
Great Minds with Dan Harmon
2016 · 1 season · 15 episodes · Comedy
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.
Seasons
1 season · 15 episodes- 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
25 Feb 2016
Given a hearing aid, Beethoven hears some of his most famous compositions for the first time.
- 2
Ernest Hemingway
3 Mar 2016
Dan attempts to bond with Hemingway over their common interests in drinking and writing, but is intimidated by his masculinity.
- 3
Thomas Edison
11 Mar 2016
Unsatisfied with the quality of his phonograph recording, Edison insists on recording a new version in a modern studio.
- 4
Mary Wollstonecraft
18 Mar 2016
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
William Shakespeare
24 Mar 2016
Shakespeare is unimpressed by Community, preferring the bawdy comedy film Dirty Grandpa.
- 6
Idi Amin
31 Mar 2016
Amin's arrival fulfills Dan's desire for ethnic diversity, until he takes the office hostage.
- 7
Betsy Ross
14 Apr 2016
Betsy's racism discomforts Dan until they broach the subject of Bernie Sanders.
- 8
Amelia Earhart
21 Apr 2016
Amelia is disappointed with her legacy of getting lost, and sets out to prove that she is indeed still alive.
- 9
Sigmund Freud
28 Apr 2016
Freud arrives just in time, as Spencer refuses to use catchphrases written for him by Dan.
- 10
Edgar Allan Poe
5 May 2016
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
Buddha
10 Jun 2016
The Buddha participates in a series of product placements, making Dan feel guilty.
- 12
John Wilkes Booth
17 Jun 2016
Booth emphasizes his skills as an actor rather than his notoriety as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
- 13
Ada Lovelace
25 Jun 2016
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
John F. Kennedy
1 Jul 2016
Kennedy is accidentally transported along with a spider, creating an additional half-Kennedy-half-spider being which cocoons the crew.
- 15
Harry S. Truman
16 Jul 2016
Dan takes Truman to a gay bar to teach him about gay rights and desperately pander to LGBT critics.
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