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"History-Makers: Sappho It's no use dear algorithm I cannot research for Sappho has crushed me with longing for lost poetry SOURCES & Further Reading: "Sappho: fragments" by Jonathan Goldberg "Girl Interrupted: Who Was Sappho" for The New Yorker by Daniel Mendelsohn (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted) "Sappho" from The Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sappho) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD:"
YouTube Link 2021-03-05T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 986.5K engagements

"Legends Summarized: Robin Hood The man The myth The legend What exactly IS this verdant vigilante's deal LET'S TALK ABOUT IT Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths Legends Classics Literature Stories Storytelling History robin hood england english"
YouTube Link 2020-02-21T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.9M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: The Muses Sing o goddesses of the goddesses we ask very nicely to let our stories come out good Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PRE-ORDER AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Aphrodite Okay so maybe Dionysus was a little more complicated than we expected. But APHRODITE REALLY All she does is set up cute couples and throw temper tantrums How complicated can SHE be ( ) ( ) V E R Y Quick edit Saw some comments cranky I didn't mention Cyprus. Sorry guys I only had so much time and Cythera is physically the location of her oldest temple and the origin of her worship in ancient greece. Cyprus is sometimes seen as her birthplace but it varies from myth to myth. Since I was covering the historical spread of her worship I figured the REAL birthplace"
YouTube Link 2019-02-15T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 7.7M engagements

"Trope Talk: Robots Robots are fun But they're also complex reflections of humanity and what we see within ourselves as truly Human and because this is a loaded subject this episode has some Spicy Opinions 🌶🌶 EXAMPLES IN ROUGH ORDER OF FIRST APPEARANCE: The Iron Giant Transformers: Prime Bumblebee Solo: A Star Wars Story Detroit: Become Human Nier: Automata Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles The Animatrix Terminator 2: Judgment Day 2001: A Space Odyssey Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes I Robot Tech insider's interview with "Sophia" (https://www.youtube.com/watchv=78-1MlkxyqI) Big Hero"
YouTube Link 2019-06-28T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.2M engagements

"History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv has [--] domes what do you expect from me NOVA Ukraine: https://novaukraine.org/ Brave Voices for Ukraine: https://bravevoices.air.io/ UNITED24 Media: https://www.youtube.com/@UNITED24media SOURCES & Further Reading: "Creation of modern Orthodox churches in Ukraine - as languages of Ukrainian autochthony in the context of urban development O S Sleptsov and Y U Dunaevskiy [----] IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. [---] [------] "The Architecture of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Kyiv: Uniqueness and Universality in Historical"
YouTube Link 2023-09-01T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 240.4K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Utgard-Loki BRAND NEW MYTH-RELEVANT MERCH: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ospyoutube/works/40349682-jormungato https://www.redbubble.com/people/ospyoutube/works/40591087-hubris In today's Norse Mythology news: A goat has a very bad day Loki loses an eating competition and Thor fails to wrestle an old lady more at [--]. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/"
YouTube Link 2019-08-09T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.1M engagements

"History Re-Summarized: Egypt I for one was shocked to learn the Egyptians actually buried their kings in a giant Millennium Puzzle. We've covered Egypt on this channel in previous videos but this History Re-Summarized is the Definitive Edition redone from the ground up to present the best possible account starting at the beginning for a full chronology of Ancient Egypt from the very first Pharaohs the Muslim Conquest. (Observant Egyptologists and D&D players might note the Pyramids are actually D-Fives but technically they're D-Nines since each face is actually two right triangles at a"
YouTube Link 2022-02-18T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"History Summarized: The Republic of Venice (Ft. Suibhne) Dive into the great History of seafaring with this #OperationOdysseus Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLDb22nlVXGgd2rdNu1C44t-hoYXA9bL2M For more Medieval goodness see Suibhne's video (https://youtu.be/BnUQAQ5spWE) and History Time's video (https://youtu.be/tEROvgTrjuU). In the late Middle Ages and at the height of the Renaissance all roads on the maritime highway of the Mediterranean Sea led to Venice. Join Blue (and special guest Suibhne) to discover why Venice came to be how they came to dominate naval trade and what"
YouTube Link 2018-11-24T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.4M engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Journey To The West (Part VII) Journey to the West Kai episode 4: Trouble in Taoist Town Thrills Excitement Pigsy takes a bath Sandy fights an alligator Monkey helps Tripitaka cheat on a high-stakes game show And as always everyone forgets about the horse FIRST EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Jr5IU8g2SHA FULL SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLDb22nlVXGgdg_NR_-GtTrMnbMVmtSSXa Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS:"
YouTube Link 2019-12-27T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.2M engagements

"Trope Talk: Magnificent Bastards Check out world anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/overlysarcastic and don't forget to use the code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 20% off a [--] or [--] month membership Ahh magnificent bastards the villainous archetype that's at least 50% charisma by volume. Let's talk about what makes a bastard truly magnificent and what traits bar them from that rarified air of magnificence MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and"
YouTube Link 2021-02-26T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2M engagements

"History Hijinks: Venice Steals A Saint Venice acquiring their new patron: "The Secret Ingredient Is Crime" The Veneziad is available on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW AAAAAHHHHHHHhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/theveneziadref=4ikdfa SOURCES & Further Reading: "A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich Music: "Pippin The Hunchback" "Sneaky Snitch" "Scheming Weasel "Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP"
YouTube Link 2024-06-07T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 252.4K engagements

"History Summarized: Ancient Greece What's that Blue already did a video on the Athenian empire Uh. well. um. LOOK OVER THERE A DISTRACTION For more Greek goodness check out the following: History Summarized: Alcibiades: https://youtu.be/kRLkjBUgB2o History Summarized: Thebes: https://youtu.be/L1x9np5fys8 History Summarized: Athenian Empire: https://youtu.be/cNWDkFkcuP4 This video was produced with assistance from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts -"
YouTube Link 2017-06-26T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Trope Talk: Romantic Subplots Get your copy of The Never Hero Audiobook AND START LISTENING TODAY: https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Never-Hero-Audiobook/B00XWD7EQUsource_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-035936&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_035936_rh_us Get your copy of The Never Hero eBook: http://amzn.to/2HcRUyS It's a subplot It's romantic It's one of the hardest things to write convincingly despite being one of the most relatable experiences ever to be put to fiction What the heck is up with that And am I at all qualified to speak on the subject with any degree of authority (No) EXAMPLES"
YouTube Link 2018-03-23T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.1M engagements

"History Summarized: Hong Kong Sometimes small corners of the map can have outsized effects on the surrounding world. Hong Kong is undoubtedly one of History's greatest examples of big things coming from small beginnings. If you're curious about Hong Kong's current political situation there's no better place to start than at the beginning. LEARN MORE about Hong Kongs current events: China is Erasing its border with HK: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=MQyxG4vTyZ8 HKs huge protests explained: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=6_RdnVtfZPY Further Historical Reading: A Modern History of China Steve"
YouTube Link 2019-07-05T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 500.3K engagements

"Trope Talk: Those Dang Phones Hey have you noticed how many newer stories are giving the protagonists tools for always-on easy-access instant communication Have you rewatched an older bit of sci-fi and questioned why the characters haven't been using the comms tech they DO have to stay in touch Are you a writer who's noticed YOU'VE been giving your characters cell-phone equivalents without even thinking about it Well I hope you're prepared for a half-hour-long descent into madness as I unpack the history of telecommunication both fictional and real and try to convince you that I haven't"
YouTube Link 2023-04-07T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.4M engagements

"History-Makers: Augustine of Hippo Gets Dragged Into Sainthood "Failing Up" is all part of the plan when God Himself is on your side. Let's meet the embodiment of that dynamic in Augustine of Hippo: the disaster of a man who became one of Christianity's most important Saints ever. SOURCES & Further Reading: The City Of God Against The Pagans by Saint Augustine Confessions by Saint Augustine The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton Augustine Part One and Augustine Part Two from The Early Middle Ages by Philip Daileader Augustine of Hippo and Ambrose Jerome and Gregory the Great from Great Minds of the"
YouTube Link 2024-12-27T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 345.3K engagements

"Classics Summarized: The Oresteia Nobody look at how long ago I promised to do this. That's right The sequel to Iphigenia which itself was a prequel to the Iliad has finally been given the ol' OSP treatment And it only took me TWO AND A HALF YEARS PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths"
YouTube Link 2017-07-19T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.4M engagements

"History Summarized: Beauty and Brutalism No no no guys you just don't GET IT Brutalism is actually really clever and impressive and in this essay I wi SOURCES & Further Reading: Architecture in Minutes: [---] key buildings and movements in an instant by Susie Hodge an extremely useful reference for 20th century structures and famous figures outside my usual wheelhouse and the fortuitous inspiration for this video via the entry on Concrete with an opposite-facing image of the Bahai House of Worship Brutalism was the Greatest Architectural Movement in History. Change My Mind. by Pat Finn"
YouTube Link 2024-05-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 317.4K engagements

"Trope Talk: Power Of Friendship You asked you received This is one of those tropes that tends to polarize along maturity lines - Very Serious Adults are all like "this trope is trite and stupid" while People With Joy In Their Hearts are like "I enjoy being reminded of the good in people's souls". Guess which side I'm on So today let's talk about the Power of Friendship and all the fascinating ways it can be used and abused. A MINOR CLARIFICATION: While the "I shall now torture your friend" thing is certainly done the "your friends have broken in to save you this is very convenient as now I"
YouTube Link 2017-12-01T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Modern Classics Summarized: Lord Of The Flies Well well well. Well well. Well. I HATE THIS BOOK. In today's exciting episode watch a group of stranded preteens become paranoid and homicidal when isolated from a society that apparently only barely manages to suppress the seething cauldron of homicidal instincts roiling just below the surface. NOTE FROM RED: I'm working on Journey To The West part [--] I promise I've just had to juggle a few projects at once for the past week including drawing a music video for another channel entirely. Don't worry more good stuff is on the way. c: William"
YouTube Link 2016-03-26T05:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.2M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Cadmus Take a seat plant some teeth and see what sprouts Today let's talk about another Greek hero and his inevitable sticky end Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to"
YouTube Link 2024-08-09T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 636.7K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Tantalus 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. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube DISCORD: https://discord.gg/h3AqJPe OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths Legends Classics Literature Stories"
YouTube Link 2020-01-24T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.6M engagements

"Trope Talk: Greatest Fears Check out Rusty Quill's The Magnus Archives here http://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-archives/ And their YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAfn5ahWLpQmCIN7D0E1YQg Ahh fear What a maligned concept. But everyone's afraid of something and some stories really like putting the spotlight on what scares their characters the most. At worst it's a very effective halloween episode at best it turns into a deep and gripping exploration of their character Let's discuss how the Greatest Fear trope gets used and abused Our content is intended for teenage audiences"
YouTube Link 2020-12-11T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Trope Talk: Realism It's time for trope talk number [--] Red discusses what the heck "realism" even means and why its functionality has been flattened into nonstop misery and too many face-lines. There are a lot of superheroes in this one. WARNING This video contains opinions on the DC cinematic universe. If your opinions differ from those expressed in this video I respect that completely and frankly I'm overjoyed that you can actually wring some enjoyment out of watching those movies. Good on you man. Having fun is a good thing and I'm not gonna tell anyone they're wrong for doing it. MERCH"
YouTube Link 2016-09-15T17:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"History Summarized: The Wild West This video was commissioned by Patron Matthew Ritter. Thanks Matthew If you would like to support the channel and earn special rewards check out our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/OSP Articles referenced Because Gun Control and Black Cowboys sound incredulous on paper so I can see why you wouldn't believe me but it's real and there's tons of proof: Gun Control in the West: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013 Black Cowboys: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lesser-known-history-african-american-cowboys-180962144/ MERCH"
YouTube Link 2018-09-07T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Endymion Syncretism is defined as the process by which disparate religions or cultures are amalgamated into a fused union by way of combining the beliefs and/or deities of the two religions. Rome attempted syncretism by unifying their gods with those of other cultures - most successfully with the Greeks but attempts were made to combine with the Egyptian pantheon as well. However the Hellenic religion underwent a few internal deific fusions as well. Most notably Artemis and Apollo were respectively given the roles and stories of Selene and Helios the original moon- and"
YouTube Link 2016-12-22T13:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.8M engagements

"History-Makers: Iceland's #1 Menace Snorri Sturluson "Snorri Sturluson: Threat or Menace" SOURCES & Further Reading: Meeting the Norse Gods of the Viking Age from Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford. Skaldic Poetry and Sagas from The Vikings by Kenneth W. Harl Snorri Sturluson and the Construction of Norse Mythography by Margaret Clunies Ross from Writing Down the Myths (2013) edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy Snorri Sturluson Stutt vigrip by skar Gumundsson https://www.snorrastofa.is/en/snorri-sturluson MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" & "Scheming Weasel" & "Pippin the Hunchback" by Kevin MacLeod"
YouTube Link 2024-03-29T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 410.2K engagements

"History-Makers: Sun Tzu & the Art of War TBH I prefer "Moon Aquarium" but Sun Tzu is pretty cool too. SOURCES & Further Reading: The Art of War by Sun Tzu translated and with introduction by Lionel Giles (1910) "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu translated by Stephen Addiss & Stanley Lombardo (1993) Sun Tzus Art of War & Sun Tzu Through Time from Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers by Andrew R. Wilson Ph.D. China: A History by John Keay Sun-zi and the Art of War: The Rhetoric of Parsimony by Steven C. Combs Quarterly Journal of Speech Vol.86 No [--] August [----] The Art of War by Mark"
YouTube Link 2024-03-01T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 514.6K engagements

"Just For Funsies: College Hell What's The Difference This video is not for educational purposes. It is pretty funny though so watch it anyway. DO IT. William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary College (TV Genre) Hell Dante's Inferno Boston University (College/University) University Of Chicago (College/University) Inferno (Book) Dante Alighieri (Author) College Student University (Building Function) School Students Education William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary College (TV Genre) Hell Dante's Inferno Boston University (College/University)"
YouTube Link 2015-07-12T21:24Z 2.5M followers, 1.7M engagements

"Detail Diatribe: Being Batman - A Curse Or A Choice 🌸Spring CLEANIIIIIIIIING 🌸It's a SALE Tons of our old pins are back in stock and all of our merch is discounted https://overlysarcastic.shop/ He is vengeance. He is the night He's a rich kid with issues - LOTS of issues Today we bunker down with our Batman homework and talk about everyone's favorite caped crusader TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00-00:09:07 - The Batman Beginninning 00:09:07-00:28:08 - The Deco Knight 00:28:08-00:30:49 - The Dark Knight Retires 00:30:49-00:59:09 - We've Had One Yes 00:59:09-01:13:35 - Hashtag Not My Batman"
YouTube Link 2024-03-08T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"History-Makers: Dante From the visionary creator who brought you the Self-Insert Fanfic comes. the invention of Worldbuilding and the most revolutionary literature in history Woah that was unexpected. Grab your nearest Virgil because we're about to dive into Dante's complex afterlife and learn how a Florentine poet used an ancient genre of poetry to kickstart what would become the Renaissance. Further Reading: I would highly recommend Allen Mandelbaum's translation of the Divine Comedy (Bantam Classics makes it) specifically because it features an opposite-facing translation so the English"
YouTube Link 2019-12-20T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 888.9K engagements

"Trope Talk: Filler It's January It's [----] It's time for my anime hyperfixation to rise from the abyss of its ten thousand year slumber Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 374.8K engagements

"History Summarized: Persistence of Judaism Gooooood morning everybody Today Blue finishes the trilogy of Abrahamic religions with a video summarizing the history of the Hebrew people and the Jewish faith. There's a lot of ground to cover so fasten your seatbelts for a twenty-minute rundown of the facts the theories and the ever-so-popular misconceptions Look forward to next time when Blue brings it all together to talk about Religious Wars and Religious Philosophy PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other"
YouTube Link 2017-04-07T13:30Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"The Complete History of the British Isles Summarized Britannia can rule some of the Waves as a treat. Join me on a veritable saga across the histories of England Scotland Ireland Wales and the British Empire in this mega-compilation of [--] history videos plus [--] minutes of brand new material to tie it all together. These iconic Isles have a TON of material to explore so Let's Do Some History An extra special round of thanks to the amazing community members on our discord server who kindly reviewed my script and made suggestions for alterations and additions Jonny Billy Catia and Watcher. OSP"
YouTube Link 2025-05-09T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 774.5K engagements

"The Kraven-Kast has competition The Cold Open from episode [---] of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast. The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms. PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T14:01Z 2.5M followers, 50.6K engagements

"TTRPG Etiquette The cold open for episode [--] of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast (https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/episodes) THIS VIDEO IS HUGELY EXPERIMENTAL. If you like this please let us know If you have thoughts ideas or critiques please also let us know If you don't have any thoughts but DO have a favorite D&D menu order drop that too I guess Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2023-02-15T17:00Z 2.5M followers, 329K engagements

"Halloween Special: The Count of Monte Cristo After many long years in the Chateau d'If it's finally time to crack this bad boy open and see what makes it tick How hard could it possibly be CHAPTERS OF THIS MONSTER: 0:00-2:01: And So It Begins 2:01-3:14: Monte Cristo Speedrun Any Percent 3:14-5:02: Our Hero Is Cooked 5:02-8:19: The Shitlist Assembles 8:19-9:37: Fourteen Years Later 9:37-10:42: And That's What You Missed On GLEE 10:42-12:34: It's The Franz Show Starring Franz 12:34-16:54: Albert and Franz's Excellent Adventure 16:54-19:10: Dramatis Personae 19:10-21:46: (Re)Introductions"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Trope Talk: Detectives Check out Campfire Blaze here and remember to use the promo code OSP21 for 20% off a lifetime purchase https://www.campfiretechnology.com/blaze/utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSPQ321 Gumshoes private eyes meddling kids - this trope wears many hats (and coats) but what beating heart lies at its core Let's talk about it and give me an excuse to pepper in that I've been watching a lot of Columbo recently MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
YouTube Link 2021-09-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Trope Talk: Speedsters ✨PRE-ORDER AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ ✨ And once you've done that if you're in the US snag a FREE STICKER SHEET as thanks: https://site.andrewsmcmeel.com/aurora-pre-order-form And if you're curious READ THE COMIC HERE: https://comicaurora.com/aurora/0-1-1/ And if you managed to break it READ THE COMIC HERE INSTEAD: https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/654546833938497537/intro-ch1-p1-7 The first rule of speedsters is you gotta go fast The second rule of speedsters is nobody did it better than the Time In A Bottle scene from Days Of Future Past The"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 475.7K engagements

"Legends Summarized: Arthur's Knights There's roughly one thousand years of knight's tales of various kinds so obviously this isn't ALL of them but have a quick highlight reel of some of the wacky exploits our chivalrous heroes got up to back in Ye Olden Days 0:26 - Lancelot and Dolorous Gard 2:06 - Parcival and Feirefiz 3:41 - Galehaut the Uncrowned King 4:51 - Dinadan (aka Lancelot Wears a Dress) 5:57 - Gawain and the Green Knight PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2018-04-13T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.9M engagements

"Trope Talk: Unreliable Narrators Surprise Narration is subjective narrative voice always carries an implied character with it and sometimes narrators are biased confused or big ol' liars Let's discuss Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video"
YouTube Link 2023-07-28T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 901.2K engagements

"R2 D-Vinci The Cold Open for our New Year's Bonus episode of the OSPodcast which is available right here on the channel: https://youtu.be/crB7710S_a8 Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit"
YouTube Link 2025-12-31T14:01Z 2.5M followers, 82.8K engagements

"Trope Talk: Small Mammal on a Big Adventure Alternate titles for this video included "Little Mouse On A Big Adventure" and "Small Mammal in a Scary World" which I shortened in my notes to "SMSW" which while searching for acronyms I found out was middle egyptian for "to be old." I'm so glad that this video about rabbits gave me at least one rabbit hole. Read Scurry here: https://www.scurrycomic.com/scurry-comic/2016/1/17/comic-01-00 Check out Dominic Noble's exploration of how weird Narnia got: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HltXrWr_vNs&ab_channel=DominicNoble MUSIC: Scheming Weasel (faster"
YouTube Link 2024-01-26T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 606K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Thoth Gambles With The Moon Egyptian mythology is rife with shenanigans drama and bodily fluids but today let's talk about a surprisingly SFW myth with a vital role in establishing the calendar year Alternate title: Red Complains That The Universe Doesn't Align With Her Personal Aesthetic Sensibilities For Five Minutes PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Sky Becomes Water (City of the Fallen) A Hole In The Sun (Two Steps From Hell) Starfall (Two Steps From Hell) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST:"
YouTube Link 2022-07-01T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.6M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Narcissus You know his name. You know his personality disorder. But you don't know his story - especially not the gay bits Honestly how many times are we going to be surprised when a greek myth turns out gayer than we learned in middle school Remind me to tell you guys about Callisto sometime. The Ancient Greek Dating Sim has a hidden character stat "how much does aphrodite like me" which determines the trajectory of the entire game. It's impossible to predict what'll endear her to you and what'll piss her off. (Achilles + Patroclus design available here:"
YouTube Link 2018-08-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.4M engagements

"Trope Talk: The Leader Sometimes these things can be hard to thumbnail but for this one really the only question was which specific glamour shot of Optimus Prime I liked the most. Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 344.5K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Pygmalion and Galatea Hey any of you ever wanted a girlfriend Statistically speaking more than half of you just thought "yes" and a non-trivial percentage probably even went so far as to think "HECK yes." Well this is the story of one brave pioneer who rather than waiting for Miss Right to find him decided to speed up the process by MAKING her Don't go getting any ideas though - I'm afraid our boy didn't quite think this through in advance. MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2016-07-07T07:44Z 2.5M followers, 3.5M engagements

"History Summarized: Ethiopia 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"."
YouTube Link 2020-03-13T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 870.3K engagements

"Trope Talk: Idiot Plots Check out campfire here: https://campfirewriting.com/write/book-writing-apputm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSP_Q4_22 This one's a spicy meatball Today let's talk about the plots that are driven in whole or in part by the characters acting dumb - and how that's not always a bad thing Video examples in order of first appearance: I Love Lucy Divergent Star Wars III Doctor Strange (as a contrasting non-idiot plot example) Spider-Man: No Way Home Captain America: Winter Soldier TMNT [----] Batman v Superman The Three Stooges Twelfth Night Alien Romeo and"
YouTube Link 2022-12-02T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Modern Classics Summarized: Stranger In A Strange Land 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. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2020-03-20T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.1M engagements

"Halloween Special: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde Some monsters are undead creatures of the night. Some monsters are cosmic horror nightmare gods. Some monsters are existential personifications of dread and decay. But perhaps the greatest monster of all is man. Have a very spooky halloween And don't forget the explicit moral of Jekyll and Hyde - that the greatest danger you'll ever face comes from wealthy middle-aged white men who get away with their crimes because society refuses to believe they would ever do such horrible things. Hm. Are we SURE this was written in [----] (Topic originally"
YouTube Link 2019-10-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.1M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Ra's Secret Name It's a short one this week but today let's talk about the mythological representation of a historical theistic overhaul - aka how Isis (the goddess don't demonetize me bro) usurped Ra and claimed his status as the most powerful god in the pantheon. Respect your elders kids Ever think Apep sounds less like an ultimate deity of serpentine destruction and more like a hip brand of soda Buy a mug that shares your sentiments (https://www.cafepress.com/overlysarcasticproducts.265385763) PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts -"
YouTube Link 2018-05-11T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.4M engagements

"Trope Talk: Urban Fantasy Check out world anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/overlysarcastic and don't forget to use the code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 20% off a Master or Grandmaster membership Urban Fantasy A uniquely versatile and hybridized setting with a lot of fun potential It's also got some uniquely tricky writing pitfalls so let's talk about it a little Got a favorite urban fantasy story or a least-favorite urban fantasy staple Drop it in the comments Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS:"
YouTube Link 2020-04-03T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.1M engagements

"History Summarized: England English History has a reputation for being nigh incomprehensible what with all the kings civil wars succession crises and slapfights with France. But with the right perspective (and a little royal-restraint) England can become quite a straightforward story. So let's take a look at this slice of Britain and see how it grew into the master of the Isles. SOURCES & Further Reading: History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts lecture series for The Great Courses by Robert Bucholz a great look at Renaissance and Early Imperial England. Ten Minute History of England"
YouTube Link 2020-04-10T15:31Z 2.5M followers, 1M engagements

"Blue's Dumb History Tales Please check out That Works for the best blacksmithing on YouTube: https://goo.gl/vXsuFt What do you get when you cross a month that has [--] Fridays with a historian who can't do math This nonsense apparently. PATREON: www.patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths Legends Classics"
YouTube Link 2019-03-08T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Halloween Special: Dracula It's creepy It's classic It's surprisingly infrequently read It's everyone's favorite gothic horror Bram Stoker's Dracula Wanna bypass the intro Skip straight to 3:16 and party on For those asking the outro song is I Love The Night by Blue Oyster Cult. MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths Legends Classics Literature Dracula"
YouTube Link 2016-10-31T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.9M engagements

"How The Batman Fights Like Vengeance Detail Diatribe This month I: went to CapriCon had a great time got fiercely sick and spent a literal week laid out with the Flu thus ruining my regular video production pipeline. So here's a Detail Diatribe about Batman because I really really really like talking about Batman. MUSIC: "Main Theme" from Batman Arkham Asylum OST by Nick Arundel and Ron Fish Sections: 0:00:00 - 0:05:29 Punching Crime in your Underwear 0:05:29 - 0:10:32 Nolan Slander 0:10:32 - 0:15:55 Marvel Slander 0:15:55 - 0:21:28 Snyder Slander 0:21:28 - 0:28:47 Night-light but it makes"
YouTube Link 2025-02-28T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 516.8K engagements

"Trope Talk: The Smart Guy Check out Campfire here and remember to use the promo code OSP21 for 20% off a lifetime purchase https://www.campfirewriting.com/utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSP_Q4_21 An integral 20% of the Five-Man Band Today let's discuss the teammate with majority custody of the party brain cell and all the ways this can go right and wrong "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON:"
YouTube Link 2021-11-12T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.9M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Kali Tries To Kill Everything "I'll just write up a quick explanation of hinduism to contextualize this wacky little number and then I'll be on my way" said Red moments before realizing just how goddamn complicated the oldest religion on earth really is PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions"
YouTube Link 2018-07-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.3M engagements

"Previously on Overly Sarcastic Productions. Welcome to Overly Sarcastic Productions. We make videos about myths literature and history because learning can in fact actually be enjoyable despite what prior experiences might have shown you. Welcome to our channel Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi AKA "Indigo". https://www.sophiakricci.com/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2021-01-01T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"History Summarized: Ireland Get [--] months of Audible for just $6.95 a month thats more than half off the regular price. Choose [--] audiobook and [--] Audible Originals absolutely free. Visit http://www.audible.com/overlysarcastic or text "overlysarcastic" to [---] [---]. While the rest of Europe was flailing aimlessly through the Dark Ages Ireland was both preserving the ancient world and setting the stage for the Medieval Period. Then England showed up. Sources & Further Reading: How the Irish Saved Civilization:"
YouTube Link 2019-11-22T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.3M engagements

"OSP Spring Break (READING STREAM: My Immortal) DONATE to Feeding America here: https://tiltify.com/@overly-sarcastic-productions/spring-break/donate Join Red in a chill reading stream of the most legendarily terrible fanfic in history to help raise money for kids in need of meals in the wake of COVID-19"
YouTube Link 2020-03-22T03:13Z 2.5M followers, 220.7K engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Journey To The West (Part III) At last The saga continues as our troupe of compadres grows from three to five and the story can REALLY get started In case you were wondering this ISN'T the only origin of the five-man-band archetype although it certainly accounts for a lot of the associated tropes. The Mahabharata is another classic example with the five Pandava brothers filling out the classic roles very well. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5ai5umy9yH0 ---YOU ARE HERE--- PART 4: https://youtu.be/5PTOArO8p9o"
YouTube Link 2016-04-13T15:19Z 2.5M followers, 4.7M engagements

"Previously on the OSPodcast. Ever wonder what happens in that little gap between the first half of the Podcast and the Q&A portion Drink refills and Bits always more bits. Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 101K engagements

"Legends Summarized: Journey To The West (Part XIII) Journey to the West Kai episode 10: The Birds And The Bugs FIRST EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/mMfi2UPvoI4 FULL SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLDb22nlVXGgdg_NR_-GtTrMnbMVmtSSXa Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 518.9K engagements

"History Summarized: Cyprus Breaks All The Rules Cyprus plays by their own rules (except when they're playing by Persia's rules but we'll get to that) SOURCES & Further Reading: The Greeks by Roderick BeatonGreece by Christopher Mee & Anthony Spawforth for Oxford Archaeological Guides Great Courses Lectures Challenges in the West: [---] [---] from The Persian Empire by John W. I. Lee and Ionia and Early Greek Civilization from The Great Civilizations of Asia Minor by Kenneth W. Harl History of Cyprus from Encyclopedia Britannica Ancient Cyprus by Antonios Loizides for World History Encyclopedia."
YouTube Link 2024-11-15T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 360.7K engagements

"History Summarized: Aotearoa New Zealand What was New Zealand like before it was "New Zealand" before the arrival of Europeans Join me for a history of "Aotearoa" from the perspective of its first inhabitants the Mori SOURCES & Further Reading: "The Penguin History of New Zealand" by Michael King Great Courses Lecture "Lifeways of Australia and the Pacific" by Craig Benjamin A very special thanks to Literature-YouTube's favorite Kiwi and our friend Hello Future Me who kindly looked over my script. MUSIC: "Adult Swim" from Age of Mythology Retold OST by Tilman Sillescu Our content is intended"
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 196.8K engagements

"History Summarized: The Doge's Palace To celebrate my marriage to my Darling Wife Cyan I asked her to select this video's topic. Now given she chose Venice I wonder who truly gave the gift to whom SOURCES & Further Reading: "A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich "Francesco's Venice" by Francesco Da Mosto "Venice: City of Dreams" from Rick Steves' Europe and perhaps literally the most fun source I've ever stumbled upon: a 17-page document from the actual Museum of the Doge's Palace in Venice explaining the history of the building and the collections inside. The bottom of their"
YouTube Link 2021-11-05T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 454.1K engagements

"History Summarized: Rome After Empire ✨GOLDEN PINS✨ https://crowdmade.com/osp THEY'RE SHINY AND GOLD AND 100% GUARANTEED* TO NOT CONSUME YOUR SOUL Available now through the end of Cyber Monday. These extremely limited edition Gold Pins celebrate the 10th anniversary of OSP. We may not ever make these again so if you want 'em go get 'em. "It's gonna take more than killing me to kill me" Rome constantly. Rome "Fell" in [---]. but we still have Rome. How'd that happen and what does the Pope have to do with it SOURCES & Further Reading: BOOKS: "Rome: a History in Seven Sackings" by Matthew Kneale"
YouTube Link 2022-11-11T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 623.4K engagements

"History-Makers: Laozi and the Daodejing The great sage Laozi once said: "Ugh fine here are the ancient secrets of the universe can I please disappear into the mountains now" Powerful stuff really makes you think. SOURCES & Further Reading: Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo Introduction by Burton Watson Laozi and Daoism The Way of Nature from Great Courses lecture series Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition by Grant Hardy Daoism and the Daodejing and The Three Caverns of Daoist Scriptures from Great Courses lecture series Sacred Texts of the"
YouTube Link 2025-06-20T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 209.7K engagements

"Trope Talk: Fallen Heroes Well After that trope talk on redeemed villains went up I got bombarded with requests to do this little number next so here we are Despite being something of a dark reflection of the redeemed villains trope the fallen hero is significantly simpler and less varied than its counterpart. But despite its simplicity there's a lot of interesting effects it can have on a story Mostly it subverts the notions of unassailable heroism and forces your audience to confront a more realistic framework of morality than a simple black-and-white good-people-bad-people dichotomy."
YouTube Link 2017-08-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.4M engagements

"OSP ANIMATED: Shadow of the Colossus A bonus tuesday video where Red tries her hand at animating something completely different (I'm especially proud of the lightning :3c) Audio comes from our recent [--] million subs charity stream - if you missed it the full stream is archived here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=As43cyANvqc PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny OSP Overly"
YouTube Link 2019-10-22T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Trope Talk: Five Man Band So Fun fact this is actually one of my favorite tropes because I'm a big ol' dork and I pretty much consume media exclusively for good character dynamics. Five-man bands are one way to make that happen but any sufficiently large pile of characters can be written to interact in a suitably entertaining/heartwarming/squee-inducing way as to appeal to my Very Refined Tastes In Media (hurriedly shoves Thundercats [----] under the carpet). Today we break down the structure of a five-man band examine a few of its more convenient story uses and overall have a grand ol' time no"
YouTube Link 2017-08-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.5M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Arachne She's snarky She's subversive She's completely incapable of catering to an audience Everyone say hello to the mother of spiders and make sure to admire her confidence in her work while you still can ATHENA'S TAPESTRY: https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs/athenas-tapestry https://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts.304561805 ARACHNE'S TAPESTRY: https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs/arachnes-tapestry https://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts.304561813 arachne you know I like your style but can you tell your kids my"
YouTube Link 2018-08-17T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.8M engagements

"Legends Summarized: Journey To The West (Part XII) Journey to the West Kai episode 9: Medicine Monkey FIRST EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/KgQWKgXFyag FULL SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLDb22nlVXGgdg_NR_-GtTrMnbMVmtSSXa Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2024-12-20T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 992K engagements

"History-Makers: Confucius Welcome to the challenge run of History-Makers where I attempt to give insightful historical context to someone whose backstory is almost entirely blank. SOURCES & Further Reading: "Confucius: A Very Short Introduction" by Gardner "China: A History" by Keay "The Analects of Confucius" "The Mencius". This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi AKA "Indigo". https://www.sophiakricci.com/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2020-06-19T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 624.1K engagements

"How Historical is Assassin's Creed Really - Detail Diatribe Pull up your hoods ready your wristblade and climb up on a cathedral spire because we're discussing just how Historical the games of the Assassin's Creed series really are. How close do they come to reaching their promise of a vivid historical playground Well it depends on your criteria and it HEAVILY DEPENDS on which game you're playing. And yes we will be discussing multiple domes in the course of this analysis. Chef's recommendation: if you're curious to see some of this for yourself give Assassin's Creed [--] a try. The Ezio"
YouTube Link 2022-03-18T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"The "Dark" Ages were fine actually History Hijinks Curb your Crusading the artwork literature and scholarship are far more interesting. SOURCES & Further Reading: "China: A History" by John Keay "Byzantium" & "Sicily" & "Venice" by John Julius Norwich Great Courses Lecture series "Foundations of Western Civilization" by Thomas F. X. Noble lectures [--] through 38: "The Emergence of the Catholic Church" "Christian Culture in Late Antiquity" "Muhammad and Islam" "The Birth of Byzantium" "Barbarian Kingdoms in the West" "The World of Charlemagne" "The Carolingian Renaissance" "The Expansion of"
YouTube Link 2022-08-05T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"History Summarized: Sparta's Finest Hour It's not Thermopylai. SOURCES & Further Reading: Constantine Cavafy The Collected Poems. Translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou Oxford University Press [----]. George Economou On Translating C.P. Cavafys Come O King of the Lacedaimonians. https://newohioreview.org/2013/09/02/on-translating-c-p-cavafys-come-o-king-of-the-lacedaimonians/ Plutarch Lives of Agis and Cleomenes. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin W. Heinemann [----]. Polybius Histories. Edited by F. W. Walbank and Christian Habicht. Translated by W. R. Paton VI Harvard University Press [----]. My"
YouTube Link 2023-05-12T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 404.3K engagements

"History Summarized: The World Between the Wars Guys my Google image search history is abominable. The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video the search terms I had to type with my own to hands. SOURCES & Further Reading: "World War II: Map By Map" by Smithsonian & DK Great Courses Lectures The End of the War [----] - [--] Recovery & Depression in the West [----] - [--] Totalitarian Russia [----] - [--] Fascist Italy Nazi Germany [----] [--] The Holocaust [----] - [--] The Failure of Diplomacy [----] - [--] from Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World by"
YouTube Link 2025-11-21T16:01Z 2.5M followers, 253.2K engagements

"History Summarized: The British Empire How is it that the history of some islands off the northern coast of Europe balloons into a worldwide history Empire is how Let's dig into the history of Britain since Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in [----] and follow that narrative through the monumental rise and precipitous fall of the British Empire. Special thanks to the community members on Discord who assisted me with my script: Corvin the Crow Johnny Jdedredhed Joud Juname Klieg RileyTheProcrastinator The Missing Link and thesleepingmeerkat SOURCES & Further Reading: The Great Courses"
YouTube Link 2021-08-20T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 768.3K engagements

"Shakespeare Summarized: Titus Andronicus It's gory It's depressing It's pretty much the only non-historical shakespeare play I haven't covered yet It's everyone's favorite revenge fic Titus Andronicus Content warning: this video needed a counter for deaths AND a counter for lost body parts. Consider this fair warning. MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths"
YouTube Link 2016-10-07T12:30Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"History Summarized: Pope Fights [--] The Reformation Go to http://www.audible.com/overlysarcastic or text OVERLYSARCASTIC to [------] to get a free audiobook [--] free Audible Originals and 30-day free trial. Thank you to our Patron Peter Bemis for commissioning this video To support the channel head over to Patreon.com/OSP You've seen the Double-Pope matchup but what about the Double-Christianity face-off Today's Pope Fights covers the history and aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. FURTHER READING from shortest to longest books: The Reformation: A Very Short"
YouTube Link 2019-04-26T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 1M engagements

"OSP ANIMATED: [--] Million Subscriber Special We did it Or more accurately YOU did it 🎉 Thank you all so much for sticking with us and taking us to a level we never imagined we'd reach Love you all and here's a quick highlight reel of some of the shenanigans we've gotten up to since the last million of you joined us PINS: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-2-million-subscribers-red-blue-pin-pack Wondering where these clips came from check out our archive of Livestream VODs here:"
YouTube Link 2022-08-19T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 775.5K engagements

"Trope Talk: Loners Check out world anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/overlysarcastic and don't forget to use the code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 20% off a [--] or [--] month membership Loners Those super-cool badasses who don't need nobody. Let's discuss how this trope connects with Lancers the ever-present concept of Found Family and all the fun storylines these lone badasses find themselves tangled up in Who's your favorite loner Argue in the comments Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST:"
YouTube Link 2020-11-13T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.9M engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Monkey King (Journey To The West Part 1) ---YOU ARE HERE--- PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5ai5umy9yH0 PART 3: https://youtu.be/W7N-IRcUfB4 PART 4: https://youtu.be/5PTOArO8p9o PART 5: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dlB_vWGdLlA PART 6: https://youtu.be/Jr5IU8g2SHA Meet the progenitor of all brash impulsive superpowerful anime characters Sun Wukong the Monkey King and Great Sage was the most impulsive of them all "Wreaking havoc in heaven is so much fun it should be illegal" -Monkey probably I might cover something else before continuing with part two of The"
YouTube Link 2015-10-01T14:49Z 2.5M followers, 9.4M engagements

"Detail Diatribe: Castlevania Nocturne - No Gods No Masters ✨PRE-ORDER AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ ✨ And if you're curious READ THE COMIC HERE: https://comicaurora.com/aurora/0-1-1/ And if you managed to break it READ THE COMIC HERE INSTEAD: https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/654546833938497537/intro-ch1-p1-7 Castlevania is back and bluer than ever Let's talk about what it's saying now 0:00-6:33 - You Must Be Another Belmont 6:33-13:53 - History In MY Historical Fantasy 13:53-23:40 - Let's Stake Fantasy Bioessentialism 23:40-32:26 - My Deus Will Ex Machina Any Minute Now"
YouTube Link 2025-05-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 339.2K engagements

"Trope Talk: Sequels Oh no. That movie I liked is getting a sequel. Will it be good or will it make me retroactively dislike the thing I used to like And why is it always such a close call Let's DISCUSS BABY Favorite or least favorite sequel Yell about it in the comments EXAMPLES USED (IN ROUGH ORDER): Star Wars Dragon Ball Star Trek: The Next Generation Dragon Ball Z Young Justice The Incredibles (I and II) Terminator (I and II) Kung Fu Panda Steven Universe Frozen II MCU Batman Beyond Solo: A Star Wars Story X-Men X-Men: First Class X-Men: Apocalypse Avatar: Legend of Korra Our content is"
YouTube Link 2020-05-01T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.6M engagements

"Classics Summarized: The Odyssey Want a clean child-friendly version Click here https://youtu.be/kosS54qL9QY PART [--] - THE ILIAD: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=faSrRHw6eZ8 PART [--] - THE AENEID: http://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY 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. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2015-02-03T16:38Z 2.5M followers, 6.5M engagements

"Rulers Who Were Actually Good History Hijinks History is full of Rulers but most of them (especially some famous ones) can be Kind Of Terrible upon closer inspection. So let's take a look at two kings we can actually consider to be Good not perfect not blameless but a heck of a lot more virtuous than the average ruler that's for sure. This topic was requested by our patron Duncan Thank you for your patronage and for the topic suggestion. SOURCES & Further Reading: The Great Courses Plus lectures "Being Persian" by Robert Garland "The Persian Era" by Jean-Pierre Isbouts "Saladin: Chivalry and"
YouTube Link 2021-04-30T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"Halloween Special OSP Presents: MACBETH Come one and all ye goodly gentle folk And cast your eye upon a treacherous tale Of witches wanting heavy tyrant's yoke Cast cruelly on the land of Scotland fair And in advance of wicked hallow's eve We conjured up a merry gentle band Of tall tale-tellers for a day's reprieve In hopes that they could lend us both a hand And so good folk please catch with bated breath A most shambolic telling of Macbeth (For our second [----] halloween special we got some of the crew together and performed Macbeth - all of it - with the sole goal that our very special"
YouTube Link 2022-10-28T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 304.1K engagements

"History Summarized: Macedonia before Alexander My Alexander Slander knows no limits: because today we're talking about all the Macedonian history before the world famous Horse-girl For Him shows up because the conquest of Greece by his father Philip II was a Masterpiece. So let's see how he did it. SOURCES & Further Reading Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History produce by DK & Smithsonian The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton The Greeks: An Illustrated History by Diane Harris Cline for National Geographic Great Courses Lectures The World of Early Macedon Philip II and the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-26T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 270.2K engagements

"Trope Talk: Rule of [--] Characters gods worlds even story pacing tends to come in patterns of three. Is there any rhyme or reason to it or is it just funsies Is it an unshakeable rule or something more malleable And seriously why THREE A NOTE FROM RED: My next two weeks are going to be almost criminally busy. I have finals followed by a week-long trip for an excavation. I most likely won't be able to put out anything for the duration - as soon as summer starts for me it'll be a different story but this might be all you hear of me for a couple weeks. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH"
YouTube Link 2017-06-03T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.9M engagements

"Fables and Folktales: The Boy Who Found Fear At Last A bite-sized little folktale about a little man on a big adventure "Average coronation ceremony contains one pigeon" actually statistical error. Average coronation contains zero pigeons. "The Boy Who Found Fear At Last" is an outlier and should not be counted Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find"
YouTube Link 2023-10-06T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 848.4K engagements

"Trope Talk: Post Apocalypses We've talked about saving the world. We've talked about how ending the world in-story is really hard. Well today let's talk about what happens when you DO end the world Spoiler alert: it's generally not a good time. It felt WEIRD using Pacific Rim as actual example clips rather than metaphorical representations of the comment section. Play nice everybody. What's your favorite post-apocalypse story and what's one thing you would keep from EVER appearing in a post-apocalypse again if you had the power EXAMPLES: World War Z The Walking Dead (Telltale) The Walking"
YouTube Link 2019-02-01T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.9M engagements

"History Summarized: Ancient Persia From the depths of Zach Snyder's comic book pile comes a story of ancient Persia and how they fought against the Spartans bravely commanded by Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman. The battle set in downtown Manhattan will be one to Watch.men. I should really re-evaluate my sources. This video was produced with assistance from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2017-08-26T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"History Summarized: Mexico Go to https://NordVPN.com/overlysarcastic and use code OVERLYSARCASTIC to get 70% off a 3-year plan and an extra month for free. Protect yourself online today This video is quite serendipitous in timing by complete coincidence this is going live on September [--] the day of Mexico's true political independence under the First Mexican Empire. This is the [--] year sequel to the more traditional Mexican Independence celebrations of September 16th which marks Miguel Hidalgo's proclamation of the "Cry of Dolores" and the start of the Mexican War of Independence. No joke I"
YouTube Link 2019-09-27T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"Doctor Strange Is Good Because He Sucks - Detail Diatribe (This video does NOT discuss Multiverse of Madness don't worry about spoilers) "Doctor Strange" is one of the MCU's best movies because it actually bothers to show what Heroism means. Stephen Strange's arc is so compelling because it's so fraught ultimately he's such a Good character because the man straight up Sucks. Strange is so utterly insufferable and it works fantastically. (I originally had edited in footage of the actual scene in question but Disney smote my first draft with the fury of [----] claims sooooooo I replaced it with"
YouTube Link 2022-05-27T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 923.5K engagements

"Over the Garden Wall (And Straight Into Dante's Hell) - DETAIL DIATRIBE It's NEVER too early for HALLOWEEN Today we're talking about the show that managed to capture the entire spooky season and boil it down into a concentrated ten-episode blast - and how much of it is secretly Dante's Inferno in a funny hat Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-03T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 339.2K engagements

"OSP ANIMATED: Breath of the Wild The OSP gang talks lore speedruns and ludonarrative dissonance Strangely this audio comes from our recent Immortals: Fenyx Rising streams archived unlisted in our Livestream playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLDb22nlVXGgcchPurej5QU8_UcLxm55yM) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2021-03-02T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 893.9K engagements

"OSP ANIMATED: Among Us Audio from JoCat's Bards4Bards charity stream And for once the color names aren't confusing VOD: https://youtu.be/9kXWe1WOhl8 Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to"
YouTube Link 2022-01-18T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 740.6K engagements

"Gotye's "Making Mirrors" is music mastery Detail Diatribe AURORA PINS THE FLOOF SQUAD HAS ARRIVED Kendal Alinua Falst and Erin are available as an enamel pin pack and they glow in the dark Grab them here: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ Yes yes yes "Somebody That I Used To Know" is still a bop but the rest of Gotye's album "Making Mirrors" is Also Amazing and it's time we all appreciated that. SOURCES & Further Reading: Videos "Making Making Mirrors" from Gotye's YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2ZXLyeatI0ssi=ydI3uuxEXJSiwaQG "The Making of Eyes Wide Open" from Gotye's YouTube channel"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 111.8K engagements

"Trope Talk: Superpowered Evil Sides Check out Campfire Blaze here https://www.campfiretechnology.com/blaze/utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSPQ420 They're dark They're edgy They're an easy way to give an otherwise inoffensive heroic type some Depth Let's talk about those unappreciated B-sides of the world of fiction the Superpowered Evil Side Who's your favorite S.E.S. Least favorite Discuss Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us"
YouTube Link 2020-10-23T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"History Summarized: The Maya Aztec and Inca Human sacrifice smallpox and the Spanish empire. that's the whole story right Haha eheh hehe HA not even close The civilizations of Mesoamerica are fascinating in their own right and very distinct from each other too Step on in and I'll learn you a thing or two. Also no spoilers but next time I'm covering the Iroquois Confederation Ok maybe that was exactly a spoiler. This video was produced with assistance from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts -"
YouTube Link 2017-07-29T15:28Z 2.5M followers, 2.2M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: The Book Of Invasions The quintessential Irish mythological text and it's about getting steamrolled by invaders. Now that's what I call brand consistency (Extremely Human Person merch: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/54990988) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP DISCORD: https://discord.gg/kguuvvq MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny"
YouTube Link 2020-08-14T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.3M engagements

"History Summarized: Ancient China Let's get down to business to start your Squarespace free trial today at http://www.squarespace.com/overlysarcastic and use code OVERLYSARCASTIC to get 10% off your first purchase. And check out our website at www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com And after that we'll defeat the Huns Join Blue on a trek through the early centuries of Chinese History from legendary foundations to the Shang and Zhou dynasties past the Warring States Period and into the Han dynasty if you get to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms you've gone too far. Further reading: China: A"
YouTube Link 2018-12-28T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.6M engagements

"History Summarized: Hawai'i To learn more about the Native Hawaiian community and their culture visit: https://www.hawaiiancouncil.org/about This year to celebrate Indigenous People's Day we're taking a look at the history of Hawai'i from its early history in the Polynesian maritime culture to its forming a Kingdom to its annexation by the United States. Beyond simply a special case in the story of American expansion Hawai'i has a deep history that deserves to be better known. SOURCES & Further Reading: Great Courses Lecture "Lifeways of Australia and the Pacific" by Craig Benjamin Britannica"
YouTube Link 2020-10-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: The Zodiac Thanks to longtime patron Volt for requesting this topic We know their names We know their symbols We know there's a truly staggering number of websites dedicated to their stereotypical personality traits But what do we know about their stories Let's discuss FUN FACT I GLOSSED OVER IN THE VIDEO: like I said it's REALLY hard to determine when these constellations entered Greece. Most people set the date at 300ish when Eudoxus codified the Greek calendar based on the Babylonian one - but that clashes with the fact that Heracles's labors predate that by at least"
YouTube Link 2020-11-27T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 3M engagements

"Trope Talk: Tournament Arcs Sign up at http://crunchyroll.com/overlysarcastic to get CrunchyRoll ad free for 14-days It's an anime staple It's kind of controversial Let's unpack what's up with the tournament arc and then listen to me ramble about tournaments I liked for over half the video Yaaaaay What's your favorite tournament arc and your least favorite PART of any given tournament arc PATREON: www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://OverlySarcasticProducts.Threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.Cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2019-05-17T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.9M engagements

"di-VINE OSP [--] After [--] mil the milestones feel a little less momentous but I think we should still celebrate the last 50K subs with a BONUS TUESDAY VINE VIDEO PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis Myths Legends Classics Literature Stories Storytelling History vines vine compilation best of vine gods as vines"
YouTube Link 2019-11-19T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"History-Makers: Ibn Khaldun Big thanks to our friend Al-Muqaddimah for his help with this video. The look of this video's maps is an homage to his wonderful mapmaking style. For more Islamic History check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0O2efB4K66UUaT7QJPVNA From the coast of Tunisia across the Straits of Gibraltar over the Atlas Mountains and east to the Nile of Egypt Ibn Khaldun had certainly seen history at work. That experience came in handy as he wrote The Muqaddimah a genre-defining masterwork of Historiography not just retelling the events of the past but"
YouTube Link 2020-12-18T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 533.4K engagements

"She-Ra: Parallel Arcs - Detail Diatribe We needed a bit of a break this week so here's a 40-minute ramble about a really good show SPOILER ALERT: if you don't want She-Ra spoilers you won't like this video Don't watch it So I had B-roll for this video I edited it together over the course of six total hours and it was really good It also WOULD NOT stop getting copyright claimed no matter what I did so in order to actually get this dang video up I ended up having to nuke it. Nobody's sorrier about that than me. I hope you guys like the video anyway and if you're curious about the scenes we're"
YouTube Link 2021-06-11T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 890.7K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Mt. Mayon Breaking news Mt. Mayon a volcano in the Philippines is erupting As such we interrupt your regularly-scheduled Friday updates to bring you a quick segment on the mythical history of this beautiful natural disaster. The story is sweet the volcano is rather less so. Seriously if you have an evac order please listen to it. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author)"
YouTube Link 2018-01-30T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.3M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Orion Look Up in the sky It's a giant It's a hunter It's Orion PINS: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-overly-sarcastic-pin-pack Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis"
YouTube Link 2020-07-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.2M engagements

"Trope Talk: Noodle Incidents Check out Campfire here: https://www.campfirewriting.com/reading-apputm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSP_Q1_24 First rule of The Noodle Incident is you do NOT explain The Noodle Incident. What's your favorite Noodle Incident and was there a time you got a Noodle Incident explanation that actually really worked for you Drop it in the comments Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH:"
YouTube Link 2024-03-22T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 906.6K engagements

"Trope Talk: Powerhouses Check out world anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/overlysarcastic and don't forget to use the code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 20% off a [--] or [--] month membership Everyone loves a powerhouse and by "everyone" I mean "me and I'm tired of other people not appreciating them enough" MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST:"
YouTube Link 2021-04-23T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: King Midas We have a new DIONYSUS PIN Get it while it's gettable https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-dionysus-pin-sticker-sheet Ahh Midas. Shockingly one of the least Problematic ancient greek kings and certainly one of the funniest to read about. Bizarrely good at surviving direct confrontations with temperamental gods PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Starfall Flight of the Silverbird Sky Becomes Water Starfall "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0"
YouTube Link 2021-10-22T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.6M engagements

"History-Makers: Homer Visit PhilosophicalPhridays.com to learn more about Blue's BOOK "History-Makers" is a new series from Blue digging into the backstories of history's most influential writers and their great works. We begin at the beginning with the Greek poet Homer trying to figure out how exactly he wound up with the Iliad and Odyssey Let me know which History-Maker you'd like me to cover in the comments below PATREON: www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://OverlySarcasticProducts.Threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.Cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts"
YouTube Link 2019-05-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 852.4K engagements

"Trope Talk: Haunting the Narrative 📌 CTHULU PIN 📌 The Ancient One awakes and he's never been more adorable Available for two spooky weeks https://overlysarcastic.shop/ It's the Spooky Month Let's talk about the spookiest thing of all - the inescapable specter of grief Hoorayyyyy Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 705.9K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Astraea Greetings Virgos and happy birthday season I come bearing a kingly gift PIN: https://overlysarcastic.shop/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-virgo-pin-presale A lot of the music is: Local Forecast - Elevator Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/"
YouTube Link 2024-09-06T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 748K engagements

"History Summarized: Naxos The Island Frozen In Time 🦀 SPACE CRAB 🗡🦀 KNIFE CRAB We've got two new constellation pins in our merch store https://overlysarcastic.shop/ Most of History isn't the big momentous events most of it is false starts unfinished projects and relics of ideas too grand to realize. So for an illustrative example let's look at Naxos the Greek island frozen in time. SOURCES & Further Reading: "Oxford Archaeological Guides: Greece" by Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth "Histories" by Herodotus sections 1.60-1.64 5.28-5.31 "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides"
YouTube Link 2024-07-05T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 266.6K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Zahak The Serpent King Sometimes you read a myth or folktale and it surprises you how different it is from the narrative conventions you're used to and sometimes literally the exact opposite thing happens and it's incredible. So anyway here's an evil snake emperor overthrown by a charismatic rebel leader and a lost true heir chosen one prophecy hero written ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Starfall Black Blade Winged Dragon of Ra theme He Who Brings The Night To Victory A Hero's Return False King Star Sky Elevator Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under"
YouTube Link 2021-07-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2M engagements

"Trope Talk: Pinocchio Plots We all know the classic story of "if I am very good and do my homework and never ever misbehave I will be someday rewarded with the privilege of being seen as a human being and maybe even get a smidgen of autonomy in my existence" But enough about the horrors of middle school let's talk about fiction's finest Pinocchios MUSIC: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST:"
YouTube Link 2023-06-30T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 672.9K engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Journey To The West (Part IV) JOURNEY TO THE WEST KAI EPISODE 1: SKELE-FUN It's the episode almost a year in the making (sorry 🙊) The saga of the monk Tripitaka his bodyguard the Monkey King and the rest of his merry band of pilgrims continues in this dramatic episode Friendships are tested Unlikely heroes rise to the occasion Somebody throws a punch PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5ai5umy9yH0 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=W7N-IRcUfB4 ---YOU ARE HERE--- PART 5:"
YouTube Link 2017-03-19T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.5M engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Journey To The West (Part II) PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=61nuXrvqNgI ---YOU ARE HERE--- PART 3: https://youtu.be/W7N-IRcUfB4 PART 4: https://youtu.be/5PTOArO8p9o PART 5: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dlB_vWGdLlA PART 6: https://youtu.be/Jr5IU8g2SHA The eponymous Journey actually begins Sure hope this doesn't take another eighty-three chapters. OH WAIT Sun Wukong is back and better than ever Or well or worse depending on your point of view. He's getting up to shenanigans again which is generally pretty problematic - but you know what he's doing stuff and"
YouTube Link 2016-01-15T00:33Z 2.5M followers, 5.4M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Dionysus "Hey Red I already know all the Dionysus myths and there's really not much going on with him - so why on earth is this video longer than three minutes And who are those other guys in the thumbnail" LET'S FIND OUT SHALL WE PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis"
YouTube Link 2018-06-15T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 8.5M engagements

"Trope Talk: The Hero's Journey Its origins are highly specific its modern incarnation is a little more flexible and most people nowadays have stopped trying to squish every single hero story into fitting it. But at heart The Hero's Journey was an attempt to tie every hero story together into one narrative structure that described them all. Was it a success No But that doesn't mean it's not worth talking about LET'S BREAK IT DOWN Also Red is doing something I think so it's Blue's time to shine in this narrative breakdown of a multi-part troping juggernaut What was YOUR "oh hey they did that"
YouTube Link 2018-04-20T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"History Summarized: Florence Get [--] months of Audible for just $6.95 a month. Thats more than half off the regular price. Visit http://www.audible.com/overlysarcastic or text overlysarcastic to [---] [---]. Can't start a Renaissance without building a few Domes. You've seen the memes now learn the history behind the magnificent city of Florence It may sound like sacrilege but many years ago Florence was the first Italian city that little Blue had a cartoonishly-overblown obsession for Move over Venice. In fact Florentine history is basically THE reason I ever started caring about History in the"
YouTube Link 2019-12-06T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 868K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: The Journey Of Ra Hey kids You like snakes Then have I got a mythos for YOU THE LAST TIME WE SAW RA: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=yygW6psCIM4 The sad thing about learning Middle Egyptian is the number of people who can actually read it is so small that I can't sneak in that many proper bilingual jokes. I can always trust that someone will be able to recognize the jokes or references I write in Japanese but hieroglyphs are just esoteric enough that I can't assume the same here. (Also I'm not really willing to demean my knowledge of the language by writing english words"
YouTube Link 2018-01-19T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.1M engagements

"History Summarized: Great Zimbabwe The existence of Great Zimbabwe implies somewhere the existence of Evil Zimbabwe. Evil Zimbabwe uses way too much mortar in their stone architecture and they didn't play a major role in the medieval world's largest trade network either. This is why we at OSP prefer Great Zimbabwe they played the Trade game like a champ and didn't need any mortar. SOURCES & Further Reading: Great Courses Lectures: "Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South" from "The African Experience: From Lucy to Mandela" by Kenneth P Vickery and "Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa in"
YouTube Link 2023-02-17T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 311.6K engagements

"Shakespeare Summarized: Much Ado About Nothing BREAKING NEWS: Overly Sarcastic Productions has a twitter now Check it out: https://www.twitter.com/OSPyoutube/ This was originally for my English class but what the heck. This six-minute video explains in short what Shakespeare graced us with in long: the classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. A tale of romance humor and plain-dealing villainy you'll almost certainly be forced to read at least once in your lifetime. If this one works out I might make more of these That'll be the day. UPDATE: Summaries [--] and [--] are available PATREON:"
YouTube Link 2012-12-18T21:44Z 2.5M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Modern Classics Summarized: All Quiet On The Western Front This book was requested by $100-tier Patreon pledger Hector Rodriguez Thanks I hate it Sometimes I wonder why I don't like researching history that much. Then I remember it's because a solid 90% of historical literature is either super boring or CRUSHINGLY MISERABLE. "Modern Classics" is probably our most depressing playlist. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2019-01-18T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.4M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Artemis and Apollo Finally a deep dive into everyone's favorite aesthetically opposed fraternal twins Let's see how two people with such similar origins (or are they) can grow into such different disasters ☀🌙 PLUSH TIME https://overlysarcastic.shop/collections/plushies The Celestial Twins are here and they are SOFT ☀🌙 Artemis and Apollo plushes are available at our merch store bundle both and get $5 off Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD:"
YouTube Link 2023-09-08T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.7M engagements

"History Summarized: The Acropolis They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is. SOURCES & Further Reading: Great Courses Lectures The Acropolis of Athens from World Heritage Sites by Justin Jacobs Athens civic buildings and civic identity from Cities of the Ancient World by Steven Tuck and The Perfection of Greek Architecture from The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture by Robert Garland. Athens by Bruce Clark The Greeks by Roderick Beaton. Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST:"
YouTube Link 2022-04-29T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 652.2K engagements

"History Summarized: Cleopatra Dust off your ancient Greek because its time to take a look at the final Pharaoh of Egypt: Cleopatra Get your Royal merch here: https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs/cleopatra The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2011/07/Cleopatra/ Further reading: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William"
YouTube Link 2018-08-10T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"History Summarized: Spread of Christianity Things I learned when making this video: 1) when your script goes beyond [--] single-spaced pages you're heading into the danger zone 2) Gregorian Chants are awesome and you should totally listen to them 3) editing always takes longer than you'd hope 4) self care is huffing frankincense for breakfast lunch and dinner and single-handedly sacking a levantine city Have a question about something I mentioned or maybe something I might have left out Leave it down below and I'll do my best to respond PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: Shirts -"
YouTube Link 2017-01-10T18:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.7M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Hera Crashes Zeus's Wedding I'm sure there's a completely logical explanation for all of this. Don't worry babe he can explain ✨Special GOLD Zeus and Hera pins HERE✨: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-zeus-hera-pin-pack-1 Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on"
YouTube Link 2022-11-18T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"History Summarized: Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Republic Check out the Remastered edition of the Roman Republic series: https://youtu.be/AsR-C9WtoKg This was supposed to be a 10-minute video on Caesar and Augustus but as you can see I got a little carried away. My next history video will be part of something cool and new that I'm really excited for but after that it's back to Rome to tackle Augustus Constantinople ain't gonna sack itself and we have a lot of Roman history to get through between here and then. So get hype because plenty more videos are on the way Historia Civilis Links:"
YouTube Link 2017-12-29T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.3M engagements

"History Summarized: Minoan Greece The classical Greeks weren't the first kids on the Aegean block. Long before Athens' golden age before Homer and even before the Trojan War there was a civilization on the island of Krete. The land of King Minos was home to beautiful palaces a fascinatingly-complex economy and something approximating Bull-Cthulu. It's a fun time let's jump in. SOURCES & Further Reading: "The Greeks: An Illustrated History" by Diane Cline for National Geographic "The Greeks: A Global History" by Roderick Beaton Lectures from The Great Courses Plus "Being Minoan and Mycenaean""
YouTube Link 2021-12-17T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1M engagements

"Oeuvre-ly Sarcastic A sneak preview of the After-After-Show-Show for Episode [---] of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast The AASS is an extra half hour or more of OSP discussion available EXCLUSIVELY for our Patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ospod-132-after-143372376 Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 49.2K engagements

"Trope Talk: Amnesia Amnesia The trope too powerful for its own good It's a favorite of soap operas and anything else that likes quick and easy drama and when it comes to shuffling around core character traits amnesia is basically a swiss army knife - need to roll back a week or two of character development need to revert a character to a clean slate wanna make one of your lovebirds forget their FIRST KISS amnesia is the trope for you and if you're an audience member sick of being emotionally manipulated by writers doing any and all of the above WELCOME TO THE PARTY What's YOUR favorite"
YouTube Link 2019-09-20T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.2M engagements

"di-VINE OSP [--] Thanks for taking us to [---] million subscribers Here's more celebratory memeage Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to contributing translated captions:"
YouTube Link 2021-02-15T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 815.3K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Enki and Ninmah Thanks to patron Derek Rucker for requesting this myth It's short sweet and utterly ridiculous. TLDR two gods get drunk and have a people-making competition. The one that makes the jankiest dude wins. Make sure to pause for an unnecessarily in-depth explanation of what a harem actually is PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Starfall (Two Steps From Hell) Wind Queen (Two Steps From Hell) Surfin USA Ex's and Oh's "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our"
YouTube Link 2021-03-12T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.6M engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Saga of Grettir It's halloween month Let's celebrate with an Icelandic saga full of ghoulies ghosties and SO MANY LEGAL DISPUTES Thanks to longtime patron Gudmundur H Ulfarsson for requesting this back in [----] For full immersion torment yourself with the full text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/347/347-h/347-h.htm Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2022-10-21T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.7M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Eros and Psyche Happy valentine's day people In celebration let's take a look at a tale as old as time - Eros and Psyche This myth has been adapted in a million different ways and the structure recurs in folklore all over the world - boy meets girl boy loses girl girl has to undergo X taxing trials to earn the hand of boy girl gets boy. Oftentimes the boy also transforms from a hideous or animalistic form into a beautiful one when the girl completes her tasks. This could be considered a way of balancing or equalizing the marriage - it's not one-sided because after the boy"
YouTube Link 2017-02-14T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 7.6M engagements

"A Brief History of Telling Stories With D&D (Detail Diatribe) 📌📌 BEEP BEEP 📌📌 BIG PIN SALE 📌📌 Enamel gang's all here at https://overlysarcastic.shop/ As you enter the youtube video faint torchlight provides the only illumination Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 279.9K engagements

"Ding Dong It's [----] The Cold Open from our New Year's Bonus episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast. The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms and this particular episode is viewable right here on the channel https://youtu.be/L-SiTY6slgU PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find"
YouTube Link 2025-01-01T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 157.1K engagements

"Trope Talk: Dystopias (with special guest Hello Future Me) HELLO FUTURE ME'S CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMO-YL87u-6Rt8hIVsRjA Today we tackle dystopias - but for a trope this big we might need a little help Everybody say hello to Hello Future Me and check out his channel if you haven't already PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP"
YouTube Link 2018-07-06T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Trope Talk: Immortals Check out Campfire here: https://www.campfiretechnology.com/pro/utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=OSP4-6.20 Believe it or not I had this video fully scripted and recorded before The Old Guard was even a thing. That's why I conspicuously don't talk about it at all. Fortunately it seems to share 100% of my thoughts on the subject so we're all good Who's your favorite immortal Argue in the comments Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2020-08-28T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.1M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Theseus and Pirithous REUPLOAD from earlier this morning now with copyright claim removed and more of my fantabulous voice. We all know who Theseus is Awesome And Hades Cool What about Pirithous No Any takers See that's not too surprising because when you're only famous for the dumbest moment of your life you have a way of falling out of the history books unless you manage to produce some appropriately spectacular collateral damage. MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2016-11-25T13:33Z 2.5M followers, 4.7M engagements

"Halloween Special: Mummies This special has dug itself up straight from the deepest driest tombs 💀 Spooky Pins GO 💀 Osiris and Anubis enamel pins are available now in our merch shop https://OverlySarcastic.shop SOURCES & Further Reading: Mummy Stories "The Mummy A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" by Jane C Loudon [----] "The Mummy's Foot" by Thophile Gautier [----] "Some Words With A Mummy" by Edgar Allen Poe [----] "The Mummy's Curse" by Louisa May Alcott [----] nice "Lot Number 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle [----] "The Jewel of Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker [----] "Imprisoned With The Pharaohs" by H. P."
YouTube Link 2024-10-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.4M engagements

"Trope Talk: Space Westerns Saddle up cowboys Next stop: the final frontier Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to contributing"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 431.2K engagements

"History Summarized: Ramses The Great Breaking News: Powerful ancient king lives long prosperous life stuns historians and tabloid journalists everywhere. Next up at Nine: "The Sea Peoples." Coming to destroy our civilization or just really nosy tourists The answer will have you pointlessly theorizing for thousands of years. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized"
YouTube Link 2018-07-13T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1M engagements

"Journey to the West (APRIL FOOLS SPECIAL) LAST TIME ON JOURNEY TO THE WEST Everything was a lot flatter (For the behind-the-scenes bonus video previously only visible to patrons CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://youtu.be/Z1k1hWoeGPw) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions Analysis Literary Analysis"
YouTube Link 2020-04-01T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 911.3K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Hyacinthus This one was surprisingly frequently requested (It also turned out to be super short which was convenient for me) So prepare for the timeless love story between lovelorn frequently-rejected sun god Apollo and Hyacinthus the Spartan prince who actually said yes to a date I bet this ends SUPER well and nobody dies at all this time. Yup. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William"
YouTube Link 2017-09-05T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.4M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Amaterasu and the Cave With the onset of northern-hemisphere winter on the horizon it felt ALMOST appropriate to take a minute to discuss a Japanese myth about the sun taking a holiday So here's a short sweet video about the near-end of the world and how it was saved by a strategically placed naked lady. WARNING: all parties involved are professional deities. do not attempt to lure your depressed friends out of the house by stripping. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2017-10-25T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.5M engagements

"History-Makers: Raphael and the School of Athens Some say he's got the most attitude on the team. SOURCES: Great Courses Lectures The High Renaissance Humanism Perfected from How to Look at and Understand Great Art by Sharon Latchaw Hirsh Raphael Madonnas and Portraits and Raphael History Paintings from Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance by William Kloss The High Renaissance Raphael from A History of European Art by William Kloss I also visited the Vatican Museums and Raphael Rooms last month personally photographing the paintings as well as various explanatory plaques in the museums."
YouTube Link 2025-11-07T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 133.9K engagements

"History Summarized: Malta Go to https://NordVPN.com/overlysarcastic and and use code OVERLYSARCASTIC to get 75% off a [--] year plan and an extra month for free. Protect yourself online today Malta the Island of A Dozen Empires chilling in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most social butterflies in History. Having played host to or fought against every major power in the Mediterranean this island bears a gorgeous architectural and linguistic record of its past and is still a treasure to behold in the modern day. I've covered a lot of nations and empires in my time here but"
YouTube Link 2019-08-16T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"History Summarized: Why Is English Such A Mess ✨ VIRGO TIME ♍ The Virgo pin is available in our merch shop The stars glow in the dark because of course they do https://overlysarcastic.shop/ Linguistics is fun because you wonder why LanguageTM is the way it is then you research it and then you realize human language is at once the Sturdiest and MOST FRAGILE thing humans have ever created. SOURCES & Further Reading: "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" by John McWhorter Samples of text from Shakespeare's Sonnets & Plays Folger Shakespeare Library Geoffrey Chaucer's"
YouTube Link 2024-08-30T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 368K engagements

"Halloween Special: H. P. Lovecraft HAPPY HALLOWEEN IT'S TIME TO GET SPOOKY WITH HISTORY'S MOST PROBLEMATIC HORROR WRITER LET'S GOOOOO While there's something to be said for separating the art from the artist I think there's a lot of merit in CONTEXTUALIZING the art WITH the artist. Did Lovecraft write some pretty incredible horror Sure Was he also a raging xenophobe Absolutely Are his perspectives on life connected with the stories he felt compelled to tell Duh If you look at Lovecraft's writing through the lens of his life clear patterns emerge that allow us to pin down what exactly he built"
YouTube Link 2018-10-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 11.4M engagements

"Trope Talk: Timeloops Stop me if you've heard this one before https://youtu.be/dZrEayPIrVEsi=jmuDfXgy7ktVrhzd Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to contributing translated captions:"
YouTube Link 2024-11-22T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 778.4K engagements

"Fables and Folktales: Yuki-Onna 📌📌PIN TIME 📌📌 https://overlysarcastic.shop/ ✨Eros and Psyche are available at our merch shop for a limited time. We put GLITTER in their wings it's so SPARKLY Get cozy with something hot to drink and prepare for another tale of intimidating snow ladies Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2024-02-09T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 522.4K engagements

"Hot takes from a cold cell on Boethius FM Radio The Cold Open from episode [---] of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast. The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms. PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T14:00Z 2.5M followers, 41.5K engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Trojan War The grandest epic cycle this side of the Aegean Today let's talk about the tale of which The Iliad only makes up a tiny (if impressive) fraction Pst Wanna know more about Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica Watch Blue's Historymaker video about him HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=wfHGQAzwEKo And if you want to know more about the historical archaeological precedent that indicates some form of this story REALLY HAPPENED watch Blue's video on Mycenaean Greece HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cki-9ANZTLg&t=40s&ab_channel=OverlySarcasticProductions PARTIAL"
YouTube Link 2022-07-29T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.4M engagements

"Trope Talk: Timeskips Check out my comic at https://www.comicaurora.com/ If that's misbehaving there's a mirror posted on the comic's tumblr starting here - https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/654546833938497537/intro-ch1-p1-7 Anyway on to the video Ahh the trope that launched a thousand redesigns. But are timeskips good Bad Narratively neutral and solely determined by the execution (yes) But let's discuss in more detail anyway Thanks to patron Skemono for requesting this one MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0"
YouTube Link 2021-06-18T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 970.5K engagements

"Trope Talk: Fridging Check out world anvil at https://www.worldanvil.com/overlysarcastic and don't forget to use the code OVERLYSARCASTIC for 40% off an annual membership (It used to be 30% but now it's 40% 🎊) Don't think you know this one Trust me you do. And you don't like it. Today let's talk about fridging aka why I got so butthurt about the MCU's grand finale Scheming Weasel Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON:"
YouTube Link 2021-10-08T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.8M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Tam Lin Look I'm not saying if I inherited an enchanted forest haunted by a sexy ghost that I PERSONALLY would go out and seduce them. I'm just saying I understand where the impulse is coming from. A list of odd similarities this tale has with Eros And Psyche: pregnant heroine imprisoned boyfriend a series of trials for the heroine initiated by a powerful/godlike and inhuman female entity a happy ending PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2018-10-26T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.8M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Loki's Wager Loki Loki Loki. When will you learn that your actions have consequences Alternate title: HAIRCUT PRANK GONE WRONG (I ALMOST DIED NOT CLICKBAIT) (FUN FACT While that math that briefly shows on the screen calculates the correct solution for the parameters stated there's actually an error in the formula Find it for extra credit) Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2020-05-15T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.4M engagements

"History Summarized: The Meiji Restoration Japan may well have the record for World's Speediest Industrialization but how did they accomplish so much so fast without falling victim to Europe's favorite 19th century pastime of "Colonization" And how did Japan build up a Pan-Asian empire so darn quickly All that and more in this deep-dive into the Meiji Restoration SOURCES & Further Reading: "Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction" by Goto-Jones. "The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War" by Paine. "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" by Nitobe THAT WACKY"
YouTube Link 2020-05-08T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.1M engagements

"✨Mysterious Colors✨ Unlike Any- A sneak preview of the After-After-Show-Show for the New Year's bonus episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast The AASS is an extra half hour or more of OSP discussion available EXCLUSIVELY for our Patrons https://www.patreon.com/posts/95655484/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2024-01-10T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 203.6K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Loki NEW PIN https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-loki-pin-sticker-sheet-pack I started researching this goddamn video in june of [----]. I was so young. So innocent. This video is a precious relic of The Before Times and unlike those inconsiderate vikings I went out of my way to take actual notes Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PARTIAL TRACKLIST: Starfall Hall Of The Mountain King Sky Becomes Water Flight Of The Silverbird Lacrimosa Reign Of Vengeance He Who Brings The Night "Scheming"
YouTube Link 2021-04-09T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 5.2M engagements

"Trope Talk: Strong Female Characters Despite the increasing number of female protagonists in modern storytelling it feels like a lot of them are somehow flatter than one might expect - playing to more of an archetype than a real good character. Today Red ponders the burning question - what's up with that Oh boy the comments will be fun on this one MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William Shakespeare (Author) Shakespeare Summarized Funny Summary OSP"
YouTube Link 2016-12-12T13:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.3M engagements

"Captain America The Winter Soldier is the Best MCU Movie (Detail Diatribe) whennnnnn CAPTAIN AMERICA THROWS HIS MIGHTY SHIEEEEEELD- Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PRE-ORDER AURORA VOLUME 1: https://comicaurora.com/books/ PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want"
YouTube Link 2025-05-30T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 499.7K engagements

"History-Makers: Boethius & The Consolation of Philosophy It's [---] AD the Goths rule Italy and your former best pal the King has unjustly imprisoned you. What do you do Well if you're Boethius you take all that angst and write the single best work of philosophy since Plato. Not biased. 📌📌 PIN SALE 📌📌 GETCHA PINS HERE 📌📌 https://overlysarcastic.shop/ SOURCES & Further Reading: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 523-24 translated by H. R. James [----] Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy from Great Minds of the Medieval World by Dorsey Armstrong MUSIC: "In A Pile Of Its Own Good"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T16:01Z 2.5M followers, 107.6K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Huitzilopochtli GET A CORRESPONDING T-SHIRT: https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs/sibling-rivalry Ever wonder why the ancient aztecs had such a thing for blood Well this doesn't really answer WHY but it does clarify a little of the thought process behind it. Welcome to the wonderful blood-soaked world of Aztec mythology If I have to draw that stupid multicolored character design one more time all my fingers are gonna drop off MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2016-10-12T12:30Z 2.5M followers, 3M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Sisyphus Captures Death Ever wonder where the whole notion of capturing death even came from It's not exactly widespread but it sure seems to show up a lot more than one might expect. Well worry no longer Turns out it's all because the ancient king Sisyphus had a fantastic (terrible) idea that worked out great (badly) for everyone involved. PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube William"
YouTube Link 2017-07-25T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.3M engagements

"History Summarized: The Castles of Wales Every castle tells a story but when one small country has over [---] castles the collective story they tell is something like "holy heck ouch ow oh god why are there so many arrows ouch good lord ow" And that's Wales for you. SOURCES:Caerphilly Castle by Rick Turner provided by Cadw A Concise History of Wales by Geraint H. Jenkins Britains Medieval Castles from The Great Tours: England Scotland and Wales by Patrick N. Allitt Information from the Welsh Historic Environment Service Cadw Cadw.gov.wales Partial Tracklist: "Pippin the Hunchback" Kevin MacLeod"
YouTube Link 2023-06-23T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 272.1K engagements

"Classics Summarized: Don Quixote Thanks to Drunner64 for requesting this video Spain's most famous eccentric takes center stage in a comedy that SORT of manages to hold up in spite of the majority of its humor amounting to pop-culture references that make NO sense in our current cultural climate. Also this book is about 150% longer than it needs to be and that's not even touching on the sequel PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on"
YouTube Link 2018-09-14T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.4M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Medea ZEUS/HERA PINS: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-zeus-hera-pin-pack This is probably just gonna be a fun little prequel to the Trojan War. Nothing to worry about. Thanks to patron dragons for requesting this topic PARTIAL TRACKLIST: A Hole In The Sun Wind Queen Flight Of The Silverbird Girl From Ipanema As Wings Blot Out The Sun Careless Whisper Total Eclipse Of The Heart A Hero's Return Starfall Border Post Demise Of The Ritual Name Above All Names Ancient Gods Kiss From A Rose (piano instrumental)"
YouTube Link 2021-06-04T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.2M engagements

"The Complete History of Ancient Greece Summarized How much do I like Ancient Greece . How much time do you have SOURCES & Further Reading: BOOKS: The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton The Greeks: An Illustrated History by Diane Cline for National Geographic Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History produced by DK & Smithsonian Oxford Archaeological Guides: Greece by Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth History of Greece by JB Bury The Complete Greek Temples by Tony Spawforth Ancient Cities Brought To Life by Jean-Claude Golvin Sicily: An"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 692.4K engagements

"History Summarized: The Pantheon It's a good dome simple as that. SOURCES & Further Reading: The Great Courses lectures: "The Most Celebrated Edifice - The Pantheon" from "Understanding Greek and Roman Technology" by Stephen Ressler and "Roman Art and Architecture" from "The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome" by Gregory Aldrete. "The Pantheon" by Chris Legare via ATouchOfRome https://www.atouchofrome.com/the_pantheon.html. Additionally I have a university degree in Classical Studies. Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP"
YouTube Link 2022-01-07T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 588.1K engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Perseus He's brave He's strong He's primarily remembered for being the only Greek hero to actually get a happy ending That's right it's everyone's favorite namesake of a YA protagonist Perseus Known for precisely one adventure Perseus also carries the distinction of being the only Greek hero without an obnoxious character flaw - none of Hercules's rages Jason or Theseus's wifely abandonment or Orpheus's complete inability to keep his sh*t together for five consecutive minutes. Note: Apparently Andromeda was actually ethiopian. I didn't know this when I was drawing her so"
YouTube Link 2016-06-21T08:10Z 2.5M followers, 5.2M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Nerites A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE 2022: The detail about Nerea seems to be incorrect My research indicates she existed exclusively on an older version of the wikipedia page about this tale And this kids is why we always go straight to the primary source This teenie weenie episode is brought to you courtesy of our patron Ryan The Nomad There's no art of Nerites which means none of you can prove he WASN'T a mermaid. 🦐 PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff -"
YouTube Link 2019-03-01T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.9M engagements

"The Art of Historical Storytelling Detail Diatribe What is it really that I do in my history videos What's the method what's the goal Today we're cracking the process open to see How I do some History. MUSIC: Nocturne op. [--] no. [--] by Frederic Chopin Sections: 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:07 Research 👏👏 Research 👏👏 0:12:50 Difficult AND wildly inconsistent 0:23:02 Story time 0:33:03 Welcome to The Bias Zone 0:35:45 Oh no he's talking about R*me again 0:45:25 If Thucydides has one fan it's Blue 0:47:29 💜💜💜 Byzantines 💜💜💜 0:51:23 goddammit he's back on rome 0:54:18 What am I even doing here"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T16:01Z 2.5M followers, 99.5K engagements

"History Summarized: The Cities of Ancient Sparta Is. This. Sparta (Pssst: there's a spring cleaning sale for our PINS Grab your favorite deity in the original black frame edition or in special gold-plating here: https://crowdmade.com/OSP) SOURCES & Further Reading: The Spartans from Ancient Greek Civilization" by Jeremy McInerney The Greek Polis - Sparta from The Foundations of Western Civilization by Thomas F. X. Noble Dark Age and Archaic Greece from The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture by Robert Garland Being a Greek Slave from The Other Side of History by Robert Garland. "The"
YouTube Link 2023-04-14T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 360.8K engagements

"Legends Summarized: The Heroes Of Greece It's been a hefty decade summarizing an even heftier chunk of centuries. Indulge me in a mega-compilation this week while I ponder the nature of change TIMESTAMPS: 0:00:00-0:01:59 - What The Hell Is This Video 0:01:59-0:16:26 - The Age Of Cautionary Tales 0:16:26-0:30:49 - When There's Something Strange In Your Neighborhood 0:30:49-1:19:42 - Argonauts and Argonaut Accessories 1:19:42-1:58:50 - Surely These Conces Won't Quence 1:58:50-2:04:27 - Wait That's Illegal 2:04:27-2:16:47 - The Constancy Of Change Our content is intended for teenage audiences"
YouTube Link 2024-10-04T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 1.7M engagements

"Fables and Folktales: Shippeitaro A classical tale of adventure excitement and a REALLY GOOD DOG Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to contributing translated captions:"
YouTube Link 2023-03-24T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 776.9K engagements

"Classics Summarized: The Iliad For a clean version click here https://youtu.be/WuXJJ-I1LqQ BREAKING NEWS: Overly Sarcastic Productions has a twitter now Check it out: https://www.twitter.com/OSPyoutube/ CLOSED CAPTIONS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED I know I talk really fast in this one so hopefully the captioning should help with comprehension a little. PART [--] - THE ODYSSEY: https://youtu.be/A-3rHQ70Pag PART [--] - THE AENEID: http://youtu.be/QRruBVFXjnY 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"
YouTube Link 2015-01-23T14:59Z 2.5M followers, 5.2M engagements

"History-Makers: The Four Evangelists In which our hero Blue jumps right the hell into one of the most complex topics in religious studies as a "breather video" after his 3-hour Roman megaproject. If spoken storytelling was good enough for the ancient rhapsodes of classical Greece then we shouldn't be surprised when the same tools get put to use in the later Greco-Roman world. And I think that's pretty damn cool. SOURCES & Further Reading: Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Mark Gospel of Luke Gospel of John Acts of the Apostles Epistles of Paul Book of Genesis The World of the Gospels from The"
YouTube Link 2023-12-08T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 368.5K engagements

"Halloween Special: Frankenstein It is a tale. A tale of a man and a MONSTER It's finally time to talk Frankenstein Part sci fi part horror part opinion piece on the dangers of hubris this classic story reminds us all to appreciate what's really important to us: friends family loved ones and most importantly NOT creating twisted mockeries of God's creations in an attempt to reach beyond the veil of life itself. Nnnnnnnow here is a riddle to guess if you can sings the tale of Frankenstein Who is the monster and who is the man PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts -"
YouTube Link 2017-10-31T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 4.5M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Pandora Think you know her story Trust me it's simultaneously more complicated more interesting AND more insulting than you know Curious about what's got my britches in a twist but too lazy to watch the video Let's just say Hesiod made it Hellenistic canon that women are a literal curse on mankind hand-crafted to be crafty manipulative nightmares and men are gullible morons who can't see through a ruse as long as it's a ruse with curves in all the right places. So you know a surprisingly progressive attitude according to 1950s sitcom logic PATREON:"
YouTube Link 2017-09-24T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 3.8M engagements

"Summer Stupidity: BOSTON (City Review) The summer stupidity continues with another city review I hope you like seafood tea shops woodlands college and twisty streets because boston has all this and not much else PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://OverlySarcasticProducts.Threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.Cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Funny OSP Overly Sarcastic Productions"
YouTube Link 2019-07-02T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 394.5K engagements

"Finding the Best Episodes of Love Death + Robots (Detail Diatribe) 📌📌 AURORA PINS 📌📌 The Floof Squad has arrived Kendal Alinua Falst and Erin are available as enamel pins in our merch shop and they glow in the dark https://overlysarcastic.shop/ Red has journeyed through [--] episodes of sci-fi anthology madness in pursuit of one elusive goal: finding a way to get comfortably normal people with normal media consumption habits into the weird parts of science fiction without them immediately going mad Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. GET AURORA VOLUME 1:"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T15:01Z 2.5M followers, 189.9K engagements

"Trope Talk: The Heart Last but not least the fifth member of the Five-Man Band But what is the point of them really And have they truly moved beyond their token origins as the one they call The Chick Let's discuss Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/"
YouTube Link 2023-02-10T16:00Z 2.5M followers, 917.5K engagements

"Contains Less Than 1% Real Big Apples Red's on the road again Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language Check out our guide to contributing translated captions:"
YouTube Link 2025-03-09T13:01Z 2.5M followers, 268.4K engagements

"Trope Talk: Magic "I have a great idea" I said not having a great idea. "I'll write up a script about magic and how its historical roots are responsible for its portrayal in modern media" "Yeah That sounds easy" I said thinking it would be easy. Soooooo let's talk about ALL OF MAGIC AND MAGIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE HA HA APPARENTLY I LIKE TO SUFFER WHEN I ASSIGN MYSELF THESE TOPICS EXAMPLES USED: Beauty and the Beast (folklore) Princess and the Frog (folklore) East of the Sun West of the Moon (folklore) Sleeping Beauty (folklore) Snow White (folklore) Diamonds and Toads (folklore) Oresteia Odyssey"
YouTube Link 2018-06-01T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.3M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Ares' Abduction PINS https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions These pins are Pre-Sale and are only available for a Limited Time Production will begin after all orders have been placed and are expected to ship in early November. Well they may have wounded Ares' body and spirit but at least he still has his pride. Oh wait Alternate title: Ares And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP MERCH LINKS: https://www.redbubble.com/people/OSPYouTube OUR WEBSITE:"
YouTube Link 2020-09-11T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.7M engagements

"Miscellaneous Myths: Ragnarok Some say the world will end in fire some say in ice. The Norse looked at the apocalyptic dilemma and said "Both Both. Both is good Also can I get a couple kaiju with this" Thor: Ragnarok had the right idea; I hope when the apocalypse comes it's voiced by Clancy Brown too Need backstory Check out the Poetic Edda video: https://youtu.be/73y4oUG_YgA spoilers for God Of War [--] PATREON: www.patreon.com/useru=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us"
YouTube Link 2018-10-12T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 2.7M engagements

"History Hijinks: The Worst Venetian Ever BOOK I wrote a B O O K Holy crap check out the BOOOOOOOK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/theveneziadref=4ikdfa Also PINS pins are very cool as well: https://overlysarcastic.shop/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-gemini-pin SOURCES & Further Reading: "A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich Music: "Pippin The Hunchback" "Sneaky Snitch" "Scheming Weasel "Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [---] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Threshold" from Journey OST by Austin Wintory"
YouTube Link 2024-05-24T15:00Z 2.5M followers, 362.6K engagements

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