09x14 - Alyson Might Throw Up

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- From the Penn & Teller
Theater at the Rio Hotel

in Las Vegas, here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan!

- Hey!

Welcome to "Fool Us."

Our show
takes place in Las Vegas,

and tonight,
we are doubling down.

Typically, we have
one Penn and Teller trick,

but tonight, we're rolling
the dice and giving you

two Penn and Teller tricks.

Sounds like a jackpot to me.

Before we see tonight's
other magicians perform,

let's hand the stage over
to the two and only

Penn and Teller!

[cheers and applause]

- The great magician,
Robert Houdin,

said that a magician

was an actor playing
the part of a magician,

playing the part of someone
with real magical powers.

In that sense,
Teller and I tend to do tricks

and not really magic.

We were thinking if we did
have real magical powers,

what would that look like?

I mean, most magic
isn't even desirable.

No one wants
to really cut a woman in half,

and certainly, no real American

wants to vanish
the Statue of Liberty.

[laughter]
Curing diseases

is the job of science,
and making money

is the job of the treasury.

If you had real magical
powers, it would be very small,

personal, and impossible,

and probably deal

with the biggest mystery
of all: life.

And if there were
real magical powers...

[scoffs]
They wouldn't be free.

Alyson, we're gonna show you

what we think real magic
would look like.

Look at Teller's hands.

But magic is
gonna cost something.

♪ ♪

A small amount of pain.
- Uh-uh.

Uh...
- [winces]

- Oh.
- Just a prick

of the index finger...
Just a little hurt,

just a little cost.

He squeezes out

a single drop of blood.

A little pain, a little bit
of the life force.

We paid in blood,

and we got...
[all gasp]

- Aw...

- The drop of blood
is now another form of life:

a pretty little ladybug.

- Hi, bug.
- And this shows that the idea

of good and evil in real magic
is complicated.

To us, a small piece
of beautiful life,

to a garden aphid,
a nightmarish monster!

[laughter]
We think that's what real magic

might look like.

- Whoa.

Both: Oh!

[cheers and applause]

- All right,
that's just the beginning.

Up next, Penn and Teller
take their seats and take on

the world's best magicians.

And later on,
they'll finish the show

with another great trick,
so stick around.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

While you were gone,
we came across

this world-class performer.

Let's meet them now.

[cheers and applause]

- Now we take you live
out to Dubai

for the magic of Raymi!

[cheers and applause]

- For the last couple of years,

like most people,

I had so much time on my hands.

And for a magician,
so much time on your hands

is such a dangerous thing.

You never know
what you will come up with.

And I want to practice,

not lose my edge,
and stay sharp.

So I was waking up
every day in the morning,

having my breakfast,
a bowl of cereal,

and trying to come up
with a new trick.

But today,
I came up with a trick.

I'm gonna show you
my imagination was dry.

And I discovered that the idea

I'm looking for
was under my nose.

That's right.
I created

a perfect trick using cereal.

[calm music]

Alyson, I need your help.

- Okay.
- All right, I'm gonna take

a random cereal.

♪ ♪

And we gonna make this cereal

a one-of-a-kind cereal, Alyson.

- Ooh.

- I want you
to tell me something

so I write it on the cereal.

- Love.

- Love.
Ah, that's super cute, Alyson.

- Thanks.

- All right, I'm gonna write...

♪ ♪

L-O on one side.

- Aw...

♪ ♪

- And V-E on the other side.

V-E.

♪ ♪

Can you see that?
- Yes.

♪ ♪

- L-O and V-E.

All right.

♪ ♪

Now I'm gonna be the first
magician in the world to find

a signed cereal.
But first, I have to lose it.

♪ ♪

Fair enough, Alyson?

- Sure.

- Well, not for me.

♪ ♪

I feel like
I'm having my breakfast.

[laughter]

Mmm.

[clears throat]

That was dry without my milk.

[laughter]

♪ ♪

- Gone.

- All gone, right?
- All gone.

- Now, where do you imagine
we're gonna find this cereal?

- Ugh, I don't wanna imagine.
[laughter]

- Yeah,
I'll come back in 24 hours,

all right?
[laughter]

- Ew.
- Now,

as you remember, I said,
"A magician with time

on his hands
is such a dangerous thing."

[tense music]

And I wanted to stay sharp.

[groans]

[laughter]

- Why you breathing hard,
Alyson?

'Cause I just stopped
liking you.

[laughter]

- Before I continue...

♪ ♪

- Yeah, it's empty.

- Nothing.
- Nothin' there.

- Now, please,
it's gonna look super real,

yet it is magic.

Watch closely.
- [gasps]

Oh, God.

Seriously?

Mm-mm.

♪ ♪

all: Oh!
- Oh...

It's...

♪ ♪

Yeah.

It's the only time
I'm glad you're in Dubai...

[laughter]
And not here.

- [laughs]
- Oh, God.

- Alyson, trust me.
It hurts me more than you do.

- [groans]

- And don't worry.
I used to help my mom,

sewing my clothes,
so I know what I'm doing.

- [scoffs] Oh.

I'm sure she's very happy
about that.

I'm never gonna eat
cereal again.

[laughter]

all: Ooh!

- No, no, no, no, no, no.

No...

♪ ♪

all: Ooh!

- [laughs]

♪ ♪

[laughs] Oh, it's so gross.

[all shouting in shock]

- Ah.

- Mm-kay.
- You ready?

- [groans]

♪ ♪

[groans]

♪ ♪

Ew.
All: Whoa!

- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]

That's it.

[applause]

- Is that your cereal, Alyson?
- Yeah.

Yes, it's my cereal.

[laughter]
[groans]

Raymi!

[applause]

Ugh, Raymi, can I just
recommend intermittent fasting?

Just skip breakfast, okay?
- Well...

[laughs]
- [groans]

- I will take it
in consideration, Alyson.

Thank you for the advice.
- [groans]

Do you love magic,

or do you love
grossing people out?

- [laughs]
I think the mix of both

is what gives it a new spark.

- So this is
your breakfast idea.

I really don't wanna see
your lunch or dinner idea.

- [laughs]

You've done a great job, Alyson.

I expected you were
gonna run out of stage.

- [laughs]

Are all of your tricks
freakshow tricks?

- Not really.
But I like to put

this extra push, you know?
To make something

really memorable.
- And they love

this kind of stuff,
especially Penn.

- Exactly.
That's what I was gonna say.

- Okay, Raymi,
let's see if Penn and Teller

can poke holes
in your magic method.

- Hey, Raymi.
You know, we're thinkin'

that maybe you aren't in Dubai.

You're really upstairs
at the Rio,

and therefore,
you have fooled us.

[laughter]
But I guess you're over

in Dubai.
We really, really wish

that you could be
here in person,

not just because
we'd like to meet you,

but also because
as George Carlin said

about the class clown...

He said,
"The goal of the class clown

is to make the girls throw up."

And I think
if you'd have been here,

you could've got
Alyson actually sick...

- Mm.
- If you'd been close enough.

Only the video protected her,

and we would have loved that.

We would've loved
to have you live.

I also wanna say something
that you didn't say

that's very important
for me to say, and that is

"Do not try this at home."

When people are
watching your show...

- Yeah.
- They can try

the card tricks,
they can try the coin tricks,

but don't try anything
that Raymi does.

He is a professional.

Don't try that.
And a tremendous amount

of this, which,
as you predicted,

I absolutely loved,
is real and is carny stuff.

And you may know or you may not,

but Teller, for years and years,

has done the needles,

where he swallows a hundred
needles, six feet of thread,

brings the needles out
threaded, and some of that

uses the same method
you're using,

so we are conversant with that.

I will also say
that of all the props you used,

I mean, most of them,
almost all of them,

were totally real.

But one of the props you used

was a little bit different

than we expected.
You did a little something

to one of the props.

But I don't wanna say what it is

because it's such a good trick.

And boy, we loved it.

And boy!

We are not... we are not happy
you're not here in person,

'cause I really wanted
to see Alyson watch that.

But I don't think you fooled us.

- So Raymi, do they know
the secret to your trick?

- Yes, they did.
- Aw, well, thank you

for grossing me out.

Raymi!

- Thank you so much.
- So good.

[applause]

- Penn and Teller just laid out
how that last trick was done.

But they might not be so lucky
with this next one.

Stay close.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.
Penn and Teller are ready

to take on our next magician.

Let's find out who it is.

[cheers and applause]

- From across the pond,
please welcome the magic

of Kat Hudson!

[cheers and applause]

- Hi, I'm Kat Hudson,
and I don't do magic

with playing cards or doves.

Everything I need to do
my magic is right there

inside my handbag.

In fact,
my entire life's in there.

I'll show you what I mean.

[soft music]

When I get up in the morning:

cup of tea.

Mid-morning: chocolate.

♪ ♪

Doing a show for Penn and Teller

on television:

vodka.

[laughter]

If anyone goes into my bag
and removes an item,

I know instantly
what they've taken.

I'm like
a psychic security guard.

So I thought, seeing
as I've come out all this way,

why not test
that theory out today?

So I managed to drag away
four random volunteers

from those Vegas slot machines,
and they're gonna help me out.

Hi, guys.

And this is what's gonna happen:

one at a time,
they're gonna go up to the bag,

they're gonna take
a look inside,

remove an item,
and pop it behind their back.

Oh, there is something in there
I'd like to hold onto.

It's my shopping list.
I'm gonna need that.

I'll pop that in there.

I love a list.

Now, whilst they're doing that,

obviously, I'm gonna be turned
away so that I can't see.

I'm just gonna be over here,
powdering my nose.

♪ ♪

[laughter]

I'm only kidding.

There's not even
a mirror in there.

It's a picture of you guys.

I like to think of you
as my two magic dads.

[laughter]

Now, when you are ready,
person number one,

go to the bag, choose an item,
and take it out.

Now, do you know, my husband...

He thinks I've got
too much stuff in that bag.

But I think he's wrong,

'cause I don't know anyone
can leave the house

without nine scrunchies,


[laughter]

Now, person number four,
when you've chosen your item,

could you also pick up
the handbag and take that

back with you?

And then just let me know

when it's safe to turn around.

♪ ♪

- You can turn around now.

♪ ♪

- Great, excellent.

Let's do this.

Now, obviously, I already know
what they've taken,

'cause I've got magic powers,
haven't I?

But let's see if I'm right.

♪ ♪

Person number one, you've
definitely taken something

in a tube.

Now, it could be the glue stick.

It could be the lip balm.

I know some idiot
that got the two mixed up once.

And I can't tell you who it was

'cause my lips are sealed.

[laughter]

[whispers] It was me.

But today,
you've taken the lip balm!

All: Oh!
- There we have it.

Item number one,
thank you very much.

[applause]

Person number two.

Now, this item I love to use.

I pop it in my ears,
and it drowns out the sound

of my husband
when he's giving it all that.

You've taken the earphones!

♪ ♪

all: Whoa!

The earphones.
Thank you very much.

Item number two.

[applause]

Now, person number three...

As soon as he took out
this item,

I've had my eye on him,

because it's something
I could definitely do with

'round about now.

You've taken the vodka!

♪ ♪

all: Oh!

- Ah, what?

[applause]

Thank you very much.

And last,
but by no means least...

Now, I'm not quite sure
why you chose this item,

because it really
isn't your color.

- Huh?

- Nuh-uh.

But I know for a fact, today,

you've taken the makeup!

All: Whoa!
[applause]

- Thank you so much.

It's more for me.

This is 24-hour maintenance,

so I definitely need that back.
Thank you so much.

And there we have it.

It worked!
Yes.

[applause]
Aw, thank you.

And that is four out of four.

But wait, there is more,

because remember, right?
At the beginning,

I showed you a shopping list.

Could you please hand me
the bag back?

♪ ♪

Oh, I love this.

Thank you so much.

Now, it is a shopping list,

and it's a list of all the items

that were taken today,

'cause I thought I might
have needed to replace them.

Luckily, I got them back.

Now, not only is it a list
of everything that was chosen

today, but it's a list
in the exact same order

that they were taken out.

Number one, the lip balm.

Number two, the earphones.

Number three, the vodka.

And number four, the makeup.

And that,
my friends, is a miracle!

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

[cheers and applause]

- Kat Hudson!

Hi.
- Hi.

- Oh, that's fantastic.

It's also probably very useful

when you're looking
for your keys.

It's brilliant.
I've got so much junk in there

that I honestly cannot
find stuff regularly.

- Yeah.
- I just lob it in.

In fact, I think my mum
will be disappointed

that I've not cleaned it up
for the show.

She'll be...
- Ah.

So you and your husband
are both magicians.

- Yeah, we are.
- Is that just, like,

tons of fun or really annoying?

- A bit of both.
[laughter]

Especially during lockdown.
We were constantly trying

stuff out on each other,
and I think... yeah,

I think our skills improved,

but there was a few more
arguments created, definitely.

So how did you become
a professional magician?

So Alan was a magician
when I met him, and I wasn't.

So, um,

I'd never met a magician before,

and he started
showing me some tricks,

and I found that's pretty cool.

- Mm-hmm.
- And I started going to shows

with him,
helping him set stuff up.

And I thought, "Mm,
maybe I can have a go at that."

- Do you find it hard,

working in a business
dominated by men?

- You'd think that I would.
But I've been welcomed

with open arms.

I just wish there was
more women in magic in general.

- Yeah.
Okay, Kat.

Let's see if you have to
make room in your purse

for a "Fool Us" trophy.
- [laughs]

- Boys.

- Hey, Kat.
Boy...

- Hello!
- You know, usually,

the people who are on here

with their crazy English accents

don't have the one you have.

Where's your accent from?

- I'm from Hull.

- Okay.

- You have no idea
where that is, do you?

- Yes, I do know
a little bit about that,

a tiny bit.
So I'm a little bit...

A little bit hip to Hull,
as they say.

But we love your accent
very, very much.

But it's wonderful.
The whole style is great.

It makes me very envious,
because I've always...

I've always thought
that carrying a handbag

was a wonderful idea, 'cause
you can have all sorts of stuff

in there.
- Yeah, absolutely.

- It's a great trick,
and the misdirect

with the compact
is very, very nice.

And I'm sure, you know,
if I were carrying a handbag,

I'd have all sorts of stuff,
and I'd have changed the bag.

You know, you could have
electronics in your handbag.

You could have anything
in the handbag there.

You know, and it's wonderful
how you move around the stage.

You look good,
and you walk to one side,

then you walk behind the table,
and on the other side...

And it was just a celebration,
you know?

Speaking of celebrations,
Teller and I...

You know,
we don't socialize much.

But every New Year's Eve,
we get together,

and we watch on TV,
we watch in Times Square,

you know, New Year's Eve,
we watch the ball drop.

Do you watch the ball drop
over in England?

- I do, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I don't even know
why I asked you that.

I guess you know more
about Hull than you would

Times Square, but we loved
the routine so much, Kat.

We think we slipped
a few things in there

that might make you think
we have some idea

how you did it,
but we don't know.

Maybe you fooled us.
- I understand it.

[laughter]

- So you understand
if you fooled them or not...

- Yes.
- But I don't.

So explain it to me.

- I did not fool 'em.
- Aw.

Well,
you certainly entertained us.

- Aw, thank you.
- Thank you so much.

- Thanks so much for havin' me!

- Kat Hudson!
- Thank you, bye!

[applause]

- We've got more magicians
ready to dazzle you tonight,

including a finale
by Penn and Teller.

So stick around.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"

where the term "double lift"
does not mean

two British elevators.

Let's see if this next magician

can push
Penn and Teller's buttons.

- In Mexico, there's
a tradition of the stage magic.

You tell someone,
"I'm a magician,"

and they invite you to perform
at their kid's party.

I'm working to change that
on stage and off.

I used to have
a kind of stage fright.

I learned all the moves,

but I had no faith
in my abilities.

Then I met a truly
great magician from Spain.

We hit it off, and somehow,
I ended up being his manager.

As a manager,
you have a career in magic

that belongs to someone else.

Night after night,
you see all the secrets.

My stage fright wore away,
and my confidence grew.

I began performing again,

and here I am.

This idea of community between
magicians is important to me.

I see Mexico as a meeting
place where the big talents

from everywhere come together
from all over the world.

So I carry many flags with me,

but tonight, mostly,
the flag of Mexico.

[cheers and applause]

- Everyone, say "Hola, amigo"

to Mexico's own Javier Natera.

- Hola.
- Hola.

- Hola.

Hi, how are you?
My name is Javier Natera,

and I come
from Guadalajara, Mexico.

- Ooh.
- Whoa.

[laughs]

So it's normal,
Alyson, to have tricks

that you like more than others.

For example,
I love the coincidence trick.

Do you like
the coincidence tricks?

- Sure.
- Me too.

What a coincidence.
[laughter]

Alyson, have you ever seen
the Queen's Trick?

- Uh, probably.
- I'll show you.

I'll put some cards
here on the table.

[romantic music]

And you say stop
whenever you want.

- Okay.

Stop.
- There?

- Yes.
- Remember this image.

- Okay.
- A queen.

- [gasps]
- And today, we're gonna work

with some coincidences, okay?

So this is
the first coincidence, okay?

- Okay.
- We're gonna shuffle

a little bit more.

For the second coincidence,

we're gonna find the soulmate

of the queen of clubs.

- Mm.
- You know what is a soulmate

of the queen of clubs?
- Spade?

The queen of spades?
- The queen of spades, no?

"Reina de Picas" in Spanish.
- Oh.

- Okay, so probably,
if I cut here,

I do this, this...

There's the Reina de Picas.
[laughs]

[applause]

By the way, there's no more,
like, queens in the deck, no?

'Cause many people say,
"Yeah, you have extra queens,

or you have extra"... no, pero...

But I'll tell you something.

I also like tricks that require
a strange card handling

that are really,
in a way, strange.

So I'm gonna lose
the queens here,

and I need your help...

- Okay.
- To make the next trick work.

And in order to make it work,
you have to do exactly like me.

- Oh, dear.
- So no pressure for you.

- There's a lot of pressure.

- I meant
[whispers] much pressure.

[laughter]

We're gonna shuffle
a little bit.

Da-da-dack.
Shuffled.

And cut half for you.

- Half for me?
- Yeah.

- Kay.
- Now, ready?

'Cause we have to do it
kind of fast.

- Oh, gosh.
- Kay,

take one, two, or three queens.

The card... sorry... or queens,
and put it in the middle.

Take some cards from the bottom.

Put it on the top.
- Wait, wait, wait.

You're going too fast.
- Put it on the bottom,

and take one from the middle.
Put it on the top.

Another, take...
- I hate doing 'em.

- One, take one, yeah.
One.

- Anywhere?
- Uh, yeah,

and put it... yeah,
probably in the middle,

or in the bottom, no?
Remember, like me, exactly.

- I'm not exactly at all.
- Like this, no?

With card, no?
And then we shuffle, no?

- Shuffle.
- Shuffle.

And then...
- Shuffle.

- We open a fan,
and we close the fan.

- Okay.
- This doesn't do anything,

but it's fun to do it.
- Oh.

- Or not, no?

[laughs]
- We have different ideas

of fun.
But go ahead.

- Okay.
Now we can swap it.

- Okay.
- Like this, no?

- Yeah.
- And now, we just put cards

like this and stop
whenever you want.

For example, I stop here.
Oh, no, one more.

- Okay, there.

- You want me to put one more?
- Sure.

Here or there?

- Where... ooh.

There.

- Wanna put one more here?
- Yeah.

- Are you happy?
- I'm happy.

- I'm happy too.
- Okay.

- Now take the rest of the deck.

Put it there.
Square everything.

Now for the magical
and complicated coincidence.

- Okay.
- Whoa.

- Ooh.
- We're gonna take

the deck under the table.

- Me too?
- Yeah, yeah.

- Okay.
- Take the bottom card

and put it on the middle.

- Kay.
- Without looking.

- Aw.
- Aw.

Take the top card,
and put it on the middle.

- Ah.
- Pass the bottom card

to the top.

Now, Alyson, top or bottom...
Don't tell me.

Don't tell me.

Take the top card
or the bottom card.

It's up to you.

Take it.
I'll do the same.

Turn it faceup,

and put it on the middle.

- Faceup
and put it in the middle.

- Yeah.

Kay, and square everything

like me.

[country music]

Ah.
[laughs]

So Alyson,
you selected a random card.

You know what card you selected?

- No.
- No one can know, no?

- No.
- How we can know

which card it is?

- 'Cause you'll tell me.

- I actu... no, I have no idea.

But if we look...
- Right.

- We can see.
- Okay.

- So can you spread?

- Okay.

- It's the nine of hearts, no?
- Yes.

- I'll try to spread.
Look, the nine of diamonds.

[laughs]
[applause]

The second coincidence.

Now let's go
for a different one.

- Really?
- Really.

Are you ready?
- I guess so.

- Look, I'm not gonna touch.

I'm gonna leave here.

- Okay.
- And nothing in my hands.

Remember, that's...
That's in the middle.

Take under the table faster.

Take the bottom card
and put it on the middle.

Take the top card.
Turn it faceup.

Put it on the middle
and shuffle.

The important thing
is you shuffle.

- I'm not... I gotta shuffle.
Hold on.

I'm shuffling.
- And cut and complete.

- Oh, goodness, wait.
This is a lot of pressure.

- Remember,
we're doing the same trick.

- You're not doing anything.
- Yes, I don't touch here.

And remember, it was on... yeah.

- Okay.

I'm terrified.
- Me too.

[laughs]
- And I dropped the card.

- I have no idea.
- Okay.

- Spread.

♪ ♪

Oh.
- Ooh.

- No, but it was a nine, no?

- It was.
It was...

- Well, do you know
about the soulmates of cards?

I don't know why,

but always,
they find each other.

All: Oh!
- Thank you.

- Wow.

[applause]

Aw...

Javier Natera!

- Thank you.
[chuckles]

[applause]

- If your magic
can survive my card-handling,

it's pretty magical.
- No, but you were amazing.

- Eh, that's very kind of you.

You must be a great liar.

- Or a magician, no?

[laughter]

- Do you always have
a deck of cards with you?

- Yes.
- It's something that

all the people that know me...
It's like I can forget

my phone, my wallet, my keys,

but the deck?
No.

[laughter]
- Okay,

what's your favorite performance

that you've ever done?

- Probably the places
where they don't see magic

for the first time.
Like,

even, like, couple years ago,

I was in Nepal with some rocks
playing with childrens

up in the mountains,
and watching how magic

can communicate and connect.
- Yeah.

- And it's amazing, no?

- That's so wonderful.

- That was hard to say
in English, but...

[laughs]
- No, that's amazing.

All right, Javier, let's see
if Penn and Teller figured out

how you did your trick.
- Awesome.

- Javier!
- Hola.

- You really handle cards
very, very well.

- Thank you. Gracias.

- You do a lot,
a lot of different stuff,

and boy, you did a lot of work

to keep our attention on Alyson

and to try to get us to forget

how very skilled
you are with a deck of cards.

And you're very skilled.

That first thing
with the queens is really nice,

and the psychology behind that
is also really, really nice.

And then, when you get
to the second part,

our attention
gets split on the cards

as we're going back and forth,
and you're having Alyson

do this, do that,
do this, do that,

and the audience
has a lot of fun with that.

Alyson has a lot
of pressure on that,

and it is a pain
in the a*s for us.

There was so much
going on there.

We had to sit here and
reconstruct the whole thing,

and say,
"Wait a minute," you know?

"He's doin' some stuff
while Alyson's workin',

"while Alyson's
struggling through that

and our attention
is shifted there."

It took us a lot
to put it back together.

And it's a really nice routine.

But when we were able
to put it all back together,

we don't think you fooled us.

- Did they figure it out?

- Yes,
I got a couple things they say.

[laughter]

- So you know that they know
how you did your trick?

- Yes.
[laughter]

- Okay.

Javier Natera!

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

More head-scratching
and jaw-dropping magic

when "Fool Us" returns.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Penn and Teller close out
every show with a trick.

But tonight, they're doing
something very special

with two old friends.

Let's see what
they have in store for us.

Take it away, Penn and Teller!

[cheers and applause]

- Mac King
and Piff the Magic Dragon

are about our favorite magicians

in the whole, wide world.

They're also
two of our best friends.

They've been on our show
a bunch of times.

We even met Piff on "Fool Us."

But as good as they both are,

they have never fooled us.

[laughter]
Neither one of them

has ever won a trophy.

But now, we've got a trick that
we hope will fool Mac and Piff.

And if we don't fool them,
if they bust us,

we'll give 'em
each a damn trophy.

So please welcome our judges
for this next trick,

Mac King
and Piff the Magic Dragon!

[cheers and applause]

Come on up here.

Now, we're gonna try to fool
you with your own props.

- Oh.
- We have three

Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.
- [laughs]

- These are expensive.
- Yes, they are.

And we've got,
of course, without a doubt,

a Fig Newton.

Now we're gonna turn our backs.

We won't look.
So you can decide among you

how you're gonna do this,

but follow
our directions carefully...

One, two, and three.

We'll go turn our backs here.

Okay, Mac and Piff.
We're not looking.

Put the fig cookie under one
of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.

[suspicious music]

Have you done that?
- It is under the cup.

- Okay, now, the two cups
that do not have the cookie,

the two cups without
the cookies, switch those.

♪ ♪

- Switched.
- Okay, now take

any two of the three cups
and switch those,

but tell us which they are...
Any two.

- Yeah.
- Which ones... which ones...

- We're switching two and three.

- Two and three
have been switched.

Now do that again...
Any two cups.

Switch 'em, tell us which ones.

- One and three.
- One and three.

- One and three.
Okay, now clean up

any crumbs.

And are you all set...
- Oh, that's my theory.

Ah, there goes my first theory.

[laughter]
- We're gonna turn around now.

Is that okay?

- Yeah.
- Uh, yeah.

- Now Teller
will magically divine

where the fig cookie is

under
the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.

[eerie music]

He's gettin' a vibe.

Can you see him
gettin' the vibe?

[ding]

- Oh!
- And there is the fig cookie

under
the Piffin' Ain't Easy cup.

But you know, guys, we really
want you to win the trophies.

So we're gonna do it again.
- Whew.

- And just in case
you're thinking

that maybe we were peeking,

we're gonna have
one of you do the trick,

and the other one
will police us.

- Oh, okay.
- Okay?

So Mac, you're gonna
make sure we can't see,

and Piff, you're gonna
do the trick alone, okay?

Now, set back here, please, Mac.

- Yes, sir.
- And just stand between us.

Face the audience,

and just put
your hands over our eyes.

- There and there.
- Very nice hand cream,

very nice.
- Oh, thank you.

- Good, good, good.
Okay, Piff, put the Fig cookie

under one
of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.

[suspicious music]

- Done.
- Now switch the other two.

♪ ♪

- Done.
- Now take any two

of the three cups
and switch them,

but tell us
which ones you've done.

♪ ♪

- I switched two and three.

- Two and three.
And Mac, is he all done,

crumbs cleaned up?

- He seems to have
Hoover'd it up.

- [chuckles] Okay.
You can, maybe, let us see now.

Good.
We'll both go back,

and over here...

[laughter]

Let Teller do his work.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

all: Oh!

- Now we're gonna do it
one more time.

- [laughs]

- Okay?
And this time, we're gonna let

Mac do it.

And Piff, you can come back
and be the enforcer

and make sure that we can't see.

- Okay.
- Okay?

So come back here.
Same thing as before.

I think
you know the whole thing.

Here, Piff.
Stand between us.

Face the audience.
Okay.

And Mac, put the fig cookie

under one
of the Piffin' Ain't Easy cups.

- Yes, sir.

- Now switch the other two.

[suspicious music]

- Other two switched.

- Now pick
any two of the three cups,

and switch those, and tell us
which ones.

- Switching one and two.

- One and two.

Now make sure
there are no crumbs.

♪ ♪

And Piff, you can take your
hands down whenever he's done.

And we'll come back
over right over here.

And go ahead, Teller.
Work your magic.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]
- And there is the fig cookie

right there.
And that's our trick.

Now guys, if you can figure out
how we did this trick,

you're gonna get the trophies

that you've wanted for so long.

If you can't...
- At least five minutes.

[laughter]

- So please back to your seats.

[cheers and applause]

Piff the Magic Dragon
and Mac King!

[indistinct]

- These are two
really smart guys.

- They're really smart.

They really know magic
really well,

and they know us really well.

They know the kind of thing
we would do.

- And how did you go about
picking this particular trick?

- This is a trick
we hope will fool them.

It's a little bit... it's...

What we love about it is,
it's very, very simple.

- Uh-huh.
- You can see it.

You can lay it all out there.

It's very, very simple.

But it is remarkably complex
in how it's done.

And that's what we wanted to
do, because we wanna give them

a good chance at the trophy.

But we don't want them to feel
like we just handed it to them.

- Right.
- They would feel cheap.

- Okay, Penn and Teller,
let's go to Mac and Piff

and see if they can bust you.

- Hello, boys.
- [chuckles] Hello.

- Hey, fellers.

- We both run tight magic
organizations, don't we all?

- Oh, yeah, we do.
- We all do shows daily

on the Las Vegas Strip.

But I believe only one of us

monitors
our own merchandise sales.

[laughter]

And so it was
that I happened to see

eight of those fine mugs
reasonably priced

depart the Piff the Magic
Dragon storage facilities

to a familiar address
that I happened to recognize.

[laughter]
So a mug trick

was definitely in the cards.
Now when Mac came on this show

the very first time, he said
that if you fool Teller,

you've fooled Penn and Teller.
- Uh-huh?

- I believe I can say
with confidence

that if you fool Mac,
you fool Piff and Mac.

[laughter]

Mac, did they fool you?

- I don't believe they did.

I've actually seen
this trick before.

My gardener, Martin...

[laughter]

- Good guy.
Good guy.

- Did that.
How about you... have you?

- [exaggerated] Hmm.

[laughter]
[exaggerated] Hmm.

- Did that code
mean anything to you guys?

- [exaggerated] Hmm, uh...

[laughter]

They not only coded
one thing that had a code,

they coded both things
they could've coded.

We did not fool them,
and that means,

in this backwards world,
that the trophy comes down.

[laughter]
[applause]

And there's only one trophy,
but Teller magically...

- Oh!
- Hey, there's two!

Yay!
- Two trophies!

What an act!

- And they weren't fooled!

- [laughs]
- Thanks to Mac King,

Piff the Magic Dragon,
Penn and Teller,

and thanks to all of you
for watching.

Good night
from the entertainment capital

of the world.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.

- Oh, thank you for coming.
It's very convenient.

- You're so welcome.

We got the video.