[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
This is it.
Penn and Teller taking on magicians
from every corner of the Earth.
So let's not waste any time.
The showdown starts right now as we welcome
our magic Hall of Famers, Penn and Teller!
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Remember, if Penn and Teller are fooled,
the magician who fooled them gets a guest spot
in Penn and Teller's world-famous magic show.
And they also win the coveted "Fool Us" Trophy.
Let's see if our first magician can pull it off.
- Before I was ever on "Fool Us,"
I was a very happy person.
But then, I started fooling Penn & Teller.
- Bring down the trophy.
- Every time I go on this show,
it is so much fun.
I want to come back again, but that means
I have to fool them again-- - [gasps]
- --and again, and again.
But how long can I keep doing this?
Four "Fool Us" Trophies are enough for anyone.
And yet, could it be my mind was
trying to tell me something?
Five?
Do I need five trophies?
Everywhere I look, I see fives.
Five, five--
[alarm beeping]
Five. Another five.
Am I losing my mind?
I have to face my fears.
So, Penn and Teller,
I guess you haven't seen the last of me.
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- He has more trophies at home than hairs on his head.
Here's four-time Fooler, Jandro!
[samba music]
- [indistinct]
Hello, everyone!
♪ ♪
Welcome to my TV special.
I'm fooling you for the last time.
[laughter]
Today, we are going to have a fiesta.
Please, come and join me on stage.
- Fiesta!
- Fiesta! Yes, you.
Here, come sit down.
- Fiesta.
- You, here, with me. - Oh, yes.
- Oh, I'm so happy. Thanks for coming.
Thank you for coming. - Fiesta!
- Yes.
And, today, before I do the trick--
before I do the trick-- it's a small trick.
- Small trick.
- You know what they say.
A small trick, big trophy, OK?
[laughter]
But I have to tell you something
that no one wants to tell you.
- OK. - OK?
They think it, but they don't--
all the people--the crew,
your families, your friends,
the people from America--
they think...
you are not so young, OK?
And they are worried that,
when you start shooting an episode,
they don't know if you'll arrive to the end.
So, yeah.
Alyson told me, also.
It would be disrespectful, from your part,
if I started doing a trick
and at the middle of the trick,
you stop breathing and you don't see the end.
So, come on.
If you want, I can do only the end of the trick.
So if, then, you see the miracle
and if, then, you stop breathing, who cares?
OK?
So I'm going to do the-- but you cannot see the end.
You cannot see the end. - I can't--
- No. - --because I'm younger?
- No, no-- well, not so much.
[laughter]
OK. Let me do the trick.
Let me do the trick.
You cannot see the end
because, if not, there's no trick.
So you have to be like this.
- OK.
- You will have to stand here.
OK. Perfecto.
And these are chests with my treasures.
So you are going to be with your eyes closed all the time.
- OK. - So turn around.
You are going to be there.
And can you move a little?
One step. One more.
One more. One more. One more.
- Am I still on stage?
- OK, perfecto.
Are you OK? - OK.
- Don't move. - I'm not.
- Don't open your eyes until I tell you--
- OK. - --OK?
- OK, OK. OK.
So now, we can do the trick. - Sure.
- The end. Only the end.
Only the end.
So this is for you.
This is for you.
You can open it, see all the treasures.
You can see all the treasures because I have all this--
- I need the key. - Yeah. Pardon.
The key! The key.
♪ Key, key, key, key, key, key, key, key ♪
♪ Key, key, key, key, key ♪ Get the key.
♪ Key, key, key, key ♪
OK. Open.
And you'll have all the treasures.
You have different treasure and you have
lots of coins, different, big ones,
small ones from different values, different
countries, different--
with holes, without holes.
But there's one lucky.
There's one lucky coin.
- OK. - OK?
So the lucky coin, you decide which is--
- I decide which is the lucky coin?
- And you--with your right hand, you put it here.
- OK.
I've got the lucky coin in my hand.
- Put the hand-- put the hand-- no--
there.
And you close your hand and put it here, more or less.
OK. OK.
This is the end of the trick. - OK.
- This is the end. Shh.
Alyson is not looking at anything, OK?
OK.
[mouthing words]
♪ ♪
Ticki, ticki, ticki, ticki.
♪ ♪
Si! Yes!
It's a miracle!
[speaking Spanish] Thank you.
Thank you, fiesta!
Wow!
Did you enjoy?
Wow! More fiesta.
More fiesta.
Yes, a lot of fiesta!
Yes!
[loud pop]
[cheers and applause]
Are you OK? Don't-- it's a big surprise.
Are you OK? Are you?
Are you OK?
Are you still breathing? Are you OK?
Then, more fiesta!
More fiesta, yeah!
♪ ♪
Did you enjoy the end?
- Very much.
- Isn't it a cool thing? - Yes.
- Did you want to see the beginning of the trick?
- Sure. - OK.
Alyson, you have your eyes closed?
- Yeah. - OK.
♪ ♪
Don't say anything.
Alyson, can you turn around a little bit?
OK. Can you open your eyes?
Can you come?
- I missed everything! - The key.
Where's the key? The key.
The key. Open your chest.
Let's give attention to this moment.
Open. Open.
- OK, OK.
I'm trying.
- OK. - There we go.
- Now, get the lucky coin, quickly.
- OK.
- And don't show it to anyone.
Don't show it, don't show it! - I'm not.
- Like that. - What?
- Close it. To show--
give it to Teller and help him open.
No, don't let anyone see!
Only you and Teller. No one sees.
Let's give attention to this moment.
Have you seen it? No.
Did you--did anyone tell you anything?
- No. - Did you see anything?
- No. - No? OK.
Before we arrive to the end,
can we show them the rest of the coins?
[music playing]
They are all different, all different sizes.
Different, OK? All of them.
♪ ♪
You've already seen your coins.
- I have, I have.
- But Teller hasn't.
Can I?
OK.
♪ ♪
All different.
♪ ♪
All different.
All my treasures,
all--all--all different.
[squeals]
- [squeals]
- [speaking Spanish]
- I can't wait! OK.
Can you put a hand here, Teller?
You know the end.
Open your hand.
This seems like a pirate coin.
Can you open your hand?
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
- Ticki, ticki, ticki.
Yes!
[speaking Spanish] Fiesta!
- Fiesta. - Fiesta.
Fiesta.
- Fiesta, fiesta! Fiesta.
- Fiesta. Fiesta.
- Fiesta.
- Jandro!
Jandro, I'm so happy you're here.
- Oh.
I love your hair, with all those papers.
- It feels good.
- Yeah.
- Life is a party with you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
- And then, now, you need a nap?
- Ah, siesta. We call it "siesta."
- Siesta.
- Fiesta is "fiesta."
- Fiesta, then siesta.
- Siesta is "siesta."
- Yes.
Every trick you bring us is different and crazy.
- Yeah, they are.
The first time I do them, I just do them for this
and I never do that again.
- Well, that's because you have to get
started on the next one.
- This is the last time.
This is the last time.
- I think you said that last time.
- Maybe, maybe.
- So what would happen if you get a fifth trophy?
- They would throw me out.
[laughter]
- OK, Jandro.
It's time to go to the boys and see if you fooled them.
- Mi amigo.
- You know, we are very, very good friends,
Jandro, very good friends.
And I don't know if the people at home know this,
but you work with us on all our tricks this season.
And we've saw how you think. - Yeah.
- And I got to tell you, this is the first time
that we have caught something.
I caught you, you sneaky bastard.
I know and saw you do
a dirty piece of business in this trick.
Now, we have been very bold
in our misdirection in the past.
We have never been bold enough to use
confetti cannons shooting in the air as misdirection.
But we did see the moment.
And I would have never, ever
seen the moment before I met you.
Never ever.
You would have tricked us with that every single time,
had you not become a friend of ours.
Because that moment that I saw
that sneaky, little moment
that you did--
I was looking for, I was waiting for.
I knew when that moment was going to be.
Now, did you fire off all the confetti cannons?
Is there any confetti cannons left?
- If you want to see the things, you can come.
- Oh, no, no, no, no.
I just want to know if you have one confetti cannon left.
You have no confetti cannons left?
- No.
- They've all been fired.
There's one thing, more, here.
- What is there?
- Well, it says--
it says "nothing here."
- I see.
[laughs] No, I wasn't looking for that, I'll tell you what.
Because I saw the sneaky moment,
you bastard.
But it wasn't enough.
It wasn't enough.
And then, I talked to Teller and talked to Teller
and talked to Teller.
And we finally decided was we wish
you had another confetti cannon so you could fire it off,
because you fooled us for the fifth time, my friend.
The fifth time. - Jandro!
- Fiesta! - Yay!
- Fiesta, yay.
Let's go, my friend. - You did it.
We have our five-time Fooler!
[cheers and applause]
- OK, Next time, I will bring--
I will bring more confetti cannon.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Bye.
See you next time!
- Jandro!
Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
Congratulations, Jandro.
Penn and Teller need to go backstage
and look for another trophy, in case they get fooled again.
Stick around.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
One magician just snuck off with the "Fool Us" Trophy.
See if Penn and Teller can catch our next magician
in the act right now.
[cheers and applause]
- Let's take a trip to the future with Ben Kraatz.
- Robocard 3000, activate.
[electronic music]
[whirring, stomping]
♪ ♪
- (ROBOTIC VOICE) Hello, humans.
Welcome to the future of card magic.
- Demonstrate sleight of hand.
- Let's go.
[boing]
♪ ♪
[whirring]
♪ ♪
Gone-zo.
- Next move, trash compactor.
♪ ♪
[whirring]
♪ ♪
[grinding]
- Try that.
Did you see it?
- Crusher.
- All right.
Crusher, it is.
[whirring]
♪ ♪
[loud whoosh]
- Whoa.
- Atom splitter.
♪ ♪
[whirring]
[loud whoosh]
- Magic-kazam.
- Eraser.
♪ ♪
[loud whirring]
- Robot-kadabra.
- Black hole.
♪ ♪
[loud whoosh]
- Domo arigato.
- Teleportation.
♪ ♪
[loud whirring]
- Turbo droid.
- Jedi mind power.
♪ ♪
[distorted audio]
- Robo [inaudible].
[loud stomping]
- Disintegrator.
♪ ♪
- One, two--
[soft whoosh]
- Mission accomplished.
Activate happy robot sequence.
- [gibberish, stomping]
Penn, Teller.
I hope--
- Sleep.
Penn, Teller.
I hope you enjoyed my performance.
Did I fool you?
- Ben Kraatz! [cheers and applause]
Oh, hello.
That was amazing.
- Thank you very much.
- I love the retro video game element.
Do you play video games?
- I must admit, Yes.
Sure, yeah.
- And so, is that where you got this inspiration?
- I don't think so.
I was working on object vanishings, you know?
And I taped myself to show my mentor,
and he told me, it's cool, Ben.
But you're doing moves too brutal, too quick.
It's not magic enough.
And I was like, yeah, but I like my moves.
So I had to find a way to justify
the quick moves, you know? - Yeah.
And the robot was invented.
- That's it. That's it, yeah.
- That's so cool.
- And, you know, I'm doing magic because of you guys.
I have discovered magic in 2017--
- Really?
- --with "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
- Just that recently? - Yes.
And then, I started to do magic because of you guys.
The truth. - And here you are.
- And here I am.
- Well, Switzerland's already famous
for chocolate and watches.
Let's see if you can make it famous for magic.
- Let's see. - Boys.
- (ROBOTICALLY) Hello, Benjamin.
- Hey.
- (ROBOTICALLY) We are the judges.
We are going to decide whether you fool us or not.
(NORMALLY) I'm not going to keep that up.
I don't have the whole track going on,
so I can't really do it.
Boy, that looks nice.
It looks really beautiful.
And it's a really good way to do it.
You've got a future look,
and we think that the way you're doing it
is actually fairly old-fashioned.
And that's a really nice, nice combination
to those two things.
And the way you moved--
I mean, you've studied movement.
You're kind of a thin guy.
Made me think a lot of Mick Jagger.
I don't know what favorite Stones songs you have,
but Teller's a big fan of "Honky Tonk Women."
But me, I go back to the early days,
back when Brian Jones was still with them,
with "Paint It, Black," one of my favorite Stones songs.
I don't think they did it on the last tour.
They probably don't remember it,
but it was a favorite of mine.
And we really loved it.
We loved the whole outfit, the whole way it looked.
It really looked truly magical.
But I do not think you fooled us.
- Of course not.
Thank you very much. - Thank you.
- Well, you didn't fool them, but you really entertained us.
Thank you.
Ben Kraatz. [cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller can't perform just yet.
They still have more tricks to bust when "Fool Us" returns.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us," TV's home
for Penn, Teller and our next magician.
- I was a prosecutor, an investigator,
and now I'm a judge--
all jobs about finding the truth.
Magic, my sideline, helps me in so many ways.
Magicians can spot fraud and deceit
better than anyone alive.
If your job is to recognize truth, study deception.
From the bench, a judge sees a lot of terrible things.
But when I do magic, that's the part of my life
I can actually control.
Magic says there's pleasure in the world
and beauty and pleasant surprise.
One of the nicest parts about being a judge
is swearing in new citizens.
These are people who moved mountains to become Americans.
And I try to make it even more special
by adding some magic to the ceremony.
I show them an empty box,
and then I produce a huge American flag.
It's magic, for them and for me.
The weird thing about coming on "Fool Us"
is I'm the one getting judged.
Penn, Teller, may I approach the bench?
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- All rise for the magic of Judge Gary Brown.
[cheers and applause]
- This is what "Fool Us" looked like a century ago.
Instead of Penn and Teller,
the judges were the leading scientists of the day,
the magician, Eusapia Palladino,
widely believed to be the world's
most powerful spirit medium.
She did her tricks, like this floating table,
and she did it.
She fooled them.
And the prize for winning?
The scientists told the world that her tricks were real.
Palladino's most interesting effect, though,
came with this device--
a spirit trumpet, a simple cone of metal
that she claimed would allow the living
to speak with the dead.
So, tonight, we are going to summon
the ghost of Eusapia Palladino right here,
using the spirit trumpet.
Alyson, would you join me, please?
- Sure.
Hello.
- Would you take a look at the spirit trumpet?
Take a look at its stand.
Make sure that there is no wires attached,
no modern electronics,
no chicanery of any kind.
- [chuckles] No.
Looks legit.
- OK. We'll set this up here.
And Alyson, I'm going to do a few things.
I'm going to put a microphone.
I'm going to place this right up to a microphone
so, in case there's any sound, everyone can hear.
I'm going to put this sound meter-- you see this?
- Oh, yes. - La-la-la, right?
So if any sound comes out, everyone will see
a visual depiction of it.
But, in addition to that, Alyson,
the most important part
is that you listen carefully to the trumpet
so, if any noise comes out of there,
you'll tell us that it came from the trumpet
and not from me... - OK.
- Or under the table or anywhere else.
Fair? - Yes.
- All right.
I'll now attempt to summon Madam Palladino.
This may get a little scary.
[speaking Italian]
She only spoke Italian.
Madam Palladino, attenzione.
- I'm here. What do you want?
- We've made contact.
Madam Palladino, I thought you only spoke Italian.
- Until I died.
Then, I learned English.
- Ah, I see. But, Alyson--
by the way, the sound is coming from here?
- Sounds like it. - Yeah? All right.
Now that we made contact with Madam Palladino
there's something else critical you need to know.
According to the stories of her time--
- She could read people's minds.
- Wow.
- If she's a mind reader, let's put it to the test.
I have here a book-- a scientific treatise
about the history of the life of Palladino.
And I also have this
Penn and Teller "Fool Us" bookmark.
I use this for two important reasons, one of which
is it's a shameless attempt to curry favor with the judges.
But the second is, you'll see, I cut the "O" out of "Fool Us"
to create a kind of window.
You see that? - Yeah.
- So if I laid that down on a page of text,
like this one--
if I move it around, you can see that,
at different points on the page,
different words appear in the window.
- Yes. - Yeah?
Do me a favor. Just turn a couple of pages.
Find another page of text--
no diagrams or chapter headings.
- OK. - OK, good.
I will slide it up and down. Is that one good?
- Yeah.
- I'm going to slide this down until you
tell me when to stop.
- Stop. - All right.
I'm going to turn away.
I want you to look in the window.
And if you see a word, write it on that slate there,
all right? - OK.
- I'm not going to look, so I don't want to know.
Is there a word that you can see?
- Yes.
- You got it?
- Yes.
- And you can just turn that face down so no one
gets to see it other than you.
- OK. - All right.
Madam Palladino, Alyson has selected a word.
Alyson, concentrate on the word.
Madam Palladino, can you read the word?
- I see something.
A letter. It's an E.
- E.
- And the letter L.
Now I'm seeing a V. - A V?
- So it's E-L-V. I've got it!
It's elevation.
Is that right, Alyson?
- Alyson, is that the word you wrote down?
- No?
- Madam Palladino, I hate to tell you this,
but I think you're wrong.
- Not wrong.
Just a little rusty.
I've been dead a long time.
- That's true. - Let me look again.
Wait, I see.
I made a mistake.
I had the first two letters reversed.
It's L, then E, then V.
So I'm going to say the word
is "levitation," final answer.
- Alyson, she's all in.
Show us the board. - All right.
- That's amazing. That's true.
Madam Palladino, you did it.
- Gotta go.
See you on the other side. Ciao.
[soft whoosh]
- Well, she's gone.
- Judge Gary Brown.
[cheers and applause]
Do I call you Your Honor?
- Just call me Gary.
- You work in a very serious field.
Is magic a palate cleanser?
- Absolutely.
It is the greatest escape.
It's the place where whatever you imagine,
you can make come true.
- Wow. - You know?
I dreamed this up, and now, it's a thing, so...
- Do you know anyone else who performs a trick
with the spirit trumpet?
- I don't, other than spiritualists
from about 100 years ago.
But they only did it in the dark.
The challenge was doing it in the light.
- All right, Judge.
Let's go to Penn and Teller and see if they
figured out your trick. - OK.
- Oh, Judge.
It's pretty humbling to try to act like judges
when we have a real judge in our presence.
But we will do our best.
This act is very close to our hearts, especially Teller,
who spends a lot of time
with all the fraudulent spirit mediums,
you know, of the early part of the last century that
Houdini was battling against.
And some of the jokes you made in there
were, actually, very real.
For instance, when you said Palladino was speaking English
and she then said to you that she'd learned English
in the afterlife.
I believe, and you know more about this than I do,
but I believe that that was an excuse used to Houdini.
Someone claimed to have a message from the afterlife
from Houdini's mother to Houdini.
And it was written in English, which Houdini's mother
did not speak.
And when Houdini busted them on that,
the spirit medium replied that Houdini's mother
had learned English in the afterlife.
It's important to know that you could
have done this trick in the early part
of the 20th century.
There's no electronics there at all,
so we had to use induction--
I mean, deduction.
I switched those letters, just like Palladino did.
He had to use deduction to figure out
how you might have done that.
I also want to say that, using the bookmark with our names
on it to flatter us, that just worked like magic.
We were very, very flattered by that.
So we just love you.
This stuff is very close to our heart.
It's important for the people at home
to realize a lot of this stuff was really used
to, really, fool scientists who are not
very good at uncovering liars.
They're very good at uncovering truth.
But we loved the act, Judge.
And we don't think you fooled us.
I hope I slipped a few things in there,
but we've been surprised before.
- That was a lot of code talk.
Did they figure it out?
- Oh, they're so on to me.
[laughter] But thank you.
- Thank you so much. - It's been an honor.
Thank you. - Judge Gary Brown.
[cheers and applause]
"Fool Us" will be right back
with more terrific tricks,
so stick around.
♪ ♪
[jazzy music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Think we're out of great magicians?
Ha. You're wrong.
Take a look.
- When I first started on magic,
I started out with birds.
I started out doing manipulation,
a lot of standard magic.
I had a partner for years and, like Penn and Teller,
we were a magic duo.
We made some comedy with magic.
[loud thud]
Those were really good times.
But, as you get a little older and you start to look back
at your life, there's some things in my life,
before I became an entertainer,
that weren't all that funny to me.
It was loss.
It was loneliness, addiction.
You know, when I hit bottom
and I was looking for something,
you know, I remembered the joy that I had
taken of my childhood hobby--
magic, you know?
And that's how I changed my path.
What saved me?
There's the creative process--
focusing my attention away from things
that were putting me on the wrong path.
I mean, you're using your imagination.
And with your imagination, you can basically create anything.
And that's a story I tell in my magic now,
like with the trick I'm doing tonight.
It's the most personal piece I've ever done.
I think I know who I am now.
- Let's hear it for Puck.
[cheers and applause]
- Well, I grew up in foster homes
until I got adopted at the age of five.
My adopted family was wonderful,
especially my new dad.
He's one that took me to my first magic show
and bought me my first trick.
My new dad was my biggest supporter,
and he was my biggest fan.
He even started booking my shows.
I was called Puck, the Young Magician.
When I was 14, my dad passed away.
It was at that time that my love for magic
kind of faded, as well.
And I honestly didn't touch it again for another 20 years.
You know, during that time, I tried some other things.
I was in the army for a little bit.
I went to college.
And, eventually, I found my way back to my first love,
you know, which was magic.
Now, 35 years after my adopted father had passed away,
I stumbled upon some information
that led me to the identity of my biological father.
And I was surprised to learn that he was
a famous jazz musician and that I was named after him.
He was the legendary Billie Holiday's pianist,
and his most famous song has become a jazz standard.
Unfortunately, though, he died before
I was able to find out who he was.
But now, I like to look at it like this.
In my life, I was blessed, you know?
I had two earthly fathers.
And one gave me the DNA to become an entertainer.
And the other gave me the courage to follow my dreams,
so, tonight, I'd like to dedicate this next piece
to my two dads.
[jazzy music]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
[applause]
♪ ♪
- The talented Puck.
[cheers and applause]
What a loving tribute.
- Yes.
I mean, it's something I've always
wanted to do for a long time.
And I'm just happy to be able to share this with everyone.
- Aw.
You're just a big softie, aren't you?
[both chuckling]
Is this a way of connecting with your birth father?
- Yeah, definitely.
I mean, my birth father and the father who raised me,
my adoptive father, you know?
Because, without them, I definitely would,
probably, not have had the talent to do what I do now.
- You must inspire a lot of people.
- You know, it's funny you should say that.
I had kind of a troubled teenage years.
And I've taken that combined with my magic,
and I've actually turned it into a keynote speech
that I do for at-risk youth and kind of teach them
how to avoid a lot of the obstacles
that I went through, growing up, you know?
- That's incredible.
And do you think that they're learning the lesson
you're trying to teach them?
- The questions that they ask me after the speech
lets me know that they were really paying attention
and they really got something out of it.
So it makes me feel really good inside.
- That's amazing.
OK, Puck.
It's time to see if Penn and Teller figured out your trick.
- Hey, Puck. This is going to be a--
you'll have to excuse me.
It's going to be a tough one for me because I'm a little--
little choked up.
I'm not usually choked up during this--
right after magic tricks.
But that was incredibly moving.
And you'll forgive me,
I'm going to try to pull it together
and talk about the magic, if I could.
Because there's no doubt that
that was... such a touching tribute.
So forgive me to jump over some stuff here.
One of your dads was a piano player,
and you have that great, great hand dexterity.
A lot of that's nature and nurture, I suppose.
And there's a lesser-known jazz musician--
Ace McDonald-- you may have heard of.
And you did that wonderful,
invisible palm aces stuff.
You took some wonderful standards
and worked them together in a really, really new way.
And I'm trying-- [laughs]
I'm trying very hard to get through this.
But I just want to say that your dads
would be so proud of you.
And you touched us. You moved us.
And I don't think you fooled us.
And I don't think I can say any more, if you'll forgive me.
- He's making me cry. - No, I didn't fool you.
I just, you know, want to say thank you.
I mean, the platform that you're giving us, as magicians
and to be able to do something that's
so emotional and personal, to me, on this show
and share it with the world--
I mean, I thank you, again, for having me.
- Well, thank you so much for doing that.
- Oh. Well, that was wonderful, Puck.
You have brought tears to my eyes, too.
Thank you, Puck.
[cheers and applause]
We're taking a quick timeout.
And we'll get back in the game when "Fool Us" returns.
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- Welcome back.
Penn and Teller have been winning
over audiences for decades with their unique brand of magic.
Sometimes, unique means weird.
So give it up for weird and wonderful Penn and Teller.
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- The most powerful kind of magic
can do the real miracles.
It's impromptu magic, magic that's done
just off the top of your head with props
that you find in a person's house.
It can really be miraculous.
Let's say we're visiting a friend.
Let's say it's Alyson, and she has one of these in her house.
Like, we all have one of these things in our house,
the glass and the--
we have one in our house.
And you say, hey, Alyson.
- Hey.
- Nice to have us over to your house.
- Oh, you're so welcome.
- And you've got one of these things here.
See? You have one.
How long have you had this thing?
- I've never seen that thing.
- And, you know, you have-- she'll tell you a story about
when they got the thing, and it was
your grandmother's or something.
And you moved it into your house.
And then, you say, see, Alyson?
It's totally glass.
Well, of course, I don't-- you can tap on that.
But you say, look at it.
So you know it's glass because this is yours.
And this is right in the person's house,
and this is impromptu.
So there's no script. There's no prompter.
I haven't rehearsed this.
I'm just saying whatever popped into my head
because it's your house.
And then, I say, see? Look, Alyson.
We got this thing, right?
And then, we got this other-- this other--
you know? Like, you have this thing.
You have-- - Oh, more things--
- One of these, and just like this, yeah.
- That I've never seen before.
- And we all have the picture. Don't we--
- We don't. - All have the Instagram--
- We don't.
- Picture of, like, your child going whoa,
making a goofy face.
Like, little Bobby goes, whoa.
They're like that. - I don't have that.
We all have that same Instagram--
- Do we, though? - Picture of this thing.
So we got this thing and this thing and this thing,
like you'd have at your house.
So now, it's impromptu.
I'm just talking to Alyson.
She's telling me, maybe, a funny story
about when you had the--
- We have different things in our houses.
- Yeah, I know. Well, if you were over at, like,
Greg Wilson's house or something.
But, maybe, most people would have this at their house.
- Most people. - And then, you go--yeah.
You go, oh, this is just using the props around,
making it up as you go.
And then, you just find a teenager.
Can we have a teenager?
This is our teenager. - Oh, all right.
- This is Moxie. Hey, Moxie.
- Oh, a teenager. Well, I do have a teenager.
- Welcome to the show. Moxie, Alyson.
Alyson, Moxie. - Hi. Nice to see you.
- Then we say we're going to take our teenager, okay,
it just doesn't matter who the teenager is.
That's the part of it, impromptu.
I'm just making this up as I go.
- Right. - Right, right.
- Teenager, we're going to stick--you sit up there, Mox.
We're going to shove the teenager through the glass.
- No, you can't. - See how amazed she is?
She's amazed 'cause it's impromptu.
- But you can't-- - It's rolling--
- Shove a teenager through glass.
- Yeah, exactly. That's why it's a miracle.
And it's the props in your house, OK?
And then, we take a magic-- well, this is--
OK, cover that up?
This is a magic hat, OK?
So, look, we've got a magic hat.
And the teenager puts on the magic hat.
Put it on. - I'm not putting on the hat.
- That sounds like a teenager. - It's impromptu,
so we just-- - That's definitely a teenager.
- Hey, magic hat.
See, you need the magic hat because if you
don't have the magic-- see, this part of the head--
it's like a pencil.
You want to stick a pencil through paper.
- But that's not going to be deadly to the pencil.
- Is not going to go through, but this
make like you sharpen the pencil...
[clicks tongue] Right through.
- But you can't sharpen a teenager.
- It's a teenage-- put the hat on.
- No. - Put on the hat.
Just put the hat on. - Yeah, yeah.
- And then, it's got--see the special molecular stuff?
- It's tinsel.
- It's molecular stuff, is what it is.
OK, lay down.
Now, we're going to push the teenager through the glass.
What makes this amazing?
It's impromptu. It's just like, oh.
Well, he just came over to my house
and took stuff that we had around and pushed a teenager--
- Nobody has this. - Through glass.
And then, I push this-- they do, though.
They do. - The bubble wrap, maybe.
- OK, push it through.
The teenager is going through the glass.
Now, see?
That would be a good trick for the stage.
But imagine that in your house--
- I can't. - With your own thing.
Your own thing. - But I don't have that thing.
- There you go. You don't?
[stammers] Most people do, OK?
Maybe you don't happen to have yours around right now,
but most people do.
And then, their thing is back there.
And they can examine the parts of the thing and--
[glass knocking] Everything.
It's all back, right together.
And that's an impromptu magic trick
you could do right in your friend's home.
- If you can do it, do it.
[laughter]
- Give it up for Penn and Teller and Moxie Jillette.
Huge thanks to all of tonight's magicians.
Join us next time for a new episode of "Fool Us."
Good night.
[cheers and applause]
All I have is the teenager.
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