that young lad in the suit felt like it was bad :/

weakest week by far, still just about enjoyable though.

My guess: Swedish trick relied on false shuffling so as to not lose the card once Teller puts it back into the deck, transferring it to his partner when he slaps the back of his head, and then doing an exaggerated fake switch at the end to fool P&T.

Shocked that it fooled them since they have used both methods on THIS show! False shuffling was used during the 6 of clubs stab through the hand trick and the transfer was used with glasses during the trick that Teller has his head encased in concrete.

Mentalist was ok, cups and balls was ok but could've done without the mean guy schtick and I stopped paying attention to the fast change act quickly, it sucked.

This is my fave programme at the moment and its introduced me to P&T bull****, which is also excellent.

P&T's polyester trick at the end (sorry if this one's obvious)


Absolutely loved the religion allegory, truly P&T's style. Rest of the episode was kind of poopy. Next week's looks good though.

Watching this now, cup and balls he did it very well and had good wit, but Penn and Teller do it so he was never going to fool them.

The 'brick' trick was done very well but when you go back and look at it you can see how he did it. Pretty similar to the 'food' trick from last week.

Quick change very well done and that woman was very cute but again, they are never going to fool Penn & Teller.

Brick trick was very lame I though. At least if it's done how I guessed. Seriously it was just written on his hand right? I even thought I saw ink at one stage and that hand remained cupped the whole time.

What has me doubting it is he said it was not an instant stooge? I don't know what that means other than the guy is complicit.

If he had written brick on his hand then I believe there would be a significant possibility of the participant saying: "You've got brick written on your hand. Do you want me to say brick?! No, I'll say kumquat instead."

That is exactly how the trick last week with the 3 guys and the different meals was done.

How do you think it was done?

Do the magicians know the point of the show? Cups and balls will never fool even a 10 year old who's into magic unless you come up with something very original. Plus, this guy was more obvious with his moves than most that I've seen. Quick changes are such a known act that even if you find an original method, I don't see how it would look different than all the known ones.

I'm still confused as to what they're talking about with the brick since I thought Penn was talking about an instant stooge.

I'm upset with the Swedes -- another act with a fake move? But then, how did the card get into the mouth? I'm having trouble finding an opportunity for this.

penn & teller do not seem to like mentalists, they seem to be get annoyed with them.

i'm pretty sure as you guys mentioned, something with the brick/house trick was actually written or drawn in/on his hand. you can actually see it here:



i also thought the end p&t pretty much gave it away with the way they were mocking his "pantamime" of the book, and the guy in the audience even said yes that pantamime sure helped him "imagine" the word he said!

i thought the guy w/ the cup & balls was pretty awesome.

I don't know what I'm meant to be looking at in that picture. Any chance of an closeup?

It can't be as simple as something written on his hand. That's not magic. He could have somehow shaped his hands to resemble a brick, thus creating the imagery in the participants head.

It's far too risky to have something written on your hand when the audience member is random and would blow your cover 95% of the time.

i cant make out what is actually in his hand, just that there is something there , and was there when he was creating "the book" for him to imagine reading something out of.

and yes, risky... but i'm pretty sure that's all it was. the way penn was talking at the end made it seem even more likely, to me. but maybe i'm way off.

Oh I see the object in his hand now. I was looking at the other hand before. He's palming something for sure!

But what would compel a stranger to play along? It's not magic in this case, it's fraud. There's nothing impressive about fraud.

which is why p&t look down on mentalist acts - the tricks behind them are always gay as hell

and the deliberately exaggerated fake card switch by the swedes was a total bull**** angleshoot just to get p&t to waste their one guess on it. i can tell the transfer was done when the talking one hit the tape guy on the back of the head, and after that i'm sure it's some trick with the tape to actually get it in his mouth.

Yea the format of the show needs a little tweaking.

All you have to do to goto vegas right now is to perform a lame trick that can be done 10 different ways, lead Penn and Teller to believe you're doing it one way so they guess wrong and you angleshoot your ticket to Vegas.

Better premise: if P&T can recreate the illusion (using any method they please), you lose.

I'd very much enjoy a magician going through a whole 12 minute act, then Teller getting on stage and redoing the trick in 15 seconds by cutting out the BS.

meh episode!

i guess i actually enjoyed the act w/ the gay dancing the most. the tape trick would have been very cool without the lame fake out.

this is pretty sick

I'm very impressed by quick change atristry. Maybe its just me.

Ahaha, "we're not THAT church"

I don't know. I thought this one was much better and more impressive (less dancing, hair changes too, Brandy's reaction): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdnXv...eature=related (grrr, can't seem to get an embedable version, but worth the click).

This would be great actually. Quite hard to set up though as a lot of tricks involved elaborate props etc.

? did you look at the vid i linked?

agree the one on fool us seems really crap now

Haha, apparently I did not. I somehow missed the words on it saying what it was and missed recognizing the woman and her dress. And I couldn't even find that link that would allow embedding. I'm not sure I did anything right here.

i presume the quick change act was done purely for exposure for the couple, for further bookings, etc.

wasnt a great episode. 2 of the "tricks" were never going to fool P&T.

next weeks looks ok with what the preview showed at the end of this episode.

I think that a lot of the actors go on knowing that they stand no chance of fooling P&T, but they just want to perform on TV and are really good at what they do. No problem with that.

I think someone in this thread hinted that they know how Teller gets the goldfish into the bowl during his act in episode 3. I'd love to hear how.

Pretty dissapointed with the mentalist acts now.