03x06 - Penn & Teller Snake their Chances

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♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller
Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada,

here's our host--
Alyson Hannigan!

[cheers and applause]

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- Welcome to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

We're here to see some of
the best magicians in the world

try to fool two
of magic's finest,

Penn and Teller.

Anyone who pulls it off
earns a spot

in their long-running
Vegas show.

And now, the magicians with
the strength of two men

and the voice of one,

Penn and Teller!

[cheers and applause]

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Okay, it's time to meet our
first potential fooler.

[expl*si*n booms]

- My name is Elliot Zimet,
I am an illusionist,

and I'm from the Bronx
in New York City.

[techno music]

Coming to my show
is an experience.

It's high energy.
There's beautiful women.

There's exotic birds.

This ain't your mama's magic.

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I used to tell the promoters
never to announce

that I'm an illusionist
at the show,

so when I walk on stage
and look like a music artist,

people would think
I'm going to sing,

and the microphone didn't work,
so I threw it in the audience

and in midair,
it changed into a bird.

The routine I'm doing
for this show

is a classical magic, but I
added in lots of surprises.

There's always possibility
of messing up,

but I just hope to
impress Penn and Teller

with my style of magic.

[cheers and applause]

- Our next performer prefers
not to be introduced

as a magician or illusionist,

so please welcome this guy,
Elliot Zimet.

[cheers and applause]

[knocking]

- Got a delivery.

Sign here.

[scribbling]

[bubble wrap popping]

[bubble wrap popping]

[suspenseful music]

- You know they say
that seeing is believing...

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but is it?

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You know, right now,
I feel like I'm flying.

But am I?

And then I spot
this girl in the crowd...

and I noticed my feet
are still planted here.

Man, she looks like
a heartbreaker.

You know,
a little dangerous.

[hip-hop music]

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[glass shatters]

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[cheers and applause]

[hip-hop music]

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[cheers and applause]

- Wow!

Elliot Zimet,
ladies and gentlemen.

Hi!

That's for you.
- Hi, Alyson.

- That's incredible.

So you're sort of, like, part
magician, part rock star.

- Trying to figure it out,
myself.

- I think it's working,
whatever it is.

It's really, really
entertaining.

- Thank you so much.
- Yes.

So where do you get
your inspiration from?

- Yeah, like you said--
I love concerts.

You said rock star,
I love concerts,

hip-hop, rock,
whatever it is.

I'm a big Usher, Rhianna,
Kanye West fan.

So the look, the lights,
the costumes, the energy,

the connection with
the audience is most important.

- That's so cool.

- So that's kind of my thing.
- Yeah.

Well, I think the boys
are done with their chitchat.

- Elliot, my new friend.
- Yes.

Uh, really good.

We love the fact that
everybody who does origami

usually uses,
you know, swords.

But you're completely
non-motivated, unjustified,

out of the blue, you know?

It just, uh...

no reason for it.

Using the broken mirror
and the pieces looks great.

It really is a really,
really good idea.

We know this theater
inside out,

and we know it so well,

that we know
your trick is harder

than people at home
may think it is.

People at home may think,
well, this is a big theater

in Vegas, it is probably maggoty
with trap doors.

There's probably trap doors
everywhere on that stage.

And we happen to know that,
on that stage,

there is one gigantic
trap door

that you could bring
a car in and out.

But it's not sneaky at all,
you can't do anything on it.

So you did that
without trap doors.

So what you actually
did was harder

than many people
at home may think.

We know the whole
layout of this,

and know how fast
you moved around.

So once we've eliminated
trap doors,

which is what everybody else
would think it is,

there's really only
one place at one time

you could have done it,
and we know what that is.

But it was a great switch.
- Thank you so much.

- [laughs]
- Thank you.

- Well, so you're confident that
you didn't fool Penn and Teller,

but you certainly
entertained us all.

- I'm so happy.
- Yes.

- What a pleasure,
thank you so much.

- Okay, it's great, man.
- Thank you.

Elliot Zimet,
ladies and gentlemen.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you so much.

More magic on the way,
but first,

let's catch our breath.

More "Fool Us" after this.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"

where magicians try to
hoodwink our in-house Houdinis.

Let's meet our next trickster.

[expl*si*n booms]

- My dad inspired me
to have a career in magic.

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He did these homemade movies.

He would call them
"crazy shots."

And they all had
a magical quality to them.

They were kind of
practical jokes,

and sometimes I was
the butt of the joke.

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I do a good
cups and ba*ls routine

that involves
the element of sound.

The steel ba*ls came about
because I found

a steel ball bearing
in my dad's toolbox.

The magicians were
impressed by the fact

that I was fooling them
with sight and with sound

at the same time.

Magicians,
they're not often fooled.

Because they know the secrets.

And what you do is,
you sort of try to

use the information
against them.

Fooling other magicians
was a way of

carrying on my father's life.

[cheers and applause]

- Please welcome
Paul Gertner.

- Thank you.
Thank you.

Thank you.

Alyson, would you mind
joining me at the table?

I have a trick that you've
never seen before,

and I want you to
see it up close.

- I would love to, thank you.
- Okay.

Now, Penn and Teller,
it's a pleasure to be here.

And I brought something special
to show you.

It might even look
a little familiar,

because I brought a deck
of marked cards.

[laughter]

You see, Alyson,
Penn and Teller

know an awful lot
about marked cards.

And they would tell you that,
of course, most magicians

mark the cards on the back.

However, I mark them
a little differently.

I mark them on the edge.
Yeah.

See, you can see
on the edge of the deck,

it's like a little pattern.

Like a barcode pattern.

There's information there,
you just don't know

how to read it.

And I'm gonna
teach you right now.

- Oh, thank you.

- Now, I actually marked each
card with this permanent marker.

And that's important,
because each card has

a unique code on it,
but it's permanent,

and I can't alter it
or change it in any manner.

Now, if you take
a look at the cards,

Alyson, I want you to confirm
for everybody

that all the cards
are mixed up.

In other words,
they're not all

the red cards here
and black cards here.

It's a shuffled pack
of cards, right?

- Yes.

- And I'm going to begin
by actually having you

select a card.

- Okay.
- So, as--

now, this works with
any card in the deck.

so I want you to
choose one at random.

So just say "stop"
as I riffle the pack.

- Stop.
- Okay.

Look at the card.

Remember the name
of the card.

Okay?

And we'll let
Penn and Teller see it.

I'm going to place it
in the pack.

And normally,
at this point in the card trick,

the magician squares up the deck
and shuffles the card.

Right, guys?

Yeah, that's Magic 101.

But I'm not
going to do that.

I'm going to give these cards
what we call an "un-shuffle."

Now, it's the opposite
of a shuffle.

In fact, if you take
a close look right here,

I'm going to show you that you
can see it looks like a shuffle,

it sounds like a shuffle,
but it's actually an un-shuffle.

And if you watch the marks
on the edge of the deck,

You'll see it starting to read

"un-shuffled" four times
on the side of the pack.

See?

Because I'm actually--
un-shuffled these cards

into four different groups.

Hearts, clubs, spades,
and diamonds--

the four suits in the deck.

Yeah.

But if I give the cards
another un-shuffle,

just like this...

and you can see, when I give
the cards an un-shuffle,

it looks like a shuffle,
it sounds like a shuffle,

but it's not.

That's an un-shuffle.

And, in fact, take a look.

It's now starting to read
"un-shuffled"

two times on the side
of the deck.

Because I've now separated
all the high cards

from all the low cards.

[laughter]

Yeah.

But it gets even more
interesting if I give the cards

one more un-shuffle.

And if I do it, I want you to
stare at the edge of the deck

and see if you can tell the
moment that these cards

become...

[audience gasps]

Un-shuffled.

[applause]

Oh, but...

but, Alyson, if it says
un-shuffled,

I have to prove it.

Remember in the beginning,
I showed you they were

all mixed up?

Take a look at them now,
because from the ace

through the king of hearts--

- What?

- Of clubs, of diamonds,
of spades,

it's a completely
un-shuffled deck of cards.

- Oh, my gosh.
- Thank you.

- Wow!
- Thank you.

[applause]

Oh, wait, wait.

There's one minor detail.

In the beginning,
you selected a card.

- Yeah.

- And it's somewhere here
in this un-shuffled deck.

Now, I could look
for your card faceup.

But they're all in sequence.

Perfect order.

That wouldn't be
too difficult to find

and, besides, it probably
wouldn't fool Penn and Teller.

But if I found your card
facedown,

it would be a little more
impressive.

For the first time,
tell me and everyone else

what was the name
of your card?

- Uh, the king of spades.

If I give the cards
one more un-shuffle,

and if I re-arrange almost
every card in the pack,

except for the top
and bottom cards,

I think I can hit it.

And I did.

There it is.

Your king of spades.

Thank you.
Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Penn?

And Teller?

I think it's pretty clear
at this point,

I can find any card
in this deck I want to find.

And I can also put these cards
in almost any order I want them.

Look, if I give them
one more un-shuffle,

take a look at now,
the cards have been separated.

All the red cards
and all the black cards.

So there's really only
one final question to answer.

And that is...

did I fool Penn...

- [gasps]

- And Teller?

[cheers and applause]

Thank you.
- Ladies and gentlemen--

- Thank you.
- Paul Gertner.

Whoa!
- [laughs]

- That was incredible!
- Thank you.

- Oh, my God!

[applause]

Now, that is a trick
that you know

Penn has asked you
about, or--

- That's the tricky part.

Penn bought my book
a number of years ago

to learn that trick.

In fact,
I saved his email.

I still have his email.
- Oh, that's so cool.

- So you did a trick that
you know Penn knows.

- Uh, yes, that's true.

But there was a little
twist at the end

that I think might've
made them smile.

- Okay, and now how do you
come up with, like,

the little change?

Are you just, like,
driving down the street

and you're like,
"Ah, wait a second, I got it."

- No, that took about
ten days of thinking,

and about another week
of preparation,

and then another week
showing it to the top

slight of hand artists
in the world.

- Oh, wow.
- Okay?

- On video to say,
"is this gonna work?"

- Yes.
- Keep my fingers crossed here.

I don't know.

- All right, that was
a wonderful performance.

Let's see what
Penn and Teller think.

- Okay.

- Gentlemen with
the notebooks.

- I want to say first,
before we get to the hard part,

uh, I am a huge fan
of Paul Gertner's.

Huge fan.
- Thank you.

[applause]

- Penn, did you hear him?

You were deliberating,
but he saved your email

that you wrote
to him years ago.

- Well, I did buy
the book from him.

And worked forever,
and I'm not gonna even

give one word of
how that's done,

because he knows that
I read the book

and he knows that
I worked on it.

And I think he also knows
I failed.

I never got good enough
at it to perform it.

But I'm not dead yet.

- Okay.
- I'm gonna keep working.

Uh, so it's only the ending
we're talking about,

when the Penn and Teller
comes into view at the end

it kind of, uh,
blew our minds.

And we think it's the same
deck of cards he started with.

I'll also go out
with that.

We don't think he did anything
big and gross on that,

even though he's got a table
the size of an apartment.

- That's true, I could have.

- We don't think
he did anything there.

So we then have two choices
for what he did,

and I'm gonna ask this
in two different ways.

Um, one is, uh...

can we look at the cards?

- Can you--you mean
look at the cards that--

- You used, yeah.

- Yeah, I mean,
they'll tell you something,

but not a whole--
not all of them, sure.

- 'Cause we think--uh,
I'll tell you, before this--

- Look at Teller's face.

- Uh, well, it says, uh...

- It says Penn and Teller.
- Penn is inspecting the props.

- Pretty clearly.

And, uh...

if we do that,
and we do that,

- Teller looks very excited.

- We get nothing,
and we do this...

- Hello?

- Yeah, well,
actually, it does.

Uh, we did learn
something from this deck.

I don't know if you can
see the angle on this, Paul.

But if you look--I don't want to
screw up your whole deck,

but if I do a shuffle
like this...

I want you to just
watch the edge.

I think you'll see it
come into focus.

It says, "Paul Gertner,
you fooled us."

- [laughs]
- Yay!

You fooled them!

- At the exact
right angle.

[cheers and applause]

Beautiful.
- Thank you.

- Oh, congratulations.
- Thank you.

- Oh, that's wonderful.
- Thanks, Penn.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
Paul Gertner!

[cheers and applause]

That's one fooler already,
and we have

more magicians
on the way.

Can lightning strike
twice tonight?

Come back and find out.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

We've already had
one successful fooler.

Is there another in the house?

Let's find out as we meet
our next magician.

[expl*si*n booms]

- I always knew I was never
going to be a serious magician.

Far too uncoordinated
and not attractive enough.

Play to your strengths,
always play to your strengths.

My interest in magic comes
largely from my great-uncle.

At family get-togethers,
he would come by and eat fire.

♪ ♪

I'm from Toronto, Canada.

What are Canadian people like?

I've tried to do a little bit
of good in the world.

I do a show called
"Mosquitoes Suck."

We raise money
for people in Africa

who are suffering
with malaria.

If I could fool
Penn and Teller,

I will politely apologize,
because that is

the Canadian way.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Joined by five
randomly selected members

of our audience,
please welcome Matt Disero.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Normally, you see psychics on
TV, these fake psychics on TV.

And they know girls'
phone numbers,

the know lottery numbers,
you know,

they know
social insurance numbers.

I've actually chosen to direct
my fake psychic powers

to knowing one thing
and one thing only.

I know the color of these
people's underwear.

[laughter]

It's okay if you're not
wearing any, ma'am.

We'll sort that out,
don't worry about it.

So, look, I'm gonna
give you each a card.

And on this card,
I would like you to write down

the color of your underwear,
but you got to have

some fun with it, okay?

So take the card.

You can write down anything you
like, but have some fun with it.

So if you're wearing white,
don't write just white.

White would be
kind of boring, you know?

So instead, be creative,
you know?

You could write, uh--
you could write "marshmallow."

You know?

Or maybe instead of white, you
might write "cloud," you know?

If you're wearing black,
don't write just black,

black would be boring.

Instead, maybe you would
write, like, "coal," you know?

Or maybe you'd write
"midnight"--something hot,

something sexy,
you know?

Lace, something like that.

Brown is not a color,
sir, just so you know, okay?

Can't have that.

[laughter]

So have as much fun as you like,
write it down.

When you're finished, hold the
card up to your chest

so I can't see what
you've written.

That's very important.

So write down whatever you like.

Have as much fun as you want,
but never let me see

what you've written.

In a minute, I'm gonna try
and be less like a psychic

and more like a poker player who
knows a little bit of magic.

I'm gonna try and figure out
whose underwear belongs to who,

and who's lying,
who's telling the truth,

combining a little bit of
the science of body language

and a little bit of magic.

So when you're finished,
I'll take your pens.

Thank you.

How're you doing there, sir?
Writing a book?

Nope, you got it.
Good.

Now if you would,
take all of your cards,

pass them down to the
gentleman on the end.

Okay, sir?

So you get 'em--
take all the cards,

pass them down to
the gentleman on the end.

All right, and just pass them
down--look at you,

having a little peek at the
cards there, sir, hey.

Give them a shuffle
so I don't know the order.

I'll turn my back--
give them a shuffle.

I don't want to know who's
underwear belongs to who,

so shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

And let me know when you've
done that--have you done that?

- Yup.
- Excellent.

And I'll take the cards.

And we'll see what we got.

Somebody here
wrote down "eggshell."

Sexy, sexy.

Somebody wrote down
"tangerine."

Meow.
I like it.

Somebody here
wrote down "midnight."

Kind of middle of the road.

Somebody wrote down "snow."

Cha-cha-cha.

Somebody wrote down
"ocean blue."

If that's yours,
I'll [...] myself, sir.

That's hilarious.

[laughter]

So like a poker player,
I'm gonna try and figure out

who is lying,
who is telling the truth,

whose underwear
belongs to who.

and I'll do that just by
saying the word on the card.

Uh, so when I say the word,
what I want you to do,

is always answer in
the affirmative--

always say,
"that's my underwear."

Never tell me it's not your
underwear, always say,

"that's my underwear."

I'll try and figure out
who's lying,

who's telling
the truth, okay?

So we'll try it here.
Eggshell.

- That's my underwear.

I want it to be,
no question.

- Eggshell.
- That's my underwear.

- Possibly,
she closed her eyes.

Maybe a sign.
Eggshell.

- That's my underwear.
- Oh, maybe.

Eggshell.
- That's my underwear.

- Nice.
Eggshell.

- That's my underwear.

- Look at the smile
on your face, sir.

[laughter]

I'm gonna give you the
eggshell--don't tell me if

I'm right or wrong,
just hang on to it.

I do like this one--tangerine.

Let's try here.
Tangerine.

- That's my underwear.

- Nice.
Tangerine.

- That's my underwear.
- Oh.

Think we might have a winner.
Tangerine.

- That's my underwear.
- Hmm, possibly.

Tangerine, sir?
- That's my underwear.

- You could be
wearing two pair.

Tough to say.

I'm not sure, but I'm gonna give
you the tangerine.

Don't tell me if I'm right
or wrong, just hang on to it.

Uh, we'll try it here--
midnight.

We'll start right back
over here.

Looking at you.
Midnight.

- That's my underwear.
- Hmm, possibly.

Let's check with you again.
Midnight?

- That's my underwear.
- Hmm, now, you blinked.

That's tough to say.
Midnight?

- That's my underwear.

- Mm, I'm gonna
give you the midnight.

Now, look, finally I have snow
and I have ocean blue.

Either way, it's not working out
well for you, big guy.

People are gonna talk.

[laughter]

Well, I'm gonna go with
my gut on this one.

I'm gonna give you the snow
and I'm gonna give you

the ocean blue.

Now, look,
I gave you each a card.

If I gave you the card
that you wrote on,

if I gave you the card
that corresponds

to the underwear
you're wearing,

please return
to your seats now.

[cheers and applause]

Huzzah!
- Matt Disero.

- Thank you.
That was fun.

- Wow!

Do you know how everybody
picks their underwear?

- I know a little bit
about everyone.

I know the intimate secrets of
everyone in the audience, yes.

- Did that ever
go horribly wrong?

- I once had
an audience member say,

"You know,
I'm just not wearing any."

- Oh.

- And they've, uh, turned with
their back to the crowd,

and opened up their fly in their
pants to actually show me

their underwear, which,
you know, for the effect,

goes wrong, but for me
personally, it was fantastic.

- Well, that's probably why
you still do the trick.

- Yeah, yeah, it's actually what
hope for all the time now.

It's my dream job.

- All right, let's see how
Penn and Teller are doing.

- Yes.

I wonder how they'll
manage with this.

- I know.
Can you guess their underwear?

- Well, if I let that secret--

there are secrets,
and then there are secrets.

- All right.

All right.

- Oh, uh, you know,
this is a...

an effect that goes back,
I think,

starts out mostly
as part of

the religious act
of spiritualism.

You would be given an object.

And you'd be able to tell
who it belonged to,

'cause the spirits
of the dead would tell you.

Well, it's not that.

Spirits of the dead
did not tell you.

Um, also, you don't have
someone in the audience

flirting with the people,
asking them,

"Oh, by the way,
what color is your underwear?"

Which is a great pickup line,
by the way.

Try using it.

Um, and, uh,
those also are real people

from the audience.

But one of the things
we ask ourselves,

as magicians,
we ask ourselves,

"if we had real
magical powers,

what would we want to do?"

You are the only one who's
answered that question

from my heart.

[laughter]

If I had real
magical powers,

I would want to do your
psychometry.

Whether it's pseudo
or whether it's real,

if I had magic powers,
they would be yours, Matt.

They would be yours.
- Thank you.

And that is why
you guys are the best.

- [laughs]
- Totally busted me out on that.

- So you're satisfied?
- Oh, of course.

- Okay.
- Thank you very much, guys.

- You did not fool them.

But you entertained us all.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

- It was so nice to meet you.
- Thank you.

- Ladies, Matt Disero!

[cheers and applause]

More amazing magic
when we return.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

Let's meet
our next illusionist.

[expl*si*n booms]

- My name is Rokas,
I'm from Lithuania,

and I'm a holder of
the World Guinness Record

for the highest throw of
a single playing card.

Lithuania is a small country.

The population is only


There are not a lot
of magicians.

I would say from five to seven.

Maybe when I come back,
it will be eight.

When I was 14,
I didn't really have friends.

So I learned magic as,
like, a hobby.

It was very hard to
learn magic in Lithuania

because we didn't have
magic shops.

But when I was 16, I knew that
magic is going to be my career.

And now, I'm here.

Yeah!

I hope I will
inspire Lithuania kids

to pursue their dreams.

[cheers and applause]

- Our next performer
comes from a country

with only five
working magicians.

Well, four,
since he's here now.

Please welcome
Lithuania magician, Rokas.

[cheers and applause]

- Hello, Mr. Penn.
Hello, Mr. Teller.

Hello Las Vegas.

[applause]

My name is Rokas,
and I have always wanted

to make people feel better.

I told this to my teacher,
and she said,

"Rokas,
you should be a doctor."

As you can see,
I failed.

But wherever I go,
I bring an x-ray machine

to remind me not to give up
on my teacher's dreams for me.

Actually, it is
an amazing machine.

It has many features.

And one if them is,
I can see through my body.

And if I snap my fingers,
watch what happens.

I will need this
if I fool those guys,

and this if I don't.

But for now,
I need a deck of cards.

Thank you.

[applause]

I need an amazing volunteer,
so please give a big

round of applause to
Alyson Hannigan.

[cheers and applause]

Hello, Alyson.
- Hi.

- Alyson, please confirm
that all the cards,

they're not the same.

Are they different?
Yes?

- Yes.
- Good.

Now Alyson, when I riffle
through the cards,

all you have to do is just say
"stop" any time, okay

- Stop!
- Here?

- Yes.

- Okay, this is that card
you stopped at, okay?

- Okay.

- Everybody please remember it,
and Alyson,

draw something very unique
in the center of the card.

- Okay.

- The reason why
Alyson is doing this

is because I told her to.

[laughter]

Now, this is your signature,
okay?

And in magic, every move creates
a different kind of an effect.

For example,
this magical move...

makes all the cards
appear on the floor.

[laughter]

This effect was discovered
by Isaac Newton in 1687.

[laughter]

Thank you for getting the joke,
I appreciate that.

Uh, Alyson, don't worry about
the cards, okay?

- Okay.

- Because we have
an x-ray machine.

So let's take another
deck of cards.

[snaps fingers]

Alyson, take your cards.

Take it out from the box.

Okay?
Please shuffle the cards.

Make sure they're
all different.

Throw it away, no problem.

Yeah.

Shuffle the cards.
That's perfect.

- Guys, stop looking at me.

Oh!
- Oh, no.

Can I have the cards?
- Sorry, I'm terrible at that.

- So, Alyson, your card,
your signed card seems like

it would be very easy
for me to find your card.

But it's fool us.

So let's make your card...

look like every other
card in this deck.

- Wow.

[applause]

- Thank you.

Now, Alyson,
in a minute--

again, your card goes somewhere
in the middle, okay?

And in a minute, I will have you
to hold the cards like this.

Okay, so please hold
your left hand like that.

And cover it with
your right hand, please.

In a minute,
I'm going to do a magical move.

Watch.

[snaps fingers]

Your card jumped
under your elbow.

But it didn't stop there.

[laughter]

Because it jumped
into my pocket.

And inside my pocket,
I have nothing

but my wallet.

And inside it's empty,
with an exception.

I have an envelope here.

And Alyson,
could you please

open it, because there's
something inside

that might put a smile
on your face.

Just--hand me the cards, yes.

Thank you.
- Whew!

Okay.

Ah!

[audience gasps]

[cheers and applause]

- I know what
you're thinking.

Because we are only warmed up,

let's put the card
into the most impossible place

in this entire room, okay?

Again, your card goes
somewhere in the middle.

And now watch.

[snaps fingers]

Did you feel anything?
- No.

- Say yes.
- Yes.

[laughter]

- There's something
in Alyson's stomach.

Alyson, could you please
stand on the sign

that says, "stand here"?

Just on the sign.
- Sure.

- Okay, please hold your
hands just like this.

Perfect.

And when I tell you to,
make two steps to your left.

Say, "yes, Rokas."
- Yes, Rokas.

- Okay, perfect.
Are you ready?

- It's a good thing
you're attractive.

- Okay--
thank you.

Do it!

[audience gasps]

I like making people
feel better

and I like making people
feel happy.

And sometimes,
things that makes us happy,

surprise us from inside.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you.

Wait.

[cheers and applause]

Watch.

- Oh.
Argh.

[giggles]

Hmm...

[audience gasps]

[cheers and applause]

- Is this your card?

- That is my card!

Rokas, everybody.

[cheers and applause]

Wow.

Oh, my goodness.

And that is my card.

- No, no, that's for
EBay, sorry.

- [laughs]

So you actually
told me earlier that

part of the reason that you're--
you learned English so well

is because of magic.

Is that true?

- We had English lessons at
school, but I was just too lazy.

- [laughs]

- And I had no
motivation for that.

And...

I got this magic magazine.

And I was like,
"I want to read this."

So I had my dictionary
and a magic magazine,

and I was just translating
every word of an article,

and this is how
I learned English.

- That's great, did--

- It was two days ago,
by the way.

- [laughs]

All right, well it's time
to go to the boys.

Let's see what they think.

Gentlemen.

- Uh, when you do this act,

do you do it also
in Lithuanian?

- In Lithuanian?
Yes.

- The language?
- Yes.

- Ah, I'd love to hear that.

Do a little bit of it
in Lithuanian.

- Okay.

Um...

[speaking Lithuanian]

[cheers and applause]

- Very nice.

Very nice.
- Thank you.

So--
[laughs]

Um, boy, it's a great act.

It's great to see
card to wallet

where it comes,
not out of the inner pocket,

but out of the outer pocket.

That's a great twist on that.

Makes it much more
deceptive to others.

We also love seeing you
do film to life.

Nice to see it done with a big--
in a big way like that.

The thing that we might
have--uh, we might be right on

and we might not is--

- Why don't you just "not"
and just give him the trophy?

- I know, you--
- He's so sweet.

- He is so sweet.
- He's really cute.

I bet people would love
to come see him.

- All of that is true.

[cheers and applause]

- Just give it to him.
Come on.

- Okay, well maybe
we're wrong on this.

But, you know, a lot of times,
the most innocuous things

a magician does, the things that
absolutely don't matter,

have nothing to do
with the trick,

may be the whole crux.

Like, just when you take a--
you know, I take that pencil

and put it down on top
of that screen.

Or you take a notebook
and put it over here like this.

You take a card and you place it
on top of an x-ray machine,

and you put one thing over here,
one thing over there.

Doesn't mean anything
unless you know,

and then it means
everything.

And I hope we're wrong.

- I hope you're wrong too.

- I hope you are,
but they're not.

- Oh!

All right.
- You're right.

- So you didn't fool them,
but you certainly

are so charming
and wonderful.

And, oh, I love you.

- [laughs]

- All right.
- Thank you.

- Thank you, Rokas.

[applause]

- Wonderful.

[cheers and applause]

- Not enough for you?

How 'bout a trick by our
very own Penn and Teller.

Believe me, you don't
want to miss it,

so stick around.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Here's a trick
we've played on you.

We've secretly saved
the best for last.

Please welcome
Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

- 30 years ago,
we were on a whole season

of "Saturday Night Live."

And it was that season--
uh, 1986--not very memorable,

but that is the season that got
the most complaint letters

they had ever gotten in
the history of the network.

And it wasn't
the whole season,

it just happened to be
one particular show.

And it wasn't just
one particular show;

it was one particular bit.

And we happened
to be there for that.

As a matter of fact,
it was our bit.

[laughter]

We got the most complaints that
the network had ever gotten

in the history of the network
with a trick.

[cheers]
Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

And, uh...

it's a little perplexing
why we got

that many complaints on this,
because it's a simple

sleight of hand trick you may
have seen a zillion times.

We took a--you know,
it's a rope trick.

And a simple sleight of hand.

It's just a, uh--well,
it's a cut and restored rope.

We just cut it in half
like this.

And then we cut it again.

Each of the pieces
off like that

and each of the pieces
off like that,

and we threw it
into the audience.

And then, with a little bit
of mumbo jumbo,

we restored that rope
completely.

[applause]

And then threw the rope
into the audience.

Now, that was the most
complaints they've ever gotten

on that net--of course, we
didn't do it exactly like that.

We used a slightly different
thing besides the rope.

But it was the exact
same trick.

[audience gasps]

We did a, uh--this is our
California kingsnake.

This is Elsie,
our California kingsnake.

I don't want to
frighten anybody there,

but if you're okay with snakes,
you can see that

it is indeed
a real snake.

Now, what's funny
about this is,

the network--there's a lot of
stuff that's political

and sexual, they do drug stuff,
they do racial stuff.

But this got the most
complaints they ever got.

We just took our
California kingsnake,

uh, just like
we took the rope.

And as you can see,
Elsie's very, very active.

And we just took our same
switchblade,

and then we just cut her--

[audience screams]

in half, just like that.

And then we cut off
each of the pieces

just like that.

And we cut off the other piece
just like that

and threw that
into the audience.

And then, after a little
mumbo jumbo,

we just totally
restored her

until she was
completely okay.

And then we threw
that into the--

no, just kidding about that.

You know--and people
complained about this

and said, even if
they knew it was a trick,

it could still
give people ideas.

Now, what I find so interesting
is, two months later,

we were on and we did a trick
where we put Teller

in a water tank,
completely submerged him,

and within the plot of
the trick, he drowned.

I was doing card trick,
I screwed it up, he drowned.

And the producer asked us to
have Teller come out at the end

and wave and show
that he really was okay.

We didn't do that.

And then,
at the end of the show,

where the whole cast
comes out and waves,

Teller wasn't there,
we just left him dead.

[laughter]

And when we k*lled Teller
on the show,

we got no complaints at all.

So please don't
write in about this.

The snake is fine
and so is Teller,

as though you care.

There she is right there, see?

[cheers and applause]

You like animals?

You like animals, don't you?
- Yeah.

[applause]

- Come say hi to Elsie.
- Hi, Elsie.

- Yah.
- Oh.

Hi.
- Oh, she--

- All right,
well that's it for tonight.

Set your alarms for next week or
just leave you TV on until then.

Good night!
- Night night.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪