The WORST episodes of Criss Angel Mindfreak

#1 - Burning Man

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/21/2007

Criss puts his hand through glass to retrieve a bag of chips stuck in a vending machine. Criss travels to a dude ranch where he does some levitations and other amazing acts. Criss will then take part in a right of passage which involves dangerous tricks with fire.

#2 - Nail Gun

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/6/2008

You've seen Criss catch an arrow with his bare hands. In this episode, he attempts to catch a razor-sharp nail traveling at 1400 feet per second with his bare hands.

#3 - Skeptic

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/2008

Criss invites skeptics to be part of a deadly challenge. These skeptics get to lead a blindfolded Criss to four elevator doors, one of which hides an empty shaft. Using mentalism, Criss must predict which three of the four are safe to enter. If he is wrong, he will likely fall to his death.

#4 - Building Implosion Escape

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2008

Criss loads a 9-story condominium outside Miami with explosives and attempts to escape it before it implodes.

#5 - Walk on Lake

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2008

Criss will attempt to walk on the world's largest manmade lake, Lake Mead. Criss will walk "on" and "out" more than 200 feet on the largest manmade lake in the world in front of unsuspecting bystanders and boaters.

#6 - Seance

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/30/2007

In the haunted Artisian hotel, Criss interacts with the afterlife and reveals secrets from the spirits. Along with lots of other strange phenomenon, Criss proves that he can walk on the ceiling of the hotel.

#7 - Cement Block

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/23/2007

Criss is placed in a see-through Plexiglas container that is then sealed in cement and hardened into a block. In front of thousands, Criss is lifted over five stories and given 24 hours to escape before the block crashes to earth. Criss also performs demonstrations on a construction site. He bends a giant nail, moves a hole in a washer, and does some amazing card tricks. Criss loses a bet to his bike shop friends and has to escape from a locked crate before being stabbed to death by giant forklifts.

#8 - The Kid In Criss

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/25/2007

Criss turns a little girl's Barbie into a real woman and then transforms himself back into a kid. Criss demonstrates tricks for kids from the Make-A-Wish foundation and surprises them all when he dresses as Santa Claus and makes a truck of toys appear out of nowhere.

#9 - Mentalism

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/18/2007

Criss astounds people as he tries to become a human lie detector. He also freaks out Flava Flav and Jamie Kennedy with his mind-reading. In the finale, Criss will attempt to teleport a group of people from one elevator to another.

#10 - The Loyal

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/11/2007

Criss spends time with his fans known as "The Loyal" and reads some of their letters. He will also repair a hole in a pair of jeans. Criss will host a Mindfreak trivia game show, where the winner will receive a trip to Barbados. In the finale, Criss will attempt to make a new car appear and give it away to a Loyal fan.

#11 - Underwater Car Escape

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/4/2007

The title says it all. In memory of his uncle, he will be tied in a trunk of a car and will live or meet his uncle. Also he will attempt to restore a watch after he smashes it to pieces. After Criss draws a picture, kids at the arcade get freaked out when it starts talking to them.

#12 - Rollercoaster Thru Criss

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/28/2007

Criss heads to a carnival where he makes coins appear from everywhere and completely fools a weight guesser. He attempts to have a woman crawl through him. In the finale, Criss will be tied to the tracks of a roller coaster and will have to escape before it runs him over.

#13 - Barrell Drop

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2008

Criss is handcuffed and placed in an 85-gallon drum, which is then secured in a wooden box and hoisted 100 feet above spectators. Once the box reaches its peak, the box is set to automatically release the barrel and contents, regardless if Criss has escaped or not. Criss must escape the handcuffs, barrel, and box before crashing to the ground.

#14 - Naked Jail Escape

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/14/2007

#15 - Drowned

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/7/2007

Criss tests his endurance as he attempts to escape mental institution restraints while wrapped tight in sheets, strapped on a gurney, in front of a live audience. Criss also levitates a manhole cover weighing over 100 pounds. For the first time ever, Criss runs into some serious trouble attempting one of Houdini's famous water escapes.

#16 - Sucker #2

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/2007

Criss exposes common scams and reveals the secrets of the perpetrators. Included: the methods of psychics. Also: the revelation of a word that supposedly can help people get anything they want.

#17 - Car Crash Escape

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2007

A chained Criss tries to escape from an explosives-filled car before another car crashes into it. Also: A chopper bike appears out of thin air.

#18 - Raging Bull

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2007

Criss goes door to door as a traveling salesman and keeps pulling unlikely items out of his briefcase. Then Criss will attempt to vanish himself before he gets charged by a Mexican bull.

#19 - Quad Drag Escape

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2007

After hearing that his mother needs emergency heart surgery, he has to get his mind back to his stunt, or he'll be meeting his mother in the hospital if he's lucky. His stunt of the show- escape from being bound and gagged to an ATV going at very high speeds. Can he keep his mind, body, and spirit together, or will he lose it.

#20 - Animal 2

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/26/2007

Why did the chicken cross the road? He didn't want Criss to make him dissapear. He already made an elephant dissapear. What else is there? Turn a cage handler into a tiger. Make the pachyderm (elephant) reappear. Also he'll take you into Siegfried and Roy's secret garden.

#21 - Screwed

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2007

Criss takes some of the most ordinary objects and makes them the center of the most amazing illusions. He puts a beer bottle through an onlooker's stomach and moves his friend's eyebrow to his chin. Criss transforms a little girl into an adult woman and eats his pet mouse, shocking his friend Jamie Kennedy. In the final demonstration of this episode, Criss actually balances on two upright standing screwdrivers, and then proceeds to walk on row of them while barefoot. He is then presented with the prestigious International Magician of the Year Award.

#22 - Motorhead

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2007

Criss' obsession with cars and motorcycles has been well established in previous episodes, and now Criss has some great, new illusions focused around his favorite hobby. Criss will highlight some of the sickest cars, trucks and bikes in his illusions. He morphs a Bentley into a Lamborghini, builds up to the Lambo vanish starting with high-speed go-karts, and will try to move everyday objects from one area to another while unsuspecting fans look on in awe. The finale comes when for the first time ever, Criss will vanish a moving object. While driving his Lamborghini at a high rate of speed, he defies physics by making it disappear.

#23 - Prisoner Transport Escape

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2007

Locked in a mailbag, in a truck of explosives, as it races toward the edge of a cliff. Will Criss escape, or die trying? Also, Criss will be showing off on the golf course with skills so good Tiger Wood might even envy him. The day wouldn't be complete without some of Criss' trademark levitation skills.

#24 - Steamroller

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/12/2007

Criss lies on a bed of broken glass while a steamroller rolls over him. Later, Criss will make a beautiful woman appear from a box of merchandise. He also does some of his street magic, where he bends a quarter using his mouth and makes a card appear in a lit cigar.

#25 - Car Wreck Vanish

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/24/2008

Criss is handcuffed inside a car that's filled with explosives and racing downhill toward a cliff. Will Criss escape in time--or will this road trip end with Criss becoming road kill?