I believe the move was done when he was slapped as well. Notice how his left hand (with the card presumably palmed inside) goes to his mouth, covered by the downward movement he makes with his head. The bigger motion hides the smaller motion.
Also notice that he's got nothing in his mouth when he speaks and afterwards never visibly puts anything in it, not even a folded up card they'd switch afterwards.
They did a fishy move too try and fool Penn and Teller. And it worked.
At the start, Peter Brynolf had a folded card already cheeked in his mouth.
Jonas Ljung tells Teller to pick a card, sign it and return.
Around 1:40, with his back turned, Jonas Ljung conceals a pass of the signed card to bottom of the deck, folds and palms the signed card off the deck.
BLAH BLAH and more BLAH BLAH
Peter Brynolf the cuts the tap and reveals a folded card in his mouth. Jonas Ljung takes the card and @ 4:16 switches it with the signed card.
@xrayt3ch Your first analysis is correct, I believe. You can see Jonas steal the card from behind Peter's back at 4:13 with his left hand. At 4:18 he ditches the card that was in Peter's mouth along with the tweezers... If there really was no card switch, then he would have made a point of keeping it in plain sight! ... And they shamelessly lie about the switch when called on it. I hope these guys get called out after the show at least.
When he got slapped, did anyone else hear an exhalation of breath? I think his mouth was free at some point and he popped it in there. I suspect he folded it with his two hands and popped it in, or he popped it in and folded it with his mouth.
Look carefully at the duct tape when he peels it back from covering the mouth. You will see the part that is folded so that the duct tape did not seal his lower lip. That of course made it possible for him to slip the folded card into his mouth when bent over from the slap. The later misdirection was directed straight at P and T to cause them to assume a card switch when if fact no switch was needed.
He didn't switch the card. Just watch when he gets hit in the back of the head at 2:56 you can see he falls forward pretty far and he quickly moves his hands to his face. When he comes back up, the card is already in his mouth and i'm willing to bet my gravestone that the tape near the bottom of his lip is pretty wet with saliva ;)
completely ridiculous... it is a card switch at the end... it was a random card in his mouth the whole time. they are just fobs who didnt understand what they meant when they said card switch
@norik0 The exact method is given to the judge before the show. THEY CAN'T LIE!!!
They just wanted to fool Penn and Teller and they fooled you, too. Even I could do a better palm & switch, anyway. They are not that bad magicians... They wanted to look so to fool P&T.
I think he had a card in his mouth the whole time, but when the guy was putting the scissors back in his jacket, he switched the card for Teller's signed card.... Just my though :)
That's the problem with over the top tricks; you narrow the possibilities down to the point where there can only be one explanation: dude has random card in his mouth, other dude isolates the signed card, folds it the same way, switches it just before the reveal.
@Bevator I think your close but when he gets hit in the back of the head he slips the card in his mouth through the bottom of the tape. If you can see, the tape is a little lifted after he comes back up.
I don't know how they did it, but what a lot you are missing is that the point of that obvious move at 4:16 was to make it LOOK like a switch at the end, so that Penn would think that's how it was done. Something they would only do when preforming for magicians, and kind of a dirty little piece of double misdirection, but there it is.
Great illusion, full of misdirection and padding, but the card was in his mouth from the start. At 4:10 you can see him pull the original card out from his partner's back with a folded hand, the rest is to simply (for a magician), snap the tongs with the fake card, put it in top pocket, and unfold the card that was signed and at one point, folded by the magician...and it "fooled" Penn, I don't know about that.
@imsacred Agreed, he literally used his amazing ability to find the signed card while blind folded then somehow managed to fold the card neatly four times and SOMEHOW crammed it into his duck taped mouth when his head was bowed after he got smacked. I'm astonished.
Actually it's pretty obvious now that I watch it again. At some point Peter was given the card folded up. When he was going to cut the duct tape to rip it off his face, he was able to slip it into his mouth. When he pulls the tape off of his mouth, you can see that the tape didn't really stick well below his lips. Everything else was a decoy and it really diverted your attention away from it.
That was so obvious he switched the folded card once he took it fron his mouth and put it behind his hand to unfold the already signed card he had the whole time
@skyviolet No he said there wasnt a switch and he wasnt lying they have a magician backstage who knows the trick and he decides whether penn and teller are right
@Hemanzn1 did you not see the rest of the video? There was no card switch, they just made it look like it to fool Penn & Teller. As stated in the top comment, they have to reveal the act to Johnny Thompson before the show so he can verify if Penn & Teller was fooled or not.
@thompsoon3 They had to show Johnny Thompson how they did it, and if what Penn & Teller guessed was correct, if they lied and said it wasn't correct, Johnny Thompson would have interfered and told them that they guessed correct.
mmm red herrings. There isn't a card switch there are though card exchange when Brynolf slaps Ljung or was it the other way around? anyway the card is stuck to the duct tape that was reversed and then the guy took the card palmed it and waited for the other guy to do something else with pain and stuck it under the duct tape and voila they did just tape on the upper lip and not the whole mouth.
P.S, anyone that still thinks there's a switch is a fool. There's an independent adjudicator who knows how all the tricks are done, and wouldn't have let them go through if penn and teller weren't "fooled"... the dodgey switch towards the end was a red herring, performed to lead penn and teller astray from the real solution.
2:44, when the guy takes the caard out of his buddy's hand, hes also pushing the folded card into his friends' palm, who palms it there (look at his hand, obvious palm) until 2:55, when he gets slapped across the head, you can see him shove the card into his mouth. Sorted.
Of course (since they most likely told the truth) there wasn't a card switch. What's both upsetting and brilliant about this trick is that it was designed to "fool" Penn & Teller. Not with the trick itself but into thinking they knew the method. It wasn't enough for them to do a stunning reveal from the mouth -- they wanted Penn & Teller to think they figured it out. Clever clever. ;) No?
If there's no switch, then they should be careful about taking the card out of the audience's view when removing it from the tongs, because that totally looks like a palmed card being traded from the left hand for the one on the tongs. I mean like, really, really obviously. If that's not the secret to the trick, then they're short changing themselves by making an amazing trick look like a simple one!
The guy already had a random card in his mouth before the trick began and when the other guy took the card from his mouth at the end they stuck teller's card on and chucked it away later
They made it look like a switch. Cause just after 4:11 the main guy put his left hand behind the guy with duct tape around his head and looked like he was palming something, but the move was so obvious that if you were sitting down where Penn and Teller where you would of seen it 100% of the time. So they did this to fool them into getting Penn and Teller to say switch when it was actually done though another way which they might of been caught out.
@thompsoon3 no that was the fake switch, he made it look like a switch so pen and teller would say that was the bit they switched, but theyre explanation was wrong, they exchanged at an earllier stage
I think I worked out what happens lets just say at 3.42 - 3.45 when the first guy "staples" the guy wearing duct tape in it head thats the key move. After that moment with the close up camara shots its not too hard to spot (though it would be if you were in a audience from any sort of distance)
it did look like a switch was a fake switch really part of it.... it would been better to have teller tkae the card out of his mouth if there really was no switch
Would be a great effect, but the fake switch completely ruined it for me. It just killed the magic moment. I would prefer to see Penn and Teller fooled by something that is performed exactly the way it would be performed in an everyday presentation. They fooled them, but it was not "magic".
I just had to try to replicate this trick to understand the real method, THERE IS NO SWITCH, the card in the mouth of Ljung is the same card Brynolf show at the end and you guys a F#"$%ING GENIOUS, this routine is FULL of decoy moves, AWESOME work, realy
@whitesox287 no they didn't if you watch the tape on his mouth it moves. if you try putting duct tape on your mouth you can work it off your face really easily with your tong, when he gets hit in the head he pushes the card up into the duct tap he then simply works it into his mouth whil the rest of the trick is finished.
2.56 - 2.58 is the method,the rest of the routine is just to misleading,and to make the audience confortable with one guy hitting the other :),so that those 2 seconds can be seein as normal in the patter and in the persona lf the performers,as was the lousy switch at the end :)
@KingRonaldoNazario u mean the switch? the switch was only to PnT eyes dude,a smooth but a clear switch to misdirect...the signed card is put into his mouth when he receives the slap in the head...nothing special about this trick...
As soon as I heard "They fooled us" I though oh boy, 65 comments. Only about 20% of these will be honest while the other 80% will be spiked with some decent, less common words, something about how it was done that was in a previous comment, and be "I know they know it, because I know it!" Yeah sure guys, you can stop lying now, no really, STOP. If Penn and Teller: Bullshit!" was still on TV, YouTube comments from these videos would be on there next episode.
@SerbAtheist Absolutely. As he bends over his hands go directly to his mouth and when he stands back up straight the tape has moved slightly. Good catch.
I think the tongs at the end were misdirection for P&T. Show them something they were looking for and maybe they'll miss the real trick.
@mconnollyil There is no technicality. Penn & Teller suspected a different move in a different part of the act. Anyway, Johnny would have corrected them immediately if they were lying.
The was a terrific red herring. I was slightly dismayed when I thought that this trick was finishing with a simple switch. I believe I do know the actual method, but it is very well hidden by the rest of the routine.
I also love the fact that despite stating that there was no switch, there are still people on here that are convinced that there was one. Such is the intelligence of youtube.
@Englishdosser86 while it's nice to know that they did it without a switch, it's more important that they show that it couldn't possibly have been a switch at the very end.
the fact that it COULD have been done with a switch is the important part. Almost every magic trick is about CONVINCING the audience that they didn't stack the deck, that they didn't have an actor in the audience, that they didn't use a trap door on the stage, etc.
@willyolio Yea, but they were trying to get to Vegas so part of me thinks they did that to trick Penn & Teller into thinking it was a switch so they didn't bother trying to think of what it actually was!
@willyolio Exactly - it is the important part. You've completely overlooked what the objective of the show is. The show isn't "Fool the Audience". They intentionally misled Penn and Teller into thinking that it was done a certain way by playing upon their knowledge of magic. That was all part of the illusion.
@willyolio That is true, when you are dealing with a audience of Non-magicians, we, on the other hand, realy enjoy this type of "doble misdirection" they are not doing this trick to try to fool the audience, they are trying to fool 2 of the best magicians in the world, they do that act in a very diferent way in front of a non-magicians audience (excuse my english, its not my native language)
What lowlybarista said - Jonas covers the tongs with one hand to improve the odds of going to Vegas :) Penn & Teller were indeed fooled, muhaha ;) (See video response for where he doesn't.)
I'm guessing it's not just based on your word. Is there someone at the show to whom you have to explain the trick so that that person can verify when Penn and Teller are incorrect?
Very clever putting what looks like an obvious switch in there, make them think its a closed case so they don't think too hard about it and don't have time to rethink what happened. Bravo.
Ok, it was suspicious in the beginning after Penn picked the number 11, when he goes over to him and gives him the cards, he does some little pat thing on his back and stomach, clearly at the end of the trick, when he cuts off the tape, watch the other guy reach to the taped guys back again? Then you can see his hand cupped? Tell me what yall think? There was a switch!
I watched the original video (as a very amateur cardman), was so impressed by it but sighed with resignation when I saw 'the switch'. Then you say there was no switch, and I just couldn't stop laughing! Your misdirection was the 'sloppy' switch, which ONLY misdirected Penn and Teller! Very tricky...
When he takes the duct tape off of his mouth, there doesn't appear to be any hair from his stubble of a beard stuck to it, making me think that that part of the tape wasn't sticky. That would allow him to slip the card into his mouth at some point when everyone (including the cameras) was looking at the other guy (I'm not sure which is which).
LOVED it. Well done Guys. Who cares how its done, They won, They deserved to win, Hope to see more of these gentlemen. Finding out how a Trick is done kinda makes watching magic pointless.
Very enjoyable trick. Great presentation. I lol'd at the "buy a farm" line! Switch is obvious at 4:15, but I suspect it is difficult to make a switch like that in front of two excellent magicians and make it look natural. All in all, fun stuff. This won't be the last we see from B&L
never mind, there was no switch, the only way I can think of how they did is if that taped dude shoved the card in his ass, up through to his mouth....probably wasn't what he actually did....hmmmmm GOOD MAGIC!!!
These guys have more tricks upp their sleeves. Searach for Bryunolf & Ljung on Youtube and you will see a bunch of incredible things. The slow motion act is my favourite.
There was no switch. Penn and Teller at the comic con talked about how all the magicians talk to a judge before they go on, they listen to Penn and Teller talking about how the trick was done and then judge if they guessed right or wrongly. With that said I know how the trick was done. You guys ever see that South Park where people start eating food through their ass and pooping out their mouthes? It's kind of like that but with a card instead of food. Also magic.
@leejinwen he put the card in his mouth when the other guy smacked him on the back of his head. His hands are behind his chin really quick then he takes them away
They made it appear as though they switched the card in order to fool Penn & Teller, which kind of spoils the trick really. Thats like performing a quick switch trick and taking 5 minutes behind a curtain when you didn't need to. It would have been way more interesting to see Penn & Teller completely blown out of the water by not pretending to switch.
Ser ut som Du gör en "slight of hand" (Namn?) vid 4:16. Kortet är hopvikt och du drar handen på ett sådant sätt att det ser ut som att du tar ett oviktigt kort från hans mun och byter det mot det riktiga kortet som du nästan hela tiden hade själv. Men det kanske är det som menas med "switch", till skillnad från slight of hand... vetifan. Kul att svenskar på programmet iaf.
Having had the pleasure of seeing Brynolf and Ljung perform this numerous times, I can only confirm that there are NO switches. The prongs has nothing to do with it, and to do something blatantly to throw Penn & Teller off scent was brilliant!
For any doubters: Go to Las Vegas and see Peter and Jonas perform this when they open for Penn & Teller, and you can see for yourself that "Holy cow, there really IS no switch!"
Great job guys and a joy to watch! You SO totally deserve it!
No card switch, haha, then Jonas must be a bad performer, why hide the hard in his hand and NOT just give the card out to the spectator (jury) for examination! OR
why did not Peter un-fold the card with his mouth to reveal the signature?
härligt att få se lite svensk magi på det här programmet. :) ni borde göra tricket igen och lägga upp det på eran youtubekanal så att de som klagar får se att ni inte fuskade! vilket jag hoppas att ni inte gjorde.. haha..
@salsa2good Once again! There is no switch! It is possible to spit the card directly into Tellers hand! The trick is so good and the method used so clever that without the red herring at the end there might be only one solution for Penn & Teller. There are no tells whatsoever throughout the entire routine, so they might guess right without knowing and we didn´t want them to get that chance! If we would use a cardswitch for something, we would NEVER let it through looking like that!
I believe the move was done when he was slapped as well. Notice how his left hand (with the card presumably palmed inside) goes to his mouth, covered by the downward movement he makes with his head. The bigger motion hides the smaller motion.
Also notice that he's got nothing in his mouth when he speaks and afterwards never visibly puts anything in it, not even a folded up card they'd switch afterwards.
They did a fishy move too try and fool Penn and Teller. And it worked.
Isteinier 1 hour ago
'Cause they're switching the card. Well, brilliant act, and pretty good trick, though!
HrQueenOfClubs 5 hours ago
NO SWITCH?!?
BULL!!!
At the start, Peter Brynolf had a folded card already cheeked in his mouth.
Jonas Ljung tells Teller to pick a card, sign it and return.
Around 1:40, with his back turned, Jonas Ljung conceals a pass of the signed card to bottom of the deck, folds and palms the signed card off the deck.
BLAH BLAH and more BLAH BLAH
Peter Brynolf the cuts the tap and reveals a folded card in his mouth. Jonas Ljung takes the card and @ 4:16 switches it with the signed card.
TADA!!!
xrayt3ch 2 days ago
@xrayt3ch Actually, I take that back. I just saw another presentation of this bit and in that presentation there was no switch after the mouth reveal.
So unless that clip was staged, I'm stumped.
xrayt3ch 2 days ago
@xrayt3ch Your first analysis is correct, I believe. You can see Jonas steal the card from behind Peter's back at 4:13 with his left hand. At 4:18 he ditches the card that was in Peter's mouth along with the tweezers... If there really was no card switch, then he would have made a point of keeping it in plain sight! ... And they shamelessly lie about the switch when called on it. I hope these guys get called out after the show at least.
balzonurchin 1 day ago 2
When he got slapped, did anyone else hear an exhalation of breath? I think his mouth was free at some point and he popped it in there. I suspect he folded it with his two hands and popped it in, or he popped it in and folded it with his mouth.
LibertarianINT 4 days ago
Just because they fooled P&T and he put the card in his mouth when he was hit and it wasn't a switch later isn't impressive.
In fact when he faked the switch later, that fake move made the trick worse because he COULD HAVE switched the card then.
colin72 4 days ago
anyone know if there is going to be a season 2, please let me know!
2ndhalfblood 1 week ago
Pick a number between 5 and 15.
11
that's a great number
THANK YOU
LOL
TheChelsea2 1 week ago
Look carefully at the duct tape when he peels it back from covering the mouth. You will see the part that is folded so that the duct tape did not seal his lower lip. That of course made it possible for him to slip the folded card into his mouth when bent over from the slap. The later misdirection was directed straight at P and T to cause them to assume a card switch when if fact no switch was needed.
Slik00Silk 1 week ago
4:16 -> Switches cards by sleight of hand.
72U11 1 week ago
@72U11 Yeah I think you're totally right, and he probably folded it earlier during one of the distraction bits...
MrAureliusR 1 week ago
Smart they made it look like a switch so penn and teller would said it was a switch and then they were wrong so they went to vegas.
hasamirsan 2 weeks ago
He didn't switch the card. Just watch when he gets hit in the back of the head at 2:56 you can see he falls forward pretty far and he quickly moves his hands to his face. When he comes back up, the card is already in his mouth and i'm willing to bet my gravestone that the tape near the bottom of his lip is pretty wet with saliva ;)
ereallic 2 weeks ago
completely ridiculous... it is a card switch at the end... it was a random card in his mouth the whole time. they are just fobs who didnt understand what they meant when they said card switch
norik0 2 weeks ago
@norik0 The exact method is given to the judge before the show. THEY CAN'T LIE!!!
They just wanted to fool Penn and Teller and they fooled you, too. Even I could do a better palm & switch, anyway. They are not that bad magicians... They wanted to look so to fool P&T.
fanthomans2 2 weeks ago
Its funny how everyone keeps saying that they switched the card... Did you people not watch the end when they said they didnt switch it?
TheDukeOfDynamite 3 weeks ago 5
@TheDukeOfDynamite they lied the move is by jay sankey, its the paperclip switch
incinerator1016 1 week ago
I think he had a card in his mouth the whole time, but when the guy was putting the scissors back in his jacket, he switched the card for Teller's signed card.... Just my though :)
happy15551 3 weeks ago
That's the problem with over the top tricks; you narrow the possibilities down to the point where there can only be one explanation: dude has random card in his mouth, other dude isolates the signed card, folds it the same way, switches it just before the reveal.
MrPlokijuhujiko 3 weeks ago
The move came when he put his tongs away....That was a very awkward move...He had a random card folded up. in his mouth.
julians790 4 weeks ago
@4:16 he takes something from behind the guy...?
ch0w 1 month ago
When he hits him
On the head that when he get the card and then when he takes the tape of he sneaks
It in his mouth
Bevator 1 month ago
@Bevator I think your close but when he gets hit in the back of the head he slips the card in his mouth through the bottom of the tape. If you can see, the tape is a little lifted after he comes back up.
ereallic 2 weeks ago
I don't know how they did it, but what a lot you are missing is that the point of that obvious move at 4:16 was to make it LOOK like a switch at the end, so that Penn would think that's how it was done. Something they would only do when preforming for magicians, and kind of a dirty little piece of double misdirection, but there it is.
GMann43 1 month ago
4:18 card switch.
MrLittletomdj 1 month ago
@MrLittletomdj is none.
HeyHolypie 1 month ago
3:55 When he passes the scissors... You're welcome.
BitchGuessWhat 1 month ago
Look at 4:12....he palms the card from behind the taped man's back and makes the switch when he puts the prongs away.
austinwork 1 month ago
Great illusion, full of misdirection and padding, but the card was in his mouth from the start. At 4:10 you can see him pull the original card out from his partner's back with a folded hand, the rest is to simply (for a magician), snap the tongs with the fake card, put it in top pocket, and unfold the card that was signed and at one point, folded by the magician...and it "fooled" Penn, I don't know about that.
Pbadome1 1 month ago
@Pbadome1 That would be a switch.
KuchKuto 1 month ago
I believe the move came when he was slapped in the head, and he lingered in the downward head position
imsacred 1 month ago 8
@imsacred Agreed, he literally used his amazing ability to find the signed card while blind folded then somehow managed to fold the card neatly four times and SOMEHOW crammed it into his duck taped mouth when his head was bowed after he got smacked. I'm astonished.
Fryboth 1 month ago
@imsacred you sir are correct you get a cookie!
devilbot36 1 week ago
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ZCLoki 1 week ago
@Lysiification When he ripped the tape off he snuck it into his mouth
TheNamesWolf 1 month ago
Actually it's pretty obvious now that I watch it again. At some point Peter was given the card folded up. When he was going to cut the duct tape to rip it off his face, he was able to slip it into his mouth. When he pulls the tape off of his mouth, you can see that the tape didn't really stick well below his lips. Everything else was a decoy and it really diverted your attention away from it.
negativex4 1 month ago
@negativex4 I think he was able to slip the card in his mouth when he was smacked on the back of his head.
ignorantswede 1 month ago
i think when he put the pen back in his pocket he switched the card though i might be wrong as the top comment says
Avataar11 1 month ago
That was so obvious he switched the folded card once he took it fron his mouth and put it behind his hand to unfold the already signed card he had the whole time
skyviolet 1 month ago
@skyviolet No he said there wasnt a switch and he wasnt lying they have a magician backstage who knows the trick and he decides whether penn and teller are right
CoonarStreetmagic 1 month ago
The best part of the trick was when he lied and said there was no switch.
pmubdeeps 1 month ago
Tellers card was in his lapel.
He took the card from the dudes mouth and put the tongs in his coat.
At that moment he took the card from his coat.
RyeBai 1 month ago
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Hemanzn1 1 month ago
He made it look like a switch to fool penn and teller.
jewturna 1 month ago
did nobody see the blatant switch at 4:17 ?!
Hemanzn1 1 month ago
@Hemanzn1 did you not see the rest of the video? There was no card switch, they just made it look like it to fool Penn & Teller. As stated in the top comment, they have to reveal the act to Johnny Thompson before the show so he can verify if Penn & Teller was fooled or not.
Wannabepie 1 month ago
@Wannabepie Thanks for the explanation , you are quit right. A trick within a trick ... Inception !
Hemanzn1 1 month ago
@Wannabepie Yeah but he also could've lied..
thompsoon3 1 month ago
@thompsoon3 They had to show Johnny Thompson how they did it, and if what Penn & Teller guessed was correct, if they lied and said it wasn't correct, Johnny Thompson would have interfered and told them that they guessed correct.
Wannabepie 1 month ago
fantastic act had me laughing the entire time with a wow at the end
TheShiningSage 1 month ago
Mercury fold...... palm .......
cjktheman 1 month ago
mmm red herrings. There isn't a card switch there are though card exchange when Brynolf slaps Ljung or was it the other way around? anyway the card is stuck to the duct tape that was reversed and then the guy took the card palmed it and waited for the other guy to do something else with pain and stuck it under the duct tape and voila they did just tape on the upper lip and not the whole mouth.
livedandletdie 1 month ago
Looks a lot like Sankeys paperclipped switch.
justinclark216 1 month ago
2:57 - he puts the card into his mouth under the tape, one part was probably with no glue.
Zarada100 2 months ago
I really wanted to know what Penn and Teller's guess would be if they didn't pretend to do a card switch.
AdeptusVideos 2 months ago
P.S, anyone that still thinks there's a switch is a fool. There's an independent adjudicator who knows how all the tricks are done, and wouldn't have let them go through if penn and teller weren't "fooled"... the dodgey switch towards the end was a red herring, performed to lead penn and teller astray from the real solution.
jdpoel 2 months ago
2:44, when the guy takes the caard out of his buddy's hand, hes also pushing the folded card into his friends' palm, who palms it there (look at his hand, obvious palm) until 2:55, when he gets slapped across the head, you can see him shove the card into his mouth. Sorted.
jdpoel 2 months ago
IT WAS A SWITCH!!
ym2861 2 months ago
after he gets hit in the head it sticks it in his mouth, watch his hands and the tape over his mouth before and after the hit
jj9548 2 months ago
4:15 reaches into side jacket pocket and switches the card...
cool trick bro.
itzPhoenixy0 2 months ago
@itzPhoenixy0 No switch...
cliffordsr 2 months ago
Of course (since they most likely told the truth) there wasn't a card switch. What's both upsetting and brilliant about this trick is that it was designed to "fool" Penn & Teller. Not with the trick itself but into thinking they knew the method. It wasn't enough for them to do a stunning reveal from the mouth -- they wanted Penn & Teller to think they figured it out. Clever clever. ;) No?
davidbkopp 2 months ago
They fooled them by lying about the card switch!
davidbkopp 2 months ago
If there's no switch, then they should be careful about taking the card out of the audience's view when removing it from the tongs, because that totally looks like a palmed card being traded from the left hand for the one on the tongs. I mean like, really, really obviously. If that's not the secret to the trick, then they're short changing themselves by making an amazing trick look like a simple one!
arothmanmusic 2 months ago
@arothmanmusic @Alecalisk Or, if you go on Penn & Teller and you want to fool them, you pretend to do the trick one way, while doing it another.
sashavboyd 2 months ago
When he puts the tongs in his pocket is so god damn obvious he switches the card or otherwise he wouldn't put the card in his palm like he did...
Alecalisk 2 months ago
good slight of hand at the end.
azn789456 2 months ago
@1138x How did he do it when his mouth was taped shut though?
dazlovesboyo 2 months ago
at 4.19 he use sleight of hand to hide the random card in the guys mouth and take out tellers card
MegaAllsome 2 months ago
The guy already had a random card in his mouth before the trick began and when the other guy took the card from his mouth at the end they stuck teller's card on and chucked it away later
MegaAllsome 2 months ago
i think he changed the card to tellers card when he put those things that he used to get the card from his friends mouth
jopi122 2 months ago
They made it look like a switch. Cause just after 4:11 the main guy put his left hand behind the guy with duct tape around his head and looked like he was palming something, but the move was so obvious that if you were sitting down where Penn and Teller where you would of seen it 100% of the time. So they did this to fool them into getting Penn and Teller to say switch when it was actually done though another way which they might of been caught out.
TOMHCKY 2 months ago
Wait a minute... this isn't a tutorial on how to join the thieves guild...
PERSONIFICATIONOFYAY 2 months ago
At 4:10 he switches the card in his pocked he has the original card in his hand and deposes of the other in his jacket
thompsoon3 3 months ago
@thompsoon3 no that was the fake switch, he made it look like a switch so pen and teller would say that was the bit they switched, but theyre explanation was wrong, they exchanged at an earllier stage
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thompsoon3 3 months ago
BRNYOLF!! I DIDNT KNOW THEIVES DID MAGIC
Patriotsfan346 3 months ago
I think I worked out what happens lets just say at 3.42 - 3.45 when the first guy "staples" the guy wearing duct tape in it head thats the key move. After that moment with the close up camara shots its not too hard to spot (though it would be if you were in a audience from any sort of distance)
NeoZane 3 months ago
2:52 palming
Bowlingsl 3 months ago
i was going yeh yeah switch switch and then when he said no switch... oh fuck LOL
TheStarfish13 3 months ago
it did look like a switch was a fake switch really part of it.... it would been better to have teller tkae the card out of his mouth if there really was no switch
DRnab1983 3 months ago
Would be a great effect, but the fake switch completely ruined it for me. It just killed the magic moment. I would prefer to see Penn and Teller fooled by something that is performed exactly the way it would be performed in an everyday presentation. They fooled them, but it was not "magic".
kavacsur 3 months ago
Ljung sticks the card in his mouth at 2:57 the hit to the back of his head is a decoy.
FramedDiablo 3 months ago
Compare the taping at 0:38 and 3:03, you can definitely notice the creases that appeared after the card was forced into the mouth.
FantasyBuss 3 months ago
very well done!! the fake switch at the end was brilliant!! it sure fooled P&T.
dgr812 3 months ago
Imo it was snuck up as he tried to take the tape off.
yamborghini3 4 months ago
I just had to try to replicate this trick to understand the real method, THERE IS NO SWITCH, the card in the mouth of Ljung is the same card Brynolf show at the end and you guys a F#"$%ING GENIOUS, this routine is FULL of decoy moves, AWESOME work, realy
IllRaggiratore 4 months ago 12
they lied about the switch
whitesox287 1 month ago
@whitesox287 no they didn't if you watch the tape on his mouth it moves. if you try putting duct tape on your mouth you can work it off your face really easily with your tong, when he gets hit in the head he pushes the card up into the duct tap he then simply works it into his mouth whil the rest of the trick is finished.
JakobSchweikart 1 month ago
Brilliant!
mauicarlandrews 4 months ago
trade it for a Farm hilarious
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TMagicByTheo 4 months ago
Wow, Those crazy Swedish guys and crazy antics!
laughsmyheadoff 4 months ago
Good work. The fake card switch got me, but it was really a clever piece of misdirection designed to fool Penn and Teller!
tzink7 4 months ago
Penn and Teller themselves often explain that misdirection is one of the basic methods of stage magic. So, they were misdirected.
Woolfieman 4 months ago
2.56 - 2.58 is the method,the rest of the routine is just to misleading,and to make the audience confortable with one guy hitting the other :),so that those 2 seconds can be seein as normal in the patter and in the persona lf the performers,as was the lousy switch at the end :)
singularityforsure 4 months ago
@singularityforsure no it's easy as hell look at 4:16
KingRonaldoNazario 4 months ago
@KingRonaldoNazario u mean the switch? the switch was only to PnT eyes dude,a smooth but a clear switch to misdirect...the signed card is put into his mouth when he receives the slap in the head...nothing special about this trick...
singularityforsure 4 months ago
@KingRonaldoNazario switch is fake
jimmiow 4 months ago
4:17 i seen it did u?
llikdis 5 months ago
As soon as I heard "They fooled us" I though oh boy, 65 comments. Only about 20% of these will be honest while the other 80% will be spiked with some decent, less common words, something about how it was done that was in a previous comment, and be "I know they know it, because I know it!" Yeah sure guys, you can stop lying now, no really, STOP. If Penn and Teller: Bullshit!" was still on TV, YouTube comments from these videos would be on there next episode.
DudeGuyPerson64 5 months ago
@BrynolfandLjung I have to say that you guys are brillant! You performed a great trick and you adapted it to fool magicians.
lestatmusatcamus 5 months ago
As far as I can tell shoving the card in the mouth happens at 2:56-2:58 :-)
Technically that's not a switch. They never replaced any card with any other card.
SerbAtheist 5 months ago
@SerbAtheist Absolutely. As he bends over his hands go directly to his mouth and when he stands back up straight the tape has moved slightly. Good catch.
I think the tongs at the end were misdirection for P&T. Show them something they were looking for and maybe they'll miss the real trick.
omarsdroog 5 months ago
@mconnollyil There is no technicality. Penn & Teller suspected a different move in a different part of the act. Anyway, Johnny would have corrected them immediately if they were lying.
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Tinaruon 5 months ago
The was a terrific red herring. I was slightly dismayed when I thought that this trick was finishing with a simple switch. I believe I do know the actual method, but it is very well hidden by the rest of the routine.
I also love the fact that despite stating that there was no switch, there are still people on here that are convinced that there was one. Such is the intelligence of youtube.
Englishdosser86 5 months ago 15
@Englishdosser86 while it's nice to know that they did it without a switch, it's more important that they show that it couldn't possibly have been a switch at the very end.
the fact that it COULD have been done with a switch is the important part. Almost every magic trick is about CONVINCING the audience that they didn't stack the deck, that they didn't have an actor in the audience, that they didn't use a trap door on the stage, etc.
willyolio 1 month ago
@willyolio Yea, but they were trying to get to Vegas so part of me thinks they did that to trick Penn & Teller into thinking it was a switch so they didn't bother trying to think of what it actually was!
merckens 1 month ago
@willyolio Exactly - it is the important part. You've completely overlooked what the objective of the show is. The show isn't "Fool the Audience". They intentionally misled Penn and Teller into thinking that it was done a certain way by playing upon their knowledge of magic. That was all part of the illusion.
Englishdosser86 1 month ago
@willyolio That is true, when you are dealing with a audience of Non-magicians, we, on the other hand, realy enjoy this type of "doble misdirection" they are not doing this trick to try to fool the audience, they are trying to fool 2 of the best magicians in the world, they do that act in a very diferent way in front of a non-magicians audience (excuse my english, its not my native language)
IllRaggiratore 1 month ago
That was cheep.
HumanBornFree 5 months ago
What's the point of Teller being on the show?
koochkooch 5 months ago
@koochkooch the fact that teller is a magical genius and historian who knows much more than penn
scottbaioisdead 5 months ago
What lowlybarista said - Jonas covers the tongs with one hand to improve the odds of going to Vegas :) Penn & Teller were indeed fooled, muhaha ;) (See video response for where he doesn't.)
powderyorgan 5 months ago
I'm guessing it's not just based on your word. Is there someone at the show to whom you have to explain the trick so that that person can verify when Penn and Teller are incorrect?
10INTM 5 months ago 6
@10INTM Yes! Highly skilled Johnny Thompson, The Great Tomsoni, know every act! He decides whether P&T are correct or incorrect!
BrynolfandLjung 5 months ago 14
Very clever putting what looks like an obvious switch in there, make them think its a closed case so they don't think too hard about it and don't have time to rethink what happened. Bravo.
lowlybarista 5 months ago
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Ok, it was suspicious in the beginning after Penn picked the number 11, when he goes over to him and gives him the cards, he does some little pat thing on his back and stomach, clearly at the end of the trick, when he cuts off the tape, watch the other guy reach to the taped guys back again? Then you can see his hand cupped? Tell me what yall think? There was a switch!
jgjhereld 5 months ago
a very clear switch on 4:16
wirmackt 5 months ago
I watched the original video (as a very amateur cardman), was so impressed by it but sighed with resignation when I saw 'the switch'. Then you say there was no switch, and I just couldn't stop laughing! Your misdirection was the 'sloppy' switch, which ONLY misdirected Penn and Teller! Very tricky...
gigasloth 5 months ago 2
When he takes the duct tape off of his mouth, there doesn't appear to be any hair from his stubble of a beard stuck to it, making me think that that part of the tape wasn't sticky. That would allow him to slip the card into his mouth at some point when everyone (including the cameras) was looking at the other guy (I'm not sure which is which).
BubbaHoggit 6 months ago
Too easy, when the talking guy hits the other guy, you can clearly see does something with his face... Putting the card in the mouth ^^
Largas4 6 months ago
LOVED it. Well done Guys. Who cares how its done, They won, They deserved to win, Hope to see more of these gentlemen. Finding out how a Trick is done kinda makes watching magic pointless.
mrtymf 6 months ago
4:16 hand cupping, card switch. They lied. He would have grabbed the card with his fingers, not hand, if he did not have a card cupped in his hand.
MonkeyBallZ214 6 months ago
A great idea to fool Penn & Teller by blocking the card from sight just momentarily. Nicely done.
MuikuliWander 6 months ago 3
Wowwww Peter&Ljung jag blev väldigt glad över att se er Peter & Ljung uppträda i Fool Us P&T Showen. Bravoooooooo. Mvh: Albanen från GBG
magjistar 6 months ago
Very enjoyable trick. Great presentation. I lol'd at the "buy a farm" line! Switch is obvious at 4:15, but I suspect it is difficult to make a switch like that in front of two excellent magicians and make it look natural. All in all, fun stuff. This won't be the last we see from B&L
cstefanile 6 months ago
@cstefanile There was no switch. Look at the trick more closely.
rohgenextfan 6 months ago
Great Trick! Just a guess, Vaseline lower lip and chin.
gerlitzmagic 6 months ago
I figured this out but this takes practice. The trick happens when the guy is hit behind the head.
womo1975 6 months ago
never mind, there was no switch, the only way I can think of how they did is if that taped dude shoved the card in his ass, up through to his mouth....probably wasn't what he actually did....hmmmmm GOOD MAGIC!!!
Things2doBeforeIdie 6 months ago 4
isn;t this variation of Jay Sankey's magic? with mercury card fold and switch?
Things2doBeforeIdie 6 months ago
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magic happened while head was down and taped jaw moved backwards
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work with real (not modified) tape
markkinat2009 6 months ago
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magic happened while head was down and taped jaw moved backwards
markkinat2009 6 months ago
These guys have more tricks upp their sleeves. Searach for Bryunolf & Ljung on Youtube and you will see a bunch of incredible things. The slow motion act is my favourite.
50JG 6 months ago
They do NOT switch any cards... There are backstage judges who knows the WHOLE tricks step by step.. It is purely misdirection...
wassiwadi 6 months ago
There was no switch. Penn and Teller at the comic con talked about how all the magicians talk to a judge before they go on, they listen to Penn and Teller talking about how the trick was done and then judge if they guessed right or wrongly. With that said I know how the trick was done. You guys ever see that South Park where people start eating food through their ass and pooping out their mouthes? It's kind of like that but with a card instead of food. Also magic.
TheGoogergieger 7 months ago
@BrynolfandLjung Did Jonathan Ross pronounce your names correctly?
Woolfieman 7 months ago
@Woolfieman No, not really ;) They are pronounced Brynolf & Young
BrynolfandLjung 7 months ago 13
card was switched at 4:16 when you took it off the tongs and had it behind your hand.
prove its not a switch by having someone else take the card out and unfolding it.
leejinwen 7 months ago 8
@leejinwen Search for Sg1uKnTmhus within Youtube or take a look at this clip's video answer ;)
BrynolfandLjung 7 months ago 16
@BrynolfandLjung You guys literally fooled Penn & Teller!
espn1337 3 months ago
@leejinwen he put the card in his mouth when the other guy smacked him on the back of his head. His hands are behind his chin really quick then he takes them away
Just go look, its simple =) but great!
areeweblind 2 months ago
They made it appear as though they switched the card in order to fool Penn & Teller, which kind of spoils the trick really. Thats like performing a quick switch trick and taking 5 minutes behind a curtain when you didn't need to. It would have been way more interesting to see Penn & Teller completely blown out of the water by not pretending to switch.
permedmammoth 7 months ago
Ser ut som Du gör en "slight of hand" (Namn?) vid 4:16. Kortet är hopvikt och du drar handen på ett sådant sätt att det ser ut som att du tar ett oviktigt kort från hans mun och byter det mot det riktiga kortet som du nästan hela tiden hade själv. Men det kanske är det som menas med "switch", till skillnad från slight of hand... vetifan. Kul att svenskar på programmet iaf.
TheEvolvedMind 7 months ago
I have seen this act live in Denmark. No switch.
MrDannyrose89 7 months ago
Having had the pleasure of seeing Brynolf and Ljung perform this numerous times, I can only confirm that there are NO switches. The prongs has nothing to do with it, and to do something blatantly to throw Penn & Teller off scent was brilliant!
For any doubters: Go to Las Vegas and see Peter and Jonas perform this when they open for Penn & Teller, and you can see for yourself that "Holy cow, there really IS no switch!"
Great job guys and a joy to watch! You SO totally deserve it!
askernas 7 months ago
No card switch, haha, then Jonas must be a bad performer, why hide the hard in his hand and NOT just give the card out to the spectator (jury) for examination! OR
why did not Peter un-fold the card with his mouth to reveal the signature?
trummisspelaren 7 months ago
Great job. Hope you make it big. 2:55
ViXoN2 7 months ago 3
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ahelgeso 6 months ago
@ViXoN2 Yep, no switch. Pretty good stuff. 3:57
ahelgeso 6 months ago
@ahelgeso Do you know what a switch is?
ViXoN2 6 months ago
härligt att få se lite svensk magi på det här programmet. :) ni borde göra tricket igen och lägga upp det på eran youtubekanal så att de som klagar får se att ni inte fuskade! vilket jag hoppas att ni inte gjorde.. haha..
cinemmatic 7 months ago
Great job guys!
ClarkEriksson 7 months ago
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What do you reckon? He somehow puts it in his mouth at 2:56 when he bends over from the slap?
kampinbunny 7 months ago 3
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kampinbunny 7 months ago
you know you switched the card stop lying!
salsa2good 7 months ago
@salsa2good Once again! There is no switch! It is possible to spit the card directly into Tellers hand! The trick is so good and the method used so clever that without the red herring at the end there might be only one solution for Penn & Teller. There are no tells whatsoever throughout the entire routine, so they might guess right without knowing and we didn´t want them to get that chance! If we would use a cardswitch for something, we would NEVER let it through looking like that!
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kampinbunny 7 months ago
saw this in the studio, looked just as great on tv! well done guys, Hope to be seeing more of you in the UK in the near future :D
ROCKLOVER1234 7 months ago
Fantastic, love you guys!!
troley75 7 months ago
A perfect fooler!
AndersModen 7 months ago
Damn good guys!!! And you really came through the screen well. Congratulations! Fooled me too! / Charlie
capermagic 7 months ago 3
Great red herring to make them think the card was switched. You guys rock!
blaboratories 7 months ago
I call bullshit. They swapped it right before the folded card was opened.
simbeau 7 months ago