Penn and Teller on the BBC

[marplots]

I really get the feeling this bit was something they came up with off the cuff, rather than a developed routine. There are so many ways it could be improved. For example, the cards in the muffins could have had words on them, saying "look in Teller's mouth" or the force card could have been prepped to give a better fold.

Call me a purist, but the whole thing seemed like something inspired in the green room rather than considered in any depth. But those two have the chops to pull it off anyhow.

 

[Garrette]

I thought it was rough, too, and I'm sure they're more than capable of winging it like that, but the cards in the muffins indicates at least a modicum of planning.

 

[lane99]

The Long and Short of it

Any beginners magic book will show how Little Big Man could have found the card. And the riffling of the deck over the muffins might have facilitated the location.

For me, this trick looked as stale as the muffins. A throwaway that left the participants seemingly underwhelmed.

At least they could have BAKED the cards into the muffins rather than just pushing them in and leaving a big gash in the bottom. Would have built the suspense and made the sucker reveals more interesting.
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[Azrael 5]

To be fair,and no disrespect to Teller it wasnt a hard trick! He practicaly put the cards under the table to do the "move" haha.
They did a better trick on a show called One Show also on BBC a couple of weeks back.Not on Youtube yet sadly.

Im going to see them next month!!

 

[Garrette]

To be fair,and no disrespect to Teller it wasnt a hard trick! He practicaly put the cards under the table to do the "move" haha.
They did a better trick on a show called One Show also on BBC a couple of weeks back.Not on Youtube yet sadly.

Im going to see them next month!!

He'd have been better off to do it under the table. It was a pretty clumsy execution; just his bad luck that the camera happened to zoom in at the wrong time.

 

[McHell]

I think Teller is a heavyweight in that regard in nearly everyone's thinking, especially if they know anything at all about magic. And that includes Penn; he knows just how good Teller is as thinker, artist, creator, and performer, and he knows how hard it is to be the silent partner. That's a much tougher job than it appears.

I know virtually nothing about magic, except that I recently saw Penn and Teller up close at the Rio in Vegas and I was blown away. The whole show was great, including Penn playing bass as part of the warm-up jazz duo, and the whole crew being gracious enough to take selfies and sign autographs with the unwashed masses after the show.

But Teller in particular was amazing. Everything he did was very artistic, even poetic, definitely unlike any sort of magic I had ever seen before. My favorites were this one called Shadows, this one with coins and fish, and one with a red ball and string.

It left me with the distinct impression that I was in the presence of a true artist and clearly a master magician. Well worth the money, thoroughly enjoyable.