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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

  • TV Series
  • 2003–20102003–2010
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 30m
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Penn Jillette and Teller in Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003)
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ComedyDocumentary
The comedy illusionist duo explore various topics and debunk what they consider misconceptions about them.The comedy illusionist duo explore various topics and debunk what they consider misconceptions about them.The comedy illusionist duo explore various topics and debunk what they consider misconceptions about them.
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    • Randall Moldave
    • Eric Small
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    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Shera Pollins
    • Randall Moldave
    • Eric Small
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    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Shera Pollins
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    • 65User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 13 Primetime Emmys

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    Penn Jillette
    Penn Jillette
    • Self - Host
    Teller
    Teller
    • Self - Host
    Shera Pollins
    Michael Goudeau
    • Doctor…
    T. Gene Hatcher
    T. Gene Hatcher
    • Naked Man…
    Joline Jaffe
    Jackamoe Buzzell
    Jackamoe Buzzell
    • Naked Person…
    Bruce Kimmel
    • Dr. Learly…
    Tim Sabourn
    • Fake Director…
    CJ
    • Asshole #1…
    James Randi
    James Randi
    • Self
    Vera Miranda
    • Cheerleader…
    Dustin Knouse
    Dustin Knouse
    • Easter Bunny…
    Tishara Cousino
    Jaime Andrews
    Jaime Andrews
    • Field Interviewer
    Gabrielle Dennis
    Gabrielle Dennis
    • Mock Trainer's Assistant…
    Nicci Kelley
    Carolyn Sperry
    • Jenny White - Creator of the Triangle of Love
      • Randall Moldave
      • Eric Small
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    • Trivia
      Neither Penn Jillette nor (obviously) Teller swear once during the "Profanity" episode.
    • Quotes

      Penn Jillette: [on the subject of talking to the dead] One of the weird things Houdini discovered is that some of these mediums actually slip into believing their own bullshit. They forget their own misses, or as John Edward, THE BIGGEST DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE, does, rewrite them as hits that we're just not able to recognize. Cold reading can be done accidently. That doesn't mean the psychic is a better person. Lying to themselves does not make lying to others ok. It can make intellectually lazy scumbags more convincing and dangerous. But even if these fucks know they're just making shit up and pushing people's buttons, they tell themselves, "At least I'm comforting the bereaved." WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY TO DECIDE THAT LYING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE AND A DEAD LOVED ONE IS WHAT THE BEREAVED NEEDS? That's condescending BULLSHIT!

    • Crazy credits
      Disclaimer at the end of episode 2.6: "The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
    • Connections
      Featured in Michael Moore Hates America (2004)

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    Entertainment, not Science
    Speaking of bullshit, that's kind of what this show is. Not that it's bad-- it's good entertainment. But less critical viewers will need to be reminded that it's entertainment, not thorough scientific research.

    While Penn and Teller do sometimes offer scientific research to bolster their arguments, the tend to present it in a manner that contradicts the purpose of serious investigation. I take issue with the way they enter their investigations with the assumption that something is "bullshit" and how they subsequently mold every piece of information that becomes available to them to reinforce their pre-determined conclusion. A real investigation would not involve them going into their research with the determination to prove it a fraud; it would involve a suspicion which they either prove or disprove after careful examination of the evidence.

    I feel that the show manipulates your judgments by doctoring evidence, cutting and pasting phrases out-of-context, repeatedly showing loaded footage, making dismissive commentary without backing, relying on 'straw men' to win arguments, calling people "assholes" for having differing opinions, creating irrelevant "experiments" whose outcomes, at first glance seem to corroborate their point, but upon re-assessment, are not logically congruous with the evaluations you will make based on them (in other words, the experiments are misleading).

    P&T essentially bully the viewer onto their side by creating an atmosphere in which you will feel dumb if you disagree; their ridiculously biased presentation ensures it. I'm not saying that most of the stuff they take on isn't bullshit, but their methodology is more akin to "Inside Edition" than, say "BBC News"; it's like a sloppy email forward, filled with ad-hominem attacks and hot-headed rhetoric, not a well-researched feature article. If it seems funny, well-intentioned, and consumer-advocatory, it is; but it's also manipulative and intellectually dishonest, at least for something that you given to understand is an unbiased documentary. That, in and of itself, should be a good reason to watch with caution if you're trying to get anything out of it besides entertainment.
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      • January 24, 2003 (United States)
      • United States
      • SHOWTIME
      • English
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      • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Network Television
      • CBS Paramount Network Television
      • CBS Television Studios
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