Funny / OverSimplified - The Russian Revolution

• Most of the noblemen are designed like Mr. Monopoly.
• While Alexander II is out touring directly before his assassination attempt, he has this to say:
  "See, the people love me. They're throwing flowers, confetti... AND HIGH-GRADE EXPLOSIVES?!"
• Lenin's Establishing Character Moment is him viciously insulting another man for daring to say that Bedtime Bear is a better Care Bear than Tenderheart Bear.
• The student protest that Lenin participated in shows the mob carrying signs with: angry faces, a picture of Nicholas II captioned "Doofus", proclamations that "Tenderheart is better", and "This sign is heavy".
• This conversation after Lenin is sent to exile in Siberia:
  Russian Soldier: Enjoy exile where you'll live with your wife, chill around town, and secretly write Socialist papers.
  Lenin: Hey, that doesn't sound so bad.
  Russian Soldier: And your mother-in-law's coming to live with you...
  Lenin: NOOOOO!
• The thing that caused the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks to split up was a heated debate over whether or not cereal is a soup.
• At one point in the video, a little image montage of the modern idea of communism is shown, featuring abandoned buildings, free healthcare, people screaming, and Bernie Sanders shooting Elon Musk with laser beams.
• After the Russian economy finally begins to get better, a few nobles remark that all Nicholas has to do is sit back and not do anything stupid. Cue Nicholas introducing them to Rasputin. The nobles immediately know that they're screwed.
• The description for what Rasputin did at parties were so obscene, the video literally has demonetization symbols plastered everywhere, even on things that didn't even have anything dirty in them. The Cluster Bleep-Bomb makes this even funnier. The ending seals it:
  Narration: And nobody knew how the goat got on the roof.
  • The headlines on the tabloid magazine:
    EXCLUSIVE Rasputin's wild romp
    Spaghetti Jeff pregnant??
    Naughty Nick's hot tattoo
    How DID the goat get on the roof??
• Everything involving the assassination of Rasputin, starting with:
  Nobleman: Rasputin is destroying the country. We have to break his magic spell over the Tsar!
  Another Nobleman: But how? He's magic!
  Nobleman: Hmmm...
  (Cut to Rasputin walking down an alley and spotting a sign marked "HEY RASPUTIN, BIG SEXY PARTY DOWN HERE")
  Rasputin: Dude... VERY COOL!
  • Then after eating an entire table (and this does mean the entire table, plates, glasses, and lit candle included) of totally not poisoned cakes, the nobles, attributing this feat to the magic, decide that the best way to deal with such a being is to just shoot him; cue him coming back to life and floating around with a ghastly face while the terrified noblemen try and shoot him.
    • And then they throw him in a river. They take the sight of ghosts flying out as a sign that Rasputin is finally dead.
• To appease the Mensheviks, Lenin asks Stalin to make his next heist quiet. Gilligan Cut to Stalin and his gang bursting onto a crowded street wearing bandanas and firing two machine guns each.
  Stalin: If this isn't quiet, I don't know what is.
• Lenin's death is played exactly how it was in the Cold War video. He requests that the man in charge of giving people jobs not let Stalin become leader, whereupon he learns that Stalin is, in fact, the man in charge of giving people jobs. Lenin promptly dies.
  Minister: Whoa. Deja vu.
  • A similar trick is used for the scene where the Germans recruit Lenin to cause trouble, although with... different results.
    German Commander: Who wants to start a rebublution! I mean a- rebublu- revoluti- DANG IT!
• The video has no shame in making fun of Alexei's hemophilia.
  Narrator: As far as royals go, [Tzar Nicholas II and his wife] weren't THAT inbred, but they were just inbred enough for their son Alexei to get hemophilia, or in layman's terms... (Alexei starts leaking blood in several locations) "Mama mia! That's a lot of blood!"
  • Later, when the question arises of who will replace Nicholas now that he'd been forced to abdicate:
    Nicholas: (approaches Alexei) Hey buddy... Daddy couldn't handle the complex socio-economic problems of a giant multinational, multi-ethnic empire that's engaged with total war with all of Europe. You think you could give it a shot?
    Alexei: (Beat before he begins spewing blood all over the place)
• Pyotr Stolypin's great plan to avoid other uprisings.
  Stolypin: Step one, reform agriculture. This will make the peasants love you.
  Nicholas: And step two?
  Stolypin: Uhh... we'll kill anyone who doesn't.
• The video illustrates Stalin's lack of charisma by having him respond "you too" when a waiter says to enjoy his meal.
• The visual depiction of Lenin having "wall-to-wall strokes" is played entirely for laughs, with him just slamming face-first into the floor then standing upright as if nothing had happened... four times in the space of two seconds. Even his initial stroke has him react in the most realistic way possible.
  Lenin: ...Get the doctor.
• Lenin's assassination attempt as depicted by Oversimplified:
  Fanny Kaplan: Hey Lenin, are you setting up a dictatorship? I'll shoot you if you are!
  Lenin: Of course not! What a crazy theory. Anyway, I'm please to announce I'm setting up a secret police force to repress and kill traitors. And by traitors, I of course mean anyone not loyal to me.
  Fanny Kaplan: (shoots Lenin multiple times)
  Lenin: OWIE OWIE OWIE OWIE OWIE OWIE!

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