Important Things with Demetri Martin - Season 2

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Attention

1 - Attention

Air Date: February 4, 2010

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

Ability

2 - Ability

Air Date: February 11, 2010

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

Strategy

3 - Strategy

Air Date: February 18, 2010

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

4 - Money

Air Date: February 25, 2010

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

5 - 2

Air Date: March 11, 2010

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

6 - 2, Too

Air Date: March 18, 2010

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

7 - Lines

Air Date: March 26, 2010

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

Nature

8 - Nature

Air Date: April 2, 2010

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

Space

9 - Space

Air Date: April 9, 2010

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

10 - Control

Air Date: April 15, 2010

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