
  When I go hand-to-hand with you, I go hammer!
  Knock off his dome, wrap it up in his own banner!
  Send it back to Rome with a message from the Zulu:
  if you battle (Shaka!), this what happen (to you!)
  If you cross that Equator, you'll head straight into a massacre,
  and get fucked by more than just Cleopatra in Africa!
  [...]
  Watcha gonna do with ya Roman swords
  when the lines of your legions get gored by the horns
  of the (Zulu!) warriors! Trained on thorns!
  To dismember any emperor's pasty white hordes!
• However, Caesar is not so easily intimidated.
  Caesar: You talk a lot of shit for a man wearing a diaper.
  I heard you had poison spit: where was it in this cypher?
  'Cause all I hear is threats from a brute with no discipline,
  and I'm ruling over you like a boot full of my citizens!
  You should take your cow-skin shield and hide under it.
  You're fucking the most triumphant third of the Triumvirate!
  I'm first of the Empire and last of the Republicans!
  [...]
  Ask my kidnappers if I'm just a shit talker
  Doc J Dunk on ya like Boom Shaka Laka!
  So don't go rattling your sticks at me!
  If I wanted to shake spears, I'd waggle my biography.
  [...]
  Ooh, can I be a hyena? Cause I'm going to laugh.
  I'll pave roads with the bones of your goat-herding ass!
  First, my front lines will drop back and spank you in the chest,
  Then I'll decimate your horns: you can't outflank the best!
  Let your reserves come at me: my ballista's cocked and (ready!)
  When I take (aim!) I always keep my whole crew '(steady!)
  Because there's no use in murdering you and your heathen.
  You can grow my wheat for me after you're beaten!
• The "Epic Rap Battle of History" close credit titles are shown in the classic formations for both The Romans (vanguard and legion) and The Zulus (the chest, horns and the reserves).

Jim Henson vs Stan Lee vs. Disney

• Jim Henson goes for the throat with his first verse.
  Jim: And I'm clenching all your strings like you're a puppet in suspension!
  Call your superhero friends in...
  Kermit: Yeah, cause you're gonna need Avengin'!
  Jim: Let me mention: I'm impressed by all the vision that it took
  for you to sign your name
  Kermit: on all of Jack Kirby's comic books!
• In response, Stan Lee doesn't spare any venom on his second.
  Lee: Oh, you taught children to... count and spell~!
  Then you taught your own kids how to drop your wife harder than you flopped on SNL!
• The fact that Stan Lee and Jim Henson became friends during their rap battle. Stan's second verse is about apologizing for going too far and how much he respects Jim. Jim, in turn, spends his verse accepting the apology and saying that Stan has left a great legacy to the world. Also counts as a Heartwarming moment.
• Disturbing as he is, Disney's ability to boast about his power is unquestionable.
  Chorus: M-I-C...
  Disney: I ROCK THE MIC PROPERLY!
  Chorus: K-E-Y!
  Disney: TURNING PROFITS, I'VE GOT THE KEY!
  I'M THE JUGGERNAUT OF STACKING KNOTS UNSTOPPABLY!
  THE DISNEY LAND LORD OF YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!
  [...]
  I'M POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE A MOUSE GIGANTIC!
  WITH ONLY THREE CIRCLES, I DOMINATE THE PLANET!
  CLEARLY, THERE'S NOBODY NEAR ME!
  I'M OWNING THIS BATTLE; IN FACT, I OWN THIS WHOLE SERIES!
  SO HOP ON MY STEAMBOAT BOYS, BUT DON'T ROCK IT!
  I'LL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND GREEN IN YOUR POCKET!
  YOU'LL BE SAFE AND INSURED WHEN YOU'RE UNDER MY EMPLOY!
  NOW LOOK AT IT! GAZE UPON MY EMPIRE OF JOY!!!!

Season 5

J. R. R. Tolkien vs. George R. R. Martin

• Tolkien makes his appearance on his title card by suddenly appearing on-screen, smiling while showing the audience the One Ring and putting it in his pocket. He doesn't need the One Ring to beat his opponent.
• In the battle, George R. R. Martin brags about killing off his characters, while doing so in the video to Jon Snow. Then, near the end of his first verse, said character is seen rising up off a table in the background, having apparently come back to life. This mirrors a scene in Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 2, which came out a mere twenty-six hours before this battle went live on YouTube. ERB took a serious gamble on this scene appearing, as this battle would have been finished long before the Season 6 premiere.
• It's the most obvious joke imaginable, but while Tolkien rattles off the way that Martin has ripped off everything from the High Fantasy genre (Of which Tolkien is basically the Trope Codifier) in order to serve his own Low Fantasy setting, Tolkien finishes with this Take That!.
  Tolkien: I got the prose of a pro, your shit's subpar.
  You're a pirate: you even stole my 'R.R.'!
• Martin comes out firing, boasting about how audiences love every character that he creates, and then gloats over how distraught they are when he kills them off (while stabbing a Jon Snow lookalike). He then rips Tolkien for indulging in The Good Guys Always Win.
  Martin: All your bad guys die and your good guys survive.
  We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!
• Tolkien isn't cowed, and begins by riffing off the fact that despite Game of Thrones popularity, the popularity of A Song of Ice and Fire is nowhere near The Lord of The Rings ("I'm number one and two, you're under Fifty Shades of Grey!"). Then Tolkien fires right back at the Moral Myopia world that Martin created, which is a common criticism of GoT.
  Tolkien: We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy so yes its true to life for characters to die randomly.
  Tolkien: But news flash: the genre's called fantasy, it's meant to be unrealistic you MYOPIC MANATEE!
• While nonchalantly lighting his Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe, Tolkien fires off this zinger
  Tolkien:: C.S. Lewis and I were discussing/how you and Jon Snow both know nothing!
• The way Martin spits out the following rhyme sounds like something from Eminem.
  Martin: I'm rock n' roll you're a nerdy little nebbish and I may be dirty but you got a hairy foot fetish, dawg!
  • And his last verse Crosses the Line Twice...
  Martin: Even the names of your characters suck! You got Boffers and Bofurs and Brandybucks?
  Martin: Well I got a second breakfast for all them goofy fucks: lift up my gut and tea-Baggins my nuts! ^note  Note that Martin runs right towards the camera while saying this, basically inviting Tolkien (and the viewers) to suck his dick.
• Tolkien's final lines are maybe the most fitting Badass Boast in ERB history:
  Tolkien: And I'm more rock and roll than you've ever been…don't believe me? Ask Led Zeppelin!
  Tolkien: You can't reach this fellow, shit I'm too Towering! Every time I battle it's RETURN OF THE KING!!!
  • For extra awesome points, earlier in the rap battle Martin called himself rock and roll while dismissing Tolkien as nebbish. By bringing up the fact Led Zeppelin based various songs around Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is able to state he's more rock and roll than Martin and, unlike his opponent, actually prove it.
  • And for extra extra awesome points, the beat briefly shifts smoothly into Led Zeppelin style drums and back, without missing a beat.
• The video has a particularly impressive visual effect as Martin shakes a small branch at Tolkien, then drops it, where it becomes a full size branch in Tolkien's World War I setting.
• The fake-branch to real branch is a splendid way of contrasting the two authors. Tolkien is actually a war veteran vs Martin, who avoided the Vietnam war. It kinda puts to mind who really has experience in war, huh?

Gordon Ramsay vs Julia Child

• The opening of this video must be mentioned especially. Before the title is announced, there is a short montage of different recipes being prepared (which the ERB staff all had to make themselves). Then the opening line by Ramsay reveals that this rap battle has interrupted him just as he is finishing an episode of his show. THE ENTIRE SET moves around Ramsay, as his staff changes the scenery from a black screen to a green screen, and Ramsay walks calmly through it all like a boss while telling Julia that she should be grateful he is taking time out of his day to rap against her.
• Child brushes off any of Ramsay's insults and cuts back hard. Very few people on any of Ramsay's programs can get through his Berserk Button tendencies on his shows, but Child is unaffected by him. She just shrugs him off.
  • Gordon Ramsay has been known to break people to the point of having to leave the show crying. Child mentions this with her epic lines.
    Julia Child: You scream at women but the fits that you're pitching make you the pissiest bitch in the kitchen!
• And she rips the head off a chicken with her bare hands.
• Ramsay throws a carrot at Child, but she casually deflects it with a skillet.
• They did enough research on Julia Child to incorporate not only her calf brain recipe, but the exact page it appears in her book.
  • Props to Ramsay for the actual verse that mentions the calf brains:
    I've seen your little show, and it sure ain't pretty.
    One part Big Bird, two parts Miss Piggy!
    You can't test me with your fatty recipes!
    Call your book Mastering the Art of Heart Disease!
    I mean, it's rubbish! Look at page 408:
    Tell me who the fuck wants to learn how to cook calf brains?!
    You call these rhymes raw? They're stale and soft!
    Now here, take this jacket...
    [Dramatic swell, followed by awkward silence.]
    Now give it back and FUCK OFF!
• In one of Gordon's first lines, he tells Julia that he has exactly two minutes to deal with her. By the time he's done with his verses, it's been exactly 2 minutes.
• Julia Child ends the battle with her normal sign-off on The French Chef, dropping the meat tenderiser (instead of the mic) and a bon apetit with a grin, by suggesting Ramsay eat a dick.
• Ramsey has a whole crew of Blue Team Chefs under his thumb, as they just say 'yes chef' or 'no chef'. He's basically a puppet master in this situation.
• Julia Child comes out swinging.
  Go ahead and cross your arms in that B-boy stance
  When it comes to haute cuisine, There's one F word: France!
  Here's a nice amuse-bouche:
  Take a poor abused youth,
  Set a thirty year timer,
  Voila! Huge douche!
• Like Stephen King, David Copperfield, Bill Nye and the Mythbusters before, Gordon Ramsay has seen the battle and commented on it.
  • Notably, while King and Copperfield both claim that their opponent won the battle, Ramsay is the first to claim HIMSELF as the victor. Does that count as a third confirmed win...?
• Julia Child casually citing her Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA) experience as part of her CV while staring down Ramsay and buttering bread.

Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson

• Douglass nails Jefferson so hard on his hypocrisy regarding slavery that Jefferson has to spend his entire second verse making excuses for it. Then Douglass goes even harder on his own follow-up.
• Douglass barely brags about his own accomplishments. He mentions teaching himself to read and there's a sideways reference to him beating his owner, but this is a man who met with Lincoln, published a newspaper, had a legendary beef with Susan B. Anthony, and published the Trope Codifier for the slave narrative, which was an entire literary genre in its day. Douglass manages to cow Jefferson to mic-dropping proportions entirely by focusing on Jefferson's shortcomings, not his own strengths.
• Rather than immediately react to Jefferson's first verse, Douglas takes a few bars to just calmly stroke his beard before responding, unfazed "You finished? Okay..."
• The Shout-Out to "Straight Outta Compton" with which Douglas begins his verse, complete with the arm-throwing swagger.
  "STRAIGHT OUTTA BONDAGE!! A brainy mothafucka here ta diss you!"
• The cameos by a bunch of other Americans featured on the series when Jefferson brings up how he helped found the country.
• Douglass' second verse is awesome with how it closes in contrast to the rest. He basically agrees that Jefferson has done some great things, including some anti-slavery stuff, and is rightfully famous but his hypocrisy taints his legacy. In doing so, he proves that he's not just some "Angry Black Man" Stereotype but more of a disappointed one that wants the full version of Jefferson's life to be known instead of just his accomplishments.
• The fact that the ERBH team didn't go the route of making Thomas Jefferson a hero, like many of those that participate in Founder Father Chich, or a villain, like Hamilton did. Instead they went a road that was probably the closest to what Jefferson actually thought. Even Douglass agreed with what Jefferson said, going by his body language, until Jefferson asked if they were cool.
• And fair play to the man, Jefferson's first verse had all the bravado and aggression one would expect of a proper battle rap but after Douglas brings up slavery in his own verse, the tone shifts; Rather than argue Douglas's accusations, he uses his second verse to confess his part in the "hideous blot" of slavery, and to somehow explain his actions. And while his attempts to make amends may have been too little, too late, he was willing to essentially throw the fight in order to take responsibility for his actions.

James Bond vs Austin Powers vs 60's James Bond

• The battle has different themes for each rapper. James Bond is a more serious action-y one, Austin Powers has a more jive and big band feeling one while 60's James Bond has one of similar flavour to the famous movie theme. The way they flow into each other seamlessly, even for short moments such as Austin saying "Jeez" after getting slapped by Connery's Bond, is also pretty impressive.
• James Bond is getting increasingly mad and keeps saying that he's the best movie spy ever and that he's the original Austin Powers is ripping off. What happens? The Sean Connery Bond shows up to tell him otherwise.
  "I wouldn't exactly call you... original."
• Austin and Modern Bond teaming up to call out the rape implications of some of 60's James Bond's love scenes. Notably, it's Austin Powers, the free love 60's flower child spy, who most directly calls it out.
  Austin Powers: Yeah, to be honest, you are a bit rapey. I mean I like to swing but Dr. No means "no", baby.
• Original Bond slaps both his opponents, a level of physical attack the series hasn't reached since the second appearance of Abraham Lincoln. Even Austin looks shocked/impressed.
• A couple awesome plays on both franchises' histories:
  • Bond points out how Austin fizzled after just three films, using one of his own titles, You Only Live Twice.
  • Connery Bond is told "You've had your six," a line he said in Dr. No, and also referring to his six films in the series (officially, at least).
• 60's Bond's one liners are to be expected, but somehow the instrumental stopping in dead silence whenever he says one adds to the awesomeness.
  60's Bond: I don't need a Q to break your balls.^note  A play on using a pool cue to break balls.
• Most battles either end with a fade out or one rapper ending with a line that has no comeback, but 60's Bond ends the battle with a line that isn't just Defiant to the End, but an outright Bring It:
  60's Bond: I'm all in, I'm ready to die any day that you want!
• This battle got an assistant editor. It shows, as this battle has some of the most impressive visuals of any Epic Rap Battle so far, with the background of Bond's first verse being comparable to the stunning visuals of James Bond movie openings (complete with a Bond Gun Barrel), while Austin's verse background is also an eye-pleaser (complete with their own version of the "'60s band/go-go dancers" cutaway scenes of the Austin Powers films).

Bruce Banner vs Caitlyn Jenner

• Bruce Banner gets a pretty awesome Hulk transformation, but Caitlyn Jenner takes it up a notch by having her transition be portrayed as a Sailor Moon-style transformation!
• Caitlyn going Mama Bear over her daughter Kylie, with Guns Akimbo.
• Banner never once slams Jenner for her transgender status, focusing on other, legitimately terrible, things she's done in her life. After the transformation, Hulk's small number of lines point out that Jenner can't use her trans status as a smokescreen for the less tasteful parts of her personality and past. Hulk angry, but Hulk not hate.
  Hulk: No gender issue! This Jenner issue! You being you is enough to diss you!
  • Despite Banner having much fewer lines than Jenner, the general consensus among ERB fans is that Banner won the battle.
• Caitlyn's final line is both savage and heartwarming.
  Caitlyn: After battling me you're gonna always be pissed
  so the Hulk will stay forever, neither Bruce will exist.

Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible vs Frederick the Great vs Pompey the Great vs Catherine the Great

• "Try to Serve Ivan? No Surviving!"
• To give the man his due, Alexander's rapid-fire rap, detailing all his achievements was something to behold.
• Ivan pulls an I Surrender, Suckers to kill off both Alexander and Frederick the Great, but then Catherine the Great calls his bullshit and keeps going, getting the last word in.
  • Ivan doesn't bother insulting Catherine by countering her claim that "It takes a Russian to take down a Russian," considering she wasn't a Russian by birth. Granted, it's to make a snide joke about the... horse story but he indirectly acknowledges her as a Russian ruler and something of an equal.
  • Even then, Catherine immediately counteracts that by pointing out the horse story is shit.
• Frederick's arrival is accompanied by a sudden change in the music, and for good measure he also plays a flute over his own intro.
  • The "narrator" also repeats his nickname of 'Old Fritz' during Fredericks introduction.
• Catherine makes her entrance by beheading Pompey before he even gets going. This marks the second time somebody has prevented a rapper from dropping in, and the first to use this as a way to break in to the battle.
• When you think about it, Frederick the Great actually wins the battle with Ivan - Ivan admits defeat in attempt at an I Surrender, Suckers but Frederick one-ups him by dying first... but only after Ivan brings him his chair like Frederick ordered him to. Oblique attack tactics, indeed!
• Ivan boasts "I'm the first Tsar of all of Russia!" and the entire cast of "Rasputin vs. Stalin" appear behind him—including PewDiePie's Baryshnikov, who does some eye-catching ballet twirls that didn't appear in the original video.

Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton

• They aren't afraid to call out Hillary on her bull.
  Trump: But your rhymes are trash, put 'em next to your e-mails
  Trump: He left a mess on that dress like you left in Benghazi!
  Trump: What do the american people have to yankie-doodle do to get it throught your fat face that they are just not that into you.
• A moment of Awesome for the sound design, as Donald continues to rap there's a subtle background noise of distorted cheering that grows louder, giving a creepy propagandist-like feel to each of Trump's crescendos.
• Hillary's verse has her tearing into Donald's controversies, which can feel very cathartic to many people.
• Kimmy Gatewood, who hasn't been seen since Monroe vs Cleopatra, comes in swinging and shows how much she's grown over the years.
• The triumphant return of Abraham Lincoln, once again airdropped in via giant eagle, which begins with this beautiful bit of Incoming Ham, which gets bonus points for preventing Trump from saying the N-word.
  Abe: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS BLAH BLAH BLAH?
  • This is followed by him giving Trump a complete verbal curbstomp that, considering 2016's party rifts, even some Republicans can appreciate:
  Abe: I'M SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS RIDICULOUS SHIT! IF THIS IS THE BEST MY PARTY GETS, THEN MY PARTY SHOULD QUIT!
  • As Abe cracks his knuckles to deliver another smackdown, he smacks Trump once then turns to Hillary and smacks Trump again while looking her dead in the eyes before soaring away on his eagle. Abe Wouldn't Hit a Girl, but that doesn't mean he can't intimidate her.
  • He actually moves towards her ever so slightly after slapping Trump, and she flinches back as though he'd actually hit her. Intimidation indeed
• Hillary doesn't spare Trump's brood from her verses, or his wife either.
  "I said that I respect your children, but that wasn't quite right, yo
  Lookin' like some extras from American Psycho"
• While the battle is more in Hillary's favour, that doesn't stop Trump from having some decent lyrics.
  "You wanna break the glass ceiling Hillary, I sense it.
  But the only crack you'll find is my ass pressed against it."

Ash Ketchum vs Charles Darwin

• The special effects on Ash's end, especially the Pokémon animations.
  • In a nod to the anime, when Ash turns his hat backwards, it zooms in on his eye - which, blink and you'll miss it, smoothly transitions into the tall anime style before zooming back out.
• Pikachu takes out Team Rocket as they're sneaking up behind Ash, without him even noticing.
• Darwin being a Deadpan Snarker to start, remarking how irrelevant Pokémon training is to his own studies:
  Hello there, welcome to a world called Earth.
  Where actual minds do groundbreaking work.
  • Some time later, Darwin spits out perhaps one of the best flowing-lines in the series:
  I'm a masterful naturalist!
  What I've glimpsed will outclass all the crap on your laughable list!
• Ash gets the beat to stop for a line that actually makes Darwin flinch in shame:
  Yo, um, real quick?
  This dude spent eight years studying barnacle dick.
• After lobbing several great burns throughout the fight, Darwin saves the most cutting for last:
  "And it was hard losing my daughters and their brother
  As hard as the wood that Oak gave your mother."
  • Ash's line to prompt it:
  You lost three children when they were still small!
  TB and scarlet fever; 'gotta catch em all!
  • The line just before that one:
  It took millions of years for mankind to evolve!
  Now they're hunched over cellphones playing with your balls!
• Depending on your stance/perspective on this, Darwin going for the throat at the start of his next verse:
  Darwin: Look, Mighty Morphin' Michael Vick
  Your animated slave fights make me sick!
• Darwin could have simply said "You are still ten" like most people do. But no, he said, "You can't even turn eleven!"
• Ash has a couple of zingers in his verses.
  • He gets in a particularly clever bit of wordplay with The Origin of Species.
  Your shit-talking mouth is the origin of feces!
  • He also hits back at Darwin's line about how he's Dar-winning by pointing out that he married his first cousin.
  Man, if that's true, then nature is cruel
  'Cause the only thing you're winning is your cousin's gene pool!

Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder

• Wonder Woman starts off with some awesome lines as the camera begins with a close-up on her.
  Wonder Woman fly, I'm about to tell you why.
  Princess Diana, but this lady don't die.
  My rhymes are signed, sealed, and delivered on time
  You a bald has-been, I'm in my Amazon prime!
  • She also belts these out in her first verse while punching a meteor:
  Gods made me out of clay, then they broke the mold!
  I'm like Gina Davis: in a Justice League of my own!^note This line also features a quite epic pun: it seems she's talking about A League of Their Own star Geena Davis, but the subtitles reveal she's actually referencing bodybuilder Gina Davis.
• T-Pain manages to pull off a rather impressive Stevie Wonder in this battle, his first verses being some of his best and most hard-hitting thanks to his fierce delivery.
  I feel like this is the beginning~
  But you have sucked for a few thousand years!
  I'm a man who comes from a higher ground
  and I say DC is a whole step down!
  I've been spitting out hits since both Fingertips
  so use the tip of your fingers AND READ MY LIPS!
  • Stevie also has a fiery, bombastic response in his final verse that again gets prop for the intense delivery:
  You couldn't walk in my shoes!
  So stick to your reboots!
  With plot lines so thin,
  EVEN I CAN SEE THROUGH!

Tony Hawk vs Wayne Gretzky

• Tony Hawk's opening verse goes hard at Gretzky's believed lack of toughness and favoritism from the league:
  You got your whole league to protect and adore you
  So which goon's gonna take this battle for you
• Tony Hawk practically sings some of his lines, keeping up the momentum the whole time. Particularly this gem from the middle of the first verse;
  You're old and you're basic, Your talent has faded, and Oiler Alert: you're about to get traded!
• "Great one, Wayne! Lemme say something, Wayne! I got 99 problems, AND YOU AIN'T ONE, WAYNE!"
• Gretzky opens up his third verse with one hell of a Badass Boast.
  Time out! Let's talk about athletic achievements! You and I have so many world records between us 184! That's plenty of 'em, And I set 183 of 'em!
• Gretzky gets perhaps the best finisher in ERB history.
  And I'm too far ahead for you to catch up!
  For true sports this was finished as soon as they heard the match-up!
  • Accompanied by him doing a Mic Drop... with his hockey stick.
• Tony Hawk gets some impressive visuals consistent of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland in the second half of his first verse. He also pulls skating stunts almost continuously during the second.
• This excellent wordplay:
  "I'm the greatest ever when I play hockey/But on the microphone I don't play, Hawkey!"
• Gretzky's first verse is full of various puns, but one in particular stands out:
  And my hot wife, the only woman in the world for Wayne!
  You're on your fourth wife; talk about the (E)X Games!
• When Tony gets serious and starts spitting some vicious (and somewhat truthful) lines:
  I try to watch you on TV, but I can't see the puck
  Hockey used to have guts, but now the teams mighty suck!

Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill

• Theodore Roosevelt finally joins the fray himself, and the first lines of his opening verse do not disappoint.
  Bully! A challenge! I love competition! Now where would I mount the stuffed head of a Winston? I'm into fitness, digging ditches through an isthmus, rough riding down to Cuba like: "WHAT'S UP BITCHES?"
• Churchill referencing both his iconic speech and one of his most famous comebacks during his first verse, to dramatic effect.
  I'll fight you on the beaches, I'll fight you on the beats, yes! anywhere you want to fight I'll fight you and I'll beat you see! I might be battling even though I'm toasted. But tommorow I'll be sober, and you'll still be roasted!
• Churchill's flow "Look at Roosevelt/The dude's about/To lose the bout/To Churchill" is exemplary.
• Churchill has Roosevelt shot in the chest, only for the Bull Moose to just keep going in a reference to his real life CMOA shrugging off a shot to the chest and giving a speech afterwards. In this rap battle, the would-be assassin quickly makes himself scarce while Roosevelt ignores him entirely.
  • Not just keep going, Roosevelt practically roars his next line:
  "A BULLET CAN'T STOP THE BULL MOOSE! TR WILL GIVE WC THE FULL DEUCE!"
  • And Churchill, who's otherwise kept calm this whole time, capping off the whole song by roaring right back in his face!
  "WHATEVER SHIT YOU THROW AT ME, I'LL JUST RETURN TO SENDER! I WILL BATTLE TO THE END AND I WILL NEVER! SURRENDER!"
  • The fact that, instead of simply trailing off, the battle ends with both sides seemingly ready to keep going. In fact, most of the viewers commented that they can't decide who won!
• After Teddy claims Churchill isn't as great as he's made out to be, Churchill retorts by showing how Teddy's accomplishments compare to his own: "I was saving the planet from an axis of darkness while you were back home opening national parks, yes!"
• Roosevelt's brutal come back to Churchill's line about his parents' premature deaths.
  My parents died when I was young and it was morbid.
  But at least they didn't ditch me while they were alive, like yours did.

Nice Peter vs EpicLloyd, Pt 2

• For the first time since the first season, we see the two co-creators of ERB go off at each other over their differences, and show as many of their previous battles in the background flashing by during the course of the video. Yet even more awesome is the ending.
  Nice Peter: "You wanna write a song?"
  EpicLloyd: "Yeah dude!"
• This episode is a testament to how good of actors and rappers Peter and Lloyd are: in spite of obviously being staged, lots of people thought they were genuinely mad at each other, to the point where commenters thought this was truly going to be the end of the show. Bear in mind that this was before it was confirmed they would be going on an indefinite hiatus.
• As a first in ERB, the final verse has Peter and Lloyd delivering their verses in sync:
  Peter/Lloyd: Yo I guess what I'm saying, man, is that I'm running out of patience, man / I've fought with my wife and gone under the knife
  I'm a patient man, but sometimes you need to be a patient, man / And I've taken years off the back end of my life
  I got the same shit I was dealing with at the very beginning! / Man, right since the beginning we've been fighting! No one's winning!
  I'm trying to get somewhere with it, man, but all / People would kill to do what we do for a living!
  Both: YOUR BITCHING IS KEEPING MY WHEELS SPINNING!

Season 6

Freddy Krueger vs. Wolverine

• Freddy is genuinely threatening in this one when he stops playing around and starts using his dream powers. Highlights include replacing Wolverine's claws with mini-Freddies, growing giant while shrinking Wolverine to mini-size, replacing his arms with massive magnets (looking exactly like a cheesy special effect in one of the later Nightmare films) and recreating the first movie's infamous "stretching wall" scare at the end.
• Freddy Krueger may be a sick bastard with a talent for killing people in uniquely gruesome ways, but Wolverine shows he's anything but scared:
  Wolverine: Don't sleep? That's all you got for me? Could defeat your ass with a cup of tea!
  I've been to hell and back and whooped Satan's ass; you got beat by a Nancy on Elm Street!
  You wanna talk about burns, mac? The PTA burned your face into Deadpool's ballsack
  wrapped in a Where's Waldo sweater.
  Jason can't talk and he rocks the mic better!
• But even though Logan's one of the most unkillable men in the Marvel canon, Freddy still manages to shake him to the core when he reveals that he's in the dream world right now, with all the horrific Mind Screw that implies. Then towards the end is where he's turned his hands into literal magnets and drags Wolverine and his Adamantium skeleton across the ground. Magneto would be proud if Freddy wasn't... you know, Freddy.
  Freddy: What's the matter? You look tired, eh?
  I'll be in your bed tonight, unlike Jean Grey.
  As for me, I'm a chick magnet,
  so heavy-metal bitches are real attracted!
  What the fuck is a wolverine? Some kind of an angry beaver?
  I was more intimidated by a tiny Canadian the first time I saw Justin Bieber!
• But even after he wakes up from the nightmare, Wolverine is more pissed than frightened, and he's got his head on straight enough to drop a few last bombs as he looks around, actively hunting for Freddy:
  Wolverine: I ain't got time for this; I'm saving the world. What qualities do you bring?
  You're a pedophile from the Midwest; at least R. Kelly could sing!
  So you've got the wrong room if you're looking for fear!
  Only thing scares me is a fridge with no beer!
  And that face tells me you've met your match...
  so come back if you've got another itch to scratch.
• Wolverine gets one final moment at the very end of the battle when Freddy is coming out of the wall behind him. As Wolverine turns around when he realizes Freddy's behind him, the expression on his face isn't one of terror; his scowl only deepens as if he's saying "Finally..."
• The team behind the battle deserves props specifically for the costuming, Freddy's look is about as close as one can get to the original with the budget available, but Wolverine's entirely original look manages to be both a replication of the general look of Logan in the comics, and a great looking outfit for live-action, which is a common concern when it comes to bringing Wolverine's comic gear to screen.

Guy Fawkes vs. Che Guevara

• As soon as he's done talking himself up, Che wastes no time in laying out Fawkes's failure in verse:
  Che: You tried to rebel against James the First.
  Here's a tip for your next plot: try to rehearse!
  I got my face on a magnet on your roommate's fridge;
  Your head is on a spike up on London Bridge!
  You had one job, cabrón: to strike a matchstick!
  Got caught with a fuse like your bars: not lit!
  You should have stayed anonymous, Epic Fail Guy!
  Treat this battle like the gallows and take another dive.
  
• And of course, Guy is all too happy to point out how Che ended up on the losing side of the Cold War:
  Guy: As a communist, it must really hurt
  that your face has been weakened, cheapened, besmirched,
  being plastered on posters, coasters, and shirts,
  making capitalists rich off of you on merch!
  Right, I'm a pious man, and I fight for the lord!
  I would cut you, but I don't want your sweat on my sword!
  I was tortured until I could hardly sign my name
  and listening to you felt pretty much the same!
  Face it Ernesto: you're Castro but less so!
  He's Cuba Commander; you're more of the Destro!
  So revolt all you want; I don't give two Guy Fawkes!
  But look at Venezuela: what you're fighting for sucks!
  
• But Che's never been one to give up that easily, and he rattles off a few more burns before bowing out of the song:
  Che: Sucks? Guy, you died for the Catholics.
  A group with a bad touching little boys habit.
  
  Che: OH! What's the Fawkes say now?
  (Guy yips like a Norwegian comedian) When they cut your junk out!
  I'm the hardest Marxist ever graced a banknote!
  You're an error-prone terrorist: penny for the scapegoat!
  
• And Guy, despite Che's throwaway cigar lighting his powderkegs, couldn't care less and leaves on a high note of his own:
  Guy: This very battle disproves your communist initiative!
  These rhyme skills are not evenly distributed!
  
  Guy: After what just happened, you should retire!
  Is it the 5th of November, 'cause I'M ON FIRE!
  • Note that Guy literally gets blown up when he says "fire", but still finishes his Badass Boast anyway.

Ronald McDonald vs The Burger King

• This episode is an Updated Re Release of an episode of Flash-in-the-Pan Hip-Hop Conflicts of Nowadays, but with added visuals, better character voices, and updated/improved lines.
• Burger King comes out swinging:
  Burger King: Welcome to BK! How can I serve you today?
  One flame broiled ass clown? Have it your way!
  You can't do fast food half as good as I do!
  Your pink slime meat turns my asshole to a drive through!
  • He finishes his first verse with a pretty sick burn as well:
    Burger King: Call you Ronald Donald, 'cause there's no MC in you!
• Ronald McDonald, meanwhile, gets a brilliant Badass Boast and Shout-Out in his first verse:
  Ronald McDonald: Ask Rick and Morty who's the lyrical boss!
  I've got lines for days, call me Szechuan sauce!
  • He spends the rest of the verse emphasizing that Burger King will be Always Second Best compared to the Clown, ending with a diss that shatters the fourth wall:
    Ronald McDonald: I'm fast food Eminem, you're Machine Gun Kelly!
    I'm Coke to your Pepsi; I'm Mac, you're Android!
    Let's be real: I'm Nice Peter and you're EpicLLOYD!
• Burger King responds with a clever diss-turned-Shout-Out of his own:
  Burger King: You spooky-ass clown, you're so creepy it's insane!
  You look like you just ate someone's brother in a storm drain!
• Ronald's second verse starts out with a scathing diss:
  Ronald McDonald: That verse was lifeless! You had no joy in it!
  Last rapper this plastic had a Happy Meal toy in it!
  • "You might be the King, but a clown wears the crown!"
• Then, unlike the Flash-In-The-Pan Hip-Hop Conflict this video was based on, A Wild Rapper Appears! in the form of Wendy, who dominates the battle with her fiery presence and devastating disses:
  Wendy: King, you're creepy, and you’re always second fiddle!
  Your breakfast croissants are even worse than his McGriddle!
  [turns to Ronald]
  And McDonald's gave your job to a box with a face!
  Left you behind like a quiet kid in a PlayPlace.
  I'm the fast food queen! Mean with a tweet sesh!
  Leave opponents frozen 'cause I always keep my beef fresh!
  • Wendy's entrance deserves some mention as well, starting off quiet before getting progressively louder and louder as both Ronald and The King both sport an Oh, Crap! expression as they realize a third rapper's stepping in.
    Wendy: (Where's the beef?) Right here! (Where's the beef?) Right here! (Where's the beef?) Right here! (Where's the beef?) Right here!
    • For bonus points, Wendy enters using the very quotable Where's the Beef? campaign slogan which was originally a veiled Take That! to McDonald's and Burger King.
  • Wendy exits the battle just as suddenly as she entered it, skipping happily away and into a portal while leaving Ronald and the King standing there dumbfounded. After she's gone they both stare at each other and shrug.

George Carlin vs. Richard Pryor

• George Carlin started the battle with some great lines:
  • His opening is noteworthy:
    George Carlin: Here we go, it's George Carlin. I'm a mad dog snarling.
    I was born in the Bronx and brought up in Harlem.
    I'm dope at spitting bars and getting crowds hardy harring,
    While you're the least threatening black dude since Carlton!
  • He then effortlessly incorporates the Seven Dirty Words into his verse, all in rapid succession and in a way that flows naturally:
    George Carlin: Now, there's seven words you can't say on a TV set,
    But this is the pissing fucking cunting Internet
    And my cocksucking motherfucking bits are the tits!
    Non-stopping brain droppings like my wit’s got the shits!
  • "You'll be down for the count when this counter-culture counterman/Serves you with a stand-uppercut you can't counter, damn!"
• Richard Pryor, meanwhile, gets some amazing disses in:
  Richard Pryor: My delivery is rupturing the tummies!
  You tell a joke and people go, "Hmm, that's funny."
  My mama was a prostitute and grandma ran the brothel!
  Seen some shit but not as awful as your haircut debacle!
  • "Your style's like two drinks: it's the minimum!"
• The disgraced Bill Cosby tries to become the video's surprise third rapper, only to get a taste of his own medicine when Joan Rivers roofies his pudding and even smacks him back unconscious when he wakes up. Rivers then proceeds to serve one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  Joan Rivers: Oh, shut up, you stupid son of a bitch, you know you blew it!
  I'd have attacked you two first, but your hearts beat me to it!
  Cosby, you can't be here! You're making people nervous
  So let me end you real quick like I was Hannibal Buress!
  It turns out you were just like your sweater: monstrous!
  The men that I slept with only wish they were unconscious!
  My sex jokes offend, you're on the sex offender registry!
  Oh, who are you wearing now? Is that State Penitentiary?
  • Then she sets her sights on Carlin and Pryor, and she doesn't slow down in the slightest:
    Joan Rivers: Enough with the roofies, let me move on to Rufus.
    My jokes always had bite, you started out toothless
    And you just kept talking, you wouldn't shut up.
    Honestly, I'm glad you died. Fourteen specials was enough!
    And Richard, can we talk? Can I call you Dick?
    Like your fifth wife did when you remarried your sixth?
    At this point, I've got more plastic than flesh,
    But my Tupperware body couldn't keep your raps fresh!
• Just when it looks like Joan has won, Robin Williams appears out of a genie lamp and absolutely dominates everyone else without once losing his cheerful disposition.
  Robin Williams: GOOD MORNING MOVIE BOMBS! Nice shoulder pads, chief!
  I'm a genie in the bottle for some comic relief!
  O Carlin, my Carlin, what can I say about you?
  Except I don't think you've had a good shit since 1962!
  Mork aged backwards and Joan, you must too!
  80 years old but that nose looks brand new! Nanu!
  Yo Pryor, I Doubtfire makes a good shampoo!
  Left you running down the street like "Oh, no!"
• A rap battle with five rappers and we're not even halfway through the season!

Jacques Cousteau vs. Steve Irwin

• The fact that this battle exists is one in general. Despite Steve Irwin being a highly requested rapper in the ERB fanbase, NicePeter held off on it since he didn't want to be too harsh on him. However, he came to change his mind on him during Season 6, and after deciding on a worthy opponent, one of the highest requested battlers is finally joining the ERB collection.
  • Case in point: Jacques Cousteau decides to end his first stanza by mocking how Irwin died... only for Irwin to immediately deflate the burn:
    Jacques Cousteau: And just to be clear, 'cause I'm no veterinarian:
    Were you killed by a fish kids pet at the aquarium?
    Steve Irwin: Holy smokes, what a place to go!
    You'd need a submarine for a blow that low! (Awhh!)
• Cousteau starts off the fight hard, setting himself up with a Badass Boast as the music slowly begins to build up more and more, before hitting the beat that sets the tone for the rest of the rap.
  Jacques Cousteau: Jacques Cousteau, here to spit flow
  Invented SCUBA, captained the Calypso
  Palme d'Or winning documenter of the ocean!
  Ready to battle a desperate sweaty showman!
• If you want another example of how tight the flow of this rap is, consider this stanza, where each rapper takes half the usual verse length to go for the throat:
  Jacques Cousteau: Talk about sons, better watch what you say now!
  You almost turned yours into Outback Mistake House!
  Steve Irwin: Would you rather talk about your brother? Ooh boy!
  Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Oy yoy yoy...
• After bringing up his invention of the modern SCUBA gear, Cousteau manages to work its full little-known acronym (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) into a later verse.
  Jacques Cousteau: Enough of your antics and madness!
  Contain yourself, like my underwater breathing apparatus!
• Irwin nails Cousteau hard for his notorious documentary The Silent World ("More like Silent WorldStar!"), in which prior to his evolution into a passionate conservationist, he and his crew were shockingly cruel and gruesome in their efforts to get good material.
  • What prompts Irwin to do this deserves mention: at the end of Cousteau's last verse, he decides that he is done with the rap and leaves. In any other rap, this would be the end...
    Jacques Cousteau: Hey, Skippy The Bush-League Kangaroo!
    Hold the dee, I'm Crocodile Dun with you! (walks away)
    Steve Irwin: Where ya goin', fella? (Cousteau leans back into frame) Hang on a minute!
    Like a Joey in a pouch, this ain't quite finished!
• The flow and cleverness of this line of Irwin's is often cited by fans as what won him the battle:
  Steve Irwin: If you wanna count fish, please take the reef tour!
  Don't go throwing C4 on the seafloor!
  I'm the gold medal rhymer on the podium,
  cleaning you up like a Jacques Custodian!
• Throughout the entire battle, Steve is actively examining and taming wild animals. He handles snakes numerous times, and he doesn't break stride even while feeding a hungry (and vicious) crocodile.

Mother Teresa vs. Sigmund Freud

• Mother Teresa's second verse is a delightful cavalcade of wordplay, chaining together insult after insult in an impressive display of lyrical skill.
  Mother Teresa: You call that a verse? You're super-ego-tripping!
  I've gotta say, Sigmund, you're Freudian slipping!
  I built mad missions in my savior's name.
  All you built was a mad tolerance for cocaine!
  Obsessed with masturbation, but you're off the beat.
  Your flows are so poor, I should be washing their feet!
  Everything is sex to you! After I'm through wrecking you,
  I'll have to go and do confession just for standing next to you!
• Of course, Freud isn't willing to leave this battle without a few scathing insults of his own.
  Sigmund Freud: I notice that you talk a lot about yourself, which is funny,
  since you hide your true feelings like they were other people's money!
  Ooh! An exception to my theory; I can't believe this!
  Here we have a mother that no one wants to sleep with!
  You had a nice message, but your methods were detestable—
  I've seen better care given to organic vegetables!
  I've got the libido to continue to beat ya,
  but our time is up, Teresa.
  • Of note, Freud begins the battle setting his watch. To him, Teresa is just another patient for him to analyse.

Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula

• Finally doing a Halloween Episode after years of requests for a spooky battle in October qualifies as a MOA.
• Right out of the gate, Vlad the Impaler establishes himself as someone not to be taken lightly.

  Vlad the Impaler: Imagine forests of corpses, dripping on a buffet,
  You call that a nightmare? I call that a Tuesday.

  • He also takes time to highlight his brutal military conquests.
    Vlad the Impaler: Scorched the Earth from Hungary to Wallachia!
    I inspire fear; you inspire Count Chocula!
    Stepped to the Turks and the bodies started dropping!
    Put my foot on Ottomans like I was furniture shopping!
  • He also threatens Dracula with his signature weaknesses:
    Vlad the Impaler: I save my stakes; no need crucifix
    I kill you with Olive Garden garlic breadsticks!
• Dracula may be more Laughably Evil than his opponent, but he still makes his rhymes count:
  Count Dracula: The flex of a rear-spearing princeling can't vex me
  'Cause I nibble necks and I make it look sexy!
  I'm Universally known for intrigue and desire!
  I shapeshift into mist and bone Winona Ryder!
  Slick hair, popped collar, and a damn nice cape
  While you've got less taste than an Anne Rice cake!
  Your rhymes are empty, like I leave vascular systems!
  I'd grant you the privilege of being Dracula's victim
• In his second verse, the Impaler gets even more savage with his disses.
  Vlad the Impaler: Did you shapeshift those punchlines? 'Cause they mist!
  Your skill's like your reflection: it doesn't exist!
  
  Get beat by Count Dracula? You're smoking crack-ula!
  I dunk on your whack-ula raps like I'm Shaq-ula!
  
  Your slick hair and cape are all flappy razzle-dazzle,
  But at end of day, you're a bat and that's only half a battle!
• Count Dracula hits back harder with his second verse.
  Count Dracula: Ha! You thought the sun could kill me? Not true!
  I'm the vampire so cold they call me Nosfer-achoo!
  My syllable delivery is devilishly intricate!
  I rock the house, once I'm invited into it!
  And here's a tidbit that you can stick a stake up:
  You're losing so bad you should join Team Jacob!
  Renfield!
  Renfield: Yes, master?
  Count Dracula: Call a doctor, not Seward
  'Cause Vlad the Impaler has just been skewered!

Joker vs Pennywise

• This battle features some of the most impressive visuals ever put into a battle. Joker's side features cel-shaded comic panels that the Clown Prince pops in and out of in an almost Deadpool-like fashion, while Pennywise's side features childlike cardboard cutouts of the sewers under Derry and the house on Neibolt Street that drop in and out in a very theater-like fashion, complete with stagelights, simulated fog machines and mechanical stage transitions. The best part comes when Pennywise actually opens up his mouth and reveals the Deadlights...which are three floating Pennywise heads!
  • Not to mention the dead-on prosthetics and voice acting that make Peter and Lloyd look/sound exactly like Mark Hamill and Bill Skarsgard, respectively.
• Joker opens the battle by boasting about his history of cheating death before going for some killer wordplay.
  Joker: In my first appearance, the Bat was supposed to slay me
  But I can't be killed; that's why they cast a Phoenix to play me!
  I'm The Harlequin of Hate; the Clown Prince of Crime
  You're a sewer troll that Stephen King wrote between his lines!
  • Joker ends his verse on equally brilliant lines:
    Joker: I made the Justice League look like just a bunch of Super Schlubs!
    You lost to a herd of nerds who call themselves the Losers Club!
    You'll be gobbled up in Gotham, so stick to your small town
    Where you're renowned as the "If it's brown, flush it down" clown!
• Pennywise's first line involves him multiplying until he fills up the screen, each clone sporting a chilling Death Glare. It actually manages to intimidate (or at least put off) the Joker!
  • That same verse has some great lines once it gets going:
    Pennywise: Why so serious? You're supposed to be the man who laughs
    But those jokes are like your new movie: mostly really sad! (Beep-beep)
    You're a John Doe in my Deadlights, and you're about to fall from a new height
    'Cause you're weak and you've lost every fight to a knight who wears underwear over his tights!
  • Pennywise then brings out the Deadlights, and Visual Effects of Awesome ensue as he drops this sick burn:
    Pennywise: Jack Nicholson played you just fine, but lately the casting's declined
    Jared Leto came out trying to look like he was Tekashi 6ix9ine!
• The Joker gets a win for completely no-selling Pennywise's trump card early on: Pennywise exposes him to his Deadlights, which drive normal people to catatonic madness just by proximity... and the Joker is completely unaffected. His lines in the second verse just cement it:
  The Joker: Go back in your well, you giggling sewer ginger!
  You lost to a turtle that wasn't even a ninja!
  When I flow, I go Mark Ham with Ill zingers
  I steal the show like Bob Kane stole from Bill Finger!
  I spit acid! Be wowed! Every joke of mine stings!
  You're three nightlights in a cloud beat by the kid from Stranger Things!
  When I compare your antics to the fiendish schemes I revel in
  They pale like the moonlight you can dance with the devil in!
• Pennywise's second verse starts with a brutal hit below the belt before continuing on with brutal bars:
  Pennywise: Pennywise likes the Devil; we have so much fun together!
  No one's dying to play with Joker... Except for maybe Heath Ledger!
  Puddin', you're an embarrassment! I'll beat you like you beat Harley Quinn!
  That purple suit is something you should only see Steve Harvey in!
  AHAHAHA! I FEAST ON YOUR FEARS!
  I'm the Derry, Maine attraction every 27 years!
• Pennywise successfully gets under Joker's skin when he threatens to eat Batman, causing the Clown Prince of Crime to snap visibly in a rage at the thought. Pennywise, meanwhile, takes everything Joker dishes out in stride. "I feast on your fears," indeed. Though Joker still deserves credit for immediately standing up to Pennywise and telling him why this is a bad idea.
  Pennywise: But you know what? I have a secret; it's like very special toy
  If you want to kill a Batman, EAT HIM WHEN HE'S A BOY!
  Joker: Don't you lay a finger on my Bat, you little freak
  Or I will spend a whole week knocking out those prickled teeth!
• The Joker manages to turn the infamous "We live in a society" meme into a major burn by making it the climax of a rant about the child/pre-teen orgy scene in IT:
  Joker: Tell your author, for his next gangbang scene,
  How about a little more PG, and a LOT less 13?!
  Even I wouldn't stoop to that kind of impropriety!
  This is Earth, you space demon! We live in a society!
• Joker gets some other amazing lines in his third verse:
  Joker: I've seen your movies, so I know you don't hurry
  But I'll shoo you down the drain so fast, they'll call you Tim Scurry!
  Ask Robin if I drop bars!
  I take smiles and I leave scars
  Guards in Arkham will admit
  That the Joker just killed IT!
• Pennywise threatens Joker by rapping the plot of an Edgar Allan Poe classic just before that.
  Pennywise: You jester, I'm Montressor, about to make you my Fortunado
  and seal this battle up like it was The Cask of Amontillado.
• Pennywise also gets to change into his clown-spider-hybrid form from It: Chapter Two toward the end of the battle, escalating his flow with aplomb as he does so.
  Pennywise: I spit January ember flames!
  You got beat by the Scooby Gang!
  I'm the John Wayne of John Wayne Gacys,
  The underground Clown Posse, my flow's insane!
  I'm the poster boy for missing-persons posters! Joker's gonna float with me,
  'Cause he just messed with the best wall-eyed rapper since The Notorious B.I.G.!

Thanos vs J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Immediate props to Peter and the crew for nailing his performance as Oppenheimer, from the filter effect making his raps sound like an old broadcast from his time, to his perpetual Thousand-Yard Stare of despair and regret.
  • A comment on the video states they showed the video to Alfred Edwin Khaeler, who worked on the Manhattan Project when he was young and interacted with Oppenheimer himself. He said that Peter's performance was spot-on.
• Thanos gets a few gems in his opening verse:
  Thanos: Got a fist of gold when I'm rappin', six Infinity Gems what I'm packin',
  Stick your tiny nuclear dick back into your pants, Dr. Manhattan!
  Hadron smashing all your atoms, best not collide with me when I'm rhyming
  'Cause you break and bleed so easy, I think I'll call you Oppen-hymen!
• Oppenheimer gets a great Badass Boast for all the chemistry geeks out there:
  Oppenheimer: Meanwhile, I've mastered the atom more than any man alive.
  Now I'm here to split U like 2 and 3 from 5!
• Oppy's second verse may be shorter than most, but the sheer brutality of them more than made up for it.
  Oppenheimer: You wanna talk about Death? How about the one that looked at you and swiped left.
  I'm the destroyer of worlds, you got your nuts handed to you by a Squirrel Girl.
  We're in the Endgame now, Tinky Winky!
  I'll finish this like Ant-Man, all up in your stinky!
  Anyone who believes that "Thanos did nothing wrong" crap
  Has obviously never heard you rap!
  Oh snap.
• The sheer levels of David Versus Goliath in this battle are astounding. The Mad Titan, a Reality Warper who snuffed out half of the life in the universe in cold blood, takes on a mere man, and one who is still reeling from the horrors of his actions at that. And yet despite being a middle-aged, sickly and very obviously traumatized nuclear physicist, Oppenheimer is never intimidated by the massive purple demigod he's facing. Despite Thanos claiming he doesn't have the stones for the battle, it's pretty clear he does. By all accounts, this should have been a massacre. It arguably is... but if the comment section is to be believed, the one being massacred is not who you'd think it would be.
  Oppenheimer: It must leave you enraged, when you compare our talents
  Because in this battle... there is no balance.
  Commenter RoadkillPhil: It took the Avengers two entire movies to obliterate Thanos.
  Oppenheimer didn't even need two minutes.
• The sheer number of Genius Bonus lines in this battle, mostly from Oppenheimer. You need to be very well-read about both Thanos and Oppenheimer to get all of them, since they range from old comic books to nuclear physics to World War 2 to internet memes. They really did their research and it shows.
• Another comment on the video:
  Thanos’s expression through this: “I’m so intense, no one is as cool as me!”
  Oppenheimer’s expression through this: “Why, god, must I destroy yet another soul?”
  • Another comment elaborates further:
  It is not that Thanos didn't have good lines, "you should have gone for the head" and so on. But... Oppenheimer was just the personification of horror. It's like putting a skilled boxer against a nuke, like putting an ant against a black hole. Op looked like a professor addressing an idiot who has no idea what he has just done, controlling himself with all of his might to be as easy on him as possible, yet still nuking him not only without effort but with the effort not to do it.

Donald Trump vs Joe Biden

• Trump comes out swinging:
  Donald Trump: It's the DJT, gettin' it on!
  The Teflon Don on the White House lawn!
  Against wimps like you, I'll win a third term.
  Your campaign's like your family: crash and burn!
  Think looting and violence will keep the MAGA movement quiet?
  (Ha!) Resist me? That's a riot.
  Why don't you step behind the gym? I'll be standing by.
  We'll see how tough you are against the 45!
  • Even managing this rhyme, let alone delivering it so smoothly.
  Donald Trump: I'll shoot a hole through your whole party!
  Bigger than the one I blew through Qasem Soleimani!
  Donald Trump: I've got all the best cognition, with all the top grammar,
  I'm not a little girl's shoulders, so you can't touch this, MC Stammer!
  You're a disaster, inciting hysteria!
  You say I'm selling hate in America, you're selling hatin' America!
  Like with Hillary, the people aren't swayed!
  You're just Barack's shadow, and I don't really like the shade!
• Biden starts his first verse perfectly:
  Joe Biden: The pain of losing loved ones is something I have seen.
  So I know how you must have felt when they killed Jeffrey Epstein!
  Rap lyrics just ain't for you!
  You should stick to love letters for Kim Jong-un!
  You're a wrestling heel! Nothing 'bout you's real!
  Bitch, you didn't even really write The Art of the Deal!
  Joe Biden: No matter what you try to say, global warming ain't cancelled!
  You pulled out of Paris, should've pulled out of Stormy Daniels!
  I ain't sleepy, I'm tired;
  Of you, Donald Trump. You're fired!
• Trump fires back well:
  Donald Trump: The only thing getting fired on my watch is tear gas from law enforcement.
  I'll keep America great, you'll unleash Antifa and keep America like Portland! Sad!
  Ain't nothing gonna beat me! No person, woman, man, camera, TV!
  Meh, they impeached me! I still walked out of DC looking peachy!
  Donald Trump: Maybe teach your son a thing or two about life,
  Like there's no hunting season for your dead brother's wife!
  You and your mask and your Knight Rider shades
  Are getting revoked like you're Roe vs Wade!
  There's no Blue Wave, forget it, not coming!
  It's like I tell criminals, Joe: stop running!
• Biden. Absolutely. Hammering Trump in his last verse. Unlike the previous two battles about US presidential elections, there's no Abraham Lincoln coming in to yell at both candidates; no longer are the candidates seen as "two turds". Biden himself gets the last word and kills it.
  Joe Biden: Was Breonna Taylor running, hmmm? You dog-whistling fool,
  I think your daddy would finally be proud of you: he was a racist asshole, too!
  [scene cuts to two Russian hackers]
  Russian Hacker: Что ты сделал? (What did you do?)
  Joe Biden: What's this malarkey?
  Russian Hacker: Ох ебать! (Oh, fuck!)
  Joe Biden: Keep at it and you'll end up in jail, hoss!
  I'll take you down like I'm you, and you're a mailbox!
  From all your wives to the SATs,
  Everything you ever did, you just had to cheat!
  'Cause you're too insecure to even look like a loser!
  You're the worst damn Republican since Herbert Hoover!
  But you scooped up a sycophantic, homophobe Hoosier,
  And became the Constitution's domestic abuser!
  200,000 deaths^*At the time the rap battle aired, the death toll for the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States was around 200,000. It would reach 400,000 before Biden was sworn in lying at your door,
  And you think they're suckers like McCain and the Marine Corps!
  Sometimes I can't tell for which side you're rootin'!
  When we go high, you go down on Putin!
  Truth is, you're scared to lose!
  You got nothing in the banks 'cept IOU's!
  Y-y-y-y-you whine about ballots like a bitch,
  But the only thing that's rigged is taxes for the rich!
  Look, you're a freeloader, change your name to Tramp!
  My campaign's ramping up, you can't get down a ramp!
  I'm pulling away faster than your wife's hand!
  For the love of democracy, will you shut up, man?

Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker

• Once again, the battle being Built with LEGO allows for some incredible Visual Effects of Awesome as scenes and locales from both series are lovingly recreated, with a multitude of cameos and funny background events that make multiple viewings necessary.
• The attention to detail in cameos is very impressive, taking advantage of the tons of characters from both Star Wars and Harry Potter to portray over 63 distinct, named characters in the background.
• The fact that this is one of the few battles with three verses instead of the usual two. Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker is such a hype showdown that Lloyd and Peter decided to go into overtime.
• Harry starts out with some good lines:
  Harry: Search your feelings, do you sense Deja vu?
  You're getting smoked like your Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru!
  Harry: You're the biggest let-down in your series since Snoke
  Makes sense your father's Vader. All you do is Choke!
  You country bumpkin, you must be dumb!
  Who farms moisture on a desert planet with two suns?!
  Let me stick my plans in your Dusty Bin droid!
  I'll leave you like a Horcrux: split up and destroyed!
• Luke comes out swinging with his first verse by pointing out Harry's own story is like his.
  Luke Skywalker: Your origin story is mostly stolen from me!
  You might be Potter, but Harry, I planted your seed!
  Let's see: little orphan raised by relatives in solitude,
  Suddenly gets taken under wing of funky wizard dude,
  Learns that he's been destined to have powerful gifts,
  But between the two of us I think I got the cooler stick! (Swing it!)
• Harry deflects a particularly scorching line from Luke.
  Luke: Your Dumbledweeb army likes to think that you're the best, all you did was use your Mom as a bulletproof vest!
  Harry: The death of my Mother saved the Wizarding race. Your mum died of heartache when she saw your face!
  • Harry follows that up with one of the most brutal lines in ERB history.
  Harry: At least when I Slytherin a sister, SHE ISN'T MINE!
• Harry winds up dissing Luke's second verse with a harsh burn:
  Harry Potter: But I bet you're just distracted, you got a lot on your plate.
  On one hand the rebellion, on the other hand- oh wait...
• Outside of his raps, Harry repeatedly brutalizes Luke. Early into his first verse he kills Luke with one spell and turns him into a Force Ghost. Later, he has Luke depicted getting crushed in a trash compacter by J.J. Abrams, and finally the Weasleys crash his speeder with their broomsticks.
  • And for his part, dying only seems to annoy Luke.
• While boasting about his defeat of the Empire, Luke tosses Palpatine down the shaft himself, and flies out in his X-Wing as the Death Star explodes behind him.
  Luke: I crushed an empire a galaxy large!
  I blew up the Death Star, you blew up Aunt Marge!
• Earlier, Luke takes out a whole squad of Death Eaters in one go using the force.
  Luke: Death would eat you up without Hermione and luck,
  Because your own skills Wingardium Levio-Suck!
  • Add to this it's Luke doing this with his artificial hand, which would have less of a Force connection.
  • In fact, both Luke and Harry take out the respective evil henchmen from each other's franchises with ease. Luke uses the Force on Death Eaters, and Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy means all the laser blasts miss Harry.
• In the beginning of his second verse, Luke snaps Harry's wand. It's easy to miss, but when Harry pulls his final spell at the end, he's upgraded to the Elder Wand.
• One line from Luke which acts as a Call-Back to three prior battles:
  Luke: I'm a rhyming Jedi, like my father before me!

Season 7

Ragnar Lodbrok vs Richard the Lionheart

• It's unclear if it was deliberate, but Richard references being played by Sean Connery in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with the battle being released on the film's 30th anniversary.
• Richard gets a big burn early on when he talks about how Ragnar's story ended:
  Of course you got avenged by a kid with no bones; your own story ended worse than Game of Thrones!
  Your son killed your ex, your ex killed your wife; I’m the Lion King, man, but that’s a messed-up circle of life!
• Richard ends his first verse boasting about his backing and how easy this battle will be:
  "I'm scared of no foe, I'm backed by the Trinity, I'll conquer you on my day off like you were Sicily!"
• Like the Vikings he inspired, Ragnar shows no fear and goes for deep cuts early on:
  "Threatening to conquer Ragnar is bold, for a king who got whacked by a ten year old; I'll sacrifice you to Odin, while drinking horns of mead, Good thing you hold a Red Cross 'cause that's who you're going to need!"
• He later calls out Richard for basically failing at what he set out to do with some delicious wordplay:
  You took Acre and Jaffa like a piece of cake, But never attacked Jerusalem, for Christ's sake! You saw the Holy Land but couldn't go all the way! We should call it the Crusade of Richard the First Base!
• Richard fights back with some impeccable wordplay and smooth flow:
  Who invented the royal me? We! Who's the predominantly fictional MC? Thee! You're a wannabe, mon ami, kneel down and honor me. Richard coming through in the end like Sean Connery!
  • Doubly awesome when you realize this is a rebuttal to Ragnar's call-out of him not speaking English, as if to say "So what if I don't speak the language of my people? I'm the king, deal with it."
• Undeterred, Ragnar goes all out with some hardened words to ensure Richard does not come out of the battle unscathed:
  Ding Dang Dong, morning bells warn about me at the break of dawn. And I'm putting you to sleep like your brother John! Leaving monks in chunks on Northumbrian lawns 'cause I'm the Allfather's spawn!
  You couldn't even beat a Salad in a fight! (Uh!) You're as soft as Monty Python knights! (Ya!) You went from chainmail to chained up in jail Til Mommy drained England to pay for your bail!
  

Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa

• When Musa brags about being on the Atlas of Catalan, cut to a view of said atlas, with Musa prominently on display.
• Mansa Musa manages to skewer Bezos using Added Alliterative Appeal:
  Mansa Musa: David Pecker picked a pack of your peter pics!
• Bezos's response to Musa's line about his wife taking half his wealth in the divorce:
  Jeff Bezos: What did we give to MacKenzie? 40 billion, so what?
  Earning every penny back only took me a month!
• Bezos finishes by having Alexa chime in.
  Jeff Bezos: Alexa, what do we have that he lacks?
  Alexa: Skills.
• Musa calling out Bezos on his exploitation of workers and other ethically questionable business practices in his first verse:
  Musa: Here's a nugget of advice to get your union problems handled:
  Want workers that won't piss? Hire some camels!
  I expanded horizons, built libraries and mosques
  While you chopped off the top of all the mom-and-pop shops
  All you widened was the gap between the haves and have-nots
  Now they're ordering or living in your cardboard box!

John Wick vs John Rambo vs John McClane

• The very fact this is the first time ever we see a full legnth three-way battle, and between three of the biggest action heroes in all of cinema too!
• John Wick's introduction in his verse is as smooth and slick as his wardrobe.
  Ooh
  I'm gonna need a dinner reservation for two.
• By cutting off Rambo's intro, John Wick becomes the first rapper in the series to block another character from getting the chance to start off the battle.
• Rambo gets his own with a Badass Boast about how he'll happily disregard The High Table's rules and gun down John in the Continental. Considering how much trouble this caused John Wick when he did exactly that, that takes some balls.

  Rambo: Your high Table rules don't apply to this conflict. I'll finish you right in the lobby, mission accomplished!

Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones

• Indy's intro: While still framed in shadows in his title card, he tilts his head to the side just a touch as the announcer says his name. Then he suddenly turns on his feet, pulls out his whip and strikes at the screen with it, emerging from the shadows and starting the fight before the announcer can say "Begin!"
• Indiana Jones quickly realizes that he's not just fighting the OG Lara Croft, as she flawlessly switches between her original video game incarnation, her rebooted form, and the version popularized by Angelina Jolie.
• Lara cleverly bringing up the time The Big Bang Theory's Amy exposed Indy as an Useless Protagonist in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Indiana's second verse is both technically impressive from the get-go, and scathingly points out her violence and lack of consideration for others.
  Indiana: I've been served a full-course meal of chilled Indian voodoo
  And they don't even kill as many animals as you do!
  You're corrupting the youth, they should be outside
  Not trying to unload the barrels on your thighs!
  You might have ditched those pistols, akimbo
  But you're still the same rich back-flipping bimbo!
  A brat with a treasure map to catastrophe
  Stuffing your knapsack with innocent casualties!
  Square Enix didn't want you anymore!
  That's why they dropped you like a J in the floor!'''
• This absolute burn from Lara:
  Lara: You tried alien skulls and chose poorly.
• Meanwhile Indy brings up how she's been overshadowed in popularity by a certain franchise that took inspiration from it.
  Indiana: You took 3D to uncharted territory
  Now you're just in Uncharted's territory
  Overshadowed by Drake like Lil Wayne
  Somebody needs to make a tomb for your whole game!
• Lara ends the battle by referencing the urban legend about "the nude code"; supposedly a vide-game controller code that that would remove her character's clothes in her game. Jones has spent much of the battle slut-shamming her over her outfit and the Third-Person Seductress nature of her game series, and here she is pointing out that much of that reputation is an exaggeration rather something actually in the games themselves. For the cherry on top, she makes a rhyme based on his real name instead of the "adventurer-name" that he picked for himself.
  Lara: 'Cause Junior the baby boomer beating me at rapping? That's like my nude code; never gonna happen.

Henry Ford vs Karl Marx

• The beat itself is one of the series' best, fitting both men's presences and giving way to some amazing wordplay, but what makes it even more impressive is that it's ERB's first beat done in-house. Really goes to show how much Peter, Lloyd, and their crew have grown since the beginning.
• Ford says he'll tear Marxism apart, and he does. First, how leaders who cited him as inspiration, (Mao, Stalin) were dictators with massive body counts, and how Communism could be seen as encouraging laziness.
• Marx then points out Ford's flaws. Hitler cites him by name in Mein Kampf, how Ford's claims to be self-made are nonsense, and his habit of spying on his workers.
  • The dig about Ford's inherited wealth and factory surveillance is especially devastating since Ford dedicated so much of his first verse talking about how he built up a whole industry after getting his start disassembling time pieces and referencing adages like "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" while accusing Marx of inspiring authoritarianism.
    Marx: Your Self-Made Man story's dung from a taurus. Your daddy's two hands gave you a free farm and forest! You were the first of six kids till the seventh killed your mother! Maybe that's why you spied on your workers like Big Brother!
• Marx's intro gets props for his extremely fast yet smooth flow and delivery.

  Marx: "Who's that proud Young Hegelian, heavy drinkin', card carryin', future thinkin', Lincoln letter inkin' proletarian? It's Karl Marx!"

• Marx also condemns Ford for keeping his workers in miserable conditions with low pay and, when they went on strike, having them shot.

  Marx: In truth what you produced were alienated working men! Who would clock in to Detroit and lose themselves like Eminem! And now you Great Lakes state ain't exactly a great sight! You were worse for Michigan than Flint's water pipes!

• Marx's final verse absolutely tears into Ford for trying to brand him as a hypocrite due to being funded by Friedrich Engels' business by digging into his flaws and pointing out he really doesn't seem to have any idea what the Communism he's complaining about even is.

  Marx: Look, dummy. Sharing money is the communist vision. Engel's bank was the crank that got the revolution spinning! We gave everything to see the common people advance, I'm so down with the cause I even pawned my own pants! You grew so out of touch you sabotaged your only kid, Edsel's stomach cancer showed more love than you did, so congrats! Your legacy's in ashes! Remembered as the fascist sympathizing cause of climate change and car crashes! From your newspaper to your Nazi factory cross the pond, frankly Hank it's clear Auschwitz side you were on! This battle's been a blowout, like the hemorrhage in your head, I'll leave a Ford as expected. Found on road, dead.

Godzilla vs King Kong

• Two words: IT EXISTS. The King of Monsters vs the King (of) Kong in ERB.
• The battle is in CG, meaning we get some really impressive shots that could never be done in live-action on a low budget.
• The very impressive mo-cap acting from the two creators. Peter's body language proves to be so distinctive that freaking Godzilla somehow looks exactly like him, while Lloyd devotes himself to giving Kong both a Primal Stance and very cool rapper mannerisms.
• The numerous references to the storied and extensive history of both the Japanese and Western heavyweights of the giant monster genre of film.
• Godzilla manages to fit a haiku syllable pattern into his rap without messing up the flow, so viewers won't even notice it until he points it out at the end of the quatrain:
  Damn, I despise you
  You make weak tokusatsu
  Soft like some tofu
  That's a kaiju haiku!
• Kong managing to fit a diss in sign language into the primarily verbal field of rap battles is an achievement in itself.
  The eighth wonder of the world, and the word when I rhyme
  If you think your mind can compete with mine, Here's your sign!
• During Kong's third verse, he lifts up a giant boulder and throws it at Godzilla. The kaiju doesn't even treat it as a nuisance, slapping the boulder with his tail to send it back to Kong, which bounces off his chest. And Kong isn't fazed as well, as he uproots a whole tree and hurls it so hard that it hits Godzilla in the chest.

Bonus Battles

Deadpool vs Boba Fett

• Deadpool starts off strong by making fun of Boba's limited role:
  Oh, is it me? Well, here's my first issue:
  I barely even know enough about you to diss you!
  But do you guys honestly think that I would screw this feud up
  and lose to the dude a huge toothy coochie chewed up?
• Deadpool rags on Boba for being a clone, but Boba responds by pointing out Deadpool isn't exactly original himself:
  I'll smack a merc in the mouth if he doesn't quit running that lip off.
  Bitch, who you calling clone? You're a Deathstroke rip-off!
  You stole Spider-Man's eyes and Snake Eyes' weapons!
  You got Wolverine's powers, man, you're comic sloppy seconds!
  That Dr. Killbrew dude needs to go back to med school
  'Cause right now, you're no good to me, Deadpool.
• In return, Deadpool makes fun of Boba's ignominious end:
  Presenting the most overrated character anyone ever saw
  with five lines in the trilogy! And one of them was "AAAH!"
• Things really start going into overdrive when the Mooks show up. Deadpool belts this out while smacking around some goons:
  And the coolest things about you got straight-up abandoned!
  You let a kiwi hold your gun and he fucked up your canon!
  So...maybe don't talk about movies, 'cause you've got dick to say.
  Wrap that arm dart around Jar Jar and go far far away!
• And Boba says this while blowing up some rebel soldiers:
  I'm a legend, you're a trend. You ain't got half the skills I got.
  I'll beat your ass with one eye closed: Boba Fetty Wap.
• As a cherry on the sundae, Boba finally closes out the rap with this:
  Everybody knows you got that power of regeneration.
  Now run home and heal from this disintegration.
• Through out his last verse, Boba Fett flips and breakdances. It looks spectacular.

Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg

• Just the fact that this video exists after nearly two years of speculation as to whether or not ERB would be cancelled amidst the rise of drama and creators unable to upload their usual content out of fear of backlash and demonetization. And yet this video proved that Peter and Lloyd Still Got It and are ready to bring the series back.
• Musk starts out with a Badass Boast contrasting his work with Zuckerberg's:
  "I'm making brilliant innovations in a race against the Dark Ages! You provide a place to discover your aunt's kinda racist!"
  • Musk ends his first verse with a similar Badass Boast:
  "I'm Tony Stark with a James Bond sprinkle tossed in, and I've been flossing since you double-crossed the Winklevoss twins!"
• Zuckerberg fires at Musk for smoking a joint during a podcast with Joe Rogan. The Tesla CEO remains unfazed however, firing back by claiming:
  "Dope smoking with Joe Rogan don't slow-motion my pace, man! When I'm conquering MySpace, it's actual space, man!"
• Musk flies into outer space via rockets in his shoes while continuing to rap. Specifically about his project of colonizing Mars.
  "I got a loan from the White House. Boom! Sent that shit straight to moon! Now I'm taking mankind to Mars, but for your kind, man, I ain't got room!
• Musk ends his second verse with this brilliant calling-out:
  "I'm destined to rep Earth; you sold us out for some net worth! Your site's got so many Russian bots, they should call it the Social Nyet-work!"
• Like him or not, you can't deny that Zuckerberg had a lot of great wordplay in his raps, including this barb against Musk's shady family history:
  "I've been looking up your family; It gets dark my god! Couldn't clean your daddy's laundry with Apar-Tide-pods!"
• This is later followed up by a Badass Boast about his one ultra-successful company compared to Musk's many but lesser known ones:
  "You got all these companies but they're incomplete! I've got one, and I fold money: income, pleat!"
• He then finishes it off with has a killer line referring to Paypal.
  "Get your self-driving truck to haul your ass home, 'cause this battle's like Paypal: YOU GOT OWNED!".

Flash-in-the-Pan Hip-Hop Conflicts of Nowadays

Pew Die Pie vs. T-Series

• Despite the fact that they're not taking this battle as seriously as they do their actual ERB videos, both parties still drop some pretty good lines.
• This line from Pewds is great, especially to those that dislike how big companies seem to be gaining traction on YouTube and overshadowing content creators.
  "You sucked the soul from YouTube; paid to make it big
  You're like the McDonald's of videos without the McRib
  Your Bollywood budget can't handle this!
  Make better content than you from my room at my standing desk!"
• Controversial or not, this Badass Boast from T-Series in particular is notable.
  "I started on cassettes, now I'm making movie deals,
  while you're screaming like an autistic demon playing Happy Wheels!
  And I would bet that those two dudes on Fiverr
  have a better education than most of your subscribers!"
• In return, Pewds drops this line calling out T-Series's own repetitive content after.
  "Ten vids a week with the same sounding beat,
  and the same eighty dudes dancin' barefoot in the streets!
  See, your content's always shit, no matter how shiny!
  Stick to makin' trailers since you'll always be behind me!"

Unreleased

Henry VIII vs Hillary Clinton

• While this video was never released as an official video, ERB choosing to allow people to see a piece of their history is awesome in a different way.
• Hillary gets some decent lines in her first verse:
  "You make more false accusations than whitewater. It's not your wives fault your balls keep making daughters."
• This segment:
  Hillary: "You couldn't even handle the goods that I'm selling!
  I'm more powerful than Oprah"
  Henry: "And more handsome than Ellen"
  Hillary: "Don't you interrupt me you Chauvinist prick! You put the needs of your Country behind the whims of your dick! "
  Hillary proceeds to snip the top off of a Cigar, causing Henry and Bill Clinton to wince heavily

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