Funny / Checkmate, Lincolnites!

• "Checkmate Lincolnites" involves Johnny Reb directly quoting Confederate apologists in YouTube comment sections. One comment is so incoherent that Johnny has to get drunk on spiked coffee before he can properly say it.
• The Witchfinder General exorcising Klaus the Nazi from Johnny Reb, complete with Lord of the Rings references.
• Johnny Reb prays to God for help debating Billy Yank. God appears with Obi-Wan Kenobi's face and greets him with a "Hello there." He also tells Johnny that Christmas is an evil pagan holiday and Catholics and Quakers are Devil-worshipers who should be killed.
• In "Did The Confederacy Have Better Generals?", Billy Yank introduces Grant by reciting one of his demands for unconditional surrender with a distorted, deep demonic voice as Johnny Reb cowers in terror.
• In the same video, Johnny tries to change the subject.
  Johnny: I propose we switch our focus to the Western theater.
  Billy: [visibly winces] You sure you want to do that Johnny?
• Johnny mocks Ulysses S. Grant for being a drunk on a show where two hosts played by the same man put away entire bottles of strong booze every episode, right as Billy pours them both a drink.
• After Johnny makes a particularly bad argument, that the South was paying a ridiculously high percentage of the country's taxes, Billy is briefly struck dumb, and eventually tells him "If you dropped an atomic bomb on the truth, what you just said wouldn't even get radiation burns."
• "Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!" concludes with Billy Yank asking Johnny Reb to finish the episode with one of his quirky comments so it doesn't end on a total downer. After some humble, light-hearted hesitation, Johnny suddenly explodes into an unhinged New Era Speech that leaves Billy flabbergasted.
• Every episode usually begins with Johnny Reb, after appearing to get the initial upper hand on a debate with Billy Yank, triumphantly shouting "CHECKMATE, LINCONITES!" as a bombastic version of "Dixie" begins to play in the background. He will then stare directly at the camera for several seconds with a way-too-wide smile while Billy Yank either protests or just looks annoyed. This is parodied in "Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!" where the opposite happens and it's Billy Yank who gets the upper hand in an exchange, leading to him, clearly at a loss at what to do, to say "Checkmate... Davisites?" in an awkward way and then an equally bombastic version of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays.
• "Wasn't it KINDA About STATES' RIGHTS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
  • In the usual part where Johnny Reb bases his viewpoints on YouTube comments, one of them is a dissertation on states' rights, as per the episode's theme... that suddenly ends with "also, I must ask, are you an anarcho-syndicalist?" The non-sequitur clearly leaves Billy Yank confused, who says that, since he doesn't know what that means, he guesses that no, he isn't.
  • Johnny and Billy discussing Shays' Rebellion.
    Johnny: Sounds like a bunch of trouble-making freeloaders looking for a handout!
    Billy: They were white.
    Johnny: Brave rebels! The tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of patriots!
  • Johnny Reb's horror at hearing Andrew Jackson talking about slavery, Native American displacement, and deploying authoritarian measures to suppress criticisms of both of the above in explicitly ethno-nationalist terms.
  • The chain of events after discussing the Confederacy's abandonment of states' rights in favor of authoritarianism:
    • Thomas Jefferson rolls over in his grave at Monticello so violently that not only Billy and Johnny feel it in Louisiana, but they later see in a newscast that it causes an earthquake that pretty much obliterates Monticello and its surroundings in Virginia.
    • Johnny gets a call and is disgusted because it's a 202 area code (Washington DC).
    • Said call is from Joe Biden, who asks Billy Yank to try to not make any similar discussions, lest they cause any similar incidents somewhere else, like Mount Vernon.^note George Washington's home Billy then tries asking Biden if there has been any progress regarding the suggestion about reparations for African-Americans he made during his Presidential campaign, but Biden only responds with silence and deep breathing for close to a minute before hanging up.
• "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!"
  • Billy lampshades Johnny switching between completely insane and totally reasonable at the drop of a hat, saying it really weirds him out.
  • Billy provides Johnny with a whole duffel bag full of racist, pro-slavery quotes from Confederate soldiers. Johnny uses Last-Second Word Swap to avoid using the n-word as he reads some.
    Johnny (quoting real Confederate diaries): I will show the Yankees that a white man is better than a n- Ahhh, that's a bad word [...] I love home and all that surrounds it as much as anybody, but if I have to be equal to a n- Nope! Nope nope nope nope!
  • While the ending is overall pretty chilling, the fact that Stonewall Jackson and his severed arm have separate graves is worth a chuckle or two.
  • The fact that zombie Jefferson Davis is played as a Campy Cold Ham.

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