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March 29, 2020

Armchair Classics: The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Filed under: History, Humour, Middle East — Tags: BronzeAge, Mesopotamia, Mythology, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 17 Aug 2015

CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This video no longer meets my standards of quality for historical research and presentation. I made this one in the days long past, when the question of “How do I make an entertaining and historically interesting video” was answered by “IDK, memes I guess?”. Take the video above with a grain of salt and enjoy the jokes for now. We have a replacement planned, so stay tuned.

Hailing from Mesopotamia, it’s the Epic Of Gilgamesh!

Gregory brings you yet another dose of knowledge from the comfort of his comfy chair.

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March 25, 2020

Armchair History: The Borgia

Filed under: Europe, History, Italy, Politics, Religion — Tags: Corruption, OverlySarcasticProductions, Papacy, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 30 Jun 2015

CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This video no longer meets my standards of quality for historical research and presentation. I made this one in the days long past, when the question of “How do I make an entertaining and historically interesting video” was answered by “IDK, memes I guess?”. This video in particular was an experiment with a shorter format, and is by no means definitive history. Take the video above with a grain of salt and enjoy the jokes.

In what could be a landmark in terms of progress, Overly Sarcastic Productions has decided to start making SHORT videos as well as rather long ones.

The Borgias were one messed up family, I tell you what.

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March 21, 2020

Modern Classics Summarized: Stranger In A Strange Land

Filed under: Books, Humour, Religion — Tags: 1960s, Mars, Occult, OverlySarcasticProductions, RobertHeinlein, Sexuality, SF — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 20 Mar 2020

This book is:
10% Mike
20% stars
15% concentrated power of mars
5% water
50% cult
and 100% topics that are very adult

This video was requested by our longtime patron Joshua A. Demic!

Can you use the “product of the times” defense if the book was wildly controversial for its time? Asking for a comment section…

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. No, seriously. We REALLY MEAN IT.

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March 14, 2020

History Summarized: Ethiopia

Filed under: Africa, History, Humour, Italy, Religion — Tags: Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Ethiopia, Islam, Monarchy, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 13 Mar 2020

Ethiopian History gets started early and just keeps on going. From the dawn of humanity itself through the medieval period and into the modern day, the history of the kingdom at the end of the Blue Nile is full of surprises.

SOURCES & Further Reading: Harold Marcus A History of Ethiopia and John Jackson’s Ethiopia and the Origins of Civilization, see also Kenneth Vickery’s lecture “Ethiopia: Outpost of Christianity” and William Cook’s lecture “The Rock-Hewn Churches of Ethiopia” via The Great Courses.

This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi AKA “Indigo”. https://www.sophiakricci.com/

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

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March 8, 2020

Trope Talk: Macguffins

Filed under: Humour, Media — Tags: Movies, OverlySarcasticProductions, TV — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 6 Mar 2020

Edit: DANG IT YES I MEANT THOR 2 EVERYONE LEAVE ME ALONE

Everybody wants ’em! Very few people get ’em! Sometimes, the things we call macguffins turn out not to be macguffins at all! But what IS the elusive macguffin, and how do we go about understanding, writing, OR acquiring it?

Got a favorite macguffin or macguffin-centric storyline? Drop it in the comments!

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

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DISCORD: https://discord.gg/h3AqJPe

OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com
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March 2, 2020

History-Makers: Anna Komnena

Filed under: Books, Europe, History, Humour — Tags: Biography, Byzantium, Crusades, MiddleAges, Monarchy, OverlySarcasticProductions, Poetry, Writing — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 28 Feb 2020

She’s a Princess! She’s a Poet! She’s a Historian! She’s Anna Komnena — the COOLEST writer in the Byzantine Empire! On this episode of History-Makers, jump into the reign of Alexios Komnenos from the perspective of his daughter Anna, and learn about the emperor who saved the Byzantines from certain doom, as well as the traits that make Anna’s Alexiad a masterpiece.

This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi, AKA “Indigo”.
Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

Sources & Further Reading: The Alexiad — obviously, what are you waiting for? (Also Norwich’s Byzantium)

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February 22, 2020

Classics Summarized: Dante’s Paradiso

Filed under: Books, History, Humour, Religion — Tags: Christianity, Criticism, Literature, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 28 Jun 2015

At last! The thrilling conclusion!

Oh god this took so long D:

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February 21, 2020

Classics Summarized: Dante’s Purgatorio

Filed under: Books, History, Humour — Tags: Criticism, Literature, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 24 Apr 2015

Funny story: That half-second-long scream? Took me about four hours to record. I’m really bad at screaming and/or laughing on demand, so I sat down with some videos of the Game Grumps playing horror games and recorded my reactions to use whenever I need them. I now have a fifteen-second sound file of laughter and screams with varying degrees of shameful girliness.

Part 2 of the centuries-old trilogy has finally been summarized! Surely you’ve awaited this moment with bated breath. As always, I am happy to oblige.

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February 19, 2020

Classics Summarized: Dante’s Inferno

Filed under: Books, Greece, History, Humour, Religion — Tags: Christianity, Criticism, Literature, OverlySarcasticProductions, Rome — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 21 Mar 2015

I’m back, baby!

For this week’s venture into literature, we take a broad look at The Inferno. Hold onto your butts.

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February 15, 2020

The Best Couples in History — Valentine’s Day Special

Filed under: Europe, History, Humour, Middle East, Military — Tags: Byzantium, Egypt, JustinianAndTheodora, LGBT, Mycenae, OverlySarcasticProductions, RomanEmpire, Spain, TrojanWar — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 14 Feb 2020

Happy Valentine’s Day! Celebrate the history of Love with a rundown of these outstanding couples — for better and for worse.

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi, AKA “Indigo”.

PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/h3AqJPe
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February 9, 2020

Classics Summarized: The Aeneid

Filed under: Books, Europe, History, Humour — Tags: Carthage, Mycenae, Mythology, OverlySarcasticProductions, Rome, Sicily, TrojanWar — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 28 Jul 2015

The epic conclusion that no-one asked for! Virgil steps up to the plate and finishes the trilogy that Homer never expected to be a trilogy.

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February 3, 2020

Classics Summarized: The Odyssey

Filed under: Books, Greece, History, Middle East — Tags: MediterraneanSea, Mythology, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 3 Feb 2015

Funny story. Exporting this monster was almost as difficult as getting back to Ithaca was for our intrepid hero, who — as viewers of The Iliad may note — has inexplicably lost his Solid Snake voice in this production.

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February 1, 2020

History Summarized: Byzantine Empire — The Golden Age

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Humour, Middle East, Military, Religion — Tags: Byzantium, Christianity, Constantinople, MiddleAges, Monarchy, OverlySarcasticProductions, Turkey — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 31 Jan 2020

What do you do when life takes away half of your empire? Well, if you’re the Medieval Byzantines, you make comprehensive structural reforms to better manage a changing geopolitical landscape — And then you make an absolute crapload of mosaics.

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

This video was edited in part by Sophia Ricciardi, AKA “Indigo”.

FURTHER SOURCES: A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich.

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January 28, 2020

Classics Summarized: The Iliad

Filed under: Books, Greece, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: Mycenae, Mythology, OverlySarcasticProductions, TrojanWar — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 23 Jan 2015

I’m baaaaaaaack!

This one took me a while. The reason why should be pretty obvious. Enjoy your adorable murderfest.

Troy may be a good movie (though I have my doubts) but it sure as hell isn’t the Iliad.

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January 25, 2020

Miscellaneous Myths: Tantalus

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Humour — Tags: Mythology, OverlySarcasticProductions — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 24 Jan 2020

Tantalus! The number one dude known for his eternal punishment in Hades, perhaps second only to Sisyphus

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

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