I'd categorize crash course as "edutainment" along similar lines as Dan Carlin's hardcore history. The series doesn't really teach topics and skills so much as

I'd categorize crash course as "edutainment" along similar lines as Dan Carlin's hardcore history. The series doesn't really teach topics and skills so much as it presents information in an entertaining format. Not to mention , like Dan Carlin's shows, Crash Course often puts forth popular culture views of history that have are no longer accepted by experts (one example of the top of my head is the claim that Communist Chinese forces did more to resist the Japanese in WWII than the KMT, another was the Crash Course geography debacle that got the whole series cancelled).