The magician places a red handkerchief and a white handkerchief into an empty bag, but forgets a blue handkerchief. Out comes a flag that has no blue and no stars!

He realizes his mistake so drops a blue handkerchief into the bag. Out comes a flag with the proportions all wrong! He must have used the wrong magic words!

The mixed up flag is placed back into the bag. This time, after the proper magic words are used, a correct USA flag is produced...to big applause from the audience.