[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Brooke Burke.
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us," the epicenter
of the magic universe, where we welcome
the best magicians in the world,
and then we challenge them to take down
two of the greatest to ever wave a wand.
Abracadabra, here they are now--
Penn and Teller.
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Every magician who takes the stage
wants one thing: the infamous "Fool Us" trophy.
And all they've got to do is fool
two of magic's greatest minds.
Stepping up right now is tonight's first act.
- I had a magical childhood.
I started performing at age four,
and I haven't stopped.
I grew up in the circus,
and I am the third generation of magicians.
Magic is in my DNA.
My husband, Arkadio, is a magician too.
We have great chemistry when we perform illusions together.
I also love to sing.
And I have recorded many of my songs.
One of them is even called "Magic."
♪ If you want to see magic, baby, come over here ♪
♪ Come on ♪
The act I will perform--
it's a fusion of many magic skills.
Most people who do quick change
just do quick change.
I combine it with card manipulation
and a sleight of hand to create something
nobody's ever seen before.
Penn and Teller, see you on the stage.
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up for the fashionable magic
of Solange Kardinaly. [applause]
[brisk music playing]
♪ I'll take you by surprise, like a stranger in the night ♪
♪ Ready or not, here I come ♪
♪ Boy, you better run and hide ♪
♪ Here comes trouble ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Here comes trouble ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I said, oh, oh, I feel your lust ♪
♪ I know you want to be dangerous ♪
♪ Can't you see I'm a good girl going bad ♪
♪ Good girl going bad ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm a good girl going bad ♪
♪ Who wants trouble? ♪
♪ ♪
[music ends]
[applause]
- ♪ I got bills to pay ♪
♪ Love gets in the way ♪
♪ I'm not looking for a regular thing, whoo-hoo ♪
♪ Let's keep it casual, pure and physical ♪
♪ Part-time lovers, if you know what I mean ♪
♪ Oh, come when I call you ♪
♪ Oh, doing it for you ♪
♪ Oh, gonna enjoy it ♪
♪ Can you feel it? ♪
♪ Oh, temperature rising ♪
♪ Oh, slowly driving ♪
♪ Oh, where do I go ♪
♪ When I'm in love with you ♪
♪ It feels good ♪
♪ Come treat me like you should ♪
♪ We get up, we get down ♪
♪ You come and love me good ♪
♪ Like you should ♪
♪ You know I know you could ♪
♪ We get up, we get down ♪
♪ The weekend comes around ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The weekend comes around ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The weekend comes around ♪
♪ I didn't mean to lead you on ♪
[applause]
♪ So I'm here to tell you what I want ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Said come the weekend, you're the one ♪
♪ But when we're talking 9 to 5 ♪
♪ Well, it's just me, myself, and I, oh ♪
♪ Friday through Saturday and Sunday ♪
♪ You know that they're my fun days ♪
♪ And I'm about to get it started ♪
♪ Call me, the week is over ♪
♪ You'll be my Casanova ♪
♪ I got new things to show you ♪
♪ When I'm in love with you
♪ It feels good ♪
♪ Come treat me like you should ♪
♪ We get up, we get down ♪
♪ You come and love me good, like you should ♪
♪ You know I know you could ♪
♪ We get up, we get down ♪
♪ The weekend comes around ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[rhythmic clapping]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[audience exclaims]
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[audience exclaims]
[applause]
[cheers and applause]
- Well, well, Solange Kardinaly.
That was so much fun to watch.
I think every girl watching this wishes
they could change that fast.
[laughter]
- Yeah, it's true.
- So I understand that you design all your own costumes.
- Yeah.
- How did you learn how to do that?
- Alone.
- I know this was a big dream of yours,
to be here with us tonight. - Yeah.
- What does it feel like?
- I--it's amazing.
I'm so glad to be here.
And it's an amazing experience.
- All right, Solange, so let's see
if Penn and Teller know how you stitched your trick together.
Here we go. Boys?
- Oh, Solange, it's so great to see
that quick change has really come into magic so much.
It used to be for years and years and years,
quick-change stuff was just the same.
It was stagnant.
And there's this whole new wave
of quick-change acts like this that are just amazing.
And you put all this incredible manipulations you do--
every single move that can be done with cards.
You do them all, and you do them beautifully.
And it's wonderful to see a woman
do serious manipulation stuff.
And the principles you're using here,
we could say where the principles came from.
And the genius of this act is that
no one would recognize it.
You do a torn-and-restored newspaper,
but no one would know that.
You do a goodnight banner, and no one would know that.
It's all this stuff that's been repurposed,
so it's totally new.
Plus speaking of totally new, the thing with the clear bag,
where the dress pops out of it onto you
is a brand-new thing and just beautiful.
And it looks just perfect.
We could not have loved the act more.
And we don't think you fooled us.
And you don't need to because you'll be traveling
forever doing this act and thrilling audiences
all over the world. It's wonderful.
[cheers and applause] - Thank you so much.
- Sounds like they loved your performance.
But you didn't fool the boys.
But we enjoyed it so much.
- Thank you so much.
- Solange Kardinaly.
[applause]
You'll see more amazing magic tricks,
including tonight's grand finale
by the two and only Penn and Teller.
Stick around, everyone.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us," where we feature
the best magicians in the world, like this one.
- I'm a lover of laughter.
I like to enjoy the good things in life.
I mostly perform as a solo act.
But I'm also a part of a magic trio
known as the Fat Brothers.
When you got it--[chuckles]
Flaunt it, right?
When I was 19, I was a cocky young magician
who thought card magic was boring.
Then I met a legend of magic, Juan Tamariz.
He taught me cards are like people.
Inside each one, there's a story,
and it's yearning to be told.
One day, Juan challenged me to take a classic card effect
and do it in a way that no one had done before.
And somehow, I figured it out.
I'm doing it tonight because I love card magic now.
And I'll love it just a little bit more
if I fool Penn and Teller.
[applause]
- All the way from Finland,
please welcome Christian Engblom.
[cheers and applause] - Thank you.
- Hi, Christian. - Hi.
Please sit down. - Thank you.
- Nice to meet you. - Pleasure to meet you.
- And so, Penn, Teller, I think you'll agree with me when
I say that as magicians, there is a slight curse
in our profession.
Because the more and more we know,
the less and less we get to experience
this wonderful feeling of impossibility.
Well, I'm going to try to perform something today
that hopefully will re-create that emotion in you.
A little presumptuous of me, I guess, or a little special
is the fact that I'm going to try to amaze you
with a routine that you guys know,
I mean, from in to out--
the triumph.
- Hmm.
- So let's start where everyone starts
and end with a big finish.
[laughter]
All right, Brooke. - I'm excited.
- I'm going to ask you to reach in
and just take one playing card.
- Ready? - Yes.
[gentle music]
Don't be greedy, just one. - Just one.
- All right, and I'll give you a pen.
So I'll let you please sign it on the face.
- OK.
- You might want to try to hide it from me
because even I know myself.
If I have a chance, I'm going to look.
And I've seen this trick before.
All right, show it to the camera as well--
the card, please.
In the meantime, what I'm doing is
I'm turning half of the cards face up,
the other cards face down.
So we're going to shuffle these two halves face up, face down.
It's going to be a mess. - OK.
- But before that, we need to replace
your card into the deck.
Now, I never want to see the card,
so it's going to always be face down.
You get to choose.
Do you want it in the face up pile or the face down pile?
It doesn't matter because they'll get shuffled.
- Face up, please. - Then you put it face up.
But keep it face down. - I will.
- Just slide it where you want. Yeah, just like this.
- All done. - Good.
- More? OK. - Square it up into a pile.
Yeah, perfect.
So I'm going to shuffle these two piles that
are facing a different way.
I'm going to try to do it as well as I possibly can.
Now, if you don't remember the card, don't worry.
- I do.
- You have your name on it.
- OK. [laughter]
- So sometimes people think that maybe
I didn't shuffle well.
So I want to show you.
How do you feel?
Do you think that the cards are shuffled
face to face, back to back?
- Looks good to me.
- Well, maybe if I want to be a perfectionist,
I might put one more there.
All right, and we magicians-- especially maybe the gentlemen
Penn and Teller-- might be curious on, well,
they're shuffled on this side.
But what about the other side?
It's because we magicians, we're a strange breed.
[laughter] - I know.
I'm learning that. - Yeah. [chuckles]
So I'll show the other side as well.
And you get to see that. - OK.
- Yeah, it's OK? - Looks good to me.
- Very good.
So in this instance, I just want
to be absolutely sure that
your card is not on the bottom--
- No.
- Or on the top. - No.
- Very good.
May I ask, what was your card?
- Three of clubs.
- Three of clubs, thank you.
All I do is I snap my fingers,
and all the cards turn face down...
except for, hopefully--
yeah, all of them turn face down, every single one,
except for one three of clubs--
[audience exclaims]
In the middle, right there.
[cheers and applause]
- That's my card.
- And that's it.
- Christian Engblom.
Very special. Let's chat.
So you are here all the way from Finland.
- I am, yeah.
- And did you bring anyone with you?
- I did, actually.
- I saw that.
- I brought my family.
And then there's some friends over there.
- You are the only magician from Finland--
- But, excuse me, could we see the deck?
Could we borrow-- it's now your deck.
- Sure. I have your permission?
- Sure, sure. Go.
Go for it. - I know it was for you.
- I guess I don't need the permission.
- But we did want to give-- take a look at it here.
- Here you go, OK. - Thank you.
We'll give it back to you. - That's my souvenir.
- Thank you, Brooke. Yeah, thank you.
We'll just look at them for a little while.
- All right. So how do you feel about that?
Does that make it a little bit riskier?
- Actually, it makes me very happy
that they are emotionally invested
in this triumph, an effect that they know so well.
So I'm really happy that they want to look.
And the effect isn't over yet for them.
- And you mentioned that they know this trick in and out.
You told us that. - They do, yes.
- Does that make it a little bit riskier?
Are you that brave to choose a magic trick that
they know to perform on the show?
- I got to say that I'm just crazy.
I'm from Finland. So that's--
- Is that your--
- It's true. It's my only excuse.
Also, because this version of this triumph is my own.
It's like a little baby of mine.
So I love it.
And I--as I love it, I wanted to perform it
for two of my favorite magicians.
- There's a lot of perusing going on over there.
- Yes. Yes, they are.
- May I ask you, does a trick like this ever go wrong?
- Oh, yes, it does. I mean, we're--
- And then what do you do?
- I pray.
[laughter]
- Well, Christian, you ready?
Let's see if your triumph-- - I'm ready.
- Turns into a trophy.
Boys?
- Oh, Christian, you know, we know you're really good.
You have the most amazing reputation as a card guy.
And that's an amazing, amazing presentation.
I want to tell people, just because triumph
is a standard trick and a trick we've done
and a trick that almost any serious magician has done.
And there's only one moment in this whole trick
that a magician cares about,
and that's when you show the other side.
You can show one side with some face up and face down,
but you can't show the other side face up and face down.
So that's the only instant in that trick we cared about.
And we asked to do something we haven't done in years.
But we thought you were up to it.
We asked to see the deck. - Yes.
- And you gave us the deck.
And we found something in the deck.
We found a breather.
And if you want to look that up on the internet,
you can look it up.
But we found a breather in this deck.
We found the breather in the deck.
And we have no idea how that helped you do the trick
or if you just put that in to screw us up
because you fooled us.
- Oh! - [squeals]
[cheers and applause] That's amazing.
Congratulations.
Oh, I'm so happy for you.
You fooled all of us-- incredible.
- Thank you.
- Why was the breather in there?
- I'll tell you.
I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
- Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
Christian Engblom.
Wow, that was so much fun.
A Fooler just reached the summit of Mount Cleverest.
Will another magician join them at the mountaintop?
Find out when "Fool Us" returns.
[applause]
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back.
If you're just joining us, you missed
our first Fooler of the night.
But don't worry.
There may be more, like this next act.
[energetic guitar music]
- Hello, my name is Antonio Martínez,
and I'm from a small city near Barcelona.
Growing up, my parents supported
my passion for magic.
But my mom wanted to make sure that I had a backup plan,
just in case.
Since I like science a lot, I got a degree
to be a laboratory technician.
Thankfully, I've never had to use it because of my magic.
Spain is very well known for card magic.
Tonight, I would like to show that there
is so much more to magic in Spain than just cards.
This has been a very bittersweet time for me.
I've been on TV twice in Europe this past year.
And now, I'm doing my first international show
on "Fool Us."
However, my mom passed away three years ago,
and she is not here to enjoy it with me.
Before we lost her, I showed my mom the original concept
of my trick tonight, and she loved it.
Now, I get to perform it for Penn and Teller.
And I know she will be watching.
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up for Barcelona baffler Antonio Martínez.
[cheers and applause]
- I know the point of this show is to fool
Penn and Teller with a magic trick.
But I have something far more amazing to show you tonight.
I have created the first teleportation device
in the world.
If this works, I don't want a trophy.
I want a Nobel Prize.
[laughter]
How did I come up with this life-changing invention?
Well, the truth is, I'm very absent minded,
and I'm always forgetting things when I leave
the house, for example, cash.
These may look like ordinary paper boxes,
but they are actually the first prototype
of my invention, the portal.
Here is how it works.
Say, I'm out with my friends, and I need money.
I go home, and my mother just has to take a bill,
fold it,
and magically send it to me using the portal.
[gentle guitar music]
[applause] Amazing, right?
♪ ♪
I know some of you are thinking that the money
is still in the first box.
But as you can see, it really is gone.
But I realized this prototype would
only work for small objects.
So I created a bigger one.
♪ ♪
So if I'm out on a date,
and I want some chewing gum for my breath,
not that I need it, but--
[exhales] [sniffs]
[coughs]
[laughter]
Anyway, the crazy thing I discovered was
when my mom put in a pack of gum that was almost empty.
♪ ♪
it came to me through the portal full of gum.
I told you this was more than just a magic trick.
[applause]
♪ ♪
But my ambition was very big,
and my portal was still too small.
So I created...
an extra-large portal.
Yes, this came in handy just last week
when I was coming here and I left my passport at home.
I have already told you how absent minded I am.
You know, if I could really do magic,
I'd have a better passport photo.
[laughter]
Anyway, I made it here, thanks to my Passportal.
[laughter]
[audience exclaims]
A miracle.
[applause]
Of course, I continued to experiment.
I wondered, what would happen if I combined
boxes of different sizes?
Let's try it.
[gentle guitar music]
The boxes must be carefully placed and perfectly aligned.
Otherwise, the space-time continuum
could be disrupt when traveling through the portal.
And the Earth could explode.
[laughter]
For this next part of my experiment,
I brought some of my travel photos.
I have a ton of pictures from my trips.
And my final portal does an amazing thing with them.
♪ ♪
These photos are from when I went to Ibiza last year.
♪ ♪
Here I am with my mother in Croatia.
I love you, Mom.
There are a lot of photos.
Brooke, can you come and help me for a moment?
[applause]
- Hi.
- I want you to open the album to any page you want.
- OK.
- And pick a photo with me in it.
OK, go ahead.
Open it like this, yeah.
And pick a photo with me in it.
- Any page?
- Take any one that it's myself in it, yeah?
- OK.
- For example, this one. - This one.
- Yeah, do you like this one? Take it. Pull it out--
- This photo, you want me to take it out?
- From above. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like this.
- OK. - OK.
- Cute photo. - Yeah?
Do you think so?
- Yes.
- Oh, no, but--[sucks teeth]
I think I'm, mm, a little bit serious in this photo.
- A little bit serious, yeah.
Yeah, let me fix it.
I have--I have some stickers right here.
Take anyone you like.
- One sticker?
- Yeah, and give it to me, please.
- OK.
- OK, all right.
I'm going to stick it on the photo here,
OK, and draw a smile.
- OK. [laughs]
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. [clicks pen]
OK, give it to me, yeah.
- OK.
- Um, I think this is much better.
What do you think, with the sticker and everything, yeah?
Let's see what happens.
Watch.
Watch like this.
♪ ♪
A big photo and a big smile.
[applause]
- Oh, gosh, that's--
♪ ♪
- But this latest prototype also works backwards.
Watch.
[audience exclaims]
- That's--
- Will it work back again?
Yes. [chuckles]
- That's amazing. [applause]
- Ah, as handsome as ever.
- Much better.
That's cool.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Are you still thinking that the photo is in the first box?
Mm-mm, it's completely empty.
Look.
Can you see it over there, Brooke?
- Looks empty to me.
- Yes.
So in a few years, if you see people
teleporting from one place to another,
remember, it all started on "Fool Us."
Thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
- Antonio Martínez, everyone.
Wow.
Very cool effects. - Thank you.
- Very cool. - Thank you.
- How many tricks do you think you know how to do?
- I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe more than 100, that's for sure.
- Wow. - More than 100, for sure.
But I don't know.
It's so difficult to count.
- And do you always work with small objects?
Do you do big magic?
- Yeah, I also do big illusions,
like a fire cage.
A woman appears in a fire cage or a floating box.
Or even dove magic I do as well.
- So how do you decide which trick is right
for a night like tonight?
- Yeah, maybe a trick that is original
that has never been seen before anywhere on TV or anywhere.
Because if you do a trick that already exists,
they, for sure, will know how it's done.
- Yeah.
- So I think you must come with an original idea.
Because if not, these people are genius.
- Well, all right, Antonio.
Let's see if you need your teleportation device
to send a "Fool Us" trophy home.
Let's check in with the boys and see how you did.
- Let's do it. - Penn and Teller?
- Antonio, I'm about to give you the biggest compliment
I've ever given anyone on "Fool Us," and that is to say,
wow, you do not look like a magician.
[laughter]
[claps]
- I don't know what that means.
- Your magic moves were invisible.
And you had--you had Brooke flip through the book.
It looked great.
All of that was really good.
Really, really nice, nice premise of the portal
going from one place to another and changing size,
all very smooth, and it was all very, very good.
We think we figured it out.
We do not think you fooled us.
But we are not on the Nobel committee.
So wait for that call from Stockholm.
You did not win one of our trophies,
but you may still win a Nobel Prize.
- Yes. - Ooh.
Well, I'm guessing Stockholm was part of the code.
Did that make sense to you?
- Yes, actually, yeah.
- Well, you didn't fool them,
but you might get that Nobel Prize.
And we're all rooting for you. [applause]
- I'm teleporting myself back home.
- Nicely done, Antonio. - Thank you so much, Antonio.
- Bye-bye. [cheers and applause]
- More amazing magic is on the way,
right after this quick break.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back, everyone.
Let's meet the next magician ready to take
the "Fool Us" challenge.
- I grew up in Connecticut, a middle child.
I may or may not have liked attention.
When I was about 10 years old, I taught myself to juggle.
The only place to buy juggling equipment
was at the magic store.
An employee there showed me a trick.
I was like, whoa.
I taught myself more magic, but I didn't consider
doing it professionally.
I'd never known anyone who did.
So I studied engineering and got a normal job
in project management at theme parks.
OK, so not everyone might consider that a normal job.
During COVID, like so many other workers,
I got laid off.
But it was just the catalyst I needed
to finally take the leap into magic full time,
a natural transition.
After all, magic tricks are kind of like theme park rides.
Done well, they can both leave you breathless.
Penn and Teller, watch out for that first drop.
[applause]
- Put your hands together for Ari Novick.
[cheers and applause]
- If you've ever thrown away money on midway games,
it's not your fault.
Carnival operators are just like magicians.
Carnival games--rigged.
Magic--rigged. [laughter]
Even though these games seem honest and seem fair,
they're not.
Just like magicians, operators make
the impossible look possible.
And we can't resist playing
'cause there's no greater human desire than to win--
medium-sized plush toys.
[laughter]
- Of course, these prizes cost less than
what you pay to play the game.
It's worse than capitalism.
It's carnivalism.
- [laughs]
- And just like mentalism,
the operators know how well you're
going to do before you start.
So please welcome to the carnival
our next mark, Brooke Burke.
[applause] - Thank you.
Hi.
- Brooke. - Yes.
- Thanks so much for playing today.
- It's my pleasure.
- You can see, the ring slides easily
over the top of the bottle.
Brooke, you just have to get it on from a few feet away.
- OK. - So go ahead, take these.
- I've never been very good at this.
- I believe in you. - OK.
- Step right up behind the white line.
- OK. - Beautiful.
And whenever you're ready, just toss them on one at a time.
Do your best.
- [chuckles] OK.
[squeals]
[laughter]
Is there something I-- - You got this.
- Something I need to know,
something I need to do different?
- Mm.
But you know what?
When you play this game for real,
you get a whole bucket filled with rings.
- [whispering] Still not very good at it.
- You're not allowed to take the bucket
and just dump them all on.
But tonight, Brooke, I really want you to win.
- I do too. - OK.
[chuckles] So come on a little closer.
Good. Take the bucket.
- OK. - There you go.
And go ahead. You can hold on to it.
- OK. - And you're going to dump
them right over the middle.
- This feels like cheating.
- That's the whole idea. - It is?
OK. Just dump them on?
- I believe in you.
Good. - [squeals]
- That was beautifully done. - I got one.
- You got one. - [whispering] I got one.
- That's what I'm talking about.
[applause] - All right.
I knew I could do it.
- Yes. You know what?
Let's push these aside, and let's just make sure
there's nothing else going on. - OK.
- We have the one right over here.
Brooke, that means you're a winner.
- Yes. - Because you're a winner,
you get to choose which prize do you want.
That's the chimp, a frog, or a plump panda.
- Uh...
I'm going to go panda, panda.
- We're going with the panda, good.
You can take the panda.
- OK. - Yeah.
And interesting choice, by the way.
- Really? - Yeah.
And you're going to think this next part is weird.
- OK. - But, Brooke, my friend,
you're going to need this.
- Oh.
- Yeah, because, Brooke, this isn't just a carnival game.
It's also a magic trick.
- OK.
- And like any good trick, this one has a surprise.
- OK.
- Because we can see, Brooke, every single bottle
has a piece of paper. Yeah, go ahead.
Check it out. - OK.
- Every single bottle has a piece of paper.
Brooke-- - They do.
- You happened to ring one bottle.
And of course, this one has a piece of paper in it,
just like all the others.
[gentle jazz music]
Brooke, my friend, you ever use one of those before?
- I have not.
- First time for everything.
The ring comes off.
- OK.
- That paper comes down.
Brooke, would you be so kind?
- Sure.
I'm going to pull it out?
- Yeah, pull a little harder. You got it.
You got it. Good.
And hold tight onto that. - OK.
- Thank you so much.
And I'll take it from here.
- OK.
- You could have rung any bottle.
And this piece of paper happens to say,
you will choose this bottle.
Thank you.
[laughter]
- [chuckles] Well, do they all say that?
- OK, fine. Maybe they all say that.
But you could have gotten any amount of rings on.
And this says, "You will get exactly one ring on."
[audience exclaims]
You could have chose any prize.
But this is the only piece of paper
that also says, the prize you will choose
is the plump panda.
[applause]
- Wow, wait a minute.
- Now, that's some carnival magic.
- My goodness. I love that.
Ari Novick, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
Whoo, love it.
All right, do I get to keep the panda?
- Absolutely. - I'll keep the souvenir.
So how long have you been a magician?
- So I've been doing magic full time for about two years.
- Two years as a pro, and you're already on "Fool Us."
This has to be a magnificent night for you.
- Yeah, it's very exciting.
Just seven years ago, I saw Penn and Teller perform
right here in this theater.
And that actually kind of reignited
my love for magic at the time.
- And then here you are tonight.
- Yeah. - That's got to be surreal.
- I know, full circle.
- And you were an engineer at an amusement park.
- That's right.
- So are there any similarities between that
and being a magician? - There are.
They both require technology.
And then they both have a storytelling aspect.
And it's finding that perfect marriage of the storytelling
and of the technology that makes a trick
or makes a ride really unforgettable.
- All right, Ari, let's see if you've
won yourself a "Fool Us" trophy.
And let's check in with the boys.
Penn and Teller? - Hey, Ari.
Boy, you know, I'm carny trash,
as people are very fond of pointing out.
So we're watching this as magicians but also as carnies.
And we were thinking, you know,
you could have rigged the bottles to see
how many rings would go on.
There are ways to do that.
But as a carny, I would say that
that's just plain too much work.
So we think you had another way of doing it.
It's a wonderful plot, wonderful idea.
Does Brooke get to keep the plump panda?
- Absolutely. - Thank you.
- So I want you to know that a good carny would know
the right people to bribe.
[laughter]
- Do you want the panda? Is that what you're saying?
- Thank you, Brooke.
- It's mine, Penn.
- But I want to say that after carnies
sometimes have a run-in with the police,
they will hold up a finger.
And it's not this finger.
They'll hold up a different finger.
But for this trick, this finger is
the most important finger I could hold up.
And that finger would probably tell you
what we're talking about.
But we loved the routine,
and we loved the plump panda very, very much.
But you gave it to the wrong person, so you didn't fool us.
- Does Penn's finger mean anything to you?
- It definitely does.
They are very wise people.
And I think they got the whole picture.
And it's been a pleasure.
- It was my pleasure to work with you.
We enjoyed that.
Thank you so much.
I sure enjoyed playing your game.
- Thank you. - Good luck to you.
Ari Novick.
[cheers and applause]
I got a panda. [laughter]
I'm getting lots of souvenirs on this show.
But we won't say goodbye without seeing
a trick by two of the greatest magicians
of all time, Penn and Teller.
They perform next, so stick around.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Penn and Teller have been giving the gift of magic
to audiences for decades.
Here to close the show with another souvenir for all of us
are the amazing Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- You know, there-- [soft jazz music]
There's something going on in Vegas now that really bugs me.
A lot of the shows do this-- mostly magic shows.
They'll bring someone up on stage to do a trick.
And then when they're done with them,
they'll give them a gift to go back
to their seat, which is very nice and kind and civilized.
But the gift they give them is always
something from the gift shop.
It's like a T-shirt or a poster or a book
or something they're selling after the show.
And it bugs me because it doesn't feel like a real gift.
It feels like some sort of commercial,
like they're trying to get people to buy
their stuff after the show.
And we've got a gift shop that'll
be open after the show.
And we've got T-shirts and posters and books
and bobbleheads and pins and all that stuff for sale.
We don't feel like we have to sell it during the show.
Who's decided to buy something after the show?
Who decided to buy something after the show?
You decided?
What were you going to buy after the show?
- A T-shirt. - Good.
You have a credit card with you?
- I do. - You do?
[laughter] Come on.
[applause]
What is your name, our newest friend?
- Erica. - Erica.
Hello, Erica. - Hi.
- And you were going to buy a T-shirt after the show, right?
- Yes.
- And you've got your credit card.
Now, if we were trying to get you
to try to buy something after the show,
I would find that tacky.
But we are going to actually sell you
something during the show.
So we're going to give you a chance to buy something
right now as the show is going on.
See, Erica, here's our gift shop right here.
So we're not selling you something
to buy after the show.
We're selling you something right now.
Now, you said, Erica, you wanted a T-shirt.
And we have several different kinds.
What kind of T-shirt would you like, Erica?
- I like this T-shirt.
- This T-shirt right here, the Penn & Teller Live?
And what size--
I don't know if it's for you or not.
What size would you like?
- A medium. - A medium.
We'll give you a medium right here.
And while you're-- oh, that's going to look great on you.
And while you're right here, Erica, anything else you want?
We got pins. We got hats.
We got--we got posters. Anything else?
- I think just the T-shirt.
- Just the T-shirt's fine.
There you go, Teller, ring up the T-shirt.
And let's see your credit card.
That's the most important part right here.
Here we go. And there's your credit card.
And that's actually your credit card right there, Erica.
We'll make sure that people can get a shot of this.
They can get the whole number there.
Now, Erica, you might think this is some sort of joke.
We're bringing someone up, and we're pretending
to sell them something.
But, no, we're not pretending to sell them something.
We're actually going to sell them something.
That's the credit card being put there.
As you can see, it's processing.
We are getting our money for this.
It's sold. It's gone through.
And there is your T-shirt.
And here is your credit card, Erica.
But we didn't want to just sell you something during the show.
We also wanted to give you a magic trick.
As a little bonus for buying a T-shirt right here on stage,
we're going to show you this magic trick
with this credit card right here,
which you'll certainly recognize
your credit card when you see it again.
Teller takes your credit card, and--
- Oh, no.
- It vanished, just like that.
Now, your credit card is gone, Erica.
Your credit card's just gone.
- Does that take away the debt, too?
- Yeah, no, the debt is still there, Erica.
Credit card's just gone.
Now, Erica, we also made your credit card appear.
Now, you saw the credit card right in front of you here,
while you were holding that bag.
- Yes. - And yet now,
the credit card, Erica, is in that bag.
Reach in there.
What's in the bag there?
- A T-shirt. - A T-shirt.
What else, Erica?
- Oh.
- That's trash, Erica.
- Yeah, there's trash.
- You can put the--
- The T-shirt back in? - --shirt back in there.
Yeah, there's-- - That's it.
- --no credit card. There's trash.
- No.
- Wait a minute!
If the trash is where the credit card was
supposed to be, maybe the credit card is
where the trash is supposed to be.
Erica, sitting here since before this bit started,
there is a trash can.
See that trash can?
And it is all locked up because we,
Erica, have a raccoon problem.
But open that.
Open that right there, Erica.
Open it up.
And you can just let the-- let stuff
just fall to the floor, Erica.
Lift the top off.
Your credit card-- what's inside there, Erica?
- Trash.
- Trash, because it's a trash can.
Let's get some of that out of there, Erica.
Get some of the-- yeah, get some-- well, look at this.
It's a paper plate.
Oh, this is a box here.
We've got all-- - Flowers.
- This is just this-- there's old flowers.
That's from the ring on the rose trick.
And what else is in there, Erica?
What else is in there? - Another trash can.
Lift that out there, Erica.
Lift it out yourself. Put it right over here, Erica.
Put it over here. Put it over here.
And then you can open the top there.
You damn raccoons.
Yeah, open the top there, and throw that down.
What's inside that trash can, Erica?
- More trash and another trash can.
- More trash.
Yeah, just throw that down there.
Pull out the other trash.
Just pull out the other trash can.
Put it over here.
Over here, Erica.
And just open--raccoons.
I tell you, they're a terror.
Open that up there.
I hate those raccoons. I mean, I like them.
They're cute. They're wonderful.
But the--it's kind of almost an escape act, isn't it?
- This is. - That's really hard to get in.
Yeah, you can do it, Erica.
Yeah, and just open that.
Then what's inside there, Erica?
- Trash. - Trash.
Oh, here's a menu for the pizza company.
There's-- what else is in there?
Oh, open that up. Open it up.
Oh, no, careful.
Open that up carefully.
What's inside there, Erica? - Nothing.
- Nothing, Erica. What's that?
What's that, Erica? - Oh, this is--
- That is a hamburger box. - Yeah.
- Open it carefully and see.
That's a sealed hamburger box inside three trash cans
because of those damn raccoons.
And they're-- pick out the whole hamburger.
The whole hamburger-- take it out.
Take out the whole hamburger.
And what's inside the hamburger?
- My credit card.
- Your credit card is inside the hamburger.
You want to keep the hamburger? - Yeah.
- You do want the--
no, you have the credit card.
And, no, don't forget your--
- My shirt. - Don't forget your T-shirt.
- Thank you.
- And there you go, Erica. Enjoy that.
- Thank you.
- That's Erica there, Erica.
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
What?
[chuckles]
- Careful, careful among the--
- We've got some cleanup to do.
But we'll have everything back in order
in time for the next episode of "Fool Us."
Good night, everyone.
[cheers and applause]