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''[[Penn & Teller Tell A Lie]]'' is [[Penn & Teller]]'s new{{when}} [[Discovery Channel]] show. The premise is that in each episode they will present six or seven outrageous claims, complete with video demonstrating them and experts explaining the science behind them, except that one of them (but only one) is a [[Unreliable Expositor|big fat lie]]. The show challenges the viewer to try to spot the lie and vote on it live on Discovery.com as the show airs; then, at the end, [[The Reveal|the lie is revealed]] along with the results of the vote.
Perhaps best summed up as ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[MythBusters]]''. The style of writing and presentation is very similar to ''Bullshit!'' (sensibly enough, considering they have the same writers, producers and presenters) aside from the milder rating, but the subject matter is uncannily like ''[[MythBusters]]'' - they even inadvertently included stories in the first and
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.
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