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Perhaps best summed up as ''[[Penn
For those wondering, {{spoiler|no, you can't stop a tiger attack with a punch to the gullet, nobody's ever used a jet engine to put out a forest fire, [[La Résistance]] never weaponized wine with yeast to make bombs, termites haven't caused a house to explode (yet - the science behind why it would happen is sound, and it is the cause of grain silo explosions), there is no such thing as a floating helium foam dessert, and magnets can't remove a tattoo.}}
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In the hair story in the first episode, Penn starts off saying the hair is going to be lifting the car, followed by the weights of the people in the car, followed by the weight of the bowling balls placed in the trunk of the car, followed by the weights of the Oxford English Dictionary and camera that they're carrying, followed by the weights of other insignificant additional objects Teller brought with him into the car (including a bag of quarters and a CD of [[Meat Loaf]]'s Bat Outta Hell album).
* [[The Bet]]: One of the stories in the second episode purports to be settling a bet between Penn and Teller about whether a match can be lit on the wing of an airplane in flight. When Teller apparently loses the bet (though he protests that since the plane was doing a hammerhead stall at the time it doesn't count as ''in flight''), he is forced to kiss a monkey. He incidentally does it while wearing a tutu, but according to Penn that wasn't part of the bet.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Though they do their best to make the false stories sound plausible, they employ this humourously a lot, such as when the narration pretends the "stunt doubles" of the first episode's plane story are actually Penn and Teller at the start.
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* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: Used during and in the introduction of the pain-relieved-by-swearing story in the first episode.
* [[The Coconut Effect]]: Lampshaded when Penn points out the sound used for a slow-mo shot of a bullet hitting a butter knife is completely fake, because sound in slow motion sounds terrible and "everyone loves the sound of breaking glass against a golf cart".
* [[Criminal Mind Games]]: Penn and Teller intentionally leave hints that not all is right with the story that turns out to be false. For instance, the first episode's lie
* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: The revealing of the lie is punctuated by Penn and Teller smashing a glass pane with the false claim written on it with sledgehammers.
* [[Informed Obscenity]]: One of the subjects of the "swearing helps relieve pain" story in the first episode uses what appears to be an eight-syllable swear word. As it is masked by bleeping, we don't hear it. Neither does Penn, to his dismay.
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* [[Piranha Problem]]: Featured in the third episode.
* [[Pixellation]]: Used on Penn's mouth during the [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]] (but curiously not on the subjects of the swearing experiment) and the copulating alligators in the B-flat story in the first episode.
* [[Prop Recycling]]: Kind of.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Johan in the first episode, until Penn and Teller got their hands on him.
* [[The Reveal]]: At the end they reveal not only which story was a lie, but also how they hinted at it and how it was faked for the show.
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* [[Unit Confusion]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in "Piranha Will Not Kill". {{spoiler|The yeast-based wine bottle bomb being fake was hinted when the generated pressure was given in ''joules''.}}
* [[Unreliable Narrator]] / [[Unreliable Expositor]]: They try to make you believe each story, including the lie. They also repeatedly point out that each story, including the true ones, could be false.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Teller, of course, maintains character - though he has a fairly long audible argument with Penn in the second episode about whether an airplane in hammerhead stasis counts as "flying". It's just played over footage of the plane, so you don't actually ''see'' him speak. This is similar to various gags on ''[[Penn
* [[What Could Have Been]]: During the filming of the "Piranha Will Not Kill" story, Teller casually had his feet in the piranha tank and one ''actually'' bit his toe. Supposedly [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]], but although supposedly Penn and Teller asked the editors to put this part in the actual episode, they didn't.
* [[X Meets Y]]: If ''[[Penn
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