One of the reasons I love playing games with my audience
is because you never know how they're
going to react when they win.
For instance, this woman we met last week.
Oh my god, you're a real person.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi, Ellen.
Hello.
What's your name?
Britney.
Hi, Britney.
Hi!
Let's go with nine.
12 days of getaway.
[SCREAMING] Everyone's saying four, so four.
Four, four.
Four.
She's saying--
[SCREAMING]
Oh my god!
I won!
Oh my god, I did it!
All right, so I want to see her react again.
So Britney, come on down here.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thank you So much!
Have a seat.
Can I do the chair thing?
Yeah, do the chair thing.
It's fun.
In case you want to have that.
All right.
So we just decided to have you back because you
were fun and everything.
Thank you.
So tell me about yourself.
Where are you from?
What do you do?
So I'm from Cleveland, Ohio.
I work at a vet--
I have few jobs, actually.
I work at a veterinary clinic full time.
I do reception and assisting.
And then I also work a part time job as a hostess, bartender,
server.
Because I'm saving up money because I'm
in school to be a vet tech.
A vet tech?
Yeah.
I love that.
Yes.
That's fantastic.
So you like animals.
I love animals.
That's great, all right.
So you've been trying to get tickets for a long time, right?
How long have you been trying to get tickets.
I tried to get tickets for six and a half years.
I wrote in to every--
I have every game of yours on my phone.
I download every game.
I write in all the time.
I write to you all the time.
Sorry.
I write to you all the time.
I even entered for your 60th birthday.
I did.
I stood outside.
It was negative four degrees in January in Cleveland.
And I stood outside in a dancing inflatable woman costume
on the side of the road for 60 honks for Ellen's 60th birthday
because I wanted to sit in your skybox for your 60th birthday.
Wait, you did that?
I did.
That's the video.
I did.
[APPLAUSE]
I got over 200 honks.
And yet we still didn't have you on after that.
So what was your reaction when you finally
got tickets to the show?
So I was at work when I got the email.
I was sitting there.
And all of a sudden my girlfriends
said that they looked over and my face was beet red.
And I started jumping up and down.
I started screaming.
I started tap dancing.
I don't even know how to tap dance.
And I was just jumping up and down.
And they're like, what, what?
I was like, I got tickets--
two guaranteed tickets to Ellen Show.
And I was freaking out.
Yes.
But how did you get here?
Oh, all right.
So my birthday is December 20th.
And so when I got the email, I knew
I couldn't afford to come here on my own.
So for an early birthday, Christmas gift,
my family got all their money together.
I pitched in some money.
My boyfriend did.
And we booked a last minute flight to here.
And I've never booked an Airbnb before.
So that was a new experience.
I've never been to California.
So I did everything last minute.
And I came here just to see you.
And then and then randomly--
I did.
And then-- Here, you just hold the whole thing.
Thank you.
And then randomly I just went to you in the audience.
And you just had such a great energy.
It was the greatest day of my whole life.
It was--
[APPLAUSE]
All right so you played the Mix and Match Game.
I did.
So we're going to play it again today.
Oh my gosh.
Because it was fun last time.
So let's go here.
OK.
All right?
OK.
All right, here we go.
All right, last time it was one through twelve, right?
OK.
So we doubled it to make it a little bit harder.
OK.
So now there's some stuff up there.
I'm going to give you three chances to match some things.
And there's a bunch of good stuff on there, OK?
All right.
Pick one.
All right.
13, because that's my favorite number.
13.
And four was good to me last time.
So four.
Four.
No.
Oh, flight to China.
OK.
All right, start those over.
Let's try two more.
Two more tries.
21.
And three.
Oh.
Oh, Mariah Carey's Christmas CD.
Wonderful.
Turn those over.
One more.
24.
Ellen water.
Oh.
Yes, the slogan is it tastes funny.
And seven.
You got Ellen water!
Oh, congratulations.
Wow, that's great.
Free.
I don't know what we charge, but that's free.
So that's fantastic.
All right, turn them over.
I'm going to give you one more chance.
Because there's some good stuff on there.
And I want to--
They stay up.
Oh, they stay up.
I've decided they stay up.
All right.
Two more.
All right.
We'll go with 21 again.
Good memory.
And 11.
That's my favorite number.
Is it?
Yes.
Oh my goodness.
Yay!
Oh my god!
You did it!
Oh my god, I won!
$25,000.
Oh my god!
$25,000.
Oh my god.
Thank you so much.
You are welcome.
You're welcome.
We're partnering with Cheerios to encourage
one million acts of good.
They love that you're going to school to help animals.
And we know the program is very expensive.
So they're giving you $25,000 to cover all of tuition.
So that's covered.
All right?
[APPLAUSE]
Oh my god.
And I want to hear about your acts of good.
So go to my website, tell us what you're doing.