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The Best Episodes of Penn & Teller: Bull!

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The Best Episodes of Penn & Teller: Bull!

This daring original series stars postmodern bad boys of magic Penn & Teller as they question many of our culture's most cherished and widely held...

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  1. Background image for War on Drugs
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - War on Drugs

    S2:E4

    America is waging a massive war on its home soil, a war it is losing. Our country spends $20 billion a year in drug enforcement, but the illegal drug industry is thriving. Should we even be waging this war, when alcohol is legal and pushed every night on network TV? By criminalizing drugs, we just turn non-violent citizens into criminals. And medicinal uses of marijuana are being blocked by crusading moralists yelling "family values."

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    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Best

    S3:E13

    Penn and Teller skewer our pursuit of "the best" in everything, from neighborhoods to electronics to automobiles to spouses, and demonstrate how such rampant consumerism is a race designed so that the runners never win.

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    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Lawns

    S7:E8

    Penn and Teller investigate the lawn care industry, talk to a man whose unkempt lawn landed him in prison and visit a neighborhood where only one strain of grass can be grown.

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  4. Background image for Talking to the Dead
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Talking to the Dead

    S1:E1

    A look into the practices of popular psychics of today reveals how those who claim to be in contact with the dead are actually performing an age-old trick called "cold reading."

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Feng Shui / Bottled Water

    S1:E7

    Penn & Teller put three Feng Shui home consultants to the test and feature a visit to a Feng Shui hairstylist. Also, the craze of bottled water is a national obsession but tap water is usually safer for you, and often better tasting too. Using a hidden camera, we'll take a look at the obsession.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Video Games

    S7:E3

    Politicians and other alarmists claim that playing violent video games leads to teen violence. Penn & Teller attempt to debunk that theory by handing over a real semi-automatic weapon to a nine-year-old to see if playing video games will turn him into a human killing machine.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Lie Detectors

    S7:E5

    Polygraphs are used in thousands of investigations and job screenings. Can a machine really detect whether someone is lying? Penn & Teller will meet people whose lives were ruined by the faulty tests.

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  9. Background image for Prostitution
    8.1/10(166 votes)

    #8 - Prostitution

    S4:E2

    Everyone knows that prostitution is practiced throughout the land. Where it is legal - in only a few Nevada counties, prostitution is vigorously regulated and monitored by the State of Nevada Health Department. The women submit to compulsory medical tests for STDs. No one is forced to work as a prostitute. Pimps don't exist. HIV has never been detected. The women earn regular paychecks and tips. Some even get vacation and sick days. And they pay taxes! It's BULLSHIT that it's illegal for two consenting adults to have sex with each other!

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Alternative Medicine

    S1:E2

    A look at chiropractic medicine, reflexology, magnet therapy,and a trip to an alternative medicine fair that ends in a "sting" operation at a crowded mall.

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  11. Background image for Self-Helpless
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Self-Helpless

    S1:E9

    Motivational speakers, books, videos, relationship seminars, do they really help? We'll take a look. Also, the popular motivational activity of firewalking - which is no more dangerous than walking across hot sand at the beach - is debunked.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences

    S1:E12

    There's a physiological explanation that debunks it all. We'll switch the letters around on the board and see how the "spirits" like that! Also, the "tunnel of light" and what it really is when coupled with a look at the Oklahoma centrifuge study that created NDE-like results.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Environmental Hysteria

    S1:E13

    Here Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a look at Greenpeace's activities.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Recycling

    S2:E5

    Here's the truth: recycling is garbage. The recycling industry creates pollution, has to be subsidized by the government because it's cost ineffective, and is completely unnecessary. Contrary to popular belief, our landfills are not running out of space - we have enough room to last for thousands of years! So how did the bullshit of recycling get started?

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  15. Background image for Fountain of Youth
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Fountain of Youth

    S2:E8

    The good news: we're living longer. The bad news: the older we get, the more we're made to feel that there's something wrong with that, and so we make futile efforts to turn back the clock. Wacky diets, worthless creams, Botox, Collagen, lipo, plastic surgery... none of it will stop the advancing years, except in your own mind! Aging is inevitable. Get used to it.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Profanity

    S2:E10

    A whole show on words and the power we give them, focusing on the latest actions of the FCC and other anti-profanity groups. The First Amendment is under attack. Hey, what country do we live in?

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  17. Background image for Exercise vs. Genetics
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Exercise vs. Genetics

    S2:E12

    Exercise Schmexerise. Here's the shocker: the power of genetics determines your body type. Throw away all those fitness machines, gym memberships and exercise manuals, the size and shape of your body was decided the moment you were conceived. A look at the huge amount of bullshit behind the exercise industry. Gym memberships, fat-burning, muscle-building supplements, exercise tapes and equipment - we're fair game... and so are they!

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Hypnosis

    S2:E13

    There are some topics that are complete nonsense, and there are others, like Hypnosis, that combine an element of truth with a generous helping of bullshit. We'll go under the "spell" and show you just where the bullshit lies. The bottom line: you never give up control when under an hypnotic spell. But you will give up your money to smooth-talking hypnotists who claim they can enlarge your penis or achieve the ultimate orgasm. When they count to ten, hold onto your wallet and run for the door!

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Life Coaching

    S3:E4

    Today, it's hip to have a therapist. In fact, you're really "in" if you skip doc's diagnosis and head straight to a "Life Coach" for motivation. The training of psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health "professionals" does little or nothing to make them better equipped as counselors or therapists. We'll reveal the bullshit that Freud made famous, and we'll find out what the experts think about the degree to which drug therapy is being used. Is it really helping? Or, are we over-medicating our way to an unknown future. We'll expose the truth behind the lucrative mind games industry, tracing its history to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. We'll weave our way through all the trends in psychobabble, including the latest scam, life coaching. We'll catch coaches in action as they celebrate International Coaching Week with an array of events and activities. To top it all off, we'll create our own psychotherapist and thread him throughout the show. Skip the therapy & coaching, talk to a good friend and take some notes during this episode of Bullshit!

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Ghost Busters

    S3:E10

    It's scary to know in today's Age of Enlightenment, the world's fascination with the "paranormal" is at an all-time high. And where there are gullible believers, you can bet there are hordes of "experts" lurking, ready to sell something to them. We will delve into the realm of the "spirits" and take a look at the revived interest ghost hunting. We'll spend time with so-called parapsychologists as they track ghosts with their new-fangled, pseudoscientific equipment. Will they find something? Yeah, right! We'll show you how some of them bullshit themselves as much as their clients as they try to get to the bottom of nonexistent mysteries.

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  21. Background image for New Age Medicine
    8.0/10(122 votes)

    #20 - New Age Medicine

    S6:E2

    Penn and Teller take a skeptical look at New Age medicine and its outrageous, unsupported claims of healing despite a heap of evidence that it doesn't work.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Astrology

    S7:E2

    Millions of people believe their destinies are determined by the positions of the sun, moon, and planets. Penn & Teller follow two astrologers as they dole out advice - for a price.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - The Vatican

    S7:E10

    Penn and Teller take on the secretive inner world of The Vatican, the holy city of Catholicism and home of the Pope. Due to outcries from the public, this episode was not included on the DVD release of Season 7.

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    8.0/10(134 votes)

    #23 - Vaccinations

    S8:E10

    In the Season 8 finale, vaccination is considered modern medicine's greatest weapon against disease but thanks to pseudo-science and public gullibility, the debate over vaccination safety rages on.

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  25. Background image for Boy Scouts
    7.9/10(159 votes)

    #24 - Boy Scouts

    S4:E1

    The Boy Scouts of America restricts scout membership and leadership opportunities to homosexuals and straight males who DON'T believe in God. According to the BSA, atheists and gays don't make good scouts or good role models. If the Boy Scouts of America were a privately funded group, it could discriminate against and hate anyone it damn well wanted to. But the Boy Scouts of America is dependent upon Federal, State and local government handouts. So, the BSA and their intolerance… are BULLSHIT!

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  26. Background image for The Death Penalty
    7.9/10(168 votes)

    #25 - The Death Penalty

    S4:E3

    We understand the feelings of rage felt by crime victims and their families. But - studies show there is no deterrent effect to State executions. And, DNA evidence has exonerated 122 men formerly on death row! If we're killing inmates to satisfy a primitive emotion, if we can't be sure the criminal is guilty as charged, and we have ways to keep someone locked up and out of circulation for life and for less cost, why does our government still support the archaic, primitive, cruel and costly BULLSHIT known as the Death Penalty?

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Best Episodes Summary

"War on Drugs" is the best rated episode of "Penn & Teller: Bull!". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Teller, Penn Jillette, it aired on 4/22/2004. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Best".