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Saw a Woman in Half

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Saw a Woman in Half	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Almost as famous as the Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat trick, this death-defying Stage Magician trick involves a pretty woman (usually the magician's Lovely Assistant) being placed into a coffin-sized lidded wooden box, with a neck-hole in the top and ankle-holes in the bottom. Then, producing a large floppy hand-saw, the magician proceeds to saw through the box, through the woman's midsection, and through the table on which the box is resting. After that, the magician shoves in a pair of bizarre rectangular blades (sometimes called dividers) through the middle. Then, if nothing unseemly has happened at this point, the magician pushes away the two halves of the table, possibly rotates them around (but carefully not showing the sawn ends to the audience) and moves them together again. And then the woman steps out of the reunited box, all in one piece, to the relief and applause of the audience. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Modern variants of the trick often skip the saw and use the rectangular blades instead, which are shoved in side by side. This has the advantage of allowing the magician to show the "cut" ends to the audience. Because it's a Discredited Trope by now (the secret has been explained on countless occasions), a Stage Magician who tries this is pretty much required to have some kind of special or unique variation if he wants to be taken seriously. Sometimes, the second rectangular blade can get stuck and the magician will pull on the head of the assistant, causing the blade to fall. This is used as a joke on several occasions. A few magicians who love their Black Comedy may have some 'unusual' embellishments to the act: The assistant may fake falling unconcious, shriek when the blades go through her, and on some rare occassions the blades they use have fake "bloodstains" on them when they are withdrawn from the boxes during the restoration. A few might even add fake blood fountains gushing out dramatically as part of the act. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The reasons for its notoriety are explained in detail by The Other Wiki. If someone actually gets cut in half, he's Half the Man He Used to Be. Examples:
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_10861ce9	comment	In an episode of The Smurfs, King Jerard was holding auditions for a new court magician (to replace the one he threw in jail in a previous episode); the applicant shown ("the Amazing Manfred") did this trick during his interview, but wasn't able to put his assistant back together. Naturally, he didn't get the job, and as he was kicked out, his angry — and still cut in two — assistant told him she was quitting.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_15870207	comment	A lumberjack once tried to hit El Chapulín Colorado with an axe but a witch interfered. Until he was made one again, his legs walked around while the rest of him kept floating in air.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_1ae04d92	comment	Attempted by the protagonists at the end of Road to Zanzibar.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_1beda93b	comment	Riff from Sluggy Freelance tries this using inter-dimensional portals to make the trick work. Things don't go exactly as planned.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_218f1c6	comment	In the opening of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Harmony starts screaming as she's cut in half, but when they open the box, she's fine. "I'm going to be an actress."
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_22058212	comment	One of the live performances of Bottom has Richie and Eddie recounting their short lived variety act, The Great Arsehole and Norman wherein they sawed a "volunteer" in half. Of course, Richie overlooked the joining back together again.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_2221ecbd	comment	In CSI NY, a serial murderer magician, played by Criss Angel, commits his crimes in mockery of magic tricks. He kills one of his victims by sawing her in half for real.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", Milhouse is forbidden to see Bart because Bart's a bad influence on him and Bart looks back on some old photos of them together. One of them has Bart preparing to saw Milhouse in half; the next shows Milhouse with a scar in his chest.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Used hilariously in the Looney Tunes short "Show Biz Bugs", in which Daffy Duck is not intimidated by the whole scenario because he thinks it's all a trick (in fact, he even describes the trick's mechanics to the audience in the process). Cue Daffy's upper body detaching from his lower body. "It's a good thing I have Blue Cross." Another Warner Bros. cartoon had Egghead (a precursor to Elmer Fudd) going on about how fake the trick was as he volunteered for it. At the end of the trick, Egghead jumps out and walks away... with his upper and lower halves going in opposite directions. The Daffy version of the gag ends up being redone on Tiny Toon Adventures, but this time with Montana Max.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_354d43de	comment	The first Red Dwarf novel had Kryten do this to himself for the crew of the Nova 5 every week after the crash. Subverted in that he really does saw himself in half and takes forty five minutes to reconnect all his circuitry afterwards.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_3c3972ff	comment	The Tale of Orpheo's Curse, a point-and-click adventure game, has one ghost who has suffered from the trick and now has a wandering bottom half as a result.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_3cd90f30	comment	Mentioned and used on Arrested Development. In this case, Gob explains how the trick works to his brother... and a nearby kid overhears it.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_3d10c6d1	comment	Animal Crackers:
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_3e0b28b5	comment	In Dead Rising 2, there are a pair of magicians attempting to perfect this trick. They have a giant circular saw, a woman strapped to a table, and a complete misunderstanding of how the trick is supposed to work. It doesn't end well.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_426a7572	comment	Invoked in an episode of Animaniacs, where the Warners end up in Transylvania, which of course means an encounter with a vampire. Toward the end of the short, he's sealed himself in his coffin, and Wakko uses a chainsaw to get him out. After Wakko cuts the coffin in half, the vampire's head pokes out of one half, and his feet from the other. Embarrassed, Wakko quickly slaps the halves back together.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_468bebb0	comment	In Discworld, the coat-of-arms of the Guild of Conjurers shows a woman, with a saw-toothed bend dividing the image in half.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_49ad83ee	comment	Played for laughs at Sullah's Sideshow in World of Warcraft. Two NPCs are practicing the trick with a box containing two pygmies. When the first saws too slowly, the other attacks with a flashy blow, shattering the box and killing both pygmies.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show did this twice: In one episode, Wanda sings the titular line of "You Do Something to Me" while Wayne saws the box she's occupying in half. Apparently, it cut... In another, Fozzie attempts the trick with a substitute lady, namely, a comedy robot in a wig. The effect on Fozzie was rather shocking.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_5144055f	comment	In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, if you close the coffin on Stan and try to use the saw on the coffin, Guybrush will say, "I'm no magician."
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_5f1139ee	comment	In Leprechaun 3, the titular villain kills Fazio the magician (in front of a live audience) by doing this 'trick' (except for real, guts and all).
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_607f6b7	comment	Inspector Gadget once wondered whether evil magician Gambini would do it to him.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_60e46926	comment	The cover of some editions of Al Jaffee's MAD Book of Magic and Other Stupid Tricks features an illustration of a magician sawing a woman in half. Lengthwise.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Done in an episode of Quantum Leap. Don't worry, Sam was told every step by the assistant.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_6cfee934	comment	This is one of the magician Montag's signature tricks in The Wizard of Gore. The effect was accomplished via creative use of a sheep carcass.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_6e907c1	comment	In The Sandman #26, Cain and Abel do a version of the trick to entertain Morpheus' guests; like all interactions between the two, it ends very badly for Abel.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_74ce3b5b	comment	In Beetlejuice, one of the ghosts at the afterlife waiting room is a magician's assistant who did not survive being sawed in half.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_755cbdcf	comment	Precocious: Tiffany does the single most unconvincing version in history, featuring one of her younger siblings, who is less than half the height of the box their feet are supposed to be sticking out of the bottom of.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_7680545c	comment	This was Fran and Gracie's talent performance for the mother/daughter pageant in The Nanny. Due to a bad initial run (Fran was stuck for hours), they changed it to a puppet show.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_76e1ae72	comment	The plot of an episode of CatDog is that the titular pair are separated by this trick, but the magician is pulled away before he can reunite them. The pair at first enjoy their newfound freedom before trying to find a way to re-attach themselves. The episode ended with the magician revealing that they weren't separated at all, and the Cat half was just an inflated balloon (who somehow talked?). Then they separate for real in the last second.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_7cf0865	comment	The live-action version of The Flash (1990) has Mark Hamill playing an Ax-Crazy version of one of the more prominent Rogues, the Trickster. Before adopting the Trickster identity, James Jesse (in the identity of a magician) kidnaps a woman and attempts to saw her in half...with a chainsaw.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_7d122312	comment	This is done to Barney Rubble on The Flintstones while he's hypnotized. The magician doing the trick shows Fred (and the audience) how it's done — Barney is in the top half bent in two, and the bottom half has fake legs.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_7ff3216c	comment	When Garfield and Jon visit a magic shop, the shop owner's dog, Merlin, chases Garfield while Jon is looking for a trick. At one point, Merlin is tricked into entering such a box, and Garfield sets to sawing the box in half. Sure enough, despite fretting on the part of Merlin, the box and Merlin are halved without injury to the latter. In the episode focused on Garfield doing shows at the fence, he asked Nermal to enter a box. Nermal was afraid Garfield would do this trick but Garfield wouldn't want "two" Nermals. Garfield just sent him to Abu Dhabi as usual.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_835501ca	comment	Legless performer Johnny Eck (who was also one of the most memorable characters in Freaks) participated in a variant of this act where his nearly identical twin brother (who had legs) would be the ringer called up for the trick — and during the act, Johnny and a dwarf in pants would be substituted so that the "volunteer" would fall into two pieces on stage. Freaked audiences out, you bet! Criss Angel has since done a variant of the same trick with a legless woman. And himself.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_84823809	comment	In the Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Magicians", Mr. Cat finds a new way to torment Quack Quack while putting on a magic show: picking him as an assistant for this trick. After sawing Quack Quack in half, he also sticks a bunch of knives into him. When asked how he did the trick, he responds with "There is no trick!".
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_8f6d81a3	comment	This was also done by The Pink Panther in one of the skits of "Pink Outs". There is another instance where the Pink Panther botches up the trick by himself. (e.g., seen in the trailer for the German edition)
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_92844ddb	comment	An episode of Dinosaurs parodied the Judgment of Solomon, presenting the Solomon figure as a razzle-dazzle magician who cuts the baby in half using a version of this trick.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_992367c2	comment	This was old hat at least as far back as 1931 and Skippy, in which two kids put on a backyard variety show for the neighborhood kids. When they get to the saw-a-kid-in-half trick, the kid playing the legs gets scared of the blade and runs off, ruining the trick.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_9ba32ced	comment	In Faux Pas, sawing him in half is one technique Brisbaine suggests for getting out of the well.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_9d189394	comment	Mock the Week, "Unlikely Things to Hear on a TV Talent Show"
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, where Bender tries to become a magician, he saws Zoidberg in half with human feet sticking out of the opposite end where upon he opens the case, and reveals that he has not been really sawn in half, much to Bender's detriment, and to the disapointment of the rest of the crew.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_a9dc3e71	comment	Harry Blackstone, during a guest appearance on Reading Rainbow, hypnotized LeVar Burton and cut through him, apparently without even severing one part of Burton from the other.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_ac67074d	comment	Used by Teen Titans villain Mumbo in his barrage of magic tricks-turned-deadly. He actually calls for a lovely assistant from the audience and yanks Starfire down with a cane. As he prepares to perform the "trick", he adds:
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_b08d7309	comment	The Little Lulu short Hullaba-Lulu features a circus ringmaster sawing a woman in half. Lulu tickles the feet on the bottom half, and the top half reacts accordingly.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_b1f8e5ae	comment	In The Little Rascals episode "Alfalfakazam!", this is one of the acts in Spanky's magic show. His "assistant" is actually Buckwheat and Porky in a Totem Pole Trench.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	In Sakura Wars 3, Coquelicot performs this trick, which she calls the "frightening human bisecting magic," using Erica Fontaine. Rather than a handsaw, Coquelicot uses an electric buzzsaw to do so; Erica is unsurprisingly freaked. Note: It's never explained whether it was a trick done on Erica or if Erica really was sawn in half and just got better.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_bc758ea9	comment	The Daffy version of the gag ends up being redone on Tiny Toon Adventures, but this time with Montana Max.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Uncommon Bond", Trixie attempts to practice this trick on herself, but the legs sticking out of the box clearly belong to a dummy.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_c46d331d	comment	One of the contestants on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, David Caserta, performs a version with two notable variations from the standard. One is that he cuts himself in half. The other is that instead of a wooden box, the trick is performed while he stands in an open-sided metal scaffold. It's still a safe bet that his detached lower half is a dummy, but it's a lot harder to figure out where his real lower half has gone.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_c9633211	comment	Rank 4 in No More Heroes is a stage magician who fights Travis at his show; before the fight, one of the two tricks he does involves cutting a woman in half — with a buzzsaw. He later uses the saw in an attempt to bisect Travis vertically and it plays a role in his own demise.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Parodied in Monty Python's Flying Circus. "Last week I showed you how to saw a woman in half. This week I'll be showing you how to saw a woman in three pieces and hide the body."
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_cdf300d9	comment	Byker Grove has two girls get sawn in half on the same box with the girl's feet sticking right beside the other girl's head.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_ce765d62	comment	An episode of Ruby Gloom had Skull Boy doing this to Iris. She spends most of the rest of the episode in two halves because Skull Boy gets amnesia and forgets the combination for the lock.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_d785bbf8	comment	In Les Femmes en blanc, a surgeon uses laser surgery to operate on his patient, but accidentally cuts his body in half. The patient, who is still alive, says his life is screwed up, and the last panel shows him as working as a magician's partner for this sawing magic trick.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_d786001b	comment	In MySims Agents, if you send Beebee on the "The Prominence" mission, The Amazing Darryl wants to do this trick with her, and you can advise for or against it. Apparently, it tickles her.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_d8520b74	comment	In Sam & Max: Freelance Police Season One, the season finale takes place in a magician's lair with various tricks around the place. Saving the day involves taking the saw from the saw-a-woman-in-half trick and using it to saw through something else instead.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_d8b04561	comment	Gynette from Stubble Trouble did this trick in a magic show, the real trick being that she can separate her body parts at will.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_de48ce05	comment	In the Happy Tree Friends episode "I Get a Trick Out of You", Lumpy attempts to pull off this trick on Cuddles, but unfortunately... it doesn't end well.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_e066a2e0	comment	Pucca: It happened to Clown, who was showing just as much skepticism as Daffy did.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_e175bcd5	comment	The Scooby-Doo Show: In "Scared a Lot in Camelot", Shaggy and Scooby volunteered for one of these tricks after the magician offered them two free dinners. In the Phyllis Diller episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Shaggy and Scooby were hiding in one of these boxes when the magician did this trick. When Shaggy's head comes out, so do Scooby's feet. Then they switch ends. "Hassle in the Castle" has Velma freaking out as she sees Shaggy in a crate being sawed in half with the lower half walking out. But she then sees the head is a dummy and Shaggy himself was scrunched down in the other half.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email magic trick, Strong Bad is asked to create a magic show, including putting Homestar himself in a box and taking a saw to him. As enthusiastic as he is about it, however, he doesn't quite'' seem to recognize the reference to the classic trick; when he finally attempts to take a saw to Homestar, he's got him standing upright, wearing a cardboard box with a pair of unconvincing fake arms attached to it. The arms fall off prematurely, interrupting whatever he had in mind, but it's enough to convince Coach Z that he's "a Level 3 Dark Wizard" all the same.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_e936047a	comment	In a Hey Arnold! episode, Arnold tries doing this to Gerald during a montage of trying to come up with an act they can perform in the talent show. As Arnold is sawing, a ripping sound is heard, and once Gerald is out of the box, he shows a big tear in his shirt.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_edcc9cce	comment	Happens for real with Trish by her brother in the Austin & Ally episode "Club Owners & Quinceaneras".
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_f3c07f91	comment	The Mask: The Mask gets sawn, even having the guts to walk out of the box in two.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_f673ad61	comment	Done in Cat Soup only that the magician actually kills the woman and chops her into pieces before putting her together and reviving her with true magic.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	The Bullshit! version of this involved a large buzzsaw, followed by seemingly revealing the trick as they usually do: however, they then proceeded to double subvert it by "accidentally" sawing the woman in half with the safety methods disabled, complete with lots of fake blood and screaming. For UK tropers, this version of the trick appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Penn and Teller have also performed the traditional version of the trick underwater for a magic special.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_f6fe1bfc	comment	In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Cousin Mortimer saws Hilda in half. Things go awry when Hilda's legs run off.
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Saw a Woman in Half / int_fc29ccc7	comment	An episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents was made from the Robert Bloch story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (see Literature above). Notably, this was the only episode the network refused to run (it turned up in syndication).
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