- I'm about to surprise a viewer named Megan Bentley.
She's a second grade teacher
at Frederick Douglass Elementary in Leesburg, VA,
and like a lot of teachers, Megan does amazing things
for her students, so we sent Jeannie to Virginia.
She's outside of Megan's house right now.
Jeannie? Hi, Jeannie.
Hi. - Hi. Hi, Ellen.
- Hi, Jeannie. - Hi.
- Hi. - Hi, Jeannie.
So what can you tell us about Megan?
- Okay, so Megan, Ellen, is just this bright spot in the world.
She has the most positive energy and attitude.
You would never know that she and her husband, Bruce,
are going through a really difficult time right now.
They have a ton of student loans.
They're living paycheck to paycheck,
so much so that Megan had to go and get a second job
at the high school as a soccer coach,
and she's even looking for a third job
just to try and get by, but she is a huge fan of you.
She loves the show so much.
She watches every single day.
This surprise that we have for her is gonna blow her mind.
- We like to do that, and I heard you have some people there
that are gonna help surprise.
- I certainly do. Okay, so obviously Megan
has no clue that we are here, but she also doesn't know
that we secretly enlisted the help
of some of her fellow teachers and her principal, Paula.
You guys come in and say hello to Ellen.
- Hi. - Hey, everybody.
Hi. Okay, so, Paula--
which--which one are you, Paula?
The principal, right?
Hi, Paula, how are you?
- Hi, Ellen, it's great to be here.
- I'm so glad that you're here to help surprise her.
So tell us what makes Megan so special.
Megan is the most enthusiastic teacher I have ever had
the pleasure of working with.
She is caring. She's compassionate.
Just this year, we had a child who broke his arm.
She went over to his home, brought him books,
brought him games.
Made sure he stayed caught up with the class.
Her children absolutely adore her,
and I just truly appreciate you doing this for her.
- Well, I'm so glad we know about her to help her like this.
That's amazing, and teachers do so much good anyway.
but she goes above and beyond, so I'm gonna call her right now.
Oh, hold on. I just did something wrong.
I hope we keep this phone forever.
Just one step above, "Thelma, get me--"
[phone trilling]
- Hello? - Hello, Megan?
- Yeah? - Hello, Megan.
- Hi. - My name's Lois Morningside.
I'm with USA Deliveries, and I see here
we have a package for you from the "Ellen DeGeneres Show."
Are you expecting a delivery?
- Uh, no. - Oh, okay.
Well, we have a package from the "Ellen DeGe--DeGen--
DeGeneres Show" or something.
Yes. - Oh, my God.
- Oh, I-I--she's wonderful. Don't you love her?
- Oh, my God. - Hello?
- Hello? - Hello.
- Hello, hello? - Hello.
- [screaming] Oh, my God!
- It's actually me. Hi, Megan.
- Oh, my God. - Megan?
- Yes? - Hi, it's--it's Ellen.
- I know. - Yeah, I know.
But we have a delivery for you.
What--is it-- - Oh, my God.
I think we left it at your front door.
- [screaming]
- Hi, Megan.
- Oh, my God! Hi.
- How you doing? - Hi, Ellen.
- You may not need the phone anymore.
I'm not sure. Does she still need the phone?
- Okay. - Okay.
- She didn't need it. - No.
- So, Megan, you're a second-grade teacher, right?
- Yes, I am. - What's that like?
- I--well, I love my job,
and my kids mean everything to me,
and I knew going into it that, you know,
it wouldn't be the most money-making job,
but I wanted to make a difference in people's lives
like you do, Ellen, and how you
inspire everyone every day, and I just wanted to be like that,
so that's one of the reasons I've got the job that I do.
I love my job. - You're incredible.
You're 24 years old, is that right? 24?
- I am 24.
- And, uh, I know things about you.
But I know a lot of students come from low-income families.
You're constantly paying for things out of your own pocket,
and helping them out.
We actually are gonna send in-- actually--
- Take a break. - All right, we'll take a break
'cause I want to send you something,
but I don't have it yet apparently.
So I'll take a break, and then when we come back--
Okay, we'll be back.
And, Megan, that's your husband, right?
Yeah, this is my husband. - Hi, Ellen.
- Hi, husband, how are you?
- Very good. How are you? - I'm good, thanks.
- Sorry it's a little loud right here.
- Yeah, well, it's very exciting, and Jeannie's there.
- Very exciting. - So, okay, so, Megan,
it's holiday time.
Have you done your holiday shopping yet?
- No, we ha--we haven't gone holiday shopping yet, Ellen.
My husband and I decided not to do presents this year.
We've got some debt and some student loans
we're trying to pay down so we can start our family.
It's a dream of ours, and we just really can't do that
right now, so we're--
we haven't bought our Christmas presents yet.
- Okay. Well, we want to help you out with that
because you're a fan of the show and you've probably seen--
you've probably been watching, right?
The last, like, the week or so prior to this,
we, you know, like, we give stuff away,
like, 12 Days and stuff like that, right?
- Oh, yeah, no big deal or anything.
- Yes, yes, yes. - Yeah.
No, I was just reminding you.
So the real reason we sent Jeannie to your house
is we think what you do for your students is amazing,
and that you're going through a hard time,
so we want to help you with your holiday shopping,
so we're going to give you everything we gave away
for the entire 12 Days. Everything.
- Here. - [screaming]
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
- Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
- Oh, my God!
- We got a bike. Paula, will you bring it right over here?
Beautiful. Bring it on in. - Oh, my God!
- Go ahead, Steve. We can scooch it over.
- [screaming] - Come on in.
- Oh, my gosh, you're so sneaky.
[screaming]
You brought everybody! [screaming]
That goes right on top there.
Make some-- - Oh, my God!
- Come on, get up here, Bruce. This is all your stuff.
Keep bringing it in. - Oh, my God.
Ellen, thank you so much! - Oh, there's more.
- Megan, so-- so you're surprised probably
to see your coworkers there, right?
- Were you surprised by your coworkers?
- Oh, my gosh, they are so sneaky.
- They're sneaky.
They're sneaky. You should never trust them again.
That was very sneaky of them.
So listen, this-- this is really amazing.
And it's because you do so much.
I mean, teachers-- I love teachers anyway,
but you go above and beyond,
and you pay for things out of your own pocket
when you can't even afford to do things for yourself,
which is an amazing, amazing thing that you're doing,
so we love that about you, and...
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much. - Thank you.
- Thank you. This means so much to us.
Thank you so much.
- You're welcome, Bruce and Megan,
so we couldn't be happier to be able to do this for you,
and one more thing, we couldn't have done this
without the help of your incredible coworkers,
and you all go above and beyond for your students as well,
so we want to give each of you a $1,000 Target gift card.
[all screaming]