15:17 I think was an actual mistake and he improvised to make it look on purpose but locating the correct card when fanning through and then counted the cards and bottom dealt to him on 7
He is left handed and didn't shuffle the way it was asked. Henry knew that he would be wrong and hence asked him to show his top card and buried it. He continued with the trick and improvised to correct it.
You're right, you can watch the guy in the middle do weird things like fan cards backwards (left handed as chacha said). The queen of clubs was -nearly- on the top you can see it on the bottom of his packet.
8:40 - Maybe Penn is correct if he says that "instant stooging" is not allowed NOW on the show, but I believe it has been done zillions of seasons ago, maybe back in Jonathon Ross days, and once, I think, with a good-sized crowd of people from the audience. It LOOKED like they all came up on stage with almost no notice. But maybe there's some training or some instruction to people who really DO NOT want to appear on TV about how to reject the request, etc..
7:50 - Assuming Brooke Burke was NOT briefed prior to performance (I don't know if the rules prohibit that, but since it wouldn't have anything to do with solving the magic she might have been briefed), when she sees the "BLUE" etc. sign on his back, if he says "Guess a color" and she says "Red" he can say "Are you sure? You might wish to change your mind" and he can keep doing that until she figures out that she's always going to be asked about changing her mind until she says the written color.
32:34 - The movements of the magician (Keona) are highly unnatural as she removes the umbrella from the box. It's as if for some reason she cannot have it at any time at any angle more than a set number of degrees off from true vertical. Taking a normal umbrella out under normal circumstances wouldn't be such an elaborate hand-over-hand lift like that. The umbrella is so completely unnecessary when all that's falling is small slips of paper, so, I think, it must be part of the trick, and likewise never letting it go too far off of vertical is part of the trick. UNLESS, all of that is a red herring to make me look in the completely wrong place for the means to accomplish the trick.
I'm pretty sure that entire thing was just for show. Penn even hints at the number being truly random as there really are a lot of unique numbers in the buckets. However, Penn pointed out mentalism in particular, that P&T published a book with "the same qualities", and that she really read that book well (he really focused on this bit). This makes it likely to me that she had a system for correlating numbers to images based on what she knew was on the first line of each page (perhaps made easier by the "qualities" that Penn was referring to). Kinda like a memory palace if you know what that is. I don't know exactly what kind of system she may have used to correlate numbers to images, but knowing that mentalism can use systems of memory like that makes me think that's more along the lines of how she did that trick.
@@Mrvolpone91 I'd guess "door" or "house" is in a lot of pages (the arrow could also point at the house). Let's say 100 of the 500 page contain the word in the first line and she only uses those numbers. Even better if she combines it with a memory system. She could use the color of the cards for that. Like all purple cards are door/house all yellow cards are car...
Plants are not allowed to be used on this show neither is an instant stooge. The trick has to be fully disclosed to the producers and if they do something that’s not disclosed they will not allow it and it would never be aired
5:32 - I am so glad that Alyson Hannigan wasn't there for this. Or at least if she would have been there, not with her tiresome "persona" who included extreme squeamishness about displays of male flesh which was totally at odds with the personas of Penn & Teller themselves, who have performed magic nu'de in the past. It was such a big put-on, this "oh no, I might see something, and then what?" attitude, while being very nervous and uncomfortable. She is in a 20-year marriage to a male so I assume she's not REALLY like that off stage. I guess it was something the producers (not Penn or Teller) were making her do. It's not the most likely reason for her to quit, but it COULD be the reason.
I like how, when Wes asks for a piece of tape that is EXACTLY 8 inches, Brooke goes “Is this like a setup?” 😂😂
Brooke looks really nice to my old eyes.
I love the magic of this era. The magicians have learned the skill of just talking their head off and showing no hand skills or......magic
15:17 I think was an actual mistake and he improvised to make it look on purpose but locating the correct card when fanning through and then counted the cards and bottom dealt to him on 7
He is left handed and didn't shuffle the way it was asked. Henry knew that he would be wrong and hence asked him to show his top card and buried it. He continued with the trick and improvised to correct it.
Good guess, but it was no accident.
You're right, you can watch the guy in the middle do weird things like fan cards backwards (left handed as chacha said). The queen of clubs was -nearly- on the top you can see it on the bottom of his packet.
That guy had the Queen of clubs on the bottom of the deck at the start, he was a set up. Watch the video.
i want to no what the actual book is called
8:40 - Maybe Penn is correct if he says that "instant stooging" is not allowed NOW on the show, but I believe it has been done zillions of seasons ago, maybe back in Jonathon Ross days, and once, I think, with a good-sized crowd of people from the audience. It LOOKED like they all came up on stage with almost no notice. But maybe there's some training or some instruction to people who really DO NOT want to appear on TV about how to reject the request, etc..
Was the whole season filmed in 1 day?
7:50 - Assuming Brooke Burke was NOT briefed prior to performance (I don't know if the rules prohibit that, but since it wouldn't have anything to do with solving the magic she might have been briefed), when she sees the "BLUE" etc. sign on his back, if he says "Guess a color" and she says "Red" he can say "Are you sure? You might wish to change your mind" and he can keep doing that until she figures out that she's always going to be asked about changing her mind until she says the written color.
38:26
you should put your VHS camera closer to the TV screen!
HA HA
Brooke is alright though.
i miss alyson, brooke is just 2 dimensional in this show lol
32:34 - The movements of the magician (Keona) are highly unnatural as she removes the umbrella from the box. It's as if for some reason she cannot have it at any time at any angle more than a set number of degrees off from true vertical. Taking a normal umbrella out under normal circumstances wouldn't be such an elaborate hand-over-hand lift like that. The umbrella is so completely unnecessary when all that's falling is small slips of paper, so, I think, it must be part of the trick, and likewise never letting it go too far off of vertical is part of the trick. UNLESS, all of that is a red herring to make me look in the completely wrong place for the means to accomplish the trick.
I'm pretty sure that entire thing was just for show. Penn even hints at the number being truly random as there really are a lot of unique numbers in the buckets. However, Penn pointed out mentalism in particular, that P&T published a book with "the same qualities", and that she really read that book well (he really focused on this bit). This makes it likely to me that she had a system for correlating numbers to images based on what she knew was on the first line of each page (perhaps made easier by the "qualities" that Penn was referring to). Kinda like a memory palace if you know what that is. I don't know exactly what kind of system she may have used to correlate numbers to images, but knowing that mentalism can use systems of memory like that makes me think that's more along the lines of how she did that trick.
@@Mrvolpone91 I'd guess "door" or "house" is in a lot of pages (the arrow could also point at the house).
Let's say 100 of the 500 page contain the word in the first line and she only uses those numbers.
Even better if she combines it with a memory system. She could use the color of the cards for that. Like all purple cards are door/house all yellow cards are car...
21:50 They know exactly what to do before he asks them , yes a very "random" selected audience.
Plants are not allowed to be used on this show neither is an instant stooge. The trick has to be fully disclosed to the producers and if they do something that’s not disclosed they will not allow it and it would never be aired
Something was clearly just cut here for TV edit
The whiteboard trick was awful. I hate mentalism anyway.
The Q of clubs had to be a mistake. His workaround was poor yet he still got the prize.
Much better dressed than Allison ever was.
Who fucking cares
@@Wrrohm heterosexual males
11:22 if you look very closely you can see the woman second from the left is really hot.
Eh
23:57 This "fear" guy sucks
Why do you steal videos from the artists ?
u enjoyed watching it right
read desc
Fool Us traditionally allows magicians to post the show on YT
Ugh, the whiteboard trick was just terrible.
5:32 - I am so glad that Alyson Hannigan wasn't there for this. Or at least if she would have been there, not with her tiresome "persona" who included extreme squeamishness about displays of male flesh which was totally at odds with the personas of Penn & Teller themselves, who have performed magic nu'de in the past. It was such a big put-on, this "oh no, I might see something, and then what?" attitude, while being very nervous and uncomfortable. She is in a 20-year marriage to a male so I assume she's not REALLY like that off stage. I guess it was something the producers (not Penn or Teller) were making her do. It's not the most likely reason for her to quit, but it COULD be the reason.
The previous host is way much better in this role