I also felt they solved the US-state-card trick. I’m not sure what they missed, actually. It’s a neat trick, though.
The jigsaw puzzle trick. Magnets, but where are they and how do they come into play? No matter what, it’s comparatively not that interesting of a trick.
Absolutely. I thought this one was pretty easy to figure. The hidden person is small and/or very bendy, maybe even a young teen. The way the performer was so obviously actively blocking our view (along with the volunteer) it was clear some hanky panky was going on behind their backs.
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Sorry for late reply, it drops from his pants just aside his shoe, then you can see him fumble as he tries to stay close to it while the flock of decks arrive.
Do a frame-by-frame and you’ll see him pinch his pants while turning, and the deck drops: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Plenty of room in those tables. That one more than many other magician’s tables. The top part could be a foot deep. the legs sections 6-8" across. Notice that the black sections of the leg and lower part of the top extend further than they appear right at the front of the table facing the audience. I couldn’t fit in it but there are a lot of experienced magician’s assistants in Vegas available, mostly rather small women who would fit easily inside of that table. Hot and uncomfortable no doubt. But there’s not much to do here, locate the page, rip it out, circle the word, crumble up the paper which she grabs when she takes the book out of the box. Unlike other acts this assistant gets in and out of the box back stage. The entire top probably comes off so not even any wiggling through a tiny trap door.
I think with the state guy P&T implied that the deck wasn’t the same as the order they returned the shuffled deck to him. Instead the cards could have been marked and he could have used them in any order making it a memory trick instead of one based on predetermined order. So by being specifically wrong about that part of it would qualify them as being fooled.
No worries dude!
Anyway I wonder if they’ll get a fourth season. A quick google search tells me it hasn’t been renewed yet. Hopefully they do a 4th season, although I did feel like there was a dip in quality this season.
Alyson Hannigan’s perpetual perky is wearing a little thin.
Agreed. Jonathan Ross’s smartassery was better suited to play off of P&T.
I liked her.
I prefer Jonathan Ross a lot, but I do like her.
Anthony Asimov: Cracking nuts.
I love how the guy thought he was too swift for Penn and Teller and pushed them to explain how he did some “amazing” part of his trick, which pissed off Penn, and he goes something like “You want more, ok. We SAW you reach under the table, we SAW how you…etc”. Put the guy in his place.
Angela Funovits:
She used to be one of the “celebrity magicians” on Wizard Wars with Penn & Teller so I was surprised to see her here. She is a very accomplished person but I could not believe how amateurish her act was on Fool Us. Almost like a girl showing off a cool trick her boyfriend taught her and stumbling through it. But other than that I love her funny looking hotness.
Ivan Amodei: Agreed. I don’t know why he didn’t name Penn’s card at the end. I also was not too crazy about the violin “playing”.
I hope they give Allyson Hannigan more money for wardrobe next season. Guys can wear the same suit for 40 years but women are funny about wearing the same dress and, in fact, there are a LOT of message boards with people asking why the same dress every week. It’s just odd.
As I said, I think the issue was that P&T had not accurately figured out how he had (despite P&T shuffling) known which of the final six states went with each group. He clearly knew one state that was in each group of cards he handed out, and then just had to match that state with the person left from each group. But they didn’t work out how he managed to know which of the remaining states each group got. He didn’t peek when handing out the bundles. As I previously, I’d assume a marked deck or a deck swap.
Yes, that appears to be it exactly. I will slightly nitpick that I don’t actually think there even has to be a trap door, because I don’t think anybody but the magician goes or looks into the box. It could just be completely open to the inside.
As mentioned earlier, for the same reason Jonathan Ross (and P&T) wore/wear the same suit/shirt/tie every episode (which far fewer people seem to notice, much less make a fuss about) - so that the tricks from the in-theater performances (recorded in a batch over a few days) can be mixed and matched into the “weekly” episodes that eventually air on TV (you didn’t think they actually got together and recorded a new show once every week, did you?)
He didn’t name Penn’s card because he obviously had no way of knowing what it was .Penn pulled a random card from a deck and put it in his pocket. The magician had no access to the card, and thus pretty much no way to know what he picked. Just seems odd that he had Penn pick a card at all. Perhaps he thought it would be funny to just ask Penn and not guess, but it wasn’t.
As discussed earlier in this thread, this is not uncommon on this kind of show. The producers want to be able to edit the acts from one episode to another or use shots from one episode in another. Dragon’s Den (Canada’s Shark Tank - and I’m assuming shark Tank itself as well) does the same thing - in one season, the cast wears the same outfit all season because they don’t want to be locked into being unable to mix and match acts between episodes.
With the puzzle guy, did anyone else notice that when the puzzle was first revealed there was a second missing puzzle piece, but then when they cut back to it after the trick was over, the piece was back? I’m guessing that was a mistake and two came off when he removed the cover, it was weird that it was then back in the puzzle after the trick.
If you re-watch, notice that when she first picks up the mug/cup thing, it appears to not have a bottom. I noticed that the first time I wanted it, and it made more sense at the end since someone below would have to get the swapped page up from the table “in” to the mug.
I watched the episode with Ivan Amodei and there’s definitely a pre-set deck that gets picked up when he picks the cards back from the stool, look at the way his second hand (away from the audience) goes underneath it to slide something, and then he flips the cards upside down.
Then it’s just a matter of giving the right cards to the right “group” of people and then “blind naming” 2 out of 3 state per grouping, then guessing the last one since you controlled distribution.
I’m watching it on CWTV.com and that doesn’t appear to be the case. There is some bright light shining on a part of the puzzle or two that might look like a missing piece, but it looks like 999 pieces are there.
After he puts the puzzle piece into place, watch his right hand. He moves his arm back and there is clearly a missing piece behind his arm.
Ah, I was looking at the puzzle at the beginning of the trick, when only the correct piece is missing. It does look like his watch / bracelet must pull off another piece accidentally during the big reveal of the other piece fitting into its place.