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♪♪♪

Throughout Season 1, the crew would come to this business

for any specialty printing that we needed for our tricks

and to make copies of production documents.

So when we eventually decided to write tricks for a copy shop,

it was natural to approach this location to shoot in.

I hurt my nose. It was worth it.

And...

Oh, look at this. Art. High art.

Holiday cards.

Michael: Howdy. Man: Hello. How are you?

Good. How you doing, man? You got a pickup?

Yes, sir. All righty.

Not a problem.

Um, I need to make one copy, actually.

Okay.

I needed to make a copy of my driver's license.

Oh, I can do that for you. Okay.

Just one copy. Okay.

Um...yeah. You know, it's funny.

I was just messing with this thing.

These big machines -- It's like...

I have no idea.

I have some at the office, but they're a lot smaller than that.

I know.

This is the big, mammoth one, but the thing is totally...

Jammed. Yeah.

Four cartridges, and they're all getting jammed.

I usually end up taking the little, you know,

photoreceptor out of it.

Yeah. Do you have trouble

with the photoreceptor?

I usually don't take it out. Oh, yeah.

But it'll be thick. Is that all right?

Um, I think so. That's fine.

Yeah. That should make it work.

Let me see what we have here.

Let me put this on.

Oh, yeah.

They keep getting messed up,

and I end up doing all of these things by hand.

If I remember even how to do that.

Oh, yeah.

Scan most of that there. Right?

That'll be pretty good.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

And then just...

There was an early version of this trick

where I would smear toner all over my hand,

rub the driver's license,

and then magically smear a perfect copy

onto a sheet of paper.

It was really cool but extremely messy,

so we went with the photoreceptor instead.

Huh? You put a copy

on the cup.

Oh. I'm sorry about that. [ Laughs ]

Yeah. You're fine.

Yeah. I really should take this thing off.

[ Shutter clicks ] Yeah.

Oh! Look at your shirt.

Oh, shoot. [ Laughs ]

Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

It's more funny than anything, but...

Yeah? [ Laughs ]

I'm sorry. Yeah.

That's why they leave them in the machines.

Yeah. Stay away from me with that.

I know. Seriously.

You're not supposed to get --

[ Shutter clicks ]

Oh, that's funny. Oh! Look at the ceiling.

[ Laughs ] Oh, my God. Dude, okay.

Wait. Let me put this back in.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.

Do you want this as one of the copies?

[ Laughing ] No. You sure? Just this?

Yeah.

Okay. Uh, let me get that other order for you.

Wow. Yeah.

Hang tight. Sorry about that.

Okay.

Wow.

Morgan Webster for a package.

Morgan Webster? Package? Sure.

That's you? Yeah.

All right.

Oh, I got, uh, flyers.

Yeah. Okay.

All right. We just finished these up.

Slide that down here and then you can take a peek.

All right.

50 of those.

And I had to put them on a different kind of paper.

Uh, I was running out.

So this is a, uh -- It's a universal paper.

They look good, right?

Yeah. Good.

All right. I'll get those in a box for you.

Okay.

Oof. Okay.

And, uh, do you need the, uh, copy of this?

Um, I'm not sure what -- Just in case.

I'm sorry.

Sorry about that. Grab a copy just in case.

These are fine, right? Yeah.

They're paper. I don't think --

Yeah, I know. But it's universal paper.

Oh. I don't know what that means.

Oh, oh. It's bannerable. So, like, if it --

Uh, yeah.

It's real sensitive to impact,

so...it's just fusing on some of them.

You see that?

Yeah. The paper can --

You can use it to make banners with it.

It's, like, bannerable.

That's why you got to be really careful,

'cause the paper has, like, a binding agent in it

that allows you to, you know...

[ Laughs ] What? ...make it bigger.

I'll give you both, and you can just have both.

You'll get the order you're supposed to have plus this.

Okay. Okay?

Let me just make quick copies of that one.

I'll use the machine in the back and be out like lightning.

♪♪♪

Usually, after a trick, I leave people alone

so they can reflect on the amazing thing

they just witnessed.

But when I left Morgan alone,

she immediately started Googling to see if I was that guy

from that hidden-camera magic TV show.

♪♪♪

I [bleep] knew it.

Sorry about that. It's okay.

I watch your show all the time.

You watch my show? What show?

Your magic show.

Mag-- I'm not a magician.

[ Laughing ] Yes, you are.

Yeah. What's your name? Morgan.

Hi, Morgan. I'm Michael Carbonaro.

I'm like, "There's no way." Like, "How'd he do that?"

[ Laughs ]

That's awesome! You were so fun.

'Cause I watch your show sometimes, so I know.

She watches the show. I watch the show.

I just need 50 copies of this on this same kind of paper.

On the same kind of paper? You got it. Okay.

Thank you. I have, um...

The closest one to it?

I think so. This has, uh...

What pound is this? 20 pound.

And it has, like, good -- a good --

Let me pull that out. You can feel it.

You feel, like, good stuff?

Good stuff. Yeah.

Sounds good to me.

Do you do printing at home?

Yeah, I do.

You get a lot more bang for your buck

if you use more than one when you're using an ink-jet printer.

Let me show you what I mean.

It probably will do it, 'cause it looks like ink-jet.

Sort of...

Yeah. I think that's ink-jet ink.

See? Watch. I'll put this down.

And I'm just gonna give it a little -- a light test, okay?

Sometimes if you bang it out,

especially when it's on this kind of a smooth paper...

[ Tapping ]

Yeah.

Let's see.

See? The ink is really thick.

You see that?

What?

You can't do it this way, because it'll be backwards.

Right?

But I get your -- I see your point.

Yeah. So the backwards one, you're not gonna be able to use.

Right.

But, um, the paper's really porous, so...

I'll try it for you. Thanks.

Here. Watch. I'll put it like this.

I'll give it a little...

I've got to really slam it.

They call it slap copying. Right?

'Cause once I got that ink off the front...

...it forces it down through, and it should get -- Yeah.

Look at that.

Now, this trick was inspired by going to acting auditions.

One time, I printed my acting résumé

on the back of one of my head shots,

and when I stacked them all up, the freshly printed text

transferred onto the photo of my face.

Voilà.

You don't have -- Oh, wait. The last ones, though.

It starts to fade.

It didn't make it all the way through.

Right.

But that's a lot, I have to say.

You know, you save --

I mean, you got more than 50 copies right there.

That's great.

Maybe I need to invest in one of these so I can...

[ Laughs ] Yeah.

Well, keep that kind of paper,

and whatever setting you have it on, I would do it.

♪♪♪

This is Hammond's Fishing Center in Cumming, Georgia,

a rural village 40 miles outside of Atlanta.

Now, the place opens at 5:30 A.M.

to sell bait to early morning fishermen,

which meant that we had to set up our cameras

and rehearse our tricks in the dead of night.

Michael: You ever seen those before?

Man: What, the minnows?

The suction minnows. Unh-unh.

Oh, yeah. Everyone's going crazy over it.

They're raving that that's the only way to do it now.

Really? Yeah.

They're not using them on the end of the line.

They just throw them off the side before they fish.

They just attract, you know, more fish to come near

and around the boat's area.

They're expensive, though, aren't they?

They're really expensive. Yeah.

I got guys coming in here buying like 100 at a time.

Really? I know. Yeah.

Well, if they're doing a charter or something like that.

Right.

They just set up the boat and throw them overboard?

Yeah, 'cause it guarantees the people that have paid

to be on the charter are gonna catch fish.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

'Cause they do, like -- Here. Let me see.

You can see how they kind of --

No. They're not really --

I'll put them in a glass. You can see.

They have, like, their own suction, you know?

Their gills pull currents.

Let me see if I can scoop some of them up.

Even just a few of them there

will create their own currents in the water.

See? They go crazy in there.

But what they'll do is, like, they'll throw them off the edge.

And if you, like, cover the top of the glass,

they'll start to create, like, a suction.

Let me see if they do it when I turn them upside down.

See, their gills have, like, suction.

Mm.

They'll pull currents, and fish will follow the currents.

Right. See that?

Yeah. They'll hold that up.

What?

Yeah. The suction holds them up. If you whistle or...

[ Whistles sharply ]

If you scream at them or something, they'll get nervous.

That is wild. Yeah.

The gills pull the water tight.

It'll suck the currents forward,

and all the other fish will come toward the boat.

But they'll hang around the boat?

They'll hang around the boat. The outside of the boat.

It was holding that water up?

It'll hold the water up. Yeah.

For charters, they guarantee they're gonna catch fish.

That is wild. When did those come out?

Just, like, this past month, it was in the magazines,

and then, you know, we just decided to try it.

Even just, you know, a dozen of them, you'll catch fish.

You know, they'll pull the bass in there.

Really?

How long will they hang around the dock?

Some people actually scoop them up at the end of the night

and try and use them again the next day.

That's wild. Pretty cool, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

That is amazing how it held that water up.

Yeah. 'Cause that water weighs,

you know, a pound or, you know, something.

Yeah.

Sure. I don't even know how much it weighs.

'Cause it's making,

like, a cycle of currents... Yeah. Yeah.

...that'll pull it all up.

Yeah. That's wild.

It is really wild. Yeah.

Sometimes we have tricks that go off without a hitch

and everybody loves them, but they never make it to air

because we simply don't have room in the episode.

We call those orphan tricks, and now I get to show you

one of my favorite never-aired orphan tricks.

A lot of guys are buying these things, and I'm like --

Did you read the thing about the Fishermints?

No.

It's like a bait.

It's a breath mint and a bait pellet.

Yeah? Yeah, see?

See those little white ones?

Those are just, like, mints you could eat.

And then the green ones, you throw in the water.

Supposed to help fishing.

[ Chuckling ] How much are they?

$1.29. Yeah? Give me one.

You want to try them? Why not, right?

You either just throw it in the water first

or you you can set it up first.

If you have, like, a cup of water,

you put the little guy inside the bottom of it

and wet it.

Oh, wait. It does. Ahh.

Oh, I get it. I get it.

Yeah.

That's great, right?

[ Chuckling ] That is good.

They said that they, like, when --

after the rain, when the worms dry up,

they'll, like, compress them down,

and they wrap them up.

And then, you know, water will bring them back.

Bring them back. Yeah.

I want to see it happen just, like, if you touch water to it.

Oh. Whoa.

[ Laughs ] Wow.

Here. Hold on. I'm gonna wash my hands. Then

I'm gonna ring you up.

I got to tell they guy, yeah.

There's crickets and worms, depending which...

These green... Uh-huh.

and he just pulled a couple greens out,

put them down, threw water on it,

dropped them in that cup. Wow.

You gonna go fishing today?

No.

Got a work project tomorrow for trout.

I figure I'll fish after it.

A lot of guys having success with these things here,

the little Fishguises.

It's from the people who make --

What the hell is that?

It's like a little fish suit, really.

It's like a zipper pouch.

And what's the purpose of it?

Oh. Tropical fish?

Yeah. You can put some bait inside of it.

Oh. You see?

I'm just gonna use a little goldfish,

but you could use any kind of bait.

Smaller bait.

Like that.

It goes right inside. See that?

What's the purpose of it, though?

Well, once it's inside there, you know --

'Cause this is a saltwater fish,

which you can't put in fresh water.

So you have bait that can be in fresh water.

When you close the zipper...

and then he'll swim.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Now -- Now, what's making him move?

The suit -- It's got stuff inside the suit

that will mimic what he's doing with his fins.

Some big, fancy, you know, costumer designer

from New York City designed this suit.

How long will they stay in there?

Indefinitely or...

You know, I've never really timed it,

because most of the ones I've thrown in

ended up getting eaten by the bigger fish, so...

you wouldn't know. Yeah.

It surprises me how realistic it looks.

Yeah. They kind of get used to maneuvering it around.

You know, it's always good to have a dress rehearsal

in costume.

To me, it blows my mind to see them fins and all that work.

You heard about this stuff?

Unh-unh.

Oh, it's, like, memory rope.

You're supposed to just be able to fling it

to make knots and stuff. That'd be sick.

Yeah. It's, like, weighted. You feel that?

Yeah.

It's like the ends are weighted or something.

Let me see if it'll do that.

If you have a cleat for your boat or something like that...

You just throw it all in there?

Yeah.

You would just put it in and not look,

and then it would just, like...

Whoa.

Oh, yeah.

That's crazy.

What?

Yeah.

That's weird, because that's, like, a good knot, too.

Do it again. I didn't even see that.

Okay. You know, like, uh...

These yours? Yeah. All this.

Let me see if I get them.

I don't know if it would do something on that thing.

Now, this was inspired by a classic magic trick,

where a magician tells someone to pick a card,

shuffles it in the deck, drops it in a bag,

lowers in a rope,

and then the card appears tied to the bottom of the rope.

That's crazy, man. That is crazy.

Yeah. We're giving them out.

So if you want to take one...

For free?

Yeah. They're trying to promote it or something.

Do you have a boat? Would you try it?

Yeah. Yeah. I certainly would.

Whenever you're docking up,

you're supposed to just not look and just throw the rope.

And it'll work? Yeah. Yeah.

They say the more you actually try to make it work,

it's not gonna work,

but if you're not thinking about it, then it, uh --

Oh, shoot. Yeah.

[ Laughs ] Yeah. Let me...

That's what's -- That's what's stupid about it.

Um...

It could be dangerous. You know what I mean?

If you're not watching

and you end up throwing yourself in the water.

That's not good.

It's good that I'm a quick untier.

Hang on one second. I'll be right back.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

This was delivered to So, this was the second day

of filming Season 2,

and I'll never forget the exact date,

because it was my birthday, April 28th.

And despite filming over 250 days over the last 5 years,

this was the only time I spent my birthday

shooting "The Carbonaro Effect."

Michael: ...right here. Woman: Okay.

Make yourself comfortable.

Thank you. Thank you.

It's gonna be a fun, easy job. That's for sure.

Uh, I have Sherry's coffee here, so --

Did you want anything?

Oh, no. I'm actually perfect...

You're okay? ..."Number 1 Mom."

[ Laughs ] Yeah. She loves that.

That is cute.

Sherry's just gonna go over some stuff with you,

probably have you do some additional paperwork

and stuff like that, and then we'll be ready to go.

Simple day. All right.

No problem.

Oh. Hi.

Oh, there she is.

Hi. Nice to meet you.

How you doing?

I got your coffee for you over here.

Okay?

Thank you so much. Did you get the sugar?

Oh, no sugar. How many?

About three packets.

Three sugars. Okay. I'll go get you sugars.

And you're okay? Yes. I'm perfect.

Thank you.

Hi. I'm Sherry. I like your hair color.

Thank you. Really cute.

So, how are you today? Good. How are you?

Good. So, did you come to us from a temp agency?

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

I want to get that form for you, if you don't mind,

so that you can just fill that out.

Uh, let's see. That is...

[ Pen clatters ]

Okay. Hang on one second. I'm sorry.

Oh. I am just so clumsy today.

Um, it's a form that's a little different

than our regular form... Wait a minute.

...that I'll have you, uh...

Wait. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Where did you just come from?

What?

You were just in here with a suit and tie on.

Didn't you just walk me upstairs?

We just talked about the temp agency.

Uh, Sherry?

Um...

Hi. You called me? Yeah.

Here you go. Sugar. Three sugars.

Thank you so much.

What? You're welcome.

Oh, my gosh. Wait.

Are you okay?

[ Sugar packet rattling ]

Okay. Your cup just changed from "Number one mom"

to "Number one dad."

"Number one mom"? You were just a female

five minutes ago.

Whoa. You and her were just --

How did your cup just change?

♪♪♪

I can't be crazy.

Now, remember at the copy shop when Morgan thought

she might've recognized me from a hidden-camera TV show?

Well, something very similar happens here.

Watch as a lightbulb goes off as soon as I say

the name of the show in this never-before-seen reveal.

Check it out.

A lot of our employees,

when they go and meet a lot of people,

they get confused later.

When they're trying to meet some of our clients,

they don't know who was who

and they can't match names and faces together.

Right. Yeah, I'm really good with that.

You're really good with that?

Mm-hmm.

'Cause some people go through that thing,

the Carbonaro Effect.

Shut the [bleep] up.

You just... [ Laughs ]

I watch your show.

I'm about to cry. You just freaked me out.

Yeah. [ Laughing ] Yeah!

I watch your show. You do?

How the [bleep] did you just do that?

How the [bleep]

And you know what's crazy? 'Cause I was like --

I saw the one when you did --

and you were, like, in a camping store...

Mm-hmm.

...and you made the owl come out of the the tent,

and the girl, she was going crazy,

and she was like, "You were just a mannequin."

She's like, "Wait." And I was just like, "What?"

So, did I get you? You got me.

Yeah! What?

You were awesome. You were awesome.

Oh, my God.

Bye.

Hello. Hi!

How you doing? Good.

I have a package for you. Yes.

Oh, excellent.

Okay. Thank you so much.

Yeah. You're welcome.

Yeah. This is for us. Division Engineering.

Yes. I'm just gonna check what's inside.

Is that cool? And then I'll sign off on it.

Definitely. Yeah.

I don't even have anything for you to sign.

Oh, okay.

No, I'm just checking with the stock people.

I don't really know what they were ordering, but...

How's it going out there?

Good. Yeah.

It's a hot day. It's a hot day?

It's hot. Yeah.

There was a bunch of traffic, too.

Did you get stuck? Oh.

Uh, that's good. We've got paper.

Toner. Great. Yeah.

I think that's what we're looking for here.

Where are you, uh -- Where were you coming from?

Uh, Midtown, like Spring Street.

Midtown? Yeah.

I was able to, like, shoot right up I-75.

Oh, easy.

Yeah. Oh, really easy.

Where are you going after this?

Jay's and...

Uh, I don't know.

Jay's?

Like, a hose. A hose?

I think it was for a landscaping company.

Oh, Jimmy J's? Jimmy J's. Yeah.

Oh, Jimmy J's Landscaping. That's what it was.

Okay. You know what you want to do?

Are they around here? Yeah.

It's easier than you think. Come here.

Now, you -- you came in this way?

Yeah. What you're gonna

want to do

is you're gonna want to make a left at the parking lot

and go across two streets.

Okay. Okay?

And that'll be Chattahoochee, and you'll see --

There's, like, a huge sign for the company, too.

Oh, that's so funny. It's right there.

Yeah. You'll see this huge sign that says "Divis--"

No. I mean literally the sign.

Yeah. You're going to Division Engineering.

It's gonna be a left at --

here, cross over two streets.

And there's a big sign for it.

It's different than you probably know -- the directions.

That's why I'm...

This was delivered to me, right?

Yeah. Michael.

A hose. Yeah. That's right.

What in the world just happened?

What do you mean? I am, like...

so confused.

You just opened up a box,

and it had a cartridge and some paper...

A cartridge? ...that I just delivered

to you.

Yeah.

Uh, I don't know if there's another one coming in,

but I have...

Yeah. A hose. No, no, no.

I brought you in a box that had a triangle on it.

And you opened it up, and it had...

I just -- I swore I just brought you in a box

that had some other stuff in it.

Some other stuff in it? Yeah.

We're Jimmy J's. Can you hold on one second?

I got to go out to my car. Well, wait. Hold on.

I'll explain it to you. I know what you're doing.

Where are you going?

So, the trick was supposed to end

with the office's transformation

from Division Engineering to Jimmy J's Landscaping,

but when Paran ran out of the office

and when we saw her getting

the Jimmy J's package out of the car,

we realized we had the opportunity

to take this trick to the next level

with a reverse transformation.

It's fine. This is exactly what we were --

I feel like something is wrong with me right now.

What do you mean?

Wait. You're confusing me. This was delivered to me, right?

Yeah.

Replacement, um, toner ink cartridge

and, um, extra paper.

That's all. Yeah. Division Engineering.

This is right.

Um...

Look. This is the other box that I was supposed to bring.

This has to be somewhere else at 4:00, apparently.

Oh, okay. Yeah.

And I was supposed to bring you

the Division Engineering box...

Yes.

...at 3:15.

And I got it.

Yeah.

And so Jimmy J's, you're gonna want to make a left

out of the parking lot... Okay.

...cross over two streets, and you'll see a big sign.

It'll say "Jimmy J's." You can't miss it.

Okay. Yeah.

All right.

Yeah? Okay. Cool.

Thanks. All right.

You got it.

Thank you so much. All right.

You're driving me a little loopy today.

I was like, "What are you doing?"

No.

I swear to God and my family and everything else

that you had "Jimmy J's" on your shirt.

And I'm going crazy.

You're not going crazy. This is what you do.

You make a left out here, cross two streets.

Chattahoochee. You'll see a big sign.

It says, "You are on 'The Carbonaro Effect'"

right now."

What?

It's a hidden-camera magic TV show.

And you're on it right now.

No!

I wa-- Oh!

[ Laughs ] You -- You!

That really got me. Oh, my gosh.

You're on the show right now.

[ Laughs ]