Reply to: Derren Brown

[Bwana]

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[NickFitz]

I thought P&T revealed how they did their tricks anyway, isn't that the controversial part about them?

They reveal some tricks, but not others. This is one they try to keep secret; the YouTube video was originally put together by some magician who was pissed off that they'd given away a load of the tricks that he used (hence his constant references to their "big mouths") and decided to use the same tactic against them.

Bunch of bloody fishwives, these prestidigitators

[d000hg]

Penn & Teller do the bullet trick too. There's an explanation of how it might be done on YouTube (until they get it taken down again): Penn and Teller's Magic Bullet Explained and Revealed

I thought P&T revealed how they did their tricks anyway, isn't that the controversial part about them?

[RichardCranium]

Penn & Teller do the bullet trick too.

I like the one where he machine-guns his mate and multi-coloured blood squirts out.

[Tingles]

So we have two annoying people in this country with Brown as a surname....

[NickFitz]

P.S. Anyone see David Blaine catching that bullet last night?

Penn & Teller do the bullet trick too. There's an explanation of how it might be done on YouTube (until they get it taken down again): Penn and Teller's Magic Bullet Explained and Revealed

[GreenerGrass]

As the numbers came up the weird box against the wall behind the balls fired laser beams against the plain balls which caused a light/heat sensitive material/coating to react, thus etching the numbers on the balls (like a ZX Spectrum thermal printer).

P.S. Anyone see David Blaine catching that bullet last night? Although I thought him taking that punch in the guts was even more impressive.

[NickFitz]

The woman putting her hand in the mouse box.. notice he picked up a card in front of the box showing a drawing of a mouse on box #4 ... yet there was a card in front of all 4 boxes.. presumably with a mouse drawn on.

You mean those cards he picked up and showed to the camera after each box that didn't have a drawing of a mouse on the back?

Certainly he could have used sleight of hand to pick up the card, palm it and show the blank back of another card bearing the same number, then show the front, then put it back down. I did notice that there was a cut from one camera to another as he showed the front of the card from the first box she chose (3) so maybe he cocked up slightly.

A more sensible approach would have been to have cards with blank reverses in front of all of the boxes - then he'd have plenty of time while she was rootling around in the final box to be sure he had the mouse-bearing card with the correct number ready to do the sleight of hand thing for the box she didn't choose.

But he picked up a numbered card and showed a numbered card with a blank reverse (whether or not the same card as he had picked up) to the camera for each box that she picked, not just for the one she left.

[Lithium]

Are you sure you want to make does kind of statements?

[Lithium]

Whose spare tit is this?

That's right Lithium, have a Bombay Bad Boy. Let's hope you go the way of your namesake song's lead singer. Soon.

Your hoping I'm murdered by a shotgun? Wot cos I thought a TV programme was sh1t?

[realityhack]

Apparently a bloke on TV did summit magic, today? yesterday? Ohhhhh the box of talking pictures!!!!

Think I will stick to BabeStation and chicks wriggling their ass's, much more entertaining

Whose spare tit is this?

That's right Lithium, have a Bombay Bad Boy. Let's hope you go the way of your namesake song's lead singer. Soon.

[Lithium]

Apparently a bloke on TV did summit magic, today? yesterday? Ohhhhh the box of talking pictures!!!!

Think I will stick to BabeStation and chicks wriggling their ass's, much more entertaining

[TimberWolf]

I think he's great - if only all TV was this entertaining...

It was a bit too drawn out for my liking, so I watched "Live at the Apollo" while way too many cups were being crushed, etc.

[scooterscot]

I think he's great - if only all TV was this entertaining...

[d000hg]

If that was it then I am extremely disappointed in him, I expected more.

Yeah. Me too.

I wonder how many groups will try to predict the lottery using his technique?

I wonder if the next "glue you to your seat" thing will work... I thought it was not allowed to try TV hypnosis though?