The Carbonaro Effect

2014 • truTV
4.7
1.22K reviews
TV-14
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Season 8 episodes (18)

1 100th Episode Special
6/6/19
Michael celebrates the 100th show with a special featuring a live studio audience, celebrity messages, and visits from past guests! Plus, to thank his fans, Michael tricks some of them into a surprise meeting they can't believe.
2 Double Takes: Back to the Big Dig
6/13/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael reboots a living skeleton, an instant pet trap, a flipping mermaid and more, all with brand-new reactions!
3 Double Takes: Back to Back in Time
6/20/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael revisits a spirits-drinking spirit, a living fossil, rewrites history again and more with brand-new reactions.
4 Double Takes: Back to Fight or Flight
6/27/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael reanimates a chameleon fish, reboots lengthy corks, remakes the airport bird man, and more with all-new reactions.
5 Double Takes: Back to the Ice
6/29/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael rehashes a potato laser, re-designs an emergen-suit, takes another shot on the ice and more. All with new reactions!
6 Double Takes: Back to the Meet and Greet
7/11/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael remakes hungry chocolate bunnies, the mind-blowing wind app, a magical fan encounter, and more with new reactions!
7 Double Takes: Back to the Aztec Portal
7/18/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael reopens an Aztec portal, reanimates robotic pigeons, instant Vortex Shipping, and more. All with new reactions.
8 Double Takes: Back to Back Again Boxes
7/25/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael toys with the tanning bed again, reboots Copper Monkey, the incessant moving boxes, and more with new reactions!
9 Double Takes: Back to the Locked Booth
8/1/19
In Double Takes, Michael jumps back in time and unleashes unseen content for a fresh spin on classic Carbonaro bits. Michael remakes the ski shop lineage, car wash stowaway, disappearing staircase bits and more. All with new reactions!
10 Cat Lady
11/7/19
At auditions, Michael wows directors with costume changes but cracks when he sings. Plus, things get sticky when he demos flying post-its. Then, Michael's co-worker's jaw drops when a shape-shifting tenant returns while they clean house.
11 Moving Dragon
11/14/19
While working at a pool store, Michael flies on a kickboard and shows the culinary pros of a pool noodle. Plus at a pet store, he breeds hamsters from pellets. Then, Michael stuns his helper when moving day heats up with a fiery statue.
12 Lipstick and the Flying Nun
11/21/19
While working at an antique shop, Michael unpacks an item with a message from beyond and a problem-solving toy puzzles his co-worker. Plus, Michael works a fundraiser where a painting raises not just money but the body of a nun.
13 Pink Slime
12/6/19
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro performing tricks on the unsuspecting public, caught on camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or a store clerk, Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
14 Chilly Flakes and Wormholes
12/13/19
Michael works in a spice shop and gets the icy treatment with his take on “chilly flakes”. Plus at a hotel, he cleans a spill with his phone. And then, at an abandoned house, Michael amazes his assistant when he climbs through a wormhole.
15 Vanishing Daycare
12/27/19
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro performing tricks on the unsuspecting public, caught on camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or a store clerk, Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
16 Puppification
1/3/20
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro performing tricks on the unsuspecting public, caught on camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or a store clerk, Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
17 Puppification
1/3/20
The Carbonaro Effect features Michael Carbonaro performing tricks on the unsuspecting public, caught on camera. Whether posing as a barista, museum curator or a store clerk, Carbonaro's Effect on people will have you laughing out loud.
101 Vol. 8 Sneak Peek
6/3/19
Check out a sneak peek of The Carbonaro Effect, Vol. 8.

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
Maricelly
December 28, 2014
Watched most the shows? Somewhat entertaining, but you can sometimes see exactly how he pulls the magic trick off.
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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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Miss A
February 2, 2015
U wanna laugh? Wanna see a show the whole family can watch? Check this out? This is a unique show that merges highly impressive magic tricks w/an unsuspecting person on hidden camera. Watch their shock and dismay as startling and unbelievable events begin happening before their very eyes! Don't miss this fresh new show!
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