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Penn & Teller Tell A Lie is Penn & Teller's new 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 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 lie is revealed along with the results of the vote.

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  • Penn & Teller Tell A Lie is Penn & Teller's new 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 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 lie is revealed along with the results of the vote.
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  • Penn & Teller Tell A Lie is Penn & Teller's new 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 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 lie is revealed along with the results of the vote. Perhaps best summed up as Penn and Teller Bullshit meets Myth Busters. 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 Myth Busters - they even inadvertently included stories in the first and six episodes that had been tackled on MythBusters before. For those wondering, 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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