Penn & Teller take on the bottled water craze

[derby378]

If you buy a lot of bottled water, you really need to check out this video clip. It's taken from P&T's series on Showtime.

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http://www.vsocial.com/video/index.php?d=27915

[RobertSeattle]

1. Thanks - Dihydrogen Monoxide can be dangerous too

[longship]

2. I want some of that Amazon water.

Lovely large arachnid in the bottom of the bottle.

That video is a hoot.

[NNadir]

3. That is fabulously funny.

[TlalocW]

4. They did kind of a repeat of this

On an episode called, "The Best," which looked at America's obsession with having the best of everything. They even brought back the water steward this time to be a waiter at a trendy restaurant. They served people the cheapest food possible that could still visually pass as what they ordered. Normally, one person at the table was in on it, and the other person thought of himself as a gourmet. Only one person thought the food was bad. The guy who really acted like a gourmet went ga-ga over a dessert glass full of generic whipped cream which he was told was something like Swedish vanilla chocolate whipped 150 times to a light consistency or something like that.

Pretty funny.

TlalocW

[TlalocW]

5. Oh, one other thing...

One of the waters offered from South America was called, "Agua del Culo," which translated means, "Ass Water."

TlalocW

[Bamboo]

6. Mountain Dew with a college degree.

Making fun of something common in the culture seems like safe humor to me.Monty Python had the crunchy frog in chocolate which was funny because of the talented delivery.Those overpriced melted slurpees like Red Bull should be lampooned instead,maybe they sponsor P+T's college tour.

Advertising is so hackneyed with puppies,kids and men blowing themselves up with the barbecue.There is something in advertising called "cut through" to get people to notice the ad.But if every ad uses the same tactics then that eliminates that theory.Didn't P+T have a movie where different people told the same joke over and over?

Baby Boomers who make fun of their sellout are only funny to boomers and sellouts.P+T are not making fun of bottled water they are lampooning their own regression to the mean.