05x05 - Psych!!

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- From the
Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host:
Alyson Hannigan!

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

- Welcome to "Fool Us"!

Tonight, Penn and Teller will
attempt to decipher the tricks

of the world's
most covert conjurers.

Any time Penn and Teller
can't crack the magic code,

that magician gains access
to our invaluable prize:

Performing with Penn and Teller

in their world-famous
Las Vegas spectacular.

And now, please welcome our
secret agents of abracadabra,

Penn and Teller!

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

- How've you been?

- Aww!
Here you go.

[cheering and applause]

Penn and Teller,
don't look now,

but here comes your first
potential fooler.

- My name is Emily Victoria.

I am from Gainesville, Florida,

and I'm a psychology student.

I love school.

I love everything
about my classes,

and I try to get
as much as I can out of them.

I was inspired by "Fool Us"

to create an original
magic trick for my class.

After I performed it, they
thought it was really good.

They suggested
that I submit it to "Fool Us."

I picked mentalism
for a couple of reasons.

One, it's because my hands
are way too tiny to palm cards.

And two, I figured,
"I'm a psychology major.

Might as well learn
how to read minds."

The routine
that I'm going to do

has its basis in both
pseudoscience and in science,

and I'll leave Penn and Teller
to figure out what is what.

Do I think
that I'll fool them?

[sighs]
Oh, well, if I do,

it'll certainly be a good way
to end my senior year.

[applause]

- Please welcome
Emily Victoria!

[cheering and applause]

- Good evening, everyone.

My name is Emily Victoria,
and I am so excited to be here.

My journey as a magician
only began about a year ago,

when I decided to enroll
in this class called,

"The Psychology of Creativity."

Now, in this class,
our final grade was determined

by a creative project
that we worked on

throughout the entire semester,

and being a huge fan of magic,
and of "Fool Us",

I decided to create
my own magic trick

to fool my class.

But I was obviously
completely new to magic,

so I needed to work on concepts

that I was
already familiar with.

So I used my knowledge
of human psychology,

about how you can
use body language

and facial tells,
like microexpressions,

to figure out what someone
is thinking about

without them saying a word.

The second thing I used

is something
I always have with me--

my phone.

And the third thing is,
well, a volunteer.

So, Alyson,
if you'll join me on stage.

Everyone please give a big
round of applause for Alyson.

- Hi.

- All right, Alyson.

So on my phone,
I have something

very precious to me:
my music library.

And for tonight, I went ahead
and made a playlist

of over 1,500 songs
that you can pick from.

You could pick a song
from the 1950s,

you can pick a song
from last year.

I don't care.
- Wow.

- I only care
is that you know it,

and the more you like it,

the better
this is going to work.

- Oh, okay.
- So go ahead

and put the earphones in.

When you find one
that you like--

I'm gonna give you
plenty of time to pick,

I have to talk to the audience
a little bit.

- Okay, yeah, please do.

- [laughs]
I have a bit of a confession.

See, before coming
on here tonight,

I cheated, um, a lot.

[laughs]
I went ahead and decided

who I was going to work with

instead of just picking someone
at random,

which isn't normally
a luxury that I have.

It's also not a luxury that
they have hours and hours

of video footage
that I can analyze,

so I re-watched "Buffy"...
[laughter]

I re-watched--
oh, um, "American Pie,"

"American Reunion,"
"American Wedding"--

probably didn't need
to watch those.

[laughter]
Oh, "How I Met Your Mother."

Every single, you know,
YouTube video

that I could find of Alyson,
I went ahead and analyzed

so that I could find
her facial tics,

her patterns of behavior...
[laughter]

So, Alyson, do you have a song?
- Mm-hmm.

Am I supposed to be playing it?
- Yeah.

- Oh, good.
- Great.

So, would you like
to change it?

- No.
- Okay.

So...

Can you do me a favor
and count to ten?

- One, two, three...
- Are you nervous?

- Yes.
Four, five six,

seven, eight--
- All right, that's good.

- Um, can you go ahead
and pick a color?

- Pink.
- Okay, that's interesting.

It's a very vibrant,
very vivacious color,

right, so it's probably
an upbeat song

that you're thinking of, right?
- Mm.

- Um, never ever lie
to the cops, Alyson,

'cause they can read you
like a book.

- No, I'm a terrible liar.

- Um, so let me think.

Can you pick a food?

- A food.

A tomato.
- A tomato, that's interesting.

Um, am I right to say
that this is a male artist?

- Yes.
- Okay.

And am I right to say
that this song is probably

before the year 2000.
- Yes.

- Is this--this artist
isn't alive, are they?

- No.
- Okay.

Um, inside or outside?

- Outside.
- Cold or hot?

- Cold.
- Sweet or salty?

- Sweet.
- Can you say, um,

"L, M, N, O, P" for me?

- L, M, N, O, P.
- And then "A, B, C."

- A, B, C.

- All right, I think I have it,

but I just need you
to count down from ten, now.

- Okay.
Ten, nine, eight,

seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

- Awesome.

So--oops.

I think I have the artist.

Is it Michael Jackson?
- Yes.

- And the song?

- "Beat It."

[cheering and applause]

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.
- Wow!

Emily Victoria!

- Thank you.
Alyson.

- Ah, thank you so much!
- Thank you.

You were talking
about microexpressions.

- Yes.
- I'm pretty macro.

[both laugh]
- Well, I think that's

what makes you great
for television.

- Well, thank you.
- You're super expressive.

- Thank you.

This is amazing--
So you were inspired

to do a trick
because of this show...

- Yep.
- And now you're on the show.

- Yeah, it's kind of surreal.
- That's really--

I think that's a first.
- Yeah.

Um, when I got the email
saying that

I was supposed to be on it,

I had just
come out from surgery,

so I thought
it was the pain meds.

[laughter]

- That's so cool.
But you're--

you're actually studying
psychology and zoology?

Is that correct?
- Yes, mm-hmm.

So I'm really interested
in animal behavior,

so the origins of behavior...
- Right.

- And everything like that.
- Who do you prefer to study,

animals or people?
- [sighs]

People have better,
like, research methods,

but animals are cuddlier...
- Mm.

- But animals
are also smellier.

- Oh.
[laughter]

All right, um...

I just can't read them.
- Yeah.

- Can you read
their facial tics?

- Not really.

Um, I studied both of them
pretty well.

He kind of looks
a little angry.

- I know, that--
that's a good sign.

[laughter]
That's a good sign.

The angrier they look,
the better it is.

- Yeah.
- Let's go talk to them,

shall we?
- Great.

- All right.
Penn, Teller.

- Oh, um...

Good. That was good.
- Yay.

[laughter]
- That was really good.

And, um, uh...

the problem with mentalism,
uh, which is what this is,

is that there's a lot of ways
to do stuff.

I wanna ask you some things--
I think we got it.

I'm almost sure we got it,
but I wanna ask you

some things that may be...

a little bit intrusive.

Uh, I mean, could we...?

Could we look at your glasses?
- Yeah.

- We can?
[stammers]

We'll come up to you.
- You can look at my glasses,

you can look at my phone.

- Look at your ph-
your glasses--

Okay, well, why don't we go
back up here with Alyson?

[laughter]
'Cause they don't look like...

- Sorry, I'm eager.
- Glasses that are--that are...

that are so--
[stammering]

Can we look in your ears?
Would that be out of line?

[laughter]

- [giggles]

- We--we know you're
getting the information...

- Okay.
- But...

It's not your glasses.
- Mm-mm.

- It's not your ears.
Is it the--is it the...

[knocking]

[laughter]

Teller, you figured it out?

Have you got it?

- See, I really want to learn
how to read him.

- We don't want to take
all these gue--

It's not really fair,
but I think Teller had it,

it's just I--
that this is Teller's guess.

This is the real one
that we're going with.

If it's none
of the things we said,

I think, uh...
- No.

- Yeah, I think so.

- You fooled us!
[cheering and applause]

Oh, my gosh!

Aww!

That's amazing!

Wow!
[laughs]

[cheering and applause]

- I feel like Miss America.

- Emily Victoria!
- Thank you all.

You should definitely
pass your class now!

Thank you!

- Have a good evening!

[cheering and applause]

- Were you fooled
by that last one?

So were Penn and Teller!

We'll have more magicians
mess with them

when we come back.

Stick around!

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us"!

Right now, the stage
is an empty canvas.

Let's hope our next magician

can fill it
with something brilliant.

Let's see.

- I live in St. Pauli,
which is

the entertainment district
of Hamburg.

Theater in Germany influenced
my magic very strongly.

German theater
has a long tradition.

Faust probably is one
of the first examples

of a magical figure
in a theater play.

The devil gave him
magical powers

to create a world
where anything is possible.

The world is turning faster
and faster.

I like the past.

When I'm on stage,
I dress in a historic way.

to do traditional stuff

that's still
very interesting nowadays.

I handcraft my own props
in my own workshop.

I think my magic could change
the world a little

if people really
let that touch their heart.

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome
the puzzling magic

of Patrick Folkerts!

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you.
Nice to be here.

This piece I want
to share with you

is actually not just a trick
or a puzzle to be solved,

but rather a nice story
that I want to share with you.

It's a story
that might teach you

how to master
the mystery of life.

[mellow piano music playing]

♪ ♪

You see...

just as many things in life

this old letter case
is only a total

of many different objects
of unique size and shape,

and only by a harmonic
arrangement of these pieces,

they form a unique composition

we may call "life."

And most importantly...

everything fits perfectly...

within the framework
of our lives.

♪ ♪

Now...

you could name each
of these pieces individually,

maybe, uh...

a solid base.

A happy childhood, perhaps.

Or a...

proper education.

Your own hopes and fears...

your beliefs and memories...

probably good friends
and family

in the center
of the arrangement.

And maybe even some decisions
that you regret.

♪ ♪

But actually,
it's not so important

which meaning you give
to these pieces.

Much more interesting
is this process.

What happens if,
suddenly,

one of these pieces
that defines us...

starts to tumble?

Well, of course, we adapt.

And sometimes, we even have
to make some basic changes.

♪ ♪

But if all these pieces
work well together...

then it is always possible...

To form a unit...

And once again...

To achieve harmony.

Thank you.

[applause]

But life is never that easy,

and destiny always has
new challenges for us.

But you could say that,
from time to time...

Destiny brings us
something new...

that we have to arrange with.

But how to include
this new element

into our perfect,
uh, composition?

I mean, every space is filled,

and it is already well-stocked.

So this whole unit
slowly starts to crack...

under the pressure
of the new experience.

And sometimes, it even
all breaks down to pieces.

Midlife crisis,
a quarter-life crisis,

or something in between,
and we have to ask ourselves,

"How do we find
that harmonic shape again?"

[exotic dramatic music playing]

Well...

with a little...

self-reflection...

and patience...

with self-confidence...

♪ ♪

and effort...

it is possible to integrate

any new piece
into this arrangement...

And still...

form that wonderful shape...

that makes it so unique.

[applause]

But life is a series
of challenges

more and more challenging,

and, um, it has always
new things for us,

sometimes even bigger
and more unexpected

than we are prepared
to handle.

But...

you know,
to conquer these challenges...

all we have to do
is sometimes...

♪ ♪

Change our point of view...

to see things differently...

In order to come up...

with a solution.

[cheering and applause]

And now, perhaps,
you understand

that it's not about the size

or the position
of these pieces,

nor about the significance
we place on them,

but rather about this harmonic
composition they form.

♪ ♪

And of course,
most importantly,

that everything fits perfectly

within the framework...

of our lives.

[cheering and applause]

- Patrick Folkerts!

- Thank you!

Please.
- Oh, thank you.

You must be so good
at organizing.

- I'm glad that it seems
like that, once again.

Enjoy that.
[laughter]

- Your performance felt like
it was from another time.

- Well,
I like timeless performances,

and, um, yeah,
I'm mostly inspired by the past

because I think there have
been lots of ideas

that have been discovered
in the past,

but they are some sort of--
of forgotten.

And nowadays, the world
is turning faster and faster,

so I like to rely
on those old things,

and, um, yeah, dress that way,
behave that way,

and live those old ideas.

Yeah, you won't find
a smartphone on me anywhere.

- Oh, good.

All right, well let's see
if your performance

fooled Penn and Teller.

- [chuckles]
- Penn, Teller.

- Hey.
- Oh, boy.

Man, Patrick, it's so good.

You know, we talk,
on this show--

it's "Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"

and that means that we're
always talking about methods.

- Mm-hmm.
- It's always,

"How do they do it?
How do they do it?

How do they do it?"

But it's rare
that someone comes along

and we get to say,
"What did he do?"

And you did something here
that is a new effect.

It's not a new way
of doing something

a lot of people have done,
it's a new idea.

Now, this is
a mathematical thing.

We've all seen the puzzle--
two-dimensional.

We know how that moves around.

That's not what you're doing.

You're doing something
that takes from that

and--and--and grows tremendously.

What's so wonderful
about this--

boy, I like this!

I liked it
because it's so sweet,

it's so, um,
it's--it's so tactile.

Doing it three-dimensional
was wonderful.

And also, you use
the mathematical principles

that are used in this
in order to conceal

when you did
the, uh, dirty work--

uh, dirty work earlier.

- Mm-hmm.
- It's a displacement in time,

and I want to give you
a chance here...

[coughs]
'Cause we're going one

of two ways...
- Uh-huh.

- Okay?
Now we gotta choose one,

we can't just take more
and more bites of this apple.

So I'm gonna tell you,
we do not think...

that you snuck one
of the pieces out.

We don't think you did that.

And if you snuck one
of the pieces out,

and we didn't see ya,
you can tell us right now

that you've won.

- No, not that way.
- But you didn't.

You're too good for that.

Uh, what we loved about this
is the whole effect

and how you compress
all of life into one piece.

This whole thing that you're
talking about doing--

which is, "I'm gonna tell you
the story of life"--

you really kind of did,
and we just loved it.

And I gotta tell ya,
whether you fooled us or not,

that is a fabulous effect.

And we spend a lot
of our time thinking,

"What tricks can we do?"

It may be harder
than how you do 'em,

and you've done
that part of it,

but I don't think
you fooled us.

- So, did they figure it out?

- Oh, that sounded perfectly.

I'm fine with that,
and I think, um, we both--

we're all happy.
[laughter]

- All right!
- Such a great act.

- Patrick Folkerts!

- Thank you, cheers.
- Thank you.

- So good, man.

[cheering and applause]

- Don't blink, because we have
more magic tricks on the way.

Stick around!

[cheering and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us"!

We've seen one fooler
so far tonight.

Let's go for two
as we meet our next magician:

- I've always been fascinated
by mirrors.

I used to stare into them.

"Is it an alternate universe?"

I have always wanted
to get inside and find out.

[mysterious music]

"But what if
I get trapped inside?

I can never come home."

When I was a kid, I always had
to figure out how things work.

I would go to the library

and learn about
all kinds of subjects.

Magic was the perfect medium
for me.

You take everything
you've ever learned,

all the books you've read,

all your
childhood experiences,

and you use all those tools

to make an illusion
into reality.

Outside the mirror
is the real world.

If I can get out, I can take
what I've learned with me

and put together a trick

that will blow
Penn and Teller away.

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome the magic
of Migz!

[cheering and applause]

- Now, magic has taken me
years and years

to learn how to do.

Many lonely years...
[giggle]

in front of a mirror.

Well, you'd be surprised
how much time magicians spend

in front of mirrors,
and some of them...

even practice.
[laughter]

Which is why
I brought my mirror.

You see, I was practicing
the other day...

No, no.
[laughter]

I was practicing the other day
and a thought occurred to me.

You see, I know
mirrors reflect images, light.

But what if one day,
somehow,

it absorbed it instead?

Like a black hole.

What would that look like?

And what would my hand
look like?

Let's find out.

Now, without causing any risk,
injury to myself,

or to any of you,
let's use, uh, playing cards,

because playing cards
have 52 different images.

Which one to choose...?

You know what?
Let's make this simple.

Uh, Penn.
- Yes.

- You can help me select
a card here.

I'm just gonna
flip through here,

just tell me when to stop.

- Stop.
- Stopped me right here.

Now, the idea is that
the mirror is going to absorb

the image of this card.

Eight of clubs.

I'll be fair--
I'll leave it right here.

Now remember, the card
is not going inside the mirror.

No, it's--the mirror is going
to steal the image

like a black hole.

Watch.
[gasps]

Think I felt something.
Look.

[mysterious music playing]

The card
has definitely changed.

And when I mean
that image is gone...

I mean it is completely...

gone.

[applause]

♪ ♪

So the big question is:
Why can't you see that image

inside the mirror?

Well, you're not gonna see it
with your human eye,

but there's something
that can help you see it

even if it's
in another dimension--

and I keep it
in this dark box, here,

away from the light--

and that's camera film.

Remember camera film?

All the millennials are like,
"What's that?"

[laughter]

'Cause it's all digital.

But in fact,
they still use camera film

to capture many
paranormal activity.

So watch what happens

when I pass a piece of film
in front of a mirror

that has an image stolen
from another dimension.

I should warn you,

this'll be the strangest thing
you see all night.

Watch.

Eight of clubs.

♪ ♪

[audience exclaims]

[applause]

♪ ♪

What?

[laughter]

I mean, it's almost like--
like a vampire effect.

And look, if I bring it
right to the surface,

I can actually bring that image
back to this world.

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

And the image,
it's not even solid--

Look, it's ghostly.

Because it is an essence.

It doesn't belong
to the film,

it belongs
to the playing card

that it came from.

See how that fits both sides?

That film will return
that image.

Home, sweet home.

[cheering and applause]

- Migz!

Whoo!

[cheering and applause]

That was really cool.
- [laughs]

- Did you come up
with that trick?

- Actually, I did.
Funny, of all places,

I came up with the idea
in the shower.

- Oh.
[laughter]

Is that where most
of your ideas come to you?

- A lot of them.
I think some people

sing in the shower,
and I--that just came up.

- Yeah.
- I went to my bathroom mirror

and I just started thinking,
I started staring into it.

- So what do you love most
about magic?

- You know,
there's an engineering aspect.

You know, before I went
into magic--

in high school, I thought I was
gonna go into engineering.

And, you know,
my oldest brother,

he--he became an engineer,

but he and I would go
to the magic shops together.

And, uh, so he became
an engineer,

I became a magician.
[laughter]

But I have
the engineering spirit.

You know again, how do you get
an image inside a mirror?

How do you get something
to appear?

I had to think about all that,
I had to...

in a way, reverse engineer it.

- Yeah.
- You know, you know what you want,

but then you have to figure out
how to do it.

And make it look like magic.

- Yeah.
- That's--that's the hard part.

- All right, let's see
what the boys thought

of your trick.
- Oh, okay.

- Migz, you know,

mirrors automatically...
are magical.

- Yes.
- Whether you're talking

about "Alice In Wonderland:
Through the Looking-Glass"

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,"
they're just magical objects.

And everybody's always trying
to get them into magic,

and it's really hard to do.

And the mirror
is the centerpiece

of the whole routine.

And yet, the mirror
is just a mirror.

- [chuckles]
- The mirror is,

in a certain sense,
a misdirection

to the other stuff with uh--
with other things.

But I would just say,
for magic words,

some people would say,
"Abracadabra."

We would say...
Ton Onosaka

- [laughing]

- Do you know what that means?
- Hai.

[laughter]

- So, is that...
- Um, that is--

- That's Japanese for,
they figured it out?

- Yes.
- [laughing]

- Hai.
- All right, well, thank you.

- Oh, yes.
Right on, too.

- Migz!

[cheering and applause]

- Up, next, more of TV's
best magic,

including a trick by
our very own Penn and Teller!

Stay close!

[cheering and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us"!

Let's see if this next magician

can flip
Penn and Teller's lids.

Take a look.

- When I was younger, my father
would always do magic.

And through osmosis,
I actually learned his skills.

One day, I was really bored,
and I started messing around

with these cards
in front of the mirror.

My dad had been showing
me magic my whole life,

and I could actually do
some really cool stuff.

My motto is,
"Make magic happen."

I'll have a problem
that I need to tackle.

I go out to the desert
and I just meditate,

and I focus.

The universe answers,
and the problem,

it solves itself.

When I was asked to be on
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"

I had to go out
to the desert and meditate.

I came up with something
bigger, better, scarier,

and more dangerous
than I've ever done before,

and I'm gonna blow
Penn and Teller away.

[dramatic music]

[roaring]

[cheering and applause]

- We're about to make
"Fool Us" history.

This next trick
is too large for our stage,

so we had to tape it
earlier today and roll it in.

So here, from outside the Rio,
is Seth Grabel!

[cheering and applause]

- Hey, Alyson.
What's up, Penn and Teller?

Thanks for making this dream
a reality.

I'm gonna be handcuffed,
locked, and welded in this car.

Then, this 40-foot-tall
giant monster

is gonna crush, mangle,

and completely destroy
the car...

with me inside.

This is the first time
I've ever done anything

this crazy
and dangerous before.

In case
the unthinkable happens,

there are paramedics
standing by.

My name's Seth Grabel,
and this...

is "Eaten Alive."

[cheering and applause]

Lock me up!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[machine growling]

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[machine growls]

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[machine roars]

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[machine roars]

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[machine growling]

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[machine roars]

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[machine screaming, growling]

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What's up?

[cheering and applause]

Yeah!

Boom!

Make magic happen!

Thank you so much!

Thanks so much for being here!
Thanks, Penn and Teller!

[excited hollering]

What?
[laughing]

- And here he is now,

Seth Grabel!

[cheering and applause]

Wow!

Hi!
- Hi, how are you?

- That was exciting.
- Thank you.

- That is definitely not
an easy trick, is it?

- It was crazy.
[both laughing]

- And where did you find
that dinosaur?

- He's--Craigslist, actually.
- Really?

[laughter]

And what's his name?
- Robosaurus.

- Robosaurus.
- Yeah, the one, the only.

- Okay.

Does he only tear apart
police cars?

- No, he can actually
tear apart anything.

- Oh, really?
- Pretty much anything, yeah.

- So what--what else
do you have

working in your mind?

- I just saw something
really cool

with a armored truck.
- Ooh.

- So that's something that
I want to do with a armored truck.

- So what drew you
to big illusions?

- I've done a lot of cards,
I've done a lot of coin stuff.

My thing right now is bigger,
better, stronger,

more dangerous and crazy.
- Cool.

Okay, let's see if they know
how you survived that trick.

- Let's see.
How did I survive that trick?

- All right.

- That was
a wicked big dinosaur.

- Yeah, it was.
- Wicked big!

Wicked--we like that dinosaur.
We want that dinosaur.

- [laughs]
- You know, we see you

go out that on parking lot, we go,
"Oh, boy!

Not another card trick!"

[laughter]
- Thank you.

- That was the farthest
from a card trick

we've had on the show.

- That's what
I was trying to do.

- You were
completely successful.

- Thank you.
- It was fabulous.

And using a police car...

- I was actually
trying to get--

you know, a police car
you can't get out of easily.

- Oh, I see.
- That was the...

- I see.
- That was it.

- I think of a whole
different thing, you know...

- I understand.
[laughter]

- Yeah, but, okay, good,

'cause you're trapped
in a police car,

and you were trapped
in that police car.

- I was actually
a little scared, I was trapped

a little too long.
- Yeah.

But you were trapped
in that police car,

and you followed one
of our major rules of magic,

which is--if you turn around,

what you're gonna see there
is above the name "Fool Us,"

it says "Penn & Teller."

And you cannot find
a shot of us

that does not say
"Penn & Teller" behind it.

And you had your name
and signage all over,

and that may be the most
important part of the trick.

Get your name out there
all the time...

- Thank you.
- That's it.

And you were wonderful.
- Does that mean they know

how you did the trick?
- I learned from the best.

- Oh, thank you.
- Yeah.

- So you know how--
that they know

how you did the trick?
- That's a 100% right.

Yes, good job.
Thank you so much.

- Aww.
- Nicely done.

- You guys got it.
- Thank you.

- Thank you.
- All right, Seth Grabel!

- I loved it.

[cheering and applause]

- We need a moment
to make room

for our next amazing act.

Come back and see more
mind-bending magic after this.

[cheering and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheering and applause]

- Penn and Teller love
to find ways

to put their unique stamp
on classic magic tricks.

And here they are,
Penn and Teller!

[cheering and applause]

- We're gonna...

we're gonna bring out a friend
to help us with this.

One of the stars
of "Grey's Anatomy"

and "Designated Survivor,"
our friend Kim Raver.

[cheering and applause]

- Kim!

- Hello!
- Good to see you.

We're gonna do a magic trick
for you, okay?

- I'm so excited.

- And this--
this is an odd one for us

'cause we don't usually
do magic tricks

that other people do,
but this is,

uh, a classic of magic
called "the egg bag."

That's also the prop list.

Use an egg...

and a bag.
[laughter]

We do it differently
from everyone else

because, uh,
we use real magic.

Now, Kim, when people
wanna do tricks and fake this,

you'll have to use
a rubber egg that collapses up.

But you can see that's hard.
Is that a real eggshell?

You can feel
that's a real eggshell, there.

- Yes, that's a real egg.
- But we also have a, uh, bag.

So check it out,
reach right in the bag, there.

- [laughing]
- Just crawl around, there,

check for secret trapdoors.

Pull it right inside out--
just pull it right inside out.

And check those seams,

make sure those seams
are strong.

There's no wormholes
to another dimension,

nothing like that.
- No, all good,

good French seams.
- Two pieces of cloth

sewn together on three sides.

Hence the term "bag."
[laughter]

Now, Kim,
besides the egg in the bag,

you've also got
Teller and Penn,

and Teller is
a very well-known cheat.

So you're here
to watch him very closely,

make sure he doesn't cheat.

Because if he cheats,
it's not real magic.

Watch this, Kim:
He drops the egg in the bag.

Then he does a magic gesture,

and that egg completely
and utterly vanishes.

Gone, gone, gone.
[cheering and applause]

I look over at you, Kim,
and I say,

"Do you have any idea
where that egg is?"

And you say...
- Here.

[laughs]

[laughter]

Right?
Am I--okay.

- Maybe we should have get
a different celebrity.

- Hey!
- No that's fine, that's fine.

But that just shows, Kim--
it shows that you're honest.

- Okay.
- That's because besides Teller

being a cheat,
you also have me.

- I've got eyes on you.
- And I'm loud, I'm aggressive.

'cause ahh, I can sometimes
come off as a badger.

Some people think
I can make people say things

that aren't true, so we're
gonna watch this again.

He's gonna drop the egg
in the bag.

And this time,
I'll look in the bag.

I can see the egg in the bag.
Kim, can you see

the egg in the bag?

Where is it, Kim?

Reach in his pocket
and pull that out,

would you, please, Kim?
[laughter]

You have to watch out, Kim.

You have an egg, a bag,
a cheat, and a badger.

[laughter]
Now watch carefully, Kim.

He takes the egg--
now tell the truth, Kim,

Did he palm the egg there, Kim?
- No.

- Is it palmed?
- No, it's not palmed.

- Now tell the truth, Kim.

Can you see the snowy-white egg

in the dark interior
of the bag?

- Yes.
- Now, Kim,

he's put the egg
right in his palm,

and just make sure
you can feel--

now don't smash it,
it's real light--

can you feel the egg
right there?

- Yes.
- Okay, good.

Hold your hands out
like this, Kim.

It's like real magic,
just like that.

Like the shifting sands
of the Mojave...

- [gasps]
- That egg is gone, gone, gone.

And, Kim, don't take
our word for it.

Kim, can you see
the snowy-white egg

in the dark interior
of the bag?

- No!
- Can you feel the egg

in the bag?
Reach right in there, Kim.

Turn it right inside out, Kim,
turn it inside out.

Is that egg gone, gone,
gone, gone, gone?

- That egg is gone.
- Completely

and utterly vanished.
- Ah!

[laughing]
[cheering and applause]

- But you know, Kim...

- That is so good.

- People that watch this show
often will say,

"But, you know, magicians
sometimes use their sleeves."

And there's Teller right there

with a egg-sized gape
right there in his sleeve.

Maybe there's some sort
of magic move

where Teller flips that egg
right up his sleeve.

Make sure he can't do that,
Kim, so just, uh,

wrap the sleeve around
like that,

and then come over the top
with your left hand.

Now, Kim, make sure...

his hands are empty.

- Empty.
[laughter]

[laughing]
- Okay, he can't use his sleeve,

his hands are empty.
Can you see

the snowy-white egg
in the dark interior

of the bag?
- No.

- Can you feel the egg
in the bag?

- No.
- Then watch this, Kim.

This is very close...

to real...

magic.
- What?

- There it is, right there.
And there it is, right there.

[applause]

- Now, Kim...
- Oh, my gosh!

[applause]

- If I were a judge
on "Fool Us"--

and I am--
[laughter]

at this point,
I would say something obtuse

about sleight of hand,
and then say,

"Well, it happened
in Teller's hands."

If that were real magic,
it would happen in Kim's hands.

Now, Kim, you see how Teller's
holding the bag?

Two fingers of each hand
inside the bag

from the outside--
hold it just like that.

Just like that, Kim.

Now, Teller's
gonna perch the egg

right on the mouth of the bag.

Now, Kim, I don't want
to badger you--

you can tell the truth--

I just have to ask you
one question, Kim.

- Yes.
- Do you see the egg?

- Yes.
- Good.

- I don't wanna break the egg.
[laughter]

- Now watch this, Kim.

This is the closest
you'll ever experience...

to real magic.
- [exhales sharply]

- Do you feel it, Kim?

Because that egg is gone...
- [gasps]

- Gone, gone.
[audience exclaims]

And don't take
our word for it, Kim,

check his pockets!

Check his sleeves!

That is gone, gone.

- That is gone.

- Okay.
- Oh, my God.

If you check any more, Kim,

you can't be in the Senate.
- I know!

[laughter]

I was trying
to be very careful.

- Now, Kim, that still happened
in your hands,

but Teller
was awfully near to you.

If that were real magic,

it could happen
when you're alone.

One last time, Kim,
take a look in the bag.

Do you see the snowy-white egg

in the dark interior
of the bag?

- No.
- Do you feel the egg

in the bag?
- No.

- So you can't see it,
you can't feel it.

You gotta hold it.
Hold it just like that, Kim.

Now, Kim, do you feel alone
here on stage?

We'll move a little further
away from you.

- Okay.
- Feel alone now, Kim?

- Yes.
- We'll move

a little further away.

Now, Kim,
you checked completely,

but one last time,
little peek in the bag.

Do you see the egg in the bag?
- No.

- Kim, keep holding--

keep holding
with your right hand.

Let go with your left.
- Just with my right hand?

- Teller, magic!

[snaps fingers]

Kim, show your left hand empty.

Slowly, carefully,
reach in the bag.

- I'm gonna cry.
- Reach in the bag.

- [gasps]
- Be careful, Kim,

[laughter]

- It's here!
- It's a real egg.

Kim Raver!
[cheering and applause]

- That's amazing.
You guys are amazing.

- That's Kim Raver
right there.

[Alyson laughing]

[cheering and applause]

That was so good.

- That's amazing.
- Ah!

That's a wrap
on tonight's show,

but we'll come back
with another one

before you know it!

From all of us at "Fool Us,"
goodnight from Las Vegas!

[all chattering]

[cheering and applause]