After watching a few clips on the show's website I knew I had to own Penn & Teller's Bullshit: The Complete First Season on DVD. The wife of course was a little bit skeptical, since she only knew Penn & Teller as the guys who piss off magicians by revealing how the acts are performed.

Needless to say, after one episode she was hooked. Penn & Teller travel across the U.S. (and possibly the world, but right now we have enough quackery in the good ole U. S. of A.) debunking psuedoscience, taking on poor politics that misuses statistics (vegans and anti second hand smokers watch out), and just rips religious con-men and swindlers a new one. The show is incredible! We ended up watching the whole first disc in one sitting.

Some of my personal fave moments were when they go to an alien abductee support group and watch in horror as some idiot blathers on about having an alien husband and three alien-hybrid kids. "I remember getting married. I think we had a really nice reception. It wasn't until the honeymoon that things started getting scary," she recalled. Penn & Teller sprinkle their magic and humor throughout the whole thing and make it really entertaining.

Also, if you're a fan of James Randi like I am, you'll be happy to know that he appears on the show, and even conducts an interview with P&T in the "Special Features" of the DVD. Randi takes a Nostradamus' fan to task for misleading the public on how accurate Nostradumus' predictions really were. All in all it is highly recommended.

Also, Andrea was wondering when I was going to mention that Invader Zim's First Season is available on DVD? Well, Andrea, there you go! For those of you who have never seen the show, I recommend you fire up Kazaa and leech yourself a few episodes, then run out and buy the first season. It is definitely one of the funnier cartoons out there.

There, now that I have mandated consumer consumption for the masses, my work as a good little capitalist is done.

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