[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan!
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us,"
where we give acts from around the world
a chance to fool two of magic's all-time greats,
while we get to sit back and relax.
The stars of our show don't have it so easy.
Let's put them to work right now.
The two and only, Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Any magician who fools Penn and Teller wins bragging rights.
They also get a trophy to back up that bragging.
And then they get to perform in "Penn & Teller" show
and really rub it in.
With that in mind, let's meet tonight's first act.
[upbeat music]
- My name is Jon Mobley.
And the type of magic I do is sleight of mind.
Growing up, I was a shy kid,
so magic was a quick way to break the ice.
The challenge was it was my go-to every time.
I just didn't wanna be boring.
I thought, "If I'm normal and I just act like a regular person,
"people aren't gonna wanna hang out with me, right?
"I've gotta be interesting,
instead of just being real with people."
Even though I'd been doing magic my whole life,
it was a mask. It was something I hid behind.
So I decided I'm taking a break for a full year.
The most vulnerable thing I do now is just show up as me,
and it was a breath of fresh air.
So when I returned to magic,
my approach completely changed.
Penn and Teller, they're known
for putting their own little spin on classic tricks.
Tonight, I'm gonna put a twist on something they made famous,
and hopefully fool them with their own trick.
Penn, Teller, see if you can catch this.
[cheers and applause]
- Put your hands together for Indiana's own Jon Mobley.
- You guys, my original plan tonight
was to fool you with this,
an invisible deck.
But this morning, I couldn't find it.
But it's fine. In fact, I'm gonna go all in.
I'm going to attempt the most dangerous trick
a magician can do, the bullet catch.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
You already famously performed a version of that trick
right here on this stage.
So for me to stand on your stage
and attempt to fool you with your own trick,
that would be foolish.
Unless I could do it in a way
that you literally can't see how it's done.
So here's my idea. I'm gonna take the invisible deck
and the bullet catch and combine them into a new trick,
something the world has never seen.
I present to you, for the first time in history,
the invisible bullet catch!
[cheers and applause]
Alyson, could you please join me onstage?
- Oh, my. [laughs]
- Alyson, here we have a box of invisible bullets.
- Uh-huh. - Have you ever seen one?
- Not till today.
- Okay. Alyson, this is pretty simple.
I want you to take a look at these invisible bullets.
I want you to decide which one you want.
And then I just want you to carefully take it out
and hold it up.
Perfect.
We have to make this bullet unique,
which is why we brought--sorry.
Oh, here it is. My invisible magic marker.
Alyson, could you move the bullet to your other hand?
We need your writing hand. I want you to take this marker.
And the card you're thinking of,
I want you to draw it on the bullet now.
Awesome. I'll take the marker. [inhales]
[sighs] I love the new ones.
All right, this is the moment. We have to load it into a gun.
- Oh. - Guys, when you do this,
you used a Colt Python .357 Magnum.
Way too ambitious for me.
I'm just gonna use a handgun.
Literally, a handgun.
Alyson, please handle with care.
And you don't need a license to operate this.
But go ahead and take it.
Yup, perfect. Right, excellent.
Examine the gun. It's a normal gun, right?
Gold-plated even right there, I can tell.
Okay, hold it up. Safety first, Alyson.
- All right. - There we go. Okay.
This is the most important piece.
Please load your bullet into the gun.
Wow, she's done this before. [laughter]
All right, something amazing is about to happen.
- Okay. - That bullet is gonna travel
across the stage and hopefully end up in my mouth.
But we need to get you in position.
Please step forward right over here.
And try this.
Maybe try putting your left foot back
for balance, all right?
Keep that elbow up the entire time.
And then maybe this hand on your hip.
How's that feel? Is that okay?
- Odd. - Odd, okay.
Well, you look great.
- Thanks. - You do.
Okay. Here's the moment of truth.
- Okay. - In position, please.
- Yeah. - On the count of three,
I want you to fire that into my face, okay?
- All right. - Here we go.
Lower the gun.
- [whimpers]
- Oh, you think you're nervous. [both laugh]
3, 2, 1!
[gunshot]
- Hm. - Two things were just fired--
the gun and my sound guy.
Alyson, you shot an invisible bullet,
but there's a real bullet in my teeth.
- Yes. - For the first time,
what was the card you were thinking
that you drew on the bullet?
- Nine of diamonds.
[quirky music]
- Come a little closer here.
Please verify.
Is that a nine of diamonds drawn on the bullet?
- Yes, it is!
- Alyson. Give Alyson a round of applause.
- Whoo, Jon Mobley!
[cheers and applause]
All right, that's the only gun I ever wanna shoot.
- Fair enough. Fair enough.
It's the only one I've ever shot too.
- Okay, good. - Yeah.
- Did you have, like, a lot
of invisible friends when you were growing up?
- It's funny you mentioned that.
I grew up in a really small town of, like, 5,000 people.
So there weren't a lot of people.
In fact, magic is how I became visible to others.
- That's so cool. - Yeah.
- I had an invisible sister. - I love that.
- We fought a lot. [laughter]
- That's great.
- Do you do magic 24 hours a day or do you, um, sleep?
- Yeah, I did magic a lot growing up.
But now, my wife and I have three kids under six.
- Oh, I bet they make you practice
way more than you want to. - Yeah.
In fact, my son, when he came-- he was five years old--
came to my very first magic show,
he had a sparkly magic hat.
He brought his wand. He sat up front.
And every time I made eye contact with him,
he was going...
[laughter]
- That's lovely. - He's my biggest fan.
- Aww.
All right, Jon, let's see if Penn and Teller
could see through your invisible magic trick.
- Here we go.
- Oh, Jon, what a nice routine.
You know, to do a bullet catch
that's completely safe and harmless
and doesn't have anything on that is really beautiful.
It's the bullet catch for our times.
It's just light and happy.
And it doesn't make us think any negative stuff,
just having it all make-believe all the way through there.
And I thought Alyson was great, you know.
When you were holding up to show her the bullets,
it was like Alyson was seeing the stuff
as you presented it to her.
It was really, really beautiful.
And the trick is really baffling
and a very, very good trick.
And whether you look at it--you know,
no matter how you look at it,
it's still a good trick, and we loved it.
And it's a great punchline and a great performance.
And we don't think you fooled us.
[laughter]
- What do you think?
- Well, it's so difficult to fool these guys,
which is why I also brought this.
- Uh-oh.
- An invisible participation trophy.
[laughter] Thanks for your time, guys.
- Jon Mobley!
[cheers and applause]
Not only will Penn and Teller take on more magicians,
they'll also take the stage and perform as well.
More "Fool Us" coming up.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back.
Our next act is ready to take on P and T.
And you get to meet them right now.
- I'm Sasha. - And I'm Poppy.
both: And we're 17-year-old twins from the United Kingdom.
- We are so connected.
It's like we're two people in one.
both: We've got twin energy.
- Which means that we can get an incredible amount
of things done. We're both artists.
- We team-illustrate.
And we're doing our own line of children's books.
- And we're helping to reduce food waste
by building an app with a major software company.
- And now, we're user experience designers
for a luxury car brand.
- Don't forget about our clothing line.
- And our music.
both: ♪ Until the moon's out ♪
- And we play chess on a national level.
- It can get quite interesting
because we can anticipate each other's next move.
And when we play rock, paper, scissors...
both: We never win.
- But for tonight, we're taking on
the greatest challenge of all.
Can our twin minds take on the two minds
of Penn and Teller?
Penn, Teller...
both: Let the games begin.
Pow! [laughs]
[cheers and applause]
- They'll make you see double and think twice.
Please welcome the Van Hargen twins.
both: Hello, America.
- I'm Poppy. - And I'm Sasha.
both: And we are telepathic twins.
- Now, other mentalists have been on this stage,
claiming to have telepathic powers.
But because we're twins,
we actually do share a psychic connection.
As you can see, we look alike...
- Talk alike... both: And think alike.
- This means that we can send and receive mental messages
better and faster than anyone.
- If telepathy was an Olympic sport,
it would be judged on speed.
- That's right, the speed of thought transmission.
- And to prove our Olympic-size powers,
we've created a telepathy triathlon.
Now, what you need to know is that for telepathletes,
like us,
using a sneaky earpiece would be useless
because there's just no time to feed me the information.
- So let's start with a simple mental magic warm-up.
[mellow music]
Poppy, I'm gonna randomly select a few of these cards
and then telepathically transmit them to you.
You've then got to tell everyone which card I've got.
- Seven of diamonds.
- Correct! [audience ohhs]
Let's try another one.
- King of clubs.
- Correct!
- Queen of spades.
- Perfect. We're ready to go for the gold.
Hey, Alyson, we're gonna need some help.
Please come and join us onstage.
- All right.
- Poppy, are you ready?
- I'm set.
both: Go! - [laughs]
[upbeat music]
- Alyson... - Yes?
- In that bowl, you have cards
representing 67 Olympic sports.
Please mix them up.
- Please remove any card that you like,
memorize what's on it, and then come on over.
Place it in my hands behind my back.
- Sasha is not allowed to look at the card
until I blow my whistle.
And then she'll attempt
to send the image to me as fast as she can.
- So, Alyson, if Poppy gets this right,
I want you to throw your arms in the air
like a referee and yell...
both: It's good! [laughter]
- All right.
Okay. Yeah.
Okay. [whistle trills]
[dramatic music]
- Diving! - It's correct!
♪ ♪
- Now, for the second event,
this bowl contains 99 Olympic gold medals
from different cities that have hosted the games.
Now, Alyson, I'd like you to rummage through this bowl
and remove any medal you like.
But just remember, you can't show this to anyone.
- Place the medal in Sasha's hands,
which are behind her back.
This challenge is more difficult
because Sasha will not get a clear look
at the image she has to transmit,
so she'll be sending me a blur.
- I'm ready when you are, Poppy.
[whistle trills]
♪ ♪
- Mexico!
- It's correct.
- It is indeed Mexico!
both: And we did it in record-speed time.
- And finally, the most difficult event of all.
- We've eliminated any possibility of using a force.
So, Penn, it's your turn.
And we're giving you an absolutely free choice.
In front of you is a bowl filled
with over 200 ping-pong balls.
- Each ball has a name of a gold medal athlete
written onto it.
Have a look at some now
and make sure they're all different.
- So, Penn, now that you're happy that all the balls
really are different... - I am.
- I want you to dig your hand into the bowl
and randomly grab a ping-pong ball.
- When I blow my whistle, please give Sasha a quick peek
at the name on the ball.
A speedy open and close of your hands should do it.
And without saying a word,
Sasha will attempt to send the athlete's name
to me in a flash.
I'll turn my back.
[upbeat string music]
[whistle trills]
♪ ♪
Simone Biles!
- Penn, what's the name of the performer you've picked?
- Simone Biles.
audience: Whoa!
- No way! both: We've done it again!
- It's good! [applause]
both: We are the Van Hargen twins.
And goodnight, America!
[cheers and applause]
- The Van Hargen twins!
Wow. Wow, that was very entertaining.
- Aww, that was so fun. - Thank you. Yeah.
No, it's been absolutely amazing.
Thank you for having us.
- Are you interested in sports?
- Oh, of course. We play hockey.
We're field hockey players. - Yeah.
- We golf.
- Fencing, a bit of football as well, soccer.
- Yeah. It's been our dream to be in the Olympics.
So we've decided to create our own.
- Nice. How did you decide who was gonna throw thoughts
and who was gonna catch them? - Gosh, wow.
Since a very young age, we've kind of established
that I'm a lot better at sending the message to Poppy.
She just receives it.
Yeah, that's how our telepathy works.
- That's so cool.
- Are you ever competitive with each other?
- We boost each other up.
I think that's more important for us.
- Okay, girls, let's see if your telepathic triathlon
earns you the gold trophy of magic.
- Oh, my goodness, did we love that.
[laughter]
Wow! What a great--we just love people talking in unison,
let alone twins talking in unison.
We like people dressed alike. We like everything about you.
We also like people who jump around the stage for no reason.
It's just-- it was just such a nutty,
wonderful, fun act with such great energy.
- Thank you. Thank you. - It was just wonderful.
Even though we know nothing about sports,
even the Olympic theme we liked.
But now, I'm gonna have to ask you some questions outright.
I can't even think of a way to code this,
but were there free choices?
- Yes, absolutely. - Absolutely.
Free choice all the way.
- Free choices all the way. And free choices--
not just a free choice of two or three things, but--
- Alyson had a free choice twice.
And you had a free choice. - Completely.
- Right. But I mean, Alyson, were there more than,
like, four or five different sports in there?
- Oh, yeah. - And the medals too?
- They're all different.
- Yeah, and these are different.
Okay, be that way. [laughter]
Well, you know, I have not been coding when I'm talking to you.
But is it possible you were coding what--
- Not at all - Not at all.
- Oh.
- Okay, we've cheated already. We've given two guesses.
We're only supposed to give one.
So I'm gonna throw in another one, though.
- Okay. - Of course, go ahead.
[laughter] - We won't commit.
- Oh, good.
Is it possible you just fooled us?
- [gasps] [cheers and applause]
- We have a Fooler-- well, two Foolers!
- [screams, laughs]
- Oh, my God.
- Congratulations!
both: Thank you so much.
- We fooled them!
Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
- This means the world to us, honestly.
- And what an honor. Thank you.
- Yeah. - I have no idea.
I have no idea clue.
- You'll have to figure out how to split the trophy.
The Van Hargen twins!
- Thank you so much. A pleasure to meet you.
[cheers and applause]
- We win!
- I'm totally clueless.
- Oh, snap, we have some Foolers in the house.
Penn and Teller just gave away a trophy.
See if that happens again when "Fool Us" returns.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back to "Fooled Them."
That's what I call the show
now that Penn and Teller got fooled once already.
Do I hear twice?
Meet our next possible Fooler right now.
- Put your hands together for Swedish illusionist
Axel Adler.
[cheers and applause]
[quirky, gritty music]
♪ ♪
[applause]
[laughter]
audience: Whoa!
[applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Axel Adler!
Hi.
Well, if anybody needs a leg up in this business,
they should come to you, right?
- Yeah, sure. [laughs]
- Is that original to you?
- It's based on, like, an old variety act.
So it has been in different versions.
And this is my version. - Nice.
That looks like a very strenuous thing to perform.
- Yeah, it's a lot of work physically.
- Do you have to do stretches and stuff beforehand?
- Yeah, I have to do, like, a little bit squats and stuff
and move around the legs.
- What inspired you to take this on?
- I had an act where I had the four arms.
So this was the most logical step.
And then the next step is maybe with two heads.
- Will you come back to us with two heads,
four arms, and three legs?
- Sure, if you want to. - Great. That'd be amazing.
Okay, Axel, let's see if your three-legged trick
will let you run away with a trophy.
- Okay.
- Ugh, Axel, that is a beautiful act.
Just a gorgeous act, and it just--
it goes all the way through.
And what's interesting about it--
what Teller pointed out as we were watching it--
was it's not you proving that the legs are real,
that each one of the three legs is real, that's so powerful.
It's the fact that you prove
that each one of the three legs isn't real.
The fact that you show clearly
that each one of the legs is fake
makes it so that each one of the legs is real.
It's just a-- it's a beautiful routine.
I am so astonished by the amount of strength,
and choreography, and planning, and everything else.
And I gotta tell ya,
if this show was called "Enchant Us," you would win.
If this show was called "Blow Our Minds," you would win.
If this show was called "Kill Us Absolutely Dead
with Your Raw Skill and Genius," you would win.
But the show is called "Fool Us."
And I don't think you fooled us.
But we come back with any of those other shows,
you got trophies galore.
That was wonderful, Axel.
- So, Axel, you fooled me,
but did you fool Penn and Teller?
- I don't think so.
- Okay, well, thank you so much.
Axel Adler! - Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Don't you dare go anywhere.
We have more fantastic magic for you when we come back.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
It's time to meet our next potential Fooler.
- I was born with one hand and with parents
who didn't see that as a disability.
Anything I wanted to do, they said, "Do it."
They never stopped encouraging me.
[upbeat acoustic music plays]
Magic was an even bigger challenge,
but I had my dad as my mentor.
He helped me learn the secrets and create routines.
Instead of hiding my hands, I drew attention to them.
Magic gave me the courage to say, "Look at me.
This is who I am." Then when I was 16 years old,
my father passed away unexpectedly,
very unexpectedly.
I stopped doing magic entirely.
I almost couldn't look at it. I just--it was too much.
Probably about 20 years after he passed away,
my grandma said, "I have something for you.
It belonged to your father."
This is my dad's magic box.
He built it himself when he was a kid.
When I inherited it, it was empty.
But it was a message to me to fill that box
to bring back the magic Dad and I shared.
So, Penn and Teller,
you're not the only team onstage tonight.
You're up against Dad and me.
And that's why I hope
I just might be about to fool Penn and Teller.
- Please give a warm welcome
for the amazing magic of Chris Canfield.
- Magic has always been in my life.
My father started performing magic in the late '50s
as a teenager in Chicago.
When I came along, he passed that love on to me.
I think we've all experienced magic in our lives--
a beautiful sunset, the birth of a child.
Of course, from time to time, there are moments
when we doubt the existence of magic in our lives.
But all it takes to remind us
is to experience something truly amazing again,
like pulling a coin out of thin air.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
Penn and Alyson, would you mind joining me at the table?
[applause]
Hello.
- Hello. - Hey.
Now, you may have noticed I'm a single-handed magician.
I mean, of course, you noticed I'm a single-handed magician.
You've seen a lot of solo performance,
but I'm genuinely here to try to fool you single-handedly.
I was born this way.
I'm not the first to come along, but we are rare as magicians,
just a few every generation.
As you can imagine, I've had to navigate a world
designed for two hands.
It's taught me things-- compassion, ingenuity,
the true value of opposable thumbs.
And I've had to adapt to the art of magic,
like shuffling.
Let's see.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
That's not showing off.
That's actually the easiest way for me
to shuffle a deck of cards.
And then cutting.
- Nice.
- No, that is showing off. I can just do that.
[laughter] No.
But there are some things I still haven't figured out.
And maybe it's because I'm left-handed.
No matter what I do, I can always cut to a picture card.
- Wow. - Actually,
I can cut to all of the picture cards, paired up by color.
Two red Kings, two black Queens,
two red Jacks, and the others.
But--thank you--
if I take these same cards and simply deal them,
something else amazing happens.
They now alternate by color.
Red, black, red, black,
red, black, red, and black.
And if I deal them a second time...
Marvelously...
They pair up again by color.
It's two blacks, two reds,
two blacks,
two reds, and two blacks.
- So good.
- So I wondered, "What would happen if I mixed them up?
"Would they still keep an order?
Or would that be taking things too far?"
Sadly,
it seems like this is the end of it.
A Queen and King.
♪ ♪
Not a match.
The next two?
Not a match.
And the next.
King and a Jack.
You'd think there'd be at least one pairing here.
Not a match.
No order.
And for a moment, once again, we doubt the existence of magic.
But if the three of us work together,
maybe order can be magically restored.
Penn, could you please use a sliver of your magic dexterity
to square the cards and turn them faceup?
♪ ♪
Thank you.
And, Alyson... - Yes.
- Would you take some of the love for magic
you carry in your heart
and pass it over the cards?
Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
- And I'll use all that I have.
♪ ♪
Two black Jacks,
two red Queens,
and the Kings, and the Jacks, and the Queens, and the Kings.
All paired up again by color. [cheers and applause]
Order is amazingly restored.
Maybe there is magic in the world.
[both chuckle] Thank you both so much.
Thank you. - Thank you.
Chris Canfield! That was so cool.
- Thank you. - Ugh, I love it
when I just have, like, close-up view.
- Oh, I love close-up. It's my favorite.
Absolutely, yeah.
- Do you feel like you're connected
to your dad when you perform?
- I do, yeah. When I do it, he's with me.
I'm kind of honoring his memory and carrying it on.
- So what was your childhood like?
- Obviously, born with one hand,
you might think there are limitations to life.
And maybe there are, but my parents always encouraged me
just to go for whatever I could imagine.
- Did you play sports? - I did.
You know, I grew up on a block with about 15 other kids.
And we played every single sport you can imagine--
football, baseball, hockey in the winters,
everything, everything. I loved it.
- What did your parents do?
- My parents opened a game store.
So I actually grew up surrounded by games
and game inventors.
- Fun. - It was really fun.
- And did you ever work there? - I did work there, yeah.
In fact, that's one of the things that helped me overcome
being uncomfortable born with a limb difference, right?
I found out the more comfortable I am,
the more comfortable it makes other people.
So that's kind of the goal now.
- All right, Chris, it was great
to see your trick close up.
Let's see if Penn and Teller know how you did your magic.
- Okay. - So, Chris,
I was up there right near you.
You could tell how much I loved it.
You could tell how much.
But I came back and talked to Teller, who also loved it,
and also pointed out Bill Simon's Call to Colors,
which you are making much harder by doing one-handed.
And of course, René Lavand,
who I'm sure is a inspiration to you.
How could he not be? - Yes, yeah.
- And he worked a lot of that stuff out one-handed.
And I wanna just make very, very clear that routine
you did done with two hands is wicked, wicked difficult.
And you just did a beautiful job with it, you know.
And then it made me think of what a long strange trip
it's been in show business, you know,
'cause our first deal that we did together
was Renaissance festivals.
We played a lot of Renaissance festivals together.
But our second deal, very early on, our second deal
was we were hired to do a show
for felons under the age of 15--
like, really dangerous criminals,
all under 15, enjoying a magic show.
And that magic show was done by us.
And I don't know why that just crossed my mind,
but I just thought I'd share that with you,
that we've had some very, very weird gigs.
And this was a really wonderful moment to see someone
doing card tricks that well and with one hand,
which is really phenomenal.
And as you pointed out,
even though you're using your left hand,
probably genetically, you're right-handed,
which is--I can't even get my mind around.
But because we knew René
and because we knew the Bill Simon thing,
although we loved the act, I don't think you fooled us.
- Okay. Thank you so much.
- Did any of that felon talk resonate with you?
- It certainly did. Thank you. Yes, yes.
- Okay, so you didn't fool them? - I did not.
- Aww, thank you so much. - Thank you.
- Chris Canfield!
[cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller get out of their judge jackets
and into their magic jackets,
which look identical, by the way.
See them perform when we come back.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Penn and Teller weren't sure about closing the show tonight,
but then they said, "Ah, bucket!
Let's do this thing."
Everyone, put your hands together
for our show closers, Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- We like doing the show.
We love doing "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
We're proud of it. We love everybody we work with.
It's good. It's a good gig for us.
We've been enjoying doing the show.
We really, really like--we like working with the producers,
the director-- everybody's great.
And the network... has been good, good, good.
But this past week, we've been--
we've been butting heads with the network
over this next trick.
We wanna do a trick. We loved it.
A trick called "Bucket of Blood"--
exciting, visceral, hmm, powerful!
And the network came to us and said,
"Guys, we don't want you to do the bucket of blood."
We said, "It's a good trick. Good trick."
They said, "Oh, it's a fine trick.
"We just don't like the blood part.
There's a lot of children that watch, families."
I said, "Children love blood!"
And they said, "No. Families wanna watch this show.
"They don't wanna have blood all over their TV
when they're watching as a family."
So they said, "Can't you find another liquid?"
So Teller had the brilliant idea.
He said, "Well, children love gasoline."
We thought, "Bucket of gasoline."
But then turns out that's too expensive.
So then we said to them--right?
We said, "Okay, you tell us. What liquid should we use?
If not blood, not gasoline, what should we use?"
And they said, "How about milk?"
I'm a vegan, okay?
So I said, "No way I'm the milk factory farming
"all that suffering, climate change.
"And what if a child watching this show
"is lactose intolerant?
This is a little bucket of nightmare!"
And they said, "No, no, no, bucket of milk,
or you don't get to do the trick."
They have the power.
So we're gonna do the bucket of milk trick.
We got a bucket and we have milk.
[milk splashing]
Now, you would think that that would make the network
very happy that we completely conceded to their demands.
You would think that would be fine.
But they said, "Wait a minute, guys.
It wasn't just the blood we objected to.
It's also the bucket." We said, "What?"
They said, "When you have a bucket of milk,
a child could get hurt in that. They could drown."
And we said, "But this bucket-- we gotta have a bucket.
That's the whole bit for the whole trick."
And they said, "No, no, no, if you're gonna have a bucket,
"you can't even have a bottom in the bucket.
There can be no bottom in the bucket."
We said, "But then it's not a bucket.
"It's no good without a bottom.
We need a bottom in the bucket."
So we said, "Okay."
They said we could put a bottom in the bucket,
but then we had to turn it upside down.
We had to turn the bucket upside down.
So now, our bucket of blood becomes really
not even a bucket, and certainly not blood.
So it's a non-bucket of non-blood.
It's a non-bucket of milk.
I'm pouring the milk into the non-bucket
in order to be safe with that.
And I don't know, it just doesn't seem--
I mean, I guess it's an okay trick
to have the milk, but it was so much better--
so much better with the blood--
with the blood, you know?
I mean, we can do a trick and be proud of ourselves.
But, you know, the more I think about it,
we're doing okay on this show.
And it's called "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
It's not called "Network Fool Us."
And every once in a while, you gotta take a stand.
You gotta stand up to the man.
You gotta do things the way you want to.
So, yeah, we have got a bucket. We have got a bucket.
And, yes, that bucket is full of blood.
If you wanna fire us, go ahead.
But that's the Penn and Teller Bucket of Blood
the way it's supposed to be.
- Ah.
Ugh, ahh.
That was bloody great.
Huge thanks to all of tonight's magicians.
We gotta go.
We'll see you next time on "Fool Us."
Goodnight.
[cheers and applause]