The BEST episodes of The Carbonaro Effect season 1
Every episode of The Carbonaro Effect season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carbonaro Effect season 1!
Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. In this show, 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.
#1 - Just a Milker
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/4/2014
Michael fishes for trouble in a toy store with pop-up books that contain live animals and, at a health food store, he makes a woman's day by showing her how to milk almonds. Later, a mummy causes an employee to question ancient curses.
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#2 - Just During the Previews
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/13/2014
Michael tests gravity when he floats the idea of astronaut snacks; his darkness-triggering popcorn is too newfangled for one movie goer; and he astonishes an antique store employee with glass figurines that feel emotion and repair themselves!
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#3 - This is Not an Orange
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/6/2014
Surprising shoppers with items featuring hidden compartments; a raft in a pill; a new way to levitate.
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#4 - A Faux Pas to Wear
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/27/2014
Michael stuns shoppers at a thrift mart with a remarkably advanced antique that self-tailors clothes and a chalkboard that solves mathematical equations. And at a hardware store, a DIYer is left questioning the intelligence of beetles that follow blueprints and unscrew nuts and bolts. Plus, one woman is shocked and bewildered when Michael disappears and reappears before her very eyes.
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#5 - In Case What?!
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/20/2014
Michael stumps a delivery man by pulling live crabs out of a Chinese food order and leaves a mother and daughter in disbelief by using a spinning bowl to extract peanuts from candy. Plus, he puts one man in a serious ethical dilemma.
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#6 - Might be Trippin'
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/18/2014
Filling in as a karate instructor, Michael disrupts the Zen of his student with skills that literally lift him off the ground, and at a toy store, Michael's frog necklace is so fashionably realistic that it has one little girl begging for a new pet. Then at a military outfitting store, Michael and an employee put together a clothing display that puts the "man" in mannequin.
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#7 - Suburban Pimp
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/11/2014
Michael gets spooky at an antique store with a vintage voodoo doll and, at a costume store, a Dorothy outfit comes complete with a little dog too. Then, at an arcade, the atmosphere turns from fun to freaky for an employee when Michael gets "zapped" from one game to the next.
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#8 - An Elevated Ferret Alert
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/24/2014
Michael poses as an interior designer and makes a staircase disappear. At a car wash, Michael uses a unique method to retrieve keys that were locked in a car, and horrifies a woman who does not want new furry friends.
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#10 - Maybe it's the Echinacea?
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2014
Michael sells customers on the novelty of pets that can hatch out of balloons, and convinces a hotel valet that he can park a car without even sitting in the driver's seat.
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#11 - Out of Bounce
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/29/2014
Michael convinces customers to buy toys that couldn't possibly exist, like bubbles that turn into Christmas ornaments when you catch them. Then, as a personal trainer, he makes a client think he actually sweat enough to fill a bucket. Plus, a security guard panics when Michael makes a car disappear on his watch.
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#13 - Serious Déjà Vu
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/2014
Posing as a bartender, Michael refutes distillation while turning water into liquor. Then, Michael blows the minds of customers in a coffee shop, and gives a man déjà vu.
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#14 - A Waddle, a Scratch...
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/15/2014
Posing as a thrift store employee, Michael makes shoppers believe that a real waddling duck is just a lifelike decoy and confuses clerks with a never-ending chain of hangers. Then, he convinces liquor store customers that some corks are made of cheese and a wine can freeze on command. Plus, in a museum he shocks a gullible new employee by destroying a priceless piece then impossibly reconstructing it.
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#15 - Just Smash It Out
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/22/2014
Michael convinces car wash patrons that he broke their window, only to miraculously fix it with the push of a button. Then, dry cleaning customers are confused when Michael is suddenly wearing their clothes in the blink of an eye. Plus, he has pet store shoppers convinced that they're seeing multiple fish in an empty water bowl.
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#16 - An Awogami Is Ripe
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/25/2014
Michael works at a camping store where his life-saving s'mores and pop-up coolers stun would-be glampers, and later at a health food store, a child safety pill bottle with built-in invisibility proves too complicated for adults. Then, at variety store, a customer goes off the rails when Michael adjusts the size of a model train.
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#17 - 3D Galastical Morphin Ranging Power Tents
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/8/2015
Tonight, Michael tries to pull a fast one on burger joint patrons with his inflatable hot dogs and his unusual technique for bagging buns. Then he creeps out a flea market vendor when he brings an acrylic encased arachnid back to life, and later his co-worker doesn't give a hoot about her job at the camping store when an owl takes over their display.
#18 - A Problem with Chocolate Turtles and Seeds
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/15/2014
Posing as a cashier, Michael makes a shopper's face appear on a milk carton and tries to convince her that she really is a missing person. Then, in a shipping store he has customers believing that impossible technology of the future has arrived, like a bowling ball that can be mailed in a flat box. Plus, he has a hotel guest questioning her identity when he swaps her ID, and stumps a valet when he does a disappearing act from his car.
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#19 - Iguanasaurs
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/1/2015
Michael befuddles a hardware store patron with a collapsible spray paint can, and cuts a costume shop employee down to size when he shrinks into a leprechaun outfit. Later, a museum employee makes the discovery of a lifetime when a preserved egg hatches a baby dinosaur.
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#20 - It's a Makeshift
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/19/2014
Michael mystifies laundromat patrons by impossibly multiplying miniscule amounts of detergent and makes one man's day when he convinces him that he's hit the coin machine jackpot. Then at a thrift store, Michael taps into his musical abilities by turning into a human record player. Plus, as an employee at a shipping store, he astonishingly flips a full bowl of punch without spilling a drop and repeatedly teleports a glass penguin to one customer's dismay.
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#21 - An Over-Grooming Situation
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/22/2015
Michael leaves a co-worker out to dry at the garden center with a technologically confounding hose that wirelessly transmits water. Later, at the dog groomers, Michael's puppy takes to the catwalk after dressing himself in the most fashionable canine attire.
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#22 - The Lizard Law
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/12/2014
In a Mexican restaurant, Michael treats incredulous diners to a good luck serpent with their tableside guacamole and makes salsa so spicy it melts metal. Then, he confuses office coworkers with a never-ending brown bag lunch and a frozen meal that turns out to be alarmingly fresh. Plus, he confounds his new assistant with some tricks of the trade as a real estate agent, including freshening dead flowers right before her eyes.
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#23 - Flash Melt
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/15/2015
Michael hits the jackpot in a convenience store with a man who guesses the winning lotto numbers and amazes a mother at a toy store when he demonstrates her own child's genius abilities. Later, as a party planner at a Japanese restaurant, MIchael astonishes his co-worker with a set-up that really takes the cake.
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#24 - Green Friendly
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/26/2014
Michael confuses wine drinkers with an incredible shrinking bottle and a supposedly deep cork that defies the laws of physics. Then, he bedazzles a jewelry store patron with disappearing diamonds. Later, he heads to the carwash where one woman takes a stand when her "go green" clean takes an unexpected turn.
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#25 - Don't Freeze Me!
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/5/2014
At a sporting goods store, a confused customer debates the laws of physics with Michael after he suddenly makes a lightweight box impossibly heavy. Then as a barista, Michael shows cafe patrons that glass is not nearly as impenetrable as it seems. Plus, he spooks museum workers when he shows that boomerangs really do always come back, and that taxidermy is a less than permanent solution.
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