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Hey, Michael Carbonaro here, and thank you for joining me for a special episode

where we're trying something brand new.

You know, some people don't know this, but often I shoot my trick several times

to see how different people will react.

What you may not know is that many times we have several versions of the same

trick that are so good, we end up arguing about which one should air. In

end, one wins out. But tonight, I want to show you the very best of the

alternative version in a special we are calling Double Take.

And first up, let me see the drink. Okay.

You may remember Brian here.

Holy moly. We convinced him that our crazy x -ray machine was making

see -through, including him.

I just, I can't see myself in the mirror.

I can't see myself.

I can see through your body. No, you can't.

No, it's not at all, man.

Well, he wasn't the only person who got the vampire treatment.

All right, seriously, man, what the f*** are you doing? Because now I'm not, I

don't see my reflection in there.

Can I have my soda? We tried this on four other people, but Tremont here was

standout. And he had a moment of reflection as well.

Okay. Click that switch.

Yeah, turn that power off. Turn it off. Oh, no.

No, no, no, no.

Sorry, did you flip that?

No, I didn't touch it. Flip it back?

I didn't touch anything.

Did I just do that?

Yeah. Is it because we both touched it? I literally just did like this. That's

what I did. I felt like a shark.

Maybe we have superpowers now.

What's that? I said maybe we have superpowers.

Holy.

What's that?

Huh? Do you see that?

Whoa.

Dude.

Oh my gosh.

What the hell?

Dude, I'm freaked out right now. No, yeah, that's like really creepy.

I mean, it like wiped the color out of it.

That just freaked me out.

Here, hold on. I'm taking a picture of that, dude.

Okay.

Smile.

Wow.

I'm kind of scared now, just because I'm like, I hope nothing, like, there's no,

like, effects from that just happening. Oh, no, no, it's not gonna, I mean,

there's wires everywhere, but that's not gonna make, like, the thing. Ooh, I

just did that. Sorry, that was me, that was me, that was me, that was me. I kick

it with my foot.

There we go, there we go, there we go. See?

I can click it with my foot.

What the?

Your body. It's like I can see through your body for a second.

Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. Seriously, seriously.

Okay. Hold on.

That was really weird. I like literally saw through your body for a second

there. You're messing with me. I am not messing with you. Dude, when you were

standing there, I was like looking and I could see that box.

What? That is really weird.

What the heck just happened?

My heart is beating like crazy right now.

Okay, just don't touch that anymore because... Did you feel that? Yeah, I

like my, like, felt like vibrations and stuff.

Yeah.

Oh, my God. Oh, I saw the picture of the cup like this.

Dude, look at that.

Like, you can't even see your body in there.

That is messed up stuff.

Do you feel okay?

No, I still kind of feel tingly.

Hold on one second. Will you stay right there?

Oh, come on, man.

Whoa. I pulled the cord out and in.

I'm going to unplug. Hold on. Let me just... Don't touch any buttons.

I just... This thing is... Okay, that's back on. Freaking me out, man.

See, but this thing's not even plugged in here. That doesn't make sense.

I don't know, but I disappeared for a quick second up here, and it just kind

freaked me out a little bit.

Wait, what do you mean?

Like, literally, like, disappeared, and it, like, came back on.

Like my image, yeah.

Really? Like the Carbonaro effect?

Like, you know, when they double layer an x -ray and it becomes transparent?

The Carbonaro effect?

Oh, yeah.

You never heard of that?

Is that what happened? Yeah. It's also the name of a hidden camera magic TV

show.

Like the one you're on right now?

No way.

Yes way.

Oh my God, dude.

Michael Carbonaro. Nice to meet you. You're on my TV show right now, The

Carbonaro Effect.

Oh, man.

Dude, what were you thinking?

I'm like, what the fuck just happened?

What did it look like, really, though?

Literally, I just completely disappeared, and then when it came back

back up. I'm like... You're there now?

You okay? And our cup is back?

So will you be on my TV show?

I'd love to be on your TV show. Good, you're right. Now, wave there and say

Dude, you're awesome.

Oh, my God. You're awesome.

I'm still trembling right now.

Fun fact, our crazy x -ray machine was actually just a surgical light, a fact

that I learned today.

Okay, moving on.

All right, it's all five in there. Yeah. Who could forget this guy's reaction

when five little frogs transformed before his very eyes?

Wait a minute.

What's that?

Where are all the frogs?

Well, earlier in the day, I also showed these exotic frogs to Alini here.

There you go.

Doesn't that feel funny?

Well, I don't blame him.

Yeah. I mean, they like being next to each other.

Aw, he didn't budge at all. Yeah, they grew up together, so. Aw.

They like the work of the team.

That is so cute.

Okay, and then if you just hold them like this.

Okay, so just put your hand over the top.

Yeah, like that, and hold like that. Okay.

You got him? Yeah, I got him. Okay, okay, don't squish him. Oh, I want, I

I want. You're going to leave him there? Okay, like that. That's perfect. Okay,

good.

Sorry about that.

Why are you apologizing?

I just hate the mess.

Don't worry.

Yeah, it's allowed.

Yeah. Okay. They get scared easily. Are they okay? I think so. He's all right.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. What happened? What happened? Why is it a huge frog

right now?

What? It's a huge frog.

Oh, yes. Oh, my gosh. That's my fault. I made the sound.

What does that mean?

That's a defense mechanism that they'll do. And they become one huge frog? Yeah,

it's like a defense mechanism.

How is that even possible in nature?

Well, because what they'll do is like, you know how like a blowfish will puff

up? For defense, these guys, when something scares them, they'll all

together to one predator.

Well, wow.

I'm sorry. I didn't know that. I'm like ignorant when it comes to froggy.

I've learned so much working here. It's like, holy moly. I just had a freak

moment. I'm sorry because I didn't. I thought I was either.

I mean, I'm just stunned by that. And that's just that size. I mean, if four

them huddle together like this and they all get threatened, then those four can

huddle together to an even bigger one. Oh, my gosh.

That's wild, right? It is. So there's like frogs within the frog.

There's frogs within the frog, yeah.

Right. Wow.

You know, I was going to make a frog joke here, but sometimes my jokes can

off a bit cheesy, or so I've been told.

Okay, when we come back, thanks for helping me out here today. Not a

We'll head to the video arcade.

Okay. Where it's anything but fun and games for this guy.

Hey, Michael Carbonaro here. Welcome back to a special that takes a look at

new reactions to some of your favorite tricks from our show.

Now for this one, we go all the way back to season one, for Courtney here.

Are you still alive?

She helped me out with an electrical problem, but ended up getting the shock

her life.

What the crap?

Oh my God. Are they here?

No, no, I'm okay. Oh my God, I got zapped. How did you get in there?

Well, earlier that day, I also worked with Jamie here.

A lot of the machines are separated onto different breakers, and if two of them

are on the same breaker, they both keep shorting out. Who found our arcade not

so amusing?

And we'll try and troubleshoot this here.

Can you hold this for a second?

Oh,

there we go.

Okay. Okay.

There it is.

You got it?

All right. Wait, wait, hang on a second. Oh, you know what it is?

Yeah, and you don't just go go plug it in try plugging it in

Yeah,

how do I get you out?

Hey, Mike, where's the last?

This one, this is it.

That's it.

This circuit, the circuit's in here.

Wait a minute.

Can you open this up?

There's a key that goes here.

Oh, there's a key in the cart.

Yeah.

That's got to be what it is.

Yeah, can you open that?

Yeah, you know what it is? This one is pulling all of this one's power. No,

you were in there.

Yeah. When did you get out?

Well, this one, this one has, this one is taking the power.

No, I'm talking about, I'm sorry, well, go ahead.

Because I saw you inside there and you came out here.

I know, this is what I'm trying to explain to you. This one is drawing all

this one's power.

So if this machine, if someone's playing this machine at its full capacity, this

one's going to try and suck it right up.

All right. So right off this moment, there was a small breaker there. And so

when I plugged it in, a siren sound started dropping slowly, and you were

there.

Are you still inside here right now? Am I still inside here right now? Yeah,

because I swear you were in here when it closed.

You want to open this back up?

Yeah, I don't want to stand near it. Would you open it back up?

All right, so... All right, so plug it up, and we'll... If the power is going

here like it should, plug it up, and I'll show you exactly what happens. I'm

just nervous about these wires coming out, because when I was in it, I touched

my hand to it, and then I felt, like, electricity, and then I heard you

Yeah. And then a siren, and then I... Yeah, that sound came on, for sure.

I must have gotten shocked, because I don't remember you locking me inside of

this one.

I did it.

I did not. I have no idea how you got inside there.

Maybe because they're both pulling from the same power?

Mm -hmm.

You've seen that before when something can transfer over, you know,

electrically? What do they call that?

The Carbonaro effect?

I would not have quoted that, but yes. Right, it's going to transmit over to

other side.

Okay, so...

That's the Carbonaro effect.

When it goes from one side to the other, even if it's with a person, as crazy as

that is.

It makes sense.

It does?

Yeah.

Carbonaro effect is also the name of a hidden camera magic TV show.

What if I told you you were on that show right now? I would die.

Don't die.

Don't get electrocuted.

Oh, my God.

My name is Michael Carbonaro, and you're on my show right now, The Carbonaro

Effect.

Oh, my God.

Who knew getting shocked and waking up in a giant claw machine could be so much

fun the second time?

Moving on. The thread pulls down on a spiral -spoken side.

We all remember these lovely ladies from the antique market who were fascinated

by our shirt -making trunks.

Look at that. It is the tail of the shirt.

Think of the hours I spend on my sewing machine.

Well, we also showed this unique item to this curious couple.

You buy local fabrics, and then they would just do it. So this way, it feeds

right through here.

And I've got the matching threads going for you.

And that up.

And then handle on the bottom.

There we go.

Yeah.

I didn't want to mess with any of the original parts. I did put a little bit

grease on it. That's it, a non -Molly grease.

Get that through.

Make it a little jam.

There.

Then, yeah, it does a pretty good job.

Get a scissor.

There you go.

And all the buttons in place.

Yep, they got it all. And it closes the themes, too.

I'm going to try it on and see how I did.

Did you really just sew that?

I don't sew. I mean, I don't sew.

No, but what she's asking is, what is the trick to this?

I think that there's like a gear.

There's something about spokes, right? And that's what the word, I think, spoke

comes from, because it'll grab the threads.

No one knows how it does it, but... You just put plain fabric in there. Plain

fabric. It won't do denim or suede. The needle will break. You set all the

buttons on and everything? It does the buttons, yeah. You load the buttons up

through the top, and you can change the buttons out.

There's a chamber that they drop inside of, and then this is sleeve thread and

collar, and the base, what, a base loop stitch or something across here, just

from these two. But if you learn it, the other settings...

It can do like a blouse or there's an elastic through here to make tight

Wow. That's great.

That's pretty cool. Yeah.

Like how did that fit on your sleeve?

Pretty good.

Was it good? Yeah. Like where would you want to adjust it?

I don't think I would. Probably wouldn't adjust it. You wouldn't adjust

anything? It was a good one?

Yeah. It'll remake it to a single dart in the back, which I like.

I don't like the two because it puffs out.

So if you feed it back in, and this one you just used this thread to here.

And you put the thread, you wrap it around?

Yeah, it's going to click to the back of the neck on it, like there.

And then, yeah.

It cranks a little bit harder when it's going through a circuit already, so

that's the only part.

And then it will fix the...

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry. I was going to let you go home with this shirt, and then I...

I might be back.

Okay, great.

Long story short, he did come back, but only to sign his release form to be on

the show.

Okay, when we return... Did you make a noise?

It made a noise.

It definitely made a noise.

We revisit the mysterious shape -shifting plant.

It looks like flesh.

And get one of the biggest reactions of all time.

Oh, hell no.

Anthony!

Hey, Michael Carbonaro here with more brand new footage in our double take

special, which gives you a second look at some of your favorite tricks from our

show. And boy, oh boy, have we saved the best for last.

Like bizarro Christmas.

Whoa, what is that?

Now, all of you surely remember the trick we did where a mysterious plant

changing its appearance based on what it touched.

Dude, that was red before, right? The whole thing was, yeah, it was like a

thistle -topped. That is so awesome and kind of creepy at the same time.

Well, earlier that night, I worked with Anthony here.

And while he played it cool in the beginning, this trick definitely grew on

What the heck is going on?

I don't know. Keep it away from me. Did you see that? Yes, keep it away from me.

All right.

That is so weird.

Wow. It just like ate the orange.

No, this is the orange.

What the hell is this thing?

That's whacked.

I've never seen anything like that.

Does it say anything from where it's from?

Okay, a Cuban assimilatory Persea plant.

Assimilatory.

All right. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I know he was working on stuff like

medical. I've never seen anything like that.

What does it say?

It can adapt, wait a minute, a form of plant life that could provide symbiotic

bacteria to assimilate with carbon -based life forms and adapt.

Similar cellular growth.

That's so weird.

So something can, like a chameleon, I guess, right? That is really gross.

Hey, I didn't know anyone else was still here.

Oh, yeah.

Hi, I'm Danielle.

Anthony. Is this your first date? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.

Come here. You've got to see this thing. We found this thing. We didn't know

what it was. It had like, it like, he touched that one with that and it like.

And then the tip of this one turned to the same.

See how the front of the orange, see how the front of that is? Oh, no. It's not.

It's not like it.

It's not so much. Yeah, don't touch that. Don't touch that. No, no. Wait,

wait. You just did. She just did. Sorry.

She just touched it. Did you? Yeah.

I barely touched it.

All right. Okay.

I'm going to go. Yeah.

Okay. I'll wash my hands. I'm just going to. I'll wash my hands. Thank you.

Yeah, yeah. I'll just pack up the stuff. We'll just label it or something and

pack it up. I don't want to. You guys have a good night. You got it. Okay.

All right.

I say we skip this one.

I think I'm just going to forget about this one. We're not going to write this

one down? Well, we can put the thing in, but I don't really want to do much more

with it. Yeah, we could put that inside there. Yeah, I wouldn't want to.

So finish writing that up.

All right, so then we'll put that in with the plant.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah, we'll just tuck it underneath the... Oh, my God, that's a big one.

Wow. Do you see how fast that just grew?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Don't open it up. Why?

This is amazing.

That is really creepy.

It's the most fantastic thing I've ever seen. Something that can grow that

quickly. Wow. I'm going to put gloves on. You're fine. Don't worry. You don't

have to touch it.

Wow.

This is, and it's very light for how big it is.

This is creepy as shit. Yeah.

You know what? I'll move it over to here.

This will be our workspace. We'll leave that over there.

Oh, my God. Yeah, and I won't make you touch it. Don't worry.

Are you okay?

Ridiculous.

You know what? Here, I'll clear this off.

We'll leave that there.

I'm just going to keep it down here on this table.

Yeah, and then we'll have them deal with that.

You know what I'm saying?

Sure. Okay.

That's insane.

Did that just do that after she touched it?

Do what?

Got big like that.

Well, yeah. If that turns into a person, like... Well, because that one, like,

turned into an orange.

She touched that with her skin.

The skin of that touched that. All right, all right, all right. You're like

-cray. Come here.

Look how big that thing is. Yeah, it is pretty big.

Let's just water our seeds here. Sure.

Do you have that thing?

Did you hear that?

All right, that's still moving.

Is it moving? Yes, I'm done. I saw that, right? Yes, I'm done. Oh, no, no, no,

don't leave me. Oh, no, let's go. Come on. Should we leave? Yes. It just moved.

No, it didn't. Yes, it did. It's fine.

Don't leave me, Anthony.

Come on. No, Anthony, please.

You are insane.

It's just a plant.

No, but that's going to, like, eat you.

Just... Don't worry. We don't have to touch it. I promise.

Oh, my God.

I am, like, tripping. Yeah, don't worry. Don't worry.

Like, this is... We don't have to touch it.

We'll just hang at the table. I have not ate acid in forever, so, like, this is

just not normal.

Yeah, well, I mean, I've seen some pretty fascinating things in this place,

me tell you. There's plants that move.

There's plants that make sounds.

Plants that eat people.

No, not eat people.

Someone's going to want to probably do some research on this, that's for sure.

And I don't know where it came from.

Whoa.

Did you see that?

Wow.

Whoa.

Do you see this?

Anthony, look at this. Why are you still at that? Because this is beautiful.

Look at this. Yeah, that's gorgeous. Do you see this? I don't want to see it.

It looks like a human... It looks like...

Oh, hell no.

Hey, welcome back to the Carbonaro Effect double take special.

When last we left you, Anthony was just about done with our living plant head

lady thing. So let's jump back in.

It looks like a human. It looks like flesh.

Oh, hell no.

How did it do? It's like it assimilated a face. Anthony, this is beautiful.

Oh, hell no.

Get the f*** out of here.

No, don't run away.

Oh, my God.

That's going to turn into a person and eat you.

Let's go.

Anthony.

And there he goes.

But don't worry. We told him outside that shape -shifting plants don't really

exist.

But you know what? That's the fun of performing these tricks in front of real

people. You just never know what kind of reaction you're going to get. And hey,

we're glad sometimes we get great ones twice.

I hope you enjoyed Double Takes, and thanks for watching.