-Welcome back to "The Tonight Show"!
We're about to play a game called "What's Behind Me?"
My partner tonight is an incredible actress
and has a new children's book out now, called "Busy Betty."
Give it up for the one and only Reese Witherspoon!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, come on!
Welcome back, Reese! -Thank you!
I'm so excited to be here! -We love you.
Now, here's how the game works.
Reese and I will take turns facing our backs to the curtain.
Behind the curtain will be something
neither of us have seen before.
Could be people, objects, anything.
Once the curtain opens and you pick up your card,
you have 45 seconds to try to get the other person
to guess what's behind them.
You can say anything you want or use gestures.
You just can't say any of the words on your card.
Enough instructions? -That's a lot of rules.
-All right, Reese, you will be guessing first.
Let's get into position. -Let's just see how this goes.
-Let's just see how this go-- oh.
-Wait. -Look at this.
High budget. -Ooh!
-This is -- This cost us $2 million.
Aaron Judge's home-run ball paid for this.
[ Laughter ]
-So, I'm gonna guess. -You're gonna guess.
-I think, right? So, you're gonna --
You're gonna watch it. -Reese -- all right,
let's open the curtain and see what's behind you.
-Okay.
[ Laughter ]
Okay. -[ Laughs ]
Okay, okay. Uh...okay.
It's the first president of the United States.
-George Washington. -Yes.
And -- And, uh -- Uh, and, and, and, uh...
He's, uh -- There's a -- there's a baby --
there's a baby, and the baby sits in...
-A stroller. -When you're -- when you're --
when you're eating. -In a high chair.
-Yep. And the baby is a famous horror movie.
-Predator. -For Halloween, Halloween.
-Oh, Jason! The guy with the mask.
-The other "Halloween." -"Scream" movie. Aah!
-No, the other "Halloween"! [ Laughter ]
-He's a pumpkin! He's a pumpkin!
-No, he's not a pumpkin.
Actually, in the movie "Halloween."
-Jamie Lee Curtis! -Yes, close.
But he's the person trying to kill Jamie Lee Curtis.
-Jason! Jason! -No, it's not Jason!
-Oh, oh! Michael Myers! Michael Myers!
-Yes! That's correct. [ Bell dings ]
George Washington feeding Michael Myers in a high chair.
Can we see what it is?
-Oh! -Well, hold on, sorry.
There you go. -[ Screams ]
-He won't do it. He doesn't want to eat it.
He doesn't want to eat it at all.
[ Laughter ] -That's so weird.
-Thank you very much. Thank you for trying, George.
You did a great job trying. -Yeah, that was just weird.
-He does not want to eat. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yay!
-That was a good actor. -Who's Jason?
-Jason's "Friday the 13th." -Oh, yeah.
Wait. That's not Freddy Krueger?
-That's "Nightmare on Elm Street."
-Oh, thank you. -I don't even know that many
horror movies. -Okay.
-Now it's my turn to guess.
Here we go with the million-dollar rotation.
Here we go. Wow.
♪♪
♪ Unh, unh, oww ♪ -♪ Raow ♪
-All right. Now, all right.
Grab the blue card, look at it,
and now we have to open the curtain.
And then time starts once you see what's behind me.
[ Laughter ]
-[ Laughing ]
[ Laughter continues ]
-Okay!
This guy -- -I love your laugh.
That is so good.
-He's one of the greatest songwriters, okay?
-Oh, uh -- Paul McCartney. -And he's been around
for a really long time, and he loves to wear, like,
feathers and he -- -Elton John.
-Yes! [ Bell dings ]
Okay. [ Cheers and applause ]
He is doing something that people used to do at --
I never, but -- [ Laughter ]
They never did this. But you might have done this
as a kid at a Halloween party in the '60s?
[ Laughter ]
The '80s? Okay.
-Uh, trick-or-treating. -No kid does this.
-No kid does this ever, no.
-No, but it's -- it has fruit. -Oh, bobbing for apples?
-Yes! [ Bell dings ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
That was good. Okay, and then --
-Yeah, you're right, no one does this, yeah.
-He's at America's almost favorite breakfast place.
The -- [ Laughter ]
There's so many things on the menu at this place, like,
you don't even know what to choose, because --
-Waffle House? -No, but thank you.
That is -- Yes, that's my favorite breakfast place.
-Smothered and covered, yeah, yeah.
-The next-best breakfast place.
-Denny's? -Yes!
-What? Elton John bobbing for apples at a Denny's?
[ Laughter ]
Oh, he's being very picky. [ Laughs ]
He's being very picky to see which exact apple he wants.
Oh, that's not how you do it. -No hands. No hands.
-No hands, Elton. -No hands.
-Okay. -People do not do that.
-Thank you very much, Elton. -People do not do that.
-He's being very picky and selective.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Good job.
-Okay, very nice here.
Reese, it is your turn to guess.
Let's rotate.
♪♪
♪ Hey, I like to rotate ♪
♪ Yeah, cha, nah, la la ♪
Yeah, I love it. All right.
[ Laughter ]
Let's see --
It's a new reggae song called "Let's Rotate."
I don't know what that means.
All right, let's see what's behind you.
Open the curtain, please.
[ Laughter ]
That's very funny.
[ Laughter ]
Okay, it is --
[ As Yoda ] He talks like this.
-Oscar the Grouch? [ Laughter ]
-He says in -- -Yoda!
-[ Normal voice ] Yes, yes. [ Cheers and applause ]
He's an action -- action figure --
it's an action figure from the '80s.
-He-Man. -Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
All right. They're doing something
very famous that's on TikTok.
-The squirrel dance. Flossing.
-Uh, it involves... -The Gritty.
-...hitting each other with... -Oh, punching.
-No, but -- -Javelin.
-No, it's a -- it's a burrito -- -Throw a burrito?
-No. But a burrito -- [ Laughter ]
A burrito -- a burrito is wrapped around --
-Chipotle. -No, yes.
But -- but in a burrito, the base of the burrito --
-Taco. -No, but a burrito --
-Tortilla. Tortilla! -Yes!
And they're using the tortilla --
it's a big thing -- -Slap them with a tortilla.
-Yes! Exactly! [ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
Wait, you gotta --
Reese, you have to see this.
-[ Laughing ]
It -- okay, this is just -- oh!
-Oh, hey, whoa, He-Man!
All right, it's the final round.
-Okay. [ Cheers and applause ]
What are we doing?
-It's so silly. I don't even understand.
All right, it's the final round.
Let's rotate. -Okay.
-All right, it's the last -- We got this.
For all the --
♪♪
All right.
Now, it is time to see what is behind me.
-What is behind him? Okay.
-Yes, here we go. -Oh.
[ Laughter ]
Wow!
[ Laughter ]
W-o-o-o-ow!
-Really?
[ Laughter ] -Yes.
Now, and I'm gonna hurry, because this is gonna --
this might not last very long. -Okay, all right.
-So I'm gonna hurry. Okay, okay.
So, this -- you would find these in Egypt.
-A pyramid. -Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Uh...
Just the greatest movie ever.
Tim Burton, and -- and you say his name three times.
-Beetlejuice! -Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Okay, and -- Beetlejuice is at the pyramid.
-Yeah, but they're in a very famous place.
It's the city of romance and love.
-France! -Yes, France!
[ Bell dings ] -At the Eiffel Tower?
-Yes! Okay, so, yes, it is...
[ Cheers and applause ]
...a pyramid of Beetlejuices in Paris.
-What?
[ Laughter ]
-Oh! -[ Laughs ]
Oh, I -- see, now I get it. -Yeah.
-All right, we both got credit for that one.
Reese Witherspoon, everybody! [ Cheers and applause ]
Well done, dude. It was very good.
We're talking to Reese after the break!
Stick around, everybody!