Season 1

Great Minds with Dan Harmon

Season 1

2016tvEnded1 Season · 15 Ep
Comedy

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Network: History

Season aired: 2016-02-25

Overview

Writer Dan Harmon has his assistant Spencer Crittenden construct a time machine to transport historical figures from the past so he can interview them. The interviewees only survive for a few hours before undergoing a "total protoplasmic disconversion" and collapsing into dust, which Spencer collects in a jar.

Episodes · 15

1
1

Ludwig van Beethoven

2016-02-25

Given a hearing aid, Beethoven hears some of his most famous compositions for the first time.

2
2

Ernest Hemingway

2016-03-03

Dan attempts to bond with Hemingway over their common interests in drinking and writing, but is intimidated by his masculinity.

3
3

Thomas Edison

2016-03-11

Unsatisfied with the quality of his phonograph recording, Edison insists on recording a new version in a modern studio.

4
4

Mary Wollstonecraft

2016-03-18

Mary's arrival gives Dan a chance to express his feminism, but he is irritated by Mary's stern demeanor. Meanwhile, it is Spencer's birthday.

5
5

William Shakespeare

2016-03-24

Shakespeare is unimpressed by Community, preferring the bawdy comedy film Dirty Grandpa.

6
6

Idi Amin

2016-03-31

Amin's arrival fulfills Dan's desire for ethnic diversity, until he takes the office hostage.

7
7

Betsy Ross

2016-04-14

Betsy's racism discomforts Dan until they broach the subject of Bernie Sanders.

8
8

Amelia Earhart

2016-04-21

Amelia is disappointed with her legacy of getting lost, and sets out to prove that she is indeed still alive.

9
9

Sigmund Freud

2016-04-28

Freud arrives just in time, as Spencer refuses to use catchphrases written for him by Dan.

10
10

Edgar Allan Poe

2016-05-05

Poe undermines Dan's need to impress a History Channel executive, who falls for Poe. Dan and Spencer attempt to influence their date to secure an additional run of episodes.

11
11

Buddha

2016-06-10

The Buddha participates in a series of product placements, making Dan feel guilty.

12
12

John Wilkes Booth

2016-06-17

Booth emphasizes his skills as an actor rather than his notoriety as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

13
13

Ada Lovelace

2016-06-25

After they bond over their shared love of coding, Ada convinces Spencer to convert his body to code and join her in virtual reality.

14
14

John F. Kennedy

2016-07-01

Kennedy is accidentally transported along with a spider, creating an additional half-Kennedy-half-spider being which cocoons the crew.

15
15

Harry S. Truman

2016-07-16

Dan takes Truman to a gay bar to teach him about gay rights and desperately pander to LGBT critics.

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