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.
