History WebVideo / MapMen

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the longitude problem episode, it's mentioned that other scientists who failed to solve the problem ended up discovering other things instead, such as the weight of the Earth, the speed of light, and cucumber sandwiches.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The "Maps with Gaps" episode showcases three examples where map makers didn't bother to fill in the details of areas of a map. The first three, West Berlin as shown on [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany East German maps]], a road atlas "showcasing" Paris, and North Korea as seen on Google Maps (until data was added starting in 2013) are all legitimate examples. A map of Greenland is also ridiculed, until Jay realises it's not an example; Greenland's low population density and concentration of population near the coasts necessitates a mostly-blank map.

* TakeAThirdOption: Jay uses this to humorous effect in "Where is the North/ South Divide". In order to determine whether he's a northerner or a southerner, Mark holds up the worth "BATH", and he pronounces it "bith".

** The story of John Snow and his map, as featured in "The map that saved the most lives", was set in a PurelyAestheticEra version of the 1800s, with John Snow being portrayed as a hipster, using a modern smartphone to look up the top news, which includes the cholera outbreak and Creator/OscarWilde being born.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the longitude problem episode, it's mentioned that other scientists who tried to solve the problem ended up failing and discovering other things instead, such as the weight of the Earth, the speed of light, and cucumber sandwiches.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: PlayedForLaughs. Usually when a country is mentioned, the two act as if they're really there, despite all evidence to the contrary.
** Mark going to "China" to talk about why the country cares so much about the sea, when it's very obviously filmed in London's Chinatown, as shown by the London parking sign directly behind Mark, as well as the "Orient London" sign on the left of the video.

** Jay going to "Australia" while wearing a silly cork hat and driving, all the while while talking about tectonic plate shifting as ''a snowy blizzard rains down'' in what is clearly an English street.

** "What will the world look like in 250 million years?":
*** The scene of Mark as Alfred Wegener examining rocks in South America and Africa uses the same footage in the same beach for both continents, with one of them merely mirrored from the other.
*** Mark averts this trope where he pre-recorded himself saying "Here, in India" when on an unrelated trip to the country. They did this prior to COVID-19 restrictions being put in place, and partially did it just in case they ever got to use it.

* LoggingOnToTheFourthWall: In "You'll never guess the most popular internet country code", Mark starts the video with "www.welcometomapmen.com". [[https://welcometomapmen.com/ It's a real site]] that he and Jay made for the sake of the joke.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Apparently, if foreigners mispronounce British place names, they can face, "ridicule, imprisonment, or death."

** The end-roll ad has Mark washing dishes on the sink before he ends up washing increasingly ridiculous objects, like a hand saw, a vinyl record, a book, a chair, and finally someone else's face.