History Creator / PennAndTeller

* Their own haunted house at Universal Studios Orlando's Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights event in 2012: Penn and Teller New(kd) Las Vegas. Basic premise is: Penn and Teller try out a new trick involving a nuclear warhead...[[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds which predictably fails]]. Guests now have to travel through the mutant filled husk of a city that was Las Vegas while Penn and Teller (through various videos placed throughout the maze) try to convince the guests that [[BlatantLies everything is ''perfectly fine'']]. Penn and Teller had a significant role in the development of the house and even flew to Orlando to greet guests, hand out 3D glasses, and finally walk through the house during one set and spent part of the night standing in the finale scene. Takes ''extreme'' [[ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics artistic license]].

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'', together as a duo known as Pain and Terror (with Pain as an Enforcer and Teller as a Tink) who [[InkSuitActor look just like they do if they were given a Borderlands style makeover]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: A somewhat unusual case. They famously only socialize outside of work once or twice a year and their relationship developed as a strictly-business one built on mutual respect rather than friendship (or, as Penn puts it, "cuddly feelings"). However, as they've spent their entire adult lives working very closely together, they've inevitably come to be sort of best friends anyway - when their parents died, for instance, they went to each other, and Teller was the first person aside from Penn and his wife to see their kids after they were born.

''Teller starts to shake his head, then nods instead.''\\

Teller starts to shake his head, then nods instead.\\

* EscapeArtist: Penn and Teller engage in this on occasion. For instance, their stage show in the eighties opened with Teller hanging upside-down in a straightjacket hanging over a bed of spikes while Penn read the poem ''Casey at the Bat''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The rope keeping Teller suspended is tied to the chair that Penn is sitting in. When Penn finishes the poem, he leaps upright, which would cause Teller to fall into the bed of spikes unless he can escape beforehand.[[/labelnote]]

** The duo appears in ''Series/YoungSheldon'' "A Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish and the Future" as an AnthropomorphicPersonification of Sheldon's pimple.

*** Truth in television: The first time they performed this trick live (on SNL), there was an issue with Teller's oxygen supply and he was actually holding his breath for the last two minutes or so. Penn described the incident years later on his podcast, and said they both knew if they signaled for help, the crew would pump out the water and do a ton of expensive damage to the set, and their careers would be over. So Teller didn't give the signal. Penn noticed the problem but also didn't call for help, and didn't even hurry through the rest of the trick, because "It was Teller's call." At the end of that performance, several crew members rush the stage to open the tank.

*** Truth in television: The first time they performed this trick live (on SNL), there was an issue with Teller's oxygen supply and he was actually holding his breath for the last two minutes or so. Penn described the incident years later on his podcast, and said they both knew if they signaled for help, the crew would pump out the water and do a ton of expensive damage to the set, and their careers would be over. So Teller didn't give the signal. Penn noticed the problem but also didn't call for help, and didn't even hurry through the rest of the trick, because "It was Teller's call." At the end of that performance, several crew members rush the stage to open the tank. Penn also opened that performance with a speech about how they were here to prove that "Guys who do card tricks aren't wimps." On the podcast episode, he elaborates on this as well: The people building the tank were apparently rolling their eyes at Teller for being a little hesitant about it. So Teller dropped the hesitation, stripped, and jumped in.

** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' features Penn in a vocal cameo as the LargeHamAnnouncer of a Buzz Lightyear commercial.

** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' features Penn in a vocal cameo as the LargeHamAnnouncer of a Buzz Lightyear commercial.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: {{Invoked}} in ''How to Play with Your Food'', which features a chapter purported to be a story for children. It starts with an extremely overly sugary opening to a Halloween story... before breaking off to explain that, now that the grown-ups have all left, they can get to the point, which is of course a [[BloodyHilarious bloody trick to play on one's parents]].

* ShellGame: They are ''very'' good at this. Teller is so fast at three-card monte it's a good thing he doesn't try to scam people. In the music video "It's Tricky" by ''Music/RunDMC'', Penn & Teller are running a three-card monte con game. One of the victims calls up the Run-DMC, who arrive by helicopter and handle the situation in their own unique manner. Interestingly, Penn and Teller do their homework into how this scam runs. If you watch closely, there's a man with a mustache, wearing a hat and overcoat, who's encouraging the mark to keep betting money. He's their shill. When the scene opens, you can see him looking around, watching for the police. When the police do arrive and Penn and Teller make their escape, you can see him quickly leave in the opposite direction. That's how the scam works in RealLife.

* TheTelevisionTalksBack: A Penn & Teller variation of the old "is this your card?" trick is designed to be done with the TV on in the background. The person doing the trick holds up a card -- "Is this your card?" -- and it isn't... and then a moment later the guy on the TV stops what he's doing, holds up a card, and says "Is ''this'' your card?" -- and it is.

* TheVoiceless: Teller's on-stage persona[[note]]developed because he began his career performing in front of drunk frat boys and staying silent helped with his nervousness[[/note]]. He does actually speak on stage and on camera, albeit very rarely, but it's usually hidden one way or another, to maintain the illusion that he never does. Offstage is a different story, as he and Penn have meet-and-greets after every show for anyone who wants an autograph or picture, and Teller talks to people quite openly, since the act is over for the night.

** Teller largely maintained his silence during the ''Magic and Mystery Tour'' but he found an encounter with an Egyptian magician to be so moving[[note]]the magician was performing the cups and balls trick but, knowing that Teller was a fellow magician, threw is twists and played with Teller's expectations, which Teller enjoyed and appreciated[[/note]] that he had to speak on camera to share his thoughts.

** In a live television card-knife trick, Teller [[SuddenlySpeaking audibly tells Penn]], "shut up."

** At the end of Film/PennAndTellerGetKilled, [[spoiler:after Teller accidently shoots Penn and kills him.]]

->'''[[PickACard Is]] [[https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/series-suit-clubs-common-deck-cards-all-images-black-background-three-clubs-playing-card-175254042.jpg this]] [[PickACard your card?]]

Penn & Teller are an American double-act, comedians and stage magicians, with a regular gig at the Rio Hotel and Casino in UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

* OhMyGods: One of Penn's exclamations is "Jesus haploid Christ!", referring to the fact that since Jesus had a biological mother but no biological father, he would only have half of the normal set of chromosomes. (Note that Penn is most decidedly ''not'' Christian.) It also counts as ArtisticLicenseBiology, because ''if'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Mammals parthenogenesis]] (virgin birth) works in humans[[note]] Several animals, including bees and some types of lizard, are able to produce offspring from unfertilized eggs; theoretically this ''could'' be possible in humans, but it has never been observed in anything approaching a scientific study [[/note]], this is ''not'' how it would work and it could never produce male offspring as women have two X chromosomes whereas men have an X and Y

[[caption-width-right:350:The big guy distracts you so you won't watch the little guy...]]

** Two episodes of ''[[Series/TheDrewCareyShow]]'' as lawyers Fenn and Geller.