The Frogs, the Fish, and the Bowl of Water: A modernized method to effortlessly produce live fish.
The Broken and Restored Clay Pipe: A broken and restored party horn makes for a funny, and
surprising, emcee gag.
The Fu Manchu bag escape is one of the absolute best parlor/platform
effects. I had previously seen it performed, and was completely fooled. The method is very clever,
it is easy to perform and inexpensive to put together. This alone makes the lesson 5 stars.
The arts and crafts on the coffee, milk and sugar production lead to some really useful utility
props. Just Dan showing us the readily available and inexpensive pieces and how to gaff then is
quite valuable.
There is also an effect that ends with a solid deck (presaging so many
later gaffs). The routine is decent as well.
I was not a fan of the egg bag effect.
As always, Dan does an outstanding job of explanation and routining.