Season 7: 2009
| Overall no. |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 1 | "Orgasms" | June 25, 2009 (2009-06-25) | 701 |
| Penn & Teller question the notion that Americans are in need of bigger and better orgasms by meeting with the inventor of a $12,000 remote-control orgasm machine, taking a $300 lesson from a sex coach, and observing a demonstration on how to unleash one's inner erotic rock star. | ||||
| 71 | 2 | "Astrology" | July 2, 2009 (2009-07-02) | 702 |
| Discusses astrology as a pseudoscience. | ||||
| 72 | 3 | "Video Games" | July 9, 2009 (2009-07-09) | 703 |
| Questions the idea that video games lead to teen violence. | ||||
| 73 | 4 | "The Apocalypse" | July 16, 2009 (2009-07-16) | 704 |
| Ridicules the idea that the world will end on December 21, 2012. | ||||
| 74 | 5 | "Lie Detectors" | July 23, 2009 (2009-07-23) | 705 |
| Attacks the reliability of the polygraph for detecting lies, stating it merely determines the subject's nervousness. | ||||
| 75 | 6 | "Organic Food" | July 30, 2009 (2009-07-30) | 706 |
| Repudiates the idea that organic food has better nutrients, a smaller environmental impact, less harmful pesticides, and better taste than non-organic foods. | ||||
| 76 | 7 | "Taxes" | August 6, 2009 (2009-08-06) | 707 |
| Penn & Teller attack the tax system of the United States as complex and unfair. The guys visit the halls of Congress in search of a legislator willing to discuss America's tax system. | ||||
| 77 | 8 | "Lawns" | August 13, 2009 (2009-08-13) | 708 |
| Penn & Teller take on the lawn industry and visit a neighborhood where growing a certain type of grass is mandatory. Argue that large parts of America are not the right climate for lawns, and thus should not be forced. | ||||
| 78 | 9 | "Stress" | August 20, 2009 (2009-08-20) | 709 |
| Penn & Teller delve into the modern day view of stress, and see whether it's legitimate or not. | ||||
| 79 | 10 | "The Vatican" | August 27, 2009 (2009-08-27) | 710 |
| Penn & Teller discuss the Catholic Church and their involvement campaigning against homosexuality efforts, condom use, and in covering up sex abuse by its priests. They talk with Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti, whom the Vatican attempted to punish for criticizing Pope Benedict XVI. This episode is not on the season 7 DVD, and it is no longer listed on the show's official website. |
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