It's the first week of Fall, so happy Fall, everybody,
first of all.
And yes, everything's changing.
The days are shorter.
And the iPhones are longer.
And Halloween is coming up.
And it's a scary time of year, so I thought
I would show you a scary video.
I saw it, and so I wanted to share it with you.
Who here is scared of snakes?
OK.
That's what I'm saying.
You may be regretting this decision to be here today.
But this is a house in Australia,
and two pythons fell through the vent in the ceiling
and ended up in someone's bedroom here.
They're two pythons, they're two males,
and they're fighting so that they
can get the rights to mate with a female python that's
close by.
Which means that there is a female python close by.
So that came through that space right there.
OK.
So there are the two large pythons.
And so I showed this to my writer, Allison,
who is really scared of snakes.
Because whenever I see a snake video,
I show it to her because sharing is caring.
And so now, a different show may have just stopped there,
where I show her the video.
But no, not this show.
It gave me an idea.
I called my executive producer, Kevin,
and I said, what if, in tomorrow's morning meeting,
we get the ceiling to open up and snakes drop on Allison?
And Kevin said, that's a great idea.
Let me get some rubber snakes.
And I said, all right, rubber snakes too.
That's good.
So we had the crew spend all morning setting it up.
And here's a blueprint of my office so you can see.
So here I am sitting there, and there is--
I think this is Kevin.
This is Jason.
And this is Allison right here, who is our target.
Because there's a vent.
There are the snakes up here.
Here are all the hidden cameras.
And so we were ready to go.
I had a button that was at my chair
that I could push to release that.
So the only people who knew this was happening
was Kevin and myself.
So a lot of other people were also frightened.
So this is what happened.
You guys, in a couple of weeks, this table
is going to be for sale and that table's going to be for sale.
Oh, really?
And a new table will come in here.
Can we do a yard sale [INAUDIBLE]..
Something like that, yes.
[LAUGHING]
[SCREAMING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER]
How did that--
How did it come down?
I had a bucket.
[INAUDIBLE]
Oh, I love my job.
I love my job.
And Allison hates hers.
And I'm sorry, Allison, but scaring is caring.
And hopefully, this can be an inspiration to all of you.
Because this season, I'm saluting your scares.
That's why we started "Ellen Salutes Your Scares."
If you film yourself scaring your friends or coworkers
or family or whoever, post it on EllenTube app,
and we're going to share it, because sharing is caring.
Hi, I'm Andy.
Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel,
so you can see more awesome videos.
Like videos of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things,
like "ball peen hammer," and also
some videos of Ellen and other celebrities,
if you're into that sort of thing.
[SCREAMING]
[BLEEP] God [BLEEP].