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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 153 |
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| Release | 7 January 2011 – present |
Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller. Its first two seasons were hosted by Jonathan Ross, the third through ninth seasons were hosted by Alyson Hannigan and the tenth season by Brooke Burke. Fool Us was filmed at Fountain Studios in London, England (season one) and the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino (season two onward), located in Las Vegas. After each performance, if Penn & Teller cannot figure out how a trick was done, the magician(s) who performed it win a Fool Us trophy (since season 2) and a five-star trip to Las Vegas to perform as the opening act in Penn & Teller's show, also at the Rio Hotel & Casino.[1]
The tenth season premiered in October 2023.
Format
Each episode starts off with the introduction stating the purpose of the series. Penn & Teller come out and take their seats towards center stage, and hopeful magicians perform (6 in the pilot, 4 in season 1–present) their acts in front of them with a live studio audience (except for the second half of season 7 through season 9, when Covid forced them to perform in front of a virtual audience).
After each performance, Penn & Teller privately confer while the host interviews the magicians. Penn then reveals if they know how the trick was performed, typically using cryptic language, or they write down the method and present it privately to the magicians to confirm, so as to avoid publicly exposing the secrets behind the trick. Teller notes that the doublespeak helps teach people new techniques without spoiling the trick.[2]
If Penn & Teller are wrong, or cannot come up with how the trick was done, the magician wins a Fool Us trophy and the opportunity to later perform at one of Penn & Teller's Las Vegas shows. A backstage judge or judges, versed in the techniques of the magic industry and privately informed how the trick is done prior to the show, makes any necessary calls whether Penn & Teller were properly fooled. At the end of each episode, Penn & Teller perform a magic act of their own.
Production
The pilot of Fool Us was first commissioned by John Kaye Cooper, the controller of entertainment for ITV.[3] In February 2011, it was announced that due to good viewing figures, a series of eight episodes had been commissioned, and would be produced by September Films and 1/17 Productions.[4] The eight episodes were shot in a ten-day filming block, and began airing in June 2011.[5]
It was announced on 28 June 2012 that ITV had cancelled the show, despite averaging 4 million viewers, higher than the norm for the timeslot.[6] After finding moderate ratings success in running the ITV-produced episodes during the summer of 2014, The CW ordered a second season of original episodes to air in 2015.[7] The second season was a ratings hit for The CW, giving the network its highest ratings in that time slot compared to the previous five years.[8]
On 11 August 2015 the series was renewed for a third season by The CW[9] which premiered on 13 July 2016,[10][11] now hosted by Alyson Hannigan.[12] The fourth season premiered on 13 July 2017.[1][13] A special one-off April Fool's episode was broadcast on 2 April 2018 as a precursor to the fifth season, which premiered on 25 June 2018.[14][15] After another April Fool's episode on 1 April 2019, the sixth season premiered on 17 June 2019.[16]
In the summer of 2020 the show was renewed for a seventh season, which was set to begin filming in October 2020. Due to COVID-19 safety and travel restrictions, the second half of season 7 was filmed with a virtual audience, and international acts performed via video from their home countries. The magicians and crew were tested for COVID over 660 times, with every result negative.[17] On 20 January 2022, the series was renewed for a ninth season.[18] On 18 May 2023, the series was renewed for a tenth season, with new host Brooke Burke which was taped during the first weeks of July in the Penn & Teller Theatre at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The season premiered on 27 October 2023.[19][20][21]
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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| 1 | Pilot | 7 January 2011 | ITV | ||
| 8 | 18 June 2011 | 28 August 2011 | |||
| 2 | 13 | 6 July 2015 | 5 October 2015 | The CW | |
| 3 | 13 | 13 July 2016 | 16 September 2016 | ||
| 4 | 13 | 13 July 2017 | 30 November 2017 | ||
| 5 | 13 | 25 June 2018 | 1 October 2018 | ||
| 6 | 13 | 17 June 2019 | 30 September 2019 | ||
| 7 | 28 | 14 | 22 June 2020 | 16 November 2020 | |
| 14 | 8 January 2021 | 16 April 2021 | |||
| 8 | 14 | 1 October 2021 | 4 March 2022 | ||
| 9 | 14 | 14 October 2022 | 14 April 2023 | ||
| 10 | 20 | 27 October 2023 | 26 April 2024 | ||
Performers who fooled Penn & Teller are listed in bold type.
Season 1 (2011)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code [a] | UK viewers (millions) [b] |
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| 1 | Pilot | "How to Saw a Woman in Half" | 7 January 2011 | 109 | 4.28[22] |
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| 2 | 1 | "Teller Sucks... Helium" | 18 June 2011 | 107 | 4.07[22] |
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| 3 | 2 | "Stab a Card, Any Card..." | 25 June 2011 | 102 | 3.57[22] |
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| 4 | 3 | "Solid Goldfish" | 2 July 2011 | 103 | 3.12[22] |
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| 5 | 4 | "Teller is a Blockhead" | 9 July 2011 | 104 | 3.27[22] |
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| 6 | 5 | "Penn Gets Nailed" | 16 July 2011 | 105 | 3.29[22] |
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| 7 | 6 | "The Magic of Polyester" | 23 July 2011 | 106 | 3.62[22] |
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| 8 | 7 | "A Bellyful of Needles" | 30 July 2011 | 101 | 3.22[22] |
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| 9 | 8 | "Water Tanks for the Memories" | 28 August 2011 | 108 | N/A |
- ^ As listed in U.S. listings
- ^ SD viewers only.
- ^ Although Piff, after being shown Teller's deduction, stated that he did not fool Penn & Teller, Penn later admitted in a blog post that he and Teller had gotten Piff's technique wrong but Piff played along with them, although this has not been mentioned on-screen.[23] Piff's subsequent guest appearances on the show in the episodes "Something Fishy This Way Comes" and "Penn the Magic Dragon" have been as a joint magic performance act alongside Penn & Teller at the end of each episode.
- ^ Although Penn & Teller saw Farquhar perform a deck switch, which they had previously decided would automatically mean a contestant did not fool them, they considered themselves fooled because they could not explain the essence of how Farquhar had performed his card trick.
- ^ Martinez presented himself as Cuban, but was outed as British by Penn & Teller following the conclusion of his act.
Unaired segments include:
Season 2 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 10 | 1 | "Phone-y Business" | 6 July 2015 | 202 | 1.66[27] |
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| 11 | 2 | "The Invisi-Ball Thread" | 13 July 2015 | 203 | 2.01[28] |
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| 12 | 3 | "Shoot to Kill" | 20 July 2015 | 201 | 1.81[29] |
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| 13 | 4 | "Knife of the Party" | 27 July 2015 | 204 | 2.24[30] |
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| 14 | 5 | "Mission Impossi-Ball" | 3 August 2015 | 205 | 2.06[31] |
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| 15 | 6 | "Now THAT'S Bunny!" | 10 August 2015 | 206 | 2.35[32] |
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| 16 | 7 | "Penn's Favorite Card Trick" | 17 August 2015 | 207 | 2.10[33] |
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| 17 | 8 | "Teller Plays with a Full Deck" | 24 August 2015 | 209 | 1.87[34] |
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| 18 | 9 | "Star Spangled Magic" | 31 August 2015 | 210 | 2.11[35] |
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| 19 | 10 | "Teller Deflowers a Shadow" | 14 September 2015 | 212 | 1.46[36] |
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| 20 | 11 | "Where There's Smoke There's Magic" | 21 September 2015 | 211 | 1.15[37] |
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| 21 | 12 | "Penn & Teller Ring Someone's Neck" | 28 September 2015 | 208 | 1.34[38] |
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| 22 | 13 | "An Egg-Cellent Trick" | 5 October 2015 | 213 | 1.36[39] |
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- ^ Roth's award was given as an honorary award since Roth pioneered coin magic, and Penn & Teller stated that they only knew the tricks because they had read his books.
- ^ Although Paul Vigil did not fool them, Penn admitted that the only reason they know how his trick is done is because they have read it in Paul's books.
Season 3 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 23 | 1 | "Won't Get Fooled Again...?" | 13 July 2016 | 304 | 1.46[40] |
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| 24 | 2 | "Jesse Eisenberg Gets Carded" | 20 July 2016 | 303[citation needed] | 1.21[41] |
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| 25 | 3 | "Have A Blast" | 27 July 2016 | 302 | 1.18[42] |
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| 26 | 4 | "Penn Plays With Fire" | 3 August 2016 | 305 | 1.42[43] |
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| 27 | 5 | "You Dirty Rathead!" | 10 August 2016 | 301 | 1.43[44] |
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| 28 | 6 | "Penn & Teller Snake their Chances" | 17 August 2016 | 309 | 1.47[45] |
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| 29 | 7 | "Juggle, Juggle, Penn's in Trouble" | 24 August 2016 | 308 | 1.49[47] |
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| 30 | 8 | "Here's Moxie!" | 31 August 2016 | 303[citation needed] | 1.78[48] |
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| 31 | 9 | "The Great Escape" | 2 September 2016 | 307 | 1.28[49] |
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| 32 | 10 | "To Tea Or Not To Tea?" | 7 September 2016 | 310 | 1.54[50] |
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| 33 | 11 | "Penn & Teller Get Trapped" | 9 September 2016 | 311 | 1.41[51] |
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| 34 | 12 | "Penn & Teller Rip for your Pleasure" | 14 September 2016 | 312 | 1.38[52] |
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| 35 | 13 | "Can Penn & Teller Fool Penn & Teller" | 16 September 2016 | 313 | 1.34[53] |
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- ^ Appeared in a previous episode where they fooled Penn & Teller.
- ^ Penn admitted that they do not know how he got the golf ball inside the jar, but the contestant agreed that he did not fool them, since they got all the other parts of the trick.
- ^ Although Coronel indicated during the initial broadcast that he had not fooled Penn & Teller, they confirmed in their "April Fool Us Day" special on 2 April 2018, that they had indeed been fooled.[46]
- ^ Performed as the magic duo "Hal & Kellar" parodying Penn & Teller.
Season 4 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 36 | 1 | "Penn & Teller Teach You a Trick" | 13 July 2017 | 402 | 1.62[54] |
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| 37 | 2 | "Penn, Teller and a Mind Reading Chicken" | 20 July 2017 | 401 | 1.72[55] |
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| 38 | 3 | "Teller Flips a Bird" | 27 July 2017 | 403 | 1.56[56] |
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| 39 | 4 | "50/50 Chance" | 3 August 2017 | 405 | 1.64[57] |
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| 40 | 5 | "Does This Trick Ring a Bell?" | 10 August 2017 | 407 | 1.53[58] |
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| 41 | 6 | "Something Fishy This Way Comes" | 17 August 2017 | 412 | 1.49[60] |
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| 42 | 7 | "A Big Round of Applause for Alyson" | 24 August 2017 | 411 | 1.48[61] |
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| 43 | 8 | "I Dream of Genie Tube" | 7 September 2017 | 410 | 1.42[62] |
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| 44 | 9 | "Penn & Teller Are Full of Hot Air" | 14 September 2017 | 413 | 1.48[63] |
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| 45 | 10 | "Monkey Business" | 21 September 2017 | 404 | 1.55[64] |
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| 46 | 11 | "Penn Does the Heavy Lifting" | 25 September 2017 | 409 | 0.92[65] |
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