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Illusion, the art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

perception. You can't trust what you see even with your own eyes.

Meet the Masters of Illusion.

Hi everybody, I'm Dean Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now you're about

to meet the masters who prove that the hand is quicker than the eye.

And you can't always take what you see as fact.

Are you ready to witness the impossible?

Yes!

What do you see here?

The portrait of a Bengal tiger?

Maybe not.

As in life, a picture is composed of many elements.

The whole is the sum of its parts.

Look closely. This composition is actually made up of hundreds of tiny

photographs.

Their brain has transposed them into a recognizable object.

So beware, because tonight's illusions have been designed to lead you astray.

Now, let's watch one of the great performers as he presents a modern

illusion. Welcome the always amazing Jonathan Hendrick.

Thank you.

You never know where a performer gets his inspiration.

Ideas for illusions come from many different places.

Well, this next one was generated by his infant son.

Watch Eric bus.

Thank you.

My name is Eric.

My wife and I have a baby now, so clap for that.

That's hard.

So hard.

Okay,

he's not a baby. He's almost four years old.

I've been milking it for four years. So we're practicing the alphabet. We're

teaching him how to read, teaching him simple letters. So we actually got one

those alphabet flashcard decks.

There's a different letter on every card.

P, that's his favorite activity.

A bunch of different letters all throughout the deck. These are great for

helping toddlers learn how to read. We're going to try a quick experiment

the flashcard deck. You, sir, what is your name?

Jeff. Jeff. Give it up for Jeff as he joins me on stage.

Come on up, Jeff. I need your help.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Excellent. Jeff, do you have kids?

Nope. No kids. Do you know how to read?

Read what?

All right.

We will find out.

Tell me when to stop.

Right there. All right, Jeff.

Hold on to the letter you stopped me at. Show everybody in the audience. Look at

it yourself.

Memorize that letter.

Hide it from my view.

Here's what you're going to do with your letter. You're going to stick it into

the deck facing the wrong direction. You're going to stick it in facing

down, as we call it. Then you're going to shuffle face up into face down.

just going to mix up the cards much like a four -year -old would mix the cards.

Make sense? Just shuffle those cards. Shuffle yours in there.

Doesn't matter anyway.

So with Demetri, we have him pick one card, lose it into the deck, then we

on to other activities.

And Dimitri loves to play with duct tape.

Like father, like son.

All right, Jeff, are you done shuffling? Excellent. I'm going to trade you tape

for card.

Hold on to that tape. Don't let it tangle or stick on itself.

I'm going to hide all the cards. Now we have all cards hidden facing inward. Now

what I want you to do with that tape, sticky side facing the audience, I want

you to hold it up with both hands about neck height. Now what I want you to do,

I'll take this end. You take one step to your left. Hold it with your right

hand. Perfect.

Dimitri picks a card. We move on to play with tape. We come back to the cards.

When Dimitri sees his card, he starts to giggle. I expect you to do the same,

Jeff. Okay.

Boom. Why?

No, that's not your card. Your letter. Okay.

Hold on. It doesn't always work the first time. O.

Yo.

No, O either. Okay. Hold on.

Boom.

Wait. Now you're spelling.

Did you shuffle?

You shuffled, right? Okay.

You know what? We'll speed up the process. Here we go.

Did you pick the F?

I did.

Is he laughing out loud?

Give it up for Jeff.

Next up, amazing is the only way to describe Nathan's bad.

A man who constantly hears voices in his head, and he always makes a good

impression. Here is Nathan Phan.

Excellent. I'd like to address something.

You may notice there's a slight discrepancy between the way that I look

way that I sound, so I'll address it now. The answer is yes, I really am

Vietnamese. Good. Moving on.

The next part of the... I know a lot of you probably aren't used to hearing

really thick Vietnamese accents.

This is a regional dialect from the northwestern part of Vietnam called

which is where I'm from.

Glasgow's in Scotland, not Vietnam, you guys.

I don't know. One guy was like, I'm with you. I knew that.

But I didn't get picked on while I was growing up in Scotland because I

developed a very unique skill in addition to magic.

I could do vocal mimicry. I could sound like my classmates, people I saw on TV.

In fact, I brought with me...

Over four dozen of my favorite voices to do so I need someone who knows pop

culture as well as me Someone who's going to be able to know what these

sound like and let's say oh my goodness. Let's go with that Let's go with that

you sir. Just someone flailing his arm in the air like a marionette. That's

amazing. Hi, what's your name, sir?

Louise everyone round applause for Louise as he comes up to join me

Here's what you're going to do, okay?

I'm going to go through these, all right? And when you see one that you

recognize, go ahead and call out stop anytime you'd like.

Right there, you know who that is?

No, don't say it out loud. Don't say it out loud, all right? Here, we'll keep on

going, all right? I want you to do not say it out loud because I'm going to

attempt to figure out, oh, this one, you know who that is?

I'm going to close my eyes and show it to everyone, yeah?

Excellent. Take this one. And I want you to go ahead and reach in here and just

grab a stack of them. Grab a stack, a few of them.

Reach in there and grab a few more. Excellent.

Those, mix them up. Mix them up. I'm going to do all those voices based

off of your reaction. I'm going to attempt to figure out which voice you

thinking of that we showed the entire audience. All right?

You have these mixed up.

We're going to go through a few of these. Hopefully, that's a bunch of

We'll try. All right. First one on here is Yogi Bear. Yogi Bear. So, boo -boo,

buddy. Some picnic baskets.

Let's see.

Here we go. This is Agador Spartacus from the Birdcage.

This is... Hey, Dad, can we go get some ice cream?

I've done voices for a really really really long time. That's how I know what

people are thinking of in fact. Here's what you do Go through here, pick any

of these that you'd like, all right? Once you have it selected, show it to

entire audience, then put it face down inside the briefcase, and then put the

rest of them on top, and I need people to cover my eyes. Hi, can you help me

out? Give me a favor. Cover my eyes for me. Cover my eyes. Cover my eyes. You,

you, everyone get it. Come on. This is, come on. There we go. Everyone cover my,

cover my eyes. Yeah?

Everyone? Good.

Excellent. Did everyone get to see the, see who it is?

Excellent. Completely lost in there?

Excellent. Thank you very much. You were excellent eye coverers.

Excellent. Here we go. Now just close this up.

Here's what I want you to do. Sir, put your hand on my shoulder.

All right?

Focus on the voice.

Answer these questions in your head, but only with the answer no. Do not

squeeze. Don't say anything out loud, all right?

Is this an actor?

Is this a character?

Is this a Muppet? Is this a cartoon? Is this a singer? Is this a cartoon?

This is a cartoon. Thank you. Don't squeeze. Is this a human character? This

an animal character. This is an alien character. This is a human character.

is a human character.

Human cartoon character.

Does this person have like a high -pitched voice? Like a low -pitched

Somewhere kind of in the middle. Somewhere kind of in the middle.

Okay. Is this character associated with an animal?

That's a yes. You know, this is like, like, dude, we've got to get out of

man. Is it Shaggy?

Yes. Everyone, round of applause for this show. Thank you so much.

You guys can move back down.

Coming up next, The Impossible is made possible by Barry and Stuart.

Here are our favorite Scotsmen. Their humor is always a treat, and they have a

special drink.

For you tonight, here are Barry and Stuart.

Before we do our next trick, I do have to give the

viewers at home a warning. If you've had too much to drink, then this trick will

be awesome.

We're going to do a trick using some water and a wine glass. Now, this trick

actually hasn't been attempted for...

2 ,000 years.

The last guy who did this, you might have actually heard of him. He was this

with a beard and a robe. You may have heard of him.

Dumbledore. Yeah.

In order to do this, we actually need someone from the audience. Someone that

likes to drink wine.

That is, likes wine a bit, not likes wine for breakfast.

Yeah. And looking at this lot here, I think we're kind of spoilt for choice,

actually. Yes, we are.

Yeah. What about that wee lass down there?

Yeah. She looks like she enjoys a stiff drink, doesn't she? I know.

I've seen her on park benches shouting at strangers.

Yeah. You know what?

I actually think that she's probably more of a beer kind of girl. Beer girl.

Yeah, she's a beer girl. We do need someone who's into wine.

I tell you what, the girl right there, do you mind joining us? Come on, jump up

here. Give her a nice hand as she makes her way to the front of the stage.

Hiya. What's your name?

Erica. Erica. Erica.

I want you to be the taste buds for the entire audience and everybody who is

watching this at home. I'm going to open the top of this bottle right here.

We're going to taste the water inside that bottle, have a sip of it. If it's

water, say it's water, because I don't want people to...

Have a sip of the liquid inside that bottle and confirm for everybody that

is in fact just pure water, yeah? Water.

No traces of alcohol in that. No. Erica, we want you to hold the glass by the

stem right here.

That's perfect. Hold it right there. That's great. I want to take the bottle

back and break it next to my microphone so you can all hear this cracking open

right here.

Erica, this is water that you've tasted and verified with your own lips. If this

works, it will be a miracle.

Watch as the water changes in midair.

Thanks. Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks for the applause, but I know there are some doubting people out there

that just think this is one of those sort of chemical reaction things where

water has just changed colour. But that is not so.

Smell the newly transformed liquid.

You see, those molecules have transformed completely, haven't they?

smells different, doesn't it? Smells like wine.

Smells like wine. Now, have a taste of the newly transformed liquid.

Confirm for us that that is in fact real cheap red wine.

Water into wine.

And you can take that back to your seats, share it there with your brethren

the second row.

I think, Barry, I think everybody seemed to like that break except the little

girl in the third row. I know, I know. I think we sort of left her out. You

know, normally we wouldn't be allowed to do this, but I think...

Tonight, should we make an exception? Let's make an exception. She is very

young. We did say that you look more like a beer kind of girl. So just for

even though Barry's arm's been in his sleeve the whole time.

I have for you a nice, crisp, cool glass of milk.

There you go.

Don't drink and drive, huh?

Thanks.

That's it.

Now it is time for the always popular pick a card.

But never like this. Try to keep up with the dazzling Chris Randall.

Next up, the quick moves of David and Dania.

I'm sure you know that some people are afraid of pain.

Well, not these two. Meet David and Dania.

Well, that's it.

How do they do it? Well, all I can say is very well.

That's why they are known as the masters of illusion.

Join us again next time as we play with your reality. Until then, I'm Dean Cain,

and thanks for joining us. Thank you.