Brynolf & Ljung - Fool Us - Switch or no switch?

[norik0]

fark good trick then.

[JessikaTheGamer]

Såg precis Fool Us! avsnittet med er! Hundra gånger bättre än när Sverige va JVM igår ;) och det gjorde mig mycket stoltare också! :P

Har alltid älskat Penn & Teller, det va roligt att se er där! Ni va super duktiga! :D

[BrynolfandLjung]

@JessikaTheGamer Tack! :) / Jonas

[TheRedAzuki]

@BrynolfandLjung Hur gick det i Vegas sen då?

[BrynolfandLjung]

@TheRedAzuki Det gick grymt! Fantastisk känsla att få hänga med sina barndomsidoler! I maj åker vi dit igen för att vara programledare för en av världens största magifestivaler.

[TheRedAzuki]

@BrynolfandLjung Undrar om det kommer gå på Svensk Tv :D

[jesttami]

Switch!

[kyhlze]

Thumbs up for a great trick, great magicians and nice music as well, Teddybears are awesome! Would love to see you guys do a show in Denmark!

[Merrida100]

I personally love you guys and I get the fake out part. It makes perfect sense. I think it was actually rather clever to misdirect two magicians famous for misdirection. There in lies the charm of this act. I have to admit, however, that whenever I watch you two, I can't help but wince and cringe for the lovely Peter when I see him ripping that duct tape off his face and hair. I don't know how he has any skin or hair left after all this! THAT,...is amazing, too!

[TheBoldImperator]

I think it rather cheapens the act to do that - you're not fooling them through the raw talent of your trick, but rather, a sneaky underhanded sleight.

But, hey, who ever heard of fairness in magic? Well done.

[TheBoyFromNorfolk]

@TheBoldImperator

Sneaky underhand sleight is the raw talent of magic tricks. Teller talks about the pleasure of being fooled by a fellow magician in this way on their tour of egypt.

[richardvegasmagic]

Well done gentlemen, well done.

And Congratulations!

[kalloused]

I know all about the judge and how you cannot lie on the show so disregarded any arguments about people saying some magicians lie, but when you did that "fake switch" to throw them off and automatically think that is how it was done was truly brilliant.

[rich8606]

Great routine! Loved you guys, hate to say it, but I was one of the few skeptics who thought you switched it.

You shouldn't have covered the card with your hand, moreover you grabbed your jacket with the same hand. Of course that's going to make people think there was a switch.

How did Penn and Teller reacted to the whole controversy anyway?

[JoelGilmore]

I've got to fall on the side of fun routine, but not in the spirit of the show when P&T are allowed only a single guess. I get why you did it, but it just seems a un-English!

[HumanBornFree]

They should just ask the audience to turn around and then claim nothing happened during that time. Just as effective and just as shoddy.

[teboly]

Well played.

[nicobn2]

@telanian deception is at the core of magic, so you suggesting otherwise is just plainly ridiculous

[telanian]

@nicobn2 I never suggested it wasn't. Nice straw-man.

[nicobn2]

You guys are geniuses, period.

[VashTeng]

Great performance. Great magicians.

Making this video as response to those question marks I think it's the right thing to do.

[telanian]

You guys may technically have 'fooled' Penn and Teller according to the rules of the show. But to do so, you certainly violated the spirit of the show as well as the spirit of magic itself. Had you performed the trick in that way in front of a 'real' audience, then they would have been left very dissatisfied and underwhelmed, believing that they had just witnessed a very obvious switch. In short, you ruined your own trick to exploit a technicality, and that is not what magic should be about.

[regrethedays]

@telanian youtube.com/watch?v=TgtgOs_OkT­U I wouldnt speak so soon.

[telanian]

@regrethedays Well, there is quite obviously a world of difference between faking a rather clumsy and obvious switch to win a trip to Vegas, by abusing the technicality that the judges get one guess only; and simply showing off your art to a fellow magician. The stunt that B&T pulled - which clearly did violate the spirit of the show - was in no way comparable to what was going on in that clip, and for you to suggest otherwise really is very silly

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[101perspective]

@telanian Agree. Heck, I suck at magic but even I could fool them by tossing in a bunch of obvious (though fake) switches. Granted, I would probably get boo'd off the stage afterward because I sucked so bad... but I would be headed to Vegas. Btw, in the part cut out of the above video did the guy with the tape on his face at some point bend forward again because he got hit behind the head or something? I bet he did...

[gravityhatfilms]

@telanian I disagree. You have to know your audience. In this case the audience was a pair of very skilled magicians. Teller in the documentary where the duo goes to Egypt to talk a bit about the history of magic in particular the cups and balls trick said he was genuinely in awe when he said someone did what looks to be a very obvious move of the ball and yet it is revealed he never moved it. He did it specifically because he knew what his audience would be looking for.

[bizkitninja]

i love these guys. class

[SheenHL]

Perfect fake switch

[SheenHL]

Good job, perfect way to fool penn and teller.

[cthatshit]

magic to fool magician, this is another level :P love the trick!

[db9200]

Great work! Your act is lots of fun to watch. It is so funny how people feel a need to show how smart they are by guessing your tricks. It's so much more fun to just enjoy them. Can't wait to see more from you!

[iSmkoeBluntsToMyFace]

i knew right away why they did a fake switch. they were misdirecting the magicians, they knew that penn and teller would freak out if the hand went out of sight for a second. brilliant.

[thenexus2006]

@iSmkoeBluntsToMyFace

They actually added several elements to fool Penn & Teller specifically. They probably knew their tricks and used that and made them as obvious as they could to get them to feel comfatable and assume more then actually look at what was going on. The old human trait of "I know" and they switched off. The added bit of the end was the icing on the cake.

Good trick with added layers just for them, Very smart.

[Simpson654]

The trick is very obvious, that's why they (Penn & Teller) didn't catch it. They were looking for something subtle. This video is very well edited not to show the switch (only after it). On the show you do see it, but it's obscured by the brutality of the act. Switch usually means switching cards or decks, Penn & Teller should have probably said transfer, as that is obvious, though hidden from view. Incongruity of a head taped all over and a head taped all over with a card deck to his head...

[Simpson654]

The strange thing is, that their own hidden transfer in the previous episode was pretty obvious, but they did two "possibilities" to throw off the people watching. They should have noticed the real transfer in this one, it's so obvious. Every time a magician is close to where the object is going to be, you mustn't automatically look at it his hands, look at where you least expect the transfer to take place, that how the magician thinks. A lot of times it's a hand trick, but sometimes it's great.

[maveric1337]

Of course there is a switch, they just switched the switch :)

[sloofuss]

Very good! On Penn & Teller,they did a move that looked like they were switching the card at the last minute.that made Penn& Teller guess incorrectly.that is "MAGIC!"

If they can do it this smooth at the end,it is an awesome trick!

[cinemmatic]

om ni la upp den här videon för att jag bad om det-- tack så mycket. EVERYBODY, now you can finally stop complaining! this clearly shows they didn't switch the cards. great job guys and congrats.