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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!	comment	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (or P&T:B.S!), hosted by comedians and stage magicians Penn Jillette and Teller, is a Showtime original series that follows in the footsteps of great men like Harry Houdini and The Amazing James Randi — by debunking popular misconceptions and exposing both liars ("motherfuckers"), quacks ("assholes") and faulty science ("bullshit"). It ran from 2003 to 2010.To do this, P & T interview proponents of different views in the fields they debunk, then add facetious voice-overs that mock whichever side they disagree with and introduce the people who make money from it as "assholes". They occasionally throw in some non-scientific experiments and point out official policies, rules, and methodologies of various organizations that point out the hypocrisy of said organizations. Since both Penn and Teller identify as classic liberals ("libertarians"), they never fail to use the show to advocate their viewpoint — but they admit their bias and insist that the viewer should make up their own mind based on the information presented.The pair tackled a wide variety of subjects (and offered their stances on said subjects) in the show's run, such as: The Bible: The pair sum up their position with their closing line: "The characters and events depicted in the damn Bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental." They also think of the Bible as a terrible source for morality lessons. Gun Control: Everyone needs the right to have guns to put fear into criminals; if everyone can potentially have a gun on them, more people will think twice before they attempt to mug someone. Everyone should also have the right to keep guns in case the people need to perform an armed uprising against their government. They also claim that current gun control laws do nothing to prevent the sale of guns from the black market — in other words, if the goal is to minimize gun ownership, those laws are actually not doing a very good job of it. P.E.T.A.: The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will kill humans to further the cause of animal rights (as the group supports terrorist organizations) and has proven itself hypocritical on a number of key issues. Just to cite one example, one of the high-ranking PETA members, Mary Beth Sweeten, takes medicine for her diabetes — medicine discovered through animal testing, a practice that PETA is supposedly against. Recycling: Recycling wastes more resources than it saves, and on the grand scale, it harms the environment more than landfills. P & T make exception for the recycling of aluminum (as companies can recycle aluminum far cheaper than they can refine aluminum from raw materials), but note that since private companies can profit from such recycling, they will sort through unsorted bulk trash for aluminum cans, which makes government-funded recycling programs unnecessary. Wal-Mart: Walmart has become the end result of a capitalist market; they do a lot of good for their employees and help the poor all over America, which makes them unfair targets for the hate that Wal-Mart stores receive. War on Drugs: While they agree that the youth needs to be educated of the dangers of drug use, they strongly disagree with the government's approach of the situation and the little (if any) success they've had. They focus mostly on marijuana, which has been proven to be nowhere as dangerous as legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco and has several medical benefits. ESP: Anyone who claims to have psychic powers doesn't have such powers and only wants attention or money; their belief in their self-professed "powers" doesn't mean a damn thing.This short list gives you an idea of the subjects P & T go after: they target the liars and erroneous sciences that most people believe in, then expose why people benefit from those misguided beliefs (and make fun of everyone in the process). The duo even admitted in the "Recycling" episode that they, and many other people on their staff, believed in recycling (in Penn's own words, "Everybody got a gris-gris"note a voodoo good-luck charm - in context, "Everyone has a pet piece of nonsense they still cling to, despite evidence to the contrary."). The "NASA" episode opened with P & T reading some of their hate mail before they agreed to call "bullshit" on something they cherished.As the careers of Houdini and the Amazing Randi demonstrate, stage magicians — who know how illusions and "magic" work — can easily expose fake miracles and phony paranormal events better than anyone else. Since they have a familiarity with illusions and the perceptions thereof (particularly in the usage of misdirection to control people's attention), magicians can also deal with things like UFO sightings and psychic photographs without too much issue. These qualities do not make P & T experts in most of what they debunk, however, and the pair often expound their opinions as loudly as possible while they call on an actual expert to help debunk their subject (a tactic they have criticized others for). In the "Secondhand Smoke" episode, when the pair discovered that they used data compiled by an "expert" with significant ties to Big Tobacco, the skeptic community criticized the show and forced them to apologize.Penn & Teller wanted to put on The Bullshit of "Bullshit!" as the final episode; it would have pointed out their own inaccuracies, presented criticisms of the show, and probably have ended on a call for better critical thinking from everyone. Showtime cancelled Bullshit! after eight seasons before this episode could come to fruition, though.The "lawyer-friendly" format as laid out in the page-topping quote paid off in the end; nobody ever managed to successfully sue Penn & Teller over the show.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_11b2e74f	comment	An Immigrant's Tale: Addressed in the Immigration episode. The more positive depictions of this get called out as just propaganda, but it's also shown that there's something to it if people are willing to illegally enter a country for an opportunity that they won't get in their birth country. It's said as much by actual illegal immigrants who came into America from Mexico in a few interviews.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Discussed. In the "World Peace" episode, Penn argues that the secret to world peace is countries being economically dependent on each other. That way, they have less incentive to "swing the axe" because it will mean hurting themselves if they choose to go to war. Penn frames this as himself and Teller wanting to gut each other with an axe and a chainsaw because it would feel cathartic, but then they'd have no show on TV and no magic show, and that means being unable to pay the bills.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: The source of a few debunkings, such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Episodes about subjects like the death penalty have an understandably darker tone than episodes about subjects like pseudoscience.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Some of the people the show that represent the opposite side of Penn & Teller's ideas aren't always assholes and are quite sympathetic. "Death Penalty" and "The Elderly" have some examples, and Penn acknowledges that they can't really call them assholes even though they otherwise fit the role for the episode.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_15210c8a	comment	Sexposition: They not only did this regularly, they lampshaded it, pointing out that the only reason for having naked women in this scene was so that you'd sit and listen to a boring explanation of this week's topic.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_15f64844	comment	Lying by Omission: The duo get environmental activists to sign a petition to ban water. They sent someone to a gathering of them to get names for a petition to abolish the use of "dihydrogen monoxide" - which means water. They went around saying all kinds of technically true things about water (things like "its a chemical solvent", which is true, and "over six thousand people are killed by this stuff in the US every year", which is also true) while making it sound like a toxin. They got lots of names. The point of the exercise was to demonstrate how many people would sign a petition without bothering to check any of the facts first.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_16405e4b	comment	Expensive Glass of Crap: Basically the plot to the bottled water and the "Best" episodes. In most cases, because the person indulging thinks they're getting the best, whatever they're eating will be predisposed as tasting better. Notably, one of the guests who actually was a food expert did obviously notice and was trying to be polite in front of his host (who was in on it). One of the "both sides have a point" ideas they tried to get across was that for some people, things like presentation and the perceived "fanciness" of the meal is important, while other people are only concerned about how it tastes.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Norman Borlaug, whom Penn outright calls the greatest human being who ever lived. Borlaug's research into genetic engineering for food has been estimated as saving over a billion lives. James "The Amazing!" Randi, another former magician and head of the James Randi Educational Foundation, a group that debunks the paranormal. Jack LaLanne in "Exercise vs Genetics."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1777688d	comment	For all his faults, Rodney Coronado was Genre Savvy enough to politely decline being interviewed in the PETA episode, knowing that it would be used against him and PETA.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Used Once an Episode in the opening. Penn describes the topic of the day, ending with "(subject of tonight's show) is bullshit!" The only episode where this is untrue is the episode on profanity. They instead refer to it as "Humbug" in honor of what used to be a rather profane phrase used by Houdini.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Quite common — for instance, talking about multi-level marketing in front of a giant pyramid (asking their lawyer why they can't use "that word," no less), or alternative medicine in front of a flock of ducks.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1cb68381	comment	Pom-Pom Girl: An episode touched on arguments that activities in the cheer leading family should be considered sports, and proving otherwise.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1d731808	comment	Petite Pride: Supported in the "Sex, Sex, Sex" episode which argues against breast enhancement.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: In the "Organic Food" episode, they test whether there's a difference in taste between organic and non-organic food.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1dfd19f9	comment	While they're generally merciless against people they disagree with, they're far more polite and easygoing on Mark Klaas in Death Penalty, since he supports it because his daughter was raped and killed by a repeat offender.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: Parodied in "The Vatican", where people in robes are chanting in Pig Latin. They're actually chanting "The Vatican is bullshit"!
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_225d4412	comment	Teller, in keeping with P&T's original act. Depending on the episode, it's either played straight, or subverted. Teller never speaks in such a way where you can see his lips move, but if you've seen every episode, you have a pretty good idea of what the guy sounds like. Some notable subversions: The cold open of the very first episode. See Talking to the Dead above. In the P.E.T.A. episode, wherein Penn brands Teller's ass with the show's eponymous obscenity. Appropriately, he screams in pain... Off-camera. In "Holier Than Thou," Teller is holding up a sign with Mother Teresa's birth name, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, for Penn to read. Penn has quite a few problems trying to pronounce her name, so Teller lifts the board up so it covers his mouth, and says it for him, without a problem. In "Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc.", Penn is doing a Ventriloquism act using a talking puppet Vagina, however it is Teller who is talking as the puppet is covering the mouth of Teller. The Apocalypse episode features a brief skit where Penn plays a sleazy used car salesman doing a commercial and Teller plays his mascot. Teller spends the entire sequence dressed as the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, unintelligibly screeching and hooting at the camera.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: In the "War on Porn" episode, the anti-porn crusader uses an appeal to adverse consequences by saying that looking at too much porn will turn people into pedophiles, then says that she has no studies to verify this claim. Penn calls her out on this, saying that the crusader just admitted she's making this up. In the episode on "Exercise vs. Genetics," Clark Bar... tram calls out personal trainers that try and sell protein powders and vitamins, saying they don't work, and that you really need to exercise regardless. He then tries to sell his own protein powders and vitamins.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: With some subjects it will be pointed out how difficult it would be for some causal relationships to be conclusively proven. For example The "Penn & Teller Center For Incredibly Bad Ideas" have allegedly put five rapists into a rented house next to an all girl college... The results of this study have been suppressed by the US Department of Reason: "Did we mention there's no good science on either side of this debate?"
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Penn often starts a clip of someone by saying something like "at least there (is/is not) (Fill in the blank)" and of course the person in the clip starts what he's saying with exactly the opposite of what Penn was saying, usually followed by an obscenity from Penn.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_247228a9	comment	Subverted Catchphrase: At the end of the episode on colon cleansing, the 'asshole' being introduced was a literal one, or at least a photo from a colonoscopy. Penn's as a matter of fact. He was wanting to show that the best way to promote colon health was to get regular checkups after a certain age, and was basically saying 'See, I even do it myself'.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Practically Once per Episode, someone that the show focuses on will be mocked for claiming to be an expert at something they really have no business being near. A lot of guests come off this way when interviewed. Penn discusses this in the "Family Values" episode, saying that most of the interviewees have never talked to anyone with a dissenting opinion, and certainly no one who has a research team (like P&T do). Kate Lowe, a self-described "global justice activist" in the Rainforest Action Network, is asked several questions in her episode about the environment, and can't seem to answer any of them. Penn even has to remind the audience that the show didn't just pick Lowe off the street; Bullshit asked RAN to send a knowledgeable representative of their policies and positions to be interviewed, and she's the best they could come up with. Penn even describes Lowe as someone who is "young, passionate, and means well", but wonders why she's never asked such basic questions of her cause. It even comes with Insistent Terminology where Penn brings up Kate's credentials every time the show cuts back to her, just to make sure the audience knows that they weren't picking on some random person off the street. Several life coaches and spiritual guides get painted with this brush. A good portion of humor (and subsequent mockery) from the show comes from just letting self-help gurus and people with alleged spiritual/supernatural powers show the extent of their abilities, which either aren't that impressive or rely on the viewer already believing that they'll work. The "World Peace" episode focuses on both "crazy left-wing assholes" and "crazy right-wing assholes," mocking both of them by deconstructing their paths to peace as impractical, unrealistic, and poorly-researched.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_267ce120	comment	The Cheerleading episode swings between making jokes about P&T being dirty old men perving at cheerleaders, and meeting cheerleaders who have been paralyzed by accidents while competing.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: In the "Apocalypse 2012" episode, while discussing the idea that a brown dwarf star will destroy the world in 2012, they cut to Penn & Teller going up to Gary Coleman and asking if he's planning on destroying the world in 2012.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_2b5ea43c	comment	The episode "Numbers" had Penn refer to the M&Ms used in one demonstration as "N&Ns" since their lawyers wouldn't allow it, either. He lampshades this, too.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: Discussed in the Bible episode. The example presented is that two different books about Elvis' eating habits give completely different recipes for his favorite sort of fried chicken, and he lived and died within living memory; just imagine trying to work out which (if either) is correct thousands of years later...
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Enforced. The hosts use colorful language quite often, but it's to avoid being sued by any of the people they interview or highlight in their episodes. Calling someone a "motherfucker" or an "asshole" is legally safer than calling someone a liar or a fraud, since the former words express an opinion and the latter words accuse someone of a crime. The hosts also frequently call things they don't like "bullshit" instead of "scams" for the same reason. Penn explained this lawyer-friendly format in the first episode, even pointing out how Penn and Teller don't normally curse as often as they do on the show. Considering all lawsuits against the show were unsuccessful, it paid off.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: Humorously lampshaded often. Penn jumps at the chance to insert gratuitous nudity because it's good for the ratings.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_36ed5d0b	comment	Everything's sexy. I mean bullshit. But sexy. But bullshit.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_38bf2f22	comment	Narration Echo: From "Holier Than Thou," talking about Gandhi -
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Sometimes, a member of the group or organization being made fun of is revealed to actually agree with Penn and Teller. Howard Menser, the Scoutmaster featured in the "Boy Scouts" episode, is gay. While he at first sings the praises of Scouting and what it teaches, and tells us of his 23 years leading his local troop, he cites the increasing hatred for gay people and atheists as the reason he left. Mark Edward is a reformed con artist who explains the tricks of the psychic trade in "Talking to the Dead". Having worked as a psychic, he found it trivially easy to manipulate and read people. This amount of power scared him deeply, turning him around to fighting such con artistry and exposing fake psychics. Kelly Dunham was once a nun who worked for Mother Teresa. She left the convent to become a standup comic and, in "Holier than Thou", spoke out against the "cult of suffering" that Mother Teresa established. "PETA" had a former spokesman who left the organization because he felt that the group condoned violence.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: In the "Manners" episode: Invoked by an amateur porn star against a woman who despises the adult industry and on a obsessive crusade to (mis)attribute it to rape and child porn.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_397569de	type	Time Marches On
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_397569de	comment	Time Marches On: The episode debunking the 2012 apocalypse theories is a little dated post-2012, seeing as how the supposed end of the world didn't happen.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: In the "Martial Arts" episode the pair point out that it's cheaper to just give a mugger your money than to go through all the time, expense, and risk of injury of learning and using fighting skills. If that's not a viable option, they suggest you Just Shoot Him, since the legal repercussions are roughly the same as beating a mugger into submissionnote Or even lower in the vast majority of jurisdictions, since a reasonable fear for one's immediate safety and life is needed to justify the use of force, and that's pretty hard to establish if you're handing an assailant a sustained No-Holds-Barred Beatdown; one-punch knockouts are much, much harder to do than fiction makes them appear. and it's much safer for you.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: In the episode on the 2012 doomsday:
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Gleefully invoked with "Elvis didn't do no drugs!" and quickly exploited whenever an interviewee is caught in one.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: The "Obesity" episode â€” which focused on addressing common misconceptions about fat people â€” held a "Fat Guy Olympics" (with one skinny guy). Most of the "fat" guys outperformed the skinny guy - which was meant as a point to demonstrate the flaw of using the Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine obesity. Although all the "fat" guys were all obese according to their BMI, only one of the "fat guys" was actually what most people would consider fat, and he was noticeably the slowest in the group. The rest of the "fat" participants had clear muscle tone. The token skinny man (meant to act akin to a scientific control) himself was actually considered Overweight, even though he showed neither visible fat nor muscle tone. The point was that BMI was never intended to measure obesity, let alone overall fitness level; as such, BMI does a miserable job of measuring either one. Despite this, healthcare insurers sometimes use BMI to set premiums, and the segment was Penn & Teller demonstrating why doing so is such a bad idea.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Things conspire against Teller quite often. One episode opening has Penn brandishing the logo of the show on Teller's butt, and Teller is frequently the subject of physical gags or embarrassing situations (like trying to do stand-up comedy to a bunch of dogs).
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: In the Bible episode, there's a gag in which black-and-white footage from old Sword and Sandal movies is shown to illustrate Biblical events, with a subtitle labeling it "Actual Footage". Incidentally, the "Actual Footage" of the Exodus is from the 1923 silent version of The Ten Commandments. Much of the New Testament footage is from the 1912 film From the Manger to the Cross.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_4873cba8	comment	I Was Young and Needed the Money: In the Prostitution episode, Penn admits that he and Teller took on degrading jobs in their past (kids' birthday parties).
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The Bible episode included Penn straight-out calling Bullshit an evangelical show. Arguably the most obvious tract show was the Wal-Mart show, where Penn used his own hometown as an example of a town that went down the crapper because (or possibly in spite) of the fact that they refused to allow a Wal-Mart to be built there.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: In the "Big Brother" episode, the only test subject who continued to monitor suspected terrorism when porn stars were going at it in the next house was from Kenya.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_51616227	comment	Power Born of Madness: In the PETA episode Penn claims that "In any conflict the crazier party usually wins; that's why PETA's doing so well." They then bring out their secret weapon: Ted Nugent.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: Joked about, but also addressed seriously in the "War on Porn" episode. The guys argue that there's really nothing wrong with looking at porn online, and that those who want it taken down (en masse, at least) are mostly appealing to consequences rather than using scientific studies. The anti-porn crusader they follow in the episode even admits she has no studies to back up her claims.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_552c0a69	comment	Popcultural Osmosis: Outside of the US, Penn and Teller are primarily known as skeptics because of this show, rather than their career as stage magicians.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: In the War on Porn episode, one of the critics of the sex industry makes the claim that this kind of sex is torture and one of the things that desensitizes men to rape.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: In an episode on profanity, even the people speaking out against censorship hesitated to say "cunt" (though one noted that it wasn't because of his own taboos, but the fact that he would take flak from his wife for it). Penn himself, although he won't use it as often as similar words, will occasionally use it, including once in reference to Mother Teresa's convent.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Deconstructed in the Environmental Hysteria, Recycling and "Being Green" episodes and the Hybrid segment of "Nukes, Hybrids, and Lesbians." Penn & Teller find most of what people do in these campaigns to be self-serving, self-defeating, or completely ineffectual. They also tend to mock people in these movements, painting them as Know-Nothing Know-It-All alarmists.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5717e34	type	Sincerity Mode
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5717e34	comment	Sincerity Mode: Penn acknowledges that asking the boy in the "Video Games" episode to fire a rifle with no prior training (physical and mental) is unfair, and that the experience will affect him later in life, and he apologizes in voice-over for it. Also in the "Alternative Medicine" episode when Penn learns that a chiropractor is doing work on little kids and even infants (which Penn points out is very dangerous) he is shocked to the point where he doesn't even break into a rant like usual and admits that he should've just called the police on the guy. Also done in the episode on multi-level marketing, where they say that anyone who tries to make a living doing it is nothing but a victim of the multi-level marketing companies, due to the minimal or nonexistent profit margins.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_58fed037	type	It's Fake Fur, It's Fine
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_58fed037	comment	It's Fake Fur, It's Fine: No, it's not. In the episode on PETA, they make it clear that they have nothing but contempt for this trope, and consider it to be hypocrisy in its purest form. They point out while interviewing a PETA spokesman that he's wearing a fake leather belt, shoes and watchband, thus propagating the fashion even though his outfit didn't directly murder any animals.note They weren't even sure if the leather was fake or not, they were just giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Straight-up defied in "Holier Than Thou", when they call the Dalai Lama's somewhat shady background to the audience's attentionnote He was part of the wealthy ruling priest class in Tibet (which was an oppressive Third World theocracy before the Chinese took over), and he has been involved in several attempts to win Tibetan independence through violent means with CIA backing. and remind them that the simple fact that he hates China doesn't necessarily make him a good person. As anti-religion as the show gets, "Death, Inc." had a Catholic priest on their side. Penn openly wonders how pissed off said priest must be by the funeral business to go on such an anti-religion show to complain about it.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: On several occasions they get somebody from the mainstream of whatever they're covering who is actually on their side for certain issues: One of their main guests on the Chiropracty episode is a practicing Chiropractor himself. While he defends the practice as a whole, he's just as mad as the hosts about some of the more ridiculous and extreme claims of his peers. A recurring guest on their environmental topics is Patrick Moore, a former president of Greenpeace who says that he still believes in the cause but thinks many current environmental claims are overblown and unproven. He is obviously a rather controversial figure. A lighter example is a random UFO believer the crew met at the convention covered in the "Alien Abduction" episode. She'd been sold on the event as a serious discussion of the evidence, and was utterly disgusted that it was really what she called a "vendor's fair" where people were charging for talks and shilling their books.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: In "Good Ol' Days", Penn claims that he and Teller have been around since at least the Middle Ages, where they were presenting a show called "Billycock!"
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: Used on the episode "War on Porn" for some images of hardcore porn (bodily fluids, penetration, etc.) since Showtime wouldn't allow it to be shown compared to the soft core variety as is typical (breasts). Also used to obscure the face of the young daughter of an Internet porn star couple to protect her privacy and "innocence". Also used in the Orgasms episode to censor a woman's ejaculate. Showtime doesn't allow bodily fluids, but they didn't mention it in that episode.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6089761d	type	Don't Eat and Swim
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6089761d	comment	Don't Eat and Swim: Subverted. In their "Parental Hysteria" episode, the guys exposed their six-year-old "lab rat" to various old wives' tales in order to show how there was no truth to them. One of these segments saw the kid eat a sandwich for lunch, then go swimming in a pool immediately afterwards. The kid was fine.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Deconstructed in the "Sex, Sex, Sex" episode, where they argue against penis enhancement, although their point is not that it isn't necessary, but because non-surgical methods flat-out don't work. Ironically, in the same episode, well-hung porn star Ron Jeremy states that size and quality sex are not related, even though he's one of the people hawking a so-called "male enhancement supplement."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_661a66d8	comment	Another one came after a PETA member's statement that "Violence and nonviolence are not moral principles; they're tactics."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The entire purpose of the series is to talk about topics that Penn & Teller believe. Penn even straight up called it "an evangelical show" at one point, noting that he's preaching to the choir on topics like ghosts, religion, vaccines, and New Age medicine, because the vast majority of the show's audience were already skeptics.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Teller. He was originally named Raymond Joseph Teller, but legally changed his name to just "Teller".
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	The Promised Land: The United States is portrayed as such in the Immigration episode.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6e49fa1f	type	Mayan Doomsday
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6e49fa1f	comment	Mayan Doomsday: The episode "The Apocalypse" was dedicated to debunking this trope. It also showed the folks who believed in the apocalypse as taking advantage of a free Mayan vacation more than researching the supposed end of the world.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Deconstructed in the Orgasms episode, saying they create an unrealistic expectation for sex.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: They drop in mini-lectures a few times for this reason, like the difference between acronyms and initialisms.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The episode "Death, Inc." has a priest show up on their show, on their side, furious about the funeral industry's financial exploitation of the grieving and emotionally vulnerable. Penn wastes no time pointing out that, given how infamously anti-religion this show is, his beef with the funeral industry has to be pretty huge if he's willing to go on their show to get a platform to call the funeral industry out.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7503483d	type	Original Position Fallacy
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7503483d	comment	Original Position Fallacy: Referenced in the end of the world episode in season one. Penn points out that since the odds are on the side of you dying in the kind of disasters doomsayers predict, it's a safer bet to just run up credit card charges you'll never have to pay than plan what to do afterwards.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Deconstructed in the "Good Ol' Days" episode. Three fans of Leave It to Beaver meet Ken Osmond (who played Eddie Haskell on the show) and told him how much they preferred the world as seen in the 1950s sitcom to the modern world. Notably, none of the three fans were born when the show was made. Haskell himself was far more critical of the 1950s than they were and thought they had an idealized notion of the '50s that wasn't true to life. He did admit the 50s were pretty nice for middle class white males, but not so much for everyone else.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Deconstructed in the "Sex, Sex, Sex" episode, where they generally argue against breast enhancement, but most of their ire, like with penis enlargement, is for those touting non-surgical methods (like hypnosis) that just don't work.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Every time the camera cuts to Kate in the "Environmental Hysteria" episode, Penn makes a point of mentioning that Kate is a prominent member and spokesperson for the Rainforest Action Network, who was chosen by said Network to be interviewed by the show. Not knowing Kate's job would come off as the show just picking on some random person, but Kate was hand-picked by her organization to be the best representative they had. After a while, Penn explains that the reason he keeps bringing up Kate's credentials every time she's shown on-screen is because Kate was so unprepared that every question about the group's policies and justifications came off like an Armor-Piercing Question, because Kate couldn't answer any of them.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The Dolphins episode, as lampshaded repeatedly. They consider the concept of dolphins having some sort of spiritual or supernatural New Age healing ability so ludicrous that Penn and Teller half-ass the entire episode. They're frequently shown in their space in Hawaiian shirts, sipping on fruity drinks, and Penn's narration is noticeably atonal and tired.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_811e3602	comment	Gonzo Journalism: They don't even attempt to come off as objective or impersonal in their mockery, but that's part of the shtick. Penn admits in the "Family Values" episode that they never lie to the people they interview about who they are or what show it's for, and even give people copies of past episodes so the interviewee can get a general idea of which side of any one issue that Penn and Teller will be on. Penn also says that they also never take people out of context, or try to twist their words to make someone say something that they didn't mean to say. However, Penn also admits that he and Teller are "biased as all fuck" and will waste no time mocking people for their appearance and/or their opinions.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: The gun control episode included the thought experiment of issuing all women a bright-pink gun. Partly because "tough guys" would be too embarrassed to steal them, but mostly because Penn thinks pink guns are sexy.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_8409a385	comment	Steven Banks, performing as Billy the Mime, has a guest appearance as Teller's executioner in the "Death Penalty" episode. As one might expect of a mime, he performs silently.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_8485d41a	comment	In a more visual example, the in-between joke skits love to make gags about Teller's deviant sexual practices. Over the course of the series he's been shown making out with an alien puppet, repeatedly being attracted to animals, joining a passionate couple on the floor while tearing off his jacket, receiving oral sex under a desk, and more, while Penn tilts his head. Ironically, in the Teen Sex episode, which starts with various members of the crew stating the age at which they lost their virginity, Teller (presumably truthfully) signs 21, making him the only one of them not to have had sex in his teens.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_84b1a036	comment	Gay Aesop: When LGBT topics come up in Bullshit! episodes, the hosts consistently show pro-gay rights opinions. The "Family Values" episode is pro-gay marriage, picking apart every anti-gay marriage argument that the hosts can find while also saying that the concept of the "American family" is constantly changing. The "Boy Scouts" episode features a segment where Penn decries the practice of the Boy Scouts firing gay troop leaders or preventing gay boys from joining.note The Boy Scouts reversed their positions on both of these issues after the episode was released, but the damage to the organization's reputation has already been done. The "Nukes, Hybrids, and Lesbians" episode has a pair of lesbians going on a date in a rented hybrid vehicle. While the show ends up pausing the date from time to time to show how impractical the cars are, the date that the two women are on is presented as a sincere one.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Deconstructed as used by the Moral Guardians in the Video Games episode. To counter the claim that violent games desensitize children to violence and that realistic games teach children how to use weapons, they test it by giving a nine year old boy who plays violent games very frequently an AR-15 at a shooting range. He holds the gun incorrectly, misses the (oversized) target, isn't prepared for the recoil, doesn't want to shoot more afterward when asked, and cries from the experience.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: In the Bible episode, the theologian they interview brings up the idea that the "parting of the Red Sea" miracle would be better translated as "the Hebrews escaped across the dried marsh". Penn can't figure out how the latter is even a miracle; the best he can come up with is "the smell didn't annoy them." He and Teller also do this against claimed paranormal phenomena on the show regularly.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_87e459b1	comment	Shoehorned Acronym: After an "expert" misuses the term acronym, Penn explains what the difference is between an acronym (FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) and an initialism (FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation). Specifically, acronyms can be pronounced and initialisms can not. Penn caps this off by attempting to phonetically pronounce 'FBI'.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The whole point of the show is to analyze, pick-apart, and deconstruct the various topics featured.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Teller, in keeping with P&T's original act. Depending on the episode, it's either played straight, or subverted. Teller never speaks in such a way where you can see his lips move, but if you've seen every episode, you have a pretty good idea of what the guy sounds like. Some notable subversions: The cold open of the very first episode. See Talking to the Dead above. In the P.E.T.A. episode, wherein Penn brands Teller's ass with the show's eponymous obscenity. Appropriately, he screams in pain... Off-camera. In "Holier Than Thou," Teller is holding up a sign with Mother Teresa's birth name, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, for Penn to read. Penn has quite a few problems trying to pronounce her name, so Teller lifts the board up so it covers his mouth, and says it for him, without a problem. In "Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc.", Penn is doing a Ventriloquism act using a talking puppet Vagina, however it is Teller who is talking as the puppet is covering the mouth of Teller. The Apocalypse episode features a brief skit where Penn plays a sleazy used car salesman doing a commercial and Teller plays his mascot. Teller spends the entire sequence dressed as the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, unintelligibly screeching and hooting at the camera. Steven Banks, performing as Billy the Mime, has a guest appearance as Teller's executioner in the "Death Penalty" episode. As one might expect of a mime, he performs silently.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Penn. Though, as noted under Refuge in Audacity, that's partially due to not wanting to get sued.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_910f8179	comment	Cultural Cringe: The anti-fast food people from the "Fast Food" episode cannot stop talking about how fat and stupid they think their fellow Americans are.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: The most blatant is in the "Lawns" episode when, complaining about the pesticides people use and the fact that lawns are unnatural, they recreate The Summation of the "Organic Farming" episode and show themselves split-screen making opposite statements about pesticides and natural agriculture. They then quickly point out that food is necessary and lawns aren't. In another episode, when discussing Mahatma Gandhi's racist comments about Africans, they point out they were made the same year that The Birth of a Nation (1915) came out, and caution their American audience about being aware of the racism in their own country's past before criticizing a major public figure in another country. At the end of the "Pets" episode, Penn castigates pet owners for the ridiculous amounts of money they pour into them... only to then note that he and Teller spend way too much on their own interests (music for Penn, magic memorabilia for Teller). They often said that the ideal final episode of the show would be exposing the bullshit of... Penn & Teller's Bullshit.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_92d7976	comment	You Keep Using That Word: Their main criticism of all sides in the "World Peace" episode is that everyone is describing peace in flowery poetic language as though it were something as ethereal and imprecise as love. Instead, they should be describing it as "not war", according to Penn. He argues that this is a major barrier to ever actually achieving world peace.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: The reason P&T refer to people they disagree with as "assholes" is because calling them liars or con-artists would be considered slander, which could get them sued. "Asshole" is a statement of opinion, meaning it's legally much safer. By the same token, calling something a "scam" could also get them sued, since it's accusing someone of a crime, whereas calling something "bullshit" is likewise a protected statement of opinion. According to one interview this led to the humorous situation where, after sending the script to the lawyers to be checked, it was returned with a potentially-slanderous line crossed out and a note reading "couldn't you just call him an asshole?" Lampshaded in the Multi-Level Marketing episode, where their lawyers told them they would be in trouble if they called these companies pyramid schemes, since it constitutes accusing them of a crime. In the middle of their rant on this restriction, the attending lawyer broke in with "Hey, I'm the one that's gonna have to defend you assholes!" At which point P&T promptly stop arguing. The episode "Numbers" had Penn refer to the M&Ms used in one demonstration as "N&Ns" since their lawyers wouldn't allow it, either. He lampshades this, too.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_95087b32	comment	Lost Episode: The final episode of Season 7, "The Vatican", was never released on DVD and is not available for streaming on either Hulu or Amazon Prime.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: One of the women in the Gun Control episode, who argues against it because women tend to be physically weaker than men and need other means of defending themselves.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: The target in several episodes such as the College, Violent Video Games, War on Porn, and Vatican episodes. In a nutshell, Penn and Teller find such groups that try to control peoples' thoughts and/or actions to be self-defeating, filled with faulty or just plain incorrect research, and full of holier-than-thou types who seem more interested in furthering their own agenda than actually helping people. In the episode on Swearing, they take particular issue with a woman guilty of possibly-unintentional hypocrisy. Specifically, instead of cursing or blasphemy, she advocates saying things like santa vaca. Penn explains that santa vaca is Spanish for "holy cow," which is an insulting reference to Hindus (who consider cows sacred). He gets really pissed at the thought that she is so dismissive of religions that aren't her own.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9843be73	comment	In "The Best", which is primarily about the futility of pursuing needless luxury (something which the illusionist duo are surrounded by much of the time in Vegas, mind you), they kick the episode off by flaunting awards and declaring "We're the best!" only to have Robin Leach (who, As You Know, was the host of a descriptively-titled show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous back in the day) come on and declare that "'The best' is bullshit."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Penn will often make the "OK" hand gesture whenever he tries to emphasize his own comments.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9c224098	comment	Deliberately Bad Example: The "Martial Arts" episode discourages people from learning more practical disciplines like MMA, Jiujitsu and Krav Maga by having the guest expert name a move that involves disabling an attacker and breaking their neck, which is nearly, if not totally impossible to use as a legal self-defense technique. This is 100% true, but it leaves out how you can still use such disciplines to subdue an attacker and keep them from hurting you without actually killing them, and any instructor worth their salt will advise you to stop fighting and run away as soon as you're able.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: In the "Good Ol' Days" episode, Penn and Teller point out several people talking about how life was simpler decades ago. The people in the interviews all talk about different decades, yet Penn points out in thing they all have in common: the interviewee was a child at the time. Penn notes that of course things seemed simpler back when you were a kid.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From the end of the episode "Eat This!" which debunked fad diets and the supposed "danger" of genetically modified food:
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: Penn, quite frequently. For instance, in the episode on the Loch Ness monster, he repeatedly acts as if the monster is real, when it's very clearly not, identifying such things as a tourist shop as the monster before coming clean.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_9fda81a7	comment	The most blatant is in the "Lawns" episode when, complaining about the pesticides people use and the fact that lawns are unnatural, they recreate The Summation of the "Organic Farming" episode and show themselves split-screen making opposite statements about pesticides and natural agriculture. They then quickly point out that food is necessary and lawns aren't.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a19cce82	comment	Merchandise-Driven: The real goal of many bullshitters is to sell derivative stuff on the side. The episodes on exercise and aliens even call this out. Also, a lot of new-age spiritual beliefs requires an investment of a lot of money, which the hosts always take time to mock.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: At the end of an occasional show, the mood will suddenly change from bright and bubbly to downright depressing. A perfect example comes from their episode on video games, where the discussion turns to the violence in football and how people need to get their priorities straight. Then they apologize for cutting off the ending of a clip they had shown earlier of a nine year old boy and violent video game player who had just shot a gun for the first time (it wasn't specified, but he may have held it wrong and hurt himself). The ending clip shows him sobbing silently on his mother's shoulder, while the voice-over apologizes, "Sorry, Harrison." Sob. Likewise is the episode on "Old People". It goes from showing humorous clips about old people's sex lives, driving, and how they smell to talking about "death with dignity"/"assisted suicide". Penn and Teller don't even bother mocking either side, which tells you how complex the controversy really is. The Dolphins episode has one of the most scathing endings about the dolphin-assisted birthing practitioner. Penn even says "That's the end of serious", while lounging on a chair in a Hawaiian shirt, after condemning the person behind the idea; "It turned out she hadn't yet done any physical harm so we let her slide. But you know, we shouldn't have." The Cheerleading episode swings between making jokes about P&T being dirty old men perving at cheerleaders, and meeting cheerleaders who have been paralyzed by accidents while competing. The episode Signs From Heaven is mostly of them poking fun at people for believing some object contains a holy image (Such as a grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly has the image of the Virgin Mary on it). However, one segment of the episode has Penn speaking in a very solemn tone. Said segment is about a girl named Audrey who nearly drowned when she was three and is in a coma. Due to religious statues apparently leaking oil, however, Audrey's family have decided to exploit her condition as a "miracle" and have gone so far as to send Penn not only a sponge soaked in the supposed oil, but also an order form for merchandise. Penn points out that perhaps Audrey's mother should buy a conscience since hers doesn't seem to be working. Penn in general seems to have an absolute disgust towards people who exploit others emotionally or whatnot for profit. It's not unusual for episodes to suddenly shift from funny and snarky to more serious in tone (often either solemn or genuine anger) whenever this happens. In general, when talking about someone who has taken a path P&T disapprove of after the death of a child, Penn will stop the mockery for a moment to explain that their hearts go out to these people, and they can't imagine the pain of losing a child.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a633a438	comment	In-universe. Penn is not a fan of how the show was back in the Renaissance.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The so-called-therapist who tells a widow "luckily he died" —regarding her deceased husband, a nice man but not entirely supportive of her career — made a very tasteless joke but is far from the worst individual depicted on the show. Penn makes the argument in "Talking to the Dead" that so-called psychics who claim they can talk to people's dead loved ones are getting money by conning it from people who care about this.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Penn Jillette's response to Rodney Coronado's polite tone. "Cool dude, likes us, likes our show... Too bad he's a fucking arsonist!"
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Penn describing botched executions in Death Penalty. Specifically, how pre-lethal injection anesthetics don't always work.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: In the "Holier Than Thou" episode, Penn and Teller explore Gandhi's extreme racism against Africans while he was working in South Africa. They bring up how racism in Gandhi's time was more or less a mainstream viewpoint, but stress that this shows Gandhi was no saint.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ab25e2c7	comment	Lopsided Dichotomy: Used in the college episode in response to a college rally organizer who told a counter-protestor to move away from the crowd for his own safety.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Penn Jillette, at least in this show.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: Penn is vicious, he is brutal, he has absolutely no mercy or regard for those he sees as wrong. It helps that they consist of crazies, fundamentalists and those who are actually dangerous.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "And then there's this asshole." Usually used to introduce someone whose position won't be supported. Played with in the NASA episode. "NASA wants to travel the 35 million miles to Mars. Are they out of their fucking minds? We've heard from politicians, tourists and space-camp counselors, and they're all so enthusiastic." Cut to someone in a full astronaut suit. "And then there's this as... tronaut!" Subverted Catchphrase: At the end of the episode on colon cleansing, the 'asshole' being introduced was a literal one, or at least a photo from a colonoscopy. Penn's as a matter of fact. He was wanting to show that the best way to promote colon health was to get regular checkups after a certain age, and was basically saying 'See, I even do it myself'. At one point during a segment about hair removal via waxing, they used the catchphrase to lead into a video clip of someone getting their... well... getting waxed. Penn ecstatically asserted that multiple seasons of the show and every single use of the catch phrase was simply meant to be a lead-in to that one joke. In the Endangered Species episode, introducing the California politician they interview starts with this, and then proceeds to insult the person a little while after that, only for him to say that he agrees with what he's saying. Penn then apologized. There's also "Fuck you in the neck!" And the way Penn starts nearly every episode: "Hi! I'm Penn and this is my partner, Teller!" Every so often, you'll also get: "[ludicrous premise or idea] my achin' ass!" And finally, what would the show be without "[subject of the show] is bullshit!"
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The "War on Porn" episode opens with a flashback to The '70s, with Penn going to a porno theater and wishing that there was a way to access free porn from the comfort of his own home anytime he wants. His wish magically comes true, and he's suddenly in the present day with access to the Internet. Penn believes that he wasted his wish on something too trivial, so he makes another wish, this time for The Three Stooges to come back to life. That wish is granted as well... sort of. Instead of an actual Three Stooges reunion, what Penn actually gets is the emergence of three anti-pornography activists on which the episode will be focusing.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b087305e	type	Brand Names Are Better
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b087305e	comment	Brand Names Are Better: A regular target of the show. Bottled water and organic foods are but a couple examples. More generally, they also mock the "expensive is better" mindset that allows merchants to charge for unproven therapies like weight loss pills and toxin flushes. They lampshade their own 'brand' in the "Fountain of Youth" episode (showing how, for example Estee Lauder cosmetics have huge markups over almost identical Clinique products); "We can't complain too much, you aren't watching Paul & Teddy's Bullshit!."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b3a49cdb	comment	Satire: The opening segments and bits in the neutral space often point out the folly of people, organizations, institutions, and ideas that the guys declare to be "bullshit" on the show. The episode on video games, for instance, opens with a satire of Penn coming into the studio to film the opening segment, before pulling out a gun and killing everyone on the set. The conclusion of "video games without big fuckin' guns are bullshit" is said by a kid who is revealed to be playing Penn as his Player Character.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b4b006fb	comment	Pig Latin: In the beginning of "The Vatican", a group of people dressed as monks chants in this language. Translated, they say "The Vatican is bullshit".
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The whole point of the show is to point out the folly of people, organizations, institutions, and ideas that Penn and Teller think is "bullshit". As a result, Penn and Teller will viciously mock anyone who is the target of their scorn, often insulting their words, their history, or their appearance, all while calling them "assholes" or making fun of them. As Penn notes in the "Family Values" episode of the show, they check everything that's said in interviews with them, and do background checks on the people involved when possible. That said, Penn also says that the show never takes people out of context or lies to them about who they are; it's just that so many people consider their positions to be "bulletproof" that they've never bothered to think critically about it. (Which is something Penn and Teller also mock, if it comes up.)
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: In the "War on Porn" episode.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: They do this seemingly every other show, sometimes with a little subtlety but more often by flat-out saying something like "The real Bullshit here is us." In "The Best", which is primarily about the futility of pursuing needless luxury (something which the illusionist duo are surrounded by much of the time in Vegas, mind you), they kick the episode off by flaunting awards and declaring "We're the best!" only to have Robin Leach (who, As You Know, was the host of a descriptively-titled show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous back in the day) come on and declare that "'The best' is bullshit." In the self-help episode Penn goes on a rant about how one of the subjects' telling a client it's lucky her husband had died is mean and insensitive. Imagine how upset he'd be if he knew about! Luckily, he died (the hosts both crack up).
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b7f082b6	type	Logical Fallacies
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b7f082b6	comment	Logical Fallacies: Frequently used by the supporters of the topics they attack. For example in the 'War Against Porn' episode they call out anti-porn campaigners for drawing solid conclusions from their own speculations and mostly appealing to adverse consequences; "STOP THE FUCKIN' TAPE! She doesn't have any studies? So Gail is just making shit up." Penn & Teller are frequent offenders as well, though when they do it's either Played for Laughs or lampshaded.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: The trope is referenced by name in the "Gun Control" episode by someone who conceal-carries in this manner.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ba236071	comment	The Apocalypse episode features a brief skit where Penn plays a sleazy used car salesman doing a commercial and Teller plays his mascot. Teller spends the entire sequence dressed as the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, unintelligibly screeching and hooting at the camera.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_bc74ef27	comment	In the episode on Swearing, they take particular issue with a woman guilty of possibly-unintentional hypocrisy. Specifically, instead of cursing or blasphemy, she advocates saying things like santa vaca. Penn explains that santa vaca is Spanish for "holy cow," which is an insulting reference to Hindus (who consider cows sacred). He gets really pissed at the thought that she is so dismissive of religions that aren't her own.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Patti Strand from The National Animal Interest Alliance calls PETA People for Extortion, Terror and Abuse. A gag that shows up several times in the circumcision episode; N.O.C.I.R.Cnote National Organisation of Circumcision Information Research Centers, D.O.Cnote Doctors Opposing Circumcision, N.O.R.Mnote National Organisation of Restoring Men, and A.F.T.R.O.T.Cnote Attorneys For The Rights Of The Child.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Seen in the "War on Porn" episode, where an anti-pornography activist tries to argue that all pornography is just a gateway drug for child pornography, and that men who enjoy porn will inevitably turn out to be pedophiles. One of these activists says that she has no studies to verify her claims, which causes Penn to stop the tape and highlight that the activist just admitted that she's making this up.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: A person showed their formerly circumcised genitals in the "Circumcision" episode (they got the foreskin restored).
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the first episode Penn refers to John Edwards as the biggest douche in the universe.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In the pet episode, Penn mentions that for all the craziness people spend on their pets, he himself indulges pretty substantially on personal appeals. Furthermore, the Grand Finale of the show was intended to be "The Bullshit of Bullshit", where they point out where they screwed up or were hugely biased. In the War On Porn Episode, "Our argument is bullshit too. Correlation is not causation. It could easily be just a coincidence. So in the absence of evidence, who are you going to go with? The killjoys, or us? We have pictures of people fucking, and they don't!" In general they love to call it "a bullshit show", even aside from the name, and to be incredulous that anyone with sense would want to be on it.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: Invoked in the "Exercise" episode. While they say that exercising and taking care of yourself is something that you should absolutely do, you shouldn't expect to look like a body builder or a fitness model, as their bodies are genetically predisposed to looking that way. Not to mention, for most of them it's literally their job to take care of themselves.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cd01a310	type	LampShade
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cd01a310	comment	They lampshade their own 'brand' in the "Fountain of Youth" episode (showing how, for example Estee Lauder cosmetics have huge markups over almost identical Clinique products); "We can't complain too much, you aren't watching Paul & Teddy's Bullshit!."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cd25620	type	Selective Stupidity
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_cd25620	comment	Selective Stupidity: ** A woman is sent to an environmental festival to collect signatures to ban "dihydrogen monoxide" because of its harmful effects (if you inhale it, you'll die) and its prevalence (your children are exposed to it every day) and she collected a ton of them. For those whose chemistry is rusty, "dihydrogen monoxide" is an overly-scientific but technically accurate name for water. People are given a petition to effectively end free speech and the right to protest. A few people were shown signing it over the course of the episode... at the end, they showed clips of the vast majority of people who refused in disgust.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded in the Multi-Level Marketing episode, where their lawyers told them they would be in trouble if they called these companies pyramid schemes, since it constitutes accusing them of a crime. In the middle of their rant on this restriction, the attending lawyer broke in with "Hey, I'm the one that's gonna have to defend you assholes!" At which point P&T promptly stop arguing.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: In the opening presentation, Penn remarks that by calling people liars, quacks and scammers one can be sued, but motherfuckers, assholes and bullshit is fair game. Both types of appellations are used anyway.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d4689f3	type	Sarcasm Failure
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d4689f3	comment	Sarcasm Failure: The "Soda Tax" referenced in the fast food episode places extra government taxes on the purchase of sodas. Sodas are made using HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup). The main incentive to use HFCS is the low price due to government corn subsidies. In other words, from Penn's point of view, the government is solving a problem they created with misspent taxpayer money by taking more taxpayer money. They found the concept so asinine they couldn't develop a proper visual aid. Another one came after a PETA member's statement that "Violence and nonviolence are not moral principles; they're tactics."
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d52d28b6	comment	In the PETA episode, the titular group scream bloody murder when veterinarians euthanizes animals, but when they do the same in even greater quantities, it's called "putting them to sleep forever".
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: In the first environmental episode Penn points out where one of the interview subjects lifted a few lines from Big Yellow Taxi.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Lampshaded; "Scouring the globe" to find ghosts involves visiting California, Virginia and Texas. As Penn says, "we barely even left our own time zone".
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_d8ad2130	comment	Anal Probing: When Alien Abductions were covered on the show, they covered a sex toy with silver spray paint to show to people who claim to have been abducted. Upon seeing the sex toy, many claimed they were probed with a similar device. They actually made a game out of this where they paused the tape before one female abductee disclosed where in her body the aliens had inserted a probe and encouraged viewers at home to guess what part of the body it was. The correct answer was her nose.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: In the War on Drugs episode, they do agree with this, but they disagree more with the tactics used by the government in dealing with it and the misinformation they spread in programs with this message.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The "Stranger Danger" and "NASA" episodes don't have any assholes to attack, the episodes instead focusing on the general myths and flaws of the subject at hand.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_e0d20ea6	comment	Intentionally Awkward Title: Which was chosen because of the impact it would have. They mentioned in the "obscenity" episode that their first choice was "humbug", in honor of Houdini favoring the term in his own debunking career, but it had lost so much of its rudeness and offensiveness over time that they went with the modern equivalent.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_e42e91b4	comment	Godwin's Law: Invoked - they compared the leader of PETA giving an emotional speech to footage of Adolf Hitler doing the same. The very next line was "Cheap shot? Well, you bet it is. It's beneath us." Then they rolled the footage from PETA's own "Holocaust On Your Plate" campaign (which consists of footage of chicken farms played next to holocaust pictures). They also used it in the World Peace episode where he said "Hitler called himself a socialist." This is actually an oversimplification - while it is true that the word Nazi is a shortening of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - the "National Socialist German Worker's Party" - the name is the result of a combination of nationalist and socialist groups coming together - however Hitler and his nationalists eventually ejected and prosecuted any socialists because they were too similar to communism, while not bothering to change the name. The Mount Rushmore episode touches on the true meaning of "patriot". One of the episode's targets brings up the root word patria, to mean a common country according to him. Penn then cuts in with the real translation, "Fatherland", citing it as "a word Hitler was really fond of. Teller's sign even uses a swastika to dot the I in "Die Faderland". Two failures in the lawn episode. A man who makes sure people's lawns are in local compliance suggested calling him a Grass Nazi, which they refused to do. The wife of a man who was jailed for not being in compliance compared it to how a concentration camp operates, which the hosts immediately mocked. In the hair episode, they subjected candidates for a secretarial position against interviewers with atrocious hair problems to see how people would react. One of the interviewers, "Harry," looked like Hitler in a suit via the hairstyle and subtle references to Nazi German (e.g. "Our sales are going up!!" says Harry while doing the Nazi Salute.) They also used Hitler's doctor creating the lethal injection to argue against the death penalty.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_e563bf09	comment	Kate Lowe, a self-described "global justice activist" in the Rainforest Action Network, is asked several questions in her episode about the environment, and can't seem to answer any of them. Penn even has to remind the audience that the show didn't just pick Lowe off the street; Bullshit asked RAN to send a knowledgeable representative of their policies and positions to be interviewed, and she's the best they could come up with. Penn even describes Lowe as someone who is "young, passionate, and means well", but wonders why she's never asked such basic questions of her cause. It even comes with Insistent Terminology where Penn brings up Kate's credentials every time the show cuts back to her, just to make sure the audience knows that they weren't picking on some random person off the street.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: In one episode, Penn goes off on a tangent about the phrase "opening a can of worms", since if you actually do that, you get some worms, but it's not very annoying or troublesome. A better phrase would be "you shouldn't open that can of bees", because when you do, you get BEES!!.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: In the episode on patriotism:
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: Addressed and deconstructed in the Video Games episode. The guys' main point is that violent video games don't make people into killers, and almost all studies that say they do show evidence of bias, either by the researchers taking the data, or because the studies were paid to say they do.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Everything's sexy. I mean bullshit. But sexy. But bullshit. In a more visual example, the in-between joke skits love to make gags about Teller's deviant sexual practices. Over the course of the series he's been shown making out with an alien puppet, repeatedly being attracted to animals, joining a passionate couple on the floor while tearing off his jacket, receiving oral sex under a desk, and more, while Penn tilts his head. Ironically, in the Teen Sex episode, which starts with various members of the crew stating the age at which they lost their virginity, Teller (presumably truthfully) signs 21, making him the only one of them not to have had sex in his teens. The Ground Zero episode had "Best People, Best Minds" as a recurring joke that comes up every time the LMDC's decisions are changed or overruled.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_fe0330fb	comment	At one point during a segment about hair removal via waxing, they used the catchphrase to lead into a video clip of someone getting their... well... getting waxed. Penn ecstatically asserted that multiple seasons of the show and every single use of the catch phrase was simply meant to be a lead-in to that one joke.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Father Henry in "Death Inc." has quite a few grievances to air about the death industry, and how funeral parlors take advantage of people and their grief. Penn notes that Father Henry has to have quite a beef with the funeral industry if he's willing to come on a show hosted by two vocal atheists in order to get a platform.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: While few people are spared snark or critique, Penn & Teller are generally pretty kind to people who have reached a conclusion because of the Death of a Child. While they're generally merciless against people they disagree with, they're far more polite and easygoing on Mark Klaas in Death Penalty, since he supports it because his daughter was raped and killed by a repeat offender. Penn & Teller say that Cindy Sheehan's idea that Congress started the Iraq War for profit with skepticism, saying that they "doubt it's that simple or that dramatic" as the real reason for war. However, the guys also sympathize with Sheehan's pain over losing her son to the war, and also say that her attempt to enforce change by running for a Congressional seat is "just plain not bullshit" because she attempted something that could actually have an effect.
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Pretty much everything is heavily researched so that the show actually has proof to back up its claims, rather than just making things up to make the topics featured look bad. Penn notes in the "Family" episode that they fact check anything any of the interviewees say on their show, and they'll know if someone was lying.
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