Penn & Teller Fool Us Dan Harlan - Fooled

I'm Dan Harlan creative genius I grew up in the theater when I didn't know at the time was that my mom gave been a magician's assistant before I was born she she had performed some amazing magic for us as kids but I really didn't know where her magic came from one of her her best tricks I think was to produce a bar of soap from behind my ear to get me to take my bath I think that's the real magic of a mother right there tonight I'll be performing one of my inventions it's the most popular card trick of the modern age I wouldn't be surprised at all if Penn & Teller already know how this trick is done but I've got a twist for him first hit a stage when he was two years old I wonder if he regrets all the time he wasted for the first twenty three months of his life please welcome Dan Harlan thank you so much thank you everyone I'm a creator of magic and I wanted to share with you one of my favorite creations that's also been very popular with magicians around the world something I came up with 25 years ago and it uses this deck of cards on which I've drawn a picture a little stick figure magician now I haven't just drawn him on this card I've actually drawn him on all of the cards and all of those pictures are a little bit different so that if I do this he appears to move he reaches up takes off his hat and he's about to pull something out but you know I I don't want you to see what that is yet because I'm gonna need a card named now I could just ask pen to name a card but he would say the three of clubs most likely and I'm gonna use the time-honored traditional commitee method now since I don't know anyone here I'm just gonna select somebody and I'm gonna toss my little friend here he's for good luck his name is bones here we go oh right next to you can you get him yeah fantastic will you stand for me please hi what is your name Erica here's what I'd like you to do I want you to imagine that you have an invisible deck of cards and you've separated them for some reason or another into the red cards on one side and the black cards on the other side so you have two imaginary piles there and what I'd like you to do is to select one of them to keep whatever you choose is what we'll use so would you like the red cards or the black cards the red card the red cards well then we'll take the black cards and just toss them away do the same thing in your mind now I'd like you to take bones and hand him to the person next to you and thanks you may be seated thank you so very much and would you please stand for me hi Anne applause for her as well what's your name Troy meta Troy meta yes yeah Oh terrific okay so Troy Netta your choice is a little more limited we've got the red cards here and you're going to imagine separating them into the hearts and the diamonds and then you're gonna choose which ones we keep same as your friend so would you like the hearts are the diamonds right the hearts I've forgotten which side we put them on so it's all imagination anyway we'll just toss those and call these the hearts would you do me a favor and then hand bones to the person next to you and thank you so much you may be seated yes sir stand up this applause is for you what's your name sir Scott so Scott your choice is a little more complicated than the first two but I'm sure you're way ahead of me here you're going to in your imaginations spread out the cards these are the hearts so we have 13 of them and you're going to choose just one to keep all from the obvious ace to the desirable Jack Queen and King or all of the numbers in between it really is your choice which one of those should we keep the ten of Hearts the ten of Hearts so in your imagination I want you to separate out I'm not sure exactly I think it's right about there you separate all all the other cards and you toss them aside leave the ten of Hearts right out in the open like that that's fantastic and then toss bones up to me not bad Oh almost again don't be concerned about him it's his job he's gonna watch the rest of this from right here in my pocket now if I remember correctly you've all decided on the ten of Hearts yes and you won't be surprised that there is in fact a ten of Hearts in this deck and so I'm gonna replace your imagination with something very very real an actual card the ten of Hearts so that we don't forget which one you've chosen and now let's see the magician perform he reaches up he takes off his hat he reaches inside now most people expect him to pull out a rabbit those do look like ears but they're not those are the corners of a folded card when he pulls it out all the way it unfolds and he takes a look at it and he looks pretty happy because when he turns it over it is the ten of hearts the very same thanks very much and I love your drawings Thanks yeah a big fan of stick figure drawing yeah oh me too obviously right so you invent magic tricks and and and then they sell like hotcakes well many of them do you know it's wait is with inventions some sell better than others he's got to keep at it until you come up with something good but you have I I'm if I'm not mistaken the the magic trick that sold the most out of any magic tricks that would be this one right here so cool and then you decided to bring it on to full Penn & Teller sure you know what if they bought it it's very like likely that they that they know this trick as a matter of fact I brought it on because it's my first chance to perform it on television for everybody and and I really wanted to do something that's that's close to my heart okay well it's time to go to the boys how many tricks can someone get in magic that they can buy in a shop and that they could learn and is good enough to destroy people on that absolutely destroy them every magic trick I see I get sick to death up I've seen this thing probably a hundred times I love it every time and I've never seen the creator do it fabulous wonderful job thank you take us out with the reach under the table either going no right it's a perfect use of a deck of cards and I also love the little inside thing that it gambling parlance to look for mark cards you flip through them and it's called going to the movies yeah I love the family she's made that real yeah now I do have to I do have to say one thing though and and you may not like this but because of what you've said I absolutely have to say it um this deck of cards I do it especially for this show uh and there isn't anything unusual about the cards at all as a matter of fact these cards all of them just have the drawings that reveal just the ten of hearts and only the ten of hearts and it worked it means yeah now this month and you may keep them I don't know how you'll divide them the treasure so nice

Channel: eufhaye

Views: 2,831,917

Rating: 4.8756499 out of 5

Keywords: Fool Us, #PennandTellerFoolUs, Dan Harlan

Id: bH5NcrkTMBY

Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 20 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/AusGeno]

I thought he did it like this...

Tosses the bear out. Asks for a card. Gets the bear back and puts it in his pocket - it's at this moment he grabs a card out of his pocket that matches the card that the audience selected. Runs through the flip animation again this time revealing the card he snuck out of his pocket when he put the bear away.

So when P&T were freaking out it was a real deck I didn't know enough about the background of this trick to figure out what the big deal was until I read raremages post.

[u/bimetallic]

So here's an easy formula for fooling Penn and Teller.

1. Invent a unique effect in magic that uses common objects (such as cards) that are not offered to the audience for examination.
2. Sell it in volume for a decade or two so many magicians, including Penn and Teller, become familiar with it.
3. Perform it on Fool Us exactly as it has always been done.
4. Only after Penn and Teller say they were not fooled, hand them the objects for examination.

[u/sanfrancisco69er]

I am a laymen....would anyone mind explaining to me what the way this trick usually works is and how he put a twist on it? It seemed obvious to me from his intro he was going to do a "Matteui Bich type thing but I couldnt tell what it was...would anyone mind translating that conversation to a dummy....what does that trick usually rely on that he put a twist on?

[u/digitalphildude]

I felt he was just being a bit over the top. It all seemed like a commercial for a card trick.