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Episodes: All (72)  |  With full-length videos ()  |  With videos ()  | See all videos (4) »

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7
Year: 2003  |  2004  |  2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008  |  2009  |  unknown


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Talking to the Dead

Original Air Date—24 January 2003
Penn and Teller introduce their series, explain their use of profanity and expose psychics who claim to speak with the dead.

Season 1, Episode 2: Alternative Medicine

Original Air Date—31 January 2003
Penn and Teller set out to debunk reflexologists, magnetic healers and chiropractors.

Season 1, Episode 3: Alien Abductions

Original Air Date—7 February 2003
Penn and Teller and crew visit a UFO convention and attend a therapy session for alien abductees.

Season 1, Episode 4: End of the World

Original Air Date—14 February 2003
Penn and Teller debunk the believers of the Nostradamus prophecies, proffer a jaundiced view of survivalists and mock the Christian end-of-world types.

Season 1, Episode 5: Second Hand Smoke/Baby Bullshit

Original Air Date—21 February 2003
"Bullshit" ridicules the anti-smoking crusade. And it casts a critical eye on products designed to make babies smarter.

Season 1, Episode 6: Sex, Sex, Sex

Original Air Date—28 February 2003
Penn and Teller look at what people will do to increase their penis and breast size, and the scams merchants that will help them do it.

Season 1, Episode 7: Feng Shui/Bottled Water

Original Air Date—7 March 2003
Three different Feng Shui "experts" are asked for their advice on changing the layout of a room. Penn and Teller also ask why we are buying bottled water when tap water is just as good.

Season 1, Episode 8: Creationism

Original Air Date—14 March 2003
Penn and Teller take a look at creationism, or intelligent design as it would like to be known, and how it is trying to force its way into American schools.

Season 1, Episode 9: Self-Helpless

Original Air Date—21 March 2003
Penn and Teller take a look at the self-help industry, and find out why walking on hot coals can make you a better person.

Season 1, Episode 10: ESP

Original Air Date—28 March 2003
Penn and Teller expose spoon bending, remote viewing, psychic ability and telepathy, for the scams that they are.

Season 1, Episode 11: Eat This!

Original Air Date—4 April 2003
Penn and Teller look at peoples obsession with dieting and health foods, and the industry that surrounds them.

Season 1, Episode 12: Ouija Boards/Near Death Experiences

Original Air Date—April 2003
Penn and Teller expose Ouija Boards and the myth of people experiencing Near Death Experiences by scientifically looking at evidence.

Season 1, Episode 13: Environmental Hysteria

Original Air Date—18 April 2003
Penn and Teller look at some of the more extreme claims of the various environmental organizations.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: P.E.T.A.

Original Air Date—1 April 2004
Penn and Teller look at animal liberation and expose PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)as hypocrites.

Season 2, Episode 2: Safety Hysteria

Original Air Date—8 April 2004
Penn and Teller ask why we are so scared things such as cell phone radiation, terrorism, school shootings, and crime when the chances of being a victim are so low.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Business of Love

Original Air Date—15 April 2004
Penn and Teller look at what people will through to find love, and the scam merchants that prey on them.

Season 2, Episode 4: War on Drugs

Original Air Date—22 April 2004
Penn & Teller reveal why the war on drugs is a waste of time.

Season 2, Episode 5: Recycling

Original Air Date—29 April 2004
We all like to recycle our garbage, but Penn and Teller demonstrate how we are fooling ourselves in believing we are doing good for the environment.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

Original Air Date—6 May 2004
Penn and Teller take a look at the most famous work of fiction.

Season 2, Episode 7: Yoga/Tantric Sex

Original Air Date—13 May 2004
Tantric sex, tarot cards, and herbs are just some of the new age bullshit that Penn and Teller take a look at.

Season 2, Episode 8: Fountain of Youth

Original Air Date—20 May 2004
Penn and Teller look at the lengths people will go to to stay young.

Season 2, Episode 9: Death, Inc.

Original Air Date—5 August 2004

Season 2, Episode 10: Profanity

Original Air Date—12 August 2004
Penn and Teller look at how the moral minority want to control the language we hear on TV and in public.

Season 2, Episode 11: 12-Stepping

Original Air Date—19 August 2004
Penn and Teller look at the various twelve step programs that are used to cure addiction. They also look at the Alcoholics Anonymous and ask if it is a front for religious indoctrination.

Season 2, Episode 12: Exercise vs. Genetics

Original Air Date—12 September 2004
Penn and Teller look at the different techniques that the fitness industry uses to get your money, when a good diet and moderate exercise is all you need to stay healthy.

Season 2, Episode 13: Hypnosis

Original Air Date—2 September 2004
Penn a Teller look at hypnotism and find out how true it really is.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Circumcision

Original Air Date—25 April 2005
Is circumcision a valid practice? Penn & Teller look at the various justifications behind the procedure and try to determine whether there exists a medical or social cause.

Season 3, Episode 2: Family Values

Original Air Date—2 May 2005
Penn and Teller look at the myth of the traditional family with two parents and two children. Instead they find a whole range of different family arrangements

Season 3, Episode 3: Conspiracy Theories

Original Air Date—9 May 2005
Penn and Teller look at some of the crazy conspiracy theories that people believe in.

Season 3, Episode 4: Life Coaching

Original Air Date—16 May 2005
Penn and Teller ask why people think they need a life coach to manage their problems when they would be better doing it themselves.

Season 3, Episode 5: Holier Than Thou

Original Air Date—23 May 2005
Penn and Teller reveal that Mahatma Ghandi was a racist, Mother Teresa a religious zealot who was happy to see the poor suffer, and that the Dalai Lama is not as squeaky clean as he seems.

Season 3, Episode 6: College

Original Air Date—30 May 2005
Penn and Teller examine how political correctness and left-wing politics have infiltrated American colleges.

Season 3, Episode 7: Big Brother

Original Air Date—13 June 2005
Penn and Teller look at how the Patriot Act was rushed into law following 9/11 and what power this gave to the government. It also looks at how we are increasingly being monitored in our day to day life.

Season 3, Episode 8: Hair

Original Air Date—13 June 2005
Penn and Teller look at the business of hair, and the lengths that some people will go to keep it, and to loose it.

Season 3, Episode 9: Gun Control

Original Air Date—27 June 2005
Penn and Teller argue against gun control in the USA.

Season 3, Episode 10: Ghost Busters

Original Air Date—11 July 2005
Penn and Teller meet the ghost hunters.

Season 3, Episode 11: Endangered Species

Original Air Date—18 July 2005
Penn and Teller ask if the Endangered Species Act is about saving rare animals, or just another Government grab for power.

Season 3, Episode 12: Signs from Heaven

Original Air Date—25 July 2005
Penn and Teller investigate religious icons such as the Turin shroud, a toasted cheese sandwich with the face of the Virgin Mary, and a door with the eyes of Jesus.

Season 3, Episode 13: The Best

Original Air Date—1 August 2005
Penn and Teller take a look at our obsession with having the best of everything.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Boy Scouts

Original Air Date—3 April 2006
Penn and Teller look at how in the early 80's the religious right and specifically the Mormon Church took over the boy scouts of America and how they now discriminate against homosexuals and atheists.

Season 4, Episode 2: Prostitution

Original Air Date—10 April 2006
Penn and Teller argue that prostitution should be legalized.

Season 4, Episode 3: Death Penalty

Original Air Date—17 April 2006
Penn and Teller argue against the death penalty.

Season 4, Episode 4: Cryptozoology

Original Air Date—20 April 2006
Penn and Teller go in search of big foot and the Loch Ness monster.

Season 4, Episode 5: Ground Zero

Original Air Date—1 May 2006
Penn and Teller look at the politics that are preventing rebuilding at Ground Zero.

Season 4, Episode 6: Pet Love

Original Air Date—8 May 2006
Penn and Teller look at the lengths that people will go to for their pets.

Season 4, Episode 7: Reparations

Original Air Date—15 May 2006
Penn and Teller ask if it is right that black Americans should be compensated for slavery, if native Americans should be allowed to run casinos on their land.

Season 4, Episode 8: Manners

Original Air Date—22 May 2006
Penn and Teller argue that American manners are not getting worse.

Season 4, Episode 9: Numbers

Original Air Date—29 May 2006
Penn and Teller look at how numbers can be made to mean just about anything.

Season 4, Episode 10: Abstinence

Original Air Date—5 June 2006
Penn and Teller look at how the religious right have persuaded the government to pay for abstinence programs in schools that do not work.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Obesity

Original Air Date—22 March 2007

Season 5, Episode 2: Wal-Mart

Original Air Date—29 March 2007

Season 5, Episode 3: Breast Hysteria

Original Air Date—5 April 2007

Season 5, Episode 4: Detoxing

Original Air Date—12 April 2007

Season 5, Episode 5: Exorcism

Original Air Date—19 April 2007
Penn and Teller battle the forces of evil when they witness three modern-day exorcists performing their demonic casting-out duties, then pay a visit to the "Black Pope," the leader of the Church of Satan.

Season 5, Episode 6: Immigration

Original Air Date—26 April 2007

Season 5, Episode 7: Handicap Parking

Original Air Date—3 May 2007

Season 5, Episode 8: Mt. Rushmore

Original Air Date—10 May 2007

Season 5, Episode 9: Nukes, Hybrids and Lesbians

Original Air Date—17 May 2007

Season 5, Episode 10: Anger Management

Original Air Date—24 May 2007
Penn & Teller look into Anger Management classes and venting.

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: War on Porn

Original Air Date—19 June 2008

Season 6, Episode 2: New Age Medicine

Original Air Date—27 June 2008

Season 6, Episode 3: NASA

Original Air Date—2008

Season 6, Episode 4: Dolphins

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 5: Sleep, Inc

Original Air Date—17 July 2008

Season 6, Episode 6: Being Green

Original Air Date—24 July 2008

Season 6, Episode 7: Sensitivity Training

Original Air Date—31 July 2008

Season 6, Episode 8: Stranger Danger

Original Air Date—7 August 2008

Season 6, Episode 9: World Peace

Original Air Date—15 August 2008

Season 6, Episode 10: The Good Ol' Days

Original Air Date—22 August 2008

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Orgasms

Original Air Date—25 June 2009

Season 7, Episode 2: Astrology

Original Air Date—????

Season 7, Episode 3: Video Games

Original Air Date—????

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