[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to a special edition of "Fool Us: Animal Style."
That's right, every trick tonight
features an adorable animal
partnered with a slightly less adorable human magician.
I'm told I can only pet one of them.
Here to try and tame this magical menagerie,
the kings of the magic jungle, Penn and Teller!
♪ ♪
Any animal or magician who tricks Penn and Teller
gets a "Fool Us" trophy,
a spot in their Las Vegas show,
and a treat.
It's time to unleash the hounds,
so let's meet our first act.
- Hi, I am Jo de Rijck.
I am not the greatest magician in the world,
but my animals are.
I love animals,
and I love to show people
how they're so much smarter than we realize.
We just don't know how to communicate with them.
Last time I was on "Fool Us" with my mind-reading chicken,
Chicken Curry.
It was a highlight of my career.
[cheers and applause]
For my trick tonight,
I knew Penn and Teller will be ready for Chicken Curry,
so I searched the world for a new animal to fool them.
It took me years before I finally found
the perfect animal for tonight.
I traveled by land, air, and sea
to find the perfect animal to fool Penn and Teller.
I can't wait to see them try and figure this one out.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome back Jo de Rijck!
- Hi.
Last time I was here,
I had a mind-reading chicken.
For tonight, I will step it up
with a mind-reading dolphin.
It's a baby dolphin.
His name is Willy.
He's blindfolded right now,
like a real mentalist.
But first...
♪ ♪
We need a mind to read.
Teller, up. [whistle blows]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
Good boy.
- Wow. - Good.
Teller.
Really good boy.
Good, good.
Teller,
these are five new home decorations
for little Willy's aquarium.
Teller,
decorations in the bucket.
Teller. [whistle blows]
Decorations in the bucket.
[whistle blows]
♪ ♪
Good boy, Teller.
Really awesome.
Good job.
Good, good.
Teller...
take these buckets and return to your seat.
[laughter]
[whistle blows]
♪ ♪
Good boy.
Good.
Okay, Penn. - Uh-oh.
- Please. - Yes?
- Select one decoration,
put it in the red bucket,
and cover it up so I cannot see it.
One moment. - Okay.
- To make it fair,
I will also cover myself with a blindfold.
[whistle blows]
♪ ♪
Penn, are you ready?
- I am ready.
- Perfect, Penn.
Good boy.
- Oh, nice. Thank you.
- Teller, please with the red bucket, join me back on stage.
Alyson, I need you too.
♪ ♪
Good.
Good, Teller.
Good, Alyson. - Aw.
- Mwah. Mwah. - Aw.
- Love is the biggest gift.
[laughter]
Now, it is time for you all
to meet my mind-reading dolphin.
Audience, give it up for Willy.
[record scratches]
[applause]
- That's not a dolphin.
- Hi, Willy. Hi.
Don't worry.
This is Willy.
He's identifying as a dolphin.
[laughter]
Teller, Willy is gonna read your mind.
Do you know the expression
"an idea can be on the tip of your tongue"?
Think about your object,
and let it come to the tip of your tongue.
♪ ♪
Perfect.
Keep it right there... - Oh, boy.
- And give it a gentle blow.
♪ ♪
Awesome. Teller, such a good job.
Really awesome. Amazing, Teller.
That's for you.
- Oh, gosh.
- Alyson. - Mm-hmm?
- I promised to take it up to the next level.
Not only has he read your mind,
he's also gonna transfer your thoughts to Alyson.
- Hmm...
- Alyson, in a moment, you will hold Willy.
- I don't-- - Don't worry, don't worry.
Don't worry. He's really gentle.
- I don't think I'm supposed to hold your Willy.
- You're not supposed to hold my Willy?
Alyson, just hold your hands out like this.
Very gentle. Don't squeeze him.
As if he were a snake, okay?
When you have him, he will communicate with you.
- Okay. - I don't know how.
Dolphins have their way.
[laughter]
Very gentle.
Just very gentle. - Okay!
- Very gentle. You're doing good.
Very gentle. Okay, perfect.
Alyson, close your eyes. - No!
- You're doing great.
Willy, communicate with Alyson.
Give her a clear sign for yes.
- [whimpers] - Good.
Alyson, every time Willy gives you a yes,
yell it out loud. - Okay.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
- Perfect.
Willy...
did Teller think about bamboo?
♪ ♪
Willy, did Teller think about a mermaid?
Willy, you're doing great.
Willy...
did Teller think about the seashell?
♪ ♪
- Okay...
- Did Teller think about a house?
♪ ♪
Did Teller think about corals?
- Yes. - Yes? Okay.
Alyson, you did so good. - Thanks.
- Good girl. Good girl. - Oh, thank you.
Thank you. - They're all yours.
If indeed
Teller thought about the coral,
Willy is truly a mind-reading dolphin.
Teller, can you please show us what did you think about?
♪ ♪
A coral!
Willy! - Willy!
Jo de Rijck!
And Willy!
Are all animals as smart as Willy?
- I think all animals are really intelligent,
if you know how to communicate with them.
Like, for example, if you feed your goldfish every day,
at the same hour, they will know the hour,
which is amazing, 'cause we cannot do that.
That kind of things. - Okay.
And why do you love animals so much?
- I had quite a rough childhood,
and animals were my friends.
They were like a source of love for me,
and still today, I love them like crazy.
I mean, look at this cute dolphin.
It's amazing. - Yeah, it's super cute.
Learning to perform magic is hard,
but is it extra hard if you're working with animals?
- It's crazy hard, to be honest.
Yes. - Yeah.
- 'Cause first you have the magic you have to master.
Then you have to train the animals.
And then it's always an animal,
so you never know what's gonna happen,
which is also what I like.
You know? - Yeah.
- They are unpredictable. It's always fun.
- Jo, I can't wait to find out
if you and Willy fooled Penn and Teller.
- Me neither. - Let's find out.
Boys?
- Oh, my goodness.
Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo.
Here you come again.
Here you come again in a niche that you have created,
the mind-reading animals on "Fool Us" niche.
No one is competing with you.
You have just got that, and you own it.
And we just love it.
We love you feeding Teller the treats.
We love you putting the hoop around.
We love every single bit of this.
It's just a terrific, terrific act.
But you know, there's ego involved here.
As much as we love you,
we have gotten a lot of, um...
[bleep] from people around us
that we were fooled by a chicken.
- I understand. - You can imagine
in our peer groups that we travel in,
which include magicians and comedians,
two fellows who were fooled by a chicken are ridiculed,
ridiculed by people saying,
"You guys were fooled by a chicken?"
So as we look at you here, we start thinking hard.
We start watching everything.
We start taking notes, and we say,
no, no, no, no, no.
This time we are not gonna be fooled
by a mind-reading chicken.
This time we are gonna be fooled
by a mind-reading snake that identifies as a dolphin.
- We have a Fooler!
Yay! - All right!
- We have a Fooler!
Whoo-hoo!
Amazing.
Congratulations.
- That's so cool. Thank you.
Really, thank you so much. - Aww.
Thank you. Jo De Rijck!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Aw.
[sighs]
We've got our first Fooler of the night.
Stick around, and maybe we'll see another
on this special animal episode of "Fool Us."
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us: Animal Style."
Let's meet our next amazing magician
and our next fantastic beast.
- Hi. My name is Nick Paul.
I'm originally from the suburbs of Detroit.
I come from a weird family.
I'm a magician. My brother's a comedian.
My dad's a ventriloquist.
So we just find new and exciting ways
of disappointing my mom.
I've been doing magic professionally
for over 20 years.
I've been good for three of them.
A lot of what I do is a mix of silent comedy and magic,
but I'll be doing a lot of talking today.
My wife is a performer as well.
She helps me write a lot of material for the show.
She often performs with me too.
She's the Teller in our relationship,
the smart one.
And as we tape this, we're actually celebrating
our eight-year wedding anniversary.
So instead of flowers, I took her to a magic show.
I'm excited to be here on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
I've been trying to get on the show for a very long time,
so no pressure.
Do I think I can fool them?
Absolutely...
not.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome one wild wizard.
Nick Paul. - Yeah!
We're doing it, guys. We're doing it.
Hi. How are you? My name's Nick Paul.
I'm gonna show you some magical tricks.
This is exciting.
Alyson, would you mind helping me out?
I know you've never done this before.
Alyson, ladies and gentlemen. The amazing Alyson.
Hi. How are you? - Hi. Good.
Thank you. - I'm very excited.
I love animals. - Me too!
- I'm a part-time vegetarian, so I'm excited
to be part of this all-animal version of "Fool Us."
Very fun.
In a moment, together we're going to choose an animal.
But first, I need a name.
What would be, like, the perfect name for a pet?
Any name, in the entire world. - George.
- George? Curious.
I like that. It's fun.
So George is the name of our animal for today.
But we need to get one completely at random,
so what I did-- I went on the worldwide web,
information superhighway,
and I got a list of 99 different animals here.
A list o' animals.
Put 'em in my notepad app.
You can see we got a whole bunch here.
We got ox, cat, chimpanzee...
thorny devil.
What's that? I don't know.
Sounds very dangerous, though.
So about 99 different animals.
We'll bring that up to the top here.
Alyson, I'm going to have you hold onto that.
So everybody can see it,
but I can't mess with it in any way, shape, or form.
Let's get a number at random.
Teller, could you get me a single-digit number?
That is a seven? Cool.
I had to think about that.
Penn, if you don't mind, give me a single-digit number.
- Seven. - Seven.
So 77? All right. - Yep.
- Is that number okay with you? - Sure.
- If you don't mind, scroll down to 77.
I don't want to look, but as you're scrolling,
make sure all those animals are different.
That's very important.
Once you get to 77, let me know.
Say yes. - Almost.
- It's a lot of animals. I know.
- Okay, yes. - Cool.
And don't say 77 out loud,
but what's the animal above it?
- Groundhog. - Groundhog.
Excellent. And what's the animal below 77?
- Mare. - Okay, good.
So do me a favor. Lock 77 inside your brain.
And once you got it, don't forget it.
You can close up my telephone.
Put it in your pocket.
Got it?
Great. Good.
If this doesn't go well, I'm gonna need that
for a ride home. - Oh, okay.
- That's important.
Now what's pretty neat is, before the show,
I actually took a photo of an animal,
placed it right there.
Would you be impressed if you saw your animal
on the other side of that photo?
- Yes.
- Pretty cool, right? - Yeah.
- Now I don't want to give you any hints,
but I hope I fetched the right answer.
[laughter]
It's the leash-t I can do.
♪ ♪
If I get it wrong, I'm not going to roll over.
These jokes kill on cruise ships.
All right. I was thinking of a dog.
Yay! Yes or no, Alyson?
Were you thinking of a dog? - No.
- What now? - Mm-mm.
- You weren't thinking of a dog?
- No, that's probably why your jokes bombed.
- [laughs]
You sound like my mom right now.
- I'm sorry.
- All right. This is a bummer.
We had, like, 99 different animals.
We got the numbers from Penn and Teller.
What was the animal that you looked at?
- Lobster.
♪ ♪
- Lobster? - Yeah.
- Okay.
What a fun pet that would be.
Anyway, exhilarating to take walks with,
great with melted butter,
but unfortunately, not the animal that you chose.
Not the prediction I made.
Well, this is okay. This is okay.
Why don't we compromise?
You wanted a lobster.
I wanted a dog. How about we do this?
How about a dog...
in a lobster costume?
Hey, look at that.
He dances too.
And we have a special guest. - [gasps]
- It is George the Lobster!
He made it.
Oh, thank you so much.
Everybody say, "Hi, George."
He's here. - Hi, George!
- Oh, my goodness.
You know, he traveled quite a distance,
all the way from stage right, to be here.
Do you want to see his big trick?
- Yes! - Yeah?
You guys want to see his big trick?
Okay. Hold on to him, if you don't mind, yeah?
- Yes, please. - He just got a bath.
So he's excited.
I have a whole bunch of different choices here.
He brought a whole bunch of different choices.
Whatever you choose, George will give you.
What would you like? A through F.
- Um, what should we choose? Let's choose D.
- D. All right, and do you want to change your mind?
- No. - Go D?
All right, let's see. This is exciting.
Whatever you choose, George will give you.
Oh, this is fun.
It's a treat. - [gasps]
George, it's a treat. - A treat, all right.
Those were the other options there.
This is...
Yep, all right. Great.
I'll just set that there.
I think I have a treat here.
Oh, we got a whole bag of treats here.
Let's get an exciting one.
Here we go. My hands there.
Let's get this here. Fun.
And I don't know if you know this, Alyson,
but it's a secret in the canine community
that dog treats have kind of fortunes in them.
Did you know that? - No.
- It's pretty neat.
Now, Alyson, could you put your hands like this?
- I guess. - Yes, put one free hand there.
I'm gonna break this treat in half,
and we're gonna see what your fortune is today.
Yes, right there. Oh, yeah, right there.
Okay, that's really in there. Okay.
Let's have a look at that. Let's see.
Please don't eat it, George.
Your fortune today says,
"George says, 'That was one shell of a trick.'"
- [gasps] Yay!
- George and Alyson, ladies and gentlemen!
The amazing George!
Oh, he's eating that too. Very good.
He's only has four teeth. Thanks, everybody.
- Nick Paul and George.
Hi, Georgie.
This is my favorite trick ever.
- Oh, thank you. That means so much.
- Aw.
Okay, I've got a really hard question for you.
So I have your dog and your phone.
If I'm only gonna give you one back...
- I forgot you had my phone, which is hilarious.
- Which one are you gonna ask for?
- I have iCloud, so I can get another phone.
- So you say you come from a family of performers?
- Mm-hmm. - Was your childhood
just crazy? - It was kinda weird.
My dad's best friend was a clown and a magician,
and so, that's how I kinda got into magic.
And so, I didn't realize that was strange
until, like, my mid-20s.
No, not everybody has that job.
- That's a pretty great childhood.
- Pretty good, yeah.
- And I understand you're writing a book?
- Yeah, it's about being an extroverted performer
but kind of quiet offstage,
and you know, letting people know that's okay.
You know, it's okay to be a little bit shyer and stuff.
- Okay, Nick, let's see if Penn and Teller
will throw you a bone and a trophy.
- Oh, I like that.
- Hey, Nick.
Teller wants to wear the lobster suit.
I don't think he'll fit in it, but he really, really wants it.
We're rethinking our whole decision
to wear three-piece suits,
thinking we should wear lobster suits.
And a very good act that you did!
And you also had someone helping you.
You had an accomplice. Of course, I mean George.
And did a wonderful job.
And George is a very good name for the dog.
And that was a very good prediction there.
And the dog's clearly here of its free will, right?
The dog is not forced to be here?
No, no, 'cause sometimes with animals,
you worry they're here against their will,
but not George.
And that's a really good act, a really good prediction.
You made Alyson so happy.
Who could be happier
than someone holding a dog in a lobster suit?
And the answer comes back.
It would be Teller himself, in a lobster suit,
would be very, very happy.
He is coveting George's lobster suit.
But I'll tell you, we loved that act.
We loved it.
We wanted to give you a hug,
'cause you just killed with it.
And I think
George may have picked up some of the cues
that we do not think you fooled us,
Nick Paul and George.
- Well, what do you think, Nick?
Did you fool them?
- Oh, they're very smart men.
I did not fool them. - Oh.
And I guess I have to give you your dog back?
- Yeah and my phone. - Oh...
All right.
Nick Paul, everyone! - Bye, everybody.
There we go. Thank you.
Bye, everybody! Thank you so much.
- Bye, George!
[cheers and applause]
Coming up, more magicians
will attempt to fool Penn and Teller.
And later on, our headliners
will perform a trick of their own.
You don't want to miss it.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Watch out, Easter Bunny.
Look out, unicorn.
We have another magical animal here
to take on P and T.
Take a look.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Joining us all the way from India,
here's Sachin K.M!
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Penn. Hi, Teller.
We have a volunteer, Deepak, here.
- Hi there.
- And, Deepak, just to confirm,
you have no idea what's about to happen now, correct?
- Yes, it's absolutely correct. - Okay, wonderful.
Now, I have a pack of cards here.
And I have all different cards. - Okay.
- Now, I'll give these cards a shuffle.
♪ ♪
Now, Deepak, what I'm going to do is something very simple.
- Okay. - I'll keep moving the cards
from my left hand to my right hand.
You need to shout out "stop" loudly at any point
and pick any card at random.
- Sure. - I'll start.
- Sure.
Stop. - Okay.
So this is the card you have stopped at randomly.
Now, we won't look at that card,
but we want to make sure that we can recognize it later.
- Sure.
- So I have a silver marker here.
Deepak, take it and write your initials
in big, bold letters on the back of your card.
- Sure.
♪ ♪
- So Deepak has written "DV" on the back of his selected card,
and no one of us knows what that card is.
Now, Deepak, what I want you to do
is randomly push forward any five cards from this pack.
One.
♪ ♪
Two.
♪ ♪
Three.
Four.
Five. Wonderful.
Now, we'll discard these remaining cards.
Now, I'll take these five cards
and put them on top
of Deepak's signed, selected card.
And I'll shuffle them all facedown.
Now, I'll turn over the cards and shuffle them faceup.
So now, these cards are completely shuffled.
But, Deepak, to absolutely make sure that it is random,
what I need you to do is
rearrange the position of these six cards
in any order you like.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
We'll arrange them nicely. - Yeah.
- So now, no one of us really knows
which one of these is Deepak's card.
- Yes. - I don't know,
you don't know, and Penn and Teller
also don't know. - Yes.
- Now normally, I would magically find your card,
but tonight, that's not going to happen.
I have my partner,
a pigeon named Pickly inside the cage here,
and my bird is going to find your card.
- Okay. - Pickly will peck on
and pick your card.
- Okay. - I'll let out Pickly now.
Pickly, go ahead and find Deepak's card.
- [cackling]
♪ ♪
Pickly, anything?
♪ ♪
Pickly has pecked on the queen of hearts.
Okay, wonderful.
So out of all these cards, Pickly pecked
on this particular card, the queen of hearts.
And if it happens to have your initials on the back,
Pickly has performed a miracle. - Yes.
- But before that, let's check these other cards
for your signature first, okay? - Okay.
- These two?
Oh, no.
These two? Oh, no.
So one of these two cards has your signature.
- Yes. - So let's check this card,
the queen of hearts which Pickly pecked on.
- Yes. - Okay, let's check.
Yes, it is! - Yes! Yes!
- It is Deepak's signed, selected card,
so Pickly has indeed performed a miracle.
- Sure. - And of course,
this other card doesn't have your signature.
♪ ♪
Isn't that amazing?
So, Penn and Teller, did my bird fool you?
[cheers and applause]
- Sachin K.M!
Wow. - One of my favorite acts.
- Oh, welcome to Vegas.
- [chuckles] Thank you so much.
- What would it mean to you, to fool Penn and Teller?
- It would mean the world to me.
That would be something amazing,
which I would cherish for a lifetime.
And I wanted to tell something to you, Alyson.
I am as big a fan of you
as I am of Penn and Teller. - Aw.
- I really love your bright smile
and positive energy you bring on the show.
- Thank you.
Do you perform with other animals?
- Other animals...
Rabbits... - Hmm.
- A chicken... - Oh.
- And a hamster. - Thank you.
- I'm very good with animals. - Okay.
And what did you do before you were a magician?
- I used to work in a multinational company
as a software engineer.
And two years back, I quit my job
so that I could pursue my passion full-time.
- Oh, and look at you.
You're performing in Vegas!
- It's such an amazing journey.
It's been an amazing journey.
- All right, Sachin.
Let's see if Penn and Teller know
how Pickly picked the right card.
- Sure. - Oh, Sachin, what a great act!
When you opened that cage and Pickly came out,
I was just screaming.
I mean, we're having a whole animal show.
We like animals, but we don't like any animals
as much as we like Pickly.
Boy, was that great. - Thank you so much.
- I'm really interested in birds,
and birds' intelligence, and how they're trained.
I just finished reading a whole book about this
and about how birds can learn.
And probably, if I understand this right,
the way this trick is done
is actually as amazing as anything else.
I mean, it's remarkable.
I don't think you had to force Pickly to do anything.
Pickly can just do that.
Pickly can just find that card.
One of my favorite animals I've ever seen is--
I mean, I think you're wonderful,
but I really love Pickly.
And as much as I'd love to have you come out
and bring Pickly with you,
as much as we love this act-- and boy, did I love it--
I don't think you fooled us.
- So they know how you did your trick?
- They definitely do know it, Alyson.
- Aw, well thank you so much.
Sachin K.M!
[cheers and applause]
My spidey sense tells me it's time for a commercial.
More "Fool Us" after this.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
What kind of animal act are we about to unleash next?
Let's take a look.
- It's Christopher T. Magician on Penn and Teller "Fool Us"!
I perform for kids and immature adults.
I am widely known
as one of the best kids' magicians in the world.
And I'll be honest, kids are
the toughest audiences in magic.
Kids, if they don't like you,
they will flat-out tell you to your face you stink.
So if you can perform for kids,
you can perform for anyone.
I love animals,
so I try to put them into my magic act whenever possible.
I currently work with four rats.
This is Oliver. He's my current costar.
And today, for the very first time, for Penn and Teller,
I will be performing with my dog, Sam.
When it comes to magic, Sam is a natural.
One day, I was just playing with a deck of cards,
and he just came over, and he took one.
You've seen plenty of magicians do card tricks,
but I bet you've never seen a dog do one!
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- An entertainer for all ages.
Give it up for Christopher T. and Sam.
- Hi.
I am Christopher T. This is my good friend, Sam.
I have a nickname for Sam.
It's Too Perfect because...
he's too perfect.
Sam and I are basically the Penn and Teller of magic.
Yeah, because I do all the talking
while he does all the actual work.
Speaking of which, Sam is gonna do a card trick for us.
Oh, aren't you?
But of course, before we do the magic, he needs to practice.
Sam, do you want to take a card?
Do you want to take a card? Take a card.
There you go. Take a card.
That one? Good boy!
Good boy. Oh, you get a treat for that.
Good boy!
Good boy. Good boy.
Now, everybody knows that dogs have a keen sense of smell,
but magic dogs like Sam actually have the ability
to smell the value of a playing card.
And we're gonna prove that to you right now.
Sam, go ahead.
Smell the card I put in the envelope.
Give it a smell. That's it.
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Go find the card.
Take a card. Take a card.
That one? Oh, that one.
Good boy! Good boy!
Now, I should point out that this envelope is a prediction,
and you can tell it's a prediction
because it has a giant bone on it.
And everybody knows that a giant bone
is Canine-ese for "prediction."
I majored in dog linguistics at obedience school.
So, Sam, go ahead.
Show everybody the card you picked.
♪ ♪
I'll help.
♪ ♪
The five of hearts. Incredible.
My prediction happens to be...
the two of bones...
[laughter]
which everybody knows
is Canine-ese for "prediction."
I mean for the five of hearts, the five of hearts.
Okay, um...
♪ ♪
Sam, I don't think they're buying it.
I have a feeling there are a lot of people out there
who don't read Canine-ese.
That's okay.
For all of you,
the two of bones is really...
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the five of hearts.
♪ ♪
Oh, also there's a giant five of hearts on the back.
You know, Sam could have picked any one of these cards,
any card he wants.
I had a feeling he would pick the five of hearts.
He loves the five of hearts. It's his favorite card.
In fact, when I got his nametag engraved,
he made sure, on the back, I wrote...
Ooh, here we go.
♪ ♪
"5 of hearts."
[gasps] Isn't that right?
Good boy.
And that is Sam's card trick.
Isn't he just too perfect?
- Yay. - Aw.
- Christopher T. and Sam! Yay!
- Come and sit. We'll make some room.
- Hi, buddy.
Hi, Sam. You did such a good job.
- Isn't he a good boy? - Oh, he's so lovely.
- So the best part is, I got Sam about six months ago.
And I took him in as a foster.
I lost my dog of 18 years. - Aw.
- And I didn't think I could have another dog again ever,
but you know, I found out he was magic
two days after I got him,
because he did this mind control magic trick on me
that convinced me that I was his forever home.
- Aw! - He's very good.
He's very good. Yeah. - Wait.
So why did you choose to be a kids' magician?
- You know, I have been doing magic
since I was eight years old,
and my mother was a kindergarten teacher.
But my first audiences were always kindergarten students,
so that's what I was used to.
And you know, I always say,
if you entertain adults with magic,
you're bringing joy and magic into their lives,
but whenever I entertain kids,
they bring joy and magic into my life, so...
- Yeah. Okay, Christopher T.
Let's see if the T stands for "trophy."
- Oh!
- Christopher T. and Sam,
as you said, the Penn and Teller of magic.
And it couldn't be more true,
'cause you know, there's so much we have in common.
That's a great act, and I notice
that we use the same brand of treats.
It's the same ones I give to Teller
to get him to do stuff,
and we've always wanted to do that exact trick.
Wanted to do that exact trick, but you know,
Teller's not allowed on the couch,
so we weren't able to do that trick, Christopher.
But we really, really-- who's a good boy?
We really-- who's a good boy?
We really, really, really liked it.
It was a wonderful job, and we thought
about a lot of ways you could have done that trick.
We thought maybe you had 51 other dogs hidden somewhere
or maybe that Sam was actually a German Shepherd in disguise.
But I think the answer is, very simply,
when you started up the whole thing,
that Sam really was too perfect.
So we love the act.
We want to do the act,
but we don't think you fooled us.
- Did he throw in some codewords there?
- It's Canine-ese. You wouldn't know.
- Oh, no. Way over my head.
- He was doing the dog language.
I think he's right.
I think I did not fool Penn and Teller.
- Well, thank you so much! - Thank you.
- Christopher T. and Sam! - Bye! Thank you!
[cheers and applause]
- Up next, I have a surprise for you.
It's a trick by Penn and Teller!
Oh, I'm terrible at surprises.
See you in a minute.
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[jazz music]
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- Welcome back.
Our animal show is not over yet,
and we still have one act left.
Penn and Teller have worked with cows, chickens,
snakes, gorillas, and more.
Let's see what they work with next.
Closing out our show are the great Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Alyson. - Hello.
- You can come up. - Okay.
- You know, Alyson, we're not much for looking back.
We're not big nostalgia guys.
We asked you, just for fun, if you'd go on YouTube
and you'd search for "Penn and Teller,"
and "'Letterman,'" and "cockroaches."
- Yeah...
- 'Cause we did a thing twice on "Letterman."
We did a thing with 150,000 cockroaches.
There were Madagascar hissing roaches.
There were German roaches.
There were good, old American roaches.
And what we did was,
David Letterman honestly did not know,
in the beginning, about what we were gonna do.
He knew it was gonna be intense.
- Yeah. - He knew
it was gonna be magic.
He knew it was gonna be scary,
but all he knew was that
there was something under the hat...
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. - And he wasn't to touch it.
Same thing you were told beforehand.
So imagine David Letterman, okay?
Imagine him. He's hosting a television show.
He's hosting, and there's already
nervousness about that, right? - Uh-huh.
- And then there's, like, 12 cameras on him--
cameras coming here, and here, and here--
so he knows he's being watched. - Uh-huh.
- Then he's got a person on either side of him...
- Yeah. - Okay?
And those are people that he knows,
he's been around, but he's seen do awful things.
- Yeah, yeah. - He doesn't really trust them.
It's his own television show, and yet, for this moment,
he feels like maybe he's not in control.
And he knows the producers knew what was under the hat.
My mother knew what we were gonna do under the hat.
I told her, and she said,
"You'll never work in show business again."
And sure enough, when Letterman
went to commercial... - Uh-huh.
- He was screaming and swearing at me.
He was really, really mad... - Yeah.
- And he was told, "Do not touch the hat."
But when Penn tells you to lift the hat,
grab it on both sides, and lift it straight up.
That's what he was told. - Uh-huh.
- He was told that that's what he had to do.
- Yeah, I can relate. - Lift the hat, please.
- I don't want to. - Lift it up.
- I don't want to! - Lift it up.
- Ugh, I saw the video...
both: Aah! - Aah!
- Nothing under the hat. - Oh, my God.
- Nothing under the hat. See--
- You guys... - I know.
We're just trying to make you a little nervous.
- Oh, done.
- Yeah.
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- Lift the hat, Alyson. - Again?
- Yeah. Lift the hat, Alyson.
- [whimpers]
I'm so terrified!
Oh, okay.
- Nothing but a little gift box, and in the little gift--
- Is there a roach in it? - Come here. Come here.
Aah! It's a candy bracelet.
- Okay. - Take the candy bracelet.
That's for you. - Okay.
- That's for you. - Thanks.
- You can put it right on. - Great.
- And you can eat that candy later.
- I don't know if I trust it.
- You know, you get a little hungry,
you have your candy bracelet.
That'd be really nice. - Thank you.
Okay. - Lift the hat, Alyson.
Straight up, just like that.
- Straight up? Okay...
[whimpers]
Aah! [bleep]!
- They're butterflies. - Ugh.
Such--okay. - They're butterflies.
They're just butterflies. - Uh-huh.
- They're not even a real insect.
- Yeah, okay. - They're plastic butterflies.
- I like butterflies. - They're plastic butterflies.
- Yeah, yeah, they sound a lot like roaches, though.
- Look, I'm gonna reach in here, Alyson!
It's a little puppy dog. Just a little puppy dog.
Big-eyed puppy dog.
- I love little puppy dog. - Big, happy puppy dog.
Big, happy puppy, but there's still the hat.
- Yeah.
- And in the hat is a bunny, Alyson.
It's just a little bunny.
- That's so much better than a roach!
- So much better, see?
We've changed over the years. We've changed a lot, Alyson.
We have changed--cockroach!
- Ugh! - Just kidding.
- Penn and Teller.
Thank you to all of tonight's amazing magicians.
We'll be back with another awesome lineup next time
on "Fool Us."
Good night!
Hello!
[cheers and applause]
[chuckles]
Aw, sweet baby.