Episode 5 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand new term

and CBBC has sent 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.

Oh.

It 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...?

CROWD OF CHILDREN: Help! My supply teacher is still magic.

Hello, it's me Iain.

We're back to school for a new term at

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

-DEEP VOICE:

-Help My Supply Teacher Is Magic 2, Return Of The Magic.

Once again we swapped regular teachers with magicians.

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

We've been secretly filming the results with special cameras

hidden in the classrooms.

Yeah, we're sneakier than a cat dressed up as a huge

piece of cheese at a hungry mouse convention.

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

The invisible saw.

Coming up, James's magic is inescapably good,

but will he get away with it?

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

Make sure those colours alternate.

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

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

Shazam, the Wannabe Wizards are back. But first...

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

Do you?

This is John, he's a great magician and a bit of a joker.

The disguise is on, cue the dramatic music.

KAZOO FANFARE

Not quite mate. Enter year five.

They don't know it yet, but John's about to give them a lesson

about sound waves that should have them doing the Mexican wave.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras or recognised

John in his disguise.

Can he keep it up and will the magic fly?

Today I'm going to talk to you about sound, and specifically

about how sound works. Sound is in fact waves.

It's waves of energy travelling through air or solid

objects like a table or a wall.

I'm going to try and demonstrate how powerful sound is,

and I'm going to try and demonstrate that with a couple of experiments.

The class is enjoying the lesson already.

John's convinced them he's a teacher.

Sound waves themselves can be incredibly powerful.

Now I'm going to try and demonstrate how sound could be used to

move something with one of these.

This is just a nut and bolt, the type of thing you might

have at home, maybe holding something together on your bike.

And normally, if you want to unscrew that nut from the bolt,

you have to turn it like this and it takes a while

until it's all the way off.

I'm going to try and turn that nut off the bolt just using

the power of sound waves.

If that sounds impossible, it's because it's magic.

I'm going to use one of these. This is a kazoo.

Has anybody ever used a kazoo before?

Wonderful, you have to hum into it like this.

HE HUMS That gives you a note, watch.

Now what I'm going to do is try

and get what we call the resonant frequency of this particular nut.

If I get the frequency that resonates with that nut,

it will hopefully turn the nut completely off the bolt.

Now it might take me a while to get the note,

but we're going to give it a try.

OK, here we go.

HE PLAYS ASCENDING NOTES

That's it.

Whoa, he's making that nut unthread by sound alone.

-ALL:

-Oh.

It's about to drop off and it's all about to kick off.

-ALL:

-Oh.

Now isn't that great? It's amazing.

It's worthy of applause and they don't even know John's a magician.

Now, I'm going to try a bigger experiment.

I'm going to attempt to move a table. Now yesterday I was in the school

and I tried to move one of these tables using just

the power of sound and we couldn't do it, it was too big, I think.

So I've brought a table for home, and to do this I need more sound than

one just one kazoo, so I'm going to give everybody here a kazoo.

Please don't play a note on it straight away

because I get headaches very, very easily.

So wait until after we've all got one and I can tell you what to do. OK.

So here we are. Everybody have a kazoo there.

And a kazoo for you too, that's it. And there you are.

It sounds possible, but it isn't science. It's all a trick.

OK. I'm going to teach you now how to play a kazoo

if you've never played one before. You put the wider end in your mouth

and you've got to hum like this.

HE HUMS So everybody try that.

-ALL HUM

-Anyone got any ear plugs?

And stop. This time try doing a little tune.

HE PLAYS A TUNE Try that.

THEY COPY HIS TUNE

Brilliant, in a moment I'm going to ask you all to play the same notes.

We're going to try and find the resonant frequency of the table

and see if we can move it slightly. Now I need somebody to help me.

No shortage of volunteers for a magic assistant, even though

-they've no idea it's all a trick yet.

-Yes, what's your name?

-Joshua.

-Joshua, wonderful. Come and stand over this side.

OK, Joshua, now do you think you're going to be able to play your kazoo

while you help me?

Yes, OK then. Here's what we're going to do.

Put your kazoo in your mouth.

OK, now with both hands I want you to grab

the corner of the tablecloth.

Now watch the table closely, the magic's coming.

OK, are you ready everybody?

On the count of three, I want you to all play this note.

HE HUMS

We're going to see if we can move the table

maybe just a few centimetres towards me.

Ready, one, two, three.

THEY ALL PLAY THE NOTE

OK, stop, stop, stop, stop.

I think we've got the wrong note, listen. Maybe a little bit lower.

Ahhh.

THEY COPY HIS NOTE

Louder. Louder.

We have lift off.

The table's floating off the ground by the sound of the kazoos,

-or so the class think.

-Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

OK, whoa, stop, stop, stop, stop!

Wow, that lesson was way up there with the best,

and John's about to reveal the truth.

That was incredible, so much better than yesterday's class who tried

to move one of these tables, and you can see how powerful sound is.

Sound is so powerful that it can move a table.

But I have got a little bit of a confession to make.

-I'm not really a teacher at all, I'm actually a magician.

-Oh, wow.

And you've been set up by your teachers and your family

and your head teachers. You're going to be on a CBBC show called

Help! My Supply Teacher's Magic.

And there's a camera here. There's a camera here.

There's a camera at the back.

John's sonic lesson went boom.

But what noises did the class make about it?

It was magic. Abracadabra.

There was one place this lesson and the table were going,

and that was up.

OK, whoa, stop, stop, stop!

It just started going crazy and haywire and off it just went,

flying around like a magic saucer.

I thought it was going to hit one of the people in the head.

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

How long would it take for you to shout?

-CROWD OF CHILDREN:

-Help! My supply teacher is still magic.

Later on, you'll see what happened

when James went undercover at another school.

He's all in chains and he's going to mess with their brains.

Right now though, Katherine's at a fairground

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

Lucy or Diya, have either of you ever ripped your clothes

-while playing or doing sports or anything?

-No.

-Yes.

Now you haven't, you have, Lucy.

And have you had to sew it back up together again or do you just

-throw them away?

-I just leave it.

-You just leave it?

OK, well, do you know what happened to me this morning?

On my way here, I actually ripped a hole in my jeans

and these are new jeans, so I'm a little bit upset about it.

But, because I'm a magician, all I have to do is just

rub my hands together like this

and rub the tear.

What is Katherine doing?

And it actually mends itself and completely disappears.

-Cool.

-She made the rip disappear. That demands a rewind.

And rub the tear.

She rubbed her hands together and rubbed the rip clean off.

-It actually mends itself and completely disappears.

-Cool.

-Oh!

-Oh!

-That is really clever.

-Yeah.

Nice one, Katherine. Obviously magic's in your jeans.

-She went like this...

-Like really fast.

-And then she like...

She just rubbed it and then it disappeared.

She went like that and then it disappeared.

And then in her hands... It just vanished.

-It was amazing.

-It was just really cool.

-Yeah.

Now James is going to set you a magical challenge

in 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 ketchup sachet and a plastic bottle of water.

After putting the ketchup into the bottle

and screwing the lid back on, he's going to show you how to make

the ketchup rise and fall with the power of your mind.

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.

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 need to pay close attention

get in nice and close.

You're still too far away.

Ha, ha, that's better. Here's Fergus.

Go on, get your deck of cards ready now.

Go through the deck and take out the four kings.

Do that now. Remove all four kings from the deck

and put the rest of the deck to one side.

We're only going to use these four kings.

I want you to keep the kings face up

so that you can see all four of them.

Arrange them in your hands in an alternating order,

with a red card closest to you.

So the order would go, red king,

black king, red king,

then a black king. Make sure those colours alternate.

Red, black, red, black.

But the suits can be in any order, that's up to you.

Whatever card is at the face of the packet will be a red suit.

I want you to spell that suit moving one

card from the face of the packet all the way to the back for each letter.

So if, like me, you're looking at the king of hearts,

you'd spell hearts, moving one card for each letter

and don't forget to include the S, just like this.

H-E-A-R-T-S.

Moving one card from the front to the back for each letter.

Do that now for the suit you're looking at,

which will be either hearts or diamonds.

Now take the card which you were looking at

and throw it away to one side.

Whatever king is now facing you, I want you to spell that suit,

moving one card for each letter from the front to the very

back of the packet, just like we did before.

Do that for me now.

Whatever king you are now looking at, take it

and throw it away to one side.

You're now holding two kings.

Mix them around as much as you want.

Are you done? Good.

Now whichever king you were looking at,

I want you to spell that suit just like we did earlier.

Move one card for each letter and don't forget the S, do that now.

One final time, throw to one side that card you are now looking at.

Concentrate on that remaining card.

I don't know what order the card started in or how you mixed them,

but I'm going to try and work out which card you're holding onto.

Concentrate on it.

It's black...

it's the king of clubs.

Did it work for you?

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

so good, I've forgotten my own name.

HE LAUGHS

It's Iain. Anyhow, 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.

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's on the money.

Oh, oh, oh.

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

Will he fool the class, or will they realise

the supply teacher is still magic?

Whoo. Each week I'm bringing you another of our new favourite magic

movers and shakers doing tricks in 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.

Oh, and I need my headphones.

-HE SHOUTS:

-The neighbours have complained about the noise.

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 will be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is from London.

He's about to earn his place at the top table.

Hi, so I have a coin, a glass and some paper towels.

And what I'm going to do is make the coin go through the table.

So I'll cover it with the glass and this paper towel.

OK. Three, two, one. Oh.

If at first you don't succeed.

OK. That didn't work that time, but let's try again.

One, two, three.

Oh, OK. It doesn't matter, we'll try one more time.

One, two, three.

Well, coin's still here...

..and the glass went through the table.

Incredible. Let's get a rewind.

One, two, three.

The glass disappeared through the table instead of the coin.

Well, coin's still here.

Don't try that with a glass on your table

unless you're Curran, who's my Wannabe Wizard this time.

Thank you.

Now it's time for James to reveal this secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

James will show you how to make a ketchup sachet

in a bottle of water rise and fall with the power of your mind.

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

Maybe it's a magical ketchup sachet. Nah, of course it isn't. Come on.

The trick is actually quite simple.

Once the sachet is in the bottle and sealed with the lid,

if you squeeze the base of the bottle, it'll make the sachet fall.

If you release the base, the sachet will rise.

Then use your other hand to make it seem as

if it's controlling the movement of the sachet.

How about that? Did you get it?

Are you amazing already?

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

Next Katherine is at a farm, getting up close and magical.

What I've got on me are these two different coins.

So I want you all to have a look at them for me and tell me,

do you recognise them at all?

-No.

-You don't recognise them?

-1969?

-No, I don't.

No, OK. This coin here is

an old English penny.

And this coin is...

-Yeah, it's an American coin. It's an American half dollar.

-Hmm.

So in this hand I've got three copper old English pennies,

and I've got three silver American half dollars in this hand.

And what I'd like you to do, Sophia, is bring both your hands out

with your palms up, that's perfect.

And just going to show you

that I've got one, two,

three copper coins,

and one, two,

three silver coins.

Now what I'm going to do is that I'm going to swap around the two

middle coins, OK.

So now the copper coin is sandwiched in between the two silver coins and

the silver coin is now sandwiched in between the two copper coins.

Now wouldn't it be amazing

if these two coins could switch places by magic?

-That would be amazing wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

OK, so what I'd like you to do is just...

..close your hand for me, like that, and watch the middle coin, OK.

SHE BLOWS ON IT

And look, can you see, it's changed into the silver one?

-So I've got three silver ones here and you...

-Oh, oh, oh.

..have got three copper ones over here.

That is truly amazing, let's get a rewind.

-OK.

-Katherine blew on her hand

and changed the copper coin for a silver one.

..Silver one, so I've got three silver ones...

And the copper coin appeared in Sophia's hands.

-It's going to get better.

-Three copper ones over here.

-OK, so let's do that again but this time...

-My gosh.

..we're going to do this all in your hands,

-and you're going to do the magic.

-What?

-OK?

OK, so open up your hands for me.

OK, so we've got one copper.

One silver, one copper, one silver,

one copper, one silver.

Remember the coins in Sophia's hand alternate between copper and silver.

All I want you to do is, Sophia, is fold them in your hand like that,

and give a big blow.

That's perfect.

-And now open up your hand, and you can see they've all separated.

-Oh.

So we've got one, two, three silver coins

and one, two, three copper coins. Isn't that amazing?

-I know how they do it.

-Do you?

-No you don't, Oscar.

They blow it and they just switch.

-Absolutely right, that's exactly what happens.

-Oh!

That's how the magic was done.

The coins were alternating copper and silver, but they became

all copper and all silver with a magic blow of the hand.

-And you can see they've all separated.

-Oh!

-Incredible.

-Amazing.

-Incredible.

Double incredible!

I was going to do a trick with money,

but I couldn't find any coins.

No change there then!

OK, it's time for more school magic

and now it's James pretending to be a supply teacher

and trying to fool another class.

The wig is on, the hidden cameras are set.

Break time's over, though.

The bell's about to go and it's time for magic.

Enter Year Four. They don't know it yet,

but they're about to get an incredible lesson

about crime and punishment that will tie their minds in knots.

So far, none of them have noticed the hidden cameras in their hall

or recognised James as our magician.

But this will be one history lesson that they'll remember for all time.

Now, I work in a museum.

And I'm here to tell you today about history.

And my area of expertise

is the history of law enforcement and the police.

James is pretending to be a historian this time, very sneaky.

The first period we're going to look at today is the Medieval period,

which is over 2,000 years ago.

That's even older than some of your teachers.

-Oh.

-But not all, just some.

Now these days, what do the police use to restrain people,

-what do they use? Yeah?

-Handcuffs.

Handcuffs, yeah.

But that's now, see 2,000 years ago,

the police didn't have the intricate bits of machinery

to make all the difficult locks did they?

A bit of genuine history to help convince the class

the lesson is real before he does the magic.

They had much more primitive methods.

Now one of the methods was this.

This would be stuck in the ground and the prisoner would

have their thumbs tied on the other side so they couldn't get through.

In fact, I've got some string here. Shall we try it?

James is about to string them along and they don't suspect a thing.

Could you help me, is that OK?

This is one of their regular teachers, Miss Ryan.

She's about to help with the magic, though she doesn't know how.

So what would happen is the prisoner would put his hands

this side of the pole and you can see that's through my thumbs.

Could you tie a nice tight knot on the top, please?

-I will.

-Tight as you can.

-OK.

Make it nice and tight, go on, a bit tighter oh, ooh.

Ow, that's very tight.

And again, excellent,

and just give it a little pull to show that's tight there, yeah.

Try and get your finger in that knot and give it a pull as well.

-Can you feel that that's tight?

-It's really tight.

-That's very tight.

There's nothing ropey about this trick coming up.

Now the prisoner would obviously be tied to the pole.

Sometimes days at a time. Now, if the pole was a lot higher than this

he couldn't go over the top. He couldn't go through the bottom.

But some people, because they'd been arrested so many times,

they knew the secret of getting out.

Just, let's see. One, two, three. Oh!

Did you see that?

His hands were tied round the pole but he melted off it.

Can you see that that's still tight?

Can you give that a little pull and that a pull?

And his hands are still tied together.

-Can you see that's tight? Is that still tight?

-Yeah.

It is, isn't it? In fact, I think I'm going to need a hand

to get out of this, so could you please cut me out?

-OK.

-Excellent. Be very careful and...

Oh, that's very tight, there we go.

Oh, that hurt. Oh, much better.

Now, a little bit later than the Medieval period

came my favourite piece of apparatus.

I've brought this especially from the museum today.

This...

is called...

a Steinmeyer.

Look at that.

Now this was used in Germany in the 1600s.

And what would happen, the prisoner would stand like this

and chains would go left and right all the way up.

And then they would be padlocked in like this

and then a curtain would be drawn around them

to isolate them from the rest of the town.

-It's not very pleasant is it? Shall I get in?

-Yeah.

Shall I get in? Sarah, could you come and help me?

This is Sarah, my assistant.

The class thinks she's James's museum assistant,

but she's actually a magician's assistant.

So this is going to be pretty loud, cos this thing makes a bit of noise.

But what Sarah's going to do is she's going to link the chains

all the way through, just like this.

So if we start there, Sarah, that'd be great.

I know you don't have chains or one of these at home.

But if you did, please don't try any of this.

Excellent, and you can see that's really tight round my legs.

And then another one.

Oh, no. Oh!

Oh, this is uncomfortable.

Well and truly chained and framed.

Will James get away with his magic trick?

More importantly, can he get away from it?

Oh.

Last one. Last one. OK.

Sarah, if you could put a padlock on, just down here,

if you could secure it?

This is very tight and uncomfortable.

Just perfect for holding dangerously good magicians.

Now, as well as being chained up,

-do you remember what else I said would happen?

-The curtain.

The curtain would be pulled, so can we pull the curtain?

Watch this closely.

His assistant Sarah is pulling the curtain on James,

who is chained, right?

-What?

-Huh?

But...everything is easy to get out of once you know the secret.

James is free and his assistant is now locked up.

That's amazing magic.

-What do you think, shall we let her out?

-Yeah.

Yeah, let's let her out. Lucky I've got some keys.

Whoa, she really is shackled in tight. How did that happen?

Surely it was James who was in the chains?

Out of there, watch your face.

James has unlocked Sarah

and now he's about to offer the key to this trick.

How about giving Sarah a little clap? Excellent, well done, Sarah.

Now, now that I've done that, would you like me to tell you the secret?

ALL: Yeah.

Do you want to know the secret to how all this works? ALL: Yeah.

Well the secret is, I'm not really from a museum.

I'm actually a magician.

And not only that, your teachers know I'm a magician

and your parents know I'm a magician.

And you're secretly being filmed right now on hidden cameras

in that box there and over there and over there

for Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic on CBBC.

-ALL:

-Oh!

James's lock down trick had the class all hyped up.

But did it leave them tongue tied?

I was thinking, why, how did he do that?

James was well and truly chained up.

It was really magic.

It certainly was. James was free in a flash.

He's out and the woman's in it already.

Amazingly, they swapped places. But how?

Huh?

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 yourselves shouting,

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

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