Grilka

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Lisa apprentices to a magician, only to reveal the secret to his biggest trick to his competitor; Marge overdoes it with peach recipes.

Grilka

I noticed in the credits that Teller, from Penn and Teller, was the magic consultant. I didn't even check if that was actually his voice too.

22 Umbrellas

I really liked this episode, and I love stage magic so I had high hopes. Also, any opportunity to poke fun at Criss Angel is fine by me.

There were also some nice Homer & Lisa scenes (love when he said that line about nobody hurting his female children) and also I liked the bit with Nelson telling God that Lisa better make it out of the trick alive.

The peach thing was a little random, and it was basically over in the first 5 minutes. But I was a minute late so I have to go back and rewatch the beginning.

Grilka

Nelson specifically said "my Lisa"

Craig Demon was a great parody of Criss Angel, though I can't picture Criss with a son.

Who was the first magician in the group? I heard David Copperfield and Penn and Teller.

Fastbak

Loved this episode. I had to find out in another board that Martin Landau was the old magician.

Sincerely, Me.

The nelson line and the homer/lisa scenes were the highlights of the episode for me. Overall it was pretty good.

Grilka

I forgot Martin Landau was still alive.

22 Umbrellas

I always watch TV with the closed captioning, and they actually spelled Craig Demon as "Cregg Demon" which made it even better.

Does anyone know why this episode didn't have an opening and couch gag? Was it too long?

Grilka

Oh that's funny about the closed captioning of Cregg Demon. As for the missing opening sequence and couch gag, I assume that the episode content ran long. So instead of cutting out scenes in the episode, they cut out the beginning.

JustMe2000

Ricky Jay, who has also acted a number of David Mamet movies.

This was a funny episode. The parody of Criss Angel was pretty vicious (no complaints from me), and Martin Landau was terrific as the old age. I also loved the bit at the end with his character taking one more hit of ether so he could dance with his wife.

Homer had some great stuff in this episode. Loved his line in his vision about a "stupid Flanders like me" as well as his line about raising three kids in this economy being the real magic.

Grilka

It would have been just as funny if Homer said "stupid sexy Flanders".

22 Umbrellas

The first thing this episode reminded me of was actually the Supernatural episode called "Criss Angel is a Douchebag." He seems to make himself an easy target for that sort of thing. Incidentally, his father owned a doughnut shop, so Homer would probably like him.

I just love that they did an episode based around stage magic in this day and age. I loved it as a kid and still do. I used to watch the broadcasts on TV and I had them recorded on tapes that I would re-watch over and over. But it seems like the popularity of it has waned since the "masked magician" basically gave away all their secrets.

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