Episode 3 Help! My Mini School Trip Is Magic

It's term time again

and our four magicians have left school on a brand-new mission.

This time, we are taking unsuspecting kids out of school

and sending them on school trips.

They're off to visit some amazing locations

where they'll witness incredible magic.

And once again, we're hiding secret cameras in every corner

so you don't miss a trick on any school trip.

How long will it take before the classes shout...

KIDS CHEER

This is Year 4 getting on the coach.

They're going to Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum

and they won't believe what they're about to see.

That's not John, is it?

Ah, oh, it's worse. Only joking, handsome!

The kids are getting close.

It's time for John to get his magic on, cos in they come.

It's great to be here.

Thank you very much for coming to see us here at the attraction.

Now, I'm one of the curators, that's what I do, I curate the things.

In fact, I like to think I'm the head curator,

but I'm not, I'm not the head curator,

I am actually even better than that, I'm the shrunken head curator.

That's marvellous that, isn't it? Who's heard of a shrunken head?

They haven't heard of it, but they won't forget it after John's trick.

Shrunken heads, right, they don't do them now,

but hundreds of years ago, the tribes in places like Ecuador and Peru,

you know, in South America, they used to get the enemies and when

they'd captured them, they'd shrink their head, right down, really small.

Grisly but true.

Now, the problem is, with shrunken heads, there's a lot of fakes,

you can't tell a real one from the fake ones.

Now I've got a shrunken head to show you.

I've got one over here, look.

They are fascinated by John's chat.

I hope he doesn't get too big-headed.

Now brace yourselves because it's an ugly little fella. Look at that.

Isn't that horrible, eh?

That little face looks familiar. Maybe I've seen it in a nightmare.

Now, there's only one way to tell if this is a real shrunken head.

What we have to do, you see, to tell if it's a real one,

we have to rehydrate it. You know when you have mashed potato

and you have that stuff out of the packet, and you put the water in and

-it goes back up to mashed potato...

-She's nodding nervously.

That's like rehydration.

So what we can do, if we put all the water and the moisture and vitamins

back in the head it makes it nice and big, you see, lovely.

So we can do that with one of these.

-This is it, this is my rehydration unit.

-Or a box of tricks.

Now, we can give it a try with this one,

I'll just put the box over here, like that,

and then when I put the head in the box, you see,

all the moisture will get sucked out of the atmosphere and put back into

the head and we find out if it is a real one, that's lovely, isn't it?

They can't believe this, it sounds impossible.

We'll have a little look, I'll just put it in here like this. Just there.

Hang on. Just put it there, look.

Wonderful, now what will happen, I'll close this door,

like that, and what happens now is that head gets rehydrated.

It sucks the moisture from all around us and all the vitamins

and the minerals and the bits of egg, anything that's in the air...

John's getting carried away.

There could be egg in the air, I don't know.

And it sucks it all in, into that box like that and then hopefully,

we can find out if it's a real one, you see,

because if all the air's back in, it should look...

THE AUDIENCE YELL No!

Whoa, the shrunken head has rehydrated.

I nearly done a nervous wee in me pants!

What I can tell from that, you see, as soon as I've done that,

I know that that is a real head. It's marvellous, isn't it?

I've seen that head before. I never forget a face.

Ain't that good? THE AUDIENCE SCREAMS

Oh! I think it's a real one.

I think it's real, boys and girls.

That's Fergus' head, but where's his body?

You can see right under the table, there's nowhere to hide.

Look at you.

-Oi! What are you doing here?

-It speaks.

I'm just talking to them about shrunken heads and everything,

I thought you might wonder... HE STUTTERS

-You...don't even work here!

-Ah, no, that's... That's enough of that.

Don't you shut that trap back up, I'm telling you, don't you do it.

-Let me out!

-Shh, shh.

The head's back in, the secret's nearly out.

He's actually right, boys and girls, I don't really work here

and in fact I don't really talk like this, I talk like this.

-And my name's John.

-And I'm Catherine.

And this fella here...

I'm Fergus.

And we're all magicians.

And you've all been set up by your teachers and your parents

and there's a camera over here and there's a camera over there

and there's one up there and one over there

and you're all going to appear on CBBC's Help! My School Trip Is Magic.

THEY CHEER

That trick was incredible.

Hope it doesn't go to their heads - shrunken or not!

It was amazing, it was just amazing.

It was kind of, like, petrifying to me

cos I didn't think that would actually happen.

A petrifyingly good trick and this school trip were totally fooled.

KIDS CHEER