Great Minds with Dan Harmon
Great Minds with Dan Harmon
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Great Minds with Dan Harmon

7.1 / 10
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.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Ludwig van Beethoven

    25-02-2016

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Ernest Hemingway

    03-03-2016

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

  • Ep 3

    3.Thomas Edison

    11-03-2016

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

  • Ep 4

    4.Mary Wollstonecraft

    18-03-2016

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.William Shakespeare

    24-03-2016

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Idi Amin

    31-03-2016

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Betsy Ross

    14-04-2016

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Amelia Earhart

    21-04-2016

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Sigmund Freud

    28-04-2016

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Edgar Allan Poe

    05-05-2016

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.Buddha

    10-06-2016

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

  • Ep 12

    12.John Wilkes Booth

    17-06-2016

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Ada Lovelace

    25-06-2016

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

  • Ep 14

    14.John F. Kennedy

    01-07-2016

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Harry S. Truman

    16-07-2016

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

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