Great Minds with Dan Harmon
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Great Minds with Dan Harmon

2016 · 1 season · 15 episodes   ·  Comedy

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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. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    25 Feb 2016

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

  2. 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. 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. 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. 5

    William Shakespeare

    24 Mar 2016

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

  6. 6

    Idi Amin

    31 Mar 2016

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

  7. 7

    Betsy Ross

    14 Apr 2016

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

  8. 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. 9

    Sigmund Freud

    28 Apr 2016

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

  10. 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. 11

    Buddha

    10 Jun 2016

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

  12. 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. 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. 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. 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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