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Posing as a technician, Michael gets the bug out of a customer's phone and has him convinced it was in there all along. As a bartender, he makes patrons fall for a never-ending beer bottle and a shot that breaks the laws of physics.
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Posing as a cashier, Michael makes a shopper's face appear on a milk carton. But she's not missing. At a shipping store he has customers believing that impossible technology of the future has arrived.
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Posing as a thrift store employee, Michael makes shoppers believe that a real waddling duck is just a lifelike decoy. He convinces liquor store customers that some corks are made of cheese.
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Michael convinces car wash patrons that he broke their window, only to miraculously fix it with the push of a button. Dry cleaning customers are confused when Michael is suddenly wearing their clothes in the blink of an eye.
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Michael poses as a hipster at a farmers market and makes an endless supply of juice. Then things become blurry at the eye doctor, and later, shape shifting aliens send Michael's co-worker into a frenzy.
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Michael astounds dental patients with molar radio transmissions, and while appraising art, he brings an extinct species back to life. Plus, an unusual brew stirs a ghostly hallucination that will make jaws drop.
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Michael stretches headphone cords and reality with a mystical putty, stuns a coworker with new bathroom technology, and in the big finale, a Porta Potty becomes a Portal Potty, leaving a construction worker amazed.
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Working at a tattoo parlor, Michael gets some killer ink in a flash. Then, it's Snakes on a Sedan when a serpent ambushes a routine car checkup, and down on the docks, one unlucky guy learns a lesson in shrinkage.
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Michael breezes into the Windy City to shock and amaze the Chicago locals. In a health store, he sells a supplement that proves you are what you drink, and at a Metro station, he utterly derails a commuter's sense of reality.
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In a local Chicago diner, Michael brings new meaning to the term "hold the pickles." Plus, he discovers an aggressive new breed of fungus at a park, and later, he helps a co-worker disappear from work early in a hospital warehouse.
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At a market, Michael reveals an amazing credit card hack, and at a science shop, he demonstrates how far stem cell research has come. Later, Michael spooks a gardener who's certain that angry gnomes are hunting him down!
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Michael discovers a ferocious new breed of animal at a park, customers are steeped in confusion when Michael invades a local tea shop, and a woman gets her feathers ruffled at an art studio.
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Michael shocks a receptionist with a medical procedure and later reveals a regenerating piece of gum. Plus, an electrifying trick rewrites history.
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Michael shocks people at a library with a voice controlled page turner! And later, he amazes a trainee with a weightless mattress!
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Michael shows off a seashell from the seashore, that still has the seashore in it, and reveals desserts that break the mold. Plus, at a farm, Michael startles his assistant with a trick that's "out-of-this-world."
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At an antique shop, Michael finds an item with a ghostly message and later a painting lifts a nun.
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Michael flies on a kickboard at a pool store. Plus, moving day heats up for Michael's helper.
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At a book store, Michael feeds book worms. Plus, he gives new meaning to the term "grass fed beef".
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At a spice shop, "chilly flakes" give Michael the icy treatment. Later he climbs through a wormhole.
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At a daycare, Michael's aid loses more than her mind and, in a museum, a sculpture slithers away.
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Clips

Michael answers fan questions about doing tricks with kids, his love of thrift stores, and the Medusa illusion.
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Michael answers questions about poppin' pants, bubble wrap, and reveals a secret about this episode's film illusion.
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Michael answers fan questions about people who thought he was dead, real world magic and more.
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Michael gets salty with a customer who can't believe the lengths he'll go to for the perfect snack.
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A customer can't believe her eyes when Michael shows her the new, bouncier version of bubble wrap.
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About
Comedian and prankster Michael Carbonaro is back! truTV's hit series, The Carbonaro Effect, has more hilarious, mind-blowing hidden camera magic than ever before. This season, Michael’s face falls off piece by piece, he sends his assistant back in time and plays the violin without ever picking up the instrument! Whether working at a ski shop, party store, or museum, Michael’s hilarious and bewildering illusions will leave you both scratching your head and rolling with laughter!