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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Video Games

  • Episode aired Jul 9, 2009
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 28m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003)
  • Comedy
  • Documentary
Penn and Teller argue that the moral panic against violent video games is unwarranted.Penn and Teller argue that the moral panic against violent video games is unwarranted.Penn and Teller argue that the moral panic against violent video games is unwarranted.
IMDb RATING
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  • Directors
    • Star Price
    • Ted Saad(segment director)
    • Steven Uhlenberg(segment director)
  • Writers
    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Star Price
  • Stars
    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Jeff Barnett
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  • Directors
    • Star Price
    • Ted Saad(segment director)
    • Steven Uhlenberg(segment director)
  • Writers
    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Star Price
  • Stars
    • Penn Jillette
    • Teller
    • Jeff Barnett
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    Penn Jillette
    Penn Jillette
    • Self - Hostas Self - Host
    Teller
    Teller
    • Self - Hostas Self - Host
    Jeff Barnett
    • Selfas Self
    Hillary Clinton
    Hillary Clinton
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Chris Cooney
    Chris Cooney
    • Selfas Self
    Jane M. Healy
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Dr. Jane Healy)
    Lawrence Kutner
    • Selfas Self
    Harrison Nix
    • Self - 9-year-oldas Self - 9-year-old
    Missy Nix
    • Self - Harrison's Momas Self - Harrison's Mom
    Cheryl Olson
    • Selfas Self
    Jack Thompson
    • Selfas Self
    Lawrence G. Walters
    • Self - Constitutional Attorneyas Self - Constitutional Attorney
    • (as Lawrence Walters)
    • Directors
      • Star Price
      • Ted Saad(segment director)
      • Steven Uhlenberg(segment director)
    • Writers
      • Penn Jillette
      • Teller
      • Star Price
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    Penn and Teller argue that the moral panic against violent video games is unwarranted.
    • playing a video game
    • censorship
    • school shooting
    • reference to the columbine school shooting
    • columbine high school killings
    • 8 more
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    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Documentary
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      • TV-MA
    • Parents guide
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    • Trivia
      Jack Thompson, the attorney who described himself as "the video game industry's worst nightmare," was later disbarred by the State of Florida.
    • Quotes

      [Teller, wearing a high school letter jacket, plays on a computer while a group of students and cheerleaders cheer him on]

      Self - Host: Next time you feel like worrying about fake violent video games, try a little gedankenexperiment: imagine that video games were invented 100 years *before* football. Picture school video game teams and uniforms and hot-ass cheerleaders with big, bouncing pom-poms. Now imagine after 100 years of extracurricular video game fun, *football* is invented and introduced to schools. Thousands of kids get real, no kidding, no fantasy, no make-believe broken knees, legs, ankles, cervical trauma, heatstroke, and concussions!

      [Throughout Penn's injury list, the crowd quiets, eventually becoming totally silent]

      Self - Host: What would parents do? From 1931 to 2007, 650 kids *died*... from injuries they suffered playing football. This is not video game violence - this is *real* violence done to *real* children by other real children, all encouraged by schools and society. Every parent worries about his or her kids; every adult worries about all children, but you need to pick what you think is worth worrying about.

    • Connections
      Features Gears of War 2 (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Theme Song
      Written by Gary Stockdale

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    • Release date
      • July 9, 2009 (United States)
    • Production companies
      • Showtime Networks
      • Penn & Teller
      • StarPrice Productions
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      28 minutes

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