Magic has been so overdone in our culture, and people have been so overexposed to it; they never expect a major magic trick not to work. It is almost unimpressive to see a magic trick work anymore because one expects what happens.

For the sake of magic, so it can last, a new form of magic must become mainstream: Tragic Magic. In Tragic Magic not every trick works. Some tricks result in death, or some other tragedy.

The examples are fairly obvious. Assistants will really be sawed in half, volunteers will get severe paper cuts from trick cards, the rabbit in the hat will die of suffocation, wand related eye-pokings, and other tragic mishaps.

These unfortunate occurances will make magic tricks that end with success seem all-the-better and be very beneficial to the entire magic industry, and increase the enjoyment of magic for all unharmed people.
-- ImBack, Dec 24 2002

Penn & Teller http://pennandteller.com/sincity/
You really need to see Penn & Teller live sometime. [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

(?) magic gone wrong http://www.youtube....watch?v=oaUXxadeo4c
ouch! [jaksplat, Feb 26 2007]

The death wall https://www.youtube...watch?v=P5ZtnIi7W0g
[pashute, Jan 01 2024]

No offense but this is pretty twisted.
-- madradish, Dec 24 2002


Ever read Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks For Dear Friends? There's a hilarious account of The Greatest Magic Trick I Ever Saw within.
-- thumbwax, Dec 24 2002


No, but I will, Thanks.
-- ImBack, Dec 24 2002


Bravo! You understand theatre!
-- futurebird, Dec 24 2002


ACTING!!!

-Master Thespian (SNL)

Hear no evil, think no evil.

-Some religious guy. (Bible, or something)

Yaay, Futurebird!

-ImBack. (halfbakery.com)
-- ImBack, Dec 24 2002


Hey, this kind of thing works for NASCAR.
-- wgmcg, Dec 25 2002


As a boy my mother took us to see the wall of death at Youth City in the summer of 1976. In the wall of death, we watched a motorcycle rider riding again and again around a round wall inside a pit. Everything was ok, although I didn't understand what the excitement was about until my mother told me the sickening fact: His father and brother both were killed on the ride. I felt sick. So what are we watching this for? Are we expecting this guy to fall to his death in front of our eyes. Is that how he's making his allowance?!
-- pashute, Jan 01 2024



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