Peter Wood Gives Alyson Hannigan X-Ray Vision | Penn & Teller: Fool Us | Season 7 Episode 18

[Music] [Applause] welcome back to fullest one trophy is rained down from above is another fooler in the forecast take a look my house is designed like a theme park every room has its own motif my shows are a lot like that too i pay a lot of attention to the details and the design over many years i have scoured the world for magical devices that no one else has the things particular magicians used decades or even centuries ago that have been forgotten by time i excavate them blow the dust off make them new if i have a special power it's mainly as a curator of lost things and this is a trait i share with at least one other magician that i know of and his name is teller so i wanted to bring something totally unique and i believe i have but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence so penn teller you be the judge give it up for baltimore's best peter wood i'm a collector of the impossible weird objects and bizarre artifacts with magical powers and i brought along my latest piece this is sir henry willoughby who possessed the gift of x-ray vision now after sir willoughby's death a few of his colleagues did something rather strange they cut out his eyes i don't mean on the guy's dead corpse i mean on the painting they cut out the eyes to see if the painting of sir willoughby shared any of his real-life x-ray abilities well as soon as i acquired it i did what any of you would do i held it up to my face to see if it worked and i looked at the wall i thought it was working turns out it was just a window uh but i'm on the hunt for a user who can unlock its x-ray powers and tonight i thought we should test it with allison would you join me over here please round of applause for allison hannigan it is so nice to meet you nice to see you can i give you these four envelopes please take a look over them make sure that they're all identical on the outside um on the inside i've placed four different colored pieces of cloth one's red one's yellow one's green and one has a blue piece of cloth inside but just looking at them you can't tell which is which right no all right with any luck that's where sir willowbee comes in i'll take those back from you please can you pick up the painting please hold it up to your face and give us all your best shifty eyes and a haunted house look all right that's perfect all right now um focus your energy channel the power of sir willoughby look through the painting at this envelope and i'm hoping that after a couple of moments you start to get the feeling that it's either red or yellow or green or blue when you get that feeling let me know and i'll put it in the matching clip blue blue that was that was good that was fast all right let's let this might work let's take a look at this one uh might be green might be yellow might be red use the power of the painting green green all right and this is important you're not reading any instructions on here right or on the back of the painting this is just coming to you yeah yeah okay okay so uh green for this one uh take a look at this one might be yellow might be red what color do you think is inside there hmm yellow yellow all right coincidentally going down the line that's just a coincidence right okay now that leaves red if you look at that one and say it's red perfect but if you look at that one and think it's one of the other colors i'm happy to trade with any other color so do you like that for red or should we trade trade that for yellow trade it for yellow all right we'll swap like that do you like this one better for red or should we just trade again right better for red okay thank you i believe sir willoughby's work is done you can put them back on the easel over there thank you all right here comes the fun part if we tear this envelope open and there's a red piece of cloth inside matching the color that allison predicted uh that tells me that there's some sort of connection between allison's eyes and sir willoughby's eyes i'm actually just kind of curious if there's any sort of uh visual connection there let me see allison's not nearly as cartoony or grumpy as sir willowby is but anyway that's for you so if alison tears that open and there's a red piece of cloth inside uh that helps to justify the acquisition of the painting right but if alison tears that open and there is not a red piece of cloth inside please politely still applaud her efforts uh you know and at the same time i'm gonna be looking for yellow so i'm looking for yellow you're looking for red on the count of three you ready one two three tear it open reach inside i'm looking for yellow you're looking for red there we go yes awesome all right throw it on the floor uh let's not get cocky we still have two to go uh i'm gonna give you one last chance would you like to trade envelopes no okay now this is really interesting if we tear these open and they're correct i'm gonna lose it because that proves to me that i found someone who can unlock the power of that painting but allison if we tear these open and they're backwards from what you expect you're gonna kick yourself forever that you didn't trade at the last minute oh last chance how you feeling i'm so feeling okay you're still okay that's fine tell you what you can go green that's for you and i'm gonna go blue on the count of three hope this works i'm looking for blue you're looking for green you ready one two three tear it open reach inside i'm looking for blue you're looking for green that's the blue that's the green that's allison and that is sir willoughby's x-ray vision thank thank you so much do i get to keep the painting please the fact that i found someone who it works with we'll talk to her schedule so is sir willoughby a relative of yours no uh not that i know of at least um a little bit of a family resume i guess there is hopefully i'm not quite as grumpy looking as he is but um um are you really a collector of of odd things yeah i've got so much crazy stuff in my collection i have a crate that holds a device that allegedly can transmit thoughts to people i have a rope that knows the alphabet so a bunch of random things and your props are beautiful do you build them yeah i grew up with a really well-stocked workshop my dad is an amateur cabinet maker my whole family loves building things and when i was a young person i would go see props and i maybe couldn't afford them but i was able to build them in my own shop you ready to check in with penn teller absolutely i'm excited all right penn and teller how did he do it peter the first thing the first two words teller said when you finished was that's cool we just really like it what i really love about this is the first place you want to go with this is some sort of technology stuff and all of us know the kind of technology you could do to get a similar effect not the same effect and all of that is so jive we're so sick of it you could have done this act just like this a hundred years ago and it would have been just as good and it's great now it's really nice it's a simple beautiful plot and the method on it we think is very very subtle the method on it is actually three methods and one of the methods is running the tip of our uh tongue as we were getting the ideas trying to say them to one another but we just love the routine and also and this is um uh i don't think we've ever said this before in the show it was really really enjoyable to do your thinking along with you to see this beautiful subtle method there's a lot of logic work to do it's kind of like a little bit like uh sherlock holmes thing to to crack the mystery we kind of think we did i have a couple more things i could say to you in code but if you think we're on the right track i won't say anymore because i think you get a really good trick what do you think peter do they know how you worked your magic i think they do yeah all right well thank you so much peter wood thank you guys time for a quick break and then we're back with more 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Length: 8min 39sec (519 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 30 2021