50 Greatest Magic Tricks
May. 14th, 2002 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothAlthough my video of this programme has been watched about three times, I've not been around for all of it when that's happened.
Does it include my favourite Penn & Teller trick? Woodchipper chugging away on stage, they drop a log into it to demonstrate that it works, and woodchips fly out. They produce a live rabbit, stroke it... oops! it goes into the woodchipper, complete with red stuff flying out.
Do they produce the rabbit, alive and well?
No! Penn says, "So what, it's only a rabbit!" and they move onto the next trick. Fabulous.
Does it include my favourite Penn & Teller trick? Woodchipper chugging away on stage, they drop a log into it to demonstrate that it works, and woodchips fly out. They produce a live rabbit, stroke it... oops! it goes into the woodchipper, complete with red stuff flying out.
Do they produce the rabbit, alive and well?
No! Penn says, "So what, it's only a rabbit!" and they move onto the next trick. Fabulous.
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Date: 2002-05-15 12:32 am (UTC)In one of their books, they tell the story of a trick they were going to do on Letterman: take Letterman's watch, smash 'it', then produce it. From inside a fish. From inside a fish swimming in a tank, which would be taken out and killed.
"You can't do that!" said the TV people. So someone killed about ten fish before the cameras rolled, so it could be taken out of a dead fish on a slab. Ten fish dying was ok, because it wasn't on TV.
It's noticeable which angle you see the levitation from, and which you do not.
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Date: 2002-05-15 05:40 am (UTC)Yeah, when he get's the street audience's reaction they're always standing behind him and to one side. :o) I think we can deduce that one.