New show, “Now THAT’s Bunny!”.
First contestant, Jay Sankey. He does a series of tricks with cards and a candle. Rising card from a box of cards - you can see his thumb motion. Next, he places a dollar bill between two cards, staple through, then quickly removes the dollar while the cards are stapled. Penn says something about seeing some larceny that allows him to do the trick. What I do notice is that Jay retains hold on the cards and dollar bill while he has Jonathan check the staple. He’s careful in how he holds the set. Rewatching I think I finally see the move, so here’s my guess. His queen of clubs is pre-stapled to a seven of diamonds, and he has a second 7. He puts the pair under the single 7, carefully slides the dollar between the pair and the top 7, uses an empty stapler. Then when Jonathan walks over to his right, he slips the top 7 onto the top of the deck as he sets it down. The camera and Jonathan are only shown the side with the queen, Jonathan feels the staple but doesn’t see the back side. Then a quick pull to slide the bill, and the cards are stapled and the dollar is not damaged. What was throwing me was when he pulls the top card, but I finally saw where it had to be.
Next he separates the cards and removes the staple. Then he folds the cards together and tears them into quarters. A simple palm in his right hand (his two lower fingers are closed while only using first two fingers for folding and tearing) in a pair that is folded and not torn, and he ditches the torn pieces into his collar while rubbing his arm hair.
Final trick uses a sparkler. He forces Jonathan to select the Jack of Spades, then he uses the sparkler and pushes it through the deck and burns through a slot through all the cards but the Jack. The Jack is on top, masking the gash, when he pulls the jack off, the gash is revealed. Good job masking. But no fooling.
Second up: Greg Wilson. Greg is a second generation magician, whose parents are famous from the 60s and 70s - Mark Wilson and Nani Darnell. He uses a hell of a lot of stage smoke. This appears to be a case where Penn and Teller award him for his heritage, not for anything he actually does. He had a large plexiglas box and puts swords through with the lady inside - kinda Penn and Tellerish that we see into the box as it’s done. Then he has the box wheeled backwards into a larger draped box with curtains. Pop inside the curtains, quick change, the girl is out and it appears he’s in the box with the handkerchief he had Penn sign. Except, they open the box, it’s someone else in a wig, he pops up in the audience, but then he runs back on stage to reveal the handkerchief with his father and mother. Penn and Teller were apparently surprised with the parents’ reveal.
The thing is, this is the second time a second generation magician has pulled his famous magician parents into the surprise reveal, so that shouldn’t be a big surprise. Oh well.
Trigg Watson, young guy using his Ipad. First trick, he makes a flower and vase appear behind his Ipad in the camera, and then pulls aside the Ipad to reveal a real flower and vase. Seems fairly obvious he uses a prepared video - he is slightly out of synch a couple times, and when revealing the flower, has a slight hangup that makes the vase wiggle out alignment. Oops.
Then he uses a big display board with cards representing the apps. He has Jonathan come over, blindfolds Jonathan, selects the clock app and places it on a stand, has Jonathan select a random app from a stack of cards that he shows us are all clocks. Immediately I knew something had to be up, because that’s not an impressive magic act from our standpoint. So of course, even though it looked like all options were clock, he ends up selecting Angry Birds. And then the surprise reveal, the “Clock” card on the stand is shown to now be Angry Birds. And for bonus, his shirt under his jacket has become an Angry Birds T-shirt.
The quick change was a surprise. Angry Birds was a nice tie back to the first Ipad gimmick where it opened to an Angry Birds game. Fairly obvious what was done and when.
Fourth up, Jen Kramer. She went to Yale University. She spreads a deck and has Jonathan confirm it’s random, then gives him instructions to follow. She splits the deck and lets him pick one half. She shuffles his half, then she turns around and fans her half, and has him fan his half and select any one of the cards. She turns back around, puts the two halves together, does a little shuffle, then has him slowly deal one card at a time from his stack to her hand. She has him ID his card (8 of diamonds), then deal off the cards and the third card she has stop, and viola, it’s the 8 of diamonds.
Penn praises her for her trick being largely a mind trick, though her card work is a little sloppy. I suspect she splits the deck, then looks at her half and while her back is turned, swaps in a stack that matches the half of cards that Jonathan has but are in a set order that she has memorized. So when she puts the stacks together, she does a false shuffle to get her primed stack on top, and then he ID’s the card, she just counts down to the correct card.
No fooling. I notice Penn avoided the words “false shuffle”. 
Finally, it’s Penn and Teller pulling a rabbit out of a hat. They talk about how it’s the cliche trick, a practical symbol for magician to pull a rabbit out of a top hat, but they’ve never seen it done. So they go on to get someone from the audience to inspect Penn’s top hat so they can get a hat from an audience member. And it’s a plain unrigged top hat. Then Teller demonstrates a similar trick using a silk (handkerchief) with a top hat on it, and pulls out a small bunny like thing that’s actually a puppet, a “kicker”. After that and a lecture on why it’s hard to do the trick, they pull up the volunteer and hat, pull out a magic wand, and “poof”, there’s a real live rabbit produced in the top hat.
Okay, a couple things. First, Teller isn’t completely clean with the production, though I had a clue because I just saw them do this trick last night on The Tonight Show for Jimmy Fallon. There he was less clean, but it was covered better by unexpected timing when the wand was produced. I was expecting Penn to poke the wand around inside the hat, but that didn’t happen. Anyway, if you watch, there’s a slight glimpse of sleeve from Teller’s coat as he loads the bunny.
The other amusing point: during the set up video for this episode, Greg Wilson actually does the rabbit from a hat, followed by swapping the hat to a smaller had and then the rabbit to a larger rabbit. DOH!