Harlan on Fool Us

[@junrama1148]

That trophy is nothing but Penn's reaction after you fooled him. Thats priceless

[@dickieradd]

If you see Penn's tongue, you won.

[@BTFOOMNY]

Amazing. When you can fool them, and have Penn just stand there looking stunned, going "Wow" over and over, you have accomplished something.

[@PRdeSO]

Because when you know the versions sold in magic shops you really don't expect what Dan did on the show.

[@JamesWiseMagic]

Penn got to experience what it was like to be a little kid again at the end. Seeing Dan show him the cards and then him inspecting the cards themselves, he was like a kid in a candy store, just blown away haha

[@rhettorical]

The original is one of the first tricks I learned as a kid, and it's still one of my favorites. Simple, yet elegant, and always gets a smile out of people. How you managed to make it look like the exact same routine but with an obviously different method is incredible.

[@frednimzowi9852]

I know the original method as well, and I'm m like Penn,wow, wow, wow,... Because the way he does it here, it looks like it's a force, but obviously, the way he made the public choose the card, it was not. Wow

[@SLA2014]

@@frednimzowi9852how did he do it?

[@cyrex6519]

@@SLA2014 I would like to know as well.

[@Zolpi1234]

@@frednimzowi9852 It is a force. The "random" people in the audience has microphones and the camera is on them at the first toss. It's scripted.

[@frednimzowi9852]

@@SLA2014 if you meant the original method, you can look for example Jamie Raven perform it on BGT, then search for a revealed video. How it was performed here, I don't know.

[@keesn1307]

Man i have never seen penn so amazed! Awsome job!

[@MrLunchHour2]

It’s such a popular trick I perform it a lot. but god damn only one of them having the card drawn on is absolutely insane. Amazing sleight of hand

[@samtheman4307]

There's on were both are stunned and didn't see it coming at all, the magician was Mathieu Bich and it was epic.

[@momchilandonov]

2:35 nasty cut with reach under the table, but still no idea how this amazing trick is done. :)

[@RODGERGRUMMIDGE]

I love the craftsmanship in the table. I think I saw something like it in the index of a catalogue. I should have taken one!

[@mikmop]

I would have thought the index would have been in his jacket pocket. That's where they traditionally are kept. Though yeah, a table index is a possibility

[@bartholomewsimpson6584]

One of my all time favorite tricks to watch and to perform from one of my all time favorite inventors and performers. Well done on the invention and on getting the FU trophy!

[@richardsmith9289]

As Pen said, he's known this for many years as I have owned it as well ... but then Dan has a twist to it and fools us ...class act 👏👏👏

[@RufioRush]

This was such a showcase of a LEGIT pro vs magicians who are simply good. Dan Harlan is effortless in everything he does. He not only played that crowd like a fiddle but Penn and Teller too. What an inspiration to anyone who performs.

[@DjNuggetKanal]

I still come over here to watch my fav Fool Us performance once a while

[@bibiboi07]

Dan Harlan Man, one of the best creators in the game. 🃏

[@PinkNinjaKick]

This might be my favorite trick now

[@x1r1y]

Dude I just can’t get enough of this

[@MattTrevett]

Do I understand that those are the only 52 cards you brought into the trick? If so, that is amazing.. thanks for sharing this with us.

[@robertdegrandis5180]

Great magician and great personality. Not to forget, a very good trick.

[@lane99]

DanHarlan, you would have no idea have much you've done for me. I owe you.

[@davesheppard8797]

This was the first trick I ever bought after my friend showed it to me and I was amazed!! Now of course there is the later version which is even better called Cardtoon remastered as well as Cardtoon 2. Dave.

[@joelspence2011]

amazing love it dan

[@gEtar87]

If you watch at 0.25x speed in HD, you can see that you will be blown away by this pure magic! You sir, could misdirect the devil himself!

[@microchannel377]

Cool trick. That Trophy is a really big score. Going in front of Penn and Teller takes a bit of nerve so I have to compliment you on that as well. 😎

[@marfdasko]

Why is there a cut at 2:35?

[@DustinPlatt]

Pause at 3:15 and play at 0.50x speed the card before the chosen card has two X's at the top of the card, where the drawing is, and then the next card is the chosen card. All he has to do is switch one card. He can draw 52 of the same images but with the guy holding a different card and easily switch the card with whatever he has behind his table. It's pretty easy to have them labeled and easily accessed. The drawing at the end doesn't have to be perfect, as far as how the stick figure is drawn out because of that card before it. Our eyes/brain fill in the blanks. Or if he doesn't have the 52 cards by his table, he can easily have them on himself. Also, also, if he's forcing the 10 of hearts, then it really still doesn't matter. Also, also, also. I have no idea. I'm not a neurological astronaut helicopter pilot.

[@boonkiathan]

There's only 26 choices , 26 sets of 2 cards which he lifts 2 at a time. Next to the target the 10 hearts is another card whose back is a cartoon holding that card.. slot to end.invert that card swop it in to form the animation.

[@plexyglass429]

This trick is AMAZING to perform for magicians

[@WeCantBeSeen]

WOW. How is it done?

[@familylove5412]

WOWWWW

[@PhilippBoettcher]

How could they - even for one second - think that you would perform a trick they could buy? And you can tell how happy they where to find out you did not.

[@edzeppelin1984]

Apparently the producers of the show insisted he did that trick if he wanted to come on, so he was forced to come up with a whole new method.

[@sdsign4229]

@@edzeppelin1984 I guess the producers knew that Penn especially loved that particular trick, as he said, so in response, Dan decided to kick it up a notch :)

[@freemagicfun]

Odd thing is, they have been fooled by commercially available tricks. Even his daughter Moxie fooled them with a trick deck that has been out over 10 years. 😎

[@x1r1y]

Wowwwwww indeed

[@l33tygr36]

the "twist" is about the table, right (?) of course he could do it even with the sleeve though but I guess that's it. really ingenious and "world class" trick .. amazing one.

[@georgri]

The trick could be the 3 people in the audience. The subtle genius part of it is using your assumption that the white guy couldn't collaborate with the 2 black girls.

[@hugjuffs]

How was the audience mic'd up?

[@Evan_Horvath]

They use a process called, "video editing," whereby they actually "edit" the video so you don't see that portion. It's actually pre-recorded, and not a live broadcast, so the parts of the show that aren't interesting or entertaining, such as stopping to mic the audience during the performance can be edited out by the aforementioned process, so that what you see is a seamless, streamlined experience. Fascinating, I know!

[@tonyp.5718]

I still don’t understand exactly why he got so excited. I watched it so many times, he knew the trick obviously but Harlan did something different? Can someone please explain this to me, what did he do to make him say wow so many times

[@MagicDanHarlan]

Penn & Teller thought I was performing my "off-the-shelf" trick Card-Toon. So, they were quite surprised when I showed that the deck of cards contained none of the typical preparation required to perform my effect. That is all I can tell you.

[@tonyp.5718]

@@MagicDanHarlan thank you for clearing this up!

[@KhanakJoshi]

Look at Penn....he seems so surprised

[@24magiccarrot]

I didn't know Rob Van Dam could do magic.

[@nibiru379]

Really??? You never seen his 5 star Frog Splash? That's magic

[@Johnkiernanmusic]

The whole F’n fooler?

[@BPEJS24-7]

I was watching a magic show on TV one night and they shot to one person in the crowd and it was RVD. No mention of his name but it was definitely him.

[@pabloveloso7736]

This trick is awesome and the reaction of Teller is ameazing. But the edition on the video make it feel clunky.

[@christophb2736]

Really brilliant, Dan! You obviously did a trick different from the well known trick you invented in the first place. And then used the knowledge of the original trick to misdirect Penn & Teller.

[@Shed_v2]

literally just said everything that happened

[@SerendipityChild]

😊 disguising a new trick as an old trick you're well known for inventing .. that's some impressive metagaming right there.

[@tytjapan]

i think “that thing” he threw over audience have one card inside of it. and it can write anything he wants on that card so he wrote 10 of ♥️ on it. slide of hand. he just need one card to show. other all are same for all cards.

[@pargyropoulos]

this is the real magic

[@Rishikumarnaidu24354]

U can learn this on 2019 holiday special with scott and dan

[@ie995]

scott looks pissed

[@Famezonen]

RVD?

[@Grant-H2O]

i have the bicycle version with the cannon i got at the magic shop last week. HOW and WWWOOOOWWW

[@Gary_Hun]

Maybe it's that i'm completely oblivious about the origins of this trick... maybe it was the snappy editing... but it took me a really long time to actually understand what's the fuss about, what's the big reveal supposedly at the end. So they suspected that the previously hidden upper halves of the cards each hold a graphic for all the other cards besides the ten of hearts? That would be a clever compact way to do the trick, but i personally never suspected that, but a simple insertion of an extra card with the right graphic. So he was awarded because he choose a less elegant approach?

[@philrose6226]

Kind of, Dan harlem invented cardtoon and you can by it in magic stores everywhere, it's been a best seller for years, so pretty much everybody in the magic community own it and know the og method. On the show Dan used a different method, but made it look identical to the og. So Penn and teller were completely suckered, watching his moves they would be thinking oh yeah there it is, the secret move, he's just doing cardtoon that we all know.

[@persianprince8081]

I picked the number 10 as well

[@x1r1y]

All that show is for penn and teller to feel what they felt right here

[@h-sunstreetmagician1416]

Dan harlan , would you please give us a tutorial on this new handling at penguin magic ?

[@unknownuser4887]

Yeah. That would be highly appreciated. I looked in the discussion of Card Toon on your site but couldn't find anything. Any chances to get some clues?

[@ollcanoe]

He revealed this handling in a lecture

[@Adam1984_]

@@ollcanoe Where is this lecture?

[@ollcanoe]

It's in the 2018 Penguin LIVE Holiday Spectacular

[@groznyentertainment]

I know how he did this, its genius, but not fair how the clip was edited to hide few extra moves

[@iamchuchainzz]

Heyyy I found it!!!!

[@nenad-seguljev]

5:04

[@ziyaaddhorat6036]

How did you do it? Please reply

[@markhorton3994]

How much is it worth to you? Mr. Harlan makes his living inventing tricks and selling the secret.

[@Enoch_Owl]

Unfortunately because of the internet there are no secrets anymore. If you want it you can find the answer somewhere online. I prefer to not know. Although sometimes when you do have the answers it makes you appreciate the "trick" even more and for different reasons.

[@clandestino69]

2:35 - he slips in the last card under the deck. Probably from a mekanism inside the table. The way he touches the table when talking to the audience members is somehow giving instructions to the machine.

[@markhorton3994]

If that was how he did it he would not have fooled Penn

[@mercedeswilkins9085]

@@markhorton3994 or teller

[@dickieradd]

There is a huge camera edit there, and then after that he proceeds to flip the 10 hearts multiple times unnecessarily, probably double lifts. My only guess is that during the camera edit, he did retrieve the one final cartoon card revealing the 10 hearts under the table. Retrieving from his pocket while putting the stuffed animal back in would work too, but that would've required 52 pockets. So i agree with you, the single cartoon card showing 10 hearts came from under the table and was worked into the bottom of the deck. I bet the move was smooth, so idk why they edited it away. Still tho, if Teller watched this and didn't see it happen, then it means this guy is genius, and he is.

[@DustinPlatt]

Damn. I hate mekanismz.

[@CherrySeeds2118]

​@@markhorton3994Mostly because of the fact they werent expecting a different method for cardtoon

[@vilespecter]

I watch this one just for Penn's reaction

[@user-zg1ep1ex2b]

*THY ARE THEE CREATOR Of This Amazing Trick* 🤗 *By The Way Nice Toss Of Mr. BONES* 😊 *I Saw Videos Of Copycats Doing This Trick With Combination Of All Cards In The Deck 🤔 But You Created A 10💔 And Wiped The Smirk Off From Penns Face As He Saw This Trick Several Times & Thought He Cracked The Code 😂 You Are An Ultimate Wizard* 🤗

[@Beastt.]

the probability of this trick is 1 out of 52

[@sparkle935]

The force card and deck change was amazing 🎈🎉

[@TreigusPereira]

what was the deck change?

[@JoeKentMagic]

Deck switch is impractical ... you'd have to have 52 decks to do that

[@matthewminsberg5754]

@@JoeKentMagic you would just need 2 decks

[@magictomi8433]

😂😂😂😂

[@Rishikumarnaidu24354]

I think the upper view camera man knows the secret dan 😂😂 like if understand what i am saying

[@agentlesoul1975]

A great trick. But there is only one solution to this. I won’t say it but it’s still excellent.

[@krapsman882]

Isn't it the same normal trick but he changes the deck to another one with normal drawing after the card is revealed?

[@nathasion9556]

@@krapsman882 probably but the issue is we can't see when!!

[@polhikkii]

I disagree with removing penns code but good trick

[@markhorton3994]

What code? Dan Harlan invented the trick it looked like he did. Penn knows that and Dan Harlan knows he does. It was a DIFFERENT trick.

[@polhikkii]

@@markhorton3994 Penn said more in the show than the editing in this version shows. He spoke to Harlan in code about the act itself, before he responded that he could indeed check the cards.

[@lordbargoth4892]

@@markhorton3994 He was talking about "going to the movies" which is code for marked cards.

[@markhorton3994]

@@lordbargoth4892 Thank you,. I didn't know that.

[@galkanftw]

Acts using the camera angle are so weak and Penn n Teller know exactly what is going on.With the camera flipping all over there is no way to see what is going on and for that matter using the audience doesn't cut it because they could have easily been planted especially since he only tosses the doll once because more than once leaves room for error.

[@JunjundeGuzman-cl9xm]

Stooge, stooge, stooge and stooge

[@CherrySeeds2118]

You aren’t allowed to use stooges on fool us

[@Busher50]

I don't like the way the audience is chosen.

[@markhorton3994]

It was fair and random.

[@newmoment3654]

@@markhorton3994 Seems like it was thrown straight to that girl who caught it.

[@markhorton3994]

@@newmoment3654 Could be but FU prohibits plants, stooges or any variation of that. Maybe she looked good to the thrower.

[@plexyglass429]

It was simply a way to draw out a simple trick

[@mgdiaz2158]

Why all the ass kissing by teller for a simple trick? I have that trick, not so hard to do. Kind of strange.

[@MisterNightfish]

Because it uses a different method, apparantly, and they didn't know what that was.

[@65hilary48]

If you have that trick, then you should be able to tell that he's not doing it by the usual method. Also the usual method might not be hard to perform, but he designed that trick in the first place which takes a hell of a lot of creativity and intelligence. So yeah, ass kissing is appropriate if you ask me.

[@markhorton3994]

Dan Harlan invented that trick. When you bought that trick Dan Harlan got a small piece of the money. So when he did what looked exactly like that trick then showed that it was something else it was like getting hit in the head by a sledgehammer. Seeing Penn with his mouth hanging open tells the tale.

[@theeboseissher]

ok smartass, if you really had the trick, you'd know why they were so surprised at the end 🤦‍♂️

[@goldeneddie]

Wow, you've missed the whole point somehow. If you have that trick, you should know that it has more than just ONE card to reveal. Did you watch the video? It's a completely different method! Try watching again rather than thinking it's 'strange' that 2 of the smartest magicians in the world were fooled!

[@nicpicot2297]

rubbish what is wrong with P&T!!!it's obvious what he did.....you can see what he does

[@bekkerofficial7504]

so what did he do?

[@mellamojeff458]

So can you respond with the method or are you just gonna ignore the request?

[@nicpicot2297]

@@mellamojeff458 which method?

[@nicpicot2297]

@@mellamojeff458 I will watch it again. But I cannot tell you for nothing it is against the rules.