09x06 - Magic Socks Big Time

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♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan!

[cheers and applause]

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♪ ♪

- Welcome to "Fool Us."

Stay on your toes,
keep your eyes peeled,

and wake up your
other body parts, too,

because magicians
from around the world

are trying to pull
Penn and Teller's legs

out from under them.

It's gonna be a neck-and-neck
battle all night long,

so let's bring out
two guys who are

head and shoulders
above the rest,

Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

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♪ ♪

Remember, if Penn
and Teller are fooled,

the magician who fooled
them gets a guest spot

in Penn and Teller's
world-famous magic show,

and they also win the
coveted "Fool Us" trophy.

Let's see if our first
magician can pull it off.

- I'm Luka Vidovic from Croatia.

My mom was an actress,

and my dad was a
famous comic actor.

Performing is in my blood,

but Dad's reputation
casts a big shadow.

I stayed away from comedy,

and I experimented
with magic instead.

Then I saw Penn and
Teller on television doing

their water tank routine.

I was blown away, and I saw
how good comedy magic can be.

Entertaining the
audience comes first,

and for me, comedy
is the best way.

While I was preparing for
"Fool Us," my mom passed away.

Mom knew hardship as an actor.

She was against me having
a career as a performer,

but by the end, she was very
proud of what I accomplished.

♪ ♪

Well, this one is for my mom.

Every laugh I get,
I dedicate it to her.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Here to put a smile on
our faces is Luka Vidovic.

- Thanks, Alyson. Hello, Penn.

Hello, Teller.

Before I start, I
just want to say,

thanks to Homeland Security
for letting me in the country.

[laughter]

And, of course, I just
want to say that it's

an honor to be here,
the worst magician

in the room right now.

I like to work
with the audience,

so please, Teller,
would you mind?

For the first time in the
history of Penn and Teller,

you're gonna hear
actually Teller speak.

I'm gonna give you this.

Everything OK, yes?

[falsetto] Uh-huh.

[laughter]

[normal voice]
Sorry. You're good?

[falsetto] Yeah.

[laughter]

[normal voice] Nothing
wrong? [falsetto] Not at all.

[normal voice] OK. Just...
[falsetto] Don't touch me!

[normal voice] OK,
I won't touch you.

I'm sorry. OK. Just
try to relax, OK?

[falsetto] Oh!

[normal voice] OK.

Just relax, OK?
[falsetto] Uh-huh.

[normal voice]
OK. So Teller, right?

Can I call you, Teller?

[falsetto] Your Highness.

[laughter]

[normal voice] So this
is your real voice, right?

[falsetto] Uh-huh.

[normal voice] No wonder
he doesn't speak, huh?

[falsetto] [chuckling] What?

[normal voice] No, nothing. OK.

[falsetto] Jerk.

[normal voice] All right.

Nothing. OK?

Just... [exhales] Relax.

[falsetto] Oh.

[normal voice] OK,
so, we can start now.

[falsetto] I need
to go to toilet.

[laughter]

[normal voice] Just try
to hold on like this, Teller.

OK? [falsetto] Oh!

[normal voice] OK, that's good?

[falsetto] Uh-huh.

[normal voice] So let's start.

We're gonna need
your jacket, OK?

[falsetto] No.

[laughter]

[normal voice]
Please, I didn't finish.

Just let me finish, and you're
gonna give me your jacket, OK?

[falsetto] Meow.
[normal voice] OK.

So wait, wait, wait.

Before you give it to me, we're
gonna dance a little bit, OK?

[falsetto] Finally.

[normal voice] OK.

[falsetto] Like
the good old days.

[normal voice] OK.

Hit the music a little bit,
and you're gonna imitate me.

OK, just come on.

Just...

[rhythmic music playing]

Come on, give him a
big round of applause.

Yeah.

Come on now.

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Oh, you got it.

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[laughter]

[falsetto] Woo!

♪ ♪

I like that.

[normal voice] I know.

♪ ♪

That's good, and give him
a big round of applause.

Take off your jacket.

He's good.

OK.

So, we can start now.

Just hold onto your jacket.

[falsetto] Can I sing a song?

[mellow music playing]

[normal voice] No.

No singing, now magic. OK?

[falsetto] I knew it.

[normal voice] OK, what
song do you want to sing?

[falsetto] "Despacito."

[music playing]

[normal voice]
"Despacito" later.

Now, magic. [exhales] OK.

[falsetto] "Despacito."

[normal voice] OK.

So we have... before we start,
we have some props over here.

We have a hanger, a target.

You all know David
Copperfield, right?

[falsetto] Yeah, he's overrated.

[normal voice] Please, OK.

OK.

One of his famous
tricks was going

through the Great Wall of China.

So we have a target.

This will be David
Copperfield, right?

And your jacket will be the
Great Wall of China, OK?

[falsetto] Uh-huh.

[normal voice] OK.

So we're gonna
put this over here.

Just give me your jacket.

We're gonna put it on
like this and like this.

So I'm gonna need your hand.

[falsetto] Oh, wow.

[normal voice] OK.

[falsetto] They're soft.

[normal voice] I know.

[falsetto] What do you use?

[normal voice] I
will tell you later.

Just put it like
this and just hold.

Yes, hold.

And we're gonna
need Alyson also.

Please, come over here.

[applause]

OK, yes.

- Yeah.

- Nothing wrong?

[gravelly voice] No.

[normal voice]
Just with this hand,

you're gonna put this over here,

and you're gonna go like this.

Everything OK?

[gravelly voice] I hate magic.

[normal voice] You're
cool? [gravelly voice] Uh-huh.

[falsetto] She's funny.

[normal voice] I know.

OK, so we're
gonna use the knife.

On the count of three,
we're gonna one, two, three,

and the jacket will
be like this, OK?

So one, two, and three.

[falsetto] You [bleep].

[normal voice] No. Oh, please.

[laughter]

The language, OK?

[falsetto] I don't [bleep] care.

[laughter]

[normal voice] So we're
gonna take the knife,

put it all the way here.

Put it in my pocket.

So now, it's your turn, OK?

[gravelly voice] Uh-huh.
[normal voice] Good.

Just smile to the camera.
[gravelly voice] Yeah.

[normal voice] OK.

We're gonna take
this, put it over here.

OK. You need to blow.

[falsetto] Oh! [normal
voice] Normally.

Come on. [falsetto] [bleep] you.

♪ ♪

[normal voice] You,
Alyson. Come on.

[belch]
- Ew.

- Sorry. You're good?

[falsetto] Yeah.

[normal voice] OK.

So you have to say abracadabra.

[gravelly voice] Abracadabra.

[normal voice] That's good.

You say, abracadabra.

[falsetto] "Despacito."

[normal voice] That's good.

We blow, and the
jacket is whole again.

One big applause.

[applause]

Give you that.

You were great.
[falsetto] I know.

[normal voice] OK, take a bow.

[falsetto] "Despacito."

[normal voice] And
go back to your seat.

You were great. Yes.

[cheers and applause]

- Luka Vidovic.

[cheers and applause]

Wow.

[laughter]

So did you teach yourself magic?

- Yeah.

Actually, I started
when I was 14, 15,

but there were no internet.

There is no way of me
knowing how to do magic,

especially in my country.

It was just... the
w*r just finished,

and everything was
very, very strange.

- I would imagine it
would be hard to be funny

in two different languages.
- Yeah.

I know three. I know
French also, but...

- Oh, yeah, but I heard you
weren't very funny in French.

- Thanks.

- No, I'm just kidding.

- They told you?

- So who's the most interesting
person you've performed for?

- Prince Albert of Monaco.

- Really?
- But you have to give yourself

to every audience, even today,

in front of those two guys,
and in front of the children

in kindergarten.

You have to give
yourself maximum,

because you have to appreciate
the audience for watching you

and for applauding you.

- Aw.
- Aw.

- All right.

Well, let's see if
Penn and Teller know

how you made your magic happen.

- Well...

- Oh my goodness, Luca.

That's such a wonderful routine.

And you're so funny and
so chaotic, and it's so great.

And the vent stuff
is so wonderful

that people might forget
afterwards that you do

a really, really good trick.

You've got your magnetic
personality that brings

us through the whole thing.

But then, the knife through
the coat trick is really good.

Teller does that, but you've
added the coat hanger

and some really nice
stuff and made it actually

a really good trick... which
I do not think you need,

'cause you're funny
enough to not have the trick.

But you're really good.

I want to say how
much we loved you,

but I do want to also say
that I think Teller, now that he's

discovered his voice,
has a few things to say

about whether you
fooled us or not.

- [falsetto] Yeah.
[normal voice] What?

[falsetto] You didn't fool us.

[normal voice] OK. [laughter]

- Well, you didn't fool them,

but you certainly
entertained us.

Thank you, Luka Vidovic.

- Thank you guys. Thanks.

Goodnight.

[vocalizing in falsetto]

[applause]

- Don't get misdirected.

We need you right here
after this quick break.

Stay close.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool
Us," where we're on the lookout

for magicians who can
stump Penn and Teller.

Let's see if our next
act can pull it off.

- I'm Connor McDonald,
and I'm 20 years old.

Magic and helping people...

Those are the two
running themes in my life.

When I was in middle school,
a very close friend of mine

was diagnosed with cancer.

So in response, I helped
co-found a nonprofit

that helps other
kids just like him

with their pediatric cancer.

I knew that I wanted
to pursue that further.

Now I'm in college learning
how to start up nonprofits.

I guess I found my calling.

I'm also involved

in the Magic Council's
Junior Program.

At the Magic Council, I've
met some amazing people

and made some lifelong
friendships, some of which

just keep popping
back into my life.

So how do I combine
my two passions?

By putting on magic
shows to raise money

for cancer patients.

The trick I'll be
doing tonight sprang

from one of those shows.

One thing I've learned from
working with other magicians

is the importance of teamwork.

One head is never
as good as two.

Penn and Teller, tonight,
teamwork is everything.

You'll see.

[cheers and applause]

- Taking a break from
his college classes

to try and fool Penn and Teller,

here's Connor McDonald.

[applause]

♪ ♪

- Penn, Teller, you
two are magic giants,

and I'm just a young guy
starting out on his journey

to become a magician.

So tonight, I'd like to
change the rules a little bit

to make it a bit more fair.

Penn, would you
come join me on stage?

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- All the way behind?

All the way behind, yes.

Penn, very nice to meet you.

Now, Penn, no offense,
but you've said yourself

that Teller is the
real magic savant.

- Oh, there's no
doubt about that.

- So, tonight, we're gonna
take him out of the equation.

Teller, you get to sit back,
relax, and enjoy the show,

and I'm gonna try to fool
you and only you, Penn.

All right?

Now, this is one of the
oldest magic tricks to date.

It's also a trick the two of you

have performed hundreds
and hundreds of times.

Pretty ballsy of me to fool you
with a trick you already know.

- Yes, yeah.

- Cups and ballsy to be exact.

- There you go. There you go.

- But it looks like we
are missing something.

Maybe...

Oh, here it is right there.

There we go.

Well, very simple.

One more time, one right here...

and all the way
in this right cup.

♪ ♪

Perfect.

It wouldn't be
the cups and ba*ls

without cups and ba*ls, right?

Now, ladies and gentlemen,
it's time for the fooling.

♪ ♪

If I take this red
ball right in the front,

and I place it right
on top of this cup...

And when I cover it
and snap my fingers,

Penn... it will now jump to
the bottom onto the counter.

I imagine this is basic stuff.

We're gonna go ahead
and take this second ball

and place it right on top.

And when I cover it with the
other two cups once again,

I'm just gonna snap
my fingers and jump

all the way to the bottom
to join the other ball.

One final time, Penn,

we have this
third and final ball.

Place it right on top, and
when I cover it and snap

my fingers, Penn,
it well now jump

all the way to the bottom.

And all three ba*ls
have joined together.

Thank you very much.

Penn, go ahead and feel these.

Make sure that there are
no magnets or anything

like that inside of them.

Go ahead and look at these.

- I can't feel magnets.

- Make sure they're
not magnetized together,

and go ahead and
check out these cups, too.

Feel them, make sure that
they're hollow and everything.

There's no trapdoors or
anything inside of these cups.

- Don't seem to be.

- OK, perfect.

Now, Penn, this is
where you come in.

You and I are gonna make
the magic happen together.

- Good.

- Teller, I bet
you'd like to make

this a bit more difficult for
the two of us, wouldn't you?

Let's make this a bit
more challenging, shall we?

Teller, I want you to pick
any category of stuff that could

fit underneath these cups.

Maybe it could be...

Maybe toys, gemstones,

a small animal
even, anything at all.

Go ahead and write it
down on your notepad.

♪ ♪

Let's see what he's got here.

We have fruit.

OK, very good selection.

Penn, we are gonna
make some fruit appear,

but you get the
final decision in this.

What fruit is going to appear
underneath these three cups?

- It's got to be able to
fit under those three.

- Yeah, so maybe
something common, too.

Something like a first
grader would know.

I would say banana,
but obviously a banana

wouldn't fit under there.

- I would say an orange.

- An orange.

All right, Penn, here we go.

We're gonna make three oranges
appear underneath each one

of these cups.

Here we go, Penn. Here we go.

Oranges grow on trees.

Let's go up and
reach, reach, reach,

reach, reach, and grab it.

Now gently, very
calm and gently,

place it underneath
this left cup.

Whoo. All right.
We have two more.

Here we go. Oranges
grow on trees.

Here, there's a
nice one right there.

Grab it, and now, gently place
it underneath the middle cup.

Whoo. OK, one last time.

Penn, I think it might be here.

Let's go together one last time.

Grab it, and now, gently place
it underneath the right cup.

Whoo. OK.

♪ ♪

A lot has happened.

Three oranges.

I think pretty... I'm
very confident that we

can do this together.
- Good.

- OK, Penn? Place
your hand right here.

On the count of three,
we're gonna reveal

three oranges for Teller.

One, two, three oranges!

Uh, three kumquats.

- Kumquats.

- Three kumquats.

Would you look at that?

- Kumquats are pretty amazing.

- Kumquats are pretty amazing,

but not as amazing as
an orange, you know?

Don't worry, it's
not your fault.

Maybe we just
overcomplicated things a little bit.

Maybe we just go for...
Let's just go for one orange

underneath the middle cup.

You think we can do that?

One orange.

Here we go, Penn.

One last time. Reach.

Reach really high.

You're 6' 5", come on.

You can grab the
biggest orange on there.

I want to smell it first.

OK, very orange-y.
That felt like a good one.

- Sure.

- And gently underneath
the middle cup. Whoo.

OK.

Penn, I want to show
Teller tonight the magic

that we have done together.

We have one juicy, citrus-y,

and delicious... orange.

[applause]

Thank you very much.

Watch your step there.

♪ ♪

Now, Penn, I want to thank
you very much for coming up here

and helping me out tonight.

Now, Teller, I want to
remind you that this trick

is for Penn and for Penn
only, so anything you say or do

might just give it away.

That being said,
Penn, I know we had

a little bit of fun up here,

but I do have one final
question to ask you.

♪ ♪

And that would be...

[audience exclaims]

Did I fool you?

[cheers and applause]

Connor McDonald.

Ahh.

You're so brave to do the magic

with Penn right there.
- Yeah.

It was a bit
stressful, but I think

we got through it nicely.
- [laughs]

So when you aren't
performing magic,

what are you doing
with your free time?

- I just finished my
spring semester.

So I still have
to take my finals,

and then I'm on for
summer break very soon.

- All right.

What are you studying?

- I'm studying... it's very
long, I'll warn you now...

Non-governmental
organizations and social change.

So I'm learning how to run
nonprofits and stuff like that

on a legal and
professional level

to then apply it to some magic.

- Fantastic.

So can you tell me about
your creative process?

- I think the biggest part
of the creative process

is going to my friends
and trying to see if they

can work it out with me.

And it's really hard
to do things alone,

so teamwork is everything,

especially in the
creative process.

- Yeah.

All right, Connor,
let's see if Penn can

figure out your magic trick.

- All right.
- Hello, Connor.

It's you and me again.

You don't get to come
in here, college boy,

and make rules of
the game just because

I didn't go to college.

But we're gonna go along
with you making the rules.

At least Teller
decided to go along

with you making the rules,
because he didn't help me.

- Oh, OK.

- Actually, I'm gonna
say that differently.

He didn't try to help me.

But I know this guy twice
as long as you've been alive...

I know this guy, OK?

So I can read him a little bit,
and he had this smug quality

that let me know that there were

things going on that he knew
not just because he was smart.

So you see, even
though I'm doing it alone,

I am using Teller...

Just my knowledge of him...

To know that there
were things going on.

It was a very, very good
routine, really, really good.

And from my vantage point
was really, really mystifying.

But when I sit down
here and see Teller all...

smirky, you know,
I think, Connor...

Although he's claiming
to be aligned with me...

Was actually sharing
a secret with Teller.

And then that opens
up the whole thing,

so I had that.

And then you kicked
this whole thing down,

and that becomes a really,
really good part of the trick.

But here's what I think.

I think that you are
our favorite kind of act,

and that is a duo.

And I think you have a partner
that works with you on this.

You're out here with your
tie and your fancy haircut.

You're getting
all the attention.

I think that probably
makes your partner

a little uncomfortable, as
he has to work undercover.

So I think that although
I really love this,

and I really love
the way this looks...

And did you build
all this yourself?

- We did. Yes.
- Oh, wow.

See, "we." See?

I'm also reading you.

So I don't think you fooled me.

- Kenshin, what do you think?

[laughter]

- Ahh, Connor McDonald
and Kenshin Amagi.

[applause]

[cheering]

Penn and Teller can't
perform tonight's final trick yet.

They still have to face
a few more magicians.

More magic in a minute.

[applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Or should I say, don't fool
us, because Penn and Teller

haven't been fooled yet.

Maybe that'll change
with our next magician.

- Good evening.

I'm Marc Desouza from
Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Most people know
me as a successful

real estate developer,
but most developers don't

have a 33-seat
theater in their home

or a world-class magic
museum and archive.

This is my working library,

but it's become home base for
an amazing magic community

in Philadelphia.

Some of the best
magicians in the world

come here to perform and teach,

and they often bring
extremely rare notes,

which I add to my archive.

I have over 4,500 sets of them,

and this one holds the key

to what I'll be
performing tonight.

The only way to discover
some of this forgotten magic

is to come to my place.

Penn, Teller, I know
you haven't been here yet,

but you'll soon wish you had.

Start taking notes.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Give it up for award-winning
close-up magician,

Marc Desouza.

- Hello.

When I was a kid,
my favorite books were

written by Charles Dodgson.

He was, at times, a
mathematician, a teacher,

a photographer, even a magician,

but he was best
known for the books

he wrote under the
pen name Lewis Carroll.

My favorite was "Through
the Looking Glass,"

the story of a precocious, young

eight-year-old girl named Alice,

who walked through
a magic looking glass,

one very similar to this...

[exhales]

Perhaps not quite as dirty...

And the wonderful world
she found on the other side.

I'd like to illustrate some
of my favorite passages

using this pack of cards.

Now, I'll remove a few.

[mysterious music]

And we'll be using
those later to represent

various characters
that Alice meets.

But for now, we
need to have a card

chosen to represent Alice,

and who better to
do that than Alyson?

So I'm gonna run my thumb
down the side of the pack.

You'll tell me when to stop.

Are you ready?
- Okay. Yes.

Stop.
- Right there.

We utilize that card,
the two of spades,

to represent Alice.

Now, the first two
characters she meets

are the March Hare
and the Mad Hatter.

The March Hare
and the Mad Hatter

had a tea party.

At this party, they were serving

a beverage in a bottle,
and written on the bottle

were two words.

Do you know what they said?

- Uh, drink me.
- Drink me.

That's right, and when
she drank, she shrank.

- [gasps]

- She shrank to a
fraction of her normal size.

- Oh!

- Well, needless to say,
that perturbed young Alice.

But fortunately for her,

the effects of the
elixir were short-lasting,

and she returned
to her normal size.

[applause]

Later in the story, she met up

with the Black Queen
and the Black King.

They also had a party, but
they weren't serving a beverage.

Instead, they
were serving cakes.

Written in currants on top
of the cake were two words.

Do you know what they said?
- I do.

Can I say them to Penn?

- You may.
- Eat me.

[laughter]
- That's right.

And when she ate the
cake, she didn't start to shrink.

No, no, no.

Instead, she started to grow...

So much so that
her arms and legs

protruded through
the windows and doors,

her head through the chimney.

Needless to say, this
perturbed young Alice,

But fortunately for her, the
effects of the currant cake

were also short-lasting,

and she returned
to her normal size.

At the end of the
story, she met up

with the Red Queen
and the Red King.

Now, the King and
Queen had a party,

but they weren't
serving refreshments.

They were playing croquet.

Instead of using
croquet mallets and ba*ls,

they were using
flamingos and hedgehogs.

Needless to say, this perturbed
the flamingos and hedgehogs.

Suddenly, the Queen ran
around, yelling, cut off her head!

Cut off her head!

But fortunately for Alice,
she was able to beat

a hasty retreat and disappear.

And she got out the
same way that she got in...

Through the looking glass.

[applause]

Now, this is the
story of a young girl

with a vivid imagination.

Some people seem to think
you need a magic looking glass

to get into that wonderful world

of magic and
imagination, but you don't.

You can use any
looking glass at all.

In fact, any one
of these will do.

[applause]

- Marc Desouza.

Oh, that was wonderful.

- Thank you so much.
- Wow.

How did you decide
to do this trick?

- Well, that really was
one of my favorite stories,

both "Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking Glass,"

and it always seemed
to me to be so magical.

And I was working
out ways I could

tell magic stories like that.

That was the beginning of it.

And I saw a magician
who did a thing

where he had mirrored cards.

And then, I said, oh.

Well, that's the ending.

Now all I have to
do is put together

everything in the middle.

- I had no idea Lewis
Carroll was into magic.

- He was.

In fact, there is an
entire book called

"The Magic of Lewis Carroll."

And most of the stuff is
mathematically-based,

and a lot of the
passages in the books

are based on magic tricks.

- That's so cool.

OK, Marc, let's look
through the judging glass

and talk to the boys.
- OK.

- Hey, Marc.
- Hello, Penn.

- Well, of course, we know you.

You've been hanging out
with Teller since high school.

- Absolutely.

- You go way, way
back with Teller.

And I've met you along the
way, because I also know Teller.

We have a mutual friend.

And you're certainly a much,
much better card magician

than Lewis Carroll.
- [laughs]

- You've taken on tricks
that we've seen before,

and you've just put
them together in a story.

It's usually very forced.

It doesn't make
any sense at all.

These tricks just get pulled
out and shown and thrown away,

and you made a
whole story out of it,

which was very, very good.

- Thank you.
- And what's so compelling

about "Through
the Looking Glass,"

that it's not through
the black hole.

It's not through something
that's exotic and different,

but it's something that's
there from the very beginning.

It's always there.

The mirror's always there
that Alice can go through,

and that's one of the
things that's surreal

with the commonplace
that's so wonderful.

The thing you left out
about Lewis Carroll,

which I was
surprised you left it out,

he was a mathematician, yeah.

He was a magician, yeah.

Of course, he
was a writer, yeah.

But the other thing
you didn't point out

was he was also a rower.

You know he was
on the rowing team.

He had a lot of
paddle moves he did.

He had a lot of fancy stuff.

He was a very good
rower, very good rower.

But as is often said
in Lewis Carroll's stuff,

he is coding
information in there.

I've done a much sloppier job,

and I think I've coded
a few things in there.

But you're a good friend,
Marc, and we love you.

It's a great, great routine,

but you can tell by
looking at Teller's face...

You've known him a long time...

We don't think you fooled us.

- Thank you so much.

It's an honor to be
here, and I thank you all.

- So you didn't fool them?

- I didn't.
- Oh.

Well, thank you so much.

You entertained us all.

- Thank you.

- Marc Desouza.

[cheers and applause]

We're taking a quick break
to find another magician

to face Penn and Teller.

I promise we'll return
with a good one.

Stick around.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome back.

You don't need
psychic abilities to know

who our next performer is.

I'll show you right now.

[cheers and applause]

- Here's some cutting-edge
French magic from Kevin Micoud.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you, Alyson.

You know, I use phones
in most of my acts,

because there is an
application for everything.

To show you what
I mean, I need you

to think about a random number

that you are going
to create together.

Alyson, could you
take your phone

and open the calculator, please?

Thank you.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Alyson, could you
think about a month?

So any number
between one and 12,

and put in on the phone?

- OK.
- Perfect.

Now press multiply,
and think about a day.

So any number
between one and 31,

and put in on the phone.

Press equal.

I can't know the result. Right?
- OK.

- Now press divide,
and think about a year.

So any, absolutely
any four-digit number,

past or future, and
put it on the phone.

- OK.

- Then press equal.

I still can't know the results.
- OK.

- Now press subtract.

Teller, you know,
ZIP codes in Vegas

are 89, 100 and something.

Could you raise your hand
and show me a number?

Seven.

Put 89107.

- OK.
- Perfect. Press equal.

I can't know the result,
and then, press divide.

Penn, do you know the
number of the Rio address here?

- No.

- OK. I'll tell you.

It's 3,700.

So, Alyson, could you put 3,700?

- Now that you
say it, that's right.

- Thank you.
Thanks for your help.

- It is, actually.

I just couldn't remember.

- And press equal.

Now, we have a random
number that's only Alyson knows.

To get it, I need
my applications.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Here.

[music playing]

I need my virtual assistant.

Where was it?

♪ ♪

Oh, here.

♪ ♪

[beep] OK, assistant.

[laughter]

- What can I do for you?

- Could you search a way
to fool Penn and Teller?

- Maybe. I will search.

[laughter]

[whooshing]

♪ ♪

That's what I found.

- Truth is, there are a lot
of different ways to fool us,

including some you
might not expect.

For example, one
way is to do the magic

right under our noses.

- Got it?

- Yes, but could you find
an application for that?

- Yes.

I have the application
Mindreader.

Have a look.

Uh, where is it?

♪ ♪

Oh, here.

[beep]

- Drag and drop mind.

Alyson, I'm gonna
grab your mind.

♪ ♪

[beep]

♪ ♪

[beep, chime]

OK. [beep]

♪ ♪

Let's see.

♪ ♪

OK, Alyson, imagine.

Imagine a piece of paper,

and imagine a pen

writing down the numbers
and folding the paper.

♪ ♪

[audience exclaims]

♪ ♪

Penn, Teller, can I come
right under your noses?

- Please.

♪ ♪

- Alyson, could you tell
us what is the first number

of the result?

- Two.
- A two.

Anything before it?
- A negative.

- Negative and the two.

The second number is?
- Four.

- The next one?

- 0.0.

- And the fourth one, please?

- Eight.
- Eight.

Thank you very much, Alyson.

Perfect.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you.

- Kevin Micoud.

- Thank you so much.

Thank you.

- That was so
impressive and futuristic.

Do you love technology?

- Yes, of course.

Since my new show, I work
only with this technology

to try to make more dynamic
and modern mentalism.

- Do you ever go a day
without your technology?

- Oh, that's impossible.

That's hard.

- So what did you do before
you became a mentalist?

- Oh, I was working in
an advertising agency,

so I work like
everyone with a desk.

And one day, I say, whoa.

I want to be a
full-time magician.

And I start in 2017.

- You never looked
back? You don't miss it?

- Absolutely not.

- What would it mean
to you to win the trophy?

- Oh, it's incredible.

I come here to fool
them with my visual way.

If it's working, if
it's enough strong

to fool Penn and Teller,
that's unbelievable.

I can't trust it for the moment.

- [laughs]

OK, Kevin.

Let's see if your
magic holograms

can become a real-life trophy.

- Oh, nice.

- Kevin.
- Yeah.

- I gotta tell you,
you just have one

of the best-looking
acts we've ever seen.

I mean, 20 years ago,
just your phone setup

would have fooled everybody.

That would have been everything.

And the funny thing
is, now that we're

living in the future...

that is not the whole trick.

It all comes down
to the number trick,

and we know a
lot of number tricks.

But first of all, I want to say,

that's not your phone.

That's not a gimmick phone.
- No.

- That's Alyson's
phone. We got that.

- From Alyson.

- Yeah, it's totally
clean phone.

The phone is clean.

So the number tricks.

You gave us a
lot of the numbers.

First of all, when you
asked the address of the Rio,

I guess, theoretically,
you should have won then.

Because I didn't know
the address of the Rio,

and I really should.

But the Rio number's
gonna be a fixed number.

The ZIP code is
all but the last digit.

But still, if you
just had her put it

into the phone, the
number between 1 and 12,

at some point you've
got to subtract that.

At some point, you've
got to do something.

And yeah, we got everything.

We know everything
about this trick

except how you
got those numbers.

Even one of the numbers.

Because two from Alyson...

Three from Alyson,
one from Teller.

And then, no matter
how you manipulate those,

unless you take them
away at some point later,

you're not doing a number trick.

So you fooled us.

- [gasps] Congratulations!

- But you fooled us.

- We have a Fooler!

- Not your damn hologram,
not your damn piece of paper...

It was the number
that fooled us, Kevin.

It was just the number.

- Aw.

- Come on. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

- Kevin Micoud.

- Merci beaucoup.
Thank you so much.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.

- This way?
- That way.

That way and wave.

Yay!

Penn and Teller still have
one trick up their sleeve,

and they'll whip it out and
perform it when we come back.

Stick around.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

When you think magic,
you don't normally think

world-famous dance troupe,

but Penn and Teller don't
think like everyone else.

So here to close the
show are Penn, Teller,

and their old friends,
Dance Company Pilobolus.

[cheers and applause]

- We like to have big
stage illusions on the show,

but they rarely fool us.

The trick is always in the box.

Big stage illusions always have
props, boxes, and set pieces

to make the tricks work.

There are magicians
that use a whole fleet

of 18-wheelers just
to do 20 minutes.

It's the boxes they travel
with that do the magic.

To do a levitation,

to float a human
being in the air,

you need to have a
couch of some sort,

something that the audience
will accept as a couch,

that's supposed to look
like a normal couch but isn't.

Our friends, Pilobolus,
have changed all that.

They've changed sleight of hand

to sleight of body.

Now, Hannah can do
the levitation without

any couch at all,

and this background
would let you

see any wires really clearly.

But...

there she goes.

[lively music]

[laughter]

♪ ♪

Whoa, Hannah.

Sleight of body.

Now let's show you that again.

There's no wires.

There's no jive couch.

Just pure sleight of body.

♪ ♪

[laughter]

Kind of more amazing
without the cloth, isn't it?

But you're probably
thinking, with a sneaky couch,

you could do even
more amazing stuff, right?

You could get her even higher.

♪ ♪

You mean like this?

You mean really high, like that?

[applause]

♪ ♪

And we're not gonna show you how

that one's done, at
least not right now.

It really looks to me like
Hannah just got up there

without any fishy couch at all,

but levitation isn't the
only big stage illusion

that 18-wheelers-full-of-props
magicians do.

They do all sorts
of body contortions

and dismemberments.

And they always
use a box in a box

with mirrors to
distort and conceal.

A big box to make
the magic work.

And as we said, Hannah
can do sleight of body.

Hannah can stretch. See?

No box, no mirror, no nothing.

Just a trick done
with the whole body.

[applause]

And that's our
buddies, Pilobolus,

doing 18-wheeler magic
with just their bodies.

Yup, Pilobolus featuring...

Hannah? [laughter]

[applause]

♪ ♪

Wow.

You might need two 18-wheelers

to do that switch.

♪ ♪

Pilobolus!

Hannah, Zach, Marlon, and Renée.

[cheers and applause]

- Well, it's time for us
to take our final bow.

We'll see you next time
when "Fool Us" returns.

Good night. [cheers
and applause]