Horrible Histories
TV Show • 2009 • Comedy
ReportBased on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
This tv show contains 32 potentially triggering events.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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TodoketeKasane
But actors are seen trying to get away froms wasps in some outtakes
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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TodoketeKasane
Witch burnings.
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loopd121
Sketches about chimney sweeps and child labour in Victorian England
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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theskullinthejar
There is drunkenness but no abuse. And not much drunkenness.
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Is there decapitation?
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catsn0men
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ROTTEN ROMANS: 4:50-4:58 (after teacher asks for the homework to be handed in, he holds a decapitated head, while others are thrown into the background)
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Is someone burned alive?
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TodoketeKasane
The great fire of london is recreated in a parody of a cooking show, but nobody is actively burned alive.
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Is there a hanging?
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theskullinthejar
Not shown on screen.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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catsn0men
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SAVAGE STONE AGE: only audio, during the warning section of the Sharp Stone skit, implied finger injury (~16:55)
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Does someone fall to their death?
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ROTTEN ROMANS: bodies not shown after -- 1:47-1:50 (end of fight 1), 2:24-2:26 (end of fight 2)
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Is there eye mutilation?
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PUTRID PIRATES: 13:42-50 -- reference to losing an eye, then cutting to the person being referenced with an eyepatch on (after explaining why there was to be no fighting)
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Does a kid die?
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TodoketeKasane
Child death is talked about quite a bit (i.e, the possibility of a victorian child getting stuck in a chimney and never getting out.
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catsn0men
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ROTTEN ROMANS: 1:47-1:50 (body not shown after), 2:24-2:26 (body not shown after) | PUTRID PIRATES: soon after the phrase 'What doesn't know can't hurt him', there's a gunshot sound (assumed dead)
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Fear
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loopd121
There are people depicted in the afterlife being judged by the grim reaper in an x-factor parody. Very comical.
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Are there jump scares?
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TodoketeKasane
Godcompare could be seen as one on a first watch
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Are there clowns?
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fivepotatoeshigh
In one of the episodes, Vikings are putting on war make-up to make them look scary. One of them goes over-the-top and puts clown make-up on, however, it's very comical and isn't scary.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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fivepotatoeshigh
Here are the episodes that could be triggering in Series 1, I can add Series 2-5 if anyone wants, just add a comment asking for them and I'll add them in :)
EPISODE 1: In the 'Ready Steady Feast' sketch, the host g*gs after the soldier says "Oh look! Sausages". She is then s**k in the milk bucket (moment before, audio).
EPISODE 3: Man g*gs in shouty man sketch, could be triggering.
EPISODE 4: In the historical hospital sketch, the doctor drinks something and then says "I'm going to be s**k". He then v***ts (offscreen).
EPISODE 6: In the greek talk show sketch, Cronos v***ts his children after Zeus says "you're gonna s**k em' up". (no visual but children are covered in what looks like saliva and there is a build-up, I would skip this bit).
EPISODE 8: In the Georgian foods sketch, milk is shown and is said to include baby s**k, so part visual.
EPISODE 9: In the weather forecast sketch, it is said that there will be "some showers of v***t". There is then faint audio.
EPISODE 11: In the "Axe Factor" sketch, a woman v***ts after the line (TW: Gore): "Slitting people open and watching their stomachs fall out". It happens again a few seconds after.
EPISODE 13: 25 mins 30 seconds in (not sure what scene), a man (played by Mat) says "I think I'm going to th**w up". There is then faint audio.
EPISODE 1: In the 'Ready Steady Feast' sketch, the host g*gs after the soldier says "Oh look! Sausages". She is then s**k in the milk bucket (moment before, audio).
EPISODE 3: Man g*gs in shouty man sketch, could be triggering.
EPISODE 4: In the historical hospital sketch, the doctor drinks something and then says "I'm going to be s**k". He then v***ts (offscreen).
EPISODE 6: In the greek talk show sketch, Cronos v***ts his children after Zeus says "you're gonna s**k em' up". (no visual but children are covered in what looks like saliva and there is a build-up, I would skip this bit).
EPISODE 8: In the Georgian foods sketch, milk is shown and is said to include baby s**k, so part visual.
EPISODE 9: In the weather forecast sketch, it is said that there will be "some showers of v***t". There is then faint audio.
EPISODE 11: In the "Axe Factor" sketch, a woman v***ts after the line (TW: Gore): "Slitting people open and watching their stomachs fall out". It happens again a few seconds after.
EPISODE 13: 25 mins 30 seconds in (not sure what scene), a man (played by Mat) says "I think I'm going to th**w up". There is then faint audio.
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Is there farting?
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catsn0men
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FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR: 06:42-3 (basically the end of the British vs German lice skit, audio only)
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Is someone eaten?
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catsn0men
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PUTRID PIRATES: Ears were eaten - 12:45-12:50 (only audio explanation of the answer 'B: Cut off his ears')
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Is there audio gore?
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loopd121
Splash screens between sketches use sounds of blood splatter quite often.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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theskullinthejar
There is a sketch about Georgian I think it was mental asylums and a sketch about George III being treated for insanity by incompetent doctors but it wasn't graphic or anything, I don't think.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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fivepotatoeshigh
There are many scenes throughout a few of the series which are meant to be a historical parody of casualty (pretty sure it is anyway), so yes, there are hospital scenes. Nothing graphic is ever shown though and anything shown is always comedic.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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loopd121
A depiction of what the vikings believed the afterlife was like involving a small corridor.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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loopd121
In the news parody sections with Mike Peabody
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Does a baby cry?
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TodoketeKasane
A small baby whine during the english monarchs song.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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theskullinthejar
In the Henry VII song.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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catsn0men
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PUTRID PIRATES: 10:36-9, 10:41-5, 11:47-11:54 (Black Spot skit, everytime a black spot was seen)
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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loopd121
In depicting George III's mental decline
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Are there fat jokes?
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TodoketeKasane
Specifically towards Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, and George IV.
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Race
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cha0ticneutralsys
Brownface sometimes, like in Ancient Egypt segments.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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TodoketeKasane
Thumbelina drowns in poo when she tries to walk the streets in Tudor London (streets were six inches deep in poop, Thumbelina was only six inches tall). We don't actively see her struggling, just her hat floating as air bubbles slow to a halt.
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Is there blood/gore?
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theskullinthejar
It's a kid's show, so it's done in a comedic unrealistic way.
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