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Crash Course (Web Video)
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Crash Course is a YouTube channel hosted by the VlogBrothers Hank and John Green, which brings Edutainment Show content to web video. The two set off to give comprehensive 'courses' in subjects that they're knowledgeable about, with more staff and professional production than the video blogs that they're primarily known for. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: John has a brief one in the Slavery video when he "learns" that John C. Calhoun was considered a respected statesman who achieved high office, including the Vice-Presidency, in his own time, rather than being relegated to the lunatic fringe, because of his pro-slavery views, which were extreme even by the standards of Antebellum America. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: In the "Big History" section, Hank mentions that bonobos are peaceful and "like hippies" because they are female-led when compared to the violent male-led chimpanzees. However, the studies Hank is referencing dealt with bonobos in captivity. Bonobos in the wild are just as violent as chimpanzees. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Stan, the camera man who is oft-referred to, but never seen... until World History 2(07), Humans & Energy, in which Stan subs in for John. Stan then hosts the Intellectual Property series (released Spring-Summer 2015). | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: In the Christianity Episode, right after John talks about circumcision it shows Abraham's family and a man cutting what turns out to be a log. In the War & Expansion episode, Green introduces the show by saying they would be seeing how America got its two biggest states: "Texas and ... California." Me-From-The-Past says, "Isn't the state you're looking for... Alaska?", a pun on John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska". | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
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In US History, the so-called "Libertage" has essentially become this, either following any mock-patriotic comment on American history, or being used to open the episode in some way. This has also crossed over into John's mental_floss videos on occasion. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Thrown in here and there in some videos. Especially the Psychology series, from Cookie Monster munching on his cookie in one video to a Corgi walking on a lamp, among other examples. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Points out that this is the real reason why barbarians get called that. BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Aristotle to John, as he claims so himself in the "Slavery" episode of US History. He also complains about Aristotle, for much the same reasons, in the "Atlantic Slave Trade" episode of World History, though he doesn't identify him as his arch-enemy in that case. | |
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Catharsis Factor | |
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Catharsis Factor: Mike discusses this idea in the Grand Guignol episode of the Theatre series, wondering why patrons would want to go to plays notorious for their bloody and grotesque imagery. | |
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Rubber-Hose Limbs | |
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Rubber-Hose Limbs: The art style used by Thought Cafe, the studio that creates every animated segment throughout the Crash Course series. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Present!John's message to College!John (for long time VlogBrothers fans, however, it's a Call-Back): | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: A throw-away sight gag in World History #4: "DID YOU KNOW? Fish live in water." "DID YOU KNOW? <name of historical figure> is dead." | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: The term "DFTBA" was apparently coined by Queen Elizabeth I. Egyptian men wear make-up inspired by 80's metal bands. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: John from the past suffers a lot of abuse from present John. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: The shot that accompanies the "unless you are the Mongols" Running Gag is from the 1963 film Hercules Against the Mongols. In "The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation," John mentions that the footage comes from "a racist Hercules movie from Italy in the 1950s." When John dismisses the idea of the Jews building the Pyramids in the "Ancient Egypt" episode, it cuts to footage from the 1923 silent version of The Ten Commandments. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: In the US History series, John repeatedly claims that Nathaniel Hawthorne was the only author of note in Antebellum America, completely ignoring such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, or even Washington Irving, not to mention all of the transcendentalist writers that he actually brings up in those same episodes just to mock. This is particularly strange, because not only is John a writer himself, but he also hosts Crash Course Literature. Despite what is said in the Protestant Reformation video, Martin Luther didn't come up with the first vernacular Bible. John apparently believes that military history consists solely of discussing the fighting. The reasons people are fighting, the logistics that support the combat forces, and what it's like to actually be a soldier in the field are all apparently irrelevant. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: Although they're obviously teaching the stuff (so the audience therefore doesn't know it), they still assume that you're all very smart and can handle university level information. The fact the YouTube videos can be paused and rewatched at will means they go pretty fast, with the knowledge that their students can review if they feel lost. Hank's videos especially invokes this, as they end with him reviewing what he had previously talked about and providing links to sections of the video if you do want to go back. | |
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Don't Try This at Home | |
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Don't Try This at Home | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
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Black-and-White Morality: In the case of World War II, John makes it clear who was the driving force behind the Axis. He even puts a disclaimer on his video on the resource-taking side of World War II that the traditional "Good Vs Evil" narrative is not false, even if it lacks nuance. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Encountering this in Real Life in relation to the The American Civil War was apparently what caused Me-From-The-Past to be struck speechless for the first time | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: Almost every episode contains one or two. Occasionally develops into a hurricane. | |
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Grandpa God | |
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Grandpa God: The animated segments of "Christianity from Judaism to Constantine" use God's design from the Sistine Chapel, bearded and covered in flowing red robes, with the only major difference is that the animation allows them to show God's beard constantly shaking with power. Taking from the Sistine Chapel's depiction, probably the most famous image of God, helps to immediately show visual learners what's being discussed and also prevents distracting from the lesson with any of the creator's own unique theological visions of the divine. | |
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Series Mascot | |
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Series Mascot: The Economics series uses Easy Squeezy, an anthropomorphic bottle of lemonade. He's often used as a stand-in for the corporate world. The Theatre series features Yorick, a skull typically held up with wires and often using props related to the topic of the episode. | |
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Measuring the Marigolds | |
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Measuring the Marigolds: Averted with Hank's science lectures, Crash Course Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, and Psychology taking a more targeted approach at various scientific disciplines. Part of what makes it work is Hank's obvious enthusiasm. | |
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Cultural Cringe | |
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Cultural Cringe: The US History series goes out of the way to avoid the typical Type I Eagleland style of American History taught in elementary and middle school and points out a lot of atrocities committed throughout US History or how women and minorities rarely benefited from major US events: | |
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I Hate Past Me | |
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I Hate Past Me: How John feels about his teenaged self. | |
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Giver of Lame Names | |
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In the World History videos, pointing out that historians are terrible at naming things. | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
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Not Hyperbole: John offhandedly mentions a couple times that there are only three Shakers left today. This sounds like a joke, but it's actually not. There's only one remaining Shaker community in the world (Sabbathday Lake in Maine) and it does indeed have three members.note Or did, rather - Sister Frances Carr died on January 2, 2017. Seriously. Their names are Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr. Their church banned marriage and reproduction, with this result. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: John's reaction in the "Capitalism and Socialism" episode when Mefromthepast changes into....Mefromcollege! | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: John has "Best wishes!" John's "As they say in my hometown, don't forget to be awesome!" Unless you're, wait for it, the Mongols! *mongoltage plays* And "Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity." Gah, stupid history, always disappointing me! In Crash Course Computer Science: "Another level of abstraction." *cue jingle* | |
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Always Male | |
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Always Male: Historical figures being called "The Great"note except Catherine the Great. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Kim Kardashian and The Situation get dissed on throughout the Alexander the Great episode. This seems to come out of John's scorn for shallow, self-centered people rather than any sense of rivalry or jealousy, however. "This video may be watched in some glorious future when Kim Kardashian and The Situation have mercifully disappeared from public life...Kim Kardashian is a professional famous person who initially rose to notoriety by scoodlypooping with someone named Ray Jay, and Mike "The Situation" I-Forgot-His-Last-Name is a professional stupid person with big muscles...The Situation is really good at picking up girls (of a certain type), and Kim Kardashian is good at...Stan, what is Kim Kardashian good at?" The whole "Battles of the Civil War" episode is pretty much a Take That at people who wanted more military history. John spends the whole episode listing major battles in chronological order and then declares at the end that we didn't learn anything. As some commenters have pointed out, we could have learned something if he had discussed the tactics and strategies of both sides rather than spewing a seven-minute bloc of contextless information. Crash Course Astronomy got in on the act with the title card showing a picture of Bill O'Reilly holding a book titled "Crash Course Astronomy" upside down and scratching his head. The topic of that particular episode was tides, mocking O'Reilly's previous statement characterising oceanic tides as some inexplicable, mysterious phenomonon. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Used here to make John feel a little better about the fact that Americans rarely deal with the problems the country faces. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: In John's videos, there's a character called Me-From-The-Past. He's John from the past, and John puts him down and takes jabs at him every chance he gets. Stan does the same thing in the Intellectual Property series. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In Literature, John replaces obscenities with the names of his favourite authors (or his least-favorite politicians, in the case of John C. Calhoun). Unless he's quoting something from an actual novel. Then it's okay to swear. | |
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Written by the Winners | |
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Written by the Winners: Discussed for the Vikings, as the Old Norsemen themselves had a very limited literal culture, and their reputation as brutal and bloodthirsty is based in part on accounts by victims of their raids, usually Christian monks who was very well-versed in writing things down. | |
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Hype Backlash | |
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Hype Backlash: In-Universe. John thinks the Crusades are highly overrated. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Scoodilypooping" has nothing to do with poop and everything to do with scoodling. The term comes from John and Hank's grandmother. A running gag on the US History course involves John invoking John C. Calhoun's name as a swear. | |
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Synchro-Vox | |
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Synchro-Vox: Used when notable historical figures are being quoted, set over a statue, portrait or photograph. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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The term "DFTBA" was apparently coined by Queen Elizabeth I. | |
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Accidental Truth | |
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Accidental Truth: From the Seven Years' War video: | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: In the History courses, almost every time war is mentioned it's accompanied by an image of guns or swords squaring off against empty, pleading hands and slaughtering them. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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American Eagle | |
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American Eagle: The US Government & Politics mini-series' host Wheezy Waiter has on his desk a rubber figure of a soaring bald eagle, which he occasionally strokes or punches clean off the table (depending on whether he especially likes or dislikes a particular aspect of the US political system, respectively). | |
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Running Gag | |
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The shot that accompanies the "unless you are the Mongols" Running Gag is from the 1963 film Hercules Against the Mongols. In "The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation," John mentions that the footage comes from "a racist Hercules movie from Italy in the 1950s." | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: If you turn on the captions, you'll find some extra snark courtesy of Meredith the Intern. [Usually through brackets.] | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In the episode discussing the Dark Ages, John finds a pair of champagne poppers in the secret compartment, but is confused as to why they are there. Later in the episode, he mentions that the Chinese invented gunpowder, leading to the development of explosives. Then he realizes why the poppers were in there. At the end of US Government and Politics, Craig, whose Running Gag is to punch a small plastic eagle on his desk, gets punched out by a man in an eagle suit. | |
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My Future Self and Me | |
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My Future Self and Me: Teenage!John (aka Mefromthepast) is somehow one of Present!John's students. The latter is mostly irritated by the former's shortsightedness and stupid comments. Stan uses a similar dynamic with his past self in the Intellectual Property series. | |
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