List of episodes of the series «Great Minds with Dan Harmon»

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Episode number: 1
• Episode description:
  Given a hearing aid, Beethoven hears some of his most famous compositions for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

• Episode number: 2
• Episode description:
  Dan attempts to bond with Hemingway over their common interests in drinking and writing, but is intimidated by his masculinity.

Thomas Edison

• Episode number: 3
• Episode description:
  Unsatisfied with the quality of his phonograph recording, Edison insists on recording a new version in a modern studio.

Mary Wollstonecraft

• Episode number: 4
• Episode description:
  Mary's arrival gives Dan a chance to express his feminism, but he is irritated by Mary's stern demeanor. Meanwhile, it is Spencer's birthday.

William Shakespeare

• Episode number: 5
• Episode description:
  Shakespeare is unimpressed by Community, preferring the bawdy comedy film Dirty Grandpa.

Idi Amin

• Episode number: 6
• Episode description:
  Amin's arrival fulfills Dan's desire for ethnic diversity, until he takes the office hostage.

Betsy Ross

• Episode number: 7
• Episode description:
  Betsy's racism discomforts Dan until they broach the subject of Bernie Sanders.

Amelia Earhart

• Episode number: 8
• Episode description:
  Amelia is disappointed with her legacy of getting lost, and sets out to prove that she is indeed still alive.

Sigmund Freud

• Episode number: 9
• Episode description:
  Freud arrives just in time, as Spencer refuses to use catchphrases written for him by Dan.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Episode number: 10
• Episode description:
  Poe undermines Dan's need to impress a History Channel executive, who falls for Poe. Dan and Spencer attempt to influence their date to secure an additional run of episodes.

Buddha

• Episode number: 11
• Episode description:
  The Buddha participates in a series of product placements, making Dan feel guilty.

John Wilkes Booth

• Episode number: 12
• Episode description:
  Booth emphasizes his skills as an actor rather than his notoriety as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Ada Lovelace

• Episode number: 13
• Episode description:
  After they bond over their shared love of coding, Ada convinces Spencer to convert his body to code and join her in virtual reality.

John F. Kennedy

• Episode number: 14
• Episode description:
  Kennedy is accidentally transported along with a spider, creating an additional half-Kennedy-half-spider being which cocoons the crew.

Harry S. Truman

• Episode number: 15
• Episode description:
  Dan takes Truman to a gay bar to teach him about gay rights and desperately pander to LGBT critics.