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  • Continuity Lock-Out: Duncan tries to make sure every season is as accessible as possible but this becomes gradually inevitable in many of the later seasons where much of the topics being discussed tie back to or are building off of revolutions covered in previous seasons.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: Polignac's lethargic response to the ongoing July Revolution, blithely certain that God was on his side and therefore he didn't actually have to do anything, reached its hilarious nadir when he petulantly told another minister trying to inform the king of how bad the situation actually was that he could try to get there first, leading both old men to try to outrun one another to their carriages, then to literally race their carriages across the revolution-torn city trying to make their report to Charles X before the other.
  • Growing the Beard: Many, including Duncan himself, consider the season covering the French Revolution to be where the show found its stride by eschewing the previous 12-15 episode self-imposed limit Duncan originally put himself as there was simply too much information to go over. It wouldn't be until the Russian Revolution(s) season that the French Revolution's record of 55 episodes would be surpassed.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In a case of extremely unfortunate timing, the tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" detailing the conflict between the Central Powers, Ukrainian nationalists, the Bolsheviks, the Whites, and the Anarchists in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War came out the same week as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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