Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Teller: Self - Host (segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice")

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• Penn : [introducing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"]  Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a moment, if we may, to talk about a little something we like to refer to as magic.

  Teller : [finger quotes] 

  Penn : Uh, picture this. You're at home, hosting a birthday party for your daughter, and you've just shelled out 50 bucks so some pathetic loser can pull a mangy rabbit out of a flea market hat. At first, you might wonder to yourself, "How did he do that?" But then *you* would probably just dismiss it as some sort of a trick. And you know something? You'd be right! It's just a trick! It's an example of what we laughingly refer to as "stage magic." We're here to tell you that all stage magic is a fraud, a hoax, a sham. It's all based on deception and, yep, *lyin'*! All of it. Sleight of hand...

  Teller : [pulling out cards] 

  Penn : Lies! Transformations?

  Teller : [pulls out an axe] 

  Penn : Fraud! Dismemberment?

  Teller : [cuts a fake hand] 

  Penn : Rip-off! Fake! All are illusions. What we're here to talk about is real magic. We're gonna bring out a guy now who's the real deal, the genuine article. In fact, he taught us everything we know. And he is featured prominently in the next sequence from the original Fantasia, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Y-You know, come to think of it, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a - is, is a little guy who, uh - who never speaks and just kinda messes everything up...

  Teller : [cuts Penn's hair] 

  Penn : [quietly]  Like him. And now...

  Teller : [interrupts Penn] 

  Penn : Wha - And now, the...

  Teller : [pulls out a rabbit] 

  Penn : Oh. Hi. Hi, little fella. I gotta - I gotta - And now, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."