How They Croaked & Choked: The Flaws & Downfalls Of History's Most Famous

How They Croaked & Choked: The Flaws & Downfalls Of History's Most Famous is a television series that debuts on Netflix, based on the books How They Choked & How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg. Just like the books, this series explores the fatal mistakes and causes of deaths for many historical figures.

Synopsis
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked & Choked relays all the gory details of how important world figures gave up the ghost. Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic failures even lead to super successes. . . sometimes they become deep dark secrets. But remember--to fail is human, to laugh about our shortcomings divine.

Cast

 * Mike Myers as Death, the narrator of the series who explains everything. He is based on the skeleton in the covers of the book.

Historical Figures

 * Ben Willbond as King Henry VIII.
 * Martha Howe Douglas as Queen Elizabeth I
 * Tyrel Jackson Williams as King Tut
 * George Lopez as Moctezuma II
 * Jon Ham as Julius Caesar
 * Kristen Schaal as Cleopatra
 * Sylvester Stallone as Christopher Columbus
 * Rupert Everett as King John
 * Raye Zaragoza as Pocahontas
 * Stanley Tucci as Galileo Galilei
 * Jack Mcbrayer as Mozart
 * Amanda Seyfried as Marie Antoinette
 * JK Simmons as George Washington
 * Jim Howick as Napoleon
 * Nick Offerman as Beethoven
 * Rami Malek as Edgar Allan Poe
 * Jason Sudekis as Richard Nixon
 * Frank Welker as Albert Einstein
 * David Tennant as Charles Dickens
 * Matthew Bayton as Charles Darwin
 * Amy Adams as Marie Curie
 * Carolina Gaitán as Isabella Of Castile
 * Rowan Atkison as Marco Polo
 * Michael Rooker as Robert E Lee
 * Simon Farnaby as William The Conqueror
 * Antonio Banderas as Ferdinand Magellan
 * Nicole Kidman as Anne Boleyn
 * Weird Al Yankovich as Issac Newton
 * Richard White as Benedict Arnold
 * Tara Strong as Susan B Anthony
 * Grey DeLisle as Amelia Earhart
 * Laurence Rickard as Edward Smith
 * Bill Hader as George Armstrong Custer
 * Clancy Brown as Thomas Edison
 * Ewan McGregor as Vincent Van Gogh
 * Leonardo Dicaprio as Howard Hughes
 * John Dimaggio as "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
 * Kimiko Glenn as Empress Wu Zetian
 * Seth Rogen as Ivan IV Of Russia or "Ivan The Terrible"
 * Boa as Genghis Khan
 * Karan Brar as Mohandas Gandhi
 * Randall Park as Confucius
 * Ken Jeong as Qin Shi Huang
 * Mark Hamill as Vlad The Impaler
 * Lily Singh as Indira Gandhi
 * Terry Crews as Shaka Zulu
 * Stephen Colbert as Woodrow Wilson
 * Tom Felton as Lord Byron
 * Al Pacino as Cesar Borgia
 * Charles Dance as Oliver Cromwell
 * Asher Grodman as Andrew Jackson
 * Joe Rogan as Erik The Red
 * BD Wong as Emperor Yang of Sui.
 * Joe Pera as James Garfield
 * Mike Myers as Adolf Hitler

Episodes
Season 1


 * 1) King Tut
 * 2) Julius Caesar
 * 3) Christopher Columbus
 * 4) Cleopatra
 * 5) Henry VIII
 * 6) Elizabeth I
 * 7) Pocahontas
 * 8) Genghis Khan
 * 9) Galileo Gailei
 * 10) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 11) Marie Antoinette
 * 12) Howard Hughes
 * 13) George Washington

Season 2


 * 1) Napoleon Bonaparte
 * 2) Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * 3) Albert Einstein
 * 4) Edgar Allan Poe
 * 5) Charles Dickens
 * 6) Marie Curie
 * 7) Charles Darwin
 * 8) James A Garfield
 * 9) Marco Polo
 * 10) Isabella Of Castile
 * 11) Benedict Arnold
 * 12) Confucius
 * 13) Amelia Earhart

Season 3


 * 1) Susan B Anthony
 * 2) Thomas Edison
 * 3) Anne Boleyn
 * 4) Issac Newton
 * 5) George Armstrong Custer
 * 6) Shoeless Joe Jackson
 * 7) Wu Zetian
 * 8) Woodrow Wilson
 * 9) Shaka Zulu
 * 10) Qin Shi Huang
 * 11) Lord Byron
 * 12) Vlad The Impaler
 * 13) Cesar Borgia

Season 4


 * 1) Oliver Cromwell
 * 2) Andrew Jackson
 * 3) Mohandas Gandhi
 * 4) Adolf Hitler
 * 5) Richard Nixon
 * 6) Indira Gandhi
 * 7) King John Of England
 * 8) Erik The Red
 * 9) William The Conqueror
 * 10) Emperor Yang of Sui.
 * 11) Richard III Of England
 * 12) Robert E Lee
 * 13) Edward John Smith

Trivia

 * The Six Idiots return as Ben Willbond, Martha Howe Douglas, Simon Farnaby, and Jim Howick reprise their roles from Horrible Histories as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William The Conqueror, and Napoleon respectively, while Matthew Bayton and Laurence Rickard play Charles Darwin & Edward Smith.
 * Bill Hader plays General Custer again since Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
 * This series features historical figures that don't appear in either book.
 * J Bruce Ismay is the only historical figure from the books not to appear in the series and is replaced by Howard Hughes, due to the former being less well known than the latter.