Particularly awful is the running sketch showing residents of West Virginia capturing and planning to hang Gen Grant and Union soldiers. That is so historically inaccurate, it's the most ridiculous part of the sketch. West Virginia only exists because those counties split from Virginia to remain in the Union. They raised troops to fight with the North against slavery and with Grant's army. Virginia, a secessionist State, refused to respect those counties decision to secede from Virginia and unsuccessfully tried to occupy the region. I get History of the World is a spoof, but completely getting the history back to front is unforgivable.
2 Reviews
Pretty funny
kep3152 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Hard to believe this only has a rating of 6.3 at the time of this review. The first episode of HOTWp2 was hilarious. The second ep. Had some funny moments but also some bad ones, such as the Shirley Chisolm sitcom (or maybe it's that when any show or film tries to spoof unfunny sitcom tropes it's cringe). Third episode was probably the best so far, which opened with Alexander Graham Bell being pranked by his assistant Watson.
This one was far better than episode two, which got a 6.4. Loved the parody of the scene from Brooks' The Producers! Hilarious and unexpected (as was the reference in an earlier episode to Blazing Saddles' Rock Ridge).
The reviewer thought that they had to point out the historical inaccuracies of this episode clearly does not understand the principles of comedy. If you want to discuss all the anachronisms that are purposely used through out this entire series (Shakespeare having a writer's room; Princess Anastasia vlogging to her followers, Stalin being a peon who's made fun of by Lenin and the other Russians, Harriet Tubman creating an ACTUAL railroad, etc) we'd be here a long time!
This one was far better than episode two, which got a 6.4. Loved the parody of the scene from Brooks' The Producers! Hilarious and unexpected (as was the reference in an earlier episode to Blazing Saddles' Rock Ridge).
The reviewer thought that they had to point out the historical inaccuracies of this episode clearly does not understand the principles of comedy. If you want to discuss all the anachronisms that are purposely used through out this entire series (Shakespeare having a writer's room; Princess Anastasia vlogging to her followers, Stalin being a peon who's made fun of by Lenin and the other Russians, Harriet Tubman creating an ACTUAL railroad, etc) we'd be here a long time!
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