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Penn & Teller - Bullsh*t - The Complete Fourth Season

starring: Penn Jillette, Teller, Walter Nelson, CJ, Sierra Fisk
directed by: Christopher Poole, Joshua E. Kessler, Scott Schaefer, Star Price, Tom Greenhut

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368513747
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Showtime Ent.
Manufacturer: Showtime Ent.
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Showtime Ent.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 288 minutes
Sales Rank: 10141
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: January 24, 2003



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Description:
The fourth season of this award-winning series featuring master showmen Penn & Teller, delivers viewers an aggressive, humorous exposé of taboo topics, using the duo’s trademark humor, knowledge of carnival tricks as well as hidden cameras and blatant confrontation. Winner of the prestigious 2004 and 2005 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Comedy/Variety Series and nominated the last three years for the Emmy® for Outstanding Reality Program and Outstanding Writing for Non Fiction Programming, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! continues its controversial muckraking throughout season three by confronting many of the institutions society holds dear.

Amazon.com:
Libertarians may rejoice over the release of Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t -- The Complete Fourth Season, another collection of Showtime’s provocative series debunking popular theories and so-called conventional wisdom. Hosted with an infectious sneer by skeptic-magicians Penn & Teller, Bullsh*t takes on issues of varying levels of seriousness and controversy, puncturing both liberal and conservative arguments whenever they seem, to the sarcastic hosts, specious. The Complete Fourth Season kicks things off with a swift kick to the Boy Scouts, who are shown no mercy for enforcing discriminatory policies against gays and atheists while thriving on government funding at all levels: federal, state, and local. Bullsh*t visits with paragons of Scout virtue who were nevertheless kicked out for being homosexual, but the episode does something more: It deflates the very notion that the Scouts are even important to the teaching of survival skills as well as wholesome values. Following that is a rather eye-opening show about prostitution, and why sex-trade workers can't always be described as slaves. An obligatory, though fun, visit to a brothel in Nevada (where prostitution is regulated by the state) is complemented by a day spent with a 25-year-old student paying her tuition through sex sessions with upscale clients. But there's pretty serious stuff, too, in the form of activist arguments on all sides of the debate about prostitution's alleged threat to humankind.

The series takes time out for silliness with 'Cryptozoology,' the arguably bogus 'science' of studying (using no actual evidence) the likes of the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and every other mythical creature described through dubious eyewitness reports or blurry video. An especially funny episode, 'Cryptozoology' follows the feckless wanderings of so-called experts who seem more adept at buying equipment than actually using it. An interesting change-of-pace is 'Manners,' in which the popular perception that Americans are more rude today than they were a century ago is attacked as ridiculous, given that people routinely urinated in the street at the end of the 19th century. An etiquette expert shows us which fork to use when eating a salad, but the overall idea here is that only a handful of manners are necessary for getting through life. Three other, very serious subjects are drenched in sarcasm. One is New York City’s inability to get it together on rebuilding the Ground Zero site. The episode tracks the many instances of overreaching and mishandling the delicate task, and finds that even a national tragedy doesn’t mean the best intentions of government are free from screw-ups. In another episode about reparations, the question of whether America owes money to the descendants of African slaves and Indians is dissected with a wink. Penn and Teller also take on abstinence in a program that looks at whether sex education works, and wonder why it is that something that reduces stress and feels good the way sex does is so demonized. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Going downhill
They are fun, they are entertaining, but they are running out of ideas.

You can only ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Penn & Teller Are The Best
No one finds the bs in this country and exposes it better than Penn & Teller. Keep up the good ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - 4th season blues
I loved the first two seasons of this show. It was smart, engaging and absolutely hilarious. Then the ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Thought provoking and heart felt.
You can tell Penn and Teller really believe in what they are saying or they are damn good actors. I agree ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - declining a little from the first 3 seasons
I've been hooked on this show ever since I first saw it. The first 3 seasons have been great, they showed ... Read More

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