04x02 - Penn, Teller and a Mind Reading Chicken

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel
in Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

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

A lot has happened
since last season.

Penn wrote a "New York Times"
best seller,

Teller directed
more Shakespeare,

and I covered my entire
living room floor

with a giant, inflatable
Twister board.

We've been very busy.

Now let's get busier
and bring out

two of the hardest-working
men in magic,

Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

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- Hi.
- Hi.

- Mwah.

Gentlemen, take your seats.

Not only does
a successful fooler

win a slot in Penn & Teller's
Vegas Spectacular,

they also win the coveted
Fool Us trophy,

which falls from the sky
like a gift from...

one of our stagehands.

Let's meet our first magician.

- My name's Jonathan Burns,

and I make everyday objects
extraordinary.

I would always do things,
like, in gym class

to gross out girls.

My leg would be over my head.

I noticed I got a reaction.

So I started doing magic tricks

and just tried
to wow people that way.

I was always around food.

My mom was a dietician,
and my dad sold snack cakes.

And on my show, I use, like,
bananas and whipped cream

and bread.

I love to play with my food.

I was always told not to,
so, of course, I did,

and tonight
I'll be doing just that.

I'll be playing with my food
onstage for Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

- Penn and Teller might not
bust this next act,

but they'll definitely
take his lunch money.

Here is Jonathan Burns.

[cheers and applause]

- Behold magic.

[chimes jingle]

Magic, magic.

[groans]

[cheers and applause]

Check it out,
it's a truck, it's a truck,

it's a truck.

Now it's a robot.

[chimes jingling]

Guess I had to prove to you
that the magic's real.

That's why I invited two guests
to help me out onstage.

Give them a big round
of applause, helping us out.

[cheers and applause]

And I don't know
if you guys know this,

there's a great
Harry Houdini quote.

Houdini once said...

[mumbles indistinctly]

He was underwater at the time.

Just that quote makes me think
of many things

that we have in common.

We both love magic.

He could escape
from a milk can,

and I'm lactose intolerant.

So that inspired me
to come up

as a fromage
to the great Houdini,

a trick with...

[chimes clatter on floor]

Cheese, yeah.

Today we're using
low-fat American,

'cause you are
what you eat.

You can pull out
any one you want.

You can pull one out.
- Pull one out?

- Yeah.
You've got it?

- Yeah.
- Excellent.

Okay, you can slide it back
in the pack anywhere you like.

Fantastic.
You've got--Excellent.

And then I shuffle.

I used to work at a casino
in Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Yeah, check it out.

Do you want to cut the cheese?
Maybe not, maybe not.

You're not gonna believe this.
Ali, check this out.

One piece calls to me.

- That one's it.
- That was it?

Thank you, thank you.

Well, that was great.

What do you guys
want to do now?

We have about


Dmitri, you can
hold on to those.

I'm gonna have you
just count ten slices

into my hand, one at a time.

Everyone will count with you.
Nice and slow. Here we go.

all: One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven,

eight, nine, ten.

- Give Dmitri
a big round of applause.

Yes.
Nicely done.

You can hand the rest
over to her.

She's gonna hold on to those.
Excellent.

Okay, you can come back
over to your spot,

but hold on
to your ten slices.

Place them somewhere
on yourself, a secret location,

maybe like a pocket,
something like that.

But someplace not too warm.
We don't want fondue.

You've got it?
- No, hold up.

- Okay, yeah, take your time.
We're not doing anything.

All right.

[laughter]

- All right, go for it.

- Oh, those laughs
make me nervous.

Yeah, all right.
Ali, same thing.

Ten slices in the hand
one at a time.

Everyone will count with you.
Here we go.

all: One, two, three,

four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, ten.

- Give her a big round
of applause as well.

Yes. You want to take
a bow or anything?

Like--that's good, that's good.
You got it.

We'll swap. You can
hold on to your slices.

I guess it was
a 24-pack.

Again, place them
somewhere on yourself.

Maybe a pocket,
a secret location.

- I have nowhere.

- You don't have a pocket?
- No.

- Get creative, yeah.
All right.

Okay, here's a little
something for the audience.

Here we go.

Sharp cheddar, all right.

I do need something
from the audience.

I need a number
between one and five.

Someone yell out a number
between one and five.

[all shouting]
I heard "two."

And I heard "seven" over here.

Somebody was homeschooled.

All right, um,
what I'm gonna do

is I'm gonna attempt
to move two slices

from Dmitri's pile magically,
invisibly through the air

and make them land
into Ali's pile,

and I'm gonna do that
with the aid

of this magic wand.

You guys may
feel this happening.

At no point freak out
or reach for your cheese.

[jingling]

[whispering]
It's working.

- Oh.

[cheers and applause]

That was one.

The other one's faster.
Don't worry.

All right, Dmitri,

take the cheese out of its
secret location.

A pocket, you're crazy.

Okay, okay, nice.

And count on the hand
one at a time.

Let's see what we did.
Here we go. One.

all: Two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

- Oh, my God.

[cheers and applause]

They call me
the cheese whiz.

Ali, same thing--take the cheese
out of its secret location.

Oh, wow.

I thought you were on
house arrest--I didn't realize.

Okay, uh, here we go.

Same thing in the hand,
one at a time.

Everyone count with us.

all: One, two, three,

four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, ten,



[cheers and applause]

[chimes jingling]

Give my volunteers another
big round of applause.

You guys can have a seat.
Thank you.

Thank you so much.

[cheers and applause]

- Jonathan Burns, everyone!

[cheers and applause]
Whoo!

That was amazing.

- Yeah.
- Very Krafty.

Ah.
- Ah, get it?

- Yeah, that's good.
That's good.

- Come on, food and magic.

- Yeah.
- That's fantastic.

- I've got a food thing.
I don't know.

You can probably tell
from this body.

- Yeah, definitely.

Whoo.
Yeah.

But I've heard
that you eat fire.

- Yeah, you don't want to, like,
combine that with the cheese.

It's like a--

Unless you have nachos around.
Right? Yeah.

Thanks.
We're almost standing the same.

I'm realizing, I'm sorry.
- All right.

- Okay.
[both grunting]

It's like a middle-school
dance up here.

I don't know, eh.

- All right, well, let's go
to the boys, shall we?

- What a great act.
- Oh, thank you.

- What a great act, oh.
[cheers and applause]

Pulling out all those--

all those wind chimes
over and over again,

it's just really fabulous.

And the, uh--and the--

There's no end.
No end.

Teller and I spend
a lot of our sessions writing,

trying to find out
what card tricks we can do

with different objects,

and we've been through
many, many things.

And the idea of doing
Cards Across as Cheese Across

is pretty great.

And I also should point out

if anyone has seen
someone do Cards Across

and been blown away by that,

doing it with cheese
is much, much harder.

The sleight of hand you were
doing, much harder,

but in order to do that
difficult sleight of hand,

your timing has to be amazing,

and your timing was perfect.

You had the audience right
in the palm of your hand

when you had to do the move.

It was just great.

But it is Cards Across
done with cheese,

and you're just
a wonderful performer,

and we'll be seeing
a lot of you, I'm sure.

- Oh, thanks.
Thank you.

- So did they figure it out?

- Yeah, they figured it out.
- Ohh.

- But it's--
yeah, it's fine.

I actually--I brought my own
participation trophy.

- Aww.

[laughter and applause]

Yay!

Jonathan Burns!

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Lots more magic to come,

including a trick from our very
own Penn and Teller.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"

where acts
from all over the world

try to pull one over
on Penn and Teller,

like this next magician
all the way from Belgium.

- I am Jo.
I'm from Belgium.

I am a magician
and an animal trainer.

When I was eight years old,

I started to do shows
for the neighbors.

And my main act was a cat
that I'd trained

to jump
through a hoop of fire.

The way I train
animals to do magic tricks

is first I show them,
I show them again,

I show them a million times.

They know how the trick works,

and then they can do it
by themself.

I train a chicken
with psychic powers.

She can pick up things
that no one ever talks about,

and still she knows.

I first had to gain her trust

until she would allow me
to bathe her.

Then we started
to eat meals together.

And in the end, we had
such a strong relation,

I could even sleep with her.

I'm not a good enough magician
to fool Penn and Teller,

but maybe my chicken might.

[cheers and applause]

- All right, we've kept him
cooped up long enough.

Here's Jo de Rijck.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.
Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, it's so nice
for us to be here.

I am Jo,
and this is my chicken.

She's a real chicken.
Her name is Curry.

That's right, Chicken Curry.

She's the only chicken
in the world

that can really
read your mind.

Now, I'd like to invite one more
lovely chick onto this stage.

Alyson, would you please
join us?

Alyson!
Hello.

- Hello.
- Hi, Alyson.

- Hi. Hey.
- Hi.

- Alyson, this is Curry.

Curry, Alyson.

- Nice to meet you.

- Can you hold
one hand like this?

Perfect.
Curry, high five.

- Aww.
- Great. Cool.

Now, Alyson, before we start
this mind-reading experiment,

can you please confirm
that Curry wears

no "electronical"
devices, okay?

So nothing under this wing.

- No.
- All right.

Nothing under this wing.

- Okay.
- Nothing on this side?

- Whoo, yeah.
- Okay. Nothing on this side?

- Okay, I've got--
- Okay, that's enough.

- I believe you.

- Now, we first need to make
a mental connection.

Therefore, Alyson, please
look into her eyes.

[hypnotic music]

Oh, wait, wait, wait.

She's becoming very nervous.

Are you thinking
about barbecue?

- No!
- Please don't do that, okay?

We all have dreams
in our life.

My big dream
is to fool Penn and Teller.

Now, I can imagine
you also have big dreams.

Maybe something that's
still on your bucket list.

Can you think about one dream?
Don't tell us.

Then I'd like you to write it
down on this piece of paper,

and when you're finished,
just turn it over, okay?

- Okay.
- Go ahead.

Wait, Curry, Curry, Curry,
don't look.

Don't look, okay?

It's mentalism.

- Okay.

- Okay, perfect.

Now, I'd like you to think
about three other dreams

that are not
your dream, okay?

So make it very
confusing for us.

Choose believable dreams
that are not yours.

Afterwards, you can hang up
the fake dreams

together with the real dream,

and you can hang them
anywhere you want

facing the audience.

- Oh.
- Go ahead.

- Okay.

- Now, reading someone's mind

is very hard
for Chicken Curry.

Therefore, she first needs
to warm up her psychic powers.

[exhales sharply]

Curry, focus.

Focus on the feather.

Focus.

Good.
She's warmed up.

Okay, Alyson.
- Hmm?

- Okay, you can hang the papers
any order you want

together with the real dream
facing the audience.

- All right.

- Alyson.
- Yes?

- Let's have a look
at your dreams.

- All right.

- To host a craft show.

Write a kids book.

Go to Japan.

Or get a pig.

Great dreams.

Now for the real work.

Thank you.

Curry is gonna read your mind.
- Okay.

- Think about
your dream come true

and look into her eyes.

Live the dream.

[hypnotic music]

I think she got it.

Now please stand over here.

Face the audience.
Don't move anymore.

And whatever happens,
don't look back.

Curry, what is her dream?

We're from Belgium.

She has a little trouble
reading the English.

Curry?

All right.

Curry has made a decision.

We cannot go back.

Alyson, if this is
gonna be her dream,

I'd like everybody in the
audience to go completely crazy,

go absolutely bananas.

It will mean that Curry
is gonna live another day.

Alyson,
for the very first time,

what is your dream?

- Well, whatever it says
so she can live.

- [chuckles]
No, what is your real dream?

- The craft show.

- The craft show.
[cheers and applause]

Curry!

- Yay! Okay.
- Thank you so much.

One moment.
Thank you.

- Ohh.

- Now, Penn and Teller,

I'd like to give
these papers to you guys

just as a souvenir.

There is nothing remarkable
about them.

No funny smells,
no hidden candies.

They are all yours.
Thank you very much.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Jo de Rijck, everyone!

Aww.

And Curry!

- Thank you so much.
- Aww.

How long have you
been together?

- We've been together
for seven years now.

- Aww.
Well, she's so lovely.

- Thank you.
And so are you.

Yeah.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

Is this your dream to, like,
be in Vegas and perform?

- This is my dream.

Really, since I was
eight years old,

I've dreamed of this moment,
so thank you guys.

- Aww.
- And thank you.

- Oh.
- Thank you.

- Yes. Yeah.
- Thank you.

- Guys, what do you have to say
about the psychic chicken?

[cheers and applause]

- In case you needed
any more proof

that this is the greatest show
that has ever existed on TV,

two grown men have been
sitting here deliberating

about how a chicken pecked
a certain piece of paper.

[laughter]

Now, the road we want
to start going down

is that he knew it was the first
piece of paper you wrote on

that was gonna be the one that
was gonna be your real dream,

and the other three
came later.

So the first piece of paper
could in some way be treated

or set up in some way
to attract the chicken.

Don't get too excited.

We know that's not
how you did it.

You gave us these
pieces of paper.

We were able to examine them.

We believe these pieces
of paper are innocent.

If you've got something hidden
in these pieces of paper,

you've fooled us.

We don't know what it is.

We think that although
there's this homey,

farm, barnyard quality

to the setup over there,

that that conceals a little
bit more sophistication.

And we believe
that from that,

you were able
to get the information.

We think we know how it was
transmitted to you,

but we'd rather
not give that up.

And then you were able
to then signal

the chicken what to do.

So the chicken was not
the mentalist.

You were the mentalist,

but we're actually saying
a little more than that.

- [whispers indistinctly]

I, um--
I know what you see.

They got an impression
that I did something,

but the impression is wrong.

- So wait--so the chicken
did all the work?

- She did all the work.

I had no idea
what was your dream.

- [gasps]
So the chicken--

- You really didn't?
You had no idea what dream--

- I had no idea.

- So wait, the chicken
fooled Penn and Teller.

- I think we were fooled
by a chicken, yes.

- Fooled by a chicken!

[cheers and applause]
Yay!

- Thank you so much.

- That is a first.
- Fooled by a chicken.

- Mm-hmm.
Congratulations.

- This is a dream come true.
Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

- Give it up
for Jo de Rijck!

- Thank you, thank you.
- And Curry.

[applause]

Ha, this is like watching
two people win the lottery.

Only when people win
the actual lottery,

it doesn't make
Penn and Teller look bad.

We'll let 'em shake things off
during this commercial break.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Check out our next
potential fooler.

- I'm David Caserta.

Around five or six years old,

I began getting
magic kits from my parents.

Every year, that's all I would
ask for for Christmas.

Very early on I found that when
I was performing smaller tricks,

the reaction wasn't as powerful

as if I could create
something on a larger scale.

[laughter]

And I thought,
if I can learn the acting,

the directing,
the lighting design,

the sound design,
the video production,

I could actually control
all aspects of the show.

I tried to just meld together
these principles of magic

and accomplish something
original.

[cheers and applause]

- Most parents
teach their kids

not to play
with sharp objects.

So please welcome
the questionably parented

David Caserta.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you very much.
It's great to be here.

Magicians have been cutting
a lady in half since 1921.

Typically a woman would
lie down on a long table

They would take a large box,
cover her entire body,

and then they would
take a saw

and cut that box
into two separate pieces.

Penn and Teller
actually perform a version

of that classic illusion,

although they do use a box

and a beautiful Vegas showgirl.

Well, I was thinking
if there's any way

of fooling Penn and Teller,

I was going to have to think

um, well, outside the box.

So I brought no boxes
with a beautiful woman in it.

You have just myself
and a saw blade.

So now watch as
I fool Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

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[both scream]

[saw whirs]

[suspenseful music]

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[crowd oohs]

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[cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause]

- David Caserta!

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.
- Ohh, okay.

Ugh, okay.
Yeah, right.

Yeah, I'm gonna have
some nightmares.

Thank you for that.
- You're welcome.

- Whoa. Where did you come up
with an idea like that?

- I love doing illusions

that typically you don't see
in a show,

so I came up
with doing it myself.

- Yes, I'm really glad
you're not my neighbor.

- Oh, thank you.
- Yeah.

- I think.
- Yeah, I just--

So this is, like,
a childhood dream come alive?

- Yes, when I was
six years old,

I just wanted
to become a magician,

and I just followed it
my entire life,

and I actually put
some of my goals down,

and one of them was to perform
in a beautiful Vegas theater

and be on national TV.

So this is an opportunity
I've been looking for--

- Wow.
[cheers and applause]

Oh, that's fantastic.

All right, I'm gonna see
what the guys thought of this.

- Wow, you know,
a lot of stuff in here.

We love the steampunk prop.

That's really great to see.

And we always like to see
the sex reversal.

It's so nice to see.

You know, so often magicians
are just greasy guys in tuxes

torturing women
in front of Mylar,

and being willing
to t*rture yourself

is a very, very nice thing.

By the way, your blood
looks beautiful.

- Thank you.
- What a nice blood hit.

It was really, really,
really nice.

And the real
misdirection on this,

something we never
see in magic

is we actually got to see

people wearing
executioner's hoods

that weren't switched in
for the magician.

- True, true.

- You always expect
that punch line.

But after looking at it
for a while,

Teller has a little bit
of a guess

that he thinks
might be one way

you might have done it.

He'll give you a try here.

- Exciting. Do I get--
- Hello.

- Um, no, no, no.

[laughter]

- He's shaking his head no.

Oh, there's some
whispering going on.

- Teller's doing
more talking than I am.

- I know.

Okay, it looks like
there's a disagreement,

so we're gonna go
to the judges.

- I'm so glad I made the choice
to stay seated.

- Yeah.

- 'Cause you three
look really awkward,

and I feel
really comfortable.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

In the booth, we have
Johnny Thompson and Mike Close.

They're listening
to everything we say.

Let's see
what they think, too.

- And the final word is...

David Caserta...

you did not fool them.

- Ohh.
- Aww.

- I was rooting for you, David.
I was rooting for you.

- But you definitely
entertained us all.

So thank you, David Caserta.

Thank you.

[applause]

In the words
of William Shakespeare,

y'all come back now, you hear?

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Penn and Teller have
already been fooled once.

Let's see if this next magician
can do it a second time.

Take a look.

- My name is Jimmy Ichihana.

I started out
as a high-school math teacher.

I taught algebra II,
statistics, and AP calculus,

and, really,
there's a combination

of the math
that can apply to magic

and probabilities in particular
with playing cards.

While I was teaching math,
I met my fiancée, Lois.

I talked so much
about the magic of Spain

that she's like, "We should
just move to Madrid."

We moved to Madrid,
spent a year there.

If you love card magic, that's
the place to go and study.

She doesn't like
to take credit for it,

but Lois has really driven me
to pursue my passion.

We've been planning our wedding
for months and months now,

and we get the email
for "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

Please don't make me choose
between a wedding date

and being on
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

But it worked out perfectly,

that I come down here
and then five days later

go home and get married.

[cheers and applause]

- Along with two randomly
selected world-famous magicians,

here is Jimmy Ichihana.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you very much, everyone.
Thank you guys.

Alyson, would you please
join us at the table?

Everyone,
let's welcome Alyson here.

[cheers and applause]

Absolute pleasure.
Gentlemen.

Thank you so much
for having me here.

It's an absolute pleasure
to be here.

And I should tell you guys
that previously

I was a math teacher,

and so I'm passionate
about both mathematics

and playing cards.

I'm fascinated
by the link between the two--

how a deck starts
in an order we know

or a pattern we recognize,
new deck order.

But with each shuffle, you start
to create different patterns,

and so, of course,
the two colors,

the four suits,
the 13 values

kind of create
different patterns

every time you give them
a shuffle.

And to truly mix
a deck of cards,

you should shuffle about
seven times, is what they say.

Any fewer than that,
and patterns will still exist.

And, of course,
you may have noticed,

I've shuffled fewer
than seven times.

Yeah.
This is good.

This is good. This means that
if you look through the cards,

you see patterns and chunks,
groups of playing cards

that will help us out
here in a moment.

So using the skills
of the gambler,

I'll attempt
to use these patterns

to find what
we're looking for.

Teller, one, two, or three.
Just one.

Because Teller said one,

notice that's one red card
followed by one black card.

One red card followed
by one black card.

They go in groups
of just one.

Penn, give us a number,
one, two, or three.

- Three.
- Three.

Now that would be one,
two, and three red cards,

now followed by one, two,
and three black cards.

That's one, that's two,
that's three red cards.

That's one, that's two,
that's three black cards.

Groups of one,
then groups of three.

Alyson, go ahead
and give us a number.

One, two, or three.
What would you like?

- Three.
- You'll stick with three.

Okay, so that would be one,
that's two,

that's three red cards.

That's one, that's two,
that's three black cards.

One, two, and three red.

One, two, and three black.

But, of course, I'm deciding
when you guys switch, right?

So we'll try this.
Alyson, give me a number--

one, two, or three.
- Three.

- You'll stick with three.
Okay, but this time,

Penn, when you'd like
Alyson to change her mind,

you just say
the word "switch."

- Okay.
- As soon as he says "switch,"

you'll give us a new number.
- Okay.

- Are you clear?
- Yes.

- Okay, perfect.
So we'll start with three.

That's one, that's two,
that's three red cards.

That's one, that's two,
that's three black cards.

That's one, that's two,
that's three red.

That's one, that's two,
that's three black.

Whenever you say "switch,"
she'll change her mind.

That's one, that's two,
that's three.

- Switch.
- One.

- That's one red,
one black,

one red, one black,
one red, and one black.

A perfect pattern
to your guys' words.

Hey, that's--that's--
[chuckles]

Oh, I appreciate that, guys.

That means a lot.
[laughs]

Just so everyone knows that
we're on the up-and-up here.

This time, Alyson,
you'll say the word "switch."

And when you do, Penn,
you'll give us a new number,

one, two, or three.
- Okay.

Teller, just point for us,
red or black?

Those are for you.

We'll come back to them
in just a moment, okay?

Here we go.

And, Penn, where should we
start, one, two or three?

Your choice.
- Uh, two.

- Two. Notice how that's
two spades

followed by two clubs.

Because there are two suits
within the black cards,

that's two spades followed
by two clubs.

Whenever you say "switch,"
he'll change his mind.

That's two spades followed
by two clubs.

That's two.
- Switch.

- And two.
- Three.

- Three. That's one,
that's two, that's three spades.

That's one, that's two,
that's three clubs.

That's one--
- Switch.

- One.
- One.

So that's just one spade.
That's one club.

That's one spade.
That's one club.

Those are
perfect choices, guys.

Oh, thank you.
[laughs]

Now, some people may think
I'm using extra cards

or a partial deck,
but I'm not.

I mean, I'm just using
exactly 13 cards.

That's 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,


and that's 13 there.

And likewise with the clubs,

that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,




And, Teller, we're gonna add
one of these to your packet.

Would you like to add
the clubs or the spades?

It's your choice.

The spades.
We'll add those to yours.

And give us a number,
one, two, or three.

One.
And one, two, or three.

- Two.
- Two.

And one, two, or three?
- Three.

Three.
And we'll go around here.

Keep it going.
Three again.

Perfect.
- One.

- One.
- Three.

- We've got three left
just for you.

Okay, that works out well.

And what we've done here
is we've actually

simulated a shuffle.

All right,
so, when you mix cards,

they fall from side to side,

and they make
an alternating pattern.

Here we've got
a group of three, then one,

three, two, two, and one.

But, of course,
this isn't random at all.

All right, you guys decided
how the cards would fall.

There's one final
pattern to find.

That's the ace,
followed by the two.

Followed by the 3,
the 4, the 5,

the 6, the 7, the 8,
the 9, the 10,

the jack, queen, king.

That's all of the clubs
in perfect order.

Oh, but wait.
Wait, wait, wait.

You know the funny thing
about patterns?

Patterns repeat.

See, it's not just the clubs.

That's all of the diamonds
in perfect order.

That's all of the hearts
in perfect order.

That's all the spades.

That's all 52 cards
back to the beginning,

back to perfect order.

Guys, thank you so much.

Thank you so much.
- Wow.

- Thank you so much.

- Jimmy Ichihana.

Wow.
Oh, my goodness.

That was crazy.
- Thanks.

That's what
we're striving for.

- I'm surprised
they let you in Vegas.

[laughter]

So math...

- Yeah, yeah, so I used to be
a high-school math teacher.

I absolutely loved it,

and there's definitely
a connection

between kind of
the problem-solving of math

and the world of magic
when you're doing it, so...

- And did you ever do
card tricks for the students?

- Yeah, I absolutely did.
Absolutely.

So a shout-out to--
yeah, a shout-out to them.

- That was awesome.

You, like, made kids
love math, I bet.

- Uh, hopefully, hopefully.
- Yeah.

- So did you come up
with this trick for the show,

or have you been
doing this for a while?

- I've been working on it
for about two years.

So it's a routine
that's been out there,

and I've tried to add one
or two little wrinkles to it

that hopefully
they haven't seen before.

- All right, well, let's--
let's check in with the guys.

- Uh, I love this act.

The first thing I said
when I sat down

was I just love this.

I love this because this is,
as Teller said,

the junction between
juggling and magic.

You have such control
over the deck.

It's essentially juggling,

the control you have
over the deck,

but it comes off
as supernatural.

It's a Rubik's Cube
of complexity.

I will also say we were really
calling out those numbers.

The way you performed that
would be different

every single time you do it.

The real lie about this

is the fact that you're
doing it so naturally

and comfortably...
- Thank you.

- Whereas the, uh...

the physical handling,

and even more so
the mental handling

is so complex.

You just know that
inside out.

This is not some sort
of simple children's game

like Simon Says.

This is magician's code,
but I'm gonna say it outright.

We happen to know
about Call to Colors.

And it's a--
it's just beautiful.

And your handling
and the math tie-in,

and the kind of, sort of-ish

telling the truth
at the beginning...

[laughs] Is kind of wonderful,
and if I am wrong

and those words
don't mean anything to you,

you fooled us,
and we are happy if you did,

'cause that's the kind
of magic we love to see.

- No, you hit the nail
on the head.

- Aww.

- But I had an absolute
blast here, guys.

Thank you so much.
- It was wonderful, wonderful.

- Oh, thank you.
Jimmy Ichihana.

- Guys, thanks so much.

- He was so good.

[cheers and applause]

- Penn and Teller might be tired
of busting magicians,

but that's okay,
because we're just gonna

have them perform next instead.

Don't want to miss it.

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Penn and Teller are two
of the hardest-working men

in show business,
and they thought

they were done for the night,

but we dragged them
back out here

to close the show.

Here they are,
the exhausted Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

All right.
Okay, guys.

All right, just--
just one more trick.

Just one last--
one more for the night.

Come on, guys.
Wake up.

Yep, just--no.
Just--just one more--

One more little trick.
Just--oh, it's at--

Come on.
Just something.

Come on, Penn.
Yeah, there you go.

That's it.
Yeah, there we go.

Cards.
There's cards.

Teller.
Teller, cards.

Look, he's got
a deck of cards.

Whoo-hoo!

Yay, Teller!
That's it.

That's it, shuff--
Yeah, ooh, that's good.

Oh, bad shuffle, okay.

- Say stop.
- Stop.

Ooh, this is exciting.

Okay.
- Here's your card.

- I'll take that one.
- Show it to the camera.

- Oh, oh, the camera.
Okay.

There we go.

Okay, nobody's looking.
Clearly.

Okay, I got that.
We all have it.

Yeah, ooh, this is exciting.

Guys, wake up, wake up,
wake up!

Okay, yep. Now what?
- Put it back in the--

- Put it back? Okay.
- Actually...

- I'll take it.
Oh, I'll take the deck.

Okay.
- Shuffle. Shuffle them up.

- Shuffle.
Oh, shuffle, okay.

Well, this is good.

Okay, 'cause you guys can't see
how bad I am at shuffling.

This is nice.

All right,
I'm really not good at--

Ugh, okay.
All right, yeah?

Okay.
Oh, good. Thank you.

All right.
Teller?

You're not really
taking part in this one.

- Is--
- Teller?

- Is this--this your card?

Queen of clubs?

- No.
- How about a 2 of clubs?

- No.
- Okay.

I'll find it.
- Oh, boy.

- Was it the--
was it the 8 of spades?

- No.
Keep guessing.

Oh, there you go.
- 6 of hearts?

- No.
- That's the 5 of hearts.

- Okay, no.

- Is it any one
of these cards here?

- Um, no.

- All right maybe
one of these, right?

There's a bunch
of different ones.

- No, I mean,
they're probably friends,

but that's not it either.

No, I didn't--no.

So, um, Teller,
you might want to wake up.

- It must be
one of these, right?

'Cause I showed you
all the others.

- I don't see it there either.

That's weird.
Okay, um...

- So, um...
- Guys?

- Oh, yeah, Teller.
Teller.

- Teller, Teller, we really
need you on this one.

- Is this your card?

[cheers and applause]
- Ohh.

- Is that your card
right there?

- Wow.

All right.
Aah!

Now it's really time
to say good night.

So get some rest,
and we'll see you next week

here on
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

Sleep tight.

[cheers and applause]