Penn & Teller: Fool Us // Adam Wilber Totally Baffles Them!

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[Blissey]

Tony was arrested later that week for $100 counterfeit money.

[imnotwatchin]

He took home his Fool Us Trophy laughing to himself like a crazy person all the while.

[WastelandBowman]

“And you’ll see that $1 bill change to $100 bill”
FBI: “noted...”

[tkchannel]

Tony is the perfect guest. Doesn't interfere but has great reactions and humor.

[Hunter]

I always love it when Teller is fooled. His face lights up so much! You can see the love and passion he has for illusion.

[bennettlewis]

I absolutely LOVE how Penn & Teller allow the magicians to post Fool Us content on their own YouTube channels. It may be my favorite thing about them yet. 14 million+ views for Adam's channel.

[josephmatron]

Guys it says in the description how he did it. He used J.C Rodarte’s “Clone” to copy the signature. It’s essentially a stamp. The marker isn’t actually a sharpie, but a marker with special ink that can be transferred to a pad, and then transferred from the pad onto another bill. Notice how he designated a box for Tony to write his name. This was to ensure that his signature was small enough to fit on the transfer pad in its entirety. It’s an amazing effect, and he performed it perfectly.

[DumbfoundedMadman]

Absolutely love when the deciding factor of whether they can say fooled or not is based on whether they can inspect the suspected method, and then are granted permission and realize they were wrong. Masterfully done and wonderfully entertaining. Fantastic job. Thanks for that.

[TokyoKazama]

Usually Penn makes a big comedic fuss about being fooled. But with this one, he seems genuinely unsettled that he had two thoughts on how it was done and both of them were wrong.

[davidshim]

It's so obvious:



he did the magic shake.

[nicholaskaminski]

I figured it out. Notice how after Tony writes his name, Adam is very careful NOT to touch the ink at all. The ink is also a very dark color despite coming from a purple marker. When he first places the bill in the case, you can see/hear him rubbing something, kind of like he's creasing the bill. I'm pretty sure at this point, he places some sort of paper or similar medium over the still-wet ink to lift it off the $1 bill and then quickly transfer it to the $100 bill also in the case. This would account for how he transferred the signature without it being a negative image (the negative was on the lifting medium) and why the $100 bill's ink was a considerably lighter color. This trick is a fancy version of lifting newspaper ink with silly putty.

[lorifairhead]

After reading like 600 of the comments and thinking about it myself as well I would say: He gets the bill signed at the beginning as he needs some time, and so we have the in-between tricks. He is giving a narrative all the while which means you think he couldn't be doing very much at the same time. As other people have stated I believe he uses the time to simply copy the signature onto the 100$, you cannot see his hands when he's at his box this is why the lid is up. Also with a thick marker pen and given a very restricted area to write in if anyone is told to sign their name they will print their first name in capitals or initial it, hence making it straightforward to copy. The roller board thing obviously is sucking in the dollar note and putting out the 100$, so after he copied the name he just had to put the 100 into the roller. Giving away the 100$ at the end means P&T can't compare the two notes and the audience member himself is highly unlikely to closely scrutinise it even if he suspected it was not his writing he would only notice much later and he no longer has the dollar bill to make sure. The thing about the trick is that it is very well executed but I am surprised P&T couldn't figure it out

[bricelory]

Favorite thing about this is the volunteer saying "I see that weird cap." Just perfect delivery 😂

[OsamaBinLooney]

and Tony wasn't expecting to make the easiest 99 dollars of his entire life that night LOL

[evank]

I love how the show allows magicians to upload their performances to their own channels

[AlexStar]

.. I mean if I wrote my name on a $1 bill and a guy then showed me my name written on a $100 bill I'd go along with it too...

[millzachgaming]

I was wondering why I went to the bank and got a $100 bill with “Tony” written on it

[ImReallyDirty]

“Can I borrow a dollar bill from you”

“I don’t have cash”

*looks at audience

[PlaGueRFLEX]

I love how fast they jumped up when given permission to look in the box. Once they were told there was no window they were definitely confused lol.

[jtrimble]

He's SO happy when Penn starts into the "window" frame" schtick. He knew they had it wrong right there. Great trick!