The Carbonaro Effect
Michael Carbonaro, a magician by trade and prankster by heart, performs elaborate tricks on unsuspecting members of the public.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Michael Carbonaro , Keith Ham , William Tokarsky , Larry Mainland , Joshua Babcock , Gabe Lustman , Kevin Marshall Pinkney , Brian Quinn , Joe Gatto , James Murray , Sal Vulcano , Lizzy Leigh , Matthias Kocur , Sara Anne Tomczak , Rob Zabrecky , Ron Kittle , Felix David
S1.E1 ∙ Got the Bug Out
Posing as a technician, Michael literally "gets the bug out" of a customer's phone and has him convinced it was in there all along. Then, as a seemingly ordinary bartender, he makes patrons fall for a never-ending beer bottle and a shot that breaks the laws of physics. Plus, he infiltrates an office and has gullible coworkers believing that he can freeze-dry animals and reanimate them.
S1.E2 ∙ A Problem with Chocolate Turtles and Seeds
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.
S1.E3 ∙ A Waddle, a Scratch...
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.
S1.E4 ∙ Just Smash It Out
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.
S1.E5 ∙ Out of Bounce
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.
S1.E6 ∙ Don't Freeze Me
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 caf? 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.
S1.E7 ∙ The Lizard Law
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.
S1.E8 ∙ It's a Makeshift
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.
S1.E9 ∙ Green Friendly
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.
S1.E10 ∙ Maybe It's the Echinacea?
Michael fools pet store shoppers into thinking an animal can hatch from a balloon; tricky valet parking; a new approach to working out.
S1.E11 ∙ Serious Déjà Vu
Michael refutes distillation while turning water into liquor; coffee shop customers shocked; Michael gives a man déjà vu.
S1.E12 ∙ An Elevated Ferret Alert
Michael poses as an interior designer and makes a staircase disappear; waiting room hijinks; Michael retrieves keys from a locked car at the car wash.
S1.E13 ∙ Cause and Effect
In this special episode, Michael breaks the laws of physics with a multitude of tricks and then introduces new technologies to some very accepting patrons. And what happens when people learn they're on a TV show? Find out when Michael reveals that it's all been an illusion to some of the best marks of Volume 1, and see spectacular moments that went terribly awry.
S1.E14 ∙ Out of Control
Michael stuns customers in a holistic store by treating them to kale cannolis that are too good to be true. Later, while working in a toy store, Michael shocks his coworker by bringing a large teddy bear to life.
S1.E15 ∙ This Is Not an Orange
Michael confuses variety store customers with products that have secret hideaways; astonishes camping store patrons with rafts that come in pill form; and convinces a woman that a tiny propeller enables human levitation.
S1.E16 ∙ Just During the Previews
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!
S1.E17 ∙ In Case What?
Michael baffles a hardware store patron with an extension cord, confuses a food deliverer and duplicates a key. He then demonstrates a de-nutter in a health food store, freaks out a woman with a manicure fish. In an arcade, he opens a box from Germany containing a small child.
S1.E18 ∙ A Faux Pas to Wear
This week, 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.
S1.E19 ∙ Just a Milker
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.
S1.E20 ∙ Suburban Pimp
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.
S1.E21 ∙ Might Be Trippin'
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.
S1.E22 ∙ An Awogami Is Ripe
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.
S1.E23 ∙ Iguanasaurs
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.
S1.E24 ∙ Galastical Morphin' Ranging Power Tents
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.
S1.E25 ∙ Flash Melt
Michael hits the jackpot at a convenience store and amazes a mother when he demonstrates her child's genius abilities at a toy store. Later, MIchael astonishes his Japanese restaurant co-worker with a set-up that really takes the cake.
S1.E26 ∙ An Over-Grooming Situation
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.
S2.E0 ∙ Cause and Effect: April Fool's Special
Get a peek behind-the-scenes as Michael pushes magical boundaries with a fiery potato laser and a very unusual puppy. Then, how does Michael react when he's recognized mid-stunt? And what happens when someone decides to play a prank on him? Plus, see how stunned shoppers react when they learn they're on TV in this special episode.
S2.E1 ∙ Just Made History
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.
S2.E2 ∙ Dangerously Drinkable
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.
S2.E3 ∙ Japanese Waterless Folding Toilet
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.
S2.E4 ∙ The Albino Corn Snake Viper Patrol
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.
S2.E5 ∙ Amvox 73
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.
S2.E6 ∙ Turn to Gold
A miraculous liquid gives Michael the Midas touch in an eyeglass store. And later, Michael trains the new girl at a tanning salon, but things take a horrifying turn when she believes she's killed her first customer.
S2.E7 ∙ Take the Mirror
Take The Mirror - 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! And in the big finish, a cursed mirror turns simple reflections into reality.
S2.E8 ∙ Sierra Volcano
Michael performs a revolutionary skin 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.
S2.E9 ∙ The Doughy Parts
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.
S2.E10 ∙ That's Voodoo
Michael wows mall shoppers with snakes that soothe and spiders that stitch, and 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.
S2.E11 ∙ Catch the Flu
At a yard sale, Michael helps a man realize his amazing mind powers and shocks a college student by discovering she's the heir to the entire lot. Later, an art gallery's tribal mask goes missing and has the security guard fearing war!
S2.E12 ∙ Deep Space Air
Michael creates otherworldly air while doing scientific research. Later, he serves up gravity-defying rolls at a bakery and takes on the role of a golf instructor, only to get tripped up by a sand trap.
S2.E13 ∙ Fishguise
Michael visits a copy shop and introduces a print-by-hand method. Also: Michael highlights fish fashion trends and mixes it up at an office.
S2.E14 ∙ EggShaq
Michael unveils the ancient mystery behind bowling balls, and later does the world's longest spit-take! Plus, LITERALLY THE BIGGEST special guest in the show's history, a.k.a. Shaquille O'Neal, helps with a plan to blow one superfan's mind!
S2.E15 ∙ Dead Man Walking
While posing as a cook, Michael warms up his vocal chords to serenade a clam out of its shell, and later, he shocks his sous chef with a fish stick stowaway. Plus, a spirited trick leaves one man questioning the afterlife.
S2.E16 ∙ I Am Ogle Thorpe
When Michael opens a shocking package at a shipment warehouse, a man goes hog wild. And while pigs may not fly, Michael proves that kittens can. Plus, one woman believes that a curse has transformed a man right before her eyes.
S2.E17 ∙ The Framing Canon
While working at a frame store, Michael becomes a piece of art. And later, a woman goes haywire when Michael literally loses his head.
S2.E18 ∙ Skull with a Flower Hat
While posing as a security guard, Michael turns a metal detector into a microwave. Plus, a mover is dumbfounded when a woman rises from the ashes.
S2.E19 ∙ Warthogs, WogHearts, and Hogwarts
Michael refreshes stale nachos, peels back the truth behind a fake bill and unveils the latest in cellular soda machine technology. But what will happen when he breathes new life into a T-Rex?
S2.E20 ∙ A Positive Presence
A corrosive drink is served up by Michael. Later, a trick for sneaker lacing and a woman who rises from the dead.
S2.E21 ∙ Top Priority of NASA
Michael pushes a soup machine fit for space travel. Then he reveals a shocking DIY ear wax removal kit and gives a magical massage. Finally, a trick throws a mover into a time warp when he sees the future and repeats the past.
S2.E22 ∙ Drone Care
Drone Care: Working as a florist, Michael nukes flowers, sheds light on frog mutation, and turns an ant farm into a work of art. Later, he shocks a passerby in the park with his cat-dog, and then stuns someone else with a delivery from up above.
S2.E23 ∙ Sets Itself, Lights Itself
Sets Itself, Lights Itself: Michael loses a credit card in a series of absorbing containers, and then in an art store, he shakes off sloppy handwriting to reveal fancy calligraphy. Later, a catering assistant gets spooked when chinaware sets itself.
S2.E24 ∙ A Living Trilobite
As a bank teller, Michael proves chipmunks are nature's accountants. Then while servicing a wake, Michael brings a toy to life, and later, he stuns a museum worker by restarting the evolutionary process for a fossilized creature.
S2.E25 ∙ House of Horrors
Michael reveals a coffee-making app, gets textually active with the world's thinnest disposable phone, and debuts a new beauty invention that turns ugly.
S2.E26 ∙ He's a Professional Dude
While remodeling a home, Michael silences a co-worker with a traveling squeak. And later, a hospital becomes the scene of a mind-bending game of cops and robbers!
S3.E1 ∙ Incredibly Unsettling
In the Season 3 premiere, Michael travels to Chicago, where he performs tricks at a health store and a metro station.
S3.E2 ∙ Holy Moly Mirror
Michael does tricks in a Chicago diner. Later, he discovers a new kind of fungus in Humboldt Park.
S3.E3 ∙ Bro, They're Surrounding Us!
Michael shares a credit-card hack, demonstrates the progress of stem-cell research and tricks a gardener.
S3.E4 ∙ It's a Chicken, Sir!
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 when an art studio becomes the site of a transformation.
S3.E5 ∙ Wait, My Chair!
Michael reveals the transformative properties of fruits and vegetables, and shows a caterer the true power of dairy products. Plus, an antique store customer is stunned when a species of termite literally chews through the scenery!
S3.E6 ∙ Soliciting Statue
Michael shows off an impossible way to organize your clothes, reveals some serious surprises lurking in your favorite foods, and attempts one of his most ambitious feats yet - tricking two people at the same time!
S3.E7 ∙ Speed Thieves
At a diner, Michael adds some spice to lunchtime and gives patrons the chills while demonstrating a new way to cool soup. And at a furniture store, Michael shows his coworker that impossible things can happen in the blink of an eye.
S3.E8 ∙ The Impractically Carbonaro Jokers' Effect
Micheal Carbonaro invites the Impractical Jokers (Joe, Murr, Q, and Sal) to be his magic assistance.
S3.E9 ∙ A Similar Rock Energy
Michael is back in Chicago to hash out new ideas in a hemp store, but it's not until he inspects a spooky church that people start getting stoned, literally. Plus, Michael teams up with special guest star, Jack Black!
S3.E10 ∙ Kind of Like a Seafoam Green
Michael shows some unsuspecting shoppers how to manipulate solid objects, and he reveals the truth behind how automatic vacuums work. Plus, one employee's shift at a camping store becomes very colorful, and confusing.
S3.E11 ∙ Super Saturn Moon Travel
At Michael's fireworks stand, he's got everything from exploding fruit to levitation sparklers, and at a hemp store, Michael shows off his innovations in hemp technology. Plus, a time capsule completely blows one man's mind!
S3.E12 ∙ Cuban Assimilatory Persea Plant
Michael tries new foods like shape-shifting pasta and never-ending soup! Then it's off to a vinyl shop for a record-breaking illusion, and later, Michael tries to convince his coworker to explore a new plant.
S3.E13 ∙ Pixelated Vision
At a wilderness store, Michael reels in customers with an amazing new fishing tool, and at an AT&T store, Michael shows off a camera that's literally paper thin. Plus, a day of mini golf turns explosive when a loose cannon appears.
S3.E14 ∙ Italian Food Matter
Michael uncovers the secrets behind baoding balls, origami and paper lamps, and at Eataly, he reveals a spray that turns everything into bacon. Plus, a picture worth a thousand words leaves Michael's assistant speechless.
S3.E15 ∙ Industrial Asphalt Sealant
Michael trains his coworkers how to hold a dog who can't hold it, and at the AT&T store, Michael shows off a new way to lighten the load. Plus, a man can vanish into a manhole, but the whole hole can't vanish, right?!
S3.E16 ∙ Pineapple Breeze
At a cell phone store, Michael reveals an exciting new way to fix your tablet, and later, he makes a drink that's impossible to swallow. Plus, a dog owner loves that Michael has turned her pet into the smartest animal in the world!
S3.E17 ∙ The Essence of the Wings
Michael turns leftovers into beauty products at a soap shop, and at a record store, he shows a hip-hop fan how to jump around. Plus, at a children's store, Michael's co-worker learns about the dangers of babysitting.
S4.E1 ∙ Total Face Rejuvenation
Michael shocks a receptionist with a medical procedure that leaves both their jaws on the floor, and then at a party store, Michael reveals a regenerating piece of gum. Plus, an electrifying trick rewrites history.
S4.E2 ∙ Relax the Back
At a library, Michael shocks people with every trick in the book, including a voice controlled page turner and outfit changes that almost get him recognized! And later, Michael amazes a trainee with a weightless mattress!
S4.E3 ∙ The Snowball
At a ski shop, Michael demonstrates the latest in winter gear: a hat that also makes hot coco. And later, when taking inventory at an abandoned garage, Michael stuns his co-worker when a ghostly violin strikes a chord, all by itself.
S4.E4 ∙ You've Been Marked
Michael shows off a seashell from the seashore that still has the seashore in it and reveals desserts that break the mold; while on the farm Michael startles his assistant with an out-of-this-world trick.
S4.E5 ∙ Simon Soft
Michael turns iced tea into a tea candle and later, at a pet store, he reveals that caterpillars have wicks. Plus, at a warehouse, Michael stumps his assistant when he proves that big tricks come in shrink-wrapped packages.
S4.E6 ∙ Whippit
In an ice cream shop, Michael whips up a mind-boggling app; at a party store, he spills the tea on a self-brewing decoration; and at a farm, Michael's helper looks like he saw a ghost after a run-in with a spirited scarecrow.
S4.E7 ∙ The Food Flattener
At a cooking class, Michael gets crabby when chopping salad and brings the heat to instantly cook a meatball with his breath. And later, Michael chills his assistant to her bones when a cryotherapy experiment freezes.
S4.E8 ∙ Dr. Bones
Michael explores the true depth of a deep-dish pizza, and later, he plays doctor to a patient questioning his own vision and sanity. Plus, as a locksmith, Michael stuns his assistant with a surprise on the other side of the door.
S4.E10 ∙ Prehistoric Fossil Breeding
Michael schools a man on fish fossil breeding at a rock store and colors with his tongue at a paint store. Then, on a construction site, Michael and his helper dig up a skeleton that still has some life in it.
S4.E11 ∙ Vegan Plant
Michael feeds a cannibalistic plant at a garden center, and at the tuxedo store, he sells a tie that literally suits itself. Plus, at a hockey rink, Michael's assistant is speechless with a trick so electric it melts the ice!
S4.E12 ∙ Sorcery or Science
Michael sweetens a woman's day at a candy store when a chocolate bunny eats her ring, and at the stadium for the Chicago White Sox, he inflates pretzels at a snack stand. Plus, one of Michael's tricks gets flushed down the tubes.
S4.E13 ∙ Fight or Flight
While working in a cheese store, Michael milks the reaction of a woman stunned by breeding brie. Later, Michael nails down the perfect app in a salon and unpacks a trick in an airport that ruffles his assistant's feathers.
S4.E14 ∙ Fright at the Museum
At a campsite, Michael turns rain into wine and has an app that gives new meaning to the "call of nature." Later, Michael gets thorny at a plant shop, and in a museum, he drums up ancient history that grasps for the present.
S4.E15 ∙ Dummy Talks
At an appliance store, a man goes bananas over Michael's self-stocking fridge. Then, Michael speeds up the life cycle of a frog in a science lab, and he pulls the strings at an estate sale when a haunted doll toys with his assistant.
S4.E16 ∙ Home Run Away
At a deli, Michael bakes bread with power tools, and in a tux store, his outfit change doesn't suit his customer. Plus, at the stadium for the Chicago White Sox, Michael swings for the fences with a fiery trick that stuns his helper.
S5.E1 ∙ Cat Lady
At auditions, Michael wows directors with costume changes but cracks when he sings. Plus, things get sticky when he demos flying post-its. Then, Michael's co-worker's jaw drops when a shape-shifting tenant returns while they clean house.
S5.E2 ∙ Moving Dragon
While working at a pool store, Michael flies on a kickboard and shows the culinary pros of a pool noodle. Plus at a pet store, he breeds hamsters from pellets. Then, Michael stuns his helper when moving day heats up with a fiery statue.
S5.E3 ∙ Lipstick and the Flying Nun
While working at an antique shop, Michael unpacks an item with a message from beyond and a problem-solving toy puzzles his co-worker. Plus, Michael works a fundraiser where a painting raises not just money but the body of a nun.
S5.E4 ∙ Pink Slime
While working at a book store, Michael feeds some book worms. Plus, Michael serves food and gives new meaning to the term "grass fed beef". Then, at a food testing center, Michael spooks his assistant when an experiment takes a new shape.
S5.E5 ∙ Chilly Flakes and Wormholes
Michael works in a spice shop and gets the icy treatment with his take on "chilly flakes". Plus at a hotel, he cleans a spill with his phone. And then, at an abandoned house, Michael amazes his assistant when he climbs through a wormhole.
S5.E6 ∙ Popcorn Pants
Michael delivers a shock in a shipping store when packaged wine tips over and gets the bubble wrap tipsy. At a popcorn shop, Michael dons the latest kernel fashions. Later, at a theater he stuns his helper when a trick jumps off the screen.
S5.E7 ∙ Vanishing Daycare
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro, magician by trade and prankster at heart. In each episode, Michael performs ingenious tricks on unsuspecting members of the public, all caught on hidden camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or seemingly unremarkable store clerk, Michael Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
S5.E8 ∙ Puppification
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro, magician by trade and prankster at heart. In each episode, Michael performs ingenious tricks on unsuspecting members of the public, all caught on hidden camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or seemingly unremarkable store clerk, Michael Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
