Penn & Teller: BS! *edited* - Writers Forum

LensmanZ313 · 08-01-2005, 06:16 AM

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do

This is a great show. This duo of bad boy magicians, in each episode, debunk urban legends, hoaxes, myths and frauds. It's like Mythbusters--only with an edge.

We have Seasons One and Two on DVD. The episode in which the Boys take on PeTA is great, especially when it's revealed that PeTA vice-president Mary Beth Sweetland uses animal-based insulin. Hmmm . . . . Doesn't that go against PeTA's beliefs?

In a recent episode on Environmental Hysteria, one of the production staffers grabbed a pen and clipboard, went to a large demonstration filled with thousands of environmental activists. Her goal? To get people to sign a petition to ban the use of dihydrogen monoxide. She explained to many of these well-educated activists that dihydrogen monoxide was in the rivers, the lakes, the oceans, that it was used in chemcial plants, in nuclear energy facilities and it could kill you if too much of it got in your lungs.

Many people, on camera, quickly signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide--to save humanity, to the environment.

Yes, they signed a petition to ban water.

Such is the genius of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. They have tackled such subjects as 12-Step Programs, Gun Control (both are very pro-2nd Amendment), Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, the Bible and others. Check the TV listings--don't miss this show.

LensmanZ313 · 08-01-2005, 10:26 PM

Episodes air on Showtime, Monday nights. The current season (the third) will cycle into repeats. Don't miss it . . . .

Hodge · 08-01-2005, 10:35 PM

Penn and Teller are funny. I love them. Too bad I don't have premium channels in my room. Then I could watch Penn and Teller and then turn the channel to Skinemax.

LensmanZ313 · 08-01-2005, 10:35 PM

Er . . . yes and no. Bought yourself a new gun rack today?

LensmanZ313 · 08-02-2005, 12:45 AM

Jerry Falwell does that well on his own . . . .

Jude Knox · 08-03-2005, 07:32 PM

I'm gonna say that this is a mere suggestion because after reading some hot-topic debates in this forum, I've come to realize that there are a lot of people out there who take the Intraweb way too seriously (flame me, if you will for saying so. I don't care. It'll just make me laugh anyhow). So, I would like to say something, though I don't want it to sound like I'm egging anyone on or that I'm choosing sides or blah, blah, blah....

My suggestion is that some people need to take vicadon, if only to make them forget why they're arguing in the first place. I would say marijuana but that's not legal.

BTW, don't you be hatin' Penn and Teller just because they make a career out of debunking ridiculous organizations. Come on, deep down, a lot of those environmental organizations are not all heart or, as in the PETA case, some of them don't even take their cause seriously. Why live in the shadows and pretend like everything is being taken care of by people who are pretending to care when you could care yourself and do something...like stop littering, smoking, drinking, wasting paper, energy and such. It's the little things, my friends, the little things because little things do amount to great things. One dollar isn't going to get you far in today's society but add a thousand dollars and you can buy a kick-ass bass for your band. And if a lot of people were to do that over several months, I'm pretty sure that money would be recycled into the economy, stabilizing the surplus that was pretty much obliterated five years ago.

Oh, wait, I forgot: Who would have a thousand dollars? But still...that would be a sweet idea.

You know what would also be a sweet idea? Jobs. Just saying....

"But anyway, that's my opinion. I could be wrong. Screw it! Who wants pie?"

Drzava · 08-03-2005, 08:17 PM

Huh? Were you on Vicodin when you wrote that?

Jude Knox · 08-03-2005, 08:24 PM

I was drinking soda.... not that that has any influence on what I'm writing, though.

Dude, your avatar makes me think of: "All we are. All we are. Is bullets. I mean this."

freebird · 08-03-2005, 08:29 PM

Huh? Were you on Vicodin when you wrote that?

Julian_Gallo · 08-03-2005, 10:49 PM

I absolutely love that show. I thought the one about people's obsession with hair, the water episode and the ghost chasers episode was hilarious. Oh, and the one about "mediums" was great too. I was just happy that they took a shot at that idiot John Edwards (the so-called medium, not the Senator)

freebird · 08-04-2005, 12:30 AM

Heck if they took a shot at the other John Edwards I would be okay with that. But politically correct they are.

LensmanZ313 · 08-05-2005, 07:11 AM

Politically correct? Hardly! They have debunked and/or made fun of gun control, PeTA, environmentalists, second-hand smoking . . . how is that politcally correct? They are also members of the Cato Institute, I believe. They detest Big Government . . . .

A big plus in my book.

Drzava · 08-05-2005, 10:24 AM

Did you see the one where they performed sexual acts on an effigy of Lysander Spooner?

LensmanZ313 · 08-05-2005, 05:11 PM

Actually, that was Karl Rove and Condi Rice at the last Press Club dinner. But, I have seen Penn and Teller make a U.S. flag disappear by wrapping it in a copy of the Bill of Rights--then setting the flag on fire, so that "the flag is gone but the Bill of Rights remains." At the end of the routine, the unscathed flag is on a flagpole, thus, a relief to nationalists everywhere.

Sir_Satoshi · 08-05-2005, 06:52 PM

Penn and Teller are Libertarians.

Just a note.

Anyway, they do sound very awesome. ^_^. Did they ever say anything about the RIAA?

>.> I hate the RIAA...