The Mistress Who Murdered Her Way To The Throne • Puppet History

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Real cute detail: The Professor's Mother mentions her friend Sue working at the museum... Sue is the worlds most complete fossil of a Tyrannosaur skeleton, located in Chicago, IL.

The fact that Ryan was so confident in his incorrect explanation of why the phrase "baker's dozen" exists is absolutely hilarious

Joyce's "I don't like the way you talk about yourself" was so sincere it was adorable. Can't get enough of this show, hyped every time an ep drops!

Wanting a blank tombstone so that others can "write their own judgements" of her life is so amazing and interesting IMO. It makes me think that everything scandalous in this story were just horrible rumors during her lifetime, and rather than fight them, she let her beneficial laws & reforms speak for themselves and left it up to people what they wanted to believe.

Historically it’s actually dubious that Wu Zetian actually killed her daughter, as it’s the kind of thing where the oldest historical records don’t identify a cause of death or incriminate Wu at all. Then years later; suddenly they started saying SHE killed her daughter, the sources by political men who despised Wu Zetian and her historical role as a female leader. It’s just as likely her baby died by chance and she decided to take advantage of the situation by incriminating her rivals instead of just mourning her grief.

joyce is iconic and truly gives the energy "i support womens rights but more importantly i support women's wrongs"

I kind of wish they'd mentioned what happened afterwards: Emperor Zhongzong lasted all of 5 years before being poisoned by Empress Wei, who was basically de-facto ruler of the country anyway. Empress Wei then became the Empress Regent... for about 17 days until she was overthrown and Ruizong became emperor again for two years, but the real power behind the throne was his sister Princess Taiping, the daughter Wu Zetian didn't kill (the one she supposedly killed was Princess Si). So TLDR; for like seven more years after Wu Zetian's death, the country was still pretty much ruled by women.

I love how according to the professor, dragons aren't real, but time travel, genies, and talking puppets are

Joyce is one of the best guests this show has ever had. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that she and The Professor's mom are never on screen at the same time? Weird.

Taking a second to appreciate the professor's drip this episode.

Sorry to get too serious and all joking aside…but as someone with an anxiety disorder, I hope Ryan understands how great he is, how much we love all that he has done and knows he should take great pride in his accomplishments!

I love how, gradually over time, the toothpaste has went from moving ever so slightly to “being flung across the room”

Aww, I genuinely love Shane's efforts to pronounce names well.

Ryan staring into the distance reevaluating his life choices while listening to a dragon sing about boning really encapsulates this show lol

i wanna take a minute to appreciate that shane took time and effort into pronouncing the chinese names. most youtubers/influenceres either avoid saying our names altogether or say something like, "i'm about to butcher this and i'm so sorry but [also doesn't care]" so thank you shane + team 😊💖

I love that a real person decided to make up a story about their father being a dragon to give themselves more respect and then hundreds of years later, as a direct result of that, someone makes a song and performance in which a puppet sings the world's horniest song about very consensually banging their mom. It is amazing. I love humans.

LET'S GOOOO Some corrections on fuzzy details: - Wu Zetian was never Taizong's personal secretary. She was just kind of ignored during her time in his harem, with the exception of getting an "art name" bestowed by him, Mei-Niang (Charming Lady). So she was noticed by him at some point at least, but ultimately she wasn't his type and their age gap was too big, so she had no luck. Her actual job was supposedly changing his sheets, and she met Gaozong while they were both serving the deathly-ill Taizong. - The baby daughter likely died from natural causes and Wu Zetian made the best out of the situation by trying to pin it on Empress Wang. This is not to say Wu Zetian wasn't capable of killing her own kids, but it doesn't make tactical sense to deliberately sacrifice the baby when it's impossible that Empress Wang would have ever been alone with it. There were bound to be servants around. Hence Empress Wang was never found guilty; it was some other bogus charge that brought her and Consort Xiao down later on. It's especially suspicious when accounts of the incident GAIN in detail as the centuries go on. You'd think those later historians (who were very misogynistic) were personally under the bed when it happened by the way they described the entire sequence of events in dramatic detail. The earliest account only says the baby "died suddenly." - Zhongzong never asked Wu Zetian if he could make his father-in-law prime minister, he just went ahead and did it, which was the problem. His wife was indeed ambitious, but she only started making moves AFTER Wu Zetian died, so I wouldn't say Wu Zetian was ever intimidated by her or that she was the mastermind behind this. It was Zhongzong's own hot-headed f*ck up because he thought he could do whatever he wanted now that he was finally emperor. - Crown prince coups aren't that weird in the Tang dynasty. Gaozong himself only came to the throne because his brother the former crown prince tried it and got deposed, and their dad came to the throne through his own coup. Taizong started a bad precedent (and had the NERVE to be shocked when his sons tried to pull the same sh*t on himself 😂)

you guys should release an album with all of the songs from puppet history. i’d listen to it on repeat

why is shane so good at singing? It just seems so random we need more