Episode 9 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand-new term

and CBBC has sent these four magicians back to school.

They are 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 the classrooms

and watched as they taught spectacular lessons.

Flying around like a magic saucer.

KIDS CHEER

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...

-DEEP VOICE:

-"Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic II:

"Dude, Where's My Real Teacher?"

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.

Yeah, we are cheekier than a hamster with its cheeks full of nuts.

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

Tricks like this.

James has the magical skills to print the dollar bills.

-But this expensive-looking trick's a real snip.

-If we just cut there.

For John's interactive illusion, you will need a pack of cards

and a marker pen.

Plus, 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 going to be great! But first...

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

Do you?

This is James.

Check out his magic. Check out his checked shirt!

The disguise is on.

Hop, skip and jump to it, James, and sort your tie out!

They're waiting for you!

-BELL RINGS

-Enter Year Five.

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

a lesson about currency with a trick that's so on the money.

So far, none of them have noticed the cameras

hidden in the classroom or recognised James as our magician.

But they are about to have a money-printing lesson

that will leave its mark.

Good morning, class. I am a historian.

Today we are going to do a special lesson on the history of money.

Now, money as we know it has been around for 3,000 years.

A bit of real history there!

I've brought with me today

something very, very special for you to see.

This is a money printer from Germany

that was invented about 150 years ago.

I have restored this back to its original working condition.

I've also added a few things that brings it up to date a little bit.

-Would you like to see it work? ALL:

-Yes, please.

Good.

It consists of just two rollers, so I've got a roller on the top

and one on the bottom and if I turn the handle, the rollers turn

and that's where the ink is stored. I've also got a few other things -

I've got this cog on the front

which has numbers on it so I can print different amounts.

I've also got these little keys so I can do different currencies.

I've got a British flag so I can print British money,

or I've got a euro - the European symbol.

I can print euros.

-Or I can even print... Who knows what that is?

-USA.

American, I can print American dollars.

This trick coming up is worth every penny.

So how about we put the key in for Britain?

We set this to five, so we'll go for £5.

So I take my paper, which is completely blank,

and if I put it in the machine, turn the handle,

then on the other side you will see out comes...

KIDS YELL ..a £5 note.

They like this cash trick and the magic's barely registered yet!

Isn't that fantastic?

Unfortunately, I must take all these back to the museum with me later.

Sorry about that. But this is a £5 note.

It's got a serial number on it and everything.

-Why don't we try some European money? Shall we try it?

-Yeah!

We put the European key in, and this time let's try ten euros.

If we just turn the machine... like this.

They can't take their eyes off the printer.

Lucky they can't see the small print that says it's magic!

We should get a ten-euro note.

KIDS YELL Isn't that great?

It's real money, but it's not a real printer.

The class love it and now James is going to have some more fun.

When you are using the machine,

you have to be careful that you load the money in the correct way

because if it is not in the right way then it comes out a bit weird.

We will do... We'll do a five euro. A five euro.

If I put the paper in

just slightly off centre,

when it comes out the other side, it's actually been misprinted.

You can see that's been printed incorrectly.

The other thing you must always do is make sure you use the right paper.

-Who knows what that is?

-Newspaper.

-It's newspaper.

-Shall we try...dollar? Shall we do some dollars?

-Yes!

So let's change the key to the little American flag.

We will go for - nothing too high - 20.

So if we change that to 20...

Let's see how that turns out for us. Put this in.

It goes in one side and comes out the other one printed.

But you can see it's being printed on the newspaper.

-I'd buy that trick for a dollar!

-Let's try that again.

We'll leave it as American and 20,

but this time we'll use the correct paper.

-Who's enjoying the lesson so far?

-Me!

OK, great. Oh, just load this in.

Oh, wait. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh. Oh, that's not good.

It's printed on my tie.

Look! James's tie's got a dollar bill printed on it!

I don't think I can get it out, actually. That's that ruined.

KIDS LAUGH That's bad. Oh, there we go.

I'll try this. Let's try this.

Look, if we just cut there, then hopefully...

There we go.

A shame about the tie.

The class don't think it's a shame

and now James is going to tie the lesson up by telling them the truth.

I don't just go around different schools and talk about history -

in fact, I am not a historian, I am a magician.

KIDS YELL

And you are all secretly being filmed on cameras there, and here for

"Help! My Supply Teacher's Magic" on CBBC! Give them a wave!

No wonder they're excited - James pulled off a sensational trick

and he cut off his tie!

Has it left the class tongue-tied?

I just thought it was a normal...

A normal day in the classroom,

but then it started to get odder and odder.

I just saw a machine and I thought,

"He's just brought this thing in. Oh, that's quite cool."

Not only was it cool, it was magic cos you can't print money like this.

A £5 note.

The newspaper one, I thought it was going to come out fine,

but it actually came out really funny.

The dollar bill DID look funny, but it was even funnier when James

got his tie stuck in the magic printer and had to cut it off!

It was really weird, but it was really good and I liked it.

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

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

Later on you'll see what happened

when John went under cover at another school.

His unhinged magic had the class on a piece of string.

Right now though, Fergus is drawing them in, Up Close And Magical.

So, we've got a pen.

I'd like you to have a look at the pen

and could you have a look at the cap?

When you're happy they're regular, normal...

Nothing hiding inside there? That's a proper inspection. Are you happy?

Yeah.

Now, Cameron. Your job is to watch very closely the cap.

If I take the cap, and squeeze,

you'll see it actually goes.

It doesn't go very far -

just to the other side of the pen.

Keep your eye on the cap and you'll see the very moment it vanishes.

Watch. Did you see it go?

-Yeah.

-It vanishes.

It doesn't go very far, it just goes over here...behind my knee.

Don't take your eyes off the cap -

I want you to watch it very, very carefully.

One, two, three. And it's gone.

-Not the cap, the pen. The pen's gone.

-Oh, my God!

-But look, look up here behind my ear. Can you see?

-Oh, my God!

But what did I say before? Don't take your eyes off the cap.

Watch the cap closely and I'll take back the pen...

One, two, three.

-Now the cap's gone.

-Is that a magic marker, Fergus?

-Where did the pen appear before?

-Your ear.

Look at my ear now.

But I need that cos I need to put it back on the... Where did the pen go?

Who took the pen? Did you take it? Oh, no!

Sometimes it goes inside the cap and if I reach in I can pull it out.

Whoa! He pulled the whole pen out of the lid! How did that get in there?

That trick can be marked up "amazing"!

I don't know how he did it

and I don't know how the pen can go inside the cap.

It was amazing.

And from pens to pencils it's Katherine's magical challenge

in Tricks Of The Trade.

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

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

Katherine has got a piece of paper and an HB pencil.

Katherine's going to show you how to make a normal grey HB pencil

write any colour of the rainbow. 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 and a marker pen?

This is the interactive illusion.

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

You need to pay close attention, so come over here a bit.

A little bit, yep. Oh, lower your head a bit, I can see up your nose!

Ugh. You ready? Here's John.

You need to get the pen and cards ready now.

OK, take any seven cards from your deck -

any seven at all - and give them a shuffle, face down, like this.

OK, turn over the whole packet

and look at the card that ended up on the bottom.

That will be your lucky card.

To remember the card, draw a large X all across its face,

going from corner to corner.

Now, we turn the whole packet face down,

leaving our good-luck card on the bottom.

Spread the cards in a fan and take out any card except the bottom one,

which is your good luck card, and turn that card face up

and insert it in the exact centre of the packet,

under three cards and above three cards.

Close the fan and square the cards neatly.

Cut the packet and complete the cut just as if you were playing cards.

Cut and complete once more.

Now, we spread the cards between our hands

and without altering the order,

we take the group of cards that is above the face-up card

and we put that group on the bottom.

Take the card that is face up on top.

This card is a bad-luck card, so we throw it away.

Take the top card and put it on the bottom.

We take the next card from the top and we throw it away,

just like before.

Take the top card and put it on the bottom.

Let's mix the cards some more like this.

Spread the cards in a fan, take the top card and insert it in the middle.

It doesn't need to be the exact centre, just somewhere in the middle.

We take a card or two from the top and bury them

also more or less in the middle.

We take the card that all these shuffles have brought to the top

and we throw it away.

Move the top card to the bottom, take the next card from the top

and throw it away.

Reverse the order or leave them as they are.

We take the card that ended up on top and throw it away.

Move the top card to the bottom, we take the next card and throw it away.

We have a single card left. Don't look at it because it's bad luck.

Remember, some cut more cards, some less.

Then we all shuffled several times.

Some reversed their cards, some didn't.

If we are still holding the good-luck card in our hands,

that would be incredible.

Let's see.

I got it. Did you?

That is incredible!

Be prepared to be amazed again when James gets up close and magical.

Now, when you're a magician, you see lots of good tricks.

You see SOME great tricks, but it's very rare that you see

an absolutely amazing trick, and this is an amazing trick.

Before we start, Uriah, if I can ask you to shuffle those cards.

And if you could just take the box and check there's nothing special

-about it, there's no hidden doors or mirrors or anything like that.

-No.

Great. I'll take those cards back. Oh, excellent shuffling there!

And you're happy that they are all different and all shuffled?

-You can see all the faces are different?

-Yes.

-Yes?

Those cards are completely out of order.

-Now, Uriah, you've got a very important job to do.

-Yes.

-OK?

What I'd like you to do is name or point to any one of those cards.

You can have a diamond, a spade, anything you want.

-Um...this.

-Which one? The eight of spades?

-No, the jack.

-The Jack of Diamonds?

-Yeah.

Uriah has chosen the Jack Of Diamonds in James's deck.

If we take the cards and we place them in the card box like this...

Now, before I do this, just check there's nothing on my arms,

-nothing extra apart from my watch. No?

-No.

-Nothing on this arm?

-There's nothing up his sleeves.

-And there's nothing above?

Wave your hand above... and wave your hand below.

-Nothing above, nothing below?

-I'm just going to check the sides.

OK, check the sides, as well. Be thorough.

-Would you like to check the sides?!

-I'm fine.

-OK, great.

-Now, earlier on, I gave you a deck of cards to shuffle.

-Yes.

And you named any card. Do you remember the card you named?

-Yes, the Jack of Diamonds.

-The Jack of Diamonds.

Now, that Jack of Diamonds is somewhere in the middle

of this deck at the moment. But watch... If I just take the deck

and I slowly shake it like this,

one card visibly rises from the middle of the deck.

It can't be, can it?!

And that card is your Jack of Diamonds.

-You can take those, you can take those, and that.

-How did that happen?

I'm shocked.

It IS shocking - shockingly good.

I think that trick was thrilling.

He put it in the box, and when he shook it, the card rises.

And I never even knew magicians could do that trick!

Wow! Well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been knee-trembling.

In fact, it made my knees nearly give way.

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.

James gets up close and magical with a flash trick using disk drives.

Catherine reveals the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

And watch what happens when John goes under cover in another school.

Will he fool the class, or will they realise

their supply teacher is still magic?

Phew! Each week I bring 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 thing to watch all the magic on, and, er...

..I've got my comedy octopus slippers. 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 my favourite wannabe wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My wannabe wizard this time is Ben from Stourbridge,

and he's got a thirst for magic.

OK, so here I am with an ordinary bottle of cola.

I'll take this and pour the remainder into the glass...

So there we have it.

Now, I'll take this bottle... place it into the bag.

So, we have a bottle, place it into the bag,

wave my hand over the top,

and it turns into the can. I'll do it again.

Place it into the bag, wave my hand over the top

and it turns back into the bottle.

'You think you know how he's doing this trick, don't you?

'He's got both the can and the bottle in the bag, right?'

I suppose it's not a good trick, is it?

'Wrong! That trick was far from rubbish! Wannabe wizard, Ben.'

Now it's time for Katherine to reveal the secret

in Tricks Of The Trade.

Katherine is going to show you how to make a normal grey HB pencil

write any colour of the rainbow.

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

Maybe you think it's by saying the magic words?

Nah!

How about by writing with the side of the pencil?

Don't be silly!

Is it an optical illusion?

Come on...

Ask your friend their favourite colour.

If they say "blue", simply write the word "blue" and you will be correct.

If they say "red", you would write "red".

Whatever colour they say, just write that. Do you get it?

It's sneaky but clever.

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

Now James does some blue chip trickery, Up Close And Magical.

-Have you guys got a computer at home?

-Yes.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Awesome.

What are you like with your organisation?

Do you keep everything in certain places or do you just

-save it on the desktop?

-We keep it on files.

-Really? I'm rubbish.

All my desktop is just awash with music and pictures

and all kinds of stuff.

But, lately, because it's been getting on my nerves,

I've taken to using these USB drives. Do you use these?

-I've seen people use them.

-Yeah, so on the red one,

I store all my pictures, and on the black one,

-I store all my music.

-Check it out.

He has one red USB drive and one black one.

The problem arises

when I leave the house in the morning and accidentally take the wrong one.

So, say if I take the black one... luckily, I'm a magician.

So if I go, one, two...three,

-see they change places?

-Whoa!

It's pretty cool, right? Let's try that again.

We'll get rid of the black one this time.

He's put the black one in his pocket.

Sorry, we'll get rid of the black one.

OK, I tell you what, we'll get rid of the black one...

OK, this is getting annoying. We'll use the black one.

We'll just use the black one, OK? So, look, same thing, OK?

I've got my sound files on here, but let's say, for example, I want

my picture files instead, yeah, all I have to do is go one, two, three...

-Whoa.

-And they switch places, yeah?

-Wow.

-Now, all of these have different sizes.

This red one, that's about four gigabytes. That's quite big.

The black one, however, is a little bit bigger.

The black one is actually... 150 gigabytes,

quite a bit bigger.

Amazing!

He's stretched the memory and he's stretched their minds.

That was awesome.

One of them was four megabytes and then the other one was 100,

and it was two times the size of the other one. It was amazing!

-It was cool!

-Impossible.

This is my memory stick.

It reminds me when to take the dog for a walk. Fetch!

It's not a very good memory stick. I don't have a dog...

It must be someone else's.

It's time for more school magic, and now there's John pretending

to be a supply teacher and trying to fool another class.

The disguise is on. John's limbered up...sort of.

-BELL RINGS

-Enter Year Four.

They don't know it yet, but John's about to do a physics lesson

that's not physically possible.

None of the class have noticed the hidden cameras or recognised

John in his natty glasses,

but how long will it be before they suspect his nutty lesson?

I'm not normally a teacher. I do teach, but I don't teach in schools.

I am actually a studying professor.

Now, has anybody here heard of a man called Isaac Newton? Excellent.

Isaac Newton was a very, very famous scientist.

It was Isaac Newton that discovered the theory of gravity.

But he also discovered some very important laws about force

and motion. We're going to talk about Isaac Newton's third law of motion,

which says, quite simply, that forces come in pairs.

In other words, for every action,

there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Some proper physics there.

Imagine I'm stood on a skateboard, and I have a big,

heavy ball in my hand, and I throw that heavy ball in that direction.

What do you think will happen to me? Yes?

I'll go backwards. That's right.

A good description, and all factually correct.

Some magic incoming, though.

It's the way that rockets work

in space, because in space, rockets don't have anything to push against.

What's happening is, it's pushing a big force in one direction

and Newton's third law means that there is another force

in the opposite direction moving the rocket across.

Do you think, for One Direction, there's an equal and opposite band?

I can demonstrate that with one of these.

This is a Newton's Cradle. Anybody seen one of these?

Very good. It's called a Newton's Cradle

cos it demonstrates some of Newton's laws.

I can show you what I mean. I've got these little silver balls on strings.

And if I drop one like this, watch what happens to the other side...

Did you see that? What's happening there is the energy is going

that way and it's coming out in the opposite direction.

And that would go on for ever, if it wasn't for friction

that slowed it down and took up some of the energy.

The class are impressed.

They've never had a 100-mile-an-hour teacher like John before.

That was one of the devices that Newton used

to explain one of his laws.

But he also came up with some interesting experimental tools.

He came up with these. These are called Newton's Sticks.

Newton never had sticks. These are magic sticks.

Watch them closely.

It's very simple. You've got two silver balls on strings.

What happens is, if I pull this silver ball,

watch what happens to the other silver ball.

The other one goes up, even though I'm not touching it.

Quite impressive,

but the strings on those poles must be connected, right?

And it works the other way round - watch.

I'm watching more closely this time.

Without touching this one, watch what happens. That ball goes up.

Now, when Isaac Newton demonstrated this principle to

the rest of the scientists,

they were all convinced that these were joined together in the middle.

So he had to demonstrate the experiment again,

but this time he separated them so they weren't touching each other.

But still the same thing worked.

If he pulled this one, that one went up in the air.

And if he pulled this one, that one went up in the air.

There must be some connection at the back.

Of course, the scientists were very clever.

Even hundreds of years ago, they weren't stupid.

They thought, "Maybe the strings are connected here."

So Isaac Newton had to demonstrate the principle again,

but this time, holding the sticks far apart.

-Now, THIS I have to see.

-And even when he was holding them

far apart, if he pulled this one, that one would go up in the air.

And if he pulled this one, that one would go up in the air.

There's no way those balls are touching.

How are the balls doing that?!

And you could keep doing that,

because every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Now, there is one problem that Isaac Newton discovered.

If you stop the equal and opposite reaction happening, by holding

both strings and pulling them down like that, now you have a problem.

You see, there is nowhere for the energy to go.

There's been a force, but there's been no equal and opposite reaction.

And the only way to sort that out is by having an extra silver ball here.

And watch what happens. If I pull this one, they all go up in the air.

No way! How does he do that?

The third ball is definitely not connected!

How did you do that?

It's Newton's third law. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

It's either Newton's third law, or...maybe I'm not really a teacher.

Maybe I'm a magician.

What will their reaction be when they find out the truth?

And I've been sent here by your teachers and your family

and your head teachers, because you're going to be on

a CBBC show called "Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic",

and we've got a camera here...

CHILDREN SCREAM

..we've got a camera here, there's a camera at the back!

John's trick with sticks stuck to the course without the class

guessing his secret, but how will it stick in their minds?

I was, honestly, "Is this a joke or is it real, or...

"I don't know what's going on."

Yes, it was real. Real magic, cos those sticks weren't connected.

That one went up in the air.

He pulled it up out of his pocket and then the balls just went

right up, and it was like, I thought, "How can you do that?"

Watch what happens. If I pull this one...

John pulled the other one and the magic went to the top of the class.

He put them in separate hands and it was kind of surprising.

I was so excited,

we have to say this... Ahh! We're going to be on TV! Sorry.

SCREAMING

No need to apologise.

It was an amazing trick, and this class didn't realise...

HE CHUCKLES

Oh! John learned that trick from this book.

I've been reading it, too. I just can't put it down...

Literally!

We'll see you later on, 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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