# Penn & Teller: Fool Us, US run on CW

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**Created:** [August 7, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-teller-fool-us-us-run-on-cw/695015 "2014-08-07T07:25:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-teller-fool-us-us-run-on-cw/695015/1171 "2016-10-04T14:48:43Z")

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> [@numeroussyrup](#):
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> The mentalist woman was good and I agree that there is most likely a person in the table. There is some time between hearing the word and when the dictionary is pulled out giving plenty of time to do the rip. Especially given all the suffering for art talk. Still a neat trick.

Penn & Teller have a trick of their own which relies on a suffering assistant hidden in a table. A borrowed object is vanished and then appears inside a large fresh fish chosen from among several different fish on a table full of ice. The working is described, with photos, in one of their books.

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