05x13 - Let's Hear It For The Kids

[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 "Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"

where we spend the whole show
messing with Penn and Teller!

But don't feel bad for them,
when Penn and Teller are fooled

it's like water
off a duck's back.

And by that I mean
they get surprised,

flap their wings,
pee a little, and dart forward.

[laughter]

Then they calm down
and we bring out

the next magician.

So let's bring out
our fine feathered friends,

Penn and Teller!

[cheering and applause]

- Alyson, thank you very much.
- Aww, thank you.

Each performer tonight
is trying

to fool Penn and Teller.

If they do,
they take home one

of our famous
"Fool Us" trophies,

and they win a slot performing
in Penn and Teller's

famous magic show.

Let's meet our first
potential fooler.

[fireworks crackle]

- My name is Kiko Pastur.

I am from Spain,
and I am a magician.

Spain has a legacy
of legendary magicians

and this has given me
an impulse

to ride on the shoulders
of the giants

that came before me.

I want to make
my own poetic mark

in my country's legacy
of magic.

I can play the piano,
and I can play the guitar,

but magic is my greatest
artistic expression.

[soft rousing music]

The right setting
and the right artistic elements

bring out the best
in my performance,

and my medium
is a regular deck of cards.

Can I make you dream with this?

Let's find out.

[cheering and applause]

- Ladies and gentlemen,

say "hola" to Kiko Pastur!

[cheering and applause]

- Alyson, this day...

today, is your birthday?

- Su--Not really, but sure.

[laughter]
- No, no...

- I mean, feels like it,
but it's not...

- Then...
- No.

- Happy un-birthday.
- Hey, thank you.

- Come and join me
at the table, please.

[applause]

This is gonna be
your un-birthday party.

- Yay, thank you!

- I have a present here
for you,

so please help me shuffle...

the cards.
- Okay.

- Can you come closer
and mix them together

in this way, please?
- Okay.

- Yeah, mix them.
- Okay.

- Excellent.
- Okay.

- Alyson, on this day...
- Oh, dear.

- Your present...
- That was--I didn't do it...

- Beautiful--

is gonna be a suit.

Because it's very important
to have a--a nice suit

for your un-birthday,
don't you think?

- Sure.
- And as far as we have

the four suits, here...

we can choose one.

So, please, could you point
to one of them?

I mean,
you can choose freely

with no restrictions.

- That one.

- Okay, this...

is the one she chose.

But we know, in real life,

what we want...

and what we choose...

sometimes
are different things.

So if I ask you which suit
would you like to have...

which one would it be?

- Hearts.
- Hearts, the spades...

- Hearts.
- But darling,

you know, in real life,
what we want...

and what we choose...

are usually different things.
- Hmm.

- But don't be sad,

because this is not
your present.

This is only the first piece...

of your custom-made suit.

And hidden in this pack

is my un-birthday gift for you.

Would you like to see?
- Sure.

[curious music]

♪ ♪

- Hmm.

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[applause]

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[applause]

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[laughter]

[applause]

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[applause]

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audience: Oh...

- Wow...

[applause]

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[applause]

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[music abruptly stops]

- Ah...

- The Jack, the Queen,
and the King...

of spades.
- Aww.

- That's all.

Thank you very much.

Happy un-birthday.
- Thank you.

- But...
- Oh.

- Spades was the one
you chosen...

but you didn't want
a suit full of spades.

- Right.
- You decided...

hearts...
- Yes.

- Don't you remember?
- Oh, I remember.

- So if I take from you
the essence of hearts...

of your wish,
and we sprinkle it...

over those cards...

One cannot believe
impossible things.

- Mm.
- I'd say,

you haven't had much practice.
- [laughs]

- When I was your age,
I always did it

for a half of an hour a day,

and sometimes I believe
as many...

as 13 impossible things
before breakfast.

- Oh, boy.

- Hearts, hearts...

- What?
- Hearts, hearts, hearts,

as you wish.
- Oh, my gosh!

- Happy un-birthday!

- Aww!

[cheering and applause]

Kiko Pastur!

- Thank you.
- Wow!

That was amazing!

- Thank you.

- So is it difficult
to perform close-up card tricks

in front of such a large audience?

- Yeah.

Well, here is a very good place
because the screens,

but yes, and it's like
being naked, you know?

Here in--in the middle

of a great stage, so yeah,
it's kind of difficult.

But it's also
a great challenge, you know?

I like it.
[both laugh]

- All right,
I think they're ready.

Let's see what Penn and Teller
thought.

- Okay, let's see.

- Yes, uh-- boy.

You know, when we see
and hear someone

with a Spanish accent
doing cards,

we get terrified, you know?

Now, this is gonna seem obvious

to everybody watching,
but I want to say

that we thought
the whole card trick

was very, very ambitious.

It was a very ambitious
card trick.

And, uh, the cardistry stuff,
you know?

Um, we happen to know

that you're doing
very similar things


but making every one

look entirely different,
entirely fresh.

And bringing in all
this modern cardistry stuff

is wonderful...

And, uh, I wanna tell you,
we were afraid,

because as soon as you came out
we knew you were Spanish.

We thought the odds
were very, um, stacked

in your favor...

- [laughing]
- But it was, uh, wonderful.

Wonderful routine,
and one of the hardest things

to do in magic
is to give something

a real punch line.

Like, you quoted
"Alice in Wonderland..."

And at that very end,

we think the trick's
almost over,

you just flipped a switch
and we all went

right to Wonderland.

It was just a, uh--
a great thing.

We enjoyed every moment of it,
and I think--I hope--

with the, uh, language barrier,

but even with the, um,
kind of subtext of magic...

Maybe you know a little bit

about what I'm laying down
for you, here.

- Yeah, you are right.

- Ah...
- [laughing]

- So I'm guessing
you did understand

that language.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Yes, okay.
- I--I--

- I did not.
[laughter]

We do not have a fooler,
but you have an entertainer.

Thank you, Kiko Pastur.
- So great, so great.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

[applause]

- We still have more magicians
to unleash

on Penn and Teller.

You don't wanna miss it.

[cheering and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

And now let me produce
our next magician.

Ta-dah!

[fireworks crackling]

- I'm from Richmond Hill,
Ontario, Canada,

and I'm a comic magician.

I'm an actor, and I also
create magic tricks.

The whole thing was born
of just a desire to perform.

From a very early age,
I just liked

to entertain people.

I have performed, uh,
in restaurants

since I was 17 years old.

and I really learned
how to read people

and improvise.

I started inventing magic tricks

I sold a ton of them,
and it actually put me

on the map.

The trick I'm going to be doing
for Penn and Teller

is one of my creations.

I've got a pretty good chance
of fooling them with it,

I think they're gonna like it.

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome the odd talent

of Jason Palter!

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you.

Thank you so much.

So I live in Richmond Hill,
Ontario, Canada.

[cheering]

Oh!

Thank you for coming.

Richmond Hill
is a suburb of Toronto,

which is 2,262 miles,




from where I'm standing.

Alyson, it's great to see you
standing there...



And amazing to see you,
Penn and Teller,

sitting on your perches...



Now, I know you're probably
thinking to yourselves,

"There's something slightly off
about that magic boy."

[laughter]

I sound like I'm a few beads
short of an abacus, eh?

Well, we all have
special skills.

I have a very interesting
and unique skill.

I'm really good at telling
the exact distance

between objects.

I'll show you, it's not
as easy as it looks.

Alyson, do me a favor, please.

Just, uh, walk towards me.

Yep, keep walking towards me.

A little bit more--more strut.

- [laughing]
- And stop right about there.

Now, let me ask you:
How many inches away

do you think that we are
from each other?

Let's say from our side
to your tummy.

- Inches?
- Yeah.

- I'd say 42.
- 42, all right.

Let's have a look.

You want to hold on
to the measuring tape

and measure--
and what are you at?

- Mm, 40.

- All right, close. Not to bad.
- That was close.

- It's not as easy as it looks.
- No.

- No.

It's my turn, now.

Penn and Teller, could you
please join me onstage?

[cheering and applause]

Penn, I'll have you stand
beside Alyson, please,

and Teller, why don't you
just place yourself

somewhere right about here.

All right?
Now, turn and face the action

in that direction.

There you go.

Alyson?
- I'm the action.

[laughter]

Apparently.
- [laughing]

I want you now, please,
to take Penn and just--

just walk him down the stage
a little bit, please.

Just take him down,
walk him down the stage,

and why don't you stop at--
at any place you'd like.

- Where do you want to stop?

Here?
- Here.

- Right about there?
- Okay.

- And you know what, Alyson?

I'm going to give you a choice.

Do you want to move Penn
a little bit further away

just a bit,
or a little bit closer

to Teller, or leave him
right where he is?

- I'm gonna...
- Just a little bit closer?

Perfect. Okay.

Alyson, come on down here...

and you stand right here
beside Teller.

It is now time for me to do
the voodoo that I do.

Nobody move.

Let's have a look, here.

I'm going to measure
the distance--

I'll go from Teller's nose

to the lapel--
to the edge, there--

on Penn's shirt.

Right about there, okay?
- Here?

- Yeah, right about there.
Perfect.

All right, let's have a look.

Like that...

Carry the two, okay.

I'm writing down now...

the exact distance--

actually, you know what?

I got it...

to the quarter of an inch.

Put that down.

Fold it up...

Teller, please,
hold on to that.

Don't peek at it just yet
and don't say it out loud.

Try to resist, okay?

[laughter]

Alyson, we're now going
to measure, please.

If you could please
take this end

of the measuring tape,
hold it on to Teller's nose.

And I'm sorry, folks,
as I turn my back

you get a view
of my built-in yarmulke, here.

[laughter]

It's like the hole
in the ozone layer.

It grows bigger and bigger
every year.

You know what I mean,
huh, fella?

Yeah, sorry.

All right, I'll bring
right over here--

- I'll get right up here to the...
- Stop yanking it, hold on.

I don't want to hurt his nose.
- Oh! Yeah, got it?

Okay, I'm gonna bring it
right up here

to the edge of...
- Oh, my gosh,

I'm gonna hit him in the nose.

- Gotta get it right up here...
- I'm sorry, Teller.

- To the edge of...

All right,
think I'm bang on, there.

I got it right
to the quarter of an inch.

Alyson, please just drop
your end of the measuring tape,

just let it clatter.

Grab the marker
and the pad of paper.

Please come on over here...

[curious music]

- Yes?
- And come right over here

to my right side.
- All right.

- And we are right on
the quarter of an inch

to the edge...
- Okay.

- Of Penn's lapel.
- Yes.

- What is it, there?
Can you say it out loud?

- It's, uh, 1-7-8.

- Eight, yeah.
- And a quarter.

- And a quarter.
- Should I write that down?

- Yeah, 1-7-8
and a quarter inches.

- Eight...
and a quarter.

- And a quarter.
- Well, yeah.

- That's okay, we know it--
that's perfect.

Okay, let's go back
and join Teller--

Oh, you came with her,
all right.

Let's go back and join Teller.

You come on over here.
- [laughing]

- He followed.

You come along, Penn.
You can hold on to that.

I'm gonna have you guys stack
exactly the way

that you just were.

Now...

- I'm the center of the
action.

- Nice little dance.

Do-si-do around, that's okay.

All right, so what I did is--
Teller, you could have stood

anywhere in this general
vicinity

and you decided
to stand right there.

Alyson, I gave you the option
to walk Penn down

as far as you want,
and something made you want

to stop right there.

I gave you an option
to move him

a little bit further,
a little bit closer.

Which did you do?
- Closer.

- A little bit closer, exactly.

Now, we then measured.

What was the measurement?

Turn around
so everyone can see.



Now, if I was within
a few inches,

this'd be pretty impressive.

But I'm not guessing here,
folks.

I am going for gold.

This is not pure luck.

This is a staggerly impressive

and, well, useless talent
that I have.

[laughter]

Teller, please open up
that piece of paper.

Let's see if we got a match.

[drum roll]

And turn around, yeah.

[cymbal flair]

[cheering and applause]

Thank you.

And I'll tell you,
because of Teller,

I got it on the nose.

- [laughing]
- Thanks so much, guys.

Thank you for your help.
- Jason Palter!

- Thank you so much.
- Wow.

[cheering and applause]

That's very impressive.
- Thank you.

- I mean, I feel like
you should be in construction.

- Yeah, I don't have
the hard hat.

I couldn't do any...
- [laughing]

- Yeah.
- So what else

is this good for?

- Well, I probably started
when I was younger

and came out of mum--
I sort of had a--

a separation anxiety
with the umbilical cord

and figured out how
I had to measure it.

[laughter]

- So besides magic,
what else do you love to do?

- Uh, love to be with my kids
and I, uh--

as I say, and I create magic,
so there's the one side

that's the--
the performer side of me,

and then this idea
of marketing stuff

where I actually market
the items and all,

and that's pretty fun, that's--
that's kind of cool, to do.

- That's cool.
- Yeah, it just uses

a different creative area,
where you now have

to sort of design it and
then figure out the artwork,

and figure out the design
of how everything's going

to package together,
and then market it

and get it out there.
- Wow.

- Yeah. As Archie Bunker
would say,

I'm an "entre-manure,"
all right?

So I just do a bunch
of different things, yeah.

- All right, well, let's see
if you inched your way

across the fooler line.
- All right.

[laughing]

- Yep.

[both exclaiming]

- Let's see if you did.

I gotta tell you, Jason,
you know, um--

uh, this is really good.

And this is your idea, right?
- Yeah.

- Uh, it's--it's fabulous
because it is so close

to plausible, that can
drive people crazy.

At first I thought,
maybe you're really good

at estimating--
golfers can tell distances

really well...
- True.

- And people can get
really good.

You know, carpenters are also
phenomenally good at that.

It's very cl--
you know, um,

a very famous magician,
a friend of ours,

made the Statue of Liberty
disappear.

And when that was announced,
uh, on television,

I was sitting with my father,

and my father said,
"No, he's not.

He's not gonna make the Statue
of Liberty disappear."

You know, it's completely--
that is this pure magic thing

that's out there in the ether,

but this is in the area
I really like,

where you have to kind of go,
"Wait a minute, is he?

How close? Ahh, boy!

He could be, eh--"

And I want to say
a few things it's not.

First of all, what you wrote
on that piece of paper

you really wrote
on that piece of paper.

A lot of times, predictions
are done afterwards.

There's all sorts
of sneaky ways

you can get a prediction done--
no, no.

Teller was holding it.
It was real all the way.

And then when you held
the thing out,

the camera could come in
for a close-up,

a really good close-up

on just that little piece
of the tape measure.

Just that little piece
right in there,

so everybody could see
exactly what it said

on that little piece
of tape measure.

And then you did a trick
that the audience at home

didn't know about.

Nobody knew about it
except maybe the two of us,

and you, and that is,

you also did a vanish
that no one even knew about,

making the trick even better.

We love the plausibility,
we love the premise,

and we just loved it
all the way through.

And I think I've probably said
enough at this point

that I've just...
- Yep.

- Inched my way over the line.
Hehe!

I've gone the extra mile.
- Yes.

- So they figured it out?
- They did, they did.

You guys are amazing,
thank you.

- All right.
- Thank you so much

for having me.
- Jason Palter!

- Thanks, guys.
Thank you.

[cheering and applause]

- Let's take a quick break.

"Fool Us" will be right back.

[applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"

where no one has fooled
Penn and Teller so far.

But that might change
right now.

Take a look.

[fireworks crackling]

- My name's Michael Gee,

and I perform
interactive comedy magic.

I've been performing magic
all my life,

ever since age 13.

This little red car
is a magic prop,

and it became the inspiration
for my new best friend

Henry the Car.

Henry the Car was just
a normal magic prop

just like his grandfather,

but as soon as I
stuck eyes on it,

it was a different story.

It's like it came to life.

Henry and I
do everything together.

We go for long strolls,

we like to feed the pigeons,

and one of my favorite things
is when we actually sit down

and have a meal together.

Little bit for your grandfather.

[classical music]

There you go.

Don't you eat it all at once.

Henry and I
have got a great trick

to share with Penn and Teller,

and if he's feeling
on top form,

we might even fool them.

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome
the wonderfully inventive

Michael Gee!

[applause]

- Thank you very much.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Michael Gee,
and tonight

I'm not going to be
performing any magic.

All the magic
is going to be performed

by this little fellow
over here,

whose name is Henry.

Alyson, would you join me
at the table, please?

- Sure.

- Give a big round of applause
to Alyson, everyone!

Lovely to meet you, Alyson...
- You, too.

- I'm Michael.
- Hi, Michael...

and Henry.
- Now, Alyson...

I want to introduce you
to Henry properly.

Could you hold out your hand
for me like this?

Perfect.

I'm gonna place Henry
on your hand,

and with your other hand
or with your other finger,

can you just give him
a gentle rub, like this?

- Hey.
- And say, "Hello, Henry."

And you've got to do it
in a very soft voice.

- Hi, Henry.
- "My name is..."

- My name is...
- And then you say your name.

- Alyson.
- Amazing.

Now, do you feel
that connection, Alyson?

- Yes.
- Perfect.

I think we're ready to begin.

Now, can you put your finger
on his forehead

and just move him backwards
and forwards like this

across the table,
just to show everyone

that he is very freely moving.

Could you do that for me?
- Sure.

That's his forehead?
- Yeah, absolutely.

- Hmm.
- And he's very freely moving,

right?
- Yeah.

- Now, look,
even if I show you--

I hold it in my hand,
and you can see his wheels

are very freely moving.

- Yes.
- Now, over here,

we have a deck of 52 cards.

All of the cards are different,
would you agree?

- Yes.
- Perfect.

We'll give them
one quick shuffle.

and then the idea
is that you are going

to pick a card...

but you're not going
to show me.

Could you just touch
any card you like,

push the card out of the deck
from anywhere,

and you're going to show Henry.

- Okay.
- Okay?

So if you'd do that
for me now.

- Hmm.
- Just touch any card you'd like.

But keep it face down,
because I don't want to see it.

Okay, I'll take
the rest of them

out of the deck.

Now, I'm gonna hold the--

I'm gonna hold Henry here...
- Okay.

- And I want you
to show Henry the card

with my back turned--
well, I'll--

I'll just go like this.

So if you show him now,
and then show the camera

so everyone
can see the card.

Okay?

Once everyone's seen it,
please can you just

place that card
back in the pack

anywhere you like...

and tell me
when you've done that.

- Done.
- Perfect.

Now we're just going
to give them a big mix

on the table, so I want you
to get in there

and give it a good mix...
- This is how

I like to shuffle
- Really good shuffle.

That's my favorite.
That's great.

So give them a really good mix.

I mean, you could have been
a bit neater about that Alyson.

- [laughing]

- All right.

We'll just sort them out
into one pile.

Perfect.

Now...

I'm going to spread the cards,
once again, across the table.

All I want you to do
at this point, Alyson,

is to locate your card,
but don't say where it is.

I want you to wheel Henry
across the cards,

but over the cards.
- Okay.

- With one finger,
nice and slowly, like this,

over the cards
all the way to the end.

[curious music]

- Whoa, whoa, whoa,
what's happened?

- [laughs]
It's stuck.

- It's--it's stopped?
- Yeah.

- Um, I think Henry might
be trying to tell us something.

Um, if I was to take out...

these five cards,

would you say your card
is one of those?

Don't tell me which one.

- Yes.
- Perfect.

Amazing.

Now...

for the next bit,

I want you to shuffle
these cards face down,

and don't look at them.

[laughter]

But we're gonna do this
under test conditions.

So for this part...

I'm going to blindfold Henry.

- [laughs]

[laughter]

- Here we go.

[laughter]

Now, would you agree
at this point, Alyson,

that Henry cannot see?

[laughter]

- Yeah.
- [chuckles]

So, let's try this.
- Mm-hmm.

- Okay,
you remember your card?

- Yes.
- Good.

That's the most important part.

We're gonna spread out
the cards like this.

Now this time, I'm going
to push Henry.

- Mm.

- Can you think of your card
clearly in your mind, Alyson?

- Mm-hmm.

[ding]

[laughter]

[ding]

♪ ♪

- Okay, I think he's ready.

- Okay.

- Henry...

You've got this.

♪ ♪

[gasps]

Okay, he's stopped here.
- Ah...

- He didn't stop here,
he didn't stop here,

he didn't stop here,
but he stopped here!

♪ ♪

[sharp exhale]

For the first time, Alyson,

what is the name of your card?

- Two of hearts.

- The two of hearts!

- Whoo!

[cheering and applause]

Aww!

- [relieved exclamation]
Ladies and gentlemen,

give a big round of applause
to my helper, Alyson,

and our star of the show,
Henry!

[cheering and applause]

- And Michael Gee!

[cheering and applause]

Ah!

Very cool.

Good job, Henry.

- Give him another little rub,
if you want.

- Aww, you're so sweet.
- He does like that.

- Um, how long have you
guys known each other?

- Well, Henry actually
has been with me

for over 15 years.
- Wow.

- I've had, I think, eight
previous models of Henry.

- [gasps]

So...
- This is Henry the 9th.

- Henry the 9th, wow.

- Yeah.
- Very impressive.

- Good boy.
- And does Henry ever

get in the way
of your other relationships?

- Well, uh...
[laughs]

You'll have to ask
my girlfriend about that,

but, uh...
- Do you have a girlfriend?

- I do.
- All right.

So kids must love this trick.

- I think Henry appeals
to all ages...

- Yeah.
- Because he's just so cute

and adorable, aren't you?
- He is.

- Love you.
- What happened

to Henry 1 through 8?

- 1 through 8, well,
you know, um--

the wheels sometimes
get a bit, uh, dodgy,

and, uh...
- Aww.

- The eyes fall off.

- Oh, that's...
- And sometimes--

can you see he's got
a bit of a dent, there?

- Oh.
Well, I think the dent

makes him even cuter.
- Aww, thank you, Alyson.

- Yeah.
All right,

well, let's see what, uh--
what the boys think.

- Great.

- Well, I don't know
why we're talking to you.

We should be talking to Henry.
- You are.

- Uh, but I'll start with you

by saying that it's
a wonderful presentation.

We--we aren't
really sure, here, um--

Let's start with
given that we know

that you know
and that Henry can know

which card was selected
and all of that.

If you want us
to push on that, we will,

but I'm assuming
we can step over that

and get right to Henry.
- Okay.

- The question is,
how does Henry stop?

And I'm gonna
tell you right now

a way that you can win.

Okay?
You can win right now

by just telling me this:

We do not...

think it's magnets.

If it's magnets, you win.

Is it magnets?
- No.

- In that case, it is Henry.

And Henry just has...

a really good memory
for everywhere he's been,

everything he's seen,
everything he's experienced,

and he's able to just
bring up those memories

to do the trick.
- I can tell you

that it's nothing to do
with Henry's memory.

- Nothing to do
with Henry's memory?

Not, uh--not at all
with, uh, Corwinder?

- Yes, it is to do...

- Which is--which is the way
I was trying--

trying to get to that,
a little bit.

- It is 100%
to do with Henry's memory.

[laughter]

- [laughing]
- Okay,

so you didn't fool them?
- I didn't fool them.

But you know what,
I've had an amazing time

and I'm really looking forward
to my buffet dinner tonight.

- Aww.
- [laughing]

- Michael Gee!

- Lovely to meet you.
- Thank you.

[applause]

We didn't get a fooler
this round,

but we've got another magician

who's coming out swinging
after the break.

Stay close.

[applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

There just may be a method

to this next magician's
madness,

but can Penn and Teller
figure out that method?

Let's find out.

[fireworks crackling]

- When I'm in front
of an audience,

I have two rules:
show them something amazing,

and don't take myself
too seriously.

Some people, when they come
to a magic show,

they believe that it's them
against the magician.

Here's a guy that is
trying to fool me,

and so I try to
make people laugh

on the first line that I say.

And as soon as that happens,
people let their guard down.

- Is this four?
- It's four.

- And that's when I fool them.

- No way.
- Oh, my gosh.

[both laughing]

- I'm also a voice actor.

Rated PG-13.

Featuring a bold new flavor.

Tonight I'm combining
a couple of skills

that I've never
really combined before.

Will Bryan Saint
fool Penn and Teller?

Find out tonight
on an all-new episode

of "Penn and Teller: Fool Us"
on The CW.

[dramatic music]

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome Bryan Saint!

[cheering and applause]

- [chuckles]
Thank you, Alyson.

Wow, thank you guys so much.

You know, I did not become
a magician to be famous,

and so far that's
working out great.

[laughter]

I'm not famous as a magician,
but I am famous...

Just, nobody knows it.

[laughter]

It's true, because besides
being a magician,

I am a voice actor.

But ultimately,
all of you hate my voice

and you don't even know it.

[device playing hold music]

Your call is very important to us.

Please continue to hold.

[laughter]

[device playing hold music]

[laughter]

Hey, you think my voice
is annoying

when you're on hold?

Think of how annoying it is
when I'm on hold.

[laughter]

But I'd much rather
do something tonight

that doesn't annoy you.

Like an infomercial.

You know why I sound so weird
when I do infomercials?

Because I have to sound
over-the-top excited

and I have to make the product
sound like it solves

one of the biggest problems
facing society today.

Are you tired of
a phone-charging cable

that's either too long
or too short?

[peppy muzak]

Well, not anymore.

Introducing:

The Cord-Master 2000...

which looks just like
a normal phone charger.

[laughter]

But, when you're on the go,

why carry more than you need?

Especially when you only
need the ends

to charge your phone.

With the Cord-Master 2000,

you can take the ends off...

♪ ♪

audience: Oh!

Giving you one small cable
to carry with you everywhere...

♪ ♪

And leave the unneeded loop
at home.

[laughter]

But wait, there's more!

Cable not long enough for you?

If you call right now,
we'll send you

some extra cable

so you can make any size
phone charger you want.

[laughter]

♪ ♪

This will allow you to create
a phone charger so long,

it'll have your friends
saying, "Wow,

that's a long phone charger."

[laughter]

♪ ♪

Cut off what you need,

then simply remove
the cut ends.

♪ ♪

[laughter and applause]

Next, take your existing ends,

wrap them around
the giant loop...

♪ ♪

Pull slowly,
and you'll even fool yourself.

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

Wow,
that's a long phone charger.

[applause]

But wait, there's more.

Because the best thing

about the Cord-Master 2000

is that you don't even need
an electrical outlet

to charge your phone.

And we'll give you
a demonstration right now

using two average consumers.

[laughter]

Watch as one of them
plugs in his cell phone...

- Okay.

- While the other uses his hand

to create a static charge.

♪ ♪

[laughs]

No plug...

no problem.

♪ ♪

audience: Oh!

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

So if you can use static
to charge your phone,

why settle for anything else?

Stop dealing with the stress
of normal phone chargers

and get the Cord-Master 2000.

♪ ♪

[applause]

If you experience
a phone charge

lasting more than four hours,
please consult Penn and Teller.

[laughter and applause]

Call today.
Operators are standing by.

[device playing hold music]

Your call is very important to us.

Please continue to hold.

[cheering and applause]

- Bryan Saint!

[cheering and applause]

Ah!
- Thank you so much.

- That's amazing!
- Thank you, Alyson.

- That's really, really cool.

And super duper handy.

- Oh, absolutely.
- Like, yeah,

if you forget your charger,
you can just make one.

- Absolutely,
right there on the spot.

- Man.

So are you really
the hold voice?

- I mean, I've done everything.

I mean, really,
I've done everything

from movie trailers
to, uh, beer commercials.

I've done on-hold commercials,
I've done some video game work,

done some
luxury car commercials.

So really, uh, it's kind of
just, uh, in the span.

I'm on several apps--
even kids toys.

You'll hear my voice, uh,
for some of those, so...

- Oh, wait,
I think they're done.

- Do you really
do infomercials?

- Uh, I have done, uh,

one or two in the past, yeah.
- Oh, that's great.

That's fabulous.

And using that in this routine
is wonderful.

We just love that.

You know, using stuff with a--
with a charging cable

is a really great, great,
great idea, you know?

Very few of us--
I mean I do--

but very few of us have
rope around our house,

so doing rope tricks
with a charging cable

is a great, great idea.

Rope tricks don't mean much
anymore.

This means everything.

And the comedy was terrific,
it's beautifully written,

really, really fabulous.

Really wonderful
all the way through.

- Thank you so much.
- And, uh, as far as

this charger thing?

Uh, we have no idea

how this works.

[cheering and applause]

- Uh, and I will also say...

I will add to that...

I will add to that,
I have no idea

how a regular charger works
on my phone.

I have no idea how any of
the apps on my phone work--

I have no idea how
the iPhone works--

so this is exactly like that.

We have no idea how it works,
and I guess that's a fooler.

- Whoo!

You did it!

Awesome!

We have a fooler!

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

Thank you, guys.

[sighs]

[cheering and applause]

- Bryan Saint!

- Thank you so much.
Thank you, Alyson.

Teller.

[cheering and applause]

- Score one for the foolers,
but Penn and Teller

get a chance
to redeem themselves

when they do a trick
of their own

coming up next.

[cheering and applause]

[jazz music]

[jazz music]

[cheering and applause]

- Many people have the notion
that children are magic,

but Las Vegas legends
Penn and Teller

plan to prove it.

Here with a group of kids
from our studio audience,

Penn and Teller!

[cheering and applause]

- You know, uh,
a lot of magicians

do magic for children.

We're gonna do magic
by children.

And we've grabbed a bunch
of children from the audience

and Teller is teaching them
how to do a magic trick.

children: Yeah!

- Now if you are watching
at home and you are a child,

you can probably
learn the algorithm

just watching what Teller's
teaching these children, here.

children: Yeah!
- You should be able

to do this at home...
children: Yeah!

- With just what you're
watching Teller do here

on the screen.

[high pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

[high pitch beep]
- And while Teller's

teaching the children,
we have five adults here

and all of you
have, uh, children

that are over here, right?

So the children are gonna
fool their parents

What we have here
is we have five...

children: Yeah!
- Billiard ba*ls.

The children are gonna divine
which one of the billiard ba*ls

each of these people
will be holding.

We have five different colors.

We have red, white, and blue

for the United States
of America!

[cheering and applause]

And we have green and yellow
for Bolivia.

[laughter]

Now, each one of you
is gonna take one of these...

children: Yeah!
- And make sure that nobody--

not even each other--
knows what color you have.

So come over here,
reach under...

children: Yeah!
- This pillowcase, grab one,

and cover it up
so no one sees.

If you have
a really good poker face,

you can take a little peek,
like that,

but you don't have to
if you don't wanna.

If you don't wanna know,
you don't have to know.

children: Yeah!
- Okay.

Five billiard ba*ls.

Go over there one at a time
and grab one of those.

Now the great thing
about this is even though

we invented this trick...
children: Yeah!

- We cannot do it.

Only children
can do this trick.

We have devised a trick
that only children can do.

And listen, children,
if you are home...

children: Yeah!
- Watching with your family,

you'll be able
to do this too, okay?

children: Yeah!

- You can adjust that pillowcase

before you reach under--
beautiful.

And then just, uh,
grab it, there.

children: Yeah!
- The adults taking longer

to learn than
the children did.

There's two there
to choose from,

go over there and grab one.

And no one has any idea,
what color you have, right?

Some of you know,
some of you don't know.

And you will have
no choice, of course.

You just go up and grab
the last one right there.

Now, Teller should have taught
all the children here

and the children at home.

Some of you have
figured that out.

Children, are you ready to go?
Stand up, here.

And just kind of match
this angle right here,

kind of face out
to the audience.

You stand up, you stand up.
Come right over here.

Let's put the smaller
children up front,

be--because of
how light works.

There we go, good.
Right there.

Now, children, I'm gonna
make this very clear to you--

this also is for
the children at home--

you must never,
ever keep secrets

from your parents
or legal guardians, okay?

Never.

But this is a special
Penn and Teller secret,

so please promise me right now
you'll let your parents die

without knowing
how this trick is done, okay?

Now, adults,
do not turn around.

Teller has five hats.

Each one of that hats

matches one of
the billiard ba*ls

that the people are holding
in color, okay?

So, does this hat match

the billiard ball he's holding?

Does it match the billiard ball
she's holding?

Does it match the one
that she's holding?

[high pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

- Okay,
let me explain something

to you, children:
we are onstage

in Las Vegas, okay?

We are being beamed out to TV.

You wanna be a little more
showbiz-y, okay?

A little more Vegas.

So a little more
David Copperfield, "Yeah!"

And a little less
David Blaine, "Yeah."

[laughing]

Okay?
So be ready for that.

Play it big.

Okay, now this hat--
does it match the one

that he's holding?

[high-pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

- Yes, it does.

That was much better,
but still, more arms.

More arms--there we go.

Now, this one here,
does it match the one

that she's holding?

Does it match the one
that she's holding?

Does it match the one
that he's holding?

[high pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

- Oh, that hopping
up and down--

You get over here,
you get more center stage

That hopping--that hopping
buys you something.

Now, watch what she's doing.

There's hopping, hopping!

How Las Vegas is that?

Does it match the one that...

she's holding?

[high pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

- Hopping!
Hopping up and down!

Beautiful!

Now, we've got, uh,
one more left.

You feel good about this one?

That's the one
that she's holding.

[high pitch beep]
children: Yeah!

- Oh, good.
Very good, children.

Now, children,
we are going to, uh--

each one of you,
when I say your number--

one, two, three,
four and five--

just take that billiard ball,
hold it up.

We can see the hat
and the billiard ball.

If they happen to match,
yell out the color, okay?

Now, children,
if you get this right,

there's gonna be a lot
of applause.

Not only that, everybody here
will be applauding, screaming,

cheering, and I gotta tell you,

that feels pretty good, okay?

So really, really enjoy it.

And also, Mike Jones,
our piano player,

has written a special theme
for you called,

"Fanfare
for the Magical Children."

There'll be music playing,
people will be cheering,

and Teller will cue you.

Take a nice, big,
deep, rich bow

and suck all that up, okay?

Really enjoy that adulation.

We all set to go?

Here we go.

And, one...

[drum roll]

- Blue.
- Blue, blue!

- White.
- White, white!

Three!
Green, green!

Four!

Yellow, yellow!

Five!
No surprise!

Red there.

[cheering and applause]

- [tapping sticks]

[upbeat piano music]

♪ ♪

- Whoo!
That was amazing!

From Penn and Teller
and the future stars

of "Fool Us: 2025,"
good night!

[cheering and applause]

That was awesome!

Yeah!
High five!