Episode 7 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

CBBC have sent these four magicians into your schools.

They are some of the hottest magicians in the country.

Our magicians went undercover,

and they pretended to be supply teachers.

We had secret cameras all over your classrooms,

and watched while you had the most incredible lessons.

ALL: Move!

Our magicians fooled whole classes and shocked them

with their spectacular tricks.

But did they come to your school?

I never knew we'd be on TV!

Did they trick you?

I'm just so freaked out.

And did you shout...

ALL: Help! My supply teacher is magic!

Hello, I'm Iain, and this is Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic.

We fooled hundreds of you guys by swapping regular teachers

with magicians.

And we've been secretly filming the results with special cameras,

which we've hidden in the classroom.

Sneakier than James Bond's sneakers.

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

Here's one from me now, I'm going to make this chocolate disappear.

So...pretty impressive.

Well, play the clip.

James is going undercover to cause mayhem in this class of Year Sixes.

Look, he changes cola to coffee using a kettle.

Cup of coffee!

But will the class swallow his trick?

We're going to teach you a magic trick so you can fool your friends.

Grab two paperback books, so you can join in.

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

and later on I'll pick my five favourites.

Will you be one of my wannabe wizards?

And if you want to take part in the interactive illusion,

you'll need a piece of paper.

Could you spot a magician pretending to be a supply teacher?

Could you? Really?

This is James, he's got a cheeky glint in his eye,

and a bunch of tricks up his sleeve.

He's going undercover as a supply teacher.

The hidden cameras are set, is it your school?

Is it your class? Let's find out.

Here's a class of Year Sixes. They don't know it yet,

but James is about to give them a lesson with a magical flavour.

None of the class suspect there are cameras hidden

in every corner of their classroom,

or realise that James is not a real teacher, but can he keep it up?

What we're talking about is being environmentally friendly.

I like camping. Does anybody like going camping?

It's good fun, isn't it?

Because I go camping so often, I've got lots and lots

of gadgets and gizmos that I take with me that help me

be more environmentally friendly when I'm camping.

Now, I've brought my favourite one. Would you like to see it?

ALL: Yes!

Of course they would! Me too, but where is it?

Here it is. This is the Magic Kettle 5000.

Not available in the shops.

Instead of having to take lots of different plastic bottles with me,

all I do is I take one drink with me,

and keep it inside the kettle, but then the kettle

can change the liquid inside to any other drink I want.

-Would you like to see a demonstration?

-ALL: Yes!

The class still don't suspect James, despite the name "Magic Kettle".

I'm going to need one of your teachers.

Actually, Mr Sunderland, could you come up and just take a seat?

APPLAUSE

This is the class's regular teacher, Mr Sunderland.

He's in on the secret, but he doesn't know what he'll have to do.

OK, and quiet down.

He's obviously popular, unless the class is wanting to see

something funny happen to him! I wonder.

So we just open up the kettle, and you can put in any drink you want.

For this demonstration we'll use cola, but it could be anything.

I'm sure you all know how to fill up a kettle.

Remember don't play with the kettle at home. It's dangerous,

and this isn't real, it's magic, so no point trying it yourself.

Excellent, and then all you have to do is pop the top back on,

and then it works exactly like a flask.

Let's say you turn up at a campsite and you want to drink cola.

That's fine, because you've got a kettle of cola.

But if your sister fancies some lemonade,

before, you would have to take two bottles.

One with cola, and one with lemonade.

However, because we've got the Magic Kettle 5000, all you have to do,

you just change the dial on the front from cola to lemonade,

and hopefully the cola inside will now turn into a lovely glass...

-CHILDREN GASP

-Whoa, it's lemonade!

It's lemonade.

-Mr Sunderland, would you like to do a taste test?

-Thank you.

It's the moment of truth.

-It's all good?

-Yeah, really lovely.

-Delicious.

Glass of lemonade.

OK, but let's say for example,

your mum might prefer to drink some cherryade.

Mum liking cherryade? How does James know my mum?

So, all we have to do again is just change the dial from lemonade

to cherryade, and this time we should be able to get out

a nice glass...

ALL GASP

..of cherryade.

-Would you like to take a taste?

-Thank you.

Yeah, cherryade.

Mr Sunderland says "Yes".

So let's say you want cola, your sister wants lemonade,

your mum wants cherryade, your dad might want an orange drink.

Why can't they all just drink the same thing?!

James' made-up family sound like a right fussy lot!

That's no problem. All you have to do is just take the dial,

and change it from cherryade to orange,

and then we should get a nice orange drink.

Whoa, that's the third different drink from that kettle.

Where's it all coming from? I can't see any hidden taps.

-Lovely fresh orange juice.

-Lovely fresh orange juice.

Yeah, do you think that's cool?

ALL: Yeah!

I'd say, they think it's cool. They all want one in their own homes.

In the evening when the sun goes down,

it gets chilly, doesn't it?

So how about you change it into coffee?

He's going to do coffee? How does that work?

Now, we might as well use all of the rest of it for this.

We should be able to turn the liquid...

CHILDREN GASP

..into a nice warm cup of coffee. Is that good?

Thank you, very nice.

I bet it's cold.

-Yeah.

-Is that a hot cup of coffee?

-Yeah.

-One hot cup of coffee.

It's not cold, it's hot, and hot can scold, so be careful, folks.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you how it works.

Oh, why?

Well, I can't tell you why it works, because, do you remember the bit

where I said that I was a visiting teacher from another school?

-Yeah.

-I'm not, I'm a magician.

That's marvellous!

And all of your teachers, and your mums and dads have set you all up,

because if you look here, and at the back there, they are cameras.

So if you give them a wave, you are all being filmed for a new TV show

on CBBC called, Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic.

He did it! James's brilliant trick has totally fooled the class.

I was like really, really shocked.

James poured cola into the kettle,

and then made lemonade pour out of it.

He then poured cherryade, orange,

and amazingly, hot coffee came out of the magic kettle.

It just changed and everybody went berserk.

James pulled it off, the class had no idea he was a magician.

Would you realise your supply teacher was magic?

Later on, John will also be going undercover as a supply teacher.

He'll make this class's jaws drop to the floor.

Is it your class?

Just give that a little rub.

John's not a real teacher, and nor is his mate, and mine,

sharp-skilled, but floppy-haired Fergus.

He'll teach you the secret behind a trick you can use on your mates.

If you fancy yourself as a magician, here's a trick you can try at home.

All you'll need is two paperback books.

If you haven't got them already, go and get them now!

Go on, hurry.

In the meantime, Fergus will wait here for you.

Are you back? Ready?

Good, do you know how to put these two books together,

so they can't be pulled apart again?

Can you work it out?

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

Right now, joker John's about to do some theme park magic

with a trick you'll never be able to work out.

This is Adam, Tom and Jack.

They have no idea they're about to star in their own magic show.

Watch carefully.

Did you recognise me when I came up to you?

Yes is the answer. I am famous, but nobody knows about it yet.

I'm so famous I've had to start signing autographs,

and I get my pictures taken at a little photo booth,

The last lot weren't very good because that chair kept falling.

So all the pictures are in the wrong place,

I can't sign it, so I'll get somebody else to do it.

Would you just sign your name in this little white bit above my head,

I don't want you to sign on my face, because that's very delicate.

Wonderful. Now, what we've got there is something very, very rare.

It's my picture all in the wrong place, with Dave's signature on it.

Something amazing's about to happen. Keep watching the photo.

Now we'll try and make the picture look a little bit better.

So the way we're going to do that is fold it here, like so...

And give it a little tear...

There.

Starting to look a little bit better, but not quite right.

And if I take it again and...

Then... Ooh! And for this one.

Hopefully...

That photo's well and truly ripped to pieces,

but some top-notch magic's developing.

I've seen what magicians do when you get in this position.

What you do is you blow on them like this.

And then you give a little squeeze,

and Dave, is that still your signature?

-Oh, yeah, yeah.

-That is Dave's signature, look.

And now the picture...

Whoa! Told you! Can I get a rewind?

Blow on them like this.

And then you give a little squeeze,

and Dave, is that still your signature?

-Oh, yeah, yeah.

-That is Dave's signature, look.

And now the picture...

That trick was picture perfect.

It was amazing.

Yeah, I don't know how it happened.

I don't know how he does it.

Coming up we'll make someone else say, "That was awesome!"

But right now, we have something amazing for you.

This is the interactive illusion.

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

Just come closer.

Personal space, thanks.

Take it away, Katherine.

If you play your cards right,

Katherine might come to your classroom,

but first, she has a trick for your front room.

I've got a really amazing illusion for you now.

All you need is a piece of paper rolled into a tube.

Now hold it up to your eye, like this...

..and keep watching a screen.

While you're looking at the screen,

place the other hand next to the tube in front of the other eye.

Go on, follow Katherine, that's how you do it.

You should see a hole, right through your hand

and still be able to see me.

Holy hand, that is amazing! Did it work for you?

Despite what they always say,

a hole in the hand is worth two birds with...a stone.

Every week, we are bringing you a chart

of the magic movers and shakers.

We're calling that chart Wannabe Wizards.

I've got my comfy chair.

I've got my laptop, and frankly, I've got too many roasted nuts,

although I have checked that they all contain nuts.

Hit it.

We asked you to send in clips of yourself performing

your best magic tricks.

We receive loads of clips from all over the country.

Each week, I will be choosing my five favourite Wannabe Wizards,

and showing them to you guys.

Number five this time is Nathan from Maidstone,

with some mind-bending card skills.

Here I have a normal pack of cards, and I'm going to shuffle them.

When he said he's going to shuffle them,

he really means it, watch this.

In fact, he shuffles them so much, I'll have to fast forward it,

or we can't fit in all the other wizards.

This seems like a lead up to a trick,

but actually, the trick is all in the shuffling.

That's the most shuffled deck in the history of shuffledom.

Those cards are so mixed up right now, right?

And magically.

-Wrong.

-The whole deck is in order.

Wow, all the cards in their right suits and the right order!

You're sure nifty, Nathan!

But hey yo, Ben from reading sure can yo-yo.

It's not 100% magic, but it's cool,

and it looks magi-cool too.

Look at him go.

Woo.

Mind the camera though, Ben.

And mind the dog, mate!

We're all standing clear now.

That's it, spin the camera round while he makes that bad boy spin.

Keep them coming.

That's right, keep 'em coming.

Ben, you made my head spin, and you get a big thumbs up from me.

Number three is so money.

Check the coin in Teddy from Altrincham's hand.

Right, so just get the coin, and would you be impressed

if I made the coin that's in this hand come to this hand?

Yes, we would. Remember the coin started in his right hand.

I love this bit, nice locking and popping.

Two.

The coin passed through his body, and it ended up in his left hand.

Let's do an easier trick for you.

But he's not done yet - oh, no.

Get the coin.

Keep your eye on which hand the coin goes into.

-Pay attention.

-I'm paying attention.

And guess which hand it's in?

If you guess right, I'll give you a million pounds.

I have it on good authority that he does have a million pounds

to give away. He must be confident.

And did you guess this one?

Or did you guess this one?

When I tell you now, if you guessed this one, you lose.

It's not in the right, so it must be in the left.

And this one, you're going to be a million pounds...not richer.

Wow, it's not there either!

The coin vanished, but he keeps his million. Kerching!

Up next, George from Chichester.

So we're going to be using the four aces.

Here we have the ace of diamonds, the ace of clubs,

the ace of spades, and the ace of hearts.

OK, what we're going to be doing with these aces,

is we're just going to leave them over here for now.

Name the card face up that you can see for me?

The nine of hearts.

So his mate picked the nine of hearts, remember that.

And flip over the nine of hearts in the deck.

Are you sure you want that card? You're sure, OK.

We'll put that in with the aces, and leave the deck aside for now.

What we'll do is we'll lose your card in with aces,

the nine of hearts, give the cards a quick spin,

and the aces make your card invisible.

We reach into the deck and we pull it out.

We'll lay it over on the mat here.

Yes, he did say invisible. Pay close attention, people.

Three, four aces, OK? Your card is nowhere to be seen.

We'll take your card, it's invisible right here, turn it face up,

or face up in my hand, and throw it into the deck.

Pow! There it goes.

That leaves us with one face-up card in the deck,

the nine of hearts, your card.

Wow! Let's get a rewind.

See the invisible card fly into the deck, except you can't see it,

it's invisible.

Boom! The card re-materialised in the deck, love it.

Thank you very much.

Who's my favourite, though? I'm not going to tell you yet.

Not before I put on my funny chart show voice.

At five, nifty Nathan with his shifty shuffle.

The deck is in order.

Ben walks the dog with his yo-yo at four.

Popping up at three is Teddy's one-in-a-million coin trick.

And at number two is George's invisible card throw,

and he was nearly my favourite.

But out of the tons of Wannabe Wizards, my top one this time was...

Joshua from Upminster. A grand entrance, I thank you.

Watch this, an old-school magic show. Liking your style.

Watch the candle.

It disappears but how?

And now the hanky goes into the bag.

But now that's gone too.

What a magician like Joshua could really use right now is a wand.

Ah, here's one now.

What's he doing with it, though?

Ah, a beautiful flower - for me? You shouldn't have!

Can't wait until next time for more Wannabe Wizards.

Fergus taught me a great trick called the cut-and-restore necktie.

I'll teach you it now, just get a necktie,

and we'll cut it like that.

PHONE RINGS

Sorry.

Oh, hi, Dad! Yeah, I'm well.

Your, er, your stripey tie?

I've not seen it.

Here's what's coming up.

Have you worked out the secret to Fergus's challenge?

If you haven't already got two paperback books, get them now.

Go on, hurry.

Piece of rope here, but instead...

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

Could it be your class?

Could your supply teacher be magic?

In Undercover Magic, we hide cameras in all sorts of places.

Our magicians play tricks on members of the public,

who don't know they're being filmed.

Katherine is in the park to play a trick on Chloe.

She's been set up by her mum, and has no idea what's about to happen.

Excuse me?

-Hi, you didn't see who left this litter here, did you?

-No.

-You didn't. Don't you just hate litterbugs?

-Yes.

Whoa! She made the litter float into the bin.

That was freaky.

Can I get a rewind?

That trick certainly wasn't rubbish.

I was so shocked. My heart was beating so fast.

I enjoyed it so much.

It's the moment you've been waiting for,

a chance for you to learn how to fool your friends.

Me and Fergus challenge you to put two paperback books together

so they can't be pulled apart.

Come on, have you worked it out?

How many of you got it?

Maybe you think it works by gluing them together? Nah.

You use a stapler? No way.

Do you weld them together? Uh-uh.

Come on! Go on, Fergus, show us the secret.

You flick the pages of each book together.

It may take a while, so we've sped it up.

Once you've done that, see if you can pull them apart.

Ready? Go on, Fergus, give it your best shot.

It can't be done, can it, Fergus?

Did you get it? Are you amazing already?

Now you can test your mates' strength in the playground.

And James is about to test out his magic in the museum.

-Can I show you a trick?

-Yes.

This is Aysha and her mum. They're about to see an awesome trick.

OK, we're going to try something with these two keys, OK?

-So which one do you want, point to a key?

-That key.

Hold your hand up, flat like a table.

If I put that key there, close your hand, and hold it there.

That's perfect. Now all keys have a hole in them.

-Yes.

-OK, why is that?

So you can put them on things.

-On a key ring.

-Exactly.

Watch. If you just take that hole and give it a squeeze...

Watch carefully, this is the key to the trick.

..you can get the hole to come straight off the key.

And not only that, I can throw it invisibly

all the way over to the key in your hand.

-That's scary.

-How did he do that?! Can I get a rewind?

Watch. If you just take that hole and give it a squeeze.

He squeezed off the hole in the key.

And not only that, I can throw it invisibly...

And now he's thrown it into the other key.

That is one fun key trick.

I thank you very much.

That was good.

This is John. He's about to go to another school.

He's going undercover as a supply teacher to do an incredible trick.

Will it be your school?

Will it be your class?

And will the class realise their supply teacher is magic?

-Let's find out.

-SCHOOL BELL RINGS

These Year Five pupils think they're coming in for a normal lesson,

but they're wrong. John is anything but normal.

The classroom has been planted with hidden cameras,

and he's got a maths trick that will put the con into conundrum.

They have no idea they're being filmed or else they'd have smiled!

Good morning, boys and girls, I'm giving you an exciting lesson,

hopefully on maths. Who likes maths?

Oh, excellent, quite a few. I like people who like maths.

Who's not so keen on maths? I still like you. That's all right.

Maybe you'll like maths at the end of this.

I'm going to talk about fractions and fractions can be very useful.

When I was a boy and it was my birthday, I realised quickly

that a quarter of a piece of cake

was twice as tasty as an eighth of a piece of cake,

but not quite as sickening as a half a piece of cake.

That's good to know, isn't it?

It's a piece of cake this teaching lark, isn't it?

Sorry, I borrowed John's bad joke book.

I'm going to test to see what your knowledge of fractions is,

and I'm using this piece of rope. Now, this is a whole piece of rope.

Now I know it's a whole piece of rope

because it's the only piece of rope I've ever had, OK?

I've never had more rope than this. If I had another half of rope,

-and I'd cut it off, this would only be half a piece of rope.

-Hey?

Exactly. But it's not a half a piece of rope.

This is the only piece of rope I've got. Therefore it is a whole rope.

I'm going to tie one end of the rope to this stool here,

then I'll tie the other end of the rope to that stool there.

And I'll try and find out whether you know what your fractions are.

OK, so...if I wanted to cut this piece of rope,

so that I had exactly a quarter of the rope from that end,

who could tell me where a quarter would be?

You think you could tell me?

I'll run my finger along. You tell me where you think a quarter is?

A bit further, about here? About there, excellent.

Who think's she's right? OK, so if I was to take the piece of rope,

and cut it so that I've got exactly two pieces,

one of which is a quarter, yes?

And the other piece is?

Keep an eye on that knot.

Three-quarters, that's right! I have now got a quarter over here,

and three-quarters here. Now, it's getting a little bit harder.

If I didn't want to cut the piece of rope into a quarter

and three-quarters, but I wanted to cut it exactly in half,

who can tell me where a half is?

Yes, you tell me, where do you think it is?

Do you think it's there?

-Stop!

-There, you think that's half? Do you think she's right?

-Oh, a little bit more. A little bit more. There?

-Yeah.

-You think that's halfway?

-Yeah.

OK, so if I hadn't cut the piece of rope here,

but instead I had cut the piece...

Hang on a minute, something's not adding up. He's moving that knot!

Do you think that would have been half the piece of rope?

He's untied the knot! How did he do that?

Now, you get...

Let's get a rewind.

So if I hadn't cut the piece of rope here, but instead I had cut

the piece of rope at around about here. So, now we would have...

I don't know how he did it, and the class don't know either!

If I didn't want to cut the piece of rope exactly in half,

but instead, I wanted to cut the piece of rope

so that I had three-quarters on this side, and a quarter on this side,

where would I have to cut it to get a quarter from this end?

A bit more that way? Here?

He's going to do it again. Watch that knot, you will KNOT believe it.

If I had cut it where Billy said, which was here,

that would mean, hopefully, we should now have three-quarters

of the rope on this side, and a quarter of the rope on this side.

The class now suspect this lesson is only half serious,

and John's about to ask them a trick question.

Here is the really difficult question.

Who can tell me where I would have to cut the piece of rope,

if I wanted exactly a whole piece of rope?

Who can tell me, where would I have to cut it?

-Yes?

-You wouldn't cut it at all.

So if I had a whole piece of rope, and I wanted a whole piece of rope,

I wouldn't have to cut it at all? That's good.

I could just give that a little rub,

and we'd be back with one whole piece of rope.

Woo, spontaneous round of applause,

and they don't even know he's a magician yet.

He's about to tell them the big secret.

He might even get some fraction jokes in.

How can I explain it?

I'm not a real teacher.

In fact, I'm not even half a teacher.

-I'm not even a quarter, or an eighth of a teacher.

-See, I told you.

I'm actually a magician, and your teachers, and your parents,

they've set you up to be filmed on a secret magic show...

-Wow!

-..called Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic,

and we've got secret cameras in the classroom. We've got one over there,

and we've got one behind this mirror. And another one over here,

and there's one at the back in the little mirror there.

Everybody give a wave.

He did it! John's brilliant rope trick completely fooled the class.

One of which is a quarter, yes?

First he tied the knot, and then moved it.

I have cut the piece of rope.

We were like, "How can he do that?!"

So now we would have...

He untied the knot in an impossible place.

He's just moving it to halfway. Now there's three quarters!

How is he doing that?

And then he removed the knot from the rope.

Just give that a little rub.

As soon as he moved the knot, the rope was just, like, fixed again.

John literally pulled it off.

The class had no idea he was a magician.

We totally got them and they loved it.

See you next time, but until then, if you're at school,

and you think something magical is happening,

maybe you'll find yourself shouting, "Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic!"

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