The Bloody Life of England's Fastest Surgeon • Puppet History

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Garrett Werner
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Lizzie Lockard
DIRECTOR
Mark Celestino
FEATURING
Ryan Bergara
Aria Inthavong
EDITOR
Jillian Diblasio
ADDITIONAL EDITING
Charlie Richardson
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Hughie Stone Fish
Patrick Volker and Shane Madej
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Brittney Lee
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Carter Lau
RESEARCHER
Kari Koeppel
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
MaryGrace Stephenson
Veronica Tullo
Olivia Cashman
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Brendan Yoo
SOUND
Kevin Bazell
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Billy Jett
ART DIRECTOR
Darren DeMatteis
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Madison Girifalco
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Sam Young
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Mike Fox
Julia Capuano
Mattea Guldy
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Crystal Cheng
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Frank Parker
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Katie LeBlanc
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Lizzie Lockard
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[@watcher]

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[@sardonicthegremlin]

I wonder if they have a little bed in the professors size

[@SurrealSurrender]

Defamation lawsuit?!

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@SurrealSurrender Yeah, EXPLAIN!

[@noone.7178]

Hey guys, I've been a long time fan and have been watching your videos for a while and I recently watched a video done six months ago by the Ghost Hunting/Investigation Channel Mindseed. The pair investigated a place called 'The Lake House.' where they captured compelling evidence of the past decease female resident that was found dead on the properties lake. The evidence captured was enough to scare the absolute hell out of both investigators and made them question whether they should continue ghost hunting. By far their scariest investigation yet. I thought it would be a great idea if maybe the two of you looked into it a bit. It's an active place and should be worth your wild. I suggest contacting to Mindseed about their experiences to see what y'all think. That's it from me, keep up the good work guys. 👍

[@kitkat5240-woomy]

Alright...that bed set up bit was really cute tho.

[@yahooanswers4843]

this must have been a haunting experience for ryan outside the fiction. imagine knowing your coworkers are currently writing a song about skinning you and wearing your skin

[@tinaperez7393]

Well, coworker's writing for a demon hologram who wants to do that. Also, the writers and Ryan and probably us the audience, know that somehow Ryan lives! 😳😂🤔

[@midoriya-shonen]

I'll bet he cackled as they did it 😂

[@TwoWholeWorms]

Whaddaya mean 'outside the fiction'? o.o

[@tinaperez7393]

@@TwoWholeWorms I think saying that in real life Ryan knew his coworkers were writing quite grisly things about him for the fiction that is the puppet history show / episodes. It was for make believe purposes, but still! So grisly and gross - about him! 😳🤔😩😂

[@bryanflynn2855]

@Tina Perez nah, they murdered a man just for the clip.

[@AlinaProbably]

can you believe that shane's talent was once contained within the confines of buzzfeed? insane...

[@communist_oranges]

Them leaving was the best thing to happen to us, or we never wouldve gotten these amazing shows!!

[@directorjake]

I still miss Hot Doga

[@jadengal100]

Don't you mean inShane...hahaha get it

[@fredychicano654]

It's buzzfeed... 🫥 Not that hard to believe

[@samanthacampus4019]

LITERALLY!!!!! both of them. they are incredible!

[@devindubbs7573]

The fact that the professor was giving Ryan lotion each episode so he could pull a Buffalo Bill on him is absolutely horrifyingly hilarious

[@delocian]

*happily* I UNDERSTOOD THE REFERENCE

[@sureindubitably3771]

Buffalo Bill? clearly I haven't watched enough or seen enough internet to know that lol

[@sarahkelly7991]

@@sureindubitably3771 it’s from silence of the lambs

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

@@sureindubitably3771 serial killer in silence of the lambs who kept women captive and forced them to use moisturiser so he could kill them and turn them into a skin costume

[@Katpiratefan275]

​@@sureindubitably3771"It rubs the lotion on itself. It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose again." Chilling stuff

[@wwren]

I can't believe Shane finally made an appearance on Puppet History after not being on it at all ever and having nothing to do with the production

[@captainblacksand8484]

Right? It was so nice to see him! I wonder what he's been working on lately.

[@karenseveson9151]

I was wondering why shane and the professor were never in the same room together

[@DoctorJammer]

Actually Shane does the voice of the Professor the puppet

[@monroerobbins7551]

@@DoctorJammerthey’re joking, my dude. Shane made the puppets, voices the puppets, he’s the puppet man, folks know it, they’re just joking.

[@DoctorJammer]

@@monroerobbins7551 I know, it's a tired joke someone makes in every single puppet video.

[@needsanewbrain]

this started as a normal history quiz show and now i'm fully invested in this whole hologram puppet murderer plot. incredible.

[@kf10147]

This is a perfect sentence.

[@gamingdisastercayla]

I had once started watching this and picked a random episode and let it play. Two episodes later was the Christmas special and I was hooked on wtf cosmic horror was going on

[@lizziejorgensen2582]

Yes same

[@juancortes5274]

Thank you for saying what a lot of people are thinking 🤔 lol

[@jamiejoygatto]

and with Poison Lotion!!!!😱😱😱😱

[@Aria.Inthavong]

Even though you seemed a bit different than usual, thanks for inviting me as a guest, Professor!!! I love you! 💙💙💙

[@marlaynemelendez7143]

It was the crossover we needed tbh 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@thebeast3143]

Aria Ryan's gonna die!

[@abradyv]

Any chance you can do a true crime segment on what happened to Ryan?

[@taratennyo9447]

My too favorite creators in one room :0c

[@MiseryMalicious]

It was a pleasant surprise to see you pop up on here! :D

[@alyssafigliano3994]

Me at the start of the episode: "Dr. 300% Mortality Rate! This'll be a good one!" Me by the end of the episode: "WHAT THE ACTUAL PUPPET FUCK"

[@aynDRAWS]

That was one of the only questions I knew the answer to with 100% certainty.

[@lu-xf3ij]

I love the idea of Shane approaching his one friend (that does the background vocals/production for the songs), like “hey listen this is gonna sound weird… but I’m writing a song for the professor and he’s gonna talk about sawing off bones and flesh and stuff, I’ll send you the plans later”

[@sunsun5005]

Shane probably doesn’t even bother prefacing ideas with “this is going to sound weird” anymore 😂

[@tinreyes4907]

Lq

[@clairvaux8459]

Shane's canon response to seeing Ryan in that situation being "oh hey, buddy" is so fitting 😩😩 stay unbothered, king

[@melaniemagolan2241]

Just the wind!

[@sarafontanini7051]

It is him after all. The demon's boi.

[@babahu15]

he's in his lane, flourishing

[@BillyBob-cd9gd]

he wasnt unbothered when his chest was gonna be touched

[@dreamtrance9892]

Ryan: "Shane!" Shane: "I'm not being involved!" Lmfao

[@AshenUndead]

If I had a nickel for every time a critically acclaimed musical story written by Shane Madej featured a twist reveal of a character having been a hologram, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. Truly the soul of the Hot Daga lives on in this show.

[@sienahendrickson6873]

i love this comment

[@RichardCox0]

Now the jingle is in my head

[@Poppamunz]

When was the first one???

[@davidjustice6287]

@@Poppamunz it was at the end of Buzzfeed Unsolved post mortems, here's a compilation - it's quite the epic tale: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5PdmoiDjdeVZ5o

[@marajohnson6018]

you’re not wrong on that at all

[@Someloser3232]

So now that Shane is an in-universe character I would love to hear the conversation Ryan had explaining to him about he he asked the devil to kill the HOST of their show for a plastic trophy

[@lemonace6695]

On Ryan's defense he was TRICKED by the devil, he though the Professor would be okay.

[@adrianaheiler9794]

@@lemonace6695 true, he just wanted some slight revenge for the ongoing abuse he was subjected to on the show and didn't want to actually cause this much damage. If the real professor ever comes back I hope he will have learned something from this. #teamRyan

[@doctor_gibbo1392]

I don't know if anybody else noticed, but the lanky estranged producer with a massive head bears a striking resemblance to the Genie.

[@hi.4174]

@@doctor_gibbo1392no, just you I think

[@NikkiBudders]

"I've gotta tell Ryan! I've gotta tell NordVPN!" This man can do no wrong.

[@TheSkullivan12]

So glad to see Shane finally make an appearance on Puppet History. It's crazy he's never gotten too involved with this show before now.

[@WhiteJeezus]

I mean he's still not all that involved, he doesn't really seem to have any investment in what the professor decides to do with the show

[@QuirkyCellist]

He's literally the professor's voice....

[@WhiteJeezus]

@@QuirkyCellist what are you even saying? Like since he produces the show? Because I don't think that's how it works...

[@clorox7402]

@@QuirkyCellist thats pretty disrespectful to the professor tbh.... he makes all the choices himself i think, you shouldn't undermine his talent

[@QuirkyCellist]

If you look at the credits, it shows that he voices the professor...that's just basic reading

[@augusthawley5504]

if you told me a few years ago that i'd be watching the internet's best ghost hunters put on an educational musical puppet show with a canonical god, a genie, time travel, and other extensive lore sprinkled throughout, i would have said "yeah, that actually makes sense. they look like sprinkles guys."

[@maybeIAMthetuba]

a perfect comment

[@ChristineT314]

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

[@augusthawley5504]

@@ChristineT314 it's a reference to a very old clip from when they were on buzzfeed. if you search "you look like a sprinkles guy" you'll see it. i was trying to play on the phrase

[@maybeIAMthetuba]

@@augusthawley5504 Not from Buzzfeed, but from a guest appearance on the Try Guys channel! I think it was Eat the Menu: Dunkin Donuts?

[@augusthawley5504]

@@maybeIAMthetuba omg you're right! i don't even know why i said buzzfeed, probably just because ryan looks so different in the clip

[@bingoboiii4209]

Man this is definitely one of the most elaborate anti-vape commercials I've ever seen lol

[@spookayitsme]

I have actually woken up during anaesthesia, I was having my scalp repaired after I fell over and shredded it. It was one of the most painful and terrifying things I've ever experienced. I could only move my eyes (so I was furiously moving my eyes side to side and blinking) and the surgeon said "I think he's waking up"- I was so relieved that he noticed but the bloody anaesthetist just said "no, he's not it's just involuntary eye movement". So I tried opening my eyes wider and moving them up and down/side to side... The anaesthetist noticed this time and just said "whoops your right". Pray that it never happens to you - yes, experiencing the pain of the surgery was really bad, but it's like having sleep paralysis except you're truly awake and it's real.

[@fricketyfracktraintrack]

Wtffff that sounds traumatizing as fuck I'm so sorry that happened to you. And also fuck that guy what the hell

[@spookayitsme]

@@fricketyfracktraintrack it was traumatizing ... I was supposed to have back surgery back in October but I'm so paranoid that I'll wake up during that and have no way to communicate to them that I'm awake while they slice into me and drill into my bone. I shudder at the thought

[@rolyatinsonia]

@@spookayitsme reminds me of the guy who was so traumatised by waking up during a surgery he had ptsd and allegedly killed himself because of it, sad and horrific, i had problems going under the knife too, but luckily they noticed during the preperations. im so sorry for you, i hope you can recover from the experience, perhaps speak to a surgeon to look out for a specific motion if your eyes open throughout as a precaution? so you feel safer?

[@wongledongle340]

That's one of my greatest fears, my sister went through something similar when she was getting her teeth worked on ): she hates the dentist now and will do anything to keep her teeth healthy so she doesn't have to go to one again

[@Glace_cakes]

Could u not even scream dang

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

The professor sneaking up on Ryan is genuinely terrifying. Edit: Wow! I don't think I've never gotten this many likes on a comment before! Truely this Holo-Professor scared the jellybeans out of a lot of us! Thank you all so much! While you're reading this I wanna ask you guys for tiny favor (it's nothing much. I'm not asking for money or anything). Keep me in your thoughts this week. I have a job interview this week and I'm really hoping it works out! So, if you have any good thoughts/positive energy to share, send those good vibes my way if you got a sec! Thank you guys so much! I love bonding with my fellow Puppet History fans each week!

[@mangalovergirl1]

I almost jumped out of my skin. Pun not intended. 😂

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@mangalovergirl1 You get a pun point!

[@Trillora]

Right???

[@t-rexcellentreviews1663]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/paSUnnmqjNtmn5Y

[@t-rexcellentreviews1663]

I’m seriously concerned that they might actually kill Ryan off this season, somebody needs to save our Beef Boy.

[@Jo-er6tw]

Now it makes sense why Ryan got all that lotion, to keep his skin nice and smooth for the hologram takeover

[@Not_Kimmie]

I am so glad you were here to explain that to me

[@Chi_Me]

Thanks, I didn't piece it together either

[@dottyContrarian]

it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

[@knightbugs]

OH MY GOD ITS LIKE THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

[@imarson_404_2]

@@knightbugs the professor orsinov

[@noahalliston3838]

Fun facts: Dr. Robert Liston was large enough to hold the patient down himself a lot of times while performing surgery and once performed a double mastectomy on a female patient who managed to live through the procedure. He is also the originator of the Listerine family name and product line on store shelves today.

[@arpithafurtado3938]

Listerine is after Dr. Joseph Lister

[@Mayayapayapa]

Damn that guy was a legend

[@Oddballkane]

Actually when he died a committee of some 78 people was formed, which resolved that the testimonial should consist of a marble statue to be placed in some designated public spot, and the inauguration of a gold medal, to be called the "Liston Medal", "and awarded annually, as the Council of University College, may decide

[@nicholasweaver2374]

Listerine was actually named for Joseph Lister, who was one of Robert Liston's students.

[@breadcrumbhoarder]

Shane really made a side story about a horse widow coming to terms with her husbands death lmao

[@celestialaltair101]

I would love to see Ricky Goldsworth making an comeback. That would make such a plot twist if the professor found out that Ryan's body is already inhabited by someone else.

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

No! Don't summon him! Don't you know? If you say his name, he'll show up! I've seen it before!

[@MFBloosh]

I think that Ryan channeling Ricky Goldsworth is his best shot at surviving at this point.

[@RaspberryPastry]

Kinda like how when a portapotty is locked the slide says Occupied

[@sayitaintsl0w]

@@autumnsfablekeeper4419who is Ricky G?

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

Nah, bro. Timmy’s in there. He shares Ryan’s body ever since the infamous Ball Incident

[@clover2569]

I listen to this show while I draw, so for a moment I forgot this was the professor talking and not just Shane, and when he said "when I die can you just throw me into a claw machine" I didn't even question whether that's something Shane himself would want.

[@lu-xf3ij]

And he’s said before he wants to be eaten by vultures in a field…. Not surprised lol

[@jamiejoygatto]

OMG I was cooking -- and SAME!!

[@LokiPii]

I too listen to this channel while I draw! h5 o/

[@Wothi]

Omg same 😅😂

[@crateredcallisto2854]

i did the same thing lmao

[@MegaChickenfish]

FINALLY, we see Shane and the puppet in the same room so people can stop saying they're the same person. Ugh, this is like Bruce Wayne all over again.

[@em5522]

Wdym? That was a corporeal ai hologram. Jury's still out that Shane = Professor.

[@fuddie_duddie7766]

As a guy who helped to write a play about Liston (and got to play him in it!), you can't imagine my excitement when I saw this video in my feed. He was genuinely was such a bizarre and fascinating guy, and I'm glad more people will know about him now. (sidenote: this video doesn't even get into Liston's insane beef with another surgeon, Robert Knox, who became infamous after his involvement with the Burke and Hare murders!)

[@andreamcmullin6571]

I visited Edinburgh recently and did a haunted tour and the guide talked a lot about the Burke and Hare murders, and this episode made me think of them immediately!! I didn't know they were actually linked though, that's wild!! Thanks for sharing, I'm going to look up all the beef now 👀

[@1cattails]

There's a play!? Is there any footage of it? Also I'm surprised I didnt know about the Robert Knox thing with listen, whaaat!?

[@fuddie_duddie7766]

@@1cattails Unfortunately, we only actually performed once (it was for a high school senior drama exam) and it wasn't recorded. But here's hoping for the chance to put it on again and get some footage the second time around!

[@gr33ngirlsea]

@@fuddie_duddie7766 omg, we should host a revival production on Zoom!

[@Kakuretaka]

So you wrote a play about the man but didn't think to point out to Watch that he was SCOTTISH I bet your medical coat wasn't even green

[@wickedamoeba8719]

Seeing Shane and the Professor on screen at the same time is so wild.

[@emily408]

Why’s that wild? They’re two completely different beings

[@2dcreative94]

@@emily408 funny that they have similar voices! What a coincidence

[@patrickoconnor6893]

I don’t get whats wild Shane and the professor are completely different people

[@rebelle1477]

All else aside, gotta appreciate Ryan Bergara's acting this season. He's doing a great job!

[@MILF_HAVER]

How did you comment 23 hours ago?

[@sweetsativa.wecancreateitall]

Rebelle, ..Are you from the future?

[@nicki___]

acting? this is all 100% genuine and real

[@concentrateorrelax6090]

how did u comment a whole day ago.

[@TheSugar9005]

@@MILF_HAVER maybe it’s from Patreon?

[@emmelineadams3169]

"im going to make one hell of a me out of the pieces of you" is so deep and it's a holographic pupput singing about skinning someone alive to wear their skin. I'm going to think about that line a lot and the context is going to haunt me.

[@jenniferrodriguez-martinez7918]

I was legit disappointed when the professor said there wasn't a song, but the song he ends up singing is by FAR my favorite out of the entire show 😂😍 There's some banging hits but this one had it all

[@gracegold9072]

IKR ITS SO GOOD

[@kitgorton5558]

“I’m gonna make one hell of me out of the pieces of you” is such a raw line

[@gooseincrocs]

Shane interacting with The Professor was EVERYTHING

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

Finally! This Shane guy everyone is talking about shows up! I heard he ate his pet bird.

[@FIRING_BLIND]

BRO SPOILERS JESUS CHRIST Its been out for two hours

[@gooseincrocs]

@@autumnsfablekeeper4419 i heard that too!!

[@justinaug9879]

When did that happen?

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@FIRING_BLIND Watch the episode first!

[@mindybee96]

honestly Aria was the perfect special guest for this episode, because I can fully believe him just not questioning any puppet-related weirdness and being easily distracted with sharing some 😂😂 unrelated weirdness

[@shineetheworld]

ryan is the only man in the world who would willingly take a hit from the "puppet vape"

[@msbv...]

Imagine if this is someone's first episode of Puppet History

[@SnowFox-gv2rn]

Yeah this would be one hell of an episode to start off with 😂

[@tifbug93]

I sent it to my friend who's an orthopedic surgeon assistant and just told her to ignore the last 10 min lol

[@CHESShireCat]

@@tifbug93 I hope they watched the last ten minutes anyway with absolutely zero context

[@leilanyx]

those poor, poor souls.

[@Mr.Candlewick]

Lol it’s mine

[@CCHAWC717]

Crossing my fingers that Kate Peterman will be the guest for the season finale. All the guests have been great this season, but man I love Kate's energy, and can't wait for her to unmask the professor

[@bcas1036]

Omg same, she's always one of the best guests.

[@millyficent]

Though Kate is the only one who thought it was thw Professor's bday when she did her video message so I wonder if her oblivioness will save the situation 🤔

[@travelswithsi8932]

I think unmasking the professor should be a Sara job

[@cronchybo]

yes I love Kate

[@AFTALonzo]

she’s busy making appearances on Abbott Elementary and we love that for her

[@user-vv7ik3yn4p]

The lyric "since you are 5 foot 9" cracked me up - Shane will never let Ryan live

[@hn5051]

Fun Fact: The caduceus (Hermes’ Staff), with the two snakes and the wings, isn’t actually the real symbol of medicine. What happened is in 1902, the US Army Medical Corps used the caduceus/Hermes’ Staff as their symbol, and since then people used it because they didn’t know any better or for the aesthetics. The original symbol was the Rod of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing/medicine, which is just a rod and a single snake. Which that makes a lot more sense than using Hermes’ staff when Hermes is the god of thieves, commerce and trade

[@allybratz]

Hermes is technically also a psychopomp so he helped cary souls of the dead to the afterlife which is kinda ironic. Using the symbol of a merchant and part time soul carrier for the symbol of medicine and treatment 😅 doesn’t inspire a lot of faith of living through the treatment.

[@ONKVP]

Everybody knows that two snakes are better than one

[@LunaBeth97]

That sounds very suitable for the American healthcare system as an outsider😂

[@celinavivian1162]

I’m of the opinion that though it may not ORIGINALLY have been the symbol of medicine it is now. That is like saying “he ejaculated” doesn’t mean what we are all thinking because it once meant “he exclaimed”

[@Izzy_jam]

@@celinavivian1162 except many other countries use one snake

[@Ali-mv3jc]

As a med student, I'd just like to acknowledge how thankful we are for the wonderful, kind people that donated their bodies to science. Without the generosity of these people we wouldn't be able to learn and eventually go on to help people in the future!

[@AmethystEyes]

After the body is used to help future surgeons learn about the human body, what is done with the body?

[@amberflicek6933]

Generally the body is then cremated and returned to the family

[@SortaLively]

@@AmethystEyes It's not just future surgeons! There aren't many in my class who are looking to go into surgery but we are still getting an amazing amount from the people who were kind enough to let us learn on them!

[@DaniCal1forn1a]

@@AmethystEyes Cadavers are helpful for more than just surgeons, all medical Drs will have experience with cadavers (or dissections of certain regions) - so that's every single type of Dr you can think of, including GPs, hospital generalists, surgeons, emergency & critical care Drs, even psychiatrists will have to do anatomy in medical school - you also have all the Drs in the dental field learning with cadavers, and in the UK and my previous university at least, the biomedical science students also had classes with cadavers - and they actually did a lot more in depth studying of anatomy and spent more time working with cadavers 😊. You also have the more specialist degrees such as Human Anatomy - where you actually learn how to prepare and fix cadavers and their organs for educational use, and I believe people studying anthropology - specifically biological/physical and forensic anthropology also learn with cadavers... Forensic anthropologists tend to have the most in depth knowledge of human anatomy because they often have to identify remains from very small and dispersed parts - and cadavers are a really valuable way to learn basically, what makes up a human... Super important work that also relies on people generously donating their bodies 🥰

[@samwarren2850]

@@AmethystEyes as someone said above often the body is cremated and returned to the family. but some people donate as forever donors, meaning that some parts (bones and solid organs mostly) will be preserved in a more permanent way to be learned from for years to come!

[@adv4287]

As if stealing Ryan’s skin wasn’t enough, the hologram called him 5 foot 9. If Ryan wasn’t terrified I’m sure he’d say 5 FOOT 10

[@lunettasuziejewel2080]

Only when he wears his special shoes from the doctor.

[@4footdragonlord]

The lore is off the CHARTS I am fully invested for next episode. Also need to see Steven Lim cooking the studio rat a custom dish immediately.

[@m0therofgremlins]

rewatching this for the third time and realizing when ryan asks' the "professer" if being eaten by a dinosaur hurt, and he replied, "it must've" ....??? ayo?? then the reveal of him being a hologram was amazing

[@Dantalliumsolarium]

“When I die, will you put me in a claw machine?” “I’d rather put you in a T. rex mouth” “You already did you piece of-“ I can’t express how much I love these two

[@alicethemad1613]

Ryan: I think back in the day if I wanted to be a serial killer I’d just become a doctor. Burke, Hare, and Knox: (visible sweating)

[@CharlieDanvers]

lol i was thinkong of them

[@sideturn]

you called?

[@caitymarie3975]

Recurring themes in Shane's art: Living Holograms Elaborate Musicals Torturing Ryan

[@ald00I]

a certain estranged producer had to pitch this episode to ryan and i really want insight into how that conversation went

[@jiminstinyhands7776]

wait what’s the tea…

[@DanGamingFan2846]

That post-credit scene amazing! I never would've guessed that's what the Professor was planning. I can tell the season finale is going to to be the best damn episode yet! I hope Kate Peterman returns in it.

[@Thaliaadriannaa]

YESSSS Kate needs to come back so she can lose her streak! (Or not if Ryan doesn’t win next week👀)

[@DanGamingFan2846]

@@Thaliaadriannaa I mean right now Ryan and Kate both have a five episode winning streak, so next week could very well be the tiebreaker!

[@elizabethlovett4318]

I'd prefer Steven Lim since he hasn't appeared since season 1 episode 1. Almost everyone else has made a reappearance.

[@Ali-mv3jc]

I guessed that the hologram was from the funeral but I had no clue what he was planning! I also loved Shane's little appearance

[@matthewsansom5180]

Nice try Kate! We all know it's you 👁👄👁 That being said we need ya back on the show for the finale

[@bananawal8215]

At first I was worried that there really wouldn't be a song this episode, but then I remembered that this was Shane we're talking about. Not only would he have a song, he'd also make it a musical lore-ridden masterpiece.

[@HBlatz87]

This show went COMPLETELY off the rails and I'm so here for it.

[@theyearwas1473]

"It's 1835, be glad you have two choices." one of the best things I've ever heard

[@michakaikarsten7331]

As much I was shocked trying to process everything happening here, "I gotta tell Nord VPN!" had me choking on my popcorn

[@Leah-yu5gd]

I guess I can confirm my brain is broken when I'm excited by a Shane cameo as if he isn't part of the show or anything

[@cholodelrosari0543]

Thats not shane, it was the genie who the professor fought and disguised as Shane

[@evadaskos]

Shane cameo holding auditions was so real i would love a whole backstage episode of him as a grumpy producer

[@MegaChickenfish]

I was thinking from the start "man, I hope this isn't somehow also the guy who managed to kill 3 people in one botched surgery" like if it wasn't for that particularly memorable blunder this absolute legend would probably have a ton of hospitals named after him. Inventing surgical tools *before germ theory* that are so good they're still in use today? Holy crap, dude.

[@TheAmberh44]

I feel like Who Framed Roger Rabbit had a large impact on Shane’s creative process

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

REMEMBER ME RYAN? WHEN YOU KILLED THE PROFESSOR? I TALKED JUST LIKE THIS!

[@_Moe]

I feel like BDG had an impact as well if Shane has watched any of his horror stuff. Since he was a guest on the show this season I wouldn't be at all surprised. They have very different but very similar styles lol!

[@slaughter-water]

Idk if you saw this, but Shane said that his design for The Holo-Professor was based off of Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[@TheAmberh44]

@@slaughter-water oh my god no way, I didn’t see that, I can’t believe I was right

[@amusiclover7340]

I need to hear about the defamation lawsuit against the professor because it’s hilarious to think about a lil blue guy pleading his case as Ryan just has his head in this hands begging to end it all.

[@ishdi3787]

SAME

[@caitieallen794]

Same!

[@youagain2719]

I came to look for answers! It sounds like someone might have tagged Shane or the show with a legit defamation claim and they're just sort of joking about it. My drama llamas need to be fed! Lol

[@riverseverywhere]

Same, lol, does anyone know what happened??

[@bluemedallion6137]

@@riverseverywhere 👆 would love to know also lol

[@thebishopofme]

Ok but the jumpscare at the end was better than most KZbin horror channels. Puppet History needs to win an Emmy.

[@jadeigwe]

im now rewatching this season and thinking about how unhinged the Professor’s hologram had to be to spend this entire time cheerfully retelling history stories and letting Ryan win as if he wasn’t prepping Ryan’s skin for harvest the Professor is giving lessons on how to be vengeful ❤

[@DanielleVlog365]

How very on brand of Shane to deliver mail directly to the dead & still refuse the supernatural 😂 (Best episode ever)

[@adelitaflores-moss454]

I hope this becomes the top comment

[@keyaunna.]

best comment

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

And he just abandons Ryan! Like this is Ryan's mess and Shane can't even deal with it right now!🤣

[@elizabethlovett4318]

Makes me hope Shane & Ryan do an investigation spoof of their own watcher building to search for the hologram of the professor - assuming he disappears leaving us wondering when he'll come back for Ryan. Sounds fun to me! 😄

[@ryan0823smith]

@@elizabethlovett4318 perfect April fools video

[@sydney4377]

Puppet History is legitimately one of the best written shows I've seen in a long time

[@Trillora]

Honestly some of the best content on KZbin, hands down!

[@starlyknewyoupartner7335]

i love how aria just didnt even check on ryan, just left him there after clearly seeing him get drugged, ladies~ dont go with aria to any bars~

[@fangsbrokenrose]

Before this season I never would have thought this would become a horror show…

[@ferisera]

The "convention" in Portland ended up being a livestream from a hotel; the deceased had wanted his body donated to science, which his widow did, but the organization she donated the body to then sold the body to the guy who did the dissection from the hotel, in front of an audience (who were invited to participate), and on the fee-based livestream. I felt so bad for the widow, as she was absolutely devastated!

[@Fanney47]

Yikes. 😬😬

[@vangoghsseveredear]

"Donated to science," just sounds like a massive scam to convince people to do it tbh. I've heard of "donated to science," bodies get sold to the military to be blown up, bodies getting thrown away, bodies being used in an exhibit, bodies sold to be dissected by medical students, etc. You can argue they provide some scientific value in some respects in those areas, sure, but its really not what people have in mind when they say "donate my body to science".

[@fineacorn]

It's actually sort of common for conventions using cadavers to be held in hotel convention rooms that can be rented to the public. They have been held in Marriotts and a few other big names!

[@Ali-mv3jc]

Its absolutely disgraceful. I'm a med student and stories like this make me really angry, without the wonderful, kind people who donate their bodies to science we would not be able to learn and go on to help others in the future. Where I live the rules on scientific donation are very strict, you can't even take pictures (there are exceptions though)

[@bukketkid2567]

There was that story a good 5 yrs back that male donations was sent overseas to make wine... idk if they still do that.

[@slaughter-water]

The Professor threatened Ryan twice in the span of ten seconds, things are NOT going to end well

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

SPOILERS: It does not.

[@slaughter-water]

Oh no it does not

[@leahsmith6573]

Yeah I think your hunch there was pretty good...

[@Natalie-fk7gu]

it does not

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@slaughter-water It is only now that I realize what your name is and now I'm rolling!🤣

[@maranda1609]

I'm glad Dorothy-Ruth is moving on and is back in the dating scene.

[@holly6067]

Aria laughing after Ryan passed out is my fav

[@emily-doom5155]

God I’m hoping for a professor vs professor showdown next week…

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

There has to be a way!

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

Imagine Ryan makes a deak with the Ginie i nexchange for something

[@adambump5297]

I mean one is a Hologram so he shouldn't be able to hurt anyone & the other has Tyrannosaurus/Pterodactyl DNA so not much of a fight really.

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@adambump5297 This is a good point. Would the Hologram even be able to harm Ryan or the Professor? Can he hold things? Can he hit anything? I mean I guess he tied Ryan up, but I'm not even sure if that was him or he got someone else to do it for him.

[@vincentmac859]

@@adambump5297 isn’t the hologram the devil?

[@ghostpants7344]

If I had a nickel for every time Shane used sentient holograms as a plot device, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s strange it’s happened twice

[@Wolftess]

Well I guess that’s his alternative to ghosts

[@secretly-a-kobold5014]

After spending so much time as shane playing the professor, its actually kinda weird hearing his voice actually coming from him. This series has pretty much overwritten my mind to automatically think of his voice as the professor.

[@isabellaangeline2175]

As someone with unfortunate shitty bones and joints and arthritis since I was a young child, I’ve had to have quite a few surgeries and I can’t imagine what it would be like without anesthesia. There’s that moment you wake up when they’re switching you from the operating table to a recovery bed and the pain shocks you all over your body before the pain medication lulls you back into sweet, sweet slumber. Just imagine that “shocking pain” throughout the duration of the surgery. Thank goodness for anesthesia and pain medication.

[@missfuneralsong]

between the hot daga and this, i think shane deserves some sort of award for incredibly bizarre but entertaining writing

[@LunaOrgana]

“Were you expecting a third option, I’m sorry, it’s 1835!” Had me laugh so hard, and it’s just the first 5 minutes

[@nschannel826]

I love how Shane just walked into the room with Ryan tied up and an evil hologram puppet and was like "Nope. Noooope. Nuh-uh. I don't know what's going on here but whatever it is I want no part in it. If I don't acknowledge it won't affect me."

[@ajbryant1980]

This was the first video I'd seen of puppet history. Probably the worst one to see first, I was very confused. This is my second time watching this after watching all previous episodes, makes much more sense. Props to them for having so much lore in a fun little history game show.

[@noplace3571]

As a historian, I feel like I need to point out that before anaesthetic, physicians would pump you full of so much opium and henbane (basically heroine) you probably wouldn't even notice if they sawed your leg clean off. Sometimes, if they fucked up the dose, people would go into a sort of coma where they'd suffer from powerful hallucinations for days 😂

[@catus-cactus]

I’m sure that’s if u had enough $ to pay for all of that lol

[@parkerraphelt9657]

Also! Part of the reason why immediately post-anaesthetic the mortality rate was so high was because a lot of physicians would overdose their patients and accidentally kill them!

[@adambump5297]

That sounds like a bad fucking trip.

[@miss.l.1563]

As a former heroin addict that sounds like a pretty decent gouch! 😂😂.

[@lisah-p8474]

Ether as an anesthetic was a tremendous discovery, but your doctor had to be reeeeeallllyyy careful they didn't give you too much and put you under permanently. Still better than whiskey or heroin! As someone who recently underwent major surgery I'd like to salute modern anesthesiologists. 🫡 You've come so far.

[@bensmom0509]

Seeing Shane interact with the Puppets on the set of Puppet History was a top moment. I’m sure it was nice for the Devil to see his favorite demon too!

[@Taylor-tt6dd]

It didn't hit me until seeing your comment that he just....dismissed the devil. and it worked. satan canonically obeys Shane Madej

[@MynameisBrianZX]

yet again it's Shane's fault that Ryan's in danger

[@ccandyguts8302]

I bet ‘typhoid Mary’ would make a really really wild episode of puppet history

[@emotionalsupportgoblin]

Okay I mean this in all seriousness, please make an album of the songs you've created for this show. I would kill to be able to shuffle a Spotify playlist of all of these songs.

[@slaughter-water]

All of the songs from s1-4 are on SoundCloud!

[@j0rdaf]

Ryan: "If I was a serial killer back in the day I'd just become a doctor, nobody would get after you for malpractice like nowadays" As a British person I'd like to avert your attention to Harold Shipman

[@LunaBeth97]

Or Burke and Hare! Horrible histories already did a song on it!

[@MadelynBo]

Shane has the perfect voice for a puppet. Can't believe I slept on this series for so long it's one of my favorite Watcher endeavours

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

Um... Shane isn't any of the puppets. He was talking to the professor, so how can he be in two places at once? Unless....Shane is a time traveler?!

[@Femalefonzie]

So the Hologram wants to use Ryan as a skin-suit with him piloting it. In other words, he's going to turn Ryan into a puppet. Love the symbolism.

[@crushingstrawberries2779]

i love the idea that upon learning the professor is back. Shane would just run around screaming about it to everyone that would listen.

[@hanplant]

I woke up mid surgery a few months ago. I couldn’t move my arms and was crying and whimpering trying to get control to alert someone. They were talking about whether or not I was awake as they worked over me. I finally after 6-7 attempts moved my arm (to hit the doctor cutting me) enough that they realized and put me back under. It was traumatic. Surgery is scary. Edit: It’s very rare to wake up during surgery, and even if I were to wake up again, I’d do it again. If you need surgery, get surgery. If a doctor tells you you need to, do it. Don’t put it off due to fear. Your well being is important and healing takes place once it’s done. ♥️

[@phoenixgirl70]

Sounds like a nightmare you had as you were sleeping coming out of the anesthesia. They can be like lucid dreaming. You can feel things and everything.

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

@@phoenixgirl70 I remember when I got my wisdom teeth out my surgeon warned me that something like that might happen, but he assured me that 1, it wasn’t very likely and 2, it would last a few minutes, if that. Anesthesia is weird.

[@StonerOfGotham]

@@phoenixgirl70 You can wake up during surgery

[@jeremiahgabriel5709]

@@phoenixgirl70 Gaslighting a stranger in a comment section for a Puppet History Video, about a very real traumatic experience they had, when you certainly don't have sufficient information to give an opinion either direction as to the veracity of the situation more than "Wow I'm so sorry, that sounds scary/ awful" is a wild move to make.

[@phoenixgirl70]

@@LizLuvsCupcakes That was laughing gas or local anesthesia though correct? General anesthesia is done only in an operating room and the anesthesiologist is watching your vitals etc the entire time.

[@prismalion6923]

what's crazy is that i never thought about the hologram from the funeral episode and this new obviously-not-the-same Professor being one and the same!! can't wait for the finale and here's hoping the actual Professor shows up to save Beef Boy!

[@TailsFan]

I forgot all about that episode, honestly.

[@valkyrie-randgris]

I retained the "The old puppets are in purgatory" bit, and assumed it'd be essential to the plot, but I too also ENTIRELY forgot the hologram professor. Lmfao.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

Wasn't expecting a jump scare on this show. I am always impressed by the musical talent on this show. That song was good. I could picture it in a Broadway musical about a killer that skins his victims maybe like Silence of the Lambs.

[@thatone42069]

Also, I love that its cannon that "the shackles are just for Ryan" and people on set seeing Ryan tied down is not concerning what so ever.

[@fourleafclover2064]

"God gave you a compound fracture in the first place, why would he fix it?" You make a good point

[@dezziheckler5810]

Its four in the morning, my husband touched my shoulder just as the hologram professor jumped on Ryan, my heart still has not recovered. I screamed so loud 😂

[@zebra24-7]

HVDFHFDGHKFDGHK HAHAHA OH NO

[@hi.4174]

That sounds absolutely TERRIFYING, My cat did the same thing, she all of a sudden jumped on me at the same time of the sneak attack and I froze in horror

[@seafarer_]

Why was I even surprised that Shane managed to fit a musical number in the ep 😂 like for a sec I really thought he didn’t have one for the lesson but I guess I didn’t need to worry

[@annabellecupcake8863]

As someone who had dislocated her knee and had little to no respite from painkillers, I’d rather take my chances with the primitive buff doctor over church folks saying God is testing me to see if I would still love him after he crippled me 😒 Anyway! Great episode! Glad to see Shane's cameo on the show. Good luck to Ryan! I’m excited to see his mouse pal on Dish Granted 😄

[@justsomegothgirl]

I think I speak for everyone when I say "Thank god for modern medicine" We don't have things like this happening now.

[@communist_oranges]

Honestly it annoys me so much when people go on about how great it would be to live in these sorts of times, stuff like "I was born in the wrong time," because stuff like this just proves how great it is to be alive right now!!

[@justsomegothgirl]

​@@communist_orangespeople romanticize the victorian era, but it was not a great time to live. My Great grandfather was born in 1885, as one of 18 children. Only 4 of them lived to see the 20th century. Penicillin wasn't a thing until the 1940's! No thanks!

[@Uf7f7d6cufihud6dgco]

Holy shit that jump scare got me. Not gonna lie, I was super excited when the history portion ended with so much run time left on the video, I am loving this ongoing storyline.

[@MeepBeepBeep]

Same, I actually jumped in my seat, my fuckin heart

[@kellyem2160]

@@MeepBeepBeep I jumped too, hahaha

[@KappaBooks]

via wikipedia, "Concupiscence - is an ardent, usually sensual, longing. In Christianity, particularly in Roman Catholic and Lutheran theology, concupiscence is the tendency of humans to sin."

[@lydiagappa3938]

there is something too ridiculously cute about Meredith and Dorthy Ruth setting up that helix sleep mattress. 😂

[@Geekquality]

Ryan asked why didn't murders just become doctors so they could murder people and The Professor talked about body snatching a little bit SO I got some history for you :') There's 2 famous people who murdered people and sold the bodies to doctors. The most famous ones were Burke and Hare who murdered people together and sold them to Dr. Robert Knox, who actually also went to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. It was also around the time Dr. Robert Liston practiced, too. Burke and Hare were so known for this, that the act of murdering someone for a cadaver was called burking! This eventually lead to the Anatomy Act of 1832 being passed that made it easier to legally get cadavers yippee (this is well known in the forensics/pathology field lmao) i hope you guys find this little piece of medical history interesting :')

[@mangalovergirl1]

Thanks so much for mentioning it. I was hoping that the professor would mention them in passing. It’s a really interesting story. I visited Edinburgh and walked through the canalisations that those to used to transport the corps in secret. It was terrefing!

[@00muinamir]

I immediately thought of H.H. Holmes, the Lambeth Poisoner, and Harold Shipman. Honestly, being a doctor is pretty good cover for being a murderer...

[@pompe221]

Ah, beat me to it! I was hoping they'd bring up Burke and Hare but oh well.

[@iheartbusterk82]

I genuinely thought “well why isn’t the Professor mentioning Burke and Hare…”

[@Rjonesy101]

This should be an episode

[@theofromeden]

my favorite bits: -"But I think, I think / At least, I think I think / Therefore, I kinda think I think that I am" (the holo-prof could write discourse on method but Descartes could NOT host Puppet History) -puppet god describing the Suez Canal as a "prank" and also "David Blane level stuff" then subsequently abandoning us for a millennium. yeah, yep that does track. (edit: and "The Joker-fied cosmic being known as god" 💀) -Shane's absolute reluctance to get involved. he may not be afraid of demons but yeah, he knows when he's out of his depth. -"you're 5 foot 9" ~somehow~ being the most BRUTAL line in this wacky ep -what defamation lawsuit has the professor been thrown??? man do i want to know -"Oh no I'm so bad at my job... anyway-" dude💀💀💀 not to mention-- Concupiscence "Connie" McNasty. a most fitting and well earned full name. lads, it took us 5 seasons, but we got it.

[@priscilladeserna3752]

Who is Connie?!? New demon?

[@ijustlikethiscrapokay]

@@priscilladeserna3752the name that shane said when delivering the lamp to the hologram professor!

[@autumnsfablekeeper4419]

@@ijustlikethiscrapokayWasn't that the name of one of the Demons that possessed the nuns in France? Well, earned indeed, after all he is a little nasty...

[@T.Florenz]

Or is that the name the hologram professor chose because he's "conning" Ryan? 👀

[@T.Florenz]

Oh, no... I just looked up the definition for concupiscence. I'm. 👁👄👁

[@uni8514]

If I had a nickel for every time a show had a character get forcibly moisturized and also kidnapped in order to have their skin stolen, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

[@atomhearts]

huge props to the editing and graphics team this season, everything has been so incredible

[@izzo19]

I just tried to explain to my girlfriend why I was laughing so hard, showed her the recap from the beginning of this season, and then explained what just happened and she now thinks I've completely lost my mind.

[@valkyrie-randgris]

Moooood. I started watching this one with my SO during dinner, and I'm kind of glad we got interrupted and I had to watch it later. Trying to explain it all would only ruin it! xD

[@sarahp5808]

no i literally almost cried when the professor called ryan his friend the other episode and i think im going insane

[@cemmett2008]

Lol my husband has caught bits and pieces of it with me. But never a whole episode... He caught this whole one and is looking at oddly and making wide circles around me cuz I cackled through the episode. 🤦

[@mothical2750]

Fun fact! Surgical gloves were invented because some guy saw his nurse bae kept getting wrinkly hands from constant surgeries so he made surgical gloves that fit plaster casts of her hands. They married shortly after

[@ryanreviews8566]

whoever came up with this insane digital effects and song is a MAD GENIUS