History Teacher Reacts to Robot Chicken History Jokes! 

What are some other funny shows that have done history jokes?

The phrase "Kuato freed the slaves" is a reference to the 1990 science fiction film "Total Recall" directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the film, Kuato is a character who leads a resistance movement against the corrupt government of Mars. The character is depicted as a psychic mutant who lives inside the stomach of another character named George (played by Marshall Bell). At one point in the film, Kuato is able to use his psychic powers to communicate with the protagonist, Douglas Quaid (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), and tells him the location of a hidden reactor that powers the planet's atmosphere. By destroying the reactor, Quaid is able to liberate the oppressed Martian population who were forced to live in a controlled environment. Therefore, the phrase "Kuato freed the slaves" is a reference to the pivotal role that the character of Kuato played in the liberation of the oppressed people of Mars in the film "Total Recall."

Kuato is from the original 1990 'Total Recall' movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. A good sci-fi movie. Recommended.

Molly Brown was the woman who survived the Titanic and insisted on going back to save the people in the water in the movie. Unlike in the movie she does actually succeed in taking control of the lifeboat and starts rowing back towards the sight of the sinking

The guns that killed Hamilton killed his son as well. A majority of duels the men intentionally shot away from each other having shown up to the duel being enough to right whatever wrong was committed.

History can get pretty dark, and _Robot Chicken_ is the master of dark humor, put them together and you've got a match made in heaven. Thank you so much for this, please react to part 2.

2:14 Mark Twain's house looks exactly like their model. Robot Chicken did a bang up job of replicating it in model form.

Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva, is also a physicist and it is believed that both worked on Einstein's theories but was never credited. Albert also has a thing with infidelity (with his cousin) later on and possible reason for the divorce.

Plato was a wrestler in his youth. His name supposedly meant "broad shouldered" as he was hard to pin. And the ancient Greeks wrestlers competed in the nude, as they did with other sports.

Yep, Molly Brown was played by Kathy Bates. Her story is pretty amazing and well worth looking into. She grew up in poverty, married a mining engineer in Leadville, Colorado and became fabulously wealthy after a mine her husband held stakes in struck gold. Kathy did a good job portraying her as a first class passenger with steerage class roots. She became internationally famous as the Unsinkable Molly Brown after the Titanic because of her efforts to organize relief and care for all the survivors. She went on to be quite a philanthropist and activist. Her house in Denver is now a museum.

A little Pythagorean history for you. He died young in a duel, the night before the duel he stayed up all night making a record of his mathematical theorems, it's theorized that if he got a good night's sleep he might have won the duel.

Ben Franklin and the Hellfire Club is one of my favorite history stories. He was a freaky deaky dude. He wrote an essay about why you want "Older women, they understand. Older women know how to please a man." The Nazis and the Thul Society is some interesting stuff too. Robot Chicken is my favorite show of all time. Yes do part two. My son told his teacher I robbed a bank and went to jail the other day. They called me about it and I could not stop giggling for hours. Kuato is from Total Recall; The Best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie EVER!

Kuato is from the original Total Recall movie, he was a being growing out of someone's stomach

The whole plato joke about wrestling is actually historical accurate. His given name was aristocles and he earned the nickname platus (broad) from his wrestling coach.

Whenever I watch robot chicken, I try to listen to the voice actors and guess who does the voice. I’m pretty sure the “early hackers” guy is voiced by Christopher Lloyd. Also Nostradamus could be voiced by Alfred Molina - not sure if it is him tho. Sometimes Mark Hamill guest voices on these as well.

duels usually had a 3rd party to make sure the pistols were loaded equally. Fun fact: Alexander Hamilton died during a duel in 1805. A decent Scifi show that mentioned Nostradamus was called First Wave (1998 - 2001), which you should check out. On another note, the Romans are the main reason why the Barbary Lion is mostly extinct in Africa (scientists have found a few wild lions with the Barbary gene and they're attempting to bring it back from extinction).

You remind me of my history teacher in grade school, who bestowed me with a lifelong love of history. I knew it took more than reading and memorizing dates. 30 years of historical reenactment under my belt; I'd love to thank him. Thanks for posting!

Kuato is from Total Recall with Schwarzenegger. Love to see a part #2. Also check out drunk history from Comedy Central

kuato was the mutant in total recall who was rebelling against the tyrannical corp than owned mars

You should definitely reach to more Robot Chicken. I remember on skit that was basically crossing 300 with the American Revolution, and another parodying the Munich Olympics incident

Mr. Terry meets Robot Chicken. I am a happy guy right now.

As to the Fountain of Youth, no, Ponce de Leon was NOT looking for it. That was a bit of libel concocted by Christopher Columbus's son Diego (the two did not get along well).

I love Robot Chicken's take on history

You should react to Horrible Histories. Historical accuracy is pretty good while still delivering decent comedy.

Robot chicken was really wild during the 2000s.

That really is how duels often resolved, both parties would fire and if both missed they would shake hands and make up.

Yes the fountain of youth was a real thing that was sought for, as far as the story goes, It was said to have water with magical properties, pretty much if you were to drink the water from the fountain you'd become immortal, that being said the fountain was sought for by The Ottomans, The Knights of Saint John, The different Templar factions, the Spaniards, and Pirates, And if legends are to be believed, the Inca knew where it was since they were the ~Supposed protectors~ of the fountain.

Mr terry please do the part 2! History was my favorite subject in school

The legend of a Fountain of Youth has been around a long, long time. That said, there is no reliable evidence that Ponce was searching for the Fountain and it is never mentioned by anyone directly involved with his expedition including Ponce himself. The earliest writings linking Ponce to the Fountain were largely by authors with a known flair for the dramatic and/or a tendency to record scuttlebutt as fact. Is it possible Ponce or some of his associates hoped to find the legendary Fountain? Sure. Was that why they were there? No.

“kuato freed the slaves” is a reference to Total Recall. Kuato was the deformed baby-looking thing that was the leader of the resistance on Matrs. Like the Kuato here, he was also a conjoined twin, only he was connected to the stomach of a character called George. The legend of the fountain of youth was told to Spanish explorers by the Arawaks in Hispaniola, Cuba and Puerto Rico , and was in Bimini. In reality, it’s believed to be a fresh water pool, rich in calcium and magnesium. The Unsinkable Molly Brown was a survivor of the Titanic, although she was played by Debbie Reynolds (Carrie Fisher’s mother) in the 1964 movie, not Kathy Bates. After being rescued, Brown set up a committee with other first class survivors to secure basic necessities for second and third class survivors, and even informal counselling. She did a lot for charity, so much that after her husband died, her children took her to court over the estate (which lasted six years), because they felt she gave too much to charity.

10:00 Nostradamus was no more a prophet than those saying "robots can/will take over the work force in many cases", in my opinion. He was simply an observant man, and anyone observant enough can make general predictions of the future, especially as vague as he did. Honestly, the Simpsons writers are more prophetic lmao

“First species to have guns wins. We had guns” 😂

When the Nazis were doing the death marches from the death camps over to the west (away from the Soviet Union) they had all sorts of reasons for doing so... 1. Removing witnesses from the death camps. 2. Taking the prisoners to maybe use as bargaining chips in negotiations to save themselves. 3. Some of them legit were thinking "maybe with more labor in the labor camps we can produce more V2 rockets and turn the war around!" Which was just kinda ridiculous but that's what some of them were thinking... Also due to communications going down some of them wandered into Allied forces... Others plundered various places for food to keep their prisoners (and thus labor) at least alive... And some ditched their prisoners, uniforms, equipment and just went home sorta like "screw this! The war is doomed and I don't want to be held accountable!" Without communications the whole thing was chaotic with the people in charge of these prisoners acting super autonomously...

Showing up to a duel was really just a moxy thing. It was to show you weren't afraid to die. Most of the time the 2 people dueling would purposely throw their shot. Alexander Hamilton actually shot first but threw his shot and hit a tree behind Burr, Burr ok the under hand aimed straight and all full intentions of hitting his mark. Perhaps if Hamilton didn't throw his shot things would have gone different.

If the Germans find the Ark of the Covenant in Civilization Revolution, it should be an auto win for them

Kuato is from Total Recall with Arnold back in the days

It was Dorothy Parker who wrote the poem. Sylvia Path is attributed for political reasons. "Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live."

There were dozens of expeditions sent out to try and find the fountain of youth (in South American… the Florida thing was a mistaken location like christopher Columbus) and it came from tales shared by the few surviving members of the original Spanish exploration into the jungles, they described tales of a magical spring worshiped by the natives which could grant immortality. Due to this the spanish queen (and soon many other royals) sent group after group to try and capture this source. However, it is rumored that it may have been a lie by the exploration members to get more pay after not getting payed for all the members that died to disease and hazard.

Kuato is from the movie total recall. With Arnold can’t spell his last name for the life of me. Spies on mars.

Fun story about how inaccurate guns were back in the old times. John Smith was known to have destroyed his pistol right before he was captured by the Native Americans. The story as it is told was that he did it to keep their advantage in weapons technology. in truth, it was so the Native Americans wouldn't learn how terrible their accuracy was. The fear of firearms posed more of a threat than the real thing.

1:46 He sat there feeling embarrassed and awkward by something unfamily-friendly.

Kuato is from the Original Total Recall

Margaret Brown, posthumously known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a passenger on the RMS Titanic which sank in 1912. However, I want to bring up the truly remarkable woman; Violet Jessop. For her story is even more jaw-dropping and also entirely true. Seriously, she should have a similar title in history. Violet story did not start or end with the Titanic, yes she too survived the Titanic. Actually, she lived through three ship-related incidents of history. Starting with the 1911 the Olympic, then the Titanic, and lastly the White Star Line, 1916, that converted its ship the Britannic into a hospital transport vessel. Not only that but Violet resumed her work for the White Star Line in 1920. Truly a woman who would not sink and did not fear a life at sea. She didn't stop until 1950, age 63, and signed off the Andes to retire. Passing away to heart failure in 1971.

I'm seconding the Internet Historian video. The Man stuck in a cave video, or Costa Concordia would be perfect

Your a history teacher yet clearly one of your favorite parts in history is the good ol late 80s arcade era. Me too man mee too🍻

So interesting fact, Plato’s early works included the republic, when he had no experience in leadership or politics within the Greek senates. Afterwards he gained an understanding that lead to him trying to walk back the republic, however it’s harder to dig up those works than it is about all the nonsense you find for the republic and interpretations. It’s like writing something drunk in your 20s, then trying to walk it back 30 years later when you’ve learned from your mistakes, and everyone knows you for your drunk ramblings 30 years prior. Rip Plato

kuato was from total recall, he was a mutated conjoined twin on Mars, and was leading the resistance movement in the original Schwarzenegger movie

I would go for a part 2

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." - My favorite Mark Twain quote (even as an American, because it's so true; half of my History knowledge *_and_* Geography knowledge comes from my Roman Catholic grade school, the other half comes from my years in the Air Force, and I can't credit my public high school with jack squat).

Actually Hitler *never* believed in the Occult. The head of the SS Heinrich Himmler did. Hitler is on record as viewing Himmler obsession with the occult as weird.

Possibly dueling pistols were designed to be extremely inaccurate so as not to give duelists an advantage, especially if either of them had good aim. In other countries pistol duels went a little further by leaving one of the pistols with blanks. Neither the duelists nor their seconds knew which was the pistol with the bullet and which was the one with the blank.

Molly Brown was an American socialite and philanthropist who was a passenger on the Titanic. After the vessel struck an iceberg and began taking on water, Brown insisted on assisting other passengers into the lifeboats before finally being persuaded to get on one herself. Once in the water, she took up one of the oars and helped to row it, and also urged the lifeboat crew to go back and try to save more passengers. Unfortunately this was opposed by the quartermaster, who feared that if they did go back the boat would either be pulled under by the suction of the sinking Titanic or swamped by the people still in the water as they tried to get onboard. Brown even threatened to pitch the man overboard herself, but he wouldn’t change his mind. After the survivors were rescued by the RMS Carpathia (whose captain she later presented an award to), Brown and other first-class survivors organized into a committee and worked to secure basic necessities for second- and third-class survivors, and provided informal counseling. She was kind of a badass, in other words. After her death in 1932, authors writing about her and the Titanic began referring to her as “unsinkable Molly Brown.”

I've studied about Juan Ponce De Leon when I was in high school. From, Ethan Moeckel (age 23).

love the russian badger quote where he talksa bout having the firearms as the forfathers wrote" if four ruffians break into my house ill blow a golfball sized in the first one, pull my pistol out and hit the neighbors dog cause its smoothbore, then fall back to the cannon loaded with grapeshot on the stairs."

Do part 2!

(At least in some countries) dueling pistols were not allowed to have rifling. This made them less accurate and it was the point. When you duel with pistols you are not matching just your skill against the opponent (that is what dueling with swords is for) and instead put your life in the hands of luck/fate. This is also why pistols duels are seen as more "fair" since challenging the local "Inigo Montoya" to a duel with swords would be suicide and he could bully people without worrying that they dare challenge him with swords. In a pistol duel meanwhile, even a good marksman knows that the inaccurate pistol can cost them their life. This also meant that if you get challenged to duel with pistols, you would be more likely to say sorry and avoid the duel rather than risk death. ...And to get around this, some cheaters would have a pair of dueling pistols with one of them having some rifling deeper in the barrel where it can't be seen. They would take the good one and give their opponent get the less accurate one. Another thing with pistol duels would be that sometimes people would intentionally miss and after both shots had been fired, they would agree that the duel is a tie, no one has to admit defeat or loss of honour. (OR if one of them wanted to keep on fighting, if both missed, they would step closer for another shoot and keep doing this until someone is hit or both agree to stop.)

On dueling (and the other early firearms): The flash that ignites the gunpowder is a plasma flash. In order to avoid losing your eye to that, you had to turn away. Therefore, the reason so much missing. Also, the Fountain of Youth goes back to Ancient Greece.

MuzzleLoaders:Good Weapon Until You Actually Tried To Hit Something With Them.

I remember back in school (I forget which year, but it may have been in middle school; no later than high school) that the teacher showed a clip of Robot Chicken to the class when we were learning about World War II. There was a trilogy of segments called "Li'l Hitler," where he was a schoolboy in a classroom. It was basically an oversimplified version of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe. The first segment had him proclaiming to the teacher that his desk was too small, and demands the desk of the Polish boy sitting next to him. The teacher responds by saying that everyone got the same size desk, much to his disappointment. The second segment had him demanding that he also get the desk of the Czechoslovakian boy next to him, despite already having the desk of the Polish boy, who mysteriously disappeared. The teacher asks what happened to the boy, to which Li'l Hitler remains silent, at which point the segment ends. The third and final segment has the teacher walking into the classroom, only to see a bunch of desks surrounding Li'l Hitler, and demanding to know what was going on. An American boy off to the side is siting in his desk, eating lunch, and says it's not his problem. Suddenly, a Japanese boy walks up, knocks his lunch over, and the American boy decides that it is now his problem. Obviously, the real-life versions of these events were much more nuanced. Furthermore, in real life, Hitler had annexed Czechoslovakia first, before invading Poland. Still, I'm amazed that my school allowed such a thing to be shown. Since Robot Chicken caters to a more adult crowd, and the teacher was showing it to kids, I'm amazed that the school allowed the teacher to show it, despite it not containing any material that people would find offensive.

Kuato is the mutant from the 80's Total Recall

IIRC, the duel between Hamilton and Burr was fought from an extremely short distance, something like three feet, because Burr was blind as a bat.

I would appreciate a part 2

Never have I needed something and not known, until i received it... Mr Terry doing Robot Chicken

7:14 they are talking about normal bullets the gun used to kill Kennedy was a cheap gun that used a slug rounds. Kennedy was also shot at least twice, first shot paralyzed him and hit the passenger in front of him, second one was the infamous shot. 10:56 Total Recall, with Arnold

12:09 Most of the things early explorers of the America's were looking for were tales literally made up to convince people to come over to the Americas to explore.

Assertion of the Pythagoreans: All numbers are rational, meaning any number can be written as a fraction of integers where the integers are the whole numbers and their negatives When someone proved that the square root of 2 is not rational they threw him off a cliff.

Yes Molly Brown was a passenger that tried to convince the lifeboat to go back for survivors.

the quato thing was a "Total Recall" reference.

Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles back in the 1700s, actually where accurate. You are mostly correct though.

The fountain of youth was a myth created because of the youthful appearance of the elders, genes plus the fact they didn't relief themselves into their drinking water helped also. The Greeks got all there philosophy from the Mystery School in Egypt as well as the ten Commandment which come from the 42 negative Confessions of Maat.

As far as I know they really looked for it, they believed in it because of old stories and myth. I have found one source that claimed that is was a joke from the local people. When asked why everyone in the village lookt so young they claimed it was from the fountain of youth, but I have found no further mention of this.

Funny thing I heard about Nostradamus, there is a theory that his prophecies were actually political and religious satire (referring to people in his own time) that he described vaguely and under the pretense of being prophecies. Which funny enough is not the only work of prophecy that is thought to actually be a "safe way" to write about current politics without being persecuted by said government.

We actually do have a Spring in St Augustine that was the assumed sight of the Fountain...ngl the water is so good

Kuota is from the Movie "Total Recall", where he was a mutant who led the Mars Resistance.

"Benjamin Franklin: the first President of the United States who was never President of the United States." -- The Firesign Theater

Pretty sure in formal duels you both have one shot each and if you both missed. Its implied to mean, you settled the matter like gentlemen. As you decided to "intentionally" miss. But in proper duels to the death. You'd have your pistols but then switch to swords once you spent your shot.

Robot Chicken was brilliant. Funny ass show.

10:53 Kuato Freed the slaves is a reference to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Recall movie. Kuato was the deformed parasitic twin who was the leader of the freedom fighters of Mars. Granted in the movie Kuato was attached to his twins stomach.

Ponce de León never mentioned the fountain in any of his writings during his expeditions into Florida or the Bahamas. Another writer/historian, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, wrote that he was looking for it in Bimini or more accurately that he was looking to restore his youth in the waters of Bimini. It is believed that his account was politically inspired to gain favor with the Spanish royal court. A shipwreck survivor wrote in his memoir that Ponce de León was looking for the fountain in Florida and is probably why there is a tourist attraction in St. Augustine Florida called the fountain of youth.

I think the fountain of youth(a spring with water that makes you young and immortal) was a fantastical story the natives to the spanish as a form of misdirection. A weird think about florida natives is they had an aweful lot of gold for the local geology as florida is make from bio sediment and not a magma flow(where gold veins form).

15:50 once, I was walking in Venice and I actually stopped before passing in front of a guy who was painting a landscape... 🤦

Dueling pistols were intentionally not zeroed in, an accurate dueling pistol was considered murder.

Heres a fun fact, duels are still legal in Texas and Washington.

I think Alfred Molina voiced Nostradamus. And that Lincoln stove top hat joke was a Total Recall ( the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger) movie reference.

Actually at one time lions were found throughout Europe and Africa. But due to over hunting are now only found in parts of Africa.

Those Pompeii coins were hilarious.

I mean yes he was a philosopher. But a lot of people forget how much Plato loved wrestling and fitness. Hence his name

The myth of the Fountain of Youth is actually a Taino, an indigenous tribe, legend about a spring that was said to exist on the island of Bimini and a river. Which is what became known as Florida and was believed to restore youth to those who bathed in their waters. The legend became particularly prominent in the 16th century, when it became associated with the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first Governor of Puerto Rico. Ponce de León was supposedly searching for the Fountain of Youth when he traveled to Florida in 1513. Ponce de León never found the Fountain of Youth , of course - perhaps because he never looked for such a thing, according to researchers. It is classified as a mere legend although one easily believed. Immortality is ingrained into a lot of folklore due to humanity always seeking a way to stay young and beautiful. No one wants to age and die, basically, since most fear death - including being forgotten to time.

Kuato! I had to laugh. He's the mutant rebel leader from the original Total Recall

The thought was that they were find a spring that had water so pure that it will delay aging or reverse it

The old "Peabody's Improbable History" episodes on RU-vid are still quite humorous. Also, Mel Brooks' "History of the World: Part 1" was hilarious. The "Drunk History" videos are well done also.

Kuato. The movie total Recall. With Arnold

There is actually an 18+ area where a person actually has to show an ID to enter because it's that adult oriented.

The Fountain of Youth in Gods Waiting Room??😂😂

Dueling pistols were smooth bore weapons for a reason. A rifled barrel was too accurate and murderous for that function. “Bad aim” was not the problem. The design was quite intentional.

Actually, according to the stories, any army who brought the Ark with them into battle would not be able to be defeated.

The only things I know the fountain of youth from are Greek mythology where the goddess of youth can summon and use it, as well as the story of Herodotus which talks about people known for their youthfulness and long life who bathe in a mysterious pool of water

I wish they'd included Death's Head from Wolfenstien among those reporting to Hitler in the skit.

Well, they were quite a way from developing a nuclear weapon, but that doesn't mean they were telling Hitler that.

fountain of youth was something like a type of thing to live for ever not sure if you gotta drink it one time of over time