Penn & Teller: Fool Us (2011–…): Season 7, Episode 16 - Teller vs Penn: The Rematch - full transcript
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
in Las Vegas, Nevada,
here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan!
- Welcome to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
With safety protocols in place,
some of our performers
will perform right here
and others will join us
from around the world,
all with the same goal:
to fool magic's greatest duo,
win a "Fool Us" trophy,
and eventually,
perform in Penn and Teller's
Las Vegas show.
So let's bring them out,
the two and only
Penn and Teller!
Quick reminder
that none of the tricks on
our show ever use camera tricks
and that all audience members
participating here
or at our remote studios
around the world
have no information
about any of the tricks
ahead of time.
And with that in mind,
let's meet our first magician.
- Hi, I'm Jonathan Burns,
magician and semi-professional
Instagram model.
You may not realize this
but I was a gangly, weird kid.
So I developed a sense of humor
to make people laugh with me
rather than at me.
And then I realized
I could combine comedy...
With magic.
Now I live
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
which is Amish country.
Normally, I'd be traveling
around the world,
but lately,
I've been performing magic
for the locals.
Family has always
been important to me.
I spend a lot of time at home
with my two young daughters,
painting nails, trying makeup,
playing dolls.
I've definitely become
the girly dad.
My grandfather was a huge
supporter of mine.
He said, "You're destined to do
something unique in life."
So tonight,
in honor of my pappy,
I'm gonna try to do
something truly unique
and hopefully fool Penn
and Teller in the process.
- Back again to try
to fool Penn and Teller
is Jonathan Burns!
- When I was a kid,
every Thanksgiving,
my whole family would gather
at my grandparents' house
for Thanksgiving dinner.
And we wouldn't be
like other families
and argue over trivial things
like, oh, uh, politics
or how to carve
the cranberry sauce.
We would wait till after dinner
and we'd fight
over the TV remote.
There were those of us who
wanted to watch football,
and then there was me,
who wanted to watch the annual
"World's Greatest Magic"
special.
Luckily, there was a second,
much smaller TV
in my grandparents' basement.
It was kind of like this.
I was sitting on the couch
and watching every move
of my favorite magicians.
People would come down
and be like,
"Ugh, magic's all, you know,
dancing girls and tight pants
and cheering audiences."
Isn't that exactly
what football is, Uncle Ray?
Tonight, I decided
I'm gonna attempt something
that I dreamt up while sitting
on my mum-mum and pappy's couch
in hopes that it will inspire
a 12-year-old
or even a 47-year-old magician
who was sent to
their grandparents' basement.
And I will do that using this.
The straitjacket,
invented in
the late 18th century
to cure anxiety and depression.
Luckily, it worked so well
that people no longer suffer
from these afflictions.
I'll also be using this,
the Anneheart Malin
loveseat-sleeper sofa.
At Anneheart,
we don't just like seats.
We love 'em.
Retail value of 1499.95.
I've also asked two people
to help me out.
This is Randy,
a local Las Vegas EMT,
and I also need Alyson Hannigan,
a semi-professional
magician's assistant.
- She's helped more magicians
than an awkward childhood.
I'll have 60 seconds to make
my escape from these restraints
and escape this death trap.
If I don't get out in time,
I will run out of air.
And worst of all,
this furniture rental
will be considered overdue,
and I will lose my deposit.
You ready?
Okay.
Okay.
Tuck me in.
- Jonathan Burns!
Ah.
So do you do tricks out
of other things
that you find
in grandma's garage?
- I do.
I can fit myself
through a toilet seat
and a tennis racket.
- Oh, okay.
- So I kind of use everyday
objects
to my advantage.
- Yeah, so I'm
a little afraid to ask,
but how do you discover
that you can fit
through a toilet seat?
It's a trip to a, like,
a home improvement store.
- Oh. Okay.
- When no one's looking,
you go for it.
And then... and it works.
Yeah, I can squeeze myself
butt-first through
a picture frame.
And I learned that
at a trip to a craft store.
- Oh. - I'm 11x14.
- Okay.
- You are welcome, America.
- I bet there's some stores
you're not allowed back into.
- That's... well, that's why
we got the straitjacket.
- And so were you
a contortionist
before you were a magician?
- I was.
I was kind of always
the bendy kid
who would, like,
do crazy things at gym class
to gross out girls.
- Did you do that thing
with the eye lids?
- I had friends who could.
I was envious.
I couldn't do that.
- Ugh. Ooh.
- My specialty was armpit farts.
- Oh.
So as the guy
who grossed out girls,
how'd you finally get married?
- Oh.
She found me and saw my skills.
She knew no one else
could have me.
- Oh, yeah? - Yes, right.
She's a special lady.
- Yeah, I guess so. - Yeah.
- Well, then, you hang onto her.
- I know, right?
I would but I'm giving
myself a hug, so...
- Okay.
Let's go straight
to Penn and Teller,
and see if they'll
hand you a trophy.
Well, or...
Penn, Teller.
- Jonathan, come back
to our show all the time.
- Oh, I would love to come back.
- You do such good bits.
You know, there's
a double effect here.
And Teller and I had totally
different reactions to it.
Teller loved one thing.
I loved another.
Teller loved the fact
that you escaped
from the convertible.
- Yeah.
- He went nuts over that.
And the idea of doing
a straitjacket escape
that doesn't happen
just kills me.
So funny.
And the idea of that
was so great.
And you look so great doing it.
It just looks so brutal,
and at the same time,
really, really funny.
And completely original.
- Thank you.
- Man, I wanna just give you...
Keep giving you runarounds here.
But the idea... you know,
people are always trying
to escape from something
that no one has seen before.
And I think you've done that,
done the impossible.
- Wow.
- Escaping from something.
And then not escaping
from a straitjacket
just destroys me.
Kills me. - Awesome, awesome.
- And we loved it and think
you're really funny,
and come back all the time.
And I think I've slipped in
a word or two
that should've given you an idea
that you did not escape
from our scrutiny.
- - Ooh.
- Yeah, you did... yeah,
you got me on that one.
But I have a question for you.
How do you get out
of a straitjacket?
- Well, you didn't fool 'em
but it was our first ever
escape from a couch.
Thank you, Jonathan Burns!
- Thank you.
- Find out who will try
and fool Penn and Teller next
when "Fool Us" returns.
- Welcome back.
This next magician
will knock your socks off,
even if you're barefoot.
That's how good they are.
Let's meet them now.
- Hey, guys. I am Eric Chien.
And I am a close-up magician
from China.
You can't take anything
personal,
like cards,
with you into the army.
So when I got drafted,
I made magic
with ordinary objects
like rubber bands and coins.
Coin magic got me a job
as a magic consultant.
I created effects
for other magicians,
but my dream was to perform.
So I started creating tricks
for myself
and I quit making magic
for others.
I put my life savings
into one, single effect,
something totally unique.
It is an effect that
I will be doing tonight,
and it won at the
World Championship of Magic.
But I don't perform it
like I'm a champion.
My stage character
isn't even a magician.
I'm an average dude who can
make magic almost by accident.
I'm saying if I can do this,
then you can too.
There's magic in me,
so there must be magic in you.
- Coming to us direct
from China,
here's Eric Chien.
- Wow!
Eric Chien!
Wow.
That was an epic trick.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you.
The routine that you just saw
was actually
the routine I used
for the World Championship.
- It felt like a whole story,
a whole journey.
- That's how I try
to create magic, you know?
Not just, you know,
me showing off.
I like to have a story
in my magic.
- Oh, you were showing off.
A little bit.
- Uh... Maybe just a little bit.
- So tell me the story
of that trick.
- Um, so that trick is
basically talking about greed.
Like, you know, humans,
we're born with...
We're born to be greedy,
kind of in a way.
So, you know,
I discovered this ribbon
and these magical frames.
And, you know,
I decided to play with it.
And I realized that it
has magic powers, right?
And then I decided
to use that magic
for, you know, to make money.
And, you know, at the end,
everything just vanished
and I'm left with nothing.
And because greed takes over,
and it destroys us, right?
- And when you're coming up
with the trick,
do you think of the story
first or the trick?
- I clear my mind of all
the magic that I already know,
and I think of the story.
And then I start piecing in
what magic belongs
in this story.
- Oh.
Eric, it's time to find out
if Penn and Teller know
how you did your trick.
- All right. - Penn, Teller.
- Hey, Eric. How you doing, man?
- Hey. I'm good, I'm good.
- I gotta tell you.
I gotta tell you, we, uh...
- Mm-hmm?
- We feel that this
kind of isn't fair.
We try to be so fair
on this show.
And I believe you're
at a huge disadvantage
because we met you
and we saw...
We knew that you won FISM.
And we pay attention to that.
- We know that you...
you also won, like,
"Asia's Got Talent"
or something too, right?
- Yes, yes.
- And so were emailing
back and forth
about this Eric guy.
We were pulling up videos. - Oh.
- We were watching it,
and we were studying it.
We were studying your style
and studying your moves,
and we emailed back and forth
and said, you know,
what's great about this guy
is he does stage
magic techniques
with cards.
He's got some new stuff.
And the stuff
he's got that's old,
he also does better
than anyone's ever done it.
So we really became
fans of yours.
- Wow.
- And we analyzed what you did.
So for you to come on the show
and try to fool us
is like a lead baseball bat.
I mean, you really... you
really don't have a chance.
And even with all the video
stuff, you fooled us now.
So it's really not fair
that even when we know
all this stuff,
you still fooled the out of us.
How do you do that? -
- Wow.
- You fooled them!
- How do you do it?
- Wow. - You fooled 'em.
- You fooled us! Yes!
- You did it!
- And you didn't have a chance.
- Ah. - Oh my gosh.
- Yay. - Thank you so much.
- Well, I'll gladly
accept this on your behalf.
And you'll get the trophy...
- Aww.
- When you come here to Vegas.
And you fooled Penn and Teller!
- So great, Eric. So great.
- Give it up for Eric Chien!
- Thank you so much.
- Whoo-hoo! - Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
- Congrats.
Yay.
Penn and Teller
have been outfoxed,
and they're not out
of the woods yet.
They'll take on
more possible Foolers
right after this.
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
One ticket to Vegas
has already been punched.
Will we have another?
Find out as we meet
our next act.
- I am a linguist by trade.
All of my academic training
is in ancient languages.
I read Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic.
I can kind of fake my way
through Ugaritic and Moabite.
I do not speak or read Chinese
which is a point
of great shame to my family
because I am Chinese.
What I really love about magic
is that magicians
are excellent communicators.
Just look at Teller.
He's abandoned
language altogether
but he's still
an excellent communicator.
I'm a pastor.
And when I did feel
that call to ministry,
my experience in magic
really helped prepare me
to step into the pulpit
and to connect with an audience.
Penn, Teller, I hope
you'll see that language
can be just as effective
as sleight of hand.
- Let's change it up
with the coin magic
of Jeremiah Zuo.
- Thank you, Alyson.
Thank you, Penn, Teller.
I'm so happy to be here.
I love the way
that magicians use language
to fool and delight
their audiences...
Sometimes other magicians
like yourself.
So tonight, I wanted to just
take a stab at fooling you.
Not with a clever apparatus
or any sort of sneaky
sleight of hand
but with a linguistic illusion.
I'm gonna use my words
to force you to enjoy
that otherwise
most despised of arts:
mime.
I wanted to show you
a coin trick with six coins.
However, only three
of them exist.
Three of them exist
and three of them don't exist.
For example, I have a coin
on each of my elbows.
I don't know if you can see
the coins on my elbows,
uh, but those two,
they actually exist.
Those are two of the ones
that are real.
Those two exist.
I also have a third coin
behind my ear,
a fourth coin behind this ear,
a fifth coin in my mouth,
and a sixth coin in my beard.
Now only three
of those coins exist.
This one exists.
This one exists.
This one exists.
Uh, but this one doesn't.
Neither does this one.
And neither does this one.
This one doesn't exist.
Now I understand
if that's confusing
because the ones that exist
are so very similar
to the ones that don't exist.
I mean, take a look at 'em.
This is an old dollar coin.
This is an old dollar coin.
This one's made of silver.
This one's also made of silver.
Minted in the late 1800s.
Also minted in the late 1800s.
The only difference
is this one exists
and, uh, this one doesn't.
Now I'm gonna move the ones
that exist out of the way
just so we don't confuse them.
'Cause as a linguist,
I love these coins
that don't exist.
They're fascinating to me
because they kind of exist
a little bit.
We're able to talk about them.
We're able to think about them.
I'm even able
to manipulate them.
Look, if I take one of those
coins that doesn't exist,
and I didn't lap it...
don't worry.
Like I said, no tricky business.
- And I hold it tight
in the fist.
And I apply just
a little bit of effort.
Ah! Look.
It vanishes. It disappears.
It's gone.
Completely gone.
It doesn't exist anymore.
Well, it never did.
But now,
it doesn't even not exist.
Now I only have two coins
that don't exist.
I have three coins
that do exist.
I used to have a third coin
that didn't exist.
But now it doesn't even
not exist.
I mean, it still kind
of exists a little bit
'cause we're still able
to talk about it,
we're still able
to think about it,
but now it's two steps
removed from reality.
But here. I'll do it again.
I'll take another one of these
coins that doesn't exist,
and I'll squeeze it.
It doesn't go up the sleeve.
Tight in the fist.
One last peek.
Little less effort.
Ah! Look.
It disappears.
It vanishes. It's gone.
Now it doesn't even not exist.
I still have three coins
that exist
but now I only have one coin
that doesn't exist,
and we have two coins
that don't even not exist.
And this is interesting.
If I take the last coin
that doesn't exist,
and I make it disappear
so it's gone,
it looks like nothing's changed.
But now, I don't have
any coins that don't exist.
I have three coins
that do exist.
And I have three coins
that don't even not exist.
And the best part is
this works at all
levels of reality,
both linguistically
and ontologically.
If I take one of the coins
that does exist
and I squeeze it... ah!
Look. It disappears.
It vanishes.
Now it doesn't exist.
That leaves me with just
two coins that exist,
one coin that doesn't exist,
and three coins that
don't even not exist.
But here.
Focus with me
on the two that exist.
I mean, these two clearly exist.
You can see them.
You can touch them.
You can hear them.
But if I snap my fingers
and I make one
of them disappear,
that leaves me with only
one coin that exists,
two coins that don't exist,
and three coins
that don't even not exist.
And this is the best part,
my favorite part.
If I make the last coin
that exists disappear, gone,
so that it
doesn't exist anymore,
to the latecomers,
it looks like I have no coins.
But you and I know better.
You and I know better.
We know that I have six coins:
three that don't exist
and three that
don't even not exist.
And you are distinguishing
between the two
in your brain.
You're welcome.
And you can explain this
to other people.
You can recall for them
how I had
two coins starting on my elbow.
You can tell them
about the third coin
that was behind my ear,
the fourth coin
behind my other ear,
the fifth coin in my mouth,
and the sixth coin in my beard.
If you are feeling cheeky,
you could mention a seventh,
an eighth, and a ninth coin.
Those are
the counterfactual coins,
the coins that would've existed
should I have chosen
to start with them.
If you just feel like lying,
and, you know,
embellishing the story,
I don't care.
You can tell them I had
a 10th, 11th, a 12th coin.
I don't mind.
You and I, we know the truth.
I never had any more
or any less than six:
three that exist
and three that don't.
Thank you.
- Oh.
Jeremiah Zuo!
That was delightful.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- Ugh! - Thank you.
- Who knew watching
invisible coins
would be so much fun?
How did you come up with that?
- It's just the fun fact
that we can talk
about things that don't exist.
And so I thought why not
apply that to a coin trick?
- By talking about things
that don't exist,
do you make them exist?
- At one level, yes.
- So what's more fooling
about this trick?
The sleight of hand
or the language?
- I think for general audiences,
it's the language. - Hmm.
- For magicians, maybe for them,
maybe the sleight of hand.
- So you have four kids?
- I have four children. Yes.
- Wow.
And who's your biggest fan?
- In terms of magic,
it is my five-year-old.
He is following
in the footsteps.
- Oh, boy.
And are any of them
linguists as well?
- My oldest daughter,
she is on that path.
If not linguistics,
then definitely literature
or some sort of writing.
- All right, well, let's see
if your sleight of hand
earned you a trophy
from Penn and Teller.
Boys.
- Jeremiah, we like you.
- Oh.
- We like you so much.
That was such a great routine.
We just loved it.
Absolutely loved it.
There's so much
we wanna say about this.
First of all, we wanna say
that there are no gaffs
and there's just three coins,
which, to people at home,
might not mean as much
as it means to us,
but that's astonishing.
That's really beautiful.
And your moves
are just gorgeous.
You know, I'm gonna
throw out some jargon.
I'm not gonna hide it.
But click paths, retention.
It's just the best we've seen.
And some of that's your own
version of those, right?
- That is correct. - Ah!
Really, really fabulous.
Now I have a question
that really doesn't have to do
with giving you code
or anything.
It really is a real question.
I believe... and Teller
was a little skeptical...
That when you were using
the coins that didn't exist,
you were also doing moves
to vanish them.
Is that right? - Yes.
- In terms of your acting.
I thought that.
And that made the acting
so beautiful.
I also loved that...
Teller pointed out
that half your act
is just talking.
Just like us!
- It was just so wonderful
all the way through.
You know, Teller said the most...
Just takes Three Fly,
and goes to a whole
different level, a whole di...
Just beautiful handling.
But as beautiful
as your sleight of hand is,
the idea is... the ideas
are really much...
Even better.
And all of that stuff...
Wonderful stuff to think about,
wonderful stuff to do.
And we would very, very much
love to give you
a non-existent...
- - "Fool Us" trophy.
We don't think it ever existed
because, as much as we love you,
we don't think you fooled us.
- Thank you guys so much.
- Is that right, Jeremiah?
- I think they've got me
but I will accept
the non-existent trophy.
- Okay.
With our pleasure.
- There you go.
- Thank you guys so much.
- Aww. Thank you, Jeremiah Zuo!
We're taking a quick break
but we have more awesome magic
up our sleeves.
Stick around.
- Welcome back. Heads up.
Our next act
is about to drop in.
- My name is Sabine van Diemen
and I am from Amsterdam.
I didn't start out
interested in magic.
I started as a dancer,
and I was the youngest ever
in the Holland Show Ballet.
But during rehearsal
for opening night,
one of the magician's
assistants sprained her ankle.
And I had only
a couple of minutes
to learn the fire cage.
When I popped out and saw
the reaction of the audience,
I was hooked.
I know I wanted to do this
for the rest of my life.
As a magician's assistant,
you are always the one
being sawn in half.
And I just thought to myself,
"This needs to change."
So now I'm a solo magician.
I get to saw people in half.
Now I'm one of the very few
female artists out there.
Penn, Teller, I hope that there
are young girls in the audience
who are going to be
hugely inspired
by what they're about to see.
- Direct from Holland,
give it up
for Sabine van Diemen!
- Hi, Penn and Teller.
Hi, Alyson.
Welcome to Holland.
Now this next illusion is
gonna be really dangerous.
And I need to trust my boys
just as much
as they need to trust me.
Terrence. - Sabine.
- Gabriel, are you ready? - Yes.
- That is to show you that
the swords that we are using
are real and sharp.
Let's do this.
Go!
- Sabine Van Diemen!
Hello.
- Hi.
- All the way from Holland.
How's your neck?
- Sore. - Yeah.
That must take so much strength.
- A little, yeah. -
- And how gorgeous is Holland
with the little canals
and the boats?
- Oh, so beautiful.
There aren't a lot
of solo female illusionists,
are there?
- Not really.
But I think it's time
that we change that actually.
- Do a lot of young women
come up to you
and wanna talk to you
after your show?
- Yes.
Also, when I do a show,
I always make sure
I perform a lot of magic
with, you know, little girls
in the audience.
And I try to give them
a magic box
or something they
can practice at home.
And I always use the words,
"Please practice
so in a couple of years,
I'll come and see your show."
- Aww. All right.
It's time to find out
if Penn and Teller
know how you did your trick.
Penn, Teller.
- Hey, Sabine. How you doing?
- Hi. Hi, I'm good. How are you?
- Oh, it's so good. So good.
And it's so nice this season
that we're able to see
you doing stuff, like,
out by the canal.
You know, that was
really wonderful
to be able to see that
on location
'cause at a stage, you know,
we think you could be using
a backdrop or a bar
or something like that.
But out there,
you're absolutely sure
with the boats going by
behind you
there's no backdrop, no bars.
And it's great that
we're not just seeing men
doing magic anymore.
It's opening up to many,
many, many more people.
But we still aren't
seeing many women
doing danger magic
so it was great
to see you doing that.
And also, that we see a woman
in charge of the whole thing
and making men
do stupid gestures...
That men have
been making women...
- Finally!
- You had those guys making
really stupid gestures
around you
where you did all the strength
and all the tricks.
And this a classic of magic.
I mean, we're familiar
with it a little bit.
It was done first
by the Fakir of Oolu,
who did a little something
like you did.
He said he could
control his weight
with his breath.
He did that deep
breathing stuff.
And then, of course,
the most important magician
of modern times,
Robert-Houdin, did that trick
with his son.
And having the smell of ether.
He said it was ether
that was making him light.
So it's a real classic of magic.
And we loved the way you did it.
It was a perfect performance.
And because it's
a classic of magic
and because we've studied it
so much,
we don't think you fooled us.
- What do you think, Sabine?
Do you know that they know
how you did the trick?
- Yeah. I think they did.
- Thank you so much.
Sabine van Diemen!
After this quick break,
you'll witness the greatest
magic duo of all time
perform a trick of their own.
Don't miss it.
- Our next potential Fooler
is a retired schoolteacher
who has loved magic
all his life.
He says he would not be
in the business
if it weren't
for Penn and Teller.
In fact, he says
Penn was the one
who inspired him
to take the big leap
and go professional.
That was 45 years ago.
Please welcome Teller!
No Penn.
This trick requires dialogue.
But don't worry.
Teller's written
all the words for you.
Just read them off
the teleprompter
while you watch the magic.
Now Teller's very, very sorry
if this distracts you
from trying to figure out
how his trick is done,
but there's no way around it.
So good luck.
Oh, goodness.
If I had seen these scissors,
I would have known it was you.
I should have known.
I surprised Teller last season
by coming on
and trying to fool him.
I remember his face...
He looked like
he'd swallowed his tongue.
So I guess it's only fair
that the rat bastard is putting
me in the hotseat now.
Oh, look at this.
Scissors and a bell jar
with a spool of thread.
My favorite color too... pink.
So you made this all
special for me, huh?
Oh, good, good.
Thank you.
You're winding the thread
very carefully
so either it matters a lot
or you want me to think
that it matters a lot.
You know a lot about thread
from doing the red ball
and the needle swallowing.
Oh, the scissors. Okay, good.
Right there?
Cuts like real thread.
Cuts like real thread.
Now you're folding it
into a figure eight
just like the needle trick.
That's to keep it from tangling
when it comes out.
I knew that
but you knew I knew that.
That's why you wrote that part.
Uh, you're not gonna do
the needle trick.
I know how that's done.
Kinda.
What's that?
A plastic film canister.
Okay, so I should
hold out my hand.
He's gonna do the needles?
It's full of needles and now
they're rolling around
in my hand.
Nice misdirection.
I'm taking one.
You're pinching
the rolled-up thread
under the end of one
of the needles.
You're squeezing it.
Stop!
I can't talk, watch,
and hold these stupid needles
at the same time.
Okay. I'll put down the needles.
Thank you, son of a jackal.
Okay. Now go ahead.
You're tapping the needle
with the scissors,
using the scissors
like a magic wand.
Do I know this trick?
Did you show it to me,
like, years ago
in that Tommy Wonder book,
you weasel?
Oh, gee.
Some of the threads
have melted...
Whoa!
- Right through the eye
of the needle.
It's so small.
I can't really see.
But Teller's got
a magnifying glass.
Looks like they're...
Looks like they're
through the needle.
You threaded the needle,
like, 50 times.
Oh, Jimmy, can I examine that?
It's beautiful. Can I keep it?
Whether or not
I figure out the trick,
I'll want to remember
this moment
because anytime either
of us wins,
we both win.
We always are
and always will be partners
in the same bubble.
- All right!
Give it up for Teller!
- Can I look at this?
I can take it to look at it?
- Yeah. Okay, Penn.
You know how it works.
You go back. - I do know.
- And I get to interview Teller.
This will be very interesting.
I'm so excited.
So how did you feel
when Penn challenged you
last season?
Ooh! Yeah.
Okay.
How do you think he felt
when you challenged him?
Mm-hmm.
So... -
- Look at him. He's so cute.
Aww.
And you did it completely
without him ever
having any clue.
And it's true that you actually
told him about this trick
a year ago or something?
Wow.
That's amazing.
He should pay
more attention to you.
All right.
Well, it's time to go to Penn
and see if he figured out
your trick.
Penn, how about
this handsome gentleman?
- Well, I gotta hand it to you.
I did it last year.
I should have known
you were doing it.
There was no doubt
you were gonna do it.
Anybody would have figured out
that you were gonna do it.
I should have been
prepared for it.
But on that front,
you completely fooled me.
I had no idea you were
gonna do a trick for me.
I was even talking to you
about doing the trick last year
and how I tried to find...
How hard it was
to figure out one.
I had that whole conversation
as though we where
shooting a movie
and I knew what
it was foreshadowing.
But I didn't know.
You completely fooled...
On that, you completely
fooled me 100%.
And on this,
you completely fooled me 100%.
I can't even know
where to start.
So you bring down the trophy.
- Yay!
- I can shake his hand.
- We have a Fooler!
- I can shake his hand.
We have a Fooler.
- Whoo-hoo!
And now you have
to give him the trophy.
Yay!
That was a big surprise
for Penn.
We'll have more surprises
for everyone
next time on "Fool Us."
Good night from Las Vegas.
in Las Vegas, Nevada,
here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan!
- Welcome to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
With safety protocols in place,
some of our performers
will perform right here
and others will join us
from around the world,
all with the same goal:
to fool magic's greatest duo,
win a "Fool Us" trophy,
and eventually,
perform in Penn and Teller's
Las Vegas show.
So let's bring them out,
the two and only
Penn and Teller!
Quick reminder
that none of the tricks on
our show ever use camera tricks
and that all audience members
participating here
or at our remote studios
around the world
have no information
about any of the tricks
ahead of time.
And with that in mind,
let's meet our first magician.
- Hi, I'm Jonathan Burns,
magician and semi-professional
Instagram model.
You may not realize this
but I was a gangly, weird kid.
So I developed a sense of humor
to make people laugh with me
rather than at me.
And then I realized
I could combine comedy...
With magic.
Now I live
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
which is Amish country.
Normally, I'd be traveling
around the world,
but lately,
I've been performing magic
for the locals.
Family has always
been important to me.
I spend a lot of time at home
with my two young daughters,
painting nails, trying makeup,
playing dolls.
I've definitely become
the girly dad.
My grandfather was a huge
supporter of mine.
He said, "You're destined to do
something unique in life."
So tonight,
in honor of my pappy,
I'm gonna try to do
something truly unique
and hopefully fool Penn
and Teller in the process.
- Back again to try
to fool Penn and Teller
is Jonathan Burns!
- When I was a kid,
every Thanksgiving,
my whole family would gather
at my grandparents' house
for Thanksgiving dinner.
And we wouldn't be
like other families
and argue over trivial things
like, oh, uh, politics
or how to carve
the cranberry sauce.
We would wait till after dinner
and we'd fight
over the TV remote.
There were those of us who
wanted to watch football,
and then there was me,
who wanted to watch the annual
"World's Greatest Magic"
special.
Luckily, there was a second,
much smaller TV
in my grandparents' basement.
It was kind of like this.
I was sitting on the couch
and watching every move
of my favorite magicians.
People would come down
and be like,
"Ugh, magic's all, you know,
dancing girls and tight pants
and cheering audiences."
Isn't that exactly
what football is, Uncle Ray?
Tonight, I decided
I'm gonna attempt something
that I dreamt up while sitting
on my mum-mum and pappy's couch
in hopes that it will inspire
a 12-year-old
or even a 47-year-old magician
who was sent to
their grandparents' basement.
And I will do that using this.
The straitjacket,
invented in
the late 18th century
to cure anxiety and depression.
Luckily, it worked so well
that people no longer suffer
from these afflictions.
I'll also be using this,
the Anneheart Malin
loveseat-sleeper sofa.
At Anneheart,
we don't just like seats.
We love 'em.
Retail value of 1499.95.
I've also asked two people
to help me out.
This is Randy,
a local Las Vegas EMT,
and I also need Alyson Hannigan,
a semi-professional
magician's assistant.
- She's helped more magicians
than an awkward childhood.
I'll have 60 seconds to make
my escape from these restraints
and escape this death trap.
If I don't get out in time,
I will run out of air.
And worst of all,
this furniture rental
will be considered overdue,
and I will lose my deposit.
You ready?
Okay.
Okay.
Tuck me in.
- Jonathan Burns!
Ah.
So do you do tricks out
of other things
that you find
in grandma's garage?
- I do.
I can fit myself
through a toilet seat
and a tennis racket.
- Oh, okay.
- So I kind of use everyday
objects
to my advantage.
- Yeah, so I'm
a little afraid to ask,
but how do you discover
that you can fit
through a toilet seat?
It's a trip to a, like,
a home improvement store.
- Oh. Okay.
- When no one's looking,
you go for it.
And then... and it works.
Yeah, I can squeeze myself
butt-first through
a picture frame.
And I learned that
at a trip to a craft store.
- Oh. - I'm 11x14.
- Okay.
- You are welcome, America.
- I bet there's some stores
you're not allowed back into.
- That's... well, that's why
we got the straitjacket.
- And so were you
a contortionist
before you were a magician?
- I was.
I was kind of always
the bendy kid
who would, like,
do crazy things at gym class
to gross out girls.
- Did you do that thing
with the eye lids?
- I had friends who could.
I was envious.
I couldn't do that.
- Ugh. Ooh.
- My specialty was armpit farts.
- Oh.
So as the guy
who grossed out girls,
how'd you finally get married?
- Oh.
She found me and saw my skills.
She knew no one else
could have me.
- Oh, yeah? - Yes, right.
She's a special lady.
- Yeah, I guess so. - Yeah.
- Well, then, you hang onto her.
- I know, right?
I would but I'm giving
myself a hug, so...
- Okay.
Let's go straight
to Penn and Teller,
and see if they'll
hand you a trophy.
Well, or...
Penn, Teller.
- Jonathan, come back
to our show all the time.
- Oh, I would love to come back.
- You do such good bits.
You know, there's
a double effect here.
And Teller and I had totally
different reactions to it.
Teller loved one thing.
I loved another.
Teller loved the fact
that you escaped
from the convertible.
- Yeah.
- He went nuts over that.
And the idea of doing
a straitjacket escape
that doesn't happen
just kills me.
So funny.
And the idea of that
was so great.
And you look so great doing it.
It just looks so brutal,
and at the same time,
really, really funny.
And completely original.
- Thank you.
- Man, I wanna just give you...
Keep giving you runarounds here.
But the idea... you know,
people are always trying
to escape from something
that no one has seen before.
And I think you've done that,
done the impossible.
- Wow.
- Escaping from something.
And then not escaping
from a straitjacket
just destroys me.
Kills me. - Awesome, awesome.
- And we loved it and think
you're really funny,
and come back all the time.
And I think I've slipped in
a word or two
that should've given you an idea
that you did not escape
from our scrutiny.
- - Ooh.
- Yeah, you did... yeah,
you got me on that one.
But I have a question for you.
How do you get out
of a straitjacket?
- Well, you didn't fool 'em
but it was our first ever
escape from a couch.
Thank you, Jonathan Burns!
- Thank you.
- Find out who will try
and fool Penn and Teller next
when "Fool Us" returns.
- Welcome back.
This next magician
will knock your socks off,
even if you're barefoot.
That's how good they are.
Let's meet them now.
- Hey, guys. I am Eric Chien.
And I am a close-up magician
from China.
You can't take anything
personal,
like cards,
with you into the army.
So when I got drafted,
I made magic
with ordinary objects
like rubber bands and coins.
Coin magic got me a job
as a magic consultant.
I created effects
for other magicians,
but my dream was to perform.
So I started creating tricks
for myself
and I quit making magic
for others.
I put my life savings
into one, single effect,
something totally unique.
It is an effect that
I will be doing tonight,
and it won at the
World Championship of Magic.
But I don't perform it
like I'm a champion.
My stage character
isn't even a magician.
I'm an average dude who can
make magic almost by accident.
I'm saying if I can do this,
then you can too.
There's magic in me,
so there must be magic in you.
- Coming to us direct
from China,
here's Eric Chien.
- Wow!
Eric Chien!
Wow.
That was an epic trick.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you.
The routine that you just saw
was actually
the routine I used
for the World Championship.
- It felt like a whole story,
a whole journey.
- That's how I try
to create magic, you know?
Not just, you know,
me showing off.
I like to have a story
in my magic.
- Oh, you were showing off.
A little bit.
- Uh... Maybe just a little bit.
- So tell me the story
of that trick.
- Um, so that trick is
basically talking about greed.
Like, you know, humans,
we're born with...
We're born to be greedy,
kind of in a way.
So, you know,
I discovered this ribbon
and these magical frames.
And, you know,
I decided to play with it.
And I realized that it
has magic powers, right?
And then I decided
to use that magic
for, you know, to make money.
And, you know, at the end,
everything just vanished
and I'm left with nothing.
And because greed takes over,
and it destroys us, right?
- And when you're coming up
with the trick,
do you think of the story
first or the trick?
- I clear my mind of all
the magic that I already know,
and I think of the story.
And then I start piecing in
what magic belongs
in this story.
- Oh.
Eric, it's time to find out
if Penn and Teller know
how you did your trick.
- All right. - Penn, Teller.
- Hey, Eric. How you doing, man?
- Hey. I'm good, I'm good.
- I gotta tell you.
I gotta tell you, we, uh...
- Mm-hmm?
- We feel that this
kind of isn't fair.
We try to be so fair
on this show.
And I believe you're
at a huge disadvantage
because we met you
and we saw...
We knew that you won FISM.
And we pay attention to that.
- We know that you...
you also won, like,
"Asia's Got Talent"
or something too, right?
- Yes, yes.
- And so were emailing
back and forth
about this Eric guy.
We were pulling up videos. - Oh.
- We were watching it,
and we were studying it.
We were studying your style
and studying your moves,
and we emailed back and forth
and said, you know,
what's great about this guy
is he does stage
magic techniques
with cards.
He's got some new stuff.
And the stuff
he's got that's old,
he also does better
than anyone's ever done it.
So we really became
fans of yours.
- Wow.
- And we analyzed what you did.
So for you to come on the show
and try to fool us
is like a lead baseball bat.
I mean, you really... you
really don't have a chance.
And even with all the video
stuff, you fooled us now.
So it's really not fair
that even when we know
all this stuff,
you still fooled the out of us.
How do you do that? -
- Wow.
- You fooled them!
- How do you do it?
- Wow. - You fooled 'em.
- You fooled us! Yes!
- You did it!
- And you didn't have a chance.
- Ah. - Oh my gosh.
- Yay. - Thank you so much.
- Well, I'll gladly
accept this on your behalf.
And you'll get the trophy...
- Aww.
- When you come here to Vegas.
And you fooled Penn and Teller!
- So great, Eric. So great.
- Give it up for Eric Chien!
- Thank you so much.
- Whoo-hoo! - Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
- Congrats.
Yay.
Penn and Teller
have been outfoxed,
and they're not out
of the woods yet.
They'll take on
more possible Foolers
right after this.
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
One ticket to Vegas
has already been punched.
Will we have another?
Find out as we meet
our next act.
- I am a linguist by trade.
All of my academic training
is in ancient languages.
I read Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic.
I can kind of fake my way
through Ugaritic and Moabite.
I do not speak or read Chinese
which is a point
of great shame to my family
because I am Chinese.
What I really love about magic
is that magicians
are excellent communicators.
Just look at Teller.
He's abandoned
language altogether
but he's still
an excellent communicator.
I'm a pastor.
And when I did feel
that call to ministry,
my experience in magic
really helped prepare me
to step into the pulpit
and to connect with an audience.
Penn, Teller, I hope
you'll see that language
can be just as effective
as sleight of hand.
- Let's change it up
with the coin magic
of Jeremiah Zuo.
- Thank you, Alyson.
Thank you, Penn, Teller.
I'm so happy to be here.
I love the way
that magicians use language
to fool and delight
their audiences...
Sometimes other magicians
like yourself.
So tonight, I wanted to just
take a stab at fooling you.
Not with a clever apparatus
or any sort of sneaky
sleight of hand
but with a linguistic illusion.
I'm gonna use my words
to force you to enjoy
that otherwise
most despised of arts:
mime.
I wanted to show you
a coin trick with six coins.
However, only three
of them exist.
Three of them exist
and three of them don't exist.
For example, I have a coin
on each of my elbows.
I don't know if you can see
the coins on my elbows,
uh, but those two,
they actually exist.
Those are two of the ones
that are real.
Those two exist.
I also have a third coin
behind my ear,
a fourth coin behind this ear,
a fifth coin in my mouth,
and a sixth coin in my beard.
Now only three
of those coins exist.
This one exists.
This one exists.
This one exists.
Uh, but this one doesn't.
Neither does this one.
And neither does this one.
This one doesn't exist.
Now I understand
if that's confusing
because the ones that exist
are so very similar
to the ones that don't exist.
I mean, take a look at 'em.
This is an old dollar coin.
This is an old dollar coin.
This one's made of silver.
This one's also made of silver.
Minted in the late 1800s.
Also minted in the late 1800s.
The only difference
is this one exists
and, uh, this one doesn't.
Now I'm gonna move the ones
that exist out of the way
just so we don't confuse them.
'Cause as a linguist,
I love these coins
that don't exist.
They're fascinating to me
because they kind of exist
a little bit.
We're able to talk about them.
We're able to think about them.
I'm even able
to manipulate them.
Look, if I take one of those
coins that doesn't exist,
and I didn't lap it...
don't worry.
Like I said, no tricky business.
- And I hold it tight
in the fist.
And I apply just
a little bit of effort.
Ah! Look.
It vanishes. It disappears.
It's gone.
Completely gone.
It doesn't exist anymore.
Well, it never did.
But now,
it doesn't even not exist.
Now I only have two coins
that don't exist.
I have three coins
that do exist.
I used to have a third coin
that didn't exist.
But now it doesn't even
not exist.
I mean, it still kind
of exists a little bit
'cause we're still able
to talk about it,
we're still able
to think about it,
but now it's two steps
removed from reality.
But here. I'll do it again.
I'll take another one of these
coins that doesn't exist,
and I'll squeeze it.
It doesn't go up the sleeve.
Tight in the fist.
One last peek.
Little less effort.
Ah! Look.
It disappears.
It vanishes. It's gone.
Now it doesn't even not exist.
I still have three coins
that exist
but now I only have one coin
that doesn't exist,
and we have two coins
that don't even not exist.
And this is interesting.
If I take the last coin
that doesn't exist,
and I make it disappear
so it's gone,
it looks like nothing's changed.
But now, I don't have
any coins that don't exist.
I have three coins
that do exist.
And I have three coins
that don't even not exist.
And the best part is
this works at all
levels of reality,
both linguistically
and ontologically.
If I take one of the coins
that does exist
and I squeeze it... ah!
Look. It disappears.
It vanishes.
Now it doesn't exist.
That leaves me with just
two coins that exist,
one coin that doesn't exist,
and three coins that
don't even not exist.
But here.
Focus with me
on the two that exist.
I mean, these two clearly exist.
You can see them.
You can touch them.
You can hear them.
But if I snap my fingers
and I make one
of them disappear,
that leaves me with only
one coin that exists,
two coins that don't exist,
and three coins
that don't even not exist.
And this is the best part,
my favorite part.
If I make the last coin
that exists disappear, gone,
so that it
doesn't exist anymore,
to the latecomers,
it looks like I have no coins.
But you and I know better.
You and I know better.
We know that I have six coins:
three that don't exist
and three that
don't even not exist.
And you are distinguishing
between the two
in your brain.
You're welcome.
And you can explain this
to other people.
You can recall for them
how I had
two coins starting on my elbow.
You can tell them
about the third coin
that was behind my ear,
the fourth coin
behind my other ear,
the fifth coin in my mouth,
and the sixth coin in my beard.
If you are feeling cheeky,
you could mention a seventh,
an eighth, and a ninth coin.
Those are
the counterfactual coins,
the coins that would've existed
should I have chosen
to start with them.
If you just feel like lying,
and, you know,
embellishing the story,
I don't care.
You can tell them I had
a 10th, 11th, a 12th coin.
I don't mind.
You and I, we know the truth.
I never had any more
or any less than six:
three that exist
and three that don't.
Thank you.
- Oh.
Jeremiah Zuo!
That was delightful.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- Ugh! - Thank you.
- Who knew watching
invisible coins
would be so much fun?
How did you come up with that?
- It's just the fun fact
that we can talk
about things that don't exist.
And so I thought why not
apply that to a coin trick?
- By talking about things
that don't exist,
do you make them exist?
- At one level, yes.
- So what's more fooling
about this trick?
The sleight of hand
or the language?
- I think for general audiences,
it's the language. - Hmm.
- For magicians, maybe for them,
maybe the sleight of hand.
- So you have four kids?
- I have four children. Yes.
- Wow.
And who's your biggest fan?
- In terms of magic,
it is my five-year-old.
He is following
in the footsteps.
- Oh, boy.
And are any of them
linguists as well?
- My oldest daughter,
she is on that path.
If not linguistics,
then definitely literature
or some sort of writing.
- All right, well, let's see
if your sleight of hand
earned you a trophy
from Penn and Teller.
Boys.
- Jeremiah, we like you.
- Oh.
- We like you so much.
That was such a great routine.
We just loved it.
Absolutely loved it.
There's so much
we wanna say about this.
First of all, we wanna say
that there are no gaffs
and there's just three coins,
which, to people at home,
might not mean as much
as it means to us,
but that's astonishing.
That's really beautiful.
And your moves
are just gorgeous.
You know, I'm gonna
throw out some jargon.
I'm not gonna hide it.
But click paths, retention.
It's just the best we've seen.
And some of that's your own
version of those, right?
- That is correct. - Ah!
Really, really fabulous.
Now I have a question
that really doesn't have to do
with giving you code
or anything.
It really is a real question.
I believe... and Teller
was a little skeptical...
That when you were using
the coins that didn't exist,
you were also doing moves
to vanish them.
Is that right? - Yes.
- In terms of your acting.
I thought that.
And that made the acting
so beautiful.
I also loved that...
Teller pointed out
that half your act
is just talking.
Just like us!
- It was just so wonderful
all the way through.
You know, Teller said the most...
Just takes Three Fly,
and goes to a whole
different level, a whole di...
Just beautiful handling.
But as beautiful
as your sleight of hand is,
the idea is... the ideas
are really much...
Even better.
And all of that stuff...
Wonderful stuff to think about,
wonderful stuff to do.
And we would very, very much
love to give you
a non-existent...
- - "Fool Us" trophy.
We don't think it ever existed
because, as much as we love you,
we don't think you fooled us.
- Thank you guys so much.
- Is that right, Jeremiah?
- I think they've got me
but I will accept
the non-existent trophy.
- Okay.
With our pleasure.
- There you go.
- Thank you guys so much.
- Aww. Thank you, Jeremiah Zuo!
We're taking a quick break
but we have more awesome magic
up our sleeves.
Stick around.
- Welcome back. Heads up.
Our next act
is about to drop in.
- My name is Sabine van Diemen
and I am from Amsterdam.
I didn't start out
interested in magic.
I started as a dancer,
and I was the youngest ever
in the Holland Show Ballet.
But during rehearsal
for opening night,
one of the magician's
assistants sprained her ankle.
And I had only
a couple of minutes
to learn the fire cage.
When I popped out and saw
the reaction of the audience,
I was hooked.
I know I wanted to do this
for the rest of my life.
As a magician's assistant,
you are always the one
being sawn in half.
And I just thought to myself,
"This needs to change."
So now I'm a solo magician.
I get to saw people in half.
Now I'm one of the very few
female artists out there.
Penn, Teller, I hope that there
are young girls in the audience
who are going to be
hugely inspired
by what they're about to see.
- Direct from Holland,
give it up
for Sabine van Diemen!
- Hi, Penn and Teller.
Hi, Alyson.
Welcome to Holland.
Now this next illusion is
gonna be really dangerous.
And I need to trust my boys
just as much
as they need to trust me.
Terrence. - Sabine.
- Gabriel, are you ready? - Yes.
- That is to show you that
the swords that we are using
are real and sharp.
Let's do this.
Go!
- Sabine Van Diemen!
Hello.
- Hi.
- All the way from Holland.
How's your neck?
- Sore. - Yeah.
That must take so much strength.
- A little, yeah. -
- And how gorgeous is Holland
with the little canals
and the boats?
- Oh, so beautiful.
There aren't a lot
of solo female illusionists,
are there?
- Not really.
But I think it's time
that we change that actually.
- Do a lot of young women
come up to you
and wanna talk to you
after your show?
- Yes.
Also, when I do a show,
I always make sure
I perform a lot of magic
with, you know, little girls
in the audience.
And I try to give them
a magic box
or something they
can practice at home.
And I always use the words,
"Please practice
so in a couple of years,
I'll come and see your show."
- Aww. All right.
It's time to find out
if Penn and Teller
know how you did your trick.
Penn, Teller.
- Hey, Sabine. How you doing?
- Hi. Hi, I'm good. How are you?
- Oh, it's so good. So good.
And it's so nice this season
that we're able to see
you doing stuff, like,
out by the canal.
You know, that was
really wonderful
to be able to see that
on location
'cause at a stage, you know,
we think you could be using
a backdrop or a bar
or something like that.
But out there,
you're absolutely sure
with the boats going by
behind you
there's no backdrop, no bars.
And it's great that
we're not just seeing men
doing magic anymore.
It's opening up to many,
many, many more people.
But we still aren't
seeing many women
doing danger magic
so it was great
to see you doing that.
And also, that we see a woman
in charge of the whole thing
and making men
do stupid gestures...
That men have
been making women...
- Finally!
- You had those guys making
really stupid gestures
around you
where you did all the strength
and all the tricks.
And this a classic of magic.
I mean, we're familiar
with it a little bit.
It was done first
by the Fakir of Oolu,
who did a little something
like you did.
He said he could
control his weight
with his breath.
He did that deep
breathing stuff.
And then, of course,
the most important magician
of modern times,
Robert-Houdin, did that trick
with his son.
And having the smell of ether.
He said it was ether
that was making him light.
So it's a real classic of magic.
And we loved the way you did it.
It was a perfect performance.
And because it's
a classic of magic
and because we've studied it
so much,
we don't think you fooled us.
- What do you think, Sabine?
Do you know that they know
how you did the trick?
- Yeah. I think they did.
- Thank you so much.
Sabine van Diemen!
After this quick break,
you'll witness the greatest
magic duo of all time
perform a trick of their own.
Don't miss it.
- Our next potential Fooler
is a retired schoolteacher
who has loved magic
all his life.
He says he would not be
in the business
if it weren't
for Penn and Teller.
In fact, he says
Penn was the one
who inspired him
to take the big leap
and go professional.
That was 45 years ago.
Please welcome Teller!
No Penn.
This trick requires dialogue.
But don't worry.
Teller's written
all the words for you.
Just read them off
the teleprompter
while you watch the magic.
Now Teller's very, very sorry
if this distracts you
from trying to figure out
how his trick is done,
but there's no way around it.
So good luck.
Oh, goodness.
If I had seen these scissors,
I would have known it was you.
I should have known.
I surprised Teller last season
by coming on
and trying to fool him.
I remember his face...
He looked like
he'd swallowed his tongue.
So I guess it's only fair
that the rat bastard is putting
me in the hotseat now.
Oh, look at this.
Scissors and a bell jar
with a spool of thread.
My favorite color too... pink.
So you made this all
special for me, huh?
Oh, good, good.
Thank you.
You're winding the thread
very carefully
so either it matters a lot
or you want me to think
that it matters a lot.
You know a lot about thread
from doing the red ball
and the needle swallowing.
Oh, the scissors. Okay, good.
Right there?
Cuts like real thread.
Cuts like real thread.
Now you're folding it
into a figure eight
just like the needle trick.
That's to keep it from tangling
when it comes out.
I knew that
but you knew I knew that.
That's why you wrote that part.
Uh, you're not gonna do
the needle trick.
I know how that's done.
Kinda.
What's that?
A plastic film canister.
Okay, so I should
hold out my hand.
He's gonna do the needles?
It's full of needles and now
they're rolling around
in my hand.
Nice misdirection.
I'm taking one.
You're pinching
the rolled-up thread
under the end of one
of the needles.
You're squeezing it.
Stop!
I can't talk, watch,
and hold these stupid needles
at the same time.
Okay. I'll put down the needles.
Thank you, son of a jackal.
Okay. Now go ahead.
You're tapping the needle
with the scissors,
using the scissors
like a magic wand.
Do I know this trick?
Did you show it to me,
like, years ago
in that Tommy Wonder book,
you weasel?
Oh, gee.
Some of the threads
have melted...
Whoa!
- Right through the eye
of the needle.
It's so small.
I can't really see.
But Teller's got
a magnifying glass.
Looks like they're...
Looks like they're
through the needle.
You threaded the needle,
like, 50 times.
Oh, Jimmy, can I examine that?
It's beautiful. Can I keep it?
Whether or not
I figure out the trick,
I'll want to remember
this moment
because anytime either
of us wins,
we both win.
We always are
and always will be partners
in the same bubble.
- All right!
Give it up for Teller!
- Can I look at this?
I can take it to look at it?
- Yeah. Okay, Penn.
You know how it works.
You go back. - I do know.
- And I get to interview Teller.
This will be very interesting.
I'm so excited.
So how did you feel
when Penn challenged you
last season?
Ooh! Yeah.
Okay.
How do you think he felt
when you challenged him?
Mm-hmm.
So... -
- Look at him. He's so cute.
Aww.
And you did it completely
without him ever
having any clue.
And it's true that you actually
told him about this trick
a year ago or something?
Wow.
That's amazing.
He should pay
more attention to you.
All right.
Well, it's time to go to Penn
and see if he figured out
your trick.
Penn, how about
this handsome gentleman?
- Well, I gotta hand it to you.
I did it last year.
I should have known
you were doing it.
There was no doubt
you were gonna do it.
Anybody would have figured out
that you were gonna do it.
I should have been
prepared for it.
But on that front,
you completely fooled me.
I had no idea you were
gonna do a trick for me.
I was even talking to you
about doing the trick last year
and how I tried to find...
How hard it was
to figure out one.
I had that whole conversation
as though we where
shooting a movie
and I knew what
it was foreshadowing.
But I didn't know.
You completely fooled...
On that, you completely
fooled me 100%.
And on this,
you completely fooled me 100%.
I can't even know
where to start.
So you bring down the trophy.
- Yay!
- I can shake his hand.
- We have a Fooler!
- I can shake his hand.
We have a Fooler.
- Whoo-hoo!
And now you have
to give him the trophy.
Yay!
That was a big surprise
for Penn.
We'll have more surprises
for everyone
next time on "Fool Us."
Good night from Las Vegas.