Having been on holiday the last couple of weeks, I was unable to access ITV player to watch it. I'm back now, and I've watched the two episodes I missed on ITV player. what happened in them?
EPISODE 6
This episode featured an street magician with a habit of insulting the audience, a physcologist, a Quick-Change act and a pair of Sweden's Got Talent finalists. But which of them manage to fool Penn and Teller?
Gazzo - Street Magician
Despite being a former pupil of the famous cardsharp Walter Irving Scott (He didn't mention this but you can find out about it in his wikipedia article), Gazzo didn't do any card tricks. Instead he did a version of the cups and balls, with a patter involving him being mean to the audience (He established pre-performance that it was fake, but it's still an overused device among comedy magicians). So far, so banal, but Gazzo finished on a high by making several oranges appear from the cup, and a melon appear from his hat. The trick didn't fool Penn and Teller, but they noted that Gazzo did it better than them
Colin Mcleod - Psychological mentalist
Like Gazzo, Colin did an inventive spin on a trick as old as time. He did a version of the book test in which he predicted the invisible word chosen from an invisible book by a volunteer. He finished by making a brick appear from his hat. The trick didn't quite fool Penn and Teller, but was very interesting
Keelan and Charlotte Marie - Quick Change performers and Dancers
Keelan and Charlotte Marie changed clothes at rapid speeds whilst dancing to a diverse medly of songs.The best quick change acts are the ones with the most varied routines, therefore I liked these two a lot. Penn and Teller weren't fooled, but noted quick change acts were not desingned to "Mistify, but instead Amaze"
Brynholf and Ljung - Swedish Illusionists
These two Swedens got Talent finallists called themselves Joanas and Peter throughout, so I will refer to them as that. They were like a Swedish Penn and Teller (Or, thinking outside the show, Barry and Stuart). For their performance, Joanas covered Peter's whole head in duct tape. He had Teller choose and sign a card, then had Peter try to pick it. After a few failed attempts, one of which utilized a staple gun, Joanas removed the duct tape, and revealed the tape in Peter's mouth.. The trick fooled Penn and Teller.
Penn and Teller finshed the episode with a trick (How many do they have in their repetoire?) In which they did a cut and restored rope trick with a sheet of polyester and a young volunteer, then passed the polyester through his neck. The tricks were nothing new, but I liked the religious patter
EPISODE 7
This episode featured a Canadian Card champion, a "Cuban" magician living in Margate, a French magician, and a performer known to thousands in Britain for lending his face to the Britain's got Talent magic set. Which of these fooled Penn and Teller?
Shawn Farquar-Canadian Cardsharp
A world champion at card magic, Shawn had Penn choose and sign a card from a brand new deck. He put the deck in Penn's hands, and made it appear in another, brand-new, opened box, with the chosen card reversed.Wow. Needless to say, he fooled Penn and Teller
Manuel Martinez- Not Cuban illusionist
Just like those psuedo-Chinese magicians of the 1920s, "Manuel" was a brit named Gary pretending to be Cuban. But the trick he did, whilst a bit overdone (|Penn and Teller themselves did a version a few weeks ago) was solid. It was a version of Russian Roulette involving "Manuel" choosing four out of five staple guns. Of the five staple guns, one had staples in it, but Manuel managed to avoid choosing it.Amusing, but meh. It didn't fool Penn and Teller, natch
Ettienne Pradier - French Cardsharp
Ettienne had Telle sign a card. He made Teller's teleport from his pocket to his purse, his watch, and finally into a bottle, then made a card predicted by Penn appear on the reverse of the deck. This isn't a particularly memorable trick, but it dd fool Penn and Teller.
Chris Dugdale - British Illusionist
If there was one trick that really stood out in this show, it was Dugdale's. This was a world away from the thumbtips and linking rings of the Britain's got Talent magic kit his face is on. Giving every direction and reveal on video (Not weblink), he had Penn pick a volunteer at random, and made him take the person next to him as a second volunteer. Dugdale predicted on his shirt the location chosen at random by the second volunteer, then predicted the cost of the trip via the envelope. Then came the most mind-blowing part. The second volunteer came to the cenre of stage and revealed himself as Dugdale! Though the effect is fairly easy to figure out when you consider that Dugdale had the location and cost on him throughout the effect, and therefore, he didn't fool Penn and Teller, it was still an impressive and memorable piece of magic. Penn even said that he would love to perform it himself.
Penn and Teller showed us yet another trick to finish things off. This involved Teller eating several needles, then a thread, and removing the thread with all the needles attached. I've seen this trick many times before, but it's still impressive.
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