Show Info

Status: Returning Series
First Aired: April 6, 2008
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 79
Networks: Revision3
Genres: Documentary

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Scam School(2008)

TMDB Rating: 8.0 (1 votes)

Overview

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!

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Season 1

41 episodes • 2008

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Human Chimney	Apr 6, 2008
2	The Puzzle	Apr 7, 2008
3	Bang Your Head	Apr 8, 2008
4	The Mirror	Apr 10, 2008
5	How to Stick Your Friends to the Bar	Apr 17, 2008
6	The Lift	Apr 24, 2008
7	The Race	May 1, 2008
8	Nim	May 8, 2008
9	The Jack-O-Lantern	May 15, 2008
10	Circumference vs. Height	May 22, 2008
11	Static Charge Match	May 29, 2008
12	Straw Teepee Puzzle	Jun 5, 2008
13	Cigarette Out On Tongue	Jun 12, 2008
14	Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (1)	Jun 19, 2008
15	Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (2)	Jun 26, 2008
16	Scam Hot Chicks at the Bar	Jul 3, 2008
17	Code Drink	Jul 10, 2008
18	BUSTED! 6 Matches and 4 Triangles puzzle	Jul 17, 2008
19	The Amazing Whiskey/Water Trick	Jul 24, 2008
20	Quicksilver Matches	Jul 31, 2008
21	Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks	Aug 7, 2008
22	Fast and Loose	Aug 14, 2008
23	The Ash	Aug 21, 2008
24	From the Forums	Aug 28, 2008
25	The Key Card	Sep 4, 2008
26	The Equation	Sep 11, 2008
27	Cheesy Beer Gags	Sep 18, 2008
28	Mind Control Scam	Sep 25, 2008
29	Dan Martin's Match Trick	Oct 2, 2008
30	Controlled Cards	Oct 9, 2008
31	How to Predict the Future!	Oct 16, 2008
32	The 11 cent slide to TWICE as many free drinks!	Oct 23, 2008
33	From the Forums - Part 2!	Oct 30, 2008
34	It's In the Bank	Nov 6, 2008
35	Stick It To 'Em with The Funnel	Nov 13, 2008
36	Are You Dead or Alive?	Nov 20, 2008
37	You're Always a Winner with Advance Nim	Nov 27, 2008
38	A Few Pennies for a Beer!	Dec 4, 2008
39	How to Stick a Nail Up Your Nose	Dec 11, 2008
40	Money, a Short Con and Crime = Short Change	Dec 18, 2008
41	Scam Hot Ladies at the Bar (Part 2)!	Dec 25, 2008

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Season 2

26 episodes • 2009

#	Episode	Air Date
1	How to Rip a Phonebook in Half!	Jan 1, 2009
2	Another Short Con with a Magic Bill	Jan 8, 2009
3	How to predict the future using dominoes!	Jan 15, 2009
4	How to bend a thick nail or wrench with your bare hands!	Jan 22, 2009
5	Use 6 Coins to get 1 FREE Drink!	Jan 29, 2009
6	The trick that fooled Einstein	Feb 5, 2009
7	How to Magically Bend a Horseshoe With Your Bare Hands!	Feb 12, 2009
8	Easy card trick called The Spelling Bee	Feb 19, 2009
9	Fake Telepathy and Scam School in SPACE!	Feb 26, 2009
10	Be a Strongman and Learn Four Feats of Strength!	Mar 5, 2009
11	We give you the power of Telekinesis!	Mar 12, 2009
12	Brian Live and Direct from Austin and SXSW	Mar 18, 2009
13	Learn how to eat some balls of fire!	Mar 25, 2009
14	Watch Cali Lewis, Tony Hsieh and Jay Adelson get scammed!	Apr 1, 2009
15	The Vanishing Card Trick	Apr 8, 2009
16	Be a Pool Shark!	Apr 15, 2009
17	An Easy Mix Match Card Trick	Apr 22, 2009
18	Learn the Kung-Fu Match Trap Scam!	Apr 29, 2009
19	Get lucky, ridiculously lucky with two new card tricks!	May 7, 2009
20	Three caps, one beverage	May 13, 2009
21	Crack the Government Conspiracy!	May 20, 2009
22	Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Brian's SXSW Panel) (1)	May 27, 2009
23	Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Plus Bonus Q and A!) (2)	Jun 4, 2009
24	Break out of police issued handcuffs!	Jun 10, 2009
25	Two killer close up performances from Brian!	Jun 17, 2009
26	The House of Nails Trick	Jun 24, 2009

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Season 3

12 episodes • 2010

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Blow Hard Scam	Jan 6, 2010
2	Use Non-Transitive Dice to cheat your friends!	Jan 13, 2010
3	Psychic Matchbooks	Jan 20, 2010
4	The Hot Seat Card Trick	Jan 27, 2010
5	The Brain-Drain Telepathy Trick	Feb 3, 2010
6	The Birthday Scam and our 100th Episode extravaganza!	Feb 10, 2010
7	Dime in Bottle Scam	Feb 17, 2010
8	Leverage!	Feb 24, 2010
9	Heads/Tails Trick! Read Their Minds Using the Change in Their Pocket!	Mar 3, 2010
10	The Magician-Killer Card Trick	Mar 10, 2010
11	How to throw cards like Gambit!	Mar 17, 2010
12	Live from Stubbs BBQ in Austin - 2010!	Mar 24, 2010

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