Penn & Teller: Fool Us (2011–…): Season 8, Episode 9 - Chocolate Magic - full transcript

Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here is our host,
Alyson Hannigan.

- Welcome to "Fool Us."

If you're hungry for
some tasty magic

with the helping of some
well-seasoned entertainers,

then belly up for
tonight's episode.

And as always,

behind it all are the chefs of
chicanery, Penn and Teller.

Penn and Teller create
each "Fool Us" trophy by hand.



That's why they're
very particular

about who they'll give it to.

They need to be
legitimately fooled

by a world-class magician,

perhaps one
that looks like this.

- I lead a double life.

By day, I'm a professor.
I have a PhD in math.

My dissertation was titled
"Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem

and Notions of Minimality
in Continuous Logic,"

which I'm not gonna try
to explain to you right now.

But by night, I'm a magician.

I perform at venues
like the Magic Castle

doing sleight of hand.

The way I think about
math research is very similar



to the way I think about magic.

They have a lot in common.

Math research, like magic,

requires a lot of very strange
and beautiful creativity,

and this is the same approach
I take to performing magic

where I want to
think outside of reality

and how I can share
that with my audience.

Tonight, I have a trick
that I spent a lot of time

developing just for the show.

Penn, Teller, this trick
has a little bit of math

and a whole lot of magic.

- Please welcome the math-
magical mind of Tori Noquez.

- I'm a mathematician. I
have a PhD and everything.

And whenever I mentioned
what I do for a living,

the first thing
people always say is,

oh, you're really
good with numbers.

You must spend a lot
of time in Vegas. Nope.

Turns out when people
find out I'm a card magician,

they do the exact same thing.

Oh, you're really good
with playing cards.

You must spend a
lot of time in Vegas.

Still nope.

One of the reasons I don't
spend much time here gambling

is as I'm sure you know,
a lot of these games

are designed such
that the house wins,

so this inspired
me to use my math

and magic skills
to design my own

Vegas-style game in which
the odds are in your favor.

And I brought with
me for us to play.

Rules are simple.
Penn, in a moment,

I'm gonna have you
select a card at random

and Teller, you're
gonna have one chance

to find the position of that
card on this board of 52.

Now I know those odds
sound near-impossible,

but I'll use a little bit of
magic to help you guys out.

All right, Penn, go ahead
and tell me when to stop.

- Stop.
- Right there.

Did you want one more, one less?

- One less.
- Okay. All right.

So this card right here.
Okay, let's see how you did.

We will not be
using any of these

and we will not be
using any of these.

So our winning card
is the four of hearts.

Perfect. All right,
Teller, you're our player.

And I really think you're gonna
nail this. I know you can win.

In fact, I created this game
so that you could win. Okay?

So I'm feeling really good.
Are you ready? All right.

All I need you to do
is indicate which row

and how many cards
over that four of hearts is.

Fifth row, sixth card.

Okay, so here's the fifth row.

One, two, three, four,
five, six right here.

And are your sure, do you
wanna change your mind?

One more. Okay.
So right here. Perfect.

I'm really excited. I
really think you nailed it.

Okay.

All right, Teller's card.

Six of spades, really? I
thought, you were sure.

All right. Well, you
know what? That's okay.

Because Penn is here
so we can play again.

All right. Penn same deal.
Where's the four of hearts?

- Uh, first card.

- First card, top
left. Right here?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, bold choice. I like it.

All right. Let's see
what you got here.

I'm feeling even
better about it this time.

Okay.

Oh, jack of diamonds.

And this was supposed
to be an easy game.

This is not going
how I planned it at all.

Alyson, hi.
- Hi.

- Are you busy right now?
- No.

- Do you want to
play a game with us?

- Of course.
- Great.

Before you take your
turn, let me just make sure

the winning card's
actually back here.

Um, yeah. Teller
was pretty close.

In fact, Penn was
a little bit closer.

So Alyson, where's
the four of hearts?

- Second row, third card.

- Second row, third
card. Right here.

- Yes.
- Okay. Are you feeling lucky?

- Always.
- Good. Me, too.

All right. Let's
see how you did.

All right.

Eight of diamonds. Aw.

Well, that's it.
The game is over

and I was really
rooting for you guys, too.

See, remember when I said
that the odds were in your favor?

Well, unlike most
magicians, I wasn't lying.

The odds really
were in your favor.

And somehow all three
of you managed to defy

those easy odds.

Thing is, other than the
three cards that you selected,

every other card on this
board is four of hearts.

And if you can't figure out how
you missed every single time,

then the odds are
that I fooled you.

Tori Noquez!

So I get the feeling you
don't think like everyone else.

- I do not, no. My research
is in very abstract math

and that happens in,
like, theoretical space

and it's all made
up and imaginary

and, like, requires
a lot of creativity.

- And is it hard to speak
with us mere mortals?

No, turns out
I'm also a human being, so.

- That's good. Good to know.
So thinking the way you do

probably helps you create
tricks that no one seen before.

- Yeah. You know, I mean

I've trained
classically in magic

and learned all the
background, but then, yeah,

I like to think outside the box

and sometimes I'll think
of something and be like,

has someone else done
this? Have I seen this?

And then like, I'm really
excited when the answer is no,

and I get to work it out.
- That's so cool.

Are you just a high achiever
at everything you do?

- Oh, yeah. I'm a marathoner.
I do everything all the way.

- Wow. Have you
always loved magic?

- Yeah. As a kid, I
was like a science kid.

So I was, like, building
rockets and, like,

blowing stuff up

and, like, setting off
the school fire alarm.

But yeah, when I was 22,
I visited the Magic Castle

for the first time and I
thought it was so cool.

And I was like, "I
wanna be part of this."

- All right. Let's see if
Penn and Teller calculated

how you did your trick.
- All right.

- Tori, you've done
a card trick plot

that we've never seen before.

Oh.

- After eight
seasons of "Fool Us"

and actually looking into
magic a little bit before that...

This is a whole different thing.

That reveal with all the
fours of hearts is just beautiful.

- Thank you.

- And the idea of given the edge

and all that and the no choice,
but you actually have a choice,

it's a really good plot.

- Thank you.
- And very original.

- Thank you.
- I really loved it.

We're trying to figure
out how you did it.

You know, it's
such a great trick.

And we went down one row
then we had to double back

and try to figure out how to go

and what you were
possibly doing here.

And what people may
not know is if we're right,

which we don't know...
we don't know if we are,

but if we're right,
this is surprisingly

not the cheapest
trick to put together

we've ever seen the show.
Cost a little bit of money,

but you seem unflappable
in the whole thing.

But it's a complicated
trick in terms of plot.

It's a beautiful reveal.

So I'm actually eager
to hear the answer.

I tried to drop a
few hints there.

So you tell us, did you fool us?

- No, you guys figured it out.
- Aw.

It was very entertaining.
Thank you so much.

- Thank you for having me.
- Aw, thank you.

Tori Noquez!

After this break,

we'll find out if we have
a new Fooler in our midst.

Stick around.

Welcome back.

Let our next performer
make themselves known.

- My name is Alex Boyer

and I'm from a small
town in Quebec.

Not exactly a hub
for entertainment,

but in Quebec, we
make our own fun.

Cue drum solo.

I've always wanted
to be a rock drummer.

Why am I doing
this? I have no idea.

But I found my way magic
when I was super young.

And I think magic and music
is kind of the same thing.

I can play with people's emotion

and make them happy,
excited, I can startle them.

I'm a 6'2" super
sweet teddy bear.

And I'm obsessed with my hair.

Doing magic is actually
the only job I've ever had.

Can I do it in French?

Can I have some English
subtitles, please? No?

Penn and Teller, what I'm about
to do may not look threatening,

but don't be deceived. We
have lives in the balance.

Not mine, thankfully.

- Please welcome the
danger magic of Alex Boyer.

How you guys doing?
- Good.

- Probably wondering why
you're not understanding

what I'm saying
right now, right?

Is because I'm French Canadian.

But seriously though,
what an absolute...

My God, what an absolute
honor to be here tonight

performing in front
of my magic heroes.

And much like you
Teller, I'm speechless.

What is up guys? My
name is Alex Boyer.

And tonight, we're gonna
save someone's life.

One of yours, actually.

It is gonna be

Ngan, Amanda,
Scott, Matt, or Katie.

But one of you is
in grave danger.

So choose wisely. No pressure.

Behind you there is
five numbered boxes.

And when I snap my fingers,
I want you to switch randomly

until you arrive in the front
of whichever box you choose.

Ready?
- Okay.

- All right, here we go.

All right.

This one? Really, really?

I mean, that's your life.

You guys good?
- Yeah.

- Happy?
- Yeah.

- Great. Now this
trick is dangerous.

So I need someone to
share the blame with me

in case something goes wrong.

Alyson, everyone. Hey!

How're you?
- Good.

- Nice to meet you.
- Me, too.

- Love your outfit, though.
- Thanks.

- Big fan.
- Thank you.

- Alyson here I have five big
cards numbered one to five.

We have one here,
two, three, four, five.

What's, what's... okay.

On that note, let's begin.

A little bit of Canadian
humor for you.

Alyson.
- Yeah.

- Can you take these
five cards for me, please?

And shuffle them
face down just like this.

- Okay.

- And make sure
nobody sees anything.

Great. Now, in a moment,

I want you to put
one card on the table.

You're doing great and
make sure you don't look at it.

And this card will represent

the life we're about
to save tonight.

- Okay.
- Ready?

- Yeah.
- But hold on.

Make sure you're confident
in your decision as well.

Because I don't want
you to be home tonight

sitting on your couch

thinking, "What if I would
have chosen a different box?

Would I have saved
someone's life tonight?"

Or maybe you're gonna be
laying in your bed thinking,

"Damn that guy
had amazing hair."

Alyson, go ahead and
place the one card here.

- For that one.
- Awesome. This one?

- Yeah.
- Great. Now remember

you could have chosen
any one of these cards, right?

But you chose this one.

Now let's see whose
life you saved tonight.

And by the way, thanks
for making a decision for me.

We have number two.
Number two is Matt.

Your life is safe tonight you
can stand behind your box.

Right here. Careful.
Yeah. Amazing.

Now here's the dangerous
part, Penn and Teller.

The rest of you,
when I say your name,

I want you to sit on
your chosen box. Good?

- Okay.
- Here we go.

Let's start with
number one. Katie...

Go ahead.

Go ahead. Come
on, come on, come on.

Yes! One done. Here
we go. Here we go.

Thank you so much. Thank you.
Number three, we have Amanda.

Go ahead, Amanda.

This is not chaotic at all.

Here we go. Yeah,
amazing. Ngan, your turn.

Go ahead, go ahead.
Don't be afraid guys.

Don't be afraid. Go ahead.

Great. Now the
last one is Scott.

Nervous, buddy?
- Terribly.

- Me too. Can you tell?
- No.

Okay, cool. Here
we go.

Scott, here we go. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Go ahead, bud.

Yes, we did it!

Thank you guys so much.
Thank you, thank you.

You guys can go grab a seat.

But Matt, stay
there for me, please.

Thank you so much.
Again, thank you. Thank you.

I should probably tell you
why I'm celebrating like this.

Remember at the beginning,
when I told you that Alyson

and I are going to save
someone's life tonight?

- I do remember that.

- Well, Matt, this is
exactly... don't move.

What we've done.

We saved your life tonight, bud.

- Thank you.
- Happy?

- Happy.

- Go grab a seat.
Thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Oh, and Matt,
remember the apple?

That was to remind everyone
that an apple a day keeps...

the doctor away. Thank
you.

- Alex Boyer.

So is the comedy in
Quebec its own special thing?

- Yeah. It has a huge
scene in Quebec.

It's like one of the biggest
attractions there. It's comedy.

And we have so many
great comedians there.

And yeah, it's a special place.

- Do you feel like
you've developed

a style that is unique to you?
- When I was younger,

I was taking myself a
little bit too seriously.

And I've tried to
just being goofy

a little bit more and stuff.
So I have like an edgy style,

but being goofy,
having fun with people.

That's the whole
goal. So I think, yes.

- Do you still get
nervous when you perform

or is this easy for you?

- I mean, tonight is a
special night, you know,

I'm performing literally
in front of people

I've grown up watching.

So yeah, tonight I was a
little bit nervous, but I'm happy.

I had lots of fun and
it's a dream come true.

- And you didn't kill anyone.

- I didn't kill anyone, yeah.
- Whoo.

- All right, Alex, let's see if
he fooled Penn and Teller.

- All right.
- Hey Alex, you know,

we've been doing
this show a long time

and we love firsts on the show.

And season one,
there were a lot of firsts.

It was the first season.
- Right.

- And then it went
on and on and on

and we get fewer
and fewer firsts.

But this, we're not talking
about your magnetic personality

or how you did all the jokes
or being French Canadian.

We had French Canadians before.
- Yeah.

- We've got Canadians
before, that's not a first.

We've had danger
magic, that's not a first.

But you are without a doubt

the very first butt stab
we've had on the show.

We were very excited about that.

A true possible impalement.
- Thank you.

- And it was a great, great act.

- Thank you, guys, so much.

- You have a great personality.
It was very, very good.

We also liked,
like our buddy Piff,

we like people
eating during the show

and the apple thing at
the end really, really good.

But I think I snuck in
the word somewhere.

Not the word butt
and not the word stab

and not the word French
Canadian... two words.

But somewhere in there,
they had something, an idea,

a pretty good idea
of how you did it.

- Absolutely, yeah.

- Did they know how
you did your trick?

- I think so. I think so, yeah.

- Aw, well, thank you so much.
- It's all good.

Thank you, guys, so much.
Thank you. Thank you, guys.

Alex Boyer.

Penn and Teller will
take on more magicians

and then finish the show

by performing one of
their own amazing tricks.

So stick around.

- "Fool Us" is back and
ready for almost anything.

Let's see if this next
magician can surprise us.

- I'm a magician
first and foremost

and magic really is my passion.

But I also co-founded
a magic company

and we produce magic
tricks for other magicians.

I've kept pretty busy
running a magic company

and we sell magic to
magicians all over the world.

We've even produced a few tricks

that have appeared on "Fool Us"

and some have even
fooled Penn and Teller,

but I still think of my real
job as being a performer.

I only create magic
that I'd want to do.

That's the approach.

Because if I can't see
myself doing the trick,

then I can't see other
magicians doing it either.

I'm not supporting
anyone else's vision tonight

nor underwriting
another magician's dream.

I've created a brand-new
effect to perform tonight.

This time, I'm here for me.

- Returning to the
"Fool Us" stage

all the way from
London, Andi Gladwin.

- More than 45 years ago,
a circus school graduate

and a Latin high school
teacher met for the first time

and formed one of the most

iconic double acts
of their generation.

Now I can't tell you the
odds of Penn meeting Teller

that day, but I can
help recreate them.

I'm gonna give Penn and Teller

a series of random
choices to make.

And even though they
will be completely random,

I predict that the end result
will be that Penn and Teller

meet once again.

Penn, the first choice is yours.

On the board here, I
have five different locations:

your house, a coffee shop,

the movies, a
library, and a theater.

I'd like you to pick
one of those locations.

- A library.
- A library.

We will put Penn
into the library.

Teller the same thing for you.
I'll move you down the road,

you just hold up your hand
when you want me to stop.

Your house, a coffee shop,

the movies, a library...

You wanna stop in the library.

So we have both Penn
and Teller in the library.

They made the same decision.

Perhaps it was
always meant to be.

Now here's the fun
thing. In this folder here,

I have five of your
key career events.

I'm gonna read
them out one by one

and I'd like you to rank
them between one and five.

And we'll place one in each spot

until we fill up
all five spaces.

Now one could be high
or five could be high.

That's your choice.
I'm not gonna find out.

And I'm even gonna give you
the opportunity to change your mind

once you've seen all five cards.

So the first career
event is for you, Penn.

It is graduating Clown School.

Where should that go?
One, two, three, four or five?

- Clown College,
well, the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

Let's put that at two.

- That is a great choice.

I have so many
questions right now,

but we will leave that to later.

And Teller this one's for you.

Of course, we
already mentioned it.

It is teaching
high school Latin.

Where would you rank
that? One, three, four or five?

- Unus. Notice I speak
Latin to the only Latin teacher

that won't correct
my pronunciation.

This one goes here.

Next one is for both of you.

You both appeared on a
TV show early in your career

called "Miami Vice."

Now I have to admit I
haven't seen the show.

I'm just hoping that your
Wikipedia page is accurate,

but where should it go?
We have three, four or five.

- Oh, dear. We can
change our minds?

- Later on, you can
change your mind, I promise.

- Is one low or high
in your mind, Teller?

'Cause wherever it is,

"Miami Vice" needs
to be the worst.

You know what?

I'm gonna go and
change this right now.

If you want, I can
swap teaching Latin

and put it somewhere else.

- Why don't you slide them over,

put "Miami Vice"
in the toilet at one?

- "Miami Vice" at one.

- 'Cause you spend six
weeks with Don Johnson,

see how much you
wanna stay alive.

- Okay, we're almost there.

These next one is your
first Broadway show back in...

- Well, that was fabulous.
- This was back in 1987.

You were referred to
as the bad boys of magic.

Yeah.

I would say five on that.

- Five.
- Let's do five on that.

- A very understandable
career highlight.

The next one is my
personal favorite,

but I have to admit it
hasn't actually happened yet,

but I'm hoping it
will after the show.

- Nobel Prize.
- Almost.

- Okay.

- Equally as good if not better.

It is making me, Andi Gladwin,

the third Penn
and Teller member.

I see, I see.

- I have a name for
us. Penn Andi Teller.

It's one extra letter. It's
like it's meant to be, fellas.

We should do this.
- It's a very good point.

- So that one right now
is gonna go in to four.

I did say I would give you

the opportunity to
change your mind.

So are there any now that
you've seen every one of them

that you want me
to switch about?

- I think they're in pretty
good order right there myself.

Do you want to change
something, Teller?

Good. We are happy.
We will stand pat.

- If you are happy,
I'm happy too.

But there is one more
opportunity I wanna give you.

You see, the
orientation of these cards

is vitally important to
the outcome of this trick.

So are there any that you would
like me to turn upside down?

- Please turn "Miami
Vice" upside down.

I'm sensing bad times.

- Let's hope voodoo
works with that rat bastard.

- Any more before we continue?
- No. That's good.

- Well, now I get to tell
you what all of this is about.

You see, on the other side
of these cards is a maze.

And it's a maze built
entirely by the decisions

that you have both
made from your career.

And you'll notice it's a
maze with five stop points

and five end
points on each card.

Now Penn, that day
that you met Teller,

if you'd have decided
to stay at home,

let's look at what
would have happened.

You see, you wouldn't have
met Teller as we follow along

making every move
along you can see

that you wouldn't have
met Teller that day.

Instead, you have
ended up back home.

It wouldn't have
been Penn and Teller,

it would've been Penn
and some other fellow.

Now there are 25 different start

and end point
combinations on this board.

If you multiply that by the 24
possible orders on the board

and then multiply that again

by the 16 possible
order combinations,

and there is a one
in 9,600 chance

that you two would
create this maze.

Now either my entire
"Fool Us" experience

is based entirely on luck

or maybe, just maybe,

Penn and Teller were
always meant to be.

Let's take a look.

Penn, you decided
to start at the library.

If I follow along making
all of the twists and turns

based on all of the twists
and turns of your career,

you will see that the end result

is that Penn and
Teller meet once again.

It's like it was meant to be.

- Andi Gladwin.

Wow. That was amazing.

- Yes.

- You must be
incredibly good at math.

- I'm a secret nerd.

- And you're incredibly
good at magic.

- Well, thank you.
That's very kind.

But it's fun to combine
all of my interests.

I used to be a
computer programmer.

That's a little bit of
that. There's math.

There's everything. This
is a fun trick to work on.

- Wow. So what
is this trick tell us?

Is life fate or happenstance?

- Well, we can never calculate
the odds of meeting the people

that we ended up meeting
and that was my starting point.

Thinking, "What would the
odds of Penn meeting Teller?"

- So if this trick didn't work

and Penn wound up in the coffee
shop, would we all just vanish?

- We probably will just
enjoy coffee right now, I think.

- Do your business
and your performances

compete for attention?

- No, they share
attention, actually,

because I get to use my
experience as a performer

and then I get to
perform the tricks

and make sure that
they are really great.

- Andi, I know they were amazed.

But let's see if Penn and
Teller are still puzzled.

- Hey, Andi, boy, you just
come up with the greatest stuff.

Teller especially
goes to Vanishing Inc.,

which is your company and
buys tricks from you all the time.

You just make up
the greatest stuff.

And we are so honored because
did you make this up for us?

- Just for you guys.
- Wow.

- This is the only time
you're performing it?

- First and last time.

- Wow. We're amazed and
honored and thankful of that.

You know, as you probably
noticed, we were drawing things

and we were looking at this,
we were tracing it in our minds

and turning stuff
and figuring it out.

I gotta to tell ya,

of all the people we've
busted on "Fool Us,"

I don't think there's
anybody we've busted more.

I mean, I think we figured
out more in this trick

than any other trick
we've ever figured out.

We were so proud of ourselves.

We figured out like
four steps of this

and we're just doing
math like crazy.

We're feeling really good
about ourselves. Really great.

And we were
feeling a little smug

and then we ran through
all the stuff we worked out,

which I will repeat is more
than we've ever worked out

on anyone else and
realized it still wasn't enough.

We still don't have everything.

You fooled us. It's
as simple as that.

You fooled them!

- We don't have enough.
We have so much of it.

We figured so much
of it, but not enough.

- Now you look amazed.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.
- Yay!

Congratulations, Andi.

- And thanks for
working that out for us.

It was so great.

Andi Gladwin!

Behold, a new Fooler.
And we're not done yet.

Penn and Teller take on more
magicians when we return.

- You though we vanished,

but we return just in time to
show you our next magician.

- Comedy has always been
a big part of my repertoire.

Well, it had to be
because of my name.

I call myself Topas.

My real name is Tomas Froschler,

which in German means
Thomas, the little frog.

With a name like that,

you better learn
to laugh at yourself,

so I do, even when
I'm being Topas.

Last time I was on the show,

I did one of the tricks
I'm most known for

and in fact, I've done
for more than a decade.

Tonight, I'm bringing
Penn and Teller a surprise.

I'm doing a brand-new effect.

No one has ever seen it before.

Maybe I can fool Penn
and Teller for this reason.

Performing a new
trick on "Fool Us"

is like introducing
a baby to the world.

So please, if you
would, wish me luck.

- Joining us once again,
German master magician, Topas.

- Topas.

Hello.
- Hi.

- So Topas, this is the
premiere of this trick.

- Yes, that's true.

I've never shown
it anywhere else.

- So you brought your baby

and you just threw
it to the wolves?

- Well, they're
very nice wolves.

So I feel I'm in the
best place possible

to introduce it to the world.
- Aw.

So for your whole career,
you always create new tricks?

- Yeah. I like to be
an author of magic

and I don't think there has been

any magic been done in
the past on a treadmill before.

So you know, we had to
come up with new principles

for floating while you jog.

- When you develop a new trick,

do you start with the
ending or the beginning,

or do you sort of see the
whole thing as a package?

- It's not the ending, usually.
It's this one special moment

that I have never seen
before and that I want to create.

In this case, I saw
moving in slow motion,

jogging in slow motion.
That was, you know,

the dream, the vision
I had for this piece.

- All right, let's see if you
and your magical treadmill

will walk away with a trophy.

- Oh, Topas, as soon as
we saw your name, you know,

Teller said this
guy's a great inventor

and also your stuff
is so meticulous.

I don't think we have
anybody on the show

that works harder than you.

And this is also
physically so demanding.

Such an amazing routine.

And having that treadmill,
you know, it's a magical thing.

It's a magical thing
to be able to move.

And it's kind of like
your magic wand in this.

It's just so good walking
around at the beginning,

behind the thing which is
maybe not much to an audience.

It's a big deal to us.

You know, they say gambling
when they show a sleight,

how to get into it, how do
you get out of it, you know.

And that's really
hard on this trick.

You get into it, no
sweat, you know.

Wipe the sweat from your
brow no big deal, you're in.

And a lot of people think
that, you know, levitations

and moving around like
that is kind of old school.

But to us, it was really
hip. It was really good.

But I think we have a pretty
good idea how you did it

and almost wish
we didn't because

this is the top tier for
beauty and for entertainment

and just for plain
good, hard work

and thinking
magically. Just beautiful.

- So Topas,

do they know the tricks
to your magical treadmill?

- You know, maybe you have
not heard everything I have heard,

but I think they have
a very good idea.

- Well, thank you
so much. Topas.

So good. So good,
Topas.

- I bet you have time
for one more trick.

And just to sweeten the pot,

I'll tell you it's a trick
by Penn and Teller.

See you right after the break.

Closing out tonight's show
along with author and comedian,

Heather McDonald, are
the legends themselves,

Penn and Teller.

- Hey, Heather, how you doing?

- I'm doing great.
How are you guys?

- Very well, thank
you. I think we were...

Weren't we on Chelsea
together once, I think?

- I'm sure we were.
- I'm sure. We had to be.

So we sent you a bunch of M&Ms.

Did you get a bunch of bags?
- Yes, I do. I have a lot.

- We gave you a zillion bags.

Now, Heather, these are...

They're packaged by
weight and by percentage.

So you never know how many
of each color you're gonna get.

So pick any one of
the bags you have there

and just open it up

and dump them carefully
onto the plate there, Heather.

If you would... don't
open yours, Teller.

That... don't open yours.
Just dump them out there.

- Hold on.
- Okay, good.

- This is the hard part
of the trick, Heather.

- Okay. So, pour them out. Okay.

- I have mostly brown
and mostly orange.

There are fewer
yellows, greens and blues,

but let's just check yellows.

How many yellows do
you have there, Heather?

I have one, two,
three, four, five, six.

I have six yellows. How
many yellows do you have?

- I have 12.
- Yeah, so you have many more

yellows than I
do. And you'll see.

What do you have the fewest
of, does it seem there, Heather?

- I feel like I have
the fewest reds.

I have one, two,
three, four, five reds.

- Yeah. I have two,
two, four, I have six reds.

But you see there's
different numbers there.

Now Heather, you can either
keep the bag you've got there

or you can change
for another bag

just dump those out.

You happy with those
or you wanna change?

- I guess I'm happy
with these, I don't know.

- Okay, good. Here's
what we're gonna do,

mix them up so that all the
colors have different there.

Okay. And just for
the trick purposes,

let's get rid of the brown ones.

Pick out the brown ones.
Count them as you do one,

two, three, four,
five, six, seven,

eight, nine.

- Seven.

- Nine, ten. I have
ten brown ones.

So Heather, eat the brown
ones. Get rid of the brown ones.

I'll feed mine to Teller.
Eat all the brown ones.

- Okay. All right, hold on.

- Brown ones are gone.
- Okay.

- Now the next most are oranges.

Count out your oranges.
You're gonna eat those, too.

Two, four, six, eight,

ten, twelve.

I have 13 oranges.

How many oranges
do you have, Heather?

- One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve.

- 12. And I have 13.

Eat them, Heather. Eat them.

Eat yours. Here's another
one. Eat your oranges.

All right, good eating.

Now all you've got left here

are blues, yellows,
reds, and greens.

So mix them up good and
then close your eyes, Heather.

Close your eyes. Reach
in and pull out one color.

What color you got there?

- Blue.
- Blue.

Count the blues and eat them.

- One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine.

- I got 16 blues. 16
blues. Eat 'em, Heather.

Teller eats them so
much faster than you do.

Once again, Heather,
close your eyes.

Reach in, pull out a color.

What color you
got there, Heather?

- Red.
- Red.

I got... eat the reds.

Two, four, I got six
reds. How many you got?

- I only have five.

- Only have five. Eat
them, Heather, eat them.

Now, all you've got
left is yellow and green.

- Okay.
- Now, you tell me.

This is totally your choice.

One color you're gonna eat

and the other color
is gonna be our trick.

Which color do you wanna eat?

Which color do you
want for our trick?

- I'll eat the green.

- So how many
greens are you eating?

- Two, four, six,
eight, ten, eleven.

- And how many
yellows do you have left?

- I have 12.
- You have 12 yellows left.

Eat the greens. And
you have 12 yellows left.

Now you notice, Heather,
from the very beginning,

Teller has been holding
one bag of M&M's.

I opened up mine,
we ate the whole bag.

You ate your whole bag.

He has one bag in plain
sight the whole time.

In that bag, Heather?
- Yes.

- There are

one, two, three,
four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve.

12 yellows and nothing
else in the bag, Heather.

Thanks a lot for doing
the trick with us, Heather.

- My kids will enjoy
that. Thank you so much.

That was real fun.

Oh, wow.

That is all the
tricks and treats

we could fit into
tonight's show.

We'll see you next time
with another sweet episode

of "Fool Us."

Goodnight. Yum.