Funny / The Men Who Built America

• When Cornelius Vanderbilt discovers that his plan to buy out the Erie Railway Company is sabotaged by watered-down stocks issued by Fisk and Gould, Vanderbilt throws the bundle of new-bought stocks out of the door in frustration. The servant, who is about to walk into the door at that time, immediately turns back without flinching.
• The rivalry between Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller goes all the way to them insulting each other through Christmas gifts. Rockefeller gives Carnegie a paper jacket to mock his impoverished background, while Carnegie gives Rockefeller, who does not drink due to his religious belief, a bottle of whiskey.
• When Carnegie decides to cut Frisk out of his management circle and declares in front of Frisk by buying out his shares. Carnegie then hastily walks out of Frisk's offices while looking back to anticipate Frisk's reaction. An enraged Frisk then bursts out and to call out Carnegie in the hall, which prompt Carnegie to run to the nearest room possible and lock the door from inside as Frisk is banging the door and calling his name. Just as Carnegie is waiting for Frisk to calm down, he realizes that one of his female employees is staring at him in bewilderment. The room Carnegie chose turns out to be the ladies' restroom!
• The fact that Rockefeller had somehow made enemy with nearly everyone appears in the show at some point of his life is almost ridiculous. He played the rivalry between Vanderbilt and Thomas Scott to get cheapest offer, before shutting down an oil refinery in Pennsylvania and indirectly causing Scott's train company crumbles as Scott died impoverished, which then earned the ire of Carnegies as the latter become Rockefeller's rival to avenge his mentor. Then, J.P. Morgan's interest in Edison's electric bulbs gets in the way of his oil empire, and he launched a campaign to discredit the electricity by highlighting its dangerous nature to the media (ironically, his Standard Oil Company aimed to produce safe kerosene in order to dissuade the people that kerosene is dangerous to use). When the Anti-Trust Movement begins, he became the primary target for the government as he desperately tries to defend his oil empire. In fact, the only main character he doesn't end up offending is Henry T. Ford.

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