ELLEN DEGENERES: That's great.
That's a great color.
LEA MICHELE: Thanks.
I'm so happy to be here.
ELLEN DEGENERES: I'm so happy to have you here.
LEA MICHELE: Thank you!
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
ELLEN DEGENERES: Did you enjoy Tom as much as we all did,
and the dancing?
LEA MICHELE: Tom, props to you.
That was amazing!
Look, he's going for it!
[LAUGHS]
ELLEN DEGENERES: I know, I know!
But so you're scared to dance on the--
LEA MICHELE: Well, you know, it just,
it's not-- it doesn't come to me easily.
I'm not a good dancer.
So it's something that challenges me.
But it's good to have something every day
to go to work that you have can make you a little,
you know, nervous.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah, no, I agree.
LEA MICHELE: Ai, ai, ai!
[CROWD WHOOPING]
I was saying like every day, when they--
even if it's like Rachel now is in New York,
and she takes dance classes at college,
and even if I have to do the simplest, like, beginner ballet
routine, I feel like, I will take all my clothes off
and sing naked if you would-- instead of me having
to do the dance right now.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Really?
That's scared you are of dancing?
Like when you hear music, like if you're at home or something,
you don't just like automatically--
LEA MICHELE: Well, if I'm home alone, like in my house,
you know, maybe I'll dance by myself.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah, because I can't imagine
not moving to-- like music, to me,
is like you just-- it's so freeing and so great,
no matter if you're good or bad.
It's just--
LEA MICHELE: I think just being--
like giving a specific type of choreography.
ELLEN DEGENERES: That's hard, yeah.
LEA MICHELE: I think if I could just dance and, you know,
do whatever--
ELLEN DEGENERES: Tell them you want to do that on the show
if you want.
LEA MICHELE: I don't think it would look that good.
[LAUGHS]
ELLEN DEGENERES: Oh, really?
LEA MICHELE: Yeah.
ELLEN DEGENERES: So you're in New York now.
You're out of high school, you're in New York,
and you're shooting mostly here, but you're in New York
sometimes, right?
LEA MICHELE: Yeah, we're doing our external shots here, so--
ELLEN DEGENERES: And how do you like that?
LEA MICHELE: I love it.
I love getting to go home and see my family
and shoot the show there.
It's amazing.
ELLEN DEGENERES: And so, and you have no accent.
LEA MICHELE: Well, I had to get rid of it.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Uh-huh.
LEA MICHELE: Because I was on Broadway
in a show called Spring Awakening a couple of years
ago, and before I did the show, they
made me take classes to get rid of my accent
because it had to be 1890 Germany.
And I was like, they're insane.
Like, I don't have an accent.
What are you talking about?
And then I'm sitting with this coach, and she's like,
say the word, bag.
And I was like "bag."
[LAUGHTER]
And she's like, no it's "bahg."
And I'm like, what are you saying?
You're the one that's not saying it properly.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Right.
LEA MICHELE: So it's gone for the most part
now, but if I sit on the phone and talk with my mom--
ELLEN DEGENERES: Right, it comes back?
LEA MICHELE: --it comes back.
Like I talked to her the other day.
And she was like, I was like, mom, I'm gonna be on Ellen.
She loves you so much.
She's like, Lea, oh my god, her mom isn't feeling good.
Tell her I'll come out and sit in the seat if she wants me to.
I'll fly out there.
It's like then I hang up the phone with her,
and then I'm walking around, and I call my agent.
I'm like, (IN NEW JERSEY ACCENT) when
am I gonna get in for that audition?
And like, it comes back, like, who are you?
What are you saying?
So then, it comes back.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah, I'm like that with my--
I'm from New Orleans.
So that accent kind of sneaks in every once Especially
if I'm tired, I just start talking.
LEA MICHELE: Really?
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah.
LEA MICHELE: I think mine is, if I'm with the family,
it's like all of a sudden, I sound
like I'm on the Jersey shore.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Well, first of all,
I would like your mother to come sit in the seat.
What is her name?
LEA MICHELE: Her name is Edith.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Edith--
LEA MICHELE: She's like--
ELLEN DEGENERES: You're welcome to come sit in my mother's seat
until my mother can come back and sit in the seat.
LEA MICHELE: Oh my god.
[LAUGHTER] She would-- it's her birthday this month.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Really?
LEA MICHELE: Yeah.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Happy birthday, Edith.
LEA MICHELE: Thank you.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah.
LEA MICHELE: Oh, that's Sheila!
That's my cat!
ELLEN DEGENERES: That's a cute cat.
LEA MICHELE: She is just the love of my life.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Andy's going crazy--
like, we don't have time for the cat talk all right.
So none of this will air.
It doesn't matter.
I just want to have a conversation about her cat.
This is just for us right now, OK?
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
All right.
All right, let's get down to business.
You-- yeah, this will air on the website.
If all of a sudden this cuts in, and none of this makes sense
at home, yeah, we just talked about a cat.
And so you're a reality TV fan.
LEA MICHELE: Yeah, right.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yes.
LEA MICHELE: It's just at the end of the day,
after a long day--
ELLEN DEGENERES: Yeah.
LEA MICHELE: --nothing feels better
than just putting on hoarders and being like,
my house does not look like that.
ELLEN DEGENERES: So, so, well, if that's your line,
I mean, nobody's house looks like that.
So what we're going to do is we're going to call down
an audience member, we're going to find out how much you
know about reality TV.
LEA MICHELE: Oh, no!
ELLEN DEGENERES: And based on how well you do,
nothing will happen to the audience member.
But--
LEA MICHELE: Oh, no!
ELLEN DEGENERES: But if you don't know, so Sophie Millet,
where are you, Sophie Millet?
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
[ENERGETIC MUSIC]
SOPHIE MILLET: Hi!
How are you?
Hi, how are you?
ELLEN DEGENERES: All right, we're going to take a break.
We're going to talk to Sophie.
You're not going to be cheering in a second.
We'll be right back.
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
So Lea watches a lot of reality television,
and she says she knows a lot about it.
So we thought we would--
LEA MICHELE: I think I do!
[LAUGHS]
ELLEN DEGENERES: --test her.
And Sophie is-- you didn't really volunteer.
We called you down from the audience.
So we're calling you a volunteer.
And so if you get it right, you'll hear this.
[BELL DINGS]
And if you get it wrong, you're gonna get a tiny bit messy,
all right?
And so Andy, you're going to come out and reveal
what we have?
All right, the first thing is flour.
That would be the first thing that would happen to you.
The next thing is paint.
LEA MICHELE: Oh, no!
ELLEN DEGENERES: The next thing is cake mix,
and the next thing is a slushy.
LEA MICHELE: [GASPS]
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
I'm sorry!
ELLEN DEGENERES: Here we go.
LEA MICHELE: I'm sorry!
ELLEN DEGENERES: On TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,
what is Honey Boo Boo's real name?
LEA MICHELE: I don't know.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Neither do I. But--
LEA MICHELE: [LAUGHS]
ELLEN DEGENERES: It's Alana.
LEA MICHELE:
ELLEN DEGENERES: Ready?
Watch what you've done to her.
Don't close your eyes.
[THUD]
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
LEA MICHELE: Oh my God, please let me get something right.
ELLEN DEGENERES: All right.
On the hit show My Strange Addiction,
a woman named Bertha drinks 46 ounces a year
of what substance?
LEA MICHELE: I watch that show all the time.
ELLEN DEGENERES: 4,600, 4,600 ounces a year of--
You don't appear to know that.
LEA MICHELE: I liked the one where the lady eats the rocks.
That one was great.
OK, let's just guess and say she drinks-- so it's a liquid?
ELLEN DEGENERES: Mm-hmm.
LEA MICHELE: Let's just say it's detergent?
No?
ELLEN DEGENERES: No, no, no.
It's nail polish.
LEA MICHELE: Oh my god, she's alive?
I'm sorry!
Paint!
[SQUEALS]
ELLEN DEGENERES: Next time, you're
gonna see her on that show, I Shouldn't Be Alive.
[THUD]
- I'm sorry!
Are you ok?
ELLEN DEGENERES: I'm so sorry, Sophie.
LEA MICHELE: This is terrible!
ELLEN DEGENERES: I am so, so sorry.
LEA MICHELE: I've seen all of that.
I've seen every episode of that show.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Well, it's a shame what you're doing to her.
All right.
[LAUGHTER]
Which one of the following is not a real show currently found
on television?
A., My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance.
B., I Cloned My Pet.
C., I Shouldn't Be Alive.
D., I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant.
LEA MICHELE: What was the first one?
Maybe it's A?
- No.
[LAUGHTER]
LEA MICHELE: Then it was B.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Nope, they're all real shows.
I am so sorry, Sophie.
SOPHIE MILLET: [WHIMPERS]
LEA MICHELE: What does she get?
She gets a prize, right?
ELLEN DEGENERES: No, she gets nothing because of this.
This is all to see--
you said you knew things.
All right.
LEA MICHELE: These are hard.
ELLEN DEGENERES: Which of the following
is not a cast member from TLC's Breaking Amish--
Jeremiah, Jebediah, Abe, Kate?
LEA MICHELE: Kate.
ELLEN DEGENERES: No, it's Jebediah.
LEA MICHELE: What?
[THUD]
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
Oh, no.
I'm sorry!
Are you OK?
ELLEN DEGENERES: That's terrible.
All right.
LEA MICHELE: I didn't get any right!
ELLEN DEGENERES: You are a cruel, cruel person.
For being such a good sport you're
getting a Sony X headphones and an iPad.
[CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
SOPHIE MILLET: [SQUEALING]
[ENERGETIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC]