[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan.
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
You never know what kind of magic will stump
Penn and Teller, so we look at tricks
from around the globe in the hope that a few of them
will trip up our magic masterminds.
And here they are now, the two and only,
Penn and Teller!
♪ ♪
If any magician fools Penn and Teller,
a coveted "Fool Us" trophy descends from the heavens
while Penn and Teller wished they'd go to hell.
And here to tempt the fates, let's meet our first magician.
- For years, people would see my mental magic and say,
"Hey, you should be on 'Fool Us.'"
And I'd think, "You're right, I should."
As a kid, I loved Penn and Teller.
They were the bad boys of magic.
They did danger magic where everything went wrong.
It was kind of punk,
and I loved it because I was a misfit kid.
I cofounded a punk band called Weekend Crush.
[punk music]
So of course that kid wanted to be on Penn and Teller's show.
[bell dings]
Even after he grew up and mellowed out.
In addition to performing magic,
I started posting videos debunking performers
who trick people by pretending they have psychic powers.
And it totally went viral.
My social media exploded because I was doing something
to help people, which was awesome.
Most magicians just try to fool people.
I try to un-fool people.
Maybe I can score myself an un-"Fool Us" trophy tonight.
[upbeat music]
- Give it up for TikTok trickster, Dustin Dean.
- Ladies and gentlemen,
tonight might just be a "Fool Us" first.
Normally, Penn uses clever code words
so that magicians won't be mad at him
for exposing their secrets to the audience.
But honestly, I couldn't care less.
In fact, I hope Penn just flat-out says
exactly how I'm doing my tricks
because psychics use these tricks
to try to convince people that they have real powers,
and I hate that.
So I do my best to debunk them,
but tonight, I'm leaving the debunking
to Penn and Teller.
So let's get started with a psychic ability
you probably heard of before, telekinesis.
That's the ability to move objects with your mind.
This is called a psi wheel.
It's a simple apparatus used by psychics
to prove their abilities.
It's made of a cork, a needle, and a little piece of paper
that balances on top of that needle.
All of that is covered in solid glass.
Now, I'm going to attempt to move this paper
with my mind.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[audience exclaims]
[applause]
♪ ♪
And that was telekinesis.
Up next, I'm gonna show you
a less common psychic ability called pyrokinesis.
That's the ability to control fire with your mind.
Alyson, if you would please join me.
I want you to choose a match to give to me
and choose a match to take for yourself.
- Okay.
- Free choice. - [chuckles]
All right.
- Thank you.
I want you to go ahead, light your match,
and then try to put it out
with your mind as quickly as possible.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Okay. Yeah, maybe try the hand.
Okay, it's not working.
Put it out. Put it out.
I don't want you hurting yourself.
What I'm going to do, using only my mind,
extinguish the flame as quickly as possible.
♪ ♪
[applause]
There.
And that was pyrokinesis.
Now, finally, I would like to demonstrate for you
the very rare, psychic power, chronokinesis.
That is the ability to control time itself.
Alyson, for this demonstration, I need a single-digit number.
To make things interesting,
let's go at least higher than three.
- Okay. Nine.
- Ooh, that's a good one.
Alyson, I'm gonna give you my phone,
and I want you to hold it so that everyone can see the time,
including yourself.
And right now, we can see that the time is 8:25,
but you said nine, so I'm going to attempt
to rewind time exactly nine minutes.
♪ ♪
[applause]
Now, I know what you're thinking,
and it's not because I'm psychic.
It's because it's obvious.
It must be some sort of clever app on my phone,
but it's not just my phone.
It's everyone's phone in the theater tonight.
Alyson, can you take out your phone?
And show everyone the time.
And you can see that the time has changed for you as well.
In fact, Penn, Teller, take out your phones.
Take a look at the time.
- Whoa. - There you go.
- So, Penn and Teller, did I fool you into believing
that I have psychic powers?
- No.
[laughter]
- I leave the debunking to you, Penn and Teller.
- Dustin Dean!
All right.
What got you into mentalism?
Did you see your future?
- [laughs] No, no.
I started off doing magic, learning basic card tricks
and eventually, I started doing tricks for my friends
all throughout high school.
And then I developed something called essential tremor.
Which essentially means that I shake in any part of my body
any time I'm using it, like, randomly,
so it made sleight of hand very difficult.
So what I did instead is,
I developed, like, sleight of mind.
- Oh, okay. - Yeah.
- What are some classic psychic scams?
- One very popular one is something called cold reading,
which essentially allows someone to look at someone
and start saying details that are usually pretty broad.
And then they look for reactions,
and they start making those generic,
broad statements very specific.
And to the person that's sitting there,
usually believes, "Wow, this is extremely specific.
There's no way they could've known this."
- So can you do a cold reading on me?
- Okay, so I hear a name.
Like, I hear you surrounded by friends,
and I think this might be-- it's not your normal name,
but it has to do with a pet.
- Oh, yeah.
- Is it, like, a nickname though?
It doesn't sound like a normal name.
- Hmm. Uh...
- Alley Cat - Oh.
- What is that? - [gasps]
My best friend used to call me that.
- Your best friend used to call you Alley Cat.
- Yeah.
- There's no way I should've known that, but...
- No. - Yeah.
- So you're a psychic. - I'm a psychic.
- Oh, my God, I'm a believer. - I get that a lot.
Actually, the more I debunk psychics
on social media and do what they do...
- Yeah.
- The more people are like,
"I think this is a front.
I think you're actually psychic."
- Okay, and a "Fool Us" first, this is the first time
a magician wants their trick to be busted.
- Yes. - So let's go to the boys.
- Well, Dustin, we couldn't agree more on everything.
You know-- - Perfect.
- We certainly agree with everything on busting psychics.
I just want to know, did you mean it?
- Did I meant it?
- When you said you want me
to not speak in code and just say it--
- Yes. - Did you mean that?
- Yes. - You really did.
- Yes. - You're not kidding.
- Not kidding.
- 'Cause I have it all code here.
I have this psychic blow--
psychics blow, and I have...
- [laughs] - Slick as spit.
- And I have, you did change time,
but it's the opposite.
You went into the future instead of the black--
That would it in code. - That would be the code.
- Okay, but if you want to say it outright,
You blew on the [bleep] paper.
You put spit on your fingers and touched the match.
And I glanced at my watch,
and you moved the other one ahead.
They were all at that time anyway.
We loved the act. It's really, really good.
You asked for it. You got it.
- And I love it.
- Wait, he's not talking in code,
and I'm still confused.
[laughter] - I'm so happy right now.
- Okay. [laughter]
- Okay, so he busted you. Yeah?
- Yes. - Did you fool us?
- No. - Okay.
[laughter]
- Thank you. Dustin Dean!
- That is great. That is great.
That's really good.
- We're gonna take a quick break.
We'll be back with more world-class magic
when "Fool Us" returns.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
You're just in time to check out our next trickster.
- So I decided I wanted to drop out of school,
and my dad said I should work with him.
I spent ten days as a builder's assistant.
It was terrible.
I thought, "I'm not doing this."
And after that, I swore
I'd never have a proper job,
so I've done magic and nothing else
for my entire working life.
My career is magic. My personal life is magic.
I'm even married to a magician.
When I married her, she didn't do any magic.
I showed her a few tricks.
[cards shuffle]
But then she started doing magic too.
She doesn't let me have anything.
Some tricks are just too easy.
I mean, come on. Like, what?
Like, finding a card.
Of course you can do that. It's my job.
I can find cards when I'm not even trying to find cards,
so how do I make this more of a challenge?
I mean, that in itself the challenge.
So tonight, I'm facing Penn and Teller.
I've been on this show almost as long as Penn and Teller.
I was in the very first season in England 11 years ago.
Well, I didn't fool them then,
but now I'm older and I'm wiser.
Although I guess, they are too, right?
Fingers crossed.
[cheers and applause]
- Speaking the Queen's English, here's UK conjurer,
Alan Hudson.
- Thank you very much.
So I'm a comedy magician, and people ask me all the time
how I manage to combine comedy and magic,
so I'll tell you, it's because of my parents.
See, my mum used to tell all these funny jokes,
and my dad disappeared when I was nine.
[laughter]
But tonight, I'm gonna try and find a playing card,
not once, but twice.
First time using sleight of hand,
I'll be honest.
Second time, real magic.
[laughter]
And to sign that card,
please welcome the best in the business,
it's Alyson Hannigan.
- [laughs] - Hey.
- Hello.
- Hey, Alyson, you're gonna have to sign a card.
You know the drill, okay. - Okay.
- And just to make it-- make sure it's unique,
make sure it's the only one like it in the entire world,
if you could sign it nice and big--
sign it nice and big for me.
- Sure. - There we go.
And obviously, before we find this card,
we've got to lose it.
There you go. - All right.
- Good job. Thank you very much.
[soft music]
Find the card using the skills that pay the bills.
- All right. - Here we go.
♪ ♪
One card.
Ten of clubs. - Huh.
- Not your card. - No.
- But it is one card, the ten of clubs.
- True.
- That spin was cool, though, right?
- It was amazing.
- Yeah, spent a lot of time on me own.
- Do you want me to take that? - Yeah.
I'll do it again. Watch this.
♪ ♪
What?
- Ah.
- Now, I'm a big fan of this show.
All right, I'm a big fan of this show,
and I know right now, if that was the trick,
Penn would stand up, and he would speak to me
in magician's code, so only I could understand it,
and he would say, "Alan, that was a top change."
- [laughs]
- "That was a top change," and he'd be right.
But us magicians like to make things
last a little bit longer.
And then they produce it from a jacket like this
or from a shoe like this, but I'm not gonna do that.
Alyson, I'm gonna take your card,
I'm gonna place it back in the pack.
I'm gonna leave it over here.
And to--I did say I was gonna find the card again,
but this time with real magic.
And to prove it's real magic,
you're gonna wrap me up from head to toe
in cellophane.
- How exciting.
- Have you done this before? - No.
- Now's your chance. - I'm excited.
- Throw the pen. - Whoosh.
- We don't need that. Okay, one finger like this.
One finger line this.
I'll do most of the heavy lifting here.
- Okay.
- Just keep your thumbs out the way,
That's the important thing.
We're gonna start from the bottom,
and we're gonna work our way to the top.
Here we go. There we go.
Help me out here, Alyson. - Do I spin or you spin?
- There we go. You can do all the way around.
That's it. That's it.
The great thing about this trick is,
it's the most COVID safe trick
we've ever had here on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
That's it. All the way around.
And the other good news is-- - I'm getting dizzy.
- I do-- [laughs]
I do get to lose a few pounds on the way.
That's it. All the way to the top, Alyson.
That's it. Right to the neck.
I mean, not the head. - Ow, I shocked myself.
- I do need to be able to breathe
for the rest of the act.
And then if you could just tear that off for me
and pat that on the back.
- Ooh, lovely.
Most people just do the back. - [laughs]
- Thank you very much. - Ooh.
- By the way, if you just switched on,
this is a magic trick.
It's not an infomercial
for Penn's incredible weight loss technique.
[laughter]
Now, I did say I was gonna find that card again,
this time without sleight of hand.
Or sleight of arms or sleight of legs.
But I'm gonna need slight bit of help.
- [laughs] - Here we go.
- [gasps] - Did we get it?
♪ ♪
- What?
- Hey, just check. - Hi.
- Just check.
That really has gone through the cling film.
- Yeah.
- Now, could you rip that open for me.
Hold the applause. It might be the wrong one.
We've all been there.
- Okay, take it out? - Take it out.
Hold it up. Show everyone.
- [gasps] - Is that your card?
- Yes. - High five, Alyson.
High--forget it, forget it. - High--
Alan Hudson!
I'm sorry I left you hanging with the high five.
- Yes, bit awkward. - Yeah.
So are you gonna, like,
transform into a butterfly next?
- I wish I could--like, the finale to this trick,
I guess, should be me escaping.
- Oh, yes, well-- - Yeah.
- But I didn't think about that.
- No. - Yeah.
I just thought about trying to find the card.
- So you were a part of the show
from the very beginning?
- Yeah, I was on in the UK in the very first season.
- Oh, yeah.
- Last time, I did a trick with CDs.
- Ooh.
- That's how long ago it was. Yeah.
- Now you have to explain what a CD is.
- A CD--exactly.
- So does it feel different to be back this time?
- Certainly warmer this time. - Yeah.
- Yeah, I mean, that could be 'cause of the climate,
or could be 'cause of the cellophane.
- Right. - I'm not sure.
- And if you do fool them,
you're not gonna be able to accept your trophy.
- No, but--I don't think we need to worry about that.
- Okay. [laughs]
All right, Alan, let's see if Penn and Teller
can unravel the mysteries to your magic.
- Okay.
- Hey, Alan, great. We're glad to have you back.
It's been a long time. Long time.
- It's been a while. Been a while.
- Really funny, really good,
and you look so good in cellophane.
I think you should consider that all the time.
I think that may be your fashion choice for the future.
- Oh, thanks, man.
- And this is really, really hard to talk in code,
and you're all tied up there.
- Right, okay.
- Obviously, we know how you control the card.
Obviously, we know how you could make one card
seem like it was another, and so we're with you there.
And you know we're with you,
so I can't think of a way to say that
we don't think that your right arm
is as affixed to your body as it seems.
And when you turned around,
we think you can actually move
your right arm up into that position.
And that you had the card palmed
and could just put it in place.
And I apologize for not speaking in code
and giving it away.
Maybe they'll edit this out, maybe they won't.
I don't know, but I don't think you fooled us
'cause I think you really just
put the card up under the cellophane.
- I did not do that. - [gasps]
- You're telling me that you can't move your arms.
- I did not do that.
- You did not move-- okay, it was your left hand.
- No, it's not.
I didn't--my arms stayed there, I promise.
- Your arms did not move? - I absolutely promise.
- So if you honestly did not move your arm up there--
if you really can't move that arm,
then you fooled us, Alan.
Bring the trophy down.
- We have a Fooler with no way of holding the trophy!
- We can't shake hands. We can't shake hands.
- I got an idea. Hold on.
- What? - I've got it.
- There you go. - I got it.
- [laughs] - See, I can't move.
- I got it.
There you go. Whoo!
Alan Hudson, congratulations.
- Thank you, thank you. - Whoo!
- Thank you.
- Very, very tiny.
- Thank you. - Whoo!
[laughs]
Ah.
Penn and Teller are fooled,
and the rest of us are thrilled.
More magicians will face off
against these two when we come back.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
One person is already walking the streets
with a brand-new "Fool Us" trophy.
Let's see if we can make it a parade.
Meet our next magician.
- Magic is my birthright.
I'm one of India's first test-tube babies.
Therefore, I appeared on this earth by the magic of science.
When I was six years old,
I performed on Indian television,
and an 86-year-old magician reached out to me.
In exchange for a promise to keep his magic alive,
he taught me everything he knew of magic
and grand illusions.
I kept that promise by performing
for world leaders all around the world.
In India, we like
larger-than-life celebration and events.
One of the many magical experiences I create
is for the grand Indian weddings.
Big stages, huge audiences,
all this to inject magical experiences and illusions
into traditional ceremonies.
Now I bring my powers of mentalism
to face Penn and Teller.
- How about some magic from Mumbai?
Give a big "Fool Us" welcome to Dr. Kruti Parekh.
[cheers and applause]
- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm Dr. Kruti Parekh from Mumbai, India,
and today, I'm going to make
Alyson Hannigan experience
time travel.
Are you ready, Alyson? - I think so.
- Please come here.
What I want you to do is--
I want you to close your eyes.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
One more time. Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Done.
You actually went into the future five minutes
and saw Penn and Teller play a game of tic-tac-toe.
- Huh. - Do you remember that?
- I do not.
- That's okay.
You may not remember what you saw in the future,
but your subconscious mind does.
- Ooh.
- And now we're going
to replay that from your subconscious mind.
Should I demonstrate that for you?
- Yes, please. - All right.
- I have a few cards here
which have randomly X and Os on it.
Okay?
I'm gonna shuffle them right here
so that you don't know which card's where,
but we're going to actually rely
on your subconscious mind now,
and you will tell me how they played the game.
So which card I should put where.
- Okay. Top card, right hand corner.
- Right here?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Middle. - Middle.
- And then let's create the diagonal.
Right here, yes. - Right here, okay.
- And then we'll go in the other corner.
- Okay. - And that corner.
And then top, this middle,
that middle, and there.
- Thank you, Alyson. That was amazing.
- [laughs]
- Now it's time for Penn and Teller.
So you have a board right there in front of you.
- We do. - Yes.
So you have to play the game of tic-tac-toe
that Alyson time traveled in the future to see you play,
which is, like, now.
- Okay.
Xs and Os, right?
Okay, and I'll put my O right here.
[soft music]
Oh, clever play,
but I will put my O right here.
I'm gonna think before-- oh, you blocked me.
- [chuckles]
- Oh, well, I got to block you over here.
Right.
♪ ♪
And I have no choice but to go here.
Then you put an X there, and it is a tie game.
We've tied. - Okay.
So what I'm gonna request you to do, Alyson,
is please bring the board here.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
Thank you.
♪ ♪
- Wonderful.
And let us now see this right here.
This is how Penn and Teller have actually played this game.
Let's see if you
actually time travelled into the future or not.
If we have a match, a perfect match,
that means you did.
- Wow. - Right?
So let's begin randomly.
We an X here,
and let's see whether we have an X or O here.
We have an X here. Wow, that's amazing.
We have--let's do a random thing here.
We have an O here and...
we have an O here.
That's amazing. Okay, let's see.
We have an X here.
And do we have an X, an O? What do you think?
We have an X, or we have an O? - I hope an X.
- All right, we have an X here.
That's wonderful.
And let's see again.
We have an O here,
and do we have an O here?
Wow. That's amazing, Alyson.
And let's see, the center square, which is...
- X. - An X here.
And we have an X here. - Whoo.
- That is so cool.
Let's see the other squares now.
We have an X here, and we have...
oh.
- Oh.
- Oh, never mind.
We have an O here, and we have...
an X here.
- [groans]
- Oh.
♪ ♪
I think your subconscious mind wasn't really working well.
- [laughs] That's not surprising.
- I mean, it can't be me.
I was just following your instructions
and putting the cards.
- Yeah. - Oh.
Okay, let's see. What do we have here?
We have an O here,
and we have an X here.
And we have an X here,
and we have an O here.
Oops. - Mm.
- I think something went wrong.
Alyson, you must be a genius
because you actually time traveled
into the future sideways.
And if I turn the board like this,
we have a perfect match.
We have an X, we have an X.
We have an O, O, O, O,
X, X, X, X, X, O, O.
And that is the magic of time travel.
- Whoo!
Dr. Kruti Parekh!
[cheers and applause]
Does Indian culture play a big part in your magic?
- Yes, it does.
One of the concepts which I work on
is amalgamating magic, illusion, theatrical
with the grand Indian weddings,
wherein the bride and the groom,
they actually perform magic for each other with a story,
dance, music, magic, illusion, everything together.
- [sighs]
So can you tell me about the history of magic in India?
- If you go back to a long time,
we had the Indian rope trick, which was one of the most
famous magic tricks in the history of magic.
This was performed on the streets
where the Indian madaris,
that's what they called the street magicians,
they would actually play the bin,
which is a musical instrument,
and the rope would start standing up like--
- Oh, I know that trick. - Like a snake--yes.
And then the boy climbs us, and then he falls down,
and all his parts are collected,
and he comes back alive.
- That's amazing.
Okay, Dr. Kruti,
let's go a little bit further into the future
and see if you fooled the boys.
- Yes.
- Doctor, thank you so much
for coming over from India.
We were over there-- what was it?
20 years ago, we went over
and saw some wonderful magic over there.
And it's great that you brought some wonderful magic here
and some wonderful style and performance.
It was just really, really terrific.
And when you play tic-tac-toe, as you know,
you have a choice between being X or O.
And we think you also had that choice between being X and O.
And we do believe, you know, this is an original premise.
We've never seen the time travel being used
with this trick, but I do want to say
that we believed it completely.
We believed that Alyson did go into the future,
but if she went six minutes into the future
instead of five minutes into the future,
I think Alyson saw that you didn't fool us.
Is that what you saw, Alyson?
- [laughs] - You tell us.
- I don't think she fooled you,
but I better check with the doctor.
- Please do. - Doctor, what do you think?
- Yes, they do know how I did the trick.
- Well, thank you so much. Dr. Kruti Parekh.
- Thank you. - Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Before Penn and Teller perform tonight's finale,
they'll take on another Fooler or two,
so stay close.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
Let's meet our next mystifying act.
- A great magician said that when you walk into a room,
people need to know that you're worth noticing.
I'm a huge nerd,
so bright red glasses are my trademark.
It's a way to stand out and to still be me.
A magic nerd is someone like me
who literally obsesses over magic
at work, in the shower, 24/7.
I think that's why I'm a very productive magic creator.
I literally never stop thinking.
My dad stutters,
and my mom is a speech therapist.
I stutter too,
and now I support my magic and my family
by being a licensed speech language therapist.
Magic can often be therapeutic for my stuttering.
I'm confident on stage. I'm comfortable.
Being able to perform like that
is just one of the gifts that magic's given me.
Still, when you stutter, any public speaking is a risk,
but here I go competing on national television
in front of two of the greatest magicians
you'll ever see.
The reason I can do that
is because magic transformed me
into me.
[soft music]
- Put your hands together
for the clever mind of Kyle Purnell.
- Wow, thank you. My goodness.
Penn, I have a very important confession to make,
and that is--
[deep breath]
I can't read...
minds.
I can't read minds.
I'm not a mind reader. I can't do it.
But I don't have to tell you
that mind reading doesn't really exist.
It's not really a thing, right?
It's a bunch of bull[bleep], right?
But that means that I can't read your mind tonight,
so instead,
I'm gonna use these to read your gaze.
It is the latest and greatest development
in alien clairvoyant technology,
and they're fantastic, but I'd love for you
to come up and look at them a little bit closer.
Penn. Give it up for Penn, everybody.
- Thank you. Thank you.
Good, alien technology. I'm ready.
- [chuckles] Me too.
Now, I will tell you, I'm not super familiar with it.
It is pretty new to me, but in order for this to work,
from what I understand,
I need you to commit to a number.
Like, a two-digit number if-- - A two-digit number.
- A two-digit number, but make it interesting.
Don't make it nice sounding like 50, or 60, or 70.
Like, a random two-digit number for me.
- Good. - Okay.
Write it down. I'm not gonna look at that.
You can hide it,
but I'm gonna show everybody else these beauts.
These are called gaze reading cards.
I got these at a gift shop at a truck stop near Area 51,
and these are fantastic.
The lady at the gift shop said they're actually alien plastic
salvaged from a UFO.
She also told me that these things
are weirdly effective
at making even a schmuck like me
look like a genuine mind reader.
- My goodness. - Right?
So in order for this to happen, you have the card--yes.
Can you put it face down
and back inside the case for me please.
- Okay, oh. Okay, right like that?
- Yes, good, so no one can see. We can shut it, yeah?
- Yeah. - Perfect.
Now, in order for this to happen,
Penn, I do want to make sure we are absolutely committed.
- Okay. - I want you to hold onto that.
- I will. - Okay.
Penn, as I go through these cards,
I'm gonna hold them up to your eyes, okay?
And you are going to trace the holes with your eyes
in the shape of your thought of number.
Okay, we're gonna do this with every card.
- Okay.
- As we do this though,
here's the very important thing,
I'm gonna be asking you a series of random
and ridiculous questions to try to divert your attention
in order to make this as effective
and reliable as possible.
- Good. - Cool?
Are you ready? - I am.
- Let's do it.
Penn,
if you were a potato,
how would you choose to be prepared?
- Baked. - Okay.
I'd go mashed, but it's fine.
That actually gave me some good information.
Penn, if you would, does Mickey Mouse have thumbs?
- Uh, no.
- He does actually. He does have thumbs.
He has four fingers, but he has thumbs.
- I see. - Okay.
Penn, if you could,
if three was 1/2 of five, what would 1/3 of ten be?
- Uh, four. - It is four.
That's really impressive. It is four.
That actually-- but funny enough,
it didn't give me a lot of information about it,
so we're gonna try one more time.
Penn,
did the woodchuck chuck more wood?
Or did Sally sell more seashells?
- Sally sold more she--seashells.
- I agree with you, and easy for you to say.
All right, we have a few more, and I think I should be good,
but--with questions.
I just want to make sure.
Just kind of rapidly go through these for me please.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
And we'll go here. And one more.
- Mm-hmm. - Yes, Penn, I think I got it.
All right, Penn, I think I got your number.
No, like, literally, I think I got your number.
- Good.
- That means you never said the number out loud.
- I never did.
- You never shared it to anybody, not even Teller.
- I did not. - No.
So that means, if we're gonna do this, Penn...
I got to think. I think I got it.
Penn in a nice loud, clear voice,
I want you to say either yes or no.
Was your number 53?
- No. - Yes.
- No.
- Of course I got it wrong, Penn.
Of course I can't get it.
I already told you at the beginning.
We talked about this.
I can't read...
minds.
I can't read minds,
but it's never actually been about me.
To be honest with you, it's been about the cards.
Okay?
In fact, you'll notice, Penn, that I never,
actually, fully squared these up ever.
- No, no, you didn't. - There's a reason for that.
'Cause I'm wondering what's actually written
in the stars in these cards.
To do that, all we need is a light source.
- Mm-hmm.
- We also need your complete honesty.
Penn, for the first time, what was the number
that you were merely thinking of?
- 98. - 98.
Alien tech, don't let me down. Let's see how well we did.
My friends, that should be a 98 in the stars.
- Beautiful. - Thank you guys so much.
- Kyle Purnell!
[sighs]
Hello. - Hello.
How are you? - Good, how are you?
- It's the best day of my life. Thanks for asking.
- That's awesome.
So that's real, authentic alien plastic?
- No. It is a creation of mine.
A few years ago, I was diagnosed
with obsessive compulsive disorder,
so the fact that I literally never stop thinking about magic
makes it easier to come up with some kind of crazy ideas.
- Wow.
- So in the magic world,
I'm not really known for being a performer,
but I am known for being an inventor.
- So how do you approach a new trick?
- Often for me, it's not method first,
it's not effect first, but it's an image first.
I get an idea of what I want to have,
and then I kind of develop
the effect and the method at the same time.
- Nice, okay, Kyle, let's turn our gaze
on Penn and Teller and see if you fooled them.
- Awesome.
- Kyle, we've never seen anything like that before.
Never seen anything like that before.
It's really, really beautiful. - Thank you so much.
- And we got us to talking about all this,
you know, interstellar stuff.
Teller was saying, we got a real glimpse
at alien technology.
- Well, you're very welcome. [laughter]
- And also, it got me thinking about black holes.
You know when you got-- when you got a universe
as big as our universe,
there's a saying that, if anything can happen,
it will and has happened in the billions of years.
So you could have black holes lined up to form anything.
They could just form anything possible.
All of that's happened over billions, and billions,
and billions of years.
You could have all that stuff happening.
- Right.
- It's just a fascinating thing to think--
I mean, it starts here on the table,
but then goes big and intergalactic.
And gave us all that.
We both loved the trick.
We're so impressed that you invented that.
It's a wonderful thing, Kyle, and we could be wrong,
but we don't think you fooled us.
- I don't think I fooled you either,
but I really love that you loved it.
- Aw. - Thank you so much.
It's an absolute honor.
- Aw. - Thank you.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you, guys, thank you.
- Kyle Purnell! - Thank you.
- Time is running out, so we asked Penn and Teller
to perform a trick of their own,
and they said yes.
They'll take the stage right after the break.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
- Welcome back.
Closing out our show tonight,
the Las Vegas legends themselves,
our very own,
Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- When you're watching a magician here
on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"
you are seeing what's happening in the room
without any edits, camera tricks,
or special effects.
That's not always true
for other magic shows you watch on TV.
Other magic shows might use all sorts
of electronic TV magic to make it look like magic.
We're gonna show you a stage magic act
like you'd see it on TV,
but at the same time,
how it might look if you were in the room live.
Ready? Let's go.
See? Magic hats.
But they're really magic.
Watch this.
No threads, no wires,
and our hats float from one head to the other.
Yeah, the hats floated,
but now, out of nowhere,
a pink...
silk.
But you know, sometimes, it's nice to do magic
with old-fashioned props.
How about a-- [phone rings]
Yeah.
Old-fashioned telephone.
But I don't want to have to answer it with my hands.
I'll do it with magic.
Hello.
Yes, we're Penn and Teller,
and right now we're on TV.
And it's floating in the air.
But, you know, it's nice in a magic show to see
a life animal.
[bird chirping] Let's listen.
It's a bird.
What species of bird is that?
I don't know, but it's very hand-some.
What a nice, nice bird.
And now the bird is gone.
And now please prepare yourself
for hypnotism.
Ready, Teller? Look in my eyes.
Fall back. Back here.
Look in my eyes. Fall back.
And now, Teller, you're gonna go deeper into a trance
than you've ever gone before.
Your body gets lighter. You float.
You float.
And now, Teller, go all the way down
where you can completely relax.
Relax, Teller.
Make yourself comfortable, Teller.
Relax, relax, relax.
You know, we have studied magic all over the world.
We've studied with the fakirs of India
who are a cross between a holy man and a magician.
The cloth flies in over Teller,
so he can focus, so he can concentrate,
so he can discorporate.
This is actually being done
as Teller floats naturally into the air.
Higher, and higher, and higher
he floats in the air.
Look at this.
Nothing holding him in the front.
As I walk all the way around him,
nothing is in the back.
There is nothing above.
Now, to those of you who are spiritual,
you take this as just part of the supernatural world,
but some of us are a little more skeptical.
Our western minds need proof.
So I will now give you that proof
'cause now, out of nowhere, I produce a hoop.
Out of nowhere. Now watch this.
Watch this.
No threads, no wires hold that, Teller.
Ha! No threads, no wires.
Hold that, Teller.
No threads, no wires-- okay, that's enough.
That's enough, that's enough, that's enough.
And now,
now, for the vanish.
Are you ready for the vanish?
Hold him right there. Ready for the vanish.
And one... [drumroll]
Two, three.
And he's gone!
And there we have it. Penn and Teller.
So other shows might use an invisible assistant,
but all the magic you see us do on "Fool Us"
is done by just me
and Teller.
Just the two of us. - Oh.
Whoo. Amazing.
Ah, well, thank you all for watching.
From Penn, Teller's floating head,
and all of us at "Fool Us," good night.
[cheers and applause]