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Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Penn & Teller Teach You a Trick
Thu, Jul 13, 2017
Season premiere includes an epic performance by sightless card mechanic Richard Turner, the daring Young and Strange duo have a second try at their foolery which includes sticks and poking holes, Kayla Drescher brings a woman's touch and heart to her magic and Mike Super does a small prediction trick in a big way. And finally, the boys teach a card trick to the audience.
Episode 2
Penn, Teller and a Mind Reading Chicken
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this episode: Jonathan Burns does a cheesy trick, Jo De Rijck does a trick with his chicken, David Caserta saws himself in half, Jimmy Ichihana does a card trick that follows suit, and finally Penn and Teller do a trick with Hannigan on a couch in pajamas.
Episode 3
Teller Flips a Bird
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this episode: Misty Lee takes a stab at Louie Anderson, Shin Lim returns with magical cards, Andi Gladwin swims for a win, Murray Hatfield (with assistant Teresa) tricks outside the box, and finally Teller performs as an unprofessional magician (while Penn plays a drum kit).
Episode 4
50/50 Chance
Thu, Aug 3, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: escape artist Matt Johnson does a dangerous water torture chamber escape trick, wacky comedian-magician Siegfried Tieber does an impossible card trick with the assistance of Penn and Teller, Jason Fields does a trick with teleporting coins in front of the boys, professional fire eater Jessica Jane Peterson plays with fire and does a mentalist trick with a newspaper article, and finally, with the assistant of trusty Teller in the high tech control room, Penn does a particularly extravagant mentalist card trick in the middle of Times Square with two volunteers.
Episode 5
Does This Trick Ring a Bell?
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: steampunk enthusiast Dino Staats vaporizes Penn's one dollar bill with the help of "Science!", mysterious Aiden Sinclair, who has history with Penn, does a mentalist trick with Alyson and an evil doll, Swedish magician Axel Adler plays with a floating magic rings and a piece of cloth that can pass through solid matter, David Parr does a card trick by asking Alyson to copy all of his moves, and finally Penn and Teller honor the snobbish Magic Circle by having Teller guess a card without the use of his eyes.
Episode 6
Something Fishy This Way Comes
Thu, Aug 17, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: darkly humorous shock magician Dan Sperry terrorizes Alyson with his bloody coin trick, Jean-Pierre Parent shrinks Alyson to make her fit in his luggage compartment bag, humorous magician and true Vietnamese Scotsman Naathan Phan does a sentimental trick with a balloon, Richard Forget (the 'T' is silent) makes news from a newspaper come to life and does a magnificent trick with a paper bird, and finally Piff the Magic Dragon (John van der Put) closes out the show with Penn the Talking Mentalist Goldfish and its silent assistant Teller who prepares to kill it if it's wrong.
Episode 7
A Big Round of Applause for Alyson
Thu, Aug 24, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: Italian musician-magician Riccardo Berdini casts a spell on Alyson to misremember two words, Canadian-Russian circus performer and funnyman Yan Markson uses a magic app to have fun with mentalism and Alyson, playful master magician Ondrej Psenicka from Prague attempts to guess Penn's card by having Alyson do it, sleight of hand veteran Glenn Morphew from Orland Park, IL teleports cards, and finally Penn and Teller do a trick with "Edward Snowden's" password.
Episode 8
I Dream of Genie Tube
Thu, Sep 7, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: Dennis Watkins synchronizes two deck of cards using magic, real life magic school professor Jeff McBride asks the heavens to quench his thirst with an endless supply of water, millennial CEO Kevin Li does a narrative trick with pictures from his travels placed on magic cards which makes Teller feel melancholic, Steve Marshall does a masterful dice stacking trick that his late mentor taught him, and finally Penn and Teller present the magic of little audience member Constance who pulls a rabbit out of nowhere.
Episode 9
Penn & Teller Are Full of Hot Air
Thu, Sep 14, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: Fourth generation magician Liberty Larsen does honest magic, Jorge Blass from Spain does a card trick with bad political commentary, Paul Gertner returns and plays with his balls, magician-comedian Sergio Starman from Italy struggles with a re-appearing wedding ring, and finally the inflated Penn and Teller take a shot at a card trick which kills one of them.
Episode 10
Monkey Business
Thu, Sep 21, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: Sean-Paul and his wife Juliana Fay present their mind-reading monkey, Jason Andrews does a barefoot trick with broken bottles to get to more broken bottles, Eric Mead does a coin trick for the boys hoping to fool 'em by at least 10%, young edgy magician Reza Borchardt uses a giant piece of toilet paper and two cans of spray paint to guess Alyson, Penn and Teller's cards, and finally Penn and Teller find inspiration in the national anthem to come up with a simple patriotic trick which they try to do together with Alyson and the audience using red handkerchiefs.
Episode 11
Penn Does the Heavy Lifting
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
Funnyman Stuart MacDonald and his magic mirror make some money, self-deprecating funnyman and cinefile Kyle Littleton plays movie cards with Alyson and the late supersized comedian Ralphie May, veteran turned street magician Lion Fludd does a card guessing game with Penn and Teller, husband and wife magic duo Fred and Bobbie Becker walk through metal, and Penn finally shows us where his weight went when he asks two audience members to lift a box for him.
Episode 12
Penn & Teller & Dracula
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
Magicians looking to fool them this time: funnyman Mike Bliss has two young ladies tie him up, Dobrokhotova Ekaterina from Canada does a guessing trick with Alyson inspired by Banksy's graffiti of the Balloon Girl, Javi Benitez from Spain does incredible artsy card tricks, Ran Gafner does a trick with ringing bells with the help of Alyson and five random audience members, and finally Penn and Teller return to their childhood to play with Dracula's undead balls.
Episode 13
Hanging Out with Penn & Teller
Thu, Nov 30, 2017
Magicians looking to fool Penn and Teller on the season finale: funnyman Patrik Kuffs uses a crossbow to do the most dangerous card guessing trick with Alyson, Todd Lamanske does an ace card trick with Alyson and the boys, Adam Wilber prints a $100 bill for a random audience member, Hector from Spain (aka "Hector Is Magic") plays with shadows and Alyson's wedding ring, and Penn and Teller's friends, magicians Jen and Amber, perform their own version of P&T's classic trick from Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989).
