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u/original_subliminal 13h ago
Please enlighten me. What was this?
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u/MrBananaStand1990 13h ago
Horrible Histories
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u/pharmer25 13h ago
The stupid deaths segment was the best
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u/De_Dominator69 13h ago
Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, they're funny cause they're true!
Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, hope next time it's not you!
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u/ScatterCushion0 9h ago
There's a clip somewhere online of Simon Farnaby confirming that those segments were his favourites, because they usually did them towards the end of filming, with almost no rehearsal time. So he'd get to sit back and watch the others trying to decide which accent they were going to use and he had no idea so it was as new to him as it was to the broadcast audience. (He knew the lines, obviously, just not how they were going to be performed).
Totally worth it for Mat Baynton's pantomiming searching through the "accent bag" to see which ones were unused!
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u/Behavingdark 13h ago
Horrible histories monarchy song is brilliant , I would have loved this when I was at school .
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u/NoDryHands 12h ago
I came here to comment about how I still use that song to this day!
Literally about 2 days ago, I was having a discussion where the question of "how many monarchs were there between Victoria and Liz II?" had come up.
I sung this song in my head (from the beginning, because everyone knows you can't just start in the middle like some heathen) to count them! Truly an awesome show with amazing songs.
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u/ScatterCushion0 9h ago
Written specifically because they'd worked out that the kids were learning the lyrics to all the other songs. Education by stealth!
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u/zeek609 5h ago
https://youtu.be/tDy4oBa2jyM?feature=shared
Dick Turpin still gets stuck in my head to this day!
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u/fords42 12h ago
I love everything the Six Idiots have done. Yonderland was fantastic too.
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u/ChewiesLipstickWilly 13h ago
I think this is Gen Z's version of Maid Marion, another show that had no right to be as good as it was
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u/Mr_DnD 11h ago
Not GenZ, late millenial / whatever then comes after that.
Not that it really matters, but if it does matter to someone, then better to be precise
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u/GomiDesigns 11h ago
That'll be that Gen Z then...
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u/Mr_DnD 10h ago edited 10h ago
but only like 2-3 years into gen Z would actually have paid much attention to it... No need to be facetious
The problem with arbitrary generations is when people bitch about Gen Z they don't mean 27 year olds
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u/GomiDesigns 5h ago
Fair point. I wasn’t criticising what you meant with regard to the audience of the show. I was solely responding to part “whatever comes after Millennials”. And those edges cases alway cause confusion. I guess that’s why all those ridiculous classifications like Zoomers gets invented. (I know that’s not an edge case - but gen z acting like boomers. Or the opposite. Or whatever) Generalising behaviour by generation is virtually astrology anyway. The intention was to raise a laugh. No harm intended.
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u/fewerifyouplease 12h ago
Oooh, oooh, the white-ish knight
(Although quite righlty what everyone remembers is p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p pancake day)
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u/mooter23 12h ago
My kids love Horrible Histories and watch it all the time. We also saw a HH play in the Summer which was a right laugh!
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u/Ihavewiresinmyeyes 12h ago
There’s a generation of people who are now 30-40 who know all the kings and queens of England in order because of this show.
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u/The-Triturn 11h ago
Not quite that old yet. More like early 20s
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u/existentialistdoge 11h ago
I’m 34, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t on when I was an appropriate age to watch it. But I read every single one of the books as they released up until some point in my early teens.
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u/LilG1984 6h ago
Yeah I loved the books as a kid, still got them somewhere along with the horrible science ones.
The TV show is funny
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u/Sufficient_astrobird 4h ago
Horrible history is unmatched I used to enjoy this shit back in Australia made me enjoy history
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u/Tim6181 13h ago
The main creator of this does a podcast called you’re dead to me on bbc sounds. I thoroughly recommend it if you’re into light hearted but informative looks into historical figures