Penn & Teller: Bull!
Penn & Teller: Bull!
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Penn & Teller: Bull!

7.8 / 10
2003
8 seasons
89 episodes
ComedyDocumentary

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 beliefs. From the truth about palm readings and TV psychics to the reality behind Feng Shui and Ouija boards, the archly comic masters of misdirection host this eye-opening analysis of the middle-ground between perception and reality.

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Seasons

  • Talking to the Dead

    1.Talking to the Dead

    8.3
    24-01-200330m

    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."

  • Alternative Medicine

    2.Alternative Medicine

    8.0
    31-01-200330m

    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.

  • Alien Abductions

    3.Alien Abductions

    7.7
    07-02-200330m

    This show features three days spent at a UFO convention and a visit to an alien abduction group therapy session. It also explores the psychological explanations, and the influences...

  • End of the World

    4.End of the World

    7.0
    14-02-200330m

    A look at "The Sky is Falling" people from Nostradamus and his misinterpreted quatrains, to the "Left Behind" publishing phenomenon, to various crackpot rapture groups. Also featur...

  • Second Hand Smoke / Baby Bullshit

    5.Second Hand Smoke / Baby Bullshit

    5.3
    21-02-200330m

    We'll go to a hearing in NYC, where the dangers of second-hand smoke, and legislating human behavior, is being hotly debated and stage a hidden-camera sting that shows just how rab...

  • Sex, Sex, Sex

    6.Sex, Sex, Sex

    4.2
    28-02-200330m

    This show checks out penis and breast enlargement products, techniques and myths. Also aphrodisiacs: do they work? Expect some graphic and jaw-dropping visuals.

  • Feng Shui / Bottled Water

    7.Feng Shui / Bottled Water

    8.3
    07-03-200330m

    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 wate...

  • Creationism

    8.Creationism

    7.0
    14-03-200330m

    This episode takes a look into a Georgia school board debate about whether or not they should teach what's in the Bible about the creation of living things.

  • Self-Helpless

    9.Self-Helpless

    8.0
    21-03-200330m

    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 dange...

  • ESP

    10.ESP

    7.0
    28-03-200330m

    We'll attend a class in "remote viewing," a form of ESP that is all the rage. We'll test the teacher and the students to reveal that the "hits" they get are so vague, it's all nons...

  • Eat This!

    11.Eat This!

    6.0
    04-04-200330m

    Penn & Teller will try to prove that many diet products and diet claims are complete nonsense. Also, a look at the obsession with products that claim to be healthier for you such a...

  • Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences

    12.Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences

    8.0
    11-04-200330m

    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 r...

  • Environmental Hysteria

    13.Environmental Hysteria

    8.0
    18-04-200330m

    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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