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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097368015340
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Showtime Ent.
Manufacturer: Showtime Ent.
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Showtime Ent.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 03, 2006
Running Time: 376 minutes
Sales Rank: 8046
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: January 24, 2003
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Product Description:
The third season of this award-winning series featuring master showmen Penn & Teller delivers viewers an aggressive humorous expose 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 376 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 097368015340 Manufacturer No: 801534
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - As bad as ever
If you don't want in hear continual bad language, or watch 'in your face' naked people, then don't buy this DVD. Otherwise, these guys tackle the subjects that many other skeptics and social commentators politely ignore. This series is not quite as 'fresh' as the first two, but still going strong.
Rating:  - Love the show
A lot of the shows are good and informative. Some would be better if longer and some are so, so. Worth the price. This is entertaining and informative at the same time.
Rating: - A teaching manual for constructive thinking skills...
I've read some of the other product reviews claiming that this season was a disappointment, and I'm afraid I have to disagree. Penn and Teller did seem to take a temporary step back from the truly devisive issues, but every episode is still insightful, funny, and fascinating. Yes, even that one on hair (I mean, did anyone else actually WATCH that? There was some pretty horrifying footage. If you've never seen someone get a Brazilian wax before, this is a real "eye" opener. Ick!)
I don't always agree with Penn and Teller--I've read plenty of critisism of their techniques--and they do seem to interview a lot of people from the loonatic fringe to help them make their point; but they are always articulate, and even when I strongly disagree, I still enjoy their point of view and I appreciate their endorsement of independent thought.
There aren't enough of us out there willing to questions what we see on TV or read in the paper. Sometimes it's painfully disillusioning to know that recycling isn't the environmental salvation I thought it was, or that the only thing protecting us from Big Brother is our innate human incompetence. But I'm glad I made this purchase. It was worth every penny.
Oh, and this is something that irritated me when I was looking to buy this series on Amazon: I couldn't find an episode list for the season, so I'm including one in my review.
Disc 1:
Circumcision
Family Values
Conspiracy Theories
Life Coaching
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Rating:  - there are at least two uses for a shovel
It hardly needs to be said that television is rife with nonsense. My cable provider is kind enough to send me broadcasts of televangelism, infomercials, and FOX News 24 hours per day. PBS is usually good, but when they need money they roll the Deepak Chopra tape. Ugh. I get another channel that features shows about psychics and makeovers. And it's called The Learning Channel!
So Penn & Teller are providing a much-needed service. I particularly enjoyed the first two seasons because P&T focused their energy on targets that are both widely believed and thoroughly bogus. Examples include ghosts, creationism, and animal rights extremism (PETA). Most of the major media continues to handle these issues delicately, as if there were two legitimate sides to the story. There aren't, and P&T deserve credit for telling it like it is.
However, as other reviewers have pointed out, the material seems to be getting a little thin in the 3rd season. It's a little too easy too attack positions that hardly anyone believes (like the extreme version of gun control that is the focus of one episode). And issues like the Endangered Species Act don't really seem worthy of their talents. It may be a dumb piece of legislation, but the episode (complete with a wheelchair-bound woman who is purportedly homeless as a result of the ESA) comes off as a little hysterical. Some of the topics are pretty similar to ones they have already covered.
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Rating:  - Bull Shit
I do not watch television on a schedule, so I miss a lot of programming. It is good that television shows are available on disk now. And it is handy for review later. Penn & Teller use scientific facts to support, or destroy common beliefs and opinions. This is good.
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