Hi, Eric.
Hi, Ellen.
How are you?
You look good.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You look really good.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Good to see you again.
This is your 18th appearance on the show.
That's incredible.
18th appearance.
That's amazing.
We have had so much fun scaring you over the years
that we put together a little clip so we could all enjoy it.
How sweet.
OK.
[SCREAMING]
Yes, watch Modern Family on-- oh my.
You mother--
If you were a security guard, especially
at that age, where you're actually.
Ah!
[SCREAMING]
Oh my God!
That wasn't even all of them, I don't think.
No.
But you know, I didn't even realize this.
Someone reminded me.
We created this table for you.
This became the Eric Stonestreet Scare Table,
because we ran out of ways to scare you.
So we created this table.
And we're going to now dedicate--
What?
This table.
Yep.
Andy, come on in.
Andy Zenor is going to dedicate--
you have--
Aw.
Hi, Andy.
Hi.
Yeah.
So there you go.
That's dedicated to you.
Yeah.
Do I get it?
Or--
No.
It stays here, because we plan on scaring other people.
Oh, you're still going to use it?
That's why we padded the top, yes,
because still someone's going to pop out of it.
But it's your scare table now.
It's dedicated to you.
Thank you.
That is so sweet.
I'm honored.
Yeah.
Well, I didn't realize that we actually created it for you.
So it should be your table.
So Modern Family, this is the final season, right?
We're done.
Oh, you've already done-- no.
No, no.
I mean, we're done after this season.
Right.
And is it is it harder or easier than you thought?
Is it emotional?
I just heard something.
It was probably my mic.
OK.
Did anybody else hear that?
No.
Does Andy have a mic on?
Anyway.
It is.
It is hard.
It's starting to get emotional.
Because you have these moments where it's like,
this is the last time I'm ever going
to put these shoes on or this shirt on.
And Jesse cried at a table read.
And it's all happening.
You know, we realize we've been doing this for so long, we've
all gotten so close.
And eventually, it's going to be the last time.
Like all the episodes, the holiday specials,
have been the last Thanksgiving, the last Christmas.
Right.
We just got back from Paris.
We shot an episode in Paris.
Wow.
Yeah.
How was that?
How is it traveling with everybody?
It's great.
Ty, Ed, and I flew back together.
And it's so fun being with Ed O'Neill in public,
because people recognize him.
And he kind of plays the role of old curmudgeon,
but he really likes getting recognized.
Like he's so cute about it.
Somebody will come up to him and be like, you know,
I grew up watching Married With Children.
He goes, take a picture.
He's so sweet about it.
It's like, yeah.
And somebody will say like, Ed, do you
mind if I get a picture with you?
And he's like, let's do it.
Let's do it.
He really is the sweetest guy.
He is sweet.
And so can we talk about what you're doing to Jesse?
Because you're playing these pranks on him.
Yeah.
Well, I decided this year that I would send Jesse off
with a great sendoff.
So every picture that I post of Jessie on Instagram, I age him.
Do we have examples?
I think we do.
[LAUGHTER] Keep going!
It's so up your alley, isn't it?
Oh my God.
That's the first one I did.
And I picked that picture, because that
was very early in the show and I look great in that picture.
And I thought, well, that will be--
son of a [BLEEP].
You built a tunnel?
A tunnel?
Oh my God, there is a tunnel.
It's like Shawshank Redemption.
I crawled through four miles.
It's the Eric Stonestreet Tunnel now.
Oh my God.
Ellen Degeneres.
Oh my God.
All right.
We're going to play a game when we come back.