Professor's Nightmare Patter

[tim]

I'm wondering about what kind of patter people are using for Professor's Nightmare. Looking for some ideas and concepts out of that which you employ.

[TJ]

The theme of Diversity is good for this trick.

We are all shapes and sizes on the outside, but when one truely looks closely, we are all the same.

[Saxlampouxlas]

Here you are my friend.

Penguin Magic :: View topic - Equal Unequal Rope Patter/ Professors night mare PATTER
Magic Magazine Column-June 2002-Professor's Nightmare
Hope you find there what you are looking for.

[Harpoetta]

Hi Mister.

My dad does this one a lot. What he does for patter is just tell the audience what they are seeing, but give them way too much info (he does this with almost all of his tricks). He says "If you can't baffle them with brilliance, then confuse them with too much extra stuff to say." If you give your audience too much to think about, they can't reconstruct what they see with what you say.

Tell them 'You put the short end of the long rope right here so that it's even. Now "Even with what?" you say. even with the short end of the not-so-long-not-so-short rope, sometimes known as Madame Zelda. then you take the short end of the short piece of rope.' (Pretends that the guy holding the short rope has it up-side down.) 'The short end of the short piece of rope, pay attention, and put that even with the not-so-long-not-so-short rope.'

That's only a short part of his routine, but you get the idea.

[Fitzwilly]

I believe I posted one or both the routines I regularly use with the Professor's Nightmare elsewhere in the Forum awhile back but a little repetition, I said a little repetition, never hurts.

1) Do you boys and girls always pay really good attention to mommy and daddy? I try to I really do but I just get so excited that sometimes I don't pay as much attention as I think I do and I get things just a little bit mixed up. The other day my magician friend was going to teach me a new magic trick, I love learning new things don't you? And I love magic so I was so excited. Well he told me to go cut three pieces of magic rope. (PAUSE, then slowly) I didn't hear him say they all needed to be the same size. (SHOW ropes) He wasn't too happy. I tried to stretch the short rope but it didn't get any longer, good thing I still had the scissors, right? I could just take them and cut the long ones so they... "STOP!" He didn't like that idea. He said "Do you think money grows on trees?" Why would he ask me that? Then he said "You can't just waste magic rope like that!" Then he took the ropes away and told me that he was going to show me one more time how to fix mistakes, but that I really needed to slow down and pay a little more attention.....

That is the basic set up for the first one. The second is more of a feel good about who you are type storyline. There were three frogs, there was a frog with a real long tongue and he could catch flys that were a long way away, then there was a frog with a real short tongue and he could only catch those flies that came really close, and then there was their cool cousin Jake. Jake had a medium length tongue that was longer than the short tongue and shorter than the long tongue. Well the frogs were unhappy that their tongues were differentm they wanted to be just like Jake.... You should get the idea. Well when their tongues are all the same length they all go after the same flies and their tongues get tied in knots so the wise old man returns and fixes then like they were at the beginning and made sure they realized that they were each made the way they were for a reason and they were each special.

[Bumbles]

I like the one with the frogs, it teachs a good lesson without the possibility of hurting anyones feelings.

[Willace-the-Clown]

this might be late but Professor's nightmare is my fav rope trick the ones i use look like Shoe Laces so this is what i say ending changes depending on if i'm in the hospital or at a party or some other type of show

"Yesterday I went & bought some Shoelaces. It was buy two get one free & I cant pass up a deal, but when I got home they were all differint sizes"

Ending in Hospital
"Well i'm hoping since your so good with the magic maybe you can help me"

Ending everywhere Else
" I think I know what to do. I just line all these up & do my fav magic word Googymoo & they are all the same size"

[Ruby]

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. a borrow from E. E. Cummings. Aren't you glad we can make others laugh.

[Fitzwilly]

But Ruby... It should be... e. e. cummings.

[Chance Marmalade]

Chaplin said "A day without laughter is a day wasted."