[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- From the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel
in Las Vegas, here's our host, Alyson Hannigan!
- Hey!
Welcome to "Fool Us."
Our show takes place in Las Vegas,
and tonight, we are doubling down.
Typically, we have one Penn and Teller trick,
but tonight, we're rolling the dice and giving you
two Penn and Teller tricks.
Sounds like a jackpot to me.
Before we see tonight's other magicians perform,
let's hand the stage over to the two and only
Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- The great magician, Robert Houdin,
said that a magician
was an actor playing the part of a magician,
playing the part of someone with real magical powers.
In that sense, Teller and I tend to do tricks
and not really magic.
We were thinking if we did have real magical powers,
what would that look like?
I mean, most magic isn't even desirable.
No one wants to really cut a woman in half,
and certainly, no real American
wants to vanish the Statue of Liberty.
[laughter] Curing diseases
is the job of science, and making money
is the job of the treasury.
If you had real magical powers, it would be very small,
personal, and impossible,
and probably deal
with the biggest mystery of all: life.
And if there were real magical powers...
[scoffs] They wouldn't be free.
Alyson, we're gonna show you
what we think real magic would look like.
Look at Teller's hands.
But magic is gonna cost something.
♪ ♪
A small amount of pain. - Uh-uh.
Uh... - [winces]
- Oh. - Just a prick
of the index finger-- just a little hurt,
just a little cost.
He squeezes out
a single drop of blood.
A little pain, a little bit of the life force.
We paid in blood,
and we got... [all gasp]
- Aw...
- The drop of blood is now another form of life:
a pretty little ladybug.
- Hi, bug. - And this shows that the idea
of good and evil in real magic is complicated.
To us, a small piece of beautiful life,
to a garden aphid, a nightmarish monster!
[laughter] We think that's what real magic
might look like.
- Whoa.
both: Oh!
[cheers and applause]
- All right, that's just the beginning.
Up next, Penn and Teller take their seats and take on
the world's best magicians.
And later on, they'll finish the show
with another great trick, so stick around.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
While you were gone, we came across
this world-class performer.
Let's meet them now.
[cheers and applause]
- Now we take you live out to Dubai
for the magic of Raymi!
[cheers and applause]
- For the last couple of years,
like most people,
I had so much time on my hands.
And for a magician, so much time on your hands
is such a dangerous thing.
You never know what you will come up with.
And I want to practice,
not lose my edge, and stay sharp.
So I was waking up every day in the morning,
having my breakfast, a bowl of cereal,
and trying to come up with a new trick.
But today, I came up with a trick.
I'm gonna show you my imagination was dry.
And I discovered that the idea
I'm looking for was under my nose.
That's right. I created
a perfect trick using cereal.
[calm music]
Alyson, I need your help.
- Okay. - All right, I'm gonna take
a random cereal.
♪ ♪
And we gonna make this cereal
a one-of-a-kind cereal, Alyson.
- Ooh.
- I want you to tell me something
so I write it on the cereal.
- Love.
Ah, that's super cute, Alyson.
- Thanks.
- All right, I'm gonna write...
♪ ♪
L-O on one side.
- Aw...
♪ ♪
- And V-E on the other side.
V-E.
♪ ♪
Can you see that? - Yes.
♪ ♪
- L-O and V-E.
All right.
♪ ♪
Now I'm gonna be the first magician in the world to find
a signed cereal. But first, I have to lose it.
♪ ♪
Fair enough, Alyson?
- Sure.
- Well, not for me.
♪ ♪
I feel like I'm having my breakfast.
[laughter]
Mmm.
[clears throat]
That was dry without my milk.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Gone.
- All gone, right? - All gone.
- Now, where do you imagine we're gonna find this cereal?
- Ugh, I don't wanna imagine. [laughter]
- Yeah, I'll come back in 24 hours,
all right? [laughter]
- Ew. - Now,
as you remember, I said, "A magician with time
on his hands is such a dangerous thing."
[tense music]
And I wanted to stay sharp.
[groans]
[laughter]
- Why you breathing hard, Alyson?
'Cause I just stopped liking you.
[laughter]
- Before I continue--
♪ ♪
- Yeah, it's empty.
- Nothing. - Nothin' there.
- Now, please, it's gonna look super real,
yet it is magic.
Watch closely. - [gasps]
Oh, God.
Seriously?
Mm-mm.
♪ ♪
all: Oh! - Oh...
It's...
♪ ♪
Yeah.
It's the only time I'm glad you're in Dubai...
[laughter] And not here.
- [laughs] - Oh, God.
- Alyson, trust me. It hurts me more than you do.
- [groans]
- And don't worry. I used to help my mom,
sewing my clothes, so I know what I'm doing.
- [scoffs] Oh.
I'm sure she's very happy about that.
I'm never gonna eat cereal again.
[laughter]
all: Ooh!
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
No...
♪ ♪
all: Ooh!
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
[laughs] Oh, it's so gross.
[all shouting in shock]
- Ah.
- Mm-kay. - You ready?
- [groans]
♪ ♪
[groans]
♪ ♪
Ew. all: Whoa!
- Yeah. [cheers and applause]
That's it.
[applause]
- Is that your cereal, Alyson? - Yeah.
Yes, it's my cereal.
[laughter] [groans]
Raymi!
[applause]
Ugh, Raymi, can I just recommend intermittent fasting?
Just skip breakfast, okay? - Well--
[laughs] - [groans]
- I will take it in consideration, Alyson.
Thank you for the advice. - [groans]
Do you love magic,
or do you love grossing people out?
- [laughs] I think the mix of both
is what gives it a new spark.
- So this is your breakfast idea.
I really don't wanna see your lunch or dinner idea.
- [laughs]
You've done a great job, Alyson.
I expected you were gonna run out of stage.
- [laughs]
Are all of your tricks freakshow tricks?
- Not really. But I like to put
this extra push, you know? To make something
really memorable. - And they love
this kind of stuff, especially Penn.
- Exactly. That's what I was gonna say.
- Okay, Raymi, let's see if Penn and Teller
can poke holes in your magic method.
- Hey, Raymi. You know, we're thinkin'
that maybe you aren't in Dubai.
You're really upstairs at the Rio,
and therefore, you have fooled us.
[laughter] But I guess you're over
in Dubai. We really, really wish
that you could be here in person,
not just because we'd like to meet you,
but also because as George Carlin said
about the class clown--
he said, "The goal of the class clown
is to make the girls throw up."
And I think if you'd have been here,
you could've got Alyson actually sick...
- Mm. - If you'd been close enough.
Only the video protected her,
and we would have loved that.
We would've loved to have you live.
I also wanna say something that you didn't say
that's very important for me to say, and that is
"Do not try this at home."
When people are watching your show...
- Yeah. - They can try
the card tricks, they can try the coin tricks,
but don't try anything that Raymi does.
He is a professional.
Don't try that. And a tremendous amount
of this, which, as you predicted,
I absolutely loved, is real and is carny stuff.
And you may know or you may not,
but Teller, for years and years,
has done the needles,
where he swallows a hundred needles, six feet of thread,
brings the needles out threaded, and some of that
uses the same method you're using,
so we are conversant with that.
I will also say that of all the props you used,
I mean, most of them, almost all of them,
were totally real.
But one of the props you used
was a little bit different
than we expected. You did a little something
to one of the props.
But I don't wanna say what it is
because it's such a good trick.
And boy, we loved it.
And boy!
We are not--we are not happy you're not here in person,
'cause I really wanted to see Alyson watch that.
But I don't think you fooled us.
- So Raymi, do they know the secret to your trick?
- Yes, they did. - Aw, well, thank you
for grossing me out.
Raymi!
- Thank you so much. - So good.
[applause]
- Penn and Teller just laid out how that last trick was done.
But they might not be so lucky with this next one.
Stay close.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back. Penn and Teller are ready
to take on our next magician.
Let's find out who it is.
[cheers and applause]
- From across the pond, please welcome the magic
of Kat Hudson!
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, I'm Kat Hudson, and I don't do magic
with playing cards or doves.
Everything I need to do my magic is right there
inside my handbag.
In fact, my entire life's in there.
I'll show you what I mean.
[soft music]
When I get up in the morning:
cup of tea.
Mid-morning: chocolate.
♪ ♪
Doing a show for Penn and Teller
on television:
vodka.
[laughter]
If anyone goes into my bag and removes an item,
I know instantly what they've taken.
I'm like a psychic security guard.
So I thought, seeing as I've come out all this way,
why not test that theory out today?
So I managed to drag away four random volunteers
from those Vegas slot machines, and they're gonna help me out.
Hi, guys.
And this is what's gonna happen:
one at a time, they're gonna go up to the bag,
they're gonna take a look inside,
remove an item, and pop it behind their back.
Oh, there is something in there I'd like to hold onto.
It's my shopping list. I'm gonna need that.
I'll pop that in there.
I love a list.
Now, whilst they're doing that,
obviously, I'm gonna be turned away so that I can't see.
I'm just gonna be over here, powdering my nose.
♪ ♪
[laughter]
I'm only kidding.
There's not even a mirror in there.
It's a picture of you guys.
I like to think of you as my two magic dads.
[laughter]
Now, when you are ready, person number one,
go to the bag, choose an item, and take it out.
Now, do you know, my husband--
he thinks I've got too much stuff in that bag.
But I think he's wrong,
'cause I don't know anyone can leave the house
without nine scrunchies, 37 bobby pins, and a hair clip.
[laughter]
Now, person number four, when you've chosen your item,
could you also pick up the handbag and take that
back with you?
And then just let me know
when it's safe to turn around.
♪ ♪
- You can turn around now.
♪ ♪
- Great, excellent.
Let's do this.
Now, obviously, I already know what they've taken,
'cause I've got magic powers, haven't I?
But let's see if I'm right.
♪ ♪
Person number one, you've definitely taken something
in a tube.
Now, it could be the glue stick.
It could be the lip balm.
I know some idiot that got the two mixed up once.
And I can't tell you who it was
'cause my lips are sealed.
[laughter]
[whispers] It was me.
But today, you've taken the lip balm!
all: Oh! - There we have it.
Item number one, thank you very much.
[applause]
Person number two.
Now, this item I love to use.
I pop it in my ears, and it drowns out the sound
of my husband when he's giving it all that.
You've taken the earphones!
♪ ♪
all: Whoa!
The earphones. Thank you very much.
Item number two.
[applause]
Now, person number three--
as soon as he took out this item,
I've had my eye on him,
because it's something I could definitely do with
'round about now.
You've taken the vodka!
♪ ♪
all: Oh!
- Ah, what?
[applause]
Thank you very much.
And last, but by no means least--
now, I'm not quite sure why you chose this item,
because it really isn't your color.
- Huh?
- Nuh-uh.
But I know for a fact, today,
you've taken the makeup!
all: Whoa! [applause]
- Thank you so much.
It's more for me.
This is 24-hour maintenance,
so I definitely need that back. Thank you so much.
And there we have it.
It worked! Yes.
[applause] Aw, thank you.
And that is four out of four.
But wait, there is more,
because remember, right? At the beginning,
I showed you a shopping list.
Could you please hand me the bag back?
♪ ♪
Oh, I love this.
Thank you so much.
Now, it is a shopping list,
and it's a list of all the items
that were taken today,
'cause I thought I might have needed to replace them.
Luckily, I got them back.
Now, not only is it a list of everything that was chosen
today, but it's a list in the exact same order
that they were taken out.
Number one, the lip balm.
Number two, the earphones.
Number three, the vodka.
And number four, the makeup.
And that, my friends, is a miracle!
Thank you. Thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
- Kat Hudson!
Hi. - Hi.
- Oh, that's fantastic.
It's also probably very useful
when you're looking for your keys.
It's brilliant. I've got so much junk in there
that I honestly cannot find stuff regularly.
- Yeah. - I just lob it in.
In fact, I think my mum will be disappointed
that I've not cleaned it up for the show.
She'll be-- - Ah.
So you and your husband are both magicians.
- Yeah, we are. - Is that just, like,
tons of fun or really annoying?
- A bit of both. [laughter]
Especially during lockdown. We were constantly trying
stuff out on each other, and I think--yeah,
I think our skills improved,
but there was a few more arguments created, definitely.
So how did you become a professional magician?
So Alan was a magician when I met him, and I wasn't.
So, um,
I'd never met a magician before,
and he started showing me some tricks,
and I found that's pretty cool.
- Mm-hmm. - And I started going to shows
with him, helping him set stuff up.
And I thought, "Mm, maybe I can have a go at that."
- Do you find it hard,
working in a business dominated by men?
- You'd think that I would. But I've been welcomed
with open arms.
I just wish there was more women in magic in general.
- Yeah. Okay, Kat.
Let's see if you have to make room in your purse
for a "Fool Us" trophy. - [laughs]
- Boys.
- Hey, Kat. Boy--
- Hello! - You know, usually,
the people who are on here
with their crazy English accents
don't have the one you have.
Where's your accent from?
- I'm from Hull.
- Okay.
- You have no idea where that is, do you?
- Yes, I do know a little bit about that,
a tiny bit. So I'm a little bit--
a little bit hip to Hull, as they say.
But we love your accent very, very much.
But it's wonderful. The whole style is great.
It makes me very envious, because I've always--
I've always thought that carrying a handbag
was a wonderful idea, 'cause you can have all sorts of stuff
in there. - Yeah, absolutely.
- It's a great trick, and the misdirect
with the compact is very, very nice.
And I'm sure, you know, if I were carrying a handbag,
I'd have all sorts of stuff, and I'd have changed the bag.
You know, you could have electronics in your handbag.
You could have anything in the handbag there.
You know, and it's wonderful how you move around the stage.
You look good, and you walk to one side,
then you walk behind the table, and on the other side--
and it was just a celebration, you know?
Speaking of celebrations, Teller and I--
you know, we don't socialize much.
But every New Year's Eve, we get together,
and we watch on TV, we watch in Times Square,
you know, New Year's Eve, we watch the ball drop.
Do you watch the ball drop over in England?
- I do, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't even know why I asked you that.
I guess you know more about Hull than you would
Times Square, but we loved the routine so much, Kat.
We think we slipped a few things in there
that might make you think we have some idea
how you did it, but we don't know.
Maybe you fooled us. - I understand it.
[laughter]
- So you understand if you fooled them or not...
- Yes. - But I don't.
So explain it to me.
- I did not fool 'em. - Aw.
Well, you certainly entertained us.
- Aw, thank you. - Thank you so much.
- Thanks so much for havin' me!
- Kat Hudson! - Thank you, bye!
[applause]
- We've got more magicians ready to dazzle you tonight,
including a finale by Penn and Teller.
So stick around.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"
where the term "double lift" does not mean
two British elevators.
Let's see if this next magician
can push Penn and Teller's buttons.
- In Mexico, there's a tradition of the stage magic.
You tell someone, "I'm a magician,"
and they invite you to perform at their kid's party.
I'm working to change that on stage and off.
I used to have a kind of stage fright.
I learned all the moves,
but I had no faith in my abilities.
Then I met a truly great magician from Spain.
We hit it off, and somehow, I ended up being his manager.
As a manager, you have a career in magic
that belongs to someone else.
Night after night, you see all the secrets.
My stage fright wore away, and my confidence grew.
I began performing again,
and here I am.
This idea of community between magicians is important to me.
I see Mexico as a meeting place where the big talents
from everywhere come together from all over the world.
So I carry many flags with me,
but tonight, mostly, the flag of Mexico.
[cheers and applause]
- Everyone, say "Hola, amigo"
to Mexico's own Javier Natera.
- Hola. - Hola.
Hi, how are you? My name is Javier Natera,
and I come from Guadalajara, Mexico.
- Ooh. - Whoa.
[laughs]
So it's normal, Alyson, to have tricks
that you like more than others.
For example, I love the coincidence trick.
Do you like the coincidence tricks?
- Sure. - Me too.
What a coincidence. [laughter]
Alyson, have you ever seen the Queen's Trick?
- Uh, probably. - I'll show you.
I'll put some cards here on the table.
[romantic music]
And you say stop whenever you want.
- Okay.
Stop. - There?
- Yes. - Remember this image.
- Okay. - A queen.
- [gasps] - And today, we're gonna work
with some coincidences, okay?
So this is the first coincidence, okay?
- Okay. - We're gonna shuffle
a little bit more.
For the second coincidence,
we're gonna find the soulmate
of the queen of clubs.
- Mm. - You know what is a soulmate
of the queen of clubs? - Spade?
The queen of spades? - The queen of spades, no?
"Reina de Picas" in Spanish. - Oh.
- Okay, so probably, if I cut here,
I do this, this--
there's the Reina de Picas. [laughs]
[applause]
By the way, there's no more, like, queens in the deck, no?
'Cause many people say, "Yeah, you have extra queens,
or you have extra"--no, pero--
but I'll tell you something.
I also like tricks that require a strange card handling
that are really, in a way, strange.
So I'm gonna lose the queens here,
and I need your help...
- Okay. - To make the next trick work.
And in order to make it work, you have to do exactly like me.
- Oh, dear. - So no pressure for you.
- There's a lot of pressure.
- I meant [whispers] much pressure.
[laughter]
We're gonna shuffle a little bit.
da-da-dack. Shuffled.
And cut half for you.
- Half for me? - Yeah.
- Kay. - Now, ready?
'Cause we have to do it kind of fast.
- Oh, gosh. - Kay,
take one, two, or three queens.
The card--sorry--or queens, and put it in the middle.
Take some cards from the bottom.
Put it on the top. - Wait, wait, wait.
You're going too fast. - Put it on the bottom,
and take one from the middle. Put it on the top.
Another, take-- - I hate doing 'em.
- One, take one, yeah. One.
- Anywhere? - Uh, yeah,
and put it--yeah, probably in the middle,
or in the bottom, no? Remember, like me, exactly.
- I'm not exactly at all. - Like this, no?
With card, no? And then we shuffle, no?
- Shuffle. - Shuffle.
And then-- - Shuffle.
- We open a fan, and we close the fan.
- Okay. - This doesn't do anything,
but it's fun to do it. - Oh.
- Or not, no?
[laughs] - We have different ideas
of fun. But go ahead.
- Okay. Now we can swap it.
- Okay. - Like this, no?
- Yeah. - And now, we just put cards
like this and stop whenever you want.
For example, I stop here. Oh, no, one more.
- Okay, there.
- You want me to put one more? - Sure.
Here or there?
- Where--ooh.
There.
- Wanna put one more here? - Yeah.
- Are you happy? - I'm happy.
- I'm happy too. - Okay.
- Now take the rest of the deck.
Put it there. Square everything.
Now for the magical and complicated coincidence.
- Okay. - Whoa.
- Ooh. - We're gonna take
the deck under the table.
- Me too? - Yeah, yeah.
- Okay. - Take the bottom card
and put it on the middle.
- Kay. - Without looking.
- Aw. - Aw.
Take the top card, and put it on the middle.
- Ah. - Pass the bottom card
to the top.
Now, Alyson, top or bottom-- don't tell me.
Don't tell me.
Take the top card or the bottom card.
It's up to you.
Take it. I'll do the same.
Turn it faceup,
and put it on the middle.
- Faceup and put it in the middle.
- Yeah.
Kay, and square everything
like me.
[country music]
Ah. [laughs]
So Alyson, you selected a random card.
You know what card you selected?
- No. - No one can know, no?
- No. - How we can know
which card it is?
- 'Cause you'll tell me.
- I actu--no, I have no idea.
But if we look... - Right.
- We can see. - Okay.
- So can you spread?
- Okay.
- It's the nine of hearts, no? - Yes.
- I'll try to spread. Look, the nine of diamonds.
[laughs] [applause]
The second coincidence.
Now let's go for a different one.
- Really? - Really.
Are you ready? - I guess so.
- Look, I'm not gonna touch.
I'm gonna leave here.
- Okay. - And nothing in my hands.
Remember, that's-- that's in the middle.
Take under the table faster.
Take the bottom card and put it on the middle.
Take the top card. Turn it faceup.
Put it on the middle and shuffle.
The important thing is you shuffle.
- I'm not--I gotta shuffle. Hold on.
I'm shuffling. - And cut and complete.
- Oh, goodness, wait. This is a lot of pressure.
- Remember, we're doing the same trick.
- You're not doing anything. - Yes, I don't touch here.
And remember, it was on--yeah.
- Okay.
I'm terrified. - Me too.
[laughs] - And I dropped the card.
- I have no idea. - Okay.
- Spread.
♪ ♪
Oh. - Ooh.
- No, but it was a nine, no?
- It was. It was--
- Well, do you know about the soulmates of cards?
I don't know why,
but always, they find each other.
all: Oh! - Thank you.
- Wow.
[applause]
Aw...
Javier Natera!
- Thank you. [chuckles]
[applause]
- If your magic can survive my card-handling,
it's pretty magical. - No, but you were amazing.
- Eh, that's very kind of you.
You must be a great liar.
- Or a magician, no?
[laughter]
- Do you always have a deck of cards with you?
- Yes. - It's something that
all the people that know me-- it's like I can forget
my phone, my wallet, my keys,
but the deck? No.
[laughter] - Okay,
what's your favorite performance
that you've ever done?
- Probably the places where they don't see magic
for the first time. Like,
even, like, couple years ago,
I was in Nepal with some rocks playing with childrens
up in the mountains, and watching how magic
can communicate and connect. - Yeah.
- And it's amazing, no?
- That's so wonderful.
- That was hard to say in English, but--
[laughs] - No, that's amazing.
All right, Javier, let's see if Penn and Teller figured out
how you did your trick. - Awesome.
- Javier! - Hola.
- You really handle cards very, very well.
- Thank you. Gracias.
- You do a lot, a lot of different stuff,
and boy, you did a lot of work
to keep our attention on Alyson
and to try to get us to forget
how very skilled you are with a deck of cards.
And you're very skilled.
That first thing with the queens is really nice,
and the psychology behind that is also really, really nice.
And then, when you get to the second part,
our attention gets split on the cards
as we're going back and forth, and you're having Alyson
do this, do that, do this, do that,
and the audience has a lot of fun with that.
Alyson has a lot of pressure on that,
and it is a pain in the ass for us.
There was so much going on there.
We had to sit here and reconstruct the whole thing,
and say, "Wait a minute," you know?
"He's doin' some stuff while Alyson's workin',
"while Alyson's struggling through that
and our attention is shifted there."
It took us a lot to put it back together.
And it's a really nice routine.
But when we were able to put it all back together,
we don't think you fooled us.
- Did they figure it out?
- Yes, I got a couple things they say.
[laughter]
- So you know that they know how you did your trick?
- Yes. [laughter]
- Okay.
Javier Natera!
- Thank you. - Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
More head-scratching and jaw-dropping magic
when "Fool Us" returns.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Penn and Teller close out every show with a trick.
But tonight, they're doing something very special
with two old friends.
Let's see what they have in store for us.
Take it away, Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- Mac King and Piff the Magic Dragon
are about our favorite magicians
in the whole, wide world.
They're also two of our best friends.
They've been on our show a bunch of times.
We even met Piff on "Fool Us."
But as good as they both are,
they have never fooled us.
[laughter] Neither one of them
has ever won a trophy.
But now, we've got a trick that we hope will fool Mac and Piff.
And if we don't fool them, if they bust us,
we'll give 'em each a damn trophy.
So please welcome our judges for this next trick,
Mac King and Piff the Magic Dragon!
[cheers and applause]
Come on up here.
Now, we're gonna try to fool you with your own props.
- Oh. - We have three
Piffin' Ain't Easy cups. - [laughs]
- These are expensive. - Yes, they are.
And we've got, of course, without a doubt,
a Fig Newton.
Now we're gonna turn our backs.
We won't look. So you can decide among you
how you're gonna do this,
but follow our directions carefully--
one, two, and three.
We'll go turn our backs here.
Okay, Mac and Piff. We're not looking.
Put the fig cookie under one of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.
[suspicious music]
Have you done that? - It is under the cup.
- Okay, now, the two cups that do not have the cookie,
the two cups without the cookies, switch those.
♪ ♪
- Switched. - Okay, now take
any two of the three cups and switch those,
but tell us which they are-- any two.
- Yeah. - Which ones--which ones--
- We're switching two and three.
- Two and three have been switched.
Now do that again-- any two cups.
Switch 'em, tell us which ones.
- One and three. - One and three.
Okay, now clean up
any crumbs.
And are you all set-- - Oh, that's my theory.
Ah, there goes my first theory.
[laughter] - We're gonna turn around now.
Is that okay?
- Yeah. - Uh, yeah.
- Now Teller will magically divine
where the fig cookie is
under the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.
[eerie music]
He's gettin' a vibe.
Can you see him gettin' the vibe?
[ding]
- Oh! - And there is the fig cookie
under the Piffin' Ain't Easy cup.
But you know, guys, we really want you to win the trophies.
So we're gonna do it again. - Whew.
- And just in case you're thinking
that maybe we were peeking,
we're gonna have one of you do the trick,
and the other one will police us.
- Oh, okay. - Okay?
So Mac, you're gonna make sure we can't see,
and Piff, you're gonna do the trick alone, okay?
Now, set back here, please, Mac.
- Yes, sir. - And just stand between us.
Face the audience,
and just put your hands over our eyes.
- There and there. - Very nice hand cream,
very nice. - Oh, thank you.
- Good, good, good. Okay, Piff, put the Fig cookie
under one of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.
[suspicious music]
- Done. - Now switch the other two.
♪ ♪
- Done. - Now take any two
of the three cups and switch them,
but tell us which ones you've done.
♪ ♪
- I switched two and three.
- Two and three. And Mac, is he all done,
crumbs cleaned up?
- He seems to have Hoover'd it up.
- [chuckles] Okay. You can, maybe, let us see now.
Good. We'll both go back,
and over here--
[laughter]
Let Teller do his work.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
all: Oh!
- Now we're gonna do it one more time.
- [laughs]
- Okay? And this time, we're gonna let
Mac do it.
And Piff, you can come back and be the enforcer
and make sure that we can't see.
- Okay. - Okay?
So come back here. Same thing as before.
I think you know the whole thing.
Here, Piff. Stand between us.
Face the audience. Okay.
And Mac, put the fig cookie
under one of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.
- Yes, sir.
- Now switch the other two.
[suspicious music]
- Other two switched.
- Now pick any two of the three cups,
and switch those, and tell us which ones.
- Switching one and two.
- One and two.
Now make sure there are no crumbs.
♪ ♪
And Piff, you can take your hands down whenever he's done.
And we'll come back over right over here.
And go ahead, Teller. Work your magic.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps] - And there is the fig cookie
right there. And that's our trick.
Now guys, if you can figure out how we did this trick,
you're gonna get the trophies
that you've wanted for so long.
If you can't-- - At least five minutes.
[laughter]
- So please back to your seats.
[cheers and applause]
Piff the Magic Dragon and Mac King!
[indistinct]
- These are two really smart guys.
- They're really smart.
They really know magic really well,
and they know us really well.
They know the kind of thing we would do.
- And how did you go about picking this particular trick?
- This is a trick we hope will fool them.
It's a little bit--it's--
what we love about it is, it's very, very simple.
- Uh-huh. - You can see it.
You can lay it all out there.
It's very, very simple.
But it is remarkably complex in how it's done.
And that's what we wanted to do, because we wanna give them
a good chance at the trophy.
But we don't want them to feel like we just handed it to them.
- Right. - They would feel cheap.
- Okay, Penn and Teller, let's go to Mac and Piff
and see if they can bust you.
- Hello, boys. - [chuckles] Hello.
- Hey, fellers.
- We both run tight magic organizations, don't we all?
- Oh, yeah, we do. - We all do shows daily
on the Las Vegas Strip.
But I believe only one of us
monitors our own merchandise sales.
[laughter]
And so it was that I happened to see
eight of those fine mugs reasonably priced
depart the Piff the Magic Dragon storage facilities
to a familiar address that I happened to recognize.
[laughter] So a mug trick
was definitely in the cards. Now when Mac came on this show
the very first time, he said that if you fool Teller,
you've fooled Penn and Teller. - Uh-huh?
- I believe I can say with confidence
that if you fool Mac, you fool Piff and Mac.
[laughter]
Mac, did they fool you?
- I don't believe they did.
I've actually seen this trick before.
My gardener, Martin...
[laughter]
- Good guy. Good guy.
- Did that. How about you--have you?
- [exaggerated] Hmm.
[laughter] [exaggerated] Hmm.
- Did that code mean anything to you guys?
- [exaggerated] Hmm, uh...
[laughter]
They not only coded one thing that had a code,
they coded both things they could've coded.
We did not fool them, and that means,
in this backwards world, that the trophy comes down.
[laughter] [applause]
And there's only one trophy, but Teller magically--
- Oh! - Hey, there's two!
Yay! - Two trophies!
What an act!
- And they weren't fooled!
- [laughs] - Thanks to Mac King,
Piff the Magic Dragon, Penn and Teller,
and thanks to all of you for watching.
Good night from the entertainment capital
of the world.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
- Oh, thank you for coming. It's very convenient.
- You're so welcome.
We got the video.