The host of Penn and Teller Fool Us wears the same clothes every week.

I enjoy watching Penn & Teller “Fool Us” and was wondering if they film the whole season in one day because host Alyson Hannigan has the same clothes on every week.

"Penn & Teller: Fool Us" is a competition, taped at the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio, in which illusionists perform tricks for Las Vegas performers Penn & Teller. If the two judges can't determine how a trick is done, the performers win a trip to Las Vegas to be the opening act in P&T's show. Its fourth season premiered in July of this year.

According to the show’s publicist, Glenn Alai, “Alyson Hannigan's wardrobe is done for editing purposes. It's the same reason that Penn & Teller always wear the same suits and ties.”

Since Alai was almost as tight-lipped as Teller himself, we're left to conjecture just what "editing purposes" might mean.

A season of “Fool Us,” which airs on The CW, averages 10 episodes; 42 have aired to date. Naturally, shooting 10 in one day would be impractical and arduous. We figure that wardrobe continuity, as in Penn, Teller, and Hannigan wearing the clothes throughout the season, would enable the editors to mix and match magic routines from different taping sessions when editing the episodes into an entirety.

If anyone has other ideas, we're all ears.

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