The Carbonaro Effect

2014 • truTV
4.7
1.22K reviews
TV-14
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Volume 2 episodes (15)

1 Out of Control
14-10-30
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.
2 This is Not an Orange
14-11-06
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.
3 Just During the Previews
14-11-13
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!
4 In Case What?!
14-11-20
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.
5 A Faux Pas to Wear
14-11-27
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.
6 Just a Milker
14-12-04
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.
7 Suburban Pimp
14-12-11
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.
8 Might Be Trippin'
14-12-18
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.
9 An Awogami is Ripe
14-12-25
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. Then, at variety store, a customer goes off the rails when Michael adjusts the size of a model train.
10 Iguanasaurs
15-01-01
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.
11 3D Galastical Morphin Ranging Power Tents
15-01-08
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.
12 Flash Melt
15-01-15
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.
13 An Over-Grooming Situation
15-01-22
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.
101 The New truTV: Way More Fun
14-09-07
Check out a sneak peek of truTV's new original programming that is packed full of insanely contagious and laugh out loud fun.
102 The Life-Changing Products of Carbonaro Industries
14-10-20
Check out the products of Carbonaro Industries that are so amazing, they work like magic.

About this show

Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade but a prankster by heart. In truTV's comedic series The Carbonaro Effect, Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.22K reviews
Timbo Tyler
January 11, 2015
This show is good enough to be on reality or a primetime TV show in a network. He is very convincing and can handle himself from not only the magic, acting and.creativity, hands down and up lol. .:-$ Chaching.
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Don Richardson
December 16, 2015
It's so amazing the look he puts on people's face, it's truly delightful to watch him in action.
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Jason Smith
December 27, 2014
I love this show it's so funny watching people's reactions and then trying their best to come to grips with what they've seen. Hope it's on for many years.
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