Luxor Light
Season 3, Episode 1 TV-PG
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In the mind-blowing third season opener Criss will astonish viewers by taking levitation to an unprecedented level--attempting to float more than 500 feet above ground over one of only two man-made objects that can be seen from space--the 800 degree light beam that sits atop his new home the Las Vegas' Luxor Hotel and Casino. Additionally, Criss will float down from the 26th floor of the Luxor atrium into a crowd in the lobby recreate his first-ever levitation by floating his now 72-year-old mother on a broomstick. Viewers will also get a glimpse into Criss' preparations for his Cirque due Soleil live show and find out what happens when A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter drops in for a special visit.
Prisoner Transport Escape
Season 3, Episode 2 TV-PG
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After being locked in a mailbag, Criss will attempt to escape a caged truck filled with explosives as it races towards the edge of a cliff. Then he visits a golf course and shows off some golfing skills that even Tiger Woods would envy. He uses his unique powers on the fairways and putting greens, and shocks a group of golfers by levitating high over the course and the trees.
Steamroller
Season 3, Episode 3 TV-PG
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In this episode, Criss lies on a bed of broken glass as a steamroller rolls over his body. Criss will also produce a beautiful woman from a box of merchandise. He performs street magic where he bends a quarter in his mouth and makes a card appear in a lit cigar. Special guest Jason Hervey from The Wonder Years.
Motorhead
Season 3, Episode 4 TV-PG
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Criss' obsession with cars and motorcycles has been well established in previous episodes, and now Criss has some great, new illusions focused around his favorite hobby. Criss will highlight some of the sickest cars, trucks and bikes in his illusions. He morphs a Bentley into a Lamborghini, builds up to the Lambo vanish starting with high-speed go-karts, and will try to move everyday objects from one area to another while unsuspecting fans look on in awe. The finale comes when for the first time ever, Criss will vanish a moving object. While driving his Lamborghini at a high rate of speed, he defies physics by making it disappear.
Screwed
Season 3, Episode 5 TV-PG
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Criss transforms a little girl into an adult woman and eats his pet mouse, shocking his friend Jamie Kennedy. In the final demonstration of this episode, Criss actually balances on two upright standing screwdrivers, and then proceeds to walk on row of them while barefoot.
Animal 2
Season 3, Episode 6 TV-PG
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Criss loves animals -- and loves to amaze us with his incredible animal illusions. Last season, Criss made an elephant vanish, and in this episode, he'll try to make the pachyderm reappear. Criss also visits Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden, where he turns a cage handler into a full-sized tiger, and transforms a full-grown dog into a cuddly puppy.
Quad Drag Escape
Season 3, Episode 7 TV-PG
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Criss prepares to be bound and dragged by an ATV while trying to escape in the Excalibur arena. Distracted by news of his mother's emergency heart surgery, Criss is unable to concentrate and faces the risk of seriously hurting himself. This episode also includes a demonstration of the art of costume quick-change, floating a coffee cup and the disappearance and reappearance of a woman's wedding ring.
Raging Bull
Season 3, Episode 8 TV-PG
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This episode of MINDFREAK revolves around an alter ego of Criss Angel, a Traveling Salesman. Disguised as "Justin Case", Criss goes door-to-door and town-to-town amazing people with his bottomless suitcase, which he surprisingly retrieves items such as a ladder, a broom and a shovel. Criss levitates above a lawn sprinkler before levitating an admiring fan. Criss goes shopping with Flavor Flav and changes a pile of $1 bills to a stack of $100 individual bills. The episode escalates when Criss reveals to his mother he's going to attempt to vanish before being speared by a raging Mexican bull.
Car Crash Escape
Season 3, Episode 9 TV-PG
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Hang onto your seat, because Criss will be chained to the side of a parked car filled with explosives, and then try to escape before a second speeding car plows into him. Also, he'll make a chopper bike appear from nowhere in the middle of an empty parking lot.
Sucker #2
Season 3, Episode 10 TV-PG
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In Season 2, Criss introduced viewers to some of the biggest scams ever perpetrated. This season, Criss reveals even more scams as he exposes psychics and divulges their secrets. He also shows techniques that card cheats use and other common scams when he sticks friends with the bill at a restaurant and appears to lose his expensive necklace. Also, at the end of the show, Criss will reveal the ultimate secret that unlocks the key to attaining anything you desire: sex, riches and power.
Drowned
Season 3, Episode 11 TV-PG
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Criss tests his endurance as he attempts to escape mental institution restraints while wrapped tight in sheets, strapped on a gurney, in front of a live audience. Criss also levitates a manhole cover weighing over 100 pounds. For the first time ever, Criss runs into some serious trouble attempting one of Houdini's famous water escapes.
Naked Jail Escape
Season 3, Episode 12 TV-PG
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The greatest and most famous magician ever, Harry Houdini, remains one of Criss Angel's significant influences. Criss pays homage to the master by recreating some of his most incredible escapes and fantastical feats, but with a Mindfreak twist. In one, Criss is completely disrobed to show there are no hidden keys or picks and must escape a jail cell before a mob of fans busts in on him in his birthday suit. Criss will also attempt some of Houdini's favorite tricks, ones that have baffled the masters, and will even teach the viewers a trick from the Houdini spell book. For the first time ever, Criss runs into some serious trouble attempting some of Houdini's famous water escapes.
Burning Man
Season 3, Episode 13 TV-PG
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When a bag of chips becomes lodged in a snack machine, Criss puts his hand through the glass. Criss and the crew travel away from the hustle and bustle of city life to visit a dude ranch. Criss tills the land and entertains ranchers by hypnotizing chickens and bringing a scarecrow to life. He levitates a friend around a campfire. The episode culminates as illusionist Jeff McBride takes Criss on a rite of passage with drums, dancing, and a dangerous feats involving fire.
Rollercoaster Thru Criss
Season 3, Episode 14 TV-PG
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In front of the Luxor Hotel, Criss enables a random bystander to crawl `through' his body. In this episode, the viewer gets an insider's look into Criss' suite and model train collection. Criss breaks and restores a restaurant patron's necklace leading up to the finale where we find Criss tied to the tracks of a speeding roller coaster. Will he escape or will the coaster pass right through him?
Underwater Car Escape
Season 3, Episode 15 TV-PG
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Criss takes from Sully, Godsmack's watch, and smashes it to bits with a hammer. He then produces that same watch, undamaged, to the relieved Sully. There is more mayhem in the arcade when Criss draws a picture that starts talking to startled kids. Criss convinces Carrot Top that a trick has gone wrong and mistakenly chops off his finger. Then he shows an adoring Luxor employee his superhuman strength as he levitates a heavy manhole cover hovering below one hand. The episode culminates as Criss remembers his uncle who drowned as his car slid off the road into a watery ditch. In a tribute to his uncle, Criss is tied and locked in the trunk of a car as it is lowered into a lake. Criss must escape or face the same doom as his uncle.
The Loyal
Season 3, Episode 16 TV-PG
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In this episode Criss surprises and shocks his most fanatical supporters, referred to as "The Loyal". These fans discuss some of the craziest things they've done to meet him. Criss hosts a MINDFREAK style game show testing their knowledge of the MINDFREAK series and sends a lucky winner on a trip to Barbados. The episode culminates when Angel makes a new car appear from thin air, giving it to one of his most Loyal fans.
Mentalism
Season 3, Episode 17 TV-PG
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Mentalism is the use of one's mind to conduct para-psychological activities such as telepathy and mind reading. Criss has certainly been well versed in these areas of psychology and takes his powers out into the public. First, he takes a shot at being a human lie detector, baffling the polygraph technicians, and later connects the thoughts of two playboy bunnies. He then astounds Flavor Flav when he predicts the time of his famous clock necklace and freaks out Jamie Kennedy as he magically pulls thoughts out of Jamie's mind. Criss will also attempt the unprecedented feat of teleporting a group of people from one elevator to another in one single continuous camera shot.
The Kid in Criss
Season 3, Episode 18 TV-PG
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In this show, the Mindfreak demonstrates how magic has kept the kid alive in him. Criss turns a young girl's toy Barbie into a real woman, with the doll growing out of her dollhouse right in front of the eyes of excited children. Criss then physically transforms himself back into a child again. He also teaches a trick to some Make-a-Wish kids, and then Criss-mas comes early as Criss, dressed as Santa Claus, makes a truck full of toys appear out of nowhere to the delight of disadvantaged kids.
Cement Block Escape
Season 3, Episode 19 TV-PG
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Taped live from the heart of New York's Time Square, Criss is shackled and placed in a see-through Plexiglas container that is then sealed in cement and hardened into a block. In front of thousands, Criss is lifted over five stories, and given 24 hours to escape before the block crashes to earth.
Séance
Season 3, Episode 20 TV-PG
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In this creepy episode, Criss attempts to bridge the world between the living and the dead when he becomes possessed and walks on the ceiling. In the rumored haunted Artisian Hotel, he interacts with the afterlife in front of a shocked group of observers and channels spirits to reveal private information about their lives. He uses a tambourine and a spirit bell to answer questions from beyond while strapped to a chair in plain view of observers as strange phenomena continue to manifest. Criss asks a spectator to think of a name and the spectator's name appears from underneath Criss' skin written in blood.
Thunderbirds
Season 3, Episode 21 TV-14
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Criss visits Nellis AFB where he swallows a ring and produces it from his navel. Criss flies at Mach speed with the Air Force's elite Thunderbirds and makes six fighter jets appear from thin air on the runway. In this episode, we get an insider's look as Criss gets his new MINDFREAK III Chopper. Criss loses a friendly bet resulting in the guys from Count's Kustoms piercing him with a forklift.
Mayhem in the Making
Season 3, Episode 22 TV-14
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This episode will chronicle a day in the life of Criss Angel as he attempts to shoot an episode of MINDFREAK. The viewer experiences the mayhem Criss encounters on a daily basis, as he gets mobbed for autographs and photos. Amateur magicians attempt to sway favor with Criss, showing him their acts and hoping to secure guest spots on an upcoming episode of MINDFREAK. Illusions include Criss turning credit cards to cash, appearing from a table in the middle of a busy restaurant, making 50 people appear from a porta potty, transforming one girl into another, and smashing a spectator's video camera then restoring it right before their eyes. The climax of this episode will be a MINDFREAK crew party, celebrating Criss' mom's recovery from heart surgery. However, unlike parties in the past, Criss shows up to his mother's room and nobody is there. With a quick close and reopening of a door, Criss magically transforms the room from a desolate venue into the hottest party in Vegas!
H2O Teleportation
Season 3, Episode 23 TV-14
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Summer's here, so join Criss and the crew for a fun beach-filled day in Mexico. At a beach campfire, Criss casts shadows in impossible places. Criss establishes a psychic link with a dolphin, using the mammal to assist him in a card trick. He effortlessly links the beer can tabs of unsuspecting beach-goers and predicts a person's card using a sea-shell that hears more then just the ocean waves. Later, he magically trades earrings with a shocked bystander. The episode concludes when Criss vanishes from a yacht to instantly reappear on the beach in front of beachgoers.
Mexico Barrel Escape
Season 3, Episode 24 TV-14
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Inspired by those who attempted to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Criss is suspended hundreds of feet above the ocean in a barrel before being dropped. The barrel crashes to the sea. Will Criss survive? In the essence of MINDFREAK, while walking on the beach Criss makes a sandcastle appear from thin air. He also becomes a psychic bartender when he makes drinks for people solely by reading their minds. That evening, we go with Criss VIP style on a crazy night out in one of Cancun's hottest clubs.
Most Memorable Mindfreak Moments
Season 3, Episode 25 TV-14
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Some of Criss' greatest illusions have been done with the help of some pretty famous people. In this one hour special, Criss repays them all by counting down their favorite moments from past shows. Howie Mandell kicks of the episode while Dave Navarro reflects back to the time Criss walked on water. Tito Ortiz reflects on Criss pulling a quarter out of his bleeding arm. Other famous faces include Dog the Bounty Hunter, Gene Simmons, Flavor Flav, Carrot Top, and many more unexpected guests make an appearance.
Fantasy
Season 3, Episode 26 TV-14
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Magic adults will enjoy, but still okay for the kids. Criss will make a girl's dream come true as he magically changes her A-cup to a C-cup without any post-surgery recovery time. At the notorious Playboy Club, Criss predicts the minds of some Playboy Bunnies. Later, Criss finds himself at the Adult News Awards where he makes a woman's bra disappear with a single wave of the hand. Shot in "blurry vision" this episode will climax with Criss hypnotizing a mass crowd of people to remove their clothes in public. This will be one of the funniest and maybe most provocative feats ever shown on cable television.
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