Funny / OverSimplified - The War of the Bucket

• The Running Gag of how obsessed the Bolognese are with the bucket. It begins with them declaring it the best part of the city, then running the Bishop of Freising out of Bologna for stating it's merely an ordinary bucket, then they elect it mayor, and the next time we cut to them, they've formed a Cargo Cult around it and are worshipping the Bucket!
• There's something darkly humorous about Pope Clement I becoming the patron saint of fishermen, considering that he was killed by being thrown into the ocean with an anchor around his neck. Made even funnier by how the video depicts his canonization: by having some fishermen hook him on a line, and the Pope hilariously flopping about.
• OverSimplified discussing how noblewomen would control the popes through...ahem, "feminine charms".
  OverSimplified: It was around here that one infamous pope, John XII, took office. This bad boy would hold...how should I put this? "Naughty no-clothes parties" in the Lateran Palace.
• Pope John XII's death. After getting caught having an affair with a married woman, the woman's angry husband picked the pope up and chucked him out the window, resulting in a fiery explosion.
• A royal advisor reading a bedtime story to the Holy Roman Emperor about how he can invest his own bishops and abbots.
  Advisor: Now it's time to turn off the lights, and go to sleep.
  Emperor: Okay. I love you.
  Advisor: Uhhh, okay. Goodnight.
  Emperor: Say it back.
• The Pope's furious reaction to the Holy Roman Emperor investing his own clergymen.
  Pope: Wait a minute, this is depravity! The purpose of the church isn't for him to increase his own authority and power, it's for me to increase my own authority and power!
  Cardinal: What about Jesus, Your Holiness?
  Pope: What?
  Cardinal: I thought the purpose of the church was to spread the good message of Jesus Christ.
  Pope:....How drunk are you?
  Cardinal: Very!
• Henry IV and his unfortunate pants-wetting problem.
• King Henry IV and the Pope trying and failing to depose each other. Extended for one hour here.
  OverSimplified: The whole conflict escalated when Henry IV went to the pope and said:
  Henry IV: Hey! Guess what, sucker. You're deposed!
  Pope: Awww. Wait a minute! I'm the pope! You can't depose me, you're deposed!
  Henry IV: Aww. Wait a minute! I'm the emperor! You can't depose me, you're deposed!
  Pope: Aww. Wait a minute!
  Narrator: Eventually, the German princes took advantage of the situation...
• The narrator makes note of the rather hilarious, trivial conflicts between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs.
  Ghibelline Man: My love, I can't bear it! We must be together, but how can we? My Ghibelline family wears feathers on the left side of their caps, and your Guelph family wears them on the right. My Ghibellines family cuts fruit straight down, and your Guelph family cuts fruit crosswise.
  Guelph Woman: These are arbitrary differences, we shouldn't let them tear us apart. We can be together no matter what our families think.
  Ghibelline Man: Wonderful news! Let's make a toast to our love. I will drink from my Ghibelline smooth goblet!
  Guelph Woman: And I shall drink from my Guelph chased goblet!
  (Beat)
  Ghibelline Man: (glares in fury) Get out of my sight, you dirty, Pope-loving wench!
• At the end of the videos, it's revealed that the whole thing was a bedtime story being read to Passerino dei Bonacolsi by the Bolognese's bucket.
  Bucket: So there you have it! We learned about the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, the Investiture Controversy, and finally, the War of the Bucket. It's been a loooong day, and it's time to turn off the lights, and go to sleep.
  Bonacolsi: Okay, I love you!
  Bucket: Um, okay. Goodnight.
  Bonacolsi: Say it BAAAAAAAAAACK!