Ben that was an AWESOME performance by you guys. Both of you just have great energy and the process was flawless to us who don’t possess showmanship. MUCH much respect!
You fooled me at 1:39! What the hell was that?! Your hands appeared to really pass through each other. Congrats guys, what a great set! See you in Chicago!!
I had the biggest grin on my face from the second you started to thread the melon. This was one of my first two effects I learned from a library book about 60 years ago. I just came back from a trip to Korea where I taught one of my nephew's sons a few tricks. This was going to be one of them, but I decided to hold off on it until our next trip... now I just don't know about that unless I give some heavy thought around a great routine for him.
I recall reading this illusion in an old book, back when I was like eight or nine, so forty years ago, with a book that might have been another forty years old. There was also a variation in a Boy Scout book, passing a rope through the sleeves of a scout''s jacket.
Thinking back on it I'm sure it was in one of the Tarbell volumes. What a great learning tool that was. I was astonished that such great secrets were freely available in such a public place! ;)
I literally was grinning the whole time. Amazing performance, amazing wizards, you guys KILLED IT!! Looking forward to more future amazing performances from you both!!!
When I was between 7 and 10 years old, we had a magician visit our school and performed for us. In the end of the show, he was selling some magical props. And one of the "tricks" he was selling was exactly the same as this one, but the ribbons were replaced with laces and the watermelon was a sponge instead. And I happened to buy exactly that trick, so I know how it works :P
Loved it! So excited for you two to see everything that you are doing for the magic community and so awesome for y’all to be on this… Amazing performance
This is really fun, because this is the first trick I learned when I was 9. All I had was the local library and it had 4 books on how to do magic. I read them all and this trick still works many years later.
Succeeding at something P&T failed at is arguably even better than fooling them! Surprised you missed the opportunity to do the the hand passing through the other illusion at the intro tho. Would have made a neat little bonus.
WOW, YOU GUYS HAVE BRASS ONES to perform on this show a trick from the first magic book all us magicians first read as kids! But that was a clever "twist" on an old trick.
I watched y’all closely, looking for trickery in the tying of the ribbons. I was sure that was the illusion. Watched it a second time……. You fooled me!
I remember when I was a kid I use to go to my grandma's house and she had a necklace just like Allison's, but hers had two red pearls and one black pearl!!!
I had a magnet in my jacket that it was supposed to stick to. The fact that it didn't, and that I missed my pocket, will haunt me till the day I die!!!
@@manusoftar yes but it's the whole package it's the performance it's the trick it's having the balls to get up on national television in front of Penn and teller it's not just the method. I've done magic on TV and the body literally starts locking up with fear it's not the easiest thing to do
I know some people who said they were allergic to watermelons, turns out they were all 'allergic' to the chemical herbicides and pesticides because when they tried organic watermelon, no reaction whatsoever.
I half liked it and half did not like it I liked it because I absolutely love science and did not like it because I was worried that Alyson's hand was going to get impaled.
Performing on the show was some of the most fun I've had in my life. If you're a magician and haven't submitted yet... stop waiting! Do it now!!!
I will
Was it ever!!
Ben that was an AWESOME performance by you guys. Both of you just have great energy and the process was flawless to us who don’t possess showmanship. MUCH much respect!
I thought your needle would be bigger
Great job Ben! 🤍✨
You fooled me at 1:39! What the hell was that?! Your hands appeared to really pass through each other. Congrats guys, what a great set! See you in Chicago!!
Can I get a mini trophy from you? See you in Chicago!!
Was looking for someone to comment about that.. Freaked me out
Even watching it in slow motion it’s still insane lol😅
@@YoungDymisty I thought it was a projector or something, the weird red light
TY for the information.
Allison is marvelous. Love her smile and expression.
love it when penn and teller say "we failed and you succeeded with that act!"
I had the biggest grin on my face from the second you started to thread the melon. This was one of my first two effects I learned from a library book about 60 years ago. I just came back from a trip to Korea where I taught one of my nephew's sons a few tricks. This was going to be one of them, but I decided to hold off on it until our next trip... now I just don't know about that unless I give some heavy thought around a great routine for him.
27 years ago for me
I recall reading this illusion in an old book, back when I was like eight or nine, so forty years ago, with a book that might have been another forty years old. There was also a variation in a Boy Scout book, passing a rope through the sleeves of a scout''s jacket.
Thinking back on it I'm sure it was in one of the Tarbell volumes. What a great learning tool that was. I was astonished that such great secrets were freely available in such a public place! ;)
@@jimbatten1927 It IS in Tarbell!!! It's in volume one. Fun fact- the whole series is available FOR FREE online because it's in the public domain!!!
I literally was grinning the whole time. Amazing performance, amazing wizards, you guys KILLED IT!! Looking forward to more future amazing performances from you both!!!
You two have excellent positive energy with each other. Keep it up guys. Keep those smiles coming :)
When I was between 7 and 10 years old, we had a magician visit our school and performed for us. In the end of the show, he was selling some magical props. And one of the "tricks" he was selling was exactly the same as this one, but the ribbons were replaced with laces and the watermelon was a sponge instead. And I happened to buy exactly that trick, so I know how it works :P
Loved it! So excited for you two to see everything that you are doing for the magic community and so awesome for y’all to be on this… Amazing performance
Ryan! You rock and we love you - great job on your end of RUclips land!
What a hoot! Thanks for watching. Oh man was that fun , and YES the watermelon was delicious!
Damn this commenter is good looking. Someone should give him a raise!
Bruh y'all should name your act as 'Ben & Babins'.
I’m so proud of you Jonah!
@@imnotwatchin Or "Ben, Babins & Beyond"...
Looks like the classic cut-a-rope trick that I still don't understand. So they fooled at least me. 😆
What a great job and great performance - congratulations!
You guys are fun!!! Good job team!
Thanks for your help and inspiration in making it possible!
Congratulations Jonah and Ben! It was so awesome to see you both on FU!
This is really fun, because this is the first trick I learned when I was 9. All I had was the local library and it had 4 books on how to do magic. I read them all and this trick still works many years later.
Great going Ben and Jonah. Funny jokes and great presentation.
Loved your presentation guys. Really well done
With performances like that you’re well on your way to being as successful as Penn and Teller.
Taught my young grandchildren a variant of that trick (same technique). They love doing it for friends.
Yess - old concept, new faces and ideas. Glad you have fun with this too!
So awesome! You guys were truly amazing! Such a feel good story. So proud of you guys! I can't stop smiling! Yes!!!! Way to go Jonah and Ben!
Fish the Magish-approved!
Based on the opening video i did not expect them to speak so well and present so well
Start weak, finish strong.
Excellent job!🎉 very unique and creative idea! Congrats guys😊
Thanks Ryan - you rock
Great performance. Love how both of you feed off of each other's energies. I can watch you both all day long.
Thanks! We learned how to do it during virtual. We'll have some fun projects coming soon!
Love it!! Great job guys!!
Thank you !!! You rock
Such a great energy. You guys are great showmen.
That means a lot!!
Congrats to you both on a fantastic performance!
Thanks for selling us props. We literally couldn't have done it without you
Glad I found you guys! Well done!!
They were reely, reely impressed! ;)
Great job guys!
Aww thanks!!
fantastic presentation
It was epiphany we're glad we had! - thanks for the kind words
Lol, “friends” 😂
"Enemies"
So much fun! You two are so great!
Thanks patrick! Very nice of you to comment :)
Well I was fooled, cheers for a fun act😊
Big podcast listener, first time I’ve seen your face! Great routine I am gonna have to head over to Toronto soon!!
Jake! That means a lot - glad you could see my face- now I gotta see urs!!
That was some super secret magicians code.
Anyway, good job!
Fantastic performance guys!!! \o/
Thanks man! Miss you!!!
I loved the bit where you ate the watermelon. Munchmunchmunch
Great job guys!! Soooooo happy for you and you know! Love you guys so much!
Suzanne! We love you! Thanks for being here :) Hope you're amazing
It was a great act! Love your duo!
Sef! Amazing to see you here - thanks for the kind words. There's still time - we can be a trio!?
@@TorontoMagicCompany You're welcome! I enjoy being here. 😊Ohhhh... I would love that! 😍
Great job guys! That was so much fun!!
💥BOOM!!!💥™
Thank you!!! That means a lot - you know what you did ;)
Excellent act. The goal going in didn't seem to be to fool them but achieving success for the exposure and the experience.
Great act guys
I met you Ben at a couple of Magic Bashes. Was great to see you get to perform on Fool Us.
Thank you!!!! Next time we see each other, lets grab a drink!!!
Succeeding at something P&T failed at is arguably even better than fooling them!
Surprised you missed the opportunity to do the the hand passing through the other illusion at the intro tho. Would have made a neat little bonus.
1:38
Oh my god! They are roommates!
HOUSEmates. We have two different bedrooms (one for sleeping and one for fun).
My mother showed me a version of this trick where you pass the string through your neck 50 years ago.
Did her necklace have something to do with it? Im confused
WOW, YOU GUYS HAVE BRASS ONES to perform on this show a trick from the first magic book all us magicians first read as kids! But that was a clever "twist" on an old trick.
My entire lower half is bronze. Makes it very hard to use the bathroom. :(
OMG, they were Housemates!
I watched y’all closely, looking for trickery in the tying of the ribbons. I was sure that was the illusion. Watched it a second time……. You fooled me!
Thank you brother!!! We're just glad people had fun watching!!!
what was that 1:38 . even some red nuance appeared. something is not right (did u edit the vid there?)
If we knew how to edit the video we’d have made jonah look better.
Awesomeness 🎉
Thank you!!
Ever tried spicing up the trick with peppers? 😉
Great performance!
😂😂😂
Great idea!
That was probably the most obvious trick of the past few seasons, but those 2 are pretty funny.
What we lack in skill, we make up for in jokes!
One of the oldest street magic tricks in the world! It's really daring and courageous to fool P&T with that stuff. But still a nice performance!
Love this! I was definitely fooled 😮
Thank you!!!
Interesting, unique, funny. Such an outstanding performance! New subscriber here. Great job!
Nice trick
You guys do good Canadian accents.
Took me 37 years to perfect!!!
Did he just push his hand trough the other?!
It's the most replayed part of the video, but no one talks about it 😮
I remember when I was a kid I use to go to my grandma's house and she had a necklace just like Allison's, but hers had two red pearls and one black pearl!!!
Something like that ;)
I’ve seen tricks like this before, not sure how they work though!
Pretty clear the success of this trick is to select a seedless watermelon.
NO SPOILERS!!!!
Alison, what are you wearing?
She matched us!!! That's how we knew our outfits were in!!
I know how it's done but I can't figure out how they did it
We're kinda sneaky
I know how it's done but I can't figure out WHY we did it.
Anyone notice the side trick with the needle at 3:16?
I had a magnet in my jacket that it was supposed to stick to. The fact that it didn't, and that I missed my pocket, will haunt me till the day I die!!!
this one time
at summer camp
Is the trick something to do with a necklace?
🤣🤣🤣
Clearly its a trick watermelon. The top and bottom are real but the sides are holograms. Allison's fingers are attached to her hands with magnets.
How?
Who knows!!
If Matt Damon and Chris Elliot became magicians....
So this one time at summer camp?
"They were roommates."
Housemates!
This one is easy, the needle was organic, and the watermelon had a little bird inside
Shhhhhh!!!! No spoilers!
Even more valuable than the FU trophy? Being told by Penn and Teller that you succeeded where they failed.
Is this video 8 frames per second?
We thought anything more would be extravagant.
What's with all the white shoes? :/
We got style!!!
penn's code words are so discreet
A non-magician friend of mine asked me why Penn was randomly hitting on Alyson during the shoot. More discreet than we think!!!
The human body is more than 60% water cuz 75% of blood is water and mostly everything flowing in me is water.
ok thanks for sharing your opinion cool story
you only got about 5 litres of blood flowing in you.
That's a tiny little watermelon
No, it's normal sized. We're just all huge.
These guys are a couple - the HAVE to be 😃 Aside from that, no clue how they did this 😂
Yah... a couple of cool dudes!
OMG, they were Housemates!
@@QueenOfDarknes5 Exactly -- and anyone who gets offended at the sight of two male housemates is simply home o'phobic!
That's the smallest watermelon I've ever seen
For once, I actually got Pen's code words. 😄
I even understand the principle itself, but not how execute it.
Props to that move.
Another magician did something similar with a chain around his belly.
@@Shugarcloud Thanks so much. That's the information I missed. I understood how the trick words but had no idea what Penn's meant
One of the worst attempts at doing code I think they're getting a bit old now for this.
@@manusoftar yes but it's the whole package it's the performance it's the trick it's having the balls to get up on national television in front of Penn and teller it's not just the method. I've done magic on TV and the body literally starts locking up with fear it's not the easiest thing to do
How was the trick done then??
I know some people who said they were allergic to watermelons, turns out they were all 'allergic' to the chemical herbicides and pesticides because when they tried organic watermelon, no reaction whatsoever.
I think everyone know how they did it lol
I half liked it and half did not like it I liked it because I absolutely love science and did not like it because I was worried that Alyson's hand was going to get impaled.
WE we're worried - I feel like she has better lawyers than we do
So this is what Canadian trust fund kids are like?
I was gonna make a joke but my mom said she’d cut off my allowance if I did.
So are they gay?
Why, are you interested? ;)
The magic is always hidden in Allison's pants.
Amen brother
I thought it was flute.
*yeah, I know this joke is now so old it almost gets to be new again.
C'mon guys, you aren't magicians...
Great job guys!
Nick!! That's so sweet - thank you for commenting, it's awesome to see you here :)