Episode 11 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand new term and CBBC has sent these magicians back to school.

They're pretending to be supply teachers

so that they can perform amazing magic on unsuspecting classes

but because you know and love them

this time we've cunningly disguised them...

..then we hid secret cameras all over classrooms

and watched as they taught spectacular lessons.

Went flying around, like a magic saucer.

CHILDREN GASPING

That was sick!

It's more magic, it's more outrageous...

I was just flabbergasted.

..but how long will it take before the classes shout...

Hello, it's me, Iain, and we're back to school for a new term.

It's Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

You could even say it's...

Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic Two: Two Become Wand.

Once again we've swapped regular teachers with magicians

and, because you know them, we've disguised them.

We've filmed the results with special cameras

hidden in the classrooms.

Oh, yes, we're slicker than an oil slick on an ice rink.

We're also showing you loads of other great tricks,

tricks like this -

I've been practising since the last series,

it's my rabbit in a hat trick.

Oh, yeah, here we go...

Oh, rabbit's gone.

He didn't even eat his dinner.

Just play the clips.

Coming up...

John's undercover in the classroom

with a trick using blocks that will knock off their socks.

From a deck of cards, you're going to need four aces, four kings,

four queens and four jacks

to play along with Fergus' interactive illusion.

Plus you've been sending in clips of all your best magic tricks

and later on, I'll be picking my favourite.

Who's hotter than Harry Potter? It's the Wannabe Wizards.

But first...

Do you think you'd be able to tell if your teacher started doing magic?

Do you?

This is John.

He's an uber-confident magician and a super convincing teacher.

Wheel him in, the disguise is on.

Enter year four. They don't know it yet

but John's about to give them an incredible lesson about memory

that they will never forget.

What was I saying?

Oh, yeah, none of them have noticed the hidden cameras

or recognised John in his disguise.

Can he keep it up or will they remember him from the first series?

It's great to be here and I'm glad to teach you.

I'm going to teach you about memory.

One of the big problems we have with memory

is that we get distracted

and I'm going to try and show you how, by being distracted,

it can affect our memory.

So I'm going to test your memory using these numbered blocks.

We've got the numbers one, two, three and four.

Now, all I need you to do is to remember the order of the blocks.

Sounds easy, right?

Don't forget John's a magician - there may be a trick involved.

So if I cover them up and say, "What is the order of the blocks?"

-you'd be able to tell me, yes?

-One, two, three, four.

-And which number's at the top?

-One.

-Number one.

-Which number's at the bottom?

-Four.

Excellent! Very good. So, we're going to try that.

I'm going to mix them up a little bit, I'll still keep it simple

and all I need you to do is to remember what the order is...

The order is four at the top, one at the bottom.

..but this time I'm going to try and distract you.

So, remember what number's at the bottom,

what number's at the top.

I've got a couple of questions. Who can tell me what six times three is?

-Yes?

-18.

18, very, very good.

John's trying to distract the class with other maths.

I still remember the order - four at the top, one at the bottom.

But who can tell me what 12 times two is? Yes?

-24.

-24 well done.

Now, who can remember the order of the blocks? Yes?

-Four, three, two, one.

-So what number's at the top?

-Four.

-And what number's at the bottom?

-One.

Number one. Who thinks that's right?

Excellent. Put your hands down.

You see what happened,

you all thought that number one was at the bottom

and number four was at the top

but actually, you're all wrong,

you see, number ONE is at the top

and number four is at the bottom.

He can't believe it!

I can't believe it - this must be magic.

What happened is, you got distracted.

This time I want you to remember something very, very simple.

Look, I'm just going to turn some of these blocks,

there's nothing else in here,

I'm just going to turn the even numbers round the wrong way.

OK, so he's got the odd numbers, one and three, at the front.

I'm going to cover the blocks up

and all I want you to do is to remember

which numbers are facing the front.

Who can tell me if 75 is an even or an odd number?

-Yes?

-Odd.

-It's an odd number, very good.

Here's the next question, what numbers are facing the front?

Odd numbers or even numbers?

-Odd.

-Odd! Watch.

Actually the numbers facing the front are the even numbers.

They can't believe it. It's an odd trick.

The class weren't distracted, they did remember

but John's fooling them with some freaky magic.

A good way to remember things is to write things down.

So what we're going to do is write the numbers on the tube

so we can't forget them

and you're going to decide the order you want the numbers in.

So, what number do you think should be at the bottom?

Four.

Number four, excellent, we'll put number four on the bottom

and, let me see, this boy, what number do you think we should have?

-We can't have four, we can have one, two or three?

-One.

Number one you think should go there.

The class are choosing the numbers,

-surely there's no way that John can bamboozle them now?

-Three.

Three. Brilliant, number three there, which means the last number...

See the order written on the box - two, three, one, then four.

Now, once we have that written down,

it makes it really easy for us to remember the order of the numbers

because all we have to do is put the numbers in exactly the same order

that they are on the tube...

Hang on, that is not the same order.

Does that make sense?

-It's not the same.

-It's not the same?

No, they are, cos that's what we wrote on here.

You chose four, one, three, two.

That's what you chose

and look, the cubes are actually in the order that you chose -

four, one, three, two.

John's caught them out - how did he do that?

Other than being an amazing magician, of course.

It's a memory system.

Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, whoa, whoa -

I forgot to tell you something, I forgot to tell you something.

John's remembered an important detail.

He's about to let them in on his secret.

I should've told you this earlier. I'm not really a teacher.

I'm actually a magician and you've been set up by your teachers,

and your parents, and your family to be on a CBBC show called

Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic,

and there's cameras here, and there's cameras there,

and there's cameras over here.

John's memory magic was unforgettable

but what impression did it make on the class?

I thought that was amazing.

-He confused our minds a bit didn't he, Tyrell?

-Yeah.

-I'm going to distract you...

-No wonder they're confused -

John covered the numbers and they magically changed their order.

Actually, number one is at the top.

I was, like, this isn't possible,

I am sure that was one, two, three, four,

not four, three, two, one.

When John made the odd numbers swap to evens,

the class were even more bamboozled.

The numbers facing the front are the even numbers.

I thought he was actually right and we were wrong

but then I started to get, realise, that we were right

and he'd just changed it around.

That's a skill of master maths magician, my learned friend.

And look, the cubes are actually in the order that you chose -

four, one, three, two.

It blew my mind!

A mind-blowing trick indeed

and the class had no idea John was a magician.

How long would it take for you to shout...

Later on, you'll see what happened

when James went undercover at another school.

He's got a trick that will take your brain to another dimension.

Now, pay attention. Katherine's Up Close And Magical.

I'm going to show you something really cool

with these six playing cards.

We've got three black ones, all being the ace of clubs,

and we've got three red ones, all being the seven of hearts.

Three red cards, three black cards.

Now, Adam, if you could hold your hands out flat for me

like a table, that's perfect but both together, that's great.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to mix these red and black cards

so the colours alternate.

So we're going to put one red one down,

one black one, one red one...

Katherine's alternating between the red and black cards.

One red one and one black one,

so the colours are all completely mixed

-and that was fair, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-That was completely fair.

But if you listen really carefully,

I don't know if you can hear this, can you hear that?

It's very slight, a little sound,

that's the sound of the cards all moving and separating back

into all red and all black.

Yep, you heard, they've all separated back to red and black.

Good trick.

Adam, if you hold your hands out, again, for me.

We're going to do it again. So, we're going to do one red card...

See if they can work it out this time.

..one black card.

One red card...

..one black card,

one red card and one black card

so the colours are all fairly mixed up together, agreed?

Completely fair, but if you listen,

can you hear that sound? It's very, very slight.

That's again the cards moving and separating back

into all red, and all black.

Katherine's done it again.

I tell you what, I'm going to try and make it even fairer this time.

Adam, what I'd like you to do is to hold your hands out again for me.

Now this time, to make it fairer,

I think I should do it with the cards face up.

You all think that'll be fair, right? Yeah?

So one red card.

I'm not taking my eyes off those cards.

One black card.

We've got one red card...

..one black card,

one red card and a final black card.

Square them up together.

And, if you listen, you can hear them snap back

to going all black and all red.

-That's pretty cool, isn't it?

-Yes.

She's only gone and done it a third time

and they still couldn't catch her red-handed.

-Astonishing.

-Yeah, that trick was amazing, it was unbelievable.

You can't say nothing about it, it's in your head

and it's physically impossible, you just can't see it happening.

So when you see it, you're speechless.

Great trick and now you can learn your own with James

and Tricks Of The Trade.

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

here's a trick you can try on your mates.

James has got a penny - nice.

And...and a... Where is it?

Oh, a banknote.

James is going to show you how to balance a penny

on the edge of a flat banknote.

Can you work out how to do it?

Keep watching and you'll find out later in the show.

It's going to be great.

Right now, we have something amazing for you.

Have you got your deck of cards ready?

This is the Interactive Illusion.

This is a trick where you can take part at home.

So come on, you'll need to pay close attention.

So get up nice and close to the telly. Yeah, and you.

You as well.

Hmm, not you.

Remember, just the four aces, kings, queens and jacks required.

This trick involves a story

but before we can tell it,

you'll need to make sure you have the following -

four aces, four kings, four queens and four jacks

from a regular deck of cards.

These are going to be the characters in our story.

The aces, kings, queens and jacks

were all pupils at the same school.

In fact, they were in the same class.

The aces arrived together

as they were best friends,

but they were made to sit at different tables.

Lay the aces out in a square formation. Fantastic.

Next the kings arrived and they had to sit at different tables.

Place a king on top of each ace.

Then the queens arrived

and guess what?

They had to sit at different tables too.

Place a queen on top of each king.

The last to arrive were the jacks who, just like the other

groups of friends, were split up onto different tables.

Place a jack on top of each queen.

Now place each packet onto one another.

It doesn't matter what order you go in,

scoop them up into your hand.

Fantastic.

Now turn this whole packet face down.

Of course, the friends all wanted to be together

and not sat at different tables,

so when the teacher wasn't looking, they decided to move around.

Cut the packet that's in your hands

as many times as you like.

Now deal the cards out into that square formation that we did before.

What that will do is leave you with four cards in each pile.

When the teacher turned round...

..incredibly...

..all of the kings were sat together,

all of the queens were sat together...

..all of the jacks were sat together

and finally...

all of the aces were sat together.

Now turn your cards over.

They match, don't they? Incredible!

Next, James has a trick that's crisp and he's Up Close And Magical.

This is an entertainment trick,

so just like if you were going to the

cinema you get to enjoy a snack.

So I brought some snacks with me for you.

We've got some corn snacks,

we've got some fruit and nut,

we've got fruity bear things,

we've got peanuts

and we've got a packet of crisps.

Which one of these would be your favourite?

Crisps.

The crisps? OK, cool, if you take those.

Don't open them just yet, we'll come back to that later.

In fact, why don't you take the rest of those? There we go.

I'm going to need one of you to choose a card,

so can you do this for me?

If you hold out your magic finger like this. Excellent.

And if you just touch the back of any one of the cards, that would be good.

Just touch the back of any one. Which one?

This one? OK, cool.

If you take that.

Take it and show the cameras, that'd be good.

Got that? It's the seven of clubs.

OK, and if we take that

and we're just going to mark this in a very special way.

See, what we're going to do is we're going to tear a corner off.

In fact, you can tear that last bit yourself, if you'd like.

So think of that like a receipt, OK?

So the next time you see this card,

you know that the corner

is missing and you've got a corner.

This is where the skill comes in.

See, I'm going to cut your card

into the deck like this.

But I've been practising.

I've been practising a lot lately

and I can cut to any card I want to.

So which card was it?

The seven of clubs. Right.

Seven of clubs, here we go.

He's put it in randomly

and he's going to cut straight to the seven of clubs.

Here we go, seven of clubs.

Seven of clubs is around about there.

Oh, wait.

No way, how did it get in there?

That's crisps.

But if I've got the crisps...

I haven't touched that packet of crisps, have I?

You've had that since the beginning?

Since before you chose the card?

Do you want to lift it up so everybody can see?

And just open it up. Can you open that for me?

Inside the packet of crisps, what is there?

The seven of clubs. Check the corners match.

Whoa, it's the ripped seven of clubs!

But he was holding the bag the whole time!

The exact same seven of clubs.

Ridiculous.

That trick had some serious bite.

-It's amazing.

-Thank you.

How can that happen?

When I opened this, it had the same tear that

she had off the seven of clubs.

It was in there.

But this is from, like, the factory that they're made.

How can he put the card in here?

Wow, well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting and the quality

has made my head spin. In fact, it's made me a bit dizzy.

So I think I've earned a sit down,

but before I do, let's have a look at what's coming up.

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

James reveals his secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

Katherine gets Up Close And Magical

with a trick that turns our minds to sponge.

Mind-blowing.

And watch what happens when James goes undercover in another school.

Will he fool the class?

Or will they realise their supply teacher is still magic?

Isn't that amazing?

Yes.

Each week I'm bringing you

another of my new favourite magic movers and shakers

doing tricks in their own cribs, yards and front rooms.

We call them the Wannabe Wizards.

So I've got my comfy chair...

CLICK, GUNSHOT

..I've got my computer to watch all the magic on

and I'm going to watch it with one of my fans.

Let's do this already.

FAN WHIRRS

We asked you to send in clips of yourselves performing

your best magic tricks.

We received loads of clips from all over the country.

Each episode, I'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is Oliver from Leighton Buzzard

with a trick that will have you buzzing.

OK, I'd like to show you a card trick.

We'll start by giving the deck a shuffle like that

and if you could just cut the deck

into two piles on the table.

And we'll use this pile. If you could just give them a mix for me.

Go on, Mum, give them a good shuffle.

And just go for any card you like.

That one? Show it to the camera.

She's picked the two of spades.

We'll lose it inside the pack.

-You can just keep hold of those for the time being.

-OK.

We'll go onto these cards.

If you could just name a number between one and ten?

-Five.

-So I'll count out five cards.

One, two, three, four, five.

And the next card is the three of clubs.

Now, you could've gone for the seven of hearts,

you could've gone for the six of spades,

but you went for the three.

If we just take this pile and count out three cards -

one, two, three.

You see, the next card is actually the two of spades.

-Is that your card?

-Yes, it is.

Whoa! Knew I could count on you, Oliver!

Next up, it's James to reveal his secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

James will show you how to balance this penny

on the edge of a flat banknote.

Come on, have you worked it out yet?

Has the penny dropped?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Do you hold the penny in place?

No!

Do you get your mate to come and help?

Don't be daft! Get away, Katherine.

So enough teasing already. What's the secret, James?

Fold a banknote in half like this,

stand it up on a flat surface

and prepare to position the penny.

It goes right here on top of the fold,

then slowly pull the edges of the banknote apart.

The friction and the banknote take care of the rest.

It's a tricky operation, eh, James?

Boom! There it is.

Now you can impress everyone in the playground using your pocket money.

Next, Katherine's at a car museum

to drive them wild Up Close And Magical.

I've got something amazing to show you.

I've got a friend with me here

but he's a little bit shy

so he does tend to hide a bit

but he is around here somewhere.

Oh, look! There he is.

This is Meany.

Now, Meany has a little tiny brother called Teeny.

Whoa! Two for the price of one.

Now, Meany is kind of out of shape and he's quite a slow mover,

whereas Teeny is much, much smaller and much quicker.

So what I'd like you to do, Jake, is to hold onto Meany for me

and Elliot, I want you to hold onto Teeny.

Now, just to warn you, he moves very, very quickly, OK?

So you're going to have to grab him quick because he's going to try

and get away. OK, are you ready?

That was so quick, it's almost as if she didn't let go.

I'll tell you what, let me take hold of Teeny

and you grab a hold of Meany.

So Katherine's got the ball called Teeny

and Elliot's got the ball named Meany.

Oh, look at that. He's gone.

But if you have a look in there,

I think he might have gone to see his brother. There he is.

Whoa! He only had one ball. Now he's got both.

Now, you know they've got an even younger brother who's even smaller

called Weeny. So, Jake, if you can hold onto both of them for me

and we're going to find Weeny.

Oh, look, there he is. This is Weeny.

Now he's so small it looks as though he's not there

but he is there, he's just very, very shy

and he only comes out if he's with his big brothers.

So if we throw him in your hand,

open up very slowly,

we should find that he's hiding in there with them.

Oh, look at that! There you go. There's Teeny, Weeny and Meany.

-Isn't that amazing?

-Yeah.

That's no meany feat. I mean mean.

Three balls just suddenly appeared in my hand.

I don't know how that could be possible.

And there's Teeny, Weeny and Meany.

I think that trick was absolutely brilliant.

A bit mind-blowing.

Those sponge balls get everywhere.

Here's another one. There's probably some around you.

See if you can find them all. Have a little look.

All right!

Calm yourselves down!

OK, now you can gear yourselves up again because James is

pretending to be a supply teacher to try and fool another class.

The disguise is ready, the props are ready...

or they were.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

Enter year four. They don't know it yet but they're about to get

an incredible lesson about space that's out of this world.

So far, none of them have noticed the hidden cameras

in their classroom or recognised James as our magician.

But when the magic starts, will they spot the black holes in his story?

Morning, class.

-ALL:

-Morning.

My name is Mr Andrus and I'm a scientist.

In fact, I'm here from a local university where my speciality

is astrophysics and I'm here to teach you a lesson about space.

He made all of that up.

Now, you might have heard on the news recently that there's been

a massive discovery of something called the Higgs Boson.

This is effectively a tiny, tiny particle that scientists have

been looking for for years and years and years and years.

The Higgs Boson is particularly interesting when we come to

study something called black holes. Have you heard of black holes?

-ALL:

-Mm-mm.

Now, you might have seen something on TV or maybe a film

where you've seen a space ship go into a black hole

or something like that and thought, "That can't be real."

But they are. Black holes are real and they're what happens

when a star stops shining.

That is a true fact.

Imagine a star that's been up there for millions and millions of years.

One day it's going to stop shining

and what happens is it implodes in on itself,

becoming very, very, very, very small but very, very dense.

The matter is so dense, not even light can pass through.

Boom! That was my mind imploding.

Watch this space, though - the magic's coming.

So to demonstrate that, I've got a few things with me today.

I've got a piece of card with a hole in it

and that's going to be a black hole.

Not very black hole-ish yet but there's some magic in that model.

And I've also got this ball,

which is going to be

a particle of space dust, OK?

So imagine a black hole is like a big vacuum cleaner in the sky

that sucks dust or anything that comes into its way straight inside

and once inside, it can never escape.

So if this dust were to go into the hole like so...

..it would remain inside the hole forever.

Now, you might think that

because it's in the hole, it must have gone through the other side

but it hasn't. It's actually remained inside the hole.

Now, at the moment,

there's no known force in the entire universe

powerful enough to reach inside

and be able to pull that particle of space dust out.

Isn't that amazing?

It's been incredible already but it's about to go into hyperspace.

Even if I were able to hold onto that particle of dust the entire time,

it would still disappear as I was holding it.

Isn't that crazy?

It would never, ever be reproduced.

Now he's got it back again.

Surely they must suspect this lesson is slightly alien?

Imagine that now we know things about black holes never

thought possible. In fact,

we can reach right into the deepest darkest bits of a black hole...

-ALL:

-Whoa!

We might even find people from another galaxy. Isn't that amazing?

Yes.

The amazing thing is, where did that rocket come from?

Now, there's a few things

I need to tell you about this entire experiment, OK?

James's secret about the rocket is going to rock their world.

Remember at the beginning I told you I was an astrophysicist?

-Mm.

-I'm not.

See, an astrophysicist is the best job in the universe.

It's the best job you can have.

I don't have the best job. I've got the second best job in the universe.

I'm a magician.

THEY GASP

And not only that, but all of your teachers

and your parents know that I'm a magician and they've all set

you up, to be filmed on hidden cameras just there and there

and there and there for CBBC's Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

Hello!

James's lesson made them see stars

but what did they think of the black hole trick?

Watch this space.

It was, like, amazing.

He put the ball inside and the ball is gone

and then he dips his hand and the ball comes back out again.

James's Martian magic was impressive

but it was about to go into orbit.

He put his hand back through and he took out a rocket.

It was amazing. I was wondering where did he put the rocket,

it just came out of nowhere.

They didn't see that one coming.

Whoa!

I was thinking, "How did he do that?"

That was the best lesson ever.

An incredible trip and this class didn't realise...

Watch this!

I'm going to make this crisp disappear into this deep black hole.

Here we go.

See? Completely vanished.

See you later, but until then,

if you're at school and you think something magical's occurring,

maybe you'll find yourself shouting,

"Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic."

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