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Channel 4, 10:00 PM

Here's a short synopsis:

Psychological illusionist Derren Brown involves members of the public and celebrity guests in a fiendish version of the Halloween game. This week, having pulled a trick card, an unsuspecting man is put to sleep in a photo booth in London, only to awake in Marrakech. He also plays a game of fate with the stars on the League of Gentlemen involving chocolate mini-rolls.

Being in the US, I've got to rely on YouTube to get my fix.

Don't despair, my fellow Americans, for word on the streets is that his Sci-Fi channel special airs in July, consisting of six hour-long episodes.

Guess what I'm watching?

Channel 4.

Do you have that channel?

No.

Did i rub it in a bit too much there?

Just watched it and it was very intresting indeed. Would anyone happen to know what the razorblade in mini roll effect is called or if it is similar to any other effect

i haven't got a clue about that but i know a variation of the seat trick...but its no where as clean as that...so I'm still baffed

i'd like to know too

Do you think the participant had a choice in the card he picked at all? I mean, obviously he had a choice but do you think Derren used his mysticalness to influence the outcome?
I half wonder if the "treat" would have actually been any different. Maybe they would do exactly the same thing but call it a holiday, pretending they were being nice and doing the guy a favour.

get that one guy to be a stooge and ask he to switch the rolls.

so one is already in his pocket with the blade and then all he has to do is pick up two of them and then switch the other.

in my opinion it is stooges please vote, it would be interesting to know what people think:

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic17879.php

I may be wrong, but if you look at the trick/treat card, due to the "yee olde english" type of font used, if you reverse the trick card would it read treat, and vice versa. I only noticed this possibility because it is a concept I've been playing around with recently, mainly from reading the Dan Brown novel 'Angels and Demons' (D.Brown: Angels and Demons - D.Brown: Trick or treat...spooky!!! )

They're called ambigrams, for more info check out

http://www.johnlangdon.net/adviceonambigrams.html

Ahha! I did think about that when he held them up quickly but then thought that would be far too complicated an explanation and that there must have been a far, err, more complicated method involved.
So now we just have to wait for him to hold the card up the wrong way by accident. Can you imagine it?

"So we're going to be doing a..... treat..no wait *fumbles*...trick!!"

Don't get me wrong. I am a fan. I have his signature framed on my walls...twice :S It would just be nice to see him fail every once in a while!
Maybe thats just jealousy...

ollieinthelight wrote:Guess what I'm watching?

Channel 4.

Do you have that channel?

No.

Did i rub it in a bit too much there?

I'm green with envy...

I once tried to use a proxy to watch online, to no avail.

Hurrah, the Derren method hunting begins once more! Quite entertaining, nice to see that student's face when he woke up in Marrakesh.

As for that mini roll trick the first thing that occurred to me was that the gloves had something to do with it. That's the great thing about Derren, even if you don't get the method you get great ideas for your own routines.

Yeah, his expression was a killer! I don't know if any one has been to Marrakesh but the place he was dumped in was a square called Djemaa el Fna, the old square in the Medina, which is filled with the most intense and manic in your face acts and intrusions (like the monkeys and snakes that got put on his back), man I can't think of anywhere worse to wake up after a 13 hour catatonic daze...except perhaps Margaret Thatchers bed.

i caught the last 15 minutes of it. disapointed that it's only on for half an hour but very good anyway

krazy ace wrote:get that one guy to be a stooge and ask he to switch the rolls.

Stooges and Derren Brown don't mix. That's almost the point of his stuff.

Monk wrote:Yeah, his expression was a killer! I don't know if any one has been to Marrakesh but the place he was dumped in was a square called Djemaa el Fna, the old square in the Medina, which is filled with the most intense and manic in your face acts and intrusions (like the monkeys and snakes that got put on his back), man I can't think of anywhere worse to wake up after a 13 hour catatonic daze...except perhaps Margaret Thatchers bed.

Or a concert by Criss Angels 'rock' band?