The Carbonaro Effect - Girl Genius Revealed 

"she's very observant" Girl "sure, let's go with that"

I read 'girl genius', and was waiting for the little girl to hand him back a completely solved Rubik's cube.

I love the fact that throughout the entire thing, the little genius has this expression on her face that screams "What the hell is going on right now?".

That little girl felt so special for 15 minutes until she found out it was a prank. 😂

Mom: “She is very observant” Girl: “Eh... ok mom..”

1:49 The child crying in the back round represents the Mom's internal screaming

He just shattered this moms hopes and dreams that her daughter is a genius...

This guy is the king of pranks 😂

“She’s very observant.” - confident mother

Kudos to the woman for sticking to what she knew as a child psychologist. Awesome episode!

I really do appreciate that the Mom trusts her instincts and never stops questioning what's happening, haha. Some people just fall into that ego trap of assuming they're too stupid to understand.

The little girl's face reactions are priceless

3:19 Mom ~ "I don't understand." Daughter ~ "Of course you don't understand mom. Its because I'm a genius and you're not."

I loved this lady. You can tell she’s a great mom

Her: "I'm a school phycologist" Crew: "Michael, abort.. abort..."

The kid’s like, “Uhhh...just gimme my dam temporary tattoos!”

😆 everything she learned in college just throw it out the window .

I thought the title meant the kid figured out his magic trick.

I hope this mother from time to time remembers that feeling when she thought her daughter is a genius and she gives her a little boost on self-esteem as if she was that genius. Could work wonders for both of them, their lives and relationship.

that little girl looks so spaced out like, wtf is going on😂

Best part is that he is as nice in real life as he is on the show. Knew him years ago, casually, thru a mutual friend. Very nice man. Kind, gentle soul.

He would make a good politician, cause he can just confuse people with BS.

🤣🤣🤣I'm laughing when she said I'm a school psychologist.

I knew it was 4 and 12! it was just a gut feeling

My favorite part of this show is how he bullshits his way through the tricks. Its crazy how he can just improv really plausible explanations that leave people bewildered. I love the puzzled looks on people faces when they're seeing something occur but they know they shouldn't be believing it.

Mom is disappointed now her kid didn't answer the equation lol

I'm glad nobody was waiting in line behind them.

You can tell by the look on the little girls face when she handed back the 'locked' cube that she knew something funny was up and she just played along. Just watch when her mom questions her, she has that same smirk on her face. No child's dream was shattered in the making of this video.

She’s very observant haha the little girl didn’t know what was going on

The mom looked jealous that her daughter knew them

When he says he magician, the poor kids looking around like "You mean I'm not super smart!!".

If you’re wondering about the solution: It’s all sleight of hand. Michael shows the woman a complicated series of equations and then swaps the card and shows the girl something like 11 + 1. They are seeing different cards (same idea for the first one with apple). For the Rubik’s Cube it’s an incredibly common switch where the girl hands him the cube and while he reaches for the big one he swaps it for a matching cube. The girl is so surprised that she doesn’t pay attention to the cube changing. Simple tricks, yet cool all the same ^.^

4:16 I'm Michael Carbonaro and I just crushed your daughters dreams of being a genius!

Lol, I believe if I met Carbonaro myself, I'd play along as though I didn't recognize him ;-)

So the kid isn't a genius, he's just a good magician.

My favorite part of this show is the gaslighting XD He's so good at just BSing his way through it

The mom was mad AF the kid was gettin all the answers right and she was wrong

That kid screaming in the background

“What number would you say?” - “...One?” “She says four, interesting”

1:37 magician: what number comes to your head? girl: blue.

"What number would you say?" "one?" "She says 4"

Carbonaro: "we were rehearsing all week last week" :D Mom: "um wut.?" ._.

The little girl looks like Dakota Fanning early 2,000's.

"instead of letting them know they are born knowing", only mr.carbonaro could say this with a straight face 😂

Mom: "Sorry Im just here to buy my daughter a toy, not let a grown man tell me Im dumber than her."

At least she's honest. Other people are like, "yeah, I've totally heard about the Carbonaro Effect,....uhhhh what is it?"

Can you imagine if the mum was gullible enough to believe the prank, then loses her job over incompetence? 😂

Audrey is one exceptionally bright, and adoreable young lady! Her parents should be very proud of her!

The woman must've been pretty disappointed when she found out her daughter wasn't really a genius lol.

Little girl's looking at her mom like " You'll never know my secret "

"Swedish scientists invented a system of how t..." "Oh, okay"

Little kids are the best in revealing the trick. When her mother told her: I don't understand. She wasn't able to turn her eyeballs gradually, instead she jumped to where people and camera were looking. Thank you, and good acting

Since the girl obviously didn't memorize her Rubik's Cube, he had to have switched it when he took it back to one that was pre-aligned to look like the big one. There's nothing "fake" here, just simple misdirection. Love this guy lol

"we tricked you, your daughter isn't really smart" lol

1:54 Kid thinking: "Is me genius?"

“If you don’t ask & have them answer, they will already know” 🤣🤣🤣

I love Michael and this show. Hadn't seen this clip yet and so the weird part for me was when he showed the equation, the first number I thought of was 12! I freaked myself out a little when he revealed the answer!! One of the most original magicians to come along in a while. LOVE IT!

she was fooled awesome. the school psychology specialist had to question her practice a few mins lol.

"They're saying that we know more than we think we know" Hilarious

I watch this show to be amazed at the extreme and utter gullibility of people.

"Oh I thought for a second there my kid was worth something.. but no.. no... her father was right. Another dud like her brother. Oh well."

He is brilliant have been watching him since day one.still cannot understand how he stops himself from cracking up laughing.

There are indeed four apples on the card. When he shows the mom the card, and asks her "what number would you say", he signals with his hand towards her, briefly but very obviously putting one finger up as he asks the question. This is a very simplistic way of manipulating people's thoughts, but apparently it works. I used to do something similar as a kid; using a specific word in the question that sounded a lot like the number I was 'predicting', and using seemingly insignificant pauses, with the right timing and tone, I found out that most people would fall for it. They'd 'think' of a random number, but in most instances they thought of the number that I briefly but very clearly highlighted in the question. The mom says one because he shows her one finger. It's not a random number as such, she's just very easy to manipulate. When it's the daughter's turn, he doesn't do the hand-gesture, but instead holds the card up with four fingers facing her. The thumb is on the back of the card. It's a weird way of holding a card. Normally, you'd make like a fist and hold the card between thumb and index in the center of the bottom; the way a soccer ref holds up a red card. But he very obviously places four fingers right on the front of the card, so that they're very clearly visible to her. She says four, I think.. wasn't too clear to me what she uttered. The calculation trick seems quite difficult to pull off, and I'm not entirely sure how it's done. The mom is staring at the problem, trying to make sense of it, and her focussing on the symbols and numbers is kind of the point, I believe. The answer she gives is irrelevant, even though there was a small chance that she would've said 12 by mere coincidence. When he shows the daughter the card, the girl isn't considering the calculation. She doesn't know these symbols, but she's probably old enough to know that 15 - 3 = 12. She recognizes the minus symbol, while ignoring all other unfamiliar symbols, and because what she sees on the top of the card is 15 = - 3, it's probable that she extracts those numbers and symbols and gets 12 as a result. The mom is trying to interpret the problem, because she does recognize all of those other symbols, whereas the child does not, so what the child sees (i.e. notices) and what the mom sees is different. I find this quite interesting. The final trick is probably just him getting them to focus on the big colorful object while he quickly grabs a hidden rubix cube that matches the big one. All in all, it's pretty obvious what's happening here, and I wouldn't have fallen for it, but I think he did great. Nice, natural presentation. Some of the things he said were very nonsensical. Children are born knowing? Lol. They're not. We come into the world devoid of knowledge. And intuition (or gut feeling, or instinct) is rejected as a source of knowledge because it's not objectively verifiable. If I was being told that, it would immediately cause me to pay extra close attention to what this guy is saying and doing.

The coolest trick was watching that mom's confidence disappear at the end as she realized the money she saved would STILL be going to tuition

I would have just solved the cube, put it down, and got all the questions wrong.

lol the look on the girl's face. She's a forced accomplish in trolling her mom

It was at that moment she learned her child wasn’t as smart as she thought.

Guy tried to convince her nd did nice job but mother knows what he was saying dosnt makes sense, smart lady.

Poor school psychologist. He was blowing her mind. Everything she knew was cast in question. Hilarious.

"I'm a school psychologist." "nuh uh."

I've been watching these for years and have never once seen someone say they've heard of The Carbonaro Effect...

love this show and Michael of how he tricks everyone without them thinking. LOVE THIS SHOW!

at 2:16 the kid looks scared XD

i love the part at the end were he's like we were rehursing all last week, then hes all like "no no no' xD cracks me up every time and puts me in a good moood

We saw Michael perform in Vegas a few months back. Wonderful show with a very funny ending that included a lot of shaving cream!

She is smart. She kept her mouth shut and just found out mommy is not god.

i like how when he asks if people heard of the cabonaro effect they say no and he gets mad no one watches his show

4:15 That little girl’s face when he says he’s a magician 😂 she’s like, “waiiit... so I’m still dumb?”

The little is so cute. She does not care about all that has happened.that is cutest thing

The kid at the backround : **demonic screams**

Michael: 'We were rehearsing all week last week' Michael's brain: 'Dude, creepy' Michael: 'No no no'

Hahah she thought her kid was smart then realised she was normal . Wa wa wa

i am impressed how critically she stayed as a psychologist. Its great

The girl was in on it. You never see her actually play with the cube.

notice how the camera never shows the card when the girl sees it, the card must be switched

The girl in the end was like You just wasted my flipping time and you made me waste my last 3 brain cell

her mom didn't even praise her or act impressed. She was just trying to figure out how SHE didn't get it

" if you dont ask, and have them answer they'll just know" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What a great confidence booster she could have grown up thinking she could do anything.

"Girl Genius Revealed' I thought the little girl wae going to know how the trick was done.

I guessed 12 and was sitting here all smug, like "Yeah, I knew I was a genius." Hahaha

She's basically saying my daughter isn't that smart there's no wayyyy😭☠️☠️

"I do not buy that!" Fantastic, I love that. If only more people could say that.

The girl is me when I guess a question and get it right

Mom was starting to wonder if all those years of not allowing her daughter to see daylight was finally paying off.

given her job, i'm glad the mother was so skeptical and questioning.

After he reveles that they are on the show why everybody says "no" I would be like yeah that make sense now.

The girl went on to build a death star and vaporize Carbonaro with the Carbonization effect

That cell phone pic is gonna be a keeper ! I hope she kept it. Great vid. I'm happy to see the reveal as the program didn't show it. Big thanks.

It's crazy to watch an old video and see that I've already liked it. Like dayum all this time and I found myself back here