Scam School
If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again!
Seasons
1. The Human Chimney
Air Date: 2008-04-06
From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!
2. The Puzzle
Air Date: 2008-04-07
Effect: a hard-as-balls puzzle, that will drive everyone nuts and win you some free booze!
3. Bang Your Head
Air Date: 2008-04-08
Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight.
4. The Mirror
Air Date: 2008-04-10
For this effect we've dressed up a straight-up old school bar scam. Here's the simple presentation for the classic "you do as I do" effect: Bet a friend he can't copy everything you do.
5. How to Stick Your Friends to the Bar
Air Date: 2008-04-17
This clever trick uses a pint of beer and two willing thumbs to handcuff your friend (or enemy) to the bar, while you take his keys, wallet, girlfriend and more.
6. The Lift
Air Date: 2008-04-24
Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.
7. The Race
Air Date: 2008-05-01
Effect: Bet your friend that you can drink 2 pints of beer before he can drink two shots of his favorite liquor.
8. Nim
Air Date: 2008-05-08
Effect: Play a game with your friend that you can always win.
9. The Jack-O-Lantern
Air Date: 2008-05-15
Placing a lit match inside your mouth, you do a very convincing impression of a grinning jack-o-lantern...all without burning yourself.
10. Circumference vs. Height
Air Date: 2008-05-22
This episode tests your visual perception. Which is more? The circumference of the rim of a pint glass, or the height of the pint glass from the bottom to the top?
11. Static Charge Match
Air Date: 2008-05-29
Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump into the air.
12. Straw Teepee Puzzle
Air Date: 2008-06-05
Effect: Amaze fellow bar patrons by picking up two straws using only one other straw.
13. Cigarette Out On Tongue
Air Date: 2008-06-12
This one's like a playground dare gone too far...
14. Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (1)
Air Date: 2008-06-19
Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!
15. Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (2)
Air Date: 2008-06-26
This is the second and final half of Brian's opening act for Diggnation in NY.
16. Scam Hot Chicks at the Bar
Air Date: 2008-07-03
A guaranteed, never fail way to get the hottest girls at the bar to talk with you for at least 20 minutes.
17. Code Drink
Air Date: 2008-07-10
Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision
18. BUSTED! 6 Matches and 4 Triangles puzzle
Air Date: 2008-07-17
Watch the Master finally get beat at his own game!
19. The Amazing Whiskey/Water Trick
Air Date: 2008-07-24
Apply high school physics to amaze your friends and win free drinks.
20. Quicksilver Matches
Air Date: 2008-07-31
It's Magic 101. Can you mimic the master?
21. Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks
Air Date: 2008-08-07
All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night!
22. Fast and Loose
Air Date: 2008-08-14
This game goes by a bunch of names: "fast and loose," "pricking the garter," "the endless chain," "the strap..." The object is simple: a chain is laid in a figure-eight configuration. One of the holes is the true center of the chain and will hold "fast," while the other will not hold, and is instead "loose".
23. The Ash
Air Date: 2008-08-21
Effect: Let an entire cigarette burn without the ash falling.
24. From the Forums
Air Date: 2008-08-28
This week Brian steps out of the bar, and into the Revision3 studios to deliver an episode straight from the Forums!
25. The Key Card
Air Date: 2008-09-04
Effect: This card trick is quite possible responsible for more free beers than any other in history. It's not just a magic trick, it's a cleverly-laid trap guaranteed to win you a frosty cold one.
26. The Equation
Air Date: 2008-09-11
A stumper of a puzzle‚ using only 4th grade math.
27. Cheesy Beer Gags
Air Date: 2008-09-18
As you know by now, we here at Scam School pride ourselves on giving you only the very best bar scams. Today we break our streak, and instead present you with four stupid beer gags.
28. Mind Control Scam
Air Date: 2008-09-25
A brand new illusion that will trick your friends into believing in MIND CONTROL.
29. Dan Martin's Match Trick
Air Date: 2008-10-02
A new take on an old-time match trick
30. Controlled Cards
Air Date: 2008-10-09
We've taught you how to scam, swindle, and steal... but we have yet to give you any actual talent. That all changes in this episode. We're going to teach you not only how to control a card to the bottom of the deck, but how to use that talent for a sweet little card trick.
31. How to Predict the Future!
Air Date: 2008-10-16
What's better than a card trick? Predicting the FREAKING FUTURE, which is exactly what you'll do in this scam. We call it Pigment Prediction.
32. The 11 cent slide to TWICE as many free drinks!
Air Date: 2008-10-23
If you liked the four-quarter puzzle from Episode 2 (appropriately named, "The Puzzle"), you're going to LOVE the 11-Cent Slide. It's every bit as diabolical and unsolvable as the 4-quarter puzzle, but it has an added twist that should net you TWICE the beers of any other puzzle.
33. From the Forums - Part 2!
Air Date: 2008-10-30
This week Brian is back in the Revision 3 studios another "From the Forums episode"!
34. It's In the Bank
Air Date: 2008-11-06
This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.
35. Stick It To 'Em with The Funnel
Air Date: 2008-11-13
We present the atomic bomb of sucker gags: The Funnel!
36. Are You Dead or Alive?
Air Date: 2008-11-20
As a conversation starter, Brian shows you how to use two toothpicks to detect a pulse.
37. You're Always a Winner with Advance Nim
Air Date: 2008-11-27
Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!
38. A Few Pennies for a Beer!
Air Date: 2008-12-04
No matter what the setup, the very best scams are the ones that let the mark think they're on top, only to get punked in the end. That's what makes the penny prediction so great!
39. How to Stick a Nail Up Your Nose
Air Date: 2008-12-11
Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose? This time he shows you how it works!
40. Money, a Short Con and Crime = Short Change
Air Date: 2008-12-18
This episode, we're turning to the dark side and learning actual CRIME. Remember, the following is for INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!
41. Scam Hot Ladies at the Bar (Part 2)!
Air Date: 2008-12-25
A while back, we taught you the importance of using easy, beatable puzzles to keep girls talking to you at the bar. Our Holiday gift to you is another set of "getting the girl" routines!
1. How to Rip a Phonebook in Half!
Air Date: 2009-01-01
The tables are turned on Brian, as he is the student learning from the ultimate master of strength!
2. Another Short Con with a Magic Bill
Air Date: 2009-01-08
We've covered a few magic tricks, and we've covered a few street crimes. This episode we're going to combine the two and get a magic trick that acts as a smokescreen for an actual crime.
3. How to predict the future using dominoes!
Air Date: 2009-01-15
It's true: you can never have too much money, have too many friends, or know too many ways to predict the freaking future.
4. How to bend a thick nail or wrench with your bare hands!
Air Date: 2009-01-22
We're back with another dirty trick, designed to teach you how to FAKE your way into (almost) duplicating the feats of the world's strongest men.
5. Use 6 Coins to get 1 FREE Drink!
Air Date: 2009-01-29
Brian introduces a new diabolical coin puzzle to stump your friends.
6. The trick that fooled Einstein
Air Date: 2009-02-05
Watch Brian scam Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley with a few coins, and some algebra!
7. How to Magically Bend a Horseshoe With Your Bare Hands!
Air Date: 2009-02-12
Watch Brian make you think he can use his bare hands to bend a horseshoe and to roll a frying pan!
8. Easy card trick called The Spelling Bee
Air Date: 2009-02-19
It's rare to find a trick that you can actually fool yourself with...and that's exactly what you get with this episode!
9. Fake Telepathy and Scam School in SPACE!
Air Date: 2009-02-26
We made it! 50 episodes of Scam School! YEE-HAW!! You learn fake ESP powers and we show you the Mind Control trick from outer space!
10. Be a Strongman and Learn Four Feats of Strength!
Air Date: 2009-03-05
Welcome to graduation! This is your senior year of Strength School, co-hosted by world record holder and supreme bad ass, Dennis Rogers!
11. We give you the power of Telekinesis!
Air Date: 2009-03-12
Make everyone believe you can move an object with your freakin' mind!
12. Brian Live and Direct from Austin and SXSW
Air Date: 2009-03-18
Watch Brian open for Diggnation with an unforgettable live show from Austin, TX at Stubb's Bar-B-Q!!
13. Learn how to eat some balls of fire!
Air Date: 2009-03-25
Impress everyone at the next party you attend by learning a simple fire eating trick!
14. Watch Cali Lewis, Tony Hsieh and Jay Adelson get scammed!
Air Date: 2009-04-01
Brian performs some magic tricks in front of some big wig web celebs!
15. The Vanishing Card Trick
Air Date: 2009-04-08
Learn how to make a card vanish and land in the most unlikely location.
16. Be a Pool Shark!
Air Date: 2009-04-15
It's crazy to say it, but we're a year into Scam School, and only now are getting around to addressing one of the biggest, most popular items in any bar: the pool table.
17. An Easy Mix Match Card Trick
Air Date: 2009-04-22
This week, a card effect that requires no dexterity or skill whatsoever, and (best of all), uses only 10 cards out of the deck!
18. Learn the Kung-Fu Match Trap Scam!
Air Date: 2009-04-29
From Scam School fan "Cowboy" in the UK, comes the most insidious, diabolical, GENIUS prank Brian has seen since the quarter-on-forehead scam!
19. Get lucky, ridiculously lucky with two new card tricks!
Air Date: 2009-05-07
If you're comfortable with taking a little risk for a chance at a HUGE reward, you're going to love this week's episode.
20. Three caps, one beverage
Air Date: 2009-05-13
This week, we've got a simple puzzle with an impossible-sounding setup.
21. Crack the Government Conspiracy!
Air Date: 2009-05-20
Brian hangs out with the crew from CO-OP and schools them on how to uncover a conspiracy theory!
22. Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Brian's SXSW Panel) (1)
Air Date: 2009-05-27
Get ready to learn how to scam your way into anything, or anyone!
23. Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Plus Bonus Q and A!) (2)
Air Date: 2009-06-04
The second half of Brian's "Scam Your Way Into Anything" panel record from SXSW Interactive!
24. Break out of police issued handcuffs!
Air Date: 2009-06-10
Because sooner or later, every scammer finds himself in a pair of handcuffs.
25. Two killer close up performances from Brian!
Air Date: 2009-06-17
Here it is! Our final SXSW episode, where you'll see Brian scam and be scammed by Digg CEO Jay Adelson and astronaut/ubergeek Richard Garriott.
26. The House of Nails Trick
Air Date: 2009-06-24
This week a puzzle (involving nails) that stumped Brian!
1. Blow Hard Scam
Air Date: 2010-01-06
Bottle bet makes 'em look goofy AND win you a free drink
2. Use Non-Transitive Dice to cheat your friends!
Air Date: 2010-01-13
Math paradox lets you cheat your friends
3. Psychic Matchbooks
Air Date: 2010-01-20
3 simple matchbooks for a mental miracle and an easy free drink!
4. The Hot Seat Card Trick
Air Date: 2010-01-27
This week: a killer card trick, complete with a twist at the end... this card trick works BETTER because it screws up!
5. The Brain-Drain Telepathy Trick
Air Date: 2010-02-03
It's a real-life Vulcan mind-meld!
6. The Birthday Scam and our 100th Episode extravaganza!
Air Date: 2010-02-10
For our 100th episode, we've got a statistical scam that sounds impossible.
7. Dime in Bottle Scam
Air Date: 2010-02-17
Get two puzzles for the price of one!
8. Leverage!
Air Date: 2010-02-24
Use leverage to make your friends look dumb!
9. Heads/Tails Trick! Read Their Minds Using the Change in Their Pocket!
Air Date: 2010-03-03
Amazing trick reads minds with NO trick coins, NO secret helpers... and no cheating!
10. The Magician-Killer Card Trick
Air Date: 2010-03-10
Easy trick fools magicians!
11. How to throw cards like Gambit!
Air Date: 2010-03-17
Hurl playing cards 50 feet at a time! Fling them hard enough to break water balloons, or even embed them into aluminum sheeting!
12. Live from Stubbs BBQ in Austin - 2010!
Air Date: 2010-03-24
Check out Brian's live show from Austin, as he opened for Diggnation!
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Rating
0.0/10
Release Date
2008-04-06
Episodes
79 (3 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
Cast
Production Companies
Revision3