Thursday's Bulls*** takes on game-violence link
Last month, the magic comedy duo of Penn Jilette and Raymond Teller, aka Penn & Teller, revealed that they would address the link between violence and video games in the next season of their Showtime series, Bulls***. But while the program was revealed via several brief shots of the Electronic...
Last month, the magic comedy duo of Penn Jilette and Raymond Teller, aka Penn & Teller, revealed that they would address the link between violence and video games in the next season of their Showtime series, Bulls***. But while the program was revealed via several brief shots of the Electronic Entertainment Expo and a statement from anti-game activist Jack Thompson, it was unclear when it would actually air or what, specifically, it would cover.
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Now, the official Bulls*** site has revealed that the episode, titled simply "Video Games," will begin airing this Thursday, July 9, at 10:00 p.m. EDT/PDT. The program's synopsis reads as follows:
Politicians and other alarmists claim that playing video games leads to teen violence. Penn & Teller attempt to debunk that theory by handing over a real semi-automatic weapon to a nine-year-old to see if playing video games will turn him into a human killing machine.
Showtime, which is owned by GameSpot parent CBS Corp., is also offering a preview of the episode on the Bulls*** site. (Clip contains coarse language--viewer discretion is advised.) The clip shows game-violence opponent Chris Cooney explaining how he believes the intersection of guns, troubled teens, and "mass-killing simulators"--aka first-person shooters--are the key ingredients in any school shooting spree.
"All you are is looking down the barrel of a gun going 'kill, kill, kill, kill,'" says Cooney. "It's a shame you couldn't just be running around finding sick people and hitting them with a magic wand that will make them healthy, or something like that."
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