Episode 2 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand-new term

and CBBC has sent 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.

Flying around like a magic saucer.

That was sick.

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

I was flabbergasted.

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

Help! My supply teacher is still magic!

CHILDREN CHEER

Hello! It's me, Iain, we're back to school for a new term as

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic. You could say it's...

(DEEP VOICE) Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic II: The Magic Strikes Back.

Once again we've swapped regular teachers with magicians.

And because we know you know them, we've sneakily disguised them.

We've secretly filmed the results with special cameras

hidden in the classrooms.

We're more calculating than someone adding up calculators

with another larger calculator.

We're also showing you loads of great tricks, tricks like this.

Watch the amazing colour-changing hanky.

It's red.

HOOT!

Now it's blue.

I BLEW on it.

Oh, just watch the clips.

Fergus is undercover in this science class.

Another egg!

He's got a magical machine that makes eggs appear from nowhere

to scramble their brains.

John gets up close and magical with a key that's tricky.

For Fergus' interactive illusion, you will need a deck of cards.

Have you got them?

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

and later on I will be picking my favourite.

The Wannabe Wizards are back, and they're even more wizardy.

But first...

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

Do you?

This is James, smooth of magic and of head.

He's not a head teacher, yet.

The disguise is on - James needs new hair and a limber up.

Or not.

BELL RINGS

Enter, Year Six. They're about to design a logo for their class,

but by magic, James has already guessed how it will look.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras in the classroom

or recognised James with his funny wig on.

Little do they know,

they're about to have the best lesson of their lives.

Morning class.

My name is Nicholas and I am a graphic designer.

Now, we're going to design a new logo for your classroom,

that sound good?

CHILDREN: Yeah.

James is pretending to be a graphic designer

who has come in to teach the class.

They do not suspect a thing.

Before a meeting, I like to try and second-guess what my clients like.

So I'll come up with a design ahead of time

and I'll sort of make a sketch of it.

So hopefully when I meet my clients

they'll see my sketch and it'll be what they had in mind too.

I've done that with you guys today

and I've stuck it just in a frame on this door.

So behind that curtain is a logo

that James has already designed for the class.

It would be incredible if the logo they're about to design

is the same, wouldn't it?

So table one, you are going to choose the background design.

You have a choice of colours and we have...

pink, lilac, yellow,

-blue, orange or green. What do we choose?

-Blue.

-Blue, sure?

-Yeah.

They've picked blue for the background of their logo,

but will it match what James chose?

Start making this design up here.

We have a nice blue background there.

Now table two, your job is to choose a different design

that goes on the background.

So we could either have a circle, a diamond shape,

a triangle,

a shield, or we can have a square.

-Diamond.

-The diamond.

A diamond is for ever, but is it what James forecast?

Table three, they've chosen the diamond

so you get to choose which colour.

So we can have pink, orange, lilac, green, blue or yellow.

-Yellow.

-Yellow?

Yes.

Yellow diamond. So far we've got that. Looks pretty cool so far.

Now, table number four. I want you to choose a celebrity

who you think best represents your class.

Which hero will they choose?

OK, what have we got?

-Usain Bolt.

-Ronaldo.

-Usain Bolt?

-Yeah.

Usain Bolt, that's a QUICK choice!

-IAIN LAUGHS

-Cos he's quick and he's...

A "U" for Usain and a "B" for Bolt, so these are his initials.

Where would you like them to go?

-In the middle...in the diamond.

-In the middle of the diamond?

-Yeah.

-There?

-Yeah.

-Like this, not at the top?

-No.

-Not like this?

-No.

-OK, Usain Bolt right in the middle of our diamond, like so.

"UB" for Usain Bolt.

But will James get the gold medal for magic?

Table number five, what I would like you to do is choose

any number from one to ten. It can be any number you want, OK?

-Ten.

-Ten, OK.

Like this along the top or along the bottom?

-Either.

-Like this?

-On the bottom.

-On the bottom?

-Yeah.

-Yeah? So we got Usain Bolt - 10 - like that.

It's coming together.

Now, I have one last thing that we can add to this picture.

I've a selection of different symbols that we can use.

So we can use...

what looks like a bird.

-We can use a football.

-Football.

-We can use...tennis rackets.

-No.

We can use grapes.

-No.

-Or a guitar.

-Yeah.

-Nah.

-Or a butterfly?

No!

Or a red swan, or even a sewing machine.

-Red swan!

-The red swan? OK.

The class are indecisive - makes it harder for James.

-Where would you like it to go?

-On the bottom.

-On the top.

-Corner, here, here?

-On the top of the middle.

-Here?

-Yeah.

-Is everybody happy with that?

-Yeah, that's right.

And you've all chosen a section of this logo

and we've ended up with this.

Isn't that pretty cool?

The class had a free choice of colours, shapes, letters,

numbers and symbols.

If their logo matches the one James already made,

that will be amazing magic!

Something like this. And I put the design behind this curtain.

Remember, the logo James made has been behind the curtain

in the classroom the whole time.

I think you'll be surprised when you see...

..actually...

CHILDREN: Oh!

The class can't believe it!

In fact, it's exactly the same.

James read their minds and now he's about

to blow their minds by revealing his secret identity.

Now, the secret is, I'm not really a designer.

-You're a magician.

-I'm a magician.

-Yes!

-And you are all being filmed for CBBC -

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

No wonder they're excited, that was a sensational trick.

Let's see what they thought about it.

It was just crazy.

The guy said that he was going to do something for our school,

but he ended up being magic.

I thought he was actually working for a company, it was so realistic.

It WAS realistic.

He got them to choose all the different parts of their design.

Or a red swan.

That was just...amazing.

The logos matched up exactly. How did he do that?!

Wow, our minds were blown.

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

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

Help! My supply teacher is still magic!

Later on, you'll see what happened

when Fergus went undercover at another school.

He did a trick with a car, but did he drive them wild?

Right now though, John is at a car museum

and he's about to get up close and magical.

I collect keys, see that? All these keys.

I used to collect doors, but I had nowhere to keep them!

And I had no keys,

I couldn't get in or out.

We're going to do a trick with a key.

Emily, want to have a key? Choose a key for me. That's wonderful.

Can you hold my keys? That's wonderful.

Rhiannan and Freya - you're not doing anything, just relaxing.

What I'd like you to do, could you sign your name on a key?

-That sounds a bit weird.

-Yes.

Can you do that? Take the pen. Just put your initials on the round bit.

You'll have to take the top off the pen, otherwise it doesn't work!

Plenty of laughs and some magic coming.

Emily's signing her initials on the key.

OK, let me have a look. That's great.

-Now, IF you saw this key again, would you recognise it?

-Yes.

Cos it's got your signature on, see that? Can you hold your hand out?

Actually, no, don't do that. Can you hold your hand out?

Good, and hold the key nice and tight.

I'll show you something with another key. Now watch, this is incredible.

See the key? I'm just going to start rubbing it like this.

As I rub it, watch what happens.

Nothing, it's amazing, isn't it? But it will, it will...

John is working his magic on that key.

Tell me if you see anything happening?

Can you see? Can you see it starting to bend?

Very slowly starting to bend up. I'm just rubbing it.

How's he doing that?! He's making the solid key bend!

-Is that definitely going?

-Yeah.

-It is?

Well, it can do more if I just keep rubbing it down. Rubbing, yeah.

(Rubbing it, rubbing it.) Now, that... Look.

Definitely bending up. Look at how much it's gone now!

Look, if you keep rubbing it, it might bend a little more.

Is that definitely metal? It doesn't bend back, it's not made of rubber?

It's been verified that is solid metal and it won't bend back.

That's amazing, but wouldn't it be really amazing

if the key you're holding in your hand and you signed,

if that's bent too?

Would that be amazing?

-Open your hand. GASPS:

-Cool! That's...

Nice one, John, but how did he bend the key that Emily signed

when it's been in her hand the whole time?

I'll take them off you so you can clap.

Thank you so much. I'm blushing, I'm blushing!

I had to write my initials on a key

and he took out another key and he started rubbing it...

-And it finally bent...

-It finally bent.

I was holding this one in my hand and when I opened it

-this key had bent too. Amazing.

-It was amazing.

That's the key to John's success.

Now Katherine challenges you in Tricks Of The Trade.

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

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

Katherine will show you how to make a knot in the middle of a school tie

without letting go of it and by only holding the ends.

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.

But right now, we have something amazing for you.

Have you got a deck of cards ready? This is the interactive illusion.

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

So come on, you need to pay close attention, so get up

and come over here if you want to join in.

Close enough to see the dust on the top of the screen,

but not close enough to make you sneeze.

Go on, get your deck of cards ready now.

Take your deck and remove a Queen and any two number cards.

Have you got them? You should have three cards.

Hold the two number cards face down and then place the Queen

face down on top.

Now, I want you to think of a number from one to ten.

Remember this number as it's your...special...secret...number.

If your secret number was six, you'd move six cards, just like this.

One, two, three,

four, five, six.

Using your secret number,

move that number of cards from the top of the packet to the bottom.

Do that for me now.

Now, using the same number,

do it again to mix those cards even further.

Perfect. Now we'll mix them using my secret number.

My secret number is two.

So move two cards from the top to the bottom of the packet,

remembering one card at a time.

One...two.

Now, move two cards from the top to the bottom AGAIN,

remembering just like before, one card at a time.

Finally, move your secret number that you thought of earlier

from the top to the bottom.

Have you done that? Great.

So now the cards have been REALLY mixed up

and there's no way that I could know where the Queen is.

I'm going to do my best to try and find it.

I want you to take the top card...

..and put it to one side.

Take the next card...

..and put that to one side, too.

The last card in your hand is the Queen, check it out!

Did it work for you?

Wow, well the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been logic-defying.

In fact, it's made my brain ache.

So I feel like 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.

Katherine will reveal the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

James gets up close and magical with a cup-winning trick.

-THEY GIGGLE

-My God!

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

Will he fool the class

or will they realise their supply teacher is still magic?

Ooh, 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 inflatable neck cushion

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

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 week I'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is card ace Dan from Cambridgeshire.

I'm going to be performing

a four ace production routine.

So let's start off by mixing up the cards

so we know they're in no special order.

Give it a bit of a shuffle here.

A few cuts...

He's going to find all four aces

from an extremely shuffled deck.

Just to make sure that I've no idea where the aces are within the pack.

Those aces could be anywhere.

So, get a bit of a normal shuffle...

and there we go.

The first time I do this,

I'm going to try and produce two aces in one.

It's a bit of a mission, but I think I'm going to accomplish it.

So just watch, here we go.

Just like that, the first two aces

reveal themselves to us.

Third ace...is a bit more difficult,

there's only two aces left now

and as I say, I've got less chance of finding them,

but still, I think I will.

Just a quick ripple here

and there is the third ace.

Now, the last ace is arguably

the most difficult ace to produce

as there is only one left

in the pack.

But we're going to give it... a really good shuffle

so you know it's completely mixed in.

Using my magical skills,

hopefully it will be conjured out,

just like that.

And there is the fourth

and final ace.

How did he find that?

That's why Dan's

my Wannabe Wizard this time.

Now it's time for Katherine to reveal

the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Katherine will show you how to make a knot in the middle of a school tie

without letting go and only holding the ends.

Come on, you worked it out yet? How many of you got it?

Perhaps you use your teeth?

Nah!

How many of you are tying up in knots trying to work it out?

OK, let me straighten things out.

Start with your arms crossed.

Then pick up the ends of the tie.

Uncross your arms...

..and there you have it, a perfect knot.

Did you get it?

Now you've all got something to show off with in the playground.

And James is at a theme park getting up close and magical.

-Hi guys, how you doing?

-Hi, fine.

I want to show you a really cool trick with your signature, OK?

You can see I've got some business cards here.

So if you take one. Doesn't matter, just take that, that's fine.

What I'd like you to do

is write your name on the white side, nice and big.

Charlie's writing his autograph on the blank card.

Yeah? Perfect. If I take that back, take this...

Now, you can rub that ink, it doesn't come off.

-No?

-No.

-Rub a bit. Good work, right.

You've marked your card in one way, OK?

We're going to mark it in another way

by punching a hole straight through the back of the card.

So if you take this, I'll just punch a hole about there.

Squeeze. Perfect.

OK, so just wiggle your finger underneath the hole,

make sure it's real and you can feel it, make sure it's real.

So you've marked a card in two different ways.

You have written your name on it and you've also punched a hole in it.

Look, if I squeeze I can actually pull that hole...

..straight off the card and you can check that out.

Where's it gone?

Now, that gives a very interesting problem

and that's, what to do with the hole?

Let's try this, can I borrow this? Right.

CHILDREN GIGGLE

He's moved the hole from the card to the cup!

Holy Moley, James, that's amazing!

I signed my name on one of them cards

and then I hole-punched it

and then he took the hole off it and then...

-He put it in the coffee.

-..he put it in the coffee cup.

And to prove it, he poured it and it came out of the hole.

My God!

-Oh, it was amazing.

-Thought it was weird!

I'm trying to work it out.

Right, I'm going to try that trick - James sent me it in the post.

I've got everything I need.

Here's my card, here's the cup and here's some powdered water.

What do you add to that?

Next up is Fergus.

He's pretending to be a supply teacher to fool another class.

The disguise is on. The hidden cameras are set.

-BELL RINGS

-You'd better get a move on, mate.

Ooh. He made it for his Year Six class.

They don't know it, but Fergus is about to give them

a science lesson they'll never forget.

None of the class have recognised Fergus in disguise

or noticed the hidden cameras.

But will they put two and two together?

Today, we're going to be talking about cloning,

because I'm a specialist scientist.

Now, cloning is making an exact replica of an object or an item.

Everything, everything in this room, everything around us

has a molecular map, has an atomic structure.

It's all made of loads of little things like a code, right?

If you can work out that code, then in theory,

you can replicate another object from nothing.

It's all sounding a bit sci-fi,

but they still believe he's a supply teacher.

Bring on the magic.

For cloning to occur, you need two fundamental things.

The first one is this rather cool generator.

How cool's that?

Now, this generator actually strips and diffuses the DNA.

The next stage is to send that DNA along a wire

to a receiver which is here.

This is my cloning cloth.

The receiver takes the information

that's been processed by the generator

and then it rebuilds it into a real object, an actual physical object.

Now, this is a basic, basic prototype,

so we can't use big objects, we can only use small objects.

-So you'll see on the table I've got an...

-Egg.

Egg. Good. So if I place the egg onto the generator,

turn the generator on

and now I programme it to read the DNA of the egg.

The machine is part of the magic, it cannot clone DNA.

In fact, the DNA could stand for - Does Nothing Actually.

-Now, if I take my cloning cloth...

-Check it out, the cloth is empty.

..and I attach this wire.

All I need to do now is press the transfuser.

So if I press that,

what it does is sends the DNA that it's processed,

all the way along to the cloning cloth.

And if we wait for just the right amount of time...

And incredibly, we end up with an identical...egg.

CHILDREN: Whoa!

How crazy's that?

Listen, please, guys, you need to stay nice and quiet for this.

If you leave it for just a moment to set,

you can actually reach right in and you'll see it

looks like a real egg, cracks like a real egg...look at that.

And if you were to eat that, it would even taste like a real egg,

-but you wouldn't want to eat that, would you?

-Ewww.

No, no, horrible. But obviously once is OK,

but what if I could do it a second time, what if I could do it again?

This is the best science lesson they've ever had

and it's about to get better.

All I need to do to do that is attach the wire again...

..press the transfuser.

It sends that information along to the cloning cloth

and when I take the wire off, we get another egg!

-Whoa!

-Isn't that crazy?

The class love it, but they still don't suspect a thing.

-Now, do you remember what I said, it only works with...?

-Small things.

Small things.

So we are going to try and do this with another small item, a toy car.

So we're going to change that with the egg,

so the egg can go away for now, so I place the egg away.

I place the toy car onto the generator

and we just programme the machine

to read the molecular structure of the car.

Then we attach the wire to the cloning cloth just like before,

press the... Can anyone remember the name of the button?

-Transfuser.

-Excellent, very, very good.

That information travels along to the cloning cloth

and we now have...a toy car.

-Whoa!

-How incredible is that?

Just like with the egg, you can obviously do it once,

but it's more impressive to do it again.

Watch - you attach the wire, you press the transfuser again.

Comes along, along, along.

And now, d'you know what we have? We have ANOTHER toy car.

So you've seen the cloned eggs and cars go into the box.

But here comes the most amazing magic.

Do you remember I said this wasn't a particularly

sophisticated piece of machinery?

They don't last very long,

they don't hold their molecular bonds, their molecular structure.

So do you know what the strangest part is?

-Everything's gone.

-Whoa! What's going on?

-Who enjoyed that experiment?

-Me.

This lesson has been unforgettable, but there's one last trick.

AND do you do science here at school?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

Oh, I forgot to mention one more thing,

I didn't have the original machine.

I actually had a clone of the cloning machine

and d'you remember what happened with the items in the box?

Well, it's exactly the same with the machine. Watch...

-that vanishes as well.

-Whoa!

Incredible. And now it's time to fess up.

Now, I have a slight confession.

My name isn't even Mr Robinson

and all of you have been set up by your teachers here,

by your headmaster, by your family, by your friends

and you're all being filmed right now for CBBC.

-There's a hidden camera there.

-CHILDREN SCREAM

And a hidden camera there! On Help! My Supply Teacher's Magic!

-CBBC!

-Yeah!

Fergus' cloning trick was totally unique,

but how did the class describe it?

I thought it was a joke, because I didn't...

I don't know how someone could really do that.

The class especially loved it

when Fergus made everything in the box disappear.

Flipped the box over, stuff was gone.

It's gone, it's absolutely gone.

I was just flabbergasted, I couldn't believe my eyes.

The best bit was yet to come.

-That vanishes as well.

-Oh!

The cloth just went straight down and there was no box inside.

An amazing trick and this class didn't realise.

Help! My supply teacher is still magic!

I love genetically reproducing things.

This is an ice-cream cone and this is an ice-cream CLONE.

You're welcome.

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's still magic!

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