Top Ten Contingency Plans for a Magic Trick Gone Awry

  1. Explain that she won’t levitate because she’s heavy with sin.
  2. Accuse lovely assistant of sabotage
  3. Magically, the rings are attached and won’t ever come apart!”
  4. “Okay, you do it!”
  5. “And now I shall make an ambulance appear.”
  6. Just say, “Did you miss it?”
  7. “What you didn’t know was that that half was horribly infected with gangrene.”
  8. Rabbit stew
  9. “Don’t worry, folks, he was evil.”
  10. “Is this not your card?”