I was going to choose John Lennon as a dinner companion. Then I realized that he'd probably rather spend that precious time seeing Yoko, Julian and Sean, maybe even Paul, Ringo and George Martin. And that makes me think that famous folks with living survivors might want the same thing. "Why am I having dinner with this nameless loser when I could be talking to my loved ones?!"
George Orwell. I'm sure he'd have lots to say about the modern world. As for sex...I believe both George and I would be satisfied with a polite handshake.
If anything, what I see happening is we keep making up new words all the time and getting bigger, more easily used databases to keep track of them, so we ultimately can express ourselves more accurately. But we're also socializing with a greater number of people than ever before, leaving us with the knowledge that most people are content to ignore that vast, easily accessed trove of language treasure in favor of abusing the word 'literally'.
***** Can you point to some examples of the news actually being edited to avoid offending people in the contemporary sense of the word 'triggered'? Sometimes I think the pushback against the trend of political correctness results in people making things up, or assuming something's been softened when it hasn't.
Kuroba Agreed, Kuroba. The original use of 'trigger warnings' were primarily for people with post-traumatic stress or something similar. It didn't just mean 'this might offend someone' or 'people might have heated conversation on this topic', which, in some places and contexts, is what it has come to mean. The point being, they aren't a flawed idea. Moreover, the myth that 'social justice warriors' are A) a single collective with one goal in mind and B) powerful enough to force the media to censor itself is nothing more than paranoia.
"I freed the slaves... as a GOOF!" That's the best thing I've ever heard. And I'd hang with Caligula but I wouldn't get freaky with him or anything. He might murder me in my sleep.
Those are the animators, the person who draws the little thought animations and such when they're talking. The show is written by the four of them, they've explained it in another thing.
The answer to all questions is obviously Nikola Tesla circa 1890 - you could have interesting dinner conversation about scientific discoveries made after his time. He'd freaking love wifi. Then take a drive with him in a car with his name on it (to mess with him). Living with him would be fine because he was always working and also, according to his secretary, apparently just a lovely person. Then... of course... get all up on that brainy bod because have you seen the guy? He was 6'2", had light eyes, dark hair, handsome as hell and looked after himself. Yes please!
Yea... he was also rather celibate. Not sure how much "Getting all up on that brainy bod" would be happening. Which as per your description, definitely drives the point that it was totally by choice.
Anthony Sforza He was celibate but also, time travel/resurrection is not a thing. If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to accommodate breaking the laws of physics then I don't think it so outlandish that the man would have sex (and have that sex with me).
MissFotini Well... speaking in the aforementioned hypotheticals, I can see what you mean. Though I sometimes wonder that if one were to actually be able to do such a thing and bring someone like Tesla into the present... would they go right back t doing their work? Or, being in a future that has exceeded their work, would they spend the rest of their time trying to catch up.
The problem with a lot of those historical figures is that if you go back far enough, most of them that were described as beautiful/handsome belonged to cultures with different standards of beauty. Maybe Helen of Troy was considered beautiful because she weighed 250 pounds (pleasingly plump), and because of her magnificently huge, majestic nose and really, really big hair-do. Maybe a beautiful historical Chinese woman had one thing and one thing only going for her . . . tiny feet . . . in a culture where men obsessed over tiny feet. She might have had a body like Danny DeVito, a big hairy mole on her cheek, and a crooked nose, but the men who wrote the accounts about her beauty that we read today only had eyes for her tiny, tiny feet. Or consider the amount of hair-styling and makeup a rich, royal woman could afford versus a commoner. Ever see female stars without makeup? Most of them look rather drab. In such a world, where only the rich use cosmetic enhancements, someone might turn up their nose at the commoner version of Scarlett Johansson in order to ooh and ah over the royal glammed up version of Rosie O'Donnell. Basically I'm saying Helen of Troy might have looked like Rosie O'Donnell.
Doubtful that Helen looked like that. She was originally from Sparta, and Spartan women were expected to be athletic (so they could better produce Spartan men).
Shakespeare. And before y'all say anything, the artist who painted the Bard didn't paint or draw anything but that face, and he did it AFTER his death. So we don't really know what he did look like, so hopefully he was a hunk of some caliber. Also, he seemed pretty open minded when it came to relationships and people (a midsummer nights dream, othello, as you like it) so it wouldn't be that embarrassing taking him around cause he would take every gender and race as like a poetic statement or some bullshit. Soooooo yea I would shake his speare.
I feel like Katie's Brain was checked out in the writers room during this one, which is why Katie's character gets distracted with the phone in the sketch.
HAMILTON!!!! YASSS. But you would have to bring him back from the dead, not just teleport him here because if you took him before his son was born but when Eliza was pregnant it would be shocked to see what would happened. Alexander cheated on Eliza while she was visiting her father and his first son Phillip died in a duel he was going to happen. If saw everything that was going to happen he could possibly prevent his son's and his own premature death and stop himself from cheating on Eliza with Maria Reynolds.
Now where is that fanfic... Or take Thomas Jefferson to that musical, wait for him to say something racist, disprove his argument and close with "I thought that was self-evident." Then high-five someone.
William Mcallen I think Sun Tzu would be interesting (provided we had a way of talking to each other). Korean Naval commander Yi Sun-shin would also be a great person to talk to. A general who took the role of admiral without any prior Naval experience and never lost a battle. If you want to know more about his insane feats of naval battle then read his wiki entry because he is a badass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin
We have far more women than Cleopatra. Any queen from history, any revolutionary, any pioneer in any field. Amelia Earhart (especially if she looks like Amy Adams), Joan of Arc (especially if she looks like Milla Jovovich), Audrey Hepburn (especially if she looks like Audrey Hepburn from "My Fair Lady"), etc., etc., etc. I think they cut that short just so Dan would have time to talk about Ben Franklin.
+PaperbackWizard it would definitely stop Dan because of his nueroses. and it would stop soren because he can afford to be picky so I doubt he'd take kind of risk.
Dan is 30 years old now, which made him about 25, 26 the time they were shooting this video; not that much of an age difference in his case. No idea how old Soren is, but he has to be around the same age, maybe even younger. Besides, Joan of Arc was hardly a naïve little schoolgirl. She was a warrior who led entire armies and consorted with kings. Soren and Daniel are the ones who would be out of their leagues.
ThePapermage duuuude, don’t dis on cleopatra though. She wasn’t actually particularly beautiful. Just really, REALLY smart. Like, this chick knew ten languages, and actually worked her butt off to get where she got. I’d LOVE to have a good long conversation with her.
"He could handle that. He was a hunter." Teddy Roosevelt was the most influential conservationist known to history, and hunters today are the biggest funders of conservation efforts today.
Teddy Roosevelt took land from Native Americans to make these parks, and modern hunters do very little for conservation. A 2018 act meant to increase spending on American conservation put $29.5 billion into the problem while over the last sixty years hunters have managed about $5.5 billion.
I'd choose to sleep with Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire. According to contemporary and court scribe Procopius, she was astoundingly beautiful, intelligent and had a lot of sexual skills, due to her being an actress (which at the time also meant prostitute).
My first thought was ono no komachi, a haien era poet featured in the "ogura hyakunin isshu." She had a great many suitors in her time at the emperor's palace. And was said to be as well as an amazing poet, very beautiful too.
Ok, TECHNICALLY, Mary Todd Lincoln was NOT the love of Lincoln's life because he was completely down with Ann Rutledge, but she died, and he was so depressed his friends hid all the sharp things from him so he wouldn't kill himself. That's how much he was smitted. After that, Lincoln married Mary Todd, but everyone hated her, which if I may bring up is the reason why General Ulysses S. Grant was not at the theater the day of the shooting. Mary Todd was an abusive bitch, people called her the "the hellcat." She was also thought to be emotionally unstable. Overall, their marriage was shit-faced, emotionally unstable, and fucked up, mostly because their kids died (not all). The only time when they actually seemed like a married couple is before the show at Ford's Theater when the war was over and they relaxed.Thus proving that Mary Todd was not the love of his life, plus, we don't know if he was over Ann so, he could be faking his love in order to hide his true feelings.I HAVE A PHD IN AWESOMENESS AND YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE INVALID.
Okay, to be fair, Mary Todd clearly had some kind of mental issue that nobody recognized in her lifetime. In fact, historians nowadays suggest that she was bipolar. It isn’t fair to blame her for struggles that were beyond her control and even her comprehension.
Gaunt Host "The Russians have taken the city, it's only a matter of time now." "Dang it to heck, I'm just as flustered as can be. Gosh this war went poorly."
***** I'm an internet troll that goes by the name of Saddam Hussein and I casually joke about racism and genocide; Yeah PC riddled is exactly what I am.
I love that Soren has a thing for Susan B Anthony. Personally I wouldn't want to meet someone I'm obsessed with but at the same time I would love to meet Einstein or Tesla. I wouldn't mind a roll in the hay with James Dean. If I was going to have to choose to live with someone it would be Mark Twain because he seems like he had a great sense of humor.
This is one of my favourite episodes because it's not just about fiction and pop culture i.e. movies and tv, it's about history and historical figures.
welp...thats it... the internet has no king, but only because benjamin franklin is not currently alive..... I say franklin becomes the unoffical-offical post-mortum king of the internet
...i've watched this one a couple times. I don't think Katie ever got around to answering the last question. Obviously not Ben Franklin. The guy probably had multiple counts of syphilis.
Historical figure i would sleep with: Empress Claudia Octavia (poor Octavia), by all accounts she was a very virtuous good woman, who was cheated on by her husband (God dammit Nero), accused by said husband of being infertile as an excuse to divorce her so he can marry his mistress, and exiles Octavia. Then when the public outcry got too much he agreed to lift her banishment, only to have her secretly killed (she was only 22). And she was apparently rather attractive. Either her or Joan of Arc. Because who wouldn't want to say they got Joan of Arc to, how do I put this, "Jump your broadsword"...
0:47 Actually, the bison population was below 100 in Roosevelt's time. In 1883 he went on a trip to hunt a bison before they became extinct. Protecting and growing the bison population was one of the prime motivations for his environmentalism, so he'd likely feel a great amount of pride at how many bison are alive today.
4:35 - Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra, and Susan B. Anthony are the only women who ever lived, but women get to choose from every "great historical figure" - war-mongering old men who mostly believed women were property. Woo, can't wait to get in that time machine and go back to when wife-beating was legal. For the sake of humor, Daniel the resident history expert is forgetting Helen of Troy, Nefertiti, Anne Boleyn's hot sister, Sappho the song-writer practically deified by the ancient Greeks and Romans (who was bisexual, "Lesbian" was her nationality), Matahari the original "femme fatale", the Bronte sisters - all three of them why not, Louise Brooks the quintessential libertine flapper, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and plenty of other beautiful actresses and also singers of recent times, Empress Josephine of France who inspired countless love letters from one of history's most successful military commanders, there are so many. Those are just off the top of my head, and just the pretty/sexy ones - not the ones who made a difference in history. Even if you're just going on physical attractiveness (which they aren't for the men but whatever) history is full of stories of women whose beauty drove people insane. Or, just go back to any time and charm any woman you find attractive with the novel act of treating her like a human being.
kevinthediltz Nah, I mean _what he was doing was making a joke,_ but the way he said it "We've got Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra, and maybe Susan B. Anthony, and you've got every great historical figure..." he clearly wasn't focused on his preferences, he was saying "we" (the guys) have a lack choice compared to Katie. I still stand by my counter-argument. I think they mostly have better choices.
I choose Sacajawea for all of them. I would move in with her, then I would take her to dinner in order to get with her then I would start messing with her for fun because we would be great friends and can do that without hard feelings.
Dinner with Elvis (he would tell INSANE sex stories, and I could tell him about all of the alien rumors) Screw with Ed Wood (because it would just be funny) Roommates with Arthur Conan Doyle (he could vent about how Sherlock Holmes is his most famous work despite the fact that he hated it), or Harry Houdini (because MAGICIAN), or possibly BOTH if I could (they were apparently good friends. Also imagine the concept for a sitcom. A magician and famous author from the past rooming with a chubby otaku? I smell shenanigans) Sex with Jimi Hendrix (have you seen him? Dayum) Mary Shelly (I'm a young female writer, she's a young female writer, it would be a good time).
Cleopatra was a solid six out of ten with a hook nose. In all actuality she was witty and great at seduction so the Greeks instead of saying they were seduced by someone who was around average in looks decided to replace seduction with looks in stories.
there is no real truth about what she actually looked like. to the greeks she could have been ugly but to us modern people she could have been very beautiful
SR2XO visually but one thing is. all the depictions of her are her supposed egyptian aappearance you see she was actually greek and but had her self depicted with Egyptian like features even though she was 100% greek
The thing about a lot of historical figures is being able to communicate with them. Even 100 years ago people talked much differently. You would definitely need to use only proper English. I would bring back someone like tesla or Einstein or Hawking. That would be my contribution to society
I love the way you guys derail in your conversations... just go off track and then come back and then go off track again. Feels so natural, i love it. And Michael is hilarious! I love you Michael!!! When are we making babies?!
What about failed scientist like tesla? The support he gets today would clearly spark and interest in reinventing some of his long lost ideas. Or how about going back in time and having dinner with so,wine verse them coming to our present time.
Some historians actually believe that william shakespeare wasn't actually a real person, or that his name was just used a a cover for multiple playwrights considering the quantity and varying genres of his plays. Theater was looked down upon in Victorian society and was actually illegal in London, so it seems like it might be possible. It would be interesting to pick Shakespeare and like twelve guys show up.
Grace Foskett Shakespeare was alive in Elizabethan London. Elizabeth I loved the theater. After the English revolution when the country was controlled by Cromwell and his supporters theater was made illegal. But this happened about 100 years after Shakespeare and 100 before the Victorian era. The early 1700s I believe. If youre going to go correct people on the internet can you at least TRY to get your facts straight?
Why does Daniel get so excited about her being able to have sex with Che Guevara, or put him in the same league as Martin Luther King Jr. For someone who supposedly has an encyclopedic knowledge on all sorts of stuff in order to tear down stuff that are usually popular and beloved, he seems very lacking and hipster-ignorant in that sentence. Che Guevara was an AWFUL person. He created Cuba's first 'corrective work camp' (slave labor camp). Cubans who showed anything less tan love for Che were arrested, put into slave labor camps, or executed outright. Che was also a cold-blooded murderer and hate-driven - in his own words. "“A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” Che was a war mongerer - “We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. We must never give him a minute of peace or tranquility. This is a total war to the death.” and “If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City…We will march the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims…We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm.” Che was also racist, which makes putting him in the same sentence as Martin Luther King Jr pretty disgusting. He wrote EXTENSIVELY about how white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, describing black people as "indolent" people who wasted their money on frivolity and drink.
Dude I've been watching this show for years now and seen every single episode like 20 times already. And the show is so witty and great that I just now realized that Dan says in 5:22 that he wants to die as Benjamin Franklin's queen, proving that Michael was right by saying he had "old fat inventor" thing 5:07. This show never ages, man.
Definitely Lord Byron. Not only was he bisexual (which is great for me), he had a lot of suitors (so you know he had to be at least cute) and he was a poet. He also had a fucked up childhood, so you know we'd have a lot of interesting conversations (and probably a lot of depressing ones, which i can deal with). He even loves travelling.
@TheAnonymousGuy In the 1930s, the Catholics in America began to have political power, this was the first chapter of shift toward a less and less protestant United States. As their influence grew, they began using their power to publicize their faith to the people. One of the ways they did this was by putting up a Catholic role model for children to aspire to be. They chose Columbus, I don't know why, since he basically founded the transatlantic slave trade, but this was before MLKJ so no one cared, and they pressured FDR into making Columbus day a holiday. Not a holiday for centuries, actually one of the USA's most recent national holidays that are days off from public school. Popcorn day's more recent, but apparently we'd rather celebrate the founder of the transatlantic slave trade than corn snacks with days off.
Well, you could be his father, or a male-line decentant of his father i.e. one of the Frankensteins i.e. a Frankenstein. But, clearly Lincoln wasn't a Frankenstein that way; he was a Lincoln.
'Frankenstein's monster (also called Adam, Monster, Frankenstein's creature or just Frankenstein) is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In popular culture, the creature is often referred to as "Frankenstein" after his creator Victor Frankenstein, but in the novel the creature has no name.' Also: 'the creature soon enough became best known in the popular imagination as "Frankenstein". This usage is sometimes considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of "Frankenstein" as well-established and not an error.' - Wikipedia
W0rldcarrier 'Modern Culture' refers to it incorrectly, and just because Wikipedia says some unreferenced 'usage commentators' believe the terminology of Frankenstein applies to Frankenstein's monster, it's still wrong. When Mary Shelly's novel got transferred to movie form by Hollywood, the producers decided to change almost every detail from the novel, and since the majority of America has never read the original novel, most of 'modern society' goes on believing the movie(s) accurately depict(s) the novel. For educational purposes, the novel never gave the monster a specific name, it was just referred to as 'Frankenstein's monster', 'the monster', 'the devil', 'demon', 'the creature', and various other derogatory terms. Victor Frankenstein was the creator of the monster, therefore the monster should never ever be referred to as 'Frankenstein' as they are completely two separate individuals. However, Hollywood decided they had to give the creature a name to make a good horror film, so their production department (who obviously didn't care about the original details anyway) transferred the name of the creator to the monster, thereby completely altering the meaning of Frankenstein, which is utter nonsense. It certainly doesn't help that another movie is coming out about this false persona of 'Frankenstein' which is just going to reaffirm 'modern culture's' ignorance to the lore. Also: "Your argument is wrong, in the future use something other than Wikipedia as your source, and pick up a book, preferably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, because you have obviously never read the book." -Me
***** Yes but you can not source Marry Shelly's book as the only legitimate reference material being that ,in a public discussion, one is talking about the general media persona of Frankenstein's monster; meaning despite what the original source material is, as a tool of language ,using frankenstein to refer to the monstrous person is an effective use of communication if not a more concise one if talking about the transmedial existence of him . Hollywood was still wrong for what they did ,but some one can refer to frankensteins monster in a context outside of the original work because it has transcended that state as a cultural influence . P.S. some people should at least look at wikipedia's source sighted page on a subject before trying to argue . he disappoints me
Ch. 16: "from your papers, that you (Dr. Frankenstein) were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life?" This is said by the monster, clearly stating that Dr. Frankenstein is the creature's father and sons usually take the names of their fathers. Frankenstein might not be the creature's first name but it's certainly his last, just like it's Dr. Frankenstein's last so anyone who calls the creature Frankenstein isn't wrong. (Source: CRACKED and then my own copy to verify it)
W0rldcarrier him being called adam is a misconception, he asks the creator something like "should i not be adam?" likening himself to the biblical figure for being the first of his kind.
Rewatching this and I finally have an answer. Heath Ledger. Instead of dinner, I'd show him how The Dark Knight turned out, how people still love it today, how it's considered the best of the trilogy, and how loved and missed he is.
Anybody else notice that the Susan B. Anthony coin first says "In God we trust" but when flipped, it says "Touch my suffrage" backwards? Cool. Sexy. Weird. I love it!
Dinner: Funnest figure to honestly talk to- For me, either Elizier Yudowsky or Jefferson (because I have nothing but contempt for the Louisana Purchase). Funnest figure to screw with- Immanuel Kant. Would be fun to screw with him on his claims of absolute certainty, including in ethics. I think I could beat or at least hold my own against him. Roommmates: Either Elizier Yudowsky on the one hand, or David Hume on the other. Hume because his philosophy is superior even to many moderns and I think given a second chance with the benefit of modern experience a mind of his caliber would advance us years. And I'd be on the ground floor. Sex: Cleopatra is a daft option- she'd resent it greatly. What you need is a figure with legendary beauty who's relatively pragmatic about these things. Monroe is out for similiar reasons. Honestly I have no idea, but I'd choose somebody with legendary beauty who really didn't have a problem with being promiscious. As a bonus, this means experience in bed.
Samuel Russel Perhaps a figure who was used to using her beauty to climb the social ladder and freely chose to put out for men to pursue that goal? That presents it's own problems, but it clearly isn't rape and the figure in question wouldn't be out for revenge.
There are some ridiculously famous prostitutes, that became so powerful from whoring around that they may have well been rulers, some of them where at that point but would just rather have sex from what we can see looking back at it. I cant think of names, but probably wouldn't take too long to figure it out. Iv heard of some that lived in Rome and Italy area in well roman time so.... the part of Rome that is now Italy I suppose would be a better way to say that edit: an example of this would be Phryne, considered an incredible beauty and would still be today, she had many lovers, and was used as a model for several depictions of Aphrodite. Its also possible her beauty got her out of a death sentence. Neaira is the best documented prostitute from ancient Greece... ended up marrying a quite wealthy and power full man (may have been who i was thinking of originally. Helen of Troy may also be considered, I don't know how ok she would be with it though.... but heck she, if not just fiction, well caused the biggest get your hands off my woman fight ever because of her beauty.
I'd have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi. I could have a long, insightful conversation with him about several topics and the best part is, he'd probably be fasting at that time so my bill wouldn't be too hefty XD I'd mess with Montezuma . . .you know, leader of the Aztecs? Seeing as the Aztecs thought that the invading white men were gods, I would convince him that not only was I a God, but that he was in the very city which the gods call holy. I'd be roommates with George Harrison. Cool mellow dude who's not afraid of a little bit of fun. What's not to love?
No, he says Martha Joe. He gets confused between Martha Washington (George's wife) and the fact that Mary Todd had a double barrel name, with the second being usually a guy's name.
Genesis Rhapsodos Did he? We praise Tesla and call Edison a dick these days. We make Tesla the hero of our video games and Edison the villain. Not sure that Tesla would be so unhappy. ;-)
Think about it, Tesla spent most of his career working on DC instead of AC, so he'd probably spent the entire night ranting about how the world would be a better place if people were using DC. And we only call Edison a dick because everyone feels bad for Tesla.
Genesis Rhapsodos No, we call Edison a dick because he was a dick. And the world these day using quite a lot of DC, some of the more ambitious plans about using solar power in big desserts are totally based on superconductors dc lines to connect for example the european grid with powerplanets in the sahara. Those long-distance connections would be not efficient enough with AC. Kind of ironic considering how it used to be the other way around. And btw, Edison was a strong supporter from DC. They guy killed literally people, cats and even an elephant to scare the public from AC. Westinghouse used actually quite a lot Tesla patents to win the war of current against Edison, though that naturally turned not very well for Tesla either. ;-)
I recently read something (might have been on Cracked, not sure) that there isn't actually any evidence that Hitler died in the bunker where he supposedly died. The skull fragment wasn't his, etc. etc. etc. I won't go too much into it, I'm sure that information is available elsewhere. But going with the assumption that Hitler did not, in fact, die in the bunker, how great would it be if some time traveler from like, the year 3000, traveled back in time to the moment right before Hitler shot himself in the face, and snatched him, brought him to the future, did the exact thing you're talking about (fucked with him using future shit, lol the Nazis lose, check it out, I've got a computer embedded in my FACE, I can beam my thoughts into your brain with my smartphoneearchip, etc.) and then shot Hitler... IN THE FUTURE. How fucking great would that be, seriously?
guys you are messing with history,colombus did jackshit, he just descover that was more that were on maps. americo vespucius discover that was a continent, which is called america. if not america were called colombia. irony? from the map of the cost of which is today brazil, then spain, portugal, england, france and the rest start to conquer the shit out of everything. the same process that was happend with africa, asia and oceania. even that colombus just die poor. even without columbus probably will be another guy.
Dinner - Ernest Hemingway: he'd be fascinating as a dinner companion, but I feel any more than one dinner might result in permanent liver damage. Fuck with - Vladimir Lenin. He never got to find out how his whole communism thing went. Flatmate - Ada Lovelace. She seems like someone whose mind would constantly be moving to new things and whose company you'd never get bored of. Sleep with - Julie d'Aubigny. Famed beauty of the Paris Opéra in the age of the Sun King and master swordswoman and victor of many duels. How can you go wrong?
I'd choose Casanova, a charming dinner and a sure to be a satisfactory ending (if you know what I mean) or Nicola Tesla, that is guaranteed to be an interesting conversation
Dinner and Sex? Well, I'd have to go with Mochizuki Chiyome, because, after Takeda Shingen's death, she vanished without a trace, and I'm curious as to what she did after his death. Plus, sex with the very first female ninja, and the one who made female ninja's an actual thing? Yes please!
Dinner with Walt Disney, he seems like a creative mind and would be fun to bounce ideas off of. Screw with Adam and Eve, they were the first humans on earth so imagine how stupefied they would be by EVERYTHING. roommates with Einstine, he was a genius he would be good to have around. Sex with Eve, being the first human in a perfect world created by God directly, she'd have to be beautiful.
Actually, the life win is bringing back Benjamin Franklin, letting people know you did that, then getting rid of him and posing as him so you're benjamin franklin from now on
I really thought for the longest time that Hitler's can said "AB" as if he were drinking blood due to the unadulterated evil in his heart, but then I realized that it was Tab soda.
I've watched this again. I don't think they even scratched the surface here. I demand a sequel to this one.
+Zachs Mind Can of worms it?
why did you guys abandoned the channel the most recent episode was one year ago
Ron_Ferguson Ron_Ferguson I was wondering that too. They stopped making videos right when I discovered it.
+Ron_Ferguson Ron_Ferguson they still make videos, the most recent After Hours was last week
+Zachs Mind They don't even have the right mindset. Do they pluck the person out of any point of history or just when they die?
The world needs more After Hours.
yes yes it does forever and ever
SarKasTiK MasTerMinD Amen
Alice Liddell they've all been fired now so it's dead now.
Dan is making his own version called Off Hours. Look it up.
Helen of Troy is the best choice if you're a dude. Think about it. The most beautiful woman who ever lived. Sex with her.
I was going to choose John Lennon as a dinner companion. Then I realized that he'd probably rather spend that precious time seeing Yoko, Julian and Sean, maybe even Paul, Ringo and George Martin. And that makes me think that famous folks with living survivors might want the same thing. "Why am I having dinner with this nameless loser when I could be talking to my loved ones?!"
Yes, but then I'd get to hang out with all those people as well. Sean seems cool too.
wasnt he like a super terrible dad to julian tho?
@@degrassi420 he use to beat his son and wife and Julien went deaf from in one ear due to it. He was only a nice person to Yuko.
George Orwell. I'm sure he'd have lots to say about the modern world. As for sex...I believe both George and I would be satisfied with a polite handshake.
you mean he'd be completely unsurprised that he predicted the future?
How does newspeak currently exist?
Newspeak was intentionally removing words to prevent thoughtcrime.
That in no way is currently happening.
If anything, what I see happening is we keep making up new words all the time and getting bigger, more easily used databases to keep track of them, so we ultimately can express ourselves more accurately.
But we're also socializing with a greater number of people than ever before, leaving us with the knowledge that most people are content to ignore that vast, easily accessed trove of language treasure in favor of abusing the word 'literally'.
***** Can you point to some examples of the news actually being edited to avoid offending people in the contemporary sense of the word 'triggered'? Sometimes I think the pushback against the trend of political correctness results in people making things up, or assuming something's been softened when it hasn't.
Kuroba Agreed, Kuroba. The original use of 'trigger warnings' were primarily for people with post-traumatic stress or something similar. It didn't just mean 'this might offend someone' or 'people might have heated conversation on this topic', which, in some places and contexts, is what it has come to mean. The point being, they aren't a flawed idea.
Moreover, the myth that 'social justice warriors' are A) a single collective with one goal in mind and B) powerful enough to force the media to censor itself is nothing more than paranoia.
Sex seems like bad with all historians you know cause ancient STDs
RandomOtakuNerd have you heard of protection
Luke is triggered yeah but they still could give you some disease.
Helen of Troy is the best choice if you're a dude. Think about it. The most beautiful woman who ever lived. Sex with her.
Helen of Troy. I mean come on, beeing able to say you sleept with the gal who launched a thousand ships. Kinda hard to top that in the sex department.
"I freed the slaves... as a GOOF!" That's the best thing I've ever heard. And I'd hang with Caligula but I wouldn't get freaky with him or anything. He might murder me in my sleep.
"might"?
***** Okay, "would definitely".
KillerDuckasaurus "Murder", definitely. "In your sleep"? Debatable.
Helen of Troy is the best choice if you're a dude. Think about it. The most beautiful woman who ever lived. Sex with her.
I wish they would upload more of these. I'm pretty sure I've seen every After Hours at least twice.
At least 6 times
And that's not to be ashamed of.
Katie and Soren are the actors, the other names are the writers.
Those are the animators, the person who draws the little thought animations and such when they're talking. The show is written by the four of them, they've explained it in another thing.
How, oh host of deities, HOW does this post not have more likes?
The answer to all questions is obviously Nikola Tesla circa 1890 - you could have interesting dinner conversation about scientific discoveries made after his time. He'd freaking love wifi. Then take a drive with him in a car with his name on it (to mess with him). Living with him would be fine because he was always working and also, according to his secretary, apparently just a lovely person. Then... of course... get all up on that brainy bod because have you seen the guy? He was 6'2", had light eyes, dark hair, handsome as hell and looked after himself. Yes please!
+MissFotini Show him "The Prestige".
Yea... he was also rather celibate. Not sure how much "Getting all up on that brainy bod" would be happening. Which as per your description, definitely drives the point that it was totally by choice.
Anthony Sforza He was celibate but also, time travel/resurrection is not a thing. If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to accommodate breaking the laws of physics then I don't think it so outlandish that the man would have sex (and have that sex with me).
MissFotini
Well... speaking in the aforementioned hypotheticals, I can see what you mean. Though I sometimes wonder that if one were to actually be able to do such a thing and bring someone like Tesla into the present... would they go right back t doing their work? Or, being in a future that has exceeded their work, would they spend the rest of their time trying to catch up.
+Anthony Sforza It's possible, with the new technologies available, he'd pioneer in a different direction all together!
"You write words non competitively.... that's just... like talking..."
As someone that always makes a competition out of talking I take offence to that qoute
The problem with a lot of those historical figures is that if you go back far enough, most of them that were described as beautiful/handsome belonged to cultures with different standards of beauty. Maybe Helen of Troy was considered beautiful because she weighed 250 pounds (pleasingly plump), and because of her magnificently huge, majestic nose and really, really big hair-do.
Maybe a beautiful historical Chinese woman had one thing and one thing only going for her . . . tiny feet . . . in a culture where men obsessed over tiny feet. She might have had a body like Danny DeVito, a big hairy mole on her cheek, and a crooked nose, but the men who wrote the accounts about her beauty that we read today only had eyes for her tiny, tiny feet.
Or consider the amount of hair-styling and makeup a rich, royal woman could afford versus a commoner. Ever see female stars without makeup? Most of them look rather drab. In such a world, where only the rich use cosmetic enhancements, someone might turn up their nose at the commoner version of Scarlett Johansson in order to ooh and ah over the royal glammed up version of Rosie O'Donnell. Basically I'm saying Helen of Troy might have looked like Rosie O'Donnell.
Eh, I'd still bone.
I'd like Helen Of Troy best out of these descriptions
so true and insightful
While very true, I would still bone Helen of Troy because well...they started a war over her. Super hot or not still would bang.
Doubtful that Helen looked like that. She was originally from Sparta, and Spartan women were expected to be athletic (so they could better produce Spartan men).
Shakespeare. And before y'all say anything, the artist who painted the Bard didn't paint or draw anything but that face, and he did it AFTER his death. So we don't really know what he did look like, so hopefully he was a hunk of some caliber. Also, he seemed pretty open minded when it came to relationships and people (a midsummer nights dream, othello, as you like it) so it wouldn't be that embarrassing taking him around cause he would take every gender and race as like a poetic statement or some bullshit. Soooooo yea I would shake his speare.
"Boo! Third insult!"
I feel like Katie's Brain was checked out in the writers room during this one, which is why Katie's character gets distracted with the phone in the sketch.
@@boydstephensmithjr *chucked
😂😂"RRRAPE EM!"
I'd Take Alexander Hamilton to the new musical about him and ask him about it.
HAMILTON!!!! YASSS. But you would have to bring him back from the dead, not just teleport him here because if you took him before his son was born but when Eliza was pregnant it would be shocked to see what would happened. Alexander cheated on Eliza while she was visiting her father and his first son Phillip died in a duel he was going to happen. If saw everything that was going to happen he could possibly prevent his son's and his own premature death and stop himself from cheating on Eliza with Maria Reynolds.
agreed! I love how thought out this response is btw.
"... Why am I being played by a Spaniard?"
No, I'm pretty sure he would call Miranda whatever the slur for Mexicans was back then.
Now where is that fanfic...
Or take Thomas Jefferson to that musical, wait for him to say something racist, disprove his argument and close with "I thought that was self-evident." Then high-five someone.
There are so many historical figures I'd love to meet, but if I had to pick just one, it would be Edgar Allan Poe.
William Mcallen
I think Sun Tzu would be interesting (provided we had a way of talking to each other). Korean Naval commander Yi Sun-shin would also be a great person to talk to. A general who took the role of admiral without any prior Naval experience and never lost a battle.
If you want to know more about his insane feats of naval battle then read his wiki entry because he is a badass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin
We have far more women than Cleopatra. Any queen from history, any revolutionary, any pioneer in any field. Amelia Earhart (especially if she looks like Amy Adams), Joan of Arc (especially if she looks like Milla Jovovich), Audrey Hepburn (especially if she looks like Audrey Hepburn from "My Fair Lady"), etc., etc., etc. I think they cut that short just so Dan would have time to talk about Ben Franklin.
Joan of arc died when she was still a teenager so I really hope you don't want to sleep with her.
She died at 19...ish. The record isn't exact. Besides, do you really think that would stop Michael Swaim, or even Dan or Soren?
+PaperbackWizard it would definitely stop Dan because of his nueroses. and it would stop soren because he can afford to be picky so I doubt he'd take kind of risk.
Dan is 30 years old now, which made him about 25, 26 the time they were shooting this video; not that much of an age difference in his case. No idea how old Soren is, but he has to be around the same age, maybe even younger. Besides, Joan of Arc was hardly a naïve little schoolgirl. She was a warrior who led entire armies and consorted with kings. Soren and Daniel are the ones who would be out of their leagues.
ThePapermage duuuude, don’t dis on cleopatra though. She wasn’t actually particularly beautiful. Just really, REALLY smart. Like, this chick knew ten languages, and actually worked her butt off to get where she got. I’d LOVE to have a good long conversation with her.
2:57 Swaim's way of saying "Rape Him!" makes me laugh every time
"He could handle that. He was a hunter." Teddy Roosevelt was the most influential conservationist known to history, and hunters today are the biggest funders of conservation efforts today.
Teddy Roosevelt took land from Native Americans to make these parks, and modern hunters do very little for conservation. A 2018 act meant to increase spending on American conservation put $29.5 billion into the problem while over the last sixty years hunters have managed about $5.5 billion.
I'd choose to sleep with Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire. According to contemporary and court scribe Procopius, she was astoundingly beautiful, intelligent and had a lot of sexual skills, due to her being an actress (which at the time also meant prostitute).
My first thought was ono no komachi, a haien era poet featured in the "ogura hyakunin isshu." She had a great many suitors in her time at the emperor's palace. And was said to be as well as an amazing poet, very beautiful too.
I WOULDNT choose Cleopatra to bang
she was a child of incest
I would be roomates with Elvis
and have him kick the drugs
You couldn't tell Elvis what to do sorry
weren't haien period women expected to blacken their teeth? As in ink their teeth to make them appear black?
sumguy0110 yes, that was a thing they did in the haien period.
Ok, TECHNICALLY, Mary Todd Lincoln was NOT the love of Lincoln's life because he was completely down with Ann Rutledge, but she died, and he was so depressed his friends hid all the sharp things from him so he wouldn't kill himself. That's how much he was smitted. After that, Lincoln married Mary Todd, but everyone hated her, which if I may bring up is the reason why General Ulysses S. Grant was not at the theater the day of the shooting. Mary Todd was an abusive bitch, people called her the "the hellcat." She was also thought to be emotionally unstable. Overall, their marriage was shit-faced, emotionally unstable, and fucked up, mostly because their kids died (not all). The only time when they actually seemed like a married couple is before the show at Ford's Theater when the war was over and they relaxed.Thus proving that Mary Todd was not the love of his life, plus, we don't know if he was over Ann so, he could be faking his love in order to hide his true feelings.I HAVE A PHD IN AWESOMENESS AND YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE INVALID.
So after all her nagging he finally takes her on a date to the theatre and gets assassinated halfway through. Poor guy, sometimes you can never win.
Okay, to be fair, Mary Todd clearly had some kind of mental issue that nobody recognized in her lifetime. In fact, historians nowadays suggest that she was bipolar. It isn’t fair to blame her for struggles that were beyond her control and even her comprehension.
He also had a weirdly close friendship for the time with his bodyguard. So either way I don't think he would care much about her.
I always wish these were longer. Lol.
bow chica wow wow
That's what she said lol
Hitler's reaction to being brought back to life:
Damn! The hell kind of pills did I take?!
Saddam Hussein Take him to a Synagogue.
Saddam Hussein "dang man I took the pills from that other bottle on accident"
yeah in my imagination Hitler says "dang"
Gaunt Host "The Russians have taken the city, it's only a matter of time now."
"Dang it to heck, I'm just as flustered as can be. Gosh this war went poorly."
*****
I'm an internet troll that goes by the name of Saddam Hussein and I casually joke about racism and genocide; Yeah PC riddled is exactly what I am.
Oh Saddam, you silly twit ! Hitler didn't take ANY pills - he shot himself with his Walther PPK !
Love when Soren does his adorable smile >___
I love that Soren has a thing for Susan B Anthony. Personally I wouldn't want to meet someone I'm obsessed with but at the same time I would love to meet Einstein or Tesla. I wouldn't mind a roll in the hay with James Dean. If I was going to have to choose to live with someone it would be Mark Twain because he seems like he had a great sense of humor.
This is one of my favourite episodes because it's not just about fiction and pop culture i.e. movies and tv, it's about history and historical figures.
Dinner with Biggie Smalls. My first question: "Who shot ya?"
Second question: Have you heard the remix of you and Thomas the Tank Engine?
Wasn't me.
"how is old martha jones" OH MY GOD SHES A COMPANION IN DOCTOR WHO AND I JUST REALIZED THIS
The answer to all questions is Oscar Wilde. Or maybe Mary Shelley. nO BOTH
Hell Yeah!
welp...thats it... the internet has no king, but only because benjamin franklin is not currently alive.....
I say franklin becomes the unoffical-offical post-mortum king of the internet
...i've watched this one a couple times. I don't think Katie ever got around to answering the last question. Obviously not Ben Franklin. The guy probably had multiple counts of syphilis.
Who hasn't?
It wouldn't interest her, not her thing
"Third insult!" That's me in every argument once I lose my point
Historical figure i would sleep with: Empress Claudia Octavia (poor Octavia), by all accounts she was a very virtuous good woman, who was cheated on by her husband (God dammit Nero), accused by said husband of being infertile as an excuse to divorce her so he can marry his mistress, and exiles Octavia. Then when the public outcry got too much he agreed to lift her banishment, only to have her secretly killed (she was only 22). And she was apparently rather attractive. Either her or Joan of Arc. Because who wouldn't want to say they got Joan of Arc to, how do I put this, "Jump your broadsword"...
Am I the only one who has a huge crush on Katie Willert?
0:47 Actually, the bison population was below 100 in Roosevelt's time. In 1883 he went on a trip to hunt a bison before they became extinct. Protecting and growing the bison population was one of the prime motivations for his environmentalism, so he'd likely feel a great amount of pride at how many bison are alive today.
1:39 .... that unnerving smile. It haunts me always...
I've heard Albert Einstein was a total panty charmer, and he would anyway make an interesting conversation partner.
4:35 - Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra, and Susan B. Anthony are the only women who ever lived, but women get to choose from every "great historical figure" - war-mongering old men who mostly believed women were property. Woo, can't wait to get in that time machine and go back to when wife-beating was legal.
For the sake of humor, Daniel the resident history expert is forgetting Helen of Troy, Nefertiti, Anne Boleyn's hot sister, Sappho the song-writer practically deified by the ancient Greeks and Romans (who was bisexual, "Lesbian" was her nationality), Matahari the original "femme fatale", the Bronte sisters - all three of them why not, Louise Brooks the quintessential libertine flapper, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and plenty of other beautiful actresses and also singers of recent times, Empress Josephine of France who inspired countless love letters from one of history's most successful military commanders, there are so many. Those are just off the top of my head, and just the pretty/sexy ones - not the ones who made a difference in history. Even if you're just going on physical attractiveness (which they aren't for the men but whatever) history is full of stories of women whose beauty drove people insane.
Or, just go back to any time and charm any woman you find attractive with the novel act of treating her like a human being.
+Jessica Lee i love u
Or maybe he was just naming his personal female idols of history?
kevinthediltz Nah, I mean _what he was doing was making a joke,_ but the way he said it "We've got Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra, and maybe Susan B. Anthony, and you've got every great historical figure..." he clearly wasn't focused on his preferences, he was saying "we" (the guys) have a lack choice compared to Katie.
I still stand by my counter-argument. I think they mostly have better choices.
Aye sleeping with any major male historical figure is gonna be dissapointing, I mean shit is Genghis Khan gonna know how to make a girl cum?
+Scrooge McFuck he had his own harem dude had more sex in a month then you'll have in your life
Hmmm... Katie Willart for all three? Funny, intelligent, beautiful?
I choose Sacajawea for all of them. I would move in with her, then I would take her to dinner in order to get with her then I would start messing with her for fun because we would be great friends and can do that without hard feelings.
"Blast it what are these infernal sun orbs, and so forth" xD
Dinner with Elvis (he would tell INSANE sex stories, and I could tell him about all of the alien rumors)
Screw with Ed Wood (because it would just be funny)
Roommates with Arthur Conan Doyle (he could vent about how Sherlock Holmes is his most famous work despite the fact that he hated it), or Harry Houdini (because MAGICIAN), or possibly BOTH if I could (they were apparently good friends. Also imagine the concept for a sitcom. A magician and famous author from the past rooming with a chubby otaku? I smell shenanigans)
Sex with Jimi Hendrix (have you seen him? Dayum) Mary Shelly (I'm a young female writer, she's a young female writer, it would be a good time).
Elvis which version, the guy as his peak or fat guy at the end of his life.
Cleopatra was a solid six out of ten with a hook nose. In all actuality she was witty and great at seduction so the Greeks instead of saying they were seduced by someone who was around average in looks decided to replace seduction with looks in stories.
there is no real truth about what she actually looked like. to the greeks she could have been ugly but to us modern people she could have been very beautiful
houseofaction well there are coins depicting her.
SR2XO that in itself is not proof for all we know those could have been made incorrectly
houseofaction
but they are the only representation we have visually of her looks.
SR2XO visually but one thing is. all the depictions of her are her supposed egyptian aappearance you see she was actually greek and but had her self depicted with Egyptian like features even though she was 100% greek
The thing about a lot of historical figures is being able to communicate with them. Even 100 years ago people talked much differently. You would definitely need to use only proper English. I would bring back someone like tesla or Einstein or Hawking. That would be my contribution to society
I love the way you guys derail in your conversations... just go off track and then come back and then go off track again. Feels so natural, i love it. And Michael is hilarious! I love you Michael!!! When are we making babies?!
What about failed scientist like tesla? The support he gets today would clearly spark and interest in reinventing some of his long lost ideas. Or how about going back in time and having dinner with so,wine verse them coming to our present time.
Dinner and sex = Lucian Freud, Nikola Tesla, and William Shakespeare in their respective primes.
Some historians actually believe that william shakespeare wasn't actually a real person, or that his name was just used a a cover for multiple playwrights considering the quantity and varying genres of his plays. Theater was looked down upon in Victorian society and was actually illegal in London, so it seems like it might be possible. It would be interesting to pick Shakespeare and like twelve guys show up.
dawngrrrl wasn't tesla like celibate or something. I know he didn't do too much dating I doubt he be anything better than bragging rights
Grace Foskett Shakespeare was alive in Elizabethan London. Elizabeth I loved the theater. After the English revolution when the country was controlled by Cromwell and his supporters theater was made illegal. But this happened about 100 years after Shakespeare and 100 before the Victorian era. The early 1700s I believe. If youre going to go correct people on the internet can you at least TRY to get your facts straight?
Why does Daniel get so excited about her being able to have sex with Che Guevara, or put him in the same league as Martin Luther King Jr. For someone who supposedly has an encyclopedic knowledge on all sorts of stuff in order to tear down stuff that are usually popular and beloved, he seems very lacking and hipster-ignorant in that sentence.
Che Guevara was an AWFUL person. He created Cuba's first 'corrective work camp' (slave labor camp). Cubans who showed anything less tan love for Che were arrested, put into slave labor camps, or executed outright.
Che was also a cold-blooded murderer and hate-driven - in his own words. "“A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”
Che was a war mongerer - “We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. We must never give him a minute of peace or tranquility. This is a total war to the death.” and “If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City…We will march the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims…We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm.”
Che was also racist, which makes putting him in the same sentence as Martin Luther King Jr pretty disgusting. He wrote EXTENSIVELY about how white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, describing black people as "indolent" people who wasted their money on frivolity and drink.
Dude I've been watching this show for years now and seen every single episode like 20 times already. And the show is so witty and great that I just now realized that Dan says in 5:22 that he wants to die as Benjamin Franklin's queen, proving that Michael was right by saying he had "old fat inventor" thing 5:07. This show never ages, man.
Definitely Lord Byron. Not only was he bisexual (which is great for me), he had a lot of suitors (so you know he had to be at least cute) and he was a poet. He also had a fucked up childhood, so you know we'd have a lot of interesting conversations (and probably a lot of depressing ones, which i can deal with). He even loves travelling.
@TheAnonymousGuy
In the 1930s, the Catholics in America began to have political power, this was the first chapter of shift toward a less and less protestant United States. As their influence grew, they began using their power to publicize their faith to the people. One of the ways they did this was by putting up a Catholic role model for children to aspire to be. They chose Columbus, I don't know why, since he basically founded the transatlantic slave trade, but this was before MLKJ so no one cared, and they pressured FDR into making Columbus day a holiday. Not a holiday for centuries, actually one of the USA's most recent national holidays that are days off from public school. Popcorn day's more recent, but apparently we'd rather celebrate the founder of the transatlantic slave trade than corn snacks with days off.
This is from theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
Frankenstein was the scientist not the monster so you can't be a Frankenstein. Trolled.
Well, you could be his father, or a male-line decentant of his father i.e. one of the Frankensteins i.e. a Frankenstein. But, clearly Lincoln wasn't a Frankenstein that way; he was a Lincoln.
Considering the fact Hitler committed suicide as he was losing the war he wouldn't be too shocked.
Life win is not building vocabularies
Life win is having people build stuff in your honour
Frankenstein is not Frankenstein's Monster...
'Frankenstein's monster (also called Adam, Monster, Frankenstein's creature or just Frankenstein) is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In popular culture, the creature is often referred to as "Frankenstein" after his creator Victor Frankenstein, but in the novel the creature has no name.'
Also:
'the creature soon enough became best known in the popular imagination as "Frankenstein". This usage is sometimes considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of "Frankenstein" as well-established and not an error.' - Wikipedia
W0rldcarrier 'Modern Culture' refers to it incorrectly, and just because Wikipedia says some unreferenced 'usage commentators' believe the terminology of Frankenstein applies to Frankenstein's monster, it's still wrong.
When Mary Shelly's novel got transferred to movie form by Hollywood, the producers decided to change almost every detail from the novel, and since the majority of America has never read the original novel, most of 'modern society' goes on believing the movie(s) accurately depict(s) the novel.
For educational purposes, the novel never gave the monster a specific name, it was just referred to as 'Frankenstein's monster', 'the monster', 'the devil', 'demon', 'the creature', and various other derogatory terms. Victor Frankenstein was the creator of the monster, therefore the monster should never ever be referred to as 'Frankenstein' as they are completely two separate individuals. However, Hollywood decided they had to give the creature a name to make a good horror film, so their production department (who obviously didn't care about the original details anyway) transferred the name of the creator to the monster, thereby completely altering the meaning of Frankenstein, which is utter nonsense. It certainly doesn't help that another movie is coming out about this false persona of 'Frankenstein' which is just going to reaffirm 'modern culture's' ignorance to the lore.
Also:
"Your argument is wrong, in the future use something other than Wikipedia as your source, and pick up a book, preferably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, because you have obviously never read the book." -Me
***** Yes but you can not source Marry Shelly's book as the only legitimate reference material being that ,in a public discussion, one is talking about the general media persona of Frankenstein's monster; meaning despite what the original source material is, as a tool of language ,using frankenstein to refer to the monstrous person is an effective use of communication if not a more concise one if talking about the transmedial existence of him . Hollywood was still wrong for what they did ,but some one can refer to frankensteins monster in a context outside of the original work because it has transcended that state as a cultural influence .
P.S. some people should at least look at wikipedia's source sighted page on a subject before trying to argue . he disappoints me
Ch. 16: "from your papers, that you (Dr. Frankenstein) were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life?" This is said by the monster, clearly stating that Dr. Frankenstein is the creature's father and sons usually take the names of their fathers. Frankenstein might not be the creature's first name but it's certainly his last, just like it's Dr. Frankenstein's last so anyone who calls the creature Frankenstein isn't wrong. (Source: CRACKED and then my own copy to verify it)
W0rldcarrier him being called adam is a misconception, he asks the creator something like "should i not be adam?" likening himself to the biblical figure for being the first of his kind.
They referenced Histeria! I thought I was the only one who remembered that show!
im dying, a stone cod pimp is the most accurate statement of ben franklins character ever!
The trick for dinner is someone who hasn't been dead long or still alive. One year tops.
hysteria reruns .... I understood that reference
Rewatching this and I finally have an answer.
Heath Ledger. Instead of dinner, I'd show him how The Dark Knight turned out, how people still love it today, how it's considered the best of the trilogy, and how loved and missed he is.
Oscar Wilde. Definitely Oscar Wilde.
This Topic NEEDS to be further explored.
I love Swaim's Lincoln voice each and every time I hear it!
Anybody else notice that the Susan B. Anthony coin first says "In God we trust" but when flipped, it says "Touch my suffrage" backwards? Cool. Sexy. Weird. I love it!
Lincoln would sound like the bad guy from who framed roger rabbit?
+john gun
Great scott!
How is this series so consistently hilarious AND smart?
2:35 Heh heh heh Oh.... I'm sad now.
Dinner:
Funnest figure to honestly talk to- For me, either Elizier Yudowsky or Jefferson (because I have nothing but contempt for the Louisana Purchase).
Funnest figure to screw with- Immanuel Kant. Would be fun to screw with him on his claims of absolute certainty, including in ethics. I think I could beat or at least hold my own against him.
Roommmates: Either Elizier Yudowsky on the one hand, or David Hume on the other. Hume because his philosophy is superior even to many moderns and I think given a second chance with the benefit of modern experience a mind of his caliber would advance us years. And I'd be on the ground floor.
Sex: Cleopatra is a daft option- she'd resent it greatly. What you need is a figure with legendary beauty who's relatively pragmatic about these things. Monroe is out for similiar reasons.
Honestly I have no idea, but I'd choose somebody with legendary beauty who really didn't have a problem with being promiscious. As a bonus, this means experience in bed.
who wouldnt resent the sex?
Samuel Russel Perhaps a figure who was used to using her beauty to climb the social ladder and freely chose to put out for men to pursue that goal? That presents it's own problems, but it clearly isn't rape and the figure in question wouldn't be out for revenge.
There are some ridiculously famous prostitutes, that became so powerful from whoring around that they may have well been rulers, some of them where at that point but would just rather have sex from what we can see looking back at it.
I cant think of names, but probably wouldn't take too long to figure it out. Iv heard of some that lived in Rome and Italy area in well roman time so.... the part of Rome that is now Italy I suppose would be a better way to say that
edit: an example of this would be Phryne, considered an incredible beauty and would still be today, she had many lovers, and was used as a model for several depictions of Aphrodite. Its also possible her beauty got her out of a death sentence.
Neaira is the best documented prostitute from ancient Greece... ended up marrying a quite wealthy and power full man (may have been who i was thinking of originally.
Helen of Troy may also be considered, I don't know how ok she would be with it though.... but heck she, if not just fiction, well caused the biggest get your hands off my woman fight ever because of her beauty.
Dinner: H.P. Lovecraft
Sex: Cleopatra
Mess with: Andrew Jackson
Roommates: Leonardo da Vinci
Vax I wouldn't mess with Andrew Jackson. He's a very dangerous man.
I love you guys for making these again.
my answers in order:
1. Einstein
2. Rasputin
3. Tesla
4. Joan of Arc
Andrew Jackson and his Vice President.
im with on the joan of arc thing though show her every version of her in fictional media
Simi-Random American things why
is that really how Americans write Jeanne d'Arc !?
yes, yes it is.
That's easy, Jerry Reed. I could listen to him talk, pick guitar and sing for hours. He was handsome.
For the record i would sleep with gertrude stein
@ithoughthewaswith可 I would be into that tbqh
watching this in 2020 is wild
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“building my vocabulary” implies that she is learning new words from a 12 year old
I'd have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi. I could have a long, insightful conversation with him about several topics and the best part is, he'd probably be fasting at that time so my bill wouldn't be too hefty XD
I'd mess with Montezuma . . .you know, leader of the Aztecs? Seeing as the Aztecs thought that the invading white men were gods, I would convince him that not only was I a God, but that he was in the very city which the gods call holy.
I'd be roommates with George Harrison. Cool mellow dude who's not afraid of a little bit of fun. What's not to love?
Nah Man Cuauhtémoc tell him that someone in his kingdom his secretly conspiring with the spaniards.
Robert A. Heinlein, Kim Jong il(I'd show him what his son was up to since he died), Mark Twain.
Lincoln actually grew the neckbeard because he looked totally goofy without it.
Michael thinks that Abraham Lincoln's wife was Martha Jones, as in Martha Jones from Doctor Who? I don't even know where to begin! :D
Michael's character, I mean lol
No, he says Martha Joe. He gets confused between Martha Washington (George's wife) and the fact that Mary Todd had a double barrel name, with the second being usually a guy's name.
Ah!
I'm shocked no one has said young Stalin. Giggity XD!
Nikola Tesla?
You want to talk to and have sex, with a guy who would be angry that he lost to Edison
Genesis Rhapsodos Did he? We praise Tesla and call Edison a dick these days. We make Tesla the hero of our video games and Edison the villain.
Not sure that Tesla would be so unhappy. ;-)
Think about it, Tesla spent most of his career working on DC instead of AC, so he'd probably spent the entire night ranting about how the world would be a better place if people were using DC. And we only call Edison a dick because everyone feels bad for Tesla.
Genesis Rhapsodos No, we call Edison a dick because he was a dick.
And the world these day using quite a lot of DC, some of the more ambitious plans about using solar power in big desserts are totally based on superconductors dc lines to connect for example the european grid with powerplanets in the sahara. Those long-distance connections would be not efficient enough with AC. Kind of ironic considering how it used to be the other way around.
And btw, Edison was a strong supporter from DC. They guy killed literally people, cats and even an elephant to scare the public from AC. Westinghouse used actually quite a lot Tesla patents to win the war of current against Edison, though that naturally turned not very well for Tesla either. ;-)
Fair point, but I'd still go with my list
"Order him some peppers" *In weird Dan's voice* xD
The obvious answer is Eve.
"How is old Martha Jo?"
That made me crack up for some reason.
I recently read something (might have been on Cracked, not sure) that there isn't actually any evidence that Hitler died in the bunker where he supposedly died. The skull fragment wasn't his, etc. etc. etc. I won't go too much into it, I'm sure that information is available elsewhere.
But going with the assumption that Hitler did not, in fact, die in the bunker, how great would it be if some time traveler from like, the year 3000, traveled back in time to the moment right before Hitler shot himself in the face, and snatched him, brought him to the future, did the exact thing you're talking about (fucked with him using future shit, lol the Nazis lose, check it out, I've got a computer embedded in my FACE, I can beam my thoughts into your brain with my smartphoneearchip, etc.) and then shot Hitler... IN THE FUTURE.
How fucking great would that be, seriously?
Wait a second....THE TITLE MATCHES THE TITLE CARD IN THE VIDEO....AND it matches the transitional statement...
Bravo
guys you are messing with history,colombus did jackshit, he just descover that was more that were on maps. americo vespucius discover that was a continent, which is called america. if not america were called colombia. irony? from the map of the cost of which is today brazil, then spain, portugal, england, france and the rest start to conquer the shit out of everything. the same process that was happend with africa, asia and oceania. even that colombus just die poor. even without columbus probably will be another guy.
Dinner - Ernest Hemingway: he'd be fascinating as a dinner companion, but I feel any more than one dinner might result in permanent liver damage.
Fuck with - Vladimir Lenin. He never got to find out how his whole communism thing went.
Flatmate - Ada Lovelace. She seems like someone whose mind would constantly be moving to new things and whose company you'd never get bored of.
Sleep with - Julie d'Aubigny. Famed beauty of the Paris Opéra in the age of the Sun King and master swordswoman and victor of many duels. How can you go wrong?
I'd choose Casanova, a charming dinner and a sure to be a satisfactory ending (if you know what I mean) or Nicola Tesla, that is guaranteed to be an interesting conversation
Dinner and Sex? Well, I'd have to go with Mochizuki Chiyome, because, after Takeda Shingen's death, she vanished without a trace, and I'm curious as to what she did after his death. Plus, sex with the very first female ninja, and the one who made female ninja's an actual thing? Yes please!
"Every historical figure that's ever lived" -- ive seen this so many times and never caught that, is Katie bi? Also 'Boo, third insult!'
Went looking for this just because the phrase:
"....o..order him some peppers... R*PE HIM"
popped into my head out of nowhere again after years.
After Hours! My weekend is complete!
Dinner with Walt Disney, he seems like a creative mind and would be fun to bounce ideas off of. Screw with Adam and Eve, they were the first humans on earth so imagine how stupefied they would be by EVERYTHING. roommates with Einstine, he was a genius he would be good to have around. Sex with Eve, being the first human in a perfect world created by God directly, she'd have to be beautiful.
+the telekinetic rock Well, if we're including fictionnal characters...
Well Adam and Eve count for me cause of religion.
Actually, the life win is bringing back Benjamin Franklin, letting people know you did that, then getting rid of him and posing as him so you're benjamin franklin from now on
I love Katies hair here
I never noticed these videos had parental guidance ratings like TV shows. Interesting.
He's a genius that just don't know it haha.
I am hooked on After Hour lol
I really thought for the longest time that Hitler's can said "AB" as if he were drinking blood due to the unadulterated evil in his heart, but then I realized that it was Tab soda.
Really wish they would bring back the original 4 and bring back After Hours