History Memes / ExtraCredits

* "Why let X get in the way of a good crusade?" (X being a reason not to go on Crusade.)

* "Because what this story [[note]]the series on Vlad the Impaler aka Vlad Dracula[[/note]] needs is another Vlad."

* "Because what this story [[note]]the series on Vlad the Impaler aka Vlad Dracula[[note]] needs is another Vlad.

* "But first...a SIDE TRIP!"[[note]]The ''Extra History'' series on Ibn Battuta had him constantly getting distracted from his main goal by going to other places, every time punctuated with this line.[[/note]]

* "But first...a SIDE TRIP!"[[note]]The ''Extra History'' series on Ibn Battuta had him constantly getting distracted from his main goal by going to other places, every time punctuated with this line.[[/note]]
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* "There you are, playing your ''X''. When all of a sudden, you're a ''Y''. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[note:]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material for how silly of an argument people saw it.

* "There you are, playing your ''X''. When all of a sudden, you're a ''Y''. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material for how silly of an argument people saw it.

* "There you are, playing your ''X''. When all of a sudden, you're a ''Y''. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material for how silly of an argument people saw it.[[/note]]

* "There you are, playing your ''X''. When all of a sudden, you're a ''Y''. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material.

* "There you are, playing your ''X''. When all of a sudden, you're a ''Y''. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material.[[/labelnote]]

* From the Danelaw video: [[LargeHamAnnouncer "And oh hey what up y'all it's GUTHRUM!" ]] when danish king Guthrum barges in on the Anglo-Saxons at a Twelfth Night feast, after being presumed gotten rid of.

* "There you are, playing your X. When all of a sudden, you're a Y. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material.[[/labelnote]]

** "There you are, playing your X. When all of a sudden, you're a Y. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this."[[labelnote:*]]Taken from the infamous "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video, and frequently used as snark material.[[/labelnote]]

* From the Danelaw video: [[IncomingHam "And oh hey what up y'all it's GUTHRUM!" ]] when danish king Guthrum barges in on the Anglo-Saxons at a Twelfth Night feast, after being presumed gotten rid of.

* "Why let X get in the way of a good crusade?"

* Joan of Arc's "[[AttackAttackAttack GET 'EM!]]"

* From the Danelaw video: [[IncomingHam"And oh hey what up y'all it's GUTHRUM!" ]]

* In a similar vein, "Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck ''always'' had a plan." [[note]] Otto Van Bismarck was a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] almost on par with Walpole, and among other things, predicted that WW1 would spark off 'some damned foolish thing in the Balkans' and his prediction of when was only off by four months.[[/note]]

* In a similar vein, "Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck ''always'' had a plan." [[note]] Otto Van Bismarck was a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] almost on par with Walpole, and among other things, predicted that it would spark off 'some damned foolish thing in the Balkans' and his prediction of when was only off by four months.[[/note]]

* "It was Walpole." [[note]] The ''Extra History'' series on the South Sea Bubble made it sound like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole Robert Walpole]] was secretly pulling strings behind ''everything'' in the world at his time (which actually [[TheChessmaster wasn't that far from the truth]]).[[/note]] Later episodes of Extra Credits often feature Walpole in TheCameo role. And when something just miraculously goes the way someone wants it to, such as Belisarius's conquering of Rome, a picture of Walpole often shows up.
* In a similar vein, "Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck ''always'' had a plan." [[note]] Otto Van Bismarck was a [[TheChessmaster]] almost on par with Walpole, and among other things, predicted that it would spark off 'some damned foolish thing in the Balkans' and his prediction of when was only off by four months.

* In a similar vein, "Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck ''always'' had a plan."[[note]] Otto Van Bismarck was a [[TheChessmaster]] almost on par with Walpole, and among other things, predicted that it would spark off 'some damned foolish thing in the Balkans' and his prediction of when was only off by four months.

* "Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck ''always'' had a plan."
* From the Danelaw video: "And oh hey what up y'all it's GUTHRUM!"

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[[caption-width-right:350:It was ''always'' Walpole.]]
* "It was Walpole." [[note]] The ''Extra History'' series on the South Sea Bubble made it sound like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole Robert Walpole]] was secretly pulling strings behind ''everything'' in the world at his time (which actually [[TheChessmaster wasn't that far from the truth]]).[[/note]] Later episodes of Extra Credits often feature Walpole in TheCameo role. And when something just miraculously goes the way someone wants it to, such as Belisarius's conquering of Rome, a picture of Walpole often shows up.

[[caption-width-right:350:It was ''always'' walpole]]

"It was Walpole." [[note]] The ''Extra History'' series on the South Sea Bubble made it sound like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole Robert Walpole]] was secretly pulling strings behind ''everything'' in the world at his time (which actually [[TheChessmaster wasn't that far from the truth]]).[[/note]] Later episodes of Extra Credits often feature Walpole in TheCameo role. And when something just miraculously goes the way someone wants it to, such as Belisarius's conquering of Rome, a picture of Walpole often shows up.

* "It was Walpole." [[note]] The ''Extra History'' series on the South Sea Bubble made it sound like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole Robert Walpole]] was secretly pulling strings behind ''everything'' in the world at his time (which actually [[TheChessmaster wasn't that far from the truth]]).[[/note]] Later episodes of Extra Credits often feature Walpole in TheCameo role. And when something just miraculously goes the way someone wants it to, such as Belisarius's conquering of Rome, a picture of Walpole often shows up.