- All week long we've been celebrating our 2,000th episode,
and all of the incredible people that we've met over the years.
There's one person we met back in 2008
who has become a very important part of the "Ellen Show" family.
Hey Jeannie, where are you?
Jeannie?
Jeannie? Jeannie.
- Hi, Ellen, I'm working. - Run, run.
- To you? - Come to me.
- Oh, boy.
- How you doing? - I'm nervous.
- Jeannie's the one, if you ever call,
she answers the phones,
and we always send her out on all kinds of--
we send her all around the world.
I think the first time we found you,
is we called you in 2006,
and told you that you hadn't won anything.
- That's correct, yes. I hadn't won anything.
- You had entered every contest and never won,
and we called you, and then we just loved your personality.
- I know, I'm so lucky. - So we gave you a job,
as a receptionist, and we sent you all over,
and here's a little clip
of all the things that you've done for us.
- Oh, no, I'm gonna cry.
Hello? - Hi, is Jeannie there?
- Yes, this is her. - Hey, Jeannie,
it's Ellen DeGeneres calling, how you doing?
- Are you-- [audience laughter]
Are you kidding me? - No, I'm not.
How are you?
[audience laughter]
So how many contests have you entered here?
- Um, well, let's see. How many have you had?
- Um-- [audience laughter]
A lot. So you've entered every contest,
and you've never won one contest?
- No, I haven't. - All right,
do you know why I'm calling you?
- Um-- - To tell you
you still have not won anything.
[laughter and applause]
Nothing! What do you need?
- I need a job. - A job?
- Yes, ma'am. [laughter and applause]
I mean, I'll, like, clean your bathrooms.
- Okay. [laughter and applause]
I don't know why we wouldn't bring Jeannie to see a show,
and see if she wants to clean a bathroom or something.
[cheers and applause]
We like your personality, so what we'd like to do--
and we're just doing this right now,
we talked about it this afternoon--
we want to offer you a job here.
[cheers and applause]
- Are you kidding? - Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, my gosh!
- Jeannie is outside West Virginia right now--
Let's check in with Jeannie in Dallas--
Jeannie is there. Jeannie?
[upbeat music]
It's locked. Let her in!
Jeannie is on an undercover mission.
- It's very rainy. - Oh.
All right, well, stay under the branches, and--
[audience laughter]
Don't leaf.
Trish and her family live in South Hero, Vermont,
and it was way too cold for us to bring them here
so we sent Jeannie there.
[audience laughter]
- It's -6, with a wind chill of -28.
- Hi!
[audience laughter]
- Oh, no, turn it off!
Jeannie, turn it off!
- [screams]
[audience laughter] [music continues]
[both screaming]
[screaming]
- That's you-- you're the little one.
And who is that that you're hugging?
- That is my favorite teacher in my whole life.
That's Miss Beck.
[cheers and applause]
[music continues]
- This is actually
the station where we practice pitch slapping.
- Okay.
- [holds long, loud note]
- That's effective.
- Come here.
[audience laughter]
[both singing] We love you, Ellen,
Oh, yes we do.
We love you, Ellen. And we'll be true.
Oh, Ellen, we love you.
- So-- [cheers and applause]
- That is so crazy! [cheers and applause]
Thank you so much. - Oh, listen.
You-- - Thank you so much.
- You are so good at what you do
and you make so many people happy,
every time you go someplace
and you whisper to me that you're outside,
even though you're three blocks away, it makes me happy.
You're just so fantastic, so we want to make you happy.
- Okay. - So, in January,
Fox is going to produce "Grease Live."
Do you know that? They're doing "Grease Live."
And the cast is Julianne Hough, Mario Lopez,
Vanessa Hudgens, Carly Rae Jepsen, Keke Palmer.
- Yeah. - And you are gonna be
in "Grease Live."
We're adding you. [cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, my gosh, are you kidding me?
- Yeah, you're gonna-- - No!
- Yes! - Oh, my gosh, thank you so--
- You are an amazing singer and you deserve to do that,
and it's going to be amazing
and we can all watch her in "Grease Live."
- Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! - We'll be back.