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• Actors: Penn & Teller
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Showtime Ent.
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Run Time: 278 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0014FAIUC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,630 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t--The Complete Fifth Season carries on the comic magicians' Showtime series in which they debunk one or another contemporary myth or collective assumption about the way in which we live. "Obesity" takes on the weight-loss industry, diet companies, and doctors who frighten overweight people with unsubstantiated worries about health risks. At the same time, Penn & Teller turn their skepticism toward morbidly obese people who insist they are victims of discrimination. "Breast Hysteria" is as puerile as longtime watchers of this series can easily imagine, with the two hosts practically drooling over the subject and the episode offering many instances of gratuitous nudity. But beneath the hijinks are fairly serious discussions about biases against public breastfeeding and the fact that more people spend money on pink-ribbon-bearing products than on actual breast cancer research. "Exorcism" is another instance of Penn & Teller taking on an easy target, as cameras capture loony, self-styled exorcist types plying their trade on gullible victims. More seriously, "Immigration" is a hard look at the absurdity of trying to keep people from crossing America's southernmost border with walls and little groups of vigilante Minutemen (who certainly don't look particularly tough here). Perhaps most controversially, "Handicap Parking" is an assault on the American Disabilities Act and its insistence (as defined by Penn & Teller) on forcing America to conform to accessibility rules that, the hosts say, are out of step with reality. It might be impossible to agree with everything Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t--The Complete Fifth Season touches, but the series certainly knows how to spark debate. --Tom Keogh

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The fifth 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. Nominated the last four years for the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program and Outstanding Writing for Non Fiction Programming, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! continues its controversial muckraking throughout season five by confronting many of the institutions society holds dear.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding! Thank you!, July 19, 2008

By	Eric J. Hildeman "carlsaganjr" (Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Penn & Teller have done it again. Okay, they love knocking down the occasional straw man to make it funny, but it's still good, libertarian skepticism. Well worth the time, and the money!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still Crazy After All These Years!, February 18, 2009

By	Kevin Currie-Knight "Education Grad Student" (Newark, Delaware) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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I have been a long-time fan of Bullsh^t for all five (now six) years and, as a long-time fan, I am rather ambivalent about this latest season. I agree with the positive reviewers that Penn & Teller's show is still capable of packing a mighty wallop against insane ideas like exorcism and toxicity cleansing. On the other hand, I sympathize with the negative reviewers who note that the show has gone down hill, and what used to be an intellectual show with humor has turned into a humorous show with smatterings of intellectual argument.

I will start off with the better episodes: the episodes rebuking Americans with Disabilities Act, anti-immigration policies, and anti-Walmart stances were phenomenal! While some episodes in this season are intellectually "light weight," these two were of "first season quality." The shows did a great job refuting the key arguments of the opposition, and showing the superiority of P&T's more libertarian approaches (capitalism is generally more efficient and cost-effective than coercion).

The episodes on exorcism and toxic cleansing were good for a different reason. These episodes were closer to those in the first and second season, where we were able to have a good laugh at some easy targets. Yes, P%T refute these notions, but they are easy targets to refute. Unlike the episodes noted in the previous paragraph, the fun of these two episodes was less in the argument than in the exposee.

A lot of the rest of these episodes, though, were less than good. Penn and Teller try to refute the use of hybrid cars by showing that they they are small and a bit slower than standard cars (that they are more energy efficient, P&T very quietly acknowledge). P&T try to refute the idea - that no one I know of actually holds - that the four presidents on Mount Rushmore were saints. These episodes seriously lacked intellectual argumenmt and even though I agree with P&T's position on most things, I still found myself spotting easy holes in arguments they made. (For instance, while they are against government regulation in many episodes, they are against anger management coaches, in part, because they are unregulated?!)

Overall, then, I give this set 3 of 5 stars. This is nowhere near the first two seasons' quality, but is a step up from some of the most recent seasons. Penn and Teller may be getting a little rusty with age, but they are still very watchable.

24 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Language, Wonderful Messages, March 11, 2008

By	Greg Perry (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I like this show so much... I starred in one of its episodes.

When they wanted to demonstrate the evils of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, I jumped at the chance to help. If you thought the ADA was a good thing, think again. It costs your family a LOT more than just money (and it costs you a LOT of money).

Using Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of the Government's Protection of the Handicapped as a foundation, the show blew the lid off the ADA, mocking it as it deserves, and proves it's nothing more than a bad idea. The ADA is not a good idea gone bad, it was evil from the start and designed to make YOUR life miserable, especially if you're normal.

The truth about the ADA is just one of several episodes this season that reveals the dangers behind what most Americans blindingly accept as good. KEEP YOUR KIDS AWAY, THE LANGUAGE IS ROUTINELY HORRIBLE AND GRATUITIOUS. That is a shame because it keeps many families from ever watching the series.

Given that, you owe it to your family's future, your family's income, your family's well-being, and your country's success to learn the truths that P&T teach.