9.7/108 votesLoading...#1 - There's Life in Here
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2018
Michael gives a confused woman the license to speed at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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9.3/1011 votesLoading...#2 - Cat Lady
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2019
At auditions, Michael wows directors with costume changes but cracks when he sings; things get sticky when he demos flying post-its; Michael's co-worker's jaw drops when a shape-shifting tenant returns while they clean house.
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9.3/108 votesLoading...#3 - Lipstick and the Flying Nun
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2019
While working at an antique shop, Michael unpacks an item with a message from beyond and a problem-solving toy puzzles his co-worker. Plus, Michael works a fundraiser where a painting raises not just money but the body of a nun.
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9.3/108 votesLoading...#4 - Pink Slime
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2019
While working at a book store, Michael feeds some book worms. Plus, Michael serves food and gives new meaning to the term "grass fed beef". Then, at a food testing center, Michael spooks his assistant when an experiment takes a new shape.
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9.3/108 votesLoading...#5 - Chilly Flakes and Wormholes
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2019
Michael works in a spice shop and gets the icy treatment with his take on "chilly flakes". Plus at a hotel, he cleans a spill with his phone. And then, at an abandoned house, Michael amazes his assistant when he climbs through a wormhole.
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9.3/108 votesLoading...#6 - Popcorn Pants
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/2019
Michael delivers a shock in a shipping store when packaged wine tips over and gets the bubble wrap tipsy. At a popcorn shop, Michael dons the latest kernel fashions. Later, at a theater, he stuns his helper when a trick jumps off the screen.
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9.2/108 votesLoading...#7 - Vegan Plant
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2018
Michael feeds a cannibalistic plant at a garden center.
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9.2/107 votesLoading...#8 - Sorcery or Science
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2019
Michael sweetens a woman's day at a candy store when a chocolate bunny eats here ring.
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9.2/107 votesLoading...#9 - Fight or Flight
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2019
While working at a cheese store, Michael milks the reaction of a woman stunned by breeding brie.
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9.2/107 votesLoading...#10 - Dummy Talks
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/2019
At an appliance store, a man goes bananas over Michael's self stocking fridge.
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9.1/109 votesLoading...#11 - The Snowball
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2018
Michael visits a ski shop to demonstrate the latest in winter gear; a hat that also makes hot cocoa.
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9.0/108 votesLoading...#12 - A Similar Rock Energy
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/2017
Michael is back in Chicago to hash out new ideas in a hemp store, but it's not until he inspects a spooky church that people start getting stoned, literally. Plus, Michael teams up with special guest star, Jack Black!
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9.0/1010 votesLoading...#13 - The Food Flattener
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/5/2018
At a cooking class, Michael gets crabby when chopping salad and brings the heat to instantly cook a meatball with his breath.
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9.0/109 votesLoading...#14 - Prehistoric Fossil Breeding
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/2018
Michael schools a man on fish fossil breeding at a rock store.
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8.9/109 votesLoading...#15 - Total Face Rejuvenation
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/17/2018
Michael shocks a receptionist with a medical procedure that leaves both their jaws on the floor.
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8.9/1012 votesLoading...#16 - Relax the Back
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/24/2018
Michael shocks people with every trick in the book at a library, including a voice-controlled page turner.
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8.9/109 votesLoading...#17 - Simon Soft
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/14/2018
Michael turns iced tea into a tea candle.
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8.9/1010 votesLoading...#18 - Dr. Bones
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/12/2018
Michael explores the true depth of a deep-dish pizza.
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8.8/1013 votesLoading...#19 - You’ve Been Marked
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/7/2018
Michael shows off a seashell from the seashore, that still has the seashore in it.
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8.6/1032 votesLoading...#20 - A Problem with Chocolate Turtles and Seeds
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/15/2014
Posing as a cashier, Michael makes a shopper's face appear on a milk carton and tries to convince her that she really is a missing person. Then, in a shipping store he has customers believing that impossible technology of the future has arrived, like a bowling ball that can be mailed in a flat box. Plus, he has a hotel guest questioning her identity when he swaps her ID, and stumps a valet when he does a disappearing act from his car.
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8.6/1026 votesLoading...#21 - A Faux Pas to Wear
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/27/2014
Michael stuns shoppers with a remarkably advanced antique that self-tailors clothes and a chalkboard that solves mathematical equations.
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8.6/1011 votesLoading...#22 - Kind of Like a Seafoam Green
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/2017
Michael shows some unsuspecting shoppers how to manipulate solid objects, and he reveals the truth about automatic vacuums; one employee's shift at a camping store becomes very colorful and confusing.
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8.6/1010 votesLoading...#23 - Whippit
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 6/28/2018
In an ice cream shop, Michael whips up a mind-boggling app.
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8.5/1045 votesLoading...#24 - Got the Bug Out
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2014
Posing as a technician, Michael literally "gets the bug out" of a customer's phone and has him convinced it was in there all along.
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8.5/1034 votesLoading...#25 - Out of Bounce
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/29/2014
Too good to be true toys; Michael poses as a personal trainer who sweats a bucket-full; a disappearing car makes a security guard panic.
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The Best Episodes of The Carbonaro Effect
Every episode of The Carbonaro Effect ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Carbonaro Effect!
Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on...
Genre:Comedy
Network:truTV
Best Episodes Summary
"There's Life in Here" is the best rated episode of "The Carbonaro Effect". It scored 9.7/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/13/2018. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cat Lady".