The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon figures out Howard's magic trick

Season 4 Episode 18 "The Prestidigitation Approximation"
Howard has been doing a "magic" trick that drives Sheldon insane, because he couldn't figure it out. Now, he finally came up with a solution.
(You'll see Howard's trick towards the end of the video)

[@DawoudKringle]

I think that nobody enjoyed torturing Sheldon more than Howard. And he was really good at it.

[@divineray7822]

Well someone had to do it

[@rebecccliff1532]

Hello

[@rebecccliff1532]

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[@byungkyup]

but he doesn't even have a PhD!

[@paulbeardsley4095]

I was going to like your post but it has 666 likes so I’ll leave it for now.

[@CaptainVideo100]

"Excuse me. I'm getting a text message completely unrelated to this magic trick" LOL! Jim Parsons is hilarious!

[@chrispile3878]

You realize he's just reading his lines? Someone else wrote them?

[@andyriggs6613]

His name is Sheldon Cooper

[@IceWarrior101]

Yeah... it's a funny line but he didn't write it lol

[@Sriram-no1wl]

He is

[@user-kb1dw9kg9j]

why is that hilarious tho

[@sammyeagleson5352]

"the wand is called showmanship ... and the beep is none of your business!" That part always makes me laugh the hardest😆😆😆

[@sidhaarthln6914]

I said tada, shows over. I've got a text message completely unrelated to this. :d

[@mr.pineapple222]

@@sidhaarthln6914 hahahahaha 😂😂😂

[@Milesco]

Not suspicious at all! 😁

[@HariSeldon913]

He had me completely fooled. I thought the wand was an RFID reader and there was a chip in the card.

[@Megaman624705]

exactly hasn't sheldon ever suspected that they could lie about it

[@It4int0ver]

He suspected it before as he had Howard do the trick with him

[@mg6240]

@@It4int0ver loved rajs originality there (or the script writers) stroked 2 fingers across his heart

[@KeiwaM]

the best part of this entire thing is that if Sheldon had just taken a moment and looked at the card Raj threw down, he would have busted it, but he was so desperate to undermine Howard that he just missed the most obvious solution - the crowd being in on it.

[@saikiranalvala502]

he can't lie...and he doesn't think others will lie too...he's too pure in that way🤣🤣poor shelly

[@anisurrahman8246]

@@saikiranalvala502 he can lie ..very elaborately infact

[@Toshinegawa]

@@anisurrahman8246 precisely, like when he turned Leonard's lie to Penny from simple to completely overboard 😅

[@youmustcreateachanne]

@@anisurrahman8246 "When I try to deceive, I myself have more nervous tics than a Lyme disease research facility."

[@rayg6497]

Except he did lie. He said that the text was about his dry cleaning.

[@jackysung7128]

I like to appreciate what Sheldon did in an engineering perspective, it seems simple enough but it involves a lot of process before Sheldon saw the message on his phone

[@TheTutvids]

LOL at the way sheldon looks at raj when he explaines sheldons trick

[@stevenscottoddballz]

"I said, 'Ta-da. Show's over."

[@yan_nai]

I wonder why Sheldon didn't check Raj's card after that. Haha.

[@butcherboy2008]

The technical term for this kind of trick is called a "gaslight" and the technical term for Penny and Raj is "shill."

[@Hellspooned2]

I call it karma

[@Sabrina-sc1db]

It's "trolling"

[@bigbob1699]

The term for Sheldon is wood chipper fodder .

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Hahaha Good one.

[@alceusrydan6237]

If it’s only the card trick then it’s not gaslighting. If it’s multiple things and with intention to mess with Sheldon or confuse him then yes it’s gaslighting.

[@probro9898]

I have the same attitude towards conjuring tricks as Sheldon. When I don't know how it's done it drives me mad. If I ever find out it's always "Huh, is that all it was?"

[@XJIcequeen]

ROFL! Oh man! Thus is too good! I think the real trick is making Sheldon go crazy over this!

[@maigretus1]

LOL! This reminds me of something Teller (of Penn & Teller) once wrote in Reader's Digest. One of the principles of magic is to make the preparation of your trick so elaborate that nobody would believe you'd go to the trouble.

[@TubenIt83]

Teller? I think you mean Amy Farrah Fowler’s father!

[@maigretus1]

@@TubenIt83 Well, this scene predates Amy being introduced on the show.

[@roninnib6635]

@@maigretus1 she still existed

[@duttakunal82]

I love these clips from the older seasons..

[@brandonkashinsky9222]

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo with the wand 😂😂

[@pbm650]

Sheldon is like sweet innocent boy with brilliant mind...

[@princesssunrays]

No lol he can be a real jerk

[@vyasanh2010]

Sheldon is a bully. If I was Leonard, I would have kicked Sheldon's ass.

[@rikusalenius4265]

@@vyasanh2010 like you could have sheldon is bigger than leonard.

[@vyasanh2010]

@@rikusalenius4265 It doesn't matter if Sheldon is bigger. He's a pussy when it comes to physical confrontation. He's scared of fucking chickens. Lol.

[@rikusalenius4265]

@@vyasanh2010 and leonard isnt still its shown that sheldon is the strongest of the guys not just biggest also he is smartest.

[@THEBATOKE]

1:08 inner him be like 😂😂 I'll dip you in ocean until O2 runs out like the facts out of my brain

[@CarlosRomeroFilosofia]

"The wand is called 'showmanship' and the beep is none of your business."

[@ZiaRDS]

He really thought he fooled them 😂😂😂

[@Kooka1000]

Jim Parson is one of the best actors of all time ! OMG

[@chrispile3878]

Oh, yeah - Lawrence Olivier and Marlon Brando are shaking in their boots.

[@bond_the_man]

1:26 " 3 of clubs " lmao

[@forest9rab]

I watched this ten times or more!!!and it makes me burst into laugh ten time or more!!

[@ysejaly]

I love how all of them are in on it!

[@estebanbr7596]

To be fair you can programm the wand without the beep.

[@iunjouihoiunjkmiu7h]

It wouldn't be as funny.

[@bascas715]

"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" hahahahahaha that was hilarious

[@ytgurlii]

0:49 haha sheldon makes a noise when he says "completely" LOL

[@bradenlewis773]

“That’s it! I’m getting uranium!”

[@gondola1able]

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo... BEEP!! XD

[@McFrozenNuggets]

Bibbodi-bobbodi-boo. Bibbodi-bobbidi-BOO-YA!!

[@husamstarxin4626]

I think this might be a reference to Dragon Ball Z.

[@Y0utub3me]

this is one of my favorite parts of bbt ever

[@MulToyVerse]

Wouldn't that be, "Bippidy Boppidy Bazinga?"

[@ToughFilTSK79]

Sheldon's face at 1:08 :D hahaha!

[@johnboehmer8604]

Sheldon thinks it was a clever ploy

[@vlla9483]

this is how low sheldon look on everyone else, showed an eletronic trick to an engineer, yes tricky indeed

[@theman1412]

I like how Raj basically shut up Sheldon

[@GaudyMarko]

honestly thats a pretty decent take on the trick

[@abenzdev]

His facial expression is just awesome...... :D

[@kaustubhsalunke7619]

In which season is this episode and which one?

[@XaviRonaldo0]

He's so smart he never demands to see the card...

[@NitsP2208]

I still remember the first time I watched this & when Sheldon said Beebity babbity boo. I literally fell down laughing from my bed. Ah ! Good Ol' days😭😭

[@apurvpatani]

he fucking scanned, SCANNED lmaooooooo

[@siddharthchhajed]

One of my Fav episode

[@stevarino1989]

Sheldon has the same text tone I have. XD

[@kermitlikesmemes3773]

My favorite part when he says that's it I am getting uranium

[@liquidmang]

I'd love to know where that Laugh Track is from. Its 🔥

[@crazyformusic23]

hahaha!!! i missed this one! ugh! and this is so funny!

[@Splattertube]

This show is becoming iconic. This is one of those scenes that most everyone knows, and it's still funny.

[@searchingforfoodonyoutube2500]

It was iconic till 2012 I think

[@gogetter7963]

Bibidi bobidi boo 🤣

[@TheTomWarp]

OMG I was actually thinking of the 5 of Spades :D

[@Russell_Rieckenberg]

I was thinking of getting something to eat.

[@motownbo9396]

Howard and Raj really "ran one" on Sheldon. They had him so focused on the card in their right hands that he didn't notice them "stealing his thunder" with their left hands.

[@rav3style]

Not even that, the card was a king of diamonds

[@stargazer7644]

What?

[@lostNxbox29]

Raj just agreed with whatever Howard called because Sheldon could never conceive that both people were in on it and he was the mark which is actually how most magic works

[@stquatro]

Bippity Boppity Bazinga!

[@jeremygolding5281]

That’s it, I’m getting uranium. Hysterical.

[@caileanm2009]

@Megaman624705 threw out the TBBT series Sheldon has shown both a great mind and a child like behaviour. I think it's this inner child that sheldon has that stops him from seeing the truth like another child who first sees Magic

[@SimpleJars]

1:33 "Bibbidi bobbidi boo-ya!" (LOL!) 1:22 On that part, the card Raj picked was actually King of Diamonds. I don't know why Raj didn't tell Howard which card he really picked up on 1:45 or at the end before we see the atoms.

[@akhilm9851]

They were just messing with sheldon

[@lightyagami7678]

Bibidi Babidi Boo. Beep!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@simplegirl265]

Weirdly, I got a text the same time Sheldon did

[@Saurabhyadav-lo8oj]

Was it too related to the card ?😂

[@declangrieves2579]

"The beep is not of your business"

[@prateekbirthal9649]

Well Sheldon has eidetic memory so he could just remember the sequence of the cards

[@anisurrahman8246]

The makers forgot about that talent of his

[@NguyenDung-bx8vu]

He also so need a figurative mind since it’s not just purely human-can-read information

[@babystephena3773]

But he has to shuffle the deck before someone could pick a card so the sequencing would change..

[@Senny_V]

Not if he shuffles it.

[@SilWinder]

this part was epic!

[@sayansaha9080]

Sheldons trick would have worked if he had used a smart watch to read the text message instead of his cell phone

[@OHCAM5]

he would have said the same thing if his watch vibrated instead of his phone

[@sayansaha9080]

@@OHCAM5 Yeah you r probably right, what he needs most is people skills and showmanship

[@jeffreysmith236]

The cards are clearly marked with a bar code, so no it would not work. It would take a UV bar code and the reader needs to be something concealed or very ordinary and typical.

[@anijanblue]

I'm getting uranium 😂

[@rohitbhushan8855]

I don't understand why Sheldon didn't pick up the card to see right after Raj kept it back on the table.

[@BEESU]

No, Uranium!

[@TyTimeIsAwesome]

they are ALWAYS eating good food in this show.

[@ZoMbZascension]

the food looks delicious :0

[@likecnsnnts]

They're using Penn & Teller's 3 of Clubs tell!

[@anthonybelanger809]

Bippity boppity bazinga

[@FearFearsMe]

Could he have possibly made the beep disabled and it would take them a little longer to figure out his trick.

[@andrewmwells9606]

The trick changes over the course of the episode, Howard shows a card at the start but he's presumed to have psychic abilities by the end!!

[@Bob-lm2ey]

“Excuse me, I’m getting a text message completely unrelated to this magic trick.” Sheldon you are a terrible actor!

[@SailorYue]

It takes a great actor to pretend to be a terrible one

[@hazardgaminghg122]

Are you dumb?

[@SailorYue]

@@hazardgaminghg122 what? I was making a joke?

[@pargatsingh5261]

Sheldon might be a terrible actor but not Jim Parson

[@northchurch753]

That card definitely wasn't the three of clubs, so I'm pretty sure Raj and Howard just did that to fuck with him 😂😂😂

[@myfootonyourneck]

Sheldon got pwned

[@bonds927]

Is anyone else worried Sheldon might actually be getting uranium

[@BubblyPhoebe5]

Uploaded day after my birthday!!!!xx:)

[@jcmee91]

As smart as Sheldon is it surprises me that he never thought to validate Raj’s card.

[@manthofanibro5870]

Sheldon character is pure. So he never lie and don't think another will do. It's hard for him to know people is lie even if the people really easy to guess

[@frozenyogurtdanimation3124]

Bipity bopity boop

[@misscutecupcakebunny]

poor sheldon

[@johncerpa3782]

this is so funny lmfao

[@thedavecorp]

Bazinga!

[@tanaybachwani6892]

The way he said bippety bappeti buu😂😂😂😂😂

[@cmhan3244]

霍仔和拉兹跟小谢在一起，学会了更耐心🥰🥰🥰

[@cmhan3244]

看见他气急败坏，真的好喜欢啊

[@justincoleman3805]

Hey it’s the knight from Garden State

[@TimpBizkit]

King of diamonds

[@lyndaek99]

I'm getting Uranium

[@Qvn24]

so epic man... HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[@joshswafford6837]

"three of clubs" (audience sees the card on camera ... King of Diamonds) seen at the 01:24 to 01:26 mark

[@tylerleliechristian4109]

Wait a minute Howard has no magic trick he was just screwing around with him

[@krisgordon3116]

Getting Uranium didn't work out when he wanted to build a reactor so why would it work now?

[@junietwoknees]

Sheldon why are you in teran?

[@soutiroy1754]

But that was king of diamonds

[@pisces2569]

But that was a king of diamonds

[@BrocktonLazarus3397]

They're just tricking Sheldon into thinking it's real

[@husamstarxin4626]

I think 0:27 might be a reference to Dragon Ball Z and magin buu

[@OHCAM5]

no

[@chins2009]

nice legs at 1:11 bipitibapitiboo

[@arcadegamer117]

TheLemy94 i know how you feel dude.

[@skashleey]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA! love it!!!

[@ResettisReplicas]

How did Sheldon never think to ask if he could pick a card?

[@kristalann5151]

At one point in the episode, he does. However Raj, who is sitting next to him, scratches his chest with two fingers over his heart to signal to Howard that it was the two of hearts.

[@ROHIT_9]

1:11 1:29 :F

[@roci_s]

0:34 .... he makes being adorable easy ♥

[@jamesons_crafts]

beepdy baapdy du! :D :D: D

[@ThisIsKiki1]

Hilarious!