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 car wash where one woman takes a stand when her "go green" clean takes an unexpected turn.
Posing as a Pet Store employee, 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. Then at the gym, he introduces new workout techniques that boggle the mind of a seasoned fitness enthusiast.
Posing as a bartender, Michael turns water into liquor and convinces a self-proclaimed experienced drinker that distillation is a lie. Then, Michael heads to a coffee shop and blows the minds of customers who see but don't believe. Later, he makes a man question the cosmic universe when he gives him an epic case of déjà vu.
Posing as an interior designer, Michael stumps his new assistant who can't escape the ground floor of a home due to a disappearing staircase. Then in an office waiting room, he frustrates a bored woman who desperately tries to do some light reading. Finally at a car wash, he uses a unique method to retrieve keys that were locked in a car, and horrifies a woman who does not want new furry friends.
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 Season 1, and see spectacular moments that went terribly awry.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Michael Carbonaro
Self
Simon Fields
Producer
Kevin Healey