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				Great Minds with Dan Harmon			


			

				
Great Minds with Dan Harmon


				

					7.1											
							IMDb tt5533758
						
										2016										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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																		Dan Harmon
								

															

																		Spencer Crittenden
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

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

		
				
			

									
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				Ernest Hemingway
								Dan attempts to bond with Hemingway over their common interests in drinking and writing, but is intimidated by…			

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

									
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				Mary Wollstonecraft
								Mary's arrival gives Dan a chance to express his feminism, but he is irritated by Mary's stern demeanor.…			

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

									
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				Amelia Earhart
								Amelia is disappointed with her legacy of getting lost, and sets out to prove that she is indeed…			

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

									
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				Edgar Allan Poe
								Poe undermines Dan's need to impress a History Channel executive, who falls for Poe. Dan and Spencer attempt…			

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

									
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				Ada Lovelace
								After they bond over their shared love of coding, Ada convinces Spencer to convert his body to code…			

		
				
			

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

		
				
			

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

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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