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The Abridged History
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Uncle trope to The Abridged Series, which parodies history in a similar fashion. The aim of this trope is to entertain rather than educate, making plenty of Historical In Jokes and generally playing by the Rule of Funny rather than sticking to boring facts. Genuine historical facts (the stranger the better) will be mixed in with debunked legends, anachronistic absurdities, and Historical Character Confusion. In books, expect each chapter to end in a textbook-like set of ridiculous exercises. Silly footnotes are also common. |
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Horrible Histories: As it is more edutainment than pure parody, the history is usually pretty accurate (for when the relevant book was written), but still mixed in with pretty merciless jokes. | |
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Horrible Histories: A comedy sketch series, where each episode is an anthology of sketches about different historical eras. | |
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Drunk History: An education series where comedians get drunk and narrate historical events to the best of their abilities which is acted out, with the actors lip-synching all the dialogue. | |
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates: Published in 1930 with a cheeky long title, making this trope Older Than Television. The text covers only the memorable parts of English history and gives special attention to all the Good Things that happened to make England C. of E. and a Top Nation. This two modern history sequels by different authors also qualify Nineteen Eighty Four And All That and Nineteen Sixty Six And All That. |
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history of the entire world, i guess: An abridged interpretation of history from the Big Bang to 20 Minutes into the Future. | |
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Dave Barry Slept Here | |
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Unbiased History: It's basically an abridged interpretation of Ancient Rome and in spite of the name, it actually is blatantly biased towards particular factions for laughs, sometimes even reinterpreting entire events in their favor. | |
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The Cartoon History of the Universe. Downplayed with this series by Larry Gonick. Although it does go quite a bit into actual history and facts and dates, the panels and commentary are drawn in a way that is meant to be both humorous and educational. | |
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America (The Book): It's a Satire of high-school textbooks about the history of American democracy and politics. | |
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Cunk On Britain. A parody of sweeping history documentaries on Britain complete with the same methods done by presenters and even the same stock music, presented by Philomena Cunk. Similarly Cunk On Earth parodies documentaries on world history. |
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OverSimplified: What did you expect? | |
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Year One: If we were to take all of the historical facts behind The Bible at face value, we'd get this film — a comedic Anachronism Stew of Bible Times and Ancient Rome. | |
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bill wurtz: history of the entire world, i guess: An abridged interpretation of history from the Big Bang to 20 Minutes into the Future. history of japan: It focuses on Japan specifically. |
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Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys by David W. Barber is a semi-serious take on this applied to the history of Classical Music; the history (largely biographies of major and/or interesting composers) is mostly accurate, but well-interspersed with jokes and silly footnotes. | |
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Histeria!: It's centered on comedic sketches loosely based on historical events and topics. | |
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History of the World Part II: a sequel series to Part I | |
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history of japan: It focuses on Japan specifically. | |
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