The Terrifying Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius • Puppet History

“Notorious for hangover.... reportedly” - the professor was there and is definitely immortal this is why he knows history.

"some history is just a mystery." me crying: can't you just say it's unsolved

Elmo just wants to entertain the kids. His brother, however, is an intellectual.

Ryan: "Dead men tell no tales." Dead Men: "Apple Taters"

“Dead men tell no tales” says Ryan, the man who believes in ghosts so hard he gets a buzzfeed show about it, for the second time on camera

Is... No one going to talk about the fact that this season is low-key uncovering the lore that the Professor is an immortal being ?

It makes me smile to imagine Shane staying up late to hot glue googly eyes and feathers to a cardboard volcano puppet

love the fact that matt actively asks questions, like a true student! maybe if the other student asked questions, he might get more chances of getting jelly beans

Puppet History does online school better than my actual school system.

why is no one talking about how cute the professor looks with a tiny pillow on his head 😖

Something I think is important to note: my man Pliny the Elder was insane. One of the "facts" he wrote in his Natural History book was that elephants had religious beliefs and actively practiced. He never saw an elephant in his life

My history teacher once said: "Pompeii was put on the map by being taken off of it." and that is what I think of whenever I hear anything about Mt. Vesuvius or Pompeii.

Ancient Karen be like: "I'm still not sold on this whole volcano thing but do you think my house will be fine?"

16:17 "jesus christ" - "the guy who died a couple of years ago? what about him?" kdjkdfjdf

The fact that Pliny the Elder had a “weak windpipe” is actually important to the story that Pliny the Younger writes - Pliny the Elder was on the beach trying to help rescue people as he was a (retired?) naval & army captain. He died of an Asthma attack on the beach while he was helping because of the ash, and Pliny the Younger wrote about his heroic death in his letters detailing the eruption. Yes, I am an ancient history nerd and had to study Pompeii and Herculaneum extensively in both school and part of my first degree :)

In case anyone was curious, Romans actually had a really good mail service. They'd have multiple posts set up between destinations and would treat it like a relay race. Mail would be sent out and the mail carrier would ride a horse to the nearest post to hand off the mail, then that mail carrier will take it to the next post, and the cycle continues until the mail reaches its destination. By carrying mail over multiple short distances, messages were able to be sent and received on the same day because there isn't a need to stop and rest over the course of multiple hours/days.

i love how transparently the show is rigged against ryan now. im so happy

Genuinely can’t believe how cute the prof is w that little pillow on his head.... give me the professor plushie with the changeable hats

The thing that haunts me about Pompeii is how just within a few years nobody could even remember where it'd stood. An entire city just wiped off the face of the Earth so thoroughly even their neighbors didn't know where they'd been buried.

There was no choice: i had to come extremely early to....”class”