Phone-y Business

Phone-y Business is the first episode of the second season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

Featured Magicians

 * Jon Armstrong
 * Xavier Mortimer
 * The Shocker
 * Steven Brundage (fooler)

Penn & Teller Effect
Teller invites an assistant onstage with a cell phone. He has the assistant's wife call the assistant's phone so that they could memorize the ringtone. Penn borrows the phone and begins to take video of himself and Teller. They planned to perform the trick with the phone camera at an exposed angle so that they could go home and watch the video to see how they did the trick. A cardboard cutout of Criss Angel is then bought out and Penn has the assistant stand next to the Criss Angel cutout so that he could get a picture of it while recording. Teller goes offstage and Penn puts the spectator's phone in a styrofoam cup. Teller walks back onstage behind the spectator with a bucket. Penn then throws the phone from the cup to the bucket Teller was holding. This is seen by only the audience and not the spectator. The bucket is bought high up above the stage. Penn closes the cup with the spectator believing that the phone is still in there. He stomps on it and the phone, to the spectator, has vanished. Penn has the assistant call the phone and they hear the ringtone. A woman finds a box under her chair with the ringtone coming out of it. It is passed down to the stage. The box's plastic is taken off and then, the box is opened. Inside it is a fish. Teller slices the fish's head off and inside it, wrapped in plastic, was the assistant's phone, ringing.