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Important Things with Demetri Martin - Episode Guide

Season 1

Timing

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2009

Timing

Demetri has trouble mustering the necessary anger for a breakup, time traveling for noble purposes and measuring his hobo-ness.

Power

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2009

Power

Demetri ponders the nature of power, proves that bird ownership is arrogant and introduces The Revenger.

Brains

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2009

Brains

Demetri does away with traditional neuroscience and phrenology as he digs into brains.

Chairs

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2009

Chairs

Demetri considers the many mysteries surrounding chairs.

Safety

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2009

Safety

Demetri's safety tips: Employ scented candles as a fire alarm, use pubic hair for home security, and maintain a healthy fear of pinatas.

Coolness

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2009

Coolness

Demetri is too cool for clear pants, but he still needs professional help before a date.

Games

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2009

Games

Demetri trades in fun, games and audience threats while reimagining pro sports as animal duels.

Season 2

Attention

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2010

Attention

Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.

Ability

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2010

Ability

Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.

Strategy

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2010

Strategy

Demetri knows that a man is only as good as his plan, so he explores the best strategy for seduction, suing your neighbor over a fence and reacting to alien life.

Money

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2010

Money

Demetri finds there's more than one way to acquire wealth since it's not enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth -- sometimes you gotta shave a snake.

2

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2010

2

Demetri examines the number 2 from every vantage, from the biological -- as when two women hit the lavatory to dissect a blind date -- to basic but unnoticed social cues.

2, Too

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Mar 19, 2010

2, Too

Demetri returns to the number 2, shining a spotlight on Superman's duplicitous sidekick and how the shape of the number 2 conveys vital information.

Lines

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Mar 26, 2010

Lines

Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.

Nature

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Apr 2, 2010

Nature

The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.

Space

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Apr 9, 2010

Space

Demetri finds that spaces in a sentence are just as important as word choice and learns that space travel in the future is disconcertingly simple.

Control

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Apr 15, 2010

Control

Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a pinata.

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