Episode 6 Now You See It

Come join us, one and all, in our world of magic.

A world where seeing isn't always believing...

where you can't tell fact from fiction.

Well, you don't get that nose from telling a lot of fact.

Tonight, you will see boats that shrink...

Did you just shrink someone's boat?

..laundry changing in a blink and an act in need of a rethink...

Well, I'm not touching that two of clubs.

..with stunts and illusions that confound the greatest of minds...

and Joey Essex.

Is that Michael Jackson?

MUSIC: Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson

Welcome to Now You See it.

You've heard of magicians cutting a woman in half.

Well, this one's cutting a Pink Lady in half.

Slow way to make a fruit salad.

Apples may keep doctors away,

but they're like catnip to magicians.

He's not entirely happy with it, though.

It's gone from red to green.

Does that mean he can eat it, or it's safe to cross the road?

Though, magicians can be very fussy eaters.

This one will only eat the centre

of his non-specific American brand of biscuit.

And even then it's touch and go whether he'll like it or not.

In it goes. Oh, spat straight out.

Don't offer it to me.

Anyone got a bill I could borrow?

Matt Franco here is on the scrounge for money

from some students.

Bit of a turnaround.

If you could take a picture of it,

but make sure you get the serial number in the picture.

Perfect.

Fold it in half once with the serial number facing out,

so you'll be able to recognise it if you see it again.

OK.

And, um, let's see here. You have some stuff over here.

-Yeah, I just went grocery shopping.

-You just went shopping.

Do you have any good stuff in there?

Don't be silly. They're students.

I have got some ramen, a Monster, M&Ms.

Told you.

Raman, I lived off that when I was a student over here. That's cool.

Um, could you...?

Actually, just hold out your hand, just like that.

Perfect. I'm not going to touch it.

All right. Watch this. Don't blink or you'll miss it, OK?

This is your bill.

Watch. One, two, three.

-What? What?

-LAUGHTER

What the...?!

This is the...this is the flavour packet.

Those flavour packets are full of salt, you know.

They'd be better off eating the dollar bill.

But where's that gone?

Could you break apart the noodles carefully?

-Oh...

-ALL:

-Oh!

Are you kidding?

Phew! Cos if they'd lost that dollar,

those students wouldn't eat for the next three days.

77413A.

Turn it towards the camera, show it to the camera. Bring your phone.

Yeah, exactly the same note.

Some great magic so far,

but time now for a very special Magic Moment.

OK, there's nothing special about this trick.

Ball into cup, very bog-standard.

The audience is looking pretty nonplussed too.

It's not exactly Dynamo, is it?

But with just a little shake,

open the cup, the ball's not there, and...

LAUGHTER

No wonder this was an internet sensation.

Can't wait to see him try it on the hyenas.

You crazy guy.

What? One animal clip not enough for you?

Well, let's take a look at some more in tonight's Animal Magic.

Here's Japanese international cat sensation Maru

showing his fans how tidy he is.

See? He puts himself away after he's finished playing.

But keep watching.

Whoa! A very top-drawer bit of magic.

Although strictly speaking,

that drawer is for knives, forks and dogs.

Who wouldn't do anything

for the taste of lettuce?

Yep, even float in the air.

Mind you, if all I ate was lettuce, I'd be as light as that.

Aw! He's really enjoying it.

Look at his cheeky little face.

The tortoise is having fun too.

So, this morning....

OK, we're back with the genius that is Michael Carbonaro,

today pulling a traditional first-day-on-the-job prank

with this young fellow.

They have a lot of people who just hire guys like us

to, like, clean their boats and polish them

and wax them and stuff.

So, this morning I've just been, like...

I did all these boats over here, the fibreglass ones.

I put it on everything. They say you put a thin coat of this stuff.

It reeks. I've been throwing them away.

And then you activate it with water.

Just spray the water on it and activate it.

So, I'll show you how we do that.

MOTOR REVS

-Here, you want to do that side?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. All right.

You flip this and do... Hit that side.

Oh, you hit this thing too?

Yeah, a little bit.

He's got the paddle

and I think we all know what creek he's going to be up.

-ENGINE STOPS

-Good.

And then with the...

The wood stuff's not...

It's not that sunny, but wood stuff's not supposed

-to get that much of, like, direct sunlight...

-Mm-hm.

..so I cover the wood stuff up while that sets.

So, do...

Is it like...? Oh, my gosh.

Dude.

What?!

Absolutely flummoxed.

-Did you just shrink someone's boat?

-That's not funny.

"Did you just shrink someone's boat?"

That's a great name for Vince Vaughn's next film.

Does it get bigger...ever?

I don't know.

Do you want to radio in?

I don't want to radio in, no, cos I don't want to get in trouble.

Yeah, but I don't think there's really any way around this.

I can't believe that happened.

-Dude, I'm going to say you did it.

-No!

No way!

It's like Jaws - "We're going to need a bigger boat."

But how did that stunt go down with our magic fan?

LAUGHTER

Yeah, pretty well.

Chris Korn is on a date with EastEnders' Samantha Womack

to see Agatha Christie's Mousetrap

while it's on a limited run of...64 years.

I'm going to show you an interesting way

to get two tickets for one.

Yeah, but it's not two-for-one Wednesdays, Chris.

Time to use your magic.

There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to hold my hand here, right?

Slide your hand against mine. Slide it against mine.

Now I need you to stay completely still.

Stay completely still. Yeah. Yeah.

-Don't drop the ticket.

-OK.

-Don't drop it. You got it?

-Yeah.

Slowly.

SHE GASPS

-Oh, don't!

-Feel.

-LAUGHTER

-Can you feel it?

-Yeah!

-Can you feel it? Feel that?

Oh, my...

Great. Or you could just slide it under the door.

Woo!

Looks like I'm going to the theatre.

Unfortunately, they do have to sit in the same seat

on each other's knees.

It was amazing.

With so many magicians vying for work at so few birthday parties,

some take to earning a bit on the side with a cleaning job.

No, you're not watching this in fast forward.

He really is very quick,

making the rubbish vanish in an instant.

He's welcome round my house any time.

He'd certainly be handy in a spillage situation like this.

And who hasn't wanted to do this when your picture's buffering?

Now, magic for anyone who worries too much about germs.

Watch.

He didn't touch the ring pull.

And since we last saw him,

our magical cleaner has cleaned the whole food hall.

Odd thing is, he doesn't actually work there.

It's his lunch break.

Hello.

Meanwhile in a German branch of Curry's,

a woman's asked to draw a picture on a blank card.

Nothing unusual about that.

-HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN

-Mm-hm.

-OK?

And just two hours later, she's finished it.

It's not exactly Van Gogh, but it'll do.

HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN

Now, what's the world's weirdest TV sales assistant

going to do with that pile of cards?

MAN ON TV SPEAKS GERMAN

MAGICIAN SPEAKS GERMAN

Incredible. The television was part of the trick.

Which reminds me, Chris in Doncaster,

the number you're thinking of is four.

Ah, great.

It's the brilliant Yif.

If I was asked who my favourite Chinese/French magician was,

he'd win...by a nose.

Ironically, when it gets to 12 inches long,

it turns into a foot.

Sadly, seconds later, he sneezed and blew the wall off.

Warrior two, pick a card.

The Amazing Barry, now, skilfully combining magic

and yoga to make...magic yoga.

Don't let me see it, though.

-And I will stand here...

-You getting it?

-..in tree pose.

-LAUGHTER

-Right. Here.

-I've never done yoga, so I'll take your word for it.

All right. We'll just put it right there in the...

All right, perfect. Now, can you shuffle cards?

-Not well.

-Can you try?

Just mix 'em up for me

and I'll stand here serenely while you do that.

LAUGHTER

But do it quickly cos this isn't as easy as it looks.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Here. Here.

-Here we go.

-Got it?

-Got it.

-Perfect.

-OK.

All right. Now this last pose is the most difficult one.

-All right.

-Because you see, uh...

-And I'm going to need your help.

-OK.

I'm going to hand you the deck.

-Hold it like this.

-All right.

Here in a moment when I ask for it back,

I want you to make sure that two of clubs

-is facing that wall over there, OK?

-All right.

-Make sense?

-Yes.

-Because this last pose is the most difficult...

-All right.

-..so I really need your help.

-OK.

This is a bit corny, and I'm not talking about his feet.

It's already amazing, Barry.

I know.

All right, now make sure that two of clubs

-is facing that wall over there.

-Yeah, OK.

And then place the cards in between my feet.

OK.

-Perfect.

-Brilliant.

-Let's see if we can do this.

-LAUGHTER

Is your card the verruca of spades?

This is the best card trick ever!

All right. And I think we're down to one card.

Well, I'm not touching that two of clubs, where it is,

-I can tell you that.

-LAUGHTER

-Let's see.

-Oh, you...!

-LAUGHTER

-There we go!

Look at that - a club foot.

For his next trick, Barry will perform the downward-facing dog

without breaking wind.

Impossible.

That is why he's called Amazing Barry.

-That's right.

-Well done.

Ah, The truly awe-inspiring sight

of a magician at the height of his powers.

This is quite simply astonishing stuff

from Daniel Chesterfield,

who would like to make it clear that any similarity

between his name and that of David Copperfield

is entirely deliberate.

Just look at that.

Inspirational.

Here he is moving a tram using only the power of a tram.

Truly cosmic.

If you've been caught on camera impressing with magic like Daniel

or maybe you filmed a trick going badly, badly wrong,

share it with the rest of us.

Go on. Visit...

..for all the details.

And who knows? You could be tricking our viewers

in exactly the same way that Daniel isn't.

Daniel Chesterfield, everyone. Give it up.

This chap has spent hours

of valuable computer gaming time

practising this trick.

Definitely worth it in the end, but even more extraordinary

is this next gentleman's ping-pong.

He's got find some way of amusing himself

while he waits for his dinner guests to arrive.

They were due an hour ago.

Mate, mate, I don't think anyone's coming.

Good job he spent all

his time arranging plates

instead of making the beef cobbler.

More high-octane ping-pong action now,

as Phil Mitchell meets up with his business associates

and gets more than he bargained for.

Phil wonders, "What's going on?" as do the rest of us.

But the real question Phil wants answered is,

"Is that prosecco in the glasses or a sparkling rose?"

Coming up, more magic, more mayhem.

Pick a card, any card.

Oh, no. Dropped it.

Aaah!

And you'll be as enrapt in our big finish

as Franz Harary is in his clingfilm.

Let's do it.

But first...

-Hey, Joe.

-Hello.

-Do you want to come see the hangar?

So, what are we actually doing?

-We're going to a hangar.

-What's a hangar?

It's where you hang planes up.

Ben Hanlin is out to prove Abe Lincoln was right

in saying we can fool some of the people all of the time.

Oh, hello, Joey Essex.

If time didn't just move linear,

if it moved cyclical, then you can bend it.

If you can bend the light you can bend time.

See what I mean?

-D'you know what I mean?

-No.

Come round here, come in the demo zone.

Stand here, let me show you.

You're going to love this, it's wicked.

It's going to...it's going to proper freak you out.

A minute, mate, stay there.

Wisely, Joey is left in his own containment zone to keep him

safe from himself.

TYRES SCREECH

What the...?!

TYRES SCREECH

Looking more confused than ever now, Joey.

See?

Do you see how the light displaced it? Do you see that?

-What the hell is this?

-Is what?

-What's that?

-That?

Well, when I said the light displaced,

for you, I was only gone, what, a couple seconds?

-I changed time.

-Who is that?

-I went back to the '80s.

-Is that Michael Jackson?

Yeah. Michael.

Who is this?

MUSIC: Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson

Oh, my God!

-Did you see how we went back in time? You saw that?

-Yeah.

I see... I don't know how you get from there to there,

I don't get it.

Have you ever seen anything disappear like that before?

No.

-Have you ever seen anyone time travel like that before?

-No.

It's good, innit?

Yeah, pretty decent. Or as Joey says...

Sick.

Whatever that means.

Magicians are well known for their love of clothes, so let's

enjoy three clothes-based tricks, seeing as three is the magic number.

Firstly, Laurent Beretta is just popping home to change,

and without the help of any camera tricks.

Brilliant!

Especially as he lives on the 26th floor and the lift's out of order.

There's some clothes I don't put in the laundry just because...

Like this shirt.

Oh, sweet!

But good luck trying to fold that neatly.

And finally, this T-shirt's been flying off the shelves.

But now, as usual, Ben Hart is in a hurry.

Now as you know, I'm a magician,

and I love to do magic up against the clock,

and today my timing mechanism will be this, a sand timer.

I'm going to turn it upside down.

In the time it takes for the sand to flow from the top chamber

to the bottom chamber, I'll do something really amazing.

What, boil an egg?

And I'm hoping in order to do this I might be able to borrow your ring.

OK, he's not going to boil an egg.

Thank you.

Now, can you confirm that this is the only ring you own like this?

-Yes.

-And you'll recognise it when you see it again?

-I would, yes.

OK. I'm going to leave it inside this wine glass.

That way I can't easily manipulate it,

the camera can get a good close up of it.

And I'd like you to hold that by the stem for me.

Because I'm going to cover the whole thing with this cloth.

You say cloth, Ben, I'd say duster.

In a minute, something very strange is going to happen inside the glass.

-You can hear the ring rattling around inside?

-Yeah.

In a minute, it's going to start to change shape.

Would you hold out your hand for me?

And would you touch the side of the glass?

Now, this happens with different people at different rates.

I don't want you to lie to make me look good,

but if you feel something happening inside the glass,

-do tell me.

-OK.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Feel something?

The funny thing is, I think it's worked, you can let go.

Thank you. Cos look, that ring's transformed,

and now all that's left is just...

It's like a very civilised middle-class version

of the end of the Lord Of The Rings.

-SHE LAUGHS

-We're quitters.

How did I do for time? Look.

No way.

Linked to the very centre of the sand timer,

-do you see?

-No way.

-There's a ring.

Can you confirm that that really is your ring?

-That is my ring.

-How is that possible?

Now, nobody's been anywhere near the sand timer, it's vanished,

it's reappeared and now we need to get it off.

And there's only one way to get it off, which is like this.

Yeah, Ben's invitation to perform at the Antiques Roadshow wrap party

has just been cancelled.

It's not as bad as breaking a mirror -

with an egg timer, it's only three minutes bad luck.

But that there belongs to you.

-Thank you very much for helping me.

-Thank you.

-That was amazing, thank you.

-Thank you.

It's the height of summer, and at an olde English theme pub

in Stratford, a tourist prepares to sit outside.

Having swivelled his cap to impress the lady opposite,

he asks for the bill.

But that drink was pricey, time for a quick exit.

And like Merlin himself,

he disappears in a puff of air freshener.

But where, oh, where could he be? Nobody knows.

At least he left a tip.

If a pony's 25 quid, a bunny would be about, what, four quid?

OK, it's time to ask, "How do they do that?"

as Catherine Mills shows us

a trick with the stuff you spit out at the dentist's.

When you're here in the Alps, one of the most important things

is to keep yourself hydrated.

Now, you can just drink fruit juice,

but when it comes to hydration, nothing beats water.

What! But how?!

To make this effect work, all you need is a glass...

..a piece of coloured plastic to fit the glass, and a cloth.

Put the plastic in to the glass and then fill the glass up with water

to the top of the plastic giving the illusion of a coloured drink.

When you cover the glass up with the cloth, you remove

the piece of plastic, revealing clear water.

You don't have to be in the Alps for that trick to work.

Dynamo's on his travels as well. He's in India, placing

a lighted candle on the River Ganges and making it float away.

AUDIENCE MUTTERS IN HINDI

The crowd's already impressed, but watch this.

Whoa, I don't know whose birthday it is, but they're really old.

Absolutely beautiful, plus it provides an exciting assault

course for the handful of people enjoying an evening swim.

Right, brace yourself for the bit of the show where we declare...

"You don't see that every day!"

Well, be honest, have you ever seen someone doing a handstand,

then firing a bow and arrow using their feet?

Of course, this is entirely reckless and shouldn't be tried at home.

She's not even using the right yoga gear, which as amazing Barry showed,

was a zoot suit, a hat and a pack of cards.

Bull's-eye! Although it is an odd place to aim.

Take a bow. Or a bow. Whatever.

You see this watch? It's turned into money.

£1.29 by the look of things.

Although a handy tip, you can achieve the same result

at your local cash converters.

High time to showcase the talents of Israeli magician Hezi Dean.

We join him as he asks a woman why she's chosen to wear

an entirely pristine white outfit in the middle of a salvage yard.

And then he asks her to pick a card.

HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE

She selects the king of diamonds,

and he then gets her to sign the card.

Inviting her to lean on him to do so,

even though that's not strictly necessary.

THEY SPEAK IN OWN LANGUAGE

In time-honoured fashion, her card is placed back in the pack.

You just can't beat a simple, old-fashioned card trick, can you?

She's certainly enjoying it, looking relaxed and happy,

not a care in the world.

Unfortunately, it's at this point that Hezi asks her to put on

a safety harness and leads her to a large industrial crane.

We've come a long way from the simple card trick, haven't we?

And indeed, from the ground.

She's still smiling, but let's be honest, she's terrified.

Hezi is going to bungee jump whilst brandishing a sword.

Whoa, careful!

It'll be an absolute tragedy if that sword cuts through the rope.

After all, we'd never know if he'd found the right card.

Is the card Hezi speared on the way down her card?

Why yes, the king of diamonds!

So after innocently choosing a card,

being hoisted 60ft in the air and watching a man plunge to

his near doom with a sharp object, would she like to see another trick?

Ha! No, Hezi, she wouldn't.

Looks like another dice trick. Oh, sorry, it's a card trick.

Yo, girl, what's your favourite colour?

-White.

-Oh, my.

-SHE GASPS

I think you'll find white's a tone, not a colour.

What's up?

One, two, three...

Jason here has an age-old problem. Can it be solved by magic?

Yes, ten divided by four doesn't go.

Meaning we'll then be dividing eleven by four.

Bam! Whoa!

Pretty good. His mate then asks the burning question.

Of course.

We're nearly done, but not before our big finish.

And, yes, it's over to half man, half vacuum-packed sausage,

Mr Franz Harary.

He's freshly wrapped in clingfilm

and chained in an empty disused carpet warehouse.

What could be going on?

Even though the clock hasn't started ticking, in my mind,

time is already running out.

Well, I do have a function to go to after this, Franz,

so if you wouldn't mind...

Uh-oh, this doesn't look good.

Well, it seems Franz has just 90 seconds to

escape from his cling-film nightmare before the building explodes!

Can he do it?

This is the most dangerous escape I have ever attempted.

Now seriously, if you have clingfilm at home, please,

please don't copy Franz - his mum's going to give him

a strong ticking off for using the entire roll.

He's tightly wrapped, isn't he?

Unlike the explosives, there's no chance he'll be going off.

Surely that's not right for a grown man.

But Franz likes his pony tail.

See, that's the problem with clingfilm -

it's always difficult to find the end bit.

Takes ages to unwrap a pitta bread sandwich.

Admittedly, Franz's issue is a bit more life threatening,

but, gah, it drives me crazy!

He's really struggling here.

Could be worse, though, he could be wrapped in clingfilm

and trapped in a Tupperware box.

Only 30 seconds to go, Franz. That's right, rip it to pieces!

You've still got top get out of the chains and manacles.

Ah, he's free. Come on!

But he's still got to get out of the building before it explodes.

Run, Franz, run like a...

Oh, I don't know what that run looks like.

Blimey.

Wow, he's escaped, but only just.

On the plus side,

there were some brilliant carpet bargains to be had in the fire sale.

That's your lot for now.

We had frights, fun and plenty of frolic.

Join us next time for more.

Now, if you don't mind, I think at last I've found someone

who'll find my jokes funny.

What's white and swings through trees?

A meringue-u-tan.

LAUGHTER Bye!