Nick's dull mannequin magician
Nick enters the living room carrying the mannequin in front of himself. The mannequin is dressed as a magician, wearing Nick’s cape and a top hat. Nick uses his own arms underneath the cape so that it appears they are the mannequin’s, and is holding some orange rope.
After he offers to show Alex some magic, Alex asks him what his name is, and Nick answers that he is “Daniel Paul” – a play on the name of the famous British magician Paul Daniels (in the uncut version of his attempt, subsequently released as an outtake, he first calls himself “Mr. Majeika” before realising that name’s already been taken; he then calls himself “Paul Daniel”, before switching to “Daniel Paul”).
In the edit of his magic trick shown in the episode, Daniel is only seen cutting what appears to be a single length of rope, using his fingers as magical scissors. As he does so, both of the loose ends of the rope appear to fall off, leaving him with a single loop of rope, with no ends. Nick then tilts the mannequin to make it appear as if it is bowing, before leaving the room.
[In the full-length version of his trick, which was released as an outtake, he actually begins with two pieces of rope: one which is long and has knots at both ends; and one which is short and only has a knot at one end. He tells Alex that he’s going to try to make the two ropes as similar as possible. Daniel then makes a magical move, and the two ropes appear to become the same length. He then focuses on adding a knot to the rope with just one knot. However, Daniel then decides that instead of two ropes, he should use a single, longer rope, and he then appears to fuse the two pieces of rope together into one. This is where the version shown in the episode actually begins.]
Despite loving the magic trick, Greg says that he’d found the magician to be boring. He acknowledges that Daniel was “sort of” alive, but says that he’d “kind of wanted him dead throughout”.
Greg ultimately awards Nick 3 points.
(Written by M3 / Andres Sanchez and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)
