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Important Things with Demetri Martin
Some Jokes About Chairs
Season 1 E 4 • 03/04/2009
Demetri considers the origins of seats and why they're so important when it comes to receiving bad news.
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Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
The Prince and the Pauper
Five years after "The Prince and the Pauper," the former prince makes a bold suggestion to his replacement.
02/25/2009
00:42
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
Demetrocles
Plato's predecessor ponders the laws of attraction and nature's terrible mistakes.
02/25/2009
01:58
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
Some Data About Brains
Demetri discusses neck thickness, improper fractions and the association between memory and the senses.
02/25/2009
01:27
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
Jokes About Brains
Demetri muses about conjoined twins, tricky abbreviations, eating candy while colorblind and other puzzling things.
02/25/2009
00:43
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
Da Mici
The great inventor Da Mici searches for the mechanism that allows creatures to fly.
02/25/2009
04:15
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E3
Greatest Minds
After traveling through time, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei hassle a waitress at a modern-day restaurant.
02/25/2009
01:26
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E4
Demetri's Amusement Park
Demetri animates the newest theme park attractions, including the Ferris Wall, the Anticipator and Certain Death.
03/04/2009
03:02
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E4
Bad Reception
A wedding guest sizes up two inevitably unlucky seating possibilities.
03/04/2009
02:08
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E4
Urinal Talk
Two employees trash-talk their coworkers during an unusually long bathroom break.
03/04/2009
02:22
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E4
Sitting Analysis
Demetri illustrates the paradoxes of sitting, the wonders of air travel and the changing nature of couches.
03/04/2009
01:08
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E4
Some Jokes About Chairs
Demetri considers the origins of seats and why they're so important when it comes to receiving bad news.
03/04/2009
02:23
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Guy with a Neck Brace
Demetri demonstrates the daily obstacles faces by a New Yorker wearing a neck brace.
03/11/2009
01:19
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Safety Analysis
Demetri illustrates tricks for dealing with wild animals based on their names.
03/11/2009
01:53
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Spring Haven Home
At Spring Haven, there'll be no more paintballing the elderly or lying about Tony Bennett concerts.
03/11/2009
02:28
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Health Class, 1231 A.D.
Dark Age students learn about the birds and the bees, including the importance of witches.
03/11/2009
00:42
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Some Jokes About Safety
Demetri imagines the worst kinds of burns and reveals his ingenious early warning system for house fires.
03/11/2009
00:57
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E5
Pube-Safe
Demetri advertises a home-security system that protects everything from cats to kids using pubic hair.
03/11/2009
03:14
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E6
Hoodwinkers
An agency specializing in deception helps a nerd look super cool during his big date.
03/18/2009
02:06
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E6
Some Jokes About Coolness
Demetri suggests the best method for leaving a conversation, thinks of a way to improve sword-swallowing and questions the continued use of strobe lights.
03/18/2009
01:07
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E6
Some Data About Coolness
Demetri shows how much easier it is to make something cool uncool than to make something uncool cool.
03/18/2009
01:58
Important Things with Demetri Martin
S1 E6
The Dragon Man
A young party-goer faces his fears and shows off his face tattoo of a dragon.
03/18/2009
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