Penn & Teller: Bullshit! The First Season on DVD
• Skeptics & Atheists
An Amazon review:
Master stage magicians Penn and Teller take on psychics, astrology, the environment, and a host of other questionable topics. Like the title of the show, Penn and Teller do not hesitate at all in demonstrating that the frauds, con men, and phony scientists are full of Bull Sh*t! Happily, they manage to do it with a unique style and humor that left me snorting Dr. Pepper through my nostrils. Ouch. It was worth it!
In the process of watching these programs, you will learn exactly -how- frauds and fakers pull of many of their stunts, -why- certain pseudoscientists and pseudo historians are wrong, and even -why- people are often so eager to believe and accept things at face value. While our prestidigitationator hosts are opinionated, they are always on the side of the common man (us) who so often plays the dupe to the frauds of our day.
The extras:
The Bonus Features are contained entirely on Disc Three. Naked Promo is a seventeen second promotional clip for their "Sex, Sex, Sex" episode. Junkyard Ghost! is a fourteen-minute featurette that examines the phenomenon of ghostlike images appearing in various photographs and videotapings. Is there photographic existence of otherworldly phenomena? (Short answer: no.) Next up is a James Randi Interview with Penn & Teller, an eighteen minute conversation between Penn and famed magician/skeptic James Randi. This interview makes for a fantastic companion piece to the Bullshit series. Randi has offered up a $1 million prize to anyone who can prove that they have actual supernormal "powers." Number of prize-winners to date: zero.
More Bullshit! is a twenty-eight minutes of bonus footage that was excised from various episodes of the show, and makes for some extremely entertaining viewing. Bullshitting Around! includes ten minutes of bloopers, outtakes, and on-set footage. Behind the Scenes! consists of seven minutes worth of "behind the scenes" footage from the taping of the show. We get tons more naked people here, and, unless you're Michael Powell, that certainly can be considered A Good Thing. Wraparounds! runs just over six minutes, and features some more outtakes and bloopers that occurred during the filming of the introductions and conclusions to various episodes.
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