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Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 0
April Fool Us Day
Mon, Apr 2, 2018
In this April Fools' Day clip show special, Penn and Teller educate the audience about the way the show works by performing some semi-tricks, including one with the falling tire. They also analyze how some of the "foolers" including the Belgian mentalist act "Jo De Rijck and Chicken Curry", the funny magician Handsome Jack, the legendary blind card magician Richard Turner, the artistic card magician Shin Lim, and the food magician Chris Rose fooled them, as well as their own trick where they put a phone in a cup and make it disappear. As it turns out, Simon had managed not only to fool them but also to leave them thinking that he didn't, so the confused duo brings him back to set things right. Handsome Jack also returns to explain his winning trick and make the duo rich.
Episode 1
Penn the Magic Dragon
Mon, Jun 25, 2018
Magicians looking to fool Penn and Teller this time: Matt Marcy does a card guessing trick (utilizing Hannigan) after making a long entertaining presentation about it, a vintage-styled mentalist and his female assistant who go by the name The Sentimentalists try to guess an image an audience member drew, engineer and handyman Andrew Evans and his friend Naomi do a levitation trick that keeps building, Australian beer lover Don Chambers repeatedly makes beer magically appear, and finally Piff the Magic Dragon and his dragon friend Penn sing the dragon song where they have to guess the words that the audience will add to its lyrics.
Episode 2
The Rematch
Mon, Jul 2, 2018
Four returning champions try to fool Penn and Teller for the second time. With the help of Penn's bitter rival, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, and a random audience member, Vinny Grosso uses a box full of plushy toy parrots to both test P&T's detective skills and hopefully get rid of his own infamous nickname - the Naked Magician. Morgan and West, the time traveling mentalist duo straight out of England's Victorian era, borrow some change and an ID card from a random audience member to show their amazing guessing skills. Veteran magician Paul Gertner, who fooled P&T once but failed to full them the second time, returns for the unprecedented third time to prove that his original win was not just a fluke, and tries to guess the cards of five random audience members while telling the story of the real life poker legend Amarillo Slim. With the help of two random audience members, coin master Eric Jones turns burning paper into coins. Finally, with the help of a chicken and a person playing a dancing gorilla, Penn and Teller explain to the audience how misdirection works in magic.
Episode 3
Penn & Teller Get Loopy
Mon, Jul 9, 2018
Musician-magician Ryan Chandler uses a device called looper to record his and Alyson's voices as well as Pen and Teller playing music to add some fine-tuned mystery to his card-guessing act. Master coin magician and self-proclaimed samurai, Ryan Hayashi, gives an astonishing performance making coins appear and disappear at will, all while using his own epic Hollywood-styled narration as the perfect distraction. German veteran magician and levitation expert Dirk Losander dances with his famous flying table. Real life scientist and magician Ed Ripley uses a device which he himself made to erase and restore both sides of a hundred dollar bill. Finally, Pen and Teller use a classic old magic box, the very same prop which their friend, mentor and the judge and jury on the show, Johnny Thompson, used in the 1970s, to turn Teller into triplets.
Episode 4
Here Comes the Magic
Mon, Jul 16, 2018
Magicians Danny Cole, Kostya Kimlat, Hakan Berg, and John Hinton try to fool the veteran duo with their tricks. Danny Cole creatively uses kindergarten wooden blocks to test Penn and Teller's knowledge of levitation tricks. Returning "fooler" champion, the charming and talkative Kostya Kimlat, who made Penn really angry the last time he was on the show, does his best to outfox Penn and Teller once again with his card-grabbing trick. Hakan Berg, part comedian, part musician and all magician, arrives all the way from Sweden to sing a little song about magic while doing his incredible rope-through-body trick. John Michael Hinton befriends Penn and Teller and shows off his magic skills using a bare Rubik's Cube. Finally, Penn and Teller use their own tricks to tell a little story of solitary confinement with Penn as the harmonica-playing Prisoner 42799 locked inside of a wooden box and Teller as the Magic Prisoner, his only lifeline.
Episode 5
Psych!!
Mon, Jul 23, 2018
Young psychology student, Emily Victoria, tries to guess which song on her phone Alyson likes best. German theatrical magician Patrick Folkerts manipulates pieces of a wooden set while narrating about the way we live our lives, and thereby creating a simple visual metaphor. Card magician and illusionist Migz makes the reflection of a randomly chosen playing card disappear in his magic mirror. Edgy escape artist Seth Grabel locks himself inside of a police car and lets a giant robot T-Rex crush the vehicle and tear it into pieces. Despite the show's unwritten rule which says that all tricks must be performed live in front of the duo, Grabel's trick was allowed to be prerecorded due to its movie stunt-like complexity. Finally, the duo asks actress Kim Raver to pull an egg from their sack - if she can find it.
Episode 6
Penn & Teller Against the World
Mon, Jul 30, 2018
Taijyi Fujryama from Japan combines magic with traditional dance yo awe Penn and Teller. Pit Hartling from Frankfurt, Germany uses magic frequencies to synchronize card decks with the help of two random audience members. Aussie Helen Coghlan, whose father is also a successful magician, changes the rules a bit by doing two tricks for Penn and Teller - pulling an iron rod through a glass of milk and making a net reappear on a racket. With Alyson's help, Israeli magician Menny Lindenfeld bends coins, glasses and saws. Finally, Penn and Teller play with three containers filled with mints, ask Alyson to guess which ones are full, and explain some elements of this simple trick to the viewing audience.
Episode 7
Imagine (Magic) Dragons
Mon, Aug 6, 2018
Funnyman Erik Tait plays invisible cards, Rebecca Herrera guesses which shape Teller drew, Japanese comedian TanBA eats razors and balloons, Alyson fires crossbows at Ian Stewart, and P&T ask rock star Dan Reynolds to follow their lead.
Episode 8
Here Lie Penn & Teller
Mon, Aug 13, 2018
Puppeteer and magician Damien James has his custom made elderly Penn and Teller puppets perform an explosive image-guessing trick, Hong Kong illusionist Kelvin Chow makes his cards vanish and reappear at will, actor and magician Joshua Lozoff asks Alyson to guess an animal by influencing her choice with a string of questions, and curator of magic history Murray Sawchuck performs his mentor Marvin Roy (aka Mr. Electric)'s favorite trick with a jar of milk and a huge lightbulb. Finally, Penn and Teller do a card trick they hope everyone will remember them by literally forever and ever, and a key element to this highly sentimental act represents their own genuine gravestone placed at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills that always knows which card you have picked.
Episode 9
Teller's Gambling Problem
Mon, Aug 20, 2018
Magician and teacher of magic Will Bradshaw asks Alyson to guess which one of his animal traps is real after which he places his hand in it to see if she is right, mentalist Eric Dittelman distracts the audience with his double entendre mastery while trying to guess which actions two random audience members, one male and one female, he picked are performing behind him, sleight of hand master Christian Engblom from Finland makes his cards disappear and then seamlessly does the same with his pockets, French magic comedy troupe Compagnie des Dragonfly perform a funny silent routine in which a master magician and his apprentice try to outdo each other while performing the magic trick of having their female assistants disappear inside of their magic boxes. Finally, Penn asks comedian Tom Green to help him beat Teller at cards, since Teller's incredible winning streak has placed the show in grave danger because everyone in Vegas now hates them and wants them out even if it means canceling their show.
Episode 10
Penn & Teller Keep You in Suspense
Mon, Aug 27, 2018
Tech magician Simon Pierro 3D-prints a celebrity, shock magician Nicholas Wallace feeds blindfolded Alyson deadly cookies, Darcy Oake teleports a card into a bottle, Alex Geiser pushes coins through glass and P&T help a girl levitate.
Episode 11
The Fool Us Zone
Mon, Sep 3, 2018
Tyler Twombly plays with stickers, Dr. Michael Rubinstein has coins from The Twilight Zone (1959), shock magician Anastasia Synn uses her body modifications, co-creator of Siri, Adam Cheyer, turns Siri into cards, and Penn hides in a barrel.
Episode 12
Never Trust a Magician
Mon, Sep 24, 2018
French card magician Alexandra Duvivier, ventriloquist Christine Barger, her mentalist doll and Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, high tech magician Jamie Allan, and phone mentalist Christopher Grace try to fool the veteran duo. Also, Penn counts cards.
Episode 13
Let's Hear it for the Kids
Mon, Oct 1, 2018
Magician Kiko Pastur does a card trick for Alyson, Jason Palter can measure any distance instinctively, Michael Gee does a card trick with his toy car, Bryan Saint creates a magical infomercial, and the boys teach kids to guess colors.
