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♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller
here's our host,
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome to "Fool Us,"
where nothing can stop us
delivering TV's finest magic.
Joining us
are four astounding
who have two jobs to do.
First, dazzle us
and second,
two of the greatest intellects
And here they are now,
Penn and Teller!
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♪ ♪
Our first magician
a "Fool Us" trophy and a spot
in Penn and Teller's
Let's meet them now.
[fireworks boom]
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up
of Jeki Yoo.
- Hi, Penn and Teller.
- Yeah, hi, Alyson.
- It's a pleasure
and now let's start.
As you see,
and it's all different cards
- Yes.
Please pick any card you want.
Any card is okay.
- Okay. This one.
- Yes.
And please sign your name
- Okay.
a very mysterious
It will be teleported.
It will be teleported
Oh, my.
- Watch this.
The process is very simple.
I just put the card
and just count
That's it.
Your card moved
- Oh.
- Sure.
- Oh. I get to--okay.
- Oh, I don't know if this
- Yeah; is that your card?
- Is that your signature?
Ah, that's neat.
Thank you so much.
- Yeah.
It's cool, right?
- But it's not enough
so please, please pick
- Okay.
- I'll do that one.
- Um...
- I'll do this one.
- That one.
And please sign your name
- Okay.
- And also please write
and Teller's name here.
- Oh, okay.
And this means these cards
are only one of their kind
Thank you.
- So now I have
See? You signed.
- You signed.
in the middle of the deck
And put it slowly.
Now I show you something
You wanna see it?
- Do you remember when I was
there's one thing
Do you remember
- The envelope.
- Whew.
It has been here
- Yeah.
But see?
Inside the envelope,
there are one, two,
But what I don't understand
- No.
- Please check one by one,
- Okay.
- Turn it all the way over?
- Yes.
And one more and one more.
- [gasps]
- What?
Thank you.
- Oh, my.
- All right.
Now I just put this--
- Yeah.
- Oh, my goodness.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I have three signed cards.
- And now I put
I put these signed cards
- Yeah.
But it's gonna seem like
of different tricks,
- Oh, hello.
- They all connect
into one big miracle.
All right.
To play this game,
See?
And two.
And between two red aces,
this is ace of spades.
- Oh.
- And your job is just to find
And now it's right here
Yeah? But I don't wanna
- It's long past that,
- Yes; I don't wanna
so I use a sticker here.
So please write your initials
- Okay.
All right.
- Okay.
the sticker--
at the back
And are you ready?
I think so.
One, two, three.
This is ace of spades.
First, second, third.
- Well, I think
- Yeah.
on the card,
Good job. Yeah.
- Yeah, well, yes.
See?
First, second, third.
- Right here.
But if I remove the sticker
and attach it here--
oh, my--
- Right there?
- No. Right there.
But the ace of spades
- What?
So it can call
It's a special sticker.
Let me show you
Look at here.
I just attach the sticker
And please confirm this.
- Yes.
- Watch this.
As I rub like this,
Actually, it didn't disappear.
If I open
there are three
And is this your signature?
- Yes.
the sticker has power.
But wait a minute.
Did you remember what I said?
If the sticker moves,
- The card.
- Yeah, the ace of spades,
ace of hearts,
[applause]
So if these are aces,
what cards are on the table?
The first,
and second, you signed,
and third,
Is it correct?
- Yes.
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Jeki Yoo!
Oh, my goodness.
- You must fool everyone
- Yeah, I hope so.
If I did it right,
I don't know.
- I think so.
- And how many times
that you've performed
- Yeah, actually,
five years ago, yeah,
some stage and more big stuff.
So which do you prefer,
- Actually, I love
- So then why'd
- I met my wife.
Actually,
- Aww.
stage magic, and I want
so I switched it.
- Aww.
I think my first time
to see Penn and Teller's show.
Unforgettable moment
- Aww.
I always dreamed
as a--yeah--magician, yeah.
- And here you are.
- Okay.
if they know
- Okay.
- Jeki, what a great--
- Wow. Thank you.
What great energy,
and just a power house.
And I gotta tell you,
too much away here,
but we followed you.
We followed you really well.
We were almost getting
- Yeah.
- And then that sticker
- Yes.
- And we know...
where you're
- Yeah.
on your "Fool Us" trophy.
- "Fool Us" trophy?
- Yeah, that's where
- Yes.
- You fooled them!
- You fooled them.
- You fooled them!
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much!
- Yay.
- Congratulations.
Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- Jeki Yoo!
- Thank you so much.
- Congratulations.
- Oh.
Ah.
We have our first Fooler
Will Penn and Teller
Come back and find out
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♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
It's time for you to meet
[fireworks boom]
- My grandma
She knows hundreds
but only one card trick.
- And this was the first trick
We met backstage at a show,
and that was that.
- Fast forward
and we're getting engaged
in front of
- We did.
- We got engaged right after
that flew over
Our dream has always been
and the prize for this show
is to be part
- We have been here
- And I've heard--
that maybe people get married
- A wedding and a honeymoon
Sounds all right to me.
We are definitely playing
[cheers and applause]
- Joining us
is magical couple
Matthew Pomeroy
- For us,
for the impossible,
a wonderful place
full of unexplainable
- So allow me to share
It was 1995.
I was six years old.
And it was the very first time
I saw and felt magic.
But for me, on that morning,
It wasn't ropes or rabbits.
It was a square piece
covered in stickers:
- The cube has 43 quintillion
And to put that
it is the equivalent
with 300 layers of cubes.
- I got the cube in the morning
I spent the whole day
until I handed it
And just before bed,
And that was it--magic.
The feeling of real magic.
And tonight, I aim to give
But I begin with you.
Hello, my friend.
- Joe.
Joe, I have a pen for you here,
and I have one very simple job.
Joe, I would like for you,
if you don't mind,
- Yeah.
Nice and clearly.
And let me know
Good work, Joe.
Very artistic.
Now, Joe, I'm gonna show this
Lock and cement this
just in case
And, Joe,
This one is far easier.
I would like for you to mix,
and keep doing that
- Okay.
is being mixed,
allow me to share
Last Christmas,
Matthew proposed to me
And as he got me this ring,
that I got him
And what do you get
- An impossible object.
A Rubik's cube trapped
This really is one my favorite
And I'll show you it
Joe, a perfect job, my friend.
Thank you so much
and I'm gonna take it back.
Thank you for helping.
- Matthew and I
all around the world.
And as we travel
country to country,
I collect postcards
And right now,
by another member
Thank you so much
What's your name?
- Aidan, it's lovely
Now, Aidan,
from all different places.
For example, we have New York.
We have Paris.
We have Edinburgh
Ooh, somewhere
And as you can see, they really
And in a moment, Aidan,
to choose one of these
But just so you know
I'm going to give them
Okay.
So I'm going to get you
whenever you want.
- Stop.
Would you like this one?
Or you can have that one.
- I'll stick.
- Yeah.
Let's see which card you chose.
Ah.
Lovely.
- So Tash collects postcards
from all around the world.
And I have some here.
I've been using them to form
and it's very nearly finished.
Look.
London.
The exact city Aidan
Bearing in mind he could've
and I gave him the chance
And as you can see,
for just one more cube.
Is it possible?
- Is it possible
the cube that you mixed,
and signed,
since the very start
potentially, possibly,
Tash.
- What are the odds?
The odds, Matthew,
- But in our world of magic,
You see, if you look closely,
not only
but, Joe, I believe
that is your signature
- The joy of magic for us
is providing
Tash, wait.
Tash, look.
I mean, I think
One more moment that we can
If you take out that cube,
the present that you gave me,
coincidence has just happened
I'll show you what I mean.
If we look very closely
and very carefully
that this side
Not only that,
this side matches.
We turn it again,
Hold your applause, please.
We'll turn it again,
In fact, the bottom matches.
Even the top matches,
and that is
My name is Matthew Pomeroy.
- And together, we are...
[together]
- Matthew Pomeroy
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you for having us.
- Oh, that was wonderful.
- Thank you.
- Do you guys actually
- Yes.
- Aww.
- It was the thought plan
it was what we spoke
we even knew about this show.
And now that it could be
we would 100%
- Agh--so who do you want
Elvis or Penn and Teller?
- Well, Penn and Teller
I mean, if they're available,
So let's just--let's merge.
So, Natasha, I have to know,
- Well, Matthew brung his case
a full theater show
- Why not?
- The whole thing.
So you wooed her
- Yeah.
but luckily Tash said yes.
- Yeah.
It's time to go to the boys.
Penn, Teller,
- Matthew, Natasha, boy,
not only is your act
just loving
but also very,
Lots of really,
But when you've got things
that perfectly, you know,
things that are "quatrillion"
You know, when we're trying to
what are the chance of that,
to make, uh, decisions
And I want to say that
that looks like
But I can just tell you
in this whole routine,
you were not the only things
that are attractive
There's other things
And having the final thing--
the London cube
that was a whole
on the way you do
And when that whole thing
I will tell you,
the whole is greater
I thought it all went together.
I mean, there were a few things
that were a little sticky
but we think we got most of it.
But, man,
It was a beautiful thing
and we--boy, we had to put
but I think we got it.
What do you guys think?
- Well, it's an honor
to be on your show,
- Okay, thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- Well, thank you so much.
You guys were such a delight.
- Matthew Pomeroy
- Thank you for having us.
[cheers and applause]
- Penn and Teller still have
and perform a trick
We better give them
[cheers and applause]
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[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
One trophy has rained down
Is another Fooler
Take a look.
[fireworks boom]
- My house is designed
Every room has its own motif.
My shows are a lot
I pay a lot of attention
Over many years, I have scoured
that no one else has.
The things that particular
or even centuries ago that have
I excavate them,
make them new.
If I have a special power,
it's mainly as a curator
And this is a trait
one other musician that I know
So I wanted to bring something
and I believe I have.
But extraordinary claims
so Penn, Teller,
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up
Peter Wood!
[applause]
- I'm a collector
weird objects
with magical powers--
and I brought along
This is Sir Henry Willoughby,
who possessed
Now, after Sir Willoughby's
a few of his colleagues
They cut out his eyes.
I don't mean
I mean on the painting.
They cut out the eyes to see if
shared any of
Well, as soon as I acquired it,
I held it up to my face
And I looked at the wall.
Turns out it was just a window.
But, I am on the hunt
for a user who can unlock
and tonight, I thought
Would you join me
Round of applause
[applause]
It is so nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
these four envelopes, please?
Make sure that they're
On the inside,
I've placed four different
One's red,
And one of has a blue piece
But just looking at them,
which is which, right?
- No.
that's where
I'll take those back
Can you pick up
Hold it up to your face,
all your best "shifty eyes
[laughter]
All right, that's perfect.
All right.
Channel the power
Look through the painting
- Hm.
- And I'm hoping that
you start to get the feeling
that it's either red or yellow
When you get the feeling,
and I'll put it
- Blue.
That was good.
All right.
Let's take a look at this one.
It might be green,
Use the power of the painting.
- Green.
All right.
You're not reading any
- No.
- Or on the back
This is just coming
- No, yeah.
Take a look at this one.
What color do you think
- Hmm.
- Yellow.
Coincidently going down
but it's just
- Totally.
Now, that leaves red.
If you look at that one
But if you look
it's one
I'm happy to trade
So do you like that for red
- Hmm.
Trade that for yellow, please.
We'll swap like that.
Do you like this one better for
- Yes, thanks.
I believe Sir Willoughby's
You can put him back
Thank you.
Here comes the fun part.
If we tear this envelope open
and there's a red piece
matching the color
that tells me that
between Alyson's eyes
I'm actually just
if there's any sort
Let me see.
Alyson is not nearly
as Sir Willoughby is,
So if Alyson tears that open
and there's a red piece
that helps to justify
the acquisition
But if Alyson tears that open
and there's not a red
please politely still applaud
And at the same time, I'm going
So I'm looking for yellow,
On the count of three.
- Uh-huh.
Tear it open. Reach inside.
You're looking for red.
- Whoo.
Throw it on the floor.
Let's not get cocky.
Uh, I'm gonna give you
Would you like
- No.
Now this is really interesting.
If we tear these open
I'm gonna lose it
that I have found someone
who can unlock
But, Alyson,
and they're backwards
you're gonna kick yourself
at the last minute.
- Last chance.
- I'm still feeling okay.
That's fine. Tell you what.
That's for you.
- And I'm gonna go blue.
On the count of three.
[exhales]
I'm looking for blue.
You're looking for green.
- Uh-huh.
Tear it open.
I'm looking for blue.
That's the blue.
That's the green.
And that is Sir Willoughby's
- Peter Wood.
- Yay.
- Do I get to keep
- Please.
The fact that I found someone
we'll talk tour schedule.
- So is Sir Willoughby
- No.
- There's a little bit
- I guess there is.
Hopefully I'm not quite as
[laughter]
- Are you really a collector
of odd things?
I've got so much crazy stuff
I have a crate that holds
a device that allegedly
can transmit thoughts
- Hmm.
- I have a rope
So a bunch of random things.
- And your props are beautiful.
Do you build them?
I grew up with a really well
My dad is
My whole family
And when I was a young person,
and I maybe couldn't
but I was able to build them
- Nice.
You ready to check in
- Absolutely.
- All right.
Penn and Teller,
- Peter, the first thing--
when you finished
We just really like it.
is the first place
is some sort
All of us know the kind
to get a similar effect.
And all of that is so jive.
You could have done this act
and it would have been just
It's really nice.
and the method on it,
we think, is very, very subtle.
The method on it
and one of the methods is right
as we were getting the ideas,
trying to say them
But we just loved
and also, and this is--
I don't think we've ever said
it was really, really enjoyable
to do your thinking
to see this beautiful,
There's a lot
It's kind of a little bit like
to crack the mystery.
We kind of think we did.
I have a couple more things
but if you think
I won't say anymore
because I think you had
- What do you think, Peter?
Do they know
- I think they do, yeah.
Well, thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys.
[cheers and applause]
- Time for a quick break,
and then we're back
Stay close.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
You want more magic?
You got it.
Here's our next act.
[fireworks boom]
- My name is Lewis Starnes,
I studied history
but when I graduated,
"What the hell am I gonna
So I fell into advertising,
that advertising is
for magic.
As an advertising strategist,
I've spent years hopefully
on understanding consumers
Little nudges to make sure
I want to them to buy
their hearts and minds
You could say I've become
of people's actions.
Penn and Teller,
nudging people
and tonight, I'm hoping
to buy my routine.
[cheers and applause]
- Let's head out
for the magic of Lewis Starnes.
[cheers and applause]
- I wish I could be there
but alas, I cannot.
So I've done
I've come to my local pub,
and I've found
who looks a bit like you, Penn,
and another helper over here
who, quite frankly,
So allow me to introduce
with the help of Not Penn
and Definitely Not Teller.
Thank you both for joining me.
My day job is in marketing,
what people want
So you could say I can
And what's more basic
than the weekly grocery
Here I have the last 35 items
of grocery shopping
We have pizza, bacon, eggs,
sugar, white wine--
Popcorn, tea,
Not Penn, as I deal cards onto
and look--we have different
just shout stop
- Stop.
- Right here?
- Can I ask you to hold
Look--we'll give you the very
Had you said stop
a second sooner,
it would have been bread.
But thanks to my mix of magic
I knew that would be
you'd select today.
It's true.
This bag has been on the table
and everything about you,
from the clothes
to the way you're sitting,
tells me that you're a man
to dental hygiene.
Is that fair?
And that's how I knew
randomly selected grocery item
toothpaste.
Could I ask you to have a look
that my prediction is correct.
- Is it toothpaste?
- Tomato ketchup.
You know,
sometimes I can resort
to magic.
Now, I know it doesn't
but could I ask you,
that plate out in front of you?
- You're thinking
Tomato ketchup.
Watch.
I don't know about you,
but that looks an awful lot
But could I ask you,
to maybe have a sniff or dare
Do we have ketchup?
- Yeah.
- We've actually managed to
But I guess I had
And this sometimes happens
the shopping
And I'm wondering
Definitely Not Teller,
who was destined
I'll tell you what,
as I run through the cards,
would you just tell me
- Stop.
- Yeah.
And you've
- No.
[huffs]
Salt.
You know what?
I don't know if this gonna work
but we started with toothpaste
and now, hopefully...
[shaking]
[laughs]
No way.
You're thinking of salt.
I think we have...
- [scoffs, chuckles]
- Salt.
Thank you guys very, very much.
[cheers and applause]
- Lewis Starnes!
Hello, Lewis.
- Hi, Alyson.
- Good. So you do magic
- That's absolutely true.
- Does it give you
- Yeah.
It's amazing how much you see
between the research
and the way you think people
and then the way
It's incredible.
- And how did you
- When I was 11 years old,
I went over to his house
and he was supposed to be
And for some reason,
of Victorian magic tricks
because he's
So he decided that year
those Victorian magic tricks
and not the computer game.
So when I got to his house
I'll never forget it--
I had a weird birthday."
And he just put on
And I was sold.
- Aww. Is your friend
or is he just mad
- [laughs]
So he is still a magician.
- All right.
if your pub magic
Guys.
- Hey.
It's so nice to see a Brit
I love going to England,
and I love seeing you
What a wonderful routine.
It's just a great routine.
Just funny and breezy and nice
And you know, you coming here
makes me think
I don't mean, you know--
I mean the British invasion
It makes me think
Watching you, I'm thinking
Their whole career.
First when they switched
that was a great moment.
They used to be really rough,
and they did
then, for no reason--
they did a lesser-known B side
They have done
And when I see
always billed
rock and roll band
and I see you, Lewis,
pub magician we've seen today.
We loved it.
But we don't think
- [laughs]
- Okay.
Did any of that
- That all made good sense
[laughter]
- So they know how you
- I think they
Yeah.
- Aww. Well, thank you.
but you did a great job
Enjoy that, and thank you
- We hope you got
- All right.
Lewis Starnes!
[cheers and applause]
Remember when I promised you
Well, I'm about to deliver.
The stars of our show
right after this.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Penn and Teller
most accomplished duo.
They're also magic's
Performing tonight's finale,
Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- Teller and I are magicians,
but our first love is science.
We would've loved
if not for all that school
and "having to be smart" stuff.
We both loved liquid air shows
where science teachers
when things get really,
This is liquid nitrogen.
Some just call it liquid air
because the air we breathe
The gas that we breathe
to 320 degrees
which in Celsius is--
we don't know.
Another reason we are not
This liquid--now, Teller,
put your gloves
this liquid nitrogen
at 320 degrees below zero.
So for the nitrogen,
room temperature is wicked,
You can see it boiling off.
It just boils off everything
because it's really hot
to the liquid nitrogen.
Now the liquid nitrogen
and this is wicked dangerous.
If it splashes on you,
it's like a burn
There's interesting things
You should have
We have a rose here.
We put that in the beaker,
just like scientists--
We're gonna do
but this is real science.
You pull this out here,
and it goes to nice brittle.
It's totally brittle.
Now, this is a regular
I can bounce this
Regular rubber ball.
It lights up a little,
And we put that
and freeze it down.
You should have
That'll burn your skin.
Don't try this home
because you probably don't have
We have it here.
This is real.
No switch no nothing.
Now that same rubber...
shatters just like that.
Isn't that pretty neat?
Now, if you take
and put that
the balloon loses all interest
in what's going on around it.
All interest at all.
And what's happening is the air
the molecules
And then it comes out here
and it blows up as the air
Wow, if we could do that
it would be really great.
Now, some people make ice cream
but Teller and I
It's our own invention.
So we have here
We pour in
Ah.
We can--oh, that scared me.
You should have
That scared me.
Don't try this at home because
and also you don't have
Now, this is liquid nitrogen
We have here--
It's like sugar water
We pour liquid nitrogen in,
and we're going
Watch this.
Teller takes
you should be wearing
This is dangerous.
He's not wearing gloves.
He reaches in
and he pulls out
a beautifully formed popsicle.
Look at that.
I bet that would be delicious
but I don't want any.
And now we can take
which is just the same stuff
It's just stupid.
and we just pour that
put in a popsicle stick.
Look what comes out.
A great popsicle. See that?
That doesn't really work.
Anyway.
when they go
and they have all
Afterwards, they'll do,
with all the different flavors.
Teller likes to do that
The two flavors in there--
you should be wearing
You should--what are you--
- Oh-oh-oh--you should--
See--you should've had--
you should've had gloves on
because now your hand
has shattered just like that.
[both scream]
- [laughs]
[sighs]
Another chilling performance
And with that,
Come back next time
Goodnight.
[cheers and applause]
[Alyson speaking indistinctly]