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Drunk History Season 4 Will Feature Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Boston Molasses Disaster

Comedy Central released the trailer for the upcoming season of Drunk History on Wednesday, and wow does it look drunk. The show’s fourth season begins on Sept. 27, and, as before, will get guests epically drunk and ask them to narrate a story from history. This time around, the guest stars acting out the guests’ drunken ramblings include Elizabeth Olsen, Patton Oswalt, Kat Dennings, and Liev Schrieber, plus dozens of other recognizable and semi-recognizable faces. But it doesn’t matter who’s on the show. What matters is the question fans have been asking for years: “Does this season include the Boston Molasses Disaster?” After scouring the trailer for clues, we can report that the answer is almost certainly yes.

Many of the episodes’ subjects aren’t discernable from brief shots of actors in old-timey clothes, but a few are: the Wright Brothers, Disco Demolition Night, the Titanic. None of these involve Boston or molasses. A shot of a sign reading “Purity Distillery” (instead of “Purity Distilling Company”) feels like a cruel joke played on molasses fans. But just when all hope is lost, there’s a shot of a bucket of paint being dropped on a model railroad with an elevated train line. That can only mean one thing: It’s molasses time, baby!

Of course, delighting molasses flood fandom isn’t enough to keep a show on the air, so Drunk History will also feature man of the hour Lin-Manuel Miranda, who will be getting drunk and telling the world the story of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Despite his experience with that particular tale, Miranda will have a high bar to clear: That story was the subject of the very first episode of Drunk History, back when it was a web series, and narrator Mark Gagliardi knocked it out of the park. “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” may be pretty good, but it’s got nothing on, “Fuckin’ Aaron Burr’s not on money. You know who is? Alexander Hamilton.”