Season 2: 2004
| Overall no. |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "P.E.T.A." | April 1, 2004 (2004-04-01) | 201 |
| Offers criticism of the animal rights movement, and particular attention to the PETA organization and its ties with the ALF, an animal liberation group, classified by the FBI as a domestic terrorist organization. | ||||
| 15 | 2 | "Safety Hysteria" | April 8, 2004 (2004-04-08) | 202 |
| Examines recent hysteria over the possibility of danger due to terrorism, questions the connection between Mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, as well as school violence. | ||||
| 16 | 3 | "The Business of Love" | April 15, 2004 (2004-04-15) | 203 |
| Criticizes the popular concept and the selling of everlasting romantic love and personal compatibility by dating services and pop psych love experts, and questions monogamy as a forced aspect of healthy relationships. | ||||
| 17 | 4 | "War on Drugs" | April 22, 2004 (2004-04-22) | 204 |
| Questions the constitutionality of the "War on Drugs" and common allegations against the medical value of Cannabis. | ||||
| 18 | 5 | "Recycling" | April 29, 2004 (2004-04-29) | 205 |
| Criticizes certain aspects of recycling, including the increased cost of particular forms of recycling and the detrimental effect that certain forms of recycling have on the environment, and debunks numerous myths regarding landfills. Notes that people are generally more than happy to recycle and that it is the system that is flawed. | ||||
| 19 | 6 | "The Bible: Fact or Fiction?" | May 6, 2004 (2004-05-06) | 211 |
| Offers criticism of claims that the Bible is historically and factually accurate, as well as the attempt to turn sacred text into scientific material. Also criticizes the Bible as a source of morality. | ||||
| 20 | 7 | "Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc." | May 13, 2004 (2004-05-13) | 207 |
| Offers criticism on numerous activities in the New Age movement, including: yoga, tantric sex, cartomancy, medicinal herbs and vortices, (especially the Sedona Vortices). | ||||
| 21 | 8 | "Fountain of Youth" | May 20, 2004 (2004-05-20) | 208 |
| Offers criticism of addiction to plastic surgery, chelation, human growth hormone as an anti-aging agent, and details about the problems involved with botox. | ||||
| 22 | 9 | "Death, Inc." | August 5, 2004 (2004-08-05) | 209 |
| Offers criticisms of many claims made by businesses which offer funeral services, and investigates the validity of cryonics as a method of preserving a human body. | ||||
| 23 | 10 | "Profanity" | August 12, 2004 (2004-08-12) | 206 |
| Attacks the idea that certain words are inherently offensive and thus are (or should be considered) taboo, and questions the constitutionality of the FCC's broadcast standards on profanity. | ||||
| 24 | 11 | "12-Stepping" | August 19, 2004 (2004-08-19) | 210 |
| Questions the effectiveness of 12 Step Programs, with a focus on Alcoholics Anonymous. | ||||
| 25 | 12 | "Exercise vs. Genetics" | August 26, 2004 (2004-08-26) | 212 |
| Criticizes the claims made by various commercial exercise products that promise more than they deliver, as well as investigating the methods gyms use to maximize profits. Argues that some people are genetically built to look fit, while others aren't, and that looking fit is not the same as being fit. | ||||
| 26 | 13 | "Hypnosis" | September 2, 2004 (2004-09-02) | 213 |
| Examines the various promises made by professional hypnosis, and seeks to refute the idea of "mind over body". |
Read more about this topic: List Of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Episodes
Famous quotes containing the word season:
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)