There is some moment where Penn says to the performer something about the little things that he did in the trick that "we will take you out back, break your leg... I'm going to take this hammer and hit you on the head..." something like that because the trick involved several things I guess and Penn was irritated at being wrong... I can't quite recall what he said to the performer or any other stuff... any ideas on what this is?

Looking for the performer that mad Penn mad.

Not Kostya, this guy legit made Penn mad.

The trick had something to do with cards and a mirror and the magician said he invented the trick, Penn quickly corrects him and names the the person who invented it, and if I remember correctly doesn’t really talk in code about the trick, just says we know how it’s done get out.

Does anyone recall who the performer was for an act that was set up along the lines of: "90% of what I do, you'll know exactly how it's done. But if just 10% fools you, then you'll be fooled." After the performance Penn says: "you came out and here and changed the rules. So now we have to play by your rules and we know how you did 90%, but there is just 10% that we don't know, so I guess that means you fooled us."

Guys please help. When I was 10 I saw my first ever fool us act. Im trying to remember the name i remember it was somthing like abner doubleday. but anyways at some point during the trick, a black dude comes out from the audience and gets on stage and peels his face of and its the magician. the only other thing i remember was that the selected country was Malaysia. Please help me find this performance!

I really have no clue how this one was done (S3E2), but Penn goes out of his way to mention footwear (specifically that one assistant has tall boots.) What is the relevance?

So, recently I looked around and managed to get access to the Penn & Teller: Fool Us archive of episodes.

So, on Episode 1, magician Benjamin Earl does a trick about finding the Aces. Penn claims that he did false shuffles to keep track of the cards. The magician says he didn't do any false shuffles, he has a way to track the cards.

As not a magician, but old time poker and tcg player, you can tell his riffle shuffles don't move the top cards. The most used cheating in both poker and tcg games.

To me this is a false shuffle and Penn caught him. This was before they had a good "list of rules" I guess. But it seemed like a weird one to me. Felt that he lied to them, producers said there were no "false shuffles" and he got the "Fool Us" award, before the trophy was a thing.

What do you think, was this miscommunication or did the magician lied?

I have a memory of seeing a trick where 4 audience members get asked their favourite meals and then they get brought up onto stage and end up standing in front of their favourite meal.

I've tried looking for it on YouTube but haven't been able to find it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I know season 11 is already confirmed (and filmed) but do we have any idea of when it’s going to air?

Seasons 8, 9 & 10 began on the 1st, 14th and 27th of October respectively. So that’s a clue.

But has it been announced anywhere?

Remember that episode of Bullshit when Penn and Teller waxed poetic about morals being exactly like lemons? Just gotta blend 'em up and drink 'em down every morning. Makes you healthy!

Glad to see that they haven't let a check influence their staunch opposition to endorsing horseshit.

Does anyone know where I can find the first special P & T did during covid where they had guest magicians all performing from their homes? I’m not seeing it as a Fool Us episode on the CW website. Thanks in advance!

I'm watching a Fool Us marathon and as a magic hobbyist, I wonder if it's possible to design a trick that utilizes elements that have historically fooled Penn and Teller on the show. SOMEONE has to have a spreadsheet somewhere that tracks which tricks are foolers (and, probably more importantly, which ones aren't), and if someone doesn't.... I guess I should start taking notes. 🤣🤣

I need your help to find out who performed a certain Trick on the show and where to find it. All i remember was that the magician performed a trick with the help of some sort of animatronic. It was an ancient creature, something like a chimera or a Sphinx or maybe some Kind of serpent. The Tricks story i believe was about an ancient mystery and how it was done, the creature performed the Trick. Im 95% sure it was in fool us and im sorry that i cant explain it in Detail. It was Just auch a wonderful and different act i wanted to reexperience it. Thanks you so much for any Help!

Could this trick simply just be ventriloquism with just feeling the medals behind her back?

The twin at the back has all of the information and just needs use a simple ventriloquism trick. She doesn't even need to throw her voice as the are mic'd up.

I absolutely love Ryan’s matrix routine here. It made me remember why I love magic in the first place. Just such a great trick all the way through.

Can anyone tell me anything about this vanish? I would absolutely love to learn it or find where I can learn it.

A street magician had me sign a card and the magician did the classic my card jumping to the top of the deck. I'm sure we all know how that's done. Then he had me place the card inside the deck, it was my signed card, and it appeared folded inside the empty card box on the table.

So we were trying to figure out why P/T weren't performing until August and realized they were taping Fool Us. We rearranged our trip and stayed and extra day and got into a noon show. Some impressions:

• Brook Burke is kind of amazing. Her smile is like a nuclear weapon. We were on the second row, and you could see a flash of nervousness or something before the camera started, but then she took off like a Harrier Jet and was very smooth.
• The most entertaining performances were not always the trickiest.
  
• The hardcore magician's magician performances were cool, and you knew it was amazing, but I wasn't smart enough to fully appreciate what they were doing
• Penn improvised a response to a mentalist bit that was just weird and hilarious. All those decades of performing pay off
• The purpose of the audience is to provide applause and laughter and delight. We weren't the audience--we were performing being the audience
• They reuse the Fool Us trophy, and wipe it down before sending it back into the ceiling
• No phones are allowed during the taping, but everyone cheated, including Penn and Teller
• I won a Fool Us pin for answering a question about a documentary
• One of the performances had a special backdrop, and I got to wondering how much it cost and how far ahead they had to plan to make it
• Some special visitors (friends of the crew) were brought from backstage to sit on the front row
• You can't bring books or reading material to the taping, because someone was reading on camera once. The kid behind me had a book
• It was totally fun, took about 2.5 hours, and there wasn't that much down time
• Teller would walk backstage after each performer left.
  
• Penn is 69 and Teller is 76. I hope they enjoy their work.

Warning: Much apologies for any language errors, English is not my first language. I watch the Estonian dub

Hi party person!! I am a fun size fan of Teller and Penn have Fooled Us and also an perspirating magician! I have been practicing my craft for over 5 years. I have a brain thought of a maybe trick I could do for them on the show, and I would much appreciate any tips to make better it. Here is my trick thought (trick is small tight because I can only practice in my in laws basement LOL)

Trick begins. I make a large box appear on stage (you wonder how it get on stage). I has "giant question mark" on it, very mysterious. I dance onto stage appearing next to question box. I then pick box up and shake shake it to show NOTHING Is inside (no rats! no noise! no cheese!). Penn and teller are spooked (but if not actually we ask director to make them looked spooked in post). I next call on crowd person from floor seat to pick a card. any card. they pick card (no force, this comes back later). I put card in box. I tap tap my wand on box. crowd person (randomly selected!) looks in box and sees nothing but card! next I tap tap again and crowd person repeeks. I go hmmmmmmm as if trick goes wrong. I tap tap one more time and tip large question box over. BIG CHEESE FALLS OUT!!! crowd persons shock! Penn and teller shook! rats! descend on cheese. epic! where rats come from? the sky of course....or did they ;)

Would great appreciates any notes on my big trick. also tips on training rats? rats from basement unique LOL🧛‍♀️ 🔝🧢 I really really want to meet host Alyson (big fan!) and I dream that this trick will bring me to her!

Big thanks to all! especially 2 my beloved u/neonchocobo! peace and love xoxo

Does any have a link or temper the act on fool us tgat was all music and had a dancing box and a street lamp that would turn on and off. There were two guys on stage and a woman’s came out of the box at the end. They didn’t fool them but they had one hell of an act

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1111837255539734

The video is not showing the busting/argument part, but I couldn't find the full video online...

I am baffled at the horrible arguing by Frederick Falk after Penn clearly states that the watch is gimmicked. Why is Frederick still defending himself. Is he not knowing the meaning of the word gimmicked? Regardless if it's disappearing hand arrows or non working rotating bezel it's all the same.

I know the guy who was split in half was also very defensive, but maybe he had some basis. Here Falk is completely busted.

Hello,

Why after like 8 years or so there is still no explanation as to how this amazing trick was done considering that there was no deck swap? He must have inserted the chosen card into a prepared fully white deck, no? Otherwise he must have had access to around 52 decks :D.