09x12 - P&T Could Die Any Minute

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome to "Fool Us."

This is it.

Penn and Teller taking on
magicians

from every corner of the Earth.

So let's not waste any time.

The showdown starts right now
as we welcome

our magic Hall of Famers,
Penn and Teller!

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

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.

- Before I was ever
on "Fool Us,"

I was a very happy person.

But then, I started fooling
Penn & Teller.

- Bring down the trophy.

- Every time I go on this show,

it is so much fun.

I want to come back again,
but that means

I have to fool them again...
- [gasps]

- and again, and again.

But how long can
I keep doing this?

Four "Fool Us" Trophies
are enough for anyone.

And yet, could it be my mind was

trying to tell me something?

Five?

Do I need five trophies?

Everywhere I look, I see fives.

Five, five...

[alarm beeping]

Five. Another five.

Am I losing my mind?

I have to face my fears.

So, Penn and Teller,

I guess you haven't seen
the last of me.

[chuckles]

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- He has more trophies at home
than hairs on his head.

Here's four-time Fooler, Jandro!

[samba music]

- [indistinct]

Hello, everyone!

♪ ♪

Welcome to my TV special.

I'm fooling you
for the last time.

[laughter]

Today, we are going
to have a fiesta.

Please, come and join me
on stage.

- Fiesta!

- Fiesta! Yes, you.

Here, come sit down.

- Fiesta.

- You, here, with me.
- Oh, yes.

- Oh, I'm so happy.
Thanks for coming.

Thank you for coming.
- Fiesta!

- Yes.

And, today, before
I do the trick...

Before I do the trick...
It's a small trick.

- Small trick.

- You know what they say.

A small trick, big trophy, OK?

[laughter]

But I have to tell you something

that no one wants to tell you.

- OK.
- OK?

They think it, but they don't...

All the people... the crew,

your families, your friends,

the people from America...

They think...

you are not so young, OK?

And they are worried that,

when you start
sh**ting an episode,

they don't know if
you'll arrive to the end.

So, yeah.

Alyson told me, also.

It would be disrespectful,
from your part,

if I started doing a trick

and at the middle of the trick,

you stop breathing
and you don't see the end.

So, come on.

If you want, I can do
only the end of the trick.

So if, then, you see the miracle

and if, then,
you stop breathing, who cares?

OK?

So I'm going to do the...
But you cannot see the end.

You cannot see the end.
- I can't...

- No.
- Because I'm younger?

- No, no... well, not so much.

[laughter]

OK. Let me do the trick.

Let me do the trick.

You cannot see the end

because, if not,
there's no trick.

So you have to be like this.

- OK.

- You will have to stand here.

OK. Perfecto.

And these are chests
with my treasures.

So you are going to be with
your eyes closed all the time.

- OK.
- So turn around.

You are going to be there.

And can you move a little?

One step. One more.

One more. One more. One more.

- Am I still on stage?

- OK, perfecto.

Are you OK?
- OK.

- Don't move.
- I'm not.

- Don't open your eyes
until I tell you...

- OK.
- OK?

- OK, OK. OK.

So now, we can do the trick.
- Sure.

- The end.
Only the end.

Only the end.
Only the end.

So this is for you.

This is for you.

You can open it,
see all the treasures.

You can see all the treasures
because I have all this...

- I need the key.
- Yeah. Pardon.

The key! The key.

♪ Key, key, key, key,
key, key, key, key ♪

♪ Key, key, key, key, key ♪
Get the key.

♪ Key, key, key, key ♪

OK. Open.

And you'll have
all the treasures.

You have different
treasure and you have

lots of coins,
different, big ones,

small ones from different
values, different

countries, different...

With holes, without holes.

But there's one lucky.

There's one lucky coin.

- OK.
- OK?

So the lucky coin,
you decide which is...

- I decide which
is the lucky coin?

- And you... with your
right hand, you put it here.

- OK.

I've got the lucky
coin in my hand.

- Put the hand...
Put the hand... no...

There.

And you close your hand
and put it here, more or less.

OK. OK.

This is the end of the trick.
- OK.

- This is the end. Shh.

Alyson is not looking
at anything, OK?

OK.

[mouthing words]

♪ ♪

Ticki, ticki, ticki, ticki.

♪ ♪

Si! Yes!

It's a miracle!

[speaking Spanish]
Thank you.

Thank you, fiesta!

Wow!

Did you enjoy?

Wow! More fiesta.

More fiesta.

Yes, a lot of fiesta!

Yes!

[loud pop]

[cheers and applause]

Are you OK? Don't...
It's a big surprise.

Are you OK?
Are you?

Are you OK?

Are you still breathing?
Are you OK?

Then, more fiesta!

More fiesta, yeah!

♪ ♪

Did you enjoy the end?

- Very much.

- Isn't it a cool thing? -
Yes.

- Did you want to see
the beginning of the trick?

- Sure.
- OK.

Alyson, you have
your eyes closed?

- Yeah.
- OK.

♪ ♪

Don't say anything.

Don't say anything.

Alyson, can you turn
around a little bit?

OK. Can you open your eyes?

Can you come?

- I missed everything!
- The key.

Where's the key?
The key.

The key. Open your chest.

Let's give attention
to this moment.

Open.
Open.

Open.
- OK, OK.

I'm trying.

- OK.
- There we go.

- Now, get the lucky coin,
quickly.

- OK.

- And don't show it to anyone.

Don't show it, don't show it!
- I'm not.

- Like that.
- What?

- Close it. To show...

Give it to Teller
and help him open.

No, don't let anyone see!

Only you and Teller.
No one sees.

No one sees.

Let's give attention
to this moment.

Have you seen it? No.

Did you... did anyone
tell you anything?

- No.
- Did you see anything?

- No.
- No? OK.

Before we arrive to the end,

can we show them
the rest of the coins?

[music playing]

They are all different,
all different sizes.

Different, OK? All of them.

♪ ♪

You've already seen your coins.

- I have, I have.

- But Teller hasn't.

Can I?

OK.

♪ ♪

All different.

♪ ♪

All different.

All my treasures,

all... all... all different.

[squeals]

- [squeals]

- [speaking Spanish]

- I can't wait! OK.

Can you put a hand here, Teller?

You know the end.

Open your hand.

This seems like a pirate coin.

Can you open your hand?

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

- Ticki, ticki, ticki.

Yes!

[speaking Spanish]
Fiesta!

- Fiesta.
- Fiesta.

Fiesta.

- Fiesta, fiesta!
Fiesta.

- Fiesta.
Fiesta.

- Fiesta.

- Fiesta.

- Jandro!

Jandro, I'm so happy
you're here.

- Oh.

I love your hair,
with all those papers.

- It feels good.

- Yeah.

- Life is a party with you.

- Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

- And then, now, you need a nap?

- Ah, siesta.
We call it "siesta."

- Siesta.

- Fiesta is "fiesta."

- Fiesta, then siesta.

- Siesta is "siesta."

- Yes.

Every trick you bring us
is different and crazy.

- Yeah, they are.

The first time I do them,
I just do them for this

and I never do that again.

- Well, that's because
you have to get

started on the next one.

- This is the last time.

This is the last time.

- I think you said
that last time.

- Maybe, maybe.

- So what would happen
if you get a fifth trophy?

- They would throw me out.

[laughter]

- OK, Jandro.

It's time to go to the boys
and see if you fooled them.

- Mi amigo.

- Mi amigo.

- You know, we are
very, very good friends,

Jandro, very good friends.

And I don't know if the people
at home know this,

but you work with us on
all our tricks this season.

And we've saw how you think.
- Yeah.

- And I got to tell you,
this is the first time

that we have caught something.

I caught you,
you sneaky b*stard.

I know and saw you do

a dirty piece of business
in this trick.

Now, we have been very bold

in our misdirection in the past.

We have never been
bold enough to use

confetti cannons sh**ting
in the air as misdirection.

But we did see the moment.

And I would have never, ever

seen the moment
before I met you.

Never ever.

You would have tricked us
with that every single time,

had you not become
a friend of ours.

Because that moment that I saw

that sneaky, little moment

that you did...

I was looking for,
I was waiting for.

I knew when that moment
was going to be.

Now, did you fire off
all the confetti cannons?

Is there any confetti
cannons left?

- If you want to see the
things, you can come.

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

I just want to know if you
have one confetti cannon left.

You have no confetti
cannons left?

- No.

- They've all been fired.

There's one thing, more, here.

- What is there?

- Well, it says...

It says "nothing here."

- I see.

[laughs] No, I wasn't looking
for that, I'll tell you what.

Because I saw the sneaky moment,

you b*stard.

But it wasn't enough.

It wasn't enough.

And then, I talked to
Teller and talked to Teller

and talked to Teller.

And we finally
decided was we wish

you had another confetti cannon
so you could fire it off,

because you fooled us for
the fifth time, my friend.

The fifth time.
- Jandro!

- Fiesta!
- Yay!

- Fiesta, yay.

Let's go, my friend.
- You did it.

We have our five-time Fooler!

[cheers and applause]

- OK, Next time, I will bring...

I will bring more
confetti cannon.

Thank you.
Thank you so much.

Bye.

See you next time!

- Jandro!

Yeah.

[cheers and applause]

Congratulations, Jandro.

Penn and Teller
need to go backstage

and look for another trophy,
in case they get fooled again.

Stick around.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

One magician just snuck off
with the "Fool Us" Trophy.

See if Penn and Teller can
catch our next magician

in the act right now.

[cheers and applause]

- Let's take a trip to
the future with Ben Kraatz.

- Robocard 3000, activate.

[electronic music]

[whirring, stomping]

♪ ♪

- [ROBOTIC VOICE] Hello, humans.

Welcome to the future
of card magic.

- Demonstrate sleight of hand.

- Let's go.

[boing]

♪ ♪

[whirring]

♪ ♪

Gone-zo.

- Next move, trash compactor.

♪ ♪

[whirring]

♪ ♪

[grinding]

- Try that.

Did you see it?

- Crusher.

- All right.

Crusher, it is.

[whirring]

♪ ♪

[loud whoosh]

- Whoa.

- Atom splitter.

♪ ♪

[whirring]

[loud whoosh]

- Magic-kazam.

- Eraser.

♪ ♪

[loud whirring]

- Robot-kadabra.

- Black hole.

♪ ♪

[loud whoosh]

- Domo arigato.

- Teleportation.

♪ ♪

[loud whirring]

- Turbo droid.

- Jedi mind power.

♪ ♪

[distorted audio]

- Robo [inaudible].

[loud stomping]

- Disintegrator.

♪ ♪

- One, two...

[soft whoosh]

- Mission accomplished.

Activate happy robot sequence.

- [gibberish, stomping]

Penn, Teller.

I hope...

- Sleep.

Penn, Teller.

I hope you enjoyed
my performance.

Did I fool you?

- Ben Kraatz!
[cheers and applause]

Oh, hello.

That was amazing.

- Thank you very much.

- I love the retro
video game element.

Do you play video games?

- I must admit, Yes.

Sure, yeah.

- And so, is that where
you got this inspiration?

- I don't think so.

I was working on object
vanishings, you know?

And I taped myself
to show my mentor,

and he told me, it's cool, Ben.

But you're doing moves
too brutal, too quick.

It's not magic enough.

And I was like, yeah,
but I like my moves.

So I had to find a way
to justify

the quick moves, you know?
- Yeah.

And the robot was invented.

- That's it.
That's it, yeah.

- That's so cool.

- And, you know, I'm doing
magic because of you guys.

I have discovered
magic in 2017...

- Really?

- with
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

- Just that recently?
- Yes.

And then, I started to do
magic because of you guys.

The truth.
- And here you are.

- And here I am.

- Well, Switzerland's
already famous

for chocolate and watches.

Let's see if you can
make it famous for magic.

- Let's see.
- Boys.

- [ROBOTICALLY] Hello, Benjamin.

- Hey.

- [ROBOTICALLY]
We are the judges.

We are going to decide
whether you fool us or not.

[NORMALLY] I'm not
going to keep that up.

I don't have
the whole track going on,

so I can't really do it.

Boy, that looks nice.

It looks really beautiful.

And it's a really
good way to do it.

You've got a future look,

and we think that the way
you're doing it

is actually fairly
old-fashioned.

And that's a really nice,
nice combination

to those two things.

And the way you moved...

I mean, you've studied movement.

You're kind of a thin guy.

Made me think a lot
of Mick Jagger.

I don't know what favorite
Stones songs you have,

but Teller's a big fan
of "h*nky Tonk Women."

But me, I go back
to the early days,

back when Brian Jones
was still with them,

with "Paint It, Black," one of
my favorite Stones songs.

I don't think they did
it on the last tour.

They probably don't remember it,

but it was a favorite of mine.

And we really loved it.

We loved the whole outfit,
the whole way it looked.

It really looked truly magical.

But I do not think
you fooled us.

- Of course not.

Thank you very much.
- Thank you.

- Well, you didn't fool them,
but you really entertained us.

Thank you.

Ben Kraatz.
[cheers and applause]

Penn and Teller can't
perform just yet.

They still have more tricks to
bust when "Fool Us" returns.

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back
to "Fool Us," TV's home

for Penn, Teller
and our next magician.

- I was a prosecutor,
an investigator,

and now I'm a judge...

All jobs
about finding the truth.

Magic, my sideline,
helps me in so many ways.

Magicians can spot fraud
and deceit

better than anyone alive.

If your job is to recognize
truth, study deception.

From the bench, a judge sees
a lot of terrible things.

But when I do magic,
that's the part of my life

I can actually control.

Magic says there's pleasure
in the world

and beauty
and pleasant surprise.

One of the nicest parts
about being a judge

is swearing in new citizens.

These are people who moved
mountains to become Americans.

And I try to make
it even more special

by adding some magic
to the ceremony.

I show them an empty box,

and then I produce
a huge American flag.

It's magic, for them and for me.

The weird thing about
coming on "Fool Us"

is I'm the one getting judged.

Penn, Teller,
may I approach the bench?

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- All rise for the magic
of Judge Gary Brown.

[cheers and applause]

- This is what "Fool Us"
looked like a century ago.

Instead of Penn and Teller,

the judges were the leading
scientists of the day,

the magician, Eusapia Palladino,

widely believed
to be the world's

most powerful spirit medium.

She did her tricks,
like this floating table,

and she did it.

She fooled them.

And the prize for winning?

The scientists told the world
that her tricks were real.

Palladino's most
interesting effect, though,

came with this device...

A spirit trumpet,
a simple cone of metal

that she claimed would allow
the living

to speak with the dead.

So, tonight,
we are going to summon

the ghost of Eusapia Palladino
right here,

using the spirit trumpet.

Alyson, would you join me,
please?

- Sure.

Hello.

- Would you take a look
at the spirit trumpet?

Take a look at its stand.

Make sure that there
is no wires attached,

no modern electronics,

no chicanery of any kind.

- [chuckles] No.

Looks legit.

- OK. We'll set this up here.

And Alyson, I'm going
to do a few things.

I'm going to put a microphone.

I'm going to place this
right up to a microphone

so, in case there's any sound,
everyone can hear.

I'm going to put this
sound meter... you see this?

- Oh, yes.
- La-la-la, right?

So if any sound comes out,
everyone will see

a visual depiction of it.

But, in addition to that,
Alyson,

the most important part

is that you listen
carefully to the trumpet

so, if any noise
comes out of there,

you'll tell us that it
came from the trumpet

and not from me...
- OK.

- Or under the table
or anywhere else.

Fair?
- Yes.

- All right.

I'll now attempt
to summon Madam Palladino.

This may get a little scary.

[speaking Italian]

She only spoke Italian.

Madam Palladino, attenzione.

- I'm here. What do you want?

- We've made contact.

Madam Palladino, I thought
you only spoke Italian.

- Until I died.

Then, I learned English.

- Ah, I see. But, Alyson...

By the way, the sound
is coming from here?

- Sounds like it.
- Yeah? All right.

Now that we made contact
with Madam Palladino

there's something else
critical you need to know.

According to the stories
of her time...

- She could read people's minds.

- Wow.

- If she's a mind reader,
let's put it to the test.

I have here a book...
A scientific treatise

about the history
of the life of Palladino.

And I also have this

Penn and Teller "Fool Us"
bookmark.

I use this for two important
reasons, one of which

is it's a shameless attempt
to curry favor with the judges.

But the second is, you'll see,
I cut the "O" out of "Fool Us"

to create a kind of window.

You see that?
- Yeah.

- So if I laid that down
on a page of text,

like this one...

If I move it around,
you can see that,

at different points on the page,

different words appear
in the window.

- Yes.
- Yeah?

Do me a favor.
Just turn a couple of pages.

Find another page of text...

No diagrams or chapter headings.

- OK.
- OK, good.

I will slide it up and down.
Is that one good?

- Yeah.

- I'm going to slide
this down until you

tell me when to stop.

- Stop.
- All right.

I'm going to turn away.

I want you to look
in the window.

And if you see a word,
write it on that slate there,

all right?
- OK.

- I'm not going to look,
so I don't want to know.

Is there a word
that you can see?

- Yes.

- You got it?

- Yes.

- And you can just turn
that face down so no one

gets to see it other than you.

- OK.
- All right.

Madam Palladino,
Alyson has selected a word.

Alyson, concentrate on the word.

Madam Palladino,
can you read the word?

- I see something.

A letter. It's an E.

- E.

- And the letter L.

Now I'm seeing a V.
- A V?

- So it's E-L-V. I've got it!

It's elevation.

Is that right, Alyson?

- Alyson, is that the word
you wrote down?

- No?

- Madam Palladino,
I hate to tell you this,

but I think you're wrong.

- Not wrong.

Just a little rusty.

I've been dead a long time.

- That's true.
- Let me look again.

Wait, I see.

I made a mistake.

I had the first
two letters reversed.

It's L, then E, then V.

So I'm going to say the word

is "levitation," final answer.

- Alyson, she's all in.

Show us the board.
- All right.

- That's amazing.
That's true.

Madam Palladino, you did it.

- Gotta go.

See you on the other side.
Ciao.

[soft whoosh]

- Well, she's gone.

- Judge Gary Brown.

[cheers and applause]

Do I call you Your Honor?

- Just call me Gary.

- You work in
a very serious field.

Is magic a palate cleanser?

- Absolutely.

It is the greatest escape.

It's the place where
whatever you imagine,

you can make come true.

- Wow.
- You know?

I dreamed this up,
and now, it's a thing, so...

- Do you know anyone else
who performs a trick

with the spirit trumpet?

- I don't,
other than spiritualists

from about 100 years ago.

But they only did it
in the dark.

The challenge was
doing it in the light.

- All right, Judge.

Let's go to Penn and Teller
and see if they

figured out your trick.
- OK.

- Oh, Judge.

It's pretty humbling
to try to act like judges

when we have a real judge
in our presence.

But we will do our best.

This act is very close to our
hearts, especially Teller,

who spends a lot of time

with all the fraudulent
spirit mediums,

you know, of the early part of
the last century that

Houdini was battling against.

And some of the jokes
you made in there

were, actually, very real.

For instance, when you said
Palladino was speaking English

and she then said to you
that she'd learned English

in the afterlife.

I believe, and you know more
about this than I do,

but I believe that that was
an excuse used to Houdini.

Someone claimed to have
a message from the afterlife

from Houdini's mother
to Houdini.

And it was written in English,
which Houdini's mother

did not speak.

And when Houdini
busted them on that,

the spirit medium replied that
Houdini's mother

had learned English
in the afterlife.

It's important
to know that you could

have done this trick
in the early part

of the 20th century.

There's no electronics
there at all,

so we had to use induction...

I mean, deduction.

I switched those letters,
just like Palladino did.

He had to use
deduction to figure out

how you might have done that.

I also want to say that, using
the bookmark with our names

on it to flatter us,
that just worked like magic.

We were very, very
flattered by that.

So we just love you.

This stuff is very
close to our heart.

It's important for
the people at home

to realize a lot of
this stuff was really used

to, really,
fool scientists who are not

very good at uncovering liars.

They're very good
at uncovering truth.

But we loved the act, Judge.

And we don't think
you fooled us.

I hope I slipped
a few things in there,

but we've been surprised before.

- That was a lot of code talk.

Did they figure it out?

- Oh, they're so on to me.

[laughter]
But thank you.

- Thank you so much.
- It's been an honor.

Thank you.
- Judge Gary Brown.

[cheers and applause]

"Fool Us" will be right back

with more terrific tricks,

so stick around.

♪ ♪

[jazzy music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

Think we're out of
great magicians?

Ha.
You're wrong.

Take a look.

- When I first started on magic,

I started out with birds.

I started out
doing manipulation,

a lot of standard magic.

I had a partner for years and,
like Penn and Teller,

we were a magic duo.

We made some comedy with magic.

[loud thud]

Those were really good times.

But, as you get a little older
and you start to look back

at your life,
there's some things in my life,

before I became an entertainer,

that weren't
all that funny to me.

It was loss.

It was loneliness, addiction.

You know, when I hit bottom

and I was looking for something,

you know, I remembered
the joy that I had

taken of my childhood hobby...

Magic, you know?

And that's how
I changed my path.

What saved me?

There's the creative process...

Focusing my attention
away from things

that were putting me
on the wrong path.

I mean, you're using
your imagination.

And with your imagination, you
can basically create anything.

And that's a story I tell
in my magic now,

like with the trick
I'm doing tonight.

It's the most personal piece
I've ever done.

I think I know who I am now.

- Let's hear it for Puck.

[cheers and applause]

- Well, I grew up
in foster homes

until I got adopted
at the age of five.

My adopted family was wonderful,

especially my new dad.

He's one that took me
to my first magic show

and bought me my first trick.

My new dad was my
biggest supporter,

and he was my biggest fan.

He even started
booking my shows.

I was called Puck,
the Young Magician.

When I was 14,
my dad passed away.

It was at that time that
my love for magic

kind of faded, as well.

And I honestly didn't touch it
again for another 20 years.

You know, during that time,
I tried some other things.

I was in the army
for a little bit.

I went to college.

And, eventually, I found my
way back to my first love,

you know, which was magic.

Now, 35 years after my adopted
father had passed away,

I stumbled upon some information

that led me to the identity
of my biological father.

And I was surprised
to learn that he was

a famous jazz musician and
that I was named after him.

He was the legendary
Billie Holiday's pianist,

and his most famous song
has become a jazz standard.

Unfortunately, though,
he died before

I was able to find out
who he was.

But now, I like to look
at it like this.

In my life,
I was blessed, you know?

I had two earthly fathers.

And one gave me the DNA
to become an entertainer.

And the other gave me the
courage to follow my dreams,

so, tonight, I'd like to
dedicate this next piece

to my two dads.

[jazzy music]

♪ ♪

[applause]

♪ ♪

[applause]

♪ ♪

- Oh!

[applause]

♪ ♪

- The talented Puck.

[cheers and applause]

What a loving tribute.

- Yes.

I mean, it's
something I've always

wanted to do for a long time.

And I'm just happy to be able
to share this with everyone.

- Aw.

You're just a big softie,
aren't you?

[both chuckling]

Is this a way of connecting
with your birth father?

- Yeah, definitely.

I mean, my birth father and
the father who raised me,

my adoptive father, you know?

Because, without them,
I definitely would,

probably, not have had the
talent to do what I do now.

- You must inspire
a lot of people.

- You know, it's funny
you should say that.

I had kind of a
troubled teenage years.

And I've taken that
combined with my magic,

and I've actually turned it
into a keynote speech

that I do for at-risk youth
and kind of teach them

how to avoid a lot
of the obstacles

that I went through,
growing up, you know?

- That's incredible.

And do you think that
they're learning the lesson

you're trying to teach them?

- The questions that they
ask me after the speech

lets me know that they were
really paying attention

and they really got
something out of it.

So it makes me feel
really good inside.

- That's amazing.

OK, Puck.

It's time to see if Penn and
Teller figured out your trick.

- Hey, Puck.
This is going to be a...

You'll have to excuse me.

It's going to be a tough one
for me because I'm a little...

Little choked up.

I'm not usually choked up
during this...

Right after magic tricks.

But that was incredibly moving.

And you'll forgive me,

I'm going to try
to pull it together

and talk about the magic,
if I could.

Because there's no doubt that

that was...
such a touching tribute.

So forgive me to jump
over some stuff here.

One of your dads
was a piano player,

and you have that great,
great hand dexterity.

A lot of that's nature
and nurture, I suppose.

And there's a lesser-known
jazz musician...

Ace McDonald...
You may have heard of.

And you did that wonderful,

invisible palm aces stuff.

You took some
wonderful standards

and worked them together in
a really, really new way.

And I'm trying... [laughs]

I'm trying very hard
to get through this.

But I just want to
say that your dads

would be so proud of you.

And you touched us.
You moved us.

And I don't think you fooled us.

And I don't think I can say
any more, if you'll forgive me.

- He's making me cry.
- No, I didn't fool you.

I just, you know,
want to say thank you.

I mean, the platform that
you're giving us, as magicians

and to be able
to do something that's

so emotional and personal,
to me, on this show

and share it with the world...

I mean, I thank you, again,
for having me.

- Well, thank you so much
for doing that.

- Oh.
Well, that was wonderful, Puck.

You have brought tears
to my eyes, too.

Thank you, Puck.

[cheers and applause]

We're taking a quick timeout.

And we'll get back in the game
when "Fool Us" returns.

♪ ♪

[jazzy music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

Penn and Teller
have been winning

over audiences for decades with
their unique brand of magic.

Sometimes, unique means weird.

So give it up for weird and
wonderful Penn and Teller.

[mellow music]

- The most powerful
kind of magic

can do the real miracles.

It's impromptu magic,
magic that's done

just off the top
of your head with props

that you find in
a person's house.

It can really be miraculous.

Let's say
we're visiting a friend.

Let's say it's Alyson, and she
has one of these in her house.

Like, we all have one of
these things in our house,

the glass and the...

We have one in our house.

And you say, hey, Alyson.

- Hey.

- Nice to have us
over to your house.

- Oh, you're so welcome.

- And you've got one
of these things here.

See?
You have one.

How long have you
had this thing?

- I've never seen that thing.

- And, you know, you have...
She'll tell you a story about

when they got the thing,
and it was

your grandmother's or something.

And you moved it
into your house.

And then, you say, see, Alyson?

It's totally glass.

Well, of course, I don't...
You can tap on that.

But you say, look at it.

So you know it's glass
because this is yours.

And this is right in
the person's house,

and this is impromptu.

So there's no script.
There's no prompter.

I haven't rehearsed this.

I'm just saying whatever
popped into my head

because it's your house.

And then, I say, see?
Look, Alyson.

We got this thing, right?

And then, we got this other...
This other...

You know?
Like, you have this thing.

You have...
- Oh, more things...

- One of these, and
just like this, yeah.

- That I've never seen before.

- And we all have the picture.
Don't we...

- We don't.
- All have the Instagram...

- We don't.

- Picture of, like,
your child going whoa,

making a goofy face.

Like, little Bobby goes, whoa.

They're like that.
- I don't have that.

We all have that
same Instagram...

- Do we, though?
- Picture of this thing.

So we got this thing and
this thing and this thing,

like you'd have at your house.

So now, it's impromptu.

I'm just talking to Alyson.

She's telling me,
maybe, a funny story

about when you had the...

- We have different
things in our houses.

- Yeah, I know. Well,
if you were over at, like,

Greg Wilson's house
or something.

But, maybe, most people would
have this at their house.

- Most people.
- And then, you go... yeah.

You go, oh, this is just
using the props around,

making it up as you go.

And then, you just
find a teenager.

Can we have a teenager?

This is our teenager.
- Oh, all right.

- This is Moxie.
Hey, Moxie.

- Oh, a teenager.
Well, I do have a teenager.

- Welcome to the show.
Moxie, Alyson.

Alyson, Moxie.
- Hi. Nice to see you.

- Then we say we're going
to take our teenager, okay,

it just doesn't matter
who the teenager is.

That's the part of it,
impromptu.

I'm just making this up as I go.

- Right.
- Right, right.

- Teenager, we're going to
stick... you sit up there, Mox.

We're going to shove the
teenager through the glass.

- No, you can't.
- See how amazed she is?

She's amazed
'cause it's impromptu.

- But you can't...
- It's rolling...

- Shove a teenager
through glass.

- Yeah, exactly.
That's why it's a miracle.

And it's the props
in your house, OK?

And then, we take a magic...
Well, this is...

OK, cover that up?

This is a magic hat, OK?

So, look, we've got a magic hat.

And the teenager puts
on the magic hat.

Put it on.
- I'm not putting on the hat.

- That sounds like a teenager.
- It's impromptu,

so we just...
- That's definitely a teenager.

- Hey, magic hat.

See, you need the magic
hat because if you

don't have the magic...
See, this part of the head...

It's like a pencil.

You want to stick a
pencil through paper.

- But that's not going to be
deadly to the pencil.

- Is not going to go through,
but this

make like you
sharpen the pencil...

[clicks tongue]
Right through.

- But you can't
sharpen a teenager.

- It's a teenage...
Put the hat on.

- No.
- Put on the hat.

Just put the hat on.
- Yeah, yeah.

- And then, it's got... see
the special molecular stuff?

- It's tinsel.

- It's molecular stuff,
is what it is.

OK, lay down.

Now, we're going to push the
teenager through the glass.

What makes this amazing?

It's impromptu.
It's just like, oh.

Well, he just came
over to my house

and took stuff that we had
around and pushed a teenager...

- Nobody has this.
- Through glass.

And then, I push this...
They do, though.

They do.
- The bubble wrap, maybe.

- OK, push it through.

The teenager is going
through the glass.

The teenager
is going through the glass.

Now, see?

That would be a good
trick for the stage.

But imagine that in your house...

- I can't.
- With your own thing.

Your own thing.
- But I don't have that thing.

- There you go.
You don't?

[stammers]
Most people do, OK?

Maybe you don't happen to
have yours around right now,

but most people do.

And then,
their thing is back there.

And they can examine
the parts of the thing and...

[glass knocking]
Everything.

It's all back, right together.

And that's an impromptu
magic trick

you could do right
in your friend's home.

- If you can do it, do it.

[laughter]

- Give it up for Penn and
Teller and Moxie Jillette.

Huge thanks to all of
tonight's magicians.

Join us next time for
a new episode of "Fool Us."

Good night.

[cheers and applause]

All I have is the teenager.

[laughter]