Episode 12 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand new term

and CBBC are sending these four 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.

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 say it's

-IN DEEP AMERICAN VOICE:

-Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic 2.0 - Magic Rebooted.

Once again we swap regular teachers with magicians

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

We've filmed the results with special hidden cameras

in the classrooms.

Yeah, we're trickier than an old dog who's been taught two new tricks!

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

Tricks like this, eh?

Doesn't get more "magicky" than that, eh?

Magic key!

Magic... It's a key and there's magic...

Just play the clips!

James has a magical vending machine that makes drinks

appear from nowhere, but can he get away with it?

You'll need nine different playing cards or trading cards

for Fergus's interactive illusion.

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

and later on I'll be picking my favourite.

Merlin's got nothing on the wannabe wizards, but first...

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

Do you?

This is James.

He's a trickster but about to be a teacher again.

He has an air of mystery and a hair of history -

because it used to belong to someone else!

Enter Year Four.

They don't know it yet, but James is going to take

a lesson about a new invention that is very inventive with the truth.

None of them have recognised James or noticed the cameras

secretly hidden in the classroom, but will James be able

to keep his identity a secret when the magic begins?

Good morning, class. I am an inventor.

Now, what that means is people come to me to solve their problems.

Now, I did some work recently for a big hotel chain

and their problem was that in their lobby

they had a big vending machine that was full of food and drinks,

but because the hotel was so busy, it meant that it was always empty.

So they had to call someone in to fill it up and, not only that,

but to fix it.

My job was to invent something that was easy to fill, easy to fix

and, most importantly, very cheap.

And here's what I came up with.

Now, this sits on the desk in the hotel lobby

and will produce objects for clients on request.

Sounds incredible, eh?

Now, the best thing about this machine is all the objects

get made inside, so that means you never have to refill it.

But at the moment it's empty.

He's right. That box definitely looks empty.

But if I touch my key to the side and say "fruit bar",

I can reach in and get a fruit bar.

Isn't that great?

Fruit bar, that's nutty! How did he do that?!

A real fruit bar.

It also does multiples. So if I say "two bars of chocolate",

I can get one bar of chocolate...

CHILDREN GASP

..and I can get two bars of chocolate.

Now, another great thing is, even though it's empty,

I can even produce drinks. So I'm not just stuck to food.

So, nothing inside.

If you say "one drink",

I can get a drink.

CHILDREN GASP

He made the drink appear from nowhere and they've

swallowed his story, but it's not a real invention, it's a trick!

So if I go "two drinks", do you know what happens?

I get two drinks.

-BOY:

-Wow!

Where is he pulling that stuff from?!

It can even get drinks of different size,

so if I say "one large drink",

I can reach in and get one large drink.

If he really invented that machine, he could make a mint!

Except he's going to make more drink.

I can even do size and multiples, so I can go "two large drinks",

and get one, two large drinks.

I can even do combinations, so if I say...

.."two bars of chocolate and a drink",

I can get one, two bars of chocolate and a drink.

Isn't that great?

Whoa, this gets better! It's a TARDIS of a vending machine!

CHILDREN GASP

Oh yes, it's a real drink.

The class are lapping it up but it's not over yet.

I can even do multiples of different sizes,

so I could say "two small drinks and one large drink".

Touch the room key to the side, and I get two small drinks

and one large drink.

Isn't that great?

They like this lesson. They want that invention -

if only it were real!

"Two large drinks."

One, two large drinks.

CHILDREN APPLAUD

They don't know he's a magician, but they would like for him

to share the love with that food and drink.

I forgot to show you my favourite part.

Let's say, for example, that you were in a hotel with all your family

and you have to get drinks for everybody.

Now even though this is a really small box,

it can still produce as many drinks as I need.

So if I say "six drinks", I can get

one, two, three, four,

five, six drinks.

Unbelievable!

But just wait till they get a load of the big magical secret.

Now that you've seen my machine work, would you like me to

tell you the secret as to how I designed it?

-CHILDREN:

-Yes!

Well, the secret is I'm not really an inventor.

But I do invent things.

It's just I invent magic tricks.

Because I'm a magician,

and all your teachers know I'm a magician,

and all your parents know I'm a magician,

and you are being secretly filmed

on cameras here, and at the back,

and here.

You're all going to be on Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic on CBBC!

CHILDREN LAUGH

It's been a snack-packed trick by James.

Did it leave the class eating out of his hands?

I thought it was really good and I don't know how he did it.

It looked so real.

I can reach in...

It was real! The empty box turned into a vending machine!

Real fruit bar.

He just put this card on the thing and it just...

And he talked what he wanted to do and it just came out.

There were so many snacks and drinks,

James could start his own shop!

My favourite bit was when he started getting all the drinks out,

and we were all really shocked.

It was shocking, but how did he do it?

..six drinks.

I think it was just real magic.

An incredible trick, and the class had no idea James was a magician.

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

Later, you'll see what happened

when Katherine went undercover at another school.

You won't believe it when you see - or, er, don't see - her handy magic.

Isn't that cool?

But right now Katherine's playing her cards right

up close and magical.

Now, a lot of people ask me, because I'm a magician, they say to me,

"How do you get to be good at magic?"

And it's a lot like playing an instrument,

You just have to practise, practise, practise all the time.

and I practise with a deck of playing cards,

and I've been practising three moves.

I want to show you those moves, I want you to tell me

if you can see anything, OK?

So I've got here the four aces - the ace of clubs,

the ace of diamonds, the ace of hearts and the ace of spades.

Now for this, it's really important that all the aces are turned

face down like that, and I want you to watch the move.

-This is it, did you see anything?

-No.

Nothing? Just spun the cards around, didn't I, but nothing else.

That's what it looks like but actually what I did was

I turned one of the aces face up, the ace of hearts.

Now, if I spin it again, I'm turning the ace of hearts face down

and this time, I'm turning the ace of clubs face up...

Doesn't seem possible.

..like that.

I'm going to show you the spin one last time, so...

Did you see anything happen?

No.

That's the ace of clubs turning face down

and that was the ace of diamonds turning face up.

She flipped the cards again without them seeing!

Now, the only ace I haven't done this to is the ace of spades, but

I'm going to do something a little bit more special

with the ace of spades.

What I'm going to attempt to do is make all three aces turn

up at the same time.

That'll be a turn up for the books - or the cards!

You ready? One, two, three.

You see, they've all turned face up.

Now I've got one more move to show you.

I'm going to attempt to change all of these aces into different

cards right in front of you. OK, you ready?

Yeah.

One, two, three.

-Did you see it happen?

-No.

-You didn't see anything happen? Nothing changed?

-No.

Hold your hands out flat for me.

Now, the reasons you didn't see it change is because it's not the

faces that have changed, it's the backs that have all changed colour.

Oh, my God!

Didn't see that coming - nor did they!

Oh, that's scary!

I thought that trick was amazing.

She was changing the cards and then, like...

-She flipped them over and they were a different colour!

-Yeah!

Next, James is going to set you a magical challenge in...

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

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

James has got a balloon and two plastic beakers.

He's going to show you how to lift the two beakers off the table

at the same time using the balloon held only at its end.

Can you work out how to do it?

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

It's going to be incredible.

Right now we have something amazing for you.

This is the Interactive Illusion.

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

So, come on, you can pay close attention. So get over here.

It's time to huddle round the telly rugby-style

and take part in the trick. Come on, scrum in! Hop, hop!

I think that's what they say.

Go, Fergus!

Remember, you'll need nine different cards, so get them ready now.

Take a deck of cards or trading cards -

as long as they are all different, the trick will work.

Remove nine cards, that's all we're going to use.

You can put the rest of the cards to one side.

Good. Now mix up the cards in your hands.

Fantastic! Once you've done that, turn the packet face down.

With the packet squared I want you to look at the bottom card.

This will be your card - mine's the four of hearts,

but yours will be different.

Of course, as long as it's on the bottom of the packet

it's easy to find, so I'm going to have you mix the cards,

but we'll do it in a specific way.

I want you to think of a secret word,

any word with less than nine letters.

It could be a friend's name, a pet's name.

I don't want you to say it out loud, just remember it.

Now hold the cards face down.

I want you to spell the secret word in your head,

dealing one card on the table for each letter.

For example, if you'd thought of the word "dog", you'd deal

three cards, one at a time on top of the other, spelling, D-O-G.

So do that now, spelling your own secret words

and dealing the cards face down in a pile on the table.

Good! You probably have some cards left in your hand.

If you do, just drop them on top of the cards on the table,

and pick up the whole packet again.

Great! We're going to mix them up again,

and I don't want you to know how they're getting mixed.

This time I want you to spell the word "my".

Deal two cards onto the table for M-Y

and drop the rest of the cards on top, just as you did before.

Now pick up the packet, you're going to spell the word "password".

Deal the cards down in the pile,

one for each letter, spelling with me,

P-A-S-S-

W-O-R-D.

Drop the extra card on top, then pick them all up.

Now we'll spell "is". Deal two cards down, I-S.

Drop the rest of the cards on top and pick them all up.

You just spelled "My password is".

Those were words that I told you to use,

but now I want you to use your own personal secret word again.

Spell your secret word one more time, dealing cards on the table.

D-O-G was mine.

Place the rest of the cards on top.

Fantastic!

Instead of guessing, I'm going to tell you exactly where your card is

because I think I've worked out your secret word.

Turn over the top card of your packet

and that's your selected card!

Did it work for you?

Here's magical James with his cards up close to his chest.

I want to show you a fantastic card trick, OK?

So, Uriah, what I'm going to do is if I run my thumb down the side

of the deck, what I'd like you to do is just say stop.

-Stop!

-There? Exactly there? OK.

And take the card and show Mum,

and show everybody at home on the cameras, make sure everybody sees it.

It's the five of clubs.

Perfect, and if I take that back...

Yep, that's fine, it doesn't matter if I see.

In fact, why don't we make this a little bit more personalised

and, Uriah, if you'd just write your name just on that card.

If you take the pen, just write your name across there

or initial it or mark it some way.

Good work!

Excellent, good stuff. And if I take my pen back...

OK, so you've marked this card now,

so you'd recognise it if you saw it again.

Now we're going to lose your card in about the middle of the deck, OK?

If you can push that in for me.

Perfect. Now think about this, if I went through the deck at this point

and found your card, it wouldn't be that great because

not only did I see it, but you also wrote your name on the face.

-Correct?

-Yeah.

So why don't we make this even more difficult

and put the cards inside the box like so?

Like that, and you can take the box.

Now, if I would be able to find your card now it would be impossible,

-would it not?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

Now, you've probably noticed this card in the middle of my chest.

Now, if this card from another deck was the same

colour as your card, that would be OK.

If it were the same suit, it might just be a coincidence,

but if this card from another deck was exactly the same

card as the one you just picked,

that would be almost impossible, but it wouldn't be impossible.

What would make it impossible is if I'd reach up

and unpin this card, and it was the one with your name on it.

-How?!

-You can take that.

How did he get Uriah's signed card from the sealed deck

and onto his top?

I don't believe it!

He made my card that I wrote my name on, on his chest,

and that looked a little bit shocking.

Unpin this card, and it was the one...

I thought there were, like, two the same.

Shocked me into pieces!

Wow! Well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been intense -

so intense it's made my ears pop.

POPPING NOISE

So I feel like I've well and truly earned a sit down.

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

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

John's stretching the truth with a rubber band trick

Up Close And Magical,

James reveals his secret in Tricks Of The Trade -

have you worked it out yet?

And watch what happens when Katherine goes under cover

in another school.

Will she fool the class,

or will they realise their supply teacher is still magic?

Hoo! 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, I've got my computer to watch the magic on

and I've even brought my own sound effects.

PARP!

Let's do this already!

We asked you to send in clips of yourself 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 Atticus from Yeovil.

He was in the first series, but he's back with an uncanny coin trick.

Hi, I'm going to show you a trick with one, two, three, four coins.

I'm also going to use one, two, three, four cards.

I'm going to cover up the coins with the cards, just like this, OK?

So I've got one coin here, one coin here,

but if I just cover them up...

Ker-ching!

..the coins vanish and reappear from here.

So I'm going to do it once more.

I've got one coin here, two coins here and if I...

..cover them up, they disappear and reappear on here.

He made another coin jump and now there's three together!

For our last one, this is the hardest one

so I'm going to do it a bit slower,

We've got three coins here and we've got one coin here.

If I just click my fingers, the coin vanishes and appears back over here.

We've got one, two, three, four coins.

Thank you very much, I hope you enjoyed it.

We did enjoy the four coin trick from our two-time Wannabe Wizard.

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

James will show you how to lift two plastic beakers off a table

at the same time using a balloon held only at its end.

Come on, have you worked it out?

How many of you got it?

Do you inflate the balloon

and charge it with static electricity to pick up the beakers?

No, of course not!

Can we get another balloon, please?

Put the balloon in your mouth and hold the beakers like this.

Inflate the balloon, pushing the beakers against it.

As it fills with air, the balloons expand into the cups

and creates enough grip to lift them off the table.

Did you get it? Are you amazing already?

Now you've all got something you'll be bursting to show your mates!

Next John is at a car museum getting...

-Hello, how are you?

-I'm fine.

Good, good, good. Sorry I'm a bit late, I had trouble parking.

That's not mine!

I'll show you a trick with some of these, do you know what those are?

-Bands?

-Hair bands?

This trick coming up is banned in 50 countries -

rubber band, that is!

Would you take that elastic band and check that it stretches?

That's what you do with elastic bands, stretch them.

Do you know what?

They're very difficult to compress - that means to squeeze in a ball.

Have a go and try and squeeze that into a ball with your fingers, Faye.

It's really hard to get it into a little ball.

Try and scrunch it up. You can't do it, can you?

No. Unless you're a magician.

I'll going to scrunch mine up, and watch how small

I can get this elastic band just by scrunching it up.

I just scrunch it like this and scrunch it.

It gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.

In fact, I'll squeeze it up with this hand, it gets smaller and smaller

and smaller, so small...

that it actually vanishes.

Incredible! But I know what you're thinking,

"It can't really vanish."

But as well as stretching and squeezing,

elastic bands can do something else.

Do you know what else?

They can jump, and it actually jumped.

-Do you know where it jumped?

-No.

Onto your left shoulder.

Oh, my God! That's amazing!

How did you do that?

I don't know, but I'm so glad you've asked!

I'm so glad you've asked. It makes me feel special!

She's made John's day and John's made theirs. Magical job done!

I'm going to go off and buy another car!

He curled it into a ball

and then it bounced onto Anna's shoulder.

I was shocked, I didn't feel anything and it was amazing.

That trick's going down in history.

Here's a bit of history for you. It's "magicky!"

Magic key.

Do you remember that classic from earlier?

This is Katherine.

She's a magician with the je ne sais quoi.

I don't know what that means, but it sounds good.

The disguise is on, the hidden cameras are set.

-BELL RINGS

-Enter Year Five.

They don't know it yet, but Katherine's about to give them

a class about refraction that should get a great reaction.

None of the class have noticed the cameras or recognised Katherine.

Will she be able to keep it up,

or will they see right through her invisibility trick?

-Hello, everybody!

-CHILDREN:

-Hello!

I'm going to be taking your science lesson today,

and we're learning all about light and refraction.

Now, refraction is when light changes direction...

Katherine's got their attention with talk of refraction,

but soon she's going to go "boom" and hit them with the trick.

Now, scientists have been doing something pretty amazing

with this refraction.

They're actually making things look invisible.

-CHILDREN:

-Wow!

Invisible?! This I have to see!

Now, you've all seen on films and on TV

when people have invisibility cloaks or their superpowers make them

be invisible? Well, that's exactly what they're trying to recreate.

At the moment it's still early days, so it only works on small things,

or on parts of the body as opposed to your entire body, OK?

So would you like to see it?

-CHILDREN:

-Yes.

Yeah? Well, here it is, the invisibility machine.

-CHILDREN:

-Whoa!

I second that - whoa!

I've actually been lucky enough to try this out yesterday,

and it does make things turn invisible.

Would you like to see it work?

-CHILDREN:

-Yes!

Yeah? OK, so let's turn it on first.

There we go. And I'm going to roll back my sleeves,

because it's important that there's nothing on my arm.

Now, if I just put my arm all the way in the invisible machine

like this...

Don't worry, that machine's harmless.

And soon Katherine's going to be pretty arm-less!

You can see my arm inside. Can everyone see my arm?

-CHILDREN:

-Yes.

Yeah? Now, behind this middle door, my arm has turned invisible.

Would you like to see it? Yeah?

OK, here it is. My arm is invisible.

-CHILDREN:

-Whoa!

-Isn't that cool?

CHILD: That's amazing!

-CHILD:

-How did you do that?

Well, that's not the only thing.

Not only has it turned invisible,

it actually temporarily disperses all the molecules in my arm. Watch.

I can actually put my left arm all the way through

my right arm, like that!

CHILD: That's freaky!

Isn't that cool? It's mad. It's amazing, isn't it?

Now it does feel a little bit strange on my arm,

so I'm going to take my arm out.

There we go. And switch it off.

Katherine's taken her arm out, but can this class handle the truth?

Now, I'm going to tell you a secret.

I'm not actually a real teacher.

In fact, I'm a magician, and all of you have been set up

by your parents and your teachers to be on

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic. And there's a camera over there,

and there's a camera over there, and there's a camera over there.

Katherine's invisibility trick has visibly rocked it,

but how did the class reflect on their lesson?

There was an invisibility machine, which the teacher convinced me

that scientists invented it.

Didn't feel real.

It felt like I was sleeping, in a dream.

They weren't dreaming. Katherine really did open their minds,

open the door and open up her arm.

When she put her hand into the machine,

it felt really, extremely creepy.

It was really, really cool.

I mean, when it was invisible I just felt like fainting.

Even if they were feeling faint, Katherine was ready to lend a hand.

I just couldn't believe that that was happening,

and when she put her other arm through it, that was weird.

Epic!

An incredible trick, and this class didn't realise...

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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