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Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Everyone is left stunned and delighted, even though they have no idea what just hit them.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Everyone is left stunned and delighted, even though they have no idea what just hit them.
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Episode 1
In the season two premiere, 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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Episode 2
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 draws drop.
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Episode 3
Michael stretches headphone cords and reality with a mystical putty and stuns a co-worker with new bathroom technology. In the big finale, a Porta Potty becomes a Portal Potty.
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Episode 4
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. Down on the docks, one unlucky guy learns a lesson in shrinkage.
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Episode 5
Michael unearths a mutant turtle from a mystical Peruvian clay. A woman is blown away when 2 adorable bunnies become 8 and to top it off, a hapless carpenter becomes an accidental time traveler when a potent new glue has him coming undone.
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Episode 6
A miraculous liquid gives Michael the Midas touch in an eyeglass store. Later, Michael trains the new girl at a tanning salon, but things take horrifying turn when she believes she's killed her first customer.
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Episode 7
Michael's candy shop customers witness a live scorpion get freed from a lollipop and later Michael's cocktail invention has one man drunk with envy! In the big finish, a cursed mirror turns simple reflections into reality.
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Episode 8
Michael performs a revolutionary treatment that turns back time and at the farmer's market, a pungent pre-historic cheese mesmerizes one shopper's taste buds. Plus, an accident with a 3D printer has Michael meeting his match.
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Episode 9
At an office, Michael goes from suave to slacker in the blink of an eye. Then at a museum, a man discovers his painter's touch is worth thousands and at a pool club, Michael and his strange friend are in the deep end with security.
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Episode 10
Michael wows mall shoppers with snakes that sooth and spiders that stitch. At an art supply store a woman finds out that she's a natural born wood whittler. Plus, an abandoned house won't let go of its precious things.
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Episode 11
Michael helps a man realize his amazing mind powers and an art gallery's tribal mask goes missing which has the security guard fearing war.
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Episode 12
While doing scientific research, Michael makes things heavy with some otherworldly air. At a bakery, the new rolls are so light that they defy gravity. Michael then gets caught by the ultimate sand trap as a golf instructor.
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Episode 13
At a local copy shop, Michael introduces a print by hand technique and at a bait and tackle shop, he unveils the latest fish fashion trends. At an office, Michael pulls a switcheroo and the new temp has no idea who's the boss.
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Episode 14
Michael unveils the mystery behind bowling balls, and does the world's longest spit take; Shaquille O'Neal helps with a plan to blow one super-fan's mind.
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Episode 15
Michael serenades a clam while posing as a cook; a spirited trick leaves one man questioning the afterlife.
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Episode 16
When Michael opens a shocking package at a warehouse, a man goes hog wild. And while pigs may not fly, Michael proves that kittens can. One woman believes a curse has transformed a man right before her eyes.
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Episode 17
While working in an art supply store, Michael astounds a customer with a framing device, shocks a patron who can't see the whole picture and becomes a piece of art. Later, a woman goes haywire when Michael literally loses his head.
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Episode 18
While posing as a security guard, Michael turns a metal detector into a microwave, exposes a surveillance operation and finds himself in the line of fire. Later, a mover is dumbfounded when a woman rises from the ashes.
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Episode 19
Michael refreshes stale nachos and peels back the truth behind a fake bill. He also unveils the latest in cellular soda machine technology. But what will happen when he breathes life into a T-Rex?
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Episode 20
Michael serves a drink that can eat away at anything and cleanse so organic that it creates life. Later, his sneaker lacing technology shocks a customer and makes an assistant think someone has risen from the dead.
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Episode 21
Michael's tricks include a soup fit for space, odd ear wax removal and a mystic massage. Later, a mover travels through time.
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Episode 22
While working as a florist, Michael nukes petal popping flowers, sheds light on frog mutation, and turns an ant farm into a work of art.
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Episode 23
Michael loses a credit card in a series of absorbing containers. In an art store, he shakes off sloppy handwriting to reveal some fancy calligraphy. Later on, a catering assistant gets spooked when the chinaware sets itself.
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Episode 24
Michael proves chipmunks are nature's accountants; Michael stuns a museum worker by bringing a fossilized creature to life.
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Episode 25
Michael unveils a coffee making app and gets textually active with the world's thinnest disposable phone. Then he debuts a new beauty invention that turns ugly.
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Episode 26
Michael silences a traveling squeak while remodeling a home; a hospital becomes the scene of a mind-bending game of cops and robbers.
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