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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Obviously of course. For instance, the show places West Virginia as part of the Confederacy when it actually part of the Union. It was made ''specifically'' to join the Union.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Obviously of course. To be expected. For instance, the show places depicts West Virginia as part of the Confederacy Confederacy, when it actually part of in reality they split away from Virginia specifically because they wanted to stay loyal to the Union. It was made ''specifically'' to join the Union. Union.
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* NamesTheSame: George Wallace the segregationist White politician is played by George Wallace the Black comedian.
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Wanda Sykes is [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18257758/ playing an action packed version of Harriet Tubman]].
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Wanda Sykes is [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18257758/ playing an action packed version of Harriet Tubman]]. For that matter, comedian George Wallace has spent decades making jokes about racist governor George Wallace.
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** Shirley Chisholm earns a sitcom on her life.
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** The story of 1970s politician Shirley Chisholm earns Chisolm is filmed like a stereotypical 1970s sitcom on her life.called ''Shirley!'', complete with studio audience.
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* AllForNothing: Shirley Chisholm flies to Washington D.C. [[TwoTimerDate to attend both the rallies hosted by Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson]] to get their endorsement and thus secure the women's (i.e: feminist) and African American vote, respectively. In the end, the refuse their endorsement because they feel that the United States is not ready to embrace the idea of a woman president, especially if she's Black.
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* AllForNothing: Shirley Chisholm flies to Washington D.C. [[TwoTimerDate to attend both the rallies hosted by Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson]] to get their endorsement and thus secure the women's (i.e: feminist) and African American vote, respectively. In the end, the refuse their endorsement because they feel that the United States is not ready to embrace the idea of a woman president, especially if she's Black.Black, or vice versa.
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In the eight-part, four night event series, Brooks, Sykes, Kroll, and Barinholtz will be joined by an all-star cast to tell the events in human history Brooks skipped over the first time around. Audiences can expect to discover the stories of Noah, Harriet Tubman, Sigmund Freud, Princess Anastasia, the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas Iscariot, and even a glimpse into the future with the long-awaited '''JEWS! IN! SPACE!''' - all with Brooks’ signature irreverence.
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In the eight-part, four night four-night event series, Brooks, Sykes, Kroll, and Barinholtz will be joined by an all-star cast to tell the events in human history Brooks skipped over the first time around. Audiences can expect to discover the stories of Noah, Harriet Tubman, Sigmund Freud, Princess Anastasia, the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas Iscariot, and even a glimpse into the future with the long-awaited '''JEWS! IN! SPACE!''' - all with Brooks’ signature irreverence.
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* AllForNothing: Shirley Chisholm flies to Washington D.C. [[TwoTimerDate to attend both the rallies hosted by Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson]] to get their endorsement and thus secure the women's (i.e: feminist) and African American vote, respectively. In the end, the refuse their endorsement because they feel that the United States is not ready to embrace the idea of a woman president, especially if she's Black.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Anastasia and Joshy fall for each other as soon as they meet and get engaged a short time later (for Joshy, it's LoveBeforeFirstSight, as he's clearly interested in her when he sees a picture of her in the newspaper). She eventually decides to leave Russia and emigrate with Joshy's family to America.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Anastasia and Joshy fall for each other as soon as they meet and get engaged a short time later (for Joshy, it's LoveBeforeFirstSight, as he's clearly interested in her when he sees a picture of her in the newspaper). She eventually decides to leave Russia and emigrate with Johy's family to America.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[MeaningfulName Schmuck Mudman]] and his son Josshy look nothing alike, as the former is a frumpy looking man while the latter is TallDarkAndHandsome, with Schmuck even making a comment early on that he had trouble finding Fanny, his wife, on their wedding night. When Schuck, Joshy, and Anastasia climb aboard the train that would get them out of the Soviet Union, Fanny stays behind to make sure it doesn't become a dictatorship under Joseph Stalin. When Schuck tells her that their son still needs her, Fanny flat out confesses that Joshy is not his real son by telling Schmuck they look nothing alike, pointing out Joshy'sfamily to America.good looks.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[MeaningfulName Schmuck Mudman]] and his son Josshy look nothing alike, as the former is a frumpy looking man while the latter is TallDarkAndHandsome, with Schmuck even making a comment early on that he had trouble finding Fanny, his wife, on their wedding night. When Schuck, Joshy, and Anastasia climb aboard the train that would get them out of the Soviet Union, Fanny stays behind to make sure it doesn't become a dictatorship under Joseph Stalin. When Schuck tells her that their son still needs her, Fanny flat out confesses that Joshy is not his real son by telling Schmuck they look nothing alike, pointing out Joshy's
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* TyphoidMary: Shows up in number of sketches where she hosts [[AnachronismStew a live stream]] showing her audience how to cook traditional Irish dishes, and it starts relatively well with the audience complementing her via [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent the text chat on the side of the screen]]. She soon starts [[GassHole farting]] and [[PottyEmergency runs off to the bathroom]], not washing her hands when she goes back to the food preparation, which causes the audience to get grossed out and log out, to the point the viewer number counts down to zero and the live stream is cut off.
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* ChekhovsHobby: The three Union soldiers sent to rescue General Grant and Robert Todd all have some sort of artistic talent, which is established in their first scene: Henry and Mason both play the bugle, while Mingos does observational comedy. They put this into use in order to distract the townspeople, first by Mingos doing a standup routine, and then Henry and Mason pretending to be a band coming to perform in town. It's a surprisingly effective plan and would've worked had they not accidentally revealed themselves as Union soldiers.
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** The sketch detailing Jesus and Mary Magdalene's brief romance is a pastiche of ''Film/TheNotebook'', with a requisite romantic TheBigDamnKiss scene in the rain and FramingDevice of an older Mary telling the story.
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* YokoOhNo: Mary Magdalene is portrayed as being one in the Last Jam Session sketches, with her constantly hanging around the Apostles in their recording studio due to being Jesus' girlfriend even though she's not a part of the band and clearly being a bad influence for him.
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* ColorblindCasting: Parodied. The voiceover narration makes a point of noting that White politician George Wallace is being played by Black comedian Creator/GeorgeWallace.
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* NamesTheSame: George Wallace the racist White politician is played by George Wallace the Black comedian.
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* NamesTheSame: George Wallace the racist segregationist White politician is played by George Wallace the Black comedian.
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--> '''Kissinger:''' Your mother reminds me of a charming woman I once knew in Transylvania in 1403.
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--> '''Kissinger:''' Your mother reminds me of a charming woman I once knew in Transylvania in 1403.
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* NamesTheSame: George Wallace the racist White politician is played by George Wallace the Black comedian.
* RhymesOnADime: Jesse Jackson's dialogue is entirely in rhyming couplets.
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* SelfDeprecation: The teaser ends with Judas commenting that if this (meaning the show, in context) was on [[Creator/{{Netflix}} Net-Fish]], he would cancel his subscription.
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* SelfDeprecation: SelfDeprecation:
** The teaser ends with Judas commenting that if this (meaning the show, in context) was on [[Creator/{{Netflix}} Net-Fish]], he would cancel his subscription.
** The teaser ends with Judas commenting that if this (meaning the show, in context) was on [[Creator/{{Netflix}} Net-Fish]], he would cancel his subscription.
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* TwoTimerDate: At the Watergate Hotel, Shirley Chisolm tries to gain the support of feminists and Blacks (in two separate ballrooms), all while her husband is waiting for her back in the suite.
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* SchizoTech: Anastasia using a hand-cranked camera to make Website/TikTok tutorials, Cavewomen using a Bic lighter to make fire, the Underground Railroad as a subway...
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* SchizoTech: SchizoTech:
** Anastasia using a hand-cranked camera to make Website/TikToktutorials, tutorials.
** Cavewomen using a Bic lighter to makefire, the fire.
** The Underground Railroad as a subway...
** Anastasia using a hand-cranked camera to make Website/TikTok
** Cavewomen using a Bic lighter to make
** The Underground Railroad as a subway...
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* SelfPlagiarism: Schmuck Mudman panics when he ends up in the middle of his wife's legs as she rants - and it doesn't try to hide how it's recycling from ''Film/TheProducers'' once he goes "I'm hysterical! *slapped* I'm in pain, and I'm still hysterical!"
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* SelfPlagiarism: Schmuck Mudman panics when he ends up in the middle of his wife's legs as she rants - -- and it doesn't try to hide how it's recycling from ''Film/TheProducers'' once he goes "I'm hysterical! *slapped* I'm in pain, and I'm still hysterical!"hysterical!"
* StealthPun: Subverted. There's an old joke that, at the surrender at Appomattox, Lee wore his full uniform while Grant was in his "union suit"[[note]]literally referring to one-piece, full-body underwear[[/note]]. In the Civil War sketches, Grant spends a significant amount of time in his underwear, but by the time the surrender scene comes along, he has acquired a full uniform.
* StealthPun: Subverted. There's an old joke that, at the surrender at Appomattox, Lee wore his full uniform while Grant was in his "union suit"[[note]]literally referring to one-piece, full-body underwear[[/note]]. In the Civil War sketches, Grant spends a significant amount of time in his underwear, but by the time the surrender scene comes along, he has acquired a full uniform.
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* RunningGag: Whenever the town Rock Ridge, Weat Virginia gets brought up in the Civil War sketches, someone will hastily clarify that they didn't mean [[Film/BlazingSaddles that one]].
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* RunningGag: Whenever the town Rock Ridge, Weat West Virginia gets brought up in the Civil War sketches, someone will hastily clarify that they didn't mean [[Film/BlazingSaddles that one]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Obviously of course. For instance, the show places West Virginia as part of the Confederacy when it actually part of the Union. It was made ''specifically'' to join the Union.
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* DidAnastasiaSurvive: Creator/DoveCameron plays an Anastasia who escapes the Bolsheviks.
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* DidAnastasiaSurvive: Creator/DoveCameron plays an Anastasia who escapes the Bolsheviks.Bolsheviks, finds a Jewish boyfriend while in hiding and flees Russia.
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* DidAnastasiaSurvive: Creator/DoveCameron plays an Anastasia who escapes the Bolsheviks.
** Shirley Chisholm earns a sitcom on her life.
* IWantSong: Sung by Usefulnotes/JosefStalin (played by Creator/JackBlack), who is a NoRespectGuy among the Bolsheviks.
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* NoahsStoryArc: As seen in the teaser, Noah’s Ark will be touched upon. Noah can be seen in a quick shot where he sticks his head out of the ark while holding two pug dogs.
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* NoahsStoryArc: As seen in the teaser, Noah’s Ark will be touched upon. Noah can be seen in a quick shot where he sticks his head out of here decides that the ark while holding two pug dogs.only animal he'll bring to the Ark are puppies.
* VulgarHumor: Many times, such as the segment with a Kama Sutra that also lists soups to consume after sex, or the Bolsheviks coming up with propaganda posters that end up reminiscent of menstruation.
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* YourMom: In the teaser, someone uses the Your Mom line on Alexander Graham Bell in a prank call. He is convinced easily once he confirms her last name as Bell.
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* YourMom: In the teaser, someone uses the Your Mom line on Alexander Graham Bell in Bell's call to John Watson ends up with Watson turning it into a prank call.call pretending to be Bell's mother. He is convinced easily once he confirms her last name as Bell.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Harriet Tubman comes to save Grant, Robert Todd, and the three Union soldiers from getting hanged at the last minute.
* InTheStyleOf:
** The sketch on Judas' betrayal of Jesus is done in the style of ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', complete with an Creator/{{HBO}}-like title card and the show's famous theme playing.
** A recurring sketch is a ''Series/{{Jackass}}''-style skit with the actual ''Jackass'' crew trying to kill Rasputin, played by Creator/JohnnyKnoxville.
** A reality show for Kublai Khan's concubines is an obvious parody of ''Series/TheRealHousewives''.
** The sketch on Judas' betrayal of Jesus is done in the style of ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', complete with an Creator/{{HBO}}-like title card and the show's famous theme playing.
** A recurring sketch is a ''Series/{{Jackass}}''-style skit with the actual ''Jackass'' crew trying to kill Rasputin, played by Creator/JohnnyKnoxville.
** A reality show for Kublai Khan's concubines is an obvious parody of ''Series/TheRealHousewives''.
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* RaceLift: In-universe. Jesus is seen in the teaser portrayed as black, but later on, an early church leader not-so-subtly suggests that He be depicted as white.
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* RaceLift: In-universe. Both Jesus is seen in the teaser and Mary Magdalene are portrayed as being black, but later on, an early church leader not-so-subtly suggests a group of bishops ask that He he be depicted as white.made white to be more "palatable" to audience.
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* RunningGag: Whenever the town Rock Ridge, Weat Virginia gets brought up in the Civil War sketches, someone will hastily clarify that they didn't mean [[Film/BlazingSaddles that one]].
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** Galileo also uses [=TikTok=] (called "[=TicciTocci=]") to spread his scientific ideas. His theory on the Earth revolving around the sun ends up getting him jailed.
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** One of the things the townspeople in Rock Ridge ([[Film/BlazingSaddles no, not that one]]) claim to hate are classic films being turned into television series.
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* AnachronismStew: Of course. For instance, Princess Anastasia is a digital influencer in the 1910s.
* CandidCameraPrank: The Marco Polo segment has Kublai Khan reveal he was being pranked on ''[[Series/PunkD Khan'D]]'', albeit the cameras are artists drawing Marco Polo's face.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In the trailer, Shakespeare balks at the idea of a play where [[TheMusical people sing their feelings]].
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* GhostWriter: The segment on Shakespeare references the "Anti-Statfordian" movement by showing Shakespeare as only the showrunner of a roomful of writers who are told to write plays under his name.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn:In During the trailer, Shakespeare segment, he balks at the idea of a play where [[TheMusical people sing their feelings]].
* ItWillNeverCatchOn:
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--> Kissinger: Your mother reminds me of a charming woman I once knew in Transylvania in 1403.
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--> Kissinger: '''Kissinger:''' Your mother reminds me of a charming woman I once knew in Transylvania in 1403.
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* UglyGuyHotWife/UglyGuyCuteDaughter: Czar Nicholas II is the least attractive out of his family.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The cavewomen realize they're in a show while smoking pot with the fire they just discovered.
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* RealTrailerFakeMovie: Like the movie that proceeded it, the last episode ends on a trailer for "History of the World Part II Season II".
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In a Mel Brooks film? Surely you can't be serious.
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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Nixon goes on about how the presidency makes him, "The emperor of the universe!" Kissinger "quickly" reminds him to not give that away.
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* TheAlcoholic: Gen. Grant, to the point where Lincoln issues an order to the entire Union Army: Do not serve grant any alcohol until the war is won.
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