Episode
Adam Ruins Everything: Adam Ruins Halloween
Overview
Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums and séances have a long history - of being fake.
Details
- Series
- Adam Ruins Everything
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2017-10-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Adam Ruins Halloween is Episode 14 in Season 2 of Adam Ruins Everything. It aired on 2017-10-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 17: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
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Episode 10: Adam Ruins the Suburbs
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