History Heartwarming / PennAndTellerBullshit

* Penn's speech about his deceased parents during the episode about mediums who claim to speak with the dead, where he gives his reasoning as to why people like John Edwards are the biggest douches in the universe. This was also Houdini's motive to begin debunking the mediums of the 1920s, after the loss of his mother and seeing his friend Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, the creator of the ultra-rational character Franchise/SherlockHolmes, become involved with spiritualism over grief at the death of his son in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Houdini told his wife to attempt contact by mediums prior to his death, with a code word to verify if it was him; none ever produced it.

* Penn's speech about his deceased parents during the episode about mediums who claim to speak with the dead, where he gives his reasoning as to why people like John Edwards are the biggest douches in the universe.
** This was also Houdini's motive to begin debunking the mediums of the 1920s, after the loss of his mother and seeing his friend Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, the creator of the ultra-rational character Franchise/SherlockHolmes, become involved with spiritualism over grief at the death of his son in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Houdini told his wife to attempt contact by mediums prior to his death, with a code word to verify if it was him; none ever produced it.
** In a meta sense, this is how Penn and Teller even got the show aired on Creator/{{Showtime}} in the first place. At the time of 9/11, Penn and Teller were in the early planning stages of Bullshit. Penn predicted that John Edwards would do a "talking to the dead" special for the families of 9/11 victims within six months. Lo and behold, it only took Edwards three months, impressing Showtime execs enough to greenlight the show.

* The romantic-montage of the two lesbians at the end of the "Nukes, Hybrids and Lesbians" video.

* Penn gives a sincere thank to Marc Klaas in ''Death Penalty'' for telling his [[TearJerker story of why he supports the death penalty]], despite disagreeing with him. And it's clear that he sympathizes with Klaas's view and understands why Klaas came to these views due to the brutal rape and murder of his daughter.

--> '''Penn''': [[AuthorFilibuster Norman Borlaug is an amazing man. An amazing man that changed the world. At a time when doomsayers were hopping around saying everyone was gonna starve, Norman was working. He moved to Mexico and lived among the people there till he figured out how to improve the output of the farmers, so that saved a million lives. Then he packed up his family and moved to India where, in spite of a war with Pakistan, he managed to introduce new wheat strains that quadrupled their food output. So that saved, like, another million. You get it? But he wasn't done, he did the same thing with a new rice in China. He's done the same thing in Africa, as much of Africa as he's allowed to visit. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1970 they said he had saved a billion people, that's ''billion'', that's Carl Sagan billion with a B, and most of them were a different race from him. Norman is the greatest human being... and you probably never heard of him.]]
* Penn's speech about his deceased parents during the episode about mediums who claim to speak with the dead, where he gives his reasoning as to why people like John Edwards are the [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark biggest douches in the universe]].

* From the "Stranger Danger" episode, Penn acknowledges that, even after her daughter was kidnapped, raped and murdered, Samantha Runnion's mother was still coming at it from a rational standpoint and they just couldn't make any wisecracks.

* Penn gives a sincere thank to Marc Klaas in ''Death Penalty'' for telling his [[TearJerker story of why he supports the death penalty]], despite disagreeing with him. And it's clear that he sympathizes with Klaas's view and understands why Klaas came to these views due to the brutal murder of his daughter.

** This tuns out to be HarsherInHindsight due to Puzder's withdrawn nomination as Secretary of Commerce under President DonaldTrump, as Puzder was depicted as a mean, abusive, man that the President's own party couldn't support.